Before leaving, Zhao Zongying put on his mask again.
It was indeed necessary to wear the mask; otherwise, he might scare Doctor Lin.
Doctor Lin was pacing in the yard. When he saw Zhao Zongying coming out, he waved at him, motioning him to go to the front hall to talk.
"I don't know your name yet, so I'll temporarily call you A Man. I hope you won't mind," Doctor Lin said politely.
"Doctor Lin can call me whatever you like. A name is just a label," Zhao Zongying replied.
"Have a seat." Doctor Lin poured him a cup of tea.
Zhao Zongying sat down, picked up the teacup, and took a sip of tea.
"I won't beat around the bush. Two people came today asking about your whereabouts. They even tried to climb over the wall from the back to investigate. It's obvious that your identity is not ordinary. I don't know whether those people are your enemies or friends. I just hope that Miss Er won't be implicated because of you," Doctor Lin said.
Zhao Zongying said calmly, "You don't need to worry about this, Doctor Lin."
"Normally, this has nothing to do with me. But my wife specifically asked me to have a chat with you."
Doctor Lin refilled his teacup. "From the many old wounds on your body, it can be seen that you must have been doing a life - risking job. It's just the two of you on this trip to Zoucheng. Who knows what might happen on the way? I hope you can take good care of Miss Er."
Zhao Zongying was silent for a moment and then replied, "I will."
Doctor Lin showed a smile. Like a man who had drunk too much, he began to mutter.
"To be honest, I couldn't understand before why Lord Zhen doted on his second granddaughter who was so domineering instead of his beautiful and charming eldest granddaughter. Now I finally understand. After just two days of contact, even I feel like a father.
"You don't know. Today she was actually teaching me how to make false accounts to deal with Lord Zhen. I've never seen someone who would deceive her own family like this. But I know she's helping me in another way.
"Also, the food she made is really expensive to make, but it's really delicious..."
As he talked, Doctor Lin's voice got softer and softer, his eyes became more and more blurred, and finally he just lay on the table.
Zhao Zongying reached out to take the flask in front of Doctor Lin, put it under his nose and smelled it. Sure enough, he smelled the smell of wine.
He shook his head with a smile, ignored Doctor Lin, and went back to the thatched cottage on his own.
Zhen Xiaoyu was lying on the table. It seemed that she had been asleep for a while.
In fact, she wasn't asleep. Instead, her consciousness had entered the upgraded space bracelet.
It had changed greatly here. Originally, it was just a closed space. Now this closed space had become a storage room with a door that could be pushed open. Outside was a small world with sky and earth, and there was also a small spring.
Trickles of water were gushing out of the spring and flowing into the surrounding land.
This was the spiritual spring water in the novel that was said to cure all diseases and help with beauty and weight - loss!
But she had verified it in the afternoon. The beauty and weight - loss effects were not obvious. She had drunk a large bowl of it herself, but nothing had changed on her body. She just thought the water was sweeter than ordinary water.
If she really wanted to lose weight, it would be better to exchange for a beauty pill in the system mall.
But she couldn't take the beauty pill now. The great villain could still cover his repaired skin with a mask, but if she suddenly lost weight, it would be hard to hide.
A man is guilty for possessing a jade ring!
When she had the ability to protect herself, she could expose some things. The more people wanted to kill her, the more killing intent she would gain.
The space was empty, so she simply exchanged for some vegetable seeds and fruit tree seedlings in the system mall and planted them all around the spring.
When she finished her fuss and withdrew her consciousness from the space, she found that Zhao Zongying was sitting on the bed meditating again.
The mask on his face had been taken off and placed beside him. His handsome face was still dazzling under the dim yellow candlelight, as if he had a kind of spotlight halo on him.
This guy was getting better - looking and better - looking after the scars on his face were gone. If he went to the battlefield, probably no one would be able to bear to attack him.
Zhen Xiaoyu silently laid out her own mat on the floor. Facing such a handsome face, she gradually fell into a dream.
In a daze, she seemed to hear a soft "nympho". This voice seemed to appear directly in her mind.
Before dawn, Doctor Lin came to wake them up. He said that the cart he had found for them was waiting at the door and told them to set off quickly.
Since they didn't know whether there were people watching around, they had specifically chosen this time when everyone was still in their dreams to set off.
Zhen Xiaoyu and Zhao Zongying walked out of the door and found that what was parked at the door was... a bullock cart!
It was really a bullock cart. A strong ox was harnessed in front of the flat - bed cart, and an old man with a towel wrapped around his head was sitting in front driving the ox.
"Uncle Huang, I'll have to trouble you on this trip," Doctor Lin yawned and said to the old man.
The old man replied with a smile, "Don't worry. I've been going to Zoucheng for decades. I'm very familiar with the way!"
It was obvious that the old man had seen the world. He didn't find it strange to see the mask on Zhao Zongying's face.
Zhen Xiaoyu gave Doctor Lin a sidelong glance. If she said he was unreliable, he had found a cart and an experienced driver for them. If she said he was reliable, he had actually found a bullock cart instead of a carriage for such a long journey.
Since things had come to this, they could only make do.
Zhen Xiaoyu put her parcel on the bullock cart first, climbed onto the cart herself, and then reached out her hand to Zhao Zongying.
Zhao Zongying glanced at Zhen Xiaoyu, didn't touch her hand, and easily climbed onto the bullock cart on his own.
The bullock cart wobbled out of the town.
Zhen Xiaoyu was jolted so much that she kept yawning.
Maybe hearing her yawning, the old man said with a smile, "Miss, you can put your parcel under your head and lie down to rest."
Zhen Xiaoyu didn't bother to be reserved. She put the parcel under her head, lay down on the bullock cart, and closed her eyes.
Zhao Zongying turned his head and stared at her innocent sleeping face for a while.
I don't know how long they had been wobbling. The scorching sun rose into the sky, and the heat poured down with the blinding sunlight.
Zhen Xiaoyu was woken up by the sun. Fine beads of sweat had oozed out on her forehead. At this moment, she missed the carriage even more. Although it was hot in the carriage too, at least she wouldn't be exposed to the sun.
She looked at Zhao Zongying sitting upright beside her, leaned over and whispered, "Why don't you lie down and sleep for a while?"
Zhao Zongying gave her a sidelong glance and was too lazy to respond.
Zhen Xiaoyu rummaged through her parcel and took out a leather water bag filled with spiritual spring water. She handed it to Zhao Zongying first. "Have some water."
Zhao Zongying didn't refuse. He took the water bag. When he took the first sip of water, a look of surprise flashed across his face. This water tasted much better than the water at Doctor Lin's house.
He returned the water bag to Zhen Xiaoyu.
Zhen Xiaoyu shook the water bag. There was still some water left, so she drank the remaining water.
Zhao Zongying's eyes swept across the water bag and landed on Zhen Xiaoyu, lost in thought.
"There's a teahouse for a rest not far ahead. You two can sit down and have something to eat," the old man said with a smile.
"Okay. Then please stop at the teahouse, Uncle," Zhen Xiaoyu said politely.
As soon as they got close to the teahouse, Zhen Xiaoyu's sharp eyes saw four men sitting at a table. She had seen one of them before when she lifted the curtain in the carriage, and the other man had also seen her!