The sound Xia Donglai heard was actually a cry for help, which came from inside the carriage.

"Go down!" Xia Donglai said calmly. Lu Ying immediately called out, "Hey, are the people down there alright?"

A faint female voice immediately came from inside the carriage, "Help!"

Xia Donglai then climbed down the earthen wall.

Lu Ying watched from above as Xia Donglai overturned and destroyed the carriage, then pulled out the woman inside. The woman's delicate face came into Lu Ying's view; she had a cut on her forehead and was disheveled. Compared to her four servants, the woman's injuries were negligible.

It took the two of them a great deal of effort to get the woman up. As soon as she was up, she thanked them in a low voice, clutching her clothes tightly, looking frail and weak.

Xia Donglai wasn't good at handling such situations, so Lu Ying stepped forward. First, she expressed her regret that the two brothers couldn't save the remaining four people. Then, after understanding the situation, she expressed her sympathy and said that the two of them could take her home.

The woman did not refuse.

Lu Ying and his companion escorted the woman to her doorstep, then led the woman's servants out to rescue the four female servants before leaving.

"Shall we tell the truth?" Lu Ying asked Xia Donglai when they arrived in town.

Xia Donglai nodded. This woman seemed to be fine. As long as they were willing to follow Bai Nuo's method, things would be easy to handle.

"Then we'll..." Lu Ying said with a smile, but before she could finish, her smile vanished. "Wait a minute..."

Xia Donglai watched Lu Ying walk straight ahead, puzzled. He quickly walked up to her and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Does that person in front look familiar?" Lu Ying tilted her head towards Xia Donglai and said in a low voice.

Xia Donglai looked up and said, "This isn't that...that...Yu..." But Xia Donglai couldn't say what Yu was again after a long time.

He had forgotten about this person.

“Yu Ziqing!” Lu Ying said calmly.

"Yes, it's him. What's wrong?"

"You go back first!" Lu Ying looked at the person in front of her and suddenly said in a deep voice, "You go first, I have things to do, I'll go back as soon as I'm done!"

"what?"

Lu Ying said, enunciating each word clearly, "Give him a beating. I've disliked him for a long time!"

Yu Ziqing was strolling leisurely down the road with a folding fan in his hand when, suddenly, for some reason, he shivered, his whole body trembled, and the hairs on his arms suddenly stood on end.

Why is it so cold today?

This isn't even the dead of winter yet!

Yu Ziqing looked around suspiciously, but found nothing, so he could only rub his arms and walk into a corner.

As Lu Ying watched Yu Ziqing walk around a corner, she quickly followed him up. Xia Donglai didn't know what Lu Ying was planning to do, but seeing him go up, Xia Donglai had no choice but to follow.

He didn't want to help Lu Ying beat up Yu Ziqing; he just felt that it would be difficult to explain to Hu Mingmei if the two of them came out alone and he went back alone.

With this thought in mind, Xia Donglai followed behind Lu Ying.

Lu Ying's attention wasn't on him. After noticing that he had followed, Lu Ying only glanced at him before focusing all her attention on Yu Ziqing ahead.

Yu Ziqing walked into a small alley with two exits. The one they entered led to the main street, while the other led to another street. If they went through it, they would end up behind the main street.

At this moment, a man walked towards them. Yu Ziqing slightly stepped aside to make way, and Lu Ying followed without making a sound, also making way for the man. However, as Lu Ying slightly turned her body, the man inadvertently turned his head and only saw half of her face.

The man left quickly, leaving only the three of them in the entire alley.

After seeing that no one was around, Lu Ying took out a mask from her bosom, put it on, and rushed towards Yu Ziqing—it was common for people like them to carry a mask or a face mask with them.

Yu Ziqing felt a strong gust of wind blow from behind her. She had just turned her head when she was kicked by someone.

He was sent flying, and then fell face-first into the air, landing on the ground with his back to the sky.

With a "bang," Yu Ziqing, despite being dressed in thick clothes, still felt the dust kicked up when he fell, and the tremor in his chest—it hurt a little.

"Hey..." Yu Ziqing was still lying on the ground, but he had already raised his head. "Don't you have eyes...?"

He was about to say, "Don't you have eyes? Can't you see there's someone in front of you?", but when he turned his head, he saw a person wearing a bronze mask walking towards him. The mask was very well concealed, covering almost the entire person's face except for the eyes.

Yu Ziqing could only stare into those eyes, which were devoid of any emotion, cold and icy, like the snow-covered landscape of December.

Yu Ziqing shivered under that gaze—he finally understood why he had suddenly shivered when he was on the main street; the feeling was exactly the same as before.

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