The old woman raised her head and cried bitterly towards Bai Qingyan: "The rich and powerful can find ways to buy their children's lives, but what about us poor folk? Our children have lives too! How can we send them to the emperor for alchemy? Please, Princess of Zhen, save my two grandsons! I'll do anything you ask! I'll be a cow or a horse... or even give up my life! I'm begging you! I'm begging you!"
The old woman kept kowtowing.
The young woman saw the old woman continuously kowtowing to Bai Qingyan and knelt down to kowtow as well, staining the pebbles on the riverbank with red.
"Please, please!" Bai Qingyan hurried to pull up the young woman and old woman.
Lin Kangle, with reddened eyes, quickly stepped forward to support them.
Liu Hong hurriedly explained to the old woman: "You two, His Majesty summons the children to ascend the Nine-Tier Pagoda seeking the Immortal Pill, not... to use the children for alchemy! How can you suspect His Majesty like this?!"
