"Help——uh..."
It seemed that just as the words were uttered, before any sound could be made, someone's mouth was covered.
Tang Xiaobai's heart skipped a beat: "Stop the carriage!"
Before the words were out, the carriage came to a clean and swift stop.
Tang Xiaobai had no time to praise the young coachman's skills and quickly pointed to two attendants: "Go and check over there!"
The sound came from deep in an alley beside the road. While she was still bathed in the sunset, the alley, being deep and narrow, had already slipped into dusk.
Tang Xiaobai was in the light, squinting to look inside but could see nothing, and once the voices returned to the East Street, she could no longer hear the faint noise from the alley.
What a perfect place for an assault!
Before long, the attendants came out, half-dragging a person, who seemed to have been knocked unconscious.
