CROWN PRINCE'S CONCUBINE

LuoXiang’s eyes didn’t move when from the house where BaiYing entered earlier several guards escorted someone in a robe that covered his head, who else could it be if not BaiYing, LuoXiang who thought he was stupid to obey the boy stood up from his crouch.

“Heh stupid kid, quickly follow them”

Without thinking twice LuoXiang and BeiYau as well as his men who were already wearing ordinary civilian clothes followed the carriage that brought the children from Moon village in a group, that day the city soldiers brought quite a number of children in the carriage, around four to five people including BaiYing in between.

The cavalry of MaYang city warriors moved quickly towards the small road out of the city, heading straight for the WuFang valley.

LuoXiang’s and others’ horses followed from a distance, couldn’t get too close because the city’s troop of soldiers would surely notice that someone was following them, finally, the troop of soldiers entered a rocky area that was quite winding covered with tall rocks on either side of the road which almost can’t be seen where their direction is because every bend would make the group invisible, LuoXiang was getting more and more anxious, he had to speed up his horse or they would lose the group before their eyes.

“Hiaaa! Hiaaa!” he hastened the horse’s run, but when he arrived behind the rock, the group that should be in front of them was nowhere to be seen, they seemed to have disappeared, the group with many soldiers and carriages that took the children including BaiYing in it.

“Where are they?” LuoXiang’s eyes went wide, did they just lose track? This is ridiculous! LuoXiang exclaimed in disbelief at what had just happened.

“Search all over the place!” LuoXiang exclaimed BeiYau and his men nodded,

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“Your Majesty!”

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The carriage carrying youths including BaiYing who was wearing a shabby and dirty robe to cover his face stopped, BaiYing was curious, since the group was moving quite fast, it didn’t stop for quite a long time, and the curtains closed tightly, almost couldn’t see where they were going, the size of the carriage was quite small, compared to the carriage he used to use with the Crown Prince, this carriage was half its size, and it also had to be packed with many young people, boys and girls from the village, about five people including himself, BaiYing lowered his hoody, whispered to a young man sitting beside him, for a moment the young man who looked very thin and unkempt and shabby looked at BaiYing with his big eyes, not expecting that there was someone whose face was so different from him and the other youths in the carriage, that, so obviously from BaiYing’s appearances everyone who saw it would instantly know that he is not an ordinary country boy because of his shining face.

“Where are we going to take us?” he asked.

The young man shook his head.

“I don’t know, but they say their headquarters is here, maybe we arrived.”

Sure enough, before the boy finished talking there was a commotion from outside the carriage and the people quickly opened the carriage door from outside, immediately BaiYing put his hoody back on.

“Let’s get out! Get out!” rudely one of the men dressed as soldiers pulled the young men out of the carriage, including trying to grab BaiYing’s hand too, even though the boy didn’t let anyone else pull him, remember what the Crown Prince said

“Just watch out if anyone touches you there, I’ll cut off their hands.”

Baiying regularly comes down with other youth.

“Hurry down!”

BaiYing’s eyes widened, it was like being in a very large cave, with many buildings resembling fortifications, from where he stood there were also several prison-like buildings with several youths sitting limply in them, this was like a prison camp, they were in the big cave, BaiYing didn’t remember there was a very big cave near them last night took refuge if there was they would have entered it, the location was definitely hidden, no wonder BeiYau and his men couldn’t find it, bad, hopefully, the Crown Prince can follow them.

Hands with long and sharp weapons from the city soldiers pushed the youths towards one of the buildings, the detention room in which there were still several young people who were weak and asleep in the corner of the room, all the youths who disappeared because they were taken by the soldiers for not pay the fine, they are still young, as soon as they turn eighteen they are already detained there, but, what are those people doing holding so many youths in this place? Aren’t those people afraid of punishment from the palace? This is a blatantly ridiculous crime.

One of the guards pushed BaiYing’s back who was still daydreaming with his stick to enter the prison, BaiYing was almost knocked down, luckily someone in front of him held him.

“Ah, be careful, don’t pushed..” BaiYing protested, it was his habit, his words made the guards pushing him dissatisfied, he was about to hit BaiYing with his stick but the big boy who was holding him from falling was blocking him by holding the stick with his hand.

“Don’t be so rude!” exclaimed the young man, BaiYing just saw him, he must be one of the kids who had been there for a long time because he was not in the same carriage with him, but the young man’s sharp gaze only made the guard even angrier, he pushed the young man’s body onto the cold floor and kicked him together with his partner repeatedly.

“God damn it! How dare you look at me like that!”

All the youths who were in detention refrained from screaming, BaiYing didn’t expect this to happen, he pushed one of the bodyguards who kicked the young man and dropped his body protecting him.

“Stop it! What are you doing!” one of the bodyguards was about to hit him with their sticks, but BaiYing turned his head so fast that his hood fell completely, revealing his face which was now staring at the guards who had suddenly stopped.

“Hoo!” the voices of the prisoners, as well as the guards who didn’t expect to see BaiYing’s face there, the face of a young, clean, white, with a pair of clear big round eyes, not the usual children from Moon Village.

One of the guards who was probably his head pushed forward saw BaiYing and the young man who had fallen after being beaten by his men.

“Well well, what are you guys doing to our guests? Look at this, there are gems among the river stones, you can’t touch them, this child, it will definitely be very expensive.” The big man with a scarred face squatted down in front of BaiYing and was about to touch his face, but the fallen youth got up with a thud quickly and swatted away the man’s hand.

“Don’t touch him! With those filthy hands of yours.”

His sharp eyes stared fiercely at the head of the guards, although the wounds from the punches and kicks of the other guards’ feet still hurt so much that he had difficulty getting up, he spread his arms in front of BaiYing, as if trying to protect him.

“You uncivilized people, one day I will kill you with my own hands” the young man’s voice, BaiYing held his breath, this young man, even though his body is weak but he is still trying so hard to be a hero by protecting him, this is very sweet, but the head of the guard was not happy with the young man’s gaze, he raised his hand slapping the young man’s cheek hard.

“Prakk!!”

So hard that the edges of the youth’s lips were bleeding, BaiYing opened his eyes wide, all these acts of rudeness, really happened before his eyes when he didn’t realize it, he refrained from burning the man, he could very easily have done it, but BaiYing also unable to stay still, with his index finger he threw his white fire stealthily towards the outside of the building where there was a pile of dry hay for horse food right in front of them, instantly the haystack burst into flames.

“Fire!” the screams of the guards made the guard’s head turn, frowning, how could there be a fire there? With no choice, the head guard stood up and headed towards the exit.

“Keep them tight, don’t give them food!” cried the head guard before exiting the detention room.

BaiYing looked at the youth in front of him, helping him up.

“Are you okay? They are uncivilized people, they usually beat people like this, just watch out later” he grumbled, the young man smiled, he was a tall, big boy with a thick body due to hard muscles, it seems because of hard work in farming or chopping wood, like other children, like it or not he also had to be a prisoner there because he could not pay the fine, that’s what happened.

The young man saw BaiYing’s face, it made BaiYing stutter, is there something on his face?

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