A maid came in from outside and replied, "Mrs. Luo San must have gone to the backyard."
Lord Gu thought of his daughter and sighed, "Lord Luo, could you please bring your wife to visit me someday when you're free?"
Yining had indeed followed Mrs. Yang to the inner courtyard, and Mrs. Yang wanted to make steamed cheese with sugar for her to eat.
After eating the steamed cheese with sugar and dinner, Master Gu still had to go to the palace, as the emperor had invited him.
In the end, Yining never met Lord Gu.
The sun had already set below the eaves, and the night was beginning to cool. Everyone was ready to go home. Since they were going the same way as Madam Yang, Yi Ning decided to ride in the same carriage, leaving Luo Shenyuan and Yang Ling in the other. Xie Yun also planned to go home, but Master Xie wanted to stay for two days, so she had to go back to the Cheng family alone.
Xie Yun said: "I brought the guards with me, so I don't need to go with you."
Mrs. Xu smiled and said, "They're going the same way, so it's a good idea to take you along. You'll have company on the road." She added, "Otherwise, we'd be worried if you went back alone."
Xie Yun couldn't insist, and since Mrs. Yang was quite enthusiastic, he could only put on his cloak, put on a stern face, and got into Mrs. Yang's carriage, which followed behind.
She drank tea silently on the way, and no matter how active Mrs. Yang was, she couldn't move.
In another carriage, Luo Shenyuan and Yang Ling were discussing the recent relocation of officials. At the end, Yang Ling teased him, "How do you feel about your marriage? You're strong and healthy, so you didn't make them suffer, did you?"
Why does everyone like to ask this? What does it have to do with them?
Luo Shenyuan turned around and pressed Yang Ling's shoulder: "Sir Yang—you are an official appointed by the court. Be more serious. Don't act like an ordinary woman, okay?"
Since Luo San has said so, he definitely won’t tell him.
But Yang Ling thought, he really wanted to know.
At this moment, the carriage suddenly stopped for some reason and braked so hard that Yang Ling almost fell down.
The carriage curtain was lifted, and the servant reported: "Sir, someone on horseback is trying to stop us, claiming to be from the Xu Mansion."
Luo Shenyuan nodded and asked someone to come over. Sure enough, it was a man dressed as a guard, half-kneeling on the ground. Perhaps he was running too fast, and he couldn't stop panting. "Master Luo, I finally caught up with you! Something serious has happened. Master Xu sent me to chase you at full speed. I want you to hurry over!"
This person is Xu Wei's personal bodyguard. Unless it's an emergency, Xu Wei usually won't send him out.
"What exactly happened?" Luo Shenyuan asked after recognizing him. It was difficult for him to judge without knowing the details.
"I don't know either. Lord Xu just asked you to return quickly. When he saw the news he just received, his face changed..."
Luo Shenyuan got out of the carriage upon hearing this and told him to walk away from him. He then asked with his hands behind his back, "Are you from the palace?"
The man nodded.
Luo Shenyuan's face turned cold when he heard this: "Prepare the horse for me."
*
Yi Ning received a message from the servant that Luo Shenyuan said he would go back to Lord Xu temporarily and asked her to go back to the Yang family with Madam Yang.
Yi Ning brought his guards with him and was not worried about his safety, so he asked the servant to go back and report that he had learned about it.
Instead, Xie Yun asked nervously, "But what happened?"
Mrs. Yang was so tired of livening up the atmosphere that she stretched out her voice expressionlessly, "Miss Xie, what does Lord Luo's business have to do with you?"
Xie Yun was provoked and laughed naturally: "I just asked casually, what does it have to do with Madam Yang?"
Mrs. Yang sat up with a sudden somersault and said with a smile, "I was just asking casually. Why does Miss Xie mind it?"
When it came to studying, Xie Yun was the best. When it came to arguing, Xie Yun was far inferior to Mrs. Yang. Yi Ning thought the two of them were just bored, so they were bickering.
Xie Yun felt offended and frowned, "Mrs. Yang, what does this have to do with you?! Why are you being so aggressive?"
Yi Ning sighed and added some tea to their cups to moisten their throats. "Have some tea, both of you. My third brother just has something urgent to do and needs to go back to the Xu residence. It's nothing."
Xie Yun probably felt it was too embarrassing to argue with the two of them, so she closed her eyes and said nothing.
At this moment, the carriage suddenly stopped again.
What’s going on? People always stop the carriage?
Yi Ning lifted the carriage curtain and looked out. They were stopped in an alley. During the day, there were usually artisans selling bamboo baskets here, but now there was no one there, only the moonlight.
Someone came up to report, "...Madam, we've been stopped! Those people are armed with embroidered spring swords, and they definitely aren't ordinary people."
Yining also saw those dark shadows and the slight cold light on the blades.
Xie Yun and Mrs. Yang stopped arguing and both leaned out of the carriage to look. Mrs. Yang said, "Could it be robbers?"
"Fuxue Hutong is nearby. Which robber is so bold?" Xie Yun sneered. After all, she had more experience. "He's equipped with an embroidered spring sword. Not only is he not a robber, but he might be a government official. I wonder what he's up to..."
It's dark, curfew is about to begin, and the streets are deserted. This can't be good!
Yi Ning's face turned cold and he said, "Why stop? Don't worry about them now, get on your horse and charge forward!"
Just as Chen Lian was about to clasp his fists, a sword was thrust forward, and he raised it to block. The guards immediately engaged in a fight, a sight that frightened Yi Ning. She knew Chen Lian and his men's skills best, and they were losing ground against them. Chen Lian was caught off guard and even cut his left arm.
Yining looked back and saw that there was also a traffic jam behind him. There was no way out of this alley!
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