Abandoned Woman Busy Farming

Chapter 1316: Chapter 1318: A Big Argument_1

Sangta wanted to argue with her, but he noticed the black panther returning, and his expression became serious. Taking someone out of the palace wasn’t as simple as just being on his own.

The black panther approached and let Bai Ruozhu ride on its back again. Bai Ruozhu was no longer as nervous as before. Once she was on the black panther’s back, she saw Chu Hai looking at her with a surprised face, as if he wanted to say something but didn’t manage to speak in time.

”Woman, I’m leaving first, but I won’t change my mind,” Sangta said quickly, then carried Chu Hai away.

The black panther began to sprint, quickly bringing Bai Ruozhu near the main hall of the banquet.

As Bai Ruozhu got down from its back, she patted its head gratefully. It affectionately rubbed its head against the palm of her hand; indeed, the gesture was clearly very intimate. She had thought that animals only acted like this with their owners. It seemed that the black panther hadn’t even done such an intimate gesture in front of Sangta, right?

The black panther walked away quickly. Bai Ruozhu came to her senses and saw two maids hurrying over.

”Madam Bai, His Majesty was worried because you hadn’t returned for so long, fearing you had gotten drunk, so he ordered us to find you,” one of the maids said.

Bai Ruozhu deliberately showed an embarrassed expression and said in a low voice, ”I’m feeling a bit unwell in the stomach, I made you laugh.”

The two maids immediately understood that she was having stomach issues, but since it was an embarrassing matter, they did not ask further and escorted Bai Ruozhu back to the main hall.

The sovereign was already red-faced from drinking. Seeing Bai Ruozhu, he said, ”I thought you had fallen into the toilet, hahaha.”

The corners of Bai Ruozhu’s mouth twitched. Sovereign, you really are candid when you’re drunk.

Princess Yingtong looked reproachfully at the sovereign and said, ”Father, you’ve drunk too much. Let me have someone take you down to rest.”

”I’m not drunk, no need, no need,” the sovereign said, waving his hand grandly, still wanting to keep drinking. Princess Yingtong gave a look to the maids and guards nearby, signaling them to help the sovereign go down to rest.

At that moment, someone rushed to the hall in haste. Bai Ruozhu looked up and saw it was the same man who had tortured Chu Hai before.

Seeing his anxious face, she was sure he had found out that Chu Hai had escaped and came to report to the sovereign. But when he saw the sovereign was drunk and there were foreigners present, he swallowed his report back down.

Lian Jia accompanied the sovereign as he left. Jiang Yichun also stood up and bowed to Ao Qi and Princess Yingtong, saying, ”Then we’ll take our leave as well. Thank you both for your rescue today.”

Bai Ruozhu smiled at them, ”Yes, if it weren’t for your timely arrival, I wouldn’t know what would have happened to me.”

Ao Qi smiled, ”It’s what we should do. We didn’t want to watch the Holy Hall monopolize power unchallenged. It’s you who amazed us today.”

Princess Yingtong coughed displeasedly and said, ”Why do you all talk so much? If you’re going to leave, then leave. Why are you still standing there? Hurry up and go.”

Jiang Yichun displeasedly went over and took Bai Ruozhu by the waist, pulling her toward the exit. Bai Ruozhu was still a bit slow to react; she had thought that Princess Yingtong was willing to help, which meant she considered her a friend. But this princess sure had a temper.

Ao Qi glared at Princess Yingtong angrily, then apologetically smiled at Bai Ruozhu, ”You two go back and rest first. If there’s anything, come to the Ao Residence to find me.”

Bai Ruozhu suddenly wondered how Ao Qi had managed to arrive so timely today, only to hear him add, ”I was worried that you two, being unfamiliar with this place, might encounter difficulties, so I had a servant wait near your inn. If there’s an emergency, you can tell him, and he’ll deliver the message to me immediately.”

So that was it.

Afterward, Bai Ruozhu and Jiang Yichun left the Main Hall, led by a palace maid who showed them out of the Palace.

Bai Ruozhu shrugged off her arm, shaking off Jiang Yichun’s hand that was on her waist and deliberately quickened her pace, leaving him behind.

Jiang Yichun had also drunk quite a bit, as the sovereign had been too enthusiastic, and he didn’t feel it would be proper to refuse the sovereign’s hospitality.

So at this moment, his head was a bit dizzy, and he had no idea why Bai Ruozhu was angry. He just guessed she might be unhappy that he had drunk too much and was having a little tantrum about it.

He caught up to her to take her hand, only to be shaken off again. He persistently reached for her once more, and she violently shook him off again. Neither of them spoke, but the commotion of shaking off and reaching out surely disturbed the palace maid leading the way. The maid glanced back, then hurriedly turned away, realizing the couple was having a little marital spat, and it would be best not to stare.

Bai Ruozhu had intended to erupt, but unfortunately, a palace maid was ahead, and they were still within the confines of the Imperial Palace, hardly the place for an outburst. Finally, once they had left the Palace, she exploded.

”What are you doing? Isn’t this enough?” she said while pushing him away fiercely.

Jiang Yichun was taken aback, surprised by her intense anger and asked in confusion, ”What’s wrong with you?”

”How can you have the nerve to ask me? You just gawk at anyone pretty, completely mesmerized by them,” Bai Ruozhu said. She even found her own words too sour and felt she couldn’t save face, which only made her blame Jiang Yichun more in her heart.

”What pretty? You haven’t drunk, have you? You can’t possibly be drunk, right?” Jiang Yichun’s body swayed as he tried to lean in to smell if there was any alcohol on Bai Ruozhu’s breath.

Bai Ruozhu pushed him again. She was still angry, so why was he getting so close?

Suddenly, Jiang Yichun’s movements stiffened, his gaze falling upon Bai Ruozhu’s dress, his eyes darkening.

He picked something off her dress and looked at Bai Ruozhu, asking, ”What’s this?”

Bai Ruozhu saw it was a black animal hair, clearly different from human hair, coarser and shorter, likely from the back of a black leopard.

She had sat on a black leopard’s back twice before, so it was not strange that she might have picked up a hair or two from the leopard.

”A leopard? Isn’t Sangta the only one in Gaochang City with black leopards?” Jiang Yichun’s voice grew colder, ”Where were you during the feast when you disappeared for so long? What exactly happened?”

She had intended to tell him about Chu Hai’s capture, but now, it was clear she was confronting him about his staring at the Holy Maiden Honglian. Instead of answering, he turned the question on her. What did his tone and demeanor mean? Was he suspecting her?

”Are you questioning me now? What does it mean that you were staring at Honglian? We haven’t been together for long, and you’re already looking at other women. Do you even remember what you promised at the beginning?” Bai Ruozhu scoffed coldly, ”It seems all men are the same; I shouldn’t have trusted you so much.”

”When did I stare at Honglian? Why are you being so unreasonable all of a sudden?” Jiang Yichun rubbed his forehead; his head started to ache from the alcohol, and he felt increasingly irritable. What did she mean by saying all men are the same? When did she start viewing him like that?

The more Bai Ruozhu heard, the angrier she became. So, he was denying it? Her eyesight was fine, and she had watched him for a while. Could she have been mistaken?

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