Chapter 39: Life-saving Grace
"How could there be bandits here?" The woman in the sedan chair walked out in panic.
She had been to Lingyan Temple countless times, but this was the first time she had encountered such a situation. Seeing the sedan bearers lying at her feet, she began to panic.
"Miss, let's run away!" At this time, the maid fearfully pulled the woman's hand, preparing to run to the side.
But at this moment, several bandits holding big knives suddenly ran out from the depths of the forest, and their faces looked extremely ferocious.
"Ah! There are bandits, there are bandits! Miss, run!" The maid was frightened by the bandits and screamed immediately. She grabbed her mistress's hand and ran away.
But they are two weak women, how can they run faster than that strong man?
At this time, Pei Jingyuan was hiding in the dark, watching this scene coldly. He planned to wait until the bandit caught the merchant girl and humiliated her, and then stand up as a hero.
However, what he didn't expect was that just when the bandit was about to capture the merchant woman, several sharp arrows suddenly shot out, and each arrow hit the bandit's heart with incredible precision.
The bandit who was shot opened his eyes wide in shock, slowly looked at his chest, and said, "Didn't we agree that we were just here to act? Why did you send someone to kill us?"
The bandits thought that they had done countless evil things in their lives and had never suffered retribution. They had never had any problems when they had robbed or kidnapped before. Now they were just putting on a show and had no intention of really hurting anyone, so why did something go wrong?
"Ah!" The woman and the maid beside her couldn't help but scream when they saw the bandit being shot and falling to the ground.
At this moment, they were so scared that they didn't dare to open their eyes to see this horrible scene until a gentle female voice came to their ears.
"Girl, the bad guy is dead, you don't have to be afraid." Xu Qingyan and Pei Jingchuan walked up to the woman and looked at her gently.
Pei Jingyuan, who was hiding in the dark, was extremely surprised when he saw Pei Jingchuan holding a bow and arrow and shooting the bandits he had hired.
Pei Jingyuan was very unwilling and complained: Why did they appear here? Now, this planned hero saving the beauty was ruined by them. So, he stopped hiding and decided to go out and pretend to meet by chance.
Pei Jingyuan saluted towards Pei Jingchuan and asked in confusion: "Brother, why are you here too?" After adjusting his mood, Pei Jingyuan hurried over from the side with a few guards.
When he took a look at the bodies on the ground, he pretended to be surprised and said, "How did they die? I just happened to come here from somewhere else just to chase these bandits!"
"So there is such a coincidence? Are you here to hunt down these bandits?" Pei Jingchuan responded to Pei Jingyuan calmly, without thinking too much, just mocking Pei Jingyuan for being a good actor. At this time, he was still unwilling to give up and wanted to come over to find an opportunity to contact him.
"These bandits are capable of all kinds of evil and have harmed many people. I have been tracking them down recently and was just about to shoot them, but I didn't expect that you, brother, would take action first. By the way, girl, are you okay? Are you scared?" Pei Jingyuan said as he looked at the merchant girl who had not yet recovered from her shock.
He deliberately said that he was just chasing these bandits, no doubt to tell Shang Nu that even if Pei Jingchuan and the others did not take action just now, he would have taken action. He looked at Shang Nu with concern, as if he had just saved her.
"Thank you for saving me, sir! I'm fine now." After the merchant girl recovered, she looked at Pei Jingchuan and the others with gratitude.
At this time, Pei Jingyuan was a little unhappy when he saw the merchant girl ignoring him. When he saw Xu Qingyan, he seemed to remember something and deliberately asked: "Brother, you brought your sister-in-law here. Are you here to worship Buddha at Lingyan Temple?"
Pei Jingyuan asked this question because he wanted to tell Shangnv that his elder brother was already married, and he must not let her have any ideas about his elder brother.
"Yes, the young master brought me here to worship Buddha specially, and then we encountered bandits. I took the opportunity to see the injustice and saved this girl. I also happened to help you catch these bad guys. Second brother, don't be too grateful to us!" Before Pei Jingchuan could speak, Xu Qingyan saw through Pei Jingyuan's intention and smiled deliberately.
At this time, the business woman said to Xu Qingyan gratefully: "Thank you two for saving me. I have no way to repay you. I just want to know your names so that I can remember them in my heart."
Xu Qingyan turned her head and glanced at her, thinking that although this was a good deed that she would not leave her name behind, it was not easy for Pei Jingyuan to do so. So, this time, she had to leave her name behind.
Xu Qingyan said to the merchant girl, "I am the wife of the prince of the Duke of Ying, and this is my husband. Young lady, you don't have to be so polite. My husband is an official appointed by the court, and it is his job to deal with these bad guys."
"So it's the young master and the prince's wife. I, Chen Feifei, pay my respects to the young master and the prince's wife!" When Chen Feifei heard the other party's identity, she couldn't help but be a little surprised, and hurriedly knelt down with her maid to express her gratitude.
She never imagined that the people who had just saved her were of such noble status.
At this time, Pei Jingyuan, who was standing aside, found that he was being ignored. He secretly clenched his fists and said to himself: "This business woman is really ungrateful. She actually dared to ignore me!"
However, Pei Jingchuan was here now, so he couldn't get angry at all and had to hold it back.
After the kidnapping by bandits, Chen Feifei was naturally in no mood to go up the mountain to worship Buddha again, so she said goodbye to Xu Qingyan and the others and went straight back to the Chen Mansion.
Pei Jingchuan and Xu Qingyan were still in high spirits and continued to go to Lingyan Temple, while Pei Jingyuan cleaned up the mess he had left behind and pretended to bring the bodies of the bandits back to report.
After returning home, Pei Jingyuan was angry all night about what happened today, and in the end he blamed it all on Xu Qingyan.
It was because Pei Jingchuan had never believed in gods and Buddhas. He had never worshipped Buddha in the past few years. He had suddenly decided to worship Buddha yesterday. It must have been because of Xu Qingyan. Since my eldest brother married Xu Qingyan, a lot of things have really changed!
But what he didn't expect was that before he could calm down from being angry about this incident, something happened the next day that made him even angrier.
——The next day——
Early in the morning, Chen Feifei came to visit with several carts full of gifts to thank him for saving her life yesterday.
At this moment, Chen Feifei looked at Xu Qingyan and the others with a sincere expression and said, "Young Master, Madam, these are my gifts of thanks to you! If you hadn't saved me yesterday, I wouldn't be standing here today. These small gifts are not meant to be a token of respect, but I hope you will accept them!"
When Xu Qingyan saw those gifts, she was extremely surprised and excited. "Oh my God! This merchant's daughter is really rich! For saving my life, she gave me several cars full of gold, silver, jewelry, cloth and porcelain. She even said that these were small gifts? This is almost half of my dowry! I'm rich... I'm rich... I'm really rich now! Hahaha... Hurry up and put it in my little treasury!"
When Pei Jingchuan was about to say you're welcome and let Shangnv take all these things back, he heard Xu Qingyan's voice. She seemed to like them very much. In this case, should he return them to her?
When Pei Jingchuan thought of how much Xu Qingyan liked him, he suddenly felt like he couldn't open his mouth to speak.
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