Bai Yu'an jumped from the carriage off guard. The thief probably didn't expect Bai Yu'an to jump off, and he didn't have time to catch her.
Bai Yu'an breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the sound of the carriage gradually receding in his ears.
She didn't know why the thief's carriage suddenly moved so slowly. She didn't feel much inertia when she jumped off.
The hands behind him struggled hard and managed to break free of the rope.
Bai Yu'an quickly pulled off the black cloth covering his eyes and looked into the alley. The carriage had long since disappeared.
She felt something was wrong and looked to the side. There was no one in the alley, but it was a familiar place to her.
His brows couldn't help but frown deeply, why did he just return to the yard where he lived by such a coincidence.
At this time, the pain behind her came back. Bai Yu'an was dripping with cold sweat, and with a pale face, she went to press the copper ring on the courtyard door.
It was Wei Ruyi who opened the door. She was shocked when she saw Bai Yuan's appearance: "Sir, why are you like this!"
Bai Yu'an's body was covered with mud, and his red official uniform was even more wrinkled.
Especially that face, it seemed as if something had pinched it. There were two finger marks on the original white jade skin.
His face was obviously pale, but his lips were extremely red, and there were even faint red marks at the corners of his mouth.
Several strands of hair fell down, sticking to her cheeks and looking very embarrassed.
It's not normal to look like this, it's like...
Bai Yu'an didn't have the energy to say anything more. He leaned on the door frame and could hardly stand still. He gasped and said, "Take me in first."
Wei Ruyi did not dare to delay and quickly helped Bai Yu'an to the main room.
A Tao inside saw Bai Yu'an coming back at this time and saw Bai Yu'an's appearance. He quickly rushed over to support him, his face changed greatly and he said: "Master, what happened?"
Bai Yu'an didn't have the strength to speak. As soon as he entered the room, he lay down on the bed and said weakly to A Tao: "I was beaten with a cane today."
Wei Ruyi knelt beside the bed and her eyes turned red again. She quickly opened Bai Yu'an's red robe and took a look. Seeing the blood stains on the white trousers inside, she couldn't help but choked up and said, "I'll go and heat hot water for you, sir." "
Seeing that Wei Ruyi was not only crying but also doing something this time, A Tao hurriedly went to find the remaining medicine from the last application.
A Tao looked at Bai Yu'an's pale cheeks lying on the bed, her eyes were red and she said, "Is this the young master punished by the Queen Mother?"
Bai Yu'an closed her eyes and said in a trembling voice: "The Queen Mother forced me to marry Wei Miaochun."
"Originally, I had planned to be demoted to Jiu Liang, but the Queen Mother went back on my word and gave me the punishment of a cane."
After hearing this, A Tao was furious: "Isn't the Queen Mother great? How can anyone force someone to marry a wife these days?"
"The Princess of Jianing is unruly and arrogant. She will marry anyone she likes. How can she let the young master suffer this crime?"
"If you don't marry, you still beat someone. What kind of rules are these?"
Bai Yu'an didn't speak, lying on the pillow with his eyes closed tiredly.
After a while, Wei Ruyi came over with hot water, took off the handkerchief and went to take off Bai Yuan's pants and wash them.
A Tao quickly stood up and chased people away: "You can go out, I will take care of this matter."
Wei Ruyi's eyes turned red and she said, "I won't do anything. Now that you've become like this, what can you do to get me out?"
A Tao said angrily: "Young Master and you are different between men and women, can you see it?"
Wei Ruyi was a little unconvinced: "Then why can you just watch?"
A Tao put her hands on her hips and said angrily: "I've been serving you since I was a child. I've been waiting for you since you were young, before you could walk. Are you convinced now?"
Wei Ruyi couldn't help but looked at Bai Yu'an aggrievedly. Seeing that Bai Yu'an had her eyes closed and didn't speak, she turned around and walked out.
After Wei Ruyi left, A Tao went over and gently took off Bai Yu'an's underpants.
Before she even moved her hands, she heard Bai Yu'an moan.
The blood on the pants was mixed with the flesh. Bai Yuan lay on the couch and sweated in pain. He gasped and said, "If you pull it off all at once, it will only hurt me."
A Tao's eyes turned red and she hummed, then she made up her mind and lowered her pants to her knees.
The white and tender skin was torn, and A Tao couldn't even find a place to clean it up.
