"Isn't that a natural thing? as the son of the ruler of a kingdom, everyone should respect and make way, right?"
"Honor? I'd rather believe that people only had felt afraid for him," replied the Bodyguard.
"Ha? What do you mean? So what does that have to do with what happened?" asked Ara still curious.
"You're a slave girl, I'm not surprised you're so stupid," replied the Guard.
Hearing that, Ara snorted disapprovingly.
"Things like this happen often, don't pretend you don't know. Unless you're not from this kingdom," said the guard again.
"I don't know, it's very rare for me to leave my previous employer's residence, so it's only natural that I don't know anything about the outside world," Ara replied, not wanting to lose. That's right, she was just saying what was in the memory of the owner of the body she was in now.
"Who is your employer?" asked the guard curiously.
"In which family did you serve before?" he added again.
"Is it important?" instead of answering, Ara asked back.
Hearing that, the guard took a deep breath.
"Before I was an abandoned slave who later became a third-tier servant in the Bai family," said Ara while scavenging the memories of the owner of the body.
"Eh? Bai family?" The guard's brow furrowed, as he remembered, the Bai family was one of the families that had an important role in the kingdom. How could the maid in the Bai family residence be at the hunting event earlier?
"Yes, that's right. I am a level three servant of the Bai family. So how? Can you tell me what happened earlier?"
Hearing that, the bodyguard took a deep breath, "One who stands in the way of a member of the royal family, then only one in the end. Dead," he said. The way they interacted looked so relaxed, like people who already knew each other. Maybe it's because they look almost the same age. Completely different from what is usually the case.
Ara fell silent, "You mean, the slave girl was blocking the way of the crown prince, that's why her head was cut off?" Ara asked to be sure.
"Yeah, have you never heard of anything like this?" asked the guard.
"No," said Ara curtly. 'What kind of world do I live in now?' she thought feeling a little frustrated.
The bodyguard who was with her didn't respond anymore. "Then may I know how you ended up on the hunting grounds?" the man asked again after a few seconds of silence.
"I?"
"Who else if not you? Did anyone else hear my question besides you?"
"In my last memory, I was washing clothes in the Shimo river along with several other maids, but when I woke up, I was already in the carriage," she said while remembering what happened to the owner of the body.
"I don't even know what happened, and how I ended up there, nor do I know who brought me out of the Bai family residence," she added. Every major family residence in the Qin kingdom had a very large territory. And all of them not only include the house or pavilion where the family lives but also include some vacant land, fields, including the river that crosses the family residential area.
"Don't let Master Bai Jun find out your identity, otherwise you might end up like that slave," said the guard. He didn't know, he felt like he was saying nonsense, because maybe soon the woman he was with would end up dead because she had caused the end of the hunting event earlier.
"Why? Then Mr. Bai Jun? Who is that?" asked Ara.
"If a servant leaves the master's residence without permission, then the master will give severe punishment or even kill. This rule applies not only to the Bai family but throughout the Qin kingdom," replied the guard, he didn't know since when he had gotten used to talking to a maidservant like this. This is also his first time.
"Then Master Bai Jun? I don't know who he is," said Ara again. No matter how much he tried to search for the remains of the body's owner's memories, he had never once seen what the Bai family's Young Master looked like.
"He was the man standing in front of you earlier. The man wearing a green robe" replied the guard.
For a moment, Ara fell silent. It means that the man who has been yelling at her since earlier is Bai Jun.
Not getting any response, the guard again said, "Prepare yourself, soon we will arrive at the Qin royal palace," he said to Ara.
The girl just nodded, fixing her seat in front of the guard who was busy pulling the horse's rope.
It seemed, she would continue to be in danger from now on.
"May I ask you something more?" asked Ara.
"What's that? Tell me," replied the guard.
"Is every woman going to be treated like this?"
"What are you saying? Don't pretend you don't know," the guard's brow furrowed in confusion. Because since earlier, the woman in front of him kept asking things that were commonplace for the residents of the Qin kingdom to know.