Chapter 4

There is silence in the carriage again. A group of people look at each other. Is that young lady scared into a faint?!

Just when Wu Si doesn't know what to do, a female voice comes coldly from the carriage: "If you've said enough, come in and help me."

The cold voice sounds low, making the people outside the carriage tremble for no reason. Do young ladies of noble families talk like this?!

Wu Si scratches his head, looks back at the brothers behind him, and everyone takes a step back, gesturing with their chins for him to go help.

If he has to go, he'll go! It's not like he, Wu Si, is afraid of a woman! Swallowing his saliva secretly, Wu Si steps onto the carriage, lifts the curtain, and drills in. Unexpectedly, he meets a pair of icy eyes. Seeing the woman in front of him, Wu Si gasps.

In the carriage, the woman is half-leaning against the carriage wall in a red dress, her slightly raised eyes staring coldly at him. Wu Si has never seen any woman with such eyes. Being stared at by such a pair of eyes, he feels breathless for no reason, and her face, two deep knife scars ruined the entire right cheek, which looks quite terrifying at first glance. Is this the beauty sent by Haoyue Kingdom? Wu Si is puzzled. They couldn't have robbed the wrong person, could they?!

Just as Wu Si is sizing up Zhuo Qing, Zhuo Qing is also observing him. The man is in his early thirties, his messy hair tied up with a cloth strip, and his cloth clothes are full of patches, looking very worn. His attire is like... an ancient person!

Everything is too eerie! Suppressing the anxiety in her heart, Zhuo Qing reaches out, grabs Wu Si's arm, and uses his strength to stand up. Unfortunately, she hasn't used force for too long, and Zhuo Qing softens and falls down again. Wu Si quickly supports her hand. This woman is really thin!

Supporting Zhuo Qing to the carriage door, before lifting the curtain, Wu Si suddenly grabs the bridal veil in the carriage, covers Zhuo Qing's face, and then brings her out.

Zhuo Qing is weak in her limbs, only half-leaning in Wu Si's arms, barely walking with his support. The fiery red wedding dress reveals her slender figure, and every step looks infinitely delicate. The veil covers her face, which is truly infinitely imaginative.

A teenager in his teens clicks his tongue and says: "Wow... the women of Haoyue Kingdom are truly made of water! Even the way they walk is different from the women in the village!"

Following the teenager's teasing, a group of people also begins to boo. Wu Si glares at the teenager fiercely, supports Zhuo Qing to sit on a stone bench, and for a while, doesn't know what to say.

Xiao Wuzi takes a step forward, pulls Wu Si aside, and smiles: "Brother Wu, I heard that Haoyue Kingdom specializes in beauties, and the young lady sent this time is even more famous in all countries. Anyway, we have already robbed her, so why not let everyone see what she looks like, okay?"

"No!" Wu Si roars, scolding: "What we did today is just to seek justice for our benefactor. Robbing her was a last resort. If you do this, what is the difference between us and those bandits and villains?!"

Xiao Wuzi shrinks his neck and mutters: "Brother Wu, we just want to see what the so-called peerless beauty looks like, we don't want to do anything to her!" Brother Wu is usually a good person, what's wrong with him today?

Facing the puzzled eyes of the villagers, Wu Si also feels that he might have gone too far, and advises in a low voice: "Even so, it's not good!" Which woman doesn't cherish her appearance? Her face was ruined somehow, and if she is seen, she might be sad and hurt.

"Brother Wu..." Xiao Wuzi still wants to say something, when a piece of red silk is nimbly thrown to the ground.

Xiao Wuzi turns his head, and a face full of knife scars comes into view, scaring him into screaming: "Wow! Oh my god! What kind of beauty is this!"

The villagers surrounding them to watch the fun are also startled. For a while, the large group of people is frighteningly quiet. Zhuo Qing calmly looks back at the burning gaze. Under the baptism of surprised, fearful, sympathetic, and pitiful eyes, she raises her head slightly, her icy eyes scanning everyone one by one. The villagers unconsciously take a step back. She thought that those who would hijack hostages would ultimately not be good people, but the ones in front of her are a group of incomparably honest villagers?!

