I played as an assistant in ancient times

Chapter 184 Guard

Have to wait until the next day to refresh the order

Xia Chen left a sentence: "Miss Shen, I will be back soon, please don't leave this place." Then he disappeared into the night.

Although the city gates were closed at this time, the evening drum had not yet been struck. In addition, it gets dark early in the first month of the lunar year, so there are still many pedestrians and vehicles on the street.

Shen Xiaoye helped her frightened cousin to sit on a chair nearby, and she walked quickly to the door of the clinic to look around, but there were not many lanterns hanging on the street, so she didn't see anything unusual.

At this moment, she missed the little black cat a little. With it tracking her, there was little difference between night and day.

"What kind of guard did you find? He abandoned his master and ran away." Da Nan recovered and ran out to ask her, "Did you take the money and don't want to stay, so you ran away?"

"Cousin, let's go find the medicine boy to boil the medicine." Shen Xiaoye gave up hope, turned around and pulled her back.

Da Nan shook off her hand. Shen Xiaoye turned sideways to look at her, and when she was about to say something, a mule cart passed by.

The coachman was wrapped tightly, and when he raised his eyes, they just glanced at Shen Xiaoye and her sister, then retracted their gaze.

"Agula?" This name flashed through Shen Xiaoye's mind. Why was he here? And he was driving a car? Where were the guards beside him, Sitiqi?

Wait, it seems like there is something I have overlooked.

Just as I was thinking about it, the girl next to me sniffed and said first: "Do you smell... a smell of killing chickens?"

"Smell of blood?" Shen Xiaoye dragged her into the clinic and handed the person over to the medicine boy, saying, "Watch her, don't run away."

After saying that, he quickly ran into the night again, chasing after the mule cart.

The smell of blood was probably human blood. She didn't expect her eldest cousin to have such a keen sense of smell, and she didn't expect that her eldest daughter would look for Shen Cungeng first. At least she knew that a gentleman does not stand on a dangerous wall.

"Is the car going left or right?" Geng Ge'er no longer cared about his cousin, he had to chase after him.

Da Nan said, "On the left, there are many inns and taverns on the east side of this street."

Shen Cungeng asked Ernan to look after the eldest daughter, and paid a medicine boy to help with the decoction.

Due to this delay, Shen Xiaoye was nowhere to be seen on the street.

But at this moment, she did not blindly chase the car that seemed to be Agula, but saw the patrolling soldiers of the Inspection Department and immediately reported for help.

“You said you encountered a mule cart that smelled of blood, but did you see anything else?

For example, did you see anyone injured or dead?" The soldier would not just listen to rumors, he had to ask.

Shen Xiaoye nodded: "I saw a child in the car.

Sir, the car turned the corner two alleys behind where I came from, why don’t we go and take a look together.”

After a few soldiers made a plan, they immediately followed her with lanterns held high and found where the car turned.

Unexpectedly, when everyone got closer, they saw a cart overturned, but the animal pulling the cart was gone, and neither the people were there.

"Boss, there's blood on the car." Several soldiers came running over, "Are you looking for it?"

"Looking for it." The flag-bearing leader of the Inspection Department also wanted to make progress. He said to Shen Xiaoye, "You can't follow me anymore. Let my people take you home."

Shen Xiaoye didn't even have the words to refuse, someone ran in like crazy, "Miss Shen, are you okay?"

It turned out to be bodyguard Xia Chenxia. He lost his personal target and came to guard Shen Xiaoye.

“I’m fine, I just don’t like you running away suddenly.

Guard Xia, can you join them and check some things? " Shen Xiaoye said it as an accusation, but his voice was very gentle, which made people feel relaxed.

She also refused to be escorted by the inspection office, but they did not allow it and she had to be escorted.

But Xia Chen did not agree to go for the check. He had secretly left for a while and did not provide proper protection, so Miss Shen encountered problems. The girl's safety had to be guaranteed first.

Because there were still people from the Inspection Office, Shen Xiaoye was not in a position to say anything to Guard Xia, but because she met her cousin Shen Cungeng halfway, she suddenly smiled and said, "I need your help with something."

"I can't help you. I just want to eat quickly. I'm very hungry." Shen Cungeng knew his own weight.

Shen Xiaoye said: "I'll treat you to a meal, but you have to help draw a portrait.

I heard that you have a talent for painting, and Mr. Pan has started teaching you."

"I want to eat meat, who should I draw?" Shen Cungeng realized that he could do it. "Don't blame me if the drawing doesn't look like it."

"Don't blame me, Hua Agula, I just saw him." Shen Xiaoye said shockingly and asked what she wanted.

Xia Chen was surprised and said, "You know him? And you just met him?"

"Yes, it's right in front of the clinic. There's also the cart without animals that we saw just now. It's probably driven by Agula.

Moreover," Shen Xiaoye hadn't finished speaking when Guard Xia jumped up again and left.

Shen Cungeng was puzzled: "What's wrong with this person?"

"Well, Uncle Changshun and Uncle Wang haven't arrived yet?" Shen Xiaoye abruptly changed the subject.

Shen Cungeng did not pursue the previous question, "Both of them, haha, Da Nan is better than them.

Let's not talk about them, let's discuss Grandpa's condition. How much do you think he has recovered?"

...

The sky was just getting light, and it was exactly the hour of Mao when an ordinary blue cloth mule cart with the word "Fu Ji" marked on it drove out of the east gate of the capital city which had just been opened.

It is late spring now, when the weather is still cold. There was another light rain last night, and many coachmen wrapped themselves tightly in their clothes and whipped their carriages.

Old Mai swung the whip and exhaled a breath of cold air.

However, although he was wearing a thin cotton coat, he was wearing a pair of five-finger gloves sewn by the fourth girl in the car, so he did not feel cold.

After a while, two "coughs" were heard in the car, and then an anxious child's voice sounded: "Dad..."

Then there was another series of coughs...

Old Mai slowed down the car and asked from the side: "Fourth Master?"

Inside the car, Mr. Shen Si, who had been fed two sips of water by his daughter, had gradually stopped coughing. There was a slight blush on his fair face, which was caused by coughing too quickly just now.

"It's okay." The gentle voice of the Fourth Master Shen Ruoyun soothed Old Mai. He pulled the reins and continued on his way, but his speed was obviously slower than at the beginning.

Inside the carriage, Shen Xiao stared at Fourth Master Shen while patting his one-year-old brother who was a little nervous. He secretly regretted that he should have listened to Madam Hu the day before and left with Fifth Uncle Hu to set off together instead of rushing them to go to the Tongzhou Villa first to clean and settle down.

There were not many servants in Guiyuan. Although my mother was a daughter of the royal family, she was only from a side branch of the royal family. She had no father or brothers to support her, and no younger brothers and sisters to help her. She grew up under the care of her aunt, and she had no control over any of the family property.

When he got married, he only brought two concubines, a small dowry, 800 acres of land, and a shop.

And his father had been sick for many years, and had been in a deep sleep for half a year since his mother passed away. If he got a little cold wind, he would cough for half a day. He didn't like too many people in the courtyard, so only Madam Hu and her son took care of him.

Grandpa Mai is only responsible for Dad's travel and usually stays in the study in the outer courtyard.