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Chapter 368. Escaping the Huang Mansion 34

368. Escaping the Huang Mansion 34

The three of them hid and dodged four groups of people before finally reaching the main road leading to Sunset Town.

Looking at the wide road in front of her, Huang Muyan breathed a sigh of relief: "Finally, we're out of there."

"We need to go faster," Mu Baiyuan said, pounding his legs hard—he felt his legs were almost numb from exhaustion, but he was just a little bit away from freedom.

"I'm fine, Xiao Wan, how are you feeling?" Huang Muyan rubbed her feet on the ground a couple of times and asked Mu Wanqing, the youngest among them.

Mu Wanqing nodded, indicating that she was fine.

"That's good. Let's keep going." Mu Baiyuan tore off the tree branch he had worn on his head for disguise and led the way. "If we keep going down this road, we'll reach Sunset Town."

The rain shows no sign of stopping today; it's still pouring. The raindrops are continuous, adding a Gaussian blur to the surrounding scenery.

The three walked in the rain, feeling an unprecedented sense of joy.

But this blissful moment was quickly interrupted.

They heard someone's voice behind them. Mu Wanqing turned around and saw several people dressed in mourning clothes running towards them.

"They've caught up!" Mu Wanqing said in alarm, then Mu Baiyuan pulled her away, and the three of them left the main road leading to the town again, hiding in the hillside by the roadside once more.

"They're running away again!" A man with a scar on his face saw Huang Muyan and the other two running away and quickly took off to rush over to find them, but he tripped over a stone on the road and almost fell.

Although the man with the scar on his face did not catch up with Huang Muyan and the others, his shouts had already attracted the attention of others, and the servants and servants nearby all rushed towards the man with the scar.

Mu Baiyuan had explored this path before, while Mu Wanqing, with the help of the system WQBYRZM and Lu Renkui in her consciousness space, managed to distance herself from the servants relatively easily.

The three of them dodged left and right, finally shaking off the servants chasing them, but now there was another problem—they couldn't find their way back.

Mu Wanqing leaned against a tree, listening to Mu Baiyuan and Huang Muyan's urgent discussion about which way to go to reach the town without encountering their servants.

Seeing Mu Baiyuan and Huang Muyan looking flustered, Mu Wanqing asked Lu Renkui and the system WQBYRZM in her mind which path to take to get out of the forest and into the town. Then she began to think about how to give a reasonable explanation to get Mu Baiyuan and Huang Muyan to follow her on the right path.

Halfway through her thought, Mu Wanqing suddenly felt something was different. After tilting her head and thinking for a second or two, Mu Wanqing realized that the rain had lessened, which explained why the rustling sound she heard had also become quieter.

The rain lessened, and more sounds became audible. Mu Wanqing thought to herself, and suddenly remembered that there was a river in the path provided by Lu Renkui and the system WQBYRZM. If she followed that river, she could reach the town.

Mu Wanqing blinked, moved away from where she was leaning, and walked over to Mu Baiyuan and Huang Muyan, saying, "Brother, Sister Huang, I just heard... there seems to be a river over there."

“There’s a river…” Huang Muyan thought for a moment—she had read in a book that if you encounter danger in the wild, you can run along the river.

“A river…” Mu Baiyuan also fell into thought, then his eyes suddenly lit up—like finding a glimmer of hope when there was no way out—he said, “Sunset Town is indeed surrounded by a river. If we follow that river, we might be able to get to Sunset Town.”

Hearing Mu Baiyuan say this, Huang Muyan breathed a sigh of relief—she had lived in Xiyang Town for a period of time, and there was indeed a river running through the entire town.

Huang Muyan was so anxious that she forgot about this matter as she followed Mu Wanqing—only Mu Wanqing could hear where the river sound was coming from.

Because they had arrived in an unfamiliar place, the three of them had some difficulty walking, but fortunately they still found a river.

There were large patches of reeds along the riverbank, taller than the three of them, so they didn't have to worry about servants discovering them for the time being.

However, the path was not easy to walk on. It was too close to the river and it was really easy to slip. But if they left the reeds, they would be easily spotted. So the three of them could only help each other along.

The rain lessened, and the cloaks worn by the three people were dripping water. They hadn't felt how heavy the cloaks were during the heavy rain, but now that the rain had subsided, they could feel it.

"How long will it take us to get to Sunset Town?" Mu Wanqing asked.

"It depends," Mu Baiyuan replied after thinking for a moment. "If we're lucky, we can usually get there before sunset."

"If we're unlucky, we'll probably have to spend the night in these reeds," Mu Baiyuan said, frowning. "I don't know if there will be a boat to take us there so late."

The three walked in silence for a while—because they needed to conserve their energy, they hadn't brought much food and had to eat sparingly.

So even though their stomachs were growling with hunger, the three of them tried their best to endure it, waiting until they were so hungry they couldn't stand it anymore before eating, or until they reached a place where they could see the sunset town before eating.

The wind picked up again, sweeping through the reeds. The reeds bent low in the wind, then straightened up again after the wind had passed, becoming waves on the land.

"Crack!" That was the sound of a porcelain cup being forcefully smashed on the ground.

"The person... still hasn't been found?!" Hearing the news from the trembling servants kneeling on the ground, Madam Wang was so angry that her face trembled. "I've really raised a bunch of freeloaders! They're completely useless at a time like this!"

The shards of the porcelain cup flew everywhere, some landing in the corners of the walls, some under the table, and others grazing the faces and hands of the kneeling servants, leaving bloody cuts.

The servants kneeling on the ground didn't dare to breathe. Wu Chou looked at the broken porcelain shards scattered all over the ground, gave a wink to the maid who had been standing at the door, and told her to bring in a broom to sweep up some of the porcelain shards that had flown around, so that Wang Shi wouldn't hurt her feet when she left.

Wuchou poured Wang another cup of hot tea to help her calm down.

Wang took a sip of the hot tea that Wuchou had poured, and her temper finally calmed down a bit.

Now that Wang's expression had softened a bit, Wuchou bent down, bringing his mouth to Wang's ear level, and said to her, "I heard Li Baoshan and the others say that they saw the young lady heading towards town."