Mind Reading: The villain wins after hearing the princess's inner voice

[Sister Eagle, please help me check around this mountain to see if I can see any traces of other people.]

[Little girl, I'll go help you look for it, you just hide there and don't move.]

The eagle changed direction, left the cave near the halfway point of the mountain, and flew towards the back of the mountain.

After the eagle flew away, Tao Yuwei's spiritual power continued to spread into the mountains.

She connected her consciousness with the nearby big tree.

[Little girl, why are you here alone? Run, this mountain is very dangerous. ]

After hearing this, Tao Yuwei's face became serious. She still hasn't figured out why the traffickers brought those children to this sparsely populated mountain area.

[Thank you for your concern, Mr. Tree. Could you please tell me why this mountain you mentioned is dangerous? ]

Tao Yuwei pricked up her ears and listened to the noises around her, but could only hear the constant chirping of crickets in the grass as night fell.

She needed to chat with this big tree that was connected to consciousness and get information about the mountain from it.

Who knows, she might get unexpected news this time.

[Girl, there are a lot of soldiers hiding in this mountain. For some unknown reason, they have been staying here all year round.]

Tao Yuwei continued to ask about this.

[How many of them are there? How long have they been here?]

The tree gently shook its branches a few times and said, "I don't know exactly how many people there are. I just remember that they have been here for more than three years. Every once in a while, a group of people will be sent in from outside."

[What about the children who were brought here? How did they deal with them? ]

If this is the hiding place and training place of a certain prince's private soldiers, why were so many children brought here by human traffickers?

This is also what Tao Yuwei can't understand the most.

Aren't abducted children usually sold to families in need? How could they be brought to such an uninhabited place?

[Little girl, I don’t know the question you asked. I didn’t see any children coming here.]

Tao Yuwei's heart was shocked.

Didn't see the child?

Where exactly were those people taken by the traffickers?

This was the thing she least wanted to see happen.

What was the connection between the private soldiers hiding in the mountains and these human traffickers? Why did the two guards in her house follow those human traffickers and end up being tied up and taken into the mountains?

There were several questions that Tao Yuwei didn't understand.

The tree couldn't answer the questions she asked.

By this time, the sky had completely darkened.

[Little girl, those people are hiding in a large valley behind this mountain. Be careful. I'm going to take a rest.]

After the tree reminded her, it became quiet and stopped talking to her without waiting for her to thank it.

Tao Yuwei walked out from behind the tree.

The eagle that flew out to investigate the news flew back at this time.

[Little girl, I found that there are many tents set up in the valley behind the mountain, and a large number of troops are stationed there.]

The eagle was so hungry that it could hardly fly.

Tao Yuwei was already very sure that the private soldiers of some important figure were hiding in this mountain.

[Sister Eagle, please find a place to rest first. I will go to the forest to hunt some prey and come back. After we have a good meal, we will go around to the back of the mountain to check the situation.]

The eagle responded to the cry, then chose a tall tree and landed on it.

Tao Yuwei rushed into the nearby woods in the dark to hunt.

Xiao Lichen and his group chose another route to the northwest and were also in the mountains.

The carriage that Xiao Lichen was riding in stopped beside a stream.

Qingzhu and two guards were squatting by the stream and slaughtering a few pheasants.

Xiao Lichen, sitting in a wheelchair, was alone under a big tree.

A bunch of firelight rising from the ground shone on his face. He pursed his angular lips, with a cold expression. He sat there like a statue, and hadn't moved for most of the day.

The little girl followed her grandfather, General Weiyuan, and lived at the border for several years. She has experience staying outdoors, so she shouldn't encounter any danger, right?

Where is she at this moment?

Qingzhu and the others cleaned the pheasant, put it on the lit fire and started to burn it.

It was not until the aroma of barbecue came that Xiao Lichen came back to his senses.

Taking out his own plate, Qingzhu cut the roasted pheasant into pieces neatly with the dagger he carried with him, put the pieces into the plate, and placed it on a clean wool blanket under a big tree. He also washed a plate of wild fruits he had found and made a few pairs of chopsticks.

"Master, it's time to eat." Qingzhu pushed him to the blanket, helped him get off the wheelchair, and sat on the blanket to eat the roast chicken.

Xiao Lichen nodded silently.

