Traveling through time and space to become a lady of a noble family, but she only wants to escape

I really don't remember.

Bai Zhi searched her memory but couldn't find any trace of this person.

Seeing Bai Zhi's embarrassed expression, the young master said sympathetically, "I am Lu Jiliang."

Ah, it’s the original owner’s childhood playmate.

This man's father and Mr. Bai were old acquaintances, and he always brought his most doted youngest son to visit. Lu Jiliang didn't like to play with the eldest sons and daughters, but he stared at the original owner who was reading in the corner, and dragged the original owner to climb the tree and go down the ditch.

Later, the Lu family moved out of the capital, and the original owner never saw Lu Jiliang again.

"It's been a long time." Bai Zhi treated her clients with the same attitude she had in her previous life, smiling, "How are you these days? How come you have time to come back to the capital?"

At this point, Lu Jiliang's face was long: "My mother insisted that I go to Beijing to study and become an official. I can't sit still since I was a child. I'm not a good student at all. I get sleepy as soon as I start reading. So, I came to buy some refreshing tea."

Bai Zhi burst out laughing.

The two of them talked about their childhood, as if they had returned to that carefree time.

Lu Jiliang asked carefully: "I heard that you married into the Xuanping Marquis's Mansion. I wonder if you are living well."

Bai Zhi smiled slightly, not knowing how to answer for a moment.

The Bai Zhi that Lu Jiliang was most familiar with had died in the Xuanping Marquis Mansion.

Seeing Bai Zhi's expression change slightly, Lu Jiliang hurriedly changed the subject and said, "Then...then I will visit your house when I am free and chat with you. I live in the east of the city, so you can come and play with me when you are bored!"

Bai Zhi nodded and said with a smile: "You must study hard and don't play around."

Lu Jiliang's face lengthened again.

After a lot of trouble, Bai Zhi finally brought Qiaoqiao back to the Marquis' Mansion.

Today was a day that was extremely exhausting both physically and mentally. Bai Zhi now just wanted to cover herself with the quilt and sleep until dawn. Even this shabby mansion seemed a little more pleasing to her eyes.

"Third Madam! Third Madam! You are finally back. The old lady ordered that Third Madam should go see the old lady immediately after she returns!"

...Correction of the preface: this shabby mansion is really not pleasing to the eye.

Bai Zhiqiang pulled herself together and dragged her tired and beaten body towards Madam Gu's room, cursing this damned old woman a hundred thousand times in her heart.

After entering the house, Bai Zhi stepped forward and bowed as usual: "Mother, your daughter-in-law greets you."

Madam Gu narrowed her eyes slightly and said angrily, "Third room, do you know your mistake?"

Bai Zhi was confused by the question: "I don't know what my daughter-in-law did wrong."

"Mother, calm down. Third sister-in-law just came to the mansion and doesn't know the rules. It's because Zhen'er didn't teach her well." Ge Zhen walked in with a shaky step. "Third sister-in-law, if you like hairpins, just ask. I'll give you one. Why did you steal mother's?"

Steal the hairpin?

Madam Gu picked up the golden hairpin on the tea table, her face gloomy: "Third room, I found this hairpin missing this morning, and then I searched it from your dressing table. The evidence is irrefutable, and you are still trying to quibble?"

Bai Zhi hung her head and said nothing.

Ge Zhen, you think I'm easy to bully, right?

Seeing Bai Zhi not speaking, Madam Gu snorted coldly, "Why? Did you remember?"

Bai Zhi suddenly fell to her knees, crying, "Please forgive me, mother. This hairpin was taken by my daughter-in-law. She sneaked into my room yesterday, stole the hairpin, and put it under her pillow... No, it was in the dressing box, in the dressing box."

Madam Gu slammed the table and said, "Nonsense! I stayed in my room the whole day yesterday and didn't leave the house! You still don't tell the truth!"

Bai Zhi quickly corrected herself and said, "My daughter-in-law remembered it wrong! It was the day before yesterday! The day before yesterday!"

