Finding Out The Truth (3)

It was Liu Hansi who had slapped Han Zhe, Lian Hu and his sons one after the other.

Although she had slapped really hard but a fragile hand of a young woman was not enough to teach the bastards a proper lesson.

"A slap is not enough punishment for them, they should be beaten to death. What are we waiting for, let's kill these four demons right now!" One of the woman from the gathered crowd said with anger.

Hearing her words, the other people were also ready to free the earth from the burden of these four scums.

"You are right. These kind of human don't deserve to live!" Another man said.

"Why are you calling them human? They don't even deserve to be called human! They are demons and they should not be allowed to live a single day more!" One after the other, all the people started to curse them.

But before any of them could do something, Sir Liu stopped them. He looked at Li Ming and asked, "Miss Li, what are we going to do with them?"

Li Ming first looked at the kneeling group and then at the fuming crowd. She knew that all of them were angry about the situation of their children who were working in the iron mines.

She finally turned towards Sir Liu and said, "This case is no longer just the matter of this village but also attached to treason against the imperial family.   So, it's basically the Emperor who will take care of them. Don't worry, I'll arrange everything and I'll make sure that your children will return to their homes." Her voice was loud enough for everyone to hear.

Li Ming went towards the group of culprits. She asked a man to search their bodies and another woman searched the three women. Other than a few accessories and money, they didn't find anything.

After the search was complete, Li Ming closed her eyes and murmured a spell that she had nearly forgotten. Next moment, the five culprits were captured inside prison circles.

Li Ming had put all of them in a different circle just to be safe. The circles were magical and no one other than her could break the spell. The reason was not that the others were not powerful but they had no idea what they were dealing with.

Until or unless someone knew exactly what was the spell, it's impossible to break it.

She also put a circle around Han Zhe's  wife, daughter and son. But she put all three of them in a single circle.

"I'll try to get the three of you out from this case but I can't promise." Li Ming told them silently before walking away.

She then placed an alarm spell in the area which would alert her if someone tried to harm the circles. Then Sir Liu ordered few of his trusted people to guard the place.

Everyone returned to their house as they had to work the next morning. Although no one said anything but they all had started to trust Li Ming after working with her for a while. And they all believed that their children would be back with them soon!

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Li Ming directly teleported to the Fourth Prince's manor at the outskirts of the imperial city.

She had not been into the Royal Palace, so she could not teleport there to find Zhang Yong. That's why she decided to came here.

When she appeared there she only found the royal guards and the staff. The Prince and his personal guard were no where to be seen.

The guards and the staff had already seen Li Ming before with their Master.  Therefore all of them bowed to her in greeting.

"Where is his highness? I have something urgent to talk to him." Li Ming said to one of the guards.

"Miss Li, the Prince had left for some important work two weeks ago. Right now we don't know his current location but we got the information in the morning that he will be returning after two days." The guard answered politely.

Li Ming thought for a while and then said, "It's alright. Just inform him about my visit."

Li Ming then teleported back to the orphanage. She was a little tired after using so much of her magical powers in such a short time.

It was already too late, so she didn't disturb anyone and silently entered the mansion.

She ate her dinner, took a quick shower and changed into her pajama bottoms. Then she went into the spell room.

It had been more than two weeks since she had stepped into the spell room but nothing prepared her for the view that she saw after setting her foot inside the room.

The door of the room had an ancient spell on it that makes sure no one other than the owner of the mansion could enter the spell room. That's the only reason the destruction that happened was limited to the spell room. Otherwise her whole mansion could be in pieces.

The spell room was beyond recognition. The books were scattered on the floor, the potion bottles were lying broken, the ingredients were also scattered around the room and even the tables and chairs were overturned. It looked like a tornado had passed through the room.

"What the heck happened here?" Li Ming was shocked beyond words. First it was nearly impossible for anyone to enter the mansion without her permission and even if by some miracle someone entered the mansion then it was IMPOSSIBLE to enter the spell room!

The floor was covered with broken glass and spilled potions. Li Ming didn't have the energy to carry on another case after such a long night.

Also she had suffered such a great loss. Most of the potions and the ingredients were hundreds of years old that had been prepared by her mother when she was the clan leader. And she still had not learned to make all of them. Moreover it was impossible to restore the wasted potions.

Li Ming wanted to curse the entire universe at the moment!

She took a long breath and decided to clean up the room. With the help of Snowy and her magic, she soon completed the task. But the now spell room was far from the previous one. The shelves which were initially filled with various potions, herbs and books were now empty and the room looked more like a broken storage than the sparkling spell room.

Since the book were torn apart, she had put all of them into the Regeneration Ball. It would fix the books again.

"Why there's no Regeneration Ball for these potions?" Li Ming said to no one in particular with a pout.

After looking at the empty spaces, Li Ming really wanted to spill some of her precious tears.

She took a last glance at the room and decided to take a break for the day. Just as she was going to leave the room, her gaze landed on the far corner of the room.

The room was really big and the only light was coming from one of the lamp, so Li Ming could not clearly see what was in there. But she was sure that she had seen something behind the sofa.

She pulled out a dagger from one of the shelves. The moment Li Ming touched the dagger it started shining with a red light.

She moved towards the corner with light movements. She moved around the sofa and raised her dagger to attack whatever was behind the sofa but the moment her eyes landed on the floor, the dagger fell from her hand with a loud clatter.

And before she could react, Snowy flew from the room barking at his full volume!