"Okay, I accept this thank you." Xiao Mu just replied lightly.
"I wonder why this sect is willing to help me?" Ye Chen sat down and asked Xiao Mu. He didn't believe that others would help him without any requirements.
"You may not know that his daughter died at the hands of the people of Luojiazhuang. She was his only daughter. He could not have gotten rid of Luojiazhuang by himself, let alone so many Luojiazhuangs. He could not even swallow up one of them. Now that someone is willing to help, he is naturally happy to see it happen." Xiao Mu did not say who that person was, and Ye Chen did not ask. Since they both got what they needed, it was not considered as receiving something for nothing.
Time passed quickly. Everyone was very busy these two days. Chen Qiu didn't see Ye Chen all day. Fortunately, Mu Qing followed him closely.
Mingyue has become much more reserved since she became a mother. During this period when Xing'er was away, she was Chen Qiu's biggest assistant. She arranged everything in an orderly manner, including the purchase of New Year's goods and the sending of gifts to various mansions. She was clearly the material for being the mistress of the house. Chen Qiu saw it and thought that when the child grew up and Mu Qing's official position was promoted, they should move to their own mansion. He had been worried that she would not be able to manage the whole family with her personality, but now it seems that he was worrying too much.
This year it was New Year's Eve, the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month. On the morning of the 29th, Jin'er rushed into Qiuchen Courtyard rashly, "Madam, Madam, Xing'er is back. Xing'er and Black Hawk are back together."
As soon as the voice fell, Chen Qiu came out of the house, "Really? Where is it?"
"As soon as they entered the yard, the master asked someone to prepare a sedan chair to pick them up." Jin'er was dumbfounded. Once they entered the yard, only the owner of the house could ride in a sedan chair. How great were the contributions of Xing'er and Black Hawk that the Duke personally arranged for them to be picked up by a sedan chair?
"Well, they are both injured. Having a sedan chair will prevent their injuries from getting worse." When Chen Qiu left, he told them to take good care of their injuries and not to rush back. It seemed that these two people followed Chen Qiu and the others back as soon as they left, otherwise they would not have come back at this time.
"Madam, Xing'er is back? Where is she?" Mingyue hurried over when she heard that Xing'er was back.
"We haven't reached the yard yet. Look, here comes the devil." Chen Qiu had just said something to Mingyue when he saw a sedan chair coming. Ye Chen followed beside the sedan chair and said something to the person in it.
Everyone in the yard was shocked. There were two guards sitting in the sedan chair, but the master was following the sedan chair?
"What's going on?" Mingyue muttered to herself.
"Both of them are seriously injured, especially Black Hawk. This is to prevent their injuries from getting worse." Mingyue's words were heard by Chen Qiu, who helped Mingyue answer.
Mingyue only knew that when Chenqiu and the others left, she received news that they were missing. She guessed that they must be injured, but she didn't expect them to be injured so seriously. It has been so long, and he still can't walk. It seems that he really had a narrow escape at that time.
While the two were talking, the sedan chair had already landed in the yard. Xing'er got out of the sedan chair by herself because her injuries were relatively minor. However, the bandages on her hands were still there, and it would not be easy to heal the hole on her shoulder blade completely.
As soon as Xing'er got out of the sedan chair, she walked to Black Hawk's sedan chair and waited for someone to carry Black Hawk down. Black Hawk had injured his leg and had serious internal injuries. The road must have been bumpy after so many days of traveling, and his face was still very pale when he got off the sedan chair.
Mingyue looked at Xing'er and was stunned for a moment. She didn't know what was going on. "After their injuries are healed, I will prepare a dowry for Xing'er." After Chen Qiu said this to Mingyue, he walked towards Xing'er.
"Don't worry, everything will be fine with them here. I've asked someone to invite Jingxin, and she will help you take a closer look. You are very brave to travel without a doctor on the way. What if Black Hawk's condition worsens on the way? Didn't we tell you to come back after you get better?" Chen Qiu scolded Xing'er a few words, then helped her into her room. It used to be her room, Mingyue's room and Xiaofu's room, but now she was the only one living there.
"I came back because I was worried about home." Xing'er really treated this place as her home.
"Where's Jixiang? Why didn't she come back with you?" Chen Qiu had asked Jixiang to follow her before, but when she came back in a hurry, she asked her to stay and help take care of Xing'er. But this time, she didn't come back with her.
"She had already followed us out of Wuzhou City, but that guy named Jiang Hua chased her back." Xing'er said with a smile.
"Oh? Is it Jiang Hua, the one who blew up the kitchen? It seems that I have to prepare two dowries after this New Year." Since Chen Qiu let Jixiang follow him, although they were not together for long, he was still his own person, so it was natural to prepare the dowry.
Xing'er lowered her head, pursed her lips and said nothing, but her ears were already red.
Black Hawk had always been the old Duke's secret guard. He had moved to the courtyard next door with the old Duke long before he left, and now he was also carried back to his room.
The next day was New Year's Eve. As early as the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, the last day of court before the New Year, the emperor had announced that this year's New Year's Eve palace banquet would only be a family banquet, meaning that no one except the royal family would have to enter the palace.
After getting up in the morning and arranging all the matters related to the ancestral worship, Ye Chen asked the people from the Dark Guard Camp to gather all the people in the mansion and call them out one by one according to the list he gave. There were more than a dozen people in the entire Ye Mansion who were confirmed to be from Luojiazhuang.
"Put them all in the dungeon of the secret guard camp. Keep a close eye on them. If they run away, I will hold you responsible." Ye Chen was very confident in his secret guards. At least none of them were from Luojiazhuang, because each of them was selected by Mu Qing after Ye Chen had asked him to strip naked. Mu Qing had a booklet that clearly recorded the characteristics of each person.
At the same time, the same thing happened in the palace. Ye Chen handed the list he had investigated to the emperor, and handed it over to the Black Cloud Guards for processing. The selection of the Black Cloud Guards was even more rigorous, so both the emperor and Ye Chen were very relieved to hand it over to them. Before the family banquet in the palace began, both the Ye Mansion and the palace became an iron bucket.
Ye Chen brought Chen Qiu, the old Duke, and the old lady holding An An into the palace. After the family banquet began, Ye Chen quietly left the palace from an inconspicuous corner gate and got on a carriage that had been prepared long ago.
"Master, let's go directly to Luojia Village in the dense forest in the southwest. Are all the people there yet?" The person driving the carriage was Bai Li, but she had changed into a black dress instead of the white one she usually wore.
"Don't worry, Xiao Mu is very reliable."
After saying "Gone", Bai Li drove the carriage and took Ye Chen towards the dense forest in the southwest.
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