"This jade pendant...... My mother really doesn't have any impression. Ye Qingyi took a closer look at the flowers and birds that Gu Jiu handed over, and shook his head.

"But the uncle said that it was my mother's, and I don't seem to have seen my grandmother before, so could this be my grandmother's stay."

"No, I can't even eat at that time, if I really have this jade pendant, your grandma won't be ......" Ye Qing paused, and his eyes were instantly overflowing with sadness: "My mother was picked up by your grandmother, your grandmother's husband left early, and the children are not filial, it is a problem for me to eat with your grandmother, it is impossible to have such a good jade pendant." ”

"What about before you picked it up? Mother doesn't remember at all? ”

Ye Qingyi shook his head: "How many years have passed, it doesn't matter, my mother is content with you and Xiaojing now." ”

Gu Jiu nodded in understanding.

"Mother, then you rest first, and I'll go back first."

As soon as Gu Jiu got up, he was grabbed by the wrist.

"Xiao Jiu, what happened down there just now, why did so many people suddenly come?" The reason why she didn't sleep was because she was worried that something would happen, so many people, and at night, even if she just walked up the stairs, she could make a lot of noise.

"The people of the Shi family have already left. You just let Xiao Jing go back to her room and sleep. ”

"Coming for you?"

Gu Jiu nodded nondeniably.

Seeing this, Ye Qingyi's pair of willow eyebrows immediately wrinkled: "Xiao Jiu, my mother can embroider, she can support you and Xiao Jing, and she will definitely be able to save a good dowry for you!" We don't do anything that is risky and will cause trouble! Remember? ”

"Human life is a trouble in itself."

Hearing this, it was not only Ye Qingyi, but also Shao Baisi, who was eavesdropping outside, was also stunned.

"Xiao Jiu, my mother means that we can make less money, but don't conflict with others!"

"Then do you know that Xiao Jing's opportunity to enter the academy was bought by me in exchange for entering the game."

Ye Qing opened his mouth, not knowing what to say for a while.

"Mother, there are not so many best of both worlds in this world, and sometimes it becomes a mistake for you to just live in the eyes of others."

"Like once at home, did we do something wrong? No, but grandparents and uncles still treat us as thorns in the flesh. ”

"We have survived only because we have chosen to rebel. The current situation is the same, if an ordinary person wants to live comfortably, he is bound to fight. ”

Gu Jiu looked at Ye Qingyi, his eyes were like a pool of secluded pools, calm, without a trace of ripples.

"I am destined to fight, even for my own sake, but I am not in a position to ask others to accompany me like this, if you want a quieter life, I can help you find a safe place, and leave you enough money."

Gu Jiu doesn't have too complicated feelings for Ye Qingyi and Gu Jing, in her eyes, these two people are the same as Lingyang, whether they leave or stay, she can accept it.

Ye Qingyi seemed to be startled by Gu Jiu's words, and stared at Gu Jiu without blinking, and it took a long time to find his voice back.

"Xiao Jiu, you are a girl and your mother is afraid that something will happen to you, we are a family, no matter what happens, we will be together."

Gu Jiu nodded. She occupies the body of the original owner, so she naturally has the obligation to protect and take care of her family, but she is not the original owner after all, and she cannot have the same feelings as the original owner.

"Okay." Gu Jiu didn't bother with the truth or falsehood of his words, and continued: "I'll go back first." ”

"Hmm."

When I went out, I saw Shao Baiji standing a few steps away.

"Sure?" Shao Baiji asked.

"Almost, you're a lot less suspicious." Gu Jiu was indifferent.

Judging from Ye Qingyi's reaction and the memory of the original owner, what Shao Baisi said was eighty percent true.

"Then you came to Cloud City to find someone?" After returning to the room, Gu Jiu asked.

"Not exactly."

Gu Jiu nodded slightly, looked at Shao Baisi, and motioned for him to continue.

"You should have heard that the court is at war."

"Hmm."

"Money is needed to fight a war."

Scold. Gu Jiu chuckled lightly and said with a smile: "You came to this poor and remote place to earn silver?" Shaobaisi, even if you lie, you have to find a reasonable reason! ”

"I'm dead on the list of people in the imperial court." Shao Baiji's voice was calm, as if he was talking about something inconsequential.

Gu Jiu didn't answer, she didn't know what kind of people were recorded on the list of the imperial court, she didn't know what it meant to die on it, and she also didn't know whether what Shao Baisi said was true or false.

"I needed a new identity, a reasonable identity that wouldn't be questioned by anyone. At the same time, I also needed to avoid being recognized by people who had seen me, and my grandmother mourned her close friend, so I came here. ”

"Then this court is messy enough, you have to fake your death for a lot of money."

