A Girl Traveling Through Troubled Times

Chapter 404: Miss Shen Helps Guier

While Gui'er tried her best to keep her balance and not fall, she pricked up her ears, held her breath, and pressed her ears against the edge of the stone slab, trying to listen to any movement in the house.

No talking was heard, but soon there was the sound of rummaging and glass breaking on the ground. Gui'er deduced that Song Xichen had been arrested, and they were now trying to find something to hold against Sha Yanyao on a trumped-up charge, so this was equivalent to a house search.

After a while, the sound of rummaging stopped.

"Take them all away." Gui'er felt very familiar with this voice. After a while, she saw Sha Yanyao, his wife, Song Tingting, as well as the family's servants, maids, and housekeepers being pointed at with guns as they walked from the first-floor door to the yard.

She quickly moved the stone slab away and crawled back into the house through the roof.

Fearing that there was someone guarding the house, she carefully tilted her ear to listen, and only after confirming that there was no one there did she quickly walk to the window facing outwards.

Sha Yanyao and his men were forced at gunpoint into a large truck and driven away.

Gui'er walked around the house twice. No matter which room she searched, it was very messy. In her own room, the pile of books on the table were opened one by one and thrown on the ground, making the floor all over. The two Kangxi dictionaries that Gui'er used to hide money were stuffed into the gap between the cabinet and the wall after she took the money, and they were not discovered.

Sha Yanyao, Song Tingting's rooms, as well as his wife's room, were in a mess, and some locked drawers were pried open. Gui'er suspected that the gang must have taken advantage of the chaos to loot some valuables.

Gui'er already had a headache, and now she felt even more dizzy from the effort she had put into moving the stone slab. She returned to her room, found the teapot in the dark, drank a glass of water, and gave herself a breath.

She tried her best to calm herself down and analyzed the situation. She decided that the only way now was to go find Director Wang. As long as Sha Yanyao's innocence was proven, Song Xichen would be fine.

She packed up, found the shoulder bag she usually carried to and from school, stuffed her money, pocket pistol, hidden weapon, and pen into it, then hurried down the stairs, ready to go out and find a rickshaw to go to Director Wang's house.

When she arrived at the gate of the courtyard, Gui'er was about to reach out to open the door when she suddenly heard someone talking at the door.

"Hey, didn't we release that girl this afternoon? Why are you arresting her family now?"

"It's said that they found new evidence. That girl is completely irrelevant. Our Director Zhou wanted to arrest the Sha family. Since he couldn't find evidence from the girl, he changed his direction and started to target the people around the eldest son. It is said that they have also arrested people in Jiangcheng."

"But I didn't see that girl this time."

"If she didn't see it, then she didn't see it. What can a little girl do? We're going to be in trouble tonight. It's really unlucky that we're left here to keep watch."

After hearing this, Gui'er was so scared that she broke out in a cold sweat. Fortunately, she hadn't opened the gate yet, otherwise she would have been caught red-handed.

She thought for a moment and went to the backyard. There were several plane trees planted in the backyard, one of which was close to the wall. She used all her strength to climb up the tree and climbed up the trunk to the top of the wall. Fortunately, the wall of the villa they rented was not particularly high, only about two meters high.

But now Gui'er was injured, and she carefully adjusted her posture. In order to make as little noise as possible when she landed on the ground, she grabbed the branches of the sycamore tree with her hands, faced inward, and slowly slid down the wall, trying to find a foothold on the wall with her feet.

Until her whole body was hanging outside the wall, but about one meter from the ground, she looked around, took a breath, and jumped down.

The sound of her landing was not loud, but she still stumbled and fell on her butt. Fortunately, the fall was not high and she was not injured.

Getting up from the ground, Guier quickly ran in the opposite direction of the main gate. After turning several corners, she came to a place some distance away from the main gate of the villa. Under the cover of the street corner, she secretly looked towards the gate and saw two people guarding the gate.

Gui'er judged that it was probably seven or eight o'clock in the evening and there should be people on the street, but it would be unsafe for her, a child, to walk around alone.

After thinking about it, she decided to go find Miss Shen.

When she arrived near Miss Shen's house, she first walked around the Shen residence from a distance to confirm that no one was waiting there before she hurriedly went forward and knocked on the door.

The servant guarding Miss Shen's house recognized Gui'er. Seeing the gauze on her head, he said in surprise, "Miss Gui'er, what's wrong with you? Are you hurt?" He opened the door and let her in.

Miss Shen heard the noise and came out. Seeing that it was Gui'er, she hurried over and pulled her into the house. Mrs. Shen also came out. Seeing her miserable state, she asked, "What happened to you? It's late at night."

Gui'er said, "The Sha Mansion was ransacked. I escaped by secretly climbing over the wall. Everyone else was captured."

Miss Shen and Mrs. Shen were very surprised when they heard this. Mrs. Shen asked, "Why?"

Guier said, "Director Zhou wanted revenge after failing to extort money from us, so he framed our family for collaborating with the Communist Party."

"What? Aren't you trying to trick us? Hurry up, Feng Shu, get her out quickly and don't implicate us."

Gui'er pleaded quickly, "I'm not here to disturb you. I want to go find my brother-in-law, Director Wang, but it's already dark and I'm afraid the journey isn't safe. Could you send a servant to go with me?"

"Don't you have any servants in your house? Why are you looking for our people?"

"They were all captured, and I was the only one who escaped."

"Then I can't help you anymore, just leave now."

Miss Shen said to Mrs. Shen, "Mom, don't be like this."

Gui'er said to Mrs. Shen, "Mrs. Shen, although our two families can't become in-laws, you and my mother are sworn sisters after all. Are you really going to just stand by and watch her die? Director Zhou is a cruel person. If he tortures my mother, she's old and she might not be able to withstand it."

Mrs. Shen was obviously a little hesitant after hearing this. Miss Shen glanced at Gui'er and said, "Guier, come with me."

Then he took Gui'er to his room and called a maid. After taking a look, she looked about the same size as Gui'er, so he said to her, "Go get your clothes."

After the maid's clothes were brought over, Miss Shen said to Gui'er, "Please change into her clothes."

Guier obediently changed into the maid's clothes. Miss Shen also took out a headscarf and asked her to put it on. This way, the wound on Guier's head could not be seen, and her outfit also looked a bit like a young girl who came from the countryside to the city to work as a maid.