Chapter 23 This is for you guys.
The assassin felt a chill run down his spine. It was just a little toddler, only a few years old, yet he was enough to inspire fear.
"If you've got the guts, then kill us!"
These words must remain buried in your heart; to speak them aloud would be a fatal mistake!
Yun Zhao covered her mouth and chuckled, "Uncle, you'd rather die than reveal who hired you, is it because that person holds a high position of power?"
The assassin's pupils constricted, and his nostrils flared.
It seems she guessed correctly.
But she guessed that this person in such a high position was probably not the emperor.
The emperor exiled the family to demonstrate his benevolence.
If a group kills someone as soon as they leave the city, everyone will suspect that he did it, which would be incredibly stupid.
She never imagined that anyone would hate a child like her so much.
"Little brat, you're still not ruthless enough."
Young Master Lu stepped forward and snatched the dagger from her hand.
"Look carefully, I will only teach you once."
With that, he plunged the dagger into the assassin's thigh with a sharp, forceful motion!
"ah!"
The assassin immediately screamed in pain.
"If you don't tell, you'll be living a life worse than death."
Young Master Lu twirled the dagger, and blood trickled out, a truly gruesome sight.
"Hey kid, don't scare the kids!"
Uncle Lu stepped forward, intending to pull Yun Zhao away, but saw Yun Zhao rummaging around in his sleeve, looking for something.
"Ah, I found it!"
Yun Zhao happily held a small porcelain bottle, her eyes sparkling as she looked at the two assassins.
"Uncle, don't be afraid. This is an itching powder my master taught me to make. It will only make you feel itchy, it won't kill you!"
She explained as she uncorked the bottle.
The itching powder for my child seems even scarier!
The powder drifted out in the wind and instantly covered their faces!
"Hahaha, it's so itchy, so itchy!"
In an instant, the two assassins began scratching their heads in frustration.
They rolled on the ground, feeling as if thousands of insects were biting their bodies, laughing and crying at the same time.
"Please, just kill me!"
Once they had fully experienced the power of the itching powder, Yun Zhao politely asked a question.
"Uncle, is the person who wants to take Zhaozhao's head from the capital?"
"Yes, someone in the capital wants to kill you!"
Unable to bear it any longer, the younger brother blurted out.
Only then did the Lu family father and son realize that they were in deep trouble.
The two of them happened to be passing by and casually saved someone, but it turned out to involve the capital!
The father and son were filled with apprehension when suddenly, a murderous aura swept over them.
"careful!"
Uncle Lu scooped up Yun Zhao and leaped onto the courtyard wall.
"Swish swish——"
With a whooshing sound, the arrow slammed into the ground, embedding itself three feet deep!
"Murder to cover it up, how insidious!"
Young Master Lu jumped down from the courtyard wall, confirmed that the assassin was dead, and couldn't help but praise him.
"Dad, if the person dies, what will happen to this little brat?"
Uncle Lu looked at the little baby in his arms with a headache. She blinked her beautiful eyes and looked at him curiously.
He couldn't bear to just abandon her, but they had more important things to do.
"Uncle, where are you going?"
"Uncle is going south to Lingnan."
Uncle Lu answered in a good-natured manner.
"What a coincidence! Zhao Zhao is also going to Lingnan. Uncle, why don't we go together?"
"Zhao Zhao has money, she can pay! Uncle, can you protect me and Mommy? And what about my little brother and Uncle?"
This Uncle Lu is destined to be the head of Tingyu Pavilion in the future, and she has to pull him onto the Yun family's ship no matter what!
"Rich? How rich can you be?"
Young Master Lu didn't believe the little brat's words.
Yun Zhao mysteriously pulled something out of his sleeve.
"This was given to Zhaozhao by her aunt when she left the capital. If you are willing to protect me to Lingnan, this is for you!"
Uncle Lu looked closely and realized it was a golden toad!
"Uncle, please? It's on the way anyway, and there are a lot of officials there, so it will save you a lot of trouble on the road!"
"Official officers?"
