The Demon Queen of Divine Doctor is not to be trifled with

Chapter 441 The mantis stalks the cicada and the oriole follows behind

Jun Tao took a look and saw that there were two bills, each worth five hundred taels.

The old lady said, "One is for the temple, and one is for you. Five hundred taels is not a small amount. Even if you serve the master in the palace, it will take many years to earn this much money. So you should keep it well, and don't tell your husband when you get married. Just keep it for yourself and use it when something important happens."

Jun Tao was filled with gratitude. She knelt down and kowtowed to the old lady. She even shed tears while holding the banknotes. She said that even if her mother were still alive, she would not be so good to her.

The old lady was very satisfied with her performance and felt that the five hundred taels of silver and the jade bracelet she gave her last night were all worth it.

It is not enough to win people's hearts by words, you must have actual performance, so that the other party can truly submit to you and listen to you. She thought she did a good job, but she didn't know that Jun Tao was crying for real, but she was not moved by her. People were just happy to leave, and they got an extra 500 taels. As for whether it was good or bad, it didn't matter. She just wanted to survive.

Jun Tao left the house and took the Ye family's carriage straight out of the city.

The old lady sat in the room humming an opera tune and swinging her legs from time to time, but as she was swinging, she suddenly remembered something.

She hurriedly got up, pushed the door open, and went straight to Jun Tao's room.

A maid saw her come out and wanted to follow her to serve her, but she pushed her away.

Jun Tao's room was locked. The little maid said, "Sister Jun Tao locks the door every day. Maybe she has served the old lady for a long time and received many rewards, so there are naturally many good things in the room. So she is worried and locks the door, right?"

The old lady felt something was wrong, so she waved her hand to send the maid away and called the maid who was kept in the courtyard, "Open the door." The maid was strong and had a sword on her body. With one strike of the sword, the lock fell to the ground. The old lady pushed the door open and saw a clean and empty house.

"Oh no!" The old lady slapped her thigh and immediately said to the old woman, "Quick, go and get Jun Tao back for me, don't let her get away!" Then she immediately regretted it, "No, there's no need to get her back, just follow her out of the city and kill her in a deserted place. Bring her head back for me to see, and then we can deal with it!"

The maidservants didn't need to ask the reason. The maid ran away, which was a big deal. They didn't know many things about the master, but Jun Tao must know. If this got out, the old lady would be finished.

Four maids went out, all riding fast horses. The old lady heaved a sigh of relief and staggered back to the house.

She thought that the four maids would chase after Jun Tao, a maid who had no martial arts skills and was riding in the Ye family's carriage and had not gone far, would definitely not be able to escape from her clutches. But she didn't know that after the four maids left the house, Ji Duo also followed them quietly, following them all the way out of the inner city, then out of the outer city, and all the way to the outskirts of Beijing, where she saw the four maids rushing forward, blocking the Ye family's carriage, pulling Jun Tao out of the carriage, and putting a sword directly to her neck.

One of the old women was so cruel that she grabbed Jun Tao and stabbed the coachman with a sword.

Although he was the Ye family's coachman, the less people knew about this kind of thing, the less danger there would be. He was just a coachman, and in their eyes, it was not a human life at all, so they could just kill him.

Ji Duo saw this scene clearly and shook his head. He thought that these women didn't have good skills but were vicious. Did the old lady of the Ye family select people according to her own temperament? They were all the same as her.

A leaf flew by and hit the tip of the old woman's sword that was pointed at the driver. The sword that was originally stabbing at the driver was deflected, and under the impact of the leaf, the old woman didn't even hold the sword and fell directly to the ground. The old women immediately realized that there was an expert nearby, but they didn't expect that dealing with Jun Tao would cause trouble.

One of them raised his voice in dissatisfaction: "I don't know which knight is here. We are from the inner city of Lin'an. We are here to capture a fugitive. I hope you will not interfere. Let's do each other a favor."

Unfortunately, the knight had no feelings and was unwilling to listen to her nonsense. He even thought it was disgusting that these old women repeatedly did evil for the old lady. So he picked up another handful of leaves and flew over.

The leaves were like knives, each one cutting the throat. Four of the bodyguards that the old lady worshipped like treasures were gone in the blink of an eye.

Jun Tao screamed in fear, but she didn't forget to run away, holding her bag and running forward. Unfortunately, she was caught by Ji Duo after running a few steps, and her acupuncture points were sealed, and she was thrown back into the carriage.

The driver who had escaped death knelt down and kowtowed as soon as he saw Ji Duo. He was not panicked or afraid, and spoke in an orderly manner: "I didn't expect that someone close to the fourth young lady saved my life. I thank you very much, brother Ji. I kowtow to you." After three kowtows, Ji Duo was already sitting in the carriage. He said to him: "Okay, let's go back home."

