The divine doctor's concubine emptied the palace and went into exile

Chapter 222 Rescue

The crying of the child gave the yamen runner a headache. He snatched the child from the woman's arms with one hand and said fiercely: "Cry, cry, cry, you just know how to cry, I might as well strangle you to death."

"No! No, sir!" the woman begged, "Please give the child back to me. The child is still young and he is just scared."

"Afraid?" The bailiff sneered, "You won't know fear when you're dead."

A sinister smile flashed across his face, and just as he was about to strangle the child to death, he heard a cold shout from the side: "Stop."

The bailiff's hand paused.

Shang Ruoyi walked forward, looked at the child in his arms, and frowned: "The child is innocent, and it's not the child who made the mistake. You are taking human life lightly."

"Who are you?" He came from another state and did not know Shang Ruoyi, but judging from her clothes, she must be rich or noble, and there was no way she could be a fugitive.

“I just live here.”

"You live here?" The guard looked at her suspiciously. "Are you an exiled prisoner?"

Shang Ruoyi nodded: "Not bad."

When the bailiff heard this, his face was filled with anger: "How dare a fugitive like you question my officer? You are simply courting death." As soon as he finished speaking, he threw the child out of his hand, and the woman quickly hugged him in her arms.

The bailiff raised the whip in his hand again and prepared to swing it at her.

Shang Ruoyi narrowed her eyes and was about to shoot the silver needle in her hand when a stone flew over and hit the bailiff in the chest.

He Jingheng was sitting in a wheelchair a few meters away.

A mouthful of blood spurted out of the bailiff's mouth.

He sat up from the ground with difficulty.

"You, you, you actually dared to fight with the police, you, you." He spat out another mouthful of blood: "You are simply courting death."

"We are looking for death?" Shang Ruoyi sneered: "You were hit by a flying stone and vomited blood, who can you blame?"

He wiped the blood from his lips and said angrily, "How could it be a flying stone? It was clearly you, you who plotted against me!"

"Haha, ambush?" Shang Ruoyi cast her eyes on the people not far away, and raised the corners of her lips slightly: "Ask them if they saw us ambush you? Or ask the fugitives standing here, whether it was a flying stone or a hidden weapon?"

They looked away and no one answered. Shang Ruoyi walked up to him and whispered, "Let alone throwing stones at you, even if I kill you, you won't be able to defend yourself."

"Who are you?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a group of yamen runners came over.

He seemed to have seen a savior, and he stood up by tumbling and crawling: "Sir! Sir!"

The leading officer quickened his pace and walked towards this direction.

He was just about to complain loudly and wanted to make Shang Ruoyi's actions public when he saw the officer walk straight past him and quickly walk towards Shang Ruoyi.

"Madam Shang." The three words "Shizi Consort" that were on the tip of her tongue were replaced by "Madam Shang": "I'm sorry to have frightened you."

Shang Ruoyi blinked. Wasn’t this the officer Zhang Hu who was in charge of escorting them?

"Master Zhang." Shang Ruoyi smiled: "Why you?"

Zhang Hu looked at He Jingheng with a veiled gaze, and with a wry smile on his face, "This is the order from above, and I have no choice but to obey."

Shang Ruoyi smiled secretly in her heart, thinking that this must be the work of He Jingheng.

The beaten yamen runner stared in amazement as the adult was carefully responding to the woman's words, his eyes almost falling out.

"Sir, she, she..."

Before he could finish his words, Zhang Hu slapped him to the ground.

"You only know how to cause trouble for me every day." His eyes widened and he said angrily, "You don't even know how to keep your mask shiny. You dare to offend anyone."

The man was shocked, and when he looked at Shang Ruoyi again, his eyes were full of horror.

A fugitive actually made these adults bow and scrape.

This person's identity is definitely not someone that someone like him can afford to offend.

"Madam Shang, I was blind and didn't recognize the real master. Please don't blame me."

Shang Ruoyi nodded: "Your Excellency is really flexible."

"Yes Yes Yes."

Zhang Hu stepped forward and whispered, "Madam Shang, it is the end of the year now, and it is unlucky to kill someone."

When the yamen runner heard this, he was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and said, "Sir, I will never dare to do it again. Never again."

"Forget it." Shang Ruoyi waved her hand: "How can I, a fugitive, decide life and death?"

Zhang Hu wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, Yes, why not?

You are the one who has the final say on life and death here.

As long as you frown, that god will probably kill you before they even draw their swords.

Shang Ruoyi's eyes fell on the exiles: "Why were they exiled?"

"He was the governor of Nanyi County." Zhang Hu pointed at the man who was half-kneeling on the ground. He was seriously injured and was a little unconscious at this time.

"There was a notorious bully in Nanyi County who robbed a woman. Lord Zhao investigated and dealt with him according to the law, but the man had a strong background, so someone found a reason to exile Lord Zhao here." Zhang Hu sighed, "Lord Zhao was a well-known honest official, loved by the people, but he ended up like this."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a stone bigger than the previous one falling from a high place and hitting the yamen runner on the head.

In an instant, blood spilled on the ground and the man fainted and died.

Shang Ruoyi glanced sideways and saw Yunqi pushing He Jingheng back.

Zhang Hu smacked his lips and said to his men, "What are you looking at? He was killed by a rock that rolled down from the mountain. Why don't you go collect the body? Are you waiting for me to go there myself?"

Upon hearing this, the yamen runners hurriedly carried the body away, and the blood on the ground was quickly cleaned up. It seemed as if what had just happened was an illusion.

Mountains, where do the mountains come from?

The surrounding area is clearly flat, where are the mountains?

Knowing that their boss was talking nonsense, they had no choice but to pretend to be deaf and dumb.

Shang Ruoyi looked at those people and whispered, "Master Zhang, how are you going to deal with these prisoners?"

"Of course we should arrange for them to be properly settled first." He looked at Shang Ruoyi's face, then his gaze moved to He Jingheng's back. He tentatively asked, "There are no vacant houses now. Your courtyard is so big, I wonder if you can temporarily settle them in your house?"

Shang Ruoyi nodded: "Since the adults have such a request, I will naturally cooperate."

Zhang Hu wiped the sweat off his head and said with a smile: "In that case, I'll trouble you, Madam Shang."

Seeing this, the woman and the child knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly: "Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir."

"No need to be polite."

After settling down several people, except for Lord Zhao's family, the other three had been staying with Zhao's distant relatives. This time, the Zhao family searched their house and exiled them as well.

They were extremely dissatisfied with this, but they could do nothing about it.