When Lu Yun was pulled out of bed by Cai He, the sky outside the window was still dark, with a few stars hanging faintly in the sky.

After asking, I found out that we are still going to Xiama Lake today. The March 3rd outing lasts for three days, and there is still one day left after today.

The wheels rolled along the road, and Lu Yun lay in Caihe's arms drowsy. In fact, she was not sleepy, but the ancient carriage was too shaking, making her dizzy.

Zhang had recently been busy with the opening of Xiefang Pavilion and a trip to Xiamahu, so she was completely tied up. She simply brought Yuan along with her, treating her like a half-housekeeper.

After being with the lady for over a month, Yuan Caohua no longer looked like the woman she had been when she first entered the mansion. Instead, she looked like a housekeeper's daughter-in-law. To hide the scar on her face, she first applied rouge powder, then used black paint to carefully outline the scar on her forehead. If you didn't look closely, you would just mistake it for sideburns.

Zhang was very pleased with the new gauze flowers she had submitted yesterday, but the quantity was insufficient, not the quantity she had hoped for. This time, Xiefang Pavilion was dedicated to promoting the gauze flowers, so Zhang had rearranged the pavilion's layout, removing the "National Beauty and Heavenly Fragrance" screen at the entrance and replacing it with a giant screen with a gauze base and a mahogany base. The screen itself was unpainted and unadorned, instead using gauze flowers to create a scene of a hundred flowers in full bloom!

Zhang and Yuan Caohua took inventory of the number, types and sizes of the gauze flowers that have been completed. After confirming that everything is correct, Yuan Caohua will later take this batch of newly made flowers to Xiefang Pavilion.

When they got into the tent, the kids sat down on mats while Zhang took out the account book and carefully checked the expenses of the tent for the past two days.

Lu Yun didn't want to stay in the tent, so she pulled Caihe out for a walk. Seeing this, Rong Jie'er and her brother also wanted to go out. Zhang was annoyed by the noise, so she had to nod and agree to let Jinhe and several maids follow them.

Lu Yun went to sit down where she'd been last time and let Caihe spread out a mat. She wanted to soak up the sun. In her past life, people often said that sun exposure replenished calcium. Lu Yun happily imagined growing to 5 feet 4 inches tall in this lifetime. Hui Ge'er followed her and lay down, imitating her, spreading his arms wide. Caihe was used to it. Jin He couldn't help but laugh, and she ran off under the pretext of making tea.

Sister Rong was afraid of the sun, so she sat under the shade of a tree.

Most of the ladies around maintained their demeanor and spoke in low voices.

Lu Yun lay there for about a quarter of an hour. Suddenly, she felt a stomachache. She held her stomach tightly and got up from the mat and said to Caihe, "Sister Caihe, Sister Yun has a stomachache."

Cai He looked around and saw a bush half a man's height in the distance. Behind the bush was a forest. She also saw that the young lady's face was pale, probably because she had eaten something bad this morning. So she made up her mind and said, "I will carry you to the bush over there."

Lu Yun nodded and said, "Hurry up, otherwise she will have to pull her trouser pockets."

She found a secluded spot behind the bushes and pulled out the extra weeds. "Alright," Caihe clapped her hands.

Lu Yun quickly walked to the area and waved to Caihe, indicating that she should just wait outside. She couldn't accept someone serving her and wiping her butt.

After finishing one place, Lu Yun moved to another. At this time, he was only concerned about his own pleasure and did not notice that someone was approaching secretly in the woods behind him.

"Huh!" Lu Yun let out a long breath and pulled up her pants. Just as she was about to speak, a large, sweaty hand covered her mouth and nose. Lu Yun: Ugh—and then her neck felt numb and she lost consciousness.

When she woke up again, she found her hands and feet tied up in a cave. The more she looked at the cave, the more familiar it became. The embers of the fire left behind last time were still there, and there were a few large clam shells thrown in the corner not far to the right.

You say, what a coincidence, this is the old place I’ve revisited.

There was just a different person beside him. Lu Yun looked at the unknown girl leaning against him with her eyes wide open. She was sleeping so soundly that her saliva was almost dripping out.

There was no one guarding the cave or the entrance. Lu Yun moved her hands and feet and found that the binding was not tight, but she and the girl were tied together. If it were a normal four-year-old girl, she would be unable to move, but fortunately, she was not normal.

Lu Yun dragged her forward step by step. Halfway through, the little girl woke up. She didn't cry or make a fuss, but turned her head to look at Lu Yun, her face full of questions: "Who are you? What are you doing? Where am I?"

Just in case, Lu Yun hushed her and continued to move forward. Finally, she reached the cave entrance and cautiously poked her head out. She was shocked to find no one outside. Only a few patches of trampled grass and trees proved someone had been here recently. A spring gurgled among the rocks in front of the cave.

With a slight push of her wrist, Lu Yun broke the rope that bound her hand. "Wow!" the girl beside her exclaimed, her eyes sparkling as she looked at her. Lu Yun puffed out her chest proudly and untied the rope for her.

Only then did he realize that this little girl was probably not an ordinary person, because she had a jade pendant hanging around her neck with a few words engraved on it: Qin Dashou.

Regardless of where the Dashou was, no matter how ignorant she was, she knew that Qin was the royal surname. Unfortunately, her royal relatives did not know much about it, so she did not know which princess the person in front of her was.

Lu Yun checked the sky. It was around the early afternoon. Walking from here to her uncle's villa by the main road would take her two hours, but to avoid being spotted by the enemy, she had to take a smaller path. It was difficult to walk, but it offered a shortcut. She estimated she'd arrive by the early afternoon, just before sunset.

There were no street lights in ancient times, so Lu Yun could barely accept having to travel in the dark.

Lifting her up with one hand, Lu Yun slowed down her pace and explained carefully, "I'll carry you on my back later. Don't be afraid or cry. We'll be at my house before sunset."

Little Qin Dashou nodded obediently.

Lu Yun half-knelt and carried her on her back, walking along the rocky beach with a slow, shallow step. She almost fell a few times by accidentally stepping on empty space, which frightened her so much that she broke into a cold sweat. The little girl on her back giggled several times, and it was true that people's joys and sorrows were not the same.

Lu Yun looked up at the sky and shed two lines of tears.

She crossed the rocky beach, entered the woods, and walked wherever the terrain was uneven. Finally, before the sun set, she saw the gate of the villa in the distance.

The gate of the villa was closed and there was no one inside.

Oh no, is there no one here? Don't novels say that wealthy people's mountain villas always have an old servant to look after them? Lu Yun was worried that she would have to climb over the wall to get in. The sun had already set, dusk was falling, and the temperature was gradually dropping. A mountain breeze rustled the weeds around her, and behind her was a dark mountain range that stretched as far as the eye could see.

Lu Yun shuddered twice, holding her wide hips with one hand, and finally pulled the copper ring on the door with great effort. "Knock knock" twice, the courtyard door was knocked by her. Lu Yun listened carefully to the movement in the courtyard -

One second, two seconds, three seconds passed, and no sound came from the courtyard. Lu Yun raised her hand to knock on the door again, but with a creak, the door opened.

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