The scorching breath hit her ear. The deep and hoarse voice of the man made Su Yuanyuan's heart sink abruptly.
She never expected that someone had sneaked into her room with evil intentions!
However, if this person thought she was a weak woman without the strength to even tie up a chicken, they were wrong.
Su Yuanyuan's eyes turned cold. As soon as the man finished speaking, she used her elbow to ram hard at the person behind her.
The man didn't expect her to resist in such a situation. Caught off guard, she got the upper hand. She felt the hand covering her mouth and nose loosen slightly. Su Yuanyuan spun around and raised the dagger in her hand to stab at the man!
But the next moment, she felt a strong blow on her wrist. The dagger was snatched away in an instant, and then stabbed back at her.
In the blink of an eye, Su Yuanyuan narrowly avoided the man's attack. But unexpectedly, she tripped over something under her feet and bumped headfirst into the man's arms, knocking him to the ground.
"Ouch..." Su Yuanyuan rubbed her forehead and shook her dizzy head.
When she finally regained her senses and opened her eyes, she found that she was lying on top of the thief who had sneaked into her room. The man who had been so arrogant just now had his face turned to one side and was completely motionless, as if he had fainted.
She felt her palm was sticky. She raised her hand and looked at it in the light. It was covered in blood.
The light in the room was dim. She vaguely saw that the clothes on his left shoulder were soaked. That's where her palm had gotten the bloodstains.
Su Yuanyuan quickly crawled off the man. But due to her large movement, she accidentally pulled out a token from his body. It fell at her feet.
Out of curiosity, she picked up the token. In the light, she found that the complicated cloud patterns engraved on it were very similar to the ones she had seen in her dream.
This discovery made her heart skip a beat. She immediately turned the token over. On the back...
It was a character "Yun"!
Could this man be the benefactor who had saved her body in her dream?!
At this moment, intermittent footsteps and hubbub suddenly came through the window.
"Where... is the person?"
"Just now... in this direction... must have sneaked into this mansion..."
"...Go in and search!"
"...Commander, this is... the Duke's Mansion..."
A certain voice suddenly rose: "So what? Are we still afraid of a mere duke?!"
The footsteps and conversations gradually faded away, but Su Yuanyuan knew that the people outside must have gone towards the main entrance of the Duke's Mansion to arrest the mysterious man who had fainted in front of her.
Su Yuanyuan clenched the token tightly, her mind racing.
The token on this man had the same patterns as the arrow plume in her dream. It was very likely that he was related to the person who had protected her body in the mass grave.
No matter what reason he had been injured and chased here, she couldn't hand him over.
Looking at the unconscious man on the ground, Su Yuanyuan made the boldest decision of her life.
She quickly dragged the man to the side and stuffed him under the bed to hide. Then she went to open the window behind the screen. She picked up the dagger from the ground and pushed the screen hard to the ground.
After doing all this, Su Yuanyuan picked up the dagger and rushed out of her room. Running along the wall, she said cheerfully:
"Fun~ Someone can fly~"
The commotion in her room immediately woke up Chunxiao and Xialu. The two of them rushed out of the side room and saw Su Yuanyuan standing in the yard, waving the dagger and dancing around. There was also a lot of blood on her body.
This scene scared Chunxiao and Xialu so much that their hearts almost jumped out of their chests. They quickly walked up to Su Yuanyuan. Chunxiao asked:
"Miss, what happened just now?"
Su Yuanyuan turned around and saw it was her. She pulled her forward a few steps and pointed at the roof and the wall. She said: "Chunxiao, someone can fly~ Fun, so much fun~"
Chunxiao was the maid carefully selected by Mo Shi and Su Qing for Su Yuanyuan. She was calm and knew martial arts. She immediately understood what Su Yuanyuan meant.
"Xialu, go quickly and inform Madam next door that there was an assassin who sneaked into the miss's room just now!"
"Assassin?!! I... I'll go right away!" Xialu's face turned completely pale. She immediately turned around and ran out.
"Miss, it's freezing cold outside. Please come into the room with this servant, okay?"
Chunxiao held Su Yuanyuan's hand and comforted her gently. She led her back into the room. She let Su Yuanyuan sit on the edge of the bed. Chunxiao first carefully checked Su Yuanyuan's body and found that there were no wounds on her. She couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.
"Miss, please wait obediently. This servant will go and fetch some water to wipe your face."
After Chunxiao said that, she turned around and was about to go fetch water. From the corner of her eye, Su Yuanyuan saw half of a palm sticking out from under the bed. In a hurry, she hugged Chunxiao and quietly kicked the hand back under the bed with the cover of her skirt. She said to Chunxiao aggrievedly:
"Chunxiao, I'm scared."
Chunxiao didn't notice her little action at all. She just felt extremely heartbroken. She hugged Su Yuanyuan back and said: "Miss, don't be afraid. Madam will come soon. With Madam here, she will definitely catch the thief and avenge you."
Mo Shi's courtyard was very close to Su Yuanyuan's. After getting the news from Xialu, Mo Shi didn't even have time to put on her outer robe. She rushed into Su Yuanyuan's room in a hurry.
The mess in the room and the blood on Su Yuanyuan's body almost made Mo Shi faint.
After she came to her senses, besides fear, there was more anger in her heart:
"How were you all watching over the miss? How could you let someone sneak into the miss's room! If something happened to the miss, how could you make up for it?"
The maids knelt on the ground in a row. Chunxiao said: "It was this servant's negligence. I failed to stay by the miss's side. Please punish me, Madam."
The other maids: "Please punish us, Madam!"
Su Yuanyuan tugged at Mo Shi's sleeve. Blinking her eyes innocently, she said: "Mother, the bad guy can fly~"
She pointed at the window and made a flapping wings motion.
Then she pointed at the dagger in its scabbard and said: "Yuanbao is very powerful!"
Mo Shi gently stroked her hair with a gentle smile on her face: "Yuanbao is really amazing. You can even scare away the thief by yourself. You are truly the daughter of your mother and father. You deserve the title of a brave daughter from a military family."
Su Yuanyuan laughed foolishly.
"Madam, this servant saw that after the thief left the miss's room, he should have fled eastward. This servant is worried that the thief didn't leave the Duke's Mansion but hid somewhere else."
Chunxiao said seriously to Mo Shi.
Su Yuanyuan had rushed out of the room in the eastward direction just now. So Chunxiao thought the man had fled there.
Mo Shi's face darkened. She coldly instructed the maids: "You all watch over the miss carefully. If anything happens to her again, I'll hold you all accountable!"
After saying that, she turned around and rushed out in a hurry. As she walked, she rolled up her sleeves and scolded angrily:
"Where did this little thief come from? How dare he break into our Duke's Mansion and almost hurt my Yuanbao! Tonight, I, Madam Mo, will teach you a lesson and make sure you never return! You're just seeking your own death!"
She had already left the room, but Su Yuanyuan could still hear her giving orders to the mansion guards: "Surround the entire mansion and search carefully! Don't let that thief escape!"