Chapter 461, Escape
Because the carriage was moving too fast and shaking too violently, not long after Daohua woke up, Dong Yuanyao, Jiang Wanying and Chen Jiarou also woke up one after another.
Seeing Chen Jiarou opening her mouth to speak, Daohua quickly made a gesture to keep quiet. She didn't want the people outside to find out that they had woken up and then come in and knock them out.
Seeing that the three of them kept silent, Daohua continued to throw incense pills out of the window.
"There's an inn ahead. Let's eat something before continuing on our journey."
A sound was heard outside the carriage, and Daohua immediately signaled the three of them to continue pretending to be unconscious, while she herself lay down directly in the carriage.
As soon as the four of them closed their eyes, the car door was opened.
"What should we do with these?"
The one-eyed man looked at the four people in the car and was silent for a moment: "Since they are still unconscious, there is no need to leave anyone to watch them."
The bald man immediately grinned and said, "Alright, guys, come into the store and eat."
The car door closed again with a bang.
In the carriage, Daohua and the other three were still motionless and unconscious.
After a while, the carriage door was opened again.
The bald man peeked into the carriage, smiled and said to the one-eyed man, "Brother, you're still dizzy." Then he closed the door and said, "You're too cautious."
The one-eyed man looked at the carriage and said, "Those four are all daughters of the family who have been carefully nurtured. We have to be careful."
The bald man looked disapproving: "No matter how elaborate it is, it's still a woman who can't carry anything on her shoulders or hands."
The one-eyed man was too lazy to waste time talking to him. He waved his hand and called four other men over. "Stay outside the carriage and don't leave. We'll be out to replace you as soon as we finish eating."
A big man laughed and said, "Don't worry, big brother. They are just a few girls. I guarantee they won't get lost."
It was not until the voices outside the carriage died down that Daohua and the other three slowly opened their eyes.
The four of them looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. It was a close call. If one of them had revealed a flaw, the others would have been doomed as well.
Daohua slowly stood up, listened to the noise outside, then looked out through the gap in the car window. She judged that the four big men guarding them were guarding outside the car door. After pondering for a moment, she took out a sleeping pill from her purse and threw it to the ground through the gap in the car window.
"Can you do it?"
Dong Yuanyao smelled silently.
Daohua was not sure either. The four men were still some distance away from the car window. After thinking about it, she took out another sleeping pill and this time stuffed it through the gap in the car door.
The four of them waited anxiously in the carriage for a while, and then they heard the sound of someone falling to the ground.
"Pillar, pillar!"
A burst of urgent cries was heard, but the sound became lower and lower, and soon, three more sounds of people falling to the ground were heard.
Daohua looked out through the gap in the car window, then carefully opened the door. Seeing the four big men lying straight on the ground, she immediately turned around and said, "Let's go." After that, she opened the door and jumped out of the carriage.
The carriage was parked in the backyard of the inn. There were not many people coming and going here, and no one noticed them.
Dao Huahuan looked around, then pulled Dong Yuanyao and ran towards the gate. Jiang Wanying and Chen Jiarou supported each other and followed closely behind.
After running out of the inn, the four people discovered that the inn was built on a deserted official road. There was no village in front and no shop behind, and there were very few pedestrians on the road.
"What should we do now?" Chen Jiarou asked anxiously.
Daohua looked around, then pulled Dong Yuanyao and ran towards the small path nearby, saying as she ran, "We can't take the official road, otherwise we'll be caught by those people again soon."
"Wait for us!"
Jiang Wanying and Chen Jiarou hurriedly chased after him.
Before the four of them had run far, they heard a commotion in the inn and their expressions changed.
Daohua didn't dare to look back. She pulled Dong Yuanyao and ran forward desperately. As for Jiang Wanying and the other person behind her, she didn't care about them.
"Dee-dee-dee~"
The sound of hurried horse hooves came from behind them. Daohua and Dong Yuanyao looked more and more anxious. Just when they thought they could not escape, an urgent voice sounded.
"Miss Yan, it's me. Get in the car quickly."
Daohua turned around in surprise and looked at Sun Changze who was coming with a carriage. A surprising light flashed in her eyes. She pulled Dong Yuanyao and ran back: "Yuanyao, we are saved."
Jiang Wanying and Chen Jiarou, who were far behind, saw Daohua's surprised look and immediately knew that she knew the person behind her, so they turned around and ran towards the carriage.
When Sun Changze saw that Jiang Wanying and Chen Jiarou were with Daohua, he stopped the carriage and asked them to get in.
Just then, the one-eyed man and his men came chasing on horseback.
"Oh no, that group of people are catching up with us."
Daohua's expression changed and she quickened her pace as she ran towards the carriage.
Seeing that Jiang and Chen were moving very slowly, Sun Changze pulled them directly into the carriage. Without waiting for them to sit firmly, he rode the horse and drove the carriage towards Daohua and Dong Yuanyao.
"Hurry, get in the car!"
As soon as the carriage approached, Daohua pushed Dong Yuanyao up without waiting for it to stop. After Dong Yuanyao climbed up using her hands and feet, Daohua just reached out to grab the edge of the carriage and was about to climb up when a "whoosh" sound rang in her ears.
Several sharp arrows were shot at, and one of them hit Daohua's hand right.
Daohua was startled, loosened her grip, and rolled backwards.
When Sun Changze saw this, he immediately reined in his horse and tried to stop the carriage. However, the horse seemed to be frightened and instead of stopping, it ran faster and faster.
"Yiyi!"
Dong Yuanyao leaned on the car window and shouted anxiously at Daohua.
Daohua struggled to get up and tried to chase the carriage, but it was moving too fast for her to catch up. She looked back at the one-eyed man and his gang, gritted her teeth, and yelled at the carriage, "Just go away and leave me alone."
After saying that, he turned around and ran directly towards the nearby forest.
"Yiyi!"
Watching the rice flowers run into the forest, Dong Yuanyao was anxious and worried. Jiang Wanying and Chen Jiarou snuggled up to each other, lowered their heads and said nothing.
Sun Changze was also extremely anxious and tried his best to rein in the horse, wanting it to stop. The reason he followed was because of Miss Yan. Now, he had saved everyone else, but left behind the one he really wanted to save.
Looking back at the three girls in the carriage, Sun Changze felt a terrible headache and really wanted to leave them behind and go back!
On the other side, Daohua had already run into the mountains and forests. She did this not out of selflessness and self-sacrifice to save others, but because she had space.
Furthermore, the one-eyed man and his men were targeting Jiang Wanying and Chen Jiarou, so they might not come specifically to capture her, so it would be better for everyone if she left.
"I hope Sun Changze can lead Yuan Yao and the others out of pursuit!"
Daohua didn't dare go too deep into the forest, so she found a place with lush bushes to hide in, and then slipped into the space.
Inside the space, looking at the lush green space, Daohua's tense mood relaxed and she sat down limply on the ground.
She seldom entered the space, not because she didn't want to, but because entering and exiting the space would deplete the fertility of the earth. Each time she entered and exited, she would need to spend nearly half a year collecting the energy of plants and trees to replenish the lost fertility.
In addition, as more and more people served her, she wanted to stay away from the space even less.
(End of this chapter)
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