Hearing the word "dowry", the flush on Qing'er's cheeks became even thicker.

Curiously opened the wooden box, it was full of gold and silver ingots, and the top was a stack of silver tickets.

Qing'er's heartbeat instantly seemed to miss a beat, her eyes widened to the maximum, and then she closed the box and pushed it back the way it came.

"Girl, you can't ask for this money!"

Gu Yunxi smiled and pushed it to Qing'er's hand again:

"You and I have been through so many things together in the past, and I never treat you as an outsider. It is a big deal for a woman to leave the cabinet, and her mother's family has to back up the gifts. But you know, in the past few years, we have been running around, and I have been pretending to be a man, and I have no time to buy too many things for my daughter's house, and it may be too tacky to give you these yellow and white things......"

Qing'er's heart was sour, she shook her head desperately, and looked at the wooden box with moist eyes:

"That's not what the slave meant, the slave thinks that you have to plan more for yourself, and you should keep these savings by yourself."

"You don't have to worry about me, I just tell you that there is a wooden box sealed on the top of the big cabinet in my house in the Admiral's Palace, which is full of silver tickets! Rest assured, I'm not short of money. ”

Gu Yunxi leaned over slightly, leaned closer to Qing'er, lowered his voice and pretended to finish mysteriously, and then grinned calmly, his slightly drooping eyes shone in the firelight, and the shallow charm rippling on his lips made Qing'er suddenly capture a long-lost familiarity and cordiality when facing the unfamiliar face in front of her.

"Okay, the slave has accepted it, thank you for the reward!"

Qing'er's face was overjoyed, and she no longer shirked, and Meimei held the box. The moment he lowered his eyes, the dim light under his eyes slipped quietly.

Mustering up her courage again, Qing'er raised her head and asked seriously:

"Girl, the medical saint can change your face, why can't you change your original face again?"

Gu Yunxi looked stunned, and then smiled bitterly:

"What you said is not simple, but if you want to change your face again, you have to find the original face. After nearly two years, my original dough has long since turned into rotten skin. ”

But......

Gu Yunxi suddenly wrinkled his eyebrows and fell into deep thought.

The governor said that when Dongchang was fighting the rebels at Yangfangkou, a woman once laughed and helped Zunshang escape. The woman has appeared many times from the palace, covering her face with a black handkerchief, who is her identity?

——

In early spring, the breeze is a little less cold in winter, and the bare grass and trees in the garden are densely wrapped in a layer of new pearl buds.

Just after lunch, Tu Duxue was secretly stopped by a low-ranking little eunuch in Yongning Palace, and seeing that there was no one around, he quietly told her that there were acquaintances waiting in the Purple Qi Donglai Pavilion and told her to go quickly.

Could it be that Jingyang Palace has taken the bait?

Tu Duxue was overjoyed in her heart, her delicate eyebrows and eyes refused to show half of her voice, she thanked her little father-in-law, and pretended to slip out.

At the beginning of entering the palace, she made a plan with the imperial concubine, and the corporal punishment on the surface was all a bitter ploy, which was made for people to see, or more precisely, for Gu Yunyao to see, but she didn't expect that the head was hooked by the bait so quickly.

Purple Qi Donglai Pavilion is a three-storey Qionglou building, which is a palace built at the beginning of Dayi's founding of the People's Republic of China according to the feng shui of the imperial palace architecture to maintain the balance of the five elements. It is used to store old books and old things, and not many people go here on weekdays.

Tu Duxue walked quickly all the way to the appointment place, looked at the bottom of the glazed archway, and looked around.

"Little master."

Not far away, a person called out in a whisper, and Tu Duxue looked at it, and saw a man in a dark red internal management official uniform, leaning out half of his body from the corner of the white marble fence on the west side of the building.

This is Zhao An, right?

Tu Duxue had done her homework before being sent to the palace by Minglan, and had firmly memorized the information about the people she was going to deal with, especially Concubine Yu Gu Yunyao and her subordinates.

Tu Duxue looked at Zhao An's official uniform at the moment, and could conclude that he was the father-in-law in charge of Jingyang Palace, so his delicate facial features changed, and he suddenly overflowed with boundless grievances, overlapping and suppression, which made people feel pity.

"Zhao Gonggong ......"

The two walked quickly towards each other, a foot apart, and at the moment when the girl spoke, Zhao An heard a familiar voice again, and at this moment, the ghost in his mind thought of another person, that is, Aunt Dusk, who was short-lived in the harem not long ago.

It's strange, the girl in front of me is undoubtedly the little master, but something is very wrong, it seems that something is missing.

The sobbing sound interrupted Zhao An's speculation, and the girl who was a little thin in front of her eyes suddenly weakened, and her eyes were full of distress:

"Little master, the slave is late, and you have suffered a lot."

The girl's eyes widened for a moment, and her expression was puzzled, but in an instant she also knelt down and cried:

"Father-in-law Zhao, hurry up, how dare the slave and maid be called the master, you are so deliberately tormented by the slave and maid."

Tu Duxue didn't know the past of the two sisters, Yun Yao and Yunxi, so she couldn't understand why a slave would show respectful obedience to her as a palace maid.

On the other side, Zhao An's expression was also slightly stunned.

Two years ago, the Concubine Yu sisters met in the palace Kan Fang Pavilion, at that time Zhao An and Song Qin regarded Gu Yunxi, who was dressed in men's clothes, as the master, and after several meetings outside the palace, they did not change their name for her.

Thinking that Yunxi should have accepted it early in the morning, how could it be that when he saw him again after a year and a half, he seemed to be frightened by this?

