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After arriving at the imperial city, Qin Rong directly sent Yingying to the gate of Gu Mansion. When she got off the car, the housekeeper and several servants were waiting outside. When she saw Qin Rong's carriage, they knelt down and bowed.

Soon, the carriage in Gu's mansion stopped immediately. Yingying turned around for some reason when she entered the mansion. She saw Qin Rong lifting the curtain to look at her, her eyes dark and as if she was speculating about something.

"Let's go." Seeing Yingying turn around, Qin Rong curled her thin lips and smiled very lightly, and put down the curtain as the carriage drove.

Yingying stood there without moving, and she was in a state of depression and couldn't tell what it felt like.

"Why don't the girl go in?"

Xiaodai came out of the carriage behind her. She was sweating on her forehead, carrying her bags of all sizes, and she smiled and joked: "Are the girl waiting for me?"

Yingying was amused by her, nodded and took a bag and said, "Yes, I'm waiting for you."

"Aren't you afraid you will lose it?"

Xiaodai smiled even happier. As a girl who has been practicing martial arts since childhood, she is much stronger than an ordinary woman. She is not tired at all with a few bags in one hand, but instead jumps: "It's impossible to run away, even if the girl drives her to leave, she won't leave!"

"I will follow the girl."

"I will only follow the girl in this life!"

Yingying was stunned for a moment. Thinking of Xiaodai's ending in her previous life, she felt sour and couldn't say anything. She nodded and replied softly: "Okay."

In this life, she will definitely protect her.

The northwest affairs could not be delayed. As important officials of the court, Gu Mingzhi and Gu Lingxiao had no time to rest after returning to the mansion, so they changed their clothes and rushed to the palace.

Yingying has been exhausted for the past two days, and after taking a shower, she slept for a nap. When she woke up, she learned that Dad Gu and her brother had not come back yet, she had eaten alone in the room, and then she fiddled with the flowers and plants in the yard to think about things.

Because the medicine box given by Master Jingshan was lost, Yingying ordered Xiaodai in advance and they set off for Qingguang Temple early the next morning.

Before leaving, Yingying brought the sachet that Zhao Shi gave her. When she arrived at Qingguang Temple, she donated the incense and oil money and went to worship Buddha first, and then went to see Master Jingshan.

After not seeing each other for a while, Master Jingshan helped her to refine some pills of detoxification, but because herbs are scarce, he did not refine many.

Yingying carefully put away the medicine box and carefully recorded the missing several herbs. She said embarrassedly: "I will find a way to solve these herbs. Can the master help me refine more antidotes?"

If her plan is successful, her lover will always be a bondage and cannot be relieved for a long time, she will have to rely on these antidotes to suppress and poison.

Master Jingshan was very easy to speak, and he nodded and agreed without asking. Yingying was happy and did not forget the serious matter. She took out the sachet that Zhao Shi gave her and handed it to Master Jingshan and said, "This sachet was obtained by Yingying's friends from a foreign land. Although it cannot relieve the poison of the lover's murmur, it can relieve the pain when the lover's murmur occurs."

Unfortunately, another sachet that can activate love and desire was taken away by Emperor Wucheng, otherwise Yingying would have come to see it for Master Jingshan.

Master Jingshan took it and looked carefully and said, "Can the donor leave the sachet here first?"

The sachet that Zhao Shi gave her was rich in fragrance and contained a large amount of exotic dried flowers and medicinal materials, which was very helpful in developing the antidote for Lover.

Without Master Jingshan speaking, Yingying also had the intention to leave the sachet here. However, when she nodded, she felt unbearable, so she added: "This sachet was given by Yingying's friends. If possible, please keep it."

Two lives have passed, and no matter what, this is the first time he has given her something, so she wants to keep it.

The weather has been cloudy recently, and Master Jingshan has no plans to go up the mountain to collect herbs. Even so, Yingying still stayed to help Master Jingshan do some chores. Originally, she wanted to help Master Jingshan dry medicine, but Master Jingshan shook his head and looked at the sky and said, "Donor, go back early, there will be some rain today."

Yingying looked up at the sun hanging high, wiped the sweat from her face, nodded. Although she didn't think it would rain, she still went down the mountain obediently.

Halfway through the road, the bright sun faded, and the dark clouds suddenly covered the dark clouds.

