Traveling through ancient times, the empress insisted on having a child with me

When Cao Huanchun returned to the shop, Ling Chuan had not come back yet.

The two Liulitang franchise stores and the twelve newly franchised shops of Yunfu Ji are all in the process of renovation and preparation. Ling Chuan runs back and forth between these shops every day and has no time to go to the workshop in Jilong Mountain.

Just as Cao Huanchun was drinking tea and thinking about how to tell Lingchuan about this, the one-armed man who was missing one arm rushed in hurriedly.

"Ling Ling Ling... Master Ling was...assassinated by someone."

Cao Huanchun stood up so suddenly that he even knocked over the tea table beside him. The teapot, cups, snack plates on the table fell to the ground with a bang.

"where?"

The noise alarmed everyone in the shop, including He Chun and the other four shop assistants, who all stood out.

The one-armed man said again: "Door, door, door... at the door."

“Tiekai, when will you be able to correct this bad habit of yours? You always stutter at critical moments.” Cao Huanchun rolled his eyes and walked out of the shop.

The donkey cart was parked in front of the shop. Ling Chuan was sitting in the cart with a pale face, while the mute was held in Ling Chuan's arms with his eyes closed, as if he had fainted.

Everyone hurriedly helped the mute and Ling Chuan out of the car, only to find that they were covered in blood, especially Ling Chuan, whose white clothes were completely stained with blood.

Cao Huanchun looked panicked: "Mr. Ling, how are you? Where are you injured?"

Ling Chuan got off the carriage, but his legs were weak. If Cao Huanchun hadn't supported him, he would have collapsed. When Cao Huanchun asked him, he spoke with difficulty, "I'm fine. It's the mute who was injured. This is all his blood. Hurry up and save him."

Because the mute was wearing dark servant's clothes, one couldn't tell that the clothes were soaked with blood unless one looked carefully. However, he was now being carried to the backyard by everyone.

When Cao Huanchun helped Ling Chuan to the backyard, the mute's clothes had been undone and he had seven wounds on his body, with blood still flowing out.

Ling Chuan was even more frightened, because in addition to the few new wounds, the mute's body was covered with old wounds that had long since healed.

Cao Huanchun quickly checked it and breathed a sigh of relief: "It's just superficial injuries, no vital injuries."

The one-armed man brought medicine and needle and thread, the lame man boiled water, and Cao Huanchun threw the needle and thread into the boiling water, then fished them out and sutured the mute's wound. The three of them cooperated very skillfully.

Ling Chuan finally breathed a sigh of relief and was about to sit down, but found that his legs were shaking so much that he couldn't take a step.

He finally managed to hold on to the wall and sit down on a stool nearby before he recovered a little. What happened today had really frightened him.

Three masked assassins were stabbing him with their swords, and he saw with his own eyes the mute being stabbed several times in succession. This was something he had never experienced before.

While Cao Huanchun was stitching up the wound, he asked, "What happened?"

“Just, just, just…”

Tie Kai just opened his mouth when he was interrupted by Cao Huanchun: "Shut up, Master Ling, you should speak first."

It was the first time that Ling Chuan knew that the one-armed man was actually a stutterer. He was slightly surprised and said, "Today I had nothing to do, so I went to Jilong Mountain. I didn't expect that when I came back from Jilong Mountain, three masked men rushed out from the roadside, holding knives and hacking at me indiscriminately. Fortunately, the mute and the one-armed man blocked them for me. Because the one-armed man wanted to protect me, the mute fought three alone, and then he was injured."

"What about the other person?"

"Ran."

At this time, the one-armed Tie Kai joined in: "The opponents are all ruthless people. They took the mute's punches and exchanged injuries with the mute. Otherwise, the mute wouldn't be injured so badly."

"Trade injuries with a mute?" Cao Huanchun frowned. "Can you still run away after exchanging injuries with a mute?"

Tie Kai added: "I don't think they will live long. Two of the three people have vomited blood."

"Then why don't you do it?"

Tie Kai was anxious again: "I, I, I, I... I have to protect Master Ling. Besides, the uninjured man is very powerful. I may not be his match."

"you……"

Before Cao Huanchun could say anything else, the mute woke up, pointed at his mouth with difficulty, and made a gesture of drinking water.

"Water, bring some water."

Tiekai turned around and poured a large glass of water, but Lingchuan quickly stopped him: "You can't drink the water."

"why?"

Several people looked at Ling Chuan in surprise. Ling Chuan didn't know how to explain for a moment, so he could only say, "You have to drink salt water. Add some salt to the water."

"I, I, I, I..." Tiekai said as he ran out and quickly came back with a salt shaker.

Cao Huanchun looked at Lingchuan: "How much salt should I add?"

"One spoonful is enough."

After drinking the water, Cao Huanchun continued to sew the stitches and then applied medicine to him. After he finally finished the work, he sat down and wiped the sweat off his face.

He then asked Tiekai: "Can you tell where the other party came from?"

Tiekai shook his head.

"Then the other party is coming for Master Ling?"

Tie Kai nodded: "Yes, yes, yes, I just came here for Master Ling."

Cao Huanchun looked at Ling Chuan, but before he could speak, Ling Chuan spread his hands and said, "I don't know anything."

Cao Huanchun sighed, and Ling Chuan continued, "But I really want to know, what are your identities?"

Ling Chuan pointed at the mute on the bed and said, "What's wrong with him? Why does he have so many old injuries? How did the one-armed man's arm and the lame man's leg disappear?"

Cao Huanchun thought for a long time before he spoke: "I originally had something important to tell you today. Now that this has happened, I will tell you in detail."

Then Cao Huanchun introduced the situation of the one-armed cripple and others, which made Ling Chuan confused.

"You said the one-armed man's nickname is Iron Hand? The crippled man's nickname is Life Chaser?" Ling Chuan pointed at the mute on the bed and said, "His nickname is Cold Blood, what about Merciless?"

"What do you mean by ruthless?" Cao Huanchun was confused: "The three of them were... my most capable subordinates before."

In fact, the three mutes were the three most capable bosses under Cao Huanchun, but Cao Huanchun himself was downgraded to a boss, so he had to lower the status of the three of them as well. "

Ling Chuan said, "Oh!" He thought it was the Four Famous Detectives. It turned out to be just a coincidence. He then said, "Didn't you say you had something to say? What's the important thing?"

Cao Huanchun considered his words and said, "It's just that the job of the East Factory was taken away by someone else."

Ling Chuan glared: "What do you mean by being robbed?"

"This Judicial Bureau is going to open a government office and become a formal government office of the imperial court. All positions, both high and low, must be appointed by the imperial court."

"What do you mean?" Ling Chuan took out the badge: "Then what is this of mine?"

Cao Huanchun scratched his face a few times and said, "It doesn't matter."

"What?" Ling Chuan slapped his badge on the table and stood up. "Is there such a thing? Who is so bold as to steal my business?"

"It's Prince Ning."

"..."

Ling Chuan sat down again: "Then how should we account for all the work we have done before?"

Cao Huanchun continued, "Miss, what you mean is that you want me to ask you if you have any solution."

Ling Chuan rolled his eyes: "What can I do? He is the Prince of Ning, and he represents the imperial court. Who am I to compete with the Prince of Ning for power and gain?"