The palace is quiet, and the empress of the cold palace is acting as a demon

Chapter 253 Trap
The continuous heavy rain washed the black and white, occasionally emerald green Chizhou.

This rain made the people miserable.

Qin Wan asked the abbot of the Lianhua Temple on Jiuzi Mountain near Chizhou to perform a ceremony in the city, requiring all wealthy households in the city to participate, and to publicly solicit donations for disaster relief.

Qin Wan let people spread the word:

If you don't come, find a crime and arrest it.

Those who don't donate when they come here will be charged with a crime and arrested.

After hearing the news, the wealthy households came to the fundraising conference with their money.

Lu Ping asked Qin Wan if he wanted to say a few words at the fundraising meeting.

Qin Wan smiled and said with cold eyes: "As long as they donate money in good faith, I don't need to say anything, but if some of them don't donate, then I have to let them come in front of me and listen carefully to what I have to say. "

When Lu Ping saw Qin Wan, his legs went limp.

It's not that this Mrs. Qin looks so domineering, on the contrary, she just looks like a girl who is not a beauty, but she can reveal a creepy deterrence in every word and action, almost exactly the same as that of His Majesty Ning Emperor.

Lie Xie held an umbrella for Qin Wan, and Qin Wan stood in the rain, watching those wealthy households line up to pay the money one by one, with a cold look in his eyes: "Their money is far from enough to buy the lives of those girls!"

At this time, suddenly there was a wife of a big family whispering timidly under the willow tree next to her.

Qin Wan pricked up his ears to listen.

One of them said: "It's useless for Mrs. Qin to ask the monks from Lianhua Temple to do something. No matter what, I still need the sorceress Wu Zhu to do this ceremony, so as to calm the anger of Lord River God."

Another said: "That's right, I heard that Master Wu Zhu has found a suitable girl, and said that the ceremony will be held again soon..."

Qin Wan frowned and gave Lie Xian a look.

The delicacies are so delicious that they hide quietly.

Not long after that night, Lie Xie brought back news: "Madam, it is said that the woman chosen by the sorceress is the youngest daughter of a farmer's family outside Chizhou City. She has just turned sixteen. Wu Zhu gave the girl's father ten taels of silver as a deposit." , after you take him away tonight, you will pay another 20 taels of silver."

Qin Wan changed into the linen plain clothes of Chizhou people, and said to Lie Xie, "Let's go, let's go to that girl's house."

Outside the city of Chizhou, the farmland was flooded by heavy rain, and there was no harvest.

But as sad as other villagers, the men of the Fang family are full of joy.

Qin Wan gave him a piece of broken silver and a jug of spirits, saying that he came from a foreign country, passed by Chizhou, it was getting late, and he needed to stay overnight to shelter from the rain.

Seeing that Qian's eyes were wide open, the man immediately opened the door to let them into the yard.

The dilapidated wooden house, the sound of ticking water, and the poor girl holding the water seem to be a perfect match.

Qin Wan looked at the lovely and pitiful girl, and knowingly asked, "Your father looks very happy, why are you frowning?"

The girl didn't speak, but held back her tears with her mouth flattened.

The man drank the wine Qin Wan gave him, and quickly turned his head, and said with a smile: "This girl is going to be very powerful soon, she is going to get married."

"Marrying? It's a good thing, why are you crying? Is it popular in your place?" Qin Wan asked.

The man laughed loudly and said: "No, it's because this girl was chosen by Lord Wu Zhu, and she will soon marry Lord River God as a bride. Isn't that gratifying...to be chosen to marry River God, that is also Green smoke rose from our ancestral grave. The dowry given by the river god was many times higher than that given by ordinary peasants... Hahahaha."

Lie Xie said: "But that Wu Zhu wants to throw your daughter into the long river, that's not marriage, it's murder."

The man waved his hands and said, "No, no, the Lord River God will catch her in the water and won't let her die."

Qin Wan looked at the drunk man coldly, wishing he could kill him and take the girl away.

