I don't know if it's an illusion, Nan Shu felt that Mrs. Ye's last glance was a little intriguing.

and Ye Ziqing, he suddenly said that he wanted to stay, Nan Shu felt that he was not so simple as reminiscing.

Seeing him turn around, she smiled and said, "I heard that Shopkeeper Chang recently bought a good tea, why don't we go and taste it together?" ”

"Okay." Ye Ziqing nodded with a smile.

The two went back to the wing, and the man served tea to the two again and went out.

The door closed, leaving only two people in the room.

Nan Shu only politely invited the other party to tea, and then waited for him to speak.

After Ye Ziqing quietly took a sip of tea, she seemed to think about it, and then looked at Nan Shu and asked:

"Sister Shu'er's ...... about the things you and I used to play with Do you remember? ”

Childhood play?

Nan Shu's hand holding the teacup paused slightly, and said in his heart, he asked this? I don't think I really want to catch up with her.

I just chatted with Mrs. Ye and knew that the original owner often played with this Ye Ziqing before the age of seven, and the two of them were childhood sweethearts.

If she deliberately said that she didn't remember, it would be easy to make people suspicious, so Nan Shu smiled: "Of course I do." ”

After a pause, she felt that it was not enough, and added: "Although I can't recognize what you look like when you grow up, I am still deeply impressed by the things that happened when you were a child and your appearance." ”

She said this just to make her reaction more in line with the original owner, but she didn't want to say it, Ye Ziqing's face changed.

He looked at Nan Shu with a complicated look in his eyes for a long time, and suddenly smiled, "That's right, you said that you would always remember it." ”

Nanshu: ......

His words made her stunned.

She thought that when they were young, they were just playing hide and seek, swinging and the like.

How can you still talk about remembering forever?

Isn't it...... He and the original owner played these things privately for life when they were six or seven years old.

Nan Shu was thinking about it, when she saw Ye Ziqing's expression slightly gloomy, she laughed at herself, and said in a deep voice:

"When I was a child, I didn't know the importance of this, I just felt that I couldn't wear a nice dress like you, and I couldn't tie nice pigtails like you...... When I grew up, I realized that this kind of lie, once it is told, it will take a lifetime to keep it. ”

“……”

What a beautiful dress, lie?

Nan Shu was confused when she heard this, and was about to ask clearly, but Ye Ziqing raised her head and looked at her sincerely,

"Shu'er, you are the only person in the world who knows my daughter's identity except for my parents, can you keep my secret forever as you promised me when you were a child?"

Daughter?

Nan Shu looked at Ye Ziqing in front of her with a shocked expression, her eyes staring at her up and down like copper bells, and finally her gaze stopped on the half-glossed forehead of the other party's Qing Dynasty men's exclusive hairstyle.

So, this Ye Ziqing is...... Dressed as a man since childhood?

In fact, when she saw this Ye Ziqing for the first time, when she looked at her thinner body than other men, Nan Shu's mind did not flash the idea of suspecting that she was a woman disguised as a man.

But because this Ye Ziqing looks heroic and has a half-bald head, Nan Shu didn't dare to think about it anymore.

After all, she has also tried to disguise herself as a man, and she wears a hat to cover her forehead hair, who would have thought that in this conservative era, there would be a woman who would shave her head in half in order to dress up as a man?

Seeing that she was stunned for a long time and didn't speak, Ye Ziqing couldn't help but shout: "Sister Shu'er? Am I speaking too abruptly? ”

Nan Shu suddenly came back to her senses, "No, don't worry, I naturally won't say it to the public." Just ......"

She looked at Ye Ziqing suspiciously: "Isn't there anyone else who has found out that you are ...... Girl's? And also...... Why do you grow up and dress as a man? ”

Won't she get married?

Ye Ziqing smiled helplessly: "In order to keep the industry that my father worked hard for, I can only be a man, and I will be for the rest of my life." ”

"......" Nanshu was shocked.

After some knocking and tapping left, I finally figured it out.

It turned out that this Ye Ziqing was only half a year older than Nanshu.

When she was born, it was in the white-hot stage of the struggle for power within the Ye family.

Ye Kangping, who was at the helm of the Ye family's business at that time, had no children for many years, and he was eyeing other brothers in the family who were unwilling to follow, intending to seize his right to speak in the family.

And Ye Ziqing was born in this context.

Ye Kangping asked the immortal when Mrs. Ye was pregnant, and the immortal said that the future in Mrs. Ye's womb would be the hope of the Ye family.

Hearing this, Ye Kangping was overjoyed, and always thought that this baby must be a son, but unexpectedly, the child landed as a girl.

And at this moment, everyone in the family is looking forward to his birth as a daughter, so as to take the opportunity to attack him and relieve him of his power.

In desperation, Ye Kangping could only block the news of the delivery room and lied to the outside that he had given birth to a son.

Ye Kangping's idea is to hide it first, calm down the contradictions in the family, and help his daughter recover her daughter when he has a son in the future, when the situation is settled, and the rest of the clan has nothing to say.

Unexpectedly, since Ye Ziqing was born, Mrs. Ye's body has been seriously damaged, and she has not given birth since.

So this matter has been hidden, and the person has grown up.

And Ye Ziqing's identity still has no chance to be restored.

In fact, the mother of the original owner knew about this, because Mrs. Ye and the original mother's mother were pregnant at about the same time, and the two sisters agreed privately at that time that if the two children were of different genders in the future, they would be married.

If you are of the same gender, be a good brother or sister.

Therefore, Mrs. Ye naturally can't hide the fact that she gave birth to a daughter.

And the mother of the original owner has always kept this secret secret.

Because of this relationship, Ye Ziqing can't play with other children since he was a child, but Dong Cao Nanshu is an exception.

Therefore, Ye Ziqing likes to play with Dong Cao Nanshu very much.

Once Mrs. Ye took Ye Ziqing to Dong Cao's Mansion to play.

The two children were naughty, and secretly left their subordinates and ran to the lotus pond to play, but one of them didn't pay attention, and Ye Ziqing fell into the pool.

Fortunately, the water in the pool was not deep, and Dong Cao Nanshu pulled the person up and took it back to his boudoir.

Because she was afraid that the elders would punish her if they found out, Dong Cao Nanshu found out her own clothes for Ye Ziqing to replace.

At first, Ye Ziqing refused to change her clothes.

But seeing that the pink women's clothes that Dong Cao Nanshu took out were so good-looking, in the end she was still a six or seven-year-old girl, Ye Ziqing, who had never worn women's clothes since she was a child, was instantly moved and hesitated.

Afraid of being trained in Dong Cao, Nanshu didn't care if she wanted to or not, so she stepped forward and asked her to change Ye Ziqing's clothes.

As a result, as soon as she took off her clothes, she found that everyone's body structure turned out to be the same.

Because he was warned by his mother not to let outsiders see his body since he was a child, Ye Ziqing panicked at that time, covered his face and cried.

Dong Cao Nanshu was frightened by her, and hurriedly swore that she would never tell outsiders about this matter, and would keep it a secret for her for the rest of her life.

The two of them also swore by the hook in a matter-of-fact manner.

In the world of children, the things agreed upon by the hook are the most sacred and secure covenants.

So after that, the fact that she knew that Ye Ziqing was a woman became a secret between the two.