Closed the door to visitors
The powerful pressure instantly bent everyone's backs. For a moment, the people gathered on the street in front of Baiwen Building were silent, with beads of sweat dripping from their foreheads. No one could speak.
"Our prince disappeared in your Baiwen Tower, and you are going to use this kind of rhetoric to scold and evade us?!" A male voice shouted angrily from the sky.
"You are plotting to murder our imperial heir and deliberately disrupting our internal affairs. Do you, Baiwenlou, want to start a war with our Yu Kingdom?!"
Another terrifying pressure descended.
Many in the crowd had blacked out and fell heavily to their knees. Even the officers and soldiers fainted instantly. Only the leader, sweating profusely, hunched his back and gritted his teeth, but he couldn't utter a word—he was afraid that if he loosened his grip, he would collapse to the ground.
The streets were quiet.
In the sky, more than a dozen figures appeared out of thin air, clearly divided into two completely different groups by their clothing styles. One group was wearing white clothes embroidered with ancient and mysterious inscriptions, which were people with twists and turns, and the other group was a royal family member of Yu Kingdom with a golden background and clusters of flowers on it.
The leaders of both sides, a woman and a man, exuded an invisible yet terrifying aura of pressure. Their faces were gloomy and angry, and their resentful gazes were fixed on the closed door of Baiwen Tower.
Behind them, people from both sides had cold faces and remained silent, but their gazes were like knives cutting through the tightly closed door.
——Today, they must get an explanation.
But how could a mere explanation be worth the life of her chief... The woman in white clenched her hands tightly, making a creaking sound. Her heartache, resentment, and anger could only turn into a deep sense of powerlessness in the end.
Is his life or death unknown or was he killed without a complete body... The prince that their Yu country had cultivated for many years was gone just like that... The man in gold clothes' gaze was as cold as a poisonous snake, entwining around the closed door.
The rage within them remained unquenchable, but their Yu Kingdom clan had come not merely to seek a vague sense of justice for their crown prince. People in this era were always ruthless; once someone was gone, they were gone. Despite their resentment, they were still calculating how to exploit this incident for their own benefit...
How should we negotiate with the Bai family's Baiwenlou? How should we secure more favorable conditions and resources for Yuguo?
The increasingly terrifying pressure pressed down on everyone's backs like a mountain. Everyone bent over in unbearable pain, with blood accumulating in their throats but they dared not cough it out or swallow it. Only with this feeling like a thorn in their throats could they barely stay awake and stand here.
——They have to wait, they have to wait for the people from the Bai family to come out.
"Crack..."
Just as the vision of the people who were struggling to hold on was gradually darkening, they heard the sound of a wooden door opening in front of them, and everyone on the street looked up in confusion.
The tightly closed door of Baiwen Tower opened, and a man walked out. He bowed and nodded to the crowd, saying with a smile, "It's a misunderstanding."
He raised his head, bowed to the group above him, and said with an apologetic smile, "This is all a misunderstanding. We at Baiwen Tower have been investigating this matter in recent days. Gentlemen, please come in and discuss in detail."
Before the two groups of people in the sky could say anything, the crowd on the ground started to explode:
"Why!!! Why can they go in?!"
“Why?!”
"Why should we be driven away?!"
The people on the street who were barely able to stay awake suddenly became so angry that their eyes turned red. They screamed and rushed towards the man who walked out of Baiwen Tower. Their spines made a teeth-grinding "crunching" sound under the heavy pressure.
Just taking one step, everyone was instantly knocked to the ground by the terrifying pressure. Their vision went black and large mouthfuls of black and red blood gushed out of their mouths and noses, but their lifeless eyes were still fixed on the direction of Baiwen Tower.
The man in front of Baiwen Tower didn't look at them. He simply bowed and saluted the people in the sky, saying, "The teleportation was indeed tampered with by someone with ulterior motives. We at Baiwen Tower would never dare to show any disrespect to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"
"We at Baiwen Tower feel deeply guilty about the Crown Prince's affairs." He paused, then repeated with an apologetic smile, "Please come in and discuss this in detail."
"What about us?! Are we supposed to die?!"
The dazed people lying on the ground stared blankly. A gray-clad figure quickly passed through their field of vision, bones clattering as they went. She rushed towards the man in front of Baiwen Tower with a long knife in hand, and shouted with tears streaming down her face, "What about my sister?! Does my sister deserve to die?! Do we deserve to die too?!"
"presumptuous!"
Before the gray-clothed figure could reach the man in front of Baiwen Tower, he was slapped away by the soldiers next to him.
"Clang..." The long sword fell, and the gray-clad woman fell to the ground, her mouth spurting out a large stream of dark red blood. Her eyes widened, and her whole body convulsed. She glared at the figures in front of Baiwen Tower, her hands clenched into fists, and gritted her teeth, "You...will not die a good death..."
With a "wow" sound, blood gushed out of her mouth and nose again.
However, the man in front of Baiwen Tower always faced the two teams on the higher ground, bowing and scraping, and ignored everything else.
“You…you…”
Seeing this scene, the people lying on the ground and the few who stood up with difficulty burst into tears. Their fists loosened powerlessly, and tears and blood fell together on the cold stone road.
