Chapter 23(1/2)
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Yingying climbed the mountain very quickly. When she was going down the mountain, she was too hasty and she hooked her branches to her dress and sat on the ground.
After the rain, the soil on the mountain was soft. Yingying could smell the green grass and earthy atmosphere in the forest. She climbed up and pressed the mud with her hand. She turned around to pull the hooked dress, and she simply tore the skirt back and forth.
She looked like she couldn't see anyone anymore, and Yingying was careful about walking for a while. She thought everyone was asleep at this time, but she turned into the mountain gate and saw a black shadow under the ancient tree. She hurriedly hid in the shadow. Yingying looked carefully and found that the man was Qiu An'an.
Qiu Anan didn't know what wish was yet to come. He prayed for blessings and made wishes from ancient trees. In the middle of the night, he came to hang a sign under the ancient trees. Yingying saw her wandering under the ancient trees for a long time, and couldn't help but guess whether the sign was related to her brother.
If Qiu Anan didn't leave, Yingying couldn't leave. Fortunately, Qiu Anan hung up the sign without procrastinating. Yingying waited in the same place for a while, and then came out in the shadow when she saw Qiu Anan's figure disappear.
While there was no one, her best choice was to quickly slip back to the room, but when she passed by the ancient tree, she thought for a while and stopped. When she walked to where Qiu Anan had just stood, Yingying looked up at these wishing cards that were swaying in the wind. For a moment, she couldn't tell which one was just hung by Qiu Anan.
It wasn't Yingying who was curious about wanting to peek at Qiu An'an's **, she just wanted to determine whether Qiu An'an's true brother was really there. Yingying has not forgotten yet. The "truth" that Qiu An'an told her in the attic in his previous life did not think anything before. Now if Qiu An'an really loves her brother, then Qiu An'an in his previous life would have lied to her.
But why did she lie to her?
Qiu Anan is careless. Yingying doesn't believe she will joke about her marriage in order to revenge her, not to mention that she saved Gu Lingxiao.
The signs hanging on the ancient trees were densely packed, and they collided with each other in the breeze and made a slight sound. Yingying looked up and her neck was sore. She didn't have such good luck this time and did not find Qiu An'an's wishing card.
When walking back along the path, Yingying frowned and felt a little absent-minded.
At first she didn't notice any abnormality. When she paused, she noticed the breath of another person behind her. The uneasy and oppressive feeling made her subconsciously alert and raised her hand to hit the man. However, when she turned her whole body, she found that the person following her was Qin Rong.
"Three Brother?" The palm wind made Qin Rong's forehead rise. At this time, Yingying's palm could just take a little further forward to capture Qin Rong's face.
Fortunately, although Yingying was prepared, she had no intention of killing people. She stopped quickly. Qin Rong stopped at the same time and was not panicked at all. Even if Yingying had her palms out quickly just now, he could calm down and not even blink.
After lowering his hand, Yingying remembered her mud. Seeing Qin Rong glanced at her dress, she stammered and explained: "Just now, I didn't see the road clearly just now, and I accidentally fell down."
Suddenly, dark clouds covered the moon, and Yingying suddenly couldn't see Qin Rong's face clearly in the darkness.
Perhaps this dull night color made people uneasy. Yingying felt a sense of oppression that penetrated. She stood in front of Qin Rong and grabbed her dress. She couldn't think of why Qin Rong appeared here in the middle of the night, so she could only speak to herself: "The third brother can't sleep... come out for a walk?"
In the darkness, Yingying seemed to see Qin Rong moving lightly, and his cool voice pressed slowly: "Yingying also came out for a walk?"
"Yes...yes." Yingying blinked, then she heard Qin Rong laugh a few times, as if she asked in a low voice: "Is that right?"
The vague figure moved lightly, but in the blink of an eye, the two were close at hand. Yingying heard her accelerated heartbeat, and she opened her eyes wide and tried hard to see the person in front of her, but she could only feel the darkness intensified and her sleeves brushed across her cheeks.
Qinrong's unique elegant fragrance mixed with the fragrant grass in the forest. He raised his hand and gently touched Yingying's hair, "It's very late, go back and rest early."
The dark clouds gradually dissipated, and when the moon appeared again, Yingying turned her head and only grabbed a trace of Qin Rong's afterimage.
The water vapor trapped in the wind vaguely dropped a few drops of rain. Yingying almost returned to her room. She was in a downpour and she was not prepared at all. The rain lasted all night.
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In the early morning, Yingying was awakened by the sound of birds outside the window.
The rain that had been raining all night finally stopped at dawn. Yingying stayed at the bed and opened the window. It was sunny after the rain, and fresh air came to her nose.
This day was gloomy for several days, and as the weather turned clear, people were in a good mood. The Queen Mother's health improved after recuperation for a few days. Today, she was intrigued to call Yingying and her group over to chat. When the female official came to call for someone, she found that she was not in the room.
"Who did you say? Gu Yingying?"
