“Do you think the whole household of Huaishan County Prince has gone mad?” Liu Yuan murmured, saying, “How will they explain this to their family later? Can they deceive people with lies about what happened tonight? Do they no longer care about their status as Huaishan County Prince and the royal relatives?”

Bai Zhu curled up and whispered: “This can only prove one thing!”

He raised his head slightly and glanced at the people who appeared. The dead men in black at the entrance of the alley were attacked by another storm of arrows.

Bai Zhu hid behind the bumpy carriage and said: “If the secrets hidden by the Huaishan County Prince’s family are really revealed, I’m afraid it will not be as simple as being deprived of the title of Prince but being demoted to common people.”

The more frantic and desperate the madness, the more it proved that this secret was far from ordinary.

Liu Yuan nodded when he heard this and said: “I thought so too. But right now…”

Everyone understood the reasoning, but the key was how to withstand this arrow rainstorm. If it weren’t for the specially crafted carriage boards, the two of them would have been pierced like the horse pulling a cart a long time ago.

“Wait a minute, Lin Shaoqing and the others should be here soon!” Bai Zhu shrank and murmured.

Under the cover of night, soldiers wielding crossbows and arrows approached the concealed carriage boards where people hid.

“Borrowed from the military camp outside the city!” A heavy crossbow was mounted on the high wall. The guards from Ganzhiwei pointed at the borrowed heavy weapons from the military camp. A group of guards stood at a distance, squinting and peering in that direction.

“Oh, they’re quite audacious!”

Lin Fei wasted no words and immediately said, “Deal with those death soldiers!”

The leading deputy general of Ganzhiwei responded, rubbing his chin. He looked at Lin Fei and said, “Lin Shaoqing, your Dali Temple is indeed extraordinary. Not only do you have to investigate cases, but you also have to pursue the criminals. It’s quite a task!”

Upon hearing this, Lin Fei glanced at the deputy general and replied, “So, isn’t it because this can’t be done, that I’ve come seeking assistance from the guards of Ganzhiwei?”

This single sentence genuinely gave a lot of face to the guards of Ganzhiwei. The deputy general looked at Lin Fei with some surprise. Lin Shaoqing, in terms of background, ability, and appearance, was extraordinary. Individuals with such capabilities were often exceptionally assertive.

Though Lin Shaoqing and this deputy general had not interacted much before, rumors depicted Lin Shaoqing as someone who was forthright, gave no face to anyone, and was extremely arrogant.

Now, this rumored “arrogant” person unexpectedly showed them such respect. The deputy general fell silent for a moment, subconsciously glancing at Lin Fei again. Clear and cold, with a face so attractive that it was hard to imitate, Lin Shaoqing indeed lived up to the rumors.

So, rumors were not entirely reliable! People were quite reasonable, after all!

Sighing twice, the deputy general of Ganzhiwei walked to the heavy crossbow. He personally loaded the crossbow and aimed it at the soldiers approaching from the alley.

A praying mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.

A rocket soared into the night sky, and the sudden burst of light caught the attention of the soldiers focused on hunting down Liu Yuan and Bai Zhu. They turned to look in the direction of the rocket, and Lin Fei’s face appeared exceptionally calm in the light. He stood near the massive dark mouth of the giant crossbow borrowed from the military camp, approaching them.

The faces of the death soldiers who were not afraid of death suddenly changed.

Arrowheads poured down like rain.

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…

As the last bucket of water was poured in, “sizzling” green smoke rose, and the patrol guard at the guardhouse threw the bucket aside and fell to the ground, breathing heavily.

They finally put out the fire, but it was so tiring!

The guards next to him were not much better than him, they all collapsed on the ground and gasped for air.

At this moment, the girl who had been watching the excitement for a long time walked past them toward the half-burned warehouse.

“Hey, the warehouse is very important…” Seeing this, the guard hurriedly struggled to sit up and shouted to Wen Mingtang, “Don’t run around!”

As soon as he finished speaking, the girl looked back at him, smiled at him, and said: “I just wanted to see what books were missing.”

Patrol guard: “…”

After working hard, he realized something was wrong!

It was true that someone raided the guardhouse warehouse at night and set fire to it, and it was also true that the girl in front of him helped wake them up and put out the fire. But… this didn’t mean that the girl in front of him had no “intentions” for the books in the warehouse!

Thinking like this, he wanted to struggle to stand up, but Liang Hongjin behind him hooked his shoulder and said, “My little Mingtang will just take a look and count the losses for you.” Liang Hongjin said, pointing. The burnt-out warehouse of the guard house was pitch black, and he said, “Tomorrow, I’m going to be asked to come as a witness for you guys to prove that you didn’t neglect your duty, but were attacked at night, right?”

Patrolling guard: “…” This is a threat!

The “enthusiastic person” who suddenly appeared in the middle of the night was indeed not a good person.

“You can only take a look! You can’t move.” The patrol guard was silent, took a step back, and said, “I’ll watch it later, and report it to the yamen early tomorrow morning!”

Liang Hongjin slapped the shoulder of the patrolling guard, praising, “You’re quite competent!”

The patrolling guard winced in pain, grimacing. He glanced at her, thinking, “With a smack like that from this female general, who wouldn’t be competent?”

Wen Mingtang, who walked into the warehouse of the guardhouse, walked to the bookshelf and started flipping through it.

“What are you looking for?” Liang Hongjin asked after getting rid of the patrolling guards outside.

Wen Mingtang took out the oil paper bag in her arms and threw it over. Liang Hongjin raised her hand to take it. When she opened it, she saw several pieces of mung bean cake. Her eyes lit up, she pinched a piece and put it in her mouth, and she immediately frowned. “You didn’t make it?”

Wen Mingtang said “Hmm”, looked down at the book, and said, “I didn’t have time to make it. I bought it on the way.”

“The one you bought is not as delicious as the one you make!” Liang Hongjin said, throwing the oil paper bag to Heizi and the two of them outside, and said “I’ll reward you” before saying, “I’ve helped you so much today, remember to send over the mung bean cake made by you tomorrow.”

After listening to the emphasized words “Made by you”, Wen Mingtang said “Okay” and continued to look down at the book.

Liang Hongjin leaned over and took a look at the book Wen Mingtang was looking for, and couldn’t help but mutter: “Your Lin Shaoqing not only wants you to feed mosquitoes but also wants you to find things?”

Wen Mingtang paused while flipping through the book and looked up at Liang Hongjin said expressionlessly: “He asked me whether I can read or not?”

Liang Hongjin: “Well… that’s a good way to boost morale!”

Wen Mingtang spoke and then continued to lower her head, flipping through the book. “He talked to me about the matter with Fuzi,” she paused before saying, “It’s a kind of shared hardship, and if I can help, I will.”

She was not stirred by Lin Fei’s provocation about whether she could read or not, but by Fuzi.

In Steward Song’s well-intentioned actions and his own sense of righteousness, Fuzi was completely ignored. No one cared about the life or death of a commoner, and it was even better if he was dead, because Fuzi would only be “an eyesore” if he was alive.

Wen Mingtang could understand the plight of a commoner who was condemned to die but miraculously survived as she survived being chased down in the street because someone wanted her dead as she also was a common person.

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