Chapter 5 Chapter 5 Concubine
Chu Xian raised her sleeve to wipe the corner of her mouth, then raised her eyes to meet the scrutinizing gaze of the bandit.
"Brave man, I'm not afraid of you laughing at me, my identity is really not worthy of being on the stage."
"I was originally a maidservant carefully selected by the master's family for the dowry, meant to secure the lady's favor. But now I have become a cheap plaything for the future son-in-law to abuse and entertain."
"On weekdays, I only do the delicate work of serving tea and water in the room. The young lady often gives me unwanted cosmetics and perfumes and tells me to take good care of myself."
"One day, my future son-in-law came to visit me. I told her that my son-in-law's eyes were all glued to me and that I had seduced him. She thought I was a seductress, so she found an excuse to send me here."
"If I were born crude, how could the master choose me?"
"I have a miserable life. It would be much better if I could be a rough and tidy maid, so I wouldn't have to end up like this." Chu Xian pretended to sob sadly.
"So she's a maidservant."
The maids in wealthy families are mostly used as toys to satisfy men's sexual needs. They are kept as delicate and tender as birds to satisfy the men's sexual desires.
This girl is pretty, but she is smart and cunning, and extremely restless at heart. No wonder the lady of the host family is worried and sends her here to fend for herself.
The bandit leader completely put aside his doubts and left.
Chu Xian became increasingly uneasy.
She didn't know when reinforcements would arrive. Her reckless and desperate action today was full of mistakes and could not stand up to careful scrutiny.
The bandits were busy moving their treasures with great gusto, and hadn't come to their senses yet. If they came to their senses and thought carefully...
Chu Xian suppressed her fear and stole a glance at Xian Rong who was diligently serving wine to the bandits.
Unexpectedly, the bandits were very cautious and would let Xianrong taste everything they ate, so they couldn't find any chance to poison her.
Before I knew it, it was already dusk. The sky was getting darker and dark clouds were gathering.
Lie Que and Pili suppressed the whispers and laughter of the bandits in the courtyard.
Chu Xian was leaning against the mottled wall, staring blankly at the misty sky, when suddenly a creepy voice came from behind her.
"Girl, there are still a few things I don't understand."
The cunning long-faced bandit leader calmed down, but still felt something was wrong.
After carefully analyzing the situation, he suddenly realized that he had been led by the nose by a young girl today.
It is impossible for a maidservant with limited knowledge to have such courage to deceive people.
A murderous gleam flashed in the bandit leader's eyes, and he was about to kill the strange maid when a sharp scream suddenly came from outside the wall.
"Go! The soldiers are coming!"
The bandits and the victims were panicked and fled in all directions to the land of Xiyou and Shuoxuan.
"Soldiers" is a metaphor for soldiers. When Chu Xian heard that the soldiers were coming, she looked strange.
Her father was once the governor of the Nine Gates. She knew very well the lazy nature of those pampered soldiers in the city, and she knew that the people coming here could not be officers or soldiers.
If they are not officers or soldiers, then who are they?
The warning voice from outside the wall just now was very low, and it was obvious that they were anxious to get the bandits and the victims away from the village. Why was that?
Thinking of the assassination attempts she had encountered over the years, Chu Xian became increasingly terrified. She immediately grabbed Xian Rong with burning anxiety and said, "Hurry up, let's hide in Baiwang Mountain first."
"What happened?" Xianrong had never seen the girl so panicked.
"The reinforcements are wrong and came at the wrong time."
Chu Xian turned around and rushed to the woodshed, kicking the door open.
Pu Yi stepped into the dim woodshed and suddenly felt a cold and hard touch on his neck.
Chu Xian didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Master Chi, I gave you the dagger so that you can defend yourself, not to kill me."
"What do you want to do?" Yinzhen retracted the dagger and grabbed the cunning woman's arm.
With her eloquent speech, she broke the deadlock and fooled those ignorant bandits and refugees. She is definitely not a good person.
"You need to leave this place immediately."
Chu Xian frowned and tried to break free from the man's hand, but he suddenly tightened his grip.
The sound of frantic horse hooves was getting closer. The Beijing army camp closest to Baiwang Mountain was not equipped with such strong and powerful horses. It must be the Southern Ming rebels coming to kill him.
But now he was seriously injured and limping, how could he escape?
Well, I'm just going to be buried here, why should I implicate others?
He sheathed the dagger with a wry smile and returned it to the maid.
"Girl, I have difficulty walking and will inevitably become a burden. You can go first and don't worry about me."
Chu Xian had no intention of taking the weak scholar to escape, but she didn't expect him to be so wise and righteous, which made her look despicable and selfish.
This scholar was quite interesting, and it was hard to tell what his intentions were. At this moment, she just felt that such a handsome young man with a fair body and a beautiful figure should not die here quietly.
Although she had already walked to the door, Chu Xian still turned back to him for some unknown reason.
"Don't be afraid, sir. I'll take care of everything. I'll definitely protect you."
Her back gradually lowered and she bent down for him.
Chu Xian patted his back and urged, "Hurry up! Come up!"
After a dead silence, Chu Xian felt a warmth on her back, and a hot and solid body pressed against her.
"Thank you." The scholar's voice was clear and low, with a hoarse tenderness.
Chu Xian didn't answer, but jumped lightly a few times, pulling the scholar's long legs up tightly to prevent them from dragging on the ground.
Although Manchu women are tall and good at archery and horse riding, she is an exception and it is really difficult to carry her on his back.
Yinzhen had a splitting headache and lay on her thin back, breathing uncomfortably and rapidly, his whole body burning.
