Chapter 97 The Accident Came Too Suddenly

The court was not a place for casual conversation. Less than a quarter of an hour after Zhao Jingtian was taken away, Song Junyan drove them all out.

Zhao held Shen's hand and refused to let her leave. Her belated filial piety and regret made her want to take Shen to Lu's house and take good care of her.

[What did you do before? You disliked me so much back then, but now you realize my good points.]

[They have family and children, so why do they need an outsider like you to show respect to them?]

[If you really want to, you should find a way to avenge the Yun family, make the Tao family confess their crimes and be executed, so that the Yun family can rest in peace in the afterlife.]

[As for an unfilial daughter like you, she would have given up hope and treated you as if you had never given birth.]

A familiar complaint was heard, and Zhao grabbed Shen's hand and paused, and then she felt too embarrassed to force her to go back to Lu's house.

I could only support her, hand her over to her family, and then watch them leave.

There was still noise and bustle all around. Zhao, standing in the crowd, seemed to come to her senses suddenly and looked at them with anxiety and excitement.

"Xinlan, have I really, really succeeded?"

"It's done," Lu Xinlan smiled and nodded at her, "Didn't His Majesty send a verbal order, giving the Rong En Marquis's Mansion only three days, and he has to pay my grandmother's dowry even if he doesn't want to."

As long as the emperor didn't want the money himself and donated it to the court with a high-sounding excuse, how could he not want such a big pie that would fall on his head for nothing?

Even the subsequent matters still need to be planned further, lest the emperor lose interest in them if they are not profitable.

The three of them got on the carriage together. When they came, Zhao was full of courage and rushed here alone in the carriage without thinking too much. On the way back, the mother and her two daughters rode in the same carriage. This was the first time she was in a carriage with Lu Xinran.

Zhao felt a little uncomfortable, with her head down, constantly twisting the handkerchief in her hand.

Lu Xinran was quite calm, his eyes fixed outside the window, all he was thinking about was how to make Zhao Jingtian even more unlucky.

From Shuntianfu to Lufu, the roads along the way were all busy and wide, and the bustling voices around us diluted the awkwardness in the car.

Zhao secretly pulled Lu Xinlan's sleeve, wanting her to help ease the atmosphere.

Lu Xinlan thought about what the other party had said in the palace before, and didn't know how to persuade Zhao.

She didn't think that after this incident, Zhao would suddenly wake up and realize that Lu Xinran was her biological daughter, and she should treat her well to make up for her previous neglect.

She just felt that Lu Xinran had helped her a lot in this matter and she should do something.

But not to do anything as a mother.

The three of them fell into silence, and the only sound in the carriage was the creaking of the wheels on the stones.

ah!

hiss~~~

The horse outside the carriage was frightened for some reason and stood upright.

The carriage was also lifted up, and the three people in the car were all hit hard against the back wall of the carriage by this sudden change.

The two horses harnessed to the carriage put their front hooves on the ground and then ran straight forward. The driver, who was sitting on the outside of the carriage, was thrown to the ground by this sudden change and lost consciousness.

The unmanned carriage was running very fast, and the carriage kept shaking, jolting the three people so hard that they couldn't recover for a long time.

Lu Xinlan held on to the car window with both hands, forcing himself to keep steady.

The car curtain swayed, and she saw that there was no one driving outside, so she quickly controlled her body and moved out of the car.

Zhao reached out to pull her: "Don't, don't go out, it's too dangerous."

Lu Xinlan brushed her hand away. The situation was urgent and she had no intention of comforting her. She just used the force of the car to jump out and clung to the wall of the car while it was shaking so that she could sit on the floor.

Seeing this, Lu Xinran also wanted to go out, but she stopped him sternly.

"Don't come out. It's dangerous outside. You stay in the carriage and you must not come out. Do you understand?"

"But……"

"No buts!"

Lu Xinlan didn't give her a chance to speak, he reached out and grabbed the reins.

They were just worried whether Zhao Jingtian would take revenge, but they didn't expect him to act so quickly, and not let any of the three of them go.

The carriage was still running madly forward on the street. The city gate was in front of them. Lu Xinlan shouted "Make way" while yelling to the soldiers guarding the city.

"The horse is frightened, help us."

The soldiers defending the city heard the shouting, but before they could surround them, the two horses rushed out of the city gate with a roar.

There were still many pedestrians on the road outside the city. Some were carrying loads on their shoulders, some were carrying baskets, and some were setting up stalls on the roadside. It was as lively as in the city.

The carriage sped along, crashing straight into other vehicles regardless of whether there were people on the road or not.

Lu Xinlan had rarely come into contact with horses in his previous life, so his experience was limited and he didn't know how to stop a frightened horse.

Her eyes fell on the places where the two horses were injured, one on the left and one on the right, with uneven wounds on the outside. It must be that someone threw a dagger from a distance and cut both horses at the same time.

"That won't work. If the horse doesn't stop, we don't know where we'll be taken."

Although Lu Xinran still doesn't know what happened, she can see that someone wanted to kill them deliberately.

She wanted to get out of the car to help, but Lu Xinlan scolded her again.

"Don't come out. We're probably going to get hurt today. I can only guarantee... that we can all survive."

She had just checked and no one was chasing her.

Whether it was someone sent by Zhao Jingtian or someone else.

This is a blessing in disguise.

Lu Xinran pursed her lips tightly and met Zhao's horrified gaze, rarely not rolling her eyes in disgust.

Zhao Jingtian's people came so quickly?

She was full of doubts, and Lu Xinlan outside the car was also thinking about the same question.

If it wasn't Zhao Jingtian, then who could it be?

Lu Xinran’s inner voice…offended a lot of people.

The carriage went farther and farther away, and the surroundings became increasingly desolate.

While I was worried, I suddenly heard a series of hurried horse hoof sounds behind me.

Lu Xinlan turned around anxiously, but he couldn't tell who the person was because he was too far away.

"Xinran, listen to me. No matter what happens, you must try your best to protect yourself."

"I know, you too!"

Lu Xinran, not understanding the deeper meaning, replied loudly, while in his mind he was already shouting rapidly to the system.

"Is there anything you can do to protect us?"

The system hesitated for a long time before finally saying, "I can only protect you, not others. And if I use my energy, your hard-earned health points will be used up."

"Use it all up, just survive first and think about other things later. Is it just me you can protect? What about Lu Xinlan, can you protect her as well?"

"I'll give it a try. I've never used this feature before, so I don't know if it works."

The baby voice was full of tension, Lu Xinran was solemn, but Lu Xinlan breathed a sigh of relief.

She lived a good life in her previous life, did what she liked to do, and realized her dreams. It didn't matter if she died now.

But Lu Xinran couldn't do that. She had such a hard and pitiful life in her previous life. She finally had a new life and a healthy heart. She hoped that she could live a good and happy life and do all the things she had never dared to think about in the past.

The sound of horse hooves was getting closer and closer behind her. She no longer tried to tighten the reins in her hands, but tried to adjust the direction so that they could continue to gallop.

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