Ye Haoxuan looked towards San after hearing this.

San instinctively touched the scar on his face and muttered, "It doesn’t make sense. I was very careful during the investigation; he couldn’t have found out. Besides, his family is still here."

"Did the county office say where he went?"

San bowed and said, "No one at the county office knows where he went, only that he left with the steward."

Ye Haoxuan tapped his fingers loudly on the table and suddenly turned his gaze to Li Luru.

Li Luru was familiar with him too. She knew something was up the moment she saw his gaze and abruptly turned her head.

"Heh... summon your Xiaobai."

"What do you want to do?"

Ye Haoxuan spoke lazily, "Isn’t your Xiaobai good at finding people? Lend it to me."

Li Luru chuckled and eventually spat out two words, "Not lending!"

"My Xiaobai is only responsible for helping you find your sister, not to assist in your investigations." Li Luru thought to herself, her Xiaobai is such a cherished little thing, how could it be made to do hard labor?

"Li Luru!" Ye Haoxuan asked slowly, "Do you know what kind of person Liu Cheng is? Do you know the despicable things he does every month? Some of those babies were only a day old, others less than a month, they hadn’t seen the world or felt human warmth, and then they were killed by Liu Cheng."

Seeing her expression change, he continued, "Do you know how those children died? They were cut open on the head, and their brains were sucked out."

"Ugh..." Li Luru suddenly rushed out the door.

After a while, she returned with a pale face, "I’ll lend you Xiaobai, but you must promise me one thing."

"What is it?"

"Liu Cheng must die the same way those babies did." Li Luru wiped her mouth, feeling intense hatred toward Liu Cheng.

How could someone be so evil? How could they harm such small children?

Ye Haoxuan glanced over her face before nodding, "No problem, as for Liu Cheng, he’ll naturally reap what he has sown."

San boldly said, "For someone like Liu Cheng, you have to hurt what he treasures to make him understand the pain he caused others. From what I know, Liu Cheng has a newborn son he cherishes dearly. I think we should repay him in kind. He harmed others’ children, so he shouldn’t have it easy with his child either. That way, he would feel the pain."

"Children are innocent." Ye Haoxuan waved his hand, "Alright, first take some people to watch around the Liu Residence, see if Liu Cheng returns, and keep an eye on his family, don’t let them escape. Also, get some of Liu Cheng’s things from the Liu Residence."

"Yes!"

After San left, Li Luru took out her small flute and summoned Xiaobai.

Later, Si returned with Liu Cheng’s belongings to the inn, and Xiaobai sniffed them and headed out.

At dawn, Xiaobai flapped its little wings and flew back.

"Found him!"

Li Luru, with Xiaobai in tow, knocked on Ye Haoxuan’s door.

"Hmm." Ye Haoxuan glanced at Xiaobai, then had Xiaoyuan pack some breakfast and asked Si to gather some people. The group then rode their horses, following Xiaobai out of the city.

Once out of the city, Xiaobai kept heading west, but the further west they went, the fewer people there were, and there were no villages.

"Are you sure it didn’t lead us the wrong way?"

"Of course not." Li Luru had absolute trust in Xiaobai.