Chapter 133: A narrow escape
"So you are the distinguished guest of the wife of Marquis Wuning. I am sorry to disturb you. I shouldn't have blocked your way. However, the person I am looking for is very important. My superior has ordered that you must not neglect him. Please bear with me. I am sorry for offending you."
As Zhang Yong was speaking, he had already opened the curtain. At the same time, two black-clad guards jumped out from the woods next to them and stood guard beside the carriage.
In the carriage, Su Qianqian, with a pair of thick eyebrows, leaned against the wall with a smile on her face. There was obviously someone crouching between her legs under her cloak. She was so embarrassed when she heard the voice that she dared not move.
"Sir, this is the only hobby I have, doing some fun things on the road. I am shy, so I hope you can give me some face. This car is just a small space, and you can see that there is no escaped slave. It is better to look for him somewhere else to avoid wasting time."
Su Qianqian lowered her head and stroked the girl with her hand under her cloak, trying to comfort her gently.
Su Xing's face flushed red, and he really looked ashamed of seeing something disgusting.
"The young master's appearance is quite similar to the wife of Marquis Wuning..." Zhang Yong looked at the bulge on Su Qianqian's leg, narrowed his eyes and considered whether to take a gamble, and reached out to pull open the cloak.
"That's why I'm close to my cousin, but I can't say I look like her." Su Qianqian raised her charcoal-like eyebrows, and a black mole at the corner of her lip also moved.
Zhang Yong has always been suspicious. Although he knew that he would offend the Wuning Marquis Mansion if he made a mistake, Xuan Niang was of great importance and could not be lost. He had already decided to take the risk to verify it, so he lifted his robe and wanted to get on the carriage.
"Master Zhang!" A clear voice came from behind Zhang Yong.
Zhang Yong looked back and saw the Minister of Justice Yin Heng getting off the carriage at the back.
"Why has Lord Yin come here?" Zhang Yong's heart skipped a beat. It might be possible to scare the distant relatives of the wife of Marquis Wuning with the matter of searching for runaway slaves, but it would be impossible to scare the Minister of Justice.
"I have something to bother Master Su with. I heard that he chased me all the way here after leaving the mansion, and it was very difficult for me to catch up."
As Lord Yin spoke, he walked to the front of the carriage, pushed Zhang Yong aside and sat down in the carriage. He glanced at the bulge on Su Qianqian's leg, frowned and scolded:
"It is immoral in broad daylight. If you promise to be my secretary, I will promise not to tell the Marquis of Wuning about this."
Su Qianqian: This is a naked threat!
"Hahaha, Lord Yin, this clerk position... of course I'd love to have it." Su Qianqian's eyebrows drooped. She finally fell into the clutches of Minister Yin and had to work for him as a clerk.
"Okay, then what are you waiting for? Hurry up and deliver those useless rice seedlings to the farm, and quickly follow me to the government office to take up my post. Driver, why don't you drive? Sir Zhang, I'll say goodbye now."
Minister Yin urged the coachman and did not return to his own carriage. He also lowered the curtain to block Zhang Yong's gloomy face outside the curtain.
The coachman hurriedly drove forward, He Sheng and He An also urged the farmhand to drive faster, and the two guards never left and stayed beside the carriage.
"They've gone far away. Let your 'girl' get up." Minister Yin opened the curtain and looked behind. Zhang Yong had already led his men back the same way. He then pointed at Su Qianqian's leg in a sarcastic tone.
Su Qianqian hesitated for a moment and could only think of a countermeasure secretly. She lifted the cloak, revealing Xuan Niang's small body.
Xuan Niang got up, knelt on the ground and thanked Su Qianqian and Minister Yin, but remained silent.
He is indeed a smart person, but it's a pity that he has a bad fate.
