Ye Ting saw that it was Jiu Tian who opened the door. She clutched the hem of her clothes and asked timidly, "Jiu Tian, ​​we heard that you came back. Mother asked us to come and see you."

Zhang Xiangliang smiled憨厚ly and said, "Jin Yi is not in good health. I heard that Ma Chenyang went back to his hometown, so I came to take care of him."

Jiutian opened the door and said in a cute, childlike voice, "Thank you, come in."

Chu Bu Nu saw Jiu Tian opening the door from afar. The child was not even as tall as his thigh, with his hair tied in a Taoist bun and wearing a simple Taoist robe, looking like a beggar.

He was wearing a small tiger mask on his face, and looked like a baby who had just been weaned.

A sense of disdain arose in my heart.

Watching Zhang Xiangliang and Ye Ting enter the courtyard with ease, Chu Bu Nu and the others hid and watched from a distance.

Ye Ting and Zhang Xiangliang entered the courtyard. Ye Ting was about to ask, "How is the young master in brocade robes?" when Jiutian spoke up, "Are you here to help us?"

Ye Ting immediately responded with an "Mmm".

"The water tank is empty, could you please refill it for us?"

"Okay," came Zhang Xiangliang's reply.

He immediately picked up his load and went to the town's well to fetch water.

For some reason, the water tank seemed to hold a lot; Zhang Xiangliang filled more than a dozen buckets in one go, but the tank was still not full.

Ye Ting was getting anxious. She stood by the water tank for a long time, but no matter how she looked at it, there was nothing wrong with the water tank. It wasn't big, and there were no holes.

Why can't it be filled?

Ye Ting couldn't help but ask, "Your water tank is really strange. It's already filled with almost twenty buckets of water, and it's still not full?"

Jiutian scratched his head and said, "I don't know, maybe it's because his desires are insatiable?"

Neither Zhang Xiangliang nor Ye Ting fully understood the meaning of the word, but the water tank was never full, so Zhang Xiangliang had to keep fetching water.

The person in the corner outside had changed their peeping posture several times, watching Zhang Xiangliang continue to fetch water, and looked up at the sky speechlessly.

Chu Bu Nu muttered under his breath, "What a pair of idiots! They've been carrying water for almost half a day now. Have they used up a year's worth of water?"

Both Ye Ting and Zhang Xiangliang felt that something was wrong.

“Jiutian, let’s fight again later. Look how nice the sun is. Shall I take you out to play? Xiuxiu is on a date with the carpenter from Shilipo today. Grandma is inviting us to have sweet egg soup.”

There are important people waiting outside, so Ye Ting needs to get Jiu Tian out of there quickly.

Jiutian clapped his hands happily and said, "Great, great, I want to send my blessings to Xiuxiu."

She slung her small bag over her shoulder and skipped along, calling out to Yin Jin'an, "Second Uncle, Ye Ting and I are going to Aunt Zhang's house!"

Ye Ting instructed Zhang Xiangliang, "Take advantage of the good weather and go out to a sunny spot on the street with your brocade robe on your back. Getting more sunlight will help your legs feel better."

After hearing her words, Zhang Xiangliang asked Yin Jin'an, "Jinyi, shall I carry you outside to dry in the sun?"

Yin Jin'an readily agreed: "Okay."

As he was leaving, he clutched a Tang sword in his hand.

Zhang Xiangliang said, "Jinyi, don't take the knife anymore, let's just bask in the sun."

Yin Jin'an remained silent, gripping the Tang sword tightly. Zhang Xiangliang, at a loss, cautioned, "Jinyi, the sword is dangerous. Please don't open it; just hold it."

Yin Jin'an remained silent.

Less than a quarter of an hour after Jiutian went out with Ye Ting, Zhang Xiangliang also carried Yin Jin'an out the door.

Chu Bu Nu, who was lying in ambush, led ten guards, each holding a Tang sword, and quickly surrounded them from the south.

The "Your Highness" who was hiding in the north also quickly emerged, leading six guards, and rapidly surrounded Yin Jin'an.

With his forces flanked from both the north and south, Yin Jin'an is doomed.

Yin Jin'an sensed the murderous aura from both sides. He lay on Zhang Xiangliang's back, gripped his Tang sword tightly, closed his eyes, and felt the murderous aura from both sides.

His face was clearly visible to "Your Highness" and Chu Bu Nu.

His beauty is unparalleled, unmatched in the world!

That otherworldly beauty, that exquisite charm that made all the men and women in the capital pale in comparison, undoubtedly belonged to that fool.

"Your Highness" gave the signal—Make your move!

In an instant, a murderous aura swept across the sky.

Even the common people who didn't know martial arts sensed that something was wrong with the two groups of people who suddenly surrounded them.

Zhang Xiangliang was unaware that they were going to kill Yin Jin'an. Seeing someone running past quickly, he carried Yin Jin'an to the side of the road to let them pass.

Before they knew it, those people rushed over. Zhang Xiangliang carried Yin Jin'an on his back and ran into the shop, shouting in terror as he ran, "What do you want to do?"

Chu Bu Nu offered no explanation, only waving his hand at those around him: "Kill him!"

Zhang Xiangliang was both angry and anxious, and terrified to the point of having his liver and gallbladder rupture. He roared, "What do you want to do? Do you want to kill someone in broad daylight?"

His shout startled the street vendors, who all dropped their wares and ran away.

Zhang Xiangliang tried to carry Yin Jin'an into the shop, but the shopkeeper, fearing it would implicate his business, desperately pushed him out, saying, "Get out, get out, don't drag us down with you."

With Yin Jin'an on his back, Zhang Xiangliang watched the approaching assassins. With nowhere to retreat, he placed Yin Jin'an behind him and knelt down to kowtow to them.

"Please don't kill us! He... he's an idiot! I'm just a peasant... we haven't done anything wrong!"

The street had been cleared of people, leaving only eighteen of the opposing side on the main street.

"Your Highness" slowly walked over, tilted his head to look at Yin Jin'an, and tentatively asked, "Xiao Jin'an?"

Yin Jin'an looked at him blankly.

"Don't you recognize me? Haha, Xiao Jin'an, you fool! I don't know what kind of bewitching potion Father Emperor has taken. He hates you, yet he keeps you around. I should have been made Crown Prince long ago, but he has kept it a secret from the world until now."

Yin Jin'an quickly processed the information in her mind. According to the information she had gathered over this period of time, the person in front of her was Xiao Hongli, the eldest son of Chu Hanhua, who had been granted the title of Prince of Liang.

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