Chapter 235 As fate would have it, they arrived too.

One day, about two weeks later, Furong and Xiaochun had just left the cloth shop when they saw someone walking out of the restaurant ahead—someone she thought was dead. After the initial shock, Furong quickly pulled Xiaochun aside. Princess Wushuang was indeed alive! Could Bai Zilin be with her too?

Standing at the entrance of the restaurant, Liu Ye suddenly turned around and looked at the place where Fu Rong was hiding. Strange, why did she feel like someone was watching her?

At this moment, Bai Zilin stopped the carriage in front of her. Liu Ye got into the carriage, and Bai Zilin cracked the whip, and the carriage sped away. The two were going to the mountain villa. The crops in the fields of the villa were about to be harvested again. The South was good. Four crops of grain could be grown in a year. After one crop was harvested, another crop was planted. Fish could also be raised in the rice fields. However, fish and shrimp in the South were very cheap and could not be sold at a good price.

Furong emerged from the shadows, her eyes wide with shock. As she watched the carriage recede into the distance, she understood everything. Bai Zilin was indeed with the princess. Didn't that mean the princess had rescued Bai Zilin? The princess was quite capable, managing to deceive both the emperor and herself!

At this moment, Xiaochun said with a worried look, "The princess and General Bai are also in Nanfu Town. Shouldn't we leave quickly? What if they find us...?"

Furong said with disdain, "You're wrong. They should be afraid of being discovered by us. The princess rescued Bai Zilin from the Empress Dowager, and then the Empress Dowager died. It wasn't the princess who killed the Empress Dowager. Do you think it was anyone else?"

Xiaochun asked again with a conflicted look, "Should we tell the master?"

Furong sneered and said, "Of course I have to tell him. Give me the things first, and then go and find out what's going on with them."

Xiaochun nodded and handed the things in her hand to Furong. Furong took the things and turned into the alley next door. Xiaochun pretended to be eating and went to the restaurant. She ordered a bowl of spicy hot pot and chatted with the waiter while eating. However, the waiter knew very little. He only knew that his boss's surname was Bai and had no idea where he lived.

Xiao Chun knew that the owner's surname was Bai, so she knew that this restaurant was owned by Bai Zilin, and that was enough. At this moment, Old Li returned from the backyard. When Xiao Chun saw that Steward Li was also there, she quickly took out a copper door from her bosom, put it on the table, and ran out of the restaurant with her head down to go home and report.

Butler Li frowned in confusion as he watched the girl run away. The girl's back looked so familiar. He thought she looked a bit like Xiao Chun from the Princess's Mansion.

He waved to the waiter who was picking up a table: "Ah Mao, come here."

Amao put down his chopsticks and walked up to Manager Li: "Manager Li, is there anything you need?"

Old Li asked, "Was the girl who ran out just now a local or from out of town? Did she say anything to you?"

Amao said with a smile, "That girl was from out of town. Her accent sounded a lot like the shopkeeper's. She didn't ask me anything, just what our boss's surname was. I said it was Bai, and then she suddenly put down the money and ran away. She even gave me too much money, ten extra coins."

Upon hearing this, Old Li realized he hadn't misjudged; the girl was indeed Xiao Chun, who belonged to Fu Rong, and Fu Rong belonged to the Emperor. Oh dear, he had to quickly inform his master, as the Emperor might have also come to Nanfu Town.

Old Li hurriedly ran to the backyard. A moment later, a dark shadow flew out of the restaurant and headed towards the villa.

In the third house in Gouweiba Alley of Nanfu Town, Furong and her group are currently staying. Inside the dilapidated house, Xuanhuang sits in a traditional chair, his face frighteningly dark: "Hmph! Very well, so they're not dead after all, and they've even come all the way south. Is Bai Zilin limping?"

Furong shook her head and said, "I don't know. Bai Zilin didn't get off the carriage. It seems they drove the carriage to the village."

Emperor Xuan rose from his chair, his eyes full of calculation, and paced back and forth on the ground without saying a word for a long time.

Furong gave Xiaochun a wink, and Xiaochun turned and left the room to go to the next room to watch the child with Xiaxia.

Suddenly, Emperor Xuan stopped and looked at Furong, saying, "You said Bai Zilin opened a restaurant in town?"

Furong nodded and said, "Yes, the Peach Garden Restaurant in town is owned by Bai Zilin, and the manager is Steward Li from the General's Mansion. No wonder the fake Bai Zilin said that Steward Li suddenly disappeared, and then the Princess's Mansion caught fire. It turns out that all of this was arranged by them. Oh dear, does that mean that the Princess already discovered that Bai Zilin was a fake? She was just acting in front of us. The Princess is so cunning. I thought she trusted me, but I didn't expect that she had been guarding against me all along."

"She secretly entered the palace and rescued Bai Zilin. I'm really curious, how did the princess, who is so weak, manage to rescue him from the secret room? And how did she come and go without a trace, entering and leaving the palace?"

Emperor Xuan gestured with his hand, displeased with what he was hearing. Furong quickly shut her mouth. Emperor Xuan sat down on a chair to the side, his eyes filled with malice, and said, "Those who betray me will pay the price. Furong, I have already figured out how to deal with them. Do as I say, do this and that, and then...!"

After hearing this, Furong grinned mischievously and said, "Yes, I'll go prepare right away..."

On the other side, Bai Zilin and Liu Ye also arrived at the mountain villa. In the field, Hei Yi and his men were harvesting crops. There were no villagers, only their own people. The villagers wanted to come and work to earn some wages, but Hei Yi refused, which was also what Bai Zilin had instructed them to do.

As soon as Hei Yi saw Bai Zilin and his wife arrive, he put his sickle aside and jogged to the edge of the field: "Masters, you've arrived. We've almost finished harvesting the rice paddies, and we'll go harvest the peanuts this afternoon."

Bai Zilin nodded with satisfaction: "Yeah, you guys did a great job. The warehouse is all cleared out. We'll send the rice over as soon as it's harvested. Okay, you can go ahead and get busy. We'll just take a look around."

Hei Yi ran back to the rice paddy to harvest rice. Bai Zilin brought Liu Ye to the mountainside. Red ropes were tied to the trees on the mountainside, which meant that there were traps underneath. "Yesterday, more than a dozen wild boars fell into the traps. The restaurant can't use that many, so I had Hei Yi sell six wild boars."

Bai Zilin kicked the soil on the hillside twice, and the soil fell down with a crackling sound. He was a little worried that if it rained heavily again, the mountain would also have a mudslide, and the villa would definitely be flooded.

“My wife, look, it rained a few days ago, and the soil on the mountain is particularly loose. If you kick it, a large area will collapse. I’m a little worried.”

Liu Ye looked around and said, "There's no use worrying. The rain is heavy in the south and the soil is loose. But the mountains here look alright. Maybe it's because of Gu Lao Mountain behind us. Didn't the villagers say that mudslides have happened in the nearby mountains, but Gu Lao Mountain was fine? I guess it won't be a problem even if it rains again. Let's go. Let's go back after we've looked around. Kele must be hungry."

Bai Zilin and Liu Ye returned to the entrance of the manor. A dark figure suddenly flew out of the woods and appeared in front of them. The person was none other than Hei Liu: "Reporting to the master, oh oh oh, beep beep beep."