Just as Jiang Yuwei closed her eyes, preparing to die, she suddenly heard a wail, followed by the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground.
Jiang Yuwei opened her eyes halfway and saw the black dog dead beside her.
Jiang Yuwei immediately felt a sense of relief, and hurriedly got up to kick the black dog to make sure it was dead before getting up. Just then, the servants of the Ge family also came out. Tie Zhu grabbed Jiang Yuwei and pulled her onto the oxcart. Only then did Jiang Yuwei realize that Ning Huaizhi had already driven the oxcart over.
Jiang Yuwei looked at Ning Huaizhi with a hint of grievance in her eyes, and Ning Huaizhi quickly spoke up:
"Yuwei, are you alright? I've already killed that dog. Don't be afraid, get on the carriage quickly, you drive! I'll cover the retreat for the idiot!"
Jiang Yuwei realized what was happening and quickly sat in front, tightened the reins, and slapped the cow's rump.
The fool was still fighting with the Ge family's men in the back. Fortunately, he was highly skilled in martial arts, and none of the Ge family's servants could get close to him. Occasionally, one or two who tried to sneak up on him were crippled by Ning Huaizhi's slingshot. When Ning Huaizhi saw that the distance was about right, he shouted to the fool:
"You idiot, get on the bus!"
Ning Huaizhi knew that the fool was skilled in light-footed kung fu and could easily shake off these people. The reason the fool had fought with them for so long was to give them time to leave, since the oxcart was too slow, and this was the only way to ensure that nothing went wrong.
Upon hearing Ning Huaizhi's instructions, the fool leaped onto the courtyard wall and quickly ran to the back of the oxcart, landing steadily on it. Ning Huaizhi, meanwhile, continued to attack the people catching up from behind with his slingshot.
Old Cao finally came to his senses. Among this group of people, he only recognized Jiang Yuwei, who was driving the carriage, and hurriedly pleaded:
"Please take me to Sanyuanli in the East Street vegetable market as soon as possible, that's where I live!"
Jiang Yuwei frowned and shouted:
“Going home now is tantamount to courting death. Do you think that guy surnamed Ge doesn’t know where you live?”
Old Cao said urgently:
"I'm going home. Take me home. My wife and children are waiting for me at home. Didn't you want to buy my shop? I'll sell it to you for two hundred taels of silver. I'll sell it to you tonight. You have to give me the cash! I also have a carriage at home. Once I get the silver, I'll take my wife and children and leave Ping'an Town tonight!"
Jiang Yuwei immediately agreed with these words. She couldn't let her husband run away and abandon his wife, children, and elderly parents. So she drove the oxcart directly towards Sanyuanli.
Seeing this, Old Cao quickly expressed his gratitude:
"Thank you so much, thank you all, for saving my life. Otherwise, Master Ge would probably have tortured me to death. They wanted my property deed, but I refused to give it to them, so they kidnapped me and took me to the Ge mansion. I thought I would never see my wife and children again. I never expected that you would risk your life to save me after only meeting me once. Logically speaking, I should give you this shop for free, but my wife needs medical treatment, and I need money to escape with my wife and children. I really have no other choice..."
Old Cao started crying as he spoke, and Jiang Yuwei couldn't bear to see such a grown man crying like this, so she quickly comforted him:
“I know you have your reasons. I’m already satisfied that you’re willing to lower the price to two hundred taels. The money and documents are with me. Once we get to Sanyuanli, you can sign and give me the deed. We will escort you out of the city. As for the rest of the journey, you’ll have to rely on yourselves.”
Old Cao hastily wiped away his tears, nodded gratefully, and said:
“You are all good people, all good people. I, Old Cao, am not destined to die. I was planning to take my wife and children to the capital to seek refuge with distant relatives. If you ever arrive in the capital, I will definitely repay you handsomely. But right now, I am powerless to do so…”
Jiang Yuwei smiled and said:
"We're perfectly fine staying in this small town of Ping'an. If we weren't forced to, who would leave their hometown to go to such a far place as the capital?"
Soon the group arrived at Sanyuanli. Old Cao's wife, seeing that her husband had finally returned after disappearing for a day and a night, rushed forward, grabbed his arm, and cried:
"Where have you been gallivanting off to, you bastard? You left me and our son at home and didn't care! How did you get hurt like this? Who beat you up like this?!"
As she spoke, Old Cao's wife looked warily at Jiang Yuwei and her group.
Seeing this, Lao Cao quickly said:
"They are all my saviors. Hurry up and pack some important things. We need to escape. I'll tell you more details on the way."
Upon hearing this, Old Cao's wife was terrified, but she didn't dare to ask any more questions and hurriedly went back to the room to pack her clothes. She also woke up her sleeping son to help her pack.
Old Cao was busy signing the documents with Jiang Yuwei, and then he found the house deed and handed it to Jiang Yuwei. Jiang Yuwei quickly gave the money to Old Cao. At this time, Old Cao's wife also packed her things and ran out with her son and a lot of things.
Seeing this, Lao Cao hurriedly drove the carriage, settled his son and daughter-in-law in, and then got into the carriage.
Old Cao's carriage ran ahead, followed by Jiang Yuwei and the others in their oxcart. There weren't many people from the Ge family chasing after them anymore; many of them had been crippled by Ning Huaizhi's slingshots along the way.
Soon the group arrived outside the city gate, and Jiang Yuwei called out to the carriage in front:
"Old Cao, you guys hurry up and leave. We'll hold them off for you a little longer!"
Upon hearing this, Old Cao, who was driving the carriage at the front, burst into tears:
"There are still many good people in the world, so many good people, my wife. We must remember this kindness for the rest of our lives!"
Old Cao's wife, who was inside the carriage, heard what Old Cao said and looked down at her son lying in her arms, saying:
"My child, did you hear what your father said? You must remember this life-saving grace!"
Jiang Yuwei watched as Old Cao's carriage drove further and further away, feeling somewhat relieved. She then turned back to the fool and said:
"They only have a dozen or so left. Can you take them down?"
The simpleton's eyes lit up. He had been sitting on the oxcart watching Ning Huaizhi and the others use slingshots, and he was getting impatient. Now that Jiang Yuwei had asked him this, the simpleton naturally nodded repeatedly and said:
"Yes, all of these are possible!"
Jiang Yuwei, watching the crowd getting closer and closer, said to the fool:
"Go ahead, go fight! Oh, and just knock them out, don't kill them!"
The fool didn't care about any of that. He jumped off the oxcart and ran into the crowd to start fighting. Ning Huaizhi watched the fool's skills and couldn't help but sigh:
"If someone with such skill could be injured like that, then the person who hit him must be no ordinary person either."
Then Ning Huaizhi turned to Ning Wu and Tie Zhu, who were watching the battle with tense expressions, and said:
"Want to learn kung fu from an idiot?"
The two turned to look at Ning Huaizhi and said in unison:
"think!"
Ning Huaizhi nodded and said:
“It’s a bit harder for you to learn kung fu at your age, but with the idiot here, teaching you some self-defense skills shouldn’t be a problem.”
As the three were talking, Jiang Yuwei called out:
"Fool, watch out behind you!"
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