He sat on the woolen blanket, eating slowly, his mind elsewhere.

After eating the roast chicken, Xiao Lichen took the hot tea handed to him by Qingzhu and rinsed his mouth before asking, "When will our people arrive?"

Qingzhu replied, "We'll probably be here tomorrow night."

Xiao Lichen pondered for a moment.

This place is still more than 300 miles away from Lingzhou. If we continue chasing, we will be discovered by Lingzhou’s Junshan King.

"Let's not hurry. Let's wait here for Princess Anle first. If Princess Anle hasn't arrived by noon tomorrow, you can go and meet her on horseback."

Qingzhu responded respectfully.

He didn't know yet that Tao Yuwei had chosen a random path and had gone the other way.

In the capital city at that time.

At the Eighth Prince’s residence.

Prince Xin Xiao Chengyan was sitting in the book, discussing things with his aide Zhang Shanzheng.

"Clean up the thing that Tian Linwen helped us with earlier without leaving any trace."

Tian Linwen could have followed his suggestion and admitted to everyone that he was not a descendant of the Tian family, and thus escaped from the swamp of the Tian family.

Who would have thought that his good father, in order to clear Anle's name, would actually let Xiao Yuwei be responsible for a thorough investigation of Tian Linwen.

Tian Linwen was taken to the prison.

He had already arranged to pass a message to Tian Linwen inside, telling him that if he wanted to stay alive, he must not talk nonsense inside.

"Master, Tian Linwen cannot be kept here. If he cannot bear the torture in the prison, and reveals the incident, it will be a disaster."

Zhang Shanzheng held a folding fan in his hand and fanned it worriedly.

"Tian Linwen is still very useful, so keep him for now. As for Tian Ce, I have already sent him a message. I believe he is a smart man and knows what to choose."

Zhang Shanzheng bowed and walked toward the door, but was stopped by someone inside. "Tell everyone in the city to stop all activities and wait and see for a while after the Tian family incident is over."

Zhang Shanzheng agreed and went out.

Xiao Chengyan thought about it and found no omissions, but he still felt deeply uneasy.

His intuition has always been accurate, and relying on his keen intuition, he has avoided danger many times.

I hope I can get through this safely this time.

It is located deep in the mountains hundreds of miles northwest of the capital.

Tao Yuwei and an eagle were sitting by a very hidden campfire on the gable. She was eating roasted rabbit meat. Tao Yuwei threw a whole gray rabbit to the eagle.

Each man has his own eagle, and they eat their own food without interfering with each other.

The wild rabbit meat that she grilled herself was pretty good and tasty. Tao Yuwei also enjoyed this grilled meat without any seasoning.

At the end of the world, she couldn't even eat anything like this.

Fortunately, she was not a novice. From her memory, she remembered that she had once gone hunting at the border with her grandfather, the General Weiyuan.

She herself is quite good in hands-on ability.

Before midnight, she and Sister Eagle finally had some rabbit meat to eat and no longer went hungry.

A hare was in her hand, which she quickly devoured, leaving only a small pile of bones.

She could even chew the meat off a rabbit brain cleanly.

The eagle next to her ate the rabbit faster than her. It picked up the rabbit in its mouth and ate it up quickly.

After eating, Tao Yuwei said to Old Eagle, "Sister Eagle, please find a place to rest. I will go to the back of the mountain to get some information."

The eagle spread its wings and flapped them, saying, "Little girl, I'd better go with you. I'll fly above and you'll be below. If there's any danger, I can inform you."

【Thank you, Sister Ying. 】

After extinguishing the fire, the man and the eagle groped their way to the back of the mountain in front of them.

The eagle flew into the sky, and Tao Yuwei walked through the woods, taking one deep step and one shallow step.

After more than an hour's trek, she finally arrived at a dense forest behind the mountain.

The moment she entered the dense forest, she became fully alert and walked through the forest very carefully.

I was afraid that there was someone hiding in the forest, and I was also afraid that a trap had been set.

She used all her mental power and went wherever she felt was safe.

Don't dare to be too careless at all.

It was her caution that helped her avoid the traps set in certain places in the forest.

The eagle flying overhead told her where she was from time to time.

[Little girl, walk a little further and you will be out of this dense forest. There is a stream in the dense forest and you can drink some water here.]

