The maid on the side comforted her and said: "Madam, don't worry, we will go to Changliu Village in front of us later and ask the villagers to borrow a carriage to go back!"
The eldest sister-in-law of the Sun family raised her eyes and glanced ahead, saying with a look of disgust: "I won't ride on their horse, it's dirty and smelly."
Before she got married, this sister-in-law of the Sun family was the daughter of a rice seller in a neighboring county, and her family was fairly wealthy.
Later, she married the eldest brother of the Sun family. She and the eldest brother of the Sun family had similar personalities and were equally ruthless. She was the first to propose the technique of using women's blood to make rouge.
For the sake of gold and silver, she didn't care even if she knew that her man and Concubine Wu were unknown. She only wanted money.
She was the one who initially proposed the purchase of Zhoujia Incense Shop. ?.?????.???
At first, she did buy Zhou's incense shop for money, but then she saw Du Wanchun and Zhang Qiuhe when she passed by the incense shop one day, and she felt bad.
In the past, she proposed to her natal family that she wanted to start a business, but her natal family dismissed her because women could not show up in public.
Now I see that Zhang Qiuhe and Du Wanchun, two peasant women, can do such a good business in an incense shop, I feel unconvinced.
She didn't feel that she was inferior to them, so she later insisted on buying the Zhou family's shop, and even specially offered the idea of making money from the incense shop to make the eldest brother of the Sun family want to buy it too.
The eldest brother of the Sun family took advantage of her to go back to her parents' home and rushed to the Zhou family to buy a shop overnight.
The gangster on the side saw them approaching and whispered: "Did you see a pretty peasant woman holding flowers in her hand? That's her!"
The short man frowned and said, "Brother, this is a main road, could it be someone passing by?"
The tall man said sternly: "Didn't you see that she has the Zhou family's sachet hanging on her body? Who is it if she is not from the Zhou family?!"
The short man took a closer look and saw that the woman was indeed hanging a sachet from the Zhou family.
This sachet indeed belonged to Aunt Zhou, with the word "zhou" embroidered on it, but she had lost it earlier and was picked up by a peasant woman.
When the Sun family's sister-in-law got wet in the rain and changed her clothes on the road, she disliked the smell of the peasant's clothes, so she took the peasant woman's sachet and hung it on her body.
When the gangsters saw that the person was sure, they no longer thought about it and rushed forward in large strides.
"Who are you?" Mrs. Sun was startled.
However, before she could be surprised for long, the gangster covered her mouth with a drugged cloth.
She struggled twice and fainted.
The maid on the side was also stunned.
The gangster picked them both up.
Before leaving, the tall man told the short man: "You can read and write a note to the Zhou family and ask them to use the money to redeem the person!"
"Okay, brother!" the short man responded and quickly turned around and went to the village.
In the Zhou family, the third prince and Zhou Zhao happened to come back from the fields.
Zhou Zhao divided the fish caught in the pond into four portions, and when Aunt Zhou and the others came back, he would give these to Aunt Wang and the others.
The Third Prince went into the house, washed his hands, and prepared to cook.
Du Wanchun and Zhou Ruiyuan rubbed the incense in the incense shop. When they returned to the house, they glanced at the door and asked, "Why haven't mother and Aunt Wang come back today?"
Usually at this time, Aunt Zhou and Aunt Wang would have been back long ago.
The third prince steamed the rice, came to her and said, "How about I go to the mountain to look for them."
As soon as he finished speaking, an arrow flew from a distance and hit the door frame of Zhou's house.
Everyone was shocked.
"What is this?" Du Wanchun strode up to the arrow.
Zhou Ruiyuan followed her and took down the arrow.
There was a note tied to the end of the arrow. Zhou Ruiyuan quickly took the note off and spread it out to read.
Du Wanchun stood on tiptoe to read, "Ms. sir, what's written on the note?"
Zhou Ruiyuan looked at the words on the note with a look of surprise on his face.
The third prince also strode over, "Ruiyuan, what's written on it?"
Zhou Ruiyuan handed the note to the third prince, "Someone has kidnapped my mother and wants us to pay two thousand taels of silver to ransom her within three days, otherwise..."
The third prince frowned, his eyes looked panicked, and he looked down hurriedly, "What else?"
Zhou Ruiyuan's face darkened, and he said slowly: "Otherwise, they will send my mother's head back."
The third prince's hand holding the note trembled, "What?! They are so brave, they even dare to tie up Zhou'er!"
Zhou Ruiyuan raised his head and looked into the distance, "The person who sent the note just now probably hasn't gone far yet. I'll go take a look."
"Okay, you go, I want to see who dares to act wild on my head." The third prince said, holding the note in his hand tightly, his voice filled with coldness.
That look was completely different from his usual approachable look, and his eyes full of rage seemed like he could tear those gangsters apart in the next second.
Du Wanchun came up to comfort them and said, "Third uncle, don't worry, my mother will be fine."
What she said was true. Aunt Zhou was indeed fine.
However, she and Aunt Wang were indeed delayed on their way back via the trail, but it was not a bad thing, but a good thing.
"Sister Wang, come and see, there are more here." Aunt Zhou squatted on the ground to pick leaves.
She took a hoe to dig out the stems and roots of the small pink-purple flowers and leaves.
Aunt Wang looked at it in confusion and said, "Sister Zhou, what are these things? You look so precious."
