40 Out of town (1/2)
It was impossible for the commoners of the capital city not to know about the matter of the Emperor and the princes arriving at the justice courts at night.
In a moment, the streets of the capital were filled with Board of Justice runaways searching for fugitives. The common folk of the capital had unknowingly grown nervous over the past few days, and rumors about the two fugitives from the Wang clan had quickly spread through the city. There were all sorts of them.
On the surface, the Shangguan Family that was located in the south of the capital continued to live their lives as usual, causing people to be unable to tell that something was amiss.
An Yuanzhi went to the west gate early in the morning to have a look. After he returned, he told An Jinxiu, who was in her room, ”Sis, the gate isn't closed, but there are hundreds of soldiers guarding the gate. How are we going to send them out of the city?”
The two Death Soldiers in his room were lying on two wooden beds. Their wounds were covered with medicine and had been carefully bandaged. An Jinxiu had boiled them some ginseng soup to replenish their energy. At this moment, these two Death Soldiers looked much better than last night.
After hearing An Yuanzhi's words, one of the Death Soldiers, Yuan Yi, said, ”Let's think of a way to get out of the city.”
An Yuanzhi pointed at Yuan Yi's left shoulder and said, ”All the men who leave the city today must check their shoulders. With this brand on your body, how can you think of ways to leave the city?”
Yuan Yi and the Death Soldier called Yuan Wei looked at each other and suddenly reached out their hands towards their left shoulder.
Within the room, An Jinxiu and An Yuanzhi didn't even have time to react before they watched the two of them rip the piece of meat off their shoulders.
Yuan Yi sucked in a few breaths of cold air and asked An Yuanzhi, ”Is this enough?”
An Yuanzhi had never seen anyone treat him so viciously before, and the fifth young master was stunned on the spot. For a moment, he didn't know what to say.
In her previous life, she had seen a lot of situations where blood and flesh flew everywhere. Seeing that their bodies were covered in blood, An Jinxiu sighed, stood up and said to An Yuanzhi, ”Treat their wounds with medicine.”
”Let me do it.” An Yuanzhi didn't want An Jinxiu to do it. He didn't know anything about it last night, so he could only watch as An Jinxiu took care of their wounds. After watching for an entire night, An Yuanzhi learned quite a lot.
At this time, Shangguan Rui ran in and said as soon as he entered, ”Why is there the smell of blood again, their wounds split open again?”
An Yuanzhi quickly turned around and called out to Shangguan Rui, ”They're injured again, come over and help me quickly.”
Last night, when Shangguan Rui saw the two who had been rescued from the sky prison by their eldest sister-in-law, he was scared half to death and couldn't recover for a long time.
He could only listen to An Jin's orders and help from the side. It wasn't until An Jinxiu finished her work with the two Death Soldiers and told Shangguan Rui about her plan, that Shangguan Rui finally understood after staring blankly for a long time.
After helping An Yuanzhi apply the medicine for the two Death Soldiers, Shangguan Rui asked An Jinxiu, ”Sister-in-law, what should we do next?
Shangguan Rui didn't know if these two people could be of use to his family, nor did he know how powerful these two Death Soldiers were. He only knew that since his sister-in-law had done what she did, they wouldn't be able to turn back. Seeing that his sister-in-law and An Yuanzhi were determined to keep them alive, Shangguan Rui could only do his best to keep them alive.
Only then did An Jinxiu say, ”Without the brand, there's no way for you to hide your identity. This injury is a new injury, and you'll still be suspected.”
Shangguan Rui said, ”Then let them hide in our homes?”
An Jin shook her head. ”Let's go to the manor together in the afternoon. We can just bring them along.”
An Yuanzhi shouted, ”But there's someone checking at the city gate.”
The two Death Soldiers weren't very tall, they were only a little taller than the average girl. They also looked pretty, but when An Jinxiu treated the two of them last night, she had already thought of a way, ”You two can go out of the city disguised as a woman, but the soldiers in front of the city, they won't let women take off our clothes to inspect them.”
The four men in the room froze, and the faces of the two men who had been fighting for their lives suddenly showed signs of resistance.
An Jinxiu placed a bowl of cold medicine onto Yuan Yi and Yuan Wei's hands and said, ”A manly man has to be able to easily escape the prison. He has to think of a way to survive.”
At this time, Shangguan Rui also nodded and said: ”Looks like this is the only way now. Otherwise, if the justice courts can't find you, it's hard to guarantee that we won't search house to house for a few days.”
An Yuanzhi giggled. ”You're pretending to be a girl?” ”Sis, only you can think of such a way!”
An Jinxiu only smiled and urged the two Death Soldiers to drink the medicine.
Only now did he realize that his sister-in-law was not a simple inner chamber girl. She dared to do something like saving a fugitive from the justice courts, while all the yamen runners were arresting people, and his sister-in-law was still calmly arranging matters of sending him out of the city. If it wasn't for the fact that An Jinxiu had always treated him very well, Shangguan Rui would have suspected that his brother marrying such a daughter-in-law was not a good thing.