After putting on her shoes, she stood up holding on to the bed rail, grinning in pain the next moment.
She originally thought that only her left leg was hit by the arrow, but her right leg was also throbbing violently.
Huan Ci gasped and fell backwards uncontrollably. In panic, she grabbed the red cloth covering the low cabinet next to her and threw everything on her body to the ground.
The things on the cabinet fell down and shattered on the ground beside Huan Ci.
"Damn it." Huan Ci muttered, holding on to the edge of the bed and trying to get up.
At this time, the door suddenly rang softly, and footsteps slowly approached her.
Huan Ci thought it was the woman from before and hurriedly shouted: "Girl? Are you outside? Come here and help me?"
She lowered her head and carefully removed the pieces of porcelain in front of her little by little.
The visitor walked up to her and looked down at her with deep eyes.
Huan Ci, who was shrouded in shadow, frowned and noticed from the corner of his eye the pair of shoes that did not belong to a woman.
She looked up hurriedly, and was frightened by the man in front of her.
The woman's panicked look made Fu Shen's expression change. He bent down and picked up Huan Ci, and threw her on the bed angrily.
Huan Ci was injured, his eyes suddenly filled with tears, and he glared dissatisfied at the gloomy-looking man.
"Where is this?" She asked this question for the third time today.
Fu Shen stepped forward and held her ankle, saying coldly: "Puzhou."
"What are you doing?" Huan Ci looked at him with an eyebrow, but the next moment someone grabbed his leg and pulled him over.
She exclaimed and glared at the man.
Fu Shen glanced at her lightly, held her foot and turned it around: "Are you sprained?"
Huan Ci suddenly realized that her ankle was painful and numb when she stepped on the ground.
"Why am I here?" She gently pulled back her feet.
"You can't go anywhere now."
"Where's Ah Lian?"
"I don't know." The man said coldly.
Huan Ci frowned: "Did your people save me?"
"Or do you want to capture me personally to take credit?" She asked, looking at the silent man.
These words finally made the man have some reaction. He raised his eyelids and looked at Huan Ci, his eyes were dim and the corners of his mouth were straightened.
Huan Ci's eyes were twitching wildly, trying to ignore his frightening look. But the man kept staring at her, which made her start to panic.
After swallowing, Huan Ci moved back with his arms and looked at the man warily.
"Sweep the leaves." Fu Shen shouted coldly toward the door.
Saoye opened the door gently and walked in with the two people. He secretly took a look at the woman sitting on the bed, and then stood aside and waited for Fu Shen to speak.
Fu Shen raised his chin towards him, and Saoye understood immediately, walked forward and said to Huan, "Girl, these two people were sent by our third master to serve you."
"Lan Fu." He turned his head and looked. The woman Huan Ci had just seen when he woke up came forward, knelt on the ground and kowtowed.
"If the princess has anything to do, just ask her." Saoye said softly.
Another woman about forty years old also came forward and kowtowed, almost smiling like a flower: "The old slave's name is Lian Ru, and she is a cook. If the girl wants to eat, just tell me."
"What do you mean?" Huan Ci looked at Fu Shen angrily, "Are you going to detain me here?"
Seeing that the situation was not going well, Sao Ye quickly ordered the kneeling woman to leave first, while he himself obediently stood guard outside the door.
There were only two of them left in the room. Fu Shen sat by the bed and looked at the room, and said coldly: "If you want to leave, no one will leave you."
"I want to go to Bingzhou." Huan Ci murmured.
Fu Shen stretched out his hand to straighten the broken hair around her ears, and said softly: "The officers and soldiers in Puzhou are conducting a strict search. If you go out now, it is like throwing yourself into a trap."
Huan Ci glanced at him indifferently. She suddenly thought that the person in front of her was promoted by Zong Zhengyuan, and he helped come up with the idea of letting her go to the capital. Now her father has been eliminated as they wished, but the accomplice
But he saved her, which is really ridiculous.
"A cat cries as a mouse pretends to be compassionate." She pushed the man's arm away in disgust.
Fu Shen stared at her for a long time, and the room fell into an embarrassing silence.
Huan Ci kept lowering her eyes and not looking at him, but the man's oppressive gaze made her feel nervous.
"I want to rest." She said in a low voice.
But the man was still staring at her closely, showing no intention of leaving.
"Please come out." Huan Ci glanced at him and said softly.
"This is my place." The man's voice was so deep that it actually made Huan Ci's hair stand on end.
"Then just stay."
Huan Ci held up his arms and was about to get out of bed, but in the blink of an eye he was stopped by the man.
"Let me go, you beast." She said viciously.
Fu Shenfu held her arm and whispered in her ear: "Stop making trouble."
"When did I make a fuss?" Huan Ci choked out.
But in just a few days, everything turned upside down. It was she who accepted Zong Zhengche's overtures, and she helped Zong Zhengche connect with her father. She was the culprit of all this.
Fu Shen watched her change from whimpering to howling, and held her tightly in his arms.
