"I don’t want to see it now. Oh right, stop at the city gate, I’m picking someone up to go with us!" Yun Jinnian spoke indifferently.
Madam Qian frowned, "Who is it?"
After Yun Jinnian finished speaking, he fell silent.
She wasn’t pleased; she would just stay in Nanjiang for a while. After all, the Emperor didn’t even know whether she had learned to cure poisons or not, and he was probably more afraid that, if she hadn’t learned, she wouldn’t heal him but accidentally kill him instead!
Madam Qian wanted to say something, but in the end, she said nothing.
She lifted the curtain of the carriage and said, "Stop at the city gate to pick up a person!"
In front of the carriage sat three people: a coachman and two female guards.
Yun Jinnian didn’t know what expression they wore, but she could guess—they were not pleased.
But displeased as they were, the carriage still stopped outside the city gate.
Yun Jinnian alighted from the carriage and watched as Han Tianci, who was walking with his head held high, approached. He was carrying a huge bundle, so enormous it nearly squashed him.
Yun Jinnian looked around but saw no sign of Han Xuzi.
"Are you alone?" she asked Han Tianci.
"Yeah, Grandfather had Uncle Zhong bring me here and then he left!" said Han Tianci, bursting into laughter.
Yun Jinnian laughed along with him and helped him with the bundle, "It’s so heavy, what did you bring?"
"I’ll show you on the carriage!" Han Tianci said mysteriously.
Madam Qian stepped forward to help, but Han Tianci quickly shook his head, "No, no need!"
Hemei and Henuan came forward to help, and Han Tianci didn’t disdain their help; together, they loaded the bundle onto the carriage. Madam Qian wanted to enter too when Yun Jinnian then said, "Madam Qian, you take the carriage behind!"
Madam Qian’s face immediately cooled by several degrees, and Yun Jinnian, truly not pampering her, dropped the carriage curtain.
Madam Qian, never having been treated such, took a deep breath and twisted her body onto the second carriage.
"Go!" The carriage once again sped off.
Kicking up clouds of dust.
Inside the carriage, the siblings looked at each other and burst into laughter.
Han Tianci opened the bundle, and Yun Jinnian, looking at it, couldn’t help but chuckle.
"Why are you carrying so much medicine?"
"It’s useful on the road; if we encounter poor folks who need emergency aid, we can give it to them, and if we meet wealthy landowners, we can sell it to them for silver!"
Yun Jinnian nodded, "You make sense!"
"Sister, am I not very clever?" Han Tianci playfully asked.
"You should call me ’brother’!"
Yun Jinnian affectionately tapped Han Tianci and then wrote in his palm, "Did Grandfather arrange for someone to secretly protect us?"
Han Tianci nodded and wrote back in Yun Jinnian’s palm, "Uncle Zhong!"
Yun Jinnian immediately felt relieved.
Upon learning of Yun Jinnian’s departure, Princess Zhen Guo took a deep breath, holding back tears, "May the Bodhisattva bless her, may everything go smoothly for Jinnian, and may my Xiao Wu..."
On the official road, two horses galloped, carrying Yuwen Ya and Chu Yu.
"Little uncle, we’ll soon see Uncle Five, and I’m actually quite excited!" said Chu Yu, smiling.
But when they met Prince Yanjun, their smiles vanished.
Because Prince Yanjun could no longer see them.
Yuwen Ya waved his hand in front of Prince Yanjun’s eyes, which didn’t move an inch, "Uncle Five?"
Prince Yanjun smiled.
His Banished Fairy beauty, in that moment, seemed as though a hundred flowers bloomed simultaneously, so beautiful it didn’t seem real.
And dressed in his white robes, he looked like an immortal descending to the mundane world, standing there, out of place with the world around him.
Chu Yu took a deep breath, "Cousin Five!"
Prince Yanjun nodded slightly.
"Cousin Five, Auntie asked Xiaoqi and me to come to pick you up!"
Once again, Prince Yanjun nodded.
Chu Yu exhaled, realizing that returning this way, Auntie would likely be heartbroken.