With his cheek pressed against her back, he could hear her frantic heartbeat. Endless sleepiness came over him, and he coughed heart-wrenchingly several times, then fell into a deep sleep amid the chaotic heartbeat.
"Let me do it."
When Xianrong saw the girl carrying a strange man on her back without regard for etiquette, she immediately came over anxiously.
"No, you still need to protect my safety at all times."
Chu Xian only knows some fancy moves, and in times of crisis, she still needs Xianrong to protect her, so she can't let Xianrong be distracted to take care of the scholar.
"Hey, how long has this scholar not slept? He actually fell asleep." Xianrong was surprised.
The scholar's hot breath sprayed behind her ears, and the tingling and ambiguous hot flashes made her feel at a loss.
"Let's go!" Chu Xian's cheeks flushed, and she gritted her teeth and rushed into the thick darkness.
Just as the three of them were escaping from the back wall, a group of dark shadows silently jumped into the village.
Bao Sanchun's wife and her two sons were crying and collecting Bao Sanchun's body, which was beheaded.
The mother and her two sons decided to flee back to their hometown outside the Great Wall overnight.
Over the years, Bao Sanchun cooperated with the Baiwangshan bandits to rob houses and swapped the valuables hidden by the girls in the farm, making a lot of private money, enough for them to return home and live a worry-free life.
"Today, we'll divide the family fortune before your father's spirit. I've already hidden a hundred taels of silver from your father's legacy, and the rest will be split equally between you and your brother."
"From now on, you two brothers will take turns supporting Mom. When Mom is a hundred years old, you can divide up my inheritance money."
"Let's go quickly, second brother. Go and divide up the banknotes your father hid on the beam of the toilet."
The sturdy young man who was called stood up in tears, but turned around and ran into a group of sneaky masked men in black.
“You are…”
Before he could finish his words, his head and body were separated, and his bloody head, with his lips still opening, fell into the arms of Bao Sanchun's wife.
Before she could scream for help, someone broke her neck from behind.
.......
Boom boom boom boom..
Yinzhen was awakened by a frantic heartbeat and suddenly came to his senses.
Suddenly, a flash of lightning flickered back and forth, illuminating a cold, white neck.
He has always been a light sleeper, but today he fell asleep unconscious on the back of a strange woman. This was a terrifying experience he had never had before.
It was unimaginable that if she had stabbed him just now, he would have been beheaded even in his sleep.
Yinzhen was sweating profusely, his eyes were gloomy, and he looked at the back of the man's neck in panic.
Her thin neck couldn't even be bent by him easily; he could break her neck with one hand.
The mountain path was winding and uneven, with lightning, thunder and heavy rain. He seemed to hear the man mumbling something, but he couldn't hear it clearly.
In desperation, he tightened his arms around her neck and put his ear to her cheek to listen carefully.
When I heard her mumbling that she was afraid of snakes, I couldn't help but laugh.
Her gentle voice reassuring him not to be afraid rang in his mind at an inopportune time. It was really ridiculous that she was as timid as a mouse and even said that she would protect him.
After regaining some strength, he freed one hand and indifferently poked into the wound on his shoulder blade. His fingertips touched a sticky and hot liquid, and he calmly dug out the broken arrow embedded in the flesh.
Blood gushed out, and he let out a very light, suppressed groan in pain.
Before he could recover, he felt a sudden sharp pain in his shoulder blade.
The sharp arrow shot through the shoulder blade from the back and wedged into the back of the woman in front of him.
"Be careful!" Yinzhen subconsciously straightened her back, but the sharp edge of the arrow still pierced half an inch into her back.
Chu Xian half-knelt on the ground in pain, gasping for breath.
The assassins tonight were so powerful that they frightened her. They were more difficult to deal with than all the assassins who had tried to assassinate her in the past.
Who on earth is so deliberate in wanting to kill her?
Chu Xian was exhausted. She tremblingly put the scholar down from her back and fell to the ground.
She hurriedly picked up dead branches and tore off the hem of her clothes to fix the scholar's injured leg.
In the dark forest not far away, Xianrong was fighting with an assassin.
Rather than causing the scholar to die in vain, it is better to let him go first.
Only if the scholar left could she take out the deadly weapon without hesitation to fight the enemy.
"Sir, you'll have to walk the rest of the way on your own. Go north, cross this hill, and then head east for half an hour. You'll reach the Nanjiao granary, where the Cavalry Battalion is heavily guarded."
Yinzhen's face turned grim, but he didn't stand up.
The Cavalry Battalion was not the most elite of the Eight Banners Army, and because it contained a large number of Han army bannermen, it was not allowed to guard the imperial city and the inner city. Instead, it was responsible for guarding important warehouses in the suburbs of Beijing, such as the three warehouses of the Ministry of Revenue, the manufacturing warehouse of the Ministry of Works, and the warehouse of the Court of Colonial Affairs.
But even if the Cavalry Battalion was right in front of him, he couldn't fall into the trap.
The Southern Ming rebels who tried to assassinate him approached him in the name of the Cavalry Battalion.
Well, why bother causing the deaths of two little maids?
As long as he leaves this place immediately, the assassin will follow him.
"Girl, take care."
Yinzhen staggered to his feet, endured the pain of broken bones, and limped towards the Cavalry Battalion.
When he reached the depths of the dense forest, he turned around and walked in the opposite direction.
After walking a hundred steps, he stopped, his face stern, ready to meet the enemy.
But unexpectedly, after waiting for a few breaths, there was no pursuer behind him.
Bang bang bang!
Several sharp explosions suddenly sounded.
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