She refused to marry.

Su Wanwan spent a few peaceful days at the old house.

On the sixth day, I heard from my aunt that my third uncle had set off.

So, he left a letter for the old lady of the Su family and then followed her there.

Upon receiving the letter, the Su family was in a panic. Su Xian volunteered to go and fetch his second sister.

The three groups of people set off for Huzhou one after the other.

It only takes two days to travel from Suzhou to Huzhou.

Su Wanwan disembarked and, after circling around, finally spotted her third uncle's boat on the shore.

The dockworker is directing the porters to load goods.

Su Wanwan tried to rush forward, but was stopped by the people in the middle.

"Get out of here! This is not a place for you!" The porter's eyes were fierce.

Su Wanwan was pushed away, and called out from afar, "Third Uncle! Third Uncle!!"

Su Hongsheng was quite surprised to see Su Wanwan and quickly walked over. "What are you doing here?"

"Third Uncle, I have something important to tell you."

The two found a teahouse and sat down. Su Wanwan took out the map she had drawn overnight.

"Third Uncle, we were already being followed when we arrived. It would be too risky to openly transport the goods now. This is an idea Wanwan has been thinking about for several days. Please take a look."

Su Wanwan spread out the map. "If we take the waterway back, the journey from Huzhou to Huai'an will be no problem."

When you arrive in Linqing, that's when things are most likely to go wrong.

After the last kidnapping, I suspected the Shen family would have a backup plan. So, Wanwan's suggestion is that after Linqing, we unload the goods, transport them by land to Tongzhou, and then head to the capital. What do you think?

"If this continues repeatedly, wouldn't it be even more troublesome if something went wrong along the way?"

"From Linqing to Tongzhou, this is Fengchen Jun's fiefdom, so nothing should happen. Even if something does happen, Fengchen Jun is currently in his fiefdom, so as long as we notify him in time, I believe he will not stand idly by."

As Su Hongsheng hesitated, a servant hurried over and said, "Minister, news has come from the canal transport department that a boat has arrived, but it's not a canal transport boat. You should go and take a look."

Su Hongsheng quickly got up and waited at the dock.

Before long, a large ship arrived, which was clearly not a cargo ship.

Su Hongsheng panicked.

"Third Uncle, the boat prepared by the Princess is just this one." Su Wanwan twisted her handkerchief. Such an obvious difference would definitely attract attention when passing through the checkpoints.

"Big brother guessed right," Su Hongsheng sighed.

The eldest princess had no intention of letting the Su family off the hook.

"Niece, you're right, we must be careful on the journey!"

The two returned to the teahouse to discuss their next move.

Su Hongsheng agreed to her plan, but he was uneasy about entrusting the second line of communication to a woman.

Suddenly a bundle was thrown onto the tea table.

Looking up, he saw Su Xian drenched in sweat, picking up the teapot and gulping it down.

"Sixth Brother, what brings you here?" Su Wanwan stood up.

"Father, Sister Wan!" Su Xian drank the tea and sat down. "She told me to chase after her all the way!"

"You've come to pick up Wanwan?" Su Hongsheng asked suspiciously.

"Yes, Grandmother said it was extremely inappropriate for Sister Wan to be alone out there, especially since she's a woman. So I came by myself." Su Xian patted her chest. "Father, why didn't you tell me about such a big thing?"

"What good would it do you to tell me!" Su Hongsheng called over a waiter and had a pot of tea poured. "It would be better to call your older brother over, but unfortunately he and Jiyuan went to Sichuan and Chongqing and won't be back for at least two months."

"Third Uncle, Sixth Brother has grown up. You should give him a chance to train. With Sixth Brother's cleverness and my wisdom, we can take the carriage to Tongzhou without any problems. If all else fails, we can take the sea route, but the waves are high and the wind is strong. If we are not careful, we can lose everything. What do you think?" Su Wanwan said.

"Let me think about it some more," Su Hongsheng said, frowning.

"If you are still not at ease, leave the people with me, and you take the boat and follow the canal transport."

Su Hongsheng remained silent for a while before heading to the dock.

Su Wanwan and Su Xian sat in the tea stall, waiting for the porters to load the boat.

The copper ore was loaded, and Uncle San set off.

My third uncle finally decided to switch to land travel in Liaocheng before reaching Linqing.

Fearing something might go wrong, he asked the two of them to board the ship together. After arriving in Suzhou, they were to disembark and travel with Uncle Wu, who was arranged by Uncle San.

