After greeting the two of them, he turned around, squatted his little body, and grew little mushrooms beside his master: "Master, why did you fall again?"
Liao Chen faced down, his hands tightly clasping the ground, his body trembling with clenched teeth.
How did I fall? Don’t you have a clue?!
Little monk!
Can you really not live a day without messing with your master?!
"You’re an adult now, and I don’t have the strength to help you. Master, you should get up by yourself!" With that, the little guy decisively left his master, cheerfully going to find Gu Jiao.
Liao Chen: "...!!"
A master can’t keep an unfaithful disciple!
Gu Jiao touched his little head, looked at Xiao Hen approaching, and asked, "Why are you here?"
Xiao Hen raised an eyebrow and glanced at the little guy.
The little guy shook his head vehemently and said, "I wasn’t the one who wanted to eat candied haws!"
Long Yi, now seeing Xiao Hen and Xiao Jingkong together, wouldn’t easily freeze up, but whether he still treated Xiao Jingkong as Little Xiao Hen, only he understood.
"Long Yi, you and Jingkong get on the carriage first," Xiao Hen said to Long Yi.
Long Yi picked up the little guy without another word and got onto Xiao Hen’s carriage.
Xiao Hen’s carriage was parked next to the prince’s. As Long Yi walked past the prince’s carriage, the prince just woke up and had barely called out "Come here—" when Long Yi sent a wave of inner strength and knocked the prince out again.
Long Yi carrying Xiao Jingkong got on the carriage.
In the alley, only Xiao Hen, Gu Jiao, Gu Chengfeng, and Liao Chen remained.
Liao Chen stood up, his body almost broken from the fall. Though he wasn’t hurt fighting with Long Yi, he was bruised and battered from his disciple’s earlier yell.
Where can he go to argue?
He raised his hand to wipe away the blood from his mouth and coldly looked at the three opposite him: "What’s your relationship with that guy named Long Yi?"
Gu Jiao seriously replied to Liao Chen: "He’s our friend."
"Friend?" Liao Chen looked at Xiao Jingkong wobbling his head on the carriage and Long Yi silently guarding him, clenched his fists, and said, "Someone like him, and he still has friends!"
Xiao Hen frowned slightly.
Gu Jiao said, "You seem to know Long Yi and his past."
Liao Chen coldly replied, "Of course I know him! Even if he turned to ashes, I’d recognize him!"
Xiao Hen stared at him and asked, "I’ve always wanted to know your identity. It’s impossible for you not to be related to the Xuanyuan family, yet I haven’t found you in the Xuanyuan family’s portraits or genealogy. The Third Princess and Duke An have never heard of anyone named Xuanyuan Zheng. So, who exactly are you?"
Liao Chen snorted coldly: "Who I am doesn’t matter; if you still want Jingkong to live, you’d better let me kill him!"
He didn’t ask Xiao Hen and Gu Jiao to kill him because Gu Jiao said Long Yi was their friend, so he wouldn’t make things difficult for her.
He would handle it himself!
Xiao Hen glanced at Liao Chen and said, "You can’t kill him."
Long Yi watched him grow up, their bond surpassing any worldly connection, and he would never stand against Long Yi.
He wouldn’t allow anyone to harm Long Yi.
Liao Chen’s peach blossom eyes were filled with overwhelming hatred: "I can’t kill him tonight, but one day, I will kill him myself!"
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