But Qin Wan knew that if one girl was saved, another girl would be victimized, and the witch was so well hidden that Lie Xian couldn't find any clues even after a few days of searching, and he didn't even know where those people's lairs were.

To find that Wu Zhu's lair, he had to resort to dangerous tactics.

At this time, Qin Wan said to the man: "Since it is so good to marry the God of the River, why don't I give you 50 taels of silver and let me trade it with your daughter..."

When the girl heard this, she suddenly looked up at Qin Wan in shock.

And the man picked his ears and looked at Qin Wan in the same astonishment: "What? You want to marry the River God? You want to give me money?!"

Qin Wan nodded: "Yes."

Saying that, Qin Wan asked Lie Xian to take out 50 taels and put it on the table, the man's eyeballs almost fell out.

The man hugged the silver greedily and wretchedly: "Okay, yes, of course! You have to think about it, this matter can't be changed after it's settled."

Qin Wan narrowed his eyes and nodded with a sneer.

The man listened to Qin Wan's advice and hid his daughter in the barn, while Qin Wan changed into the girl's clothes and stayed at home waiting for the sorceress Wu Zhu to pick her up.

Lie Xie hides around the farmer's house with thirteen guards, secretly protecting Qin Wan.

What surprised Lie Xian and Thirteen Dark Guards was that no one came to the farmer's house to pick them up until dawn after a whole night.

Lie Hao suddenly felt something was wrong, kicked open the door of the farmer's house, went in and saw that although the lamp was on, there was no one in the house.

Horrified by the food, he immediately sent hidden guards to look for it, but only found a secret passage in the girl's house.

When they entered the labyrinth to investigate, they found that someone had buried the secret passage overnight, and it was impossible to know where the secret passage led to.

"It's broken! Go find your empress quickly! I'll report to His Majesty!" Lie Xian Guojue ordered.

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When Qin Wan woke up from the trance, she took a closer look and found that she had been changed into a wedding dress and locked in a windowless room.

She vaguely remembered that she started to feel sleepy after waiting and waiting last night, and then fell asleep...

"It's broken!" Qin Wan frowned, "I'm afraid I fell into a trap!"

At this time, the door of the room was opened, and an old woman walked in with a strange cane, looked at Qin Wan with sharp and proud eyes, and said with a smile: "Mrs. Qin, everyone says you are very witty." , I didn't expect you to be fooled so easily."

Qin Wan snorted coldly: "You must be the sorceress who everyone in Chizhou believes in witchcraft. I didn't expect you to be so stupid. Are you not afraid that His Majesty Ning Emperor's Bei Rong army will flatten Chizhou?"

"No, no, no," said the sorceress Wu Zhu with a smile, "If His Majesty Emperor Ning knew that taking the life of the empress alone can calm the anger of the God of the River and win the hearts of the people on both sides of the river, why not do it?"

"You underestimate my relationship with His Majesty Emperor Ning." Qin Wan stared at Goddess Wu Zhu and said.

"Really? Then I'll make a bet with Mrs. Qin, whether it's His Majesty's army that's the most powerful, or the people's hearts of the Chizhou people!" Wu Zhu said, "As long as the people in Chizhou are going to kill you, His Majesty Emperor Ning will kill you." Can't handle it at all."

"..." Qin Wan's eyes turned cold.

It seems that this Wuzhu witch is not just a witch, but may have established a superstitious sect in Chizhou.Usually, the "disciples" of this evil sect will be brainwashed by the sect, and they will believe the words of the leader without thinking.

This sect has great reactionary power, and it has been a headache for emperors since ancient times.

Qin Wan knew that if Lie Xie didn't get rid of her as soon as possible, she would really be thrown into the river. Even if she didn't die, the soul might not be able to find a suitable host so quickly.

Seeing that Qin Wan was silent, the sorceress Wu Zhu smiled and said, "Old woman, I believe Lord He Bo will like a smart and noble woman like you very much. Please wait patiently. The old woman will order someone to clean and dress you up. I will send you into the river!"

(End of this chapter)