Four days later, Su Wanwan met Uncle Wu at the dock. Uncle Wu was about fifty years old and usually managed the shop for the Su family.

I've traveled between the north and south many times over the years and am familiar with the routes.

"Second Miss, Sixth Young Master, our ship is ready." Uncle Wu bowed.

"Okay." Su Wanwan nodded and boarded the ship.

The ship carried about twenty people, who worked day and night in shifts to speed up the journey. They traveled two hundred li (about 100 kilometers) and arrived in Liaocheng in exactly half a month.

The port here is prosperous and attracts all sorts of people, so you can find suitable manpower.

Uncle Wu, being the wise man he was, prepared two boats and bought some miscellaneous goods to weigh them down.

In Uncle Wu's experience, as long as they walked ahead of the large cargo ships, the inspectors would be much more perfunctory towards those of them who were in small boats.

Therefore, it was decided to transport the copper ore in three small batches.

The cargo ship arrived quickly; only six days after they arrived, Uncle Wu came back to report that the cargo ship was almost there.

No one slept that night.

At night, Uncle Wu led several boats to surround the ship from behind, and under the cover of darkness, they quietly approached the ship.

My third uncle had already bagged the copper ore and hung it in the deep water at the stern of the boat with ropes.

The group quickly cut the ropes and dragged the copper ore away from the cargo ship.

Another group of people hoisted the sacks prepared on the shore to the stern of the boat.

The following day, Uncle Wu and Su Xian made a low-key move and boarded the ship to set off.

Su Wanwan drove her carriage to Cangzhou in a grand manner.

They paraded through the city for a while before turning onto a side street.

A hundred miles behind her.

A group of people hurried after her; the rider was tall and slender, heading straight for her.

The group only stopped briefly when they approached Cangzhou.

They then dispersed along a side road, preparing to ambush the convoy.

Su Wanwan drove the carriage procession. The men here were all hired by the Pingxian Escort Agency, which was a hundred miles away from Liaocheng, and they were all very capable fighters.

"Little girl, Cangzhou is just ahead. Let's rest here for the day. After tonight, we can enter the city and take the main road," said the chief镖头 (bodyguard/escort).

"Okay, let's rest here." Su Wanwan lifted the curtain.

She's really exhausted from all that running around.

"Alright, everyone take a break and make way for others, don't block their path," the head镖师 (bodyguard/escort) said.

Upon hearing this, everyone jumped off the carriage and began to rest.

In the middle of the night, Su Wanwan fell asleep due to exhaustion from the past few days.

Suddenly, she heard the sound of fighting in her dream. She woke up with a start and saw two groups of people fighting in the distance.

Su Wanwan got up in fear; what she had expected had finally come to pass.

He nimbly got up and looked around.

"Abandon the vehicles and save your lives!" Su Wanwan shouted.

Upon hearing this, the escort agency members immediately withdrew from around the carriage and began to mediate.

In the shadows, a man stood on a high place observing the battle and its outcome.

Suddenly hearing a woman's voice, he stepped out from the shadows and quickly peered in the woman's direction.

"Isn't that the girl who saved us?" one of the robbers asked, puzzled.

"It's her! She actually showed up here!" The masked robber excitedly took a few steps forward.

"Let's go! Get in the carriage."

Su Wanwan stood outside the crowd and shouted, "Abandon your vehicles and save your lives!!"

Upon hearing this, the men in black surrounded the car, pointing their blades at the people from the escort agency.

"Let's go take a look!"

One of the men in black stabbed several carriages with his knife; they found only sand. He repeated this with several carriages, and they all contained sand.

The final action, even tinged with anger, involved kicking over the carriage.

"My head is covered in sand!"

The leader's eyes instantly reddened. "We've been running around for days, and this woman has tricked us! Leave no survivors!"

"Boss, the master told us not to kill anyone!" someone nearby reminded him.

"Hmph! Killing them isn't enough to vent my anger!" The leader brandished his sword and charged forward.

The chief镖头 (chief镖师) drew his sword to meet the challenge.

After several rounds, the chief镖头 (bodyguard/escort) was clearly at a disadvantage.

Suddenly, a carriage slowly approached from a distance, with lanterns lit on it.

"Miss! Someone's here!" The servant pointed to the approaching carriage in the distance.

Su Wanwan walked to the middle of the road and shouted, "Robbery ahead! Turn around!"

The more she shouted, the faster the carriage went, until it stopped in front of her.

The person lifted the curtain, revealing a familiar face!