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

Qiao Wanwan glanced at Bai Zhi's face and commented mercilessly: "This thing is really unlucky."

Bai Zhi rolled her eyes at her.

Ge Zhen hurriedly got off the sedan chair and sternly ordered the servants: "Keep watch over them all! No one is allowed to approach! Otherwise I will hold you accountable!"

Watching Ge Zhen walking further and further away, Bai Zhi tidied her clothes and hair, took a detour on purpose, and then walked back to the sedan leisurely in Ge Zhen's usual pace.

The maid next to the sedan chair asked, "Madam, shall we lift the sedan chair?"

There was no response from the sedan chair. Seeing that there was no response, the maid called out twice more: "Madam, do you want to lift the sedan chair? Madam...Madam?"

Qiao Wanwan's palms were sweating.

After a while, Bai Zhi imitated Ge Zhen's actions just now, hurriedly ran down from the sedan chair, and disappeared in a flash.

Qiao Wanwan looked carefully at the direction in which Bai Zhi ran away, and realized that she had succeeded. The stone in her heart finally fell to the ground, and she grinned and sneaked away.

There were so many people at the birthday banquet that before mealtime, people kept coming to the mansion to present birthday gifts. According to Gu Yan, there wasn't such a big scene last year. It was probably because Xuanping Hou and Gu Laoer had become close to the Honglu Temple, so many people came to curry favor with them.

Bai Zhi went to the gatekeeper to look at the list of visitors, and after flipping through it, she found that it was really a lot of noise but little substance. Except for a few old friends of the old marquis who were still able to hold up the guests, the rest were basically all minor officials and merchants from the capital. In the words of Old Madam Gu, "not a single one of them could be trusted."

But despite her disdain, Madam Gu still dressed up nicely today and sat in the main hall, welcoming guests with a smile. Her three sons stood in a row beside her, with the sound of flattery coming from their ears one after another.

As the wife of the Marquis and the face of the Marquis's mansion, Ge Zhen naturally couldn't leave. As for whether Qiao Wanwan and Bai Zhi were there, no one cared. Bai Zhi thought the scene was boring, so she quietly got out and went into a small side hall next to it.

I didn't expect Qiao Wanwan was also hiding here.

When Qiao Wanwan saw Bai Zhi, she hurriedly pulled her in and closed the door tightly: "Why are you here?"

"I'll do whatever you come here for." Bai Zhi sat down and rolled up her sleeves to fan herself. "But you, why don't you keep an eye on your mother to see when she changes her clothes instead of hiding here?"

"It's still early in the afternoon. Mother always changes her clothes before the banquet." Qiao Wanwan seemed a little worried. "What do you think will happen if this goes through and I still can't manage the family?"

"What can we do? If this can't get her off the head of the family, then you won't be able to be the head of the family for a few years. You were very confident when you first proposed this method. Now that everything has been decided, why are you still afraid?"

"Isn't it true that there is always a chance of something happening?"

"For today's birthday banquet, you only need to consider the people from the Ge family." Bai Zhi held up her chin and looked at her, "If no one from the Ge family comes, your position as the head of the family will be almost certain."

Qiao Wanwan said anxiously: "Then no one from my family will come, my family members are all in the southwest border."

Bai Zhi: "... Is there water in your brain?"

After a while, Qiao Wanwan reacted: "Ah, yes, yes, my family can't have anyone come, and the Ge family is unwilling to have anyone come, it's different."

"Okay, don't think about it. Panic leads to chaos. If you're still as panicked as you are now and mess things up, all my work will be in vain."

Qiao Wanwan patted her forehead vigorously: "Don't panic, don't panic, I want to be the head of the family, don't panic."

"I'm leaving first. It's not good for people to see us together at this time." Bai Zhi stood up. "The rest is up to you."

"Hey!" Qiao Wanwan grabbed Bai Zhi, "Why do I have to rely on myself? Won't you come when the time comes?"

"I haven't slept all night. I have to go back to my room and catch up on some sleep." Bai Zhi showed Qiao Wanwan her bloodshot eyes. "Besides, who knows if my sister-in-law will go crazy? I won't go."

"No! You have to help me. There is no battle between two armies without war drums! You...you can sleep at night!"

"When the time comes, you and I will be there too. You are afraid that the sister-in-law doesn't know that we are teaming up to trick her, right?"

Qiao Wanwan struggled with herself for a while before she reluctantly said, "You have a point. You can't leave. Just follow me. If anything goes wrong, come and help me."

"...You are so unreasonable."

Bai Zhi was drafted by Qiao Wanwan and had been sitting in the main hall, occasionally going to the main gate to glance at the list. It was almost noon when she found that the Ge family had only sent a housekeeper to deliver a gift. According to the gatekeeper, the man left after delivering the gift and did not say he was coming in to celebrate the birthday and have a feast. It was just a routine matter.

Qiao Wanwan was so happy that her mouth almost reached her ears.

When the sun was about to rise overhead, Mrs. Gu started to go back to her room.

Qiao Wanwan winked at Bai Zhi who was not far away, and the two followed Mrs. Gu's sedan chair. Ge Zhen went into the house to help Mrs. Gu get dressed, and Bai Zhi held Qiao Wanwan down and counted to sixty before letting her in.

Madam Gu's room was only slightly larger than the side room of Yishuiyuan. Qiao Wanwan was holding a brocade box in her hand. She walked around the triple screen and saw Madam Gu: "Mother, Wanwan came to give you a gift... Oh, what happened?"

Madam Gu's face was livid. Ge Zhen knelt beside her in panic, crying, "Mother, Zhen'er checked the clothes again and again when she got them this morning. They were intact. This was not done by Zhen'er. Mother, please understand!"

"If it's not you, then how could it be a ghost?" Old Madam Gu said angrily, "I put you in solitary confinement, but you held a grudge and took the opportunity to take revenge. You are truly unvirtuous and narrow-minded!"

Qiao Wanwan stepped forward and patted Madam Gu on the back to calm her down: "Mother, calm down. Oh, sister-in-law, what did you do to make mother so angry on her birthday?"

Before Ge Zhen could explain himself, Madam Gu grabbed the phoenix robe and slammed it on the table: "Your sister-in-law has scratched the robe, you can see for yourself."

There was an obvious scratch on the robe, which had pulled out a long strand of the gold thread embroidered on the clothes, leaving the golden phoenix missing half of its head.

Qiao Wanwan shook open the clothes and took a closer look, then said with regret, "Oh, this is... the birthday banquet is about to begin, how can I wear this robe?"

Madam Gu said nothing, her face tense.

Qiao Wanwan picked up the brocade box she brought with her and took out the gauze dress inside: "Mother, what a coincidence, Wanwan brought you a piece of clothing today. I wanted to give you this phoenix robe as an embellishment. Now you can see if it can cover up the ugliness."

Ge Zhen stared at Qiao Wanwan intently, with a cold light flashing in his eyes.

Old Madam Gu reluctantly allowed Qiao Wanwan to put both the phoenix robe and the gauze dress on her.