Abandoned Woman Busy Farming

Chapter 1185: Chapter 1187 Finally Meet_1

”Elder Shougu’s” gaze was too strange; how could someone as perceptive as Bai Ruozhu not spot the flaw?

”Silly, you can’t even recognize your own husband?” No sooner had his voice faded than he lifted off the human skin mask, his body making a cracking sound as his frame rapidly elongated, the clothes soon becoming too short, revealing his wrists and ankles.

Bai Ruozhu looked into the eyes of the man before her, her face filled with excitement; she cradled his face, scrutinizing it carefully. Yes, only her Achun had such a tender gaze.

Their kiss was deep and lasted a long time before they could part...

After a while, Bai Ruozhu and he looked at each other, but she suddenly let out a snort of laughter.

”Look at your clothes, you look like you’re playing monkey tricks,” she said, laughing even harder, her whole body shaking.

Jiang Yichun squeezed his eyebrows together and said with a smile, ”Yes, I’m playing monkey tricks, but where is the monkey?”

”You’re getting better at this, aren’t you? I haven’t seen you for a few days and you’re already slagging me off?” Bai Ruozhu feigned anger and hit him lightly.

But the smile on his face grew even wider as he suddenly cupped her pretty face and kissed her fiercely again.

”Stop it now, get to the point. What is this act you’re putting on? And how did you manage to escape?” Bai Ruozhu asked, giving him a once-over, implying that his whole body was strange.

Jiang Yichun saw her serious expression and put away his playful demeanor, reaching out to touch her cheek, he said, ”This trip was full of disasters, and you’ve suffered on my account.”

Bai Ruozhu shook her head with a smile. She hadn’t really suffered; at most, she felt some pain when she took it upon herself.

”Jiao Bingqin always had issues. It’s true that she is a descendant of the Wu Family, but she had a master behind the scenes—the one who kidnapped you, the masked man. They call him Chiyou. Our travel was so discreet, but because of Jiao Bingqin sending messages, Chiyou led us into an ambush. In a moment of urgency, realizing her treachery, I had no choice but to jump off the cliff with her. On the way down, I stabbed her heart with her hairpin, but unexpectedly, she survived,” Jiang Yichun recounted.

Bai Ruozhu furrowed her brows. Chiyou? In the past, the legitimate ruler in Zhongyuan was the Yellow Emperor, and Chiyou was defeated in a great battle against him. This masked man giving himself that name didn’t seem very auspicious.

”You must have heard the news of my cliff jump and brought people to find me, right?” Jiang Yichun said tenderly, taking her soft hand, imagining how worried and sad she must have been when she heard the news.

But she suddenly shook off his hand and glared at him fiercely, saying, ”Yes, I heard that you and Jiao Bingqin leaped off the cliff together in a lovers’ suicide. I was so angry that smoke was coming out of my head, I wanted to find you and whip you a few hundred times.”

He chuckled softly, grabbing her hand and gently hitting his own face with it, ”Now that I’m here before you, you can whip me all you want, I promise not to dodge.”

Bai Ruozhu, so angry she switched from slapping to pinching, pinched two red marks on his handsome face. It hurt so much that he grimaced before she was willing to stop.

”That’ll teach your face to cause trouble everywhere; I’ll have to pinch you into a pig head!” she said indignantly.

Jiang Yichun listened with a bitter smile, pretending to draw a line on his face with his hand, ”How about this, from here to here, I’ll make a cut. With a scar like that, women will definitely stop bothering me.”

She slapped the back of his hand, ”Quit your teasing and tell me the important stuff already.”

That calmed her down a bit, although she knew Jiang Yichun wouldn’t really die with Jiao Bingqin out of love, hearing the news about their double suicide nearly made her blow her top. So, giving him a hard time was deserved.

Also, it’s not like there was no reason; it was his face that got the Ghost Doctor’s daughters’ attention, wasn’t it?

”Then, as you know, I was saved by the Ghost Doctor and his daughter. When I woke up, the Ghost Doctor said he had a rule for saving people: the person saved must do something for him. His demand was for me to marry his daughter,” Jiang Yichun said, shrugging helplessly, ”I told him right then that I already had a wife and child, but that Ghost Doctor is so stubborn, he absolutely wouldn’t listen.”

”Yes, you did say that. So when he saw me, he wanted to kill me, claiming that if I was dead, you could marry his daughter without issue,” Bai Ruozhu said irritably.

Jiang Yichun quickly wrapped his arms around her and kissed her again, ”Okay now, don’t be angry. I didn’t want this either. Do you want to keep listening?”

”Speak!” Bai Ruozhu gave him a roll of her eyes.

”Then I left a letter for you, knowing you would definitely find it. Later on, we were attacked by Qingqiu and Jiao Bingqin. You know what happened after that,” Jiang Yichun said, ”But I didn’t run away with the Ghost Doctor and his daughter. I took the chance to hide in Qingqiu’s secret chamber before that, and I did something to make sure the Ghost Doctor and his daughter could escape smoothly, all to create chaos that I could use as an opportunity to leave myself. Otherwise, when Chiyou arrived, it would have been difficult for me to escape.”

”That courtesan?” Bai Ruozhu gasped, thinking how could Jiang Yichun just disappear into thin air? But wouldn’t this make Chiyou suspicious of Qingqiu?

”I have an underground faction backing me, involving some dark and dangerous matters. I’ve been hesitant about whether to tell you. Qingqiu belongs to that organization; she’s one of my subordinates,” Jiang Yichun paused, ”Just forget it once you’ve heard it. She is going to marry into Chiyou’s faction and become a concubine.”

Bai Ruozhu opened her mouth wide in shock, thinking his time at the Imperial Censorate was mysterious enough, and now there was a secret organization too?

”I found out later that you were held hostage by Chiyou and regretted not being there. If my injuries had healed sooner, I could’ve met up with you earlier and saved you from suffering,” he said, caressing her shoulder apologetically, with such gentleness as if she would shatter at the slightest touch.

”What kind of underground faction is this? It’s not the Assassin Organization, is it?” Bai Ruozhu’s expression cooled, repulsed by the thought of organizations like Qisha Pavilion.

Jiang Yichun hurriedly said, ”Definitely not. Do you smell any blood on me? If I were a killer, no matter how much I washed, the smell wouldn’t fade. Your nose is even better than a dog’s. Could I really fool you?”

Bai Ruozhu punched him lightly, agitated, ”You’re the one with a dog’s nose.”

He laughed and grabbed her hand, ”I can’t let the emperor know about my faction’s existence. So, I had no choice but to disguise myself as Elder Shougu to rescue you. Then I went to great lengths to shake everyone off just so I could talk to you alone.”

”And what about afterwards?” Bai Ruozhu asked, ”You can’t disappear for too long. Aren’t you afraid the emperor will be suspicious of you?”

”Don’t worry. I’ll make it look like I was saved and taken away by Elder Shougu. When you rendezvous with the others later, you tell them Elder Shougu said he has rescued me and settled me comfortably. You should return to the Capital first, and I will join you once my wounds heal a bit,” Jiang Yichun explained.

Bai Ruozhu stared at him for a long while, her gaze becoming serious, ”Tell me honestly, what exactly is your organization in the background, and what do you have to do for them?”