Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Chapter 26: Chapter 15 Scrambling Away_2

“Master, what do you think? How do you plan to handle this? Are you going to silence them by killing, or let the tiger return to the mountain?” After finishing her sentence, Gu Changsheng briskly slapped her own cheek. Damn it, letting the tiger return to the mountain! The latter part means raising a tiger invites calamity. She was clearly asking for death.

“I don’t plan to raise a tiger that invites calamity,” Zhou Mu replied coldly, seizing the opportunity to speak.

“So, Master, you’re not planning to settle this amicably?” Gu Changsheng lifted her head, her eyebrows nearly folding in worry, her face twisted into a bun.

Zhou Mu squinted at her but did not reply.

A sudden silence fell; neither of them spoke.

Zhou Mu’s brows slowly furrowed. “What are you thinking?”

“Wondering if I should take a step ahead and silence you first,” Gu Changsheng answered instinctively. As soon as she finished, she looked up in alarm. Damn, she zoned out!

Zhou Mu’s gaze turned icy. Gu Changsheng had no doubt that if looks could kill, she would probably have been sliced to the bone by now.

Although she also knew some self-defense, that man was a Great General King, and a Victorious General at that.

After considering the odds, it seemed possible, likely, that she couldn’t beat him. Gu Changsheng instantly felt defeated.

The situation was a bit tricky; Prince Mu wasn’t someone easy to talk to.

Having failed to negotiate, Gu Changsheng returned to her room with a face full of defeat.

“Mother, have some plums.” Little Meat Bun eagerly held out a plum to his mother’s lips.

Gu Changsheng took it, chewing without tasting. What to do? Better to run, can’t just wait to die.

“Xiao Cui, how’s the packing going?” Gu Changsheng asked in a low voice, as Xiao Cui just walked in.

“There’s still a bit left, madam. It’s getting dark; are we really going to leave now?” Xiao Cui asked doubtfully, setting down the provisions she was carrying.

Nonsense, darkness is the perfect cover for escape. Gu Changsheng waved her hand impatiently, “Hurry, just pack the essentials; we’re leaving in a bit.”

Xiao Cui, though perplexed, obediently started to place things in the carriage in the front courtyard.

Once everything was properly packed, Gu Changsheng, holding her son in one arm and leading Han Mo with the other, headed for the front courtyard. Shopkeeper Hu, seeing them on the way, simply asked, “Leaving?”

Gu Changsheng nodded affirmatively. Shopkeeper Hu said, “Take care,” and went about his business, showing no concern that Gu Changsheng might skip paying her dues.

It made sense, considering she had the guts to provoke the Government Office; finding her if necessary shouldn’t be difficult.

Gu Changsheng, without the time to bother with these matters, had just stepped into the stables when her whole being felt off. Standing frozen at the stable door, she clutched her son and stared at the tall, straight figure lounging beside the carriage.

Could someone tell her why this man was here?

“Mu… Buddy Mu?” Gu Changsheng regretted the words as soon as they left her mouth. She had intended to call him Prince Mu, but at the last second retracted that and inexplicably ended up saying “buddy.”

She had actually called a commandery prince “buddy”!

Sure enough, Zhou Mu’s eyebrows lifted. “That’s a rather unique appellation.”

Some call him Master, some General, and some Commandery Prince, but this was the first time someone had called him “buddy”!

“Cough cough…” Gu Changsheng disguised her coughing with two dry hacks; she coughed more today, and if this kept up, she would end up with tuberculosis sooner or later.

“Um, how did you come to be here?” She was attempting an escape with her whole family in tow, yet the very person she was trying to evade had caught her red-handed. What a stroke of unfortunate luck.

“I heard you were heading to Liuzhou, and it just so happens to be on my way.” Zhou Mu replied as if it were the most natural thing, his handsome face less cold than usual.

Gu Changsheng raised her hand and smacked the back of Xiao Cui’s reddened head, scolding her for not being able to keep her mouth shut.

Bewildered, Xiao Cui looked at her with an expression of hurt, wondering what she had done wrong.

To hell with ‘on my way,’ she was indeed planning to go to Liuzhou, but because of him, she had been all set to flee and wander the earth as a fugitive.

And yet, this wretch had followed her like an unshakable specter.

“Um, I was thinking of going back to Liuzhou, but then I suddenly remembered I had some unfinished business, and I need to make a detour elsewhere,” Gu Changsheng stammered out an explanation. We’re not on the same path, so let’s part ways amicably and soon.

“Oh?” Zhou Mu leaned against the carriage frame, watching her coldly; that one word took him two turns to spit out.

Gu Changsheng truly felt like crying, and, showing a lack of backbone, she hastily added, “Actually, the matter can wait, let’s head back to Liuzhou first.”

When under a low roof, one must bow one’s head; she was acutely aware of the situation.

In truth, it was because she couldn’t beat him! Damn, this frustration.

“My luggage.”

Gu Changsheng looked on as Zhou Mu spoke indifferently, cursing silently: Evildoer! Jerk! Resignedly, she turned to instruct Xiao Cuicui to pack his luggage.

Xiao Cui was quite the homemaker, having bought clothes, shoes, and even a large bundle of medicinal herbs from the shopkeeper.

Han Qiu regarded the two, locking gazes opposite one another, feeling that something was definitely off.

The ‘Buddy Mu’ mentioned by his wife remained fully detached, while the wife herself seethed with gritted teeth and endured.

Having followed her mistress for half a month, this was the first time she saw her normally carefree mistress in such a state.

There was certainly a problem!

However, as a maid, she naturally wouldn’t ask if her mistress chose not to tell.

Gu Changsheng watched Xiao Cui run towards her with an enormous bundle, dumbstruck. Was this really necessary? Even if it was for the sake of serving a handsome man, did she have to be so devoted and diligent?

Han Qiu efficiently secured the bundle to the back of the carriage.

This whole ordeal only served to further stifle Gu Changsheng’s smoldering anger.

Once on the carriage, after settling the two children, five people were crammed into a carriage that, despite being a specially chosen large one, was exceedingly crowded. Gu Changsheng turned her head to look at the person comfortably occupying more than half the carriage, lying in an elegant pose, one hand supporting his head, his handsome face exuding a hint of pleasure—all in all, very charming, very romantic, and inciting an urge in her to pounce on him.

Gu Changsheng, seated rather uncomfortably, nudged him with her foot, hinting that he should at least make some room for her to stretch her legs.

No response! She nudged him again, still no response!

Gu Changsheng became infuriated, slapped her hands on the carriage, and aimed a fierce kick at those Soul-Dissolving long legs, “Buddy, you better tone it down! Don’t get too full of yourself!