After traveling through time, I became the aunt of the loyal dog emperor

The sun sets in the west, and a hazy darkness shrouds the sky and the earth. The night market has not yet begun, and there are few pedestrians on the streets, or some are in a hurry. Occasionally someone stops to look around but soon sets off again.

Wan Tao walked out of a silk shop in the night, Liu Qingquan followed closely behind her with thick cloth in his arms. There were so many things that they almost blocked his eyes and he almost bumped into Wan Tao. Wan Tao immediately turned around and supported him. In the afternoon, the two of them had already run through almost all the cloth shops and clothing stores in Nanye City. According to the princess's instructions, they took the pattern drawings and went door to door to ask if they could customize such products.

They went to several shops one after another and found that every boss claimed that they could make it, and they all claimed that they mastered unique core skills and were absolutely irreplaceable. At first, the two were delighted, but later they realized that it was just a routine. In order to complete the tasks assigned by the princess more efficiently, Wan Tao suggested that each shop first buy some embroidery and bring it back to the palace for the princess to do a preliminary screening, and then give the drawings to them for customization and assessment.

It was for this reason that the two of them spent the entire afternoon shopping non-stop in various stores, asking the shopkeepers to introduce their own characteristics and advantages, and before they knew it, it was time.

"Sister Wan Tao," Liu Qingquan looked at the night and wanted to invite her to have dinner together before going back. But when she turned around, the long veil she was wearing was particularly heavy. Thinking that she might not want to show her most vulnerable side in front of outsiders, he kept silent.

Wan Tao seemed to sense his hesitation to speak, so she took all the cloth from his hands and held it in her arms, saying gently, "I'm sorry to have you running with me for so long today. You should go back soon."

Liu Qingquan tried to take the cloth back and suggested: "The journey is long and there are so many things. Let me take you there again, Sister Wantao."

"I can do it." Wan Tao rejected his proposal and then added: "It's windy outside and your body hasn't fully recovered yet. Go back and rest. I will tell the princess about your efforts. She will definitely be very pleased. Qingquan will take care of the other things the princess has asked."

Liu Qingquan looked shy as if he had been seen through. He touched the back of his head with his hand and replied politely, "Thank you for your concern, Sister Wantao. I am in good health!"

Wan Tao smiled, her eyes curved like crescents, and she signaled him to look behind him. Tang Xiaoyou was hiding behind a large pillar, with his hands behind his back, secretly looking here. Wan Tao urged him gently, "Don't make people wait anxiously, go quickly."

Seeing that he was discovered, Tang Xiaoyou simply walked out from behind the pillar and waved at them. Liu Qingquan waved back awkwardly, but explained to Wan Tao about their relationship: "Well, Sister Wan Tao misunderstood, I have nothing to do with her. It's not that I have nothing to do with her, it's just the relationship between a tenant and a landlord, why is she here?"

Wan Tao saw the shyness and deliberate attempt to distance herself from the young people as the youth and beauty that only teenagers have. She couldn't bear to let the young man's stubbornness hurt the people who cared about her, so she smiled gently and reminded him, "She is concerned about you, go back quickly."

Liu Qingquan no longer refused. After saying a few simple goodbyes to Wan Tao, he walked straight to Tang Xiaoyou and asked unhappily, "Why are you here?"

"Why can't I come?" Tang Xiaoyou refused to give in: "Your cold is caused by me, I have to keep an eye on you and make sure you recover. If you don't get better and you blame me, I'll be at a loss!"

"Don't worry, this is my fate. I won't blame you. Let's go. It's almost time. Grandma will be worried if you don't go back." After saying that, Liu Qingquan walked forward on his own.

Tang Xiaoyou was very lively. He caught up with her in two or three steps, and said something incoherently: "Hurry up, grandma made her specialty dinner today. If you don't go back now, you will be late!"

Wan Tao held a "small mountain" of cloth and clothes in her arms, and stood quietly watching them go away in the bickering and fighting. Seeing them made her feel warm in her heart, she turned around and walked into the darkness alone.

"stop--"

"what--"

When Wan Tao walked to South Street, the night market had already begun and the streets were bustling with people. People were strolling in groups of three or four, arm in arm. She walked carefully while holding her things, and suddenly there was a noisy sound behind her.

It seemed to be the sound of pursuit. If I listened carefully, someone was shouting, "Stop—"

Mixed with the screams of passers-by, the loud noise of stalls being overturned, and the sound of wind whistling past my ears, it didn't seem like a conflict between ordinary people. Wan Tao was not interested at first, and moved to the edge of the road, lowered her head and walked her own way silently.

Until a heart-wrenching cry for help came from behind: "Help, help! Yong'er, Yong'er, please let my child go."

Wan Tao instantly recalled the story she had heard when she was young. In order to absorb a person's soul, a demon who had cultivated into a spirit would secretly call out a person's name while walking on the road, and swallow him up the moment he turned around. The grandmother who told the story had once frightened her that if someone told her to turn around in the dark, she must not listen and just keep walking forward, because if she turned around, she would fall into a trap.

But after hearing the wailing and cries for help from the people behind her, she stopped and looked back. She saw a commotion behind her. Several soldiers formed a circle. In the middle of the circle, a man in black held a knife against a child's neck. Not far away was a woman kneeling on the ground wailing for help. It seemed that the woman was the hostage's mother, otherwise she wouldn't be so sad and heartbroken. The soldiers didn't dare to act rashly at this time.

The situation was deadlocked for a while, no one dared to act rashly, and they were testing each other. The man in black also became bolder, and put the knife to the hostage's throat to stop him from slowly retreating. The hostage was young, and he was so scared by the scene that his legs went weak, his face turned pale, and his body trembled involuntarily. He couldn't cooperate with him to retreat, and was almost dragged forward by the hostage.

"My child, Yong'er, is there anyone who can save my child?" The hostage's mother stretched out her hand to try to reach her child, stood up from the ground and staggered forward. But no one around dared to step forward rashly, and could only stand there and watch.

"Mother... Mother..." The hostage's mouth trembled and he kept mumbling to his mother.

The man in black soon realized that the almost limp hostage had become a stumbling block to his escape. He couldn't walk by dragging him, and it was also a waste of his strength. So he looked around the crowd with a gloomy face, looking for a more suitable hostage.

The onlookers lowered their heads, not daring to look at the vicious criminal. When he turned his gaze towards Wan Tao, their eyes met. It was such a fierce and cold look, full of murderous intent, as if he could do anything, but also with an unnoticeable desperate and madness. Wan Tao also noticed that there was a long knife wound on his right face, from the corner of his eye to the corner of his mouth.

Before she could react, the man in black took the hostage and walked to Wan Tao's side. With an evil smile, he stabbed the hostage's thigh with a knife. While everyone's eyes were on the hostage, he grabbed the hostage's collar and threw him into the crowd. He took advantage of the chaos to run to Wan Tao, put the knife to her abdomen, signaled her to be quiet, and took her away without any explanation.

By the time everyone reacted, the two men had disappeared, leaving only scattered cloth on the ground.