On the roof, Donghua stared at the man in front of her with red - rimmed eyes, as if tears were about to fall at any moment.
"I never thought that just a few days after we left, Her Majesty the Queen would encounter all this," she said, choking with sobs.
Ruyi knew he couldn't console her, so he just reached out and pulled her tightly into his arms, gently stroking her back to comfort her.
Just as the two were in a heavy mood, there came a rustling sound from below. Ruyi pushed the woman in his arms away and put his finger to his lips, making a shushing gesture.
Then the two lay flat on the roof, their eyes fixed intently on the movements below.
A man dressed as a pageboy walked out. He seemed normal as he headed towards the room where the man pretending to be their master was lying.
"Just a pageboy?" Ruyi asked.
Donghua beside him frowned. Looking at the man's figure, she didn't remember seeing anyone like him today.
"No, he's a stranger!" she said in a low voice. Then she drew her sword and was about to rush down.
But the next moment, she was stopped by the man beside her. Then she heard him say, "Wait a minute. Why do I think he looks so familiar?"
Immediately, he took out the portrait from his bosom. The figure of Bai Juechen in the portrait was extremely similar to that of the current pageboy, only the face was a bit different.
"No way. I've seen this portrait countless times. Bai Juechen definitely doesn't look like this," Dongfang Yi said with a frown, sounding quite confident.
After all, in the past few days, she had been holding the portrait everywhere looking for people, and was already quite familiar with Bai Juechen's appearance. Moreover, she subconsciously felt that Bai Juechen wouldn't show up here so easily.
But Ruyi didn't agree with her. Instead, he said, "Do you know about the art of disguise? I heard that many doctors know a bit of it and can simply change their appearance."
He had read about it in books. Later, after staying in the military camp for a long time, when the soldiers chatted casually, they also mentioned that this was indeed a strange tale in the folk.
Now, seeing this pageboy with a figure similar to Bai Juechen's, not looking like an acquaintance, and with a somewhat mysterious behavior, he was somewhat convinced that this was the person they had been looking for for a long time.
After hearing this, Donghua looked at the determined expression on the man in front of her and chose to believe him. The two crouched on the roof and watched as the pageboy opened the door and walked in.
At this moment, they both jumped down from the roof and followed the man.
Inside the house, Bai Juechen, dressed as a pageboy, hesitated for a long time but still came to this shop. After all, the news that the master of this family had a strange illness had spread throughout Dongguan City. Facing such a strange disease, he was naturally curious. But he was also wary of those people who had been searching for him all day. He couldn't figure out their purpose at all.
Now, this patient might very well be a trap set by them, so he had to be cautious.
Thinking of this, he steadied his mind and gently walked into the inner room. Just as he was about to lift the bed curtain, there suddenly came a loud noise from behind.
"Bai Juechen?!"
It was Donghua who kicked open the door and shouted into the room. Standing beside her was Ruyi, who was holding his forehead and constantly shaking his head and sighing. He had advised the woman in front of him to be cautious, but he still couldn't stop her from kicking the door open directly.
The man dressed as a pageboy in the room was obviously stunned for a moment, and then an angry look appeared on his face. In his heart, he was unhappy that they were indeed setting a trap to lure him here.
Thinking of this, he sneered and then put his hand into his bosom.
Many people may have heard the saying that you must never let the poison master in front of you put his hand in a place where you can't see it, otherwise, the next second you may be poisoned without knowing it.
At this moment, Bai Juechen was thinking exactly this way. But he didn't want to kill anyone. Instead, he wanted to use a sleeping drug to knock them out so that he could escape. After all, his hands were used to save people, and he didn't want to be stained with blood.
But just as he was about to take out his hand to sprinkle the powder, Ruyi bowed first and knelt down on one knee.
This scene surprised the two people in front of him.
"Mr. Bai, please save our master!" he said.
Or rather, he wasn't saying it but pleading.
Only then did Bai Juechen take out his hand and take out a handkerchief to wipe his fingers, with a mocking smile on his lips.
"Save your master? Why should I? Should I do it because you've been chasing me for more than four days?" he said in a cold voice.
Although he saved people, it had to be those he wanted to save. Those people didn't need to plead, and he would naturally come to them on his own initiative. But these people who chased after him were so unruly. Even if they were of a higher - ranking noble family, he didn't want to pay attention to them, so he had been hiding and not showing up for a long time.
"You! Do you know who our master is?!" Donghua couldn't help but roar when she saw his arrogant attitude.
Bai Juechen still replied disdainfully, "What your identities are has nothing to do with me. I won't save him, and that's that!"
After saying that, he was about to turn around and leave.
At this time, Ruyi stood up and said coldly with his head down, "Since pleading with you doesn't work, then I can only resort to force!"
After saying that, he drew his sword and rushed over.
But Bai Juechen didn't seem to care at all. He was a poison master and didn't need to fight with brute force. As long as he waved his hand, people wouldn't even know how they died.
So he flipped his hand, and a small needle appeared between his fingers. Then it flew out.
Ruyi's sword fell to the ground when it was only an inch away from Bai Juechen because the man holding the sword had been hit by the poisoned needle and fell to the ground.
"Ruyi!" Donghua roared and rushed over, hugging his upper body.
"Don't be a nuisance. You're no match for me. Girl, you'd better take him away," Bai Juechen said in a cold voice, playing with a silver needle in his hand as if threatening. If Donghua still wanted to resist, her end would be the same as Ruyi's.
After hearing this, anger ignited in Donghua's eyes. She wanted to stand up and fight with him, but the man in her arms grabbed the corner of her clothes.
"Don't go. You're no match for him," he said.
"How can that be! What if our master has no antidote? What if... you have no antidote!" Donghua roared hoarsely.
"Don't worry. That silver needle will only make him weak. He won't die. I never kill people," Bai Juechen said in a cold voice.
But Donghua sneered. She laid the man in her arms on the ground gently, then stood up and said as if mocking.