After hurriedly coming out of the back door of the yard, Aunt Fang paused slightly and looked towards the temple on the mountain.
Nanny Yu couldn't help but stop and looked in the direction where Aunt Fang was looking, wondering, "Aunt, is there anything else?" At first glance, she only saw the Bailong Temple and a corner of the eaves of the Baiyun Temple not far away, and had no idea what Aunt Fang was looking at.
Aunt Fang smiled and shook her head: "Nothing, let's go."
She tightened her cloak, hiding herself from head to toe in it, then held Nanny Yu's hand and hurried to the foot of the mountain.
When they reached the foot of the mountain, Aunt Fang instructed Nanny Yu to rent a horse carriage or ox cart.
Nanny Yu responded and left.
After Aunt Fang and the nanny left, she looked around and then took out a very ordinary-looking hemp rope from her sleeve. She stood on tiptoe, put the hemp rope around a crooked tree by the roadside, and tied a strange-looking knot.
After a while, Nanny Yu came back in an ox cart.
Without saying a word, Aunt Fang took Madam Yu's hand and got on the ox cart.
The ox cart turned around and drove back to Baihe Town.
What Concubine Fang didn't know was that not long after she left in the ox cart, a tall and strong man in black appeared from the shadows. He walked to the tree where Concubine Fang had been standing before, stroked his chin and looked at the knot of the hemp rope on the tree for a long time, and finally untied the rope from the tree and put it in his sleeve.
When he had done this, he put his finger to his lips and whistled, and two men and three horses came out from a path.
The tall, strong man in black made a gesture, and the two men jumped on their horses and rode in the direction of the ox cart that Aunt Fang was sitting in. He also got on his horse and followed behind them.
Not long after Concubine Fang and Nanny Yu left, the old woman who had been following the carriage came back. When she realized something was wrong, Concubine Fang was nowhere to be found.
When the carriage girl asked Jin Jue where Concubine Fang had gone, Jin Jue just said that Nanny Yu had accompanied Concubine Fang to see a doctor and refused to say anything else.
The carriage attendant was so anxious that she was jumping up and down, but she could do nothing about Jinju. She could only send someone to Yunyang City to report to the third master and the third mistress, while looking for the whereabouts of Aunt Fang.
After getting in the car, Aunt Fang began to think about what she should do next to clear herself of the accusations made against her by the Fifth House, and how she should negotiate with Old Master Ren to make him stand on her side again.
In this way, after the carriage had traveled for a distance, Aunt Fang realized that something was wrong.
Sitting in the carriage, she felt the ride was much bumpier than the previous one. She had assumed it was because ox-drawn carts were less stable than horse-drawn ones. But when she quietly lifted the curtain and took a peek outside, she was horrified.
This road does not lead to Baihe Town!
Nanny Yu also noticed something was wrong and immediately shouted, "Stop the car! Where are you going? This road doesn't lead to Baihe Town!"
But the driver outside didn't say a word, he was just busy on his way and didn't pay any attention to Nanny Yu at all.
Nanny Yu was anxious and afraid, secretly regretting not keeping her eyes open when looking for a car. She was worried that if Concubine Fang left for too long, it would cause gossip, so she wanted to go back quickly.
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