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

It was already late at night when Baizhi returned to Yishuiyuan.

Qiao Wanwan didn't know what had happened. She stopped talking about taking a concubine and only talked about eating, drinking and having fun. She dragged Baizhi from the beginning to the end of the street. This Wanjia Street is ten miles long, and that doesn't even include the steps in and out of the shops. Baizhi's legs were sore and swollen after a day. She said she would die on the street if she took another step. Qiao Wanwan hired a carriage on the side of the road to take them back home.

The light in the room was on. Bai Zhi glanced towards the window out of habit. It was empty and there was no shadow of the man leaning against the window reading.

This is really strange. What else can Gu Yan do in the room if he doesn't read? Could he be practicing martial arts so late? Bai Zhi was curious and ran forward in three or two steps and pushed the door: "I'm back!"

Gu Yan was standing in front of the clothes rack, not knowing what he was doing. When he heard Bai Zhi coming back, he looked a little nervous, as if he had been caught doing something bad. "You, you're back. I'll pour you some tea."

"Wait a minute." Bai Zhi approached, "Why are you here in the middle of the night instead of reading or sleeping?"

Gu Yan cleared his throat and said, "Let me sort out the hangers."

"Arrange the hangers?" Bai Zhi looked at what she was told. On her hanger, there was a row of neatly arranged narrow strips. It took her a while to realize that they were all clothes.

She had to fold her clothes after drinking the blood-replenishing medicine. She put her clothes back after the Mid-Autumn Festival. Now she arranges her clothes like a Hada. Why does Gu Yan like to tidy up her clothes so much?

But the clothes were neatly arranged, and they were arranged by color, starting with white... No! Bai Zhi picked up the white clothes and exposed the collar, and saw the familiar red pattern on it: "I was wondering where I got the white clothes from, why did you hang your clothes up too?"

Gu Yan: "I think the way you hang clothes is very effective. Ahem, I am just trying to emulate the good."

"Seeing a virtuous person, you are so eager to emulate him, brother." Bai Zhi picked up the clothes one by one and looked at them. "The hanger is so wide, why don't we each have half? You put our clothes together, and you can't tell whose it is just by looking at the colors. Aren't you afraid that when you get up early in the morning and rush out, you just grab a random piece and end up putting my clothes on?"

"Don't worry, I can remember which one is mine."

Bai Zhi: “…I can’t remember.”

Gu Yan: "How about I put the clothes in front of your bed every morning?"

Bai Zhi: "..."

Whatever, it’s no big deal.

"By the way, a piece of paper fell out of your clothes." Gu Yan took out a crumpled piece of paper from his arms, and Bai Zhi unfolded it to see - it was the picture of the key she had drawn!

Completely forgotten!

Gu Yan leaned over to take a look: "This looks like a key. Did you draw it?"

"It's a key. The day after the mansion was robbed, Qiao Wanwan and I sent the old lady back to her room. We discovered that the hairpin she was wearing was a mandarin duck key. I put them together and copied it." Bai Zhi said, "I guess this is the key to the inner door. I'll ask Qiaoqiao to make one and take a look inside the inner door. I have a feeling that something very important is placed inside the inner door."

"No need to go in." Gu Yan said, "I've checked, it's just a bunch of junk, nothing important."

Bai Zhi was stunned: "Miscellaneous items?"

Gu Yan nodded: "They are all sundries like fireworks that attract assassins. I think in the eyes of the old lady, these are already important things."

It was all in vain. Bai Zhi was a little disappointed, so she sat down on the chair by the window, slapped the paper on the desk, and asked casually, "Since you have been through the inner door, why didn't you recognize this key?"

Gu Yan said: "I didn't use this key to enter the inner door."

"Then how did you get in?"

"Do you remember the mechanism on my carriage?"

Bai Zhi thought for a moment and said, "Ah, it was the day when we had our showdown, I remember. But this doesn't make sense. Could it be that the mechanism can make the carriage very small, get in through the crack in the door and then open the door from the inside?"

Gu Yan sat opposite Bai Zhi and said, "This is a secret mechanical skill that has been passed down for more than ten generations in my mother's family, the Wei family. Not only can it modify a carriage or open an iron door, it can also build a house on flat ground or make a lifelike puppet. It's no problem at all."

Bai Zhi was stunned when she heard this: "So powerful?"

"It's a pity that five years ago, a fire destroyed the Qianwang Mansion, and all the drawings of the secret techniques were burned. At that time, I still hadn't learned a few of the most valuable secret techniques. Now I can only modify the carriage and open the iron gate."

Just by listening, Bai Zhi felt it was a pity and sighed, "Fortunately you learned a few things, otherwise such a magical secret technique would have been completely lost."

Gu Yan shook his head: "As long as it is useful for fighting, it will be difficult to lose it."

This was a bit incoherent. Just as Bai Zhi was about to speak, Gu Yan changed the subject and said with a smile, "It's late, go to sleep."

It looked like Gu Yan didn't want to talk any more, so Bai Zhi stopped asking questions and took out a stick of calming incense from a small wooden box on the bookshelf, lit it with the candlelight, and chatted, "The old lady wants to take a concubine for you, have you heard about it?"

Gu Yan obviously had never heard of this: "Taking a concubine?"

"Yes, I heard from Qiao Wanwan that they are selecting candidates all over the capital." Bai Zhi extinguished the flame on the incense and inserted it into the base with familiarity. "There are only a few rooms in Yishui Garden, and the side rooms are all full. We should build a few more rooms before the candidate is selected. We can't let the girl sleep in the pavilion."

Gu Yan: "...No need to build a house, I will go and refuse the old lady tomorrow."

"The old lady wanted to take a concubine for you without telling you, how could you persuade her?" Bai Zhi hooked the white smoke from the burning incense and said slowly, "This is to continue the incense of the Marquis's mansion. What can you say in front of the word incense?"

"Incense..." Gu Yan pondered for a while, and suddenly smiled, "That is to say, if you are pregnant, you don't have to take a concubine."

Bai Zhi was shocked for a moment, and it took her a while to come to her senses: "You want me to pretend to be pregnant? What about after the full-term? Say the baby is stillborn? This trick can only be used once, won't I have to take a concubine after that?"

"It won't reach full term." Gu Yan leaned over the desk and looked directly into Bai Zhi's eyes, saying word by word, "In the early spring of next year, the Marquis's Mansion will be destroyed."

Gu Yan somehow bribed Doctor Zhao to let Old Lady Gu know that Bai Zhi was pregnant. According to Gu Yan, Old Lady Gu was very happy, but she did not give in to the idea of ​​taking a concubine. She only said that if Bai Zhi gave birth to a son and gave birth to a legitimate grandson for the Marquis's mansion, she would no longer mention the idea of ​​taking a concubine. Otherwise, she would decide to take a concubine for the third room, so that Gu Yan could have more children. Of course, Gu Yan agreed, after all, the Marquis's mansion would not live to see that day.