"Raccoon Dog Replaces Crown Prince"

  She clutched her belly, no way, Pan Yueyang was a useless waste, how could she have children with such a man? Humph, it was herself who misjudged the person at first, now that she understood this useless man, why make things difficult for herself?

  Her face didn't say anything, nor did it show any expression, but that doesn't mean she didn't have the ability to think. Pan Yu Yang, if you weren't so weak and indecisive, my Yan'er wouldn't be like this today. Suddenly, a thought of Guan Canghai popped into her head, and Yan'er shook her head in shock. It's impossible, even if I hated Pan Yu Yang, I shouldn't be thinking of Guan Canghai.

  However, this man... indeed has his own charm, his courage and determination are what Pan Yu Yang lacks, it's just that she didn't meet Guan Canghai at first but met Pan Yu Yang instead, otherwise maybe she could have truly appreciated Guan Canghai.

  Her eyes rolled over, thinking of that night with Cang Hai and herself... and it had only been a month since she gave birth... from start to finish, it was actually just twenty days!

  If... she said this child is Guan Cang Hai's, it wouldn't be unreasonable!

  She bit her lower lip and looked down at her belly: "Child, this time I must give birth to you, you only have one relative and that is me."

  After leaving the imperial city, a few people walked for another day. When night fell, they arrived at a village. The guards pulled on the reins to stop the carriage: "Miss, it's getting dark, let's rest here tonight." The guard spoke respectfully towards the carriage.

  "Good." Yan pulled open the carriage curtain, and this village didn't have any snow, the road surface was still very clean. Yan got down from the horse-drawn carriage, looked up at the signboard, "Xǐ Lái Kè Zhàn" (Welcome Guest Inn): "A pretty good name." Yan went in first.

  They had a casual meal, and the guards took three rooms. Among the five of them, the coachman slept, while the other two took turns keeping watch at night. Yan'er slept in one room, Baili Muxue slept in another, and everyone else went back to their rooms to rest except for the two guards on duty.

  Baili Murong lay in bed, tossing and turning. Although he was already exhausted and should have fallen asleep long ago, he couldn't sleep. He got out of bed and went to Qian'er's room, lightly knocking on the door. The guard at the door didn't stop Baili Murong.

  "Come in." He put on his overcoat.

  "Qian Er, I couldn't sleep so I came over to take a look at you." Baili Muru looked at the bed and saw that Qian Er had already fallen asleep.

  "It's nothing, Mu Bai. I also have something to talk to you about when I get the chance." Yan sat calmly in a chair beside him.

  "You and Shixiong..." Baili Muru looked at her so calm face, feeling that her face had become much more unfamiliar.

  "I have nothing to do with Pan Yu Yang, Mu Bai. I hope that when we arrive at the border, you can help me find a quiet place to avoid the worldly affairs." Yan'er began making preparations for the child in her belly.

  "Why? Are you afraid that Empress Rong and the others will harm you? Don't worry, with me around, they won't dare to do anything to you." Baili Muxue patted his chest in guarantee.

  "No, Murakami, I've discovered that I might be pregnant again. For the sake of this child, I can no longer be threatened by anything else. And also... apart from you, I don't want anyone else to know about this child's existence." Yan'er thought to herself that this child might be her only chance to turn things around, but she couldn't say this to Murakami Bai, and could only keep it a secret in her heart.

  "Now that Guan Canghai dominates the entire Tianfeng country, he is restless and his greatest threat is Panlong country. I don't want Guan Canghai to know that I'm pregnant, in case he uses it again..." Yan'er blinked her eyes, looking at Baili Muru.

  "I understand, you want to protect Shixiong's child well." Baili Muru smiled in defeat, with a hint of sadness.

  "Mu Bai, I'm not protecting Pan Yueyang's child. This child is mine, not Pan Yueyang's." Yan Er didn't like it when Mu Bai kept mixing her up with Pan Yueyang again.

  Baili Murong suddenly lifted his head and stared at Yan'er in shock: "Yan'er, you've changed."

