Immediately afterwards, crackling sounds echoed all around.

Su Yunyan rushed out in a hurry and saw a group of children standing at the shop entrance, throwing stones into the shop.

"stop!"

Su Yunyan shouted loudly.

But her soft voice had no deterrent effect whatsoever; the children only threw the objects with even more gusto.

Yan Mufeng rushed out with a dark face, grabbed the little brat standing at the front by the collar and lifted him up, then slapped him on the butt with his other hand.

"Tell me, who gave you permission to do these bad things?"

The little boy was terrified when the older girl suddenly attacked him and burst into tears.

The younger children behind them were also startled and then burst into tears.

"Hey, what are you doing? Let go of my child!"

A voice filled with anger suddenly rang out.

Yan Mufeng looked in the direction of the voice and saw a woman.

"How dare you hit our child? Is there no law anymore?"

Yan Mufeng frowned, grabbed the child's sleeve and shook it, causing the stones inside to fall to the ground with a clatter.

"See? Your kid smashed our shop. Since you're here, you'd better pay for the shop's losses too."

Lanxi walked out with her arms crossed: "And you little brats, go home and tell your parents to come and pay us back, or we'll go door to door demanding money!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than a group of masked men rushed out of the alley, carrying torches and throwing them into the shop without a word.

Su Yunyan exclaimed in alarm, "Be careful, get out of the way quickly!"

Yan Mufeng's face turned red with anger at the sight of such an arrogant villain: "This is outrageous!"

He threw the child in his arms to his mother, grabbed his sword, and charged into the group of masked men.

Lanxi and Anning kept picking up the torches on the ground, extinguishing them, and throwing them away.

This shop is full of silk products; if it were to catch fire, it would probably burn to the ground.

With tears in her eyes, Su Yunyan looked at the chaotic scene with a sense of helplessness. She had already expected to be retaliated against, but she never expected that they would actually burn down her shop. This was a shop that she had worked hard day and night to build up, and the embroidery pieces were all embroidered by her own hand, stitch by stitch.

"careful."

A slightly familiar voice suddenly rang out.

Suddenly, a dark figure appeared in front of Su Yunyan and, without saying a word, tightly embraced her.

Immediately afterwards, there was a splashing sound, and swill mixed with pig manure was poured directly onto his back.

Su Yunyan frowned, her stomach churning.

The shadowy figure released her and threw his outer robe on the ground, saying, "Go back inside quickly, I'll handle things outside."

Su Yunyan turned her head to look and finally saw his face clearly. It was none other than the former Crown Prince, Mu Anheng.

"Go quickly."

Seeing that she was standing there motionless, Mu Anheng urged her anxiously.

"oh."

Su Yunyan turned around, went back into the shop, and closed the door.

Through the door and the carved window lattice, Su Yunyan saw a large group of people behind Mu Anheng. They were dressed in tattered clothes and looked like beggars.

An Ning leaned closer to look and saw that Mu Anheng led the group of beggars and quickly chased everyone away. Yan Mufeng was in the middle of a fight when he turned around and everyone was gone.

Lanxi looked at his retreating figure, then at Anning, and asked in confusion, "Yunyan, is your divorced husband protecting you?"

Upon hearing this, Su Yunyan couldn't help but recall the scene when he had helped her block that bucket of swill.

"Probably... yes."