A Girl Traveling Through Troubled Times

Chapter 193 Dealing with a Car Accident

The car rolled over onto its back in the field, its wheels still spinning. Everyone at the scene was stunned. After a few seconds, everyone reacted. Sha Yanxiao and Dali immediately ran over to see what was happening. Gui'er wanted to follow, but Sha Yanxiao said, "Just stay here and don't move."

Just as he finished speaking, he heard the sound of wheels rolling. The truck reversed and sped off at full speed. He took two steps forward, but there was no way he could catch up. He had no choice but to turn back.

Everything happened so fast that Gui'er was still a little frightened and didn't even bother to see if the truck had a license plate.

At this moment, the door of another car opened. Dingxiang ran out of the car, walked to Guier and said, "Miss, let's stay here."

Seeing that Ji Yiru's maids hadn't gotten out of the car, Gui'er asked Dingxiang, "What happened to them?"

Dingxiang said, "They are afraid and dare not come down."

Guier took two steps forward and saw that all the windows of the car were broken. Sha Yanxiao and Dali were carefully trying to pull Ji Yiru out.

The street vendors and passersby also gathered around. Guier heard someone nearby say, "Whose young master and young lady are these? Look at this car. It used to be a luxury car, but now it's just a broken piece of metal."

"Hush, keep your voice down. The man standing next to me looks so familiar. Isn't he our Marshal Sha's second son?"

"What? You said that's the young marshal? The guy in the car..."

"It's probably the young marshal's wife. My boss attended their wedding and said she looks like a man."

"If that's the case, can this person still be alive after doing a few somersaults in the car?"

"Who knows?"

Gui'er was behind the two people who were gossiping, but they didn't know that she was with Sha Yanxiao. She was a little relieved that Marshal Sha's way of disciplining his daughter was to keep her out of public view, so many people didn't know the young lady from the Marshal's mansion.

Sha Yanxiao and Dali took great pains to pull Ji Yiru out of the car with the help of passers-by. Her face was covered in blood and she looked like she had suffered a serious head injury, but she was conscious. Her whole body was limp and there was a lot of blood on her cheongsam.

At this time, her maid came out of the car and walked over to her, crying and shouting. Sha Yanxiao glanced around and said to Dali, "I'll drive her to the hospital first. You can hire a car nearby to take them back to the mansion."

Sha Yanxiao glanced at Gui'er, whispered a few words into Dali's ear, then picked up Ji Yiru and put her in the back seat of the car where the maids were originally sitting, and drove away.

Dali looked around and saw that this fork in the road was the only way to enter the city. In addition to snack stalls, there were rickshaws, donkey carts that could carry several people, and some long-distance buses passing by.

Dali hired a donkey cart and asked the four maids to get on it and left.

Dingxiang was anxious to go forward, but Guier grabbed her and said, "That car can't hold so many people. Let's take a rickshaw back."

He walked over and hired a rickshaw, and had him take us to a residential area near the Marshal's residence. He got out of the rickshaw. Dingxiang asked in confusion, "Miss, why don't you just ask him to take us home?"

Guier waited until the rickshaw had gone far away before saying, "The person who hit our car escaped. We're not sure if it was an assassination, so my brother and Dali didn't bother with us, just to prevent us from getting involved."

Ding Xiang suddenly realized what was going on and said, "Miss, you are even smarter than me at such a young age."

When they returned to the Marshal's Mansion and just entered the gate, the steward of Sha Yanxiao's courtyard was already waiting there. He said that Dali had returned and asked them to wait here, and then took the two of them back to the courtyard.

Gui'er returned to the house and just as she sat down, the kitchen brought her some calming tea. Gui'er asked, "Where's Dali? Any news about my brother?"

The servants said, "Da Li has gone to the hospital to look for the young master. Let us prepare some soothing tea and food for the young lady to come back."

Gui'er thought back to the series of events that happened today and found them very strange. The truck crashed for no apparent reason. She felt a headache coming on from thinking about it and was just about to go back to the second floor to rest.

The manager of the lady's courtyard suddenly came over and said that the lady heard that there was a car accident and was very worried, so she asked him to come and ask about it.

Normally, Gui'er would have been a little touched, thinking that the lady was worthy of being the mistress of the house, at least in terms of face. But now, needless to say, it was clear that he was afraid that something big would happen that would affect his son's marriage.

Although impatient, he still had to deal with it, so he smiled and said to the manager, "Thank you for your concern, mother. Except for my sister-in-law, no one else was injured. My sister-in-law has been sent to the hospital by my brother, but I'm not sure about her condition."

The steward of the Madam's courtyard smiled respectfully and said, "Then rest well, young lady. I will return to report to Madam."

After that, Gui'er ate dinner alone in the yard, and then read the newspaper. Sha Yanxiao still hadn't come back. Gui'er guessed that Ji Yiru was seriously injured, so she didn't wait any longer and went to bed when the time came.

In the middle of the night, when she was half asleep, she heard a slight knock on the door. Gui'er jumped up and asked, "Who is it?"

"Me." It was Sha Yanxiao's voice.

Gui'er quickly got up to turn on the light and open the door. Sha Yanxiao walked in, exhausted, and sat down at the desk. Gui'er also moved a stool over and sat down. She said, "Mother sent the steward from the courtyard to ask what happened. I just said there was a car accident and only my sister-in-law was injured. I don't know about anyone else."

Sha Yanxiao nodded, touched Gui'er's face, and said, "You weren't scared, were you? Things happened so quickly at the time, and I was worried that someone was plotting an assassination. If that was the case, you wouldn't be the target, so I tried to keep my distance from you."

Gui'er guessed the reason and nodded, saying, "I'm fine. I called a rickshaw back later. The kitchen also made some calming soup for me."

Sha Yanxiao smiled with satisfaction, then frowned and said, "We're still investigating that car. I don't know where it came from."

Guier asked, "How is my sister-in-law now?"

Sha Yanxiao said calmly, "I've already brought her back. For some peace and quiet, I've arranged for her to live in a small courtyard to recuperate."

Gui'er was stunned for a moment. Ji Yiru looked seriously injured at the time, so how come she was discharged from the hospital so soon?

Then he asked again: "Isn't she seriously injured? I see a lot of blood."

Sha Yanxiao said calmly, "The doctor said she had a concussion. She had a few stitches on her head, and some scratches on her face from glass. She also had some internal injuries from the collision. In short, they treated everything, so they brought her back home."