Divorced woman with child travels through time

"Don't move! Be quiet!" Lou Tai listened carefully and indeed someone was calling for help for his wife.

As a leader, Lou Tai still enjoys a certain prestige in the store.

He peeked around and calmly said, "Those are professional assassins. You guys will just be throwing your lives away. A few of you, take a detour and go to the yamen to notify the government. Two of you, go notify Commander Wang. We usually have patrol teams here. They should be here by now. Let's go outside and find something to cover ourselves. If those men in black try to escape, we'll find an opportunity to throw stones at them and try to kill them so they don't come back alive."

He made sense, and all the employees nodded in agreement.

"Listen to Manager Lou!" The female workers scattered and moved out step by step, using the counter as a stepping stone.

Chen's place is large, with two entrances and a side entrance. It has a lot of foot traffic, and there are other shops next to it, making it convenient to hide.

Guidi was one of the female workers. She struggled to move to the cabinet by the door and glanced at the roof diagonally opposite. Two men in black were still lying on it. They were really crazy. In this hot weather, why did they have to be assassins? They were wrapped up so tightly, weren't they afraid of getting heat rash?

She followed the assassins' arrows and looked at the blacksmith shop they were supposed to be aiming at. She then said to Jin Hua beside her in a cold voice, "I'm going to the rouge shop next door. Be careful."

Before she could finish speaking, she darted over. In the two or three-meter distance, before Jin Hua could even finish her instructions, Gui Di was already smiling and waving at her.

"Why did you come here? This is too dangerous, go back quickly." Liu Mama from the rouge shop pushed her, holding an iron rod in her hand. This is the advantage of being martial; everyone knows how to protect themselves.

"No, I need to save Madam. Let me pass through here. Just two shops past the house where that bad guy is hiding. My father taught me a few self-defense skills. Don't worry, I'll be fine." Guidi pushed her aside, squeezed through, glanced at the assassin opposite her, and then darted past.

After passing through three shops in a row, they finally arrived at the oil pressing shop. The door was wide open, and the waiter and the owner were lying on the ground, probably dead.

Guidi opened the cabinet and was about to hide inside when she saw Lou Tai crawling over from the other side of the shop, just like her.

The two looked at each other in the eye.

Not far away, Lü Xiong and several men rode up on horseback. While deflecting the arrows with his sword, he shouted to his men, "Our men are coming soon! Don't you dare run away!"

How could they not run? The two assassins didn't even have time to wipe the sweat from their eyes before grabbing their bows and arrows and fleeing.

"Manager Lou, what brings you here?" Gui Di hadn't noticed yet.

"Stop talking about that, hurry up and hide inside! Someone's coming!" Lou Tai, after all, came from a prestigious family and had some martial arts skills. His hearing was much better. He pushed Gui Di inside, closed the cabinet door behind him, and then slipped into the cubicle next to the stairs.

"Clang clang clang clang!" Two men in black quickly came down from upstairs. As soon as they reached the first floor, they saw Lü Xiong and his group. Now they were stuck inside.

The man in black hesitated for a moment and then tried to run upstairs again. Lou Tai, who was watching from the top of the stairs, grabbed a carrying pole from the corner of the wall next to the house owner and hit it. He hit one of the men in black, who immediately went limp.

Guidi heard a noise from inside the cupboard, so she pushed it open a crack to peek. When she saw Lou Tai make his move, she seized the opportunity to push the cupboard open as well, took out a vegetable jar containing an unknown amount of food, and threw it at another person. However, the jar went slightly off course and hit the person at their feet.

Lu Xiong saw this clearly and immediately swung his knife at the two men to draw their attention. Several soldiers quickly rushed forward and captured them.

Zheng the blacksmith had been watching this side. Once he saw that they had subdued the two men and confirmed that there was no danger, he rushed over, shouting, "There are still people at the back door! Hurry, there are some over there!"

"Alright, you two watch over them, the rest of you come with me!" Lü Xiong and Lou Tai nodded. "Thank you!"

After saying that, he went straight around to the back of the blacksmith's shop.

Meanwhile, inside the county government office.

Huang Zhong was trying to explain to Wang Erniu, "Commander Wang, I really didn't send anyone to do this. Look, I even came to you to release them. Besides, I only brought two people with me. I wouldn't do something like that! Right?"

"Really? It wasn't the adults who did it?" Wang Erniu stared intently at him, his heart filled with anxiety. Although the people he had sent earlier had said that Chen Wenfang was fine and that Lü Xiong had already arrived there, and he had also sent Wang Xiaoguang with dozens of men over, he was still a little scared. He should have gone by himself; it was this damned Huang Zhong who was harassing him here.

"It's really not!" Huang Zhong said, his lips almost worn out. He raised his hand and swore, "I swear to God, the person who assassinated your wife was definitely not one of my men. If I break this oath, may I be struck by lightning!"

"Military commander, Commandant Lü has rescued the man!" a soldier reported.

Wang Erniu unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, fiddled with his teacup, and smiled faintly, "Oh, in that case, there's no need for you to say that, sir. I trust you completely."

"It's good that the militia leader has informed us. Since Madam is alright, let's talk about Song Er's matter. Why don't you, Commander Wang, take a look and see how we can get him released? You name your terms. We only want him; you can do whatever you want with the rest. I'll go back and discuss it with my people, and I'll definitely agree to your demands. What do you say?" Huang Zhong didn't care about saving face; he sat down and poured himself a cup of tea.

"Alright, we'll discuss it later. You can go back now!" Wang Erniu was too lazy to argue with him and directly gave him the order to leave.

Huang Zhong remained unmoved. "Commander Wang, you have no way to prove that Song Er really did the dirty work on that child. Without evidence, you can't convict him. Based on my understanding of him, he will never confess. So even if you keep him locked up, you still can't do anything to him. Why not do him a favor?"

"Lord Huang, you've been an official for too long. I really don't know what this child could have done wrong to deserve being disemboweled? Is such beastly behavior considered a trivial matter in the eyes of adults?" Although Wang Erniu had killed countless people on the battlefield, he still couldn't understand why they would harm a child.

"This..." Huang Zhong's old face showed a rare hint of shame. "Actually, this was an accident and has little to do with Song Er. I didn't know that there was such a perverted person among his companions. If the militia wants the real culprit, give me two days, and I'll hand him over to you. You can spare Song Er's life in return, how about it?"

Huang Zhong paused, then said with regret, "It's all because that child was too stubborn; that's why he suffered all this."

Wang Erniu gave a sarcastic smile. "You've already killed someone, and you're complaining that the other person didn't lie down more comfortably? There really are such shameless people." "Hand over the person first, I'll think about it!"