Following the direction her daughter's little finger pointed, Liu looked around blankly and saw her mother-in-law being held hostage by men in black outside the courtyard.

She covered her mouth in fear and quickly turned around to hand her daughter over to Tao.

"Second son's wife, quickly take Xixi and the children back home."

Tao had just come out of the house and, before she could figure out what was going on, blankly took her niece.

"Sister-in-law, where are you going?"

[Waaah, who will put Xixi to sleep? Xixi wants to help her mother.]

[Auntie, can you please put Xixi to sleep?]

Grandma and Mom are in danger!

Xixi looked up at her aunt with a mixture of anxiety and helplessness, her little face flushed and her eyes brimming with tears.

Tao heard her niece's heartfelt words clearly, and when she looked down, she saw her aggrieved little eyes, which melted her heart.

"Don't cry!"

She shook her arms as she spoke, trying to control her unease.

With her aunt rocking her, Xixi quickly fell asleep and then swiftly entered the space to the hidden door.

Sensing her arrival, the hidden door slowly rose from the ground and automatically opened the door she wanted to enter.

The space inside the gate showed that Old Lady Zhu was being held hostage by men in black. Chen Xiang and the other escorts were standing in front of the two, and Liu Shi was standing behind them.

"Brother, don't be impulsive. You're only here for money; there's no need to get your hands dirty."

As Chen Xiang spoke, he put down the broadsword and pushed the wooden box to the man in black's feet. "The silver you want is in here. Take it and release the man."

"Release them? To tell you the truth, our mission this time isn't just to rob money, we have other tasks as well."

The man in black spoke while glancing around, seemingly giving a coded signal.

Upon seeing this, Xixi, who was inside the space, hurriedly swam towards the hut where the weapons were stored.

To her surprise, all the weapons in the cabin were gone, and the cabin was empty.

It seems Zhu Yanyan discovered her presence, which is why she hid the weapons in the armory.

Seeing that the man in black was about to make a move, Xixi used all her strength to fly towards the silver vault.

The vault door was locked tightly by Zhu Yanyan, and no matter how hard she pulled, she couldn't unlock the lock with the combination lock.

Just as she was about to cry from anger, the combination lock opened automatically, and before she could react, the vault door also opened automatically.

Not daring to waste any time, Xixi dragged a large bag of silver out of the vault and threw it out the door.

"Xixi doesn't believe that you wouldn't like money."

Just as the man in black outside the space was about to raise his hand to strike Old Lady Zhu, silver coins suddenly began to rain down from the sky.

Countless silver coins rained down from the sky, and the man in black was still trying to figure out what was happening.

Chen Xiang picked up a large knife and slashed at the man in black. Old Mrs. Zhu seized the opportunity to bend over and crawl away on her knees. Seeing this, Liu also bent over and crawled over to hug her mother-in-law and quickly left.

Just after Chen Xiang subdued the man in black, he was still worried about the other hidden men in black.

As a result, all the men in black in the darkness were attracted by the silver in front of them, and disregarded their own safety as they rushed to the roadside and frantically picked up the silver on the ground.

However, just as they held the silver in their arms, Chen Xiang and the other guards' broadswords were placed at their necks.

Xixi looked proudly at the scene before her, instantly breathed a sigh of relief, and plopped down in mid-air.

"It's too tiring, Xixi has it too hard, there's always something to worry about."

The lively commotion in the space was too loud, giving Zhu Yanyan, who had just left Lujia Village, a headache.

She crouched on the ground in distress, clutching her forehead and chest, her face deathly pale.

"Yan Yan, what's wrong?"

"Mother, I..." Zhu Yanyan covered her forehead in distress. After a long while, she looked around blankly. "Mother, where is this?"

“This is Lujia Village!” Wen Xiuying stared blankly at her daughter’s face and replied uneasily.

"Lujia Village? Aren't we in the capital?" Zhu Yanyan found her mother's words increasingly strange. She had only taken a nap, how did she end up in Lujia Village?

"Are you Yan'er?" Wen Xiuying's expression changed drastically upon hearing her daughter's reaction. She took a few steps back in fear, her voice trembling.

Zhu Yanyan found her mother's reaction strange. Just as she was about to reach out, she felt a headache coming on again.

After a moment, Zhu Yanyan slowly raised her head with a sinister expression.

I almost let her come back. If she had, there would have been no place for her in this world.

Could the stolen medicine have been due to a loophole created by her return?

"Let's go get the herbs."

Wen Xiuying stared blankly at her serious-looking daughter, then stood up happily, hugged her, and cried as she spoke.

"You scared me to death! I thought you were missing."

It's great that they're finally back; otherwise, she and her son would never have been able to reach the border.

"This is so annoying, let's get going." Zhu Yanyan irritably pushed Wen Xiuya aside and hurried through the woods.

Seeing this, Wen Xiuying hurriedly pulled Zhu Zinan, who was frightened by her sister, and followed after her.

No sooner had Zhu Yanyan disappeared into the woods than Zhu Chenfeng and Zhu Haotian, along with their escorts, pushed a cart into Lujia Village.

The cart was loaded with herbs that they had purchased from pharmacies in the county town through escorts; these pharmacies were normally closed at night.

However, the officials in this county have a lot of power. Even if the shops are closed at night, they can still be opened if the officials need them.

Therefore, Zhu Chenfeng and Zhu Hao were able to successfully purchase the herbs they needed.

The two returned to Lujia Village. As dawn broke, the white mist in the village gradually dissipated, and a ray of sunlight shone through the dark clouds into the village.

Chen Xiang was cleaning up the battlefield when Grandma Zhu saw her sons return and hurriedly went to greet them.

Zhu Chenfeng looked around nervously and asked anxiously, "The children?"

"All's fine, hide in the thatched hut in front." Old Mrs. Zhu helped Zhu Haotian push the cart to the place where medicine was brewed.

"Where's Xixi? Was she frightened?" Zhu Chenfeng was most worried about his little niece. She was only a few months old and had already experienced so much. The child was timid, and he didn't know if she had been frightened.

Hearing her third brother's voice, Tao came out of the thatched hut carrying Xixi. "This girl is asleep."

"Sleeping so soundly!" Zhu Chenfeng saw Xixi's sleeping face and wanted to reach out to touch her, but then remembered that his hands were dirty, so he smiled and told Tao Shi to stop.

"Thank you for your trouble, sister-in-law. I'll go and help Mother prepare the medicine."

"Go ahead! I'll stay with Xixi for a while." The more Tao looked at Xixi, the cuter she seemed, and she wished she could have such a cute little daughter herself.

Liu and Sun overheard their conversation and, after taking care of the children inside, jogged out.

"Qinru, have the second and third sons returned?"

"Yes!" Tao smiled and nodded toward the pharmacy. "It's in the pharmacy."

"Alright, you go in then. Jia Yan and I will go and brew the medicine." As she spoke, Liu rolled up her sleeves and pulled Sun towards the pharmacy.

When Xixi heard that her mother and aunt were going to boil medicine, she quickly got up and planned to secretly put the vaccine into the medicine pot.

"So it was you."

Zhu Yanyan's voice suddenly appeared in the space, startling Xixi so much that she froze on the spot.