Sweeping leaves outside the house had been listening carefully to what was going on inside, and at this time he was also moved by the woman's grief.
Fortunately, she didn't know too much, otherwise she wouldn't have known what would happen. Yesterday, the third master saved her under the eyes of others. Now the prince has become suspicious. Fortunately, the capital is in chaos and he has no time.
Take this matter into consideration.
In the room, Huan Ci was tired of crying, and just hugged Fu Shen and kept sobbing. The clothes on the man's chest were mostly wet with her tears.
The depression of the past few days was finally vented, and she felt much relieved, and her heart was not as blocked as before.
She got out of the man's arms and suddenly saw her wrinkled clothes, and two blushes appeared on her face.
"I'm going to sleep." She hurriedly got into the quilt and lay down on her head.
When she heard the sound of the man's footsteps slowly leaving, she breathed a sigh of relief.
She slept a lot during the day, and now she didn't feel sleepy at all. When she closed her eyes, she just had random thoughts.
At this time, there was a sudden sound on the door, and a smell of rice filled my nose.
Huan Ci had been hungry for a long time, so he quickly sat up and looked at the person who came. It was Lan Fu who brought a bowl of noodles.
She watched silently as the woman brought a low table and placed it in front of her, then put the bowl of noodles on the low table.
"Is it for me?" she asked softly.
Lan Fu nodded and stared at her expressionlessly.
"Thank you." Huan Ci smiled politely at her and reached out to take the chopsticks she handed him.
"Is this the boundary of Puzhou City?" she asked casually.
Lan Fu stood aside with his hands down and nodded towards her.
Huan Ci was a little confused, why did this man refuse to say a word?
"How old are you?" she asked proactively.
The corners of Lan Fu's mouth twitched and he made a sign of seventeen to her.
"You can't speak?" Huan Ci looked at her in surprise.
Fu Shen specially arranged for such people to come over, and must have concealed her identity from them.
*
May arrived as expected, and the weather was getting hotter day by day. In a small courtyard on the edge of Puzhou City, Huan Ci was lying lazily on a chaise longue, basking in the sun.
She had been here for more than half a month, and she only saw Fu Shen the day she woke up, and he never came again after that.
The strange thing is that the other two people living in this courtyard have never gone out, and there are always people delivering things every day.
Huan Ci's legs and feet were already strong, but they were not completely healed yet.
She tried to go out a few days ago, but she was stopped by Lian Ru before she could reach the door.
As soon as the cook opened her mouth, she said that the third master did not allow her to go out and only asked her to stay here.
Huan Ci felt angry and went back to his room with a smile on his face.
At night, the lights outside were all out, so she quickly packed her bags and planned to run away with some things. But as soon as she stepped on the stool, before her hand even touched the wall, she was pulled back by Lan Fu.
Lan Fu made a gesture of wiping her neck, causing Huan Ci to fall down in anger.
She cursed for a long time and cursed all the eighteen generations of Fu Shen's ancestors, but the other two people in the yard ignored her.
After several failed attempts, Huan Ci planned to call it quits and find a way to leave after his injuries were completely healed.
The sun was just right that day, so Lian Ru arranged a chaise longue in the yard and let Huan Ci bask in the sun for a while, saying that it would make the injury heal faster.
There was nothing to do, so Huan Ci took her to show off with him. He also brought out a lot of food and chatted with her while eating.
"We stay here all day and don't know what's going on outside. It's so boring." She picked up a cherry and stuffed it into her mouth, complaining to Lianru.
Lian Ru glanced at her and raised her voice: "Why do you, a girl, care about external affairs? You can't take care of your own affairs."
"What do you care about?" Huan Ci blinked in confusion.
Lian Ru sighed and said, "My girl, why don't you understand anything? How many times has the Third Master come to see you in the past few days since you've been here?"
"It would be better if he didn't come!" Huan Ci rolled his eyes.
It would be easier for her to escape if he didn't come, and besides, he didn't know what would happen if he came.
"Look at you, you are so old and you still don't understand these principles. Although you are young, you are still older than the other women of the third master. If you don't take advantage of the opportunity to give it a try, you only sleep every day."
Huan Ci curled his lips. The cook kept calling her Miss Chen, which showed that they didn't know her true identity. Based on the cook's words, she speculated that she was regarded as Fu Shen's daughter raised outside.
"Does he have other women?" Huan Ci asked coldly.
Seeing her downcast face, Lianru knew that her words had an effect, and added words of jealousy: "Look at you, you don't know anything. What is the identity of the third master? Who in Puzhou doesn't want to fawn over him? Today
I’ll give one to this person, and one to that person tomorrow, let’s say at least seven or eight?”
Huan Ci snorted coldly.
I thought he was some kind of gentleman, but he was just the same as those men outside.
"Now the capital is in chaos, Your Majesty is seriously ill, and the Queen Mother has been kidnapped. At this time, you have to ask the third master to protect you. If there is chaos in the future, wouldn't it be great for a lonely woman like you to have such a support?