CH 195

As the leader of the troupe, Lv Zhuangyuan managed to handle the chaos on stage.

He rushed up to the stage and stood in front of Lv Juren, continuously bowing to the audience with a smile.

After the bow, he signaled to his son and quickly led the dazed Lv Juren backstage.

Lv Xiucai, who was always lagging behind, quickly somersaulted onto the stage and picked up the copper gong from the ground. He turned it over and put something into it while nodding and bowing.

"This is a bit difficult for the Lv family..." Li Huowang walked towards the carriage.

He knew what had happened to Luo Juanhua in the bandit's den, but there was nothing he could do about it.

As he approached the carriage, he saw Lv Zhuangyuan hitting his eldest son's head with a cigarette.

"She's your wife! How could you say that about your wife on stage? Whose face did you lose? Your own face! The face of the Lv family!"

Suddenly, Lv Juren snatched the cigarette from his father's hand.

Lv Zhuangyuan stumbled and looked at his eldest son with unfamiliar eyes.

"What face did we lose? We're just ninth-rate actors! Is there anything more shameful than that? We have to call the prostitutes in the brothel 'auntie'! Who is more shameful than us?"

"Did you see the way she looked in the bandit's den? She was laughing and joking with those bandits! She even did that kind of thing with one of them in front of me! Dad, I'm so aggrieved, so aggrieved!!" Lv Juren knelt on the ground, pounding the ground with his hands.

"Why do I have to bow and smile at others? Don't you know? I'm doing it for the Lv family! If I didn't, Lv Xiu'er would have been abandoned long ago! You're aggrieved, but I'm not!"

"Do you really think I have no shame? Do you really think Luo Juanhua is a prostitute who can be used by anyone? But what can I do? I'm not a lady, I'm just a wife of a mediocre actor! When I'm wronged, I can only hold it in! I can only pretend not to care!!"

Luo Juanhua, who was already showing a pregnant belly, burst into tears beside them.

Watching the chaos in front of him, Li Huowang sighed.

The root of all this was the bandits. As long as the bandits were still there, there would be countless Luo Juanhuas.

In theory, it was the army's job to deal with the bandits, but they had somehow gotten involved.

Perhaps what Wang Deqiu said was right. The army and the bandits were really not that different. "This place is really messed up."

There wasn't much Li Huowang could do. He whispered a few words to the other troupe members and soon, Sun Baolu and Gouwa took Lv Juren to one side, while Bai Lingmiao and Chun Xiaoman helped Luo Juanhua to the other.

"Lv leader, don't just stand there. Pull yourself together, the show isn't over yet." Li Huowang walked up to Lv Zhuangyuan and patted his shoulder.

Lv Zhuangyuan, who seemed to have aged several years in just a moment, grabbed his empty hand and walked towards the front of the stage with a hunched back. "Juren has never been like this before..."

But as soon as he came out from backstage, he found that all the audience had left.

The others on the road were also gathering towards the edge of the town in a state of panic.

He couldn't care less about his personal affairs now and immediately shouted, "Xiao Dao, come out quickly! Trouble is brewing!"

Li Huowang, who had rushed over upon hearing the call, saw the situation outside clearly and immediately ordered everyone to prepare to retreat. The situation was obviously not right.

"Wait for me here! I'll go and see what's going on."After Li Huowang finished speaking, he rushed back to the carriage and picked up the sword, holding it in his play robe as he charged towards the town.

Passing through the dense crowd and the smelly camels, Li Huowang quickly saw the scene outside.

They were soldiers, fierce-looking soldiers surrounding the entire town.

These soldiers were not wearing military uniforms, dressed in all sorts of clothing, and their weapons were also diverse.

The only way for Li Huowang to identify them was the green character "prisoner" on each person's head.

When Li Huowang saw Hou Lao Er, who was carrying a heavy iron spear and mixed in among them, he immediately understood their intentions.

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They were here for him!

Hou Lao Er followed other soldiers who were also carrying black iron spears, riding horses and standing next to a tall general.

This person was tall and had a body that was a circle larger than everyone else around him. He wore a black and gold battle armor with an iron mask on his face, and a heavy halberd that was one zhang and two chi long in his hand, emitting a cold light.

But just standing there, the evil spirit on his body surged stronger and stronger, and Li Huowang could feel that he gave off a very bad feeling. If he had to compare it to something, it would be a thunder that could explode at any moment.

When the people around saw these soldiers, they began to murmur. As locals of the Later Shu, they seemed even more uneasy than Li Huowang.

"Oh my god, it's the thief army, it's the thief army!"

"What should we do now? Let's hurry and leave!"

"Leave? Even our escape route has been blocked by them!"

Li Huowang shrank his body into the crowd and began to think.

"They are probably here to cause trouble for me, but they probably don't know our identities yet, otherwise they would have brought troops to kill us directly."

"We have to endure their investigation later, but it seems like these soldiers have poor discipline, perhaps we can try to bribe them..."

Just as Li Huowang was calculating in his mind, a fat man in silk clothes ran towards the army with a humble face.

When he arrived in front of the general's big red horse, he took off his hat and began to whisper something.

Judging from his appearance, he should be a local official in charge of the town.

"This is a transportation hub, and there are more than just me passing through here. It's a mixed crowd, and even if they are looking for locals, it won't work."

But the next scene made Li Huowang's heart shrink suddenly.

The huge halberd was suddenly raised and struck down heavily.

The fat man's head was cut off along with his entire body.

A sweet gust of wind blew on everyone's faces.

Clang clang, the iron hooves took a few steps forward, and the general in the distance slowly lifted her face mask with the armor plate in her hand.

Inside was a delicate face like that of a woman's, no, it was a woman!

Her face was also marked with characters like the other thief soldiers.

"Serve the country with loyalty," these four big characters were written in a dragon and phoenix dance, making her originally delicate face look particularly hideous.

"Everyone! There are four Qis infiltrating among us, please bear with us!"

The female general's voice was very pleasant, but what she said next made everyone's blood run cold.

"Bang!" The heavy armor covered her face.

"Come on, Long Er, if you don't seal your blades for a day, kill them all so that the four Qis won't escape."

"Roar!" The blades, shining with a cold light, were aimed at everyone in the town.