Abandoned Woman Busy Farming

Chapter 2174: Chapter 2172: Testing Along the Journey

Feng Cheng lowered his head, hiding the true emotions in his eyes. The people of the Fen Family are all devoted, once they fall in love with someone, it’s for a lifetime, even wishing to watch her die even if it means their own death.

He had lived for over a hundred years, truly unafraid of death, after all, she didn’t love him either, so he didn’t care about living a few more years to accompany her.

Perhaps soon she could reconcile with her husband and then live like an immortal couple. By then, he had to leave; how could he stick around like a plaster? At that time, he might as well return to the Peach Forest.

Or maybe she wouldn’t find her husband, then he would protect her, even if one day the curse exhausted his life force.

Suddenly, he spat out a mouthful of blood again. He hurriedly wiped it away with his hand, while Bai Ruozhu frowned beside him, ”You shouldn’t do these things anymore, I don’t care about investigating those matters.”

She paused, ”You should return to the Peach Forest, this isn’t okay.”

”You don’t need to worry about me,” Fen Cheng said somewhat stubbornly.

Bai Ruozhu looked at him for a long time, finally sighed, gave him some medicine, and then left the Room.

How on earth can she make Feng Cheng give up on leaving?

This person is really stubborn!

She had just returned to the Room, only to find that someone was coming again, hastily disguising herself as a merchant, not revealing any flaws.

Why is Zhou Shibin being so cautious? Just because the manager called out ”Young Owner”? Or did Zhou Shibin notice some flaw?

After a while, the people monitoring quietly left, and Bai Ruozhu secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Soon after, Jianqi returned and said to Bai Ruozhu, ”Zhou Shibin seems to be of the royal family of Chengshui, but there’s nothing else found out yet.”

Bai Ruozhu had to tell him the content Feng Cheng had investigated and added, ”Feng Cheng’s old ailments have resurfaced. He will continue to follow us, just not letting him do anything then.”

”Who exactly is he?” Jianqi thought for a moment and asked.

”I’m not sure either, but he is under a curse like I am, so he wants to follow me to find a way to break the curse.” Bai Ruozhu said as she avoided Jianqi’s gaze, somewhat unwilling to let her subordinates know the true reason Feng Cheng was following her.

Jianqi nodded and exited.

Bai Ruozhu thought carefully and felt that it’s best not to provoke Zhou Shibin now. After all, he is King Ying’s son and went to Danliang as an undercover agent, so perhaps King Ying is not simple either?

As newcomers, the Commerce Association isn’t clearly safe or unsafe, so it’s better to keep a low profile.

Early the next morning, a few people continued their journey. Before long, Jianqi’s face turned gloomy and quietly said to Bai Ruozhu inside the carriage, ”Master, someone is following us.”

Bai Ruozhu hoarsely, posed as a middle-aged merchant, ”Who are they? Could they be robbers, Xiaoqi, go and have a look.”

Jianqi’s lips twitched slightly, couldn’t you change to a better name?

They could pretend to be unaware, but if it’s too deliberate, it would also arouse the other’s suspicion, especially since this time the people hiding are not that good.

Soon, Jianqi dragged someone back, rough-voiced said to Bai Ruozhu, ”Master, this person was sneakily following us, and said he’s an escort master going east, where is there an escort master traveling alone?”

Bai Ruozhu scrutinized the man, who was being held like a chick by Jianqi, and said, ”Speak honestly, I don’t mind executing a robber on the spot, the Government Office wouldn’t say I’m wrong.”

The man’s face changed slightly, and he said bitterly, ”Master, I’m really an escort master, I work at the Weihu Escort Agency in Fubu City, just came back to visit family.”

Bai Ruozhu looked scrutinizingly, then said, ”You don’t look like an escort master.”

She deliberately pretended not to notice the other and turned to look at Jianqi, ”Tie him up, take him directly into the Government Office when we enter the City later...”

Before she finished, the man suddenly attacked Bai Ruozhu, his moves were quick, precise, and fierce, clearly premeditated.

Bai Ruozhu didn’t dodge, putting on a panic-stricken appearance, just like someone who doesn’t know martial arts reacting when facing an assassin. Jianqi blocked the dagger he thrust, then swiftly chopped off his right hand with a single sword stroke.

”Ah...” The man screamed painfully, clutching his severed hand while rolling on the ground.

Bai Ruozhu acted as if she was startled and frightened, said to Jianqi, ”Capture him, ask who sent him? Is it the second family?”

Her coarse, hoarse voice was still slightly trembling, what a realistic performance, Feng Cheng, responsible for protecting Little Dengdeng, was sneakily watching nearby.

It was an unsuccessful assassination, rather clumsy in fact, but indeed an arranged test.

She couldn’t dodge, even if an ordinary merchant knew a bit of martial arts, they wouldn’t be too formidable. If she reacted too quickly and used any agility technique, it would reveal a flaw.

”Are you going to speak?” Jianqi directly broke the man’s other hand, skillfully like a guard of a wealthy family traveling the River Jiang.

The man screamed, ”I’ll speak, someone gave me five hundred taels of silver, telling me to come after you.”

”Hah, my life is only worth five hundred taels, huh?” Bai Ruozhu feigned lighthearted laughter.

Suddenly a Dark Arrow shot, piercing the throat of the captured man, and he collapsed limply to the ground.

”Master, be careful, there are more assassins!” Muyu shouted, quickly posing to guard Bai Ruozhu at the center.

”How can there be more assassins?” Bai Ruozhu feigned panic, ”Get in the horse carriage, let’s leave quickly.”

She then ”nervously” climbed into the horse carriage; inside, Feng Cheng and Dengdeng were both sneaking a smile at her, Feng Cheng even made a shushing gesture to Dengdeng to prevent him from exposing them.

Jianqi and the others drove the carriage at a gallop, sure enough, no more Dark Arrows appeared; evidently, the other party used the decoy as a test stone, and silenced him once he was of no further use.

Not until the horse carriage arrived at the next city without further incidents did Bai Ruozhu finally confirm the other party’s test had ended.

Confirmed she was an ordinary merchant, they finally felt at ease.

But one thing puzzled her—if Zhou Shibin feared she overheard things she shouldn’t have, it would be simpler to just kill her and silence witnesses, why repeat testing and tracking?

Or did they have concerns making it inconvenient to kill her?

Bai Ruozhu felt she currently had no energy to investigate Zhou Shibin’s affairs; Feng Cheng’s health wasn’t good, and she didn’t want him to investigate, nor did she want to owe Feng Cheng more favors. Her manpower was scarce, inconvenient for separate actions, and Chengshui Country’s Commerce Association’s situation was unclear and totally unreliable.

So for now, she could only focus on rushing to the Capital City of Chengshui to find Jiang Yichun and ask what’s going on, or if he won’t talk, she would investigate herself.

Then together with him, figure out a way to look into Tang Feng’s matters, see how she can meet him, and plan the next step to help him.

Moreover, Feng Cheng, he can’t continue on like this.

Reaching the Inn, Bai Ruozhu asked Yizi to take Dengdeng to play, while she went to find Feng Cheng.

”You can’t follow me anymore; your presence has already caused misunderstandings with my husband!” Bai Ruozhu said angrily.