After a while, Hugo really got off. Yingying sat in the carriage and looked out the window, couldn't help but exclaim: "Master Jingshan is really better than Li Huaixu."

Xiaodai nodded, flipped over the miscellaneous box inside the car and said with gratitude: "Fortunately I was prepared."

Because it rained, the hot weather became more cool. Seeing that it was raining, Yingying had difficulty catching the train, so she thought to find a place to shelter from the rain first. The coachman wiped the water from his face and found a nearby rain shelter. Anyway, Yingying was not in a hurry to go back, so the few of them waited there for a while.

The sound of rain ticks, and the cool breeze rusts the leaves.

Seeing the rain getting heavier and heavier, there was no intention of stopping, the coachman stumbled and patted the dark horse, shouting loudly into the pavilion: "Girl, I can't stop the rain for a while, otherwise we should continue to rush."

Yingying was wearing thin clothes, and she felt cold when she was blown by the wind. She could only nod and set off again, and rushed to the imperial city in the rain.

It was raining, and it was getting late when Yingying returned home. When she returned, she saw her father and brother were there. Before she could be happy, she learned a shocking news from Dad Gu.

The wedding date has been decided, and Yingying will get married after the New Year.

"Is this so fast?" Yingying's original good mood disappeared without a trace, and her mood was as messy as raindrops outside.

Gu Lingxiao raised his eyebrows and smiled, "How about you girl?"

"If the situation on the northwest border was not clear, I'm afraid your wedding date would be ahead of schedule."

Yingying couldn't make it ridiculous now, so she returned to the room.

In fact, if you carefully calculate the time, now that summer has not passed, she still has some time to prepare. Thinking of this, Yingying forced herself to relax, and while helping Master Jingshan find medicinal materials, she also thought of ways to expand her small treasury.

Since the death of the Gu family's mistress, there are still several concubines in the yard of Mr. Gu, but Mr. Gu doesn't like them to interfere in the affairs of his two children, and rarely let them appear in front of Yingying. So on these days, Mr. Gu and Gu Lingxiao have to be busy with the affairs of the court, but after the wedding date is set, they also have to start Yingying's wedding.

Thinking that his daughter was about to marry into the East Palace, the more she was, the more she was, the more she was reluctant to let Yingying go. So she had been relaxed recently and even told the housekeeper to pay more silver for Yingying to buy jewelry and clothes, which happened to Yingying.

With the silver note, she has more confidence in completing the plan. In order to prevent flaws from being exposed, Yingying bought small and expensive jewelry, with only two or three beautiful dresses.

Xiaodai is a person around Yingying. After so long, she naturally discovered something wrong with her own girl.

When Yingying pulled her into the silver building again, Xiaodai looked at Yingying who was carefully selecting jewelry, pointed to the luxurious and exquisite golden hairpin beside her and said, "Why wouldn't a girl try this crabapple golden hairpin?"

Yingying only glanced at it and looked away: "I won't try it anymore, I won't buy it anyway."

The golden hairpin of the begonia beads looks good. If Yingying looks at it in the past, she might take it back, but now she is different from the past, so she must be careful.

This golden hairpin is so eye-catching that anyone who knows the goods can tell at a glance that the hairpin is precious. Yingying still prefers some inconspicuous small jewelry. If necessary, just use it to pawn shop.

After coming out of Yinlou, Yingying pulled Xiaodai to go to other jewelry shops. Xiaodai held a box of jewelry that Yingying bought and proposed again: "I heard that a new batch of goods was launched in Caiyun Clothing. Why don't we go over and take a look?"

Xiao Dai's repeated temptations were already obvious, and Yingying knew that she noticed something was wrong.

Yingying didn't even think about hiding anything in front of her, so she just smiled and refused: "I won't go today."

"But..." Xiaodai opened her mouth, trying to say something but stopped.

After that, she followed Yingying for a whole day, until the two of them returned to the Gu family. When Xiaodai helped Yingying comb her hair in the evening, she asked in a low voice: "Does the girl hide something from me?"

Yingying looked at Xiaodai's lonely face from the mirror and suddenly said, "I'm going to destroy this marriage with Qin Rong."

"What, what?" Xiaodai was stunned for a moment, almost unable to hold the comb in his hand.

Without giving Xiaodai a chance to speak, Yingying directly told her plans: "I am carrying out a plan. If it succeeds, I will not only let Your Majesty take the initiative to destroy my marriage with Qin Rong, but also protect Gu's family from worry and get rid of Gu Yingying's identity."

