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Although the plan of Bai Feng and others was not exposed, Sima Tu managed to block it. Afterwards, Sima Tu refused to give up and took the opportunity to reveal the secret of Murong Yan's life experience, and took advantage of the court's trend of eradicating cults and witches to confuse right and wrong. This situation was beyond everyone's expectation.
After taking Bai Feng and Murong Yan into prison, Sima Tu did not forget to send people to find the original master of these two "brothers and sisters", the businessman who claimed to be from the north, because he had reason to suspect that this group of people was up to no good. After much chattering, E Binghuan was persuaded by him and sent people to turn over the Zhang Family Pharmacy together with those Taiping Taoists, but there was still no trace of Zhao Kuo and others.
The heavy rain had not stopped at this time, so the pursuers speculated that even if the escapees wanted to escape, they would not be able to escape too far. Then, the search net jointly formed by Taiping Road and government officials, like using a fishing net to hunt fish in the river, searched for most of the day in Xiahe Town, until the rain gradually subsided and the sun went down, but no trace could be found.
When asked about the Zhang family, they only said that Mr. Zhao was in a hurry. After returning to the Zhang Family Pharmacy, he packed his luggage and left without leaving a single clue. In the end, since it was getting late and no clues could be found, Sima Tu and E Binghuan had no choice but to give up and give up the search for the man.
After that, E Bing finally had time to go to the prison to see the young swordsman that his young daughter liked and asked him in detail what happened.
So, he went back to Taipingguan to wash up and change his clothes, and then went to bring out E Feiying, who was under strict supervision. Previously, E Bing was afraid that E Feiying would repeat his old tricks again, secretly opening the prison door and letting the evil demon go again, so he sent someone to put his little daughter under house arrest in Taipingguan.
On the way to the Yamen, the two fathers and daughters were constantly fighting openly and secretly: one blamed the father for not knowing right from wrong, while the other blamed the little daughter for not knowing the basics. If they kept arguing like this, the final result would be that the two separated on bad terms and went their separate ways. Each way.
On the narrow road outside the village, they were separated from each other like strangers. Except for the same destination, there was no other similar place.
The two of them walked around the main hall of the Yamen and walked to the place where the criminals were detained not far away. From a distance, one could smell the damp smell after heavy rain, which came out from the prison and particularly irritated people's nostrils.
When E Feiying saw the officer opening the cell door, she even forgot to cover her face to resist the smell, so she walked straight into the depths of the prison.
In front of each prison door, a torch was hung to illuminate the way, but that was all: behind each prison door it was still pitch black, and no one could be seen hiding inside.
Therefore, E Feiying could only lean over every door she passed by and call out her name: "Bai Feng? Mr. Bai? Is that you?"
This cycle was repeated many times, but she never got a response. Even if there is a response, it is a bad joke by some prisoners. They would suddenly yell some foul language through the cracks in the prison door in an attempt to scare people, and several times they almost scared Miss E Wu to tears.
Even so, E Feiying still persevered in searching for Bai Feng's whereabouts. Perhaps she had never noticed that her father had been following behind her, and that there was a jailer leading the way in front of him.
Shaoqing, E Bing suddenly shouted at his little daughter not far away: "Ying'er! Come here! Bai Shaoxia is not with you!"
At first, E Feiying pretended not to hear, and continued to fume and walk her own way. It wasn't until he heard the voice that he had longed for that he hurried over: "Is it... Mr. E? Please forgive me... I can't stand up and salute now..."
Miss E Wu heard the sound and left. With the weak candlelight in the jailer's hand, she could only see a shirtless man huddled in a dark corner.
"Mr. Bai?" E Feiying walked away. A man with his hands and feet shackled, his chest covered with bloodstains from whipping, disheveled hair and covered in filth appeared in front of her: "Bai Feng? Is that you? ?”
As soon as he finished speaking, another woman's voice came from the prison on the other side of the wall: "Master E, Miss E Wu, you are finally here!"
E Feiying immediately followed the voice and walked to the other side. There was a woman whose clothes were only stained and damaged. The makeup on her face was not even damaged. "Sister Murong, are you okay?"
"I'm fine, but Brother Feng..." Murong Yan trembled her pale lips and smiled in response to the other party's concern, and then said: "Those Taiping Taoists tortured Brother Feng to force him to admit that he was Evil demon..."
"Then, how come Sister Murong Yan is intact?"
Murong Yan replied: "I don't know... maybe they think that a weak woman cannot escape."
After hearing this, E Feiying immediately walked to her father and cried: "Dad, please see clearly! How can sister Murong be an evil witch? She can't even escape from the prison in front of her, so how can she deceive people's hearts?"
