After the marriage, the cousin was spoiled by the whole family of the Marquis's Mansion

Chapter 125 A Chance to Escape

At midnight, three figures came down from the city wall and disappeared around the corner of the street at an extremely fast speed.

The night watchmen thought they were seeing things and couldn't help rubbing their eyes.

When he looked again, the street was empty, there was nothing there.

Three figures appeared at the back door of the City Guard Mansion.

This is usually where servants live.

But there were not many servants resting here.

Since they set out on the march, they have visited several cities, some poor, some rich, but none of them was as sparsely populated as Guangyang.

Even the city garrison was empty.

Three of them jumped onto the roof, Wei Shuo stayed where he was, and the remaining two immediately dispersed to investigate.

After a cup of tea, the two came back.

"General Wei, there are only three people in the servants' room, and the one living in the guest house is the scribe."

"It's very strange that this city lord has no wives, concubines or children."

Wei Shuo frowned, "Let's go! Let's go to the city lord's study and take a look."

The three of them searched the City Guard's Mansion, but they didn't see the City Guard, let alone a piece of his clothing.

When Wei Shuo reported to Jin Shaoyi, Jin Shaoyi's expression was also confusing.

"We have been ordered to go to the capital, and we cannot delay. Tomorrow morning, you and I will go to the City Guard House again."

"If there is any abnormality, please submit a report to the Ministry of Revenue."

"Yes."

At dawn the next day, Jin Shaoyi and Wei Shuo arrived at the City Guard Mansion again.

Biteshi did not expect that the general would be so persistent to come again for the second time.

Aren't you going to the capital to receive the imperial edict? Why do you still have the time to waste here?

The clerk smiled and said, "General, you have not returned home all night, and I really don't know where you are!"

Jin Shaoyi sat down aside with a big smile.

Wei Shuo said, "This city is very strange. Since our general has encountered it, we naturally cannot sit idly by. If the city keeper has any difficulties, please raise them. When our general meets His Majesty, he will naturally speak for the city keeper."

The clerk's eyes rolled, thinking about how many connections the city governor had used to get promoted, and now this ready-made relationship was right in front of him, right?

If he succeeds in this matter, how will the adults forget him when they grow older?

Thinking of this, Bi Tieshi was immediately filled with smiles.

"I just remembered that you have a house in the city. Sometimes when you are not staying in the official residence, you live in that house."

Wei Shuo looked back at Jin Shaoyi and said to the postman, "Then you lead the way."

The house was not far from the official residence, just in an alley on the main street.

From the outside, it looks like an ordinary two-story house.

As soon as Jin Shaoyi entered the door, he faintly smelled a strange fragrance.

After the clerk led the two men to the front hall and sat them down, he went straight to the backyard.

Wei Shuo just took a look from the general and followed him quietly.

Jin Shaoyi found that although the house was old, the things in it were not bad.

He touched the handle of the seat and found that it was made of top-quality pear wood.

Everywhere you look in this front hall, you can see entire pieces of pear wood.

And the painting on the wall, if he was not mistaken, was one of the very few paintings of Mr. Akashi in the world, and it was priceless!
A moment later, Wei Shuo came out in a hurry, "General, the city guard is dead!"

Jin Shaoyi turned around in astonishment, "Dead?"

"Yes!" Wei Shuo held a short knife wrapped in white cloth in both hands, "This was found at the crime scene."

There is also a steel stamp of the manufacturing department on the handle of the dagger.

"Is this something from the palace?"

The two looked at each other. This city was so poor that people were unwilling to come back, but the city keeper's small house had a front hall for receiving guests, which was made of pear wood.

Guangyang is not only a city by the water, it is actually soaking in water.

Jin Shaoyi glanced at the sky which was gradually brightening.

"Wei Shuo, we can't delay our trip to the capital. I will continue my journey with the army. You go to the provincial capital of Siyang. This matter must be reported urgently."

"Yes."