  "Yes, Mu Bai, I'm no longer the silly and obedient Wan Wan from before. After experiencing many things, one will inevitably change. I don't have any martial arts skills or understand any crafts, and I'm not even proficient in the basic ways of survival. If you weren't always protecting me by my side, I'm afraid I really wouldn't know what to do." Yan Er sighed softly.

  "Alright, Yan'er, I promise you, your affairs are my affairs for the rest of my life. I once made a vow to protect you forever!" Baili Muwei stood up and gazed at Yan'er with deep affection.

  "Mu Bai." Yan'er suddenly hugged Baoli Mu Bai, her small face buried in Mu Bai's shoulder, a sinister expression appearing on her hidden face.

  Baili Muru's face turned bright red as he hesitated, his hands hovering in mid-air, unsure whether to hug her or what to do next.

  Her face knew that the boy in front of her liked herself, she had also been infatuated with Pan Yueyang before, but not all first loves can be happy for a lifetime, so this love is poisonous.

  Since men all like their own appearance, she must make good use of the heavenly gift to do something big. Yan'er's heart has been planning her plan. On the one hand, she hopes that Guan Canghai will stand firm in Tianfeng Country, and then find an opportunity to let Baili Mubai bring herself closer to Guan Canghai. As long as she is pregnant, this reason is enough to make Guan Canghai take herself as his wife or concubine, and then gradually eliminate Pan Yueyang. If this plan doesn't work, then use Baili Mubai again to get close to Pan Yueyang, which is even simpler and easier. She will bring the child to comfort Ou Ruolan!

  A group of people walked and stopped, walking for almost a month, finally arriving safely at the border town of Sezhou.

  It's already the twelfth lunar month, and Chinese New Year is just around the corner. She touched her belly, and since she still hadn't gotten her period this month, she could say with absolute certainty that she was really pregnant.

  "Miss, we've arrived in Sezhou. Soon we'll go to the government office to complete our task, and my brothers and I will have to return to the imperial city to report back. You should take care of yourself from now on." The guard led the horse carriage, unexpectedly not encountering any ambushes along the way, arriving safely in Sezhou. It seems they can make it home for New Year's after all.

  "Good." Her face slowly said a word through the car window screen.

  As soon as they entered the government office, several guards were invited to the back hall, and Yan was led away by a woman: "Are you the new slave?" The woman had a plump body, round face, but very fair skin, wearing a plain purple-pink dress.

  "Yes." Yan'er lowered her head, using her hand to press hard on her own face. The fake flesh had already rotted but was still stuck to her face, making it itch more and more.

  "Later take a towel to cover your face, this bright and shiny appearance don't scare the child." The fat woman looked at Yan Er's face.

  Her face was covered with a smile, and she finally laughed in her heart. From now on, she didn't have to wear this smelly fake meat anymore. She raised her head: "Thank you, sister."

  "Hey, you still know some manners, from now on you'll be under my management. All the female slaves who are assigned here will be my responsibility, but many of them end up being sold to brothels or theaters as the lowest level of slaves." The fat woman covered her mouth and burst out laughing, it seemed that talking about these female slaves was as easy for her as snacking on melon seeds, she must have sold so many female slaves that she had become numb to it.

  Her face heard that she might be sold to a brothel, and some anxious people knelt on the ground: "Sister, you are a good person, please spare Yan'er and don't sell Yan'er to such a place as a brothel. Yan'er is willing to work for you as an ox or a horse." After finishing speaking, Yan'er knocked her head against the fat woman.

  "Hey, get up quickly." The fat woman wasn't sure if she had a change of heart or if she really had a predestined relationship with Yan'er, but Yan'er's actions really made her feel a bit unbearable. She immediately helped Yan'er up: "My name is Sulan, just call me Sister Sulan."

  "Sulan sister." Yan's hand was still tightly grasping Sulan's, afraid that she would be sold to a brothel and forced into a life of debauchery.

