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

The carriage galloped all the way and returned to Yishuiyuan in the evening two days later.

Bai Zhi still used the old method - pretending to be sick and blocking Yishui Garden, so she didn't cause any trouble. She sneaked into Yishui Garden from the back door and went straight to Qiaoqiao's room where the light was on.

When returning from a long journey, you must see your family first.

Qiaoqiao and Lin Chuqi were sitting cross-legged on the kang, one at each end, arguing fiercely with a stack of papers covered with words. When they saw Baizhi coming into the room, Qiaoqiao didn't even have time to greet her. She got off the kang barefoot and dragged Baizhi over. She pointed her finger at the paper and asked, "Listen to the young lady! Young lady, tell me, is this the heart or the liver?"

Lin Chuqi: "Miss, wait a moment. Qiaoqiao, let's bet five cents."

"Five cents is five cents, don't cheat me!"

Bai Zhi led Qiaoqiao's hand and put it on her chest, "Bai Ying Xianqi, this is the heart." She moved it a little lower, "This is the liver."

Lin Chuqi stretched out his hand: "Five cents."

Qiaoqiao: "...Miss, I remembered it wrongly, so why do you dislike me?"

"Who dislikes you?"

"What you just said was that Baiying was disgusted. Isn't Baiying my name?"

Bai Zhi sighed, "There is a long way to go. This wise man is not someone you despise. Come on, take a pen."

Lin Chuqi took a pen from the bedside, but did not pass it to Bai Zhi. Instead, he wrote the two words "Xianqi" neatly on the paper and said, "This is a respectful title used by elders to address the younger generation. The young lady said in class that if we go to school in the future, the teacher may call us this."

Bai Zhi nodded with great satisfaction. Qiaoqiao saw that the situation was not favorable, so she cleverly changed the subject: "Miss, why do you plan to send us to school?"

"It's not necessary to send you to the academy, but what I teach you is enough for daily use. If you two want to pursue a career in politics and become officials through imperial examinations, it would be safer for you to follow the teacher in the academy." Bai Zhi stretched out her voice, "This is called—"

Qiaoqiao answered quickly: "There is a sequence in learning and there are specializations in skills!"

Bai Zhi patted Qiaoqiao's pigtail approvingly and said, "Okay, go to bed early. Oh, by the way, have the New Year's goods from Yishuiyuan been distributed?"

Lin Chuqi said, "It's all been distributed, and we're just waiting for the New Year." He pointed to the wooden table beside the bed and said, "Miss, I received a letter from you yesterday."

"Let me see who wrote to greet me during the New Year...what?"

Qiaoqiao: "What's wrong, Miss?"

Bai Zhi said with some disappointment, "I asked Wanshitong's letter to find out what Qing County is like now. The letter said that no one lives in Qing County now and it is an empty city."

"Empty city..." Lin Chuqi said dejectedly, "Mother said before that some elderly, weak, women and children with disabilities were taken to Qing County by a small group of soldiers from the Weizhou Army. Now Qing County has become an empty city, so where will they go?"

Qiaoqiao counted out five copper coins from her purse, put them in front of Lin Chuqi, and said, "Chuqi, here you are, I lost this to you. Don't be sad, I gave you all the money, you can't be sad."

Lin Chuqi pushed the coin back and said with a stern face: "I'm not sad."

"Whether you are hurt or not, it is because I lost to you."

"I just wasn't sad."

Bai Zhi said with a headache: "Okay, okay, let's discuss what to do next." She raised two fingers, "Either go and take a look, or change places."

"Let's go take a look." "Let's go somewhere else."

The two children spoke at the same time. Qiaoqiao immediately changed her tone: "Then let's go and take a look."

Lin Chuqi: "...You don't have to worry about me, it's okay to change places."

Bai Zhi was afraid that the two children would start arguing again, so she quickly interrupted and said, "It's settled then. Let's go take a look. If there really isn't enough room for us, we can move to another place."

Lin Chuqi nodded and made a rather ostentatious scissors hand gesture to Bai Zhi. Lin Chuqi asked, "What are you doing?"

"You don't know, right? This is called Scissor Hands, which means success." Qiaoqiao opened and closed the large pair of scissors in her hand, "You come too."

Lin Chuqi imitated the gesture and pointed out Jiangshan in a serious manner, "No, no, they are too far apart. Look at me... No, they can't be put together... Oh, it takes some effort to learn this. You are still a long way from it."

"…Why would one need to go through so much trouble to make a gesture?"

Bai Zhi smiled and said, "I'm going back to the house."

She walked out of the house, following the two children's greetings and the increasingly louder arguments.

It was cold outside, but warm inside. Bai Zhi reached out to catch the candlelight reflected from the room, holding it steady like a handful of water.

This is home, a place where you can wake up tomorrow and sleep well tonight.

Why worry about anything?

The wing room had not been occupied for a few days, and the floor heating had been burning non-stop, making the room as hot as a furnace. After four days of traveling back and forth, Bai Zhi was really tired, so she drew the curtains and prepared to go to bed.

The mandarin duck key placed on the bedside made her sit up with a startle.

I forgot to tell Chu Yunchuan about this!

It was such a hassle. Bai Zhi kicked open the quilt, put on the thick clothes she had taken off with great difficulty, put the four treasures of the study and the keys in her clothes, and went straight to the main hall.

Gu Laoer was indeed sitting in the main hall handling affairs. When he saw Bai Zhi coming, he quickly stood up to greet her: "Third sister-in-law, I heard that you were sick. Are you feeling better now?"

Bai Zhi's hands were still tightly grasping a heavy inkstone under her clothes. Not wanting to waste any more time talking to Gu Lao Er, she replied hastily, "Thank you for your concern, Second Brother. I feel much better now. Second Brother, I..."

Gu Lao Er asked, "How is the baby in my third brother's wife's belly?"

The baby in the belly?

...the baby in my belly! Oh, she had even forgotten that she was still pregnant. Bai Zhi said, "My...baby in my belly is very healthy and will be born on time. Thank you for your concern, second brother."

Gu Laoer's eyes flickered. "That's good. I went to Dajue Temple yesterday to get a child-protecting amulet for my third sister-in-law. I'll have someone deliver it to her later."

"Thank you, second brother." Bai Zhi said quickly, "Second brother, I have a beloved hairpin that I can't find no matter how hard I try. I think it must have fallen into the treasury when I went to get the banknotes a few days ago. Can you lend me the key to the treasury so I can go look for it?"

"I see." Gu Lao Er took out the key from his sleeve, "Since it is your beloved item, Third Sister-in-law should go quickly."

"Thank you, second brother!" After taking the key, Bai Zhi rushed to the treasury without stopping. She grabbed a handful of snow outside the treasury without leaving any trace, and after entering, she used the snow water to grind ink and copied down the contents of the secret letter and the imperial edict verbatim.

When they returned to Yishuiyuan, it was already pitch black. Baizhi folded the manuscript, attached a letter of explanation, opened the window and called Changfeng: "Give this to Chu Yunchuan."