Chapter 407: Unexpected Disaster
Qin Xiangnuan and his companions quickly set off in the dark. Faced with the closed city gates, the vendors seemed a little nervous.
"You wait here for a moment, I'll be back soon." Qin Xiangnuan asked the eldest brother of the Li family to guard the people here, and quietly approached the guards guarding the city gate.
The boring job of guarding the city gate would make people tired. Qin Xiangnuan heard them talking while trying to stay awake.
"It's still an hour until dawn. Do you want to go find a place to drink later?"
"No, don't drink every day, or you'll break down."
"What else can we do if we don't drink? No one passes by here all day. Who would remember us two brothers?"
"You're right. Only when we're drinking will anyone pay attention to you and me."
As soon as he finished speaking, one of them saw a figure flash by. For a moment he thought he was seeing things and rubbed his eyes hard.
"It happened..." The person standing opposite him was knocked to the ground by Qin Xiangnuan before he could finish his words.
"You, who are you!" This sudden change made the man completely sober, and he immediately wanted to shout loudly to call others over.
But after shouting one word, he was knocked to the ground by Qin Xiangnuan.
Qin Xiangnuan did not leave immediately. Instead, she waited for a while, making sure that no one else noticed the commotion and came rushing over before opening the city gate and leaving with Li Yuran and the others.
"Third Miss, are they all dead?"
A long time after leaving the city gate, one of the vendors asked Qin Xiangnuan tremblingly that he was really scared when he passed by the two people lying on the ground just now.
He just came out for the money and didn't want to be involved in any lives.
"I won't kill people at will." When Qin Xiangnuan's eyes fell on the person asking the question, she saw the fear of herself in his eyes, and said this after looking away lightly.
"..." The merchant was not comforted by Qin Xiangnuan's words, because what Qin Xiangnuan said was 'I won't kill at will', which means that Qin Xiangnuan would kill.
This inevitably made it impossible for him to eliminate his fear of Qin Xiangnuan for a while.
"Then, then..."
The man wanted to ask something, but was slapped by the person next to him. "Why are you so scared? The Third Miss is doing this to help us, but you are thinking of something terrible here!"
"Ah." The man, trapped in fear, took it to heart. After weighing the pros and cons, he hesitantly said to Qin Xiangnuan, "Third Miss, I may have been a little offensive just now. It's just the first time I've seen you..."
"No need to say more, I understand." Qin Xiangnuan smiled indifferently.
In fact, Qin Xiangnuan could have simply not said such words to scare them, but Qin Xiangnuan didn't want to pretend, rather than let others point fingers at her behind her back and make unnecessary comments.
It would be better for Qin Xiangnuan to tell them in person so that they would stop making up stories.
"Nuannuan, are we safe now?" Li Yuran wanted to break the deadlock here. He looked back at the way he came and asked this question.
Qin Xiangnuan turned sideways, nodded with a slight smile on her lips, "It will take them another hour to realize we've left, which is plenty of time for us to shake them off."
Li Yuran only cared about this matter and nodded, saying, "That's good."
The eldest brother of the Li family asked why they left so suddenly.
Qin Xiangnuan explained how the young man who had troubled them was treated by his father. "I made a deal with his father before, but if I had known he was such a ruthless person, I would not have negotiated with him."
The others sighed as they heard this. Li Yuran had previously thought about making that young man suffer, but after hearing what he was going through now, he felt a little sympathetic.
"Are you afraid that his father will take revenge on us?" asked the eldest brother of the Li family with a frown.
Qin Xiangnuan nodded. "That person is very narrow-minded. I noticed this when I went to talk to him earlier, but I thought at that time that we were only here for a few days and would have nothing to do with him after we left."
"Third Miss, will he find the border?" The vendors were afraid that innocent people would be hurt and looked at Qin Xiangnuan nervously.
"Don't worry, his arms aren't that long yet," Qin Xiangnuan said. "If we leave, he won't be able to find anyone tomorrow. Even if he's angry, he won't be able to do anything else."
The eldest brother of the Li family nodded. "He is just an official in this place. It's fine if he can control everything here, but he can't interfere in other places."
The vendors breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this.
Qin Xiangnuan chose to escape overnight, not because she was afraid of not being able to resolve the officials' dilemma, but because that would take time and energy to deal with. Qin Xiangnuan was unwilling to waste time here, and leaving without confronting anyone head-on was the best option.
It was just that Qin Xiangnuan and the others left easily, but they didn't expect that the people in the inn would suffer because of them.
"The person was in your inn yesterday, but disappeared just overnight?" A group of yamen runners stood in the middle of the inn with knives, scaring the guests so much that they dared not move.
"You are the one who beat me. I really don't know when that person left." The shopkeeper knelt on the ground and wailed. He had endless grievances in his heart, but no one was willing to listen.
"I think you're the one hiding the person."
The shopkeeper had no way to defend himself against such unreasonable behavior. The entire inn was searched by this group of people. They searched everywhere that should be searched, demolished things that should not be demolished, and smashed things that should not be smashed.
The shopkeeper no longer had the strength to stop the yamen runners' brutal behavior, and now he almost didn't have the strength to cry out.
How could the yamen runners not know that Qin Xiangnuan's death had little to do with the inn, but if they didn't let the shopkeeper suffer, they would be the ones who would suffer when they returned to explain to the master.
Therefore, the yamen runners would not let the shopkeeper go so easily and had no choice but to treat him so cruelly.
"Master, the man disappeared last night, and the two of us guarding the city gate have not woken up yet." The bailiff stood in front of the young master's father with his head lowered, not daring to look at the expression of impending disaster on that face.
"You haven't woken up yet?" The young master's father sneered, "If that's the case, then don't wake up again."
"What?" Not hearing the person in front of him respond, the young master's father raised his voice and said softly, "Can't you do it?"
"Yes, sure." The person who spoke responded quickly. Although he guessed that the two people would have such an ending, he still couldn't help feeling a chill when he heard such words.
"I'll do it right away." After saying this, the man quickly retreated, fearing that the person in a high position would think that he was also at fault at some point.
Qin Xiangnuan was completely unaware of the tragedy happening here, and naturally had no idea that the man was even more narrow-minded than she thought.
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