Divorced woman with child travels through time

Sun Zheng, the Left Inspector of the Military Patrol Academy, frowned. This was too ruthless.

"Someone, summon Li Wan!"

"Yes!" The officers quickly left.

Inside the Duke of Cao's mansion, Cao Fang was complaining to his great-uncle, "Great-uncle, find me a few people to teach them a lesson. They beat me up at the wedding banquet a few days ago, and today they blocked me on the road. Look at that."

Cao Fang rolled up his trouser leg, revealing his deliberately injured leg. "They beat me like this. If we don't do anything about it, they'll beat me to death tomorrow."

Li Wan frowned as she looked at the bruises and said, "How did it get so serious? Are there any other injuries? I'll talk to your grandmother, and tomorrow you can tell the teacher that they can't escape responsibility."

"This is it, but they're blocking my way. I'm going to beat them to death. Otherwise, they'll block my way again next time. Hurry up and find someone!" Cao Fang said, pulling his hand and acting coquettishly. "I don't want to suffer this loss for nothing."

"Alright, alright, Fang'er, don't worry. I'll find someone to deal with him. They're just a bunch of ill-mannered scoundrels, only good for these underhanded tricks. Go find your mother for dinner, I'll handle it." Li Wan coaxed him to go to his mother's place while she went to find her sister.

Lady Li had just finished having dinner with Duke Cao when she saw him coming over, so she had someone clean up.

The maids served ginseng tea, and Madam Li took a sip slowly before saying, "I've taken care of your matter, so you don't need to worry about it anymore. Someone might come looking for you, just say you know nothing, and you can prove it with the original contract."

“Thank you for your trouble, sister. But Fang’er just came over and said that he was blocked on his way home from school by those three kids. He’s worried that they’ll block him again next time. This can’t go on.” Li Wan said with concern, “Our Fang’er is a good child. We can’t let them take advantage of him.”

"Hmph!" Madam Li slammed the teacup down on the table. "A bunch of unruly brats, they really have no manners. Don't worry about them, I'll take care of it."

"Okay, then I'll head back now." That was exactly what he was waiting for. Li Wan knew that his sister knew a lot about those shady things, so it was much more comfortable for him to be a hands-off manager.

"Yes." As soon as Madam Li finished speaking, a servant rushed in from outside.

"Madam, the officials have come to arrest your uncle."

Li Wan's expression changed, and she subconsciously looked at her.

"What's the rush? Just go with them." Madam Li calmly put down her teacup.

Li Wan obediently followed the group.

Li looked at him with a deep gaze, a barely perceptible smirk playing on her lips, clearly showing her disdain.

She has connections at the military patrol academy, so what's there to worry about?

At the Princess's residence, the person Qianji sent out returned and whispered a few words to him.

Qianji then went to find the Princess, who was taking a bath, the fragrance of which was delightful.

"Princess, the people below say that Brother Rui has begun to make his move." Qianji leaned close to her, gently pressing her shoulder, and said softly.

"Oh, that's a good thing. Rui'er has grown up quite a bit. You can keep an eye on him and help out if needed."

"Yes."

The next morning, Chen Xuanyu and his two companions went out to go to the school. Yingtian Academy was on the street where they lived, and carriages were often stuck in traffic. Therefore, after arranging for a carriage to pick them up and drop them off two days in advance, they were asked to go by themselves.

This was just right. The three of them were happy to be left unattended and didn't need any guards. Other young masters had pageboys, but the three of them had nothing and had to do everything themselves, which often made them look down on.

The three of them walked and talked.

"I have about three hundred taels on me. How much do you have?" Chen Xuanyu asked. "We're too small to carry too much stuff. Just take a change of clothes."

"I have over five hundred taels," Xiao Hao said with a slight smile.

"How do you have so much? I only have one hundred and twenty taels." Fifteen was very surprised.

"Because I don't spend it, but it's all in silver notes, which aren't very useful. I only have a dozen or so taels of loose silver." Xiao Hao was a little worried. With so much money, would he attract unwanted attention?

"I'll find someone to exchange some later. Won't those people look down on us because we're poor country bumpkins? I'll ask Brother Chu Yi to buy us some new clothes and then we'll secretly exchange them for some money," Chen Xuanyu muttered.

"No, that won't do. I heard from that Feng guy that wealthy families like ours have people who come to make our clothes." Fifteen reminded him.

"Then let's go for a walk on the street after school tomorrow, and we won't let them find out," Xiao Hao said dismissively. He was smart enough not to let anyone know.

"Okay, at worst we'll just ditch Uncle Feng and the others." The three of them quickly came to a decision.

When Chen Xuanyu ran into his nemesis at the door, he was surprised that Cao Fang and his group didn't target them today. He assumed that Cao Fang had reformed. However, once he entered the study, Chen Xuanyu felt something was off. Those who were with Cao Fang were intentionally or unintentionally avoiding looking at him.

There's definitely something fishy going on. I saw this kind of thing back in Wangjiazhuang. Chen Xuanyu turned around and winked at Xiao Hao, who nodded knowingly and lightly touched Shiwu's hand.

As Chen Xuanyu approached the desk, the strange feeling became even stronger. He glanced over and, sure enough, everyone was staring at his desk. Could there be something there?

Let him guess: a snake? Or an insect? Or something else?

Chen Xuanyu deliberately walked closer and closer, noticing traces of some kind of viscous liquid on the table, and understood what was going on.

"Oh dear, I need to pee!" he suddenly cried out, turning around abruptly. "I need to use the restroom!"

Everyone froze, staring at him in disbelief. Caught red-handed, especially Zhao Jing and Cao Fang, who were following behind the door to watch the commotion, tried to turn around and pretend they hadn't seen him, but it was too late. They couldn't stop in time and bumped into Zhao Jing's back.

"Ouch!" Cao Fang covered his nose and looked at Zhao Jing with teary eyes. Zhao Jing rolled his eyes at him and ignored him.

"Haha!" Chen Xuanyu chuckled, like a mischievous child.

"Hey, next time you guys should do something scarier. Why put out a toad? It's just something kids play with." Chen Xuanyu confidently wrapped his handkerchief in his handkerchief, smiled, and took out the ugly toad, even deliberately touching it lightly.

Ugh, the children felt a chill run down their spines. How disgusting!

Cao Fang, in particular, had been watching from a distance for a long time, his face filled with disgust.

"Hey, Cao Fang, you want to play? Here you go!" Chen Xuanyu shouted deliberately.

Before anyone could answer, he picked up the toad and threw it over.

"Ah, don't come any closer!" Cao Fang grabbed a nearby unlucky kid and blocked their way.

It landed right on him, and he frantically swatted it away. Then the toad fell onto his feet.

"Ah..." The person took a step and ran, and in his panic, he pushed the person in front of him away without thinking.

"Run!" The people in front were also pushing.

"Get out of the way!" Zhao Jing jumped aside and climbed onto the table.

The house was instantly thrown into chaos, with chickens and dogs running around in fright. The toad, startled, jumped around wildly in the covered corridor, causing the children to shriek and shout.