Forgotten Legend of the Bloodied Flower

There were many people who wanted Nan Hua to die.

And now that there were assassins coming, it was estimated that this matter hadn't changed at all even now.

Though, there were possibilities that they came here for Long Qian Xing.

Either way, the two of them had been targeted by assassins countless times in the past that it was common for the servants to see this scene. It was only because Ran hadn't followed Nan Hua close enough that she was not used to this scene.

The others, even Xiao Yun, was already used to it.

"Um." Ran could only nod her head.

After seeing Ran's situation, the others didn't pay attention and quickly helped to clean up the mess.

Nan Hua waited for food at the side, watching Long Ai Ning's action. She felt that Long Ai Ning's skills had gotten even better lately. Moreover, she could see the joy in Long Ai Ning's eyes when she was handling the ingredients.

After all, she had more options to pick after they came back to the Long Family Residence.

Nan Hua looked in Long Ai Ning's direction for a moment before turning her head to look at Long Qian Xing who had come back.

"Is it done?"

"Yep." Long Qian Xing nodded with a smile. "They're some people from Fan Yi Kingdom who are lurking around."

Hearing this, Nan Hua nodded.

Fan Yi Kingdom had only integrated into Fei Yang Kingdom for a few months and there were still some people who were dissatisfied with this matter. Even if they didn't make big trouble, they would make some small moves.

It was just…

Who in their right mind would attack a general?

Even if Nan Hua was present and there was no record of her fighting under her own name, they should have known that Long Qian Xing was not that easy to deal with.

"Local family?" Nan Hua asked.

"Yes." Long Qian Xing nodded. "They have their own private army and has been developing in Fan Yi Kingdom for a while. Now that Fei Yang Kingdom is in power, the official wanted to take back some of their business and land."

Business and land could be said to be extremely important. Many people worked hard for their entire life just so that they could live better and these businesses and lands were the result of their hard work.

They also wanted to live these businesses and lands for their descendants.

But when the new official came to office, he took back these businesses and land because of various rules.

How could the local forces not panic?

Some of them could accept it because they didn't lose much and could still keep their lives. But some others have their lifeblood directly cut, which made them feel extremely uncomfortable.

There were some people who couldn't accept it and rebel.

The small scale rebellions were put down even before a day has passed but those with more people might become bigger if it was not dealt with quickly. There were even some of them who operated secretly and only appeared obedient on the surface but they had transferred their power somewhere else.

In any case, it was not that easy to deal with these people.

Not all of them could be killed directly.

Otherwise, there would be bad reputation for these officials. They could only make a move against the people who had broken the law and then punished them in accordance to the law.

In this way, they would stand in the higher moral grounds.

For these people, reputation was very important and everyone valued it very much. Because only if their reputation was high would there be people who were willing to follow them.

These local forces were the same.

"Why do they target you?" Nan Hua asked.

Even if the local families were targeted by the official, it would not change much with them attacking Long Qian Xing. In fact, it could be said that attacking Long Qian Xing would not help their situation.

What do they expect?

Making a general as their hostage so that the official could give up?

That was nonsense.

"Because they lost too much and turned to the dark…" Long Qian Xing thought about their words and shook his head. "They switched side to cooperate with the northern tribe people who are lurking in this area."

Nan Hua blinked her eyes and looked at Long Qian Xing solemnly. "Has the northern tribe blend with the people here?"

"Yes."

As much as they didn't like it, but the northern tribe and Fan Yi Kingdom had clashed against each other for a long time.

It was not that strange for them to plant their people into Fan Yi Kingdom over the years.

But there shouldn't be many of them who came from Fan Yi Kingdom. After all, the northern tribe still liked their lives on the north as a nomad.

They just send some people to blend into Fan Yi Kingdom.

It seemed that they understood the importance of intelligence well. There was no wonder that the northern tribe managed to loot several cities in the past few years and knew the defense well.

There were some people who tipped them off.

How they do it?

Long Qian Xing was not sure either.

This person was contacted by someone who was already within the territory and asked them to kill him and his wife. If they succeeded, they would be allowed to live in the northern tribe as guest of honor.

Or something like that.

After Long Qian Xing explained to Nan Hua, he added, "We're not the only target. It seems the northern tribe is trying to make use of this time to plant assassination in several locations."

Several locations?

Nan Hua nodded thoughtfully.

It was spring and the winter has just passed. Based on the condition that winter was the time for the northern tribe to attack… many people were a bit relaxed during this period of time.