She Holds the World After Being Reborn
Chapter 181: Causing Big Trouble, Angering the Villagers

Chapter 181: Chapter 181: Causing Big Trouble, Angering the Villagers

When Yan Wanqing arrived, she saw only Li Chengyuan bound hand and foot, a cloth stuffed into her mouth, crying with tears and snot all over her face.

Yesterday’s unseen villagers seemed to have all come out today.

Her own soldiers surrounded them, both sides were in a standoff, and the atmosphere was very tense.

"What happened?" Yan Wanqing walked over and asked in a deep voice.

Chang Qianhu’s face was livid, his originally handsome features now filled with anger, "These people said they want to bind Princess Yaochi to offer her as a sacrifice to the Mountain God."

"Everything was still fine yesterday, how could this occur so suddenly," Yan Wanqing felt somewhat bewildered, and with a frown, she asked, "Where is the village chief? Is Village Chief Bai here?"

Village Chief Bai stepped out from the rear of the crowd, his expression no longer amiable as it had been the previous night, his eyes also brimming with rage.

"There’s no negotiating this matter. This honored guest angered the Mountain God, only by offering her as a sacrifice can we appease the Mountain God’s wrath so that he won’t blame our villagers."

"Everyone, please calm down," said Yan Wanqing. "I still don’t understand the whole story."

Li Chengyuan, seeing Yan Wanqing still talking to the village chief, cried even harder with frustration, "Wu wu wu!"

What was there to talk about? She had just finished bathing, when these people burst into her room and took her captive.

These bandits!

Rabble!

This coward Yan Wanqing, speaking reason to these rabble when she commands so many soldiers in vain!

It was infuriating!

The more Li Chengyuan thought about it, the angrier she got, and she began to struggle fiercely.

She was somewhat skilled in martial arts, and her captors were mostly women, so it was inevitable that there was some commotion as they attempted to restrain her.

It wasn’t until she saw a villager reach out to pull Li Chengyuan’s hair that Yan Wanqing slightly frowned.

"Stop!" she shouted sharply.

No matter how unworthy Li Chengyuan was, she was after all a county princess personally conferred by the Emperor, she represented the honor of Dawei.

When Li Chengyuan saw that Yan Wanqing finally spoke up, she pushed hard against the villagers behind her, knocking them down, and then ran towards Yan Wanqing without looking back.

Only when standing next to Yan Wanqing did she breathe a sigh of relief.

Chang Qianhu quickly untied her ropes.

Li Chengyuan’s first action after pulling out the cloth from her mouth was to snatch the sword from Chang Qianhu’s waist. She fiercely drew the long sword and yelled at the villagers, "A den of thieves in this remote poor mountain, you wretches who have eaten the ’Courage of the Bear and Leopard’, dare to treat this county princess in such a manner!"

There were still fresh tears on her cheeks from fear, but now, with the long sword in her hand, her eyes hardened and with a swing of her arm, she directly stabbed one of the chasing female villagers in the chest. When she pulled out the sword, blood sprayed into the air, some of it splattering onto Li Chengyuan’s face.

"No—", it all happened too quickly, and no one expected Li Chengyuan to have the audacity to kill someone outright.

By the time Yan Wanqing shouted, it was already too late.

Village Chief Bai held the villager tightly in his arms, "Bao Juan!"

The woman called Bao Juan was spitting out blood incessantly, her gaze fixed on Li Chengyuan, pointing a finger at her.

With a pale face, Li Chengyuan clenched the long sword in her hand, ready to advance again.

Yan Wanqing shouted sternly, "Chang Qianhu, disarm her!"

Because the incident had occurred so suddenly, Constable Chang hadn’t had the chance to react, and now he was hastily reaching for Li Chengyuan’s sword in her hand.

Li Chengyuan, however, was waving the sword with red eyes, not allowing anyone to approach.

"As the Princess of this county, I now command that all villagers here be killed!"

She looked around at the soldiers, her voice shrill as she spoke.

