The sound of slaughter filled the air, and Qin Miao hid in the carriage, trembling with fear.

  "Girl!" Zi Xuan was actually a few years older than her, and the old ancestors had always let her guard Qin Miao as if she were her own sister. She held Qin Miao's body tightly, clearly feeling her inner panic.

  The sound of clashing weapons outside the carriage still echoed in their ears, and the cries of agony continued to be heard. Suddenly, the horse carriage moved forward, directly hitting the back of the two people's heads against the door panel. Qin Miao couldn't help but feel pain, hugging Zi Xuan vigilantly as they awaited what was to come next.

  The carriage seemed to have started running and was shaking up and down with the two people inside. Before long, the curtain was lifted from outside.

  "Ah!" The two girls exclaimed in unison.

  "An Nuan, don't be afraid, it's me." Qin Lang's face turned pale as he fell into a seated position.

  "Second brother, you... are bleeding!"

  Qin Lang covered his shoulder, and a steady stream of blood seeped out from the torn seam of his robe. "It's nothing, I just accidentally got cut by two knives."

  Cut off? This Qin Erge, although he often travels south and north, has some fist and footwork on his body. If it's to deal with one or two bandits, it's more than enough. Who knows that today he encountered such a large-scale gangster.

  "Hurry up and get the medicine from your bag!" Qin Miao had never seen Qin Lang so disheveled. From young to old, he had always been a calm and gentle presence, with a refined appearance that seemed to be able to handle anything with ease.

  Qin Lang had just been fighting for a long time and was now somewhat tired. He leaned against the side of the horse carriage, closed his eyes, and let Qin Miao and Zi Xuan tear open his clothes and apply medicine to bandage him up.

  Qin Miao looked at him with concern, her eyes welling up with tears, and Qin Lang's heart was inexplicably filled to the brim.

  "An Nuan, don't worry." He said as he stroked Qin Miao's cheek that had been washed clean by her tears. Although it was a bit rough, it was the most touching. She was worried about herself and crying for herself, even though she had always treated him as just an older brother.

  The horse carriage continued to gallop forward, and the sounds of killing and shouting slowly faded away. Qin Miao carefully looked out from the small window beside the carriage, and all she saw were rolling hills.

  "It seems that we won't be able to reach Linshui Town tonight, and perhaps we can only make do with spending the night in the wilderness." Qin Lang looked out of his small window on one side, letting out a helpless sigh.

  "Second Brother, who were those people today?" Qin Miao asked.

  Qin Lang shook his head, indicating that he didn't know. "This is still Jiangxi Road, how can there be so many mountain bandits? And what's strange is that their martial arts skills are not weak, they don't seem like ordinary bandits." Judging from the recent encounters, it's likely that they were former soldiers. But these former soldiers, why would they resort to robbing and looting?

  Thank you!!!

  Just now busy with tight schedule, in a daze she knew Xie Yan came to save her. But where is he?

  "Second brother, was that him just now... has he come?" Qin Miao asked uneasily. Even though it had been a long time ago, she still wasn't too willing to mention this name.

  Qin Lang's eyes dimmed: "Yes, thanks to his timely appearance. Otherwise..." If it weren't for Xie Houye's sword blocking the way, he would have probably lost his life long ago. Qin Lang's attitude towards Xie Xuan is now somewhat complicated. Before, Qin Miao left the Hou Mansion resolutely, although he didn't know the specific reason, but since it was related to Xie Xuan, he had a faint sense of resentment towards him. Adding the matter with Qin Miao made him even more resistant. But this person just saved his own life.

  Qin Miao lifted the curtain of the carriage and saw a man sitting comfortably driving the horse. The person looked at him and was not the original coachman, but his figure was not Xie Yan either. Because Xie Yan's stature was tall and slender, with broad shoulders, but the person in front of him was obviously smaller than him.

  The color of fear came again, and it was not that they had been taken away by the thief. She gently pushed Qin Lang, who was closing his eyes to rest, and said in a very low voice: "Second brother, will this person outside be a mountain bandit? He... he is not Xie Yan!"

  Cheng Ying, who was being mistaken for a mountain bandit, overheard Qin Miao's words with his exceptional hearing and secretly ridiculed her. I, with good intentions, abandoned my master to save people, yet she still doesn't know what's good for her. Tsk~ Indeed, she's really a brainless woman.

  Qin Lang chuckled lightly in the carriage, "Don't spout nonsense, he's also our benefactor who saved our lives. I just heard him shout 'Master Xie', it seems he's a servant of the Marquis' manor."

  "What about Xie Yun?!" Qin Miao hastily asked. He wasn't in the carriage, and there was no one riding a horse outside either. "Where did he go?" It couldn't be... No, no, no, as soon as she thought of that possibility, Qin Miao's heart tightened up.

  Qin Lang saw her face suddenly didn't look too good and sneered in his heart. "Worried about him?"

  "What happened to him?"

  At this time, the carriage stopped, and the curtain was lifted again. The man who drove the horse in front showed a displeased expression and scolded: "It's getting late, let's rest here." After finishing speaking, he heavily flung the curtain back, leaving Qin Miao and several others exchanging inexplicable glances with each other.

  "This guy's temper is so weird, it's like he ate a firecracker!" Zi Xuan said in annoyance, casually throwing out a sentence. However, this casual remark happened to be overheard by Cheng Ying.

  After being jolted by the horse carriage for a long time, all three of them felt some soreness in their muscles and bones. Qin Miao and Zi Xuan carefully helped Qin Lang down from the carriage and saw that not far away, under a large tree, someone had lit a fire.

  "Thank you so much for your help, big brother. Although our Qin family is not a wealthy household, if there's anything we can do to repay you in the future, we will definitely return the favor."

  Qin Miao placed Qin Lang under the tree and leaned against it, then went forward to thank Cheng Ying. It was also at this time that she saw clearly the face of Xie Yan, this servant. That was a very contradictory handsome face. His lips were red and his teeth were white, his eyebrows were clear and his eyes were beautiful, if you didn't look into his eyes, you would definitely think he was a young master from some family. But on his forehead, there was a thin scar, the color had already faded, it must have been left many years ago. Just looking at it made people's hearts skip a beat, and one end of the scar was close to the corner of his eye, it must have been extremely dangerous at that time. Looking again at his eyebrows and eyes, they were deadly, in a pair of beautiful and elegant phoenix eyes, only cold intent flashed. Looking at him made people feel chilled to the bone.

  Cheng Ying instinctively felt Qin Miao's scrutiny, and his mouth curled up as he casually poked at the fire pit, chuckling: "Qin little lady, thank me for what? Don't treat me like a thief, that's already a blessing."

  The cold tone made the already chilly early spring night even colder. Qin Miao had seen many people and knew he had encountered many things, but he had never met such a stubborn person before.

  "That... I don't know if... is Master Xie all right now?" Qin Miao didn't have time to finish asking earlier, and now she couldn't care less about Cheng Ying's bad attitude, her heart only thinking about whether Xie Xuan was safe and sound.

  "Just then, Cheng Ying smiled and said, 'You care about him a lot?'"

  ……

  "Lord Hou saved us in our time of need, so it's only natural that he would be concerned." Qin Miaoyan said.

  "Oh, him? I don't know if he'll make it this time. Let's just leave it to fate, after all, it's not the first time either."

  The speaker speaks at will, and the listener's heart trembles. Qin Miao doesn't know how to respond to Cheng Ying's words, but as soon as she thinks about the possibilities she suspected in her heart, her legs go weak and she falls to the ground.