Don't worry about traveling through time, she has an all-powerful senior sister to help her

After leaving the provincial capital for more than ten miles, Shen Lingzhu felt that everyone's mood had improved a bit. His uncle even talked about how he had to pass through several express shops and post stations on his way home.

He also explained in detail that Dashuangdian Village, where they were currently staying, was the only way for the counties west of the provincial capital to reach the provincial capital.

Because it is located between the Shun and Yuan rivers, the land is flat and fertile, and the grain yield is more abundant than that of ordinary villages.

My aunt also added, "That area is no worse than a town now. Because there are military households building camps and post stations, people are traveling back and forth from north to south and east to west almost day and night.

It is bustling, but it is also the place where children's luggage is most likely to be lost.

So, please take good care of your two sisters and don't let them out of your sight."

"Mom, I know." Shen Xianzhu pulled his sister's head into a bun, which looked fresher and better than the two buns she had tied before.

"Brother, don't grab my hair, it's so thin and easy to fall apart." Her hair was soft and thin, and she didn't know how the two original bags were tied out. She quickly crawled to the back of the car and looked at her senior sister who was carrying a backpack. In a few breaths, her senior sister drew words on her palm.

Shen Lingzhu immediately became alert and turned her head to look at the road, but her senior sister asked her to climb back to the front of the car to warn and not to stare at it to arouse suspicion.

Hu only took a glance at this guy, and Shen Xianzhu scratched his head embarrassedly, and ran to change with his father to lead the donkey.

At this moment, Shen Lingzhu climbed back to the front of the car and said, "Uncle, brother, please pull over to the side of the road. My second sister said there's a carriage chasing us from behind. Something's not right."

"Miaozhu." Mrs. Hu became nervous when she heard this and wanted to call her eldest niece over.

But Senior Sister, Shen Miaozhu, just turned around and waved her hand to indicate that she was fine.

Shen Huai gave his son a few words, then strode to the back of the car, blocking his niece with his entire body, "Miaozhu, what's wrong?"

The senior sister held the backpack with one hand the whole time, her expression calm: "Uncle, don't look back. It's a shabby mule cart with peeling paint. The driver wears a big straw hat and dark blue shorts with patches, but his shoes are similar to those worn by the monks in the temples in Beijing.

When we walked fast, he walked fast too; when we walked slowly, he walked slowly too. Every time we fell behind at least one or two cars, there would be a pair of eyes scanning us from behind the curtains.

In fact, she felt that the other person's eyes stayed on her face longer, which was a very annoying feeling.

The driver following behind them noticed that the Shen family's donkey cart suddenly stopped by the roadside. When the cart in front of him was about to pass by it, he hurriedly looked up and asked the people behind the curtain what to do.

Swish, the curtain of the car was lifted wide to look inside. In less than a moment, the people inside made a quick decision and "pass them and go to Daliudian to wait."

The Dragon and Tiger brothers are behind them, so they can't escape."

The driver nodded, slightly accelerated to overtake the car in front, and quickly passed the Shen family's parking space.

"Could it be them?" Shen Huai just tried to see the appearance of the coachman who ran past in an instant, to see if he had seen him at the tea stall at noon. Unfortunately, the other party's carriage flashed past and he could not see clearly.

"Who?" Except for Shen Xianzhu who was busy feeding the donkey, the three women present immediately heard something wrong and asked in unison.

Shen Huai told them what he saw in the tea stall, and Shen Xianzhu realized belatedly that her family had been targeted.

He looked at the dilapidated carriage going away and asked the key question: "If it is someone looking for trouble, how can we monitor him if he walks in front of us now?

If they have other motives, can't they see that we have nothing?"

“Or, there are more carriages behind, but we haven’t noticed them.

Uncle, do you want to ask two strong men to protect us? "Shen Lingzhu is very good at this question. She has seen too many cross-surveillance dramas in the past.

