Lu Yuyan and Lu Xiaoyun mounted their horses and joined Xi Yi, Jiang Chuan, and the others.
After an incense stick had burned, Lu Xiaoyun and the others met up with Xi Yi.
The entire Xizi Forest was shrouded in a bloody mist. The torches illuminated the thousands of corpses lying haphazardly on the ground, making it look like a mountain of corpses. The ground was covered with blood and the remains of limbs.
Beside the mountain of corpses, Xi Yi, along with a group of guards, surrounded and imprisoned the remaining thousand or so bandits who had surrendered.
Lu Yuyan had never seen such a scene before. He tumbled off the horse and vomited violently.
Lu Xiaoyun rushed over to support him: "Ayan, are you alright?"
Lu Yuyan gripped Lu Xiaoyun's hand tightly, his face pale: "Your Highness, ugh..."
His older sister was much, much stronger than he had imagined.
His finger trembled as he pointed at the severed limbs and remains: "Your Highness, ugh..."
When Wu Chuan dismounted, he saw Lu Yuyan holding his master's hand, unable to utter a complete sentence, and vomiting incessantly.
He raised an eyebrow, walked up to Lu Yuyan, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Mr. Lu, everyone feels like this the first time they go to the battlefield, it's nothing to worry about. I felt the same way the first time I went to the battlefield. When I came back, I couldn't even eat the delicious meat. All I could think about were the bloody, flesh-turned corpses."
Upon hearing the word "meat," Lu Yuyan's mind went blank. He pushed away Lu Xiaoyun, who was supporting him, and walked to the side, where he began to vomit violently.
Lu Xiaoyun glared at Wu Chuan.
Wu Chuan chuckled at her, touched his nose, and embarrassedly took the water bag off his horse and handed it to Lu Yuyan.
"It's nothing serious, just rinse your mouth."
Lu Yuyan vomited until tears and snot streamed down her face.
Lu Xiaoyun originally wanted to deal with the surrendered bandits herself, but seeing that Ayan was vomiting so badly that he was about to vomit bile, she had no choice but to take him away first.
"Wuchuan, Xiyi!"
Wu Chuan immediately dropped his playful demeanor and walked up to Lu Xiaoyun with Xi Yi, kneeling on one knee: "Please give your orders, Master."
"You all take your men and guard this place well. Don't let a single one escape! I will go to the palace to ask my father for instructions."
"Yes!" the two replied in unison.
Lu Yuyan's pale hands gripped Lu Xiaoyun tightly: "Your Highness, Liang Zhiyun and the others' bodies can't just be left there. Ugh..."
While vomiting, Lu Yuyan was thinking about Lu Xiaoyun. If the old emperor sent people to investigate, the entire Five Cities Garrison would be dead together, yet not a single bandit would be found. This was too suspicious.
Lu Xiaoyun said, "Don't worry, Wu Chuan and Xi Yi will handle it."
Lu Yuyan vomited while glancing at Wu Chuan and Xi Yi.
The two men's eyelids twitched; they were too ashamed to look at Mr. Lu, who was vomiting so badly.
Jiang Chuan took a deep look at the cloak his prince was wearing.
"Don't worry, Mr. Lu. I'll clean up the place later. I guarantee that anyone who comes to investigate will only see the sight of him fighting and dying against the bandits."
Jiang Chuan ordered his men to bring out the dozens of boxes of treasure they had just seized from the bandits' lair. The stacks of treasure looked like a mountain of gold and silver, a truly magnificent sight.
The bandits who were forced to kneel on the ground stared wide-eyed at the sight of these things, whimpering and struggling, but were firmly suppressed by the royal guards or secret guards.
Lu Xiaoyun glanced at the items and said with a light smile, "As usual, 70% of the gold and silver jewelry we seized will be handed over to the national treasury, and 30% will be distributed among the brothers."
The crowd cheered with joy.
