Chapter 25 They are all here to make things difficult for him
It was already daybreak, and both sides of the streets in the imperial city were filled with small vendors doing morning market. Because it was raining, most of them stood under the eaves, watching the Gu family slowly walk by.
There was suspicion, compassion, and pity in those people's eyes, but the people just watched.
The Gu family members walked with their backs straight, neither humble nor arrogant, knowing in their hearts that the situation they would encounter in the future would be a thousand times more difficult than the current one!
Before they reached the city gate, the Gu family was blocked by a long line of people leaving the city. It turned out that due to the theft of the imperial palace treasury, the Dali Temple ordered that the city gates could not be opened temporarily in order to track down the thieves. As a result, many people were unable to leave the city.
The escort team paused on the spot. Ran Qingxuan carried Gu Yanchen on his back for half an hour. At this time, he was really exhausted and his legs were trembling slightly.
Gu Yanchen, who was lying on Ran Qingxuan's back, felt her body trembling slightly. He struggled for a while, as if he wanted to get down.
"You must not move. I have my own way to relieve it."
The road out of the city was blocked, and these exiles had to leave. The officers and soldiers escorting them out of the city had already gone to negotiate at the city gate. Ran Qingxuan took advantage of the fact that there were few people around and walked towards the officers and soldiers she had negotiated with at the beginning.
The second sister-in-law Chang Yue'e followed him out of concern and helped support Gu Yanchen.
"This official..."
When the soldier saw that Ran Qingxuan was looking for him again, he took a step back with some fear.
After all, not long after Ran Qingxuan left to get medicine, Deng Zhuo had his head exploded on the street, which made it hard for him not to be suspicious.
But no matter how suspicious he was, he had no evidence to prove that all this was related to Ran Qingxuan.
Looking back and seeing that no one was paying attention, he whispered impatiently.
"If you have something to say, please tell me now."
The families of the two sisters-in-law followed behind, and after seeing the situation here, they walked forward quickly, but did not dare to get too close.
"Sir, how long does it take for us to get to the outskirts of the city?"
"About an hour. Why are you asking these questions?" the soldier replied impatiently.
Ran Qingxuankong wiped his face and straightened his back unconsciously.
"You must have seen that the Gu family has no extra people to help except us women. It will probably take some time to reach the outskirts of the city..."
"So what do you want? Do you want me to carry it for you?"
Seeing that the officers and soldiers were starting to get angry, Ran Qingxuan pointed at an old vegetable seller's cart nearby.
"How dare I trouble you, sir? I just want to ask if you can sell the cart. If you can, it won't delay your journey and you won't have to get out in the rain for a long time. How do you think?"
The officers and soldiers' first reaction was that they had hidden the money. Just as they were about to scold them loudly, the second sister-in-law Chang Yue'e's family went to the old vegetable seller to discuss buying a cart.
The old man knew very well that his vegetable cart was not worth much money, so after packing up the things on it, he simply took the money and left.
Seeing that the rain was getting heavier, the soldier realized that if he reached the suburbs as soon as possible, he could return quickly, so he simply acquiesced to the Chang family's actions.
Ran Qingxuan gently placed Gu Yanchen on the vegetable cart and thanked the mother of his second sister-in-law Chang Yue'e.
"Thank you ma'am."
At the same time, the leader of the officers and soldiers who went to the city gate to negotiate came back and told them that the prisoners could leave first, and the team started moving again.
With the cart, Ran Qingxuan and his friends were able to speed up. When they reached the outskirts of the city, they found that in addition to the officers in charge of escorting them, there was also the father of their eldest and second sister-in-law.
Due to their high official positions, the soldiers guarding the city only questioned them and then let them go. Unexpectedly, they would have to wait for more than an hour.
Chang Hu was furious when he saw his sister and her family coming in the rain. When he picked up the raincoat beside him and was about to go forward, he was stopped by the escorting officers nearby.
"General Chang, letting you wait here is against the law, please don't make things difficult for us!"
General Chang was a man with a bad temper. He immediately limped forward and scolded him.
"What bullshit, believe it or not, I will go to the government office right away and make sure you can't even be escorted to the prison."
The officer who spoke to them was called Bu Wei, the leader of the group. As he had been escorting criminals for many years, he was considered an old hand and knew that they were no match for him.
There was a hint of sarcasm in his eyes, but a flattering smile appeared on his face.
"Look at what you said. It's not like there's no room for negotiation. Since we're all women, please do as you please!"
Even though the rain had soaked people, Chang Hu still took a straw raincoat and put it on Gu Yanchen. He didn't want to see the person he admired being treated like this.
When Chang Hu saw that the person pulling the cart was a strange woman, a hint of doubt appeared in his eyes and he murmured to his sister beside him.
"This doesn't look like your fourth or fifth sister-in-law, right?"
When the second sister-in-law Chang Yue'e heard this, she was instantly anxious and angry. She knew that her eldest brother was a ferocious person, but she didn't expect him to be so ferocious.
Ran Qingxuan frowned and looked around. When he found that no officers were paying attention to this side, he turned around and glared at Chang Hu fiercely.
The second sister-in-law Chang Yue'e explained in a low voice, but she only explained Ran Qingxuan's identity and the misunderstanding, and did not say much about the whereabouts of the fourth and fifth brothers' wives.
Chang Hu was hit hard by his father, and immediately shrank to the side of Mrs. Chang like a child who had done something wrong.
Unexpectedly, Mrs. Chang also gave him a big fight, and her gnashing of teeth was no less ferocious than his father's.
Ran Qingxuan watched all this and knew that if there had not been this disaster, the family atmosphere of the Gu family would not have been too bad!
The Gu family members all put on straw raincoats and should have set off by now, but no one saw the escort team take any action.
After waiting in the rain for a while, a large group of people came from the direction of the city gate. At first, Ran Qingxuan didn't pay attention, but those people looked fierce and didn't seem to be faking it.
Before they even got close, the people at the front of the team could no longer contain their anger and started cursing at Gu Yanchen who was lying on the cart.
"Gu Yanchen, it doesn't matter if you want to die, just die quietly alone, why do you want to implicate us?"
"Gu Yanchen, it's you who are clearly wrong, not my Xiao family. Why should we suffer the misfortune with you?"
"Gu Yanchen, my Shang family is loyal to the emperor and the country, but I didn't expect that I would become a prisoner because of you..."
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There were not only curses in the crowd, but also cries of women and children, but the escorting officers turned a deaf ear to them.
Ran Qingxuan narrowed his eyes. It was not difficult to hear from these people's words that the emperor wanted to make Gu Yanchen's journey of exile uncomfortable, so he actually thought of doing this to achieve his goal.
With these people traveling with them, they will definitely have a hard time on the journey...
The owner of the three abusive voices was both strange and familiar to Gu Yanchen. The man lying on the cart opened his eyes slightly and looked into the exile team through the cover of the wide straw raincoat.
All the prisoners had hideous looks on their faces, and they wished they could eat his flesh and drink his blood. When Gu Yanchen saw the person who cursed the most harshly, he frowned instantly.
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