Chapter 66 - 60: Run Away
"They scattered," Mrs. Wang wiped her tears and said, "We just turned around that mountain when suddenly, many refugees rushed out from both sides. They came up and started looting. If they couldn’t get what they wanted, they’d kill. The ox carrying your grandfather’s coffin got frightened, and the cart overturned into the fields."
"Your uncle has a ruthless heart; he turned a blind eye. I couldn’t just leave your grandfather, so I had someone try to carry the coffin. But the servants were scared out of their wits. With a call from your uncle, they all ran over to protect the Second Household and fled. Our carriage also overturned while going down the field embankment."
Mrs. Wang angrily continued, "Qing Gu ran to chase your uncle, blocking his carriage and begging him to save us. Your uncle said something about life and death being up to heaven, then had someone push her aside and ran off. After that, it got chaotic; rebel troops rushed in, and in a blink of an eye, Qing Gu was gone. Third Lady, I won’t allow you to be close to the Second Household anymore. I’ll hold this grudge for a lifetime. If you’re still good to them, then you’re not my daughter."
Zhao Hanzhang repeatedly nodded in agreement, anxiously looking around.
Fu Tinghan then called the troops together to search, turning over the corpses and wounded in the area, but they didn’t find anyone.
Zhao Hanzhang was both relieved and anxious, "Not finding anyone is also good news. Let’s move forward first; she might have been swept along."
Zhao Ju also said, "Third Lady, there’s another group coming from that side. They seem to be a refugee army again. We should leave quickly."
The group turned over the ox cart, made some repairs, and hitched the ox to it, then lifted the coffin onto it.