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"Anhe, wait for me to come back!" Acheng said, holding Princess Anhe's hand tightly.

"Brother Acheng, please be careful!" An He's eyes were blurred with tears.

Acheng gently wiped Anhe's tears. This was the last time they met before going to the army. Anhe gave Acheng a sachet she made by herself, which contained the amulet she had asked for from Fenglan Temple.

Before leaving, Ye Hansheng analyzed the border situation with Acheng and gave corresponding combat plans and methods to deal with emergencies, which were combined with the overall combat plan of the army.

Finally, he personally handed his protective soft armor to Acheng, and selected two capable shadow guards to follow him secretly in case of emergency.

The Akabane Army set out and headed for the Dongling border.

After the matter was over, Mu Wanyin took Mu Lixue back to Lishan.

On the way back, he met King Ning, who was holding a sharp knife and had a fierce look in his eyes.

"What are you going to do?" Mu Wanyin protected Ali behind him and asked sternly.

"You bitch, you should have died long ago!"

"Daddy, is that you? Daddy, please don't kill mom!" Ali knelt on the ground, eyes blurred with tears, big tears sliding down her cheeks.

Prince Ning seemed a little hesitant, and Ali stood up and slowly approached.

"Ali!" Mu Wanyin stopped him.

"Mom, Ali just wants to take a good look at Dad." Ali's eyes were filled with tears.

She came to King Ning and pulled his sleeve. King Ning slowly squatted down, and Ali gently hugged him...

"Swish!" Ali waved his hand and a handful of powder rose up!

King Ning frowned, covered his mouth and nose, and took two steps back.

"Dad, go back and take a bath quickly, otherwise, Dad will die of festering all over. Do you feel itchy all over now?" Ali said in a cold voice.

"You...!" King Ning felt itchy all over and turned away in a hurry.

"Ali!" Mu Wanyin hurried forward and hugged her.

"Mom, we can go now." Ali wiped his tears and said with a smile, "It's okay, Mom, I just sprinkled ordinary itching powder..."

Mu Wanyin held Ah Li's hand and walked towards the carriage. Ah Li turned her head slightly to look in the direction of King Ning. The corners of her lips curled slightly, and her eyes were cold...

After finishing his business in Shangjing, Ye Hansheng returned to Hecheng.

The disaster relief work in Hecheng has been completed, and the victims have been properly resettled. The next step is for the local government to lead the victims to rebuild their homes. The group of bandits were allowed to stay in Hecheng because of their outstanding performance during the disaster relief period and became legal residents of Hecheng.

Once the disaster relief funds allocated by the imperial court arrived and were handed over to the local authorities, they could set off back to Beijing.

This year's 18th birthday was very meaningful. Liu Qingyin celebrated it in the disaster area. The victims celebrated spontaneously together to thank her for taking care of them during this period.

Ye Hansheng still gave her a full sense of ceremony. Although the environment was simple, the necessary gifts and romance were all there, just as before.

After the birthday, Liu's father and mother decided to take Xiaohai back to Lishan, and they were reluctant to let him go.

"Mom, I will come to find you soon, and then we won't be separated." Liu Qingyin whispered in her mother's ear.

"Okay, bring Ah Sheng along then."

"Sister~~", Xiao Hai, with tears in his eyes, pulled Liu Qingyin's arm.

"Oh, you are already a big boy. A man should not cry. You have to take good care of your father and mother for your sister, understand?"

Xiao Hai kept nodding his head.

Liu Qingyin smiled and touched his head.

"Dad, take care!"

The wrinkles on Father Liu's face deepened a little, "Come back soon, A Sheng must take good care of A Yin."

"Don't worry, uncle!" Ye Hansheng replied earnestly.

After bidding farewell to Mr. and Mrs. Liu, Liu Qingyin said nothing on the way back.

"Why is Ayin so worried? She has been like this since I returned to Hecheng." Ye asked coldly.

"You said my blood is the medicine for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?" Liu Qingyin asked calmly, "Then what is your prescription? Can you tell me?"

"Ayin has never been interested in medicine, why today..." Before he could finish his words, someone came to report.

A young eunuch hurriedly said, "Master Ye, this is bad! The disaster relief funds have been intercepted by a group of people, and Lord Wu Jiyong has been detained. Some disaster victims have also been kidnapped. The bandits are asking His Royal Highness to go and negotiate in person. His Royal Highness has already gone!"

Ye Hansheng and Liu Qingyin looked at each other, and they quickly went to the place of negotiation.

"Come here alone, otherwise I will throw all the government silver off the cliff and then chop this man into meat paste!" said the masked bandit viciously.

"Wuwuwuwu!" Lord Wu knelt on the ground, his hair disheveled and his mouth tightly blocked. He kept shaking his head, signaling the prince not to come over!

The bandit knocked Lord Wu unconscious with a single blow!

"Master Wu!" the prince shouted, "Stop! Do not hurt Master Wu again!"

"Come here and exchange him, otherwise I will throw them down with all the official silver!" said the bandit viciously!

"Who sent you? Do you know who we are?" Mo Chen shouted coldly, "Put down the official silver now, release Lord Wu and the people, and I will spare your lives!"

The bandit kicked a civilian off a cliff!

"Ah! Ah! Ah!" the kidnapped people shouted in panic.

"Stop!" the prince shouted, "I'll go over and you let them go!"

"Your Highness!" All the accompanying officers and soldiers knelt on the ground!

"Your Highness!" Mo Chen frowned and grabbed the prince's sleeve!