[Okay, I understand. Thank you Sister Ying! ]

When Tao Yuwei heard that there was water ahead, she perked up and quickened her pace.

As soon as she stepped out of the dense forest, she heard the sound of rushing water.

The view in front of me suddenly opened up.

In the darkness of the night, she could roughly see the situation around her.

There was a large flat land behind the mountain, surrounded by many mountains.

The stream that the eagle mentioned was the spring water that meandered down from a nearby mountain, gathering in the low-lying area here to form a small lake.

The surrounding environment gave people a good feeling. She also saw sparkling fireflies in the grass beside the small lake.

Hidden in the grass are the chirping sounds of crickets.

She chose a relatively secluded spot, squatted down and scooped up some lake water to drink.

She had just finished drinking the water and had not yet had time to stand up when she heard footsteps not far away.

She quickly hid behind a big rock and waited for the other party to arrive.

"Oh, it's our turn to fetch water today. It's such a hassle." One of the tall men was carrying two wooden buckets and complaining.

"That's enough. It's just for tonight. It will be someone else's turn next time. Just keep quiet! If the general finds out, he will definitely skin you alive."

A man who was shorter than him advised the other person not to take it too seriously.

The tall man obviously didn't listen to what he said.

"I'm just very angry. Why? I came here to serve in the army, not to be ordered around and bullied every day."

As the two men talked, they came to the lake to fetch water.

They were only a few steps away from Tao Yuwei.

As long as they looked behind the big rock nearby, they would be able to discover her presence.

Tao Yuwei tried hard to hold her breath, trying her best to make herself invisible so that the other party could not notice her.

"Well, didn't the general say that as long as we follow him and work hard, he will definitely let us eat delicious food and drink spicy drinks in the future."

When Tao Yuwei heard the short man's words, she realized that the general he was talking about must be the highest-ranking official in the valley.

"Pah, that fat guy, he only knows how to eat, drink and order people around all day. What can I get out of following him? In my opinion, after I pass the three-month recruit period, I will be transferred to the cavalry battalion. The cavalry battalion is the most promising."

The two men each carried two buckets of water and left the lake. Tao Yuwei followed carefully.

The eagle in the sky reminded her at this time, "Little girl, go a little further and you will see a large area of ​​tents. They are strictly guarded there, so please be careful."

Tao Yuwei told it that she would be extremely careful.

Following these two people, we will definitely find the general who is in charge of the troops in this valley.

She wanted to see who this general was and who he was working for.

If she doesn't know this person, she can first remember his appearance. After returning home, she can draw this person and take it to her father for identification. Perhaps she can find out who this person is working for.

Following the two soldiers fetching water, she safely avoided the surrounding patrols and entered the group of tents.

She found that the guarding here was not as strict as that of the border troops.

This also made it convenient for her to find out information.

She followed the two soldiers carrying water to a large tent, and they walked into the tent carrying water.

He walked quietly around the tent, pricked up his ears, and listened to the sounds inside.

She stood at the back of the tent, and just as she closed it, trying to listen to the voices inside, she was alerted by the eagle above her head.

[Little girl, a patrol is coming from behind you on the right, hide quickly.]

Tao Yuwei quickly turned to the other side of the tent.

When the patrol team passed by with torches in their hands, Tao Yuwei's face darkened.

If she wants to get information easily, it seems she has to disguise herself.

So she followed a soldier who walked out of the tent to urinate at night, came to an uninhabited woods, knocked the man unconscious, dragged him into the dense forest, gagged him and tied him up.

After doing all this, she sneaked into the soldier's tent, found another set of clothes given to him by new recruits, and put them on.

Fortunately, after she put it on, it fit her perfectly, neither too big nor too small.

He put on a helmet, smeared a thin layer of black soil on his face, picked up a red tasseled spear, and walked out of the tent.

She deliberately came to the door of the largest tent and heard the rustling sound coming from inside.

The person inside should be taking a shower.

"Someone, bring me some tea."

The person inside thought that the two people who had just fetched water for him were guarding outside, so he shouted for help.

Tao Yuwei took the opportunity to walk in swaggeringly, poured water neatly, picked up the teacup on the table, held the red tasseled spear in one hand and the tea in the other, and walked behind the screen.

What caught my eye was a fat back.