Dressed as the villain's stepmother

As soon as these words were said, no one said anything more. They all bowed their heads and ate quietly.

Jiang Lianzhu put the chopsticks in her hand aside, and the two guards and the driver immediately stopped.

"Miss Jiang, did you find something wrong?" The guard immediately put his head over and lowered his voice.

He was just focusing on filling his empty stomach, and didn't pay attention to the people around him. But seeing the serious look on Jiang Lianzhu's face, he thought he had encountered something difficult to deal with.

"It's okay."

Jiang Lianzhu shook his head, dipped his fingers in the porcelain cup, and wrote two words on the table, be careful.

After reading it, the three of them understood what Jiang Lianzhu meant, and then nodded in response.

Jiang Lianzhu stood up slowly: "I'm almost full, so I'll go back upstairs to rest first, so as not to lose energy when I'm on the road tomorrow."

"it is good."

Wing room on the second floor.

Jiang Lianzhu found her and Lin Suji's house, pushed open the wooden door, walked in, and closed the door tightly.

Lin Suji was sitting on the stool when she saw Jiang Lianzhu suddenly walk in with a strange look on her face: "Miss Jiang finished her meal so quickly."

"Yes, I also want to come and have a rest early." Jiang Lianzhu responded and immediately saw Lin Suji's hand holding a small jar. "What is that in your hand? Why do you need to hide it in front of me?"

"This... is some medicine used to prevent mosquitoes at night. I want to light it up in advance. After all, this inn is in a remote location, so as not to have to get up at night."

Lin Suji responded in a panic and hid the jar of medicine behind himself.

"It turns out it's anti-mosquito. Fortunately, Miss Lin is more careful. I didn't think of it at first, but I see that your jar of medicine is quite a lot. After we use it up here, why don't we give some to the other three people? "

"I'll deliver it in a moment."

Lin Suji said, immediately covering the lid of the incense burner at hand, smelling the smell that was already floating in the air, and then hurriedly walked out.

Jiang Lianzhu held her breath, walked to the incense burner, and extinguished the burning incense.

She picked a little powder and put it on the tip of her nose. An extremely pungent smell came out, making her choke several times.

"This Lin Suji is indeed not a simple person. He claims to be a spice to repel mosquitoes, but in fact, he is ordering a drug that makes people sleepy."

Jiang Lianzhu clicked her tongue, took out a small jar of medicine from her sleeve, ate two pills casually, then lit the incense burner in front of her and closed the lid.

She turned around and lay down on the sink beside her, as if she had never noticed anything strange in the incense burner.

After Lin Suji walked around outside, he carefully opened the door.

She stepped into the house one foot first and shouted softly: "Miss Jiang."

Seeing no reaction from the people inside, she boldly walked in. She blew away the incense, approached the edge of the collapse, and shook Jiang Lianzhu with her hand, but the latter showed no reaction at all.

Lin Suji breathed a sigh of relief involuntarily, took out the hemp rope from his sleeves, tied her hands and feet together, and then walked out of the house again and called in the people waiting outside.

"The person you want is here. You should be able to let me go now."

"No hurries?"

The man looked at Lin Suji with a smile, and then turned his attention to Jiang Lianzhu, whose hands and feet were tied.

"How much money did you bring when you came out this time?"

"There are only a dozen taels of silver in total." Lin Suji replied murmuringly, her voice softening in an instant.

It is true that she went out shopping before the plague, and when she came back, the city was closed due to the plague and could not enter. However, she did not escape smoothly to the next county town along the way, but was captured by a group of bandits.

The bandits were not interested in money, and they didn't know where they got the information. They asked her to pretend to be a refugee and deceive Jiang Lianzhu and others into trusting her, so that they could rob.

But what she didn't expect from the beginning to the end was that Qu Yanlin specifically considered the bandits to be infested, so he didn't let them bring much money on the road.

"You five people came out with only a dozen taels of silver? Lin Suji, who are you kidding here? Do you really think that we are easy to mess with?"

When the man heard this, he immediately became angry and glared at Lin Suji who was standing aside.

They had found out before that the group of people going to the next county town were sent by Qu Yanlin.

Qu Yanlin is a rich and well-heeled person, how could he only give them a dozen taels of expenses!

"I...the things I said are all true." Lin Suji said hurriedly, explaining the reasons.

After hearing this, the man understood. He glanced at Jiang Lianzhu, and as if he had made up his mind, he directly carried the man on his shoulders.

"You should follow us back now and wait until Qu Yanlin gets the money before letting you go, lest you be dishonest and cause trouble for us!"

After the man took a few steps, he turned to look at Lin Suji and shouted something to her.

Lin Suji immediately followed him obediently.

Jiang Lianzhu never opened her eyes, pretending that she was really unconscious.

She could feel the ground beneath her constantly bumping, and it took some time before it gradually calmed down.

The voices of a group of men grew louder and louder in her ears, and Jiang Lianzhu opened her eyes as if she had just woken up.

"You finally woke up. I thought it was because you took too much of the drug and you couldn't wake up."

When the man saw Jiang Lianzhu open his eyes, his tone of voice was slightly frivolous.

If Jiang Lianzhu doesn't wake up, how can they go to Qu Yanlin to ask for money?As a result, all the planning in recent days will be in vain.

"who are you?"

Jiang Lianzhu squinted her eyes and took a look at the men beside her. There were three of them, all wearing silk clothes. If their appearance was not too ferocious, people would indeed mistake them for the young masters in the county.

"It doesn't matter who we are. What's important is that you have to know that if Qu Yanlin doesn't send the money, you will suffer."

The man at the head of the group said calmly, and ordered the people around him to untie the hemp rope tied to Jiang Lianzhu's wrist, and then brought a pen and paper over.

"You write a letter to Qu Yanlin now and ask him to bring enough money to rescue you, otherwise your life will be waiting to be dealt with here!"

"I don't have a personal relationship with Mr. Qu. If you ask me to write to him now, I'm afraid you won't get much money in exchange."

Jiang Lianzhu lazily picked up the pen and started writing on the paper without any effort.