Chang Yuan accepted the enormous Medicine Ball the little girl handed him and watched her skip toward the next poor soul who had suffered at Beiming's hands. Then the tenderness in his eyes abruptly hardened into resolve, and he clenched his fists as he walked deeper into Spring Renewal Valley.
Behind him came the little girl's clear cry: "Uncle Yu! Cheng-Cheng-missed-you-so-much-!"
He paid no mind to why the little girl would miss Yu Fan when she had only just met him, and simply trudged forward, one heavy step after another.
A blazing fire seemed to burn in his eyes.
Inside Liang Qilüe's courtyard, its owner's furious bellows rang out incessantly.
"Bullshit!"
"You insolent brat, every word out of your mouth is nonsense!"
"Get out of my sight-!"
-With that adorable little figure gone from the courtyard, Liang Qilüe found cursing people out particularly effortless.
Jiang Yanchuan's expression remained unchanged. His eyes lowered, he sipped the hot tea he had poured for himself, as though he could not hear the tirade that had been going on across from him for quite some time. His bearing remained noble and elegant.
He knew that this sort of thing ought to be approached gradually, and he also knew why the people here had come to this place.
These people would not readily leave with them. The best approach was to slowly soften their resistance before proposing to take them away.
But...
Time was rather tight, so he could only lay everything out plainly.
Seeing him behave like this only made Liang Qilüe angrier.
He gave an irritated grunt and rolled his eyes most inelegantly. "Setting your sights on me is one thing, but you even want to take all the valley's residents away with you-"
Liang Qilüe scoffed. "Your Majesty has yet to