Who are you insulting?
Zheng Ye and Ning Xi'er jumped out at the same time.
Zheng Ye spoke up, standing in front of Eunuch Xu.
Ning Xi'er didn't say anything, but directly blocked Eunuch Xu behind her.
"What? You're the ones I'm cursing!"
"You're all criminals, yet you still have such big tempers. What? You want to hit me or something?!"
"I think you're the one who committed the crime last night..."
"Shut up!"
Before the leading sentry could finish speaking, Ning Xi'er interrupted him.
The other person's face flushed red, and they were about to lash out...
Then Ning Xi'er turned her head to the side, facing Zheng Ye, and repeated:
"Shut up right now! With your temper, if people misunderstand, they might really think we've done something wrong..."
Zheng Ye was indignant, but he still listened to Ning Xi'er.
He retreated behind them, fuming.
Xie Zhun was carried to a wheelchair by Xuan Feng and pushed in front of everyone.
Xie Zhun subtly pulled Ning Xi'er behind him.
Even though he was a fallen prince, his dignity remained.
The sentries present naturally knew his identity, and even if they didn't take him seriously, they didn't dare to act rashly.
Just as Xie Zhun was about to speak, Qin Yuan stepped in with a smile to smooth things over.
Besides introducing himself, he asked the sentries, "Have the identities of those who died last night been verified? How many were there in total? What was the cause of death?"
"Are they wounded, or poisoned? Your guards are heavily fortified; how did they get in?"
Qin Yuan's humble attitude and kind smile left the sentries speechless and unable to retaliate.
They naturally knew the identities of these men in black, but of course they couldn't tell them the truth.
As for the cause of death...
The military supervisor personally investigated in the morning and found them all present. They were all killed by sharp blades, dying instantly.
Qin Yuan continued calmly, "Last night when we came in, the officers thoroughly checked us. We didn't even have any luggage, let alone weapons..."
"If you can only sleep on the ground, how can you conjure up weapons and fight people?"
"not to mention......"
Qin Yuan grinned at the sentry opposite him, "The fact that these men in black were able to get in definitely wasn't due to the military's precautions; it just means they're exceptionally skilled and difficult to detect..."
Qin Yuan was giving them a way out, and the sentries didn't rush to deny it.
Qin Yuan continued, "So, judging from what you all are saying, there's more than one such peerless expert. Vaughn's group consists of women, children, and the elderly. How can they possibly withstand them?"
"Even if they fought with all their might, how could there be no sound at all? Didn't the soldiers hear anything last night?"
"Even if the soldiers' camps are far away, it's impossible that they didn't hear these convicts and refugees behind them!"
As soon as Qin Yuan finished speaking, the village chief immediately stepped forward and testified that he hadn't heard anything last night.
The sentries didn't have a bad impression of the village chief, and seeing that Qin Yuan's analysis was very logical, they realized they were in the wrong...
There was some commotion, but they assumed the men in black were killing Xie Zhun and his entourage, never imagining that they were the ones being killed...
But these reasons couldn't be made public. Indeed, they found no weapons at the scene that could have been used in a fight, and there were no witnesses...
The sentries glared fiercely at everyone present, but finding no reason to lash out, they could only order them to get to work!
After the sentries left, Ning Xi'er bent down and asked Xie Zhun why Yan Lang hadn't come.
Xie Zhun chuckled. If they had something on them, they wouldn't have sent these sentries...
Yan Lang will send people directly to arrest them.
Since Yan Lang didn't show up, it means there's nothing they can do.
These sentries clearly hadn't coordinated their stories; they weren't sent by Yan Lang. They probably came to establish their authority, but they didn't expect them to be so troublesome...
Xie Zhun turned around and expressed his gratitude to the village chief for speaking up for him.
The village chief smiled憨厚ly, his face lined with deep, ravine-like wrinkles.
Behind the village chief's house, many convicts came out, preparing to meet their "workers"...
Upon suddenly seeing so many more people, he merely glanced at them casually and didn't care.
If they weren't still breathing, Ning Xi'er would have suspected that they were just walking corpses.
Many children were also led forward.
Ning Xi'er asked the village chief in surprise, "Do children also have to perform corvée labor?"
The village chief explained with a wry smile, "Those under fourteen don't need it. Since the adults are all out quarrying stones, no one's watching the children, and there are wolves roaming this open space at any time..."
"We can only bring the child..."
Ning Xi'er looked in the direction the group had walked. A morning breeze was rising, carrying with it the smell of dust...
Ning Xi'er couldn't help but look at the child in the village chief's wife's arms.
Her breathing was slightly labored, she seemed to be feeling cold, and there was white foam at the corner of her lips...
Asthma.
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