"Ying'er, things are not as simple as you think." E Bing also replied: "Miss Murong has a body that is different from ordinary people. This is a fact! Dad knows that you like Shaoxia Bai, so he begged Mr. Sima for mercy - As long as Bai Shaoxia is willing to draw a clear line between himself and that 'witch', he can be freed."
"Dad, what are you talking about?" Miss E Wu asked in confusion.
"If you are associated with such a person, we will be implicated sooner or later. Bai Shaoxia, I hope you can understand the current affairs and enter my E family, at least you can have enough food and clothing. With such a dangerous 'witch' around you, you will be You may die!" E Bing persuaded him as if he was giving an ultimatum, and then remained silent for a while, just waiting for the other party to respond.
"What if I say 'no'..." The young man stood up from the dark corner, stepped on the wet straw on the ground, walked slowly to E Binghuan, and said in an extremely desolate and weak voice: "Master E , if you are here to advise me, then please go back."
"Hmph! If you don't eat a toast and drink as a penalty, you really can't teach me." E Bing also said angrily: "In this world, people with famous martial arts skills are even more famous than you. Ying'er, you are not the only one to choose? Ying'er, let's go!"
"Dad! There must be other ways!" E Feiying greeted her friends in prison and said that she would definitely rescue them, while pleading to her father again and again.
It didn't take long for her to realize that no matter how much her father doted on her, he couldn't gamble with the family's future. So in the end, she completely gave up asking her father for help and found another way.
The father and daughter came to visit Bai Feng and Murong Yan, who were now prisoners, as if they were here to give the dying people their final advice, which made Bai Feng and Murong Yan look away from the established facts.
In that dark prison, the two of them leaned against the wall that separated them, listening to each other's words.
Murong Yan felt that the other party should not refuse so decisively and leave the matter without any detours, so she said: "Brother Feng could have had the opportunity to go out first, and then try to save Yan'er later." Such a decision without considering the consequences is really unlike you..."
"Sever the relationship with you and attach yourself to that Sima Tu?" Bai Feng sneered: "Yan'er, there are some things that cannot be played around with. If I do that, it means that I will no longer be myself. You have forgotten Really? We share a common destiny, and no one can leave the other... Now, I can only hope that Brother Zhao can find a way..."
Such a sight of the cold and damp earth wall could not separate their two connected hearts. The two of them were originally imprisoned in two adjacent places, probably to make one of them suffer and make the other mutiny. However, the situation now is completely opposite.
They took advantage of this barrier to talk more to each other, enjoying what might be their last night, and then gradually fell asleep.
When they woke up again, although the surroundings were still extremely dark, they were not in the underworld. Instead, they were surrounded by several knights with black cloths on their faces in the cell.
"Hakuho, Hakuho!"
The young man lifted his extremely tired body and saw clearly that the person in front of him was Miss E Wu. She brought several knights from the Hubei family to rob the prison. Even if she doesn't know how she did it, some of the reasons can be found out from the conversations between their Hubei family members.
"Uncle, put on these clothes quickly, put on your hood, and follow us to the ferry!"
"Did you hear that, Bai Feng, wake up!" E Feiying agreed, then walked to the compartment and rescued Murong Yan.
"I...I can't walk very fast..." Bai Feng was still dizzy and said to himself.
"It's okay, uncle, I will carry you on my back!"
"Who is your uncle..."
After a few words, Bai Feng was carried on the back of a man, followed by E Feiying, Murong Yan, and nearly ten knights with black cloths on their faces, and escaped on the soldiers' bodies.
After a while, the young man whose face was covered by the hood heard the sound of running water lingering in his ears. Therefore, he couldn't help but lift his hat, raised his eyebrows and looked at E Feiying in front of him, and asked: "Miss E Wu, where are we going?"
"Go to Mr. Zhao. It turns out that they took a boat to hide earlier. No wonder my father and Sima Tu's idiot men couldn't find them. Now, they are waiting for us at the ferry!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a loud arrow suddenly passed by behind him.
"The bad guy, please leave!"
After an angry shout came from the pursuers behind them, E Feiying and others immediately realized that their whereabouts had been discovered. The unknown knight carrying Bai Feng immediately put down the injured boy, and then entrusted him to E Feiying and Murong Yan, blocking the road with other brothers to buy time for escape.
"Miss E Wu, you must be nice to your new uncle!" After the unknown knight said this, he drew his sword and deflected a few flying arrows.
Hidden arrows flew past, making it difficult to guard against, and casualties soon appeared among the few knights. Fortunately, their resistance did buy some time. By the time E Bing was still waiting for others to catch up to the shore, the merchant ship had already sailed away.
