Chapter 741, Being Hunted
Daohua saw Gu Jian busy preparing anti-inflammatory medicine with the trained medicine boy, and he was not bored because he had something to do. Dong Yuanyao was also accompanied by Sun Changze, so they stayed in Four Seasons Villa for two days and then returned home.
On the official road back to the city, Daohua was looking through the account book given to her by her master.
Anti-inflammatory drugs are very helpful for soldiers' injuries. Although the emperor has ordered the Imperial Hospital to prepare them, the output is still too low. So, the emperor set his sights on Daohua.
Fortunately, Gu Jian was there, so he saved the medicine boy that Daohua had cultivated with great difficulty.
After some bargaining with Gu Jian, the emperor offered a good price and purchased all the anti-inflammatory drugs made from the rice flowers. He would send people to the villa to pick them up every once in a while.
"No wonder merchants all want to be royal merchants. It's easy to make money from the royal family!"
Looking at the numbers at the end of the account book, Daohua's eyes were filled with a smile.
Wang Man'er smiled and said, "Miss, when I left, I heard that the old man was preparing a dowry for you."
When Daohua heard this, she immediately became interested: "Master is preparing a dowry for me? What has he prepared?"
Wang Man'er shook her head: "I don't know, but I heard from the village head that the old man bought a lot of high-quality wood. I think he wants to make furniture for the girl."
Daohua felt warm in her heart: "I didn't expect that Master would be so thoughtful."
Wang Maner smiled and said, "Young lady, you are the old master's only disciple, so the old master will naturally prepare a lot for you."
Just as the master and servant were talking and laughing, the carriage suddenly braked suddenly. Daohua and Wang Man'er were shaken and fell directly into the carriage. Before Daohua could ask what happened, the carriage quickly turned around and sped away.
"Girl, there seems to be an ambush ahead."
As the bald man's voice sounded, the sound of several arrows breaking through the air was heard, and then, "bang bang bang" they hit the carriage.
Looking at the sharp arrow that was stuck in the carriage and was still shaking, Daohua widened her eyes and was stunned for a long time before she came to her senses. She carefully lay down by the window, lifted a corner of the curtain and looked back.
Seeing a dozen masked kidnappers riding fast horses, shooting arrows at the carriage and chasing it quickly, Daohua's heart sank to the bottom.
Was she unlucky enough to be kidnapped, or was someone hiring someone to kill her?
In just a moment, the kidnappers were about to catch up with the carriage.
At this time, Yan Ying appeared and stopped the kidnappers, buying time for the carriage.
“Ouch~”
The carriage braked suddenly again.
Daohua quickly asked, "Bald, what's wrong?"
The bald man's anxious voice came in: "Girl, there are kidnappers ahead too."
Daohua lifted the car curtain and looked at the situation outside. There were kidnappers in front and behind the official road. Although Yan Ying was trying to stop them from behind, he was alone and had been entangled by three kidnappers. At this moment, other kidnappers were chasing him.
Daohua looked at the fork in the road and said quickly, "Take the small path!"
After hearing this, the bald man immediately drove his carriage into the fork in the road.
Wang Maner looked at Daohua in panic: "Girl, how could there be kidnappers under the feet of the emperor?" When she went out, she thought that she was going to Tangyu Mountain, where the road would be peaceful, so she only brought Baldy and Zhuzi with her.
Because she had experienced kidnapping in Zhongzhou, Daohua was relatively calm. With a sullen face and a frown on her face, she quickly took out a packet of incense pills from her purse and handed them to Wang Maner: "Throw one out every few minutes."
Wang Maner quickly took the incense pill and did exactly what Daohua said.
Daohua then said to Baldy and Zhuzi outside, "Baldy, try to run to the woods or mountains where you can hide."
The bald man responded.
After a while, the bald man's slightly panicked voice sounded: "Girl, the kidnappers are about to catch up."
Daohua had been paying attention to the movements outside the car, and naturally heard the sound of horse hooves getting closer and closer: "Don't worry, just keep running forward."
"call out!"
A sharp arrow flew through the air and hit the horse's butt directly. The horse felt pain and started to go crazy, running around recklessly. Neither Baldy nor the Pillar could stop it.
In the carriage, Daohua and Wang Maner were knocked dizzy.
"call out!"
Another sharp arrow shot out and hit the horse's front leg. With a "bang", the carriage overturned sideways.
Daohua endured the pain and used her hands and feet to pull Wang Maner out of the carriage.