The driver took a look at the corpses on the ground and wanted to say something, but seeing that Ji Duo had no intention of dealing with them, he said no more and drove the carriage back.

But when he entered the outer city and was about to reach the inner city gate, he said to Ji Duo with some emotion: "Brother Ji, I may not be able to escort you any further. The old lady sent so many people to chase Miss Jun Tao today. I guess there must be a quarrel between the master and the servant. One wants to run away, and the other wants to kill. It's my bad luck to get on this train, and I'm the one who's eating melons. Originally, I would definitely lose my life, but fortunately Brother Ji saved my life, so I survived. But I am alive, and I can never go back to the Ye family, otherwise I will lose my life again after so much difficulty. I will escort you a little further, and when you reach the city gate, you can drive the carriage back home by yourself, and I will run for my life now."

Ji Duo laughed when he heard this, "Escape? Where are you going to escape? Look at this maid, she saved up so much silver and jewelry before escaping, that's called escaping. What about you? How much silver do you have? Are you escaping or giving up? Besides, the coachmen of the Ye family are all indentured slaves, right? They don't even have indentures, and you still want to run away?"

The driver was helpless, "I understand all this, but there is no other way. The old lady will not let me go. She will find a way to kill me sooner or later. Instead of living in fear all day and waiting to be killed, why not run out and give it a try? Maybe you can still survive."

Ji Duo asked again, "After so many years, you don't have any feelings for the Ye family? You just left like that?" He looked at the driver's straight body and guessed, "You've been in the military camp, right?"

The driver nodded. "Brother Ji, did you figure it out? Haha, I was sold to the Ye family as a slave when I was thirteen, and I went to the stable to feed the horses when I arrived. In the spring when I was fifteen, the eldest master went home to visit his family, and the stable boy who came back with him died of illness. When he left, he took me with him. From then on, I followed the eldest master into the military camp. At first, I fed and brushed the horses for the eldest master, and later I fed and brushed the horses in the camp. When I was a child, I also learned the skill of horseshoeing. They said that I was better than the masters outside. All the horses in the camp lined up for me to shoe them. I stayed in the military camp for seven or eight years until the eldest master passed away..."

He wiped away tears when he said this. "After the master passed away, I returned to the Ye family and continued to feed the horses. Now that I think about it, those seven or eight years were just like a dream. Now that I'm awake, I find that everything has returned to the starting point. Maybe I never went out with the master? Those experiences were haunted by nightmares."

He waved his hands embarrassedly, "Look at me, I talk too much, don't be offended, brother Ji. We are almost at the city gate, I will leave now, brother, come out and catch the carriage!"

Ji Duo shook his head and sat still in the carriage. "Just drive your car all the way to the gate of the mansion. If anyone asks why you brought me back, just say that the young man of the Ji family chose you and wants to be the coachman. If the old lady has any doubts, let her talk to me. Don't be afraid if she forcibly punishes you, I am in the mansion every day anyway, and I can get you back at any time. I will remember to tell my sister and aunt about this, and I will also tell the fourth lady. If the fourth lady also needs a coachman, then congratulations, your future life will be settled." The coachman was very happy and cracked his whip. The fourth lady is now the most powerful figure in the mansion. Even the old lady is afraid of her. This is something that everyone in the mansion knows. If he can really follow the fourth lady in the future, he really won't have to be afraid of the old lady.

Of course, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that he has followed the general for so many years, and he has long regarded the general as his only master. Although his indenture is still in the Ye Mansion, in his heart, the general is his only master.

Now that the general is gone, it would be the same if he could do things for the general's most beloved youngest daughter.

He said to Ji Duo, "My name is Zhou Shang. Thank you for speaking for me, brother Ji. You have been very kind to me today, and now you are willing to introduce me to someone else. I really don't know how to thank you. How about I give you half of my monthly salary from now on, until I am old and die, okay?"

Ji Duo laughed, "No need, I don't lack money."

The curtain was lowered, and the people in the carriage stopped talking. Zhou Shang shook his head, thinking that this Ji brother was also a strange person, but it was said that he was from the Ji family in Quanzhou, and his background was very big. The fourth young lady was really amazing, with three Ji slaves around her, her future was immeasurable!

In the Fulu Courtyard of the General's Mansion, Madam Ye's right eyelid kept twitching. It is said that if the left eye twitches, it means good fortune, while if the right eye twitches, it means disaster. She felt that this type of twitching was not a good thing.

The old woman who went out to rob people hasn't come back yet. She calculated the distance she had traveled and thought that she should be back by now, so why is there still no movement?

So she sent another maid to the door to inquire, and the maid came back and said, "Madam, something might have happened. None of our people have returned, but the concierge saw Ji Duo, who was beside the fourth young lady, carrying the unconscious Jun Tao back to the mansion and heading straight to the west courtyard—"