Seeing that Jiang Lu was barely able to protect herself, Jiang Bai took out the poison he had bought from Boss Li and handed it all to her.
"Your sister has some business to attend to in the county town. You take Awen and go hide with Wolf Da and the others."
The wolves in the mountains have been tamed by Jiang Bai, and now when they see the three Jiang siblings, they will occasionally wag their tails.
However, considering that these wolves had eaten people before, Jiang Bai didn't dare to completely trust them.
He took out poison and a homemade crossbow, handed it to Jiang Lu for self-defense, and then left with peace of mind.
Upon arriving in the county town, Jiang Bai went directly to the county school.
Ji Yanwen, who had never been visited before, was somewhat surprised; this woman had finally remembered to come and see him.
He tried to suppress his inner joy as he walked out of the county school and immediately noticed the conspicuous chopstick on Jiang Bai's head.
He paused for a moment; she hadn't accepted the hairpin he'd bought last time.
"What is your relationship with the Third Prince?"
Jiang Bai got straight to the point: the things from Pingshan were of little use to her anyway. Luzhou was suffering from a severe drought, and even though it had rained, both food and clothing were in short supply.
The Third Prince happened to be in Luzhou providing disaster relief, and she planned to go and take a look.
Jiang Bai's eyes flickered as he thought of the painting hidden behind the stone gate.
Before Ji Yanwen's joy had faded, he heard the Third Prince's name, and his face immediately froze.
Why are you asking this?
"Weren't you looking for something in Pingshan? You're probably looking for this, right?"
She lifted the cloth covering the basket and took out an arrow, placing it on the table.
Ji Yanwen was shocked and subconsciously got up, looking around.
The two were sitting in a private room at Zuichunlou, with all the doors and windows tightly closed, so no one could see what was happening inside.
Ji Yanwen then realized that he had gone a bit too far.
He tried hard to avoid looking at the arrow on the table, feigning confusion, and said, "I don't know what you're talking about."
"Ji Mo, I don't have time to joke with you."
Jiang Bai looked very serious, so serious that Ji Yanwen dared not lie anymore.
"The Third Prince is my cousin."
After saying those words, he seemed to have a heavy burden lifted off his shoulders, and his whole body relaxed.
Jiang Bai raised an eyebrow, not entirely surprised.
"continue."
"Six years ago, when the Third Prince was ten years old, my aunt was discovered by the Emperor to be practicing witchcraft to curse him, and as a result, the Ji family was raided and exiled."
“All males in the family who were over the age of twenty were beheaded, all female relatives were sent to the brothel, and male offspring who were under the age of twenty were exiled to the frontier.”
“My mother and her sisters, unwilling to be humiliated, all committed suicide.”
“On my way to exile, there were also people who wanted to kill me.”
"In the end, I was rescued by the Third Prince, who was only ten years old at the time, and came to Qianshan Village to live in seclusion under an assumed name."
As he listened to his story, Jiang Bai's expression changed slightly.
"Your aunt..."
"She's not dead." Ji Yanwen said coldly, as if the person was not his close relative, but his enemy.
For some reason, upon seeing Jiang Bai here and hearing her mention Pingshan, Ji Yanwen felt an urge to tell her everything.
If he looked closely, he might have noticed a faint scent emanating from Jiang Bai.
In the sky, there were even occasional rumbles of thunder, but Jiang Bai ignored them all.
“I don’t know why, even though it was she who used witchcraft to curse the emperor, our whole family was in trouble, and even the third prince was affected, but only my aunt was safe and sound.”
"The Third Prince said that the person was not my aunt."
“But when we sent people to investigate, both her childhood memories and the birthmark on her body indicated that it was the same person.”
Time travel.
Jiang Bai's first thought was this: perhaps the Third Prince's mother had died long ago, and this one was just an imposter.
"After the Ji family was raided, she became even more favored by the emperor. He spent a fortune building the Qingliang Palace and the Zhaixing Pavilion for her, and he also carried out large-scale construction projects in various places to build summer palaces for her."
“We just received news a few days ago that the third prince of the western barbarians has taken a fancy to her. He asked the emperor for her but was refused. He wants to send troops to take her back to the west to be his queen.”
Jiang Bai:......
So this is a Mary Sue script?
Ji Yanwen's narration had not yet stopped; more stories about the Third Prince and that favored concubine followed his words into Jiang Bai's ears.
Finally, after obtaining a token from Ji Yanwen, Jiang Bai left without hesitation and went to the county government office.
Ji Yanwen woke up groggily in the private room, feeling as if he had forgotten something.
Looking again at the cuff, the silver hairpin was still there.
"That Jiang Bai just left me here and walked away."
Ji Yanwen was indignant, completely unaware that he had revealed everything he knew. With a touch of feigned sadness and grief, he returned to the county school.
After New Year's Eve, Xu Chuan Academy will hold its entrance examination. If one wants to ensure passing the imperial examination next year, going to Xu Chuan Academy is imperative.
He buried himself in his studies, unaware that this was a hint Jiang Bai had given him.
The goal was to get him into Xuchuan Academy first, and then use his studies there to get himself a travel permit to Xuchuan.
With his silver notes almost gone, Jiang Bai had a string of land deeds on him when he left the yamen.
The solemn inscription of "Pingshan" on the land deed is dazzling.
After buying a lot of grain and household items, Jiang Bai returned to Jiangjia Village and brought Jiang Lu and her brother back. The three siblings gathered together and examined the stack of land deeds.
Jiang Lu gasped.
"Sister, you bought the whole of Pingshan?"
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