Chapter Twenty-Six: The Robbery of the Mountain Road
The carriage departed at three o'clock. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoIt's still pitch black.
The carriage burned faintly with candlelight, jumping to the ground with the occasional jolt of the carriage.
Fu Yanxi obviously felt that Mo Lingyun's mood was a little sad.
Thinking about it, the rented parents died one after another, and Mo Lingyun had almost nothing to rely on in this world. If it weren't for the fact that her father Fu Qingyan valued love and righteousness, had no doubt about her husband and wife's affection, and had never taken a concubine, and she and her brother were also very filial and obedient, Mo Lingyun's life experience was really as others said, lonely and miserable.
Fu Yanxi gently leaned towards Mo Lingyun and stuffed the stove in her hand into her arms.
Mo Lingyun's heart was hot, and she stretched out her arm to hug Fu Yanxi, and the mother and daughter enjoyed the intimate time.
The carriage came to the foot of Fangshan Mountain on the outskirts of Beijing all the way. The light was already bright, and it had been an hour.
Because of the silence around her, Fu Yanxi fell asleep several times along the way, and then woke up dimly and used a few small bites.
Now that she has reached the foot of the mountain, Fu Yanxi gently lifted the curtain of the car and looked out. Winter has arrived, and everything is bleak. The trees along the mountain road are bare and ready to withstand the winter snow that will soon come.
She hadn't been here in four years.
The carriage began to ascend the hill, which was flat at first, but soon the road became steeper. Yuqi and Redsleeves had already put away the lampstand on the case, and several people leaned against the four walls of the carriage to maintain a safe balance.
The carriage walked very slowly, and Qin An, the groom who was driving, was an old servant of the Fu Mansion, and he was also a person that Fu Qingyan trusted more, and his skills were very credible. Fu Yanxi is not worried.
But even so, when the carriage came to a sudden stop, and the horses in front of the carriage raised their front hooves and neighed in terror, the people in the carriage staggered in an instant, panicked and wondered what had happened.
"Lao Qin, what's wrong?" Mo Lingyun asked through the curtain.
"Madame, ahead, there's a fight in front." Qin An's voice trembled a little.
"What?" Mo Lingyun instantly clenched Fu Yanxi's hand. "Can you get around?"
"This is the way up and down the mountain, I'm afraid it won't work, ma'am." Qin An said.
"What then? Why don't we turn around and go back, and we won't go today. Mo Lingyun said. Now it is important to protect the lives of the people in this car.
"It's not okay to turn around, it's a steep slope here, and the carriage is out of balance. Now that the horse is frightened, it is even more difficult to control, and the slightest carelessness will destroy the car and kill people! Qin An said anxiously.
"What should I do?" Mo Lingyun muttered a whisper. suddenly remembered that he was still following his daughter, and being a mother was strong, so he turned around and comforted Fu Yanxi and said, "Don't be afraid, there is a mother." ”
Fu Yanxi shook her head with a smile, and said firmly: "You're not afraid. Then he asked Red Sleeves and Yuqi, "Are you afraid?" ”
Both men shook their heads in unison. "Slaves are not afraid." Although the voice could not hide the fluctuations, he still struggled to get up and protect his master.
There was silence in the car for a while. Everyone listened intently to the movement outside the car. But after a while, I only heard Lao Qin's exclamation, and before everyone in the car could react to what had happened, the curtain of the carriage was lifted.
Fu Yanxi looked up, and it was a heroic girl in Xuanyi who lifted the curtain, her eyes were red, and she was very terrifying.
"Who are you! What to do! Yuqi asked loudly to hide the fear in her heart.
"Get out of the carriage, I'll spare you from dying!" The girl pointed the long sword in her right hand in the direction of Mo Lingyun and Fu Yanxi, and Sen Ran spoke.
Fu Yanxi looked out along the gap between her figures, two or three corpses were lying in front of the carriage, and the coachman Lao Qin also had a long sword around his neck, but the sword was held by a young man in Xuanyi.
"Don't waste your time, I'll kill you if you don't leave." Seeing that no one answered, the girl said in a cold and threatening tone.
"You haven't answered the question yet." Fu Yanxi suddenly said to the girl at this time. The voice is unusually calm.
The current situation is unpredictable, these two people are killing all the way, and they are eager to snatch the carriage, but they are afraid that there will be pursuers behind them. If they hastily abandon the car and leave, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not be blocked and killed by the pursuing soldiers who follow them. Now although the man and the woman want to rob the carriage, they don't seem to have the intention of hurting people's lives, so it is better to simply gamble.
The girl was stunned when she heard this, as if she didn't expect Fu Yanxi to say this sentence at such a time. But she reacted immediately, frowned and shouted, "Don't talk nonsense, leave quickly!" ”
Mo Lingyun didn't know what Fu Yanxi thought, and when she heard that the girl was willing to let her go, she wanted to pull Fu Yanxi out of the car. was stopped by Fu Yanxi.
"You kill people on the road, rob carriages, even if you are robbers who block the road, you must always report your name." Fu Yanxi was unmoved. She gambled that the man and woman would not kill innocent people, and that they would not dare to delay too much time for the pursuers to catch up. Even though she had no idea where such an instinct came from.
"You!" The girl was extremely girlish, and the tip of the sword was also a little closer, only half an inch away from Fu Yanxi's eyes.
Fu Yanxi stared at her without dodging at all, even though her palms were already soaked with cold sweat.
"You don't toast, you don't eat, you don't eat! If I don't kill you, it's your luck, if you talk nonsense, don't blame me for being rude! The girl threatened.
"If you don't kill me, whoever kills you will kill me. Even if you escape, you will not be at peace. Fu Yanxi replied without thinking.
The girl hesitated when she heard this. She is not a person who kills innocents indiscriminately, but now that the chasing soldiers are coming, if she doesn't leave, I'm afraid these people will die.
"What do you want?" The girl asked.
"Save you, and save ourselves." Fu Yanxi said calmly.
"What do you mean?" The girl was puzzled.
"Let Uncle Qin go. Come in. Fu Yanxi said.
"Sister-in-law?" Mo Lingyun very much disagreed with her approach.
"Mother's direction, sister-in-law knows it." Fu Yanxi comforted Mo Lingyun. But his eyes kept on the girl, as if to see the bottom of her heart.
"Ah Sheng, let the coachman go." The girl was stared at by Fu Yanxi and had a feeling of being nowhere to hide, and she didn't know whether to believe the little girl in front of her, who was much younger than herself, but she still tilted her head slightly and commanded the young man outside the car.
The young man was very obedient, and in an instant he put away his sword and bent down into the carriage.
Only then did Fu Yanxi and the others see that the young man's appearance was very handsome, very similar to the appearance of this girl, and it was estimated that it should be a sister-brother relationship.
"What do you want?" The girl asked again.
"Uncle Qin, go up the mountain." Fu Yanxi didn't pay attention to it, but just commanded Qin An.
Qin An didn't dare to hesitate, and with a "bang", the carriage continued to climb slowly.
"Don't play tricks!" The young man who came in later waved his hand, and the long sword was against Mo Lingyun's neck, he accurately knew that only by restraining Mo Lingyun could he restrain the little woman in front of him.