The prison boss finally remembered, wasn't the man in front of him none other than Prince An, who was sent by the emperor to take charge of Li City?
Although the prison boss had only met Jun Hongyan once, there was no one else with such a handsome face in this Li city.
But why is one eye black and blue? And it’s covered in mud?
"Old man, what, why are you here?"
The prison boss was so shocked that he couldn't speak at all.
Jun Hongyan breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that someone finally recognized him. However, what is the old man's name? He considers himself a young and talented man, charming and suave, so why is he so old?
However, now is not the time to worry about this.
"Why don't you release me quickly?"
Seeing Jun Hongyan staring at him, the cell boss finally realized what he was doing and hurriedly opened the lock on the cell door for Jun Hongyan, his hands shaking so much that a bunch of keys jingled.
"Please come out, please come out."
Jun Hongyan was about to walk out of the prison, but he turned around and glared at the prison boss. It seemed that the prison boss hadn't given him a big salute yet.
The prison boss was still thinking, why was this giant Buddha that couldn't fit in his small territory? When he looked up, he saw Jun Hongyan's cannibalistic eyes, and he knelt down on the ground.
"Mr. An, please spare your life. If the villain finds out who is blind and locks you here, the villain will definitely skin him."
Jun Hongyan closed his eyes. He was indeed a bunch of bumpkin from a small place. He was not as good as the capital. He had never seen the world and could only speak honorifics like old people. Seeing as he was quite sensible, he was not as knowledgeable as such a small person.
However, he had said that he would throw the few villains who were watching the city gate into the pigsty.
Jun Hongyan returned to the mansion where he lived in Licheng, and the guards guarding the door immediately stopped him.
"Who dares to break into Prince An's residence?"
Jun Hongyan raised his eyes with a swish of air, and the guard didn't even dare to breathe. He said doglegly:
"Congratulations to Prince An on his return home!"
"Humph!" Jun Hongyan stepped in grandly.
But in the eyes of the guards, a clay figurine with one black eye walking like a stranger was quite funny, but no one dared to laugh.
The first thing Jun Hongyan did when he returned home was naturally to take a shower and change clothes. The mud was all dried on his body. He soaked for a long time and rubbed it for a long time before washing it off.
"Come here, collect all the merit boxes and count them."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
"Also, throw the guards at the south gate into the pigsty for me."
"Ah?" The guard thought he heard wrongly and raised his head to listen more carefully, but he encountered Jun Hongyan's dark circles under his eyes.
King An's injury could not have been caused by a beating by the officer guarding the gate, right?
"Why don't you go and run your errands? Do you want to be thrown into the pigsty too?"
"I'll do it now, little man." The guard ran away in a flash. He didn't want to try this kind of treatment.
It was night, the sky was extremely cloudy, and the wind made the leaves whine. Several large boxes were carried to the entrance of the dark forest by the officers and soldiers. Naturally, they were surrounded by officers and soldiers armed with bows and arrows, who were ambushing them.
As long as those four people dare to come, they will be shot into a hornet's nest.
Waves of cold wind blew by, but no one among the officers and soldiers dared to move. Who knew when the thieves would appear and take away the box? They had to be ready to attack at any time.
Jun Hongyan hid himself in the mansion, with the door closed and blocked with a thick wooden head. Twenty of the most powerful martial artists were left around to protect him.
Pity those officers and soldiers, lying on the damp grass, silently counting the hours.
Suddenly the grass moved slightly, and the officers and soldiers clenched their weapons, their palms sweating from nervousness.
They watched the grass move a few more times, and they were excited and were about to draw their bows and shoot arrows, but they saw a rabbit jumping gracefully in front of their eyes.
The officers and soldiers cursed, and just as they were about to take a breath, the leaves rustled, and they quickly turned their arrows to aim at the big tree.
"Ah! Ah!" A crow flapped its wings and made a hoarse cry.
The officers and soldiers were so angry that they wanted to throw away their bows and arrows!
But it was heard that during the day, King An personally led thirty officers and soldiers, but none of them could catch the four masked men. They clenched their bows and arrows tightly again.
Bodhisattva bless you, please don’t confess here tonight.
Jun Hongyan was listening to the sound of the clock outside the mansion. In another hour, it would be the midnight time agreed with the masked man.
"Cheer up, my king, and don't let thieves take advantage of this."
He remembered clearly that the four masked men wanted his life.
"Yes, Prince An!"
These twenty people protected Jun Hongyan layer by layer, holding swords and waiting in strict formation.
Time passed quietly amid everyone's nervousness, until the midnight clock sounded. Jun Hongyan could no longer sit still and stood up and paced back and forth.
After walking around for a long time, he didn't see anyone come back to tell him a message. Have you caught him? It's really useless. Tomorrow he will send a message to Xiao Guogong and mobilize some dead soldiers.
The officers and soldiers, who had been lying in the grass for most of the night and were scolded for their incompetence, started fighting before their eyes, but there was no sign of anyone in sight.
They just raised their eyebrows at those little animals that made some noise from time to time.
Until dawn, no one came to take away the box. The leading guard's patience was exhausted.
They followed King An into the dark forest, but King An ran away on his own. They lay in the forest for more than half an hour before they woke up and returned to Li City, only to be sent here to suffer.
The guard whispered to the people around him:
"You continue to look at the box, I will go back and ask Prince An for instructions."
"Dong dong, dong dong dong!"
Jun Hongyan's eyes were red from the stress, and he finally waited for the promised knock on the door.
"Quick, quick, go and open the door."
He directed people to lift the heavy wood on the door. As soon as he opened the door, he asked hurriedly:
"But caught? Where is he?"
The guard's scalp was numb and he answered carefully.
"Reporting to Prince An, we kept watch all night and saw no sign of anyone. The thief didn't come at all."
"Didn't come? They want money, how could they not come? Were you accidentally exposed and they found out the clues?"
Jun Hongyan grabbed the guard by the collar and questioned him. He went to great lengths to change all the silver in the merit box into stones. He also carefully planned and set up an ambush to wait for the four people. They actually tricked him?
"Prince An, Prince An is not well!"
Another officer and soldier came running panting.
"Why are you here? Aren't you taking someone to look at the silver?"
Jun Hongyan's brows instantly wrinkled, and his heart began to pound.
"Prince An, the silver is missing."
"What did you say?"
Jun Hongyan didn't bother to ask any more questions, pushed away the person who reported the news, and went to the place where the silver was hidden to check his money.
Sure enough, I saw that the big box originally filled with silver was now missing.
He looked at the ten guards with murderous eyes.
"Why is the money gone? Why are you all fine?"
Did they just open their eyes and watch his money being carried away by thieves?
The officers and soldiers fell to their knees on the ground.
"Prince An, have mercy on us. We were tricked and we fainted. When we woke up just now, we found that the box was gone."