They had barely reached Mudan Bridge when the three suddenly stopped.
The old man whispered by the carriage window, "Second Master, we've arrived. They are not under the bridge; they are on the bridge."
Sitting in the carriage, Liu Mingxian calmly lifted the curtain and peered out, only to see two figures in the middle of the bridge, each wearing a mask and coldly watching them at the bridgehead.
One wore the face of an ox, the other a tiger.
The Peony Stone Arch Bridge was about thirty zhang long, comprising twenty-four arches, allowing two carriages to pass side by side.
The old man by the carriage gave Xu Can and his brother a look, and the next moment, Xu Can and Xu Chu leaped onto the stone parapets on either side of the arch, stepping closer towards the middle of the bridge.
