Doted By The Regent King-Chapter 675 - 674 Found

Wufu had a night full of dreams, in which she returned to her past life and to the days when she was lonely and helpless, having struggled and endured, just to grant herself some freedom.

When she woke from the dream, she hugged the quilt as she sat up in bed, looking somewhat dazed.

"Miss, are you awake?" Purple Jade walked past the screen and upon seeing Wufu sitting in a daze, smiled and said, "Miss, why didn’t you call for your servant to attend to you?"

Wufu said, "Oh, I’ve just woken up." She yawned, threw back the quilt, got off the couch to put on her shoes, and asked, "Is there some happy news? You look pleased."

"Indeed, there is great news. Miss, last night, all those abducted children were found!" Purple Jade said with a smile.

Wufu was startled, "Really? So soon?"

Purple Jade nodded and said, "It was Sister Ji who saw it with her own eyes while she was out purchasing goods. They say that it was Lord Wen himself who apprehended the criminals. They were found in the home of Old Man Ma who traded night-blooming jasmine, in West City!"

"The house of a trader in night-blooming jasmine?"

"Old Man Ma has been gone for not even two days now. Those people were hiding in his house, planning to use the night-blooming jasmine barrels to transport the children out of the city. They say there were ten children, all extremely beautiful," Purple Jade explained.

Wufu felt puzzled, "The man died and no one knew?"

"That Old Man Ma was the last of his line."

"I fear it was those kidnappers’ doing," Wufu’s eyes went cold.

Purple Jade nodded in agreement.

"Such heartless and deranged people deserve to be cut into a thousand pieces," Wufu’s aura of coldness instantly spread out.

To kill an innocent old man for silver, to abduct naive children, weren’t such people deserving of death?

"It’s fortunate that they were all caught!"

"That’s true, otherwise those children would have suffered," Wufu’s expression relaxed as she said, "Seeing this, Lord Wen really does seem to be a good official!"

Purple Jade smiled in agreement.

Hearing that the children were found and the kidnappers caught, Wufu also felt relieved, "I won’t go to the tavern these next few days. I need to carve out the hairpin that the prince wants with more urgency. Now that the year has passed, the task I entrusted to you, go handle it today. Otherwise, there will be even more to do."

"Yes."

Wufu dressed herself, and, feeling in high spirits, went to join Madam Zhou for breakfast and to share the good news with her, to ease her mind.

Meanwhile, in another place, Ah Jiu was also listening to Tang Shi report the results of the previous night.

"...I reported it anonymously to Lord Wen," Tang Shi reported respectfully.

The corners of Ah Jiu’s mouth finally lifted as she said, "You’ve worked hard, you may go and rest."

"Yes!" Tang Shi, without another word, bowed and stepped back twice before turning to leave.

Yuan Ye then said, "Tang Shi sure has an exceptional gift for tracking people."

"Hmm," Ah Jiu responded indifferently.

Yuan Ye said nothing more, only reporting on the preparations for the trip to Changan.

In the County Government Office, Wen Congrui had just left the dungeon and sat down in his office. He rubbed the acupressure points on his forehead and closed his eyes, contemplating the message he had received in the early hours of the morning.

The person clad in black who had intruded into his study to leave that message was a mystery to him.

With the children missing, his own men had searched all night with no news, and yet this person had come to report it. He had led his men to apprehend them with skepticism, not expecting to actually discover a kidnappers’ den and a murder case.

This was good news served to him on a silver platter, but who was secretly assisting him, or perhaps not assisting him, but acting out of a sense of justice?

Unable to make sense of it, Wen Congrui simply decided not to ponder any further. No matter who it was, he was indebted for this favor.

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