184|Blocking the Mountain Road Prince Defeats Robbery

He urged Feng Xin to stay here to guard the king and queen, and left the small house himself. As he walked along, he turned back, his heart beating extremely hard. After walking out for a long time and making sure that Feng Xin really didn’t follow him, he felt relieved.

Fixing his mind, walking and stopping for more than ten miles, Xie Ren finally picked a place he felt was suitable – a mountain road in the middle of nowhere.

Looking around and seeing no one, Xie Ren covered her face with white silk, wrapped her face tightly, jumped up a tree, hid her figure, and held her breath. The next step was to wait for the passersby to pass by.

Yes, his “solution” is called “robbing the rich to give to the poor”.

In the past, Xie Ren had only heard of such stories in storytelling and drama books, but he had never done it himself, nor had he ever thought of doing it. Because, originally, he thought: no matter how embellished, no matter how legitimate the purpose, a robbery is a robbery, and stealing is stealing. Otherwise, with Xie Ren’s skill, not to mention flying over the walls to steal something, killing all the guards and emptying a silver storehouse would not be a problem.

But at this point, there is really no other way. If you have to say, “robbing” is slightly better than “stealing”, probably because the former is still “honorable”. After struggling for a long time, Xie Ren still slapped his original self, intending to rob other people’s wealth and help his own poverty.

It’s the fastest way to go!

Xie Ren squatted in the tree, the moon dark and windy, the four fields are silent and empty, but he is the heart thumping wildly.

Even when hunting the most vicious demonic beasts, he had never been this nervous, and his hands were trembling slightly as he pulled out a cold, hard bun from his sleeve.

If you can still be picky about what you eat, it only means that you’re not really hungry, and after Xie Ren understood this matter, she suddenly became accustomed to the taste of steamed buns.

Winter is approaching, the night is extremely cold, Xie Ren nibbled on a cold steamed bun while puffing out a mouthful of white air. Because she did not want to be seen, so Xie Ren did not even consider the crowded place, specially picked the remote place, enough to wait for two hours, the end of the mountain road before slowly walking over a pedestrian.

Xie Ren’s spirit lifted, stuffing down that steamed bun in two or three bites, staring at the slowly approaching pedestrian, realizing that, it was an old man.

Such an old man, although still well-dressed, should be very rich, but, of course, not in the scope of Xie Ren’s consideration. I don’t know whether he was disappointed, or relieved, in short, decisively ignored it, let him pass, and continued to wait for the next person.

An hour later, Xie Ren squatted until his feet were numb and the lower half of his body was almost stiff, before he waited for the second person. He saw that the person was also walking very slowly, and thought to himself, “Could it be another old man?”

When the man slowly approached, he realized that it wasn’t an old man, it was a youth.

The youth had a simple appearance and a big smile, and the reason he walked very slowly was that he was carrying a heavy bag of rice. Xie Ren’s palms were sweating, and he said to himself in his mind, “…… Do it?”

After a moment’s hesitation, he gave up.

The reason for giving up was that the young man was dressed in rags, and the straw shoes on his feet were worn out, exposing his toes, so it was obvious that his family was poor. He must be so happy because he finally had a bag of rice to eat, maybe his family had been starving for many days, maybe this bag of rice was the result of him selling his family’s only cow in exchange. Wouldn’t it be desperate if he was robbed?

Xie Ren thought a whole lot on his own, and only later thought that maybe he could just need half of the rice, but by this time that youth had long since walked out a long way away. Thus, Xie Ren decisively stopped thinking about it and continued to wait for the next one.

In this way, he squatted on this tree and waited for several hours, from darkness to dawn. During this period, about a dozen pedestrians passed by on this mountain road, and every time Xie Ren wanted to make a move, he let them go because of various reasons that were not suitable to do so. Several times he was thinking, Forget it! It’s better to go back! There simply wasn’t any robber who robbed like him, it would be a ghost if he could make a gain. However, when he thought of going back, there would be no more medicine and no more food, so he had to keep waiting.

At last, after most of the day, the last passerby came farther up the trail.

It was a middle-aged man, richly dressed, either rich or expensive, with a vicious and oily appearance, which made it repulsive to see, and did not look like a good person at a glance.

However, as the saying goes, you can’t judge a book by its cover, Xie Ren couldn’t help but think again, “What if this man is just a fierce-looking man, but is actually a good person? Even if he has money, does he deserve to be robbed?”

Struggling to overcome that hurdle in his heart, a sudden gurgling sound in his abdomen woke him up, Xie Ren sighed in his heart and said, “That’s just it, couldn’t care less. It’s just you!”

Having made up his mind, he leapt down from the tree and said, “Stop!”

