The guards gave him a cursory examination. It seemed this Master Gu had fainted from hunger. As for why he was here, and how he came to possess something belonging to Shen Ningning's mother, they would only find out after he woke up.
Shen Ningning asked Mo Lingwei to help her bring the man back to the Capital City.
By the time they returned to the village, it was almost midnight.
Village Chief Wang couldn't sleep a wink. The entire village had heard that the Crown Prince and the Princess had gone to find the monster, so everyone gathered at the chief's house, anxious to see what would happen.
Everyone was filled with dread, terrified that the monster had harmed the Crown Prince and the Princess. If the royal pair were to die here, it would be a greater disaster for Pingyuan Village than any plague of locusts.
To their utter astonishment, the two returned unharmed.