Gu Jiu looked at each other and said indifferently. Seeing this, Shao Baisi's face sank: "Gu Jiu, if you are defeated, the first to be unlucky are the people of Limin." ”

"I know, I am the people of Limin. Young Master Xie, I don't have such big ambitions, I am very simple, I will never deal with myself when I can live well, and I will never force myself when I can't. In addition, you and I are not related to each other, it is impossible for me to take out money and give up benefits because of a few words of your family and country. ”

Shao Baisi did not deny or agree, but asked: "Your grandmother has wanted to see your mother again all her life, and she has been blaming herself for why she didn't return immediately after discovering that your mother had secretly gotten into the carriage and sent her back, why did she rush to Cloud City at that moment. Gu Jiu, your grandmother was bedridden for a long time before I came, don't you plan to let her see her child again? ”

"This is my mother's choice, not mine."

"Then why didn't you just tell her about it? You know very well in your heart that she remembers the past, she just knows that there is little hope and does not want to look forward in vain. Shaobaisi asked further, Gu Jiu didn't speak, and after a while, Shaobaisi opened his mouth and waited for him to reply: "Because you know that this act is auspicious." ”

"Gu Jiu, I hope you can ......"

"You don't have to say it, I don't agree. Shaobaisi, at present, I can only do what I promised you, and I can't sit on the rest. "I'm an extremely selfish and pleasure-hungry person, Shao Baisi, I really can't start selflessly dedicating everything to the court that I haven't seen because of your few words.

The air suddenly fell into a stagnation, and the two sat aside in silence, and sat without saying a word until the sky was getting brighter.

Just when Gu Jiu was about to go to sleep, the sound of knocking on the door suddenly came in, the two looked at each other, and Shao Baisi understood and hid behind the door.

"Who?"

The person outside the door was silent for two seconds before he spoke: "Guest officer, someone has given ten times the price of this room you live in today, do you want to change it?" ”

Gu Jiu walked to the door, and before opening the door, he gestured to Shao Baisi, telling him that there was someone else outside the door, and the shopkeeper was only threatened.

The door opened, and the entrance was a long sword that had been prepared long ago.

Gu Jiu subconsciously took a big step back, but the sword was too long, and he couldn't retreat so much in one step. The long sword stabbed into the abdomen, cutting through the clothes, and at the same time, Shao Baisi took out his hand and pulled Gu Jiu hard, and the blade of the sword slid over the soft flesh on his waist, leaving a large area of redness.

A sneak assassination, if one blow is not successful, there is no possibility of success if you strike again.

"Oh, I'm here!"

The shopkeeper who was pushed down rolled on the ground, rubbing his back. As if thinking of something, he quickly got up and ran downstairs.

It's terrible, there is still a threat to do a man's job these days!

"Shi Xuyao? Shi Qiusheng asked you to come? ”

Gu Jiu covered his waist with his hands while looking at the person who was stopped by Shao Baisi.

"Don't you deserve to die?"

"It shouldn't." Shi Xuyao glanced at the wound on his waist, and said with some amusement: "Shi Xuyao, if you really hate me very much, why don't you poison the sword?" The kind that is highly poisonous, and you will die if you get wet! ”

Shi Xuyao turned his head and said in a mocking tone: "Do you think everyone is the same as you?" ”

"Shi Xuyao, you still don't understand, it's not me you hate at all, it's that you don't know how to face Shi Yuyan's death. You hate everyone, including yourself, but you don't know how to deal with this troubled emotion. You urgently need an outlet, so you found me, someone related to Gu Zhiqi. ”

"Self-righteous."

"Gu Wensheng is afraid that he has already returned to the village at this time, do you want to go back with me? Just to solve the other people, those who hurt the outdated language just as much. ”

Shi Xuyao didn't speak, his eyes looked straight at Gu Jiu through Shao Baisi. He's being irritable from the inside out, he doesn't know what he should do, he can't calm himself down, he's ...... Refuse to see the truth of the matter.

Gu Jiu ignored him and went into the house to deal with the wound on his waist. The wound looked like a piece of blood, but in fact, it only scratched off a layer of epidermis, and the injury was not serious.

"Gu Wensheng is a greedy person who is afraid of death and addicted to enjoyment, and he has already figured out how to sell his hometown's property or cheat the last money in his family and run away." Gu Jiu walked to the door, looked back at Shi Xuyao and said, "I'm going to rent a carriage to rush back to Huijia Village now, you can go back with me, but be prepared to be injured, because I'm a very vindictive person." As he spoke, Gu Jiu also pointed to the white gauze around his waist.

Shi Xuyao didn't speak, Gu Jiu didn't care anymore, and with the help of Shao Baisi, he left the inn almost effortlessly.

"You're going too?" Gu Jiu asked.

"No one will recognize me in the backwoods, and besides, I have a carriage to save money, and you come with me."

Shao Baisi and Gu Jiu are indeed similar in some ways, such as now, even if they have just been deadlocked for one night, they can now communicate in a normal tone, as if last night's incident was just a distant dream.

After walking for a short while, Gu Jiu found Shi Xuyao secretly following behind. Shi Xuyao was very awkward, deliberately sneaking around for fear of being discovered by her and Shaobaisi, and then walked out generously, as if to prove that he had no ghosts in his heart, and he was really just taking this path.

"Wait here for a while, and I'll be right out." Outside the Xie Mansion, Shao Baisi said.

"Okay."