Yingbao didn't care and followed Chen Wan into a bamboo forest.
There were indeed people in the bamboo forest, but there were not only Chen Zhao and Chen Xubao, but also four strange men.
Chen Wan grabbed Ying Bao's arm and said to the four people, "I, I brought her here, quickly let go of A Zhao and Xu Bao."
Chen Zhao exclaimed: "Big sister! How could you do this?"
Chen Wan's body trembled, and she held Yingbao tightly, urging those people: "Hurry up, I have brought the people you want, let my brother and sister go."
The four of them smiled at each other, two of them walked over and were about to reach out to Yingbao, when suddenly their eyes blurred and a cold light struck their faces.
The two men dodged instinctively, but because the distance was too close, one of them had his arm chopped off and his flesh was turned over.
"Ah~~" the man screamed and fell backwards to the ground.
Only then did they see clearly that the girl had shaken Chen Wan off at some point, and was holding a two-foot-long sharp machete in her hand, chasing after another person.
"You little bitch! You're looking for death!" Seeing that the situation was not right, the other two people quickly drew out their daggers and came to help.
At this time, many people gathered around.
"Baoer! Get out of the way! Dad is coming!" Jiang Sanlang came running over and hit one of them on the back with the carrying pole in his hand.
The man who was hit screamed and ran away without caring about the pain.
Seeing that things were not going well, the other two also wanted to run away, but they were surrounded by the villagers.
What followed was a fight.
These men were all martial artists, but two fists were no match for four hands, and they were soon knocked to the ground by the villagers and tied up like dumplings.
After Jiang Sanlang and his men captured the four people, they turned around and glared at Chen Wan fiercely, asking in a stern voice: "Chen Wan! Who told you to trick my daughter to come here?"
Chen Wan was so frightened that she trembled and shook her head repeatedly, tears streaming down her face: "It's...it's them, they kidnapped Ah Zhao and Xu Bao, I, I can't do anything, wuwuwuwu..."
In fact, it was not just because of this. Her father also told her that if she brought Yingbao with her, she and her sister would not have to serve the nobles, and he would also find a way to send them to live in the county town.
Jiang Sanlang slapped Chen Wan hard in the face and ordered several people to tie her up.
Afterwards, he took a few people to search around and found a carriage and several horses.
But there was no one in the carriage. Presumably the driver had noticed something was wrong and fled on horseback.
Jiang Sanlang had the men thrown onto a carriage and taken back to Dongchen Village for interrogation.
One of them kept howling: "You lowly people! Let us go! Do you know who we are? Believe it or not, I will put your whole family in jail..."
Jiang Sanlang held a bamboo stick and hit him hard on the face.
After being hit with a few bamboo sticks, the man's face was covered with bruises and he dared not utter a word.
Jiang Sanlang interrogated these people separately, and finally one of them could not bear it anymore and told the truth.
It turned out that these people were subordinates of Yan Jinshan, an aide to Prince Cheng. They wanted to abduct Jiang Yingbao to Chengzhou County, but were afraid of alerting the enemy and making it difficult to deal with them, so they forced Chen Wan to trick people over.
After the interrogation, Jiang Sanlang could not help but feel scared.
But when I thought of my daughter's extraordinary abilities, I felt a little relieved.
Finally, Jiang Sanlang sent the four people and Chen Wan to the post station and handed them over to the postmaster for handling.
When the postmaster heard that it involved Prince Cheng, he did not dare to delay and immediately escorted several people to the county government office without stopping.
Not long after, someone from the county government came to inform Chen Laoshuan and his family to bring silver to redeem Chen Wan.
Chen Laoshuan had no money left, so he could only borrow from his eldest and third sons. However, both sons refused to lend him money, saying that they were short of money and could not afford eighty taels of silver.
Chen Changhai's wife also whispered to her husband: "Chen Wan did such a thing, why should we cover for her? Your second brother is getting more and more ignorant of the seriousness of the matter. He dared to collude with outsiders to harm other people's daughters. The Jiang family is not the same as before. Several of their children are going to be officials. Husband, don't be foolish."