A masked man came out halfway, the man was startled and said vigilantly, “Who are you? What do you want to do hiding here with a sneaky masked face?!”

Xie Ren hardened his head and said, “…… put …… put ……” Always a barrier in his mind, he got stuck several times before he shouted out the words – “Hand over the money on you!”

The man’s mouth opened wide and he jumped three feet in the air, saying, “Somebody! Help! Robbers!” After shouting, he pulled out his legs and ran. Than he escaped, Xie Ren is actually more worried about him shouting and inviting others, although in fact, this is the wild mountains is unlikely to invoke, even if he invites him to escape immediately, but after all, the heart of a thief is weak, immediately said: “Stop! Stop yelling!”

The man will not listen, fleeing into the woods, “ouch” a miserable scream. Xie Ren was worried that there were fierce beasts in the woods that attacked the man, and said, “Wait! Beware! ……” Who knows, chased into a look, immediately froze, face steeply turned white!

In the woods, there were actually a few people already standing, looking at him over here in unison. Xie Ren fixed his eyes again and realized that it was not right, these were not people at all. Because the middle-aged man seems to have not seen them at all, still panicked, and, among them, there are several Xie Ren are very familiar.

Of course it looked familiar. These were several of the ones he had seen before in the Immortal Capital, some from the Upper Heavenly Court and some from the Lower Heavenly Court. All of them were Magi!

The man screamed because he had fallen, and grasping a large string of amulets in his hand, he chattered, “Da Xian Da Xian! Quickly come and save me! Save me!” And the “Great Immortals” he cried out for had really come, just as he had hoped.

At this moment, several pairs of Magus’ eyes were staring at Xie Ren, staring at him so hard that he couldn’t move. Seeing that the masked weirdo who had robbed him stay where he was, the man hurriedly climbed up and ran away in a puff of smoke. Xie Ren also couldn’t take a step to chase after him at all, he was already stiff, in a cold sweat, and filled with fear.

Yes, fear.

He only hoped that this white silk wrapped his face tightly enough that these few minor magi who had dealt with him in the past wouldn’t be able to recognize him. However, it was not to his liking, as one of the magi sized him up while saying in amazement, “Isn’t …… this …… His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?”

“……”

The other Magus was even more shocked, ”Ah, it’s really true! Why is His Highness the Crown Prince here? Why is he still dressed like this?”

Xie Ren’s heart sank lower and lower, almost to the heart of the earth.

“Did that man just yell ‘Help,’ ‘Robbery,’ ‘Robbers’? There are bandits chasing him? The robbers are …… His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?!”

“Oh my god! Your Royal Highness …… would actually do such a thing?!”

Hearing these sentences, Xie Ren almost fainted on the spot. I don’t know how long it took before he mumbled, “I ……”

He wanted to say something, but it was hard to say and stuck in his throat. And the faces of the several Divine Magi were all very subtle. After a long time, one of the Magi patted his shoulder and said, “It’s fine, it’s fine, Your Highness, we understand.”

Xie Ren was patted by him a few times, not heavy at all, but nearly unsteady, and added: “I ……”

That Magus laughed a few times and said, “You’re also too uncomfortable to be like this, understand. Don’t worry, we won’t say anything to anyone else.”

Xie Ren was having trouble saying exactly this, and after the other party said it first, he was at a complete loss as to what else to say, and only after a long time did he murmur, “…… Okay, thanks. Then, I …… I’ll go back. Go back.”

He didn’t know exactly how he had left, but in any case, when he came to his senses, he was already standing on an empty mountain road again, having been awakened by the cold winter night wind.

It was only then that Xie Ren finally reacted to what a terrible thing had just happened.

He, Xie Ren, Prince of Xianle – the robber?

Why did it turn out this way?

At this moment, Xie Ren was incomparably regretful, the person he was before, must have been crazy to think of roadblocking and robbing, getting it to the point where it was now so out of hand. Why would it be so unfortunate that nothing was accomplished, but just happened to be bumped into?

Xie Ren had never encountered this kind of thing in his past life and had no idea what to do, his entire body was burning from head to toe, his mind was chaotic and he buried his face into his hands. If he could turn back time, he would even be willing to use several years of his lifespan and cultivation in exchange. Being chagrined, out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly swept a blurry white silhouette in front of him, and was instantly startled, jerking his head up, saying, “Who?!”

When he raised his head, the silhouette instantly disappeared, while Xie Ren broke out in another cold sweat.

Although he didn’t see the man’s face, he always felt that it looked like he was wearing a mask!

