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A few days ago. ♀
Mo Rongzhan took Tang Zhen and others from the capital to the Gu Family Village. They still lived in the inn at the entrance of the village, but the shopkeeper was no longer the original shopkeeper. Mo Rongzhan sent someone to pretend to be the shopkeeper here.
"Your Majesty, is this where Princess Yaoyao disappeared?" Tang Zhen asked anxiously. After he got drunk that day, he didn't go to the morning court for three days in a row. The emperor didn't send anyone to urge him and let him be drunk at home. When he woke up, he also calmed down.
In fact, he had long known that it was impossible to marry Lu Yaoyao. After that day in the hunting ground, he was very clear in his heart, but in the end, he didn't give up, so when Lu Lingzhi said a little, he was moved.
Maybe even if there was no emperor, Yaoyao would not marry him.
When she faced him and faced his feelings, she never blushed or was nervous. If she was a little moved by him, how could she behave like this?
Tang Zhen figured this out and completely woke up from the pain. However, he forgot what he said when he was drunk.
He couldn't forget Yaoyao in his heart now, but he knew very well that the girl he liked would become the empress in the future.
"Yes, the shopkeeper of the inn didn't know where they were taken." Mo Rongzhan looked around the inn. "Why are there so few people in this village?"
The hidden guard dressed as a shopkeeper replied in a low voice, "Your Majesty, there used to be a lot of people here. Starting two years ago, the younger people in the village went out to work, leaving only the old, young, women, and children. Not only the Gu Family Village, but other villages are also like this."
Mo Rongzhan asked in a deep voice, "They haven't come back for two years?"
"They haven't come back." The hidden guard replied.
"Didn't the people in the village suspect it?" Tang Zhen shook his head. Such a strange phenomenon, he now felt suspicious. It might be understandable if it was only one village, but several villages around it were like this. "Even the government didn't investigate it?"
A few men dressed as merchants came in from outside. They saluted Mo Rongzhan and whispered, "Your Majesty, this subordinate has inquired about the surrounding villages. I can only know the general direction, but I don't know what they are going to do. It seems that they are going in the direction of the mountain over there."
"It's getting late. Let's rest for the night and search tomorrow morning." Mo Rongzhan suppressed his impatient desire to find her.
Since he was already here, he couldn't act impulsively. No matter what, he had to calm down first. Since the other party could capture Huangfu Chen, they were definitely not ordinary kidnappers.
Mo Rongzhan and the others searched around the Gu Family Village for a few days before they finally found a small path that led deep into the mountains.
"Your Majesty, look." They crouched at the top of the mountain. At the foot of another mountain, they saw a group of people dressed in rough clothes knocking on something.
Mo Rongzhan frowned as he looked at those people and said coldly, "They are digging for private mines."
"In the previous dynasty, the iron mine was already listed as the official mine of the imperial court, yet there are still people who dare to mine privately." Tang Zhen said in surprise. Who could dig such a large private mine in this place and not be discovered by the court?
"There are too many people. Don't get discovered. Liu Ying, go back to the capital and find General Meng. Ask him to bring troops here." Mo Rongzhan whispered to the hidden guards behind him.
"Yes, Your Majesty." Liu Ying replied in a low voice.
Tang Zhen asked Mo Rongzhan, "Your Majesty, what should we do now?"
Mo Rongzhan's sharp eyes stared at the crowd below and then looked at the private mine that was larger than any iron mine in the imperial court. "Find a way to blend into the crowd. We want to know who is controlling this private mine from behind the scenes."
"Your Majesty, we will disguise ourselves and sneak in." Tang Zhen whispered. He had been with Mo Rongzhan for many years. He had learned the art of disguise when he was exploring the world.
Mo Rongzhan looked back at the several hidden guards behind him. "Don't follow me. Just check around. Apart from this private mine, what other suspicious places are there?"
"Your Majesty, this …" They were all afraid that Mo Rongzhan would be in danger.
"Go!" Mo Rongzhan ordered coldly. Looking at the people who were moving, he thought that if he saw the little girl doing such rough work, he didn't know if he could restrain himself from killing those who wronged her.
He couldn't wait to protect the little girl in his hands. Even he couldn't bear to let her suffer. How could others let her suffer?
"Your Majesty, they are guarding everywhere now. I'm afraid it won't be easy to sneak in." Tang Zhen said.
"Wait a minute, we will sneak in at night." At the foot of the mountain, there were one or two hundred people working in coarse clothes. There were also dozens of people wearing the same dark blue guard uniform. It was unknown how many people there were in places they couldn't see. Therefore, they must not act rashly.
Ye Zhen was reluctant to go to the iron mine with Zhao Tianji, but when she thought of the appearance of the iron mine that day, she wanted to see it again. This iron mine should not be as simple as doing business to earn money.
Liang Yin pushed the wheelchair, and Ye Zhen followed slowly at the end. Mu Xue, who had been following Zhao Tianji, deliberately slowed down a few steps and walked beside her.
"Even if you cure the second young master, you can't change anything." Mu Xue lowered her voice and said to Ye Zhen, her tone seemed to be threatening.
Ye Zhen said lightly, "What do you think I want to change?"
"If you want to help your master, I advise you not to waste your time." Mu Xue snorted.
"Miss Mu, I don't know what you are thinking. My master is so powerful. Does he need me to do anything for him? You don't have to be so nervous about me. I really don't know anything. "Ye Zhen said with a smile. Her voice was neither loud nor soft, and she did not deliberately lower her voice.
Zhao Tianji, who was in front, raised his eyebrows and the corner of his mouth slightly raised into a faint smile.
When they were about to reach the iron mine, Qiu Yuan asked someone to bring a large sedan chair. After Zhao Tianji got on the sedan chair, he also called Ye Zhen over and asked her to sit in the same sedan chair with him.
Mu Xue bit her lip and glared at Ye Zhen with some resentment.
On the other side of the sand field, hundreds of people were shouting loudly to go home. They didn't want to be paid, they just wanted to go home to see their relatives.
Ye Zhen looked at the scene outside through the screen window. The noisy workers were wearing coarse clothes. They looked a little emotional. Some of them had head injuries and their blood had dried up, but it did not affect their determination to leave the mine.
Zhao Tianji asked Qiu Yuan coldly, "Who took the lead to leave? Kill that man in public. "
Qiu Yuan looked embarrassed. "Master, no one took the lead."
Even if he wanted to kill the chicken to warn the monkey, he didn't know how to find the leader.
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