Pang Xiao leaned forward, one hand on the edge of the arhat bed, the other pointing to the corner of his mouth. His eyes were wide open and his thin lips were slightly pouted as he looked at her with a smile. "You said I have a broken mouth? How is my mouth broken? Why don't I feel it? "
Qin Yining was almost dazzled by his handsome face that suddenly came close to her. She blushed and stepped back to hide. "You are so boring. I said your mouth is too bad and you always bully people. I didn't say your mouth is really broken."
"Is that so?" Pang Xiao had already gotten off the bed. Looking at her blushing cheeks, he couldn't help but bend over with his hands behind his back. He leaned closer to her and said slowly, "Then I misunderstood."
Qin Yining looked up and met his dark and deep eyes.
His eyes were very beautiful, his nose was tall and straight, and his lips were thin and the corners of his mouth were upturned. At this time, his mouth was closed seriously, but she still felt that he seemed to be smiling. Qin Yining suddenly realized that she was staring at Yao Zhixi's face. She hurriedly lowered her eyes, and her gaze fell on his Adam's apple, which was half exposed outside his snow-white collar.
It seemed that something was wrong here.
Qin Yining simply turned her head to look elsewhere.
Pang Xiao laughed and pretended not to care as he paced in front of her with his hands behind his back. Although he didn't look at her, his attention was on her.
"Tsk tsk, I didn't expect you to be such a woman who knows how to accept her fate. It's different from what I thought. I thought you would run away directly."
"At this juncture, if I ran away, what would happen to my family?"
"They don't treat you well, and they didn't raise you. You have to sacrifice yourself for them. Are you willing? "
"They may not be sincere to me, and they didn't raise me in the past. But what have I done for them? I'm not a gold ingot. Do you think everyone will like me when they see me? "
Pang Xiao was stunned when he heard this, and then he laughed. "That's not necessarily true."
"What?" Qin Yining looked at him in confusion.
"I liked you when I saw you."
Qin Yining's mind went blank. His cheeks instantly flushed red, and the corners of his lips quivered. He didn't know how to respond.
Pang Xiao was also surprised that he had said something like that. He coughed and tried to salvage the situation. "It's your fault for looking so much like our Big White."
"Da Bai?" Qin Yining asked in a daze.
Pang Xiao smiled. "My mother has a pug with snow-white fur. It's silly and greedy. My mother named it White. There's also a wolfhound named Dahei. They're a pair."
"You!" Qin Yining glared angrily at the person in front of him. The awkwardness and shyness he felt earlier had disappeared, and he couldn't tell what he was feeling now.
He always liked to tease her. His identity was unclear, and his words were half-truths. Qin Yining couldn't tell which words were true and which were false. He only knew that he always made her so angry that her teeth itched when she saw him. She wanted to just ignore him, but he wasn't really that annoying. If she paid attention to him, he would always take advantage of her.
She really didn't know what to do with him.
However, when she thought about the upcoming trip to the peace talks, and the fact that she didn't know if she would be able to come back alive, Qin Yining didn't want to sort out the tangled emotions in his heart. He didn't care anymore.
"If it weren't for the fact that you saved my life, I would definitely beat you up." Qin Yining snorted in frustration.
Pang Xiao smiled and said, "You want to beat me up? Or give me a massage? "
"Young Master Yao, I really don't want to joke with you. In fact, even if you didn't send me a letter, I would still come to see you. I don't know if I'll survive this trip. Perhaps this will be our farewell forever. I still haven't repaid you for saving my life, and I feel very guilty. "
Qin Yining stood up and called Bing Tang over. "Bing Tang said that the poison in your body will be cured in three or four days. I can rest assured. I have already told Master Zhong that if anything happens in the future, if I'm not here, you can come to Master Zhong. Although Zhao Yun Agency isn't a big business, and you may not care about it, you still have some connections. Although this can't be considered repaying you, it is the only thing I can arrange for now. "
Qin Yining finished speaking and called Bing Tang. "Go and give Young Master Yao acupuncture."
Pang Xiao frowned as he looked at her back.
Her satin black hair and snow-white dress made him feel like she was a person in an ink painting that could float away at any time.
She was considered tall among women, but she only reached his shoulders. Such a delicate little girl was forced to bear so much helplessness. From childhood to adulthood, she had no control over anything. How similar was her fate to his?
"Qin Si," Pang Xiao called out to stop her as if he was possessed.
Qin Yining turned around. "What is it?"
"It's nothing. Don't worry."
Qin Yining blinked in confusion. He didn't understand what Pang Xiao meant by don't worry, but he still smiled and said, "I'll go talk to Master Zhong and have Bing Tang stay to treat you. Young Master Yao, let's part here. "
Pang Xiao raised his eyebrows and smiled. He waved his hand and said, "It's fine. You can go." He turned around and took off his cloak.
Qin Yining didn't stay any longer and went to talk to Master Zhong.
The news that Qin Yining was going to follow Qin Huaiyuan to participate in the peace talks had already spread throughout the world. Many people were cursing the incapable ruler behind his back. When Master Zhong heard the news, he was so upset that he couldn't sleep that night.
