Empress Dowager Empress Dowager

Chapter 205
"Yu'er, I just finished talking to you the day before yesterday, and you promised to study hard, but now you have changed your mind?" Lin Ruyi asked with a puzzled expression.

"What a change of mind, but I didn't expect that the Ninth Prince would come to the house to look for my sister while I was learning the rules, but my sister didn't tell me, and came to scare me after the prince left. I don't want to learn this rule. If you learn it again, the Ninth Prince will become hers, mother, you can let father take back his life, don't let me learn it again."

As she spoke, she took Lin Ruyi's hand and acted like a baby.

When Lin Ruyi heard this, a sense of ruthlessness flashed in her heart, "It's Huo Mingzhu again, why is that woman's daughter still haunted!"His face was also gloomy: "Is Huo Mingzhu really showing off in front of you like this?"

"Isn't it? I'm so mad, mother, talk to father, okay?"

"Okay!" Lin Ruyi hated Huo Mingzhu so much that her teeth itch, and said good words very loudly.

"That's great, mother, you are the best to me." Huo Huaiyu happily leaned against Lin Ruyi, but then thought of Yu Tong's incident, so the smile on his face disappeared again: "Hmph If my father wants to accept Yu Tong, then she will be my second mother, but I don't want to call her, damn it, I really want to scratch her face and see if she has any face."

The name Yu Tong, at this moment, is completely a knife to poke Lin Ruyi's heart. As soon as Huo Huaiyu said it, Lin Ruyi's resentment, which had finally calmed down a little, was aroused again. Couldn't help shrinking his neck.

"That bitch Yu Tong wants to enjoy the glory and wealth in the general's mansion, so I want her to taste what it means to be bitter and bitter! Yu'er, you don't want to call her the second mother, so you can rest assured. Without you calling when."

"Mom, what are you going to do?"

"I don't need to do anything, that little bitch will get out of the general's mansion obediently." Huo Huaiyu was puzzled by the cruel look on Lin Ruyi's face. asked.

At this moment, the carriage of Yu Tong's parents was already heading towards Shangjing.

And on the road that the carriage must pass, there were several people waiting in ambush over there. Huo Mingzhu didn't know about it, Yu Tong didn't know about it, and the only person who knew was smiling terribly at the moment.

On Situ Tiannan's side, he has already found the way, and is waiting for the opportunity to kill someone to escape from prison. No, it can't be called a prison escape, and this place can't be a cell, it can only be called an abandoned cellar. I want to get something from him, so I locked him here.

On this day, as soon as it got dark, Situ Tiannan lay upright on the ground and did not move. His appearance was very similar to a corpse that had been dead for a long time.

The person who came to deliver the food looked inside and saw his appearance, so he called out, "Hey, get up."

It's no wonder Situ Tiannan got up.

The man was a little puzzled, he didn't know what was going on with the man inside, so he found a branch and poked Situ Tiannan's foot, but Situ Tiannan didn't respond, so the food delivery man felt that something was wrong, On weekdays, this man was very energetic and yelled at the door.

Thinking of this, he opened the door and went in to take a look. As a result, when he squatted down, Situ Tiannan slapped a brick on his head and passed out.

After Situ Tiannan checked that the man had indeed fainted and would not wake up for a short time, Situ Tiannan hurriedly rummaged through the man's body, and after a while, he took out the key from the man's body, quickly He opened the shackles and bracelets on his hands, and ran outside without stopping.

After running out, it was exactly as he expected, what kind of government prison is this, it is clearly a cellar of a certain family, or a cellar dug outside.

There was only one horse outside, with the river on one side and the path on the other, Situ Tiannan didn't think too much about it, just jumped on the horse and walked along the path.

After walking for a while, I found a small shop, sold the horse, bought a set of coarse linen clothes for some money, and then found a farmhouse, stayed in the woodshed for one night, and then went to the market I bought a mule that was close to riding on it, and then headed in the direction of Shangjing.

Although it is slow, it is safe this way, except for the rough face that does not look like a farmer's face, whoever said that this outfit is not from a farmer's family.

This journey is three days later.

On this day, Situ Tiannan was about to run out of money, and it was still a long way to go to Beijing. Just as he was thinking about whether to sell his jade pendant for some money, he heard the sound of horseshoes.Situ Tiannan hurriedly looked over and saw a carriage driving towards him.

There was really no other way, so I had to give it a go. If the owner of the carriage was kind enough to take him along, that would be great.

So, he drove the little mule to the middle of the official road and stopped him!

The carriage stopped, and a middle-aged couple got out of the carriage. Although they were not considered wealthy, they were decently dressed.

Situ Tiannan cupped his hands at the two people with a smile all over his face and said, "Dare to ask Mrs. and Mrs. if you are going to Beijing?"

