After Lin Xie was sent to Jin Chuan Island as a prison officer, Liu Yue'er stayed in Ji Yunju every day, living a leisurely life. She also helped Lin Xie make two pairs of cloth shoes. However, she hesitated and didn't ask Lin Jingzhong to deliver the shoe fabric to Lin Xie when he left the city. She looked forward to moving into the new house at the mouth of Jin Chuan River after it was built, thinking that it would be more convenient for Lin Xie to live on the mainland after returning from the prison island. This way, she could continue to serve him and wouldn't have to spend her days idly in the mansion with nothing to do.

  Liu Yu'er didn't know about the events of last night. After Zuo Si Kou's military advisor, Zhang Yu Bo, returned to the city, he immediately used his power to put Biao Ji Xiang under guard, preventing any vicious thugs from attacking Lin's mansion in the city. It wasn't until Qian Xiao Wu returned to the city on business that Liu Yu'er and the others who were left behind at the mansion learned about the big incident at the river mouth. When Qian Xiao Wu came back to the city to take care of some matters, Liu Yu'er couldn't sit still any longer in the mansion, so she had Zhao Hu's younger brother, Meng Xiong, harness a horse carriage and leave the city with Qian Xiao Wu and others to head to the river mouth.

  The blood on Lin's body was from rescuing the wounded and accidentally splashing it on himself while killing on the island earlier. Liu Yue didn't know that, she entered the hut and saw that Lin's blue official robe was stained with blood halfway, and suddenly panicked, tears streaming down her face as she rushed over to see where he was hurt and how badly.

  Lin Jingzhong and the others lifted the curtain to go out, originally wanting to say hello to Liu Yu'er, but seeing her unable to hold back her emotions and rushing to Lin's side to see where he was injured, they didn't say anything and left.

  Lin Xuan's heart had been filled with violent emotions since yesterday, and he wished he could take people to the Sanliu Garden of the Qu family and kill them all. Although this emotion was suppressed by reason and couldn't be expressed, it was still very distressing to accumulate in his heart. Liu Yue'er rushed over to see the wound on his body, but Lin Xuan didn't explain that there was only someone else's blood on him. He looked at Liu Yue'er's delicate face with two rows of tears hanging under her eyes, and the sincere anxiety and concern in her eyes made him feel a thread of tenderness in his heart, thinking that it felt good to be cared about by others.

  "What's wrong with you?!" Liu Yue'er frantically felt Lin Xuan's arm, chest, and back, but couldn't find anything unusual. The massive bloodstain on his back made her heart skip a beat, and she was overwhelmed with anxiety, tears streaming down her face uncontrollably. She grasped the hem of Lin Xuan's clothes tightly, as if it was the last straw that could keep her from drowning. It wasn't until Lin Xuan wrapped his arms around her firmly that she finally thought to look up at his face.

  "Are you alright?" Liu Yu'er's entire body was stuck to Lin Xie's chest, she looked up at his face and stared blankly into his eyes, which were bright and clear, not looking like someone who had been seriously injured.

  "I'm fine," Lin said. "I was rescuing the injured and didn't notice that my clothes got stained with blood... It's all other people's blood."

  "Ah……” It wasn't until then that Liu Yu'er realized she was completely wrapped in Lin Xuan's arms, and remembering her widow status, she let out a frightened cry. She pushed against Lin Xuan's chest to struggle free from his embrace, feeling embarrassed about her earlier fright, not daring to lift her head to look at Lin Xuan again. She turned around and lifted the curtain, wanting to escape from the hut, but didn't notice two people standing at the entrance, and let out another frightened cry. Looking up, she saw it was Jiang Ning, the wife of Shi Fei Hu, the envoy of Jin An Hou, and Shi Ming Yue, Shi Fei Hu's younger sister.