Yan Wanqing’s face was already clouded with anger as she pursed her lips and her cold gaze fell upon Li Chengyuan, "Put down the sword," she said for the second time.

Li Chengyuan gripped the sword tightly, refusing to let go.

Only with the sword in hand did she feel secure.

Yan Wanqing swiftly moved her hand, and Li Chengyuan was compelled to stagger toward her, followed by a sharp pain in her wrist as her sword was snatched away by Yan Wanqing and thrown to Constable Chang.

Without her sword, Li Chengyuan’s emotions descended into breakdown; her eyes reddened as she looked at Yan Wanqing, "You’re in league with them, aren’t you? You’d be glad to see me dead, right? But if I die, the Emperor and the Seventh Prince won’t let you off, and if I die, someone will blow up your Yan Family with Flaming Stone, forcing your sisters and your mother to join you below!"

"Do you even realize what you’re saying?" Li Chengyuan’s words had touched Yan Wanqing’s sore spot.

Her gaze at Li Chengyuan had already turned malevolent.

Seeing her in such a deluded, foolish, and mad state, Yan Wanqing was uncertain how much truth was in her words, but Li Chengyuan must have heard something to utter such a statement.

It must be either the Emperor or the Seventh Prince.

Yan Wanqing suppressed the fury in her heart.

At that moment, the Bai Village Chief suddenly let out a wail; his cherished Bao Juan had been stabbed in the chest, beyond saving, and now she was gone.

The anger of the villagers had reached its peak; holding their farming tools, they were steadily advancing toward Li Chengyuan.

The Bai Village Chief’s eyes were bloodshot as he stared intently at Yan Wanqing and said.

"Hand her over and you’re free to leave. Otherwise, you all must stay and become offerings to the Mountain God!"

That was clearly a threat.

Fearing that Yan Wanqing would indeed leave her behind, Li Chengyuan quickly hid behind her.

"I will say it one last time. Explain the ins and outs of this matter clearly. Otherwise, I’m not vegetarian either. She is the Princess Yaochi of Dawei, the fiancée of the Seventh Prince, with no ordinary status. You say she must stay, but how shall I explain to the Emperor, to the Seventh Prince?"

The Bai Village Chief clenched his fists, and the brawny villagers behind him were beginning to lose their patience.

"This has been explained multiple times before you arrived, but none of you took it seriously. I’ll say it one last time," the Bai Village Chief, as someone fit to be a village chief, managed to repress his own anger, casting a gloomy gaze on Yan Wanqing before continuing, "Today, this woman, despite being warned, forced her way into our Fairy Pond to bathe, contaminating the fairy water we use to worship the Mountain God—"

"Superstitious nonsense! A natural pool, and you claim it as your Fairy Pond, even aiming to take my life as a sacrifice—don’t even think about it!" Li Chengyuan shouted fiercely at the Bai Village Chief from behind Yan Wanqing.

As the villagers once again seemed on the verge of an upheaval, Yan Wanqing spoke coldly, "Li Chengyuan, if you interrupt once more, I’ll wash my hands of today’s affair."

Li Chengyuan instantly fell silent.

The Bai Village Chief then continued, "Originally, a three-day fast in the Mountain God Cave would have sufficed, but now she has killed my Bao Juan. I want her blood to pay for this blood debt! As for being distinguished guests from the Capital City, I don’t know any of that. All I know is that Bao Juan is dead! Death for death, it is only fair. Commander, hand over that woman, or no one will leave today."

Yan Wanqing had been observing the situation all around. There were numerous men in their prime, so why was this village chief so confident in overmatching them?

It wasn’t until she noticed Constable Chang and the other officers beginning to turn pale that she realized where the village chief’s confidence came from.

"You all drank the Mountain God’s fairy water yesterday, and without the specific antidote, you are going to suffer, not to mention going back to fight on the front lines, even continuing your family line will be a problem," the Bai Village Chief said ominously, "A wise man submits to circumstance. Hand over that unreasonable woman quickly!"