Gu Yunxi lowered his head in panic when he was asked by the overseer.

With just a glance in his eyes, he could know all about her inner thoughts.

Gu Yunxi did have some resentment towards Leng Qingtang, thinking that he shouldn't use that kind of ruthless and decisive method to force her eldest sister to do what she didn't want to do. However, because of his identity, she didn't dare to show his emotions to him at will, so she had to whisper against her will:

"No...... No, Yunxi didn't dare to ......"

Leng Qingtang looked at her embarrassment and slowly spoke:

"Girl, Yun Yao, Yun Jin and you are sisters who grew up together in this courtyard, I watched you grow up, and the love for more than ten years is not shallow!

But Yun Yao was selfish and defected from the tribute courtyard, betraying not only the love of my sisters, but also the betrayal of me and Mother Gu, who single-handedly raised her to adulthood, have you ever thought about what our mood will be?

Moreover, she didn't say a word, she said to leave, and where did she divide her years of sisterhood? ”

Leng Qingtang's unhurried rhetorical question stunned Gu Yunxi. As he said, in the days when she learned that Yun Yao had fled, Gu Yunxi's heart was indeed sad for a long time, and even she once thought that she was abandoned by her best sister, and she didn't know how painful it was.

Those Tianleng Qingtang did not contact her in the Tribute Courtyard, but what he said at this moment pierced her heart and made her speechless.

"What does the Overseer mean...... Yunxi naturally understood......"

"If petty crimes are not punished, how can we talk about governing the family? There are more than 100 people in the Youzhu Tribute Courtyard, and it can be called a big family among ordinary people. If I take care of my old feelings and indulge Yun Yao this time, I will have a next time if I don't know it. Even if the offender was not her, but the other people in the Tribute Court followed her example and ran out, just imagine, where is the prestige of the celebrant priest? What is my face? Those perpetrators, what situation did they put in the imperial court and the prestige of the Son of Heaven? ”

Leng Qingtang said unhurriedly, his expression was calm, his tone was soft, and he seemed to be extremely patient with enlightening Gu Yunxi.

"This ......"

Gu Yunxi was really difficult to answer for a while. After thinking about it repeatedly, I think Leng Qingtang's words also have some truth.

Seeing her brow furrow for most of the time, he continued:

"What I just said is only one thing, and there is another layer of truth. Your sisters grow up in the yard all year round, have no experience in the world, and have never stretched out their hands and opened their mouths for food, just like birds raised in a cage, flying out of the cage at first glance, in the world of the jungle and the north and the sea, how long can they live in peace and quiet? If I really let her go and let her temperament fly, it will really hurt her. What do you think, girl? ”

“……”

After Leng Qingtang finished analyzing, Gu Yunxi was completely speechless.

Then he smiled slightly, walked around her with his hands behind his back, and paced twice.

"Yun Yao is now in her youth, and she can't help but act impulsively with cardamom feelings, so I naturally won't worry too much about her. It is best to know that it is best to rein in the precipice and admit your mistakes and repent. ”

"Yes...... Sister Yun Yao's sincere intention is not to enter the palace, we ...... But he was persecuting her......"

Leng Qingtang decisively raised his hand and motioned for her not to say any more, but she stopped in a panic.

"Girl, it's a good thing to have ideas, but in this vast world and all living beings, how many people can truly walk according to their own ideas?"

He turned around suddenly, his deep but bright gaze locked on the silent girl in his field of vision, and a hint of amazement blended into his shallow smile.

"Many people have a predestined fate from the moment they are born. Entering the palace to serve, that is Gu Yunyao's life in this life! However, how to get the favor of the Holy Grace after entering the palace, stand out among the many show girls and then become the position of the harem, it depends on her own ability.

The weak have always been subject to others, and only the strong are above ten thousand people under one person, or truly independent of the common people. Not only to walk steadily on the established road, but also to go better and farther than others, this is the real ability, but also the way to survive! Girl, do you understand? ”

After speaking, he hurriedly walked a few steps, returned to Gu Yunxi's front of him, lowered his head at an angle, and looked at her face to face.

The pair of lacquered eyes were bright at the moment, like a shallow beach suddenly rolling up the stormy waves, surging but also extremely sharp.

Gu Yunxi stared at those sharp eyes, and suddenly felt a full force emerging from the color of that night, startling her cherry lips and secretly gasping for a few breaths.

"Ming...... Understand ......"

"Got it?"

He straightened up and asked, his eyes moving away from her fragile little face, but he still stared at her.

"Cloud Tide...... Got it! ”

She lowered her eyelids, deliberately staggered his gaze, and replied cautiously.

"Okay, then...... Would you like to go with Ben to the East Factory? ”

In vain, he stretched out his right hand to her.

Under the sun, the plain white hand looks better and better. The delicate texture of the palm is clear, and a thin layer of cocoons seems to be a symbol of the deposition of time. The back of the hand is as clear as jade, and there are stripes of cyan meridians faintly emerging under the thin skin, like natural lines contained in the beautiful jade.

