40 Out of town

It was impossible for the commoners of the capital city not to know about the matter of the Emperor and the princes arriving at the justice courts at night.

In a moment, the streets of the capital were filled with Board of Justice runaways searching for fugitives. The common folk of the capital had unknowingly grown nervous over the past few days, and rumors about the two fugitives from the Wang clan had quickly spread through the city. There were all sorts of them.

On the surface, the Shangguan Family that was located in the south of the capital continued to live their lives as usual, causing people to be unable to tell that something was amiss.

An Yuanzhi went to the west gate early in the morning to have a look. After he returned, he told An Jinxiu, who was in her room, "Sis, the gate isn't closed, but there are hundreds of soldiers guarding the gate. How are we going to send them out of the city?"

The two Death Soldiers in his room were lying on two wooden beds. Their wounds were covered with medicine and had been carefully bandaged. An Jinxiu had boiled them some ginseng soup to replenish their energy. At this moment, these two Death Soldiers looked much better than last night.

After hearing An Yuanzhi's words, one of the Death Soldiers, Yuan Yi, said, "Let's think of a way to get out of the city."

An Yuanzhi pointed at Yuan Yi's left shoulder and said, "All the men who leave the city today must check their shoulders. With this brand on your body, how can you think of ways to leave the city?"

Yuan Yi and the Death Soldier called Yuan Wei looked at each other and suddenly reached out their hands towards their left shoulder.

Within the room, An Jinxiu and An Yuanzhi didn't even have time to react before they watched the two of them rip the piece of meat off their shoulders.

Yuan Yi sucked in a few breaths of cold air and asked An Yuanzhi, "Is this enough?"

An Yuanzhi had never seen anyone treat him so viciously before, and the fifth young master was stunned on the spot. For a moment, he didn't know what to say.

In her previous life, she had seen a lot of situations where blood and flesh flew everywhere. Seeing that their bodies were covered in blood, An Jinxiu sighed, stood up and said to An Yuanzhi, "Treat their wounds with medicine."

"Let me do it." An Yuanzhi didn't want An Jinxiu to do it. He didn't know anything about it last night, so he could only watch as An Jinxiu took care of their wounds. After watching for an entire night, An Yuanzhi learned quite a lot.

At this time, Shangguan Rui ran in and said as soon as he entered, "Why is there the smell of blood again, their wounds split open again?"

An Yuanzhi quickly turned around and called out to Shangguan Rui, "They're injured again, come over and help me quickly."

Last night, when Shangguan Rui saw the two who had been rescued from the sky prison by their eldest sister-in-law, he was scared half to death and couldn't recover for a long time.

He could only listen to An Jin's orders and help from the side. It wasn't until An Jinxiu finished her work with the two Death Soldiers and told Shangguan Rui about her plan, that Shangguan Rui finally understood after staring blankly for a long time.

After helping An Yuanzhi apply the medicine for the two Death Soldiers, Shangguan Rui asked An Jinxiu, "Sister-in-law, what should we do next?

Shangguan Rui didn't know if these two people could be of use to his family, nor did he know how powerful these two Death Soldiers were. He only knew that since his sister-in-law had done what she did, they wouldn't be able to turn back. Seeing that his sister-in-law and An Yuanzhi were determined to keep them alive, Shangguan Rui could only do his best to keep them alive.

Only then did An Jinxiu say, "Without the brand, there's no way for you to hide your identity. This injury is a new injury, and you'll still be suspected."

Shangguan Rui said, "Then let them hide in our homes?"

An Jin shook her head. "Let's go to the manor together in the afternoon. We can just bring them along."

An Yuanzhi shouted, "But there's someone checking at the city gate."

The two Death Soldiers weren't very tall, they were only a little taller than the average girl. They also looked pretty, but when An Jinxiu treated the two of them last night, she had already thought of a way, "You two can go out of the city disguised as a woman, but the soldiers in front of the city, they won't let women take off our clothes to inspect them."

The four men in the room froze, and the faces of the two men who had been fighting for their lives suddenly showed signs of resistance.

An Jinxiu placed a bowl of cold medicine onto Yuan Yi and Yuan Wei's hands and said, "A manly man has to be able to easily escape the prison. He has to think of a way to survive."

At this time, Shangguan Rui also nodded and said: "Looks like this is the only way now. Otherwise, if the justice courts can't find you, it's hard to guarantee that we won't search house to house for a few days."

An Yuanzhi giggled. "You're pretending to be a girl?" "Sis, only you can think of such a way!"

An Jinxiu only smiled and urged the two Death Soldiers to drink the medicine.

Only now did he realize that his sister-in-law was not a simple inner chamber girl. She dared to do something like saving a fugitive from the justice courts, while all the yamen runners were arresting people, and his sister-in-law was still calmly arranging matters of sending him out of the city. If it wasn't for the fact that An Jinxiu had always treated him very well, Shangguan Rui would have suspected that his brother marrying such a daughter-in-law was not a good thing.

