Chapter 182 Eggs in Two Baskets
Liu Mang in the carriage was slightly dissatisfied and lifted the curtain again: "Why did it take so long? Are you sure there is no problem?"
As he said this, he stared into the guard's eyes.
"No." The guard's eyes and movements were normal. "The woman refused for a while, which delayed us a bit."
After confirming that the guards were alright, Liu Mang lowered the carriage curtain. "Hmph, that's just a woman's trick of playing hard to get. Give her a hundred or eighty taels of silver and see if she refuses."
"Your Excellency is right," the guard replied.
Liu Mang didn't say anything else, but after the carriage went a short distance, he narrowed his eyes, feeling a little uneasy.
"Someone come here." His voice was very low. "Go after them and take a look. If you find anything wrong, report it immediately."
He was not speaking to the guard following him, but to another security guard who had not had any contact with the woman in white just now.
Until the guard received the order and left, there was no special expression on the guard's face, which was very calm.
Half a cup of tea later, the security guard came back.
"Your Excellency, I chased after her and saw with my own eyes that woman walk into a shop on the front street. She must have gone to buy rouge and powder."
"Rouge and powder?" Liu Mang frowned.
At first glance, this doesn't seem to be a problem.
But if you were going to buy rouge and powder, why would you come to this remote path?
There are so many rouge and powder shops on the front street, why did the woman choose to take this road and bump into their carriage?
After experiencing Minister Bai's invitation, Liu Mang always suspected that this was a trap.
He called the guard: "What does that woman look like?"
"She has willow-shaped eyebrows, a high nose, and a small cherry mouth." The guard answered in a serious tone.
Liu Mang asked this question with the original intention of seeing if he knew this woman.
He is very familiar with the Lin family.
But the guard's eyes were firm and calm when he answered, and he didn't look like he was lying.
There are too many women with these characteristics, so their identities cannot be confirmed.
Unable to figure out the reason, Liu Mang felt a little depressed.
The more he thought about it, the more strange it seemed to him. Since Lin Zhiqing had used his connections and played the card of Minister Bai, they would definitely not let it go.
Eggs should always be placed in two baskets to be safe.
The Lin family actually had this idea, so they would not just arrange one Minister Bai.
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that there was something fishy about the woman in white, and he immediately stopped the carriage:
"Change the route and go through the West Market."
The driver was stunned, but quickly turned the car around. He did not dare to disobey Liu Mang's order.
The carriage soon entered the main road of West City.
It is called a highway, but in fact it is just a dirt road that can only accommodate one carriage.
There are many small vendors selling their wares on both sides of the street.
Hearing this sound, Liu Mang frowned, thinking it was noisy.
The people outside the carriage also disliked the noise in the West Market, which made them feel confused.
After finally walking out of the downtown area and turning into a small alley, the noise finally quieted down and everyone's brows relaxed.
But before they could relax for long, a burst of mumbling chanting sounds rang out.
Liu Mang frowned, pulled open the carriage curtain, and saw a house on the side of the road with its door wide open, white banners hanging around, and some paper money dropped outside the door.
Several monks were sitting around chanting scriptures.
Under the big willow tree not far from the door, several women were burning paper while crying.
unlucky!
This was Liu Mang’s first reaction.
Seeing white when going out means bloody disaster.
"Go faster." He suppressed his dissatisfaction and urged the driver.
"Yes, sir!" The coachman glanced at the coffin parked inside the door, was frightened, and hurriedly looked away.
Perhaps because of fear, he felt a dull pain in his waist.
A guard in front of the carriage saw this scene and couldn't help but think of his father who had passed away a few years ago.
Sadness filled him, and he turned his head away suddenly and quickened his pace, not wanting to be immersed in the sad mood.
Soon, the group passed the house where the funeral was being held.
But the sound of chanting could not be shaken off.
"Bah!" A guard at the back was so annoyed that he couldn't help but spit: "What bad luck! Why do they have to do it today when they can't do it any other day!"
Liu Mang frowned when he heard this.
It would be fine if he said this to himself, but now he was speaking in front of outsiders and his voice was a little loud. If it got out, it might affect the reputation he had worked so hard to build.
He lifted the curtain of the sedan chair and was about to warn the security guard when a sharp voice came over.
"You rotten heartless bastard, don't think I didn't hear you. When your parents died, did you just quietly dig a hole and bury them?" A middle-aged woman under the big willow tree put her hands on her hips and started cursing in the direction of the carriage.
The guard who had spoken without thinking just now still felt a little guilty and remorseful, but when he heard the woman cursing his parents to die early, he instantly became angry:
"Old hag, my parents are alive and well, but it's your family members who died. It must have been your mouth that ruined them!"
"You rotten heartless bastard, say that again and I'll tear your mouth apart!" The woman threw the paper money in her hand, rolled up her sleeves and rushed over here.
The guard was dissatisfied and headed towards the back.
Liu Mang frowned, not wanting to waste time here: "How dare you! Don't start an argument! Go back!"
But for some reason, the guard's mind was filled with the woman's noisy voice, and he didn't even listen to Liu Mang's words. Instead, he quickened his pace.
Seeing something was wrong, Liu Mang frowned and said, "Quickly stop him!"
"Yes!" The guard stepped forward and tried to stop the security guard.
But the group of women had already rushed up and quickly started fighting with the security guards.
The guards stepped forward to separate them, but were not spared.
The scene suddenly became chaotic.
"I'll beat you to death, you son of a bitch, and see if you dare disrespect the dead again!"
"You guys have no conscience. So what if you ride in a carriage? Do you think you can save your parents from death just because you have a few stinky bucks?"
"It's clearly you guys who are to blame. Just because you have money, you can stop others from holding funerals?"
All the dirty words were so infuriating that even Liu Mang in the carriage began to lose his temper.
But he still retained his rationality and thought that this group of people coming towards him might have been arranged by the Lin family.
I just don't want to go to the execution ground.
The moment this thought came to my mind, I suddenly felt a pain under my left armpit.
The pain came so unexpectedly that Liu Mang was unprepared and instantly bent over in pain.
He opened his mouth, but before he could say anything, a "ouch" sound that didn't belong to him came out.
Liu Mang lifted the curtain and saw that the driver was holding his waist with a look of great pain.
The security guard at the front covered his chest and rolled on the ground in pain.
At this moment, the fighting stopped abruptly.
What followed were the painful groans of the guards and the terrified voices of the women.
"This...are you trying to blackmail us? It's none of our business, it's none of our business!"
The women scattered instantly and ran into the door. With a "click", the door closed instantly.
Some of Liu Mang's men covered their armpits, some covered their waists, and some covered their chests, and there was a sound of wailing.
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