As if sensing Zhao An's surprised and stagnant expression, Tu Duxue was frightened, for fear that she had done something wrong and made a mistake in front of the people of Jingyang Palace, and then her complexion changed greatly, and she burst into tears and said:

"Father-in-law Zhao, it's so good to see you, I thought I would never be able to see Master Yu in my life......"

Zhao An got up and supported Gu Yunxi, and the moment he supported Gu Yunxi, he was always entangled by strange feelings in his heart, but he couldn't find fault for a while.

He only knew that when there were no outsiders in the past, Gu Yunxi would affectionately call Gu Yunyao "sister". Thinking that she suffered a lot in Yongning Palace, she was treated without discrimination from then on, and she was cautious in her words and deeds?

Looking at her slender little face, Zhao An said with concern:

"Are you hungry, have you had lunch?"

The girl became more and more aggrieved, wiped the tears on her cheeks with her hands, and shook her head in a deep voice:

"Just now, the name of the dish was reported to be wrong, and my mother punished me for not eating for a whole day."

Zhao An sighed, turned his head vigilantly to look around, took out a package from his sleeve pocket and stuffed it into the girl's hand, and said softly:

"Here, some snacks, you fill your stomach first."

The girl pursed her lips and opened the veil, and saw that there were several soft spots inside, and without saying a word, she grabbed it and filled it into her mouth, and swallowed it urgently without waiting to chew, and then she was choked by the snack.

"Little master, you eat slowly, slow down......"

The girl's violent cough frightened Zhao An, and he beat her back in a panic, and his throat tightened until he choked to the point of pain.

Looking down at the red and swollen pieces on her two trembling little hands, Zhao An's eyes were moist, and he asked in a trembling voice:

"The imperial concubine is still corporal punishment of you?"

The girl stared, and the next moment she hid her face and cried bitterly, shrugging her emaciated shoulders was really distressing. One hand slowly rolled up the other cuff, the white arm was blue and red, and the traces overlapped, obviously adding new injuries before the old injuries healed, Zhao An felt a chill down his spine, and he gasped violently.

The girl burst into tears, pulled Zhao An's wide sleeves with her hands, and kept crying:

"Father-in-law Zhao, I beg you, you can talk good things to Master Yu, beg her to save me from the sea of suffering as soon as possible, I will repay my master's grace even if I am a cow and a horse. If I continue like this, I'm afraid I'm going to be out of this palace, woo, I don't want to die......"

Zhao An was moved, raised his hand and wiped his eyes.

It's no wonder that his mother hated Leng Qingtang, it wasn't for him that year, how could this weak girl go to the Ming Mansion alone, let alone be kidnapped bizarrely, and finally transferred to the palace and tortured in the hands of Wan Yuyao.

Suppressing the grief in his heart, Zhao An took a long breath on his back:

"Don't worry, little master, Niangniang will never abandon you, she will come up with a way to rescue you as soon as possible, so you must know how to be patient and careful when you are doing things under the imperial concubine these days."

After speaking, Zhao An took out a few more silver bags.

Tu Duxue dodged in panic:

"You take the silver back, I—I don't dare to ask for it."

Zhao An shoehorned the silver bag over and carefully instructed:

"Take it, there is little money in the palace. Master Yu said, you keep this silver to take care of the people around you, and life may be better. ”

"Then you thanked the master on my behalf."

The girl lowered her eyes and wept sadly.

……

Jingyang Palace——

At the end of the day, Gu Yunyao felt a little headache when she got up from Luo Couch. When she was first pregnant, her body didn't react much most of the time, except for occasional headaches, as she does now.

Song Qin saw that he held a water rhino horn enamel comb for the master to patiently grate his head to relieve the discomfort in his head.

Zhao An rushed into the palace in a panic, lifted the curtain into the hall and knelt under the circle chair, and shouted:

"Mother, Wan'an."

Seeing him come back to his life, the woman's eyes in front of the bronze mirror suddenly showed the brilliance of awakening, quickly turned her head, and couldn't wait to ask:

"Got a person?"

Zhao An's head:

"See."

Gu Yunyao pursed her lips nervously:

"How, she's not doing well?"

Zhao An didn't dare to raise his head, and nodded shallowly:

"Yes, the little master is in a bad situation in Yongning Palace, and he beats and scolds her every day, and he starves her at every turn. It was Songqin who reminded the slave to bring some food, and seeing the little master's gobbling up was really distressing. ”

Song Qin was terrified when she heard it, and said gloomily:

"The imperial concubine is really ruthless, is this a deliberate attempt to put people to death?"

Gu Yunyao's eyes were red, and she gritted her teeth for a moment:

"No, this palace can't stand it. Zhao An, you take some more silver and find a way to go to Yongning Palace, let people call Yunxi out, and this palace wants to meet her. ”

Zhao An thought for a while and objected:

"Master, it's not appropriate to do that."

It's about Yunxi, Gu Yunyao will always become irritable, and shout with a deep face:

"How is it not suitable?!"

Zhao An bowed his head and patiently comforted:

"Master, you and the little master are in the palace now, and it is not as convenient as meeting in the market. Now that she is working in Yongning Palace, you know that the master of Yongning Palace is against you when he deals with her, so you shouldn't come forward in person. If the imperial concubine learns that the little master is secretly meeting you in the palace, I am afraid that she will be tortured with even more cruel punishments. ”

Gu Yunyao gradually calmed down, and her expression showed a little embarrassment:

"You are right. It's just that the palace grew up with her since childhood, and now she has some rights in the harem, how can she not save her when she sees her situation? ”

Zhao An stared for a moment and said quietly:

"The slave once heard that there are two kinds of medicinal herbs with opposite properties, and decoction in hot water can cause allergies to people's whole body, such as smallpox."

Gu Yunyao's eyes were blazing:

"Mofei, you want to ......"