  "Haha, you're really naive, girl. The ones sold to brothels are all young women with good looks." Su Lan stared at Yan's left cheek intensely.

  Her face stretched out to cover her own face, and her eyes were full of surprise: "Thank you, Sister Sulan!" Knowing that this face had saved herself once again, she was still grateful and knelt down to kowtow to Sulan.

  "After that, you'll go feed the horses. This job is more tiring than others, so you'd better take care of your body yourself. If something unexpected happens, I, Su Lan, won't be responsible." The plump woman still cautiously glanced at her slender waist.

  "Sulan sister, don't worry, I will listen and work hard." Yan's face nodded obediently.

  "Come on, let's go." Su Lan walked ahead, Yan'er followed behind her. Bai Li Mu was hiding his anger in the dark, just thinking that this shameless fat woman was going to send Yan'er to a brothel, Bai Li Mu almost wanted to rush out and kill her, luckily because of Yan'er's injured face, he helped her avoid disaster.

  Su Lan twisted her waist and led Yan Er to a secluded mountain valley, stretching out her white and tender fingers pointing forward: "Hey, do you see that? Over there is the horse stable of Sai State. Our Sai State is specially raising war horses for Panlong Country. These horses are carefully raised, and over there are some slaves working. I'll take you there now, when you arrive, just listen to their leader's orders."

  Her face didn't say a word, turned her head to look back at the horse stable behind her. Although it was located in Sai City, it was on the edge of Sai City. Such a place, raising horses is indeed rare: "Su Lan sister, how is this a mountain valley?" Yan'er always felt that this place was very different from the cities she had seen before.

  "You don't know this, do you? Our Sichuan province is surrounded by steep cliffs on one side, so although this is a border town, it's also the most difficult city to breach!" Su Lan proudly clapped her hands.

  "Good place." He looked at the steep cliff in the valley with a profound and unfathomable expression.

  Su Lan didn't say anything and walked straight into the only big house in the horse farm: "Follow me to find Li Guan Jia."

  Her face followed Su Lan's back, not daring to speak much. She carefully measured the geographical location of the horse farm all the way, and her heart didn't know what she was planning.

  "Li Guanjia, Li Guanjia, I've brought a slave for you." Suran shouted loudly as soon as she entered the house. A hunchbacked old man slowly walked out of the inner room.

  "Isn't this Sulan, who has come to deliver someone here today?" Li the housekeeper was a hunchbacked old man in his fifties, with a pair of small eyes that still shone with a hint of cleverness. His hands were clasped behind his back as he looked at the person standing behind Sulan.

  "This man doesn't look very good, from now on you'll stay here and do some rough work, don't let her see outsiders, I'm afraid of scaring everyone." Sulan was still very polite to Li the housekeeper.

  "Uh-huh." Li Guanjia nodded, and Su Lan smiled at his face before turning around to leave: "What's your name?" Li Guanjia didn't even lift his head.

  "Face." Lao Shi's honest answer.

  "This name is not good, it's pretentious and doesn't even sound like a real name. Just one look and you can tell she's a spoiled young lady from a wealthy family. Hmph, what did she do to end up in Sezhou?" Li the housekeeper glanced at Yan'er's left cheek, his gaze fleeting.

  "If the manager thinks it's not good, then give it a new name." Yan'er thought that changing her name and surname wasn't a bad thing.

  "You don't know how to read or write, so you come with me to the stable. From now on, you'll be in charge of giving each horse a bath and feeding them hay. At night, you need to feed them once more. Remember, no slacking off." Manager Li led the way to the stable, his face stern.

  "The slaves here are all like you, either with physical disabilities or some other problems, anyway they can't do a good job as humans, so they're all put under me. From now on, you'll work with them together, every day get up at dawn, first feed the horses hay, then clean the stables, and come to that house over there for meals. At night, you need to feed the horses again at midnight, this is the rule here, do you understand?"

  "I understand." Yan's face immediately referred to herself as a slave.

  "Wildflower, bring someone over for yourself, and from now on you'll be working with her!" Manager Li shouted into the stable.