“I understand. Thank you, Xia Yuan,” Xie Yu said gratefully.
Just now, along the way, they had been surrounded several times. Each time, Xia Yuan had been by her side, protecting her.
“Third Aunt, you’re too polite. It’s very safe here– you guys rest well. This servant still has to go over to Mistress,” Xia Yuan said.
Du Xiaoli received word along the way that Xie Yu and her daughter had been locked up in the woodshed, so she had asked Xia Yuan and a few others to go and rescue them, bring them here, and return after Xie Yu and her daughter were settled in.
Xie Yu saw Xia Yuan grabbing her sword from the table, preparing to leave. She rose, and said: “You all have to stay safe.”
“Mm.” Xia Yuan nodded her head, turning to leave. Seeing the group of people waiting for her outside, she said, “Let’s go over there now.”
Inside the Prime Minister's Mansion, from Du Yunhan's courtyard all the way to the neighboring courtyard, the ground, flower beds, frozen lake and so on were all littered with corpses.
Wave after wave of people poured in from outside the courtyard. Du Xiaoli was surrounded and had been beaten back into the center, but the situation changed quickly. Han Mingyi's people attacked from the outside, and the situation changed from an encirclement to a two-sided attack.
Zhong Meiqing looked at the people in the center that had been slaughtered by half, and her heart was on fire. These people were soldiers given to her by Zhong Bolin, not the kind of elite people who knew martial arts, so she could only watch them being killed by Du Xiaoli and the others.
But the good thing was that she has secretly trained some people herself in addition to the provided people over there, so Du Xiaoli and the girls didn't completely get the upper hand.
Zhong Meiqing was protected by a group of people surrounding her. Ying Ge saw an opening and immediately tried to go and capture her, but just as her sword was about to stab Zhong Meiqing, a concealed weapon flew over and deflected her sword, pushing her to fly back through the air and return to Du Xiaoli's side.
Du Xiaoli also noticed the Ying Ge’s sword being deflected and looked in the direction of the hidden weapon, finding a woman standing on the roof with some strangely dressed people.
“Fifth Aunt?!”
The appearance of the Fifth Aunt caused the battle between the two sides to halt momentarily. She came down from the roof and landed beside Zhong Meiqing, saying, "Elder Sister, how are you going to explain this to Master? But it was really dangerous just now, if it wasn't for your younger sister, Elder Sister would have been injured just now, if not dead."
“Why were you gone for so long?” Zhong Meiqing's attitude wasn't very good. Perhaps it was because she felt disgraced, accepting help from Fifth Aunt, or maybe because the two of them simply didn't see eye to eye.
“I wanted to see if Elder Sister could take care of things here all by herself!” Fifth Aunt said, "But it looks like Elder Sister can't manage it! Before, Elder Sister even swore to Master that everything here could be left to you– with such high casualties, I wonder how you're going to explain this to Master?"
“That’s none of your business,” Zhong Meiqing said.
Du Xiaoli looked at Zhong Meiqing and Fifth Aunt and said, “Dad, you are also too good at choosing women– of your five concubines, two of them are from Miaojiang.”
Seeing the playfulness in Du Xiaoli's eyes, Du Yunhan glared at her, “What time is it now– you still have the heart to joke!”
Du Xiaoli bristled. Joking? She was just being honest.
“Why are you still talking nonsense, just go up and kill them all.” A man dressed in Miaojiang clothing said.
“We…”Zhong Meiqing couldn’t turn back now and was ready to listen to the man's words and order people to make a move again.
“Before we do it, Second Madam, you'd better take a look at who's over there.” Du Xiaoli pointed to the courtyard entrance.
"Let go of me! Let go of me! Father, mother, save us!"
“Let go of this Young Master, or else Master will have your heads chopped off!”
At the entrance of the courtyard, Du Kexin and Du Kehui were tied up, their mouths stuffed with a towel. Only when Du Xiaoli spoke did the person beside them remove the towel, and the two of them hurriedly shouted.
“Xin'er, Hui'er!” Zhong Meiqing shouted when she saw that Du Kexin and Du Kehui had been captured.
She had obviously sent some more people to protect them, how could they have been caught by Du Xiaoli?
The man beside Zhong Meiqing also subconsciously clenched his hands and his face tensed.
Du Xiaoli, watching them, observed the changes in the two’s demeanor and smiled.
“Second Madam, if you order them to attack, I'll let the two of them go explore the Yellow Springs Road first, what do you say?”
"You think you're the only one with hostages in your hands? I have people in my hand too, if you don't want Third Aunt' and her daughter's souls to return to the afterlife, hurry up and release Xin'er and Hui’er." Zhong Meiqing tried to calm herself down, looked at Du Xiaoli, and said.
At this time, Xia Yuan came in from outside and came to Du Xiaoli's side, nodding at her.
Du Xiaoli gave her an approving look, then looked at Zhong Meiqing and said, “Is Second Madam so sure that you still have them?”
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