Records of the Cattle and Horses of Chang'an

Chapter 365 Heavy losses

"Yes."

Wang Mingqian raised his head slightly, tears streaming down his face. Could he still marry a wife? He seemed to have offended this aunt.

Cui Shuhua didn't let him go immediately. She stroked Xiao Jiang's back like a raccoon, "Although I'm not very knowledgeable, I've heard that the Sixteen Imperial Guards are famous and effective in stopping children from crying at night. Today has really opened my eyes. I'd like to ask the General of the Central Army, how could such a villain block the road and rob people in Chang'an, the capital of the Emperor? Could it be that all the best generals in the country are busy scaring the children? Fortunately, my Cui family still has a few guards who can be used today. If it were someone else, wouldn't they be killed here?"

Wang Mingqian broke into a sweat after hearing these words. For a moment, he didn't know whether Jiang Shangxian's curse words were more vicious, or the words of Aunt Cui that pierced his heart were more distressing.

"Aunt Cui, we were indeed negligent in this matter..." Wang Mingqian admitted his mistake very straightforwardly. As a person, one should be able to bend and stretch.

In fact, he really wanted to say that this matter was caused by Cui Yi, and he also wanted to say that your Cui Yi is from the Dali Temple, and the thief Wu Sanniang was let go by the Dali Temple, but he didn't dare.

If he dares to continue to argue at this time, he will probably never be able to get married!

Yingzi couldn't figure out the specific situation, but she heard this conversation very clearly. According to the literal meaning, her aunt's suffering today was caused by the inaction of the General!

Angry Yingzi clenched his fist and banged his head on Wang Mingqian's lower back...

Seeing Wang Mingqian walking steadily with his hands behind his back to find Zhou Qiu to deal with him, Cui Shuhua withdrew her hand from caressing Jiang Shangxian's back and said coldly, "Why don't you get up?"

Xiao Jiang wanted to pretend again, but he couldn't do it anymore. He could only rub his forehead and raise his head with a weak look, half-closed his eyes and said coquettishly: "Aunt, Nian Nu's body hurts~"

Yingzi, who had just climbed up and hadn't sat down yet, was immediately possessed by Jiang's mother when she heard this: "Where does it hurt? Auntie, where does it hurt? Yingzi will show you, is it here? Or here?"

Jiang Shangxian patted the little girl's head to comfort her, and then gave Cui Shuhua a flattering smile: "Aunt~"

"It's no use yelling! Where on earth did you learn so many obscene words? What did I teach you? Even in a family like ours, even if it's not good enough, we still have to be careful about how we speak!"

God knows that when she came to her senses, her mind was buzzing with Jiang Shangxian's curses replaying over and over again. Thinking that she had been teaching him for so long and the result was like this, she wanted to slap herself to death.

Cui Shuhua seriously suspected that Jiang Shangxian had learned things he shouldn't have learned during the past three months while locked up at home and listening to other people's comments.

"Aunt, you know I've always been timid. I don't know what happened just now. When I saw that thief was about to harm you and me, I couldn't help but say these words. I..."

It must be a ghost! Absolutely! That's it!

Before she could finish her argument, Cui Shuhua's eyes suddenly turned red. She stood up and hugged her again, "You scared me to death. Why didn't you leave when I told you to? We're getting married soon. What will happen if you get a scar on your body?"

She wanted to check Jiang Shangxian's injuries, but the carriage was in such a tattered state.

Jiang Shangxian's eyes were also sore: "If I leave, what will my aunt do?"

It was not easy at all. With this experience, she and her future mother-in-law and aunt have become life-long friends, and the triangle relationship has become more stable!

"You kid, you're really scared..."

Cui Shuhua's tears flowed more and more. She had been holding on for a long time but finally broke down at this moment. She had lived a life of luxury for half of her life. When had she ever encountered such a thing?

If Jiang Shangxian were not here today, she would have no choice but to commit suicide to preserve her innocence.

Jiang Wangri didn't dare to get close when he heard them crying. He scratched the back of his head and looked at Yingzi and asked silently: What's wrong?

However, Yingzi couldn't understand his expression at all. She just thought that his eye was twitching and she was unhappy - he couldn't help during the fight just now, and his eye was still twitching after the fight. She would go back and complain to Master Fan and practice some hard training.

Thinking of this, Yingzi pouted and turned her back to him, ignoring him.

Jiang Wangri: .....

More than half an hour later, Cui Bianxu returned with Zhao Yue, whose hair was disheveled and whose body was covered in blood. Jiang Shangxian noticed at a glance that several guards were missing, and most of those who returned were injured.

Zhao Yue, who had been so high-spirited, now drooped like a frost-bitten eggplant. Cui Shuhua, who had finally stopped crying, burst into tears again when she saw this. She quickly got off the carriage and went to greet him: "What happened to my second sister-in-law?"

She checked Zhao Yue's body from head to toe for bloodstains, and suddenly her face turned pale. She wanted to touch Zhao Yue's neck with trembling hands, but she didn't dare to - there was a thin bloodstain on it.

Cui Bianxu's face was as dark as the bottom of a Jiang family pot that hadn't been scraped for ten years. "Aunt, you and my mother get on the carriage first. We'll leave later when someone brings the carriage over."

"What happened?" Cui Shuhua felt like the whole day was like a dream. How could Zhao Yue go out with such great ambition and come back in such a state? But seeing Cui Bianxu's face was really scary, as if he was about to explode at any time, she didn't dare to ask any more questions and helped Zhao Yue get on the carriage.

Jiang Shangxian peeked through the big hole in the carriage and saw Wu Sanniang and Scarface tied up and thrown together with Zhou Qiu, and several Jinwu Guards were tying ropes to them.

Are they going to drag the person all the way back to Chang'an City? Given the current road conditions, there's a high probability that the person will die if they are dragged all the way back, right?

Xiao Jiang is not being sympathetic to women, she is just afraid that if she gets too angry, she won't be able to get anything out of them.

We have to figure out why Wu Sanniang attacked Zhao Yue and Cui Shuhua, right?

"Nian slave!"

The moment Zhao Yue saw Jiang Shangxian on the carriage, she burst into tears: "I'm glad you're okay..."

This time she was really scared. She originally thought that they were just ordinary robbers and would chase them, but she didn't expect that this group of people were not the kind who robbed people on the road. This was very different from their Guazhou.

The robbers in Guazhou were relatively simple to a certain extent. They would not rob people just to make some money and then devise some tricks to lure the tiger away from the mountain. They would not set up ambushes so carefully.

The robbers there are very discerning. They only rob passing merchants and stay away from wealthy families and officials.

After all, this is all about money, not immediate execution after achieving success.