Chen Changhai sighed: "I know."
His son is fourteen or fifteen years old, and is also learning martial arts at the martial arts school in Dongchen Village. It is possible that he will have to rely on the Jiang family's child for support in the future. How could he possibly do something stupid
Chen Laoshuan couldn't borrow money from his son, so he had to go to the Chen clan leader to borrow money. As a result, he was scolded by the Chen clan leader, who said that he had no idea how to educate his children and grandchildren. If he dared to bring Chen Wan back to the village, his family would be expelled from the clan.
In the end, Chen Zhao took out the sixty taels of silver that Yingbao had given him last time and asked his grandfather to redeem his eldest sister.
Chen Laoshuan took the silver to the county government office, redeemed his granddaughter, and then sold her to a family in another county with a death indenture, and returned home alone.
After returning home, he was extremely depressed when he thought about his second son who kept making mistakes and refused to repent. He was worried that he would lose his title as a scholar.
Chen Laoshuan was so angry that he fell ill. If it weren't for the Chen clan leader who stole his wife's pills and gave them to him, Chen Laoshuan would probably have passed away.
Two months later, Chen Fengshi decided to marry the fifteen-year-old Chen to the second son of a family from another town.
This family is relatively well-off, but their ancestor was an executioner, and those who know his background are unwilling to marry into their family.
Chen Zhao did not object, but after getting married he still returned to Dongchen Village to do business and take care of his younger brother.
Yingbao has been restricted by her parents from leaving the village recently. Even to the market, she is not allowed to go alone. She must be accompanied by someone.
Even when Wen Shu gave birth, Chun Niang would accompany her.
Another year has passed in the blink of an eye.
Wen Shu's child is already one year old, and fourteen-year-old Yingbao has also become a graceful young girl.
A lot has happened during this year.
The biggest event was that the Prince of Chengzhou County suddenly raised an army and wanted to join forces with the Little Zhou Dynasty to attack the city of the Xin Dynasty.
For a time, wars broke out everywhere.
After hearing the news, the Jiang family was worried.
Chunniang sat on the kang and talked to her daughter: "Bao'er, do you think Xiaowu and the others will also go to the battlefield?"
Yingbao was silent for a moment, and comforted A Niang: "Xiao Wu is so young, why would he go to the battlefield?"
In fact, he was also very anxious. He regretted not giving Xiao Wu more medicine, and he regretted even more for letting his brother take the martial arts exam.
But her brother also has to live his own life, so how can she make decisions for him
Chunniang sighed for a while, then remembered something and said to her daughter, "I don't know what your sister Erni is thinking. She refuses to get married. Your grandma is almost mad to death."
Yingbao didn't know how to answer.
Not to mention Sister Er Ni, she herself didn't want to consider this matter so early.
She had always wanted to go to the North Mountain to take a look, but her parents kept a close eye on her and wouldn't let her run around or go out with anyone else. They said she was grown up and had to keep her distance from the bad boys in the village, otherwise people would gossip about her.
"There is one more thing I need to tell you." Chun Niang glanced at her daughter and whispered, "Last time, Madam Wen mentioned your marriage to me and asked me to ask you, what do you think of Wen Hengyin?"
Yingbao blinked: "Mom, I'm still young."
"What do you mean by young?" Chun Niang glared at her daughter. "Your elder sister Ni was engaged when she was twelve years old. Look at how old you are now."
Seeing that her daughter was silent, Chunniang continued, "Lady Wang told me about her family's Wei Zhan the other day, and said that Wei Zhan had been appointed as the lieutenant of Zhechongfu, leading 300 cavalrymen."
Yingbao: “That’s great.” Being able to become a captain in Zhechoufu at the age of only seventeen, his future is limitless.
Chunniang twitched her eyes, secretly looked at her daughter, and asked, "Do you really think Wei Zhan is good?"
"Yeah." Yingbao nodded.