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Chapter 465: Hu Niang
In the far Northeast City, another 10 days had passed since Yao Zhi returned from the Five Dragon Mountains.
At this moment, Xue Ya’er was busy helping Yao Zhi check the ledgers.
Both of them were sitting across from each other inside the west side room. This room was located in her and her husband’s courtyard, which counted as the backyard.
Under normal circumstances, no men would be allowed to enter this side room.
Right now, Yao Zhi was not putting on her disguise as Lei Feng. Today, she was here using another disguise, a young woman hired by Xue Ya’er as her temporary accountant.
While she was focused on calculating the amount of grain needed, she heard Xue Ya’er ask, “Ah Zhi, how did you change your appearance?”
Hearing this, Yao Zhi stopped what she was doing and raised her head.
Her current face was nothing like Lei Feng’s ordinary face. Now, she looked like a fox demon who had descended to the mortal world to seduce scholars.
Besides her otherworldly beautiful face, her eye color had also changed. Instead of black-brown eyes, her eyes were cognac brown with a hint of golden hue in the irises.
Added to her phoenix-shaped eyes and willow-shaped eyebrows, no one could connect this person with Lei Feng or Yao Zhi.
Noticing her friend’s amazement, Yao Zhi smiled and asked, “Ya’er, do you like what you see?”
No one would hate beautiful things. Xue Ya’er nodded and replied honestly, “Of course. You are so beautiful.”
Touching her face, Yao Zhi let out a chuckle. “Ya’er, this is not my true face. I’m using a skin mask and contact lenses to change my appearance and eye color.”
“When I’m Lei Feng, I need to put on a bodysuit and add insoles to my shoes to change my figure and height. As for my hair color, I use fake hair, called a wig.”
After a moment of pause, she leaned closer and added, “I will send you a set later. In case you need to escape or hide from people, you can just fake your death and change your identity.”
When she heard this, Xue Ya’er was surprised and asked, “Ah Zhi, why do you think I need to escape?”
Shrugging, Yao Zhi replied casually, “It’s better to make preparations just in case. After all, we don’t know what will happen in the future.”
Recalling her friend’s tragic fate in the original plot, she couldn’t help but remind her, “Ya’er, no matter how good a man is to us, we can only depend on ourselves.”
Hearing her words, Xue Ya’er recalled a saying and muttered softly, “Depends on the mountain, and the mountain crumbles. Depend on people, and people leave.”
Yao Zhi caught her soft muttering but said nothing. The two of them continued working on their tasks.
At sunset, they finally finished checking the ledgers. Before leaving, Yao Zhi asked her personal assistant to make a set of skin masks, contact lenses, a bodysuit, and a set of makeup for Xue Ya’er.
While she waited, the system’s mechanical voice suddenly echoed in her mind.
“Host, rather than putting on cumbersome disguises, why don’t you check the merit shop?”
“Do you mean there is something good there to replace the disguise?”
Instead of answering her, the system started playing dead again.
Used to the system ignoring her, Yao Zhi handed a box containing the items she had prepared for Xue Ya’er to her.
“Ya’er, there are instructions on how to use these things. You can try them on slowly.”
Xue Ya’er didn’t refuse her gift and smiled. “Thank you, Ah Zhi.”
Yao Zhi nodded and left.
Instead of returning to Lei Feng’s guest room, she left the General’s temporary residence and went to a two-courtyard house located 500 meters away. Two steps behind her, two maidservants followed with their hands clasped in front of their stomachs.
Lately, Ling Shijiu had noticed that a group of people was investigating Lei Feng’s background. These people were different from the ones sent by Su Hanli.
He had served as the Grand Princess’s shadow guard before and had met one of these people. This person was the Emperor’s personal guard.
Since the people investigating Lei Feng were the Emperor’s men, it meant they had attracted unwanted attention.
To avoid unnecessary trouble, Yao Zhi decided to change her disguise. So, she asked Ling Ershi to disguise himself as Lei Feng and leave the Northeast City with the Ling Squad.
After they shook off the people sent by the Emperor, they would change their appearance and go find Fu Chen’an. During this period, they would follow his orders.
To ensure her own safety, Yao Zhi finally took out her puppets.
Her current identity was Hu Niang, a widow from the Zhiyue Kingdom. Her late husband was a merchant selling salt, medicinal herbs, and animal hides. She was wealthy, bold, and loved to dress flamboyantly.
Since her stunning face and wealth could attract trouble, she took out 1 manager puppet, 2 male servant puppets, and 2 maidservant puppets. They would serve as her servants and bodyguards.
She gave them the surname Kui, which means puppet. Then she used colors to differentiate their status. The manager-class puppet would use purple, the male servants would use black, and the maidservants would use white.
When she arrived at her mansion, she knocked on the door. Soon after, the side gate was opened, and Kui Heiyi bowed to her. “Greetings, Madam.”
Yao Zhi nodded at him and asked, “Did anything happen while I was outside?”
“Not long after Madam left, two soldiers came and asked about Madam’s situation in Zhiyue Kingdom.”
Hearing this, Yao Zhi nodded. Those soldiers were sent by her husband for formalities. Thanks to her husband’s and Lu Qianxuan’s help, she could create another fake identity smoothly.
As she walked, her red gauze outer robe swayed lightly. The flower embroidered with golden thread shimmers under the soft sunset’s rays.
Now, not only her identity, but even her walking posture, aura, and behavior were different. If she didn’t reveal her identity, no one would know that she was Lei Feng.
Right now, besides Xue Ya’er, only her husband, Fu Chen’an, knew about her real identity.