Zhuo Qing feels slightly relieved and asks: "Who did you say I am just now?" This body is not hers. She needs to figure out who she is now?!

Xiao Wuzi swallows his saliva and replies: "You are a woman from Haoyue Kingdom, a tribute to the Emperor, but I heard that the Emperor rewarded you to the Prime Minister. But with your appearance, I guess the Prime Minister won't want you either!"

"Xiao Wuzi!" Wu Si shouts in a low voice.

Zhuo Qing's face remains as usual, and she continues to ask: "What kind of place is this?"

"This is Niu Family Village, and ahead is the capital of Qiongyue, Huan Yang."

Qiongyue? Huan Yang? Don't know them! Taking a deep breath, Zhuo Qing looks at the group of onlookers and asks loudly: "Have you ever heard of China?"

Everyone shakes their heads in unison.

They speak Chinese, dress in ancient costumes, but don't know China. As far as she knows, there shouldn't be such a place in the world she lived in. And she, actually changed a body. No matter how unwilling she is to believe it, she still knows clearly that she has arrived at a place unknown to her and entered the body of a "gift"!

God! Her head still hurts!

"Young lady, are you okay?!" Wu Si looks at Zhuo Qing inexplicably. Just a moment ago, she was imposing, why is she in pain now?

Zhuo Qing is in no mood to pay attention to anyone. She needs to calm down!

"Brother Wu! Brother Wu!" An excited male voice comes from the village. A young man in his twenties rushes towards Wu Si, pushes away the surrounding villagers, and Liu Yu holds up a piece of paper, shouting like a treasure: "You are back, I have written it, Brother Wu, take a look!"

Pushing away Liu Yu's hand, Wu Si smiles awkwardly: "What's there to see, I don't know how to read."

Xiao Wuzi also curls his lips and boos: "That's right, only you know how to read here! Even if you ask us to look, we won't understand it either!"

Liu Yu lowers his head, scratches his head embarrassedly, and smiles: "I... I only learned characters from my father for two years, and then he died, so no one taught me anymore."

"That's still better than us!" Grabbing the paper in Liu Yu's hand, Xiao Wuzi looks left and right but doesn't understand it, and asks puzzledly: "Brother Wu, why must we write this thing?!"

Patting Xiao Wuzi's head hard, Wu Si takes the paper, folds it carefully, and sighs: "Didn't the government say that there must be a petition? We can't afford a lawyer, so we have to write it ourselves. If Prime Minister Lou really comes, we will have something to tell our grievances, right?"

"I think this thing is useless even if written!" Glancing at Zhuo Qing, Xiao Wuzi slanders inwardly, this woman is already ruined, will Prime Minister Lou still come?!

The government officials said that the petition is crucial. Whether the benefactor can be cleared of grievances depends on it. Wu Si looks at Zhuo Qing, who is sitting on the side, his eyes light up, and he requests: "Young lady, can I trouble you to help us take a look?!" This young lady looks like she is from a famous family, she must know how to read!

Zhuo Qing thinks for a while and replies: "Bring it here." She also wants to know what these simple and honest villagers are hijacking people for, and she hasn't seen the characters in this place, so she takes this opportunity to take a look.

Unfolding the paper, Zhuo Qing is dumbfounded...

Mom is a professor of Sinology. Zhuo Qing understands the few traditional Chinese characters on the paper, but what do these circles, crosses, and dots mean? Are the characters here composed of Chinese characters and symbols? This is difficult for her.

"Cough, cough!" Coughing a few times heavily, Zhuo Qing looks at the young Liu Yu and asks: "Excuse me, can I ask for advice?"

Liu Yu nods foolishly.

"What do these circles and crosses mean?"

"Uh..." His face turns red, he scratches his hair, and Liu Yu smiles and replies: "It's... it means the grain and quilts the benefactor gave to our village." He only learned characters for two years, so for the characters he didn't know, he had to draw a picture to replace them.

So that's it! In other words, he uses pictures to replace the characters he doesn't know?

(End of chapter)