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

Qiaoqiao couldn't hear Baizhi's thoughts, and still kept her eyes wide open, looking at her expectantly.

Since she had worked so hard to make it, Bai Zhi couldn't say "it's useless" even if she was beaten to death. She pretended to be enlightened: "Oh, yes, I almost forgot. Yes, Qiaoqiao, it is indeed useful. Look how well it is made. It is exactly the same as the design. Others may not be able to make it!"

Qiaoqiao said happily: "Miss, what on earth is this?"

"Here, the key to the treasury."

"The key to the treasury? Why do we need this...are we going to sneak into the treasury?"

"Hmm..." Since it's already been done, it's not a bad idea to go there, just to broaden my horizons. Bai Zhi nodded, "Yes, let's go now."

"it is good!"

Gu Lao Er seemed to have informed the guards of the treasury in advance, so Bai Zhi was not stopped this time. After the outer door behind her was closed tightly, Qiaoqiao pouted: "Miss, you didn't open the door with the key I made."

Bai Zhi led Qiaoqiao to the innermost door: "The key is used to open this door."

"There are two doors?"

"Correct."

"Why is there another door inside the door... Is there something I shouldn't see?"

Bai Zhi teased, "Are you scared?"

"Don't be afraid!" Qiaoqiao shook her head vigorously, "Miss, let's open the door!"

The mandarin duck key was inserted into the brass lock and turned with a creak. The two men pushed forward with force, and the heavy bronze door slowly opened.

There was only a palm-sized area inside the inner door. Apart from two large wooden boxes and a circle of night-shining pearls on the ground, there was nothing else. Bai Zhi looked through it and found that one box was filled with miscellaneous items for unknown purposes. It was thought that the peony fireworks were taken from this box. The other box only contained an envelope and a roll of yellow silk.

Qiaoqiao stuck close behind Baizhi, not daring to make a sound. Baizhi casually picked up a night-shining pearl and stuck it on the yellow satin. Under the fluorescent light of the night-shining pearl, a faint pattern of flying dragons could be seen on the satin.

Bai Zhi murmured: "The imperial edict..."

Qiaoqiao poked her head out from behind Baizhi: "Imperial edict? Is this where the imperial edicts are placed?"

Bai Zhi picked up the silk and paused: "Qiaoqiao, close your eyes."

Qiaoqiao wanted to see it very much, but she still closed her eyes obediently.

Even though Gu Yan said that there was nothing important inside the inner door, we should still be careful at this time to avoid letting Qiaoqiao see something she shouldn’t see.

There were only a few lines of words on the silk, with the imperial seal stamped below. It was indeed an imperial edict.

The more Bai Zhi read the above content, the more frightened she became.

"Miss, have you finished reading it?"

"Wait a moment." Bai Zhi took out the letter from the envelope and looked through it carefully, her eyes gradually widening.

Qiaoqiao waited for a long time but saw no movement, so she asked in a low voice, "Miss, can I see it?"

Bai Zhi put the letter back into the envelope, re-rolled the silk, tidied it up to look as if no one had touched it, and closed the lid of the box: "They are just some... some useless sour poems. You can't understand them. Don't read them."

Qiaoqiao was most afraid of these unclear and sour articles. After hearing this, she immediately lost interest in reading: "There's nothing interesting here. Let's go out, Miss... Miss?"

Bai Zhi came back to her senses: "Ah, oh yes, let's go out."

The two of them locked the inner door again. Bai Zhi still remembered Gu Lao Er's instructions, so she took out two hundred taels of silver notes from the outer door and put them away. Then, she absent-mindedly took Qiaoqiao out of the treasury.

Qiaoqiao saw that Baizhi seemed to be worried, so she asked, "Miss, what are you thinking about? Are you still thinking about those sour poems that you can't understand?"

"Ah, yes." Bai Zhi rubbed her brows and sighed tiredly, "People's hearts are really hard to guess." She gathered her clothes and said to Qiaoqiao, "Qiaoqiao, I'll go give the second master the banknotes later. You go back to the room. It's cold today. Ask Cook Xu to light the fire."

"Okay, then Miss, you should also go back to your room quickly."

"Do not worry."

When Bai Zhi returned to the main hall, Gu Lao Er was still worrying about the gift book, and his posture had not changed. She put the banknotes and the key to the outer door of the treasury on the table and said, "Second brother, I got it back."

"Thank you for troubling my third brother and sister-in-law."

Bai Zhi casually asked, "Second brother has been working so hard lately, haven't you found a personal servant to help you?"

Gu Lao Er said with a bitter face: "The servants can't do it. I have to do everything myself."

"I am not talented enough, so I can only help my second brother with some errands. If the Marquis and mother can help my second brother, he should be able to do things more easily."

"Brother, he is busy with official duties and has recently been promoted. How can he have the energy to take care of such trivial matters?"

Bai Zhi asked casually, "The Marquis has been promoted again."

"That's right. There was a big change in the Ministry of Rites a while ago. The Minister and Junior Minister of the Honglu Temple were both imprisoned, so my eldest brother was directly promoted to Minister of the Temple."

"Temple Minister?" Bai Zhi was not familiar with the official system in the court, but she knew that a Temple Minister was higher than a Junior Minister. Before, it was considered high-ranking for the Marquis's mansion to get to know a Junior Minister, but this time, the Marquis Xuanping actually became a Temple Minister himself, "So this is a direct promotion..."

"Directly promoted to the fourth rank."

Bai Zhi swallowed her saliva and said, "A carp leaping over the dragon gate. The Marquis is truly... a rare talent."

Gu Yan is capable enough to lift up such a fool.

"There are many capable officials in the court who have been promoted to the fourth rank in a year, and there are even many who have been promoted from commoners to the fifth rank by the emperor. My Xuanping Marquis Mansion still needs to work hard." Gu Laoer raised his head from the gift book and said with some boasting, "My second brother has also borrowed the eldest brother's light and has now been promoted to the chief clerk. I should have announced the good news to my third brother and his wife a long time ago, but unfortunately I have been so busy recently that I forgot to tell him."

...They are indeed capable officials, but they have used all their abilities to take advantage of the backdoor, and one or two of them have done so obviously. Is this the current situation in the court?

"Congratulations, second brother." Bai Zhi cleared her throat and brought the conversation back to the topic. "When you are done with your busy schedule and mother is better, you should marry a wife to take care of household affairs, so that you don't have to do small things like withdrawing banknotes yourself." She calmly stared at Gu Laoer's expression. "If I'm not here, only you can go in and out of the treasury. Isn't it troublesome?"

Such an important thing suddenly appeared in the inner door where there should have been nothing. It could only have been put in by someone later.

"Third sister-in-law is right, but I am not the only one who goes in and out of the treasury. About ten days ago, my mother dragged her sick body in once."

Bai Zhi asked, "Mother has been bedridden for a long time, why did she go to the treasury in person?"

"It's strange, ten days ago, mother suddenly perked up and asked me to accompany her to the treasury, as if she was going to put something there." Gu Lao Er shook his head, "Mother only allowed me to wait outside, so I don't know what she put there."