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

The meal is finally ready! Bai Zhi ran to the door and opened it.

Chef Xu prepared home-cooked dishes today. They didn’t look very good, but they were full of fragrance and had a thick and shiny oil. They were all very delicious when eaten with rice.

Bai Zhi's tongue was dripping with saliva. She urged Gu Yan to take a seat, and then she couldn't wait to pick up the chopsticks with her left hand and eat the food crookedly.

Soon she discovered a problem - she couldn't enjoy the meal with this hand that was not good at holding chopsticks!

She really underestimated the difficulty of holding chopsticks with her left hand!

Seeing that Bai Zhi was having a hard time picking up the food, Gu Yan tactfully handed her a spoon.

None of the lotus roots, green peppers, and fish on the table were easy to scoop with a spoon. Bai Zhi took it with a resigned look on her face.

Gu Yan: "Mingxin, bring a big bowl!"

Bai Zhi: "What's the matter? The small bowl is not enough for you?"

Ming Xin quickly brought a large bowl over. Gu Yan placed the bowl in front of Bai Zhi, then took up Bai Zhi's chopsticks and helped her pick the fish meat: "It will be easier for you to eat this way."

Bai Zhi shuddered again: "I told you don't have to..."

"We have a deal, so I should take care of you." Gu Yan interrupted Bai Zhi, "Would you like to eat the green onion leaves?"

Bai Zhi: "..."

All right, it's better to use the labor than not use it. Bai Zhi pushed the bowl towards the plate of vegetables and said, "Eat whatever you have, no taboos."

After eating and drinking, Bai Zhi took the seat where Gu Yan was reading, and took a copy of Sun Tzu's Art of War from the shelf next to her and read it carefully.

Gu Yan came over to look at her: "What are you looking at?"

Bai Zhi didn't even raise her head: "See if there is any trick that can be used against Ge Zhen."

She was not very good at scheming and although she had buried the fuse in the main house, she had no idea how to detonate it. She could only try to learn from the wisdom of her ancestors.

Gu Yan: "Why not try to fight back."

Bai Zhi pondered for a moment and said with a smile, "That makes sense. Since Ge Zhen likes to play such cheap tricks, I will play with her."

"The Madam spared no effort in dealing with you. But it's okay. She is only concerned about you now, so she won't think of me for a while."

"So she was always pestering you when I wasn't here?"

"When I was unmarried, the eldest lady often came to talk to me about our childhood. She and Gu Yan were childhood sweethearts, and the more I talked, the more mistakes I made, so I always responded with a few words and then hid out of the house." Gu Yan smiled helplessly, "Sometimes I couldn't avoid her even if I left the house. Later, I got the hang of it and learned from Gu Yan to linger in brothels, so I could avoid her."

When talking about brothels, Bai Zhi remembered something she forgot to tell Gu Yan: "By the way, when I went to the old lady's place at noon, Ge Zhen asked me how I got the wound on my neck. I said that you learned the art of sex when you went to the brothel and used it on me. If the old lady asks you later, don't let it slip."

Gu Yan froze in place, as if someone had pressed a point on him.

Bai Zhi was still reading. After hearing Gu Yan's silence for a while, she looked up at him and found that Gu Yan's expression was quite unnatural, his ears were red, and even his voice was a little hoarse: "You..."

Mr. Chu, you are too thin-skinned!

Bai Zhi was tempted to tease others, so she leaned back in her chair and asked calmly, "What about me?"

Gu Yan turned his eyes away and said, "The eldest lady has been trying to pester you. Your reputation will definitely be tarnished if you go through this."

"Others only know the Third Lady of the Marquisate, but who knows Bai Zhi? When the time comes, I will escape and fly away. Who will know what my reputation was in the past?"

Gu Yan raised his head and looked at her: "What are you going to do after you run away?"

Bai Zhi was stunned for a moment.

Although she and Chu Yunchuan had a harmonious relationship, they kept a line in their hearts - not asking each other about private matters. Bai Zhi knew clearly that Chu Yunchuan's surname and the means he showed were not something she, who had no background at all, could ask about his identity. Therefore, Bai Zhi controlled her curiosity strictly and never said a word unless it was necessary.

This question came really suddenly.

"As long as I can get out of the Marquis' Mansion, anything is fine." Bai Zhi answered evasively, "Maybe I can find a place with mountains and rivers and live a stable life with Qiaoqiao."

Gu Yan heard the evasiveness in Bai Zhi's words, and did not ask any more questions. He just followed the topic and said, "That's great."

Bai Zhi didn't say anything else, and the two of them fell into a strange silence.

"Madam, Third Madam," Ming Xin knocked on the door outside, "A gentleman named Lu Jiliang sent a visiting card, saying that he is your good friend and came to visit you."

Bai Zhi: "I am injured and cannot meet with guests. Please ask him to go back and tell him that I will come back to visit you another day."

Mingxin responded.

Bai Zhi peered through the window and sighed quite a long time.

That’s great. How long will it take for her to be able to stay out of the situation like Lu Jiliang and visit whenever she wants?

"Is he your good friend?" Gu Yan poured Bai Zhi a cup of tea. "When your injury gets better, I can go with you to visit him if you need."

After saying "I should take care of you", and hearing this kind tone, Bai Zhi was too lazy to correct him and said, "That's not necessary. I'm going there to meet a good friend and reminisce about the past. If you go there too, he'll be scared to death."

Gu Yan laughed.

After drinking a few sips of tea, Bai Zhi's mind became clearer. She suddenly remembered the Phoenix robe and asked, "By the way, does Ge Zhen have any habit of going out, such as going out every ten days?"

"The old lady and the first lady go to Dajue Temple to burn incense on the first and fifteenth day of every month." Gu Yan understood the meaning of her words, "Do you want to steal the old lady's phoenix robe?"

"I have this plan, but I haven't thought it through yet."

Gu Yan nodded: "Okay, I will not be in your house often from tomorrow onwards, so just tell Changfeng what you want to do."

Bai Zhi responded with a "OK", thinking that even if I cut off my two legs and replaced them with fake ones, they would be easier to use than his.

Gu Yan went to the other side of the wing to practice boxing and kicking as usual. On the surface, he was a weak scholar, so he couldn't practice openly in the yard, so he could only hide in the wing.

Baizhi was bored, so she picked up a book on prosody and went to Qiaoqiao's room.

Qiaoqiao was practicing calligraphy in the room with great concentration. When she saw Baizhi coming, she happily pulled out a piece of rice paper full of calligraphy from the pile of papers and showed it to Baizhi: "Miss! Look, this is what I wrote. Does it look good?"

On the paper were two rows of neat regular script: clouds and rain, snow and wind, sunset and clear sky. Coming wild geese and departing swallows, roosting birds and chirping insects.

"It's beautiful." Bai Zhi praised sincerely, "You can write so well in just one day, Qiaoqiao, you are really a good student."

Qiaoqiao smiled so much that her eyes narrowed, and she imitated Baizhi and made the scissors hand gesture.

"Let's learn the next line." Bai Zhi led Qiaoqiao to sit down, "Repeat after me, three-foot sword, six-jun bow, north of the ridge and east of the river."

"A three-foot sword, a six-jun bow... well, north of the ridge versus east of the river."

"The Qingshu Palace on earth is the Guanghan Palace in heaven."

"The Qingshu Palace on earth, the Guanghan Palace in heaven!"