Chapter 17 (2/2)

Fu Shen clasped his string tight in his fingers with his eyes narrowed, his heart skipping a beat when the outline of the thing gradually became distinct

“Wait!”

He called out for ceasefire at once, but was still unfortunately too late, as Yi Si had already let his arrow fly Fu Shen had no ti his own arrow into the air to quickly and accurately deflect it by putting it level with its trajectory, sending Yi Siet with a tink

Yi Si to blow up on him, he heard Fu Shen cut him off with a shout “Who's there? Corew in height and widened until it finally stood up — and to their surprise, it was a slender, frail wo a bundle to herself

“Who are you? Why are you hiding here?”

She knelt to the ground “Th-this coe to… visit faot lost, accidentally ending up here… I heard horse hooves and believed you were bandits, so I-I just hid,” she stuttered out

Yi Si her up and down “The way you dress and carry yourself isn't like hooman in a rural toould,” he voiced doubtfully, “but more like you co?”

The woman shook when she heard those words and lowered her head without answering, hugging the cloth bundle tighter

Fu Shen drew nearer by a few paces, using his longbow to raise her chin “Let go,” he said coldly

She stared at hi on her back and her whole body weakening in fright Fu Shen easily lifted away the cover of the bundle, revealing the interior to be brocaded swaddling clothes

There's a baby in her ar?”

A few people had heard the co a circle around the woh they noticed that her face full of dust-roup couldn't write poems for a beautiful lady, it didn't mean that they couldn't tell the difference between pretty and ugly, and currently had quite a few stirrings of compassion for her “Did you come across any trouble, miss?”

“You're an un the official mountain roads, hems and haws about where she's cohty-percent sure you've got a hidden motive,” Fu Shen says “Tellcome from?”

“Woah,” someone else abruptly spoke up, “now that you mention it, e left the capital, we see that there was an escaped slave of a convicted official's house that anted for arrest Could that be her?”

“Convicted official? Who?” he replied

“The one as i a rebellion a few days before,” the other said “assistant Minister Jin, Jin Yunfeng”

Fu Shen was shocked

The woman trembled like a tireatest auts she had in her life to stealthily flee the capital Now that she's facing a horde of wealthy youngbows, she didn't have any surplus courage to deal with the period of hesitation, she finally stuirl of assistant Minister Jin's home in the capital, and the child in the swaddle is my little master…”

Fu Shen already understood what happened “You secretly escaped with hi Masters,” Cai Yue wept as she repeatedly koed to everyone “This child is the only blood left of the Jin family, and he was narrowly tossed to his death when the house was seized… my Lord was sent to prison unjustly, and the wo theether before the hall! This slave risked everything to bring the little master out of the capital, but the Court'sme down the whole journey, and I really had no other way but to run into thewas truly pitiful, but theinvolved the major crie of ‘harboring a cri

But these rich kids were young, in the end, and overfloith goodwill With the considerable amount of power in their fa, and it was siet to their heads Only Yi Si cautious as he didn't want to meddle in other people's affairs, so he cast a look towards Fu Shen

Fu Shen recalled his uncle rushi+ng back fro's case, and now a servant of the Jin family just happens to fall into his hands Werethat the kid deserves to live? After thinking it over, he ulti a co doe out her clothes If anyone asks, say she's aelse Go”

The servant did as he was told Yi Sierous position In the event that she really does have sooing head-first into a disaster”

“Yeah” Fu Shen nodded in understanding “One's deed are their own responsibility Don't worry, Brother Yi If this coht, I absolutely won't iood effect, as thehis chest “What are you saying, Brother Fu?! How can youhappens, you can consider me a part of this!”

Everyone echoed the senti unable to do a single thing Fu Shen s what should be done Gemstone Mountain is my family's private property, and if the soldiers even chase her over her to search, they need to ask for the owner's consent first”

He hadn't yet finished speaking when the orderly sound of hoofbeats ca,closer and closer as they pressed in upon their location in an instant

Fu Shen's eagle-eyes gazed into the distance, recognizing those black, silver-eon Guard!

fuck! That slap in the face came way too soon!

The translator says: fu shen voice oh shi+t it's the feds

[1] 定海神针 – specifically, he wasn't dissiic needle”… which, so a main pillar of the fa official of the books”, the “in the books” part referring to the , transcribing, and editing them

[3] 舟师指挥 – lit “shi+p-master conductor”

[4] 二婶 – lit “wife of (er brother”

[5] Another name for boat orchids, likely naht stalks and ostentatious shape and coloring