Chapter 6 I'm a Serious Person
Chapter 6 I'm a Serious Person
Shao Quanzhong looked behind the palace maid, but it was pitch black and he could not see anything.
This doesn't seem like a trap or something like that. My house is standing alone by the Chaobai River. If someone wants to rob me, there's no need to use any tricks, I can just do it directly.
Besides, why did the Shao Quanzhong brothers dare to live here? Wasn’t it because they were both bachelors with no property and wouldn’t attract thieves?
The owner of such a shabby house cannot be rich, and it is not worth it for a palace maid to work hard on it.
Shao Quanzhong was not like the bandits that Tian Xing had summoned, who would get jealous when hearing about money. He had seen a lot of the world in his previous life, and this gimmick from the palace could not scare him.
"Sister-in-law, please stop making fun of me. Why would someone from the palace come to my poor place in the middle of the night?
Go do what you need to do. I have things to do and I haven't eaten yet. I don't have time to chat with you."
He turned around, picked up the backpack and hung it on his shoulder.
The woman frowned, and her tone suddenly softened. "Brother, you don't know that Emperor Xianfeng was on a hunt in the north and was attacked by bandits. We ran away with them. If you can keep us safe—"
Well, that is possible, but why are you, a palace maid, showing off by coming to me?
Shao Quanzhong was an expert and knew the ranks in the palace.
People who come out of the palace are not necessarily awesome. Judging from the way you are dressed, you are of low status.
How much money can an ordinary palace maid have? She may not even see the emperor in her lifetime, she has no status at all, and yet she is rewarded by a great man? You are fooling me.
“Sorry, sorry, I was indeed a constable in Shunyi, but I was a temporary worker hired by Master Wen.
Now that Master Wen has died for his country, my job as a detective is no longer valid and I have no obligation to work for the government for free.
See you beg me this time, this house is yours to live in, you can hide here until dawn, go wherever you need to go, see you later."
Seeing Shao Quanzhong struggling to carry his bag and leave, the woman blocked the door and said, "Wait a minute!"
The woman's tone softened, "Brother, this is a chaotic situation, the foreigners may attack us at any time.
How can a weak woman like me catch up with the emperor in a land full of rebels and bandits? I beg you to be kind and escort us for a while. "
Shao Quanzhong rolled his eyes and said, "I do have kindness, and it's towards my brothers and family.
We don't even know each other, why should I risk my life to help you?
"If you bring me five hundred taels of silver now, I might even go for the money. But if you want me to work for nothing, no way!"
The woman touched the back of her head. Alas, in order not to become a target of traitors and robbers, she threw away her phoenix hairpin, bracelets, and the armor that represented her identity. She had nothing valuable on her body.
Well, the maid's clothes that I had changed into urgently were too tight, and this handsome young man kept dodging his gaze when he looked at me...
As a mature woman of twenty-five, the woman knew what this dodge meant.
The woman listened attentively to the shouting and screaming in the distance, looked around at the darkness full of unknown dangers, and gritted her teeth.
Humph, I have a way to deal with you, but you are courting death...
The woman's face flashed with murderous intent, and then suddenly became kind, "Hero, I have hidden a treasure from the palace on me, I'm sure you will like it, wait for me for a moment."
The woman pulled the child and squeezed into the house past Shao Quanzhong. She looked around and pulled the child, who was dressed as a eunuch, into the side room where Zhang Ershazi usually lived.
The room smelled of Zhang Ershazi's sweat. The "little eunuch" frowned and said, "Mother——"
The woman covered the child's mouth with her hand, her eyebrows raised, "Here, you are not allowed to talk or move around. You are not allowed to leave unless I tell you to. Do you understand?"
Mother was the child’s nightmare, the most feared person in the world. She immediately huddled down on the earthen kang and shut her mouth tightly.
Shao Quanzhong thought that the woman had gone to the inner room to get the treasure hidden on her body, but he saw her coming out empty-handed. The murderous look on her face had been hidden. She smiled at him and reached out to unbutton the cheongsam around her neck.
Shao Quanzhong was stunned. "What are you going to do? Let me tell you, I am a serious person..."
