Chu Jinyu, Xiao Haitang, and Xie Yumin picked up a bundle of whips and candies and were about to put them away.
Two young men, around seventeen or eighteen years old and dressed in guard uniforms, struck up a conversation with him.
"Ladies and gentlemen, go release them in the wasteland over there. There are fewer people there, and it's safer."
"Besides, it's no fun just setting them off like that. When we were kids, we buried firecrackers in the ground, and they'd create a big splash of dirt when we set them off. It was so much fun! Shall I take you to play?"
Upon seeing that they were guards from their own manor, the children followed the two men without any suspicion.
Although the maids and servants who were with them didn't recognize the two people, they knew they were indeed wearing the uniforms of the guards outside the manor, so they followed them without any suspicion.
The group crossed the green belt, jumped over a drainage ditch, and ran straight into the wasteland.
The guards at the manor saw that someone was accompanying the young masters and did not suspect that the two were not their own people. They did not follow them, which allowed Fu Guang's men to slip through the gap.
Normally, this wasteland is just a patch of weeds, with a small river in the distance. But today, with the opening of the manor, merchants from the city and families who do business with the manor have all come by carriage, along with officials from the government office. So this wasteland has become a temporary parking lot, with many donkey carts and horse-drawn carriages scattered around.
Seeing that the children had already chosen a place to play, an inconspicuous donkey cart was pulled up and parked not far from them.
The children were having a great time, completely unaware of their surroundings. The two guards beside them exchanged a glance with the donkey cart driver, and then took the opportunity to go over to each of them one by one, take off their guard uniforms, and disappear into the crowd.
At the same time, Chen Da, who had been watching this place for a while, also walked towards Chu Jinyu and the others at the right time.
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