After rebirth, I kidnapped the sickly Dugong

Wen Baizhi certainly wouldn't starve herself. Although the dishes in the kitchen were still as bland and tasteless as ever, at least they wouldn't starve her to death.

After finishing her meal, she was just about to go out for a walk to digest the food when she saw Si Jiu and his group coming to her yard.

Wen Baizhi was holding a lantern, so she could see Si Jiu's face clearly.

Wen Baizhi was surprised and asked, "Why are you here so late?"

Si Jiu forced a stiff smile: "I promised you that I would have dinner with you."

Wen Baizhi felt that something was wrong with him at this moment: "What's wrong with you? Why are you paler than this morning?"

Si Jiu shook his head slightly: "It's okay."

Ping An behind him was extremely anxious: "Du Gong, go back and find Doctor Rong to apply medicine for you."

"Apply medicine?" Wen Baizhi approached him, not remembering their identities at all. "Where are you injured?"

"No, I'm fine," Si Jiu forced himself to turn around, "I'm leaving first."

But before he could take two steps, the wound on his knee hurt so much that he bent his knees and almost fell to the ground.

Ping An was concerned that Si Jiu didn't want anyone to touch him, so he just stood behind him and watched him about to fall.

Wen Baizhi couldn't bear to watch it anymore, so she hurried to his side, put down the lantern, and climbed onto his arm to support him.

"Thank you." Si Jiu squeezed out a word.

Wen Baizhi said nothing and continued to support his body with all her strength.

But after all, she was a veteran of the battlefield, so she immediately saw the source of Si Jiu's pain.

"Is your leg hurt?"

It looks like a question, but it is actually an affirmation.

Si Jiu felt the warmth from her hand, and reminded himself not to sink too much. He forced himself to stand up straight and leave her support.

"Some old injuries, they're nothing serious."

His tone was calm, and it was somewhat believable if you ignored the cold sweat that was pouring down his temples due to pain.

Wen Baizhi saw that he avoided the topic and knew that he also had his own privacy, so she stopped asking.

"Since you can walk on your own, and it's getting late, you should go back early to apply medicine and rest."

A trace of sadness flashed across Si Jiu's face, but he quickly covered it up: "It's really late. I'm really sorry to trouble you tonight, Miss Wen. I didn't keep my promise to have dinner with you."

Wen Baizhi said indifferently: "These are all trivial matters. But you, although you said you were fine, you looked like you were about to faint. Go back and rest early."

Si Jiu said the last sentence: "Tomorrow I will come to have lunch with Miss Wen. When Miss Wen returns home the day after tomorrow, I will also go with her."

After saying that, without waiting for Wen Baizhi to respond, he propped himself up and left.

Wen Baizhi returned to the place where she had just put down the lantern, picked it up and went back to her room.

Outside the yard, Cuizhi was waiting for her return anxiously.

Seeing her coming back, he hurriedly went to greet her: "Miss, you are finally back."

Wen Baizhi handed her the lantern: "Didn't I tell you that I would be back after going out to relax? Why are you in such a hurry? I can't get lost."

Cuizhi helped her walk into the house and said, "Miss, you didn't know that before you went for a walk, you asked me to go to the kitchen to find you some midnight snacks. When I went to the kitchen, I heard them saying that the governor was severely punished in the palace today, and everyone in the mansion was very nervous."

Wen Baizhi asked: "Were you punished?"

Cuizhi nodded.

Yes, with Si Jiu's current status, what other reason could there be for his legs to hurt so much that he couldn't walk, other than being punished by the emperor?

But Wen Baizhi still confirmed with her: "Is what you heard true or false? Where did you hear it from?"

Cuizhi replied, "That lady told me when we were in the kitchen. She said that before the governor left, he had told the kitchen to buy some meat and fish. She thought it was strange, but she didn't expect that the governor would not come to eat after he bought the food. She was suspicious and went to the gate to see when the governor would come back. But she saw that he was carried back by someone."

"Did you carry it back?" Wen Baizhi asked.

Cuizhi poured her a glass of water and said, "Yes, I saw it with my own eyes. She said that when the governor came back, his face was pale, his eyes were closed, and he didn't have the strength to walk."

Wen Baizhi couldn't help but think of his state when he just separated from Si Jiu.

It was indeed very bad and his face was pale, but he still insisted on walking here.

Apologize to myself and make an appointment for tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

Hearing Cuizhi say this, she felt particularly uncomfortable.

Si Jiu, no, Si Zijin, after all, was an old acquaintance of hers, and perhaps she was the last person in this world who had a relationship with her as Wen Bai.

Maybe I should go see him, he is really seriously injured.

Even if it's just to take a look.

She did what she said. She stood up suddenly, which scared Cuizhi.

"Miss, do you need anything? I didn't bring any supper because I was in a hurry to come back to see you."

Wen Baizhi asked Cuizhi: "Do we have any ointment or something like that in our room?"

Cuizhi thought for a moment and said, "It seems to be in the drawer over there. I'll go look for it. Is the young lady injured anywhere?"

Wen Baizhi said frankly: "It's not me. Didn't you say that Duke Du came back from the palace after being punished? I thought that since we are living in his house, I have to go and take a look anyway."

When Cuizhi heard that she was going to see Sijiu, she was so scared that she dropped the ointment in her hand to the ground.

Wen Baizhi just found it funny, walked up to her, bent down and picked up the ointment: "If you are scared, wait for me to come back in the house."

Cuizhi encouraged herself: "The young lady has gone, so I must go too. If I am left here alone, I will be even more scared."

Wen Baizhi was very satisfied that Cuizhi now called herself "I" instead of "slave".

This was something that took her some time to correct after her rebirth.

Wen Baizhi patted her shoulder to encourage her: "Okay Cuizhi, then you can come with me. When the time comes, you can wait for me outside the yard. I will come out to find you after I deliver the ointment."

The two of them came to Si Jiu's yard together.

In the patio of the yard, Ping'an was pacing back and forth anxiously.

He saw Wen Baizhi and the other person who came late at night, and asked, "It's late at night, why are you here, Madam?"

When General Wen Baizhi saw that he was outside and not serving Si Jiu, he asked, "Why isn't Eunuch Ping serving Lord Du? I think Lord Du is in a bad condition."

Ping An originally wanted to put Wen Baizhi off the question, but when he thought about how Si Jiu went to look for Wen Baizhi after returning from the palace tonight even though he was so weak that he could not even stand, he realized that this lady might have a special relationship with Si Jiu.

Then he pointed to the brightly lit room and said, "Madam, it's not that I don't want to serve the governor, but the governor himself won't let me in. The governor even won't let me go to find a doctor. His knee and leg injuries can't wait."

Wen Baizhi looked at Ping An with some embarrassment. Her original intention was that if Si Jiu was not convenient, she would just give the ointment to Ping An and leave.

Ping An saw that Wen Baizhi's expression was a little shaken, so he raised his hand and bowed, saying, "Madam, please go in and see the governor."

Wen Baizhi looked at the door and then at the ointment in her hand, and finally she gritted her teeth and knocked on the door.