When the female official came back to report, Qiu Yu and the others were already there. The queen mother sat on the chair and took a sip of tea, raised her eyebrows and said, "Did you say she went to the back mountain to clean up the fallen leaves?"
The rain was too heavy last night, and the trees around the temple were inevitably affected. When Yingying went out, she happened to see several young masters going to clean up the mountain. She went with her with nothing to do.
If this were the case before, Empress Dowager Zhao Xuan would have sarcasticized her words and said, and she would not believe that Gu Yingying was a person who could do good deeds. However, after staying here for a few days, because Yingying's pious attitude of worshiping Buddha made the abbot of Qingguang Temple impressed her, and she mentioned Yingying to her yesterday.
"Let's just think that this girl has changed her personality. Whether it is true or not needs to be seen before you know."
The Empress Dowager slowly put the teacup back on the table, looked at the two juniors at the moment and said, "Let her go first. It's enough to have Yu'er and An Yatou talk to Ai's family. If there are too many people, it's a big fuss."
The female official took the order and retreated.
It was not just Yingying who went to the back mountain to clean. She just saw Gu Lingxiao when she followed the little masters to the back mountain, so she pulled him over to sweep the floor.
The monks at Qingguang Temple are all on the turn to clean the cleaning. Yingying is lucky this time. When she was cleaning the fallen leaves in the back mountain, she met a master Jingshan. The young monk who lent to Yingying medical books once said that the master Jingshan in their hospital was very skilled in medical skills and could cure any difficult and complicated diseases.
"Does the master know the 'lover murmur'?" Taking this opportunity, Yingying wanted to be able to relieve the poison on her body.
The lover's scent comes from a foreign land, and not many people know it. As a monk, Master Jingshan naturally cannot come into contact with this poison. However, after Yingying explained the "Love's scent" with him in detail, Master Jingshan agreed to help her study the poison.
After cleaning the fallen leaves, Yingying learned that Master Jingshan was going up the mountain to collect herbs, so she quickly carried the medicine basket for him and said she wanted to go with him.
Jingshan is nearly seventy years old and has a white beard and looks extremely tough. When she learned that Yingying wanted to go with her, Jingshan nodded without stopping herbs. On the way to collect herbs, Jingshan would occasionally explain some herbs to Yingying. Yingying did not come in vain this trip. On the way back, Jingshan picked up a few dark branches, called the Earth Genlong Dragon.
"When I go back and read the medical books, maybe this earth root dragon can relieve the pain of the donor's poison."
Yingying used to not know that she was such a person who was so easy to satisfy. It was still a question whether her lover could solve it. However, just by Master Jingshan’s uncertainty, she happily circled around the place.
After picking herbs with Jingshan for nearly two hours, Yingying's skirt rubbed against the soil, and her cheeks became dirty. She couldn't resist her fair skin and bright eyes. Master Jingshan stopped as she turned around and stared at Yingying for a moment and said, "Everything in the world is easy to get dirty. The female donor must remember to keep a kind heart, and it will be enough to save people."
Yingying held her smile and folded her hands together, bowed and saluted Jingshan respectfully: "Yingying followed the master's teachings."
In a vaguely, Yingying remembered that there seemed to be a master who advised her in her previous life. Now that I think about it, I can only sigh in my heart. If she was willing to restrain herself at that time, she would not end up in the same field as today.
When Yingying went back, she learned that Empress Dowager Zhaoxuan had found her in the morning and didn't have time to go back to the room. She hurried to the Empress Dowager's place. When she was allowed to enter the house, the Empress Dowager had slept in the afternoon.
"The Ai family thinks you are not going to come here." Zhao Xuan was helped out by someone and frowned when he saw Yingying's dirty body.
Yingying also knew that she had lost her etiquette and took the initiative to explain the reason. She blinked and said, "Yingying will go back to wash and change clothes now."
"Forget it, you can sit down." Empress Dowager Zhaoxuan didn't make much trouble for Yingying, so she lifted her eyelids and asked her to sit down and reply.
Yingying always knew that this mean old lady didn't like her, and she would frown and scold her every time she caught her. Yingying was ready to come for training today, but the old lady looked at her with her forehead and suddenly smiled and praised: "It looks much more well-behaved than before."
Although Yingying seemed to sneer when she heard Empress Dowager Zhaoxuan, she was still flattered when she heard this.
Yingying is not able to coax people, nor is she not able to say sweet words. She was proficient in coaxing people to say sweet words when she ran after the beautiful young master in her previous life. She has many evil ways, but she never uses them on the right path.
Today, the Empress Dowager praised her, Yingying treated her as a "beautiful young man". After several conversations, she really made Empress Dowager Zhaoxuan laugh.
After learning that Yingying had run to Qingguang Temple to pray for blessings because she dreamed of her relatives in a nightmare, Empress Dowager Zhao Xuan nodded in appreciation, and her stern face finally improved.
After chatting for a while, Empress Dowager Zhaoxuan was probably tired. Seeing that she kept pressing her forehead, Yingying thought and said boldly: "If the Empress Dowager doesn't think Yingying is stupid, why don't you let Yingying rub you?"
