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Kapitel 14

Just then, a group of handsome young men in white emerged from the courtyard, surrounding a pretty girl in white. When she looked up and saw Shu Jun standing leisurely on the high wall, her face flushed red, as if she were about to faint. She grabbed the arm of the man in white beside her and whispered a few instructions.

The young man in white stepped forward, clasped his hands in greeting, and said, “This must be the real Young Master Shu Jun. My master has long admired your name. Ever since he caught a glimpse of you at the Luoyang Peony Festival last year, he has been unable to forget you and has instructed his subordinates to search for your whereabouts everywhere, hoping to have a long talk with you by candlelight.”

Shu Jun stroked his chin and said slowly, "I think you're not searching, you're abducting. I heard you even abducted a young man by mistake yesterday. You made a mistake, but you won't let him go. Is this all your young master's infatuation with me is?"

The young lady's face turned pale. She lowered her head and went to give instructions to the men in white. Suddenly, she heard Shu Jun's voice coming from above her: "If you have something to say, then say it to me personally. Come on, look up at me."

As soon as he finished speaking, he was already standing less than two feet away from the young lady. Amid a chorus of gasps, he placed two fingers on her chin and lifted her face up.

The young lady's face flushed like the sunset, her eyes unfocused. She felt his fragrant breath gently caressing her face, and his voice was deep and tender: "What do you want to say to me?"

She couldn't utter a single word.

Shu Jun smiled and said, "I am a very selfish and wicked person. If someone likes me, they can only like me. If it's not like that, I will never talk to them again."

He leisurely brushed the stray hairs behind the young lady's ear, his thumb gently caressing her soft lips, his voice even more tender: "You greedy fellow, you've been pestering me ever since the Luoyang Peony Festival, like a pile of dog shit that I can't shake off, stinking and annoying. I suddenly became curious and wanted to see what you actually look like, and why you're abducting an innocent young man. So I came to see, and dog shit really is dog shit, you're really ugly."

He gently patted her stunned face, smiled slightly, and took out a paper package, stuffing it into her hand: "Don't bother me again, understand? Consider this a gift for us."

After speaking, he lightly flipped over the wall, darted several feet away like lightning, and disappeared in the blink of an eye. His ability to flee in disarray was quite impressive.

The young lady stared blankly at the paper package in her hand, which emitted a foul stench; it really was a pile of fresh dog poop.

She threw him away, and he fainted on the ground.

"Boring," the man in the straw hat frowned, offering only two words of evaluation. This was nothing short of a thoroughly wicked child's prank; how could a grown man have the nerve to use it on a girl?

Young Master Yan was also somewhat amused and exasperated. Seeing the group of people from the Xiaoyao Sect noisily helping the young lady into the room, he said in a low voice, "Let's go, there's nothing more to see."

The two walked out of the chaotic Xiaoyao Gate silently. They hadn't gone half a mile when a carriage came to pick them up. Two people got out of the carriage and said, "Little girl, they all ran towards Tanzhou. This time, with Shu Jun here, we dare not send anyone to follow them secretly again."

Young Master Yan said, "Don't worry about them, our business is more important. Are those stubborn guys from Bashu still following us?"

The two men said, "Young master, please be careful on your journey to Tanzhou."

The implication is that a piece of chewy candy is chewy candy; if it's not sticky, it's not chewy candy.

Young Master Yan nodded, climbed into the carriage, and the group slowly headed towards Tanzhou.

The three men from Yichun galloped all the way, eventually slowing down in the woods.

Seeing that half of Yichun's body was covered in blood, Little Pumpkin said worriedly, "Miss, you should bandage your wound first, otherwise it will hurt a lot to take off your clothes once the blood dries."

Yichun was indeed struggling to keep up; it felt like countless tiny stars were jumping before her eyes. She jumped off her horse, grabbed a water bag, and poured it over her shoulder, wincing in pain.

"Yang Shen, are you standing there? Can't you check my wound?" Because the wound was on her shoulder, she couldn't see it. Seeing that Yang Shen not only didn't come to help but also turned his head away, she was finally about to lose her temper.

He snapped back, "Are you stupid?! There's a girl over there, why didn't you ask her to watch it for you? I'm a man, aren't I?!"

What does this have to do with men and women?! Yichun was about to speak when she suddenly heard Little Pumpkin laugh shyly, cover her face and whisper, "I...I'm a man too."

The two froze instantly.

Little Pumpkin patted his chest, making a loud thud, and it was indeed flat. However, because his clothes were loose and he was handsome, he couldn't be identified as a woman when dressed as one.

“When I went out with my master, he said it would be easier for me to do anything if I dressed up as a woman. After all, apart from a few hooligans, most people in the underworld still take good care of girls.”

That's the truth.

Yichun looked at Little Pumpkin with some emotion. He was actually a boy, and he was so handsome, no less so than Wenjing. And because he was still young, only thirteen or fourteen years old, he was indeed very lifelike when he dressed up as a woman.

Yang Shen dismounted with some difficulty. The young lady had drugged him, making his limbs weaker than someone who didn't know martial arts.

He clasped his hands in a fist salute to Little Pumpkin, his voice sincere: "Thank you for saving me, young man. May I ask your honorable name?"

Little Pumpkin quickly waved his hand: "No need to thank me! This was all caused by my master, it's already good that you don't blame me, please don't be polite! I don't have a formal name, I'm called Little Pumpkin, and my master's name is Shu Jun. What about you?"

Before he could finish speaking, he heard leisurely footsteps behind him. Shu Jun said in a calm voice, "You keep saying my name out of the blue."

Little Pumpkin chuckled, "Can't I say Master's name?"

Shu Jun ignored him, directly led a horse, and turned around to say, "Hey, you two. I saved your lives, it's not too much to ask to take a horse, is it?"

Without waiting for their reply, he mounted the horse, spurred it on, and the horse galloped away, disappearing from the woods in the blink of an eye.

Little Pumpkin called out "Master!", turned around, bowed to the two of them, and quickly followed after them.

Yichun was stunned for a long time, then suddenly remembered something and shouted, "He stole my bundle!"

Although there was no money inside, only a bunch of clean clothes, they were still made for her by her mother stitch by stitch before she came down the mountain.

This Shu Jun guy, I really can't figure out if he's a good person or a bad person.

Yang Shen didn't say a word, but poured water from the water pouch onto the wound on her shoulder. Yi Chun immediately jumped up and cried out, "It hurts so much!"

His face was grim, and he said in a low voice, "Don't move, let me check the wound." As he spoke, he pulled a dagger from her boot and cut open the clothes on her shoulder, revealing a bloody and mangled scar.

A scratch would be easier to treat, but this was a stab wound. A quick glance revealed that the stab had penetrated about two inches, leaving a gaping, bloody hole that looked extremely gruesome.

He gritted his teeth, took out the medicine powder and sprinkled it gently on the wound, then covered it tightly with gauze. He said softly, "Bear with it for now. I'll buy medicine and bandage it properly when we get to Tanzhou."

Yichun, who was grimacing in pain, noticed something was wrong with his voice and patted his arm, laughing, "It's nothing, just a minor injury, it won't kill you."

Yang Shen remained silent for a long time, only giving a soft "hmm".

Shu Jun forcibly took away one of their horses. One of them was drugged and the other was injured, so they had no choice but to ride together.

Yichun chattered on and on: "You were kidnapped by that young lady, did she bully you? Besides drugging you, were you injured?"