noffsinger Chapter 606 Taking the Child Out
Chapter 606 Taking the Child Out
The group set off at night. Du Mingxian made a large bag out of a piece of cloth, slung it over her shoulder, and the child fit perfectly inside. She then covered the child slightly from above. The child had already been put into her spatial storage and was sleeping soundly, with a fake swaddle she had prepared in her arms.
Xia Yu and Xiang Yang walked in front, with Du Mingxian following behind.
Upon arriving at the city gate, Xia Yu went to hand over the token. She had a token in her hand, and the soldiers guarding the city gate let her through after seeing it.
After leaving the city, Du Mingxian ran ahead, with Xia Yu and Xiang Yang following behind. Each of them rode faster than the last. Du Mingxian's speed left the two of them stunned. They couldn't believe that a lady with a child could run so fast. They wondered if the child could keep up.
Both men knew that the lady was somewhat different. They exchanged a glance, but neither dared to speak. Some things were unspoken secrets that could not be told aloud; it was enough to know.
Xia Yu knew that Princess Tharpo was in the lady's room. When she went out to call Xiang Yang to prepare the horse, the lady was still in the room. When she came back and saw the lady, Princess Tharpo was gone.
This was the lady's secret; she believed that the lady certainly hadn't released the princess.
As dawn approached, Du Mingxian sensed An'an waking up in the room. She slowly stopped the horse, already holding the child in her arms. She dismounted and walked to the side, saying, "Let's rest for a bit. I need to feed the baby."
"Madam, I'll go ahead and see if I can buy some food."
"it is good."
Xia Yu left to buy food, and Xiang Yang led the horse to the front to graze.
"Facing the sun".
"lady."
When did you enter the Wen residence?
Xiangyang didn't know why the madam suddenly asked this question, but she still answered seriously, "I entered the manor when I was five years old. At that time, I was taken in by the head instructor of the Wen family. After all, I was just a girl, so I wouldn't normally be taught martial arts. It was the head instructor who suggested it to the master that allowed me to learn martial arts."
"Why? Are there very few maids in the Wen household who know martial arts?"
Xiang Yang nodded, "Rarely. Generally, they prefer men. Boys with great talent are very popular and have the best resources. I was able to enter the manor because... I was so hungry when I was a child that I fought with dogs for food on the street."
"Later, I injured the dog and snatched the steamed bun, but the bun was covered in dog blood. I was so hungry at the time that I didn't care about the dog blood and ate the bun. Some people said I was too cruel, but I knew I would die without that bun."
“I have been an orphan since I was a child. I have no relatives. As far back as I can remember, I have been wandering the streets, dirty and filthy. I was young and my clothes were dirty, so you couldn’t tell that I was a girl.”
"The instructor saw me fighting with a dog for food outside and said I had a fierce streak. He asked if I was willing to go with him and that I could have a full meal. So I went. But when I got to the Wen residence and was cleaned up, I turned out to be a girl. The instructor was in a dilemma for several hours before he went to mention it to Lord Wen. In the end, Lord Wen agreed."
"In the end, I did quite well in my studies. Considering that there were women in the household, the mansion even specially recruited some maids, although they were older than me."
Du Mingxian had just ruled out Xiang Yang's possibility, but nothing is absolute.
"Xiang Guang, who was assigned here with you, do you know his situation?"
“I know, I entered the manor even earlier than him.” Before Du Mingxian could ask any more questions, Xiang Yang had already spoken up: “Xiang Guang’s situation is different from mine. He has family. Because his family is relatively poor, his family used their connections to get him into the Wen family. Their purpose was to let him study hard and have a future.”
"Actually, the coach didn't want Xiang Guang at the time, but Xiang Guang had a good mother who sent things to the coach every day for the sake of her child. Over time, the coach was moved by Xiang Guang's mother, and Xiang Guang himself had some talent, so the coach gave him a chance."
"Later, Xiang Guang entered the manor, but Xiang Guang was not very lucky. Not long after he entered the manor, his mother had an accident. He had grown up with his mother and depended on each other. He was a perfectly healthy person with no health problems. In the end, he just passed away. It was especially regrettable."
After listening, Du Mingxian seemed to be deep in thought. "You and Xiang Guang are both single, so the coachman who came with you must also be single, right?"
If her family were still alive, her father probably wouldn't have given it to her; he would have separated the whole family, which wouldn't have been a good thing.
"Yes, the coachman has always been alone. He used to have a wife, children, and family. But later, the coachman became addicted to gambling and lost all the money in the family. His wife then got together with someone else, and the children only wanted to play with that person. The coachman couldn't take it anymore and accidentally injured that person."
"He was eventually sentenced to two prison terms. After he was released, the groom could not find a good job. In the end, he simply sold himself. No one wanted him because he had been to prison. When the groom fainted from hunger on the road in the dead of winter, he was picked up by an official and later became a groom for the household."
Du Mingxian frowned. "How could an ordinary person know martial arts?"
“I’ve heard him talk about this before. He said that he had locked up a martial arts practitioner in jail before. That person was very bored every day, so he dragged him to practice together. He found that he could practice, so he forced him to practice. He couldn’t refuse.”
Suspicious, both of them are extremely suspicious.
Xiang Guang's mother died not long after he entered the mansion, a common practice in the previous dynasty.
The stable boy is even stranger. He was an ordinary person who didn't know martial arts at first, but after going to jail, he suddenly learned martial arts? And he just happened to faint, which was seen by Lord Wen, who then took him back.
Regardless of the previous dynasty's situation, since there was a desire to restore the country, they would definitely monitor the status of each prefecture. They would send a few people to each prefecture as covert agents. They could be left unused, but they couldn't be absent when needed.
Is it Xiang Guang or the stable boy? Or are they both?
Previously, he was only monitoring the Wen family, but was unexpectedly transferred to their side and came here together to do things together. It also conveniently provided them with some information.
However, there was something she found strange: she had been away from the manor for so long, yet the spy hadn't discovered anything... or perhaps they only knew she was in the prefectural city and didn't know she had infiltrated the Tian family and investigated some matters of the previous dynasty; this explanation was more reasonable.
After Xiang Yang finished speaking, seeing that Du Mingxian remained silent, she asked with some surprise, "Madam, what's wrong?"
"You, Xiang Guang, and the stable boy all know I'm pregnant?"
"Yes, I know. I serve the lady, so of course I know. Xiang Guang is with the master, so he must know about this. The coachman must also know. When the lady goes out, she takes a carriage, and the master will tell the coachman to be careful."