bayedsolid Chapter 122 Flustered
Chapter 122 Flustered
Chu Yunchuan saluted without any airs: "I have no choice but to conceal my identity. I hope Captain Qiao will not mind."
Qiao Wanwan was as quiet as if struck by lightning.
After a while, she stammered, "Your Highness, I hope…I hope Your Highness will forgive me for my previous rudeness."
"Ignorance is not a crime. Since Captain Qiao is Ah Zhi's good friend, don't be restrained." Chu Yunchuan squatted beside the bed very casually and got to the point, "Captain Qiao, do you still remember who attacked you?"
Speaking of this, Qiao Wanwan suddenly became energetic and said through gritted teeth: "Your Highness, this man's name is Ge Zhen."
Bai Zhi and Chu Yunchuan looked at each other - the real bastard is Ge Zhen.
This result was within Bai Zhi's expectations, but after hearing it with her own ears, her heart still sank into an icy hole.
Why was Ge Zhen here, coming for her? Did Ge Zhen know that the fake Gu Yan was Chu Yunchuan?
Will there be good days in the future?
Qiao Wanwan recounted some old stories of the Marquis' Mansion, and then began to talk about what happened that night.
It sounds simple, but in fact, when their team of city defenders was escorting Chawacuo's body, they were ambushed by a group of barbarians led by Ge Zhen. The group first paralyzed their hands and feet with a strange smoke, and then surrounded them and used many cruel and tricky tricks. Fortunately, Qiao Wanwan was highly skilled in martial arts, so she was able to fight her way out of the encirclement with a few remaining soldiers.
"Captain Qiao, are you sure you didn't recognize the wrong person?"
"Your Highness, I know Ge Zhen very well. There is no way I could have made a mistake."
"Okay." Chu Yunchuan winked at Bai Zhi, "Then let's issue a warrant for her arrest."
Bai Zhi understood what he meant, so she said to Qiao Wanwan, "You continue to rest. I will go and tell the painter at the government office about Ge Zhen's appearance."
In the study of the Fang Mansion, Bai Zhi, Chu Yunchuan and Fang Zhiheng surrounded the painter, describing Ge Zhen's appearance in unison.
"The face should be rounder and the eyes should be more fierce, like this." Bai Zhi stretched her face in front of the painter with a distorted face, scaring the painter so much that he almost threw away his pen.
Chu Yunchuan stroked his chin and looked at the portrait on the paper. He pulled the tail of Bai Zhi's eyes upwards and compared them while pulling: "This is more similar."
“…I can’t see anything.”
"Ge Zhen has droopy eyes, the tail of the eye should be higher."
"Oh, now I remember. I wore Ge Zhen's mask. It seemed to be this high..."
"Cheng Danqing, make the eyes bigger."
"Is that so?"
The painter looked at Bai Zhi's eyes, which were stretched out of shape by four hands, and had no idea how to start.
Fang Zhiheng: "... Cheng Danqing, her face is like a silver plate, her eyes are like a young fox, and the lower half of her face looks like an ordinary lady from a noble family."
Finally, something sensible was said.
The painter quickly sketched out a general appearance according to what Fang Zhiheng said, and Bai Zhi adjusted the remaining details one by one. It took exactly half an hour to restore Ge Zhen's face.
Bai Zhi felt a chill run down her spine just by looking at the portrait, and she tried to hold back and not punch it directly.
Fang Zhiheng carefully collected the portraits, and after preparation, he called all the painters in the government office to draw dozens of them. Within a day, Ge Zhen's arrest warrant would be posted throughout the whole of Weizhou.
Qiao Wanwan and several other surviving soldiers defending the city still needed to rest, so Bai Zhi and Chu Yunchuan returned to Qing County first.
During the first few days after that, Bai Zhi always felt restless in her heart, and sometimes even woke up from a nightmare. She would punch Ge Zhen while she was unconscious. Only after Chu Yunchuan hugged her tightly and forcibly transferred his long internal energy into her could she slowly calm down.
The worry and anger that the two words "Ge Zhen" brought to Bai Zhi were much greater than Bai Zhi herself had imagined.
The hard-earned peaceful life was forcibly interrupted by the presence of Ge Zhen, just like studying hard for ten years to prepare for the imperial examination, but in the end being unable to write anymore due to an accident.
Who wouldn’t curse at this?
Finally one morning, Chu Yunchuan felt something cold beside him in a daze. He woke up suddenly and turned around to see Bai Zhi bending over the table and writing furiously.
The four treasures of the study on the table were placed in a mess. In the middle was Bai Zhi, who was holding a pile of rice paper full of writing and was still writing frantically. Her eyes were bright and she didn't notice that there were ink spots on her cuffs.
No matter how he looked at it, it seemed wrong, but - Chu Yunchuan was sweating. He stared at Bai Zhi for a long time, and only when he was sure that she was not crazy did he feel relieved. He called out softly as if he was afraid of scaring her: "Bai Zhi?"
"Awake?" Bai Zhi glanced at Chu Yunchuan as if doing her job, then bent down again and continued writing furiously, "It's still early, are you hungry? Are you tired of cooking these days? Let the cook do it in the morning?"
What's there to eat? Seeing Bai Zhi's abnormal state, who would care about eating? Chu Yunchuan didn't even put on his clothes, he got out of bed barefoot and walked over to Bai Zhi, gently pulling out the stack of papers from Bai Zhi's arms. Bai Zhi didn't stop him, and didn't even care, she kept writing.
There is really no need to worry about it. After Chu Yunchuan looked at it, he found that the first few pictures were his drafts of deduction, and the latter ones were Bai Zhi's continued drafts.
Bai Zhi continued to deduce the purpose of Ge Zhen's coming here.
Chu Yunchuan brought a chair and sat next to Bai Zhi. He wanted to take the pen, but Bai Zhi shook her head: "It's almost over. I'll do it."
This should have been his job. On the first day when Bai Zhi was not in good condition, he started to deduce. However, now that the imperial examination was approaching, Fang Zhiheng's letters were sent to him one after another. He was busy with the imperial examination and Ge Zhen, so he was unable to split his time and the progress of the deduction was very slow.
He looked at the paper Bai Zhi was writing on and silently read the complicated words one by one.
"......?" According to the content on the paper, Bai Zhi seemed to have lost her way while writing. The following... Chu Yunchuan slowed down his voice and tried to comfort her, "Bai Zhi, Ge Zhen is cunning and crazy. Your plans... may not be able to kill her. Besides, you don't have to do it yourself. Based on what she has done, I have my own way to bring her to justice."
"How can we face the punishment for the evil deeds we did secretly?" Bai Zhi said in a flat tone, "If it weren't for you, I don't know how many times I would have died in her hands. I can't hide like this. She chases me when I run away. She chases me when I run away. She can even catch me even if I run to the horizon. Damn it, it seems that only one of Ge Zhen and I can survive."
"Baizhi, Baizhi."
Bai Zhi didn't even look at Chu Yunchuan, and asked perfunctorily: "What's wrong?"
Chu Yunchuan held down Bai Zhi's left hand, which was writing furiously, and forced her to turn her head.
The first thing Chu Yunchuan saw was the bloodshot eyes and the dark circles under Bai Zhi's eyes. His heart sank - it was his fault that he had been busy with official business these days and hadn't noticed that Bai Zhi's condition was worse than he thought.
She didn't seem to realize how shocking her appearance was. She rubbed her eyes and said, "I'm not hungry. If you are hungry, go eat first. Just leave some for me."