Chapter 1409

The person who had been called out stiffened, instantly becoming the focus of the scene.

He was Liu Yizhou, one of the four great retainers of the Mu Prince Fu, and also Fang Yi's fiancé.

In Liu Dahong's view.

As one of the four great retainers of the Mu Prince Fu, he should have been loyal to the Mu Prince Fu when covering the retreat.

He had witnessed his disciple Liu Yizhou's act of fleeing, and was instantly filled with great dissatisfaction.

That was why he had deliberately called him out.

However, Liu Yizhou only paused for a moment before continuing to chase after Mu Jiansheng and the others.

Leaving behind only the words, "I am worried that Junior Sister and the others might be in danger."

Upon hearing this, Liu Dahong was so angry that his eyes bulged with rage.

But he was currently trapped in heavy encirclement and could do nothing about Liu Yizhou.

However, Liu Yizhou's act of fleeing had brought about extremely negative consequences.

Originally, Mu Jiansheng and the others could have safely broken through the encirclement.

But Liu Yizhou's actions were equivalent to pointing out the path to the Imperial Guards and the experts of the Sticky Pole Office.

In the end, the group was scattered, and most of them, including Liu Yizhou, were captured.

It was truly a case of losing the lady and the soldiers as well.

The members of the Honghua Society shook their heads secretly at the sight.

In the end, only Mu Jiansheng, whom Wen Tailai and Luo Bing had deliberately let go, and Fang Yi, who was carrying Mu Jianping, managed to escape.

Relying on the cover provided by the Bai brothers, Bai Hansong and Bai Hanfeng, Mu Jiansheng successfully escaped the imperial palace.

Mu Jianping and Fang Yi, however, lost their way in the palace in their panic.

Under Gu Hanyuan's strange gaze, they seemed to have been led by fate to the Imperial Kitchen.

They ran straight into Wei Xiaobao, who was busy counting money.

In addition to the gambling debts he had collected, there were also many people's tributes.

Altogether, it amounted to several thousand taels of silver.

For Wei Xiaobao, who had always been at the bottom of society, this was undoubtedly a huge sum of money.

Wei Xiaobao, whose mind was entirely on counting money, did not notice the two women, Fang Yi and the other, breaking in at all.

It was not until Fang Yi held a sword to his throat that he was startled awake.

He shouted almost instinctively:

"Hero, spare my life! I have old parents above and young children below; they are all waiting for me to support them! Please, as a magnanimous person, don't hold a grudge against a small person like me, and spare me!"

Fang Yi shouted fiercely:

"Shut up! If you summon the guards, I will kill you first!"

Upon hearing this, Wei Xiaobao immediately shut his mouth.

Mu Jianping suddenly asked weakly:

"You are clearly a eunuch, where would you get 'young children below'?"

Wei Xiaobao said in a low voice:

"I have a few dogs at home. They aren't even a year old yet, so they are my 'young ones'."

Upon hearing this, Mu Jianping was immediately amused by Wei Xiaobao and covered her mouth to laugh.

Even Fang Yi couldn't help but twitch the corner of her mouth, and the sword tip subconsciously moved a few inches away from Wei Xiaobao's throat.

She spat and said:

"Pah, nonsense."

Wei Xiaobao had already seen that the two people who had broken in were both women.

Fang Yi was dressed in black, so she was likely an assassin.

But Mu Jianping was soft and weak, and even asked irrelevant questions.

She was clearly an innocent and kind-hearted young girl.

Moreover, although Fang Yi's tone was fierce, she had not killed him on the spot to silence him.

Her nature was also kind, and she would not kill the innocent indiscriminately.

Wei Xiaobao was clever and cunning, and skilled at guessing others' thoughts.

He saw through the two women's personalities almost instantly.

Knowing that his life was no longer in danger, he immediately relaxed.

Wei Xiaobao's eyes rolled cunningly.

He was just about to rely on his glib tongue to trick the two women into letting him go.

A playful voice suddenly sounded from behind the three of them.

"I didn't expect a little eunuch like you to be so good at coaxing women."