  Song Jia and Xiao Mingyue were startled by Liu Yu'er, who suddenly rushed out of the hut, and saw that Liu Yu'er's face was still wet with tears but her face was flushed with shame as she turned and ran away without even saying goodbye, leaving them feeling puzzled.

  Next to Lin Jingzhong, Xiagu's aunt and sister-in-law lifted the windscreen in front of the hut, and only then did they see Lin Xuan standing inside with blood all over his body. There was no one else in the hut, so Xiagu's aunt and sister-in-law naturally associated the scene with something bad. Xiagu Mingyue was full of disdain, thinking that such a tragedy had occurred here, and yet Lin Xuan still had the mood to tease and bully the beautiful maid, really not a good kind! She didn't want to come over at first, but her sister-in-law insisted, saying that this was all the Xiagu women could do for the Xiagu family, so she reluctantly came. Now she thought back to when she searched Lin Xuan's body in the carriage, and at the time it was just shock and shyness, but now she felt a bit disgusted.

  Song Jia didn't think there was anything wrong with men being lustful, what she feared was that Lin Xuan would be too stubborn and hard to persuade. She said: "My husband Fei Hu heard about the brutal case at the river mouth last night and is worried sick. The refugees are also someone's children, nurtured by heaven and earth. He couldn't get away to comfort the victims, so I came with Ming Yue to express our condolences..."

  "Thank you, Young Master, Young Madam, and Miss Mingyue, for your kindness." Lin Mou said gratefully.

  Lin Jie let Lin Jingzhong lift the windscreen to the top of the hut, he couldn't keep Xia Jia's sisters-in-law in a secret room that outsiders couldn't see. Song Jia and Xiāo Míngyuè brought over the most scarce medical supplies on this side, as well as hundreds of cotton quilts and large quantities of lacquer cloth, which were indeed scarce materials at the river mouth.

  Song Jia and She Feiming accompanied Lin Tie to visit the wounded from last night's attack, also secretly paying attention to the situation of other migrant workers. There was no chaos as imagined, and the wolf-like camp had been cleaned up quite a bit. The bloodstains were difficult to wash away for the time being, and someone used an iron shovel to turn over the soil stained with blood and trample it down; on the black ash remains that had been cleared out, a group of people were rebuilding their huts; around the camp, a line was drawn with burnt ash, and a group of people were driving wooden stakes along the gray line. A team of cavalry and infantry from the Jiangning Prefecture's Military Command was stationed at the river mouth to be on high alert, and there were also scouts from the Military Command and the Inspectorate around, Song Jia saw that in one corner of the camp, a group of people were squatting or sitting together carving bamboo signs. The root of the bamboo sign was tied with a rope to form a cross-shaped base, at first glance, it was clear that these would be used as thorns scattered outside the wooden stakes to prevent anyone from sneaking into the camp like last night, and some people even sharpened the ends of their bamboo poles as spears for surveillance outside the range of the wooden stakes.

  Song Jia thought to herself: It's really not possible to underestimate him just because Lin Wei stole the camp. The people in this camp are all refugees who have never experienced the world, and after suffering such heavy casualties yesterday, they didn't collapse, but instead quickly reorganized these refugees in an orderly manner. This is not something that ordinary people can do.

  Lin Tie didn't mind the luxurious family seeing these things, as a big case had happened here last night and officials would come to inspect and offer condolences in the next few days. Whether they were coming to watch the good show or to comfort this side, he thought that covering up this side was not possible. Therefore, he couldn't openly use Cao Zi'ang, Wu Qi, and Ge's brothers' men, even though there were undercover agents from the Procuratorate and Jiangning Prefecture's Military Command hiding around the river mouth. He also wanted to make Cao Zi'ang and others more low-key, so as not to attract unnecessary attention.

  Lin Tie looked at Song Jia's shiny black eyes scanning the surroundings of the camp, he knew that Xiagu's wife and sister-in-law came to clear their suspicion, indicating that Xiagu was extremely eager to improve relations with Gu Wu Chen at this time, and would not possibly do such a foolish thing. Indeed, at this time, Xiagu would not be so decisive in doing such a foolish thing, but it's hard to say about the future.

