Suddenly, someone patted her shoulder, which startled Bai Zhi. Qiaoqiao was also startled by Bai Zhi's exaggerated reaction and didn't dare to move. "Miss... are you okay?"
"Ah? Who? Me? I'm fine, I..." Bai Zhi said incoherently, "I forgot to do something, you guys go shopping first, I'll be back soon."
"What? Miss! Little..."
Baizhi disappeared in a flash as if she had wheels on her feet.
Bai Zhi had heard Chu Yunchuan mention Fang Zhiheng's Fang's Clinic once before. It was located on Yangliu Street in the north of the city. Bai Zhi hired a carriage and rushed her to Yangliu Street. Fortunately, Fang's Clinic was very famous, and she could get the right directions by just asking anyone on the street.
She had an indescribable premonition that she would find the answer by coming here.
Unfortunately, she was wrong. The door of Fang's Clinic was closed, and there was a piece of white paper on the door, which read: Returning home for the New Year. Bai Zhi tried to push the door, and it was indeed locked.
She suddenly lost her temper and simply sat down on the stone steps in front of the clinic entrance.
"Girl, are you seeing a doctor?"
Bai Zhi looked up and saw an old man with white hair and beard standing in front of her. She replied, "Ah... yes, I want to see a doctor. Unfortunately, this place is closed. Now I don't know where to go to see a doctor."
"If it's a minor illness, just bear with it. It's unlucky to take medicine on the first day of the Lunar New Year."
Bai Zhi nodded absentmindedly: "Okay."
The old man walked away muttering to himself.
There were not many people on this street. At this time, all the people in the capital should have gathered in those shopping streets. After the old man disappeared, Bai Zhi was the only one left on the street. With the fireworks debris all over the ground, Bai Zhi looked particularly lonely and miserable.
Never mind, it was reasonable that no one was there. Bai Zhi patted her butt and stood up, planning to sneak back to the mansion to take another look.
The door of the clinic that should have been tightly closed suddenly opened, and a pair of pale and strong hands pulled Bai Zhi in. The incident happened too quickly, and before Bai Zhi could react, she clenched her fists and wanted to hit him twice first, but the man just wrapped her fists very gently in his palms, locked her in his arms from behind to prevent her from hitting him again, and then leaned over to her ear and said, "It's me."
Under the heavy winter snow, the spring water flows slowly.
Bai Zhi asked in a daze: "Chu Yunchuan?"
Chu Yunchuan responded: "It's Chu Yunchuan."
It's really like a dream.
Bai Zhi broke free at once, turned around, grabbed Chu Yunchuan's collar and leaned in to smell him. The faint soothing aroma was mixed with the smell of the cold winter wind and snow. Bai Zhi asked again, "Is it really you?"
Chu Yunchuan smiled and said, "It's only been a few days and you don't recognize me anymore?"
"You..." Bai Zhi hesitated and said, "Are you a spy?"
This incoherent question confused Chu Yunchuan: "What spy?"
"There's a rumor in the capital that Dayan was able to fight back against Beidi because they caught a spy." Bai Zhi grabbed Chu Yunchuan's collar and said anxiously, "You're hiding here at this time, is it really you? Did you escape?"
Chu Yunchuan understood now. His eyebrows curved, unable to hide his joy, and he said, "So that's why you came here to find me? How did you guess I was here?"
"Don't interrupt, tell me what's going on!"
"I pushed all the blame onto the Xuanping Marquis's mansion. The spy that the people were talking about should be the Xuanping Marquis. In this way, my wish has come true." Chu Yunchuan said, "If it weren't for you, I would have really become a spy now. Bai Zhi, you saved me again."
Bai Zhi finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the heavy weight in her heart fell down steadily: "Okay, at least you didn't get in... But according to you, now is the critical moment, shouldn't you be pursuing the victory in the north? Why are you here?"
"The Seventh Prince is guarding the North, and it's time for the future emperor to show his talents." Chu Yunchuan whispered, "I came back to see you. Zhiheng was not with me, and I had no mask to wear, so I could only ask Changfeng to look for you, but you were not in the mansion. After many twists and turns, I found out that you went to the Lin family to celebrate the New Year. So I thought I would wait until you celebrated the New Year and returned to the mansion, and then I would see you again."
Bai Zhi misunderstood, and the strings in her mind became tense again: "See me? What happened again?"
"Nothing." Chu Yunchuan said, "I just want to see you."
Bai Zhi blinked. This time she understood correctly. She looked away awkwardly: "Ah... have you read the letter I asked Changfeng to bring to you? Can you use it?"
Chu Yunchuan looked around and said with a smile: "I didn't know there was such a token hidden in the Xuanping Marquis's mansion. It's all thanks to you. Otherwise, the Seventh Prince might not believe me if I just said it without any evidence."
Bai Zhi heard the hidden meaning in his words: "I just told you what I saw. It doesn't matter if you don't need it."
"It can be used, but..." Chu Yunchuan said with some difficulty, "I don't intend to tell the world the hidden truth behind this."
Bai Zhi was stunned: "Then where are you going to use it?"
"If King Jing's stigma is cleared, I will have achieved what I wanted. As for this secret, I plan to use it as a bargaining chip to negotiate with the Seventh Prince and get more benefits for the Thirteen States. If the people knew that it was the Emperor who plotted to kill King Jing, I'm afraid the people in the court would be unstable, which would not be good for the Seventh Prince to take over the throne. He will definitely agree." Chu Yunchuan lowered his eyes and said, "But, I'm using the truth to exchange for real money, I... I don't know if it's right or wrong."
Bai Zhi put her hands together like a knife and placed it on her neck, looking at him with a smile in her eyes: "Your Highness, do you feel that the knife has been taken away?"
Chu Yunchuan stared at her blankly, and subconsciously touched the side of his neck. Perhaps it was an illusion, he really felt that his shoulder was much lighter: "It seems... I took it off."
"Then let's do it." Bai Zhi said lightly, "Don't ask whether it's right or wrong. We haven't done anything yet, so how can there be any right or wrong?"
Chu Yunchuan smiled brightly: "Okay."
According to Chu Yunchuan's arrangement, within three months, the Xuanping Marquis's mansion would be wiped out. Bai Zhi wanted to see the end, but within a few days, the prince had 100,000 soldiers with the intention of forcing the emperor to abdicate. The 100,000 soldiers who fought bloody battles and won the great victory at the end of the year became criminals of rebellion.
The capital city was in turmoil, and Chu Yunchuan set Bai Zhi free with a divorce letter, and then urged her to leave as soon as possible and not get involved.
Everything happened so hurriedly that Bai Zhi felt unreal and unhurried. She packed her luggage with Qiaoqiao and Chuqi step by step, and before leaving, she gave some money to Cook Xu and drove her out of the mansion.
The next day, Bai Zhi and her group rode away from the capital from the west gate. Chu Yunchuan was unable to leave, so he had to ask Fu Yao to see them off on his behalf.
"Here, this is the parting gift that the boy asked me to bring you." Fu Yao carefully took out a small pot of jasmine and a letter from his bag. "He planted it in the North, and this is the only pot that survived. He told you to take it with you."
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