Graceful spring color

Chapter 2 Encountering Bandits
  After this, the two of them sat in the carriage and drove to Xie's mansion without saying a word.

The coachman was talking outside, "It's such a cold day, girl, you really don't know how to be considerate. It's not easy for us servants to sleep in our cages, but you have to run to this place where birds don't shit, isn't it just a gift?" A few sin slaves? Is it worth it?"

Xie Fengyue carefully wiped the blood on the dagger, glanced out coldly and said nothing.

The coachman didn't hear the reply and didn't stop him. "Auntie Hua, are you right? This girl is just ignorant."

As soon as Zhezhi heard him call Aunt Hua, he looked at the girl anxiously, and when he saw her expression was calm, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Auntie Hua is still asleep?"

"Mammy?"

The carriage gradually slowed down, and Xie Fengyue secretly thought it was bad. She hurriedly said, "Mommy is sleeping soundly. Please hurry up and get back home. The road has been a little unstable recently."

The car curtain opened a crack, and the cold air made my heart tremble. She quickly reached out to stop the driver's movement and lowered her voice, "It's warm in the car. Don't disturb grandma's sleep by filling her with air-conditioning. You don't know her temper."

At this moment, the soldiers in the front shouted loudly, "Xie Mansion's carriage, get out of the way quickly."

Xie Fengyue's newly relieved heart immediately picked up again.

She cautiously lifted a corner of the car curtain and looked at the dozen tall horses coming towards her. The people on the horse all had their faces covered, and the swords in their hands shone with a terrifying cold light under the white snow.

Today's trip was originally intended to send off the exiled parents, and together with the coachman, he only brought five or six soldiers out. Nowadays, this group of people looks bad when they come.

The horse paces uneasily.

The coachman comforted him and said, "Girl, this carriage has the emblem of the Xie clan inlaid on it. The bandits and bandits in the area don't dare to act so arrogantly."

The gangster outside the carriage shouted loudly as if he heard the coachman's words, "People in the carriage come out, I don't want to see blood today."

The coachman was ashamed and angry, and his voice was several times louder: "Blind your dog's eyes, we are from the Xie clan!"

While the two were talking, the soldiers outside Xie Fengyue's car all drew their swords.

The big man outside the carriage sneered, "Stop talking nonsense, I just want to see that you Xie family is dissatisfied, and I am robbing a wealthy family like you."

As soon as these words came out, the coachman's originally proud face suddenly fell down, and he immediately scolded the soldiers beside him, "Are you all blind? Why don't you take them down quickly?"

The soldiers holding swords looked at each other, glanced at the dozens of horses in front of them, and then looked at the blades in their hands: "This"

The coachman seemed to have some sense of it: "If you dare to take a step back, you will be treated as a runaway slave and you won't be able to survive in your family."

After he finished speaking, he knocked on the car frame again and said in a dog-legged manner, "Mommy, you see what I said is right."

Still not hearing Aunt Hua's response, the car curtain was opened. The driver looked around and his eyes widened, "Where is Aunt Hua?"

Xie Fengyue raised her eyes with a faint look, "Can you still care about grandma now?"

Without waiting for his reply, Xie Fengyue immediately put on the curtain hat on the side and opened the curtain of the car. "These strong men are here for money."

Her voice is like pearls, clear and soft.

Everyone outside suddenly became excited. "If you want to leave a message, little lady, that's fine. We are all righteous men who robbed the rich and gave to the poor. Of course, we can leave the money." After saying this, they started laughing.

Zhi Zhi's face was as white as a sheet of fright, and his legs and feet were trembling unconsciously.

Xie Fengyue took off all the hairpins and jewelry from her hands, and Zhezhi took out a stack of silver notes from a secret compartment in the car. He quickly took the blanket from the small bed and wrapped the gold and silver items into a ball, then handed them to the coachman and motioned for him to send them over.

The driver glared at her with hatred, then reached out to take it and trotted over. After the gangster opened it and looked at it, he shouted at the top of his voice, "Young lady, you have everything you need. Brothers, make way!"

