After Xiao Feng brought Wan Jinlan back to the mountain stronghold, Wan Zhijing said, "The third prince has also been brought here."
Wan Jinlan was shocked. "Where is it?"
Xiao Feng lowered his eyes to look at her, his eyes clearly asking: "Are you happy?"
Wan Jinlan shook his hand and explained, "I want to see him suffer. The fate of the village today must be due to him."
Xiao Feng's expression relaxed a little.
Wan Zhijing pretended not to see the two holding hands and took them to the room where Xiao Minghuan was being held. He wanted to scold Wan Jinlan for his recklessness today, but with Xiao Feng around, he found it difficult to speak.
After entering, Wan Jinlan smiled unconcealedly when he saw how miserable Xiao Minghuan was.
With the precedent of arresting the third prince by mistake, Li Yanfeng was afraid that he had also arrested the Princess Wan of Qi by mistake. Xiao Minghuan had met the Princess Wan of Qi, so Li Yanfeng naturally had to bring her along for easy identification.
However, at this time, Xiao Minghuan was locked in a very short cage. Even if he was sitting, he could not straighten his waist. Not only was the height not enough, but the width was not enough either. He was half-lying in the cage in an extremely awkward posture. His hair was messy, but his face was clean. There was a very unpleasant smell on his body, like the smell of excrement mixed with blood.
Wan Jinlan's face was still covered in dirt, and he looked quite disheveled. He covered his nose with a look of disgust, "tsk tsk" twice, and then deliberately asked, "Third Prince, what's that smell on you?"
Xiao Minghuan's face turned ashen, and he stared at Wan Jinlan with his eyes. Even though it was very uncomfortable for him to stare in his current position, he still stared at her intently, his teeth chattering.
In this situation, the word "Your Highness" inevitably reveals sarcasm.
Xiao Feng pulled Wan Jinlan to sit beside him, then he took out a handkerchief from somewhere and wiped her face clean.
"On our way out of the capital, we encountered a group of criminals who wanted to kill us. It was you who sent them."
The tone was not one of inquiry, but of affirmation.
Xiao Feng casually put the soiled handkerchief aside and looked at his "good nephew" leisurely.
Xiao Minghuan felt that his current posture was very humiliating, but no matter how shameful it was, he did not want to die. For a moment, he lowered his eyes and did not speak.
Wan Zhijing cursed, "You're such a backstabber! What grudge do you have against those two? Why do you want to harm Jin Lan?"
Wan Zhijing couldn't bring himself to call Xiao Feng "brother-in-law". Not to mention that Xiao Feng was older than him, Xiao Feng's demeanor made him feel as if he was still underage when he was around him.
When Xiao Minghuan raised his head again, his eyes were red. He looked at Wan Jinlan and asked, "What's wrong with me? Why didn't you choose me?"
Xiao Minghuan once wanted to marry Wan Jinlan. Besides Wan Jinlan's status, he might have had some feelings for her. He was a son of a rich family and had a high opinion of himself. Why would Wan Jinlan look down on him?
Xiao Feng's eyes were narrowed.
Wan Jinlan snorted, "Do you think I don't know why you're plotting to get me to marry you? Before I went to Huayan Temple to burn incense, I received a letter saying you were trying to tarnish my reputation by being a hero saving a beautiful woman, and getting me to marry you. I was skeptical at first, but what happened that day convinced me completely. Tell me, who wrote this letter?"
Xiao Minghuan immediately thought of Wan Qiuyu, his beautiful concubine.
"You are a dying man, and I am too lazy to talk to you anymore." It's a waste of time.
The three of them left together. Xiao Minghuan first roared unwillingly, and then sobbed.
Many torches were lit throughout the village, illuminating the inside and outside. The destroyed houses were being urgently rebuilt.
It was less than two hours until dawn.
The time for the "Beheading Banquet" sent out by Li Yanfeng was written as Wei Shi, so we had to arrive in Hua County before Wei Shi.
Li Mazi walked with great vigor. After coming out of a room, he went straight to Xiao Feng.
