Gourmet Girl: Becoming a Royal Merchant Started from Selling Buns

"Zhou Li, An Yi, why are you here?"

Hearing this, An Yi untied her with a cold face, but did not respond.

Instead, Zhou Liwen helped her out of the coffin with a smile, pointed at An Yi, and took the initiative to explain to her.

"It was An Yi. He had been hiding in the dark since you entered the palace with you. Later, you took the fake death drug and fell into a state of suspended animation. The Queen Mother then told An Yi the burial place."

At this point, he paused and frowned in confusion.

"But we waited by the grave for a long time, but didn't see you. We had no choice but to look for you everywhere."

"We searched for two days and finally found you here. What happened?"

After hearing this, Su An felt shocked.

She rubbed her stiff shoulders, snorted angrily, and complained through gritted teeth.

"It was that madwoman Li Wanyue who suggested to the Queen Mother that I fake my own death and escape. I never thought she would use this opportunity to make it real and seal me in a coffin and bury me alive. If I meet her again, I will skin her alive."

It turned out to be the case.

Zhou Li nodded in understanding and responded by pursing his lips.

"No wonder we couldn't find you. It turns out she kidnapped you!"

An Yi, who was standing by, quickly sealed the coffin, threw it back in, and buried it.

After doing this, he looked around and urged the two of them.

"The capital is full of the Emperor's spies. We shouldn't stay here for long. We'd better leave as soon as possible!"

"An Yi is right. There is no time to lose. Let's get out of the city while it's still early!"

Su An nodded in agreement, without hesitation, patted the dirt off his body, turned around and was about to leave.

But before he could take a step, he was stopped by Zhou Li.

He looked at Su An's fair skin, frowned, shook his head and sighed.

"Wait, you're too conspicuous like this. You need to disguise yourself a little, otherwise you'll be recognized before you even reach the city gate."

As he spoke, he took out a cloth bag from his arms and painted on Su An's face with a serious look on his face.

About a quarter of an hour later, an old man wearing patched coarse clothes and a young man pushing a tattered wooden cart came out of the alley.

The old man wiped his tears and looked around casually.

If someone familiar passed by at this time, he would definitely recognize that this hunchbacked old man was Zhou Li.

At this moment, he had a gray mustache, dark circles under his eyes, and was standing beside the wooden cart crying bitterly. No one would associate him with the pale-faced scholar Zhou Li.

An Yi was also dressed in rags, pushing a wooden cart towards the city gate.

Wherever they went, everyone covered their mouths and noses and retreated.

Not to mention the passers-by, if Zhou Li hadn't helped Su An block her sense of smell, she would have fainted from the stench.

However, precisely because of this, when they left the city, no one competed with them.

The guard at the city gate frowned, looked at them unhappily, and questioned them according to the usual procedure.

"Who are you, and why are you leaving the city?"

Zhou Li deliberately lowered his voice, lay beside the car, and said sadly.

"We were peddlers in the city, but our daughter was unlucky and unfortunately fell ill and died. According to custom, we must bring her back to our hometown for burial. Please, sir, please grant us this favor."

The bulge in the car turned out to be a corpse!

The guard showed disgust in his eyes and poked the straw mat on Su An's face with the spear in his hand.

But he only lifted half of it, and the stench of the corpse hit him in the face.

He couldn't help but vomit and quickly waved at them to urge them on.

"What bad luck! Get out of here!"

Zhou Li lowered his head, exchanged glances with An Yi, and quickly nodded in response.

"Oh, okay, thank you, sir!"

Just as An Yi was about to push the cart and quickly leave the capital, he heard a burst of hurried horse hooves coming from behind the crowd, and the people surrounding the city gate gave way one after another.

The man who came was dressed in black and suddenly pulled the reins beside An Yi, stopping him in place.

Zhou Li glanced at the person on the horse inadvertently, and his eyes suddenly changed. He lowered his head quickly, fearing that he would be recognized.

Su Anxin, who was lying on the wooden cart, was also lifted up.

This voice, who is this!

What a coincidence! I actually met him here.

He Cheng had no idea what they were thinking. With a stern expression, he took off the token from his waist, held it in front of him, and said in a deep voice, "I am here on orders from His Majesty to leave the city on business. Let me pass immediately!"

The guard took one look and his expression suddenly changed. He waved to the person behind him to urge him on.

"Open the city and let them go!"

Hearing this, He Cheng hung the token around his waist and was about to whip his horse.

But what he didn't expect was that when his eyes inadvertently passed over Su An, he inexplicably felt a sense of familiarity in his heart.

The guard had only checked half of it, so at this moment only half of Su An's face was exposed. Not only was his face pale without a trace of blood, but there were also blue-black corpse spots under his eyes, which looked very scary.

He Cheng couldn't help but take another closer look, muttering to himself.

Why do this person's eyebrows and eyes resemble Su An's?

Thinking of Su An's inexplicable suicide by taking poison, he became alert and immediately dismounted. He endured the stench and walked to the wooden cart, reaching out to lift the straw mat off Su An's body.

Listening to the footsteps approaching from afar, Su An became extremely nervous and couldn't help but digging his nails into his palms.

Just when He Cheng's hand was about to touch the straw mat, An Yi suddenly spoke up to persuade him.

"Sir, please wait!"

Hearing the noise, He Cheng paused and looked at An Yi unhappily, his eyes becoming fierce.

Fear showed on An Yi's dark face and he spoke in a trembling voice.

"It's not that I don't want you to check, sir, but... little sister, I was infected with the plague. If you were infected and became ill, I would be held responsible even if I died!"

As he spoke, he coughed a few times as if he couldn't help it.

Plague is an incurable disease!

He Cheng quickly retracted his hand, raised his sleeve to cover his mouth and nose, and shouted angrily.

"If that's the case, what are you still standing there for? Get out of here!"

Zhou Li and An Yi bowed to He Cheng in fear and trepidation, then pushed the wooden cart out of the city in a hurry.

Watching them leave, He Cheng fanned the air in front of him in disgust.

After leaving the city, they headed north and entered a forest with ease.

Seeing that there was no one behind him, Zhou Li breathed a sigh of relief, straightened his back, lifted the straw mat, and said to Su An: "Okay, now we have successfully left the city, it should be safe."

Su An then nimbly jumped up from the wooden cart and looked at himself with disgust.

In order to make the disguise more realistic, Zhou Li smeared dust all over her body and painted corpse spots on her. I don't know how Zhou Li painted it, but the corpse spots not only smelled bad, but also felt sticky when touched, which made people feel very uncomfortable.