"How to rescue? To enter this old mansion unnoticed and subdue the master with just the three of us?" Li Li was sweating coldly as he clenched his fists, "This is no small matter. Li Yuan, you go back and report first, while we two watch... Wait, that's too likely to alert them. If we leave, we should go together, pretending not to notice the flaw in the letter, stabilize the opponent first."
Li Yuan added, "During cultural lessons, the household instructor mentioned, when rescuing hostages, it's important to continually provide them with confidence to keep them going."
Li Li asked, "How do we give confidence?"
Before he finished speaking, Li Peng shouted at the top of his lungs, "Miss, hold on, we'll soon bring people here..."
"Damn it, you idiot!"
Li Yuan and Li Li immediately lost their temper, pinned Li Peng to the ground and beat him, then dragged him away, leaving messy bloodstains on the ground...
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A moment later, Li Yuan, Li Li, and Li Peng returned panting and pale-faced to the small yard where they lived, Li Peng was still coughing blood lightly.
After just running three laps around the city, Li Ping, who was lying there panting like a dog, was shocked to see his three companions' miserable appearance, trembling on the ground trying to get up, but was too exhausted, convulsing.
"What happened, did you fight with the Miss again? Didn't I tell you, this time I can't go, you should be careful!"
"No, no, Brother Ping, something bad happened, Miss has been kidnapped!"
"What!?"
The trio eagerly explained their experience at the yard's entrance, urgently interrupting each other, causing Li Ping to feel nauseous.
After clearing his thoughts and seeing his three companions' anxious, confused faces, he couldn't help but sneer, "You three dummies, you don't even know you've been tricked!"
"Huh?"
"I ask you, if there really was a daring kidnapper targeting Miss Qingming, would they leave such a flaw that even you three dummies could see? Sending out that note would alert them, wouldn't it?"
The trio was speechless.
"Well, Brother Ping, what do you think is happening?"
"Isn't it obvious? You've been tricked by the Miss! She used her left hand to write a note, and scared you three into a panic! Good thing you told me first, otherwise if you alarmed the master and mistress, how would you handle it!"
The three listened, feeling ashamed: "What do we do now?"
"What else can you do, report to the mistress first, otherwise when she returns from shopping and asks why Miss hasn't moved yet, won't it all be exposed!"
Before he finished speaking, a woman's sighing voice came from afar.
"No need, I already know."
The four were startled: "Mis, Mistress?! You're back?"
"Yes, Fengyun suddenly said he remembered a cultivation issue, so he hurried back... Did you say Miss tricked you back with a note? Where's the note, let me see it."
Li Li tremblingly took out the note from his pocket, but before he could extend his hand, the note was lifted by an invisible force and flew outside their small yard.
As the mistress of the Li Family Mansion, Lu Xin may not have the highest cultivation, but to the level of housekeepers and servants, she's like a deity.
After a while, Lu Xin sighed again: "This writing is straightforward, no flourishes, even appears a bit awkward, indeed it's not Miss Qingming's handwriting, but to suggest there's a kidnapper trying to harm her sounds a bit outrageous. QingCyan Cloud yun City isn't solely the Li Family's city, and the woman's mansion isn't within the Li Family Mansion, but it's not a place where just anyone can enter and harm the Li Family."
Li Li and the others were silent, not daring to speak.
"However, your concerns aren't unfounded either. She's living alone outside, which indeed isn't safe. Moreover, her cultivation progress has been stagnating for years, not thinking of doubling her efforts to breakthrough the bottleneck for you, instead distracted with trivial schemes... I'll discuss this matter with Fengyun another time, for now, don't mind it."
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Meanwhile, in Qingming's bedroom, the young girl carefully stretching lazily, rubbed her eyes and asked, "Why was it so noisy outside earlier, what happened?"
Wang Jiu said, "Those three servants from your family came again."
"What!?" Li Qingming's lazy stretch immediately stiffened, pulling the injury, and tears of pain came out, "Those three came again? What do they want?!"
Wang Jiu said, "To urge you to move."
"I'm not going anywhere!" Li Qingming gritted her teeth, then asked, "I was asleep in the room at that time, only heard them shouting outside, what were they shouting?"
"Oh, it was that tall and chubby one." Wang Jiu recalled the scene, saying, "He said to wait, they'll soon bring people."
"What!" Li Qingming was furious, "Is this a threat?!"
"From what I know of them, I don't think it's a threat."
"What does a broken sword like you know about humans!?"
"That's true, I don't know much about steeds, in my youth, I was often regarded as not understanding the human heart."
Li Qingming really had no strength to waste words with Wang Jiu, so she endured the waist injury, slowly walked out of the bedroom, came to the courtyard door, pushed it open, and was so angry she almost fainted.
"This, these bastards, even dared to leave bloody handprints at my door!?"