Chapter 321 All Dead
"On the day of the Qiqiao Banquet, no matter what reason you use, don't let Jiuyue come to Donglin County." Jun Lie's cold voice was colder than the summer wind.
"The eldest lady is very opinionated." Dong Gui's words revealed embarrassment.
In the dark night, Jun Lie's eyes darkened slightly, and he said, "Then tell Jiu Yue not to go to Qingshuitang Street."
"Yes." Dong Gui responded. She sniffed hard and asked worriedly, "Is Your Highness injured?" She smelled blood.
"Guo Yang." Jun Lie winked at Guo Yang, who was standing beside him. Guo Yang immediately pulled Dong Gui to sit down on the edge of the field next to him. "Your Highness is fine, he's not injured. It was the bandits!"
"There are bandits in the village?" Dong Gui was so anxious that she wanted to get up and tell the eldest lady immediately. Guo Yang pulled her back and said, "It's not that there are bandits in the village, but Jin Wen encountered bandits, so we helped him secretly."
Guo Yang said lightly, "Donggui, is Miss Xiao okay? Why did you come with just a few of you?"
"The young lady is very kind and has made good arrangements. Although we are few in number, we have enough." Dong Gui said proudly, "The young lady lives in the village. This is a single family. In order to save his son, Luo Yuan only dared to follow the young lady's orders. Even when he captured a group of bandits, he still followed the young lady's orders."
"How did you get the bandits to obey Miss Xiao's orders?" Guo Yang asked immediately.
"Anthocyanin medicine." Donggui did not hide anything and told Guo Yang carefully about the story of Shan Ge's group of bandits. Guo Yang nodded thoughtfully.
Dong Gui also expressed her concerns and asked, "Is something going to happen in Donglin County during the Qiqiao Feast? Is His Highness in danger?"
"Don't worry, everything is under control of Your Highness. This time, in addition to Your Highness, the prince is also here." After Guo Yang finished speaking, Dong Gui looked at Guo Yang in shock. Her eyes fell on Jun Lie under the big camphor tree, and then she looked at Guo Yang again.
Guo Yang nodded.
"Donggui, take good care of Jiuyue." Jun Lie's cold voice sounded. Through the bamboo fence, his sight fell on Xiao Jiuyue's room. Suddenly, the light in the small window came on.
"Miss, you're awake." Dong Gui saw the light come on, turned around, grabbed a nearby frog, and ran straight into the house: "Miss, why are you awake?"
"It's too hot, are you going to the fields?" Xiao Jiuyue's gaze fell on the croaking frog in Donggui's hand, and finally on Donggui's clean embroidered shoes.
"I'm bored, but frogs are delicious too. I'll have them as a special dish tomorrow." Dong Gui answered as usual. In the quiet night, Dong Gui seemed to hear her own heartbeat like thunder. She asked, "Miss, should we fry the frogs or braise them?"
"Leave this to Luo Kui, Luo Kui Guild." Xiao Jiuyue's gaze fell on the large camphor tree not far away and said, "This large camphor tree is really quite old, isn't it?"
Dong Gui looked back. Under the moonlight, the lush camphor tree looked like a giant umbrella. She said, "Yes, looking at this thick trunk, it must be several decades old."
Jin Wen ran out of the woodshed and whispered, "Miss, the person is awake."
"Let's go." Xiao Jiuyue walked quickly towards the woodshed.
Dong Gui quickly followed. She glanced at the camphor tree and wondered, "Did the young lady discover something? This shouldn't be the case!"
"Quack." Donggui had just entered the woodshed when the frog in her hand croaked. Seeing Luokui, who had just finished taking a bath, she said, "Luokui, shall we eat frogs tomorrow?"
"Frog?" Luo Kui looked at the frog in Dong Gui's hand and subconsciously took a step back. It tasted good, but it was difficult to handle.
"Yes, I'll go catch some more." Donggui stuffed the frogs into the bamboo basket, turned around and went to the ridge of the field on the other side of the big camphor tree. If it weren't for the faint smell of blood in the air, she would have thought that seeing His Highness just now was an illusion.
"You, who are you?" The bloody man grabbed the straw on the ground. Even though he was injured and his voice was hoarse, he looked at Xiao Jiuyue and Jin Wen with a pair of bright black eyes with caution.
The bloody man looked around. There were some farm tools hanging on the wall and a lot of firewood piled in the corner. This place looked exactly like the firewood room of an ordinary villager's home.
"I'm the one who saved you. You were fighting with bandits on the mountain, and you fell off the cliff and into the water. I rescued you." Jin Wen took the initiative and said, "This is my eldest daughter. Don't worry, we are not bandits."
The bloody man's eyes flickered back and forth between them. He asked hoarsely, "Me, did you save them too?"
"Sorry, there are more people on the other side, so I can only save you." Jin Wen lowered his eyes. Under the circumstances at that time, if he saved the person in front of him and then went to save someone else, he would probably be besieged by bandits, and the eldest lady might also be implicated.
He has now saved the bloody man quietly, which is already very good.
The bloody man's eyes were red, and he stared at him without blinking and asked, "So, were they captured?"
Jin Wen looked at him and said, "Dead."
"You..." The bloody man stepped forward excitedly, gasping for air from the pain of his wound. He stepped forward and tightly grasped Jin Wen's hand, demanding, "Are they, are they all dead?"
The pain in the bloody man's eyes is visible to the naked eye.
Jin Wen said, "After I rescued you, the bandits couldn't find you, so they took their anger out on them." He told them everything that happened.
"It's me. I killed them." The bloody man buried his head in his knees and sobbed.
"My condolences." Jin Wen listened to his suppressed crying. At that time, those people were also protecting the bloody man in front of them. They really protected each other. There was even a man who saw him saving people, but when the bandits asked him, he would rather be beaten to death than say a word.
In the woodshed, there was a moment of oppression. After a long moment, Xiao Jiuyue spoke up, "What you need to do is to capture all those bandits and avenge your family and friends."
"It's useless, it's useless. Those dog officials are in cahoots with these bandits. The bandits rob money and have to give it to the dog officials!" The bloody man said gritting his teeth. His voice seemed to be squeezed out from his back teeth. If those bandits were in front of him, he would probably want to eat them alive.
"Thank you for saving me." The bloody man struggled and knelt on the straw.
"Don't thank me so quickly. I saved you because we have a grudge against the bandits. I want to ask, what do the bandits want to take from you?" Jin Wen spoke directly.
The bloody man looked up, not surprised. He looked at Jin Wen, and finally his gaze fell on Xiao Jiuyue. He warned, "You'd better leave here quickly, leave the village, leave Xingfeng Town. Those bandits are not what you think. They are very powerful!"
"If you don't tell me, how do you know that we can't do anything to those bandits?" Xiao Jiuyue's clear voice sounded, and his firm tone gave people a feeling of being powerful and omnipotent.
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