"What, what's wrong?" As soon as she finished speaking, she found that her uncle's family of three were all staring at her.

Shen Xianzhu said, "Xiao Zhuzi, you have so much on your mind."

Senior Sister Shen Miaozhu said from the side: "But it is very likely. With so many people like Master Shi, if he really deals with us, we will be hard to defend against.

Uncle, hiring an escort is the best option at the moment. Even if we don't return to the capital to find an escort, we have to hire a few strong men from the Dali Inn."

She and her junior sister were young, so if the other party wanted to cause a car accident on the road, they could shoot the other party's horse with a crossbow.

But if there are several groups of people following and monitoring as the junior sister mentioned, they will not be able to prevent it alone.

Shen Xianzhu was a little skeptical. "Let them monitor us, but do they dare to hurt people on the official road?"

"Otherwise, why would we go to all this trouble?" Shen Lingzhu spread her hands and said, "Uncle..."

Mrs. Hu glanced at her son and wondered why he wasn't as alert as his two younger sisters. It was good for him to leave the academy now, as he could experience more of the world and become more wise.

Shen Lingzhu looked up at her uncle with a serious face, which made Shen Huai's heavy mood inexplicably lighten. So he patted her head and comforted her, "Let's wait and see if there are any caravans passing by so that we can go with them.

When we get to Dashuangdian, my uncle will hire someone to escort us."

He suspected that if he returned to the city, he might be refused entry, and then once the city gates were closed, he would have to sleep outdoors. The safety of his family was very important and he had to be cautious.

"Xian Zhu, keep an eye on the sisters. I'm going to stop the convoy." He wanted to check whether those people were among the carriages and pedestrians behind.

Shen Xianzhu wanted to follow him to stop them, but his mother grabbed him and told him that blatant harm might not happen, but his two younger sisters might be taken away by someone.

He was shocked when he heard this, turned around, grabbed his third sister's hand, and asked her to sit in the back of the car with his second sister.

"Brother, you don't have to be so nervous. Look at what we have." Shen Miaozhu saw that he kept scanning the passing people and vehicles, and everyone looked like a bad guy, so he quickly took down the big backpack and showed him the bamboo crossbow inside.

Shen Lingzhu also quickly pulled out her umbrella and opened it to provide shelter, which aroused Hu's curiosity. However, knowing that the children were avoiding her, she had no intention of getting involved.

On this side, the senior sister opened the basket, and a strange, thick, round, short bamboo tube came into Shen Xianzhu's sight.

Looking at the round bamboo tube again, it is made of three thin round bamboo tubes and cow tendons drilled through and placed side by side, and the side of the bamboo tube facing itself is only an inch wide.

But when the three arrows were inserted into the bamboo tube and the tendons were hung on it and pulled, Shen Xianzhu was so shocked that he was speechless. This is a crossbow! It can be so simple!

When he heard his two younger sisters say that there were only three white, non-toxic bamboo arrows, and that the black bamboo arrows inserted in another bamboo tube were poisonous and should not be touched, he couldn't help but swallow.

He asked, “Where did you buy it?”

Senior Sister naturally wouldn't say self-control: "Fucheng."

"This thing sounds impressive, but it's crudely made and looks like a child's toy.

It doesn't matter whether it's poisonous or not, you've probably been fooled.

It's not even as powerful as a slingshot, look how worn the tendon is." Shen Xianzhu quickly discovered the problem with the bamboo crossbow. He wanted to take it out for a closer look, but Shen Lingzhu held him back. "Brother, we have a slingshot for you, too."

Before she finished speaking, her senior sister had already taken out a slingshot and a stone ball and handed them over, "Try it with this. If it works for you, keep it handy."

When Shen Xianzhu was still hesitant, Shen Huai, who had stopped the convoy, strode over to the car and said, "I'm here to ask the convoy. Let's go."

After observing for a long time, he didn't see the person he had seen in the tea stall, but he couldn't wait any longer.