Eat in Song Dynasty

Chapter 49
An urchin from nowhere threw a lighted firecracker at the feet of a horse pulling a luxurious carriage.

The firecrackers exploded at their feet with a "bang", and the horses were frightened, and they immediately galloped with a squawk. Under the city gate ahead, a caravan leading camels into the city was being inspected.

The frightened horses and carriages ran rampant on the street, screaming everywhere, and the people and street vendors along the street ran away in fright.

The coachman shouted anxiously: "Get out of the way, get out of the way!"

The lady in the carriage and the maid who accompanied her were already pale with fright. Their bodies were swayed left and right by the bumpy carriage, and their heads hit the carriage several times, and they almost passed out.

This shocking change naturally caught Wen Shu's attention long ago. At this moment, she was clasping the door and window tightly with both hands, sticking her head out of the curtain, and staring closely at the carriage rushing forward.

Lu Xi, who was driving the cart in front, held the reins and tried his best to bring the horse's head to the right, so as to miss the startled horse. However, the horse pulling the cart didn't know whether it was frightened or out of instinct, and the horse's head kept going in the opposite direction. The direction twisted away.

Seeing the frightened horse rushing towards him, Lu Xi's face turned pale, and he was about to break out in sweat.

Wen Shu was also sweating, but she could neither train a horse nor drive a cart. Seeing that the horse was out of control, the startled horse in front of her was about to charge.
Emergency moment!She made a decisive decision, loosened the door frame with both hands, rushed forward, hugged Lu Xi from behind, and rolled to the ground!

Out of control, the horse instinctively ran to the left, and narrowly missed the startled horse!

At the same moment, the rear wall of the luxury carriage also fell off due to the violent impact, and a woman with hair full of jewels rolled down from above.

"Madam! Madam!" Several exclamations sounded.

The frightened horses continued to rush forward, and the soldiers guarding the gate, as if they were facing a big enemy, rushed up one by one with guns, ready to slaughter the horses on the spot at any time.

"Is Guan Lu okay?" On the other end, Wen Shu who had landed on the ground quickly got up from the ground and gave Lu Xi a hand by the way.

Lu Xi obviously hadn't reacted from the sudden fall from the horse, he was stunned, and was about to answer when he heard a child screaming from ahead.

"Grandpa!"

Wen Shu heard the sound and looked, and saw the startled horse rushing towards the city gate, turned around and rushed back a foot away from the city gate, and an old man over sixty years old rushed out of the street at some point, and his target was In the middle of the road, a field of radish baskets with sparse vegetables was knocked over.

Seeing this scene, his grandson standing in the crowd screamed and ran out, intending to protect the old man.

It's just that the horse was running too fast, and the old man obviously had inconvenient legs and feet. Seeing that the old and the young were about to die under the hooves of the horse, Wen Shu rushed up subconsciously before he had time to think about anything.

At the same time, a man and a horse rushed towards the city gate.
A long dark purple shadow soared into the sky, and after a few turns, he sat firmly on the back of the startled horse with his legs crossed. He stretched out his hand and slashed at the horse's head several times. raised high
Thousands of hair!In front of the horse, Wen Shu grabbed the grandfather and grandson and rushed to the side of the road!
The horse's hooves fell and continued to run forward, but before taking two steps, it tilted and lay down on the ground foaming at the mouth, and even the carriage behind it rolled over on the ground, and the driver jumped out of the carriage when the horse turned around in shock. .

In the chaos, Wen Shu struggled to get up from the ground, and at the same time helped the handicapped old man and his eight-year-old grandson up together.

"Old man, are you okay?"

"It's okay, thank you little lady, thank you little lady." The old man came back to his senses and was full of fear, regretting his impulsiveness just now. If it weren't for the little lady in front of him, their grandparents would really be buried.

Wen Shu waved his hands and looked towards the street. The frightened horse fell in the middle of the road at this time, and someone in the sideways carriage wriggled out with trembling hands. Lu Yuancheng was ordering the guards to drag him out, while Lu Xizao ran to the gate of the city He took the chariots and horses that his family had fled.

Seeing that there is no need for her help, Wen Shu turned her gaze to the other side. Three feet away from the place where the startled horse overturned, a woman lying on the ground with a head full of jewels and emerald clothes was lying on the ground unconsciously. Whether it was dead or fainted, and the people around hadn't recovered from the fright, and no one came forward to watch or ask.

Wen Shu trotted forward and touched the side of the woman's neck. Feeling her pulse was still beating, she breathed a sigh of relief.Seeing Lu Xi coming over with a carriage in the distance, helping the guards to help the wounded get into the carriage, he shouted: "My lord, there is another one here."

Lu Yuancheng watched them help the last maid into the carriage, then turned to her and walked towards her. When he got close, he couldn't help frowning after seeing the face of the sleeping man: "Madam Qin?"

He glanced at Wen Shu.

Wen Shu quickly waved his hand: "It has nothing to do with me, she fell off the carriage by herself."

Lu Yuancheng gave her a speechless look, and shouted back: "Lu Xi, bring the horse over here."

While talking, there was a sudden sound of footsteps ahead, and after a while, a team in uniform ran over, the leader was a bearded man who was in his thirties, and he was the patrol envoy of the Military Academy in charge of public security in the capital.

Looking at the chaos on the street, and then looking at the carriage that fell on the ground, Hu Hu's heart skipped a beat. Looking at the shape of the carriage, I'm afraid that the people inside the carriage are not young.

Just as he was wondering, he saw a man and a woman squatting on the ground in front of him. The man stood up, turned to him and said, "Counselor Wang, Mrs. Qin fell from her horse and passed out. We will send you to the nearest hospital. I hope you will send someone to notify you."

"Lord Lu!"

The Military Inspection Institute is in charge of public security in the capital and the criminal and prison proceedings of temporary cases, and it has overlapped with Dali Temple from time to time. Wang Xunshi naturally recognizes the second in command of Dali Temple.

Hearing him talk about the Prime Minister's Mansion, calling the noble lady on the ground Mrs. Qin, I immediately understood that this was probably the wife of the new prime minister, Mr. Qin.

Surprised, he nodded hurriedly, and ordered his subordinates to go down to Zuo Xiang's mansion to report.

Mrs. Qin is a female family member and the mistress of the house. As a man, Lu Yuancheng is not easy to touch her, so the task of carrying her into the car naturally fell on Wen Shu.

Lu Xi led the carriage over, glanced at the three people in the carriage who were unconscious and lying sprawled, and said: "Master, the carriage is too small, and it is already the limit to accommodate three people, Mrs. Qin." He shook his head.

What Lu Xi said was the truth, the car he picked up and sent Wen Shu to was just an ordinary green cloth carriage, not a big carriage for the female family members of the Hou Mansion, not to mention the three people lying in a coma in it, they are all awake now , sitting upright, this carriage can't hold four people.

Hearing this, Wen Shu turned her head and said: "I remember there is a medical clinic at the front street, anyway, it's not far away, why don't I just carry this lady there."

Inspector Wang just wanted to say that with your small arms and legs, how could you carry Mrs. Qin on your back? You should find a strong woman on the street, or invite a few more women to help carry it.

But before he could speak, he saw that Lu Shaoqing nodded his head: "Alright, then you can go now, if you can really save Mrs. Qin's life, it will be in your own interest."

Wen Shu rolled his eyes at him, and thought that although she loves money, she is not so indifferent, she is about to die now, so she has no time to care about these things.

(End of this chapter)