Chapter 5 Not Simple (Update 2) "Don't touch it, this is a male...
Chapter 5
"Fortunately, Yan isn't here, otherwise she would definitely be thinking about you for days."
Gu Tingxuan carefully checked the injury on the back of Lin Zhiyi's head. The medicine that the princess had someone send was of top quality and had a good effect in stopping bleeding. Combined with the internal medicine prepared by the imperial physician, Lin Zhiyi's wound had begun to scab over.
However, I lost a lot of blood at the time, so in addition to changing the dressing regularly, I also need to take more supplements.
Lin Zhiyi looked at Gu Tingxuan in the bronze mirror and said with a smile, "Master, your nagging is no less than my mother's."
Gu Tingxuan: “…”
She glared at her apprentice, "It's all because I was worried about you! Your martial arts skills are apparently pretty good, so how come you couldn't escape this disaster?"
Lin Zhiyi felt a little guilty. The original owner's martial arts skills might be okay, but it was hard to say for her, an outsider.
In the future...will my martial arts skills be exposed?
Fortunately, my injury has not healed yet, so I can use this excuse to get away with it for a while.
I'll find another way to deal with it when I get back to the Marquis' Mansion.
Lin Zhiyi showed a pitiful look: "I was thinking about the princess at that time...so I was distracted..."
Gu Tingxuan also knew that she was worried about her marriage, so she didn't say anything more.
——After all, this is not the Marquis’ residence. It would be safer to go back and talk about some personal matters.
"What's your impression of you, Princess?"
"Hmm...it should be okay," Lin Zhiyi said confidently. "Neither cold nor hot, very calm, very indifferent. It may seem like nothing, but she is a princess, doesn't this behavior just prove that she doesn't hate me? Not hating me means she has a good impression of me."
After Gu Tingxuan changed the medicine and rebandaged her, she sat on a low stool beside her. "Indeed. If the princess hadn't fallen for you, she would have gone to ask Concubine Lan and His Majesty to choose another consort. She sent you medicine, ginseng, and a little fox as a token of love, which shows that she has you in her heart."
This is also what makes people sad.
The princess has her in her heart, and they feel guilty towards her.
The princess didn't have her in her heart, and they were worried that they wouldn't be able to pull the princess into their camp to help them conceal the fact that the young marquis was a girl...
Lin Zhiyi smiled brightly: "Yeah, I think so too. She has me in her heart. I will cherish her."
If her favorability with the princess is 5 now, she will work hard to make it 15, 25, 35... until 75, 85, 95...
As long as the opening is not negative, there is still hope.
Lin Zhiyi happily teased the little fox for a while.
This little fox is quite human-like. It stays in its own nest to recuperate, and allows people to stroke its fur and rub its back. Its tail gently sweeps, making it look smart and cute.
"By the way, Master, have you found out anything?" In the past two days, Gu Tingxuan disappeared for an hour every night to investigate the truth behind the frightened horse incident.
Gu Tingxuan didn't tell her explicitly, but they both knew it tacitly, and she knew what her master was doing without asking.
Gu Tingxuan lowered her voice and said, "I found that there are two groups of people investigating this matter."
"Who are they?" Lin Zhiyi raised his eyebrows in surprise.
"One group is the Jinwu Guards; the other group looks like the secret guards. I guess they might be the princess's men."
She could understand if the princess investigated secretly.
"Golden Guards?" Lin Zhiyi still remembered some relevant information from when she received the original owner's memories. She couldn't help but wonder, "Could it be that my father is investigating?"
——The General of the Central Guard of the Jinwu Guard was my father’s former subordinate.
Gu Tingxuan: "It's possible. But... why don't you guess that it's His Majesty who's investigating?"
Lin Zhiyi was very self-aware: "Your Majesty has so many princes and princesses. How could I, a mere future consort who hasn't even married a princess yet, possibly trouble the Jinwu Guards? Besides... the decision was already made that day."
In the blurry image in her mind, a tall and handsome man told the emperor that the accident was caused by a vulture flying down to catch a hare and scaring the horse.
Gu Tingxuan: "That's right. I'll go ask the Marquis later to see what his plans are."
With the Marquis's ability, he should have found it out long ago.
He didn't say anything, which definitely means he didn't want to get involved.
As for the princess... maybe she is really satisfied with Zhiyi as her husband and doesn't want him to get into any more accidents, so she is investigating him secretly.
Gu Tingxuan didn't like to use her brain. She got a headache when she thought about these complicated things, so she stood up and said, "You take a rest. I'll go find the Marquis."
I hope the spring hunt ends as soon as possible. She still prefers to teach the second young lady martial arts in the Marquis' Mansion.
Lin Zhiyi held the little fox and watched her go away, a doubt rising in his heart - did Marquis Ding'an know that she was a woman disguised as a man?
A marquis who can successfully quell a rebellion and escape unscathed, and a marquis who is adept at using strategies on the battlefield, must have a meticulous mind.
She has been disguising herself as a man right under his nose for so many years, and there hasn't been a single flaw?
And doesn’t the Marquis have any doubts at all?
Impossible?
Otherwise, why would he agree to let his son have a female martial artist with him during the spring hunt?
In terms of convenience, it would definitely be better to bring a few more guards and servants, but she didn't have any, and there were not even many maids. They were all doing rough work outside the tent, or they only came near after receiving orders from Gu Tingxuan.