At this moment, the kidnappers had arrived and surrounded Baldy, Zhuzi, Daohua and Wang Maner.
Watching the kidnappers raise their gleaming, cold knives, Daohua suppressed her panic and stared directly at the kidnapper in front. "My two brothers are both Jinling Guards, and they're engaged to the young prince of Prince Ping's mansion. No matter how much silver the people who asked you to kill me give you, you won't be able to spend it."
The leading kidnapper sneered: "Whether to spend the money or not is not up to you." As he said that, he waved his right hand and was about to order his men to take action.
However, an unexpected event occurred.
“Bang, bang, bang!”
Several kidnappers and horses near Daohua and Wang Maner fell to the ground with a bang, and even the kidnapper leader suddenly felt dizzy.
"run!"
The moment she saw the kidnappers approaching, Daohua threw a handful of sleeping pills on the ground.
Daohua and Wang Man'er had taken the antidote beforehand, while Guangtou and Zhuzi had long experienced the power of the knockout pills, so they held their breath before the powder dispersed into the air.
At this moment, hearing the sound of rice flowers, the four of them ran forward without looking back.
In the open space, accompanied by a light breeze, the effect of the sleeping pills was greatly reduced. Except for the first few people who fell down, the rest of the people were only dizzy and weak in their hands and feet, but they could still continue to chase people.
However, this still gave Daohua and his three companions a chance to escape.
After putting some distance between themselves and the kidnappers, Daohua thought they could escape, but there was no way forward.
Looking at the steep slope about ten meters high under his feet and the rushing stream at the bottom of the slope, Daohua stomped his feet in anger. He looked around and saw a forest on the left, so he ran towards that side quickly.
"That woman is drugged. Don't get close to her. Shoot her!"
The kidnapper leader came down and shot Daohua and the other four people.
“Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!”
Sharp arrows kept shooting at her, but Daohua gritted her teeth and persisted. She knew that the kidnappers' target should be her. As long as they entered the forest, Man'er and the other two would escape, and she could hide in the space.
"As a man of the martial arts world, it's fine if you use your numbers to bully the weak, but you actually attacked a girl who doesn't even know how to fight. You've brought shame upon the people of the martial arts world."
“Whoosh!”
A white figure flew out from the forest, and with a few "swish" sounds of the folding fan in his hand, the kidnappers running in the front fell to the ground.
Daohua looked at the person who suddenly appeared, and a look of surprise flashed across her eyes.
Chu Lang!
At this moment, a sharp arrow shot towards him. Daohua turned around to dodge, but unexpectedly he stepped on empty air and fell directly off the cliff.
“Ah~”
"girl!"
Wang Man'er, the other two, and Chu Lang all looked terrified.
Chu Lang didn't bother to chase the fleeing kidnappers, and flew towards the cliff, but in the end he only saw rice flowers rolling into the river.
"Ahem~"
Rice flower was floating in the river, holding tightly onto a piece of driftwood. The river was so turbulent that she couldn't get ashore at all and could only passively follow the current.
When the river was no longer so turbulent, Daohua gritted her teeth and swam towards the shore. It took a lot of effort to finally reach the shore.
“Huh, huh, huh!”
Rice flower lay on the grass with his head tilted back. After regaining some strength, he sat up and looked around. All he could see was endless fields.
Seeing a hillside nearby, he walked over quickly and entered the space only after making sure that there was no one around.
There were clothes prepared in the space. Daohua quickly took off her wet clothes and changed into men's clothes. She ate some fruit and endured the pain all over her body to leave the space.
Her family must be very worried about what happened to her, so she has to go back early.
Daohua walked straight along the path in the field, thinking of asking people where he was. After walking for about quarter of an hour, he saw several farmhouses.
Just as I was about to go forward and knock on the door, I saw dozens of farm men holding hoes, machetes, brooms and other farm tools, chasing and shouting at two people who were obviously dressed like wealthy people.
This had nothing to do with Daohua, but the direction they were chasing was right towards her, forcing Daohua to retreat to the side.
However, she still couldn't escape.
The two people who came from wealthy families were obviously the kind who could not carry anything on their shoulders or lift anything with their hands. After a while, they were caught up by the farmer and then trapped easily.
After the two were trapped, the group of farmers noticed Daohua. No matter how Daohua explained, they insisted that she was in cahoots with them, and then they were trapped together.
"I really didn't check the almanac before going out today!"
Daohua was so angry that she was ruthlessly locked up in the woodshed along with the other two.
(End of this chapter)
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