On the way back, Mu Rongruo sat in the carriage with an angry face and said nothing.
Xiao Ai and Yan'er didn't know what happened, so their young lady ran out of Liuli Garden angrily.
In their impression, the young lady has never been so angry with His Highness the Crown Prince. They were quite curious about what His Highness the Crown Prince said to the young lady to make her so angry.
After holding it in for a long time, the straight-tempered Xiao Ai finally couldn't bear it anymore and asked first: "Girl, what did His Highness tell you? Why is the girl so angry?"
"Am I angry? Showing it so obviously?"
The two maids nodded in unison.
Only then did Mu Rongruo realize that she had lost her etiquette. In the past, her mother's teachings about happiness and anger were inexpressible, and she didn't listen at all.
Xiao Ai said: "The girl's mouth is so pouted that it almost reaches the sky!"
"You can't be both big and small!"
Yan'er glared at Xiao Ai and then looked at Mu Rongruo, "Did the young lady have a quarrel with His Highness the Crown Prince? Is it because the Prime Minister has always been close to the Second Highness and alienated him, and he was unhappy and took out his anger on you?"
Mu Rongruo let out a sigh of relief and replied: "I can't control the affairs in the court. He naturally understands this. If he had vented his anger, he wouldn't have waited until today."
"Then why?" Xiao Ai and Yan'er asked in unison.
Mu Rongruo thought that the two maids were not outsiders. They all knew what was on her mind and there was really no need to hide it, so she told them what Xiao Yunyuan said today.
As soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Ai screamed: "How could His Highness the Crown Prince have such dirty thoughts? If this thing is done, even if it is for acting, once word gets out, the reputation of the girl and the reputation of the prime minister's palace will be ruined. ”
"I don't think it's right either, that's why I lost such a temper!" Mu Rongruo became angry again.
Seeing that Mu Rongruo was still angry, Yan'er quickly advised, "Perhaps His Highness the Crown Prince wanted to marry the young lady too much, but he had no choice but to take this step. Now that he knows that the young lady is not willing, he will definitely not bring it up again in the future."
"Then... wasn't it very rude of me just now?"
Mu Rongruo remembered that he ran out without saying goodbye. After all, the other party was the prince of the dynasty, so it was indeed inappropriate for him to be so willful.
"His Royal Highness likes girls so much, why would he care about her?" Xiao Ai comforted.
"I saw that when the young lady left just now, His Highness the Crown Prince's face was full of nervousness. He must have missed the young lady in his heart. It will be fine if we just talk about it next time we meet." Yan'er also persuaded.
"Next time we meet? When will it be?"
Mu Rongruo murmured something to himself and then became speechless again.
The carriage drove to the corner of Longxing Street. The driver saw that the street was congested and was about to take a detour when suddenly a burst of yelling and curses reached Mu Rongruo's ears.
"Don't let that kid get away! It's the young master he killed!!!"
"Kill that boy! Revenge for the young master!!!"
"The master said, whoever takes that boy's head back will be rewarded heavily by the master!!!"
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Mu Rongruo was still in pain and didn't bother to pay attention to the noise outside, so he ordered the carriage to take a detour.
Sitting next to her, Xiao Ai, who was always curious, couldn't help but lift the car curtains and poke her little head out to look out.
"Strange? There are increasingly no rules in the Imperial City. The Shun'an government officials responsible for public security in the Imperial City do not arrest fugitives. Instead, a group of servants hold up swords and sticks, shouting and killing, causing so much disturbance that no business can be done in the entire street. !”
Xiao Ai's words caught Mu Rongruo's attention, and her eyes glanced in the direction Xiao Ai was looking.
She saw a young man covered in blood rushing towards her carriage, and behind him was a group of servant-looking people who were chasing him.
"Don't run away, boy!!! See if I don't cut off your head to avenge our young master!"
A servant who rushed at the front of the crowd almost grabbed the young man's collar. Fortunately, the young man dodged and feinted him. The servant instantly fell to the ground weightless, but the knife in his hand was firmly planted on the young man's back. A trail of blood fell.
"ah!!!"
Xiao Ai had never seen such a battle before and was immediately shocked.
She quickly retracted her neck and lowered the car curtain, and said to Yan'er in panic: "There is a murderer outside! Tell the car driver to leave quickly to avoid hurting our girl."
Yan'er also felt that Mu Rongruo's safety was the most important. She was about to ask the groom outside to turn around quickly when suddenly a bloody hand grabbed the carriage window, and then countless large knives slashed at the window.
"ah!!!"
This time, Lian Yan'er followed Xiao Ai and screamed in fright.
The two of them protected Mu Rongruo at the same time to prevent those swords from hurting their wife.
The young man outside the carriage window had some skills, and he climbed onto the roof of the carriage before the sword fell.
The chasing servants rushed over. Two of them grabbed the coachman and threw him to the side of the road. Then they rushed into the carriage to grab the boy's ankles that were on the roof of the car.
The other servants were slashing at the carriage with knives and sticks, as if they wanted to tear the carriage apart, and they were bound to catch the young man on the roof.
In the panic, several large knives had already been inserted into the carriage, and the boy on the roof was grabbed by the feet of a servant below.
With a sudden tug, the boy was immediately pulled off the roof of the car and rolled out of the car.
Long swords and short knives were placed on the boy's neck one after another, and one of the servants shouted: "Chop him into pieces and feed them to the dogs!"
More than a dozen sharp blades were struck from the air, and the young man was about to get blood splattered on the spot.
