The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law-Chapter 1019 - 1014: Attacked on the Way Back to Beijing

Gu Youyou smiled and said, "After you return to Lingnan, I will write you letters."

Banxia hung her head low, suddenly blushing as she said, "This time when I go back, I might get married."

"You’re getting married?" Gu Youyou was slightly surprised.

She had asked Banxia a similar question before, and Banxia had said that with her status, she wouldn’t be able to marry, and that she didn’t plan to marry in her lifetime. After that, Gu Youyou never brought it up again.

After all, it was a sorrowful matter for her.

Now, she was taking the initiative to talk about marriage?

After her surprise, Gu Youyou smiled and said, "Really? Congratulations then. Who is the family of the other party? Do his family members not care?"

Banxia, now the main treating doctor at Jisheng Hall of Lingnan, was a person of status. Gu Youyou didn’t want her to marry beneath herself because of some so-called unlucky fate for husbands.

Banxia shook her head, "No, he has no family."

Oh, an orphan?

"You know this person too. It’s the manager of Lingnan’s Jisheng Hall, Fang Xi."

Fang Xi?

Gu Youyou raised an eyebrow.

Fang Xi was a manager who had come into the picture when Gu Youyou was about to leave Lingnan.

He was someone Yue Rujing had decided to buy. Gu Youyou remembered that he was a scholar student, who had been sold after his master died. He was literate, and that was the reason he had been bought in the first place.

Gu Youyou didn’t have much influence over Fang Xi now, only knowing that he was clear in his accountancy and had a decent handwriting.

Judging a person by his handwriting, since Banxia fancied him and wasn’t too superstitious, he seemed like a good person.

Gu Youyou smiled and said, "Good. After I return to Beijing, I’ll have someone send you a wedding gift."

With some regret, she wouldn’t be able to attend their wedding.

Beijing was indeed too far from Lingnan, and she had no opportunity to go there.

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A simple carriage took Gu Youyou and her companions on their way. This place wasn’t very far from Beijing; at their pace in the carriage without rushing, it would take about seven or eight days.

Jin Zijin had sent word asking her to hurry back to Beijing after she was done with her business, so she had planned to visit Jinxiu City first, but now she had skipped it.

The carriage suddenly jerked violently, shaking all of the passengers inside from side to side.

Gu Youyou grabbed a window of the carriage and asked loudly, "What’s happening?"

The answer to her question was the clashing sound of swords.

Gu Youyou was startled, and before she could say anything more, the carriage suddenly overturned, throwing both her and Searcy out.

They were traveling on the official road, which the Emperor placed great importance on. It was supposed to be safe with various Prefecture Governments ensuring safe passage. Who would dare to act so boldly?

"Sister Youyou, hide quickly!" Qin Changlin, who had fallen out with them, grabbed a wooden stick in hand. fɾēewebnσveℓ.com

Gu Youyou quickly pulled out a small dagger for self-defense, thinking, Qin Changlin with a stick isn’t as good as her wielding a dagger.

Can your stick even kill a person?

"What are they all?" Searcy seemed calmer than both Gu Youyou and Qin Changlin, holding several silver needles in her hand.

Her silver needles were different from Gu Youyou’s; they were the kind that would seal the throat upon drawing blood.

The day was nearly dark, the setting sun had fallen to the horizon, and the black-clothed figures approached against the light. The blood they splattered was terrifyingly grotesque, turning the official road into a battlefield.

The ferocity of these men was unlike any Gu Youyou had seen before. They fought as if their lives meant nothing, and Gu Youyou guessed that these were the same kind of dedicated fighters that Jin Zijin had mentioned.

The guards that Jin Zijin had arranged for Gu Youyou were also such dedicated fighters. When these two groups clashed, the men that the local Governor’s Office had assigned to Gu Youyou were like tofu - easily cleaved apart by anyone.