"Yes." The middle-aged man looked at Situ Tiannan vigilantly. Although he was in the small place of Qingcheng on weekdays, he met a lot of people. This man knew he was a scholar at a glance. Look at that The complexion of the face and the way of speaking!
"So, that's great. I'm a student going to Beijing to take the exam. I have been riding this little mule for a long time. Seeing that the time for the imperial examination is coming up, and I'm still delaying here, if I still go there on a little mule , I’m afraid I won’t be able to catch up, could it be convenient for you to give me a ride, I don’t need to ride in the carriage, I just sit with this little brother who is driving the carriage.”

The couple hesitated for a moment, then agreed, Situ Tiannan nodded and bowed to the couple with gratitude for a long time, which made the couple repeatedly say not to care.

At the beginning, he took the little mule with him, and the journey was not fast, so Situ Tiannan sold it generously, and got the full amount of money to give to the couple as a reward for riding the carriage.

After traveling for a few days, Situ Tiannan found out the identities of the couple. They turned out to be the younger brother and sister-in-law of Mrs. Huo from the Huo family. , was married into the General's Mansion as a concubine. Although they were concubines, the couple had extremely satisfied smiles on their faces.

Situ Tiannan let out another oh.

The woman said: "Master, do you know about the Huo family?"

"Know a thing or two, we scholars need to know a thing or two about the meritorious ministers of the court." Situ Tiannan smiled and said, which can be regarded as a circle!
He almost told about his acquaintance with Yu Tong just now, but fortunately he paused and held back, otherwise, his identity as a candidate who went to Beijing to rush for the exam would have to be exposed.

If you say that Situ Tiannan's luck is good, it is indeed good. If you want to say that his luck is not good, it is really not so good. .

It was the fourth day in the carriage, and when he was about to arrive in Shangjing, he encountered bandits.

"Keep your carriage and women, or your life will be spared." The bandit was carrying a big long-handled sword, standing so majestically on the official road, and pointed the sword at the carriage and shouted.

They had calculated the uphill place accurately, and the carriage could not go fast, so they ambushed here, so they stopped the carriage easily.

The expressions of the three people in the carriage changed at the same time. Situ Tiannan was alright, he had a little kung fu, and this ordinary bandit couldn't do anything to him. The reason for the change of expression was that he felt that the way to Beijing would be delayed again. Just be patient.

Yu Tong's parents were really scared. They have never met bandits in this life. It is said that bandits are very scary and kill people without blinking an eye. Thinking of this, the more they think about it, the more scared they become, and they dare not go out up.

It's just that if they don't go out, people will come in naturally.

The driver was so frightened that he squatted on the ground and shivered. The bandits ignored him and lifted the curtain of the carriage. Seeing that there was no beautiful girl inside, they knocked on the carriage angrily with their knives: "Here!" Master come down!"

The three of them got out of the car. When Yu Tong's mother, Qian Shiyi, saw those vicious bandits and the knives in their hands, her feet went limp and she almost fell to the ground. Only by giving her a hand, was she spared the pain of flesh and blood.Just like that, Qian's whole body trembled so badly that he couldn't even stand still.

"This carriage looks good, sir, we have it, and the four of you, all of them look good, my village is building a house at the moment, you just go up to work for the uncle!" After finishing speaking, he threw the knife at several people Pointing in front of him: "Go, go into the carriage over there."

Situ Tiannan looked in the direction of the knife, and saw a dilapidated carriage with two menacing men sitting on the driver's seat looking at it.

Situ Tiannan felt strange, why this bandit was so rampant, he only robbed things, but also robbed people, I have never heard of bandits who have such courage, these people are probably not as simple as bandits.

Thinking of this, he glanced at the couple next to him.

The suspicious point lies in this couple. Thinking about the identities of these two people and the purpose of this trip, Situ Tiannan felt that there was something hidden in it, but he didn't know it.

It's hard to say for sure about the matter of the deep house, but, if he is involved this time, these "bandits" won't be so easy to succeed.

"I said, Brother Bandit, you are just asking for money, why did you put us all in the stockade? If you say that you are short of labor, do you think we are good laborers? You can't carry it with your shoulders, and it's not a waste of your food if you go there."

Situ Tiannan was just trying to see if it was what he thought.

The leader directly shouted at Situ Tiannan: "Stop talking nonsense, I'll kill you with a knife."

"Brother, I didn't say there were four people, but three people." As the leader said, a fellow came over and whispered in the leader's ear.

Situ Tiannan's ears are quite good, so when he heard it, he knew in his heart that it was as he had guessed.

The leader just glanced at that person, paused, but still said: "Go, tie the hands and feet of those people to me."

Immediately afterwards, the four of them were tied like zongzi and thrown into the carriage, followed by two people who came in, presumably, to look at the four.

Then the carriage started to move, it was flat at first, and then it started to bump, Situ Tiannan thought, maybe he had already left the official road at this moment.

At this moment, the voices of people talking outside also rang out: "Brother, there is not much money in the carriage, we are at a loss on this ticket."

"Bastard, there is no money, no big girl, just a shriveled-looking woman, it is really disgusting, you find a way to squeeze some money out of them." The boss spoke, and Situ Tiannan listened. It was the voice of the man who took the lead just now.

(End of this chapter)