"If the plan is completed, there will be no more imperial city in this world, and I will escape from here and run far away, so are you still willing to follow me?"

Yingying finished everything she wanted to say, and after she finished speaking, she quietly waited for Xiaodai's answer.

The room was quiet, and only a low breathing sound was left for a moment. The smile on Xiaodai's face disappeared, and she slowly lowered her hand with the comb, as if she had only come back to her senses for a long time.

"Are you not afraid of telling me all this?"

If it were in the past, no matter what Yingying wanted to do, Xiaodai would only nod and follow her, and would never ask such a sentence. Yingying blinked her eyes, not only did not find it strange, but also asked her back: "Then do you do it?"

Xiaodai's face turned pale, and she knelt on the ground with her shoulders trembling slightly. She asked, "Does the girl know something?"

Yingying replied: "I don't know anything."

She only knew that Xiaodai was loyal to her until her death in her previous life, so that was enough.

Soon the room fell into silence again, and the atmosphere was really strange. Yingying touched her smooth hair and looked down at Xiaodai who was kneeling on the ground and puzzled: "What are you doing when you kneel on the ground?"

"What do you want to take risks with me? Didn't you say you would follow me for the rest of your life a few days ago?"

Yingying tilted her head and said, "Can you regret it now?"

"I won't regret it, I won't regret it until death!" Xiaodai replied in a hurry, his eyes a little wet.

"Just, just..." She stopped talking, sniffed and whispered: "Miss, let's listen to me first."

Xiaodai felt that there were some secrets at this point, and it was time to say, "I am actually Your Majesty's man."

Yingying laughed out loud when Xiao Dai told some shocking secret: "I know."

When he was six years old, Emperor Wu Cheng visited the Gu family in a private visit. Seeing Yingying smart, cute and overly lively, he gave her Xiao Dai, who was both civil and military, and everyone in the imperial city knew about this.

Xiaodai naturally did not mean literally. She said anxiously: "My master has taught me since I was a child that no matter who you follow, you must serve me wholeheartedly. You must live and die for your master, and you must not have two hearts."

"But before I came to Gu's mansion, Your Majesty had summoned me. Your Majesty said that I would let me follow the girl to protect you well, and let me..." The voice paused slightly, and Xiaodai had been plucking up the courage: "I should also let me report to the palace at any time, which young master are you close to?"

Speaking of which, Xiaodai is one year younger than Yingying. Although she is mature and sensible than her peers, she is just a little girl after all.

When she was a child, Xiaodai was ignorant. Although she was willing to Yingying, she was unable to refuse Emperor Wucheng's request. She could only send news to the palace from time to time. She didn't know that Yingying was Feng's life, but she found that one day, His Majesty changed the order and directly asked her to tell her which family Yingying liked.

From the famous families in the imperial city to Qiu Yu, and finally Qin Rong, Jing Zhaoshi and His Highness Yan Ning, as Xiao Dai grew older, every time he sent a letter to the palace, his guilt in his heart increased a little. It was not until the marriage between Yingying and Prince Qin Rong that Xiao Dai stopped passing messages to the palace, but after doing it, it was done. If he stopped doing it now, it did not mean that he had not done it before.

After listening to Xiaodai's story, Yingying was not only not surprised, but also had the heart to be dazed. She thought she understood the meaning of Qin Rong's words in her previous life. It turned out that he had known the secret between Dai and Emperor Wucheng.

——You have a good maid, but it’s a pity.

It’s a pity that she has something to hide from you, but it’s a pity that she is unfaithful to you.

In fact, Xiaodai did not do anything to hurt Emperor Wu Cheng regularly. However, Qin Rong could not get sand in her eyes. In addition, Xiaodai's martial arts skills were very good, so she always indulged Yingying and could even take her to escape. It was inevitable that Qin Rong would kill her.

"Girl?" Xiaodai said everything she should say. She was ready to meet Yingying's anger. However, after waiting for a while, Yingying did not respond, but instead became stunned at her.

Xiaodai recalled her thoughts and she said 'um', "So what? Do you want to follow me?"

Xiao Dai heard this clearly, and her expressions of joy and confusion appeared on her face. Finally, she murmured: "But... don't the girl blame me?"

"If you are willing to follow me, I won't blame you."
To be continued...