Lu Li and Lu Rui saw Zhou Tong guessing lantern riddles to send the girl away, they naturally didn't want to fall behind, so they all came down to guess riddles.

  Unfortunately, only Lin Yuhbin and the three Shang sisters were present, except for their family's younger sister. With an attitude of not being thick with one another, each of them gave a lantern.

  So every girl's hands were full of lanterns, how could they walk?

  Seeing some children gathered in front of the flower lamp stall, looking at them with eager eyes but unable to afford them, Lin Yubin gave away the lanterns in his hands to them, leaving only a lotus flower lamp.

  Others followed suit, some giving them to children, others to old people and girls of the same age.

  Lu Li saw it was fun and went to win a few more lanterns to give out to the children, earning their heartfelt thanks, laughing with gleeful faces.

  Lu Yu saw Lu Rui and others also moved, hurriedly stepped forward to pull them: "Don't be too excessive, leave some opportunities for other families."

  The lantern riddle has limited answers, if they guess too many, others will have fewer chances.

  Lu Rui was somewhat disappointed, but still followed up.

  A group of people ate, drank and played, as more and more people came, they finally walked through the entire street, everyone was a bit tired, Lu Yu suggested: "Let's go back and see our own flower shed."

  Lin Yuhu nodded, "It's time to go back, or Auntie will worry."

  Shang Mingjie turned around, and the rear team became the front team, starting to squeeze forward again. However, it was clearly the most lively time now. The governor's mansion had sent people to set off fireworks on the front gate tower, and adults were looking for the best viewing position. Children were also trying their best to climb onto their fathers' shoulders, so they couldn't squeeze in, fearing that if they weren't careful, they would accidentally push someone else's child away.

  Shang Mingjie carefully protected Lin Yuhong and his two sisters, while Shang Danlan unknowingly fell behind with Zhou Tong.

  Zhou Tong shielded Shang Danlan inside, using his back to withstand the pressure coming from all sides. He couldn't help but complain: "You should walk faster, you're so slow, what if we get left behind? Look at your sisters, they've already gone ahead... even your younger sister is doing better than you..."

  "This person has been buzzing in my ear, and Shang Danlan couldn't help but say: 'Didn't you see that child almost fell just now? I just helped him steady himself, and then slowed down. I didn't ask you to stop and wait for me. If you're in a hurry, you can go ahead..."

  Zhou Tong puckered his lips and paused for a moment before muttering, "Brother Lu instructed me to keep you in the middle, otherwise I wouldn't have bothered waiting for you..."

  He was still holding out his arms to block the crowd and didn't let them rush her.

  Shang Danlan squeezed together with Sheng Chun, who twitched the corner of his mouth and happened to meet Zhou Tong's little servant's eyes.

  Xiao Shu and Yin Quan looked at Sheng Chun with the same helpless expression. What can I do? My young master is just like that, insincere. I'm also very desperate.

  Fortunately, Lu Li found the two people who had fallen behind and hastily called for a small path to be cleared, allowing them to quickly catch up.

  A group of people reassembled, Lu Yu wiped the sweat from his forehead and said: "This won't do, there are too many of us, it's not easy to walk. Let's split up."

  "I'll take Xiaosi and Shang San's sister, Fourth Brother. You take Xiaoling and Cui's younger sister, Sixth Brother. You and Zhou Mingjie will bring Shang's Second Sister, Fourth Sister, and Lin County's mistress. Each of you should bring your own servants and don't get separated."

  Several people should go down, and they all brought the servants back to the team. Lu Yu walked in front first, then tightly held Lu Si's hand, and Lu Si pulled Shang Danzhu. Behind Shang Danzhu were two old women who protected the servants around them. Because there were fewer people and they were united, they quickly moved forward.

  Lu Li looked at Shang Mingjie and Zhou Tong, then waved his hand at Lu Ling and Cui Rong: "Sisters, let's go!"

  Cui Rong twitched the corner of his mouth and whispered to Lu Ling: "Li Biao's brother is acting up again."

  "Leave him alone, let's go."

  Lu Li also wanted to hold Lu Ling's hand, but Lu Ling rudely pushed his hand away and walked ahead first.

  Lu Li hummed and followed up, muttering: "I don't care anyway."

  Shang Ming Jie carefully held hands with Zhou Tong and Lu Rui, protecting the three sisters in the middle. Lin Yu Bin also tightly held hands with Shang Dan Lan and Shang Dan Ju, and outside of them were Shang Ming Jie and others protecting them, so they wouldn't be squeezed.

  A group of people walked quietly and peacefully for half a street, with fewer and fewer people around, they could walk side by side even with their hands relaxed. Up ahead was the flower shed in front of their house, Lin Yubin looked up and saw the sign of Yi Pin Lou, she couldn't help but smile.

  Shang Mingjie also smiled, turning his head to talk to Lin Yubin, when someone suddenly came from the side and violently bumped into him. He lost his balance and was about to fall forward in front of Lin Yubin.

  Lin Yuhong hastily reached out to support him, but unexpectedly the originally spacious street seemed to suddenly surge with a crowd of people. Lin Yuhong only felt a large group of people rushing towards her, and as she supported Shang Mingjie on one side while lifting her head to look around, her head was pressed down by a large palm. When she struggled free and lifted her head again, her bodyguard Jiang Nan was smiling at her, "Young mistress, are you alright?"

  Lin Yuhbin furrowed his brow and looked around, seeing a group of people walking away in the distance. He shook his head, "Nothing, just why did you press my head down earlier?"

  Jiang Nan apologized: "I originally wanted to hold onto you, but my hand slipped."