...The serious man Shao Quanzhong could not resist the counter-pushing of the mature woman in palace dress.
In his two lives, he was born in the grassroots. In his previous life, he became rich, but none of his concubines were real ladies. The highest-ranking one was just the daughter of a general's concubine.
People from grassroots backgrounds have a biggest weakness: they have no resistance to women of noble status.
The woman was dressed like a palace maid, but her aristocratic temperament was so strong that it was fatally attractive to the grassroots hero.
What's more, this woman used a charm that could make even the emperor lose his soul.
After all, Shao Quanzhong had never stayed in the palace for a long time, so he thought that she was a palace maid, and that she had this style because she was tainted with the royal atmosphere...
When Shao Quanzhong regained consciousness, he listened carefully and found that the shouting and killing sounds had stopped for a long time. He must have thought that the elite imperial guards had killed the bandits.
As people of later generations, knowing this history has both advantages and disadvantages.
Shao Quanzhong had always firmly believed that Emperor Xianfeng and his concubines could reach Rehe safely. Even if there were some bandits that had not been recorded in history, it was nothing to worry about. He never had any doubts about the identities of the people around him as "runaway palace maids."
He didn't know that he had inadvertently let a big bandit go, and also leaked the secret of the time and route of Emperor Xianfeng's northern expedition, which almost caused Emperor Xianfeng to meet the King of Hell. Even the concubines of noble status had to find ways to save themselves.
"Gu, Gu!"
It was late at night and Shao Quanzhong had not yet had dinner. He suddenly remembered that the three people in the county government office in the city must be waiting anxiously.
However, now that he is in debt, it is not Mr. Shao's style to take all the debt and not admit it.
Relying on his youth, Shao Quanzhong sat up and said, "Come on, I'll take you back to the Northern Hunting Team."
Shao Quanzhong was not tall and thin, and together with the woman and child, he weighed only about 200 pounds. The three of them could ride on one horse without tiring the horse out.
The child was tied in front of Shao Quanzhong, and the "palace maid" held Shao's waist from behind. The white horse followed the official road and went away to the northeast.
I thought that the shouting and killing sounds were not far away, and the woman could run to my home with a child, so I should be able to catch up with the team soon. But I ran forty miles and more than half an hour later. When I arrived at Shicao in Miyun, I saw the camp of the imperial army.
The imperial guards dispersed the bandits who attacked at night. They were afraid that the bandits would have reinforcements and even more afraid that the foreigners would really come. They surrounded the emperor and ran wildly, which made Shao Quanzhong very tired.
The three men dismounted from their horses, and Shao Quanzhong clasped his fists, "I've sent you here, and that's enough. Let's call it quits. We'll go our separate ways and never see each other again."
He turned around and rode away, slapping himself in the face and scolding himself harshly, "You are a good-for-nothing. You deserve to be exhausted to death."
The woman also didn't want to be seen riding on the same horse with a young constable, so Shao Quanzhong's departure was just what she wanted.
When I reached the camp gate, I saw a eunuch leading several guards and leading horses out.
When the chief eunuch saw the two, he fell to his knees and said, "Imperial Concubine Yi, Little Emperor, you are back. The Emperor has been thinking about you."
Concubine Yi's face was cold, "Where are you going?"
"We are out of food here. Su Zhongtang ordered us to go back to the capital and bring back some meat and fruit jerky."
"Humph! As the Minister of the Imperial Guard, you can't even protect my mother and me, and now you're calling yourself the Prime Minister.
The emperor has the nerve to appoint him as a Grand Secretary, and Su Shun has the nerve to accept it! "
The old eunuch was trembling. Concubine Yi was scolding Su Shun, but he didn't dare to respond. I didn't hear anything.
Imperial Concubine Yi rolled her eyes, her face filled with murderous intent, "All the officials and the third shift in Shunyi County have fled, and we still need to risk our lives to return to the capital to transfer grain.
We encountered bandits in Shunyi. Shunyi County failed to provide a good reception for Your Majesty, and deserves the death penalty!
Bring a few more people with you and kill all the runners from the Shunyi County Express Brigade!"
"twitter!"
(End of this chapter)