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The door of the courtyard was locked tightly, and the three meals a day were delivered by the man in black that she had seen in Chuanshan before. After a night of trembling with fear, Haitang had already come to her senses.

These people wanted to take her and the young lady to the Western Jin Dynasty.

Although she had never seen the Western Jin Dynasty, she had heard that it was very poor and some people would even eat each other when they had no food!
Thinking of this, Haitang’s face turned pale.

It was still dark when Haitang spotted two large rocks at the corner of the wall. As soon as she climbed up to the edge of the wall, she saw a familiar figure riding a horse past.

Young Master Jin, the heir of the Duke of Weiguo’s Mansion!

She was about to open her mouth to shout when the horse ran into the alley diagonally opposite at a great speed.

This is the only chance!
Haitang immediately ran back into the house and pulled the still weak young lady up.

"Young Madam, hurry up!"

"I just saw the prince of Weiguo! We are saved!"

Rong Peilan endured the dizziness and asked, "Why is Master Jin in Guangyang? Are you seeing things?"

Haitang's resolute eyes sparkled, "When the young master of the Jin family was one month old, this servant met the prince. This servant will definitely not make a mistake!"

"They want to take us to Western Jin. This is our only chance!"

"Western Jin Dynasty?!"

Rong Peilan gritted her teeth, closed her eyes for a moment, then stood up with the support of Haitang's hand.

"go!"

The two of them climbed over the upper wall with great effort. Haitang looked at the height of the wall and her heart started pounding again.

She looked down and saw blood spots on her clothes. It was the blood of the mute girl last night.

If they don't have the courage to escape now, they will die sooner or later.

Rong Peilan looked at Haitang, who was pale beside her. She raised her head and saw the sky was turning pale.

Mu Chun has been lurking in Prince Qing for so long, no matter why he has become what he is now.

But she couldn't ignore her two newborn children, her mother-in-law who doted on her, Kuang'er whom she cared about, and her uncle who had raised her for six years.

She had to go back to Beijing.

She looked at the height of the wall, gritted her teeth, and jumped down resolutely.

The ground outside the wall was not flat. She only felt a slight "crack" on her ankle, followed by a piercing pain.

She stood up with trembling lips, "Haitang, come down, I'll catch you."

Haitang gritted her teeth, closed her eyes, and jumped down.

In the dim light of early morning, two young ladies from a secluded house limped hand in hand towards the alley across the street.

Wan Lie folded his arms and followed the two silently.

He had been sleeping on the roof, and he woke up when Haitang climbed up the wall for the first time.

There are three households in the alley, and only the innermost one has its door open and lights on.

There was also the sound of someone talking faintly.

Rong Peilan and Haitang smiled at each other. She endured the piercing pain in her ankle and quickened her pace.

At this time, two sounds of gongs and drums were heard from the entrance of the alley. It was the night watchman's last round of beating the night watch.

Before Rong Peilan could look back, her eyes suddenly blurred and she was carried on someone's shoulders. Her hair bun loosened and the hairpin on her head fell off.

After a few ups and downs, she and Haitang returned to the small courtyard that they had worked so hard to create.

The night watchman rubbed his eyes again, but still saw nothing.

He couldn't help rubbing his arms. He had already finished the last one, and there seemed to be something strange going on tonight. He might as well go back early!
alley.

Jin Shaoyi and Wei Shuo came out.

Jin Shaoyi looked at the whitening sky and said, "The army should break camp and get ready to march."

As he said this, he rode away quickly.

Just as Wei Shuo was about to mount his horse, he inadvertently caught a glimpse of green not far away.

He took two steps forward, and what he saw was a jade hairpin with extremely fine water content!

How could such a top-quality hairpin fall out here?

Could it be that it was dropped by a servant in the house when he stole something and sneaked away?

He picked up the hairpin and looked at it in his hand, and his disgust for the city guard grew even stronger.

"What a corrupt official! This hairpin is enough to feed a family of five or six ordinary people for several years!"

He looked around and saw no one around, so he somehow put the hairpin into his pocket.

(End of this chapter)