Four Hundred and Eighty-Two: Ghost Marriage, Widowhood (5)

Shangguan Wan hesitated in her heart, and her face showed a struggle.

The stepmother said, "Wan'er, although you sneered at those evil books, you still recognized them after all."

Shangguan Wan's expression froze, and she quickly denied, "How is this possible!"

How could she recognize those books of perverse theories?

The stepmother asked her back, "If that's the case, why do you doubt that you can't do it?"

Shangguan Wan was speechless and had no answer.

After a while, her hesitant eyes became firm, and she bowed to the stepmother.

"Thank you for your advice, Madam."

The stepmother said again, "Shangguan clan has your stepmother around, you can't get their protection, and Liu Mansion can't protect you all the time. If you want to get rid of Zhang clan completely, Wan'er, you can only rely on yourself in the future. Work hard and remember to take care of yourself."

Shangguan Wan's eyes turned red, and she gritted her teeth and nodded, "Thank you, Madam."

She also thought that if her mother hadn't died suddenly, she wouldn't have fallen to this point, at least she wouldn't have been tortured like this, but then she thought, what's the use of resenting these?

There are no ifs in this world, reality is reality, instead of thinking about the past, it's better to think about your future.

The stepmother watched Shangguan Wan leave and shook her head secretly.

If it was the former Shangguan Wan, why would she need to point out these things?

It was just the torture between her stepmother and Zhang Mansion that broke her pride in just one or two years.

The female four books that Shangguan Wan sneered at also poisoned her in a subtle way...Now, I hope this child can be reborn and have another exciting and wonderful life. Thinking of this, the stepmother smiled gently, like a delicate flower reflecting on the water.

"You like to meddle in other people's business..." Mrs. Die's voice came from behind with a bit of laziness.

The stepmother said with a normal look, "I just saw my own shadow in this little girl."

She had her sister to protect her, but Shangguan Wan had nothing, so she couldn't help but soften her heart.

Rather than saying it was helping Shangguan Wan,

it was better to say it was helping her own shadow.

Zhang Zhaoshi left the Liu Mansion with reluctance and resentment. She heard that a group of troops from the Liu Mansion were about to leave Hejian County.

Her nerves tightened, and a trace of viciousness flashed across her face. After a while, she said viciously, "Chase after them!"

She intuitively felt that Shangguan Wan must be among these troops, and that little bitch wanted to take advantage of the situation to escape from Hejian County.

Seeing that they were about to leave Hejian County, Shangguan Wan's mood was flying, but there were bursts of dense horse hooves behind her.

"Don't be afraid." Jiang Nongqin remained calm and whispered to comfort Shangguan Wan, "I'll deal with them."

The hundred people who caught up were actually the servants of the Zhang Mansion, and there was a speeding carriage behind them.

The curtain of the carriage was lifted, and Zhang Zhaoshi, who looked gloomy, sat inside.

"Hand over Shangguan Wan, the little bitch."

Zhang Zhaoshi didn't take the troops seriously at all, because they were just servants, and they didn't even have the qualifications to talk to her.

Jiang Nongqin sneered, raised his hand suddenly, and said in a hoarse voice, "Line up and fight!"

As soon as the words fell, the troops who were originally carrying heavy loads formed a defensive formation at the fastest speed.

Hundreds of longbows were pulled open, and arrows were aimed at everyone in the Zhang Mansion.

Seeing this, Zhang Zhaoshi's face was so gloomy that it seemed that ink could drip out.

Jiang Nongqin was considered half a disciple of Jiang Pengji. He would fight if he didn't agree with her, and he would never beep if he could fight.

Zhang Zhaoshi, a weakling in combat, could only rely on the servants around her to bully others. Jiang Nongqin was not afraid of a fist fight.

She asked Zhang Zhaoshi hoarsely, "Madam Zhang, is the person you are looking for here?"

Zhang Zhaoshi's forehead was covered with cold sweat, and she secretly held the door rail tightly.

Even though she felt that a group of servants would not dare to hurt her, the suffocating murderous intent still frightened her.

Facing hundreds of arrows pointing directly at her head, she felt that if her answer was unsatisfactory, she might become a hornet's nest in the next second... Her breathing almost stopped, fearing that the servants in front of her would harm her.

She was secretly annoyed in her heart that these servants of the Liu Mansion dared to be so arrogant.

"Madam Zhang, is the person you are looking for here?"

Jiang Nongqin asked again with a calm face.

After a while, Zhang Zhao swallowed her breath and said with a twisted face, "No, I made a mistake."

After hearing this, Jiang Nongqin revealed a hint of sarcasm at the corner of her lips and raised her hand to order her troops to put away their longbows.

Zhang Zhao looked at Nongqin's dress, and a trace of contempt flashed in her eyes.

In her opinion, Nongqin was the most unfaithful woman, who should be caught and put in a pig cage and ride on a wooden donkey.

"Let's go!" Jiang Nongqin ordered a team of troops to stay behind to prevent Zhang Zhao from attacking from behind, and the rest of the people retreated in an orderly manner.

Shangguan Wan waited in the back with rapid breathing, and slowly breathed a sigh of relief when she saw this situation.

"Women who bully the weak and fear the strong are the easiest to get rid of." Jiang Nongqin came back with a cold face and concluded his speech.

Shangguan Wan laughed out loud, and her nervousness disappeared.

"I suddenly realized that Sister Nongqin's style of doing things is very similar to Brother Lanting's."

"How can I compare with you, my dear." Jiang Nongqin shook her head and got on the horse, "Let's go."

Shangguan Wan learned riding and shooting when she was in the boudoir. Later, when the kidnapping incident happened, the mansion even hired a martial arts teacher for her. She also knows how to fight, not to mention that she stayed in the camp for half a year...

If she fights seriously, some male soldiers may not be her opponents.

Of course, since Shangguan Wan had never seen blood on her hands, if there was a life-and-death struggle, she would definitely die.

The journey northward was quite difficult. The refugees around not only coveted their clothes and food, but also the women in the camp.

When they were about to approach the border of Maruzhou, even Shangguan Wan had been involved in several deaths.

"The situation is unstable, there is a war in the north, and the Qingyi Army and the Red Lotus Sect are fighting fiercely..."

After more than half a month, the two thousand troops have lost weight.

Shangguan Wan, who has always been spoiled, has also become thinner, and her skin has become two shades darker, but she has become much more capable in her actions.

Shangguan Wan has a knife hanging on her waist, a barely cold outfit, and a rough cloak on her body.

"Even so, most of the people implicated are innocent people."

Shangguan Wan's face was gloomy. Now in such a purgatory-like scene, she really couldn't relax.

Along the way, the increasingly severe and cruel reality taught her a hard lesson.

There is no fine food and clothing in the outside world, no high buildings, and corpses of people dying of illness or freezing to death on the roadside one after another.

Birds that cannot find food in winter feed on corpses, and peck a complete corpse into pieces.

If the struggles in the inner house are all thorns hidden in cotton, and the tongue is the most powerful weapon, then the wars in the outside world are different.

There are too many factors that can threaten the lives of the people.

The severe cold in winter, the shortage of food, the bandits who are rumored to fight and kill, and the two rebel armies that fight everywhere and accidentally hurt the people...

Not only that, they also have to guard against their companions.

Shangguan Wan once saw several people roasting by the fire, and the food they prepared was actually people who had already died!