Chapter 257: "Contagion"
Hu Da was supported in the middle by An Sheng and Qinghui, and walked up the steps on his knees, only to feel extremely aggrieved.
It was not so easy to hide his tall figure in An Sheng's cloak, and in order not to show flaws as much as possible, Hu Da tried his best.
It would be better if he knew the bone-shrinking magic that was rumored on the rivers and lakes, but he wouldn't, so it was very difficult.
He usually walks in great strides, but all of a sudden, let alone taking great steps, he can't even show his cloak on his shoes.
Hu Da walked a few steps with difficulty, and finally found some sense, and tried to narrow his steps as much as possible.
If it was just him, it would be better, he mainly didn't want to involve An Sheng's master and servant.
The eldest husband has something to do and something not to do, this kind of thing that affects his friends, he is reluctant to do it.
In order to take care of Hu Da, An Sheng and Qinghui took very small steps and walked very slowly.
Soon, the sound of footsteps above me was near.
Qinghui couldn't help but be nervous, her heart was beating fast, and she grabbed Hu Da's arm tightly.
Hu Da felt that Qinghui was clenching his little arm, but he didn't dare to speak, so he could only endure it secretly.
At this time, he couldn't help but regret agreeing to An Sheng and leaving with their master and servant.
In case it is discovered by those people later, and An Sheng and Qinghui have an accident, how can he be happy!
Just when he was thinking about it, he heard An Sheng whisper: "Don't panic. ”
Her voice was low, even a little soft when a little girl spoke, but miraculously, Hu Da and Qinghui were at ease.
The three of them slowly moved upwards.
As soon as I turned the stone wall around the corner, I saw seven or eight people running down the stone steps above.
These men were all dressed in white clothes, wearing the same soft leather belts, and holding uniform swords in their hands.
They descended very quickly, and like a gust of wind, they ran past An Sheng.
When these people ran past them, An Sheng took a look at them and saw that they had a Wang character tattooed on their cuffs.
If she guessed correctly, these people should be the guards of the family surnamed Wang.
Qinghui saw that those people ran over directly, and did not stop them, and was about to breathe a sigh of relief, when she heard a male voice behind her.
"Wait."
As soon as Qinghui heard this voice, she immediately froze in fright, and then glanced at An Sheng nervously.
I saw An Sheng give her a reassuring look, then turned around, lowered her head and asked in a low voice, "How many big brothers, are you calling us?" ”
"Exactly," the man at the head nodded, and walked over to An Sheng, "I ask you, have you ever seen a cropper dressed in blue and gray shorts, going down from here?" ”
"Farmer?" An Sheng thought for a moment, and then said, "We walked all the way down the mountain, and we didn't see any croppers?" ”
The man didn't seem to believe An Sheng very much, and when he heard this, he didn't speak immediately, but looked at An Sheng intently.
An Sheng seemed to be a little frightened by him, and couldn't help but shrink his neck.
Seeing this, the man narrowed the corners of his eyes slightly, and went to look at Qinghui and Hu Da again.
After a while, his gaze stayed on Hu Da with a gauze hat and asked, "Why did she take off her hat and let us take a look." ”
When Qinghui heard this, a trace of panic flashed in her eyes.
I heard An Sheng shouting: "Never! ”
"Why not?" When the man heard An Sheng's rebuttal, his tone became even tougher, "To tell you the truth, the person I just said is a fugitive we are pursuing, if you delay our arrest of him, or if you have the heart to help hide ......"
As he spoke, the man glanced at Hu Da meaningfully, and then continued, "If you have the heart to help him, then you will be punished for the same crime!" ”
So arrogant?
An Sheng secretly raised his eyebrows.
These people are obviously not the guards of the regular government, why do they dare to speak so arrogantly?
This is the boundary of the imperial capital, and it actually says that if you want to arrest people, you must arrest people?
"Don't scare us, this big brother, how dare we help the thief," An Sheng made a very frightened look, waved his hand, and said, "I don't let this big brother look at my young lady, it's really for your own good." ”
"What do you mean?" The man saw that An Sheng didn't look like he was cheating, and his expression couldn't help but loosen a little.
Mainly, he didn't expect that An Sheng, a little girl, would dare to lie to him in front of him with her eyes open.
"Big brother doesn't know, my young lady actually has a strange disease," An Sheng said with a sad face, "Our trip is to go up the mountain to ask Master Puyun to see the illness for my young lady, but Master Puyun generally doesn't see outsiders, my wife can't, so I had to think of this method, call us two personal maids, accompany Miss to hike up the mountain, to show sincerity, want to impress the master, promise to help Miss heal, I can't hide it, my Miss has a contagious disease, so, I just told the eldest brother not to lift the lady's veil hat, this disease is dangerous, I have been a lot of caution in serving the miss, but unfortunately I was infected, you see, the red spots on my hand are infected by the miss! ”
With that, An Sheng put his hand in front of the man's eyes and told him to see.
When the man heard this, he subconsciously looked down, and saw that the back of An Sheng's white hand and wrist were indeed red spots of all sizes, which were very terrifying to look at.
The man was so frightened that he took a few steps back.
The people behind him also retreated when they saw this.
"Big brother rest assured, my illness is milder, as long as there is no physical contact, it will not be contagious, and my young lady, as long as you don't communicate with her breath through the gauze hat, it doesn't hurt, but if you take off this gauze hat, if you blend with the lady's breath, you can't say for sure, if you meet someone else today, you have to lift the lady's gauze hat, I won't say much, but you officials want to see, I must remind you, my wife often says, you guys catch thieves every day, it's very hard, if you accidentally get infected with a strange diseaseMy wife will definitely kill me when she goes back. ”
An Sheng wrung her sleeves with her hands, and her face looked uneasy and worried, as if she was worried about these people on the other side and herself, as she said.
The man's face changed and changed, he took two steps back, stared at An Sheng and the three of them for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "Since you are sick, don't come out to hang around, if I really get sick because your master and servant are sick, I will not let you go!" ”
"Yes, the official has taught him a great lesson!" An Sheng nodded hurriedly.
"Where do you live?" The man had already planned to leave, but he was still not at ease when he thought about it, so he asked again.
"This ......" An Sheng couldn't help but hesitate when he heard this.
"Say it! If you dare to conceal it, you will be brought to justice immediately. The man threatened.
"Yes, yes, I say, I say!" An Sheng nodded hurriedly, and then said an address and the name of the mansion.