Flowers bloom without worries

On the way to Xiyue Country, although the road was bumpy, Xiao Chuhan and his entourage arrived in Xiyue Country relatively smoothly. Xiao Chuhan stared at the once prosperous streets, which have now become dilapidated, with people running around and the streets filled with injured people. Such a scene was unprecedented for Lan Xi. The hustle and bustle of the market had disappeared, replaced by a dead silence. The stall owners had sad faces, and the goods were piled up like mountains, but no one was interested. Hungry children cried in the streets, their thin bodies shivering in the cold wind, their eyes filled with fear and helplessness.

An old woman in ragged clothes, with disheveled hair and dull eyes, sat on the street corner, muttering to herself: "King! Where are you? Your subjects and your country are suffering, are you just ignoring it?"

"How can we continue our lives without the king?" Several elderly men complained.

Xiao Chuhan and others did not dare to act rashly. They wandered around the city, hoping to find out more news about the Xiyue Kingdom.

Xiao Chuhan and Lan Xi came to a dilapidated courtyard. They walked in and found that the courtyard was full of sick people. The sick people were lying in simple huts, groaning in pain on thatched mats. At this time, a young mother, with a haggard face, held her child with a high fever tightly in her arms, tears dripping down. The woman knelt on the ground and cried hoarsely to the sky: "God, please save my child, he is so young, you can't leave me like this."

Lan Xi came to the woman and helped her up while she was holding the child. Lan Xi asked, "Madam, what happened in Xiyue Country? Why did it become like this?"

The woman looked nervous when she saw the stranger. Lan Xi comforted her, "Madam, don't be afraid. We are here to help you and will not hurt you."

The woman seemed to sense Lan Xi's kindness and said, "Just a month ago, the king disappeared for no reason. A group of strangers came into the West Moon Kingdom. They were ruthless thieves, running rampant. They burned, killed, looted and committed all kinds of evil." There was a hint of sadness in the woman's eyes, and she calmly recounted what had happened in the West Moon Kingdom in the past month.

Lan Xi never expected that her once peaceful homeland would become a nightmare that people could not get rid of. People fled everywhere, but in the end they found that they had nowhere to go and could only live in dire straits every day. At this time, an old man with white hair and a cane came out from nowhere, looked at everything in front of him, and cursed the sky loudly with grief and anger: "When will this chaotic world end?"

The once peaceful West Moon Kingdom has now fallen into endless darkness. The people are struggling in misery. They pray every day, hoping that the king will return and save them from the fire and water.

Xiao Chuhan came to Lan Xi and said, "Xi'er, let's leave here first."

"What should we do with them? Are we just going to watch them die like this? They clearly have hope of living."

"Thieves are acting recklessly in the city. We don't know the real situation yet, so we must not act recklessly."

Lan Xi understood what Xiao Chuhan meant. She couldn't act on impulse now. She had to put the overall situation first. Lan Xi nodded at Xiao Chuhan, turned around and left the dilapidated yard with Xiao Chuhan.