Gu Yunxi's eyes widened at the moment, and his eyes were all cast in surprise on his outstretched right hand.

It's like the scene of that dream—

In it, he also reached out to her like this, as if it was a kind of salvation!

Little girl, hold me-

In the dream, the beautiful young man said to her.

I couldn't tell what I was feeling at the moment, Gu Yunxi just stared at the thin white palm in a daze.

"Girl, would you like to go to the East Factory with me?"

With a warm smile, he looked directly at her and asked again.

"I ...... I want to think about it. ”

In the end, Gu Yunxi moved his gaze to Leng Qingtang's face and answered tentatively.

Leng Qingtang's face condensed slightly for a moment, and then he withdrew his right hand awkwardly and smiled lightly:

"Okay, I'll give you time to think about it."

"Overseer, you ...... Why did you choose me? The East Factory belongs to the Imperial Court, and I ...... May I? I...... Nothing will ......"

Gu Yunxi asked embarrassedly, she did have doubts about this in her heart.

She, a well-known waste material, never leaves the medicine jar all year round, and anyone who sees it will avoid it.

Why–

Leng Qingtang secretly repeated Gu Yunxi's question. Xu is out of pity and does not want to see her weak suffer here again. Or maybe the snow fruit he tasted in her house brought back too many memories for him.

In short, taking her to Dongchang was by no means his hot-headed decision. At the time when he was standing under the plane tree, he had already thought about it clearly, and he had to take her away-

However, none of these reasons can be identified with her.

"I promised Yun Yao to let you out of the Tribute Academy, but after leaving here, I'm afraid you didn't do it yourself, right?"

Leng Qingtang stared at her and asked with a smile.

"Oh, it's ......" Yunxi blushed.

"The ancients said: I am born to be useful! Girl, I am optimistic about you, I will definitely not be willing to be a piece of waste in this tribute courtyard forever, I want to take you with me to teach you personally. After so many years, blame me for ignoring you, so that you fell into a situation of being weak and weak, and being bullied by others, it is not too late to remedy it. ”

Leng Qingtang felt it, and after a long sigh, he put his eyes away.

"Whether you want to leave with me or not is entirely up to you. Think about it and get back to me in the evening. ”

After speaking, he turned around and left leisurely.

-- Dividing line, dividing line --

Gu Yunxi sat in the room and held a moon flower in his hand.

"Follow him ......"

"Don't go with him......"

She repeated it over and over again, muttering to herself. As soon as he spoke, he tore off a petal of the moon season with his hand.

I was born to be useful! Only the strong are above ten thousand people under one person, or truly independent of the common people-

Leng Qingtang's resounding voice sounded in her ears again.

After a pause, when she wanted to continue, she forgot where she had read when she picked the petals just now, was it "go with him" or "not with him"?

Annoyed, Gu Yunxi simply threw away the half-broken flower in his hand.

In her mind, it was still Leng Qingtang's gesture of reaching out to her.

At that time, he stood under the tree next to the road, in the shadow of the mottled and swaying leaves, handsome and straight.

In the dream, he also stretched out his arms to her in this way, freeing her from the mountains of corpses. That palm should be warm and powerful, like a wing that can really redeem her and protect her.

Perhaps, he is really the one who can save me and change me-

Gu Yunxi no longer hesitated. She suddenly became extremely happy and excited, as if she was thrilled that she could finally make a big decision on her own.

Looking outside, it was already dark, so she hurriedly ran to the rhombic glasses, bent down to straighten her hair, stroked the dress on her body, and then ran out of the house.

arrived at the door of Gu Yunyao's room first. The door was locked, and the lights were on. She banged excitedly on the door.

"Sister! Sister—"

There was a response inside, and it was Gu Yunyao's surprised voice:

"Yunxi? What's wrong? ”

Hearing her shouting, I ran again when it was dark, thinking that something was wrong.

The black figure reflected on the door grew larger and larger. Gu Yunyao had already come to the door, and through the gap in the locked wooden door, she poked out a few fingers outside, and squirmed and groped:

"Yunxi? What happened to you? I'm here, don't be afraid! ”

"Sister! I'm leaving the Tribute Academy! I came to talk to you! ”

Gu Yunxi grabbed the fingers handed out by the eldest sister, and her excited voice revealed a slight tremor.

"Leave? That's great! Father-in-law Leng promised to let you go? Where are you going?! ”

Gu Yunyao's voice sounded very excited, but through the door, I couldn't see her face full of joy.

"Tell me, where are you going?"

“…… I...... Sister, I, I'm going to follow Lord Leng into the East Factory......"

Knowing that Gu Yunyao had hated Leng Qingtang, Gu Yunxi's answer was completely lacking.

In her hands, the temperature of Gu Yunyao's fingers became cold little by little.