Xiao Yuchan had never seen real soldiers. Although this team was small in number, she could still feel the suffocating pressure around them.
Xiao Nizi was very nervous and pulled Lin Wanjie's sleeve tightly.
"This is General Shenwei Zheng Shanhe, one of our four famous generals in Great Xia. From now on, you will follow the general and listen to his teachings day and night. I am the general's adjutant, my name is Zhu Chan."
The adjutant performed his duties conscientiously and briefed Lin Wanjie on the brief situation.
Lin Wanjie's mind was not here. He looked around, thinking about how to escape.
But the twenty or so soldiers who came looked like they were not easy to mess with, especially the mighty general, who had an overwhelming heroic spirit. It would be very difficult to escape under his nose.
Just coming out of Hangzhou City, I met this team and was forced to go back.
Lin Wanjie had two more important tasks to do than joining the army.
Find the Second Madam and rescue the First Madam.
Now that we know that the eldest lady is being escorted to Yangzhou, it would be better to rush to Yangzhou when she escapes.
But before that, it would be an option to follow the army and go to Hangzhou to find out the whereabouts of the second lady.
…
now.
A shabby courtyard in Zhazi Street, Hangzhou City.
Jian Niang was wearing dirty clothes and her head was wrapped in a floral coarse cloth, looking like a peasant woman.
She returned to her parents' home and did not dare to go out.
Hearing that the Xiao family had been raided and escorted elsewhere by court officials, he didn't even dare to show his face.
Mother Jian has never left the city of Hangzhou in her life, and even the Xiao family rarely goes out.
She didn't dare to go to Daqingshan to find Lin Da like Xiao Yuchan.
A simple woman instinctively thinks of her parents' home, thinking that this will be her safe haven.
In Jane's memory, at least her mother cared about her.
I brought a lot of things to my family last time, and the brother who bullied me is gone, so my parents' home should be safe.
Jian Niang coughed twice and saw a Bodhisattva statue in the simple house.
Jian Niang's habit of eating fast and chanting Buddha's name followed her mother's. She had been like this since she was a child, and it was also like this in the Xiao family.
But since that night when she had an affair with Lin Da in front of the Buddha, she never chanted the Buddha's name again.
Now, the incense in front of the Bodhisattva statue in my parents' house has been extinguished.
Jian Niang frowned and rubbed her belly. Perhaps thinking of accumulating blessings for her unborn child, she went up and offered a stick of incense to the Bodhisattva, knelt down and bowed, begging for peace.
At this moment, Jian Niang heard a noise coming from outside, as if her mother was back.
Mother Jian was a little hungry and was waiting for the meal to be served. When she turned around, she looked through the window and looked outside her parents' courtyard. There was an official coming from behind the fence, and she could vaguely hear her mother talking to the official.
"My lord, this old woman doesn't know anything about the Xiao family. If we take the initiative to report her, everything will be fine, right?"
"The report is meritorious, how can I hold you accountable? I don't see it. You are such a cruel old woman that you would even betray your own daughter."
Jian Niang's face turned pale. She didn't expect that when her mother came back for dinner, what awaited her was a betrayal!
In her memory, her mother was the person who loved her the most, and she had no choice but to be sold to the Xiao family.
Jian Niang has never hated her mother's family.
Whether it's your parents or your brother who only bullies you.
But at this moment, Jian Niang must wake up even if she is not awake!
Now that she has a child in her belly, everything she does is to keep the child alive.
Mother Jian knew that she couldn't stay any longer and had to leave immediately. She quickly climbed out of the side window of the back room, cut open a fence wall with a hatchet from the corner of the toilet in the back room, and then blended into the crowd of people on Zhazi Street, looking embarrassed. Like a beggar, he doesn’t know where he is going.
Now, the people in Hangzhou have made it public.
The Xiao family planned to kill the imperial envoy, and the eldest lady personally admitted it.
This crime cannot be cleansed.
Jian Niang returned to Xiao Mansion along the street, hiding in the alley looking at the former mansion from a long distance away.
There were also many officials coming in and out, and boxes of furniture, porcelain, and jewelry were loaded onto cars and sealed before being sent to the capital.
The Xiao family is hopeless, completely hopeless.
I heard that the city is still arresting servants of the Xiao family.
Jian Niang was also one of those arrested.
Thinking back to yesterday's life of having no worries about food and clothing, Jian Niang couldn't help but secretly wipe her tears.
She had never thanked Mr. Xiao, and she had always been resentful in her heart, feeling that Mr. Xiao had taken possession of her youth.
Now that Mr. Xiao is dead and the Xiao family is gone, seeing his current homeless situation, he realizes how gracious it is to have a home to shelter him from the wind and rain.
Mr. Xiao only took concubines for the sake of the rich family's face, but he actually gave Jian Niang and Yu Jiao'er protection.
At this time, Jian Niang felt guilty and bowed to Xiao Mansion with tears: "Master, you left, and I have never given you a stick of incense. In this life, I owe you."
"Hey, where did this little lady come from? She was looking at the Xiao Mansion furtively. Could it be that she is the maid that the Xiao family has missed?"
A gangster suddenly grabbed Jane's wrist from behind.
Jian Niang was startled, screamed and hurriedly broke away.
"Oh, it's quite slippery..."
The gangster has a pockmarked face and sinister features, which makes people feel sick.
Jian Niang was already low-key enough. She smeared mud on her face, wrapped her head, and wore rustic linen clothes.
But despite this, Jian Niang's appearance was simply shocking in the eyes of the gangster.
At first I couldn't see it from behind, but when I looked at it from the front, my eyes suddenly brightened.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk... Damn it, I'm just so lucky to meet a girl with such a mark here today."
"You, what are you going to do?"
"My dear lady, you are so sneaky, you don't want to be discovered by the official, right?"
The gangster was good at observing words and expressions, and he quickly discovered Jian Niang's weakness.
Then he walked up and grabbed Jian Niang's wrist again.
"If you have the ability, just scream, call all the officials, and then arrest you and sell yourself. If you are sensible, please cooperate well. I will definitely make you happy."
"Go away..."
Jian Niang wants to struggle, but who is the opponent of the little gangster?
He was quickly cured by the gangster.
At the same time, the little gangster also discovered Jane's belly and was suddenly surprised: "Hey, you are still pregnant?"
"Pregnant women have bad luck."
"I was born unlucky, and there is no one more unlucky than me!"
"let me go!"
Jian Niang continued to struggle.
"Little lady, you don't want your child to have an accident, right?"
Hearing this, Mrs. Jian trembled.
What if I struggle and hurt the child?
The little gangster found that Jian Niang was quite honest, and sneered in his heart: "That's right, be a good match for me, and you will be comfortable when you can."
As he said that, he was going to take off Jian Niang's clothes.
"No, no, I'll do it myself."
"Okay, okay, do it yourself."
The little gangster thought that Jian Niang was honest, so he went to untie his clothes.
But he completely underestimated the mother's determination to protect her child.
Mother Jian came out of Xiao's house with nothing but a small shovel for digging soil in the courtyard.
Suddenly, Jian Niang pulled out the small shovel at her waist and shouted, "I'll fight you!"