After Qin Rong became the prince in his previous life, he often had headaches when he dealt with too many things. Although Yingying was a little afraid of Qin Rong at that time, she could not withstand the temptation of his face. In order to go to the study to "look at faces" and specially learned the massage technique.
"You know this again?" The Empress Dowager obviously didn't believe Yingying, but nodded while dragging Changyin.
Huiyun took Yingying's hand and cleaned her hands, rolled up her sleeves and walked quickly behind the empress dowager.
She was so annoyed by this old lady in her previous life that she wanted to curse her every time she was punished. She died on the spot. Yingying always felt that Zhao Xuan was looking for trouble everywhere because she couldn't stand her. When she came back from rebirth, she realized that Zhao Xuan's words were the truth every time she scolded her, and she was not wronged every time she was punished by her.
When she learned that Yingying had not had lunch after coming back from the mountain, Queen Mother Zhao Xuan gave her a plate of snacks before she left.
The small stack of vegetarian spots was held out, and Yingying felt heavy, afraid of being overturned. She was more sweet-hearted. Speaking of which, this vegetarian spot was not something she liked to eat, but now she felt that she was reluctant to eat it.
She was indeed so moved. This was the first time Empress Dowager Zhao Xuan would like to appreciate her. It turned out that she felt so happy to do good deeds and accumulate virtues to be a good person!
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Since Gu Lingxiao came back, Yingying has been having dinner with him these days.
Tonight, Gu Lingxiao had something to do and Yingying had dinner alone. After the meal, she went out for a walk without any trouble. Unexpectedly, she would see Gu Lingxiao and Qiu Anan talking under the ancient tree.
I don’t know if the two made an appointment to come out together or they met them by chance. Gu Lingxiao looked at the wishing sign on the ancient tree with his hands behind his back. Qiu Anan stood a few steps away, lowering his head slightly and pulling his handkerchief, which was completely different from the past.
Seeing them standing up together, Yingying's steps suddenly stopped and never approached. The scene in front of her was very similar to the marriage between Gu Lingxiao and Qiu An'an in the previous life. Yingying had seen them intimate more than once, most of them were the ones that Gu Lingxiao coaxed, and Qiu An'an leaned against his arms and was shy and charming.
I can't tell what I feel now. Yingying only knows that she will not make the same mistake again. Before she finds out the truth this time, she will not destroy the solitude of Gu Lingxiao and Qiu Anan again.
[Gu Yingying, I have never liked Gu Lingxiao. He is just a thing to me. He can not only take revenge on you, but also find a servant to serve me.]
[Yingying, my sister-in-law advises you, if you don’t want your brother to be snatched away by me, then drive me out.]
After sniffing, Yingying remembered what Qiu Anan said in the attic in his previous life. It was false to say that it was completely let go. If Yingying really didn't care about what Qiu Anan said, she wouldn't have pushed people down in anger.
Her heart was so chaotic that Yingying didn't dare to look at the scene in front of her again. She was disappointed and turned around to run, but she bumped into someone's arms.
Yaxiang is stronger than ever. Yingying stepped back with her nose that was hit, and then she saw clearly that the person in front of her was Qin Rong. The man had a loose black hair and half a bunch of brocade robe. At first glance, he looked like he had just taken a shower. Seeing Yingying's red nose with water glow, Qin Rong raised her hand to cover Yingying's cheek, "Did it hurt?"
Yingying shook her head. Qin Rong, who had just taken a shower, even her fingers were fragrant. If it were her past, she would have opened her mouth and bitten it.
At this time, she was really in no mood to deal with Qin Rong, and she didn't even notice his proactive intimacy. She hurriedly said a few words and ran away. Qin Rong stopped in place and watched her leave quietly. She turned her head and saw the two people under the ancient tree. She tapped her fingertips as if she was thinking about something.
"Yuan Zhong."
A black shadow appeared quietly, and Qin Rong whispered: "Go and do something for this palace."
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Yingying ran back to the room.
bite--
When Yingying held the door on, a crisp reminder suddenly came from her ear when she walked back. The system that had disappeared for a long time asked in Gu Lingxiao's voice: [Host, have you considered whether to accept the task?]
Yingying was sad, and she felt even more uncomfortable when she heard Gu Lingxiao's voice. Knowing that she could not drag it down any longer, she hesitated for a moment and answered firmly: "Think about it."
"I still decided not to accept the task."
The system disappeared in an instant, probably because she didn't expect Yingying to agree. After a long time, when Yingying thought it would not be able to speak, the system asked again: [Are you... really sure?]
"I'm sure!" Yingying didn't hesitate anymore this time.
She lay on the couch and felt depressed, listening to the system's voice asking: "Stop using my brother's voice."
The system is obedient and uses Zhengtaiyin: [You have thought about it. If you accept the task or not, you will die from the horizontal and vertical way. If you do not accept the task, you will die when the body's life is over; but as long as you accept the task and as long as the task is completed, you will get the opportunity to be a human being.]
To be continued...