Chapter 453 Falling off the Cliff
Fortunately, the masked man did not notice that Song Yuntang got off the carriage. After passing the bushes, he continued to move forward.
Song Yuntang breathed a sigh of relief, fearing that someone else would come soon. He thought it would be easy to be discovered if he hid on the roadside. After looking around, he walked towards the mountains, wondering if he could find a valley or cave to hide in.
She had just turned around and walked a few steps forward when a carriage came from Anyang County. It stopped for a short while at the corner and then drove away.
Song Yuntang had already walked a short distance into the forest and was unaware of what was happening on the official road.
The terrain in the forest was steep and dangerous. Not long after she walked forward, she was blocked by a cliff.
She looked down the cliff and was about to turn around and walk away when a figure suddenly jumped out from behind a big tree and stretched out his hand to her.
Song Yuntang's pupils widened suddenly, but the person moved too fast and she had no time to dodge.
Almost instinctively, when those hands touched her, she suddenly grabbed the owner of those hands. At the same time, the agate hairpin on her head fell to the ground.
"ah!!!"
When Lin Zhaozhao saw herself being grabbed by Song Yuntang, she screamed in fright.
But at this time her hands had already been pushed out, and under this thrust, the bodies of the two could not stop falling down.
Lin Zhaozhao was shocked and scared.
Now her father won't allow her mother to support her anymore. After being caught cheating in the imperial examination last year and being shackled and punished, He Yuanfei has been devastated and has been living a life of drunkenness and debauchery all day, not caring about the lives of her family.
If she didn't give him money, he would start beating and scolding her.
After he spent all the cash she had, she had originally planned to go to the pawnshop in the provincial capital to sell some jewelry to supplement the family income. However, in this harvest year, she could only get a better price in the provincial capital.
On the way, he happened to meet his eldest brother who was going to the capital to take part in the imperial examination. Knowing that he would pass through Yingshan City, he asked him to give him a ride.
On the way here just now, she saw the maid beside Song Yuntang driving a carriage past, and behind the carriage was a masked man riding a tall horse. She was feeling lucky at the time, thinking that the man was going after Song Yuntang.
As a result, the carriage had not driven far towards Yingshan City when she lifted the window curtain again and actually saw Song Yuntang's figure.
Her life has fallen into hell now, all because of Song Yuntang.
The terrain of the mountains and forests here is steep and rugged. She finally got the chance and originally wanted to make Song Yuntang suffer a little.
But I didn't expect that I would be implicated as well.
Although Song Yuntang was unwilling in his heart, things had come to this point now. Even if he died, he had to take someone with him. So he grabbed Lin Zhaozhao's collar in mid-air and spun around, letting her lie under him.
Holding the hope that there might still be a chance of survival, she bent her body slightly and tried her best to protect her abdomen.
Lin Zhaozhao was so angry that she wanted to change direction again, but Song Yuntang held her acupoint tightly, and she was in so much pain that she couldn't move at all.
Lin Zhaozhao was so scared that she broke down and cried.
Song Yuntang gave a bitter smile.
When she was in the carriage, she was imagining how happy Xu Qingye and her parents-in-law would be when they heard the news of her pregnancy, but she didn't expect that she wouldn't even have the chance to tell them.
However, in this life, being able to fall in love with someone and to have a moment of happiness with them is always luckier than in the previous life.
If there are regrets, there are definitely some.
The baby in her belly has not been born yet, she has not really become a mother yet, and she has not fulfilled her promise to Xu Qingye to grow old together.
A tear slipped from the corner of her eye, and she grabbed the neck of the culprit under her hard.
The next moment, there was a loud "bang" and the two fell into a big river. Although Song Yuntang had Lin Zhaozhao supporting him, he still suffered a considerable impact. After his eyes were hit by the splashing water, his vision went black and he lost consciousness.
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Capital city.
Xu Qingye was reading a book in the room, and for some reason, he suddenly felt a sense of panic in his heart.
This has never happened before.
He frowned and put down the book in his hand.
"Gui Ping, has the post station to Yingshan City been restored?"
Guiping bowed.
"When I went to ask yesterday, they said it hadn't been restored yet. I'll go to the post station and ask when I'm free this afternoon."
Xu Qingye nodded, and because he couldn't calm down, he stood up and looked out the window, gazing in the direction of Yingshan City, wondering what he was thinking.
I will take part in the imperial examination in another month.
Soon he will be able to go home and reunite with his wife and family.
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Xia Ning got the poison from Song Yuntang. After driving the carriage to a place far away from Song Yuntang, he stopped the carriage, jumped up and went towards the masked man behind.
The man's pupils shrank, and he quickly abandoned his horse and jumped towards her.
Seeing this, Xia Ning raised a wicked smile at the corner of his lips, raised his hand and scattered the powder, and the man was caught off guard and the powder hit his face.
Although his face was covered, the man still inhaled some fine powder through the mask.
After a few moves, the man felt dizzy for a moment.
Kill him while he’s ill!
Xia Ning showed no mercy. He pulled out a dagger from his arms, quickly wiped the man's neck, and killed him with one blow!
After throwing the body down the hillside, she clapped her hands, cleaned up the bloodstains on the road, and then drove the carriage back.
But after searching for a long time at the place where Song Yuntang got off the carriage, he did not see her.
Xia Ning hid the carriage in the bushes, found a stick and walked into the mountains.
She searched in the mountains for quarter of an hour and finally found an agate hairpin on the edge of a cliff.
Xia Ning's heart began to panic, and he had a bad feeling.
"Master! County Lady! Are you nearby? I have cleared out the bad guys. You can come out now. Let's go home!"
However, no one responded.
Xia Ning's eyes were red and she picked up the hairpin on the ground with trembling hands.
She was not unfamiliar with this hairpin.
It is the one that Song Yuntang usually wears.
After what happened in the past, her life was originally dark. In the more than a year that she followed Song Yuntang, she never regarded herself as a servant.
As long as she has what she needs, she is never stingy about it.
Gradually, some different colors appeared in front of her eyes.
Thinking of the child she had lost, she was genuinely happy for Song Yuntang when she learned that she was pregnant, and she took extra care in taking care of her.
But now, her master is missing.
The master now has a harmonious family, a loving husband, and is pregnant. There is no possibility of suicide. The footprints on the cliff confirm that the master has indeed been there.
The only possibility was that someone followed her here and murdered her.
Thinking of this, Xia Ning felt a pang of pain in his heart.
She began to look for a way down the cliff.
After all, she was the one who lost her master, so she must find him back no matter what.
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