The Grand Secretary's Pampered Wife

Chapter 683.2: The Crown Princess Has Returned!

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The little girl hid in the darkness for a long time, long enough to fall asleep and wake up again, with night turning into day.

She struggled to climb out of the box, stumbling with her short legs as she made her way back.

The once familiar mountains had turned into a sea of corpses and blood.

Her lonely little figure crawled over one corpse after another lying in pools of blood.

"Uncle, where are you?"

"Yinyin doesn't want to play anymore."

"Yinyin doesn't want candy; Yinyin wants Uncle."

The little girl raised her head and looked towards the city wall.

Gu Jiao: "No——"

Gu Jiao's body trembled as she opened her eyes.

The monk was sitting cross-legged beside her, looking at her with a half-smile, "Had a nightmare?"

It seemed like a nightmare, but as soon as she woke up, she couldn't remember anything except for one image——a man in silver armor pinned to the city wall by a red-tasseled spear.

Gu Jiao rubbed her chest.

The monk glanced at her, then reached into his wide sleeve and tossed something onto her lap, "Here."

"What’s this?" Gu Jiao asked.

"Candy." The monk replied.

"I don't like candy." Gu Jiao handed it back to him.

"Oh?" The monk raised an eyebrow in surprise, "How could anyone not like candy? My little disciple loves it. Whenever he's upset, I give him candy, and it always cheers him up."

Gu Jiao asked him curiously, "You have a disciple?"

What kind of disciple could survive under you for more than three days?

They must have an incredibly strong will to live!

......

Gu Jiao didn't have any more dreams in the latter half of the night and slept until dawn.

Her body was no longer in serious condition. Even if people from the Crown Prince Estate came to kill her again, she might not be able to defeat them, but she could at least escape.

It was time to go back.

"Huh? Where's the monk?"

Speak of the devil, and he shall appear.

The monk walked into the dilapidated temple carrying a bunch of fresh wild fruits, "Just make do with these for now; fill your stomach a bit. It’s time to go later."

Gu Jiao asked, "You're leaving?"

The monk replied, "You’re not?"

Gu Jiao said, "I am."

The monk then said, "Then what are you waiting for? Hurry up and eat so we can go!"

"Oh."

Gu Jiao ate a few wild fruits, which were very sour.

After filling her stomach, Gu Jiao packed her things. The medicine in the first aid kit was almost gone, and her bow was lost, but she could make another one. With Master Lu and Xiaoshun around, making a bow wasn't difficult.

Gu Jiao slung the red-tasseled spear and her back basket on her back.

The monk stuffed the remaining tooth-achingly sour fruits into her back basket as well, "For the journey!"

Gu Jiao gave him a sidelong glance, saying, "You just didn't want to carry them yourself, so you shoved them into my basket, didn't you?"

The monk clasped his prayer beads with one hand, "Amitabha, goodness gracious, this humble monk has only the best intentions."

Gu Jiao: I believe you as much as I'd believe a ghost.

The two of them left the dilapidated temple.

Actually, Gu Jiao wanted to check on the situation at the imperial mausoleum, but it had been six days since the Crown Prince Estate sent out the first wave of embroidered-uniform guards. Whatever was going to happen should have already happened.

Either the Crown Princess acted quickly enough to find the embroidered-uniform guards' bodies behind the broken bridge and returned to Shengdu before the second wave of embroidered-uniform guards arrived.

Or… the Crown Princess had already met her demise.

"I’m going back to Shengdu, where are you planning to go next?" Gu Jiao asked the monk.

"I..."

As soon as the monk began to speak, a surge of killing intent suddenly erupted from behind!

The monk swiftly turned around, shielding Gu Jiao behind him, and struck out with his palm to meet the attack!

The force of the clash was so intense that it cracked the ground.

The monk looked at the empty path, sneering, "Hah, daring to ambush me from such a distance, you've improved. Girl, you should go first."

Gu Jiao poked her small head out from behind him and asked, "Can you handle it? If not, I can stay and help you."

If it was someone he could easily crush in one move, it wouldn't have forced the monk to strike. The internal force in that palm was much stronger than when he dealt with the three Tian Lang.

The monk casually smiled, his peach blossom eyes narrowing slightly, "It's a tricky opponent, but not unbeatable. I don't want that pompous guy to see your face and think you're with me. If he can't beat me, he might come after you later. But if you insist on staying..."

