The East Factory has connections everywhere, so Yu Jiao was not surprised that Cheng Ying knew she was returning to Qingyu Village. She just didn't believe that Cheng Ying was here for fun. Emperor Mingzheng went to Xianyang to take the elixir of immortality, and he attached great importance to it, otherwise he would not have brought Cheng Ying with him. How could he allow Cheng Ying to go there for fun in Qingyu Village, which is so far away from the emperor?

Yu Jiao couldn't help wondering if something had happened to the emperor, but Cheng Ying's simple appearance didn't seem like that.

"It's indeed a coincidence." Yu Jiao asked tentatively, "How many days will you stay here?"

Cheng Ying looked at her with a smile and said deliberately, "I originally thought this place was very boring, but after meeting you, I feel like I have someone to relieve my boredom. I can stay for a while longer and look around the scenery."

The sunlight that Yu Jiao had felt comfortable with just now had become a little too hot. She said in a sweet voice, "It's a coincidence. I'm leaving for Beijing tomorrow. If you think the scenery here is nice, please stay for a while."

Cheng Ying laughed angrily, even though she knew that she avoided him like the plague.

The person in front of me is Jiaojiao, so I can no longer use those means of coercion and intimidation that I used before, and I am reluctant to use them.

He said helplessly, "Are you avoiding me so much? You're going to leave as soon as I come?"

Yu Jiao felt something was odd when she heard what he said, but she couldn't tell what was odd. She was afraid of upsetting Cheng Ying, so she explained calmly, "You're wrong. I've already finished what I wanted to do this time, and I had planned to leave for Beijing tomorrow."

Perhaps the expression on Cheng Ying's face made her feel too strange, as if she was hiding a myriad of things that could not be revealed to outsiders, so Yu Jiao added, "If godfather wants to walk around here, I can accompany you today."

Cheng Ying nodded, "That's fine."

"The food in the village is simple. You have tasted all the delicacies in the palace, but I'm afraid you will find it hard to swallow. How about I invite you to dine at a restaurant in the city? The chefs there are quite good." Yu Jiao glanced at the sun and suggested.

She didn't want Cheng Ying to have much contact with the Yu family. This master had a violent temper and treated human life as a joke. If he was not satisfied, someone would be beheaded. Yu Jiao couldn't afford to take the risk.

Cheng Ying felt a bitter taste in her throat for no reason. Her thoughts were too easy to guess. Thinking that the reason why she was so wary of him was because of Yu Qizhe's family, Cheng Ying clenched her Buddhist beads tightly, and veins bulged on the back of her hand.

His Adam's apple rolled slightly, and he swallowed down all the resentment and jealousy that surged up. He lowered his eyes to look at Yu Jiao, with endless bitterness hidden in his eyes, and asked softly: "Do you still like that Yu?"

Yu Jiao said with a smile: "You asked me before, why would I marry you if you didn't like me?" She thought Cheng Ying still looked down on Yu Qizhe, so she kept asking and teasing her deliberately.

Seeing that she replied without hesitation, Cheng Ying sat under the warm sun, but his whole body was cold, as if he was in a world of ice and snow. He was standing on the top of a not very solid snow mountain, and there was an abyss under his feet.

Cheng Ying closed her eyes and said unwillingly, "Is there no one you care about more than Yu Qizhe?"

Yu Jiao hesitated for a moment this time. Her senior brother Fu Chuan and grandfather were people she cared about very much, but they are no longer alive.

"Of course there are, but just like the woman you like, they have all gone to another world." There was a hint of sadness in Yu Jiao's voice.

Cheng Ying's eyes suddenly became clear and compelling. She suppressed her turbulent emotions and stared at Yu Jiao and asked, "What if they are still alive?"

Yu Jiao followed Cheng Ying's words and thought that if her senior brother Fu Chuan and grandfather were both alive, she would probably be the happiest person in the world. She would memorize the medical books obediently, listen to her grandfather, never make the old man angry again, and then do her best to be good to her senior brother, take care of him, keep him healthy and safe, and live a long life.

Seeing Yu Jiao in a daze, Cheng Ying's heartbeat uncontrollably became faster. He knew that there was no way Jiaojiao didn't have him in her heart at all.

"I recently learned that the woman I like is still alive and we often meet. It's a pity that we don't know each other. She doesn't recognize me now and has someone else she likes." Cheng Ying looked at Yu Jiao with a lonely expression, her thick eyelashes hiding the sadness in her eyes, and narrated slowly: "In the past, she only had me by her side, and I only had her by my side. We were the closest people in the world, and we only had each other. But now she thinks I am no longer alive and doesn't recognize me. She has someone else by her side and her life is pretty good. Do you think I should recognize her?"

Yu Jiao's eyes widened, she didn't expect to hear such gossip. It turned out that a corrupt official with great power in the world would be so heartbroken and depressed that he would travel to such a remote mountain village to relax!

Yu Jiao asked with some interest: "Do I know that girl?"

Cheng Ying looked at her with dark eyes and said nothing.

Seeing that he agreed, Yu Jiao boldly thought about all the women she knew, but she still couldn't figure out who it was. She didn't remember any girl of the same age as Cheng Ying among those she knew in the capital.

Yu Jiao didn't dare to show her curiosity too obviously, so she thought about it and said seriously, "It sounds like you and that girl have missed each other by accident. But if I were you, I would recognize that girl. No matter how she reacts, at least you don't have to regret it for the rest of your life. People have enough regrets in their lives. Maybe that girl would be very happy to know that you are still alive."

Cheng Ying listened to her completely indifferent words, raised the corners of her lips and smiled, and her heart suddenly felt relieved.