However, after sweeping around and seeing no sign of anyone, Xie Ren couldn’t help but suspect that the silhouette he saw just now was just an illusion created by his own panicked mind. Whether it was or not, he didn’t dare to stay here any longer and hurriedly descended the mountain.

When he went back, Feng Xin had been waiting for him for most of the day, and as soon as he saw him, he said, “Where have you been, Your Highness? What exactly did you come up with?”

How would Xie Ren dare to say anything to him. He couldn’t say anything to anyone, and even less to Feng Xin. Xie Ren simply couldn’t imagine what Feng Xin, who had always believed in his unparalleled virtue, would think when he realized that his solution was to go robbing, and this was something that he only wished to bury in his heart and rot in his stomach forever. So, Xie Ren vaguely said, “No.”

Feng Xin was stunned and said, “Huh? Then what were you doing out for so long?”

Xie Ren’s mind went into a bit of a trance and said, “Don’t ask. I didn’t do anything.”

Feng Xin was very strange, but no matter how he asked Xie Ren, he didn’t say anything, and as a retainer, he couldn’t ask more questions, so he could only whisper, “Then we should still go out to sell our art tomorrow?”

Xie Ren, however, said, “I’m not going out.”

He was now completely confused, and his mind was filled with incredible worries: what if he happened to meet that middle-aged man? What if he was already wanted in the whole city? Feng Xin also felt that he did not look right and said: ”You are tired, right? This is good, Your Highness, don’t go out, I’ll just go out alone. You just concentrate on your cultivation.”

However, he didn’t know that Xie Ren simply had no desire to even cultivate anymore.

Originally, Xie Ren was bent on cultivating because that was the only way he would have a chance to return to the Upper Heavenly Court again, but now, he had also developed a fear of the matter of returning to the Upper Heavenly Court.

Although those few minor magi said that they wouldn’t say anything, but would they really not say anything? Would the current Upper Heavenly Court have already spread the word about today’s incident?

Just the thought of such a possibility made Xie Ren practically unable to breathe. There was absolutely no way he could endure being branded with such a stigma, being poked and prodded by the entire Upper and Lower Heavens, and even the entire earth!

Sleepy and tired, Xie Ren drowsy sleep. This sleep is not stable, tossing and turning, do not know what nightmares, and suddenly woke up, and look out the window, the sky is already dark.

Feng Xin is not there, really a person went out to sell art, until now has not come back, next door to the house came from the master of the country and the queen of the low coughing and talking. Xie Ren lying on the floor, as soon as he woke up, and began to can not help but imagine, if this matter really spread, by the parents know what will happen, they will be how unbelievable. The lord of the country would probably be so furious that he would go into a rage, coughing up blood while scolding him for being a disgrace to Immortal Bliss, while the queen would definitely not scold him, but she would definitely be heartbroken because the child she loved the most had dishonored them.

Thinking of this, Xie Ren began to breathe hard again, he must find a place to be alone, so from the straw mat a wheel climbed up, rushed out, facing the biting cold wind ran aimlessly for more than ten miles.

He didn’t dare to stop wherever there were people, because he always felt that people were staring at him, scrutinizing how bad he was, and it wasn’t until he ran to a graveyard, where there wasn’t a single person left, that he finally stopped.

This night was even colder than the night before, and when he arrived, Xie Ren realized that his cheeks and hands were freezing and his body was shivering slightly. It wasn’t just the cold, there was probably fear as well. Xie Ren couldn’t help but hug his arms and exhaled a few mouthfuls of hot air, his eyes flicked around and found two jars of wine offered in front of a tombstone.

It seems that the owner of this tombstone was a person who loved wine in his life, so after his death, the bystanders also brought wine to him when they visited his grave. Xie Ren squatted down, he never drank wine, but heard people say, wine warms the body, but also can forget things, pause for a moment, suddenly picked up the wine altar, open the cork is a slam dunk.

This wine is not a good wine, cheap big altar, taste choking strong, Xie Ren filled a few big mouth, choking a fierce burst of coughing, but it seems that it does warm up a little. So, Xie Ren wiped his cheeks, simply sat down on the ground, picked up the altar, gulped and continued to pour.

In a trance, it seems to see a small ghostly flame flying out of nowhere, circling around him, seemingly in a hurry. Xie Ren just focused on his own drinking, as if he didn’t see it. The ghost fire seemed to desperately want to get close to him, but because it was a fire of nothingness, every time it met him, it could only pass through alive, never able to touch him.

As soon as the altar went down, Xie Ren had long been dizzy, drunkenly, watching it fly around, really pitiful and really funny, and couldn’t help but snort out a laugh, propping her elbow on the rim of the wine altar and saying, “What are you doing?”

The ghostly fire froze in mid-air all of a sudden.