Xing Fang had been thinking about leaving for a long time. When she heard Zhu Yan's words, she quickly echoed: "Yes, yes, yes, go back quickly, otherwise it will be too late."
When Xing Ying saw her like this, he couldn't help but joked: "I think you are afraid that will-o'-the-wisps will come out of this ghost forest, hahaha!"
Xing Fang glared and said, "Okay, you're just a coward. You're not afraid of will-o'-the-wisps. If you can, don't go back tonight, just sleep here!"
Xing Ying wanted to tease her again, but was stopped by Zhu Yan: "Stop making trouble and leave quickly, otherwise some injured beast will run out soon, and we will really have to sleep here tonight."
When everyone returned to Xipo Village, it was already three o'clock in the morning, and dusk had fallen. It was the most pleasant time of the day for the villagers. However, the peace of Xipo Village in the past was completely broken today. Outside the gate of Xia Mansion, people gathered in twos and threes. The villagers who were together stood in the distance and looked at the closed red door of Xia Mansion, whispering to each other.
When Xia Yuanqiu and others appeared in everyone's sight riding tall horses and riding the bloody sunset, the frivolity that was originally flooding on everyone's faces instantly disappeared, and their faces showed the fear of facing the superiors.
The horse stepped gracefully to the door of Xia Mansion. The guard waiting outside the gate hurriedly stepped forward and took the reins in the hands of the prince. Zhu Yan turned over and dismounted, his posture was neat and elegant, as free and unrestrained as flowing clouds and flowing water.
His arms wrapped around Xia Yuanqiu who was sitting on the horse very naturally, lifted her off the horse, and gently placed her on the ground, as if she was holding a rare treasure, protected.
Xing Ying and others also dismounted and gathered behind Zhu Yan and Xia Yuanqiu.
Zhu Yan's handsome eyes were filled with frost, and he looked at the small group of people gathered outside the gate of Xia Mansion, and said coldly: "Who is gathering here to make trouble?"
Those people who originally held their heads high and looked fearless couldn't help but tremble in their calves after hearing Zhu Yan's question. This is the majesty of the Tian family, which is innate and deep in the bones. The pressure that spreads outward.
It is a majesty that these **** cannot bear.
Someone in the crowd stood up and picked up an old man who was full of wrinkles but whose face was often flushed. As soon as the old man opened his mouth, the air was filled with the strong smell of alcohol.
"Are you Prince Jing?"
Zhu Yan frowned, waved his sleeves, and dispersed the unpleasant smell of alcohol, and said in a deep voice: "It is this king, who are you? Why are everyone gathered here?"
The old man's face was flushed, his eyes were not clear, and he could not straighten his tongue. He shouted at Zhu Yan: "Why are we gathering here? Now I want to ask you, Prince Jing, what good deeds he has done."
Prince Jing's cold and cold eyes swept through the crowd one by one. There was no one in this group that he knew or had seen before: "If you have anything to say, just say it. I don't have so much time to accompany you drunkards here. Nonsense.”
Zhu Yan didn't know this old man, but Xia Yuanqiu and Xia Yuanhao did. The old man in front of him was Liu Si's second brother, Liu Wenxuan's second uncle, Liu Er, and the other people standing behind Liu Er were none other than Liu Da. Liu Wu and his brothers are in short a large group of relatives of Liu Si's family.
Liu Er waved his arms and said loudly: "Your Highness Prince Jing, the common people have something unclear. I would like to ask His Highness Prince Jing, how come our Wenxuan, a good scholar, offended you, the prince? How could he treat a crippled man like this?" A man with an arm in arms has committed such a murderous act, and you have to give us an explanation today."