Young Master Lu subconsciously looked at his father, and there was something strange in their eyes. Yun Zhao took it all in.
"Okay, I promise you."
Yun Zhao pondered to himself.
These two men probably only agreed to follow her because they heard the words "officers".
She vaguely remembered that Tingyu Pavilion rose to prominence in Lingnan in the tenth year of the Yuanqi era and then quickly swept across the Great Zhou Dynasty.
It is now the eighth year of the Yuanqi era, and there are still two years before the Tingyu Pavilion is established.
Now that they're going to Lingnan, they're probably looking for their boss, right?
Then she was even more determined to hold onto these two and take the opportunity to get to know the owner of Tingyu Pavilion!
"Okay, okay! Let's go buy some food first, Zhao Zhao is hungry~"
Yun Zhao touched his flat stomach, and unexpectedly, his lower abdomen made a "gurgling" sound.
Yun Zhao: ...
There's no need to be so cooperative!
Doesn't she have any pride?
The little baby blushed immediately.
"Hahaha, it's normal for kids to get hungry easily. Come on, Uncle will take you to buy some food!"
Uncle Lu laughed as he jumped off the courtyard wall and carried her outside.
The alleyway immediately fell silent.
Yun Zhao was too young, and the Dali Temple didn't even give her a properly fitting prison uniform.
Therefore, she was wearing a coarse cloth garment that the jailer had found at random, which made her look exactly like the Lu family father and son.
Yun Zhao said he was hungry, but dragged the two of them around to buy things.
At this moment, Luo Hao couldn't find the person anywhere and didn't dare to delay, so he immediately ordered the others to take the prisoner back and notify his elder brother Luo Qing.
Xu Qingyi knew she was powerless, so she followed the people back to the post station.
Upon seeing her three younger brothers, tears welled up in her eyes once again.
"Ah Fei! Zhao Zhao has been kidnapped!"
"What! Are all these officials just sitting around doing nothing? They can't even keep an eye on such a young child?"
Xu Yifei instantly exploded and rushed forward demanding an explanation from the officials.
Luo Qing's face darkened, and he shouted sternly, "Xu Yifei! You stop right there!"
"Luo Qing, if a prisoner is lost on the way to exile, you won't be able to escape responsibility either!"
Besides, we've only been demoted to commoners, not death row inmates! Now remove my shackles, I need to find my niece!
Xu Yifei, his face grim, gave Luo Qing a fierce warning.
"Impossible! Get back here! You lot, go find him. The rest of you, handcuff him. None of you are leaving!"
"Sir, how about this? You can keep the silver. My brother and sister are here."
My older brother and I couldn't possibly have run away, right? You guys take my older brother and me to look for them. My older brother is strong; he'll definitely be able to help!
Xu Yinan took the silver from her sister and frantically stuffed it into Luo Qing's hand.
Xu Yiyuan dragged his injured leg forward and saw that he had stuffed a large bag of silver into his hand. He hurriedly stepped forward and pulled him away.
"Second brother, what are you doing! That little bastard from the Yun family is dead, so be it. You'd be better off using this money to buy medicine for me and Mother!"
"What nonsense are you talking about! That's your niece!"
Xu Yiyan angrily pushed his fourth brother away.
Xu Qingshi hadn't expected them to be so wealthy. A plan formed in her mind, and she quickly followed, saying, "Fourth Brother is right."
"Big sister, how could you be so unfilial? Mother was beaten so badly, and you've hidden away so much money, yet you haven't even bought her medicine!"
"That's right, the officials have already gone to look for them, so what help can you possibly be by going along?"
Wu Lianzhen echoed, her eyes fixed on the silver in Xu Yinan's hand.
With this money, would she still need to eat those hard-to-swallow cornbreads?
"That's my daughter! How I use my money is none of your business!"
Xu Qingyi screamed and pushed Xu Yiyuan away, who stumbled and fell to the ground.
Why did you hit my husband!
Seeing her husband fall, Wu Lianzhen rushed over in anger.
The scene immediately descended into chaos.
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