Abandoned Woman Busy Farming
Chapter 1351 - 1353 What is being hidden?_1

Chapter 1351: Chapter 1353 What is being hidden?_1

"How did you manage to escape, then? Qi Ting wouldn’t have just injured you and left it at that, right?" Bai Ruozhu asked.

Qingyan shook his head, "After I fell unconscious, I have no idea what happened. Maybe someone from my family found out and secretly saved me."

"It’s true what they say, you can know someone’s face but not their heart. Senior Qingyan, don’t think too much about it, let’s talk more once your injuries have healed a bit." Bai Ruozhu felt some emotion, but then she suddenly noticed a flicker of panic in Qingyan’s eyes.

Her heart skipped a beat. She had thought Qingyan was someone she could trust, but now it seemed that he was hiding something. Could it be that he made up the story and had snuck into the royal palace with ulterior motives?

Thinking this way, Bai Ruozhu started to feel uneasy. She told Qingyan to rest well. Given the severity of his internal injuries and his poor health, he soon fell asleep.

"Muyu, keep an eye on Qingyan. Inform me immediately if anything happens," Bai Ruozhu instructed.

"Yes, madam."

Not long after Bai Ruozhu left the room, Jianqi hurried back, but his expression was somewhat obscure.

"What’s wrong?" Bai Ruozhu felt it certainly had something to do with Qingyan.

"The dark guard saw that it was that black panther that brought Qingyan to the palace gate. However, it seemed that Qingyan was unconscious the whole time," Jianqi said.

That black panther? Without saying, Bai Ruozhu knew which one it was—it was the one that had carried her, the one Jianqi had seen before.

Thinking of that black panther, Bai Ruozhu felt an unusual sense of affection, as if it were her own pet. However, since it belonged to Sangta, it also made her feel uncomfortable.

"Could it be Sangta who secretly saved Qingyan? Last time, it was Sangta too. Isn’t that too much of a coincidence?" Bai Ruozhu muttered quietly to herself.

At that moment, Jiang Yichun came back from outside. Seeing Bai Ruozhu with a furrowed brow, he came over, put his arm around her shoulder, and asked what was wrong. Bai Ruozhu told him about Qingyan being saved and also mentioned the injury inflicted by Qi Ting.

"I feel like Qingyan is hiding something, and he was again brought here by that black panther. It all feels very strange to me," Bai Ruozhu said.

Jiang Yichun’s face darkened. Anything related to Sangta irked him. Previously, he had admired Qingyan’s presence and his courage to give up everything for love, but he hadn’t expected Qingyan to be associated with Sangta.

"I’ll have Chenfeng keep an eye on him and report back if there’s anything unusual," Jiang Yichun said.

Bai Ruozhu was also worried that they might be falsely accusing Qingyan. Besides, with his severe injuries, it wasn’t possible to just throw him out, right? With this thought, she decided to let the matter rest for the time being.

She pulled Jiang Yichun back to the room and said with a mischievous smile, "Achun, let’s continue with ’that’ today."

Jiang Yichun’s face immediately fell, "We have to do ’that’ again? Please spare me."

Bai Ruozhu glared at him, "Why? Not happy about it? Do you want me to find someone else to do it?"

"How could that be possible? Alright, let’s start," Jiang Yichun said, rolling up his sleeves.

Bai Ruozhu grinned, grabbed him, and with a thought, they entered the Space.

Since she discovered that medicinal materials could grow very quickly in her Space, she had planned to plant as much as possible. However, turning the soil, sowing the seeds, and watering, all these farming tasks were quite hard work.

Therefore, she quickly identified the free labor in her household and brought Jiang Yichun in to plant medicinal materials.

Asking Jiang Yichun to practice his sword for four hours was fine, but having him farm medicinal materials for the same amount of time was truly more than he could handle.

He wasn’t skilled in farming; his work was inefficient. Coupled with the constant bending over and the sheer tedium, he felt like crying without tears whenever his wife mentioned planting again.

Bai Ruozhu secretly chuckled to herself, saying, "If it were my dad, he wouldn’t know how happy to be. And the people from where I came from, they love to sneak into the fields to ’steal’ vegetables in the middle of the night, even forgetting to sleep."

"Stealing vegetables is not honorable," Jiang Yichun muttered.

Bai Ruozhu’s eyes crinkled with laughter. Forget it, she couldn’t be bothered to explain to him that ’stealing’ wasn’t really stealing but just a way of playing the game. Besides, it wasn’t popular anymore, and it didn’t matter to them now.

"Alright, so once we finish this time, we won’t have much left to save," Bai Ruozhu said as she "comforted" him, while she leisurely sat by the pond grilling fish, ostensibly to cook for Jiang Yichun, lest he got hungry later.

Bai Ruozhu was watching a large screen on her side, and soon the scene outside changed. A voice reported from outside the door, "Master, Madam, the sovereign has come to visit. He orders Qi Qingyan to leave the royal palace."

Jiang Yichun hurriedly slapped the dirt off his hands. What was happening?

Bai Ruozhu quickly pulled him out of the Space and proceeded together towards the outside of the Room.

Jiang Yichun quickly straightened his clothes. He had rolled up his sleeves and tucked up his shirt for convenience while planting medicinal materials. Muyu looked on curiously, thinking whether the master had been working just now? But apparently, there was no noise coming from inside the Room, right?

The two went to the place where Qingyan had been placed, and indeed they saw the Sovereign, fuming with rage.

"I’ve been told that you have saved a person from the Qi Family, so I came over to check. But I didn’t expect it to be that Qi Qingyan. How do you know him? Such a person must not stay in the royal palace!" The sovereign spoke with an unusually angry tone, it was rare to hear him speak so furiously.

Bai Ruozhu hurriedly explained, "We saved him on the road. He was attacked by a beast and almost lost his life. Later, when we returned to Gaochang, we sent him back to the Qi Family."

She wanted to add that the Qi Family had previously expressed their willingness to help the sovereign against the Holy Hall, but considering what Qingyan had said, she felt it was better not to mention it further.

"It seems you don’t know who he really is," the sovereign said, his tone somewhat softened.

Bai Ruozhu and Jiang Yichun exchanged glances. Jiang Yichun bowed to the sovereign and said, "Please enlighten us, Sovereign. It is our first time in Gaochang City, and there is much we do not know."

The sovereign sighed and said, "This Qingyan, when he was younger, was actually quite decent, and he even studied with me. I have always admired him. But he got carried away by the princess of the Barbarian Clan, Sangshu, abandoning his right as the Qi Family heir, against his family’s objections, and eloped with her. For many years, he did not return, and I had no idea how he was faring outside. Why would he come back now of all times?"

"Qingyan said he left his Family to live in seclusion for the sake of a woman from the Barbarian Tribe, and that woman turned out to be the Barbarian Princess?" Bai Ruozhu was somewhat surprised. Qingyan had never mentioned this; was this the secret he had been hiding?

"Who knows if he has been conspiring with the Barbarian Clan over these years? Even if the Royal Family is to form an alliance with the Barbarian Clan through marriage, it was a suggestion from the Holy Hall, not something I would welcome. I can’t have Barbarian Tribe people staying in the royal palace. You should leave the palace; let’s not damage our harmony over such a person," the sovereign stated firmly.

"This..." Bai Ruozhu felt some reluctance but could also see the sovereign wasn’t likely deceiving them, and she began to feel somewhat distressed.