Qiliang City, Incense Pavilion.

Su Baitong looked at the letter in his hand, expressionless.

Huixiang looked at her side face worriedly, and called in a low voice: "Miss? ”

"Huh?" Su Baitong threw the letter on the table.

“…… It's rare to receive a letter from home...... Aren't you happy? "It's been ten years, and this is the first time they've received a letter from home in Kyoto's Su Prefecture.

"What do I have to be happy about?" Su Baitong said lightly, she didn't pay attention to the letter again. Instead, he picked up the little civet on his knee.

The little civet seemed to sense the inexpressible sadness in Su Baitong's heart at this moment, and it stretched out its paws and pressed them on the back of her hand.

"Why do you think they told us to go back?" Su Baitong touched the little civet's head.

"It shouldn't be because of Su Sanye's case, right?" Huixiang guessed that they were entrusted to Su Sanye, and now that Sanye's mansion had suffered an accident, they should take them back.

Su Baitong suddenly sneered and stopped talking.

Huixiang said tentatively: "Miss, aren't you in a hurry to go back?" ”

"There's no hurry." Su Baitong said quietly, "Why did they come with a letter, we had to rush back...... It's not too late for me to take care of the Incense Pavilion and go back. ”

Su Baitong took a few days to go to Chen's mansion and entrusted the affairs of the Incense Pavilion to Mrs. Chen and Chen Zhinan.

In the final analysis, this incense shop was still made with Chen Zhinan's money, and Su Baitong revised the contract so that Mrs. Chen could share dividends from the shop every year.

Mrs. Chen refused at first, but Su Baitong went several times in a row. Mrs. Chen had no choice but to agree.

Begonia was also left here in the Incense Pavilion, although she was very reluctant to leave Su Baitong, but being able to become a female shopkeeper on her own side also made her look forward to it very much.

Heizi's eldest brother Xu Mingshan has now become the head of the yamen, and their lives have also settled. Heizi clamored every day to return to Beijing with Su Baitong.

Xu Mingshan also nodded in agreement, Su Baitong didn't have any opinions, Heizi was diligent and knew how to read people's eyes, it was better to have him with him than only Huixiang alone. Holy Doctor.

Su Baitong took care of the incense pavilion, prepared the carriage, and prepared the day before he was ready to leave, Su Lingjuan suddenly visited.

Since the death of the Qin family, Su Baitong has never seen Su Lingjuan again, and the proud eldest lady has become obscure and worried.

After entering the Incense Pavilion, Su Lingjuan kept looking around, as if he couldn't believe what he saw.

Now they can be called connected by the same disease, and they are all helpless here in Qiliang City, but Su Lingjuan still has a house and property in his hands, but Su Baitong is different. She can be considered self-made.

But now it seems that Su Baitong is more comfortable.

"You're going back to Kyoto too?" Regarding Su Lingjuan's request, Su Baitong was not surprised.

"I have sold my family property, and I am just going to go back these days, I heard that you just received a letter from home......" Su Lingjuan said nervously, even if she returned to Beijing, she didn't dare to go so far, so she thought about being with Su Baitong.

"If my cousin wants to be together, I don't have a problem." Su Baitong said indifferently, "It's just that you have to listen to my arrangement all the way, if you decide what went wrong without permission." Don't blame me then. ”

Su Lingjuan nodded hurriedly, she just wanted to go back to the old mansion in Kyoto as soon as possible, even if she didn't have her parents by her side now, but there was still her grandfather, her eldest uncle, and second uncle in the old mansion...... There are a few other cousins, it's better than now, and they don't even have a person around to take care of them.

On the day of the preparation, Su Baitong asked people to prepare three carriages, one loaded with the necessary things on the road, the other for Huixiang and Kuroko to rest, and she herself took the last one.

To her surprise, Chen Zhinan actually brought someone to see him off, and looking at the outfit on his body, he was completely going out of the house.

"This time, I came to escort Miss Su back to Beijing on the orders of my mother." Chen Zhinan arched his hand.

I heard the news that Su Baitong was going back to Beijing. Chen Zhinan's heart suddenly felt empty, but he didn't expect that in the end, they didn't even have to be friends.

Su Baitong smiled faintly, "Then there is Lao Chen's son." ”

Chen Zhinan saw that she didn't refuse, and his mood felt a little relaxed.

The carriage went all the way to the city gate, and when I heard that Su Baitong was leaving, the people all saw each other off.

Chen Zhinan led more than a dozen guards to open the way in front, but even so, Su Baitong's carriage was moving slowly, and it was blocked by the people several times.

The car was stuffed with all kinds of "gifts", from home-made food to dolls made by children themselves, only Su Lingjuan, who was waiting at the city gate, was dumbfounded.

She only heard that the reputation of the Incense Pavilion was getting louder and louder, but she didn't know when Su Baitong was so supported by the people in the city.

She rubbed her eyes vigorously to make sure what she was seeing was not a hallucination.

The carriage finally left Qiliang City.

In the first few days, Su Lingjuan was still ecstatic, it was the first time she had gone so far away from home, and there were no elders around her, so naturally she could say everything by herself.

Gradually, she felt much more comfortable than before.

Su Baitong's rest time is extremely stable, and every day must be sunrise and stop at dusk.

The journey was extremely slow, but Chen Zhinan didn't rush her, but took the dozen or so guards to escort the carriage, as if he was going out on an outing.

After a long time, Su Lingjuan could only talk to the maids beside her, and she also felt sulky, and wanted to take the opportunity to talk to Chen Zhinan, but who knew that Chen Zhinan would excuse herself every time, as if she would be eaten by talking to her alone, and the angry Su Lingjuan dropped several teacups in the carriage in a row.

On this day, the carriage was halfway down, and it suddenly rained heavily, so Chen Zhinan had to order someone to temporarily change the route and drive the carriage to the side of the road.

There was a ruined temple, and a few horse-drawn carriages were parked by the road, apparently passing by caravans, taking shelter from the rain.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and there was no intention of stopping at all, so Chen Zhinan had to park the car and let Su Baitong enter the temple to take shelter from the rain.

The autumn rain was extremely cold, and someone had already lit a bonfire in the temple to keep warm, Su Baitong and others entered the door, and those people all turned their heads to look at them.

Chen Zhinan stepped forward to block Su Baitong behind him, nodded to those people, and then asked his guards to the side to light a fire.

The bonfire was lit, the guards took out the clay pot and water bag from the carriage, and Huixiang also went over to help Zhang Luo cook the rice, and it didn't take much effort, the fragrance spread, and the people in front of the bonfire on the opposite side smelled the fragrance and all looked this way.

Suddenly being looked at by so many strange men, Su Lingjuan felt uncomfortable, she peeked to look at Su Baitong, but saw her sitting with her eyes down, holding the hot tea sent by Huixiang in her hand, and her demeanor was calm, as if she was a real lady.

Su Lingjuan hurriedly gathered her dress and sat upright.

"Childe!" At this moment, an anxious call broke the silence in the rain curtain.

Chen Zhinan and the others turned their heads to look, only to see several men around a gorgeously dressed teenager around the bonfire opposite.

The boy fell face down on the ground, stiff and seemingly unconscious.

At this time, someone stretched out his hand to help the young man up, and suddenly heard a faint female voice on the opposite side: "If you don't want him to die, don't touch him." ”