The Daily Life of a Down-on-Hard-Life Medicine Girl Supporting Her Family

Chapter 119 What does General Xia mean?

Xiao Chunyu took Panpan out of the palace the next morning.

The carriage leaving the palace was also arranged by the Empress herself, and it was escorted by four guards.

In the past, it was nothing unusual for the mother and daughter to ride back to the manor in a carriage, but today, with four guards escorting them, Xiao Chunyu's heart skipped a beat, as if something was about to happen.

"Mother, Panpan is sleepy."

Panpan has a problem: she wants to sleep as soon as she gets into the carriage.

"Come here, let Mommy hold you while you sleep."

She doted on her own daughter, especially since she was so young. Holding her soft, sweet-smelling daughter, Xiao Chunyu felt completely warmed.

Who could have imagined that the once prominent Xiao family, the Imperial Physician Xiao, would be destroyed and its members scattered by a disaster? Who could have imagined that of the hundreds of servants and masters, only she and Panpan, along with Molan, would be left struggling to survive in the capital?

Of course, no one expected that Panpan would win the favor of the eldest prince. Whoever was good to the eldest prince, the empress would give them benefits.

However, the benefits this time are somewhat frightening.

As the carriage left the city gate, Xiao Chunyu looked at Panpan, who was fast asleep in her arms, her face flushed, and lowered her head to kiss her.

With a loud thud, Xiao Chunyu's forehead slammed heavily against the carriage. Immediately afterward, she heard Uncle Chen, the driver, shout, "Miss, are you alright? There's a robbery ahead!"

Xiao Chunyu's eyes widened in shock; he was horrified: a robbery in broad daylight right under the emperor's nose? Who would believe it if word got out?

"Miss……"

"Uncle Chen, how many people are there?"

Xiao Chunyu quickly calmed herself down and asked the question in a composed manner.

"There were about ten of them, all of them with their faces covered."

Robbery in broad daylight with a mask on—it's not about money or sex, it's about taking her and Panpan's lives.

Xiao Chunyu had already heard that the guards sent by the Empress were fighting with the other side.

She would never be foolish enough to lift the carriage curtain to look outside during her studies.

"Mother, there are bad people." The child in my arms suddenly opened his eyes: "Mother, fight the bad people."

"Don't worry, it's okay. Your uncles are here to help beat up the bad guys."

This child seems to know everything.

"They can't win, Uncle and the others can't beat the bad guys." Xiao Chunyu's heart skipped a beat: "Mother will fight."

The guards sent by the Empress were no pushovers, but Panpan was certain they couldn't win. What kind of bandits were these? They were determined to take the lives of her and her daughter!

"How can Mother possibly beat them?"

Is this girl overestimating herself?

"Mother uses Second Aunt's medicine powder."

Xiao Chunyu was taken aback; how could she have known?

No, that's not right. How could she forget that she still had the medicine powder on her?

"Okay, Mother, hit me."

Since Panpan said she could do it, then she went for it.

Anyway, at this time, Xiao Chunyu was a bit blindly confident, mainly because her daughter gave her the courage.

She felt as if her daughter knew everything, and that everything her daughter said would come true.

"Uncle Chen, stop the carriage."

"Miss..." Chen Boyuan planned to take advantage of the intense fighting between the two sides and break through the encirclement on horseback.

“It’s no use. If anything happens to those four, we won’t be able to get through.” Xiao Chunyu lifted the carriage curtain, and five people immediately rushed over.

"Miss……"

"Uncle Chen, cover your nose with your hand." Although Uncle Chen didn't know what was going to happen, he obeyed.

Immediately cover your nose with your large palm.

Seeing the group rushing towards them, Xiao Chunyu took out a packet of medicine powder from her pocket and scattered it.

Of course, she didn't forget to cover Panpan's nose with one hand.

She sprinkled medicine powder with one hand and covered Panpan's nose with the other, but she forgot that no one was covering her own nose.

After the powder was sprinkled, the people outside collapsed, and the people inside the carriage also collapsed.

"Mother, Mother!" Panpan called out quickly.

Uncle Chen heard a "thud" from inside the carriage. When he turned around, well, his young lady had actually collapsed.

"How to do?"

Uncle Chen roughly guessed what was going on.

I wonder where the young lady got such potent medicine.

"It's alright, just sleep for two hours."

"Panpan, are you telling the truth?"

"Really." Panpan's small body was pressed down heavily by her mother's big hand, so she had to move away with difficulty: "Uncle Chen, we can go home now."

Now?

Seeing the four guards and the remaining few fighting fiercely, and then looking at the people lying on the ground beside the carriage, I thought, "Alright, I'll listen to the young lady."

When Xiao Chunyu woke up, she was in her own bed.

"Panpan!"

Suddenly I remembered the matter of sprinkling the powder.

“My daughter has been watching over you for an hour, and she’s really tired, so Jianlan has carried her back to sleep.” Molan quickly helped her up: “Miss, what’s wrong? When Uncle Chen brought you and my daughter back, it was the nanny and I who carried you off the carriage. We kept calling you but you didn’t respond. I suggested calling a doctor, but my daughter wouldn’t let us, saying that you just need to sleep for two hours…”

Mo Lan was extremely worried and anxious, but Xiao Chunyu was even more shocked when she heard this: How did Panpan know?
The self-defense powder that Nuannuan brought is meant to put people to sleep within two hours!
She burned the letter after reading it, and never told Panpan about it. How could such a little child understand everything?

"Is Panpan asleep?"

"Yes, Miss is asleep." Mo Lan said, "Miss, are you feeling unwell? Should we call a doctor?"

"No need, I'm fine." Xiao Chunyu was more interested in knowing about the four guards: "Where's Uncle Chen?"

"Uncle Chen is waiting outside for you to wake up; he has important news to report."

Xiao Chunyu went to see Uncle Chen.

"Miss, three of the four guards were seriously injured. The remaining one, seeing that we had returned safely, took his companions back to report."

"What's the situation with those robbers?"

The fact that she could severely injure the people sent by the Empress shows how strong she is. If it weren't for the medicine powder that Nuannuan had prepared, she and Panpan would have died there today.

"It wasn't much better. Two escaped, and the ones who collapsed were taken back by the guards."

"That's a small success." Xiao Chunyu was still a little scared: "Uncle Chen, have you found the guard you helped me find?"

"Miss, we've found two, they are..."

Uncle Chen didn't know what to say.

"Tell me, what's going on?"

"Those two weren't actually found by me, but were brought by General Xia."

What?
Is that General Xia, our neighbor next door?
"General Xia said that these two were injured on the battlefield and should not ride horses to the battlefield anymore, but they are more than capable of serving as guards. Since Miss is looking for guards, I thought Miss could give them a meal."

"In that case, let's stay." Xiao Chunyu had a bit of a headache, not understanding what General Xia meant.
Mutual care and assistance among neighbors?
(End of this chapter)