"I can be even more arrogant." Li Ruo intertwined her fingers with Xie Xiao in front of everyone.

"Since everyone is here today, let us all be our witnesses. I, Li Ruo, standing before you today, solemnly tell you that I am going to marry Xie Xiao. Right here, we will be bowing to heaven and earth together."

"Heaven above, I, Li Ruo, today marry Xie Xiao. For the rest of our lives, we will share joys and sorrows, never to be separated."

Xie Xiao was suddenly startled. Here, let's pay our respects to heaven and earth!

He felt as if he were about to fly away, and with a flick of his fingers, he tightly gripped her hand.

"With the yellow earth behind me, I, Xie Xiao, here today bow to heaven and earth with Li Ruo, becoming her husband and wife. For the rest of our lives, we will share weal and woe, never to be separated."

The sound resounded through the sky.

Everyone was astonished.

You can still perform the wedding ceremony like this?

"good!"

"Great!" The brothers from Black Wind Stronghold and Purple Sun Peak were greatly encouraged, and their shouts rose and fell, shaking the heavens and the earth.

Xie Xiao looked triumphantly at the startled enemies opposite him: "You heard that? I'm her true love. You bunch of bastards, you want to steal my wife? Dream on."

"You bunch of bastards, you want to steal our chieftain's wife? Dream on!" the Black Wind Stronghold brothers shouted in response.

"You bunch of bastards, you want to steal our female boss? Dream on!" Ziyang Peak shouted.

"Boss, why waste time arguing with them? Just chop them up." Little Li was itching to take action.

"Well, it's about time," Xie Xiao said, glancing at the distant North Mountain. He saw plumes of smoke rising into the sky from the mountaintop.

The Prince of Jiangning and Song Zhijing followed his gaze, and were both startled. Could it be...?

"Heh, you think you can secretly send people around the North Mountain and sneak into the rear of our Black Wind Stronghold? Dream on!"

Xie Xiao laughed arrogantly, "My men from my branch camp have been lying in ambush nearby for a long time. They've probably wiped out your entire force by now."

The Prince of Jiangning's gaze shot towards Xie Xiao like lightning.

Destroyed?

Suddenly, a spy-like man ran up to him and said something to him, and Jiang Ning Wang's expression changed.

"Well done, you are indeed my formidable rival."

Xie Xiao grabbed Li Ruo's hand and kissed it, saying, "It's all because my wife brings me good fortune."

Li Ruo was anything but modest, saying, "You're only just finding out?"

"I knew it all along, but unfortunately some people are blind."

"Enough!" Song Zhijing's eyes were red as she watched them flaunt their affection while making veiled accusations, her chest aching with anger. "Li Ruo, you probably don't know what situation your family is in right now, do you?"

Li Ruo's gaze drifted over, looking somewhat bewildered. "What's the situation?"

Then Song Zhijing fired a whistling arrow up the mountain.

The whistle rang out.

Suddenly, countless gleaming knives and bows and arrows appeared from the crowd of people below Ziyang Peak.

They were about to rush in and take the people inside hostage, because they knew that the barbed wire fence that was supposed to attract lightning had not been activated that day.

But at the same instant, some other people among the common people acted even faster, using the blankets in their hands to block the assassins and kill them instead.

The assassins didn't even have time to let out a scream; they just stared in utter terror at the pair of incredulous eyes.

And the shore below.

I didn't get to see any of this.

In Song Zhijing's reddened eyes, there was a sense of triumphant satisfaction at having avenged a great wrong. "You probably can't imagine what those refugees—"

But he hadn't finished speaking.

Then came the strong voice of Old Lady Li from the mountain; she was using the loudspeaker that Li Ruo had given her.

"The assassin has been captured! The assassin has been captured! Song Zhijing, you ungrateful and treacherous official, you dared to try to kidnap us to blackmail my granddaughter, dream on!"

The sound was deafening.

Song Zhijing was so shocked that he took a step back. "What? You actually saw through me?"

"A trivial skill."

Xie Xiao and Li Ruo said in unison.

Then they looked at each other, as if by unspoken agreement, and asked each other at the same time, "Are there any of your people among those people?"

"Hmm." Xie Xiao had long known that something was wrong with the new batch of refugees. How could their every move escape the eyes of his brothers?

“I think so too,” Li Ruo said.

That's why she deliberately released the news of sending rice for the New Year in advance. Those assassins disguised as refugees would definitely take the opportunity to blend in with the people, and Ziyang Peak could kill them in one fell swoop.

The difference between an assassin and one of your own is just a blanket.

Xie Xiao seized this opportunity. "Wife, we are truly a match made in heaven."

The opponent made two moves, and their expressions were extremely grim.

"A pair of despicable people!" Song Zhijing clenched his fists so tightly they cracked. "But Xie Xiao, you probably don't expect that your brother and your two nephews are now in our hands."