Chapter 53: The Strange White Benefactor

Wang Baochuan stared at him with innocent eyes. She didn’t know if Bai Yu had ulterior motives or was simply naive.

Given her status, if Bai Yu had asked for anything in return, whether it was gold, silver, wealth, or official position and fame, as long as he could ask, she could ask her father to fulfill it.

But Bai Yu seemed to be a little slow…

Wang Baochuan met his clear and deep gaze, and for a moment, she couldn’t see Bai Yu.

“Oh! You wouldn’t want me to offer myself to you, would you!”

“You’re thinking too much.” Bai Yu gently tapped her forehead with his folding fan, “I already have someone I like.”

“Then you…”

“Third Miss keeps saying she wants to repay her debt of gratitude, but she won’t even treat me to a meal. Fine, I’ll be on my way…” He looked regretful and made a move to get up and leave.

“Okay, okay. It’s just the Wo Yun Tower. When I have enough money, I’ll buy it and give it to you!”

Wang Baochuan said generously.

Bai Yu smiled and agreed. Since he stepped into the private room, the smile in his eyes had never faded.

On the way, Wang Baochuan repeatedly asked him to think carefully, “You really don’t like gold and silver?”

“My family is in business.”

“Then you joined the army, you must be trying to get an official position and bring glory to your ancestors, right? I can ask my father…”

“No, I just simply want to go to the battlefield to protect my country.”

Wang Baochuan was full of questions. It wasn’t scary for someone to have desires, but it was scary for someone to have no desires at all.

The Wo Yun Tower.

Wang Baochuan and Bai Yu went up to the third floor together, “Whatever you want to eat, just order it.”

Bai Yu was troubled, “I’ve never been to the Wo Yun Tower, so I’ll let Third Miss order.”

Braised carp with tofu, eel soup, drunken shrimp with magnolia petals, crab stuffed with orange, stir-fried three fruits with sauce, pine mushroom soup, ham stewed meat, sauce-braised venison…

And a bottle of pear blossom white from the Wo Yun Tower’s cellar.

Bai Yu tried to look away. He was worried that if he kept looking at Wang Baochuan, he wouldn’t be able to control the smile on his face.

During the meal, the two attendants following Bai Yu were about to take out silver needles from their bodies to test the food, but Bai Yu stopped them.

“Go down.”

Wang Baochuan looked at the two attendants. They were well-trained and expressionless, not like ordinary servants from a merchant’s family.

The meal was long. Wang Baochuan was drinking soup, and her gaze was unconsciously drawn to Bai Yu. He was handsome, with perfect features, and every move he made was pleasing to the eye.

“White Benefactor, are you really not regretting it?” she asked again.

“My ambition is not to be an official.” Bai Yu chewed slowly, swallowed the piece of meat in his mouth, and then answered.

“Then why did you suddenly appear and save me and Qingqing…” She remembered that the place was far from the military camp.

Bai Yu put down his soup bowl and explained seriously, “That night, a few of my brothers and I were sitting outside admiring the moon, and then we saw a group of people sneaking around, setting fires, and then breaking into your tent.”

“We followed them to chase them, and they ran all the way. I remember we chased them for almost two hours. We almost got lost in the forest…”

Wang Baochuan felt guilty, “I’m so sorry. I didn’t dare to tell my father that you saved me. I was worried that you would be exposed, and Wei Hu would kill you in revenge.”

“But you can ask your brothers. I can afford gold, silver, and wealth. I…”

Her anxious expression in Bai Yu’s eyes wasn’t because she was anxious to repay her debt of gratitude, but because she wanted to repay her debt of gratitude as soon as possible so that they would be even.

Bai Yu was a little unhappy. He glanced at the dishes on the table, “The Wo Yun Tower is just a name.”

“Ah?” Wang Baochuan looked at the plate of venison, which was almost finished. Why did she feel that this man was insincere?

“Alright, we’ve eaten. Let’s meet again sometime.”

Wang Baochuan was a little anxious. She touched the things on her body. She couldn’t give him her personal belongings, but… her brother-in-law’s badge.

She had taken it from her brother-in-law the last time she investigated the compensation. Wang Baochuan held the badge and handed it to Bai Yu, “Here, if you need my help in the future, just have someone take this badge to the Prime Minister’s Mansion and find me.”

Bai Yu looked at the bronze badge with the character “Su” on it and directly refused.

“You’re really impossible to deal with.”

Bai Yu walked ahead, and she quickly followed behind, muttering to herself all the way.

A large group of people came galloping on horseback, causing chaos on the street.

Pedestrians dodged out of the way, and some were knocked to the side when they couldn’t dodge in time.

“Watch out!” Bai Yu quickly moved to the side and pushed Wang Baochuan to the side of the road with his folding fan.