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

Bai Zhi managed this small house in perfect order. Gu Yan could tell at a glance that the furnishings in the courtyard were arranged according to the Yishuiyuan. There was a round stone table with two long stone benches, a large shelf with a cloth on it to serve as a gazebo, a lounge chair, and a bowl of tea on a small wooden stool at hand.

Gu Yan dismissed Chang Feng and sat down a little stiffly. Bai Zhi took out a strange-looking teapot from the house and poured him tea.

"How...how have you been these days?"

Bai Zhi tapped the stone table twice: "Tea is served to guests. It would be rude not to drink it."

Gu Yan immediately and politely drank the bowl of tea.

Bai Zhi gave him another bowl, and Gu Yan drank it all. After the fifth bowl, Gu Yan held down the teapot that Bai Zhi was about to pick up, and said with a hint of weakness: "This is not wine... Don't force me to drink more."

"Oh." Bai Zhi obediently put down the teapot. The courtyard fell silent for a moment, leaving only the sound of dead leaves falling from the old trees on the roadside.

After a long while, Bai Zhi asked, "You are standing outside waiting... what are you waiting for?"

Gu Yan: "Wait for you to chase me away, or come out to see me."

"What if I chase you away?"

"You're already seeing me."

Bai Zhi: "..."

The yard fell silent again. This time it was Gu Yan who broke the silence: "I have something to ask you."

"I think I know what you want to ask." Bai Zhi poured another bowl of tea to Gu Yanman and said in a lighter tone, "Can you... wait until next spring before asking?"

Gu Yan slightly widened his eyes and leaned forward: "Why?"

Bai Zhi pushed the tea bowl closer: "Drink tea. After you finish this bowl of tea, this matter will be stopped for the time being. We can talk about everything later."

Gu Yan picked up the bowl, looked at Bai Zhiwen, smiled, and drank the tea with his head tilted back.

Bai Zhi murmured, "The suspension bridge effect, you should be the same."

Gu Yan didn't hear clearly: "What?"

"Nothing." Bai Zhi waved her hand, "Okay, go back."

Gu Yan did not move. He said softly, "Since returning from Dajue Temple, the old lady has been drowsy these days and has not been awake for a single day."

Bai Zhi: "Oh."

Gu Yan added: "The cucumbers you planted have already grown and will probably be ready to eat tomorrow."

Bai Zhi: "Oh."

Gu Yan said again: "It will snow in a few days. It's cold and rainy here. It's not as warm as Yishuiyuan."

The intention was obvious. Even if Bai Zhi was confused, she understood that Gu Yan was asking her to go back. She scratched her eyebrows and said, "Then... I'll go back after the snow starts." She was about to pack up the teapot and teacups, as if she was going to drive someone away.

Gu Yan grabbed the handle of the teapot and looked into Bai Zhi's eyes: "You just said that this matter will be stopped for the time being...Does this still count?"

I have to say, he really has a pair of amorous eyes. Although his eyelids are so tight that the shape of his peach blossom eyes cannot be seen, he still has the ability to capture the soul. Just a deep look can disturb people's hearts and make them unable to say a harsh word.

She's just like the vixen in the storybooks.

Bai Zhi struggled to tear her gaze away from his eyes, and sighed resignedly: "Okay, come back, I'll clean it up now."

Gu Yan's face was visibly smiling, and he immediately grabbed the teapot and teacup: "I'll help you clean up."

Watching him busying around in this tiny yard, Bai Zhi suddenly felt that her behavior was a bit ridiculous.

Let the dust be the trouble, Bai Zhi thought, it's damn futile to worry about these unnecessary things.

After Baizhi moved back to Yishuiyuan, the two of them spontaneously put this page aside for the time being and continued to get along as before. It seemed that Baizhi really just went out to have some quiet time for a few days just to avoid Madam Gu's nagging.

The cucumbers in the vegetable garden had indeed grown, but they all grew in different ways, crooked and twisted, and there wasn't a single normal cucumber. Bai Zhi, wearing a leather cape, squatted in front of the vegetable garden and asked Gu Yan beside her, "... Is this what you mean by edible?"

Gu Yan, wearing the same cape, rummaged through the cucumber racks and picked a cucumber that wasn't too crooked: "Look at this one, it's so green, it must be sweet."

Bai Zhi took half of the strawberry from his hand, wiped it with her sleeve, took a bite, and then stopped eating.

Gu Yan blinked: "Not delicious?"

Bai Zhi chewed it twice more and showed a rather surprised expression: "Delicious, delicious, try it!"

Gu Yan also took a bite.

"..." Gu Yan swallowed it silently and said, "Is this...really a cucumber?"

"Hahahaha, then what else? Didn't you say it must be sweet? Eat another one!" Bai Zhi picked a cucumber that had been twisted into a ring and stuffed it into Gu Yan's hand with a sly smile on her face. Gu Yan seemed to refuse to believe that the cucumber could be so unpalatable, and took another bite out of desperation.

Gu Yan gave up. He pulled out a handkerchief from his sleeve and wrapped the cucumber tightly: "Here, let's show this to Chef Xu."

At lunch that day, everyone in Yishuiyuan had a side dish of smashed cucumbers. In the afternoon, Qiaoqiao led Lin Chuqi to clean up the cucumber field. Baizhi felt sorry for it and tried to snatch back a few cucumbers, saying that it wouldn't be a waste even if they were fed to pigs. Qiaoqiao righteously rejected her, saying that pigs would get dysentery if they ate this stuff.

Old Madam Gu was still lying on the bed in a daze. Gu Yan would personally feed her Avici herb soup every day, with only 20% of the previous dosage, keeping Madam Gu alive without making her too awake.

The Xuanping Marquis Mansion is now leaderless. Without the mistress, no one has to pay the regular silver to each room and the servants' wages. Bai Zhi once tried to secretly take the key to the outer door of the treasury left by Qiao Wanwan before she left to get her share of the regular silver, but was stopped outside the door by the guards who only recognized Old Madam Gu and not the key.

The Marquis's mansion is almost falling apart, but these guards are doing their job.

The Marquis of Xuanping has a great reputation, but he is actually a fool. He only hangs out in Concubine Song's room and visits Old Madam Gu, crying and wailing for her to get better soon. He doesn't do any housework at all. Gu Laoer was thoughtful. He came to Yishuiyuan to find Baizhi and tried his best to persuade Baizhi to take charge of the household affairs temporarily and support the Marquis's mansion. Even a fool knows that this is a bad thing, let alone at this time. Therefore, Baizhi declined politely with her hair standing on end, saying that she was born a concubine and had never learned how to manage a household. As a result, the burden of managing the household was taken over by Gu Laoer himself. He imitated Qiao Wanwan's previous methods of managing the household and actually stabilized the Marquis's mansion, which was about to fall, and gave Baizhi the salary she had been thinking about.

In Bai Zhi's opinion, Gu Laoer's ambition is more than just this, but no matter what he wants to do, it's too late.