Before he could finish his sentence, he turned his head and saw that Gu Jiao, who had just offered to help a second ago, had already run off in a flash!

The monk: "..."

......

Gu Jiao took two days to travel from Guanshan back to Shengdu.

The people from the Crown Prince Estate actually didn't know who killed the first wave of embroidered-uniform guards. They had simply followed clues at the scene to the dilapidated temple.

Before she and the monk left, they had meticulously erased all traces from the temple.

As long as she didn't slip up, the people from the Crown Prince Estate wouldn't discover her.

Gu Jiao returned to the house at dusk.

Lady Nan heard the sound of horse hooves outside and immediately went to open the courtyard gate without thinking, "JiaoJiao!"

For the past few days, whenever there were horse hooves in the alley, Lady Nan would come out to check.

"You finally came back!" Lady Nan glanced left and right down the alley, pulled Gu Jiao inside, closed the courtyard gate, and bolted it. She asked worriedly, "Are you alright? Why did it take so long?"

"I’m fine." Gu Jiao said. "How is everyone at home?"

Lady Nan let out a sigh, "We're fine, but Yan'er... he had a heart attack the next night after you left. Luckily, we had the medicine you left behind. He had a fever all night, but he was better by the next day."

The second night she was away was when she was fighting with the embroidered-uniform guards.

She got hurt, so Gu Yan suffered as well.

"I'll go check on Gu Yan." Gu Jiao said.

"He just fell asleep." Lady Nan and Gu Jiao entered Gu Yan's room together.

On the bed, Gu Yan's breathing was shallow and even, his complexion as pale as ever.

Lady Nan whispered, "Are you really alright? What happened exactly?"

Gu Jiao glanced at Gu Yan on the bed and said to Lady Nan, "I had a skirmish with the people from the Crown Prince Estate and ran into some trouble. I was delayed for a few days at a temple, but the trouble is resolved now. There's no need to worry."

Lady Nan knew Gu Jiao's tendency to downplay her own difficulties and pressed further, "Are you hurt?"

Gu Jiao flatly denied, "I’m not."

You wouldn't admit it even if you were, Lady Nan thought, but decided to let it go and said, "Liulang has come by several times. He just left this afternoon."

Gu Jiao: Oh, I've made my husband and Little Jing Kong worry.

Gu Jiao said, "I’ll go into the inner city to see them another day."

Lady Nan replied, "Then have Little Feng take you. He's been coming by every day to ask about you."

Gu Jiao agreed, "Alright. By the way, where are Xiaoshun and Master Lu?"

Lady Nan replied, "They went to buy firewood. Are you hungry? I’ll make you something to eat."

Lady Nan left the room.

Gu Jiao went to the bedside, bent down, and reached out to touch Gu Yan’s forehead.

Gu Yan slowly opened his eyes.

Gu Jiao smiled gently, "I knew you were awake."

Tears glistened in Gu Yan's eyes as he looked at her unwaveringly, "You’re lying."

Gu Jiao opened her mouth, "I..."

Gu Yan said, "You're hurt."

Gu Jiao knew that even if she could fool everyone in the world, she couldn't fool Gu Yan.

Gu Yan pointed to the edge of the bed, "Sit down."

Gu Jiao said, "I'm dirty."

Gu Yan said nothing and just stubbornly looked at her.

Gu Jiao sighed and sat down on the edge of the bed. Gu Yan rested his head on her lap and hugged her waist, "Sister."

"Mm?"

"Don't go out for so long again."

"Okay."

......

Gu Jiao came out of Gu Yan's room, and Lady Nan had finished cooking the noodles.

Lady Nan placed a steaming bowl of bacon and dried bamboo shoot noodles on the table in the main room and asked Gu Jiao, "Is Yan'er asleep?"

Gu Jiao nodded, "Yes, he's asleep. He was really angry this time, it took a long time to calm him down."

Lady Nan couldn't help but laugh, "It's good you managed to calm him down, considering how many days you were gone."

Gu Jiao picked up the chopsticks and asked, "During the days I was away, did anything major happen in Shengdu?"

Lady Nan thought for a moment and replied, "There was indeed one major thing."

Gu Jiao paused in the middle of slurping her noodles.

Lady Nan said, "The Crown Princess has returned."

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