"This hairpin wasn't lost the day before yesterday!"

"Maybe it was this morning, my daughter-in-law can't remember..."

Madam Gu raised her teacup and threw it in front of Bai Zhi: "Not a single word of truth!"

Bai Zhi cried with snot and tears: "Mother! Mother! I confess everything! It was...it was my sister-in-law who threatened me yesterday. Today, no matter what crime you ask me to commit, I will admit it!"

Ge Zhen was shocked and said with real emotion: "Third sister-in-law! How can you slander me like this!"

Madam Gu didn't believe it at all: "Third House! Not only did you steal and lie, but now you are slandering others. You really have evil intentions! Come here! Execute the family rules!"

Bai Zhi's eyes were filled with grief and anger. She took off her outer clothes, revealing her body covered in purple scars. "Mother! If my daughter-in-law slanders my sister-in-law, I will be struck by lightning! My sister-in-law brought a few strong men last night and beat my daughter-in-law up without any explanation. She threatened my daughter-in-law to admit the crime that my mother had accused her of! My sister-in-law also said that if my daughter-in-law didn't admit her guilt, she should be careful. She might be beheaded one day!"

Madam Gu looked serious as she walked forward and carefully examined Bai Zhi's injuries.

Seeing that the situation was not favorable, Ge Zhen hurriedly said, "Mother, my third sister-in-law is clearly slandering Zhen'er. I'm afraid that the injuries were not caused by her own fall, and she is trying to put the blame on Zhen'er!"

Madam Gu had once followed the old marquis into battle with real swords and guns, and could recognize injuries from falls and blows at a glance.

Madam Gu said in a deep voice: "These are indeed the scars from being kicked or beaten."

Bai Zhi laughed wildly in her heart.

Ge Zhen, Ge Zhen, I think you have guessed where this injury came from. Do you have the ability to tell the truth?

A dumb person cannot express the pain he feels when eating coptis root, right?

"Oh, it's so lively in mother's room! Oh, my third sister-in-law, why are you so disheveled? Who beat you up?"

Bai Zhi looked up and saw Qiao Wanwan, who was watching the fun and making trouble.

The better the show, the more spectators there are, the more lively it will be.

Bai Zhi immediately told the story with tears in her eyes. Qiao Wanwan didn't like Ge Zhen to begin with, so she took advantage of the situation and said, "It turns out that mother's hairpin was lost. Wanwan saw sister-in-law's maid...the one named Chunlan, sneaking around mother's room during the day. Now I think she might have stolen the hairpin."

Ge Zhen's face turned dark: "Wan Wan, did you see it clearly?"

Qiao Wanwan said firmly, "It's absolutely true, sister-in-law. If she really stole it, sister-in-law must not cover it up. You must get to the bottom of it!"

Madam Gu ordered the servants, "Bring Chunlan here."

After a while, Chunlan was brought over. When she saw the scene, she knelt down and confessed everything, blaming Baizhi for stealing the hairpin.

Bai Zhi heard it carefully. Chunlan deliberately omitted Ge Zhen from her confession. She only said that she looked down on the Third Lady for marrying into the Marquis' Mansion with nothing, so she wanted to frame Bai Zhi and drive her out.

It is a taboo for servants to steal their master's things. Old Madam Gu was in a bad mood and it would not be an exaggeration to beat Chunlan to death. Either she was too obsessed with protecting her master, or her life was in Ge Zhen's hands.

Ge Zhen said angrily: "You bitch! How dare you act like this! Mother, I think it would be better to chop this bitch into pieces and feed her to the dogs!"

Qiao Wanwan said sarcastically, "My sister-in-law is really impartial. She chopped off the maid who had been with me for several years just because she wanted to."

Madam Gu had wrongly blamed Bai Zhi, and she took out all her anger for losing face on Chun Lan: "Come on! Beat her to death!"

Chunlan was dragged out crying and shouting.