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

In the middle of the night, Shen Lingzhu was sleeping soundly when she was awakened by the banging on the door. When she frowned and was about to speak, she heard more noises.

"There seems to be a lot of horse hoof sounds? There shouldn't be any during curfew." She sat up.

Shen Miaozhu had just lit the lamp and when the two of them were putting on their shoes, their uncle's voice was heard in the yard: "Something happened, my second brother, you guys stay home.

I will lead my men and the troops from the Military Affairs Department to rush to the Imperial City to provide support."

"Brother, you are a civil servant." Shen Chi held him back.

Shen Huai pushed him away, took the reins handed to him by Chen Xiaoge, and patted the knife at his waist.

He came from the house next door, firstly to send his wife and children here, and secondly to get the other two horses: “How can I sit idly by and watch the thieves attack the imperial city with evil intentions?

The Chen family's personal guard who reported the news said that the Minister of War was leading his men to suppress the rebels, and that the sons of nobles and the Five Cities Military Command were also coming to support them.

Shen Chi followed again: "I'll follow you..."

"You have to protect your whole family. Remember not to open the door." Shen Huai pushed him away and left quickly.

"Brother, brothers are like brothers when fighting tigers. Let your ninth brother protect the family, and I have to protect you." Shen Chi followed resolutely, and Shen Xiao also promised to protect the family.

Even Huang Ruyue said while tying Shen Chi's belt, "You must always stay by Big Brother's side."

They had to be thankful that today, Dazhu and Xiaozhu had bought a few servants and sent them to the inn to stay. Except for Jian Zhang and his three companions who went to the shop in the outer city after dinner, the rest of their family members stayed in the two houses here. They hoped that everyone was fine.

"Uncle." When Shen Lingzhu ran out of the room, his aunt and mother were hugging his younger brothers and sisters in the yard. Aunt Jiu also protected her two children on both sides, while Shen Huai and the others had already led the horses out.

Standing in the yard, you can faintly hear shouting and fighting, the scattered sound of horses' hooves, and the noise of neighbors on both sides yelling at their children who are frightened and rushing to the door.

Shen Xiao closed the door and asked the women and children to gather in one room. He took a long stick and a hatchet and asked his nephew and Master Fang to inspect.

The rebels gathered to attack the imperial city and they would not come to the houses for a while, but those ruffians and petty thieves might not stay at peace.

There were only three grown men in the house, and they couldn't sit still.

Shen Lingzhu quickly returned to the room to get the bamboo crossbow, which he always prepared when he went out. However, because he had appeared in front of the government troops last time, all the arrows had been replaced with bamboo-tipped ones.

But the senior sister had already handed it over, "We'll go inspect it too."

"No." The two sisters-in-law of the Hu family came out from the inner room holding the child.

Aunt Jiu followed closely behind: "Your Uncle Jiu is here."

"Aunt, we are not weak women. We don't have this..." As soon as Shen Lingzhu raised the crossbow, a scream came from the neighbor's house.

She didn't have time to say anything else and followed her senior sister out of the main house. Her eldest brother, Uncle Jiu, and the others had already run from the backyard and the front door to the adjacent courtyard wall between the east wing and the main room.

Further east of that house is the private courtyard where my uncle lives.

At this time, Master Fang shouted, "Someone must be left watching the backyard."

"Mr. Fang, there is another family's wing behind our house, so it shouldn't be a problem." Shen Lingzhu was familiar with the neighbors nearby.

Before Mr. Fang could speak, Shen Xiao, who had climbed up the wall, started talking to his neighbor.

The neighbor said, "Just now, a man jumped out from Doctor Shen's yard, and I knocked him down with a stick."

"Thank you. Can I go through your house?" Shen Xiao was not stupid. It would be better not to open the gate and run back and forth at this time.

Once the other party agreed, he jumped over and Shen Xianzhu wanted to follow, but was unexpectedly stopped by his second sister: "You are not as fast as Xiao Zhuzi, stay!"

"Little Bamboo..." As Shen Xianzhu turned his head, Shen Lingzhu took a step and jumped up and down the wall.

