Back in their room, they looked at each other with worry in their eyes. At this rate, they might just die one day.
After Chuanhai returned to his courtyard, Wang Shi grabbed him anxiously, asking, "What exactly happened? How come so many people have been arrested in the house these past few days for trying to harm us?"
Chuan Hai hesitated, unsure how to tell his wife. Suddenly, Madam Wang had a guess: "It's...it's that peasant family?!"
Then, terrified by his own guess, he sat down in a chair, his face turning pale. "How could they be so vicious!"
"It wasn't them..." Chuan Hai was speechless at his wife's guess. What did that have to do with anything?
"How could it not be!" The more Wang thought about it, the more likely it seemed. "That brat entered the palace and thought she had won the emperor's favor, so she came to deal with us. Isn't she just trying to kill you so that her peasant father could inherit the title?"
Chuan Hai: ...My head hurts, can I rest for a bit...?
Just as she lay down to close her eyes and prepare to sleep, Wang Shi pulled her up, saying, "We must bring Yi'er back, or they will surely harm him!"
Chuan Hai was also jolted awake. He had been so busy these past few days that he had completely forgotten about the boy. He quickly put on the boots he had just taken off and went to find his father. He was worried that something might happen to Yi'er, who had been left outside by them.
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In a village outside the city, in the pitch-black night, all the villagers were asleep, except for one house where a dim yellow light was still on.
"And then what?"
Inside the room, Chuan Yi, his eyes brimming with anticipation and excitement, urged the young man opposite him, who was only a few years older than him, to continue. The other two, oblivious to the aroma of the food and wine on the table, blinked their eyes, just like Chuan Yi, yearning for knowledge.
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