Now that he saw Qin Yining, Master Zhong almost cried in front of him. He repeatedly cursed, "How muddle-headed, muddle-headed! Master is such a good person. Why did he have to be involved in such a thing? The most important thing for a girl is her reputation. If he really went to Xi Hua City … "
Realizing that his words would cause Qin Yining to panic, Master Zhong wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes. "What a sin!"
Qin Yining could feel Master Zhong's concern for him. He smiled and personally poured a cup of tea for him.
"I've always thought that I was lucky. When I was young, I was abandoned in the wilderness and should have been eaten by wild wolves long ago. Instead, I was picked up by my foster mother. When I was seven years old, my foster mother was critically ill. I had originally decided to sell myself in exchange for money to treat her illness. However, I met a kind person who gave me a sum of money. "
"When I was eight years old, my foster mother died of illness. I went deep into the mountains by myself. I thought that one day I would die. Who would have thought that I would be lucky enough to survive? Later, I thought that I would most likely have to hunt for the rest of my life. However, my father's men found me."
At this point, Qin Yining looked at Master Zhong with a smile and comforted him. "It can be seen that in a person's life, if you don't take the last step, you will never be able to determine whether what is in front of you is good luck or bad luck."
Master Zhong was infected by Qin Yining's optimistic attitude. His heart was suddenly filled with pride. "Master's Young Miss is really broad-minded. This old man has lived for so many years, but I can't compare to Young Miss."
"Master Zhong really knows how to joke. In fact, to tell you the truth, I'm really scared to death. However, when it comes to the end, what's the use of being scared? Just like how we all know that we will die when we are born. Don't we want to live? Even if we are scared, we still have to live. When the boat comes to the bridge, it will cross the bridge. We can only resign ourselves to fate. "
Master Zhong heard this and couldn't help but smile. "Isn't that true?"
Qin Yining explained a bit to Master Zhong. In the end, he said in a low voice, "I'm afraid that I won't have much luck. If I don't come back, the Emperor may take back Zhao Yun Agency for his own use. Previously, when the Emperor didn't seize Ding Guo Manor, he was already thinking about Zhao Yun Agency's property. If something happens to me, the Emperor will be justified in taking back this place. Master Zhong is the old shopkeeper of Zhao Yun Agency. The Emperor won't treat you unfairly. However, I'm worried about my grandmother and the others. "
When Qin Yining was here, she could use the convenience of her identity to rent out the womenfolk of Ding Guo Manor and raise them with money. However, once she was gone, the Emperor would become the owner of Zhao Yun Agency. He wouldn't raise people to eat for free.
Master Zhong sighed and said, "Master, my words carry little weight. I can't guarantee anything. However, I can promise you that within the scope of my ability, I will definitely help Old Master's Madame. When Old Master was here, he treated me well. You also saved my family's life. I haven't repaid this kindness yet. If something really happens to you, you can rest assured that I will do my best to take care of them. If it really doesn't work, I will give them a sum of money to let them escape. "
Qin Yining nodded and said gratefully, "Thank you very much."
When the tree falls, the monkeys scatter. Now that she was about to fall, even her own cousins and grandmother wanted to step on her a few times. However, Master Zhong didn't hit her when she was down. He even promised to help the widow of Ding Guo Manor. Qin Yining was very touched.
While she was talking to Master Zhong, the Bing Tang acupuncture treatment for Pang Xiao was already done.
Qin Yining took the maidservants back to Qin Manor.
For the next few days, Qin Yining didn't go out. He only stayed in Xingning Garden to serve the Sun Clan.
The Sun Clan suffered a series of blows. First, they learned that the daughter they raised for 14 years was a fake. Then, Sun Yuanming died and all the men of Ding Guo Manor were executed. Then, Qin Huaiyuan took Madame Cao as his concubine. The huge difference in everyone's attitude towards her became the straw that broke her back.
Now, Qin Yining was going to be offered to an old sex fiend. He might not even be able to come back alive.
The relationship between the Sun Clan and Qin Yining was just getting better. How could she bear to see her daughter jump into the fire pit?
Under the combined attacks of several factors, Madam Sun fell ill.
Qin Yining was busy taking care of the sick every day. He didn't care about anything else. In the blink of an eye, eight days passed. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Nanny Zhan and Qin Yining said goodbye and returned to the palace.
Before leaving, Qin Yining sincerely bowed and thanked Nanny Zhan.
In this short month, Qin Yining learned a lot from Nanny Zhan and benefited a lot.
Nanny Zhan looked at Qin Yining's beautiful face and only thought of the four words, "Beautiful women are short-lived." Unfortunately, she was just a maidservant. She was like duckweed and really couldn't help Qin Yining. She could only helplessly say goodbye.
During the Lantern Festival, the warm room banquet was held. The atmosphere of the Family Qin was a bit depressing.
Old madam picked up the wine cup and sighed, "The peace negotiation team will set off tomorrow. Has Sister Yi's luggage been properly packed?"
Qin Yining nodded, "Yes, everything has been properly packed."
"Mm, that's good."
As soon as old madam finished speaking, Mammy Qin walked in with an extremely unsightly expression, "Old madam, masters."
On the other side of the large mahogany carved screen, Qin Huaiyuan and the other men put down their silver chopsticks and looked at Mammy Qin at the door.
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