She was unconscious most of the time these days, and it was Gu Tingxuan who took care of her personally, with no other maids, servants, or the like getting close to her.
...By the way, even the imperial physician never felt her pulse. He only examined the wound under Gu Tingxuan's guidance and then prescribed medicine.
If we say that Gu Tingxuan is closer and more reliable because she is the female martial arts teacher of the second daughter of the Marquis's Mansion and the best friend of the Marquis's wife, but in the ancient context of strict separation between men and women, this reason is too far-fetched.
The young marquis was at least seventeen years old, and he was chosen as a royal consort.
Although Gu Tingxuan is the master in name, she is ultimately a "female" master.
To outsiders, the two should avoid suspicion.
Of course, it may also be because they are master and apprentice, and the ancients valued filial piety, so no one would think of anything wrong?
In short... after thinking about it, Lin Zhiyi felt that Marquis Ding'an - her father in this world must be no simple person.
Alas, her father is not simple, her mother who asked her to dress up as a man is not simple, her master who is known as a female martial artist is not simple, and her four sisters who are good at piano, chess, books, and painting... Judging by the information presented in her memory, they are not simple either!
Lin Zhiyi sat at the door of the tent holding the little fox, lazily basking in the bright spring sunshine, trying to clear his mind.
Well, she is a female CEO who came to this world, so she is not simple!
Who can't compare to whom...
I wonder if the princess is simple or not?
Well, to have her own secret guards, and to secretly investigate the truth of her horse-scaring accident... well, the princess is not simple either!
As he thought about it, Lin Zhiyi couldn't help but curl his lips and smile.
It’s not easy for everyone to come together!
Perhaps because he was too engrossed in his thoughts, Lin Zhiyi did not notice anyone approaching.
She didn't look up until a shadow came over, blocking the sunlight that she was enjoying.
The man was wearing a black brocade hunting suit with dark bamboo patterns. He looked heroic, with big double eyelids and a handsome appearance.
He doesn't look very old, maybe sixteen or seventeen.
He saw Lin Zhiyi looking up at him with a silly smile on his face, and he couldn't help but shudder: "Did the young marquis become stupid after falling?"
Lin Zhiyi deliberately frowned as if thinking and teased him, "Who are you?"
"Did you really fall like a fool?! You don't even recognize me?" The man leaned over and looked into her eyes. He found that Lin Zhiyi's eyes were full of amusement, not stupidity. He realized that he had been tricked. He stood up angrily and shouted, "Lin Xiuyuan! Is this how you treat your friends?!"
friend?
Lin Zhiyi had actually already dug out this man's identity from his memory - the youngest son of General Zhou Heng of Zhenbei, Zhou Mingyan.
The general had many sequelae of old injuries from fighting on the battlefield, so he didn't want his sons to follow the path of fighting and killing. He hoped that the Zhou family would have a top scholar, so he named his sons Bi, Mo, Zhi and Yan respectively.
Unfortunately, none of them are good at studying.
Zhou Mingyan was even less fond of studying. He was about the same age as Lin Zhiyi, and they both studied at the Imperial College, so they were classmates.
He was a mischievous person who often skipped classes or came to the school with some new tricks, causing his classmates to lose their focus on studying. He was put on the blacklist by both the Dean and the Chief Priest.
After being beaten several times by the general, he calmed down a little, but he really couldn't concentrate on his studies. So he started thinking about finding three or five like-minded friends among his classmates to kill the boring school time together.
The original owner, in order to conceal her identity as a girl, kept her distance from everyone, which made her appear to be a maverick in the eyes of others. Over time, she unknowingly became alienated from everyone.
Although Zhou Mingyan is naughty, he is not a bad person. He is warm and kind. When he sees Lin Zhiyi alone, he is not afraid of being treated coldly and shamelessly keeps getting closer to Lin Zhiyi.
After getting to know each other for a while, the two became good friends.
After the original owner was elected as the consort of Princess Liyang, she was depressed for a while, and Zhou Mingyan even tried to comfort her.
Although his advice was not very pleasant to the ear - "I still want to be a prince consort, but Her Royal Highness the Princess doesn't like it. It would be so great to be a prince consort. I can just lie down and enjoy the wealth and glory. I don't have to work hard to go to school, and I don't have to take the imperial examinations. Just be content, Lin Xiuyuan!"
Recalling this, Lin Zhiyi, the modern female CEO, said: "..."
"What are you doing here? Aren't you going to accompany the prince hunting?" Lin Zhiyi asked while stroking the fur of the little fox in his arms.
Zhou Mingyan snorted through his nose and said with drooping eyelids, "It's not my turn to accompany them. Look, Cheng Wanku, Xie Er, and Ye Xiuluo are all over there. And it's too boring—those people are more twisted and tangled than the winding canal. I can't bear to listen to their flattery."
He also followed Lin Zhiyi's example and sat on the ground beside him. Before he could even settle down, his peripheral vision suddenly caught sight of a patch of snow-white fur. His eyes lit up, and he immediately reached out to touch it.
"Where did this little fox come from? What a nice fur color!"
Lin Zhiyi was startled by his ear-piercing voice. He frowned and hugged the little fox in his arms tightly, then turned sideways: "Don't touch it, this is a gift from the princess."
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