"Jiang Linwan, I underestimated you. You actually managed to run out. Zhang Hou, Zhang Hou!" Midwife Cui shouted loudly, a ruthless glint in her eyes, and turned to run towards the main house.

Jiang Linwan moved even faster, throwing the dagger in her hand directly at the back of the midwife, Cui, which pierced through her clothes and stabbed her in the back.

Midwife Cui let out a muffled groan of pain, but without pausing, she rushed into the room and reached out her hands toward the baby on the bed.

As long as the child is alive, no matter how cunning this woman is, she can't cause any trouble. Midwife Cui was overjoyed, her mouth practically stretched to the back of her ears.

But the next second, her body suddenly felt weak, and she slumped onto the bed. Cold sweat broke out on her back in terror, and she cried out in shock, "Jiang Linwan, what did you do to me?"

Jiang Linwan patted the dust off her hands: "This dagger is just something I soaked in a medicinal solution for over a month; it has a numbing effect."

After she finished speaking, she quickly picked up the child from the bed and checked that the child's body was normal in all aspects.

She checked each house around the yard and, seeing no one was there, was about to go to the backyard to inform the children and pregnant women when the main gate was suddenly pushed open.

Jiang Linwan was so frightened that she quickly grabbed the child and slipped to the door.

"This is my master's residence. I really don't want to talk to you. If you're looking for someone, go inside and look." Sun Shuyao looked terrified. She knew her master had some secrets with certain families, but she never expected him to be plotting to murder a child.

Soon, a series of footsteps rushed into the courtyard. Jiang Linwan recognized the people's clothing as belonging to soldiers from Dayu Island. Only then did she breathe a sigh of relief and run out with her child in her arms.

"Xiao Zhang, it's me." Jiang Linwan called out to her man's bodyguard.

When Zhang, the guard, saw Jiang Linwan, he breathed a sigh of relief. If something had happened to his sister-in-law, he would have been finished once the Lu Regiment returned: "Sister-in-law, are you alright?"

Sister-in-law Sun said you were threatened and taken away by Midwife Cui. Where is Midwife Cui?

Jiang Linwan stepped aside and pointed to the midwife Cui on the bed: "She's here."

Sun Shuyao looked in the direction she was pointing and saw the midwife Cui lying on the bed with blood flowing from behind her. She cried out in horror and quickly said, "Auntie, you killed someone."

How could you kill my master? Murder is a crime punishable by imprisonment.

Jiang Linwan gave her a disdainful look: "What I did was normal self-defense."

She kidnapped my and Guiying's child. Are we not allowed to fight back?

"But you can't stab someone with a knife." Sun Shuyao said with a righteous expression.

Jiang Linwan sneered: "Sun Shuyao, you're so protective of your master, I seriously suspect that you were also involved in this child kidnapping."

Comrades, I request that you also arrest and interrogate my niece-in-law. She is an apprentice of midwife Cui and comes here to learn from her master whenever she has free time.

She couldn't possibly be unaware of this; she might even be helping to cover it up.

A hint of embarrassment and annoyance flashed in Sun Shuyao's eyes, but she quickly became aggrieved: "Auntie, I know you don't like me, but you can't slander my master."

My master was just kindly helping Sister Guiying give birth; it wasn't kidnapping at all.

"After the delivery, take the baby to her own home. There are several other tied-up children and a pregnant woman in the woodshed and cellar in Xiao Zhang's backyard," Jiang Linwan said, leading him towards the backyard.

The other searchers also noticed the commotion in the cellar of the woodshed in the backyard: "There are people down there."

When Jiang Lin arrived, these people had already gone downstairs.

Sun Shuyao watched as the soldiers carried all the children and pregnant women up, including Sun Yaozong and Sun Yaozu.

Upon seeing Sun Shuyao, Sun Yaozong shouted to the soldier, "Uncle, this woman is in cahoots with the human traffickers. She even calls the trafficker 'Grandma' and 'Master'!"

Upon hearing this, Sun Shuyao immediately became anxious and shook her head frantically: "Don't talk nonsense, this has nothing to do with me."

Every time I come here, it's just me and my master. I really didn't know she would kidnap people.

"My brother and I were gone for several days, and you didn't suspect anything!"

Sun Shuyao explained, "I thought you had gone home."

"You're lying! You were there when my brother and I were arrested that day, we called for you," Sun Yaozong shouted.

A hint of guilt flashed in Sun Shuyao's eyes, and her eyes quickly turned red: "I really don't know what happened."

"I even paid for my lessons with my master, sob sob..."

One of the soldiers looked at Sun Shuyao without a trace of pity and said directly, "Comrade, please come with us."

Sun Shuyao hurriedly stepped back: "I really don't know what my master did."

You can't arrest me.

"Comrade, you have close ties with human traffickers and are highly suspected. You must come back with us for investigation. Whether you know about it or not is not up to you. We will investigate thoroughly when we get there."

"If you continue to obstruct us, you will be obstructing official business. If you are innocent, we will naturally let you go. Now, please come with us." The man said, and directly took Sun Shuyao away.

"Jiang Linwan, you're so smug right now, aren't you? How could you be so heartless?" Sun Shuyao turned her head and glared at Jiang Linwan resentfully as she was being led away.

Jiang Linwan found it all baffling; how could this possibly involve her?

"Sister-in-law, let me take you home now. We'll find the families of those children and pregnant women and send them home," said Guard Zhang.

Jiang Linwan nodded, hugged the baby in her arms, and quickly returned to the family compound.

As soon as she entered the residential compound, Liu Guiying ran over with red eyes and cried, "Lin Wan, I'm sorry, it's all my fault."

Jiang Linwan revealed the baby in her arms, pushed it in front of her, and joked with a smile, "Sister Guiying, this baby is more important to me than your child. Come and see, it's a boy."

Liu Guiying, who had been talking to her with red eyes, burst into tears when she saw the child the woman handed her: "My son, it's all my fault."

If she hadn't let her mother-in-law come back, Lin Wanmei wouldn't have been implicated, and her son wouldn't have been kidnapped right after birth.

She cried her heart out while holding the doll in her arms.

Jiang Linwan said, "Sister Guiying, don't cry. You need to take good care of yourself during your postpartum period. If you keep crying, you'll scare the baby." As soon as she finished speaking, the baby in Liu Guiying's arms burst into tears.

Hearing the baby crying in her arms, Liu Guiying immediately stopped crying, picked up the baby, and ran home as fast as she could.

It's been a whole day; her son must be hungry.

Jiang Linwan was about to go back when she was stopped by people from the military region. They were taken to give a statement and then quickly sent back.

Sun Shuyao was not so lucky. After being imprisoned, the military region investigated and found that these people were not only involved in human trafficking, but also in previous espionage activities.

This matter was immediately given even greater attention, and Sun Shuyao would not be released for some time.

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