"Uncle Yin, this is the person Lord Zhang is looking for. She once schemed to defraud my third uncle and was arrested and imprisoned by Lord Zhang. Later, he told the Marquis that this person had hanged herself. Who knew that he had faked her death and hid her away. I just happened to meet her and saved her. I am grateful to you for your help, uncle."
Su Qianqian said to keep half and the other half, and this half would be enough to convict Zhang Yong.
"So that's how it is. I accidentally saved a witness. Zhang Yong deserves to be punished for his crimes." Lord Yin also knew that Su Qianqian was leaving room for ulterior motives, so he only said half of it and did not delve into it.
Soon they arrived at the farm managed by He Sheng. Su Qianqian watched He Sheng carefully transplant some seedlings with his own hands. She also called the former head of the farm and asked him to listen to He Sheng's orders in the future. She would not investigate the previous accounts, but if he continued to deal with them in a muddle-headed manner in the future, she would leave the farm and make a living elsewhere.
In late autumn, the village head wiped his sweat and nodded repeatedly.
On the way back, Su Qianqian made a serious statement to Xuanniang, asking her to testify against Zhang Yong, and to hide prisoners by faking his own death in order to destroy the evidence.
Xuan Niang hesitated for a long while before nodding in agreement, but she asked Su Qianqian to protect her life and send her back to Yunzhou safely.
Su Qianqian naturally agreed.
After returning to Xijing, Lord Yin first took Su Qianqian to the Ministry of Justice, asked her to sign the guarantee of being a clerk of the Ministry of Justice, issued her an official robe and a waist badge, and then let her go with satisfaction.
Lord Yin also kindly reminded her that if there was a case in court, someone would be sent to find her and she didn't have to be at work.
Su Qianqian brought Xuan Niang back to Wuning Marquis' Mansion. She started to worry when they reached the second gate. This person was hated by the Qin family, so how could she bring him in? Will Third Aunt misunderstand her?
There was no other way, so Su Qianqian covered Xuan Niang’s head with her cloak and hurried back to Tinglan Courtyard like an ancient Korean girl going out.
Su Qianqian felt relieved when she arrived at her own territory. Tinglanyuan had a big courtyard, so she asked Su Ye and Su Zi to clean up a room in the wing and settle Xuan Niang in it. She also asked the maids to prepare water for her to bathe.
Su Qianqian went into the space and took a good bath.
This day was so thrilling that for a moment she was really afraid that Zhang Yong would lift his cloak. In order to avoid exposing the truth and killing him to silence him, if Minister Yin had not appeared, she would have considered using a talisman to immobilize Zhang Yong and then running away.
However, the two guards sent by Qin Hanzhang were no ordinary people and would not let her poke a hole so easily. When Zhang Yong lifted his robe and was about to get into the car, she saw that the black-clad guard had already made a move, but he stopped when he heard Yin Heng's voice.
Coming out of the bathroom in a comfortable bathrobe, she was almost tripped by two beasts at the door. They surrounded Su Qianqian and showed their loyalty to her in a fawning manner: sweeping her slippers with their tails and scratching the clean floor with their chicken wings.
"Hey, why is your hair growing so fast? Is it popping up again?"
Su Qianqian walked towards the sofa and suddenly found that the rooster's wings were not so bald.
The big rooster couldn't keep up with the pace at this time: I don't know what's going on...
Dianfeng gestured towards Su Qianqian, jumping forward and fluttering his feet, and pointing at the balcony with his claws.
"Oh, I see. It's the water in the swimming pool. Throw it in again later. It will grow faster."
Su Qianqian was lying on the sofa, nestling comfortably in it, when she heard a fluttering sound: the big rooster's feathers flew off and it fled out of the living room...
After drying her hair, she came out of the space and saw the badge of the recorder of the Ministry of Justice at a glance. Thinking that she could also find some files that were difficult to access normally in the Ministry of Justice, Su Qianqian felt a little more balanced.
"Madam, please go out and take a look. Something happened outside!" Su Mu hurried in to report.
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