As soon as Situ Yao and the others left, Su Mengyan sat in the yard with a sad face.
"What's wrong?" Xiaoyaozi walked over to her side, "Are you reluctant to leave?"
"What does the miracle doctor think?" Su Mengyan probed his intentions, "Why do you want to exchange with the young master?"
"The conditions they proposed are very tempting." Xiaoyaozi said this deliberately.
Su Mengyan was stunned for a moment, "But that's not what you said before."
"There's no contradiction between the two." Xiaoyaozi didn't care. "Besides, I think they also want you to go back. I'm a considerate old man, and I will definitely help you."
Su Mengyan wanted to say that she didn't want to go back, but she was worried that Situ Yao's personal guards would hear her, so she said nothing.
It was late at night and everyone was asleep. Su Mengyan packed a small bag and saw that the lights in Xiaoyaozi's room were off. She tiptoed out.
There was no moon tonight, and it was pitch dark. Su Mengyan even heard the cries of unknown wild animals. She hesitated for a moment in fear, then took a deep breath and decided to go out.
In the middle of the night, the guards didn't notice her. Su Mengyan successfully deceived them and ran out of the yard.
She was not very familiar with the roads around her, so she could only move forward based on her intuition.
When she reached a patch of grass, she suddenly heard footsteps behind her. Su Mengyan was so frightened that she almost dropped her bag. She stood there, not daring to move.
The footsteps were getting closer and closer, sweat slowly flowed down her forehead, and Su Mengyan dared not move.
After a while, she heard Xiaoyaozi's familiar sarcasm, "You are so timid, and you still want to imitate others and run away in the middle of the night?" His words implied that she was overestimating her own abilities.
Su Mengyan was not angry, but relieved instead. Fortunately, she met Xiaoyaozi.
"Please forgive me, doctor. I had no choice." Su Mengyan explained first.
"Don't you want to go back with that boy?" Xiaoyaozi asked her.
Su Mengyan nodded. "I like freedom. There are too many rules there."
Xiaoyaozi laughed out loud and pointed the way to Su Mengyan in the faint moonlight. "The way out of here is ahead. Just keep going in this direction and you will be able to leave here completely."
"Why is that?" Su Mengyan wondered, "If the young master found out I'm not here, I'm afraid he would take his anger out on the genius doctor."
"When you ran away, you didn't think about our situation." Xiaoyaozi snorted coldly, "Go quickly. If you have the chance in the future, remember to make me another dessert as a thank you gift."
Su Mengyan no longer speculated why he let her go so easily. After expressing her gratitude to Xiaoyaozi, she left quickly.
The guards sent by Situ Yao were no pushovers either. They discovered Su Mengyan was missing the next morning. Because they were secretly watching, they didn't reveal themselves to Xiaoyaozi, but instead told Situ Yao directly.
There was a clatter in the study, and the wolf-hair brush dipped in ink fell to the ground. Situ Yao frowned and asked, "Are you sure you really saw it?"
"Concubine Su sneaked away last night and was not in the yard this morning." The guard remembered the sneaky shadow last night and never thought it would be Su Mengyan.
Situ Yao's face was covered with a layer of dark energy. "Go find her for me. She must not have gone far. No matter what method you use, you must find her!"
That person is his. Even if he doesn't like her, he can't just leave her! Su Mengyan's escape completely challenged his bottom line.
At daybreak, Su Mengyan finally saw the town at the foot of the mountain. She appeared on the street covered in dust and dirt. If she hadn't been wearing high-quality silk, she would probably have been mistaken for a beggar.
Situ Yao must have known she had escaped. Su Mengyan felt he would be furious and send someone to capture her. This was the only town at the foot of the mountain. If she could successfully avoid Situ Yao's men, she would be safe from now on.
Su Mengyan thought about this and decided to take a gamble. Maybe she would win! She used her remaining money to stay in an inn and disguised herself to cover up her obvious features.
Situ Yao went to find Xiaoyaozi in person, his face dark and cloudy.
Xiaoyaozi pretended not to know and took the initiative, "Young Master, this is not a very kind thing to do! Since you promised to keep her for a year, why did you send someone to secretly take Miss Su back?"
"Yes." The little boy's eyes were red, and he stared at Situ Yao with fear and anger, "You must have taken her away. I haven't seen Sister Su since I woke up this morning."
Situ Yao looked at the master and disciple for a long time, unable to tell whether they were lying.
"Does the miracle doctor know where Yan'er went?"
"What?" Xiaoyaozi pretended to be surprised, "Didn't you bring the person back?"
"No, she left last night." Situ Yao had originally wanted to ask Xiaoyaozi if he knew where Su Mengyan had gone, but now it seemed he didn't know either, so there was no point in staying here. He stood up and said goodbye, "Excuse me, Doctor. I'll send someone to deliver some medicinal herbs as precious as the Purple Jade Lotus later."
Xiaoyaozi stroked his beard, looked at Situ Yao's back meaningfully and said, "Young man, I have a message for you: Pick the flowers when they are ready, don't wait until there are no flowers left to pluck. Cherish the person in front of you."
Situ Yao paused, he still didn't understand what Xiaoyaozi meant.
After the group walked away, Xiaoyaozi withdrew his gaze and sighed, "Love is the most disturbing thing in the world, yet it attracts many people."
"Master, what is love?" The little boy looked up, his big eyes full of confusion.
Xiaoyaozi touched his head kindly and said, "When you grow up, you will naturally understand." However, there are also those who are slow-witted like Situ Yao. It may take a long time to find out why he doesn't want Su Mengyan to leave.
The child seemed to understand, but asked sadly, "Will Sister Su come back?"
"If two people who meet by chance are destined to meet, they will meet again in the future." Xiaoyaozi only wanted to test Situ Yaolong Zhang Fengzi when he first met him, and he never thought of really keeping Su Mengyan.
After spending a few days together, he was impressed by the desserts made by Su Mengyan and was willing to help her with this small favor.
If they were truly destined to be together, his intervention would be nothing more than a minor setback, harmless. If they were not destined to be together, then he would have done a good deed.
After Xiaoyaozi figured it out, he tapped the boy on the head and said, "Why don't you go back and memorize the medical textbooks?"
The child rubbed his head, which was hurt by the blow, and followed Xiaoyaozi with a wronged look on his face. The courtyard door slowly closed, and this fate came to an end for the time being.
Your Highness, I've asked everyone in town, but no one has seen Consort Su. The guards searched the town but couldn't find any trace of Su Mengyan. They couldn't help but wonder, "Could Consort Su have already left?"
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