Shen Shixu looked at his corpse with regret in his eyes. If Liu Ying had not gone astray, they might have become very good friends.
With Liu Ying dead, the people from the Longevity Pavilion lost the will to resist and were easily captured.
Shen Shixu asked one of the captured Longevity Pavilion members, "Are any of the children you abducted from Pingcheng County still alive?"
The man crouched on the ground with his hands over his head. As Shen Shixu questioned him, Xiao Jinyi drew the razor-sharp Red Blood and held it against his neck, leaving him no choice but to answer.
"The Left Protector wasn't the one who abducted those children. Some of the people under him did it without permission. He only found out after the children's bodies turned up.
"The Left Protector personally dealt with the culprits, then ordered us to look after the children who hadn't been harmed yet at a farm outside town. They're all alive and well, without a scratch on them. They've even put on quite a bit of weight!"
The man sounded positively proud as he delivered that last sentence. They were all bachelors who did not even have wives, let alone children, but they really were good at raising kids.
The children had originally been scrawny little things who barely weighed more than chicks. After just a few days in their care, every last one had filled out.
The parents who came looking for their children had been standing outside the county office in tears, aching at the thought of what their children had suffered over the past few days.
But when they saw their children run out and fling themselves into their arms, visibly plumper than before they had been abducted, they could not get out a single one