Chapter 232 Stalker
The father, his two daughters, prepared everything and headed for Lingnan City.
Before leaving Qingxi Village, Sang Xingjia suddenly looked back and saw that the road was empty.
His action immediately aroused Sang Yu's vigilance. She looked over but didn't see any figure.
"Brother, is someone following us?" Sang Yu asked.
She was a family member who knew her own business, and was basically unaware of other people's gazes or following, so she specifically mentioned it to Sang Xingjia and asked him to pay more attention.
Could it be that someone in the village discovered that they were doing business to make money and wanted to follow them and learn from them?
But if he wanted to learn secretly, shouldn’t he stay at home? Sang Yu couldn’t figure it out.
"Maybe it's my illusion." Sang Xingjia frowned slightly. He just turned around because he felt there was someone behind him, but there was indeed no one on the road. Maybe he was wrong.
"There's no such thing as an illusion. How could I not have been wrong before? Someone must be following us. Don't worry, just keep going. Once we get to the official road, I don't believe he can hide anymore."
Sang Yu doesn't believe in any illusions. People's sixth sense is very sharp.
Some people will feel something when they are being stared at, and can even lock onto the specific location of the person looking at them at a glance.
Although Sang Xingjia was not that perceptive, he suddenly felt that someone was following him, so it was most likely that someone was really following him.
No matter what the other party's intentions are, once you walk onto the official road, you can clearly see their appearance and identity.
Seeing Sang Yongjing also turning around and craning his neck to look around, Sang Yu made a decision: "Ignore him for now, let's continue on our way."
After leaving the canyon and crossing the mountain to the official road, Sang Yu walked forward for a while before looking back. There was no one on the straight and empty official road.
"Oh, you are a patient person." She sneered and continued walking forward.
"Yu'er, do you think it's possible that the man has gone back a long time ago?" Sang Yongjing felt that even if he was following him, it shouldn't have taken so long without him catching up. What if he lost him?
Sang Yu simply denied his guess: "No."
"Since he's been following us since the village, it means he must know us, and perhaps even knows that we'll be selling goods in the market."
"When the time comes, if we go to a few large markets, we'll be easily found. There's no need to worry about losing us if we don't catch up now."
Isn't this a dead end? What exactly does that person want to do? If he doesn't figure it out, Sang Yongjing feels that he will be worried all day.
"Yu'er, how should we deal with this?" he couldn't help but ask.
"Do you remember where we were on the official road before? When we get there, we'll wait for the opportunity." Sang Yu smiled confidently.
You can't follow the other person's logic, otherwise you will be restricted in every way. Since the other person has been far behind, it means that he doesn't want them to know his true identity.
Then they should step out, confirm the other party's identity first, and then think about what he wants to do.
Under the official road, in the shadow on the side, Sang Yongjing, who had squatted until his legs were numb, could no longer hold on. He simply sat down on the ground without caring whether it was dirty or not.
"Will anyone really come?"
After waiting for so long and not seeing anyone, they hope they won’t waste their time waiting in vain.
Sang Yu, who had been squatting on a rock and watching from a distance, suddenly said, "Hush! Someone is coming."
When she saw a small black dot appear in the distance, she jumped from the stone to the ground and squatted down with the father and son to hide.
Sang Xingjia lowered his voice and asked, "Can you see who it is?"
Sang Yu shook his head slightly: "No rush, wait until he passes by, we have plenty of time to observe."
As long as we don't alert the enemy, as long as the other party passes by here, the identities of both parties will be reversed from then on, with the enemy in the open and us in the dark.
As for who the visitor was, Sang Yu actually had a guess in his mind, most likely Shen Wenfu or Wang Shun.
After all, apart from them, no one in the village would be suspicious of their family.
But she couldn't figure out why she had just saved Chen Huitan and now sent someone to follow her. Did she think she had ulterior motives for not repaying her kindness, or was there something else?
Hiding in the shadows, Sang Yongjing had no idea whether the man on the official road had passed by. He was anxious and always wanted to stick his head out to take a look.
Sang Yu calculated the time silently in his mind. The initial distance at which the human eye can clearly see a human figure is in an open area, about one kilometer, or one thousand meters.
The average adult's walking speed is about 1.4 meters per second, so it would take the other person more than 700 seconds, or about 12 minutes, to walk over.
Wait a moment.
Finally, when Sang Yu felt the time was almost up, the three of them secretly stepped onto the stone, slowly raised their bodies, and revealed a pair of eyes to look out...
"Xiao Zhao?!"
The three of them screamed at the same time, how could it be her.
This morning, after they left, Xiao Zhao sneaked out of the house. Xie Qiujin noticed her leaving, but she just thought she was going to play with Sang Xinghao and didn't take it to heart.
She followed the three people all the way, and when Sang Xingjia turned around, she hid in the wall between two houses in time and was not discovered.
After an experience where she was almost discovered, she became more cautious and followed from a distance.
Her father told her that as long as she stayed two miles away from others, they wouldn't be able to spot her even if they were standing on the same road.
So she estimated the distance based on their walking speed and kept a distance of at least two miles to avoid being discovered.
However, she didn't expect that when she was halfway there, three pairs of eyes suddenly appeared from the side of the official road. She was so scared that she fell to the ground, thinking that she had encountered bandits.
When she heard her name and realized who the three people in front of her were, she felt that it would be better for her to meet bandits.
Sang Yu poked Xiao Zhao's forehead lightly with one finger and pretended to be fierce: "I'm telling you, don't think that I can't do anything to you just because you can't speak."
"Tell me the truth, why are you following us?"
Xiao Zhao glanced at her guiltily and saw that she looked angry. She reached out and started writing on the ground.
"No, follow?" Sang Yongjing read out the three words she wrote one by one. "Does it mean you are not following us?"
Xiao Zhao nodded quickly, her face full of sincerity.
"Then what do you want to do in the city?" Sang Yu would not easily believe her sophistry. If she was not following them, why did she follow them from a distance?
Xiao Zhao quickly reached out to erase the words he had written earlier and continued writing on the yellow earth.
This time Sang Yongjing couldn't read it out. Sang Yu looked at the words on the ground and guessed, but couldn't figure out the meaning for a long time.
She increasingly felt that she was illiterate and that a literacy campaign had to be put on the agenda as soon as possible.
Fortunately, after reading it, Sang Xingjia took the initiative to ask: "What is the meaning of looking for relatives?"
Sang Yu raised her eyebrows slightly. Looking for relatives? Wasn't Xiao Zhao a slave? Where would the relatives come from?
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