Huo Baichuan's back stiffened, and he suddenly turned around, staring straight at Zhao Shu. He lunged forward, and in the next moment, Zhao Shu's shoulders were tightly wrapped around his arm.

He used a lot of force, and Zhao Shu cried out in pain. Xiao Zhu, who had just returned from making tea outside, heard this and immediately burst into the room.

Although Huo Baichuan did not know martial arts, he was very cunning. The princess was a weak child and was no match for him. As soon as Xiao Zhuzi entered the room, he took out a dagger and kicked Huo Baichuan without saying a word.

Xiao Zhu was quite skilled. Huo Baichuan was caught off guard and lost his footing, falling forward. However, Zhao Shu was very close to him. If he took a few steps, he might not fall too badly, but if he took a step, he would knock Zhao Shu flying.

If Zhao Shu hadn't said she could save people, he definitely wouldn't have cared. He would have just let it go, as long as she wasn't killed or disfigured and didn't ask him to repay him with her body.

But at this moment, he forcibly suppressed the urge to step forward and fell straight down. Zhao Shu saw that things were not going well and hurriedly dodged, but she was still not fast enough and half of her body was crushed by him.

"Princess?" Little Zhu looked closely and saw that his princess was being pressed down and was grimacing in pain.

Zhao Shu reached out, "Hurry up and help me up." As soon as Zhao Shu spoke, her nerves were stretched, and she felt pain all over.

Xiao Zhu glared fiercely at Huo Baichuan, who was also getting up, and came over to help Zhao Shu, but was stopped by Huo Baichuan, who shouted, "Get out!"

His voice was cold and his tone was stern. Xiao Zhuzi instinctively paused for a moment, and in that instant, Zhao Shu was personally helped up by him.

After Zhao Shu was helped up, Xiao Zhuzi finally reacted and glared at him a few times with lingering fear, "Princess, are you hurt?"

"Get out!" Huo Baichuan said coldly again.

It felt as if the temperature inside the room was dropping rapidly; Zhao Shu felt a chill in the air and said to Xiao Zhuzi, "Let's go out."

"Yes." Xiao Zhu wanted to glare again, but when he met Huo Baichuan's cold gaze, he retreated with lingering fear, closed the door, and stood guard outside.

After Xiao Zhuzi left, Zhao Shu moved her limbs and thankfully there were no problems.

"Why should I believe you?" Huo Baichuan stared at Zhao Shu with eyes as sharp as swords. If Zhao Shu dared to lie or deceive him, he wouldn't mind letting this ignorant and willful princess know that there are people in this world she can't afford to offend.

His attitude had completely reversed. Just moments ago, she had been disillusioned, but now he was so domineering and arrogant. She pouted and looked him straight in the eye, "Why don't you believe me? Besides me, who else dares to tell you they can cure that disease? At least I dare to say it, don't I?"

The hardest thing for a person to fake is their eyes. Huo Baichuan stared directly into Zhao Shu's eyes, as if trying to see through them and uncover the secrets hidden deep within her heart.

However, Zhao Shu's gaze was neither anxious nor flustered, nor did it possess any gentle charm or stunning beauty. She simply had a plain and ordinary confidence: "I, Zhao Shu, am a doctor!"

"Heh, you'd better stay this confident forever, or you know the consequences." He tossed a jade pendant to Zhao Shu and handed it to her. "She'll be coming to the capital within a month. I hope she won't disappoint me."

Zhao Shu accepted the jade pendant and smiled, "Okay, it's a deal."

Huo Baichuan turned around, opened the study door, and said to Xiao Zhuzi, "See me out."

Xiao Zhuzi looked at Zhao Shu, who nodded and said, "See the gentleman out."

At this moment, outside the gate of the Prince's Mansion, a boy of sixteen or seventeen, dressed as a page, said to the gatekeeper, "I really need to go in to find someone. Please let me in. Our young master is really inside."

The gatekeeper had already been replaced by Uncle Fu, and his loyalty was beyond question. "You say your young master is inside? Is he some kind of deity? Nobody has come to the door today."

The pageboy looked anxious and wanted to push his way in, but compared to the gatekeeper, his small frame made him back down. He could only keep saying, "Our young master is really inside. If you don't believe me, let me in."

"Anyone can enter the Prince's Mansion. Do you think the Prince's Mansion is your backyard?" The gatekeeper retorted, and the two sides confronted each other at the gate.

"Little Fatty".

The gatekeeper turned around, his eyes wide as if he had seen a ghost. He rubbed his eyes and looked again. The person was still there. It was already dark today. Could he really be a god?

"What are you standing there for? Why aren't you letting the young master out?" Little Zhu said to the gatekeeper, clearly displeased. He was really embarrassing the princess.

The gatekeeper quickly stepped aside, and a page named Little Fatty came in. He looked Huo Baichuan up and down, left and right, several times before patting his chest and saying, "Thank goodness, young master, you are unharmed."

Huo Baichuan tapped the chubby boy on the head. "Let's go."

Xiao Zhu watched the master and servant slowly disappear down the street, a cold sweat breaking out on his back. How could they have caught up with them so quickly? When did they reveal their whereabouts?

Huo Baichuan and Xiao Pang walked one after the other on the deserted street, with the moon as their lamp and a gentle breeze blowing.

"Young master, how many times has this happened? Let's go back to Bianzhou. Master and Madam must miss you, and Aunt Dan must miss you too." Little Fatty kept repeating his daily refrain, which had almost become his catchphrase.

Huo Baichuan agreed, "Okay." Let's try anything, even if it's a long shot. More than twenty years have passed, and the hope in my heart has long since faded away.

Little Fatty continued his incessant chatter as if he hadn't heard, "The capital is really too dangerous. Before, when we were in the outskirts of the capital, those rich girls would try to force you into marriage, and we could handle them. But now Princess Jun of the Yong Prince's Mansion has her eye on you too. It's really bad. The people of the Yong Prince's Mansion are all unreasonable. We'd better not provoke them. Um, what? Young Master, what did you just say? Good? Young Master, you've agreed to go back to Bianzhou?"

Huo Baichuan was too lazy to bother with the chubby boy who was several steps behind.

Little Fatty isn't fat at all; he has a very well-proportioned figure.

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