  Lin Yuhbin didn't believe it at all, but this was outside, she couldn't ask deeply.

  She looked at Shang Ming Jie and saw his pale face, then asked: "What's wrong with you?"

  Shang Mingjie looked at Lin Yuhong with concern, glanced around and shook his head: "Nothing's wrong, cousin, are you okay?"

  "What can I do?" Lin Yubin looked at him like an idiot. "You're the one who got hit."

  Shang Mingjie let out a loud laugh and said, "Yes, as long as my cousin is fine, that's all that matters."

  Zhou Tong furrowed his brow and looked at him, "Ming Jie, I think that person just now was intentional, and the group of people who walked over earlier were also very strange. Why did they walk straight towards us, and then turn back when they reached our side?"

  "Yes, yes, I also think that group of people is strange," Lu Rui looked around and said: "Could they be human traffickers? I've heard that every year during the Lantern Festival, there are people who go missing. Let's hurry back, what if we get caught by the flower thieves?"

  Shang Danju looked at him silently, "How old are you now? You're still young and not blind, why would you get caught?"

  "He won't take a shot at me, but he'll definitely take one at you," Lu Rui said with a smile, looking at her: "A beauty like you, if the Flower Kid had the chance, he wouldn't let it go."

  Shang Dan's face turned red with embarrassment as she stared at him and said: "What nonsense are you spouting?"

  "Alright, alright, let's hurry back," Zhou Tong felt a chill in his heart for some reason and had a premonition that it was unsafe outside, so he reached out to pull Shang Danlan along, saying "Let's go quickly."

  Shang Danlan's face turned bright red as she tried to break free from his grasp, but Shang Mingjie, who had been protecting her from Zhou Tong all along, suddenly became oblivious and silently pulled Lin Yubin to follow closely behind.

  "Fourth sister, let's hurry back." Shang Ming Jie walked while turning his head to call out to Shang Dan Ju, "Grandmother will be worried about us."

  Shang Danlan glanced at his pale face and was moved in her heart, so she let Zhou Tong pull her forward.

  Something must have happened, otherwise why would my second brother be like this?

  Shang Danju's sensitivity was no weaker than Shang Danlan's, she was a concubine-born daughter, from a young age she had learned to read faces, so she didn't have the mood to get angry with Lu Rui and hurriedly followed up.

  Lu Rui rubbed his nose and followed suit.

  Jiang Nan closely followed Lin Yuhong's side, appearing relaxed but vigilant as he looked around.

  Shang Mingjie's face didn't look much better until he returned to the flower shed, Lin Yubin ran in and greeted Lin Qingyu, then he couldn't help but glance at Jiang Nan who was standing guard beside him.

  What just happened was unseen by others, but he saw it clearly.

  As he was about to fall, he was sideways to Lin Yuhong, and when he was about to hit the ground, a group of people seemed to rush over quickly. The corner of his eye caught a glimpse of a sharp blade flashing with light, which was clearly aimed at Lin's younger sister.

  At that time, his whole body's blood seemed to have frozen, almost subconsciously stretching out his hand to block Lin Yubin's abdomen. Who knew someone's speed was faster than him? The opponent's knife had not yet been handed over when it was blocked by a hand, and then the blade turned and stabbed into the opponent's belly. Almost instantly, he was pulled away.

  It only took a few moments, and when he looked up again, he could only see that he was being surrounded by two people leaving, and there seemed to be a group of people in front of him. Jiang Nan, the one who had stretched out his hand to block the knife, stood beside Lin Yuhong, as if appearing out of thin air.

  Zhou Tong also felt that he had appeared out of thin air, and when he mentioned it to his father, his father's face was calm and collected, "The Lin family is a noble family, they must have hidden guards on their hands, this is normal."

  "What a dark guard, it's clearly a charioteer!"

  Zhou sighed and looked at his foolish son without saying a word.

  Mrs. Zhou asked, "You said he appeared out of thin air, was there anything unusual when he appeared?"

  "Anything unusual?" Zhou Tong thought for a moment and said: "Yes, I'm feeling anxious, like something's going to happen. Does that count as an omen?"

  Zhou Zhi Shi twitched the corner of his mouth and said, "Your grandmother asked you if there were any other people around when he appeared, or if there were any unusual phenomena. She wasn't asking about your inner feelings."

  Shang Mingjie was bumped into by someone, and several people came walking towards him. However, when they reached his side, they stopped for a moment, turned around, and walked away. Zhou Tong furrowed his brow in thought and said, "That's strange, it didn't seem like he turned around to leave on his own, but rather that some other people appeared out of nowhere and turned around with them. It's weird, they didn't say a word or interact with each other, so why did they turn around and leave?"

  And we just stand there, is it necessary to bump heads in front of our noses?

  Madam Zhou looked at Prefect Zhou, who sighed and said: "I don't know who else will be implicated this time. The Lin family only has these two women left, who is so ruthless as to want them dead?"

  "It's precisely because there were only the two of them, a maiden and her aunt, that those evil spirits dared to emerge. You see, when Lin Jiang was around, how many people dared to assassinate him?" Old Lady Zhou sneered coldly, "It's just a pity they underestimated the abilities of Young Mistress Lin."

  Zhou Tong glared at them, "Dad, grandma, what are you talking about? When did someone assassinate them?"

  Old Lady Zhou asked, "Just now you were holding the second young lady of the Shang family's hand when you came back, how can you be so reckless? The eight characters of your marriage have not even been revealed yet."

  Zhou Tong suddenly started coughing violently, his face bright red as he shouted: "Who, who held her hand and came back? I was just worried something would happen, that's why I pulled her. Grandma, don't talk nonsense to divert the conversation."