  After sending off the luxurious family's aunt and uncle, as well as their entourage, Zhou Pu, who had been silently standing guard beside Lin Xie, spoke up: "The three hidden guards detained yesterday are probably not from the Luxurious Family..."

  Lin tied nodded, he couldn't see any abnormality on the faces of Xi's wife and sister-in-law, but those three hidden guards shouldn't be from Qu's family either. If they were, Qu's family would have been more vigilant last night and wouldn't have let their only son be easily taken away by assassination.

  "Qu Yang xun jian Qu Wu Ming brought people over to ask about the case?" Lin Jing Zhong walked over with a heavy gait.

  Last night's attack had a great impact on Lin Jingzhong, and Lin Xian was afraid that he would not be able to hold back his temper in front of the Qu family members. So he didn't tell him that all the murderers yesterday were knife guests raised by the Qu family, nor did he mention that the only son of the Qu family's master, Qu Wuyang, had been killed by them at Shenjiang.

  Qūyáng xún jiǎn sī duì jīn chuān hé yǒu guǎn xiá quán, qū wǔ míng yòu shì cóng bā pǐn xún jiǎn guān, dài le èr sān shí míng qūyáng zhèn shàng de dāo gōng shǒu guò lái, lín fù yīn chén zhe zǒu guò, shuō: "qū xiān shēn chū xiàn zhēn shì jí shí ā! zhì yú àn qíng, zhè biān méi yǒu shén me hǎo gēn qū xiān shēn shuō de, qǐng qū xiān shēn zì jǐ qù bīng mǎ sī xún wèn xì qíng ba!" tā jiù dǔng zài zhù yíng ruò mén de wèi zhì, méi yǒu yào qǐng qū wǔ míng děng rén jìn qù yàn kàn xiàn chǎng de yì si.

  Quyang Patrol Officer Qu Wu Ming had a premonition about Lin Zuo's ugly face, but it wasn't because he was worried that the Qu family would be discovered doing something behind his back. Originally, the patrol office had jurisdiction over the river mouth, and the patrol office's knife-wielding guards in the town were not restricted by the opening of the city gate. If the patrol office really wanted to do something, they should have been the first to appear on the scene and stop the thugs' killing spree. Of course, Qu Wu Ming didn't show up until now because he wasn't afraid that Lin Zuo would suspect the Qu family of yesterday's murder case. In this world, without some solid connections, who would dare to take risks for an outsider? The patrol office's knife-wielding guards were mostly funded by the town's wealthy merchants, so it was natural for them to exclude outsiders.

  Qu Wu Yang had a hidden feeling of schadenfreude about his cousin's only son going missing, but he couldn't show it. He brought people over to check the situation, and since there was nothing suspicious, Lin Mou being this kind of person, he coldly hummed and said: "In that case, Qu certain won't worry about it!" Without entering the camp for a closer look, he led his men back to Qu Yang Town.

  When Qu Wu Yang led the people away, Lin Xuan knew that the Qu family had never suspected from start to finish that their only son would quietly fall into their hands and sink to the bottom of the river northwest of Prison Island. Indeed, as long as Cao Zi Ang, Ge Cun Xin, Ge Cun Xiong and others did not expose themselves, who could have thought that Ji Yun She had the ability to counterattack at the river mouth?

  It can be foreseen that for a considerable period of time, the majority of Qu's energy will be spent searching for his missing only son, Qu Wuyang. Lin Xian'er narrowed her eyes and looked towards the other side of the camp, where Qian Xiaowu was supervising the unloading of coffins purchased from Jiangning City to bury the dead. She thought: The Qu family has already lost three people in this matter, but it is still far from giving them an explanation.

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  P.S: Looking for red envelopes (with money).