C81 Break

"What's the good news?" Yunshu's mind was still a little dizzy and did not quite understand what he was saying. But the other party did not answer her. She thought for a while before thinking of that possibility. Her face instantly turned pale. "You're saying that he's..."

Seeing that she did not know anything, Pei Hongqing's cold face finally eased up a little, but his voice was still cold, "If not for this general coincidentally meeting you, do you think you would still have a chance to soak in cold water?"

Yun Zhu swallowed her saliva with some lingering fear. She knew that Jiang Xunyang was an immoral person, but she didn't expect him to be so unorthodox. It seemed that it would be better to stay away from him in the future.

She sank into her own thoughts, but suddenly heard someone behind her ask her, "You don't have anything to say to this general?"

Yunshu thought that he was referring to her identity and thought that since she had bumped into him now, there was nothing to hide, so she said frankly, "Just like the general saw, I'm a woman."

"I guessed that. I mean something else." The man's voice behind her was still cold.

Yun Zhu felt that Pei Hongqing was too crafty. He deliberately asked a question in a vague manner. If she didn't pay attention, she would fall into his trap and reveal many secrets.

But she discovered that her mind had already woken up. "General, what do you mean?"

The person behind her did not immediately answer. He did not expect that the subordinates he had once valued would be secretive about him now. He thought that their relationship was extraordinary after experiencing so many things together. It seemed that it was only his own wishful thinking.

He could not help but have a dejected expression. "Why didn't you come to find me after leaving King Heng's Estate? I waited for you at Treasure Light for five days."

"Xiao Heng took Yang Siyuan and I back." Yun Zhu clearly felt her hands tighten around her waist. She was afraid that directly saying "I didn't plan on looking for you" would directly strangle her to death. After weighing the pros and cons, she threw the blame to Xiao Heng. In any case, this was the truth.

However, her reply caused the person behind her to laugh coldly. "But you were caught outside of Yun An City."

Finished, how did Pei Hongqing even know this? Right, since he had Sang Ye to provide him with information in Hu Nu back then, it was not strange that there were people from other cities in Great Liang as well...

"Is it fun to fool me?" After saying that, he let go of the person in his arms, stepped out of the bathtub, and walked to the screen to change his soaked clothes.

Suddenly regaining her freedom, Yunshu was somewhat unable to react and almost choked on the water. She hurriedly grabbed the edge of the bathtub and barely managed to stabilize herself. "General Pei, can you remind me before letting go? I just saved someone and I drowned. Don't you think it's a loss? At least wait for me to repay the favor. "

" I don't need you to repay me. I think you didn't come to me because you didn't want to see me. In the future, you and I will be strangers. Also, I won't tell anyone about you disguising yourself as a man. After all, Lieutenant Yin died on the battlefield a long time ago, and his corpse was washed to an unknown place by the current." After he finished speaking, he opened the door and left without stopping.

"Hey! You..." Yunshu wanted to explain to him that she didn't want him to fall into a dilemma, so she didn't look for him. It wasn't that she didn't want to see him. But so what if she explained? So what if she wanted to see him? She still had a marriage contract on her, even in a foreign country. She couldn't pretend that the marriage contract didn't exist. That was her father's last wish - unless the other party broke the contract first.

At this moment, she actually began to hope that the Yin Family would directly tell her that the engagement didn't count. She smiled bitterly as she got up from the bathtub, and after going around the screen, she found that there was still a pile of clean undergarments on the bed. Presumably, Pei Hongqing had someone prepare it for her previously.

She pressed on the spot where her chest was hurting and closed her eyes to take a deep breath. She then picked up her clothes and changed. When she went out, she found that this was the Drunken Cloud House that Xiao Ya had mentioned to her before. But she did not see Pei Hongqing here again, and her current identity did not allow her to stay outside for too long. Thus, she could only return to the Prime Minister Estate first.

But she did not expect that just as she turned into a small alley, she would be stopped by a man wearing a bamboo hat with a scabbard. "An old friend invites you to follow me."

"What if I refuse to go?" She had never seen this person before, so she knew that she could not casually walk with strangers.

"Then I can only forcefully bring the girl over."

"Alright, I'll go with you." It was the Lord's rule to act according to the circumstances. She did not want to experience medicine in one day. She did not want to be knocked unconscious after being soaked in cold water in the cold weather.

The bamboo hat man took her through the alley and into another alley. Finally, he pushed open one of the small doors hidden in the alley. "Miss, you can go in yourself." After saying that, the man turned around and stood guard at the side, as if he wanted to be a gatekeeper.

Yunshu could only enter by herself. The entire courtyard was filled with the fragrance of plum blossoms. She followed the stone that paved the way to the hall and saw a familiar person sitting in the hall, sipping tea.

"Your subordinate said that you suddenly disappeared. This king has been looking for you for a long time."

"His Highness, King Heng, you didn't call me here because of this matter, did you?" Yun Zhu didn't care how noble the identity of the person in front of her was. She sat down beside the furnace and poured herself a cup of hot tea.

