Rebirth of the Merchant Woman's Revenge

Now that I have met him, and seeing his situation, it seems that someone is chasing him.

Gu Xunwei was still trying hard to think about things in her previous life when their carriage was stopped by a group of soldiers.

"Please stop the car. We are chasing a fugitive and need to search." Someone said loudly to the driver.

Gu Xunwei raised her eyes to look at the man and found that he swallowed in horror, and then pushed the broken knife in his hand a little harder, and the sharp blade directly touched Gu Xunwei's fair neck.

"I am Xie Cheng'an's legitimate wife, Gu. Please rest assured, I have a way to lead them away. You hide under the carriage bench." Gu Xunwei said hurriedly, and without waiting for Hu Er to react, she waved her hand to ask the two maids to help, and walked out of the carriage without hesitation.

Hu Er swallowed nervously. She is Xie Chengan's wife, so just trust her for now.

"Sir, are you looking for a middle-aged man who is in a disheveled state?" Gu Xunwei asked without waiting for the other party to ask.

She did not ask for help, but jumped directly from the carriage with a hint of nervousness on her face. She walked to two meters in front of the leading soldier and stopped.

"Yes, we are looking for him. Madam, have you seen him?" The leading soldier nodded. "This man is very dangerous. Madam, please do not hide anything from him."

Gu Xunwei nodded, and then said without hesitation,

"When my carriage entered the alley just now, I lifted the curtain to take a look at the sky. I saw a figure on the eaves over there. He looked disheveled, and he was holding a...broken knife in his hand. He ran over there."

The eaves over there were exactly the eaves that Hu Er saw when he got into his carriage just now, and the direction he was pointing was to an even more remote alley.

"You two go and take a look." The leading soldier asked his two subordinates to go and check, and he expressed his gratitude to Gu Xunwei, but he still did not give up searching Gu Xunwei's carriage.

"Madam, please do us a favor. We need to check your carriage." The leading officer bowed, and two officers and soldiers passed Gu Xunwei and walked towards the carriage not far behind her.

When the coachman Uncle Li saw them coming, he nervously clenched the whip in his hand.

As the officers and soldiers lifted the curtain of the sedan chair, they heard someone who had gone to the eaves to check the situation shout, "Boss, there is blood here."

After hearing this, the officers and soldiers who lifted the curtain of the sedan chair all thought that the man must have left as the lady had just said.

The two of them also took a quick look inside the carriage and saw only two frightened maids crawling huddled at the door, so they lowered the curtain and turned away.

"You chase in that direction." The leading officer saw the officer checking the sedan chair shaking his head, and immediately ordered them to chase in the direction Gu Xunwei pointed.

He thanked Gu Xunwei again and then left quickly.

The carriage continued to move forward, and Hu Er was pulled out from under the carriage seat. Fortunately, Bai Zhi had just wiped all the places where blood might be left, and covered the outside of the seat with a sheepskin mattress. In addition, someone actually found bloodstains on the eaves, which distracted them and prevented him from being discovered.

"Thank you ma'am for saving me. I will definitely repay you in the future." After Hu Er finished speaking, he was about to leave. He was worried that the officers and soldiers would chase him and find that he had lost his way and would continue to look for him.

Gu Xunwei stopped him, asked Bai Zhi to take out twenty taels of silver and gave it to him, and then said to him, "How could Brother Hu encounter such a thing? What are they going to do?"

Gu Xunwei knew about his relationship with Xie Chengan, but she didn't know whether they knew each other now, so she could only ask tentatively.

"Oh, it's hard to explain. When you go back, just tell Lord Xie that I'm leaving Beijing to avoid the limelight. It may take some time before you can go find him." Hu Er felt that it was possible that Xie Chengan had mentioned him to her because Gu Xunwei had helped him just now and she was talking about Xie Chengan's wife.

So I let my guard down towards her.

"Well, okay, then Brother Hu, please be careful. By the way, the team of soldiers just now didn't seem to be from the government office, but..." Gu Xunwei paused for a moment, with a puzzled look on her face.

Hu Er naturally understood the situation in his heart. A few days ago, when he was having a good luck in the gambling house, a group of soldiers came in and arrested him, saying that he owed other people's gambling money and was sued.

But he didn't owe anyone gambling money, and he hadn't lost all his money yet. He thought maybe they made a mistake, but who would have thought that after they took him out of the gambling house, they knocked him unconscious and locked him up in a jail.

What followed was severe punishment and torture. They asked him about the imperial examination and Prince An. He gritted his teeth and endured for so many days before he got a chance to escape.

Only then did he realize that the place where he was imprisoned was not a government office or a government prison, but an abandoned farm in the suburbs.

Thinking of this, Hu Er immediately became alert and asked, "Did Madam see anything?"

"I seem to have seen a soldier wearing a waist badge, and the word on it was not "Ya"."

Gu Xunwei's words made Hu Er even more anxious, and he couldn't wait to ask, "What's the word?"

Gu Xunwei frowned, and seemed to be very hesitant, but she still made up her mind and said, "I am also considering Brother Hu's current situation, so I told you. If you misunderstand, it's possible that it's the word 'An'."

Gu Xunwei didn't know what the situation was now, but putting the blame on Prince An was also like creating an enemy for Prince An in secret. It might even play a role in sowing discord between Xie Chengan and Prince An in the future.

After hearing this, Hu Er thanked him again, then took his broken knife and left Gu Xunwei's carriage.

He took many detours and stole clothes that were hung out to dry in a household, and finally escaped from the capital.

However, he was extremely shocked. He was working for Prince An, so why did Prince An treat him like this? Was he afraid that he would tell about the imperial examination, so he tested him?

Obviously not, judging from the methods those people used to torture him, they really wanted him to vomit something.

He had originally planned to secretly contact King An after escaping, but now he had to change his plan.

After Gu Xunwei arrived at Yaxiangzhai, she asked Manager Li to take her to the backyard, where two large boxes of raw materials were neatly arranged. Some of the particularly precious ones were placed in wooden boxes of different sizes.

"Thank you for your hard work, Manager Li. These raw materials are enough for me for a while. If I need anything else, I will let Bai Zhi inform you in time." Gu Xunwei never took her eyes off the various spices. Although she was very familiar with them since she was a child, she felt happy every time she saw and smelled them.