"Your Highness, the thief has confessed. He is a Jianghu person and accepted the bounty issued by Prince Su to kill the princess."
Wan Jinlan was stunned. Xiao Nian Shen wanted to kill her? It seemed that he had found that the death of Su Wangfei Pei was related to her. She was not that surprised that Xiao Nian Shen had found her. Bingzhou was the territory of Su Wangfu. If he looked carefully, it was not impossible to find her and Yu Song's whereabouts heading west.
Xiao Feng gently stroked Wan Jinlan's hand and nodded to show that he understood.
Li Mazi raised his eyes and glanced at Wan Jinlan, and his gaze met Wan Jinlan's.
It was the first time he saw Wan Jinlan's face without any disguise, his skin was clear and heroic.
Li Mazi touched his head and laughed.
Wan Jinlan also laughed: "How many words do you know now?"
Li Mazi was a little embarrassed. He could do some fighting, but learning to read made him sleepy. He knew the future would be different from the past, so he clasped his fists and said, "I'll let Wang Shu continue to teach me from now on."
After Li Mazi left, Wan Zhijing stretched his back and said, "Ruirui was crying earlier. I'll go back and check on them."
There were only two people left in the study room for the time being, and Xiao Feng said, "Go to sleep." He still had to deal with many problems that night, and he would have time to rest after the beheading banquet tomorrow.
Wan Jinlan felt that he couldn't sleep. Although his eyelids were indeed a little heavy, he was not clean and couldn't sleep without taking a shower.
Xiao Feng patted her back gently. He knew her well. "You will go to Hua County with me in two hours. Go to sleep first and take a shower before leaving."
Barring any unforeseen circumstances, they probably wouldn't return to this stronghold. As for the firearms workshop, he would build a larger one. The firearms weren't powerful enough after all. If they were magnified dozens of times, would a single shot be enough to shatter the city gate?
Xiao Feng vowed to take her wherever he went. Xiao Nian Shen's bounty meant that there would be people from the underworld who would come to take her life at any time. He couldn't feel at ease without her by his side.
"Your Highness, Li Yue requests an audience."
Xiao Feng's problems kept piling up, and Wan Jinlan felt she couldn't bear it any longer, so she simply went back to bed. Before she went to sleep, she felt like there was something she had forgotten to talk about. But for a moment, she couldn't remember what it was.
She felt that she had just laid down when she was woken up by Fan Jing.
"Madam, take a bath."
Wan Jinlan's eyelids were still heavy. He didn't want to wake up at all and wished he could sleep forever.
The door was pushed open, and Xiao Feng's figure appeared outside the curtain. His beard had been shaved clean, and his skin was not deliberately painted black, but it was no longer as white as jade. He took steady and powerful steps, and his whole demeanor was elegant and majestic, with a bit of iron-blooded meaning.
Wan Jinlan's sleepiness gradually dissipated as she admired Xiao Feng's heroic figure. She realized that Xiao Feng was no longer the Xiao Feng he had been when he was first exiled.
Seeing her staring at him without blinking, Xiao Feng felt inexplicably happy.
"What are you thinking about?"
Wan Jinlan said bluntly, "I was wondering how many concubines you would take in the future."
Xiao Feng's face darkened instantly.
"If I were interested in other women, I would already have many wives and concubines at home."
Wan Jinlan stood up in his white shirt and sneered, "Who stopped you from being interested?"
Xiao Feng laughed out of anger, but softened his tone, "You alone are enough."
"Jinlan, everything I said came from my heart. You have the divorce letter signed by me in your hand. If I go back on my words today, I will never stop you from doing whatever you want in the future."
Wan Jinlan snorted, "You mean if you go back on your word today, I'll have to take the divorce papers and get out of here?"
Xiao Feng was speechless for a moment.
In her mind, is he this kind of person?
Wan Jinlan said no more and went to the bathroom to take a shower. She hadn't decided what would happen between her and Xiao Feng yet, so she would wait until she did.
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