An Yuanzhi didn't care about Shangguan Rui's expression.

An Jinxiu turned around and walked out of the room. "I'll go find some clothes for you guys to wear. After lunch, we'll set off."

After that, the remaining four men in the room, look at each other, who doesn't know what to say.

In the end, it was An Yuanzhi who spoke first. "How high are your martial arts skills?"

Yuan Wei, said coldly, "Madam said that you've heard of us in the Residence of An."

An Yuanzhi let out a hollow laugh. An Jinxiu was just spouting nonsense. The generals of both the Residence of An and the Wang Military Department had never had much interaction with each other. How could they possibly know about Wang Yuan raising his deathsworn? Hearing is believing, An Yuanzhi said. "I just heard that you guys are experts in martial arts."

Yuan Yi forced a smile and said, "We know how to kill people."

"What?" An Yuanzhi didn't understand.

"There are a lot of martial arts factions," Yuan Yi explained to An Yuanzhi. "We don't have any specific martial arts techniques. We only know how to kill him more conveniently."

An Yuanzhi's interest was piqued. He thought that practicing martial arts was to build a career on the battlefield. Killing people on the battlefield would be easier, but there were martial arts techniques that were more convenient.

As a scholar, Shangguan Rui was not interested in this topic at all. After coming out of the room, he found An Jinxiy, who was rummaging through the women's clothing in Zi Yuan and Shangguan Ning's room.

An Jinxiu was not surprised to see Shangguan Rui enter. She immediately said, "Little brother in law, these two people are worth our risk."

Shangguan Rui said: "I can see that they aren't afraid of death. Maybe they can really help my big brother and Brother Yuan Zhi. But sister-in-law, they are only two people after all."

"If your big brother and Yuan Zhi can command thousands of troops in the future, wouldn't it be good to have a loyal person by your side?"

"What if they are not loyal?"

An Jinxiu turned around and smiled at Shangguan Rui. "Even if they're not loyal, I think it's good to have two friends like them."

Shangguan Rui paced around the room a few times and said: "These two people are not simple. Otherwise, why would the imperial government make such a big commotion to capture them? "Sister-in-law, will the secret they know cause us to die?"

An Jinxiu said, "Wang Yuan was sentenced to nine familial extermination. This person was also someone who had done great deeds from the dragon. Little brother in law, do you think that such a person would be stupid enough to commit the crime of cheating the monarch?"

Shangguan Rui didn't say anything for a long time after hearing An Jin's words. The people in the Academy had also been guessing what Wang Yuan had lied to the Emperor Shizong for the past two days. They had speculated on many things, but none of them could make up their minds.

An JinXiu had found all the women's clothes that Yuan Yi and Yuan Wei would wear. She looked back and saw that Shangguan Rui was still deep in thought, so she said, "I thought that a meritorious general like Wang Yuan might have something to hide from His Majesty, but it shouldn't be on the same level as exterminating nine families. Unless his deceit is related to His Majesty's throne."

"The throne?" Shangguan Rui said, "How can Wang Yuan harm His Majesty's world without a weapon?"

"The throne should be as important to His Majesty," An Jinxiu held the clothes in her arms and followed Shangguan Rui, "If I was Wang Yuan, I would have instructed my men to do something like this, but for what purpose, I won't follow anyone."

Shangguan Rui's body trembled. When he still wanted to talk to An Jinxiu, his sister-in-law had already left the room with clothes in her arms.

By the time Zi Yuan was done with his food, Shangguan Rui, who was sitting at the table eating lunch, had calmed down. Baby Ping is in An Jinxiu arms, and she was taking care of Shangguan Ning at the same time.

The two of them did not talk about Wang Yuan and the death warrior. An Jinxiu was not worried that Shangguan Rui would not be on her side. Shangguan Rui was an ambitious person, if he could help Shangguan Yong and help the Shangguan Family further, this young man would definitely help them.

After the family ate lunch, An Jinxiu left the wet nurse to look after the house. She carried Yuan Yi and Yuan Wei, who were both dressed in women's clothes, and sat in the family carriage with Shangguan Ning. An Yuanzhi and Shangguan Rui sat outside the carriage and drove the carriage towards the north gate.

"Nothing will happen." When the carriage arrived at the north gate, An Jinxiu stopped and let the city guards inspect it. She then whispered to Yuan Yi and Yuan Wei.

An Yuanzhi lifted the curtain of the carriage from the outside, causing the people inside to cover their faces with their handkerchiefs.

"The carriage is filled with women," Shangguan Rui asked the soldier from outside, "How much longer do you want to see?"

The soldier looked at the people in the carriage, but didn't pay any attention to them. He pulled his head back and said to An Yuezhi and Shangguan Rui, "You guys can leave!"