After finally cleaning it up, she dipped her fingertips into ointment and applied it.
Bai Yu'an gritted his teeth and endured the pain, but his mind was full of thoughts about what had just happened.
The more I think about it, the more humiliated and humiliated I feel.
When he got angry, he couldn't help but throw out the tea cup at hand.
The crisp sound of clanging sounded in the quiet room, breaking the oppressive tranquility.
A Tao was stunned by the sudden sound, looked at Bai Yu'an and asked in surprise: "Sir, what's wrong?"
This was the first time she saw Bai Yu'an throwing something for no apparent reason, and she couldn't help but ask: "But the slave is using too much force?"
Bai Yu'an looked at the broken porcelain pieces on the ground and was slightly startled. Thinking of his gaffe, he immediately buried himself on the pillow and muttered: "It's okay."
Wei Ruyi outside heard the sound and stood behind the curtain and asked, "Sir, what's going on inside?"
A Tao said: "It's okay, you go and cook some porridge for the young master first."
Then A Tao turned back to Bai Yu'an and asked: "How did the young master come back like this?"
Bai Yu'an covered his head with a pillow, and after a long while he whispered, "I'm walking back."
A Tao was stunned for a moment, looking at Bai Yu'an's back like that, and didn't know how he got back.
At night, Bai Yu'an was lying on the bed in his underwear, and A Tao sat on the footrest and fed Bai Yu'an porridge: "Sir, New Year's Eve is less than half a month away. Are you going back this year?"
Bai Yu'an took a mouthful of porridge and made some calculations in his mind: "If we take a carriage from the capital back to Tanzhou, it will take at least five days to travel day and night, and it will also take two days to go from Tanzhou to Shuyang."
"I only have eight days of vacation, and I don't have enough time to go back and forth."
A Tao put another mouthful of porridge into Bai Yu'an's mouth: "What should we do? The young master has not been back for almost two years."
"If the young master really doesn't plan to go back, it's better to write a letter back earlier, so that the master and his wife don't wait for the young master."
Bai Yu'an's eyes fell: "I originally wrote a letter yesterday, thinking that I was going to be demoted, so that I could tell him to go back in advance."
"I'm thinking of going back and taking a look when I pass by."
As he spoke, Bai Yu'an looked out the window. The white snow flying from the window was slightly dazzling, and his eyes hurt a little. He lowered his head and said no more.
After a while, she gathered her emotions and looked at A Tao with a calm expression: "It's useless to talk about that now."
"I'm just lucky that the Queen Mother didn't ask anyone to inquire about my marriage in my hometown. If the inquiry turns out to be false, it won't be as simple as being demoted."
When A Tao heard this, her heart suddenly changed, her face changed and she said, "What if the Queen Mother goes to inquire again?"
Bai Yuan lowered his eyebrows and thought of Shen Jue's words again.
He pressed his fingertips on the pillow, making an unknown mark, and said softly: "Let's talk about it later."
Seeing Bai Yu'an's appearance, A Tao was still a little worried and said: "But sooner or later, the young master will have a wife by his side. If he never marries a wife, wouldn't it make people suspicious."
Bai Yu'an glanced at his wrist, which still had the red mark of the rope, and couldn't help but close his eyes in humiliation: "We will talk about this later, I will think of a solution."
Her eyes darkened as she spoke: "Maybe I will offend someone again one day and be demoted to another place. It's hard to say."
A Tao looked at Bai Yu'an's back, which was delicate and thin, and her expression paused for a moment. Then she put another spoonful of porridge to Bai Yu'an's lips and said softly: "If you want me to be demoted, I will go wherever you want."
"This capital city is full of noble people, and they are afraid of even stepping on an ant to death."
Bai Yu'an smiled bitterly, but his thoughts had already gone far away.
Seeing that Bai Yu'an was silent, A Tao became quiet and fed the people porridge one mouthful at a time. When they saw that they couldn't eat anymore, they took the bowl out and went out.
When A Tao came in, Bai Yu'an asked her to take the book and read it.
Naturally, A Tao refused. He brought hot water to Bai Yu'an on the bedside and wiped his hands while saying, "Young master, you should rest, it's already like this."
"If you cry out in pain tomorrow, I won't care about you."
A Tao said, after washing up, he covered Bai Yu'an with the quilt, and turned out the lights without any room for negotiation.
Bai Yu'an was left alone staring at the night.
