My Aloof Lord Ex-Husband Begs for Remarriage
Chapter 337 - 338: In a Dangerous Situation

Chapter 337: Chapter 338: In a Dangerous Situation

The restlessness of these villagers had clearly not gone unnoticed by Ye Yunting alone.

Unable to restrain himself any longer, the Guard Commander at his side blurted out, "Prince, we can’t go on like this!"

"Suppress them directly!"

These villagers were unarmed; he did not believe that Imperial Court’s elite could be threatened by them!

Hearing Ye Yunting’s direct order to take action, the Guard Commander paused for a moment but quickly recovered and immediately went out to relay the command.

Chu Nanli had wanted to say more, but she realized that the officers on the other side had already drawn their weapons.

"Ye Yunting, you madman!"

She knew that Ye Yunting would not calm down to consider the situation but would directly order an attack.

Unfortunately, a large group of common people still separated her from Ye Yunting; she had no way to prevent him from acting.

Under the instigation of Grandma Huan, these villagers, having lost all reason, actually charged toward the Imperial Court’s men.

"When can your Prince be here?"

Chu Nanli frowned and turned to the Hidden Guard beside her, but the Hidden Guard shook her head, indicating she didn’t know either.

That made things even worse.

"You should have a signal for contact, right? Hurry up and get someone here to quell this unrest first!"

In the time it took to say just a few words, there had already been bloodshed on the other side.

Fortunately, Chu Nanli remembered that Ye Jiuxiao had told her that the batch of officers previously in charge of surveillance were his men.

Those men, she thought, would likely not follow Ye Yunting’s orders to harm these common people.

"Miss, things are looking even more chaotic over here; you’d better leave first!"

After passing the message as Chu Nanli had instructed, the Hidden Guard quickly returned to protect her.

For her, Chu Nanli’s safety was naturally of utmost importance.

Chu Nanli had intended to heed her advice and leave first, especially since she was pregnant and protected only by a single Hidden Guard.

If something happened, she did not want to become a burden to others.

But when she caught a glimpse of the scene unfolding behind her, she stopped her footsteps from leaving.

She clenched her teeth and said, "Save them!"

A child, merely five or six years old and running a fever, was being held by a villager who had directly delivered him under an officer’s blade.

The officer, clearly still possessing some conscience, forcefully stopped the descending blade.

But the villager was merely using the child in his arms as a human shield, even attempting to push the child out again to be killed!

This scene made it impossible for Chu Nanli to leave with peace of mind.

She whispered quickly to the Hidden Guard, "I’ll stay right here. Those people haven’t noticed me yet, I’ll just be careful!"

"You hurry over there, rescue those children first, then we can leave."

In the midst of the chaos, those children could easily be accidentally hurt!

Unable to persuade her otherwise, the Hidden Guard had to comply.

Her skills were excellent, and it took her no time at all to snatch the child from the villager.

"It’s okay now, it’s all right."

As Chu Nanli took the child from the Hidden Guard’s arms, she realized the child was burning up with fever.

The child had been held by the villager without struggling, not out of fear, but because he was nearly unconscious from the fever.

After the Hidden Guard saved one child, he quickly returned to rescue another.

There were more than ten children brought over by the villagers to be used as human shields, and she alone might not be able to save them all.

Chu Nanli furrowed her brows in distress for a moment, then put down the child she was holding and dashed out.

She wasn’t just showing off; she had weighed the pros and cons before making her decision.

For one, the villagers didn’t have any weapons in their hands, and the only reason they were able to cling to the soldiers was that the soldiers were afraid of catching the plague from them.

Thinking of the child in her belly, she had already vaccinated herself.

Otherwise, she wouldn’t have dared to stay in the village so carelessly during this time.

She had also secretly mixed the medicine into the food, providing doses to Ye Jiuxiao and the few Hidden Guards sent to protect her.

Ye Jiuxiao had been coming around so diligently lately, yet hadn’t caught the plague—all thanks to the medication she brought from the 2090s.

As she pondered, she had already reached one of the villagers.

These people, knowing they were infected with the plague and holding children in their arms, deliberately bumped into the soldier’s blades, causing the soldiers to continuously retreat.

The appearance of Chu Nanli clearly took both parties by surprise.

But Chu Nanli gave them no time to think, directly slicing at a villager’s neck with a hand blade. Taking advantage of the momentary pain, she snatched the child from the person’s hands.

After succeeding once, Chu Nanli repeated the process and managed to rescue several children from their hands.

The soldiers, whether they recognized her identity or deduced her motive from her actions, were inadvertently facilitating her.

However, Chu Nanli had almost underestimated the extent of the villagers’ brainwashing.

Not far behind her, a villager had noticed her actions, picked up a dropped firewood knife, and chopped directly towards Chu Nanli!

By the time Chu Nanli realized, it was already too late.

If she dodged, the child she had just managed to save would definitely get hurt.

With no other choice, she shielded the child and dodged to the side, narrowly avoiding the blade.

But it seemed she was destined to make a close encounter with the ground.

The expected pain did not come; a strong arm reached out from the side, and she fell into a broad embrace.

"I’m sorry, I arrived too late," he said.

The situation was too chaotic for Ye Jiuxiao to say much.

With a slight force in his hands, he directly led her away from the chaos.

After finding a suitable place to settle Chu Nanli, Ye Jiuxiao ordered his men to quickly take control of Aunt Huan, who was thinking of escaping, and the villagers who had lost their senses under her influence.

As for Ye Yunting, since witnessing Jiuxiao charging to the rescue, his face had been changing unpredictably.

How could he not know, when had his imperial uncle become so close to his princess consort?

"Prince, what should we do now?"

The Guard Commander, not noticing Ye Yunting’s rage, was still worried about the current situation.

He clearly hadn’t expected that the villagers would dare to be so presumptuous in front of the soldiers.

Moreover, he thought when Ye Yunting spoke of suppression, it was just to scare them, not expecting it to actually turn into chaos.

Ye Yunting snorted coldly, "How would I know?"

He stared straight ahead, but unfortunately, both Ye Jiuxiao and Chu Nanli had never noticed him.

This only fueled his resentment even more.