Chapter 1292: Chapter 1298: Found Him (6)
Xiang Yun just disliked Mo Zili; as long as he did not follow her, she did not mind who accompanied her into the city. Therefore, she nodded and agreed, “Good!”
She had skipped breakfast and headed to the city with Cui Wen and Cui Lu in Mo Zili’s horse carriage.
Her reason for skipping breakfast was substantial; she wanted to eat ‘Liuji’s’ fried dough sticks and soybean milk in the morning, so she did not wish to eat at ho. Although Mo Zili knew her words were not to be trusted, he could not bear to force her, thus she successfully avoided the awkwardness of having breakfast with Mo Zili.
This ti entering the city, besides Cui Wen and Cui Lu, she also brought along Mo Zili’s two personal guards. The guards, mounted on horses, followed behind Xiang Yun’s carriage, escorting her into the city.
Because the carriage bore the insignia of Duke Li Guo’s mansion and was followed by guards of the mansion, many people thought it was the young master of the Duke Li Guo’s mansion going out, and they all voluntarily made way, granting the carriage an unobstructed passage towards Liuji.
While walking, suddenly a disheveled woman burst from the roadside, loudly shouting, and grabbed the horse’s bridle.
“Young Master Li, you cannot treat my Qing’er like this; she is a young maiden and followed you, how could you bear to send her to jail…”
This woman was Du Wanqing’s mother, Lady Wang. After Du Wanqing was thrown into jail, Lady Bai had people drive Lady Wang out from the house Mo Zili had bought for them, and told her about Du Wanqing’s conduct.
Although Lady Wang was in the wrong, knowing how much Mo Zili had once cherished her daughter, she had been looking for a chance to see Mo Zili, to plead for her daughter, hoping they could return to their previous comfortable life.
The coachman, startled by Lady Wang’s sudden appearance, loudly cried out, “Where does this old beggar co from; are you blind? Dare to block the carriage of Duke Li Guo Mansion’s Young Madam, get out of the way now!”
Lady Wang, having lingered outside Duke Li Guo’s mansion for many days without a chance to see Mo Zili and even being threatened by the young servants outside the mansion, was warned that they would break her legs if she dared to linger there again, frightening her from wandering there anymore. Now, having finally co across Mo Zili’s carriage, she was not willing to let this chance pass easily.
She clung to the horse’s bridle and cried loudly, “Young Master Li, Qing’er even bore your child; you cannot treat her this way. Oh heavens, my poor daughter…”
The two guards, seeing her making a scene, hurriedly dismounted their horses, trying to pull her aside.
Lady Wang, desperate, saw Mo Zili as her last lifeline and was unwilling to let go easily. As people ca to pull her away, she clung desperately to the horse’s head, screaming and refusing to let go.
The horse, startled by Lady Wang’s hysteria, began to neigh anxiously.
The two young and strong guards, working together, finally pulled Lady Wang away. Yet she, still relentless, continued kicking and shouting, accidentally kicking the horse’s neck. The horse, thoroughly frightened, reared up and took off running.
This all happened so suddenly that the guards had no ti to react to what was happening, and they were knocked aside, with the coachman rolling off the carriage, leaving only Xiang Yun and the two maids inside.
“Young Madam——”
“Young Madam——”
The two guards got up, quickly chasing after the panicked horse, running and shouting, “Young Madam——”
“Young Madam——”
Xiang Yun, Cui Wen, and Cui Lu, inside the carriage, scread in terror. Cui Wen, young and scared, desperately pulled open the curtain and yelled, “Help— Help—”
The horse ran extrely fast, like lightning, quickly leaving Mo’s two guards and the coachman far behind. People on the street hastily dodged to both sides, yet many with slower reflexes were knocked down and trampled.
“Bang—”
At a sharp turn, the carriage collided with a large tree, the wooden carriage body instantly broke apart, and Cui Wen and Cui Lu, who were sitting on the damaged side, were flung out by the impact, falling heavily to the ground; the roof also tilted and fell askew.
Xiang Yun, left alone in the broken carriage, desperately clung to the shaky carriage wall, her face pale with fear, watching as the carriage galloped like an arrow, with nobody daring to co close to rescue her, filled with panic and fear, a hint of desperation erging in her eyes.
At this critical mont, a figure surged forth from the crowd, leaped onto the wall beside the street, and chased after her with excellent light skills, moving as swiftly as flying, his white robe billowing, his posture as grand as a roc, soon catching up beside Xiang Yun, and steadily landed on the broken carriage.
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