Chu Yue nodded without hesitation and said, "Take the water route."
After hearing this, the carriage driver jumped out of the carriage and said, "Okay, let me turn the carriage around first."
The driver was very fast, turned around and drove the carriage far away.
Chu Yue opened the window at the back of the carriage and looked back. In the mountain forest not far behind, the leaves were moving without the wind.
She quickly lowered the curtain and said to the coachman in front, "Master, please hurry up."
The driver only thought that Chu Yue wanted to get to Wuxi Town earlier so that he could buy more time to treat the victims, so he drove faster.
Not far behind, the rustling of leaves became louder and louder.
Chu Yue clenched her fists, feeling very nervous. She just hoped that the carriage could go faster. Even if those people had some skills, they relied on human power after all. As long as the carriage was fast enough, they might not be able to catch up.
"Master, hurry up!"
The driver of the car looked troubled, "Doctor Chu, I know you are worried about the people of Wuxi Town, but we can't go any faster. The mountain road is rugged and it's not safe to go too fast."
Chu Yue once again opened the window behind the carriage and looked back.
The place where the leaves in the mountain forest were shaking was closer than before.
At this time, Xu Heng seemed to have noticed something was wrong, "Miss Chu, what's wrong?"
Chu Yue lowered the car curtain with a solemn expression, "We seem to be in trouble."
Lu Yufang, who was resting with her eyes closed, also opened her eyes.
"What trouble?"
Chu Yue did not answer her, but looked at Xu Heng, "Mr. Xu, you and Yufang will get off the carriage later and find a place to hide."
Xu Heng raised his eyebrows, "What about you?"
Chu Yue's expression was unprecedentedly firm and calm.
"I will leave with the carriage first and meet at the dock in half an hour. If I don't come, you will leave first."
"How can this be done? Aren't you in danger?" Xu Heng frowned and shook his head and said, "No! Since I promised Brother Lu to take good care of you, I can't let you alone in the carriage. You and Miss Lu will go first later. Get off the carriage and hide, and the driver and I will go and lure them away.”
Hearing this, Lu Yufang also understood the seriousness of the matter, and she sat up straight.
"Does this mean it will be dangerous for us?"
"Those people are here for me, and you have been implicated by me." Chu Yue looked at Xu Heng, "Mr. Xu, there are people protecting me in the dark. It's perfect for me to lure them away."
As she spoke, she took out a few more bottles of medicine from her medicine box and handed them to him.
"These medicines include wound medicine and poison. They are marked on the bottles. Take them for self-defense. Remember, we will meet at the dock in half an hour."
Seeing that they had reached a section of road with lush trees, Chu Yue asked the coachman to stop, drove the reluctant Lu Yufang and Xu Heng out of the carriage, and continued moving forward.
As the carriage drove away, Chu Yue also opened the curtain behind the window, trying to attract the attention of the people in the dark.
After Xu Heng and the two got off the carriage, they hid in the bushes nearby.
Lu Yufang's face was full of anxiety.
"What should we do? Aren't we just here to provide disaster relief? Why are we being hunted down?"
"Perhaps what we did has blocked some people's financial path." He glanced at Lu Yufang beside him, stretched out his hand to hold her, "Miss Lu, I'm offended."
After saying that, he straightened up and pulled her deeper into the forest.
Lu Yufang was held by a man for the first time since she was a child. She looked at the hand held by Xu Heng, and her heart skipped a beat.
…
Sure enough, those people in front of them didn't pay attention to Xu Heng and Lu Yufang who were no longer on the carriage, and still chased the direction of the carriage.
Chu Yue opened the car curtain from time to time, watching the shaking leaves in the mountains getting closer, and hurriedly opened the front car curtain.
"Master, do you dare to jump out of the car?"
The driver was so startled that he almost lost his grip on the reins.
"Jump out of the car?"
"Someone is following us. If we don't jump out of the car, we might be in danger." Chu Yue said concisely.
She wasn't sure whether the person protecting her in the dark would still follow her if the carriage was traveling so fast. After all, she was just an ordinary civilian girl, and the county magistrate and prefect probably wouldn't care too much about her life or death.
Chu Yue didn't want to put her hope on uncertain factors. At times like this, it was the safest to rely on herself.
When the coachman heard that someone was following him in the dark, he tightened his grip on the reins. The horse in front of him neighed, and the carriage almost stopped.
Fortunately, the coachman's driving skills were superb, and soon the carriage resumed its previous speed.
A struggle flashed across the driver's face.
"Then I'm going to lose a carriage?"
Chu Yue hurriedly replied, "Life is of course the most important thing in this meeting. Don't worry, when we return to Tongzhi County, I will tell you that our carriage was scrapped halfway, and we will ask the county magistrate to report it and compensate you for a carriage."
After receiving Chu Yue's assurance, the coachman no longer hesitated.
No one wants to die if they can live.
"Then what do I do?"
Chu Yue quickly explained the plan she had thought up, "The carriage is traveling normally, but it has to go in a different direction. We can't let them know that we are going to the dock. We will find a hidden place ahead to jump out of the carriage later." Continue along this road to attract the attention of the people in the dark, and let’s find a place to hide first.”
When a coachman encounters an emergency, his mind is habitually tied up, and he will do whatever Chu Yue tells him.
"become."
The carriage drove forward for a while, and following Chu Yue's order, the two of them jumped out of the carriage at the same time and rolled directly into the haystack next to them.
Just because the carriage was traveling too fast, not only was Chu Yue's hand scratched by a sharp stone on the roadside, but her forehead even hit a big tree, causing bruises and swelling, and blood flowing out.
Several places on the body were hurt by uneven stones, especially the lower back area. You could tell without looking that there would definitely be bruises.
The coachman's condition was slightly better. After all, he was a rough-skinned man. Apart from some pain after falling, everything else was fine.
He crawled to Chu Yue's side, looking at her painful expression with worry on his face.
"Doctor Chu, are you okay?"
Chu Yue covered her forehead with one hand and her lower back with the other. Although there was pain in her expression, her eyes kept staring at the moving leaves in the forest.
She took a breath and whispered, "I'm fine. Let's hide and wait for those people to leave before walking through the woods to the dock."
After hearing this, the coachman and Chu Yue lowered their heads and hid themselves in the grass.
After a while, after confirming that those people had followed the carriage, Chu Yue limped back a short distance, holding her waist. After packing up the medicine box thrown in the grass, she got in under the leadership of the coachman. Mountain forest, heading towards the dock.
Lu Yufang and Xu Heng walked for two quarters of an hour to the canal dock.
She anxiously looked around in the direction of the forest, but she still didn't find Chu Yue.
"Brother Xu, will Yueyue be alright? If something happens to her, how can I explain it to my brother?"
When she thought of Chu Yue being alone in the carriage with the killer following behind her, she became worried and eager to know her current situation.