Jiang Chuan grinned; he had saved up another sum for his wife's dowry.
"Leave some money for Feng Yan," Lu Xiaoyun instructed.
Wu Chuan nodded repeatedly, and not only that, his share should also be left to Feng Yan.
Lu Xiaoyun helped Lu Yuyan up, and together with Jiang Chuan and more than ten other injured people, they headed towards Shengjing City.
Late at night, more than ten riders galloped toward the city gate from afar, stirring up billowing dust.
The soldiers on the city wall, holding torches, were startled when they saw what was happening. They rushed to the guardhouse and woke up the sleeping captain: "General, General, wake up! There are more than ten men coming from the front, each with a knife in their hand. They seem to be trying to force their way through the city gate."
Upon hearing this, the captain immediately sobered up. Was this guy courting death? Daring to break into the capital, Shengjing! He quickly put on his clothes and rushed towards the city wall.
At this moment, Lu Xiaoyun and the others had already arrived at the city gate.
On the city wall, hundreds of arrows were already aimed at the people on horseback below. As soon as the captain gave the order, the arrows would be fired all at once, guaranteeing that everyone below would be turned into hedgehogs.
Lu Xiaoyun sat upright on her horse, which seemed to sense the danger on the city wall, kicking and circling in place, its nostrils constantly spewing out white mist.
Lu Xiaoyun shouted in a deep voice, "I am Zhu Yu, the Prince of An! Open the city gates!"
The captain, his helmet askew, raised his torch and squinted down. Sure enough, it was His Highness Prince An. He was so frightened that he dropped the torch and ran down the street, shouting, "Quick, quick, open the city gate!"
The massive city gates roared open, and the captain, having just straightened his helmet and was about to salute Lu Xiaoyun, said, "Your Highness, Prince An..."
Lu Xiaoyun and her group had already swiftly ridden into the city.
The captain's face was covered in ash.
"General, His Highness Prince An has already gone far away."
The captain glared at the guard who had spoken, put his hands behind his back, and walked toward the guardhouse. Halfway there, he turned back and slapped the guard on the forehead: "Didn't I see that Prince An has gone far away? Did you have to remind me?"
The guard wasn't annoyed by the slap; he chuckled and leaned closer to the captain, saying, "General, did you see clearly just now? His Highness Prince An seems to have a lot of blood on him. What do you think Prince An was up to this time?"
"Blood?"
The guard nodded in affirmation.
The captain looked in the direction where "Prince An" and the others had disappeared and muttered, "Someone's going to be in big trouble again. Sigh, have Lord Liang and the men from the Five Cities Garrison returned to the city?"
The guard shook his head.
The captain patted his chest: "Go to sleep. Remember to wake me up when people come."
The guard stood at attention: "Yes, sir!"
The captain glared at the guard, then swaggered off to the duty room, yawning.
After returning from Xizi Forest, Lu Xiaoyun and the others were covered in blood and dirt. They certainly couldn't enter the palace in that state, so they went back to Prince An's residence first.
In the Feixue Garden of the Prince An's Mansion, Zhu Yu had not slept, as he was very worried about Lu Xiaoyun.
Every fifteen minutes, someone would be sent to the gate of the mansion to check if the person had returned.
Li Feng rushed over in a hurry: "Miss, you're back, you're back! The Prince and the others have returned to the manor."
Zhu Yu immediately straightened up, ignoring the pain in his back, and asked urgently, "Lu, is Your Highness injured? Why did you come back so late?"
Li Feng shook his head: "The prince has a lot of blood on him."
So much blood!
There was so much blood again that Zhu Yu couldn't hold on any longer: "Call two old women in and have them carry me to the front yard."
"Miss, the Prince said he still needs to go to the palace to report this matter to the Emperor, and asked me to tell you. He only suffered a minor injury and is fine, so please rest first."
Injured? Lu Xiaoyun is actually injured!
What are Wu Chuan and his gang good for? They can't even protect their master!
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