The prince patted Mo Chen's arm and said with a smile: "I don't have much time left, it would be good if I could save more people!"

"Xiao Fuzi!" the prince shouted.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, you can't go!" Eunuch Fu burst into tears.

"Bring me pen and ink!"

Eunuch Fu brought pen and ink with tears in his eyes, and the prince wrote a letter to the emperor, saying that if he unfortunately died, no one should be implicated, as it was his own choice.

There are two suspension bridges between the cliffs, which are long and narrow and can only accommodate one person.

"I'm going over there now. You release the people of Hecheng and let them leave from that bridge! Ahem!" the prince shouted with a pale face.

A group of officers and soldiers knelt in front of him and refused to give in!

The bandits on the other side shouted, "If you get to the middle of the bridge first, I'll make them leave!"

"Your Highness! Your Highness cannot go!" the officers and soldiers shouted one after another, and Eunuch Fu hugged the prince's legs and cried bitterly!

The prince was full of vigor and said, "It is my duty to protect the people of Dongling! It is also your responsibility. Do you want the people to fall off the cliff one by one?"

"Everyone, get out of my way!"

The officers and soldiers, with red eyes, reluctantly made way.

"Your Highness!" Mo Chen frowned and said, "I will go with Your Highness!"

The prince looked at Mo Chen and smiled, shaking his head, "No need, Ah Chen, I have explained to father in the letter that you don't have to go back to the capital to report on your duties. You can go back to Southern Xinjiang and go home."

The prince looked at Mo Chen deeply, then turned around resolutely and went to the suspension bridge alone.

"Li Yiheng!" Mo Chen called out his name for some unknown reason.

"Don't leave."

The prince turned his head and was stunned for a moment, then smiled, and finally waved at him.

The moment the prince turned and left, Mo Chen felt as if there was a void in his heart.

Li Yiheng walked to the middle of the suspension bridge, and the people held their heads and ran to another suspension bridge.

Seeing the people getting on the bridge, he finally felt a lot more at ease.

At this moment, a group of bandits armed with crossbows rushed onto the prince's suspension bridge, and several crossbow arrows were fired at the prince. On the other side of the cliff, the bandits took out knives and cut off the two suspension bridges at the same time! !

"Ah! Ah!" Many people fell off the cliff, while some grabbed the ropes and struggled.

Ye Hansheng and Liu Qingyin arrived in time and fired hidden weapons at the opposite side to stop them from shooting arrows at the people and the prince.

The crossbow arrows shot at the prince were hit by Ye Hansheng's hidden weapons and fell one after another.

Ye Hansheng quickly dispatched officers and soldiers, dividing them into three groups. One group rescued the civilians, one group rescued the prince, and the other group continued to shoot arrows at the opposite side to buy time for rescue.

Liu Qingyin went to another suspension bridge to help rescue the people, while Ye Hansheng rescued the prince on this side and fought against the attack from the opposite side.

The prince was too weak to climb up, so he could only hold on to the rope of the suspension bridge. However, he was too far away from the cliff and the suspension bridge was too heavy. The officers and soldiers pulled the rope of the suspension bridge with all their strength to prevent it from falling down. Eunuch Fu brought a rope and tied one end around Ye Hansheng's waist. Ye Hansheng asked several officers and soldiers to help in front of him and tied the other end down, wanting the prince to hold the rope.

But the rope was still not long enough, so Mo Chen tied the other end of the rope around his waist and climbed down little by little, approaching the prince.

"Your Highness, hold my hand!" Mo Chen stretched his hand down.

The prince slowly pulled out one hand and stretched it upwards, trying to hold Mo Chen's hand.

At this critical moment, an arrow shot out and hit the prince's other hand! !

"Ah!" The prince shouted and fell off the cliff!

"Your Highness! Li Yiheng!!" Mo Chen's heart tightened. He took out a dagger, cut the rope, and fell down with the prince!

Liu Qingyin took a deep breath and leaned over the edge of the cliff, shouting, "Mo Chen! Your Highness the Crown Prince!!"

Everyone shouted "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince", and the sound echoed in the mountains.

The people on the other side of the cliff, with the determination to die, launched a fierce counterattack, firing flaming arrows, and fire started all around the people.

The officers and soldiers were anxious to rescue the people, and their fighting capacity was weakened.

At this time, several black shadows appeared around the bandits on the opposite side. The black shadows and the bandits started a fierce fight. After a while, all the bandits were killed!

The shadow guards arranged by Ye Hansheng climbed up the opposite mountain as quickly as possible and killed those bandits!

A team of soldiers and several shadow guards escorted the civilians and official silver back to the city. Ye Hansheng and Liu Qingyin led the rest of the people to the bottom of the cliff to look for the prince and Mo Chen.

Eunuch Fu cried and shouted, and his loud voice could be heard everywhere in the mountains, but there was no response, only echoes.

In the end, everyone's voices were hoarse, but there was still no trace to be found.

Liu Qingyin frowned and searched carefully.

Ye Hansheng patted her shoulder comfortingly and took her hand to search together.

After an unknown amount of time, Mo Chen struggled to open his eyes and found that he was hanging on a tree. He only remembered that he grabbed the prince's hand while falling, and the prince held him tightly in his arms!

"Your Highness! Li Yiheng!" Mo Chen struggled and shouted. He looked left and right, and saw the prince hanging on the tree branch below, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

The sky was full of stars. A wave of pain came over him. Li Yiheng frowned and slowly opened his eyes.

"Achen!"

He sat up suddenly, and then the pain became more intense, and sweat oozed out instantly...