coobybook Chapter 153 They were spotted by bandits as soon as they disembarked!
Chapter 153 They were spotted by bandits as soon as they disembarked!
It took Shen Shuli two hours to finally catch up with her parents' boat.
As they approached the large ship, Shen Shuli informed her parents in advance.
Su Yunhai immediately ordered the crew to stop the ship and bring Shen Shuli aboard.
"Father, these are the people I rescued on the way. Let's take them with us."
After everyone boarded the ship, Shen Shuli immediately introduced the two sides to each other.
Su Yunhai and Shen Yuehua are both intelligent people, and they know that their daughter is not the kind of person who would save people indiscriminately.
The fact that she brought people up suggests that they are all people who can be of use to them.
"My daughter is kind-hearted; she'll help people wherever she goes, so of course I, as her father, won't stand idly by," Su Yunhai said, feigning concern.
When the Zhou family heard that their benefactor's father had agreed to let them stay, their tense expressions relaxed slightly.
The five people immediately knelt down before Su Yunhai and his two daughters.
"Thank you for taking us in. When we return to the capital, we will definitely repay you with generous gifts," Madam Zhou promised with tears in her eyes.
Shen Yuehua quickly helped them up and greeted them with a smile, "Madam Zhou, there's no need for such a grand gesture. Come, let me take you to the guest rooms to rest. You must be tired."
Shen Yuehua immediately led the people away, leaving space for her husband and daughter.
Seeing that everyone had left, Shen Shuli quickly put the boat into her spatial storage while no one was on the deck.
"Dad, go and tell the crew to set sail. We'll talk in the room later."
Su Yunhai knew his daughter had something important to tell him, so he immediately went to inform the crew.
They returned to their room.
Shen Yuehua and Shen Shuli were already waiting in the room.
"Wife, have those people been arranged?" Su Yunhai asked.
"Well, I had my three sons squeeze into one room, and my two daughters-in-law and grandson squeeze into another. I made up a room for them to make do," Shen Yuehua explained.
The cabins on the ship were already full, and she didn't want to bother others, so she could only trouble her three sons.
Su Yunhai nodded, showing no dissatisfaction. Then he turned his gaze to his daughter and asked, "Tell me, what remarkable things have you been up to lately? Why are you back so late?"
Shen Shuli touched her nose, secretly glanced at her mother who had an unfriendly look in her eyes, and looked sullen.
"It's nothing much. When I was returning to Qinzhou Prefecture, the Northern Barbarian army attacked. They were only thirty kilometers outside the city. I secretly tried to help them out."
"I ran into the Lin family again on the way. The Lin family had somehow acquired a large amount of supplies, so I robbed them again and killed a few members of the Lin family in the process."
"But I'm not sure if I killed them or not."
Shen Shuli explained the whole story to her parents in detail.
"Mom and Dad, I really feel something's off. It seems like whenever I deal with the Lin family, something unexpected always happens. I'm not even sure if the Lin family has killed any of them."
Su Yunhai and Shen Yuehua never expected that their daughter would encounter so many things in just a few days; just hearing about it made their hearts pound.
"You've been too bold, kid! I'm starting to regret it now. If you didn't have that space, would you have behaved better?"
Shen Yuehua felt a surge of anger and was genuinely worried about her daughter's safety.
If my daughter were an ordinary person, would she not always take the risk of doing those extremely dangerous things?
Looking at her mother's worried eyes, Shen Shuli couldn't help but feel heartbroken.
She knew she had gone through a lot of trouble, but she didn't want her parents to worry.
But she knows how to act appropriately. When faced with an insurmountable crisis, she will definitely not take risks and will run away faster than anyone else!
"I'm sorry, Mom, I made you worry," Shen Shuli apologized sincerely.
Seeing her daughter like this, Shen Yuehua immediately shut up and gently touched her daughter's hair, which was wet from the river.
"Mom knows you're doing this for our sake, and I know you know how to act appropriately, but I just can't help worrying about you. Don't blame me for nagging."
"No, Mom, I love your care and I never find it annoying."
"Yeah, I believe your nonsense."
"Alright, let's get down to business. What's going on with the Zhou family mother and son?" Su Yunhai interrupted the mother and daughter's sweet talk and brought the topic back to the main point.
"I rescued them on a whim, and it turned out they happened to be important characters in the book, so I brought them along," Shen Shuli explained.
"What important person?"
"Madam Zhou's husband was appointed Minister of Personnel, a second-rank official, who was in charge of the appointment, evaluation, promotion, demotion, conferment of honors, and transfer of civil officials throughout the country. It was a very important position."
"If there were no natural disasters or man-made calamities, Minister Zhou would very likely have entered the cabinet."
"In the original story, Lin Wanwan saved Zhou Shangshu's child on the way and became a great benefactor of the Zhou family. Later, because of Lin Wanwan, he chose to side with the Third Prince and became an important resource for the Third Prince to successfully seize the throne."
Upon hearing this, Su Yunhai and Shen Yuehua immediately understood the importance of the five members of the Zhou family.
"My daughter is really a lucky star. Wherever she goes, she always manages to beat that damn female lead, Lin Wanwan."
"Hehe, it seems my daughter is more like the female lead." Su Yunhai's eyebrows danced with pride as he looked at Shen Shuli with a fawning expression.
"Haha~"
Shen Shuli turned her face away in disgust, unable to bear looking at him.
"Girl, you took them so far on the yacht, didn't they notice something was wrong?" Shen Yuehua asked worriedly.
"I don't know, but I probably won't overthink it," Shen Shuli said, unsure.
But she was certain that those people would never guess that the ship was not a product of this era.
They would never have guessed that the boat they were on could travel at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour.
The only thing that might arouse suspicion is how she got her hands on the boat.
"It's best not to take any more risks in the future. If we leave too many clues, someone with ulterior motives will eventually notice something is wrong," Shen Yuehua couldn't help but advise.
"Yes, I understand," Shen Shuli assured her repeatedly.
It's almost dawn.
Shen Yuehua felt sorry for her daughter and quickly urged her to go to bed and rest.
Shen Shuli also felt mentally exhausted and fell asleep the moment she touched the bed.
In her daze, Shen Shuli realized someone was calling her to get up.
I opened my eyes and realized...
The boat had already stopped, and we had arrived at Tanqiu Wharf sometime earlier.
The supplies on the ship had been almost completely unloaded. Shen Yuehua woke her daughter up when she saw that she was still asleep.
Shen Shuli had a good night's sleep and felt much more refreshed.
"Mother, have we arrived at the station so soon?" Shen Shuli asked, looking at the murky river water.
I didn't expect the river water to have dropped so much; it was now a full five zhang (approximately 10 meters) below the riverbank.
The path between the riverbank and the dock is paved with wide, thick wooden planks for travelers to walk on.
Shen Yuehua explained with a heavy expression: "Originally, we were supposed to dock at Pingyang Wharf a day later, but the crew said that the water level had dropped too much and the boat could not sail in the shallow water. We have to go ashore here in advance and take the land route instead."
Shen Shuli nodded slightly upon hearing this.
"I see."
After counting the number of people and the goods, Su Yunhai called a group of able-bodied young men to help the Gu family unload the ship.
After unloading the supplies, the fleet set sail for the return journey.
The group sat in the woods opposite the dock to rest and recover their strength.
Shen Shuli sat leaning against a tree, her consciousness absorbed in the space, busy farming.
She suddenly sensed a murderous aura converging towards her.
"Bandits in sight! Be on guard!"
Shen Shuli immediately shouted a warning!