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"Xiao Jinghan!"

Upon hearing Liu Yuansheng's voice, Xiao Jinghan gripped the reins tightly. "Who's inside?"

"No, no one!" said the man with a small braid on his head. "Sir, you must have misheard!"

Xiao Jinghan dismounted and strode into the soy sauce shop, looking around.

There was no one in the shop, only a dilapidated counter and jars of all sizes, emanating a foul odor that made one's eyes sting.

Xiao Jinghan looked around and stared intently at the counter.

Behind the counter, Liu Yuansheng's mouth was tightly covered by the waiter, who also choked her neck.

She anxiously peered at Xiao Jinghan through the gap in the counter, afraid that he would leave.

She cried out in her heart.

Xiao Jinghan.

Xiao Jinghan gazed in the direction of Liu Yuansheng, remaining silent. The man with the small braid approached again, "Sir, we really don't have the person you're looking for here. You should... Ah!!"

Before he could finish speaking, Xiao Jinghan snatched a long knife from a guard beside him and, with a swift motion, slit the man's mouth.

Blood gushed out, and a piece of soft flesh fell from his mouth and landed on the ground. Seeing the situation was dire, the others grabbed the weapon they had hidden in the soy sauce jar. "Brothers, don't be afraid of him, follow me!"

Without Xiao Jinghan giving the order, his guards had already pinned the bandits to the ground.

The guards are all highly skilled; dealing with these small fry is a piece of cake for them.

Their arms were tied behind their backs, and they knelt neatly behind Xiao Jinghan, trembling. Xiao Jinghan then said to the robbers hiding behind the counter, "Your accomplices have all been arrested. Come out now."

The robber shuddered, knowing that his chances of survival were slim.

He swallowed hard, pressed the knife against Liu Yuansheng's neck, and slowly pulled her up, shouting to Xiao Jinghan across the counter, "Let her go! Let me go! Otherwise, I'll kill her!"

The robber suddenly exerted force, forcing Liu Yuansheng to raise her head, revealing her snow-white and slender neck.

An exceptionally fragile neck.

Xiao Jinghan had anticipated this. He looked at Liu Yuansheng and saw that she was barely breathing and had disheveled hair. A flash of malice quickly crossed his eyes. Then he smiled and said to the robber, "Fine, I can let you go, but you have to let her go."

"I won't fall for your trick!" The man glanced at his accomplice lying on the ground, his mouth slit and half his tongue cut off, and said tremblingly, "If I let her go, you'll kill me right now! I can only live if she's in my hands!"

Xiao Jinghan remained noncommittal.

The robber thought he had Xiao Jinghan under his control by using Liu Yuansheng's life. He took two steps forward while holding Liu Yuansheng in his arms, and said with a bit more courage, "I... I took someone's money to do their bidding, and I don't want to offend you! As long as you let me go, I promise I won't hurt her."

"Trying to leave?" Xiao Jinghan's expression changed. "Not so easy."

No sooner had he finished speaking than Jiang Yue appeared behind the robber without him noticing and plunged a sharp dagger into his neck.

The robber's eyes widened suddenly, and he let out a few painful groans before collapsing into a pool of blood, his eyes still open.

Having escaped the robbers' control, Liu Yuansheng's legs went weak, and she collapsed into Xiao Jinghan's arms.

"How are you?" Xiao Jinghan held Liu Yuansheng firmly in his arms. "Are you injured anywhere?"

"No," Liu Yuansheng said weakly, "Yan'er."

Xiao Jinghan looked at Liu Yuansheng, his heart filled with both surprise and joy, "You can speak?"

Liu Yuansheng was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously touched his throat and suddenly realized.

"You can really talk now, you're all better." Xiao Jinghan looked at Jiang Yue, who was standing there like a wooden post, staring blankly at him and Liu Yuansheng, and said, "What are you still standing there for? Where's Yan'er?"

"They went to look for it," Jiang Yue said.

Xiao Jinghan picked Liu Yuansheng up in his arms and said to Jiang Yue, "Next time, be more decisive!"

Jiang Yue: "Okay."

Liu Yuansheng glanced at Jiang Yue, vaguely feeling that the other party looked familiar, but couldn't remember where she had seen her before. She didn't care to ask about it at the moment, and just pointed to the direction of the backyard and said to Xiao Jinghan, "Yan'er was taken to the backyard by a woman."

"Don't worry, Yan'er will be fine." Xiao Jinghan placed Liu Yuansheng on the bench and half-squatted in front of her, saying, "I've made you suffer again. I'll make it up to you properly when we get back."

"I'm fine."

Liu Yuansheng stared at the backyard, repeatedly trying to stand up, clearly worried. Seeing this, Xiao Jinghan reached out a hand to support her face. "Don't look, nothing will happen. Shouldn't you take care of yourself first?"

"Me?" Liu Yuansheng asked, puzzled. "I'm fine."

"Your throat is better, isn't it?"

Liu Yuansheng touched her throat. Yes, her throat was better. Just now, in a moment of panic, she called out Xiao Jinghan's name, and then she was able to speak again.

"When I heard your voice, I thought I was hallucinating. I didn't expect it to really be you," Xiao Jinghan said gently. "I was going to take you to see Old Wen, but it seems I don't need to."

Liu Yuansheng didn't know who the Old Wen Xiao Jinghan was talking about was, nor was she particularly excited about being able to speak again. She was only worried about Yan'er, who had been taken away by the woman. Seeing that Yan'er remained absent-minded, constantly looking towards the backyard, Xiao Jinghan asked with displeasure, "Haven't you found her yet?"

"Found it, found it, we've arrived."

Before long, a burly man with thick eyebrows and big eyes carried Yan'er into the front hall.

Upon seeing Yan'er, Liu Yuansheng immediately stood up and walked towards the man.

The man treated Liu Yuansheng with utmost respect, obediently addressing her as "Madam," and then handed Yan'er over to her.

Yan'er was already asleep, her long eyelashes wet, clearly from crying. Xiao Jinghan walked over, glanced at Yan'er, and asked, "Why are you so slow?"

Xu Shi had barely finished speaking and was still a little incoherent when he said, "I was afraid the child would get hungry on the way, so I had that old woman inside feed him."

With a thud, the plump lady was escorted into the front hall by two guards and knelt on the ground.

"You're quite thoughtful, better than your brother." Xiao Jinghan waved to Xu Shi and Jiang Feng, "You two take Madam back."

"And you?" Liu Yuansheng asked.

Xiao Jinghan smiled and said, "You go back first, I'll stay and take care of some things."

Knowing that Xiao Jinghan was going to interrogate these people, Liu Yuansheng quickly carried Yan'er to the carriage.

"Tell me, who gave you permission to kidnap Yan'er?"

As soon as Liu Yuansheng left, Xiao Jinghan's smile vanished completely, replaced by a murderous look as he addressed the people kneeling on the ground: "Whoever is willing to speak, I will release them; otherwise, I will make you experience torture a hundred times worse than death..."