This middle-aged male servant and another, thinner middle-aged man boarded the carriage together.
They had Xu Lei's mother hostage as they drove the carriage, making a swift getaway.
Quite a few constables had arrived at the scene.
But at this moment, they didn't dare to intervene.
Xu Lei listened to the discussions of the people around him and pieced together what had happened.
It turned out that these two servants of the Xu family had been lining their own pockets, embezzling a significant amount of the family's wealth.
However, because their indenture contracts belonged to the Xu family, they were bound to them.
So after their crime was discovered, they felt the family would never let them off.
Thus, they decided to act ruthlessly and kidnapped Xu Lei's mother.
They wanted to score big and then disappear for good.
The carriage made its way out of the city.
It arrived in a forested mountain area.
"Can't you let me go now?!"