Only then did the three people in the car put down their worries. With the sound of horse hooves making way in front of them, the Xie family's carriage started to move.

The Xie family's carriage quickly passed through the mountain road vacated by the gangsters. Outside the carriage, there were laughter from the gangsters: "The Xie family said that they are the second largest family in our Qian'an Dynasty, but they are nothing more than that. Didn't these brothers scare me?" Have you handed over all the money?"

He was frightened in his heart, and before the carriage had even gone far, he choked out, "Such arrogant gangsters have humiliated our Xie family like this. When I get back to my house, I will ask Da Langjun to bring people to destroy their lair!"

The laughter and laughter outside the car also stopped.

Xie Fengyue's eyes were deep, "Didn't the Xie family etiquette say that disaster comes from the mouth?"

"Stop!" followed by the sound of horse hooves. The driver seemed anxious and shouted to the soldiers outside the car, "Stop them!"

Then there was a loud cracking sound from the whip in the air, and the carriage immediately started to jolt.

The gangster behind him was also angry when he saw the carriage speeding. He immediately raised his bow and shot an arrow at the horse.

The horse that had just been whipped was hit by another arrow, its hooves hanging in the air and neighing loudly. The coachman gasped and shouted, "Hold on! The horse is frightened!" There was the sound of a galloping horse behind him.

Xie Fengyue hurriedly took off her cumbersome and heavy cloak, and a dagger slipped out of her sleeve. She held the dagger tightly and said in a serious tone, "Put down the wooden gate." Then she smashed the small porcelain cup with one hand and said, "Break the branches to use for self-defense."

Xie Fengyue could barely maintain her figure, and attached her ears to the carriage board to listen carefully to the sound of approaching horse hooves. The sound of the horse's hooves whizzed forward before she could alert the coachman to his attention. I heard the coachman scream and roll off the carriage.

Xie Fengyue's throat felt tight, but her head was covered with fine beads of sweat in this cold winter month. The frightened horse was still galloping, and the carriage became more and more bumpy, until she became unstable and fell to the ground, and the dagger in her hand almost slipped from her hand.

"Girl, I'll go ahead and catch the horse!"

Xie Fengyue shouted, "These people kill without batting an eye, don't take any chances."

As soon as she finished speaking, the sound of horse hooves that was originally moving forward came back, and she immediately pulled the broken branch to her side.
  The person outside the carriage seemed to be playing a trick, and the horse was level with the carriage. "Little madam, we originally thought that you would be included in the road and wanted to let you go, but we didn't expect that the madam would be so thoughtful and want to It will kill us. Why don't you go up the mountain with us, and then take your life again, so that we can rest assured that we will not be retaliated against."

The gangster's words were mixed in the wind, but Xie Fengyue heard them clearly: "Strong man, you are breaking the rules on the road."

The man sneered, "The world is in such chaos, what rules do we have in our profession?"

Xie Fengyue was really too lazy to talk to him, "Why don't you ask the horse to stop. Can we discuss it again?"

Like a cat catching a mouse, he beat the horse to the level of the carriage without haste or slowness.

"Young lady, weren't you quite brave just now?" After saying this, he swung his riding crop and hit the frightened horse. "What I hate most are you people with strong backbones from aristocratic families."

The horse pulling the cart was frightened again and rushed forward like crazy.

Xie Fengyue lost her grip and fell hard, knocking her head on the small corner, and her eyes were stained with blood in an instant.

The gangsters outside the car slapped their horses and caught up with their carriage. "Little lady, the end of this road is a cliff. Now you can submit and ask me to take you up the mountain, okay?" His words were full of teasing.

Xie Fengyue's hand holding the hairpin shook, and her teeth chattered slightly. "Strong man, let the horse stop, I am willing!"

The people outside the car laughed loudly, "Little lady, can you still sit still? Open the window and lift the curtain and let me see how you look."

Xie Fengyue pushed up the wooden gate without any trace of ink. After stabilizing her figure, she lifted the curtain and hat. She raised her eyes and asked softly, "Strong man, is it okay?"

(End of this chapter)