Suddenly, the door of Baiwen Tower was opened again.
A graceful figure in white clothes walked out slowly and elegantly, followed by a man. The two stopped in front of Baiwen Tower and faced the crowd in front.
"Everyone..." The woman in white said with a smile on her face and a soft voice, "I am Bai Liangqi, the young master of the Bai family, and also the young master of Baiwen Tower..."
Everyone with gray eyes and tears looked up when they heard this.
Bai Liangqi said slowly, "We in the Bai family understand the pain of losing your loved ones, and we also understand your determination to seek revenge and avenge your grievances. We in the Bai family also hope that the truth will be revealed soon and justice will be served to you and me."
"Every wrong has its perpetrator, and every debt has its creditor. Please don't become a sword in someone else's hands and hate the wrong person." She looked at the crowd in front of her and said, "I believe that you have all gathered here because you want the truth and justice. So, please give us some time. The Bai family and Baiwen Tower will definitely investigate this matter thoroughly and let the deceased rest in peace."
Bai Liangqi turned his head to glance at the man behind him. In an instant, people came out of Baiwen Building one after another carrying large boxes.
The people on the street stared in amazement.
Bai Liangqi smiled and said, "Those with ill intentions are using such low-brow tricks to frame our Baiwen Tower. But think about it, our Baiwen Tower has stood for a hundred years. How could we covet the remains of the deceased? Just now, our Baiwen Tower was counting the remains. Now, our Baiwen Tower will return these remains to the relatives of the deceased."
As she spoke, the people from Baiwen Tower behind her placed the boxes in front of everyone, opened them one by one, and showed everyone the items inside.
Everyone looked at the familiar items in the box and burst into tears instantly. Low sobs floated in the street in the daytime, like the sad song of the dead.
After a pause, Bai Liangqi said loudly, "We at Baiwenlou will definitely seek the truth for you all. I, Bai Liangqi, the young master of the Bai family, hereby declare that Baiwenlou will be closed from today until the truth is revealed!"
"Please believe that we at Baiwenlou would never offend any of your distinguished guests."
After saying that, the woman, whose white dress made her look even more stunning, bowed to everyone with the men and women from Baiwen Tower behind her.
Bai Liangqi wore a gentle smile as he turned and faced the people of Bai Zhuan Qian Hui and Yu Nation, who had been watching this farce from a high place with a cold eye, even adding fuel to the fire. He bowed and said gently, "Please calm down, my lords, and come into the building to talk to my mother in detail."
The two leaders, a man and a woman, who were standing high up in the air, suddenly turned pale. They really had been made the bad guys and the good guys by Baiwen Tower!
They originally wanted to stir up even greater resentment among the people on the ground, so that they could all put pressure on Baiwenlou. They were in the wrong, not to mention that after Bai Liangqi said that, everyone was watching them. Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, they couldn't continue to use their power to bully others...
No matter how reluctant they were, they still put away the terrifying pressure around them, flicked their sleeves fiercely, landed with their men, and strode into Baiwen Tower.
——Everyone in the Bai family has a very evil heart!
——These people on the street are so stupid. They don’t even know that they are being praised so highly. Let’s see where they will cry in the future!
Bai Liangqi kept smiling as he followed them into Baiwen Tower, leaving only a group of men and women standing in front of the tower.
As the powerful pressure disappeared, the people on the street immediately got up from the ground with tears in their eyes, sobbing or wailing, and staggered forward to take the relics of their deceased relatives from the boxes.
It was a sunny day, and the sun parted the crowd and spread across the earth. The girl in white standing by the street looked on indifferently, without any thoughts in her mind. She just waited quietly for the people in front to take the relics and make way.
…………
Yan Zhicheng.
Jiang Jingyuan walked along the streets, which were somewhat deserted compared to Yuanqing City, her eyes lowered, her steps slow and erratic. Pedestrians hurried past her in twos and threes, but she, dressed in white, stood hesitantly.
"Since I'm here... I don't even want to wander around Yuanqing City anymore. I came straight to Yanzhi City, isn't it just for this..." The girl in white lowered her head and looked at the gray-white stone under her feet. Her face didn't show it, but she felt depressed in her heart.
"But... I sent him here to suffer, so what's the point of meeting him again now..." When the girl thought of this, she felt a sharp pain in her heart, so much so that she couldn't even breathe.
If she had to do it again, would she choose to do the same thing?
Jiang Jingyuan didn't know, and she didn't want to think about it anymore. People were strange, and she was strange too. She wasn't completely bad, and she wasn't completely good either. She couldn't be cruel for long, nor could she always be soft-hearted.
Time and again, she would only resolutely harden her heart when necessary, but would later toss and turn in agony... Did she regret it? She didn't know, she just did it.
“Pah…”
The white hem of her dress fluttered, and a pair of plain white boots suddenly kicked away the gray-white pebbles in front of her toes. The girl in white thought gloomily, "No matter what, let's meet first..."
After thinking about it, Jiang Jingyuan raised his head and walked quickly on the street with a clear goal.
Jiang Jingyuan was walking through the busy or deserted streets and alleys, and was about to turn around and walk out of the alley when he suddenly heard a loud "bang".
Jiang Jingyuan stopped in his tracks.
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