My husband, please respect yourself. The princess is here to grab the bride.

The seventh day of July in the sixth year of Wenzhi.

Bai Shaoqiu bid farewell to the princess and Old Yu, and went to the Baicao Garden in Liujiaojing Alley with the doorman He Xiaofeng, the coachman Zhao Xiaoshu, Zou Kongqing and Sibaozi Dongfang Meng.

He originally wanted to go to Chunman Cottage.

But it would not be appropriate to have Zou Kongqing along, as that was the place where the lazy girl lived after all.

Before his marriage with Princess Changying was truly dissolved, he didn't want to cause unnecessary trouble for the lazy girl.

Xiao Xi has cleaned up the main courtyard of Baicao Garden again.

Of course the young master will live in the main house.

That sloppy-looking miracle doctor...he probably lives on the first floor of the west wing.

He Xiaofeng is the young master's doorman. If he wants to protect the young master's safety, he cannot live in the front yard. He should live on the second floor of the west wing of the main courtyard.

As for the four treasures...

He is so big, he must snore very loudly when he sleeps, but please don’t disturb the young master!

So, Xiao Xi arranged the fourth young master of the royal palace to live in the west ear room in the front yard, with the same treatment as Zhao Xiaoshu.

As for Grandpa and Manager Wen, there are plenty of rooms in the backyard of the Sanwei Bookstore next door.

As for herself...

She was responsible for cooking for the young master, so she could only live in the east wing of the front yard of Baicao Garden.

It is adjacent to the kitchen and faces the west wing across the patio.

After Xiao Xi arranged everything and stood at the gate of Baicao Garden for a full stick of incense, a dark carriage arrived at the east end of Liujiaojing Alley under the bright sunshine.

Her eyes suddenly lit up.

That's the young master's carriage!

She waved at the carriage and ran over happily.

She came to the carriage and looked behind it, and was stunned.

Dongfang Meng followed closely behind the carriage, holding a stone pillar!

He had that iron stick tied to his back!

The iron rod was very long, like a flagpole standing behind him, except that there was no flag fluttering at the top.

This big fool...!

"Sinking?"

Dongfang Meng looked at Xiao Xi and smiled innocently: "This thing is very light!"

As he said this, he actually held the stone pillar with one hand, raised his other hand, took out a handkerchief from his bosom and wiped his mouth, looking at Xiao Xi's shocked expression and smiled innocently:

"Brother-in-law's."

"His skinny arms and legs can barely lift this thing. I can lift something eight times heavier than him."

Xiao Xi swallowed her saliva, walked side by side with Dongfang Meng, and asked, "How heavy is this...?"

"Only a hundred pounds."

Xiao Xi was even more shocked. She secretly glanced at Dongfang Meng again, and her face suddenly blushed.

The sun in early July is already quite strong.

Dongfang Meng was wearing a short suit, and his arms... were as thick as pillars!

His complexion is dark.

It was only slightly lighter in color than his stick, and under the sunlight it emitted a light that Xiao Xi found a bit dazzling.

This big guy is really a...bull!

But the young master is quite capable. He can actually lift this huge stone weighing hundreds of pounds... Could it be that the food in the palace is very good?

The young master will be staying in Baicao Garden for a long time, so the food will have to be prepared better in the future.

This big guy can eat the amount of ten people by himself... Xiao Xi felt a little distressed, and then she thought of the huge amount of silver that this big guy had left with her, and she was a little worried that all the silver would be eaten up in a year or two.

No, I have to talk to the young master about this. The family expenses have increased greatly, and I have to take out some of the profits from Sanwei Bookstore to subsidize the family expenses!

Just as he was thinking this, Bai Shaoqiu and his party arrived at the gate of Baicao Garden in front of the surprised gazes of many neighbors.

Carrying the black box, he and Zou Kongqing got off the carriage.

He was about to step into the threshold of Baicao Garden when he suddenly turned his head and looked towards the west end of the street.

A man came from the west end of the street.

A white-haired old man.

The old man was wearing a gray-white linen robe and a pair of straw sandals.

He held a worn palm-leaf fan in his hand, and slowly waved it as he walked. As he got closer, I saw that the old man was a little fat, with sparse eyebrows.

He also looked at Bai Shaoqiu, and suddenly smiled, revealing a mouthful of unsightly rotten teeth.

Bai Shaoqiu also smiled at the old man, then withdrew his gaze and stepped into the threshold of Baicao Garden.

This is an ordinary old man in Xiling City.

Ordinary appearance.

Dressed normally.

Even that broken palm-leaf fan is ordinary.

But when Bai Shaoqiu stepped over the threshold of Baicao Garden and walked seven or eight steps inside, he suddenly stopped and quickly turned to look outside the door.

Zou Kongqing almost bumped into him.

"what happened?"

"That old man... is a little strange."

"What's weird?"

"I seem to have seen it somewhere."

“…Have you seen it?”

Bai Shaoqiu nodded affirmatively and walked quickly towards the door.

Standing outside the door and looking around, there was no trace of the old man.

Dongfang Meng was still holding the stone pillar and was standing outside the door. A voice like spring thunder exploded in Bai Shaoqiu's ears:

"Brother-in-law, do you want me to find him and kill him?"

“…Go in!”

"Oh!"

Dongfang Meng turned around and went into the house. Bai Shaoqiu stood at the door for three breaths before turning around and walking in.

Zou Kongqing patted Bai Shaoqiu on the shoulder:

"There are many old men like this in Xiling City. It's not surprising if you think you've seen one before."

Bai Shaoqiu nodded without saying anything.

But his intuition told him that his previous incarnation had indeed seen this old man, but he was very young at that time and the time was too long ago, so he could not remember it at all.

Then don’t think about it.

It took him half an hour to get everything settled, and Bai Shaoqiu sat comfortably in the pavilion next to the well in the main courtyard.

There are no big trees blocking the view of the pavilion. Perhaps because it is very close to the well, the summer heat will quickly dissipate when sitting here.

Uncle Fu went out.

Manager Wen was guarding the Sanwei Bookstore next door, and Bai Shaoqiu took water from the well and boiled a pot of tea.

Zou Kongqing also came to the pavilion and sat opposite him.

He looked around and said:

"By order of the princess, starting tonight, in addition to the training tasks assigned to you by Lao Yu, I will teach you how to identify and detoxify poisons... Mainly because the princess is worried that you will be poisoned to death when you go to Kyoto next year."

Bai Shaoqiu grinned:

"Okay, thank you for your hard work, Uncle Zou."

"I'm not afraid of hard work, I'm afraid you can't bear it."

"Don't worry, I can definitely bear it in order to survive!"

"...How much do you know about poison?"

"I don't know anything about them, but I do know some poisonous things in the wild, like poisonous mushrooms, poisonous fruits, and poisonous snakes."

Zou Kongqing waved his hand and said disdainfully: "Those things are not worth mentioning."

"A truly powerful poison is colorless and odorless. A truly powerful poison master... you simply don't know when or where he will poison you."

"When you go out, you must remember this and keep it firmly in your mind!"

"The intention to harm others is indispensable! The mind to guard against others is even more indispensable!"

"There's no logic in the martial arts world, and there's even less mercy in the government!"

"If you want to survive, the enemy must die!"

"Don't give your potential enemies any chance to attack you!"

"Your enemies think so too."

"For example now..."

Zou Kongqing's mouth corners suddenly curled up, and Bai Shaoqiu had just picked up the teapot.

His eyes suddenly blurred, and the teapot in his hand fell to the ground with a clang and shattered into pieces.

The last words he heard from Zou Kongqing when he was unconscious were:

"...If I were your enemy, you would be dead."