Gu Qingyuan held the book in her hand and sat in front of the boat, listening to the sound of the river water, thinking about the scene when she and Pei Jinting parted ways half a month ago.
He asked: "Gu Yuanyuan. Are you determined to do this?"
She held on to the car wall, gasping for air, and gritted her teeth and said, "Pei Jinting, there is no way forward for us. I'm going back. You can choose to let me go. You can also choose to kill me."
Pei Jinting's whole body was tense, and his anger surged to the sky. After a while, he let out a low and sweet laugh.
Finally, he shouted, "Go ahead."
He let go of his hand around her waist with unquestionable dignity.
At that moment, the person in front of her did not look like the Pei Jinting she knew.
Losing her grip, Gu Qingyuan climbed onto the carriage on her hands and knees.
Obviously I got what I wanted, but I didn't feel any joy in my heart. Instead, I felt sad and unbearable.
She hid behind the car curtain and looked at him deeply until her eyes were filled with mist and she couldn't see the figure clearly.
In the autumn of the fifteenth year of Zhengde in the Great Zhou Dynasty, the bleak autumn wind swept the fallen leaves and filled the sky with yellow sand.
"Ayuan, we are almost in Shandong. There is light mist on the river, and there should be a beautiful sunset. Do you want to go ashore and have a look?"
In the evening, Li Yi came from the front to ask her.
Gu Qingyuan left the capital quietly, firstly because she wanted to go to the Qin family to find out the truth behind the Qin family's plot, and secondly because she wanted to lead out the person behind her assassination.
After walking for more than half a month, the most turbulent part of the water has passed, and the people behind have remained stationary.
This made Gu Qingyuan wonder if she had thought wrong.
There wasn't much to go before she had to disembark. She thought about it, accepted Li Yi's invitation, and happily agreed to go ashore to watch the sunset.
"You've been bored on the boat for a while, so take this time to take a nice stroll." Li Yi said with a smile on his face.
Gu Qingyuan nodded, "Then wait a moment, I'll go change my clothes."
Along the way, Li Yi arranged everything in an orderly manner. Even if Gu Shao himself followed Gu Qingyuan all the way, the arrangements would only be so thoughtful.
Seeing that Gu Qingyuan agreed at this moment, he was also very happy. He had asked people to go ahead and reserve a seat. When Gu Qingyuan was tired from shopping, it was just right to go to the restaurant to rest.
He quietly glanced at Gu Qingyuan beside him. At this time, several bearers were walking through the street and met several pedestrians.
Li Yi frowned and walked to the other side of Gu Qingyuan calmly.
Gu Qingyuan was originally thinking about the people behind the scenes and did not pay attention to Li Yi's actions.
She looked around. Although the town was small, it had all the necessary facilities and was very lively at the moment.
Today, before going out, she specially inserted the hairpin given to her by the Qin family.
The hand hanging by his side seemed to have been touched by someone.
Gu Qingyuan quietly raised her hand to hold the hairpin on her temples.
The crowd was noisy and crowded, but Gu Qingyuan didn't notice anything unusual.
She thought about the man behind the scenes, and also thought about Pei Jinting. She wondered what he was doing now.
Has the anger subsided? His injuries were almost healed before he left. He must be feeling better.
I don't know if he... Gu Qingyuan felt her face heat up. She had done all that, so how could she have the nerve to think about Pei Jinting now?
Gu Qingyuan looked at the crowded pedestrians on the street with a faint look.
Suddenly someone hurried past and bumped into her.
Li Yi, who was on one side, had been paying attention to Gu Qingyuan. Seeing this, he hurriedly put his arms around her and turned around to glare at the person who hit her.
The man in coarse cloth had an anxious look on his face. He saw that he bumped into someone and hurriedly apologized.
Gu Qingyuan didn't think anything of it. Seeing his panic, she waved her hand to show that it was okay.
Li Yi didn't do anything. Seeing that Gu Qingyuan was not hit, he reminded the man in a bad tone,
"Be careful when you walk."
The man bowed repeatedly, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm really worried because the child disappeared after I brought him out..."
There are so many people in the market that children will be thrown away.
Unexpectedly, when Gu Qingyuan was about to say something else, she saw the man reach behind him with his hand, and then a cold light flashed, and the sharp weapon came towards her, as if he was going to chop Gu Qingyuan to death on the street immediately.
When he stabbed him with a sharp weapon, Gu Qingyuan looked at him subconsciously, and her eyes made contact with him for a moment.
Fierce and determined to hit with one blow.
It was like a sharp weapon hanging above my head, and now it has finally fallen.
"Brother Yi, stay alive." Gu Qingyuan's face darkened and she shouted to Li Yi who came forward to fight with the man.
She used herself as bait to get some useful information.
A family that can arrange assassinations time and time again must be from a high-ranking family.
For so many years, she had been in Beijing, and if she had any grudges, she would have come to her door long ago.
It happened after she put on the hairpin and went to Taikangfang.
Some high-ranking families take a certain amount of face into account and don't go too far, but smaller families are different.
The person was quickly controlled by Li Yi and the accompanying guards.
The guards in the army were different from the guards walking around the capital in daily life. Their methods were much rougher. When they saw that the man was about to commit suicide, they clicked his jaw and touched him up and down.
Gather up everything that can kill yourself.
In the cabin, Gu Qingyuan withdrew her hand and sat on the Grand Master's chair with a normal expression.
"The Ming family sent you here, right? You are already the third group of people who have come to kill me. What secrets do I have that I want them to silence at all costs?"
From the time he left the capital, except for Pei Jinting's part which was an accident, the rest were all strategies discussed by Gu Qingyuan and Gu Shao. Otherwise, why would Gu Shao send Li Yi to escort him to Shandong?
The captured man raised his head strangely and stared at Gu Qingyuan motionlessly.
Gu Qingyuan's smile deepened, "Then, can you tell me what you know? Maybe, I can leave a way for you to survive."
"After all, two groups of people have already died."
Gu Qingyuan's sudden change of expression caused the heart of the person kneeling on the ground to skip a beat.
He traveled around the world and saw many people, like the girl in front of him, who was as cold as a girl's house caught in the cold ice.
In all these years, he has never seen anyone.
"Don't you already know everything?" The man stared at Gu Qingyuan fiercely.
Gu Qingyuan smiled and said, "I just know it. There is no evidence. Aren't I waiting for you to tell me?"
"You are also paid to do things, and you have been following me for a long time. You tell me how to contact people after the work is completed, and I can pay you three times the remaining remuneration."
Sure enough, after bringing up this topic, the man stopped talking.
When she walked out of the cabin where she was imprisoned, Gu Qingyuan breathed out slowly, held her hands on the wall, and her feet couldn't help but soften.
All the pretense of calmness that he had before has completely faded away.
The Ming family did pursue him because of the hairpin.
It seems that the Ming family has intervened in the affairs of the harem.
Seeing the hairpin, she felt guilty and worried that Gu Qingyuan might have some evidence in her hand.
That's why I want to kill people and silence them.
As for the harem, Gu Qingyuan thought, it was the Qin family's entry into the palace.
She once thought naively about whether she might be a member of the Ming family because the Ming family pursued her so closely.
Now it seems that it is not.
Gu Qingyuan leaned against the wall to prevent her tears from falling.