Chapter 7: The Lantern Festival in Dongshi

  Long Xilan was unguarded because of this sudden change and his body leaned forward.

  Luckily, a strong hand caught me in time, and I was saved from being thrown out of the carriage.

  "Miss Ji, are you alright?" Li Hua helped Wang support her to sit up straight.

  She shook her head and thought that if it weren't for this cumbersome and gaudy women's clothing, which made her unstable, she wouldn't be so delicate.

  Li Hua saw that she was unharmed and turned his head to ask the attendants outside. "Liu Jin, what happened?"

  Liu Jin replied nervously outside: "Report to the king, just now an old woman rushed out crying and wailing. If it weren't for Yan Ting's timely tightening of the reins, this old woman would have been trampled to death by the horse's hooves."

  Upon hearing this, Long Xilan gently lifted the curtain and took a look. Indeed, she saw an old woman with a white cloth wrapped around her head sitting on the ground crying, surrounded by many onlookers who were pointing and discussing, but no one went to help her up.

  This getup suggests that someone in the family has passed away, and it's just the old woman crying her heart out, muttering to herself: "My son was killed by a vengeful ghost!"

  "You don't have to worry, Liu Jin will take care of it." King Xū's ability to observe and understand was extremely high, so he saw through Long Yulan's thoughts. She just smiled slightly and didn't respond.

  Liu Jin quickly got down from the carriage and came to the old woman's side, wanting to help her up. The old woman refused, crying as if she was dying.

  King Xi was also on the carriage looking, seeing this, his eyebrows furrowed involuntarily. The sky had almost darkened, and he didn't want to delay any longer, so he ordered his trusted guard Yan Ting to go and help.

  Yan Ting had just walked past, and the old woman caught sight of Long Xilan sitting in the carriage. Her eyes widened suddenly, and she shouted fiercely and fearfully: "The female ghost who harmed my son is right there in that carriage! Neighbors, that female ghost is right there in that carriage!"

  The old woman's voice was mournful and grew louder as she shouted.

  Everyone's disapproving gaze suddenly focused on him.

  Li Hua quickly pulled down the curtain and saw Long Yulan's tightly knitted eyebrows, so he spoke out to comfort her: "The ignorant and barbarous words of the foolish woman, Miss Ji doesn't have to take it to heart."

  She nodded, making a reasonable gesture.

  What she was worried about wasn't that others would think of her as a malevolent female ghost, but whether the old woman's son had really been harmed by a female ghost. If so, could it be that the female ghost who led her into the General's mansion that night was...

  The Last Dragon Knight

  Brocade painting?

  Yan Ting took the old woman away, and the sound of wailing gradually faded into the distance.

  Long Xilan asked cautiously: "I wonder how the king will deal with that old woman who blocked the horse carriage?"

  "This matter will naturally follow the rules." Li Hua's face was calm and serene, but Long Xuelan guessed that the old woman would be arrested for speaking falsely.

  This is the imperial city, under the feet of the Son of Heaven. Just now that old woman collided with an ordinary official, it would be fine, but she happened to point at the Marquis of Hu's carriage and scolded him with profanity. Long Xilan wanted to plead for her, but couldn't open his mouth!

  From Li Hua's eight characters, he is gentle on the outside and firm on the inside, with a mind that has a city-like fortitude. He definitely won't change his mind because of her womanly benevolence.

  So she didn't say anything else either.

  Li Hua's gaze swept over her calm face, and he had a few points of admiration for the woman.

  The horse carriage took a new road and soon arrived at Dongshi, which was decorated with lanterns in the evening.

  All kinds of night lights shine together, red and green, not inferior to the beautiful scenery of Yuetai Garden in spring. Tongling Master Xi Lan: Wonderful

  Long Xilan and Li Huan walked side by side in the crowd, unaffected by the lively atmosphere of the people around them. She seemed to be watching the flower lanterns, but in fact, she was confirming how many hidden guards were lurking in the shadows.

  One, two, three, four... she couldn't count them all, her heart sank, and she didn't know how many of them were Qi Jinjiang's people, and how many were Xu Wang Li Hua's people.

  Finally, her gaze fell on a flower lantern car, where a girl in a gray cotton coat was staring at her with big round eyes, looking pitiful.

  Li Hua followed her gaze and found a particularly beautiful red flower lantern on the flower lantern car, so he called Liu Jin who was following behind to buy the flower lantern.

  Long Xilan didn't show the usual joy of a woman who had obtained something she loved, but instead calmly said: "Your Highness, look at the color of this flower lantern, it's really quite special."

  Li Hua hadn't noticed, but after she mentioned it, he found that the red lantern was indeed more dazzling and eye-catching than the others. He took the lantern from her and sniffed it, his eyebrows furrowing in response.

  This paper-pasted lantern, how can it have a faint smell of blood?