At this moment, Mu Rongruo opened the car curtain and shouted: "Stop!"
She got off the carriage.
"Miss!"
"girl!"
When the two maids saw their wife getting off the carriage, they quickly jumped out too.
"She turns out to be a pretty little lady! Why do you want your brothers to stop when you tell them to stop? Hahahaha..."
Even so, the leading servant still asked the people behind him to temporarily stop what they were doing.
The servant who gave orders had a beard and a burly figure. He looked more like a bandit than a servant.
At this moment, he was looking at Mu Rongruo with a playful expression, as if he wanted to tease the pretty little lady first, and then kill her.
Mu Rongruo hated the lewd look the bearded man gave her, so she didn't bother to talk to him anymore.
She glanced at Yan'er, who immediately understood.
"This is the young lady of the prime minister's palace. If you still don't put down your weapons, you can't afford to pay for the shock to my lady!"
When the servants heard Yan'er's words, they looked at each other, and then burst into laughter.
"Are you lying? The carriage in the prime minister's house is so simple that it doesn't even have a groom?"
The bearded man picked up the sword and put it on his shoulder, his eyes never leaving Mu Rongruo's pretty face.
"Isn't it because the young lady from the Prime Minister's Palace didn't know that the carriage I rented out was accompanied by a groom. Didn't the two young men just pull me out of the carriage?"
The groom who was lying on the side of the road limped to his carriage, thinking that it was really difficult to do business today. He didn't even know if the money for renting the carriage would be enough to pay for his own medical treatment.
The bearded man laughed even more after hearing this.
"I didn't know that the prime minister's palace doesn't even have a carriage. The young lady at home has to rent a carriage when she goes out."
"You..." Yan'er was speechless for a moment, her face flushed with anger.
When Murong Ruo saw that his maidservant was defeated, he said angrily: "Who are you guys? You shouted and killed in broad daylight, disturbing a once prosperous street and shutting down the market because of your fright. This imperial capital city was opened by your master. Is that so? At the feet of the Emperor, you won’t be afraid of provoking wrath by doing something like this!”
"Not only is the little lady pretty, she also suits my taste when she loses her temper. If I were a bandit, I would kidnap you and make you the wife of the village!"
The bearded man smiled and licked his lips at Mu Rongruo's face, his mouth watering.
Seeing him like this, Mu Rongruo was so disgusted that Xiao Ai couldn't stand it anymore. He stepped forward to block his beard and looked at her wife's salivating eyes, and said angrily: "You can tell me the name of your master." , let’s see if my prime minister can cure you gangsters of disturbing the people!”
The bearded man laughed and said proudly: "Young lady, please remember, we are the bodyguards of General Cheng Liancheng's family. I am chasing this boy today because he killed my young master. I was ordered by Master Cheng Lian to He was cut into pieces, little lady, don’t meddle in other people’s business and get out of the way quickly.”
"Cheng Lian?"
Mu Rongruo thought carefully about the gatherings of officials and their families in Liuli Garden in the past, and finally thought of the new face of Cheng Yumei, a married woman at the last snow chanting poetry gathering years ago.
When Sister Qinglan introduced her at that time, she said that she was the legitimate daughter of General Cheng Lian who had just arrived in Beijing.
During the chat, Cheng Yumei said that her family had just returned from fighting in the frontier because his father killed Wei Chongyang, the general of Nanli Kingdom, and was promoted to the fourth rank of Mingwei General by His Majesty upon his return.
"But General Mingwei?" Mu Rongruo asked.
"Since the little lady knows, just step aside obediently. Brother, let me kill someone to show you my masculinity, and then go home and be your brother's wife, okay? Hahaha..."
The bearded man raised the round-handled broadsword on his shoulder and was about to slash at the young man again. Upon seeing this, Mu Rongruo immediately pulled the young man lying on the ground behind him.
The sword slashed through the air, and the bearded man became a little angry.
"Little lady, I advise you not to meddle in other people's business, otherwise my brothers' knives will not have eyes."
Mu Rongruo saw that the young man was covered in injuries, and his coat had already been dyed red with blood. He almost had no strength to even stand at this moment.
"Xiao Ai, take care of him first."
Mu Rongruo sent the young man to Xiao Ai, and then said to the bearded man: "He killed your young master. You should report it to the officials first, and then the officials will be responsible for apprehending the suspect. After the three halls have reviewed his case, Crime, after the official document is issued, it is the official's business to kill, behead, or be imprisoned and exiled. If you execute the person in private, do you still care about the law?"
The bearded man said with disdain: "When we followed General Cheng in the bloody battle on the battlefield, we killed countless people. Now when we come to the imperial city, what kind of bullshit laws do we have to abide by? We roughnecks don't understand any laws. The law only knows how to kill for life. If this kid kills my young master, I will exchange his life for another. If you stop me, I will kill you!"
Murong Ruoleng said: "As long as I am here, don't even think about killing him."
The bearded man had a quick temper. Seeing that Mu Rongruo repeatedly blocked him from avenging his master, his teasing and joking mood suddenly disappeared. He swung his sword and slashed at Mu Rongruo who was standing in front of him.
"girl!"
"Miss!"
Xiao Ai and Yan'er immediately protected Mu Rongruo, who was also frightened by the sudden attack of the knife.
At this moment, a sword light flashed through everyone's eyes, followed by two "bang" sounds, and the bearded sword was broken into two pieces and fell to the ground.