Xiao Heng looked at her with a gentle smile and lowered his eyes to look away from the tea leaves on his face. "I've agreed to the conditions written in your letter. It's not long before the Spring Quarter Examinations begin, so don't let anything happen to you."

Yun Zhu rolled her eyes at him unhappily. "Don't worry, Your Highness. Even if I only have one breath left, I will think of a way to deliver what Your Highness wants to Your Highness. Who asked Your Highness to not only pinch my weakness, but also a person's life. "

"If Miss Yun had obediently stayed in the Imperial Residence previously, This Prince wouldn't have made such a move." Xiao Heng placed the teacup down.

Yun Zhu immediately laughed coldly and took another sip of tea. She felt that her body was much warmer, so she got up and took her leave.

Before she left, Xiao Heng said that if she needed someone else's help when she stole the dossier, he would throw a broken plum blossom six hours in advance from the west wall of the Prime Minister Estate. Yun Zhu didn't expect him to provide her with this kind of help. She was stunned for a moment before nodding.

Yunshu had never passed away since then. The old madam saw that she showed an even more disgusted attitude towards Jiang Xunyang than before. And Jiang Xunyang also felt rather uncomfortable in front of her every time, so she knew that there must have been some enmity between the two of them. The thought of matchmaking the two of them gradually faded. In addition, You Jinshu was going to participate in the Imperial Examinations. Her care for the younger generation was even more focused on You Jinshu. She even personally made some pastries for him to bring into the examination venue.

Yunshu usually only knew that You Jinshu was very good at choosing gifts. The gifts he gave were all rare and strange things. However, after seeing him pass the Spring Quarter Examinations without any pressure and take first place, she knew that he was quite talented in studying and discussing Dao. When she first discovered him, she also had some thoughts of helping Xiao Ya win him over. However, when she thought about what she was going to do next, she had no idea what to do.

So in the end, she only temporarily put this matter aside.

April 25th. Before the sun rose, the people who were still sleeping in the residence were woken up by the noise. It was only later that they found out that someone had come from the Palace, and that they were heading straight for You Jinshu's Jipai Courtyard. It was only during the day that Yunshu saw the old madam looking at the Lunar Cave with a joyful expression that she remembered that today was the day of passing down the residence. It was likely that a joyous occasion would arrive.

As expected, Xishan had just bought it from the streets when he ran over to tell them that he saw Young Master Biao riding a red horse to the theater. Yun Zhu felt happy for him in the bottom of her heart. This period of time had been neither long nor short in the Prime Minister Estate. She had long regarded You Jinshu as one of her few friends, so before You Jinshu returned, she took out all her silver and went to the Antique Hall to buy a slightly famous lotus flower painting from the previous dynasty and gave it to Lixia.

After You Jinshu received it, he happily drew a poem from his predecessors - The Lotus no longer has a canopy, and the broken chrysanthemum still has a proud frost branch. He also asked Lixia to send a small jar of the top scholar's red as a gift.

After Lixia left, Yunshu placed the scholar's red hair at the bottom of her bed with complicated feelings.

You Jinshu was summoned to Wu City by an Imperial Decree on a rainy afternoon. Wu City was northeast of the sea, located in the east of Ino. It was also to the west of Ze Lu City and to the north of Xiao Ya's fiefdom, Yongle City. Although it was east of Ino City, it was very far from Gong City. Most of the residences of the officials were close to Gong City, so it could be imagined how much trouble he would have to go through if he wanted to return to the Prime Minister's Estate from Wu City.

However, no one in the top three had ever been transferred out of the capital city as soon as they entered the court. According to the usual practice, You Jinshu should be working in the Hanlin Court together with the Supernova and the Flower Explorer. Thus, Yunshu's actions, which she considered to be a good deed, caused the officials to have some opinions about the new head of state. It brought him unnecessary trouble in the future. However, this was a matter of the future, so she temporarily put it aside.

Once You Jinshu left, Yunshu had no reason to wait any longer.

The next day, she avoided the crowd and threw a plum blossom from the west wall. That night, she had just put the drug in the tea when she heard a knock on the door.

She opened the door and let someone in. When the person pulled down the cloth covering his face, she was stunned for a moment. "Why did His Highness come in person?"

Xiao Heng smiled. "This king wants to witness the turning of history." Actually, all the turning points of history were fabricated by him. He just wanted to see her. If it was said that he still did not understand why he was so angry when Yunshu had left him without saying goodbye back then, after such a long time, he would eventually understand.

He did not simply want her to stay by his side, but because at that time... or perhaps earlier, he had developed feelings for her.

Thus, he released Yang Siyuan from the dungeon a few months ago and found the best imperial physician in the palace to treat his injuries. He only wanted Yun Zhu to change her view of him when she saw Yang Siyuan again.

However, Yun Zhu still did not know about these things, so she still did not have a good impression of Xiao Heng.

She gave him a cold glance and drew a map of the Prime Minister Estate on a piece of paper as usual. She marked the location of the Agarwood Tower and told him her plan. Xiao Heng listened carefully, but his gaze was always on the side of her face. Yun Zhu, who was attentively staring at the map, did not notice anything wrong with his reaction.