flstandardbreds Chapter 138 He must be the eldest brother Xia Changyuan
Chapter 138 He must be the eldest brother Xia Changyuan
Xia Xiaorou warned them, "Be careful, don't force yourself if you see someone, we should fight with words, not with fists."
She had few men and could only outwit them.
"I understand, Madam Xia." Renyi took four people and rode away on horseback.
The sky gradually darkened. It was estimated that Renyi had been gone for half an hour, but Renyi and his companions had not returned yet.
When Xia Xiaorou was getting anxious, she heard the sound of a large number of horse hooves coming from behind her.
"Someone is coming behind me." Xia Xiaorou turned around to look.
Zhongcheng's expression changed drastically, and he protected Xia Xiaorou behind him, "Madam Xia, this is not Renyi and the others, this is how people from the north dress!"
Unexpectedly, Chu Xianyun was very happy. She waved at those people and asked loudly, "Who are you? We are just passing by and we are lost!"
Zhongcheng looked at Chu Xianyun in surprise, "You are not mute? You can speak? Are you from the North?"
Xia Xiaorou was not surprised and said, "Zhongcheng, she is indeed not mute, and she is indeed from the North. She was tricked by her enemies to come to the Central Plains. She was worried about meeting her enemies again, so she pretended to be mute when she was in the Central Plains."
Zhongcheng's face darkened, and he pointed his knife at Chu Xianyun, "I don't care who you are, but if you want to harm our Lady Xia, be careful of the knife in my hand!"
Several other people also drew their swords.
Chu Xianyun waved her hands, "How could I harm Xiaorou? Xiaorou has saved me many times, she is my benefactor."
"Zhongcheng, put down your knives! It's already this time, we can't start a internal conflict!" Xia Xiaorou waved her hand at Zhongcheng and the others.
Zhongcheng said, "Madam Xia, this Madam Chu is not just a Northerner. I suspect she is from Beiliang! She offered to lead the way, but suddenly the Northerners showed up. I suspect she intends to harm Madam Xia."
Chu Xianyun was anxious, and waved her hands again, saying, "I won't harm Xiaorou. Xiaorou saved my life, my son's life, and my husband's life. How could I harm Xiaorou?"
"Surround them!" The group of people gradually approached.
Xia Xiaorou pressed down the loyal knife and said, "Put down the knife quickly and see who is coming!"
Zhongcheng waved to a guard, "Keep an eye on this woman!"
He and the others went to meet the Northmen who suddenly appeared.
As the sound of horse hooves got closer, Xia Xiaorou discovered that the men who had arrived were all relatively young, ranging from fifteen or sixteen to thirty years old.
The leader was a handsome young man, about twenty-five or twenty-six years old, wearing a black mink cloak. He looked handsome yet heroic.
He glanced coldly at the loyal people and then looked at Xia Xiaorou.
After a while, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he asked in a cold voice, "Who are you? Where are you from?"
"He's a merchant passing through Qingyang Prefecture." Xia Xiaorou said.
"Merchant?" The man in the sable cloak narrowed his eyes and glanced at Xia Xiaorou, then waved his hand to the twenty or thirty people following behind him and said loudly, "Take this woman away, and tie up the others!"
"I wonder who dares to tie her up!" Zhongcheng swung his sword and slashed at the man in the sable cloak.
"I am from the Nine Mountains and Eighteen Villages. If I want to tie someone up, I have never been afraid to do so, and I have never failed. Who do you think you are? How dare you snatch people from me? Cut off his legs for me!" The man in the sable cloak pointed at Zhongshi and shouted at his men.
"Wait, I'm going with you!" Xia Xiaorou stared at a bamboo flute pendant on the man's chest and suddenly said loudly.
"Madam Xia!" Zhongcheng was so anxious that he kept beating his legs. "We should protect you. How can you protect us?"
Xia Xiaorou had other ideas, she said to Zhongcheng, "I have my own ideas, don't worry about me, I will be fine."
Loyalty wanted to defend himself, but Xia Xiaorou pointed at the man and said, "However, I will only follow you. Others are not allowed to follow me. Tell them to stay away from me!"
Unexpectedly, all of the man's men clapped their legs and laughed, "Hahaha, this young lady really doesn't know her place. She actually dared to negotiate terms with our young master of the Nine Mountains and Eighteen Villages. Does she want to die?"
"Shut up!" the man shouted coldly at everyone. His voice was so majestic that it stopped everyone.
Xia Xiaorou waved to Zhongcheng and rode towards the man.
When Xia Xiaorou approached, the man suddenly attacked, grabbed Xia Xiaorou, laid her across his horse, and rode away.
The action was so fast, just in a few blinks of an eye.
Zhongcheng Heying and the others were so frightened that their faces turned pale. They patted their horses' backs and wanted to chase after him, but they were stopped by the man's twenty or so men.
Xia Xiaorou discovered that the man who kidnapped her did not use brute force on her, but pressed her back very gently.
When the horse reached a sheltered hillside, the man stopped the horse, twisted her arm and put her on the ground.
Xia Xiaorou stood up and exhaled, patted her sleeves and smoothed her hair, then looked up at the man, "You kidnapped me, what do you want to say?"
She wanted to ask him some questions, but unexpectedly, he was more anxious than her.
Xia Xiaorou looked at the bamboo flute on his chest and felt excited.
The fingers in my sleeves were trembling with excitement.
Just now, there was a group of people around him who spoke with northern accents and dressed like northerners. She didn't dare to ask him. Now that they were in a place where there were no third people around, she wanted to ask him, but was afraid of making a mistake.
He was afraid that it was just this person who picked up his bamboo flute.
"You just said that you were from Qingyang Prefecture?" The man looked at Xia Xiaorou and asked with narrowed eyes. His tone was much softer, not as cold as before.
"I'm from Shuangliu Village, Sanlidian Township, Lepan County, Qingyang Prefecture." Xia Xiaorou suppressed her excitement and said, "There are a few bamboos in front of my house, but they are not thick enough to make a small flute, such as the one hanging around your neck."
The young man's brows gradually furrowed, and he muttered, "Bamboo? Shuangliu Village?" He looked at Xia Xiaorou again, "What's your name?"
"Xia Xiaorou, Xia means summer. I also have a brother named Xia Changyuan, but he disappeared when he was eleven years old. I have been looking for him for many years but have never found him." Xia Xiaorou looked at the man in front of her, her eyes gradually reddened. "I was only four years old when he disappeared, but now I am nineteen years old. I look completely different from when I was a child. Even if I stand in front of him, he won't recognize me, right?"
The young man's brows furrowed more and more. He closed his eyes and rubbed his forehead, looking very painful. "What's your mother's name?"
"My mother's name is Wei Xueyin. She is the daughter of Duke Wei. Unfortunately, she passed away early. When my eldest brother was ten years old, she died of illness." Xia Xiaorou looked at him and gradually became confused. Why did he have such an expression?
The man in front of him was very close in age to his eldest brother.
He looks very much like the Duke of Weiguo in the portrait at the Duke of Weiguo's mansion.
In addition, the bamboo flute around his neck, she and Xia Xiaoying also had one.
Xia Xiaoying said that this was a piece of bamboo that their mother broke when she left the Xia Mansion. Later, three bamboo flutes were made from it. The implication was that they should not forget their true identity. They were the children of Xia Hanlin. These bamboo flutes were made from bamboos from the back garden of Hanlin Mansion.
Zhudi, a man of the same age as my eldest brother, looks like my grandfather.
He must be the eldest brother Xia Changyuan!