A chrysanthemum appreciation banquet was held in the palace, but not many people invited them, but Sun Lingge and Sun Lingfang both invited them.

Those who are interested naturally know what's going on. Liang was so happy. As for the inviting Sun Lingge, she thought that it was probably two girls in the mansion, so it was hard to hire only one.

Liang was already busy with the banquet and was preparing to make her daughter shine. She had no time to care about Sun Lingge. Sun Lingge suddenly had a stomachache on the day of the banquet. Liang wanted her not to go, so she asked her to rest at home. After Liang left, Sun Lingge and Polite packed up their things and said that Liang had forgotten to take the spare clothes and she had to send them over. The people in the mansion didn't think too much about it and let them go.

Halfway through, Sun Lingge found an excuse to get out of the car, walked through a restaurant, circled a street from the back door of the restaurant, got on the carriage he had already hired, and changed into men's clothing with Pomegranate and left the city.

When the coachman found out, he hurried back to the mansion, but Liang was not there, everyone was unable to make up their minds. When Liang came back, it was already evening. Only then did he realize that Sun Lingge was missing. Thinking of Sun Lingge's various abnormalities, Liang had nothing to understand.

Sun Lingge ran away.

She actually ran away.

Liang was unable to come back for a while. It had been nearly a day since Sun Lingge escaped. There was a vast crowd, where else could he find it?

Liang was confused. The Empress Dowager met several girls on the side, and she also met the girls from the Sun Mansion. But Sun Lingfang always gave people the feeling of being too hard and was quite good at speaking, but who is the Empress Dowager?

She was so funny with Concubine Shu in the first half of her life, and later she had Leshan to make things difficult for her. She was instinctively disgusted with this type of person and lost interest after saying a few words. However, she was very sorry to learn that Sun Lingge was sick, and even doubted whether Liang suppressed her niece and did not ask her to enter the palace.

As for the other girls, there are a few good ones. The Queen Mother is satisfied, but this is decided by the main master.

Who knew that the master hadn't come at all today? After asking, I realized that the bandits in Yangzhou are rampant, and it has become a climate in recent years. The merchants who specialized in robbing past were just robbing money in the past, but now they have begun to blatantly kill people and rob people. Xiao Yu took the order to go to Yangzhou to suppress the bandits.

The Queen Mother sighed and suddenly lost interest. Forget it, let him go.

...Yangzhou has been a prosperous place since ancient times. Sun Lingge and Polygratt successfully arrived at the Yangzhou territory. They had never traveled far away, so they found a caravan to accompany them.

“How long will it take?”

Sun Lingge asked.

An uncle next to him said with a serious expression: "It was already a long time to arrive, but there was something wrong with that road. The path I used to walk on was flooded a few days ago, so we could only walk on the main road."

Sun Lingge didn't understand what he meant for a moment.

Another merchant said: "This is your first time in Yangzhou?"

I don’t know that although Yangzhou is a prosperous place, I have to pay tolls for passing by.”

Sun Ling said, "Isn't the road from the government?"

Why do you still have to pay?"

The old uncle said: "The bandits in Yangzhou are rampant, and the government has sent many people but failed to completely eliminate them. Now, it has become an unwritten rule to pay the toll when entering Yangzhou City."

Everyone was talking.

Pomegranate was a little scared and said, "Young Master, are there really bandits?"

Sun Lingge had heard of it before, and she nodded and whispered to Pomegranate: "Let's be careful. From now on, we two will take turns to rest."

Even this caravan has a lot of casual people. Who knows if there are any bandits’ internal supporters?

For so many years, the government has not wiped out the bandits. This shows that there may be bandits in the government.

Sun Lingge looked around and saw that everyone was doing their own things, and there seemed to be nothing unusual.

After the caravan was repaired, the leaders came over to collect the money one by one, saying that they were for some use and they would have to hand over it later.

There wasn't much anyway, everyone paid for it, thinking about spending money to buy peace.

Pomegranate was obviously a little nervous, but Sun Lingge was also nervous, but at this time she knew that she could not be confused.

After waiting for a morning, everything was settled there. The caravan set out again and passed by a place called Hulukou. Suddenly, a shout came from the mountain. Then, a large group of people rushed down from the mountain. The whole caravan was in chaos. Before everyone could react, they were surrounded by a group of bandits with weapons.

"Squat down, squat down, raise your hands."

The bandits spoke in Yangzhou dialect, but Sun Lingge couldn't understand, but Pomegranate could understand, so they pressed her down until they squatted down. The first time the two of them were frightened when they saw such a scene.

The others were trembling, not understanding what was going on.

The leader of the leader negotiated with the bandits, saying that they gave Bulu Cai. The bandits spoke a few Yangzhou dialects, but their eyes swept over several women.

Pomegranate whispered: "The bandits said that today their leader celebrates his birthday, and they want a few women. As long as they call out the women, they will not hurt the people in the caravan."

She was glad she wore men's clothing, but she was worried about being discovered.

If you are really caught by a bandit, you might as well die.

The master and servant lowered their heads and left them to fate.

The people in the team naturally disagree. The women are their wives and daughters. Who would be willing to hand over it over to the bandits to ruin it?

But the bandit was fierce. Seeing someone shouting that he was unwilling to do so, he pulled a businessman who was talking to him and said he was about to chop him. Seeing that the knife was about to chop on the head of the man, the people in the team were so scared that they closed their eyes.

A piece of stone that came from unknown places hit the bandit's arm. The bandit suffered pain and the machete fell to the ground.

"who?

Who beat me?"

It was useless to shout a few times, and the man had to lift his knife and chop it again, and another stone hit the back of his hand.

The bandit finally realized something was wrong and stared at the surroundings vigilantly, with a fierce light in his eyes.

"Catch them all."

The bandits tied up all the people and pulled them to the mountain.

Sun Lingge looked around and found the man with a big beard and very tall. The stone he threw just now was the one he had thrown. Sun Lingge was very close to him, so he naturally saw it.

She glanced at the man a few more times, thinking that he would lead everyone to resist, but he didn't. He shrank his neck and looked very vulgar and timid.

Sun Lingge frowned slightly. If this person was not reliable, she would have to think of other ways.

But what else can I think of?

She is a weak woman with no power. Maybe her identity is useful in Xinjing, but this is Yangzhou, with high mountains and far away emperors. Who cares about the life and death of her niece, a servant minister.

Sun Lingge thought for a while but didn't think of any good idea. The man had been taken up the mountain. They were locked in an open-air large yard with fences around the yard and were watching from outside.

A group of people squatted on the ground, drooping their heads, and the pomegranate was even more frightened and looked around in horror.

Sun Lingge chose a place close to the bearded man and sat down secretly.

As soon as the bearded man came in, he found a comfortable position to sleep against the wall.
Chapter completed!