Chapter 132 Xuan Niang's Resurrection
Just as Su Xing screamed and stood in front of Su Qianqian, a deep voice shouted from outside: "Who is it!"
Su Qianqian turned her head and saw a sword gleaming with cold light pressed against the neck of the person who was climbing up the car window. The man holding the sword was dressed in black, and there was another person dressed the same as him not far away.
"Who... are you again?" Su Qianqian had already quietly taken out the acupuncture needle, but after looking at the other person's sword, she returned it: It was not a heavyweight one.
"Young master, we are protecting you on the orders of the Marquis. It is our fault that we frightened you." The man in black apologized hastily, but his eyes never left the woman.
"I'm not scared, I'm not scared..." Su Qianqian hurriedly comforted the guard, but she felt something was wrong as soon as she said this...
Yes, it was a woman, and Su Qianqian knew her. She was the skinny Ma Xuanniang who should have been buried in the mass grave.
Xuan Niang looked panicked at this time. She was barefoot and looked haggard. Her hair and clothes were covered with dead grass debris. She also recognized Su Qianqian, even though Su Qianqian was wearing men's clothes at this time.
"Sir, please save my life. I was imprisoned in a courtyard by a wicked man and I escaped with great difficulty. If you are willing to help me, I will repay you with a gift of grass and a ring."
Ignoring the sword on her neck, Xuan Niang clung to the car window, looking back and around, as if someone would jump out and kidnap her at any time.
"Sir, you can't believe her words. After all, she once..." the man in black reminded Su Qianqian.
Su Qianqian blinked. It turned out that these two people had been protecting her secretly. No wonder Qin Hanzhang would suddenly appear anytime and anywhere.
"Sir, I was forced to do this for the Third Master. After all, I have no choice but to accept my fate. If you are willing to give me a ride, I will tell you the whole story."
Xuan Niang gritted her teeth and added some chips, indicating that she recognized Su Qianqian's identity.
Su Qianqian looked at the person approaching from behind and waved her hand to let her get in the car. At the same time, she told the two men in black: "Everything should be done as usual."
The guard bowed and retreated, disappearing again into the trees and grass on both sides of the road.
The carriage continued to move forward. Xuan Niang breathed a sigh of relief, smoothed her messy hair, picked off the grass leaves on her head and body bit by bit, licked her cracked lips, and her eyes fell on the snacks and water bags that Su Xing had prepared for Su Qianqian, and then tried to look away.
"Who imprisoned you? Why did you want to escape? How is your current state better than being imprisoned?"
Su Qianqian signaled to Su Xing to give Xuan Niang some water and snacks. Xuan Niang took them and tried her best to maintain her manners, eating bite by bite. After she finished two pieces of snacks and felt a little stronger, she put down the water bag and started speaking.
"It was Zhang Yong, the Chief of the City Patrol Department. He faked my death and sent me to the other courtyard. Every day, no matter how late it was, he would rush back to torture me." Xuan Niang looked calm, but she claimed that she was no longer a "slave."
"It's Lord Zhang. He is about to be promoted to Junior Secretary of the City Patrol Department. Why is he doing this?" Su Qianqian asked with a raised eyebrow.
After Xuan Niang left the dangerous situation, she couldn't help but hesitate. People are always willing to give up everything in exchange for opportunities in the most difficult times, but once they are out of the predicament, they feel that it is not worth paying so much.
However, when she saw Su Qianqian's meaningful look, Xuanniang immediately stopped hesitating and said, "Madam Hou, I am just a lowly person with a body like floating duckweed. With the hardships I have suffered since childhood, I have the desire to enjoy wealth and glory, but this body is not something I can decide."
Xuan Niang's eyes were blank, as if she was looking somewhere far away.
"I was sold twice by my mother, and I served two masters for six years. That day, my mother said that as long as I could complete this last business deal, she would allow me to redeem myself and stay with Tan Lang for the rest of my life."
"Of course I am delighted. I am a humble person, so I don't have any extra conscience. Seeing that the Third Master is a rare person without any scheming, I am secretly glad. I will follow the client's arrangement and induce the Third Master to take out the money. Then Zhang Yong will take the Third Master to see the official, and then I can return to Yunzhou."
Xuan Niang glanced at Su Qianqian when she said this, "But I don't know why it was exposed. Madam Hou and Madam Meng came. I saw that Madam Hou was quite scheming, so I wanted to escape unscathed, but Zhang Yong arrested me and put me in jail."
"That's fine. My previous client clearly said he would not put me in danger. I looked forward to it day and night, but what I expected was that Zhang Yong knocked me out, and when I woke up, I was already in his villa."
"I pretended to be submissive to Zhang Yong's humiliation, and gradually he relaxed his guard. Last night, he seemed to have something urgent and left in a hurry. I pretended to go back to my room to rest early, jumped out of the window, ran to the side of the road and hid in the bushes, waiting for the right car to take me away."
Xuan Niang let out a breath, moved her feet, revealing her embroidered shoes covered with mud and grass debris, and sighed again.
"Who is your customer?" Su Qianqian asked slowly, as if she saw nothing.
"Although this client is not a powerful person, she can influence people everywhere. The lady in Yunzhou Qunfang Garden where I live is very respectful to this client. She is Madam Shaohua."
Sure enough, it was her again. Su Qianqian didn’t understand why Madam Shaohua went to so much trouble. What is her connection with Wuning Marquis Mansion? If he was working for the eldest princess, why was she so persistent in targeting the Wuning Marquis Mansion?
"Now that you have escaped, what are your plans?" Su Qianqian asked, but in her heart she was thinking how to make Xuan Niang identify Zhang Yong and cut off Madam Shaohua's minions first.
"I am a humble person, I just want to keep this life with my husband Tan, so I have to return to Yunzhou as soon as possible."
Xuan Niang lowered her head and thought for a while, then took off a jade bracelet from her wrist. "Madam Hou, I know these vulgar things are not pleasing to your eyes, but I have nothing else at the moment. I would like to ask for your mercy and exchange them for some money, as long as I can return to Yunzhou."
Su Qianqian looked at the jade bracelet and found that it was not an ordinary item. It was emerald green and moist all over, with almost no flaws.
"You..." Su Qianqian was about to ask Xuanniang to stay, but she heard a burst of hurried horse hooves from behind, and the coachman hurriedly drove the horse to the side.
Su Qianqian secretly cried out inwardly that something was wrong and looked around, but there was no place to hide Xuan Niang. Xuan Niang's face turned pale instantly, and she bit her lip without saying a word.
Without time to think about it, Su Qianqian used her cloak to wrap Xuan Niang in her arms and let her lie on her legs. This posture looked very ambiguous...
As expected, the sound of horse hooves stopped beside the cart. He Sheng and He An, who were guarding the ox cart in front, also stopped and looked at the people on the horses nervously.
"Who's on the car? I'm the Chief of the City Patrol, looking for the escaped slave whose master was injured. Please get off the car and let us search." Zhang Yong's sinister voice seemed to come from underground.
"It turns out to be Sir Si Cheng. I am Su Qian, a distant cousin of the wife of Marquis Wuning. I am staying at the Marquis Wuning's mansion. I am here on the orders of my cousin to deliver some saplings to the farm. It is not convenient for me to get off the car at this time. I hope you will forgive me... Hey, sister, be gentle..."
Su Qianqian said in a deep voice.
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