She moved incredibly quickly, and almost by the time Uncle Nine Shen Xiao ran over the other wall, she had already climbed up the wall, causing the neighbor's wife to exclaim again.

"Xianzhu, I'll go down first." In the darkness, Shen Xiao thought it was his nephew.

Shen Lingzhu said, "Uncle Jiu, please don't move. Let me borrow a lamp."

She saw the boy of the house holding a lantern and walking up to the man of the house.

When Shen Xiao heard it was her, he was even more frightened and didn't dare to let her move. "It's dangerous to hold the light. You go back and I'll do it."

As he spoke, the man was already climbing the wall. The man also warned: "Be careful, the man may still be there."

Their voices startled the little thief who had woken up from the fall. The moment he tried to get up, his heavy breathing betrayed him.

Shen Lingzhu immediately shouted to Uncle Jiu not to move, and the next moment an arrow was shot out from the crossbow, instantly hitting the little thief's thigh, and he cried out in pain again.

"Lamp." Shen Lingzhu turned her head and shouted. The man saw her crossbow and was startled. He grabbed his son's lamp and handed it to him.

She took it and threw it hard into her uncle's yard. The paper lantern caught fire. Shen Xiao saw a man crawling on the ground, and the bamboo arrow was still trembling.

The uncle and nephew jumped off the wall almost at the same time and pinned down the thief in a few moves. The latter begged for mercy.

But when Shen Lingzhu saw that the packages scattered around him contained his uncle's clothes, and accessories of his aunt and younger brothers and sisters, he decisively punched the man and knocked him unconscious.

Shen Xiao quickly reached out his hand to test him. He was not dead. He said, "We can't send him to the authorities now. Let's bandage him up and tie him up."

"Tie them up and throw them into this yard. We can't guard the two yards separately." This yard was not like the west side where there were houses. To the east was a north-south alley. She and Mr. Chi rented it for Mr. Fang and others.

Unexpectedly, my uncle stayed and didn't move out, and my aunt also lived here. Shen Lingzhu now felt that it was extremely inconvenient not to live together.

Shen Xiao naturally had no objection. He quickly bandaged the thief and tied him up under the crabapple tree in the yard.

When the two jumped back to the neighbor's house again, the man made a request: "Can you let your wife and children come to your house, and Mr. Shen Jiu and I will guard this place?"

Shen Lingzhu thought it was possible. The offensive and defensive alliance could also take care of the other courtyard. She looked at Uncle Jiu, who thought for a moment and said, "Get a ladder and climb over the wall."

So she called her family on the other side of the wall, and after the hostess and her son climbed up the ladder, there was also a ladder on this side of the wall to connect them. The two ladders were temporarily put aside and not moved.

After Shen Lingzhu climbed up the wall, she heard noisy sounds all around her. She changed her mind and went up to the roof of the wing room.

"Xiao Zhuzi, come down." Both Uncle Jiu and the eldest brother growled anxiously.

But Shen Miaozhu and Master Fang were very calm and asked her what she saw.

Shen Lingzhu reported truthfully: "There are fires over there in the Imperial City, in the direction of the Military Headquarters, and on East Street.

Many houses nearby are in darkness, and the Fire Temple is no longer brightly lit, nor are there any loud noises."

She wanted to see more, but she couldn't see the roof of this floor. When she came down, her aunt and mother were already standing at the door of the main house angrily.

Shen Lingzhu was not afraid at all. Instead, she ran to them and said, "Aunt, you and uncle should move in here from now on."

Mrs. Hu wanted to criticize her, but she heard the neighbor's wife praising her, and she didn't want to embarrass her own child in front of outsiders.

Shen Lingzhu escaped the disaster and immediately inspected the house with his brothers and sisters.

The Shen Huai brothers had already been engaged in a fierce battle with the rebels, and during this time they encountered Chen Ru charging forward. As dawn approached, the rebels saw that they could not enter the imperial city, and many people from the city came to help, so they fled in all directions, some of them broke into people's houses to hide...