Su Jin smiled and ignored her.
Mai Zizi felt wronged, thinking that Shen Qianxue had told her not to cause trouble for Su Jin before she left.
"Anyway, Brother Qianxue isn't here, and I'm going back anyway. I won't bother you anymore."
Su Jin paused in her flower-cutting motion, then looked up. "You're coming out of seclusion?"
"Um."
Su Jin stood up and looked Mai Zizi up and down.
Mai Zizi took two steps back in fright. "What do you want to do?"
"Didn't you want to thank me? I saved your life, and this isn't enough to show your sincerity, is it?" Su Jin's eyes gleamed with calculation.
"Then, what do you want?" Mai Zizi
Su Jinxia revealed a sly smile and beckoned to Mai Zizi with her finger.
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The next day, early morning, at the mountain gate.
Mai Zizi scolded the guards and maids behind her, "You're taking so long to pack something. By the time you're done, it will be dark."
The maids were so frightened that they dared not utter a sound. Carrying the heavy bundles, they bowed their heads and followed Mai Zizi quickly.
Outside the mountain gate, the people who came to pick up Mai Zizi were already waiting.
"Young Miss, the carriage is ready at the foot of the mountain!"
Mai Zizi nodded and led the group out of the mountain gate in a high-profile manner.
The guards and bodyguards at the gate didn't take the matter to heart at all.
After descending the mountain, Mai Zizi selected two maids to accompany her into the carriage to serve her.
The three boarded the carriage, and one of the maids looked up, revealing Su Jin's stunningly beautiful face.
Su Jin glanced at Zishan again, a smile appearing in her eyes. She hadn't expected to get out so easily.
Mai Zizi hurriedly said to another maid, "Quickly, change your clothes for me."
The maidservant hurriedly took off her clothes.
Su Jin tilted her head and asked Mai Zizi, "Why did you change her clothes?"
A smug smile crept across Mai Zizi's lips. "I'll run away with you."
Su Jin almost choked on her breath. "I said I wanted you to help me escape, not that I wanted to take you with me."
"If you don't take me with you, I'll push you out right now and have the guards send you back!" Mai Zizi raised her chin, threatening directly.
"You!" Su Jin was speechless with anger.
"Otherwise, why do you think I'd help you?" Mai Zizi retorted, her smug tail practically wagging in the air.
Su Jin lowered her voice and resolutely refused: "No, what if you, a girl, encounter danger?"
"Aren't you a girl too?"
"But I know martial arts!"
"So you can protect me!"
Su Jin down...
They're using me as a bodyguard!
Mai Zizi pouted and hugged Su Jinxia's arm. "Please, take me with you. My family won't let me go out to play. Brother Qianxue is very strict with me. I've never seen the outside world before."
Su Jin pulled her arm away, "Don't try that on me!"
"I don't care about myself, either we all leave, or nobody leaves." Mai Zizi crossed her arms and raised an eyebrow.
It has to be said that Mai Zizi has Su Jinxia firmly under her control this time.
If Su Jinxia is caught and taken back, it will be difficult for her to get out again.
After hesitating for a while, Su Jin pointed a finger at Mai Zizi and warned her sternly, "Obey my orders in all actions!"
"no problem!"
Mai Zizi was so happy she almost shouted, but remembering there were guards outside, she quickly covered her mouth, her eyes squinting from laughing.
Su Jin turned away angrily, not wanting to talk to her.
As the carriage entered Linnan, Mai Zizi gave an order, sending the two maids in the carriage to buy things. Then, she and Su Jin disguised themselves as maids, got out of the carriage, and quietly slipped away.
Su Jin went to the horse market, hired another carriage, and left Lin Nan directly.
Another maid disguised herself as Mai Zizi in the carriage. By the time she was discovered, Mai Zizi and Su Jin had already left Lin Nan.
The carriage sped along the official road, kicking up dust.
Mai Zizi stared at the vast world outside with a face full of curiosity, as if she were a country bumpkin who had never seen the world.
Su Jin secretly complained.
Although she hadn't seen much of the world.
Su Jinxia brushed the dust that had flown into the carriage and reached out to close the carriage window.
Mai Zizi glared at her with displeasure.
Su Jin was still a little worried and asked her, "Aren't you afraid your family will worry about you running away like this?"
Mai Zizi's bright eyes immediately drooped. "They only care about me, they don't care about me."
That's a bit strange.
Su Jin smiled and said, "Since I'm not worried about you, why would I care about you?"
Mai Zizi became sad. "That's because you don't understand the rules and intrigues in the big mansion. It's precisely because they don't like me that they try to control me in every way. If it weren't for Brother Qianxue supporting me, I wouldn't have been able to survive a single day in that house."
Su Jinxia still remembered that Shen Qianxue had said that Mai Zizi's mother left after giving birth to her, and a child without a mother had no one to rely on to be willful.
"And what about your father? Doesn't he protect you?"
Mai Zizi pursed her lips, her eyes filled with disappointment. "He has many wives and concubines, many children. He can't possibly care about a good-for-nothing daughter like me."
Su Jinxia frowned. "Even with Phoenix Pavilion backing you up, he still doesn't value you?"
Logically speaking, Phoenix Pavilion is a big tree, and everyone should want to curry favor with it.
Mai Zizi sighed, "Phoenix Pavilion doesn't get along with my family."
Su Jin tilted her head, somewhat puzzled.
Mai Zizi said, "I heard it from Aunt Fang and some of the servants in the house. My mother died in childbirth. My aunt is a miracle doctor, but no one informed her that my mother had premature labor. By the time she got the news and came, my mother was already beyond saving. My aunt made a huge scene in the mansion. Later, when I was in poor health, my aunt forcibly took me away from home to raise me, and that's how the two families became enemies."
Therefore, it's understandable that Mai Zizi isn't favored at home.
But they are still blood relatives, and Mai Zizi still has feelings for her family, so she feels very sad when she talks about these things.
Su Jin nudged Mai Zizi's arm. "Okay, let's not think about these sad things anymore."
Mai Zizi said angrily, "It's all because you asked me!"
Su Jin chuckled lightly, "I'm asking you, so just tell me."
How could you be so stupid!
Mai Zizi snorted and turned her head away.
Su Jin thought for a moment and then asked, "Since your aunt raised her, you must be very close to her, right? What kind of person is your aunt?"
Mai Zizi frowned and thought for a moment, "I was only three years old when my aunt passed away. I don't know what kind of person she was, but I vaguely remember that she didn't like to smile. Although she was very kind to me, I was still quite afraid of her, unlike Brother Qianxue. Although he was very naughty when we were little, I just liked being with him. He would make me happy and protect me."
When Mai Zizi talked about Shen Qianxue, a smile appeared on her face, and she had already put her sadness behind her.
Su Jinxia had heard Shen Qianxue's mischievous remarks from her childhood more than once, and she was very curious about them.
"It's hard to imagine how Shen Qianxue went from being mischievous to being so composed and mature now."
Mai Zizi pouted, "It's because my uncle passed away. After he took over Phoenix Pavilion, he suddenly changed. Brother Qianxue and my uncle never got along well. They would argue whenever they met. Nobody expected that my uncle's death would bring about such a big change in him."
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