Gu Xin squeezed her hand: "Don't worry, apart from me and Yuan Yuan, no one knows your real identity. I'm telling you this so that if you need any help in the future, feel free to come to me. Of course, if you don't want me to get involved, I won't meddle."
Zheng Qiu hadn't quite come to her senses yet, but her complexion was much better than before.
Gu Xin continued, "I admire you very much. I admire your forbearance and your courage. You were thrown so far away, but you didn't give up on yourself; instead, you learned skills. Even after you became skilled, you didn't act rashly. That shows you definitely had a plan in mind. You became a coroner, a profession many men wouldn't dare to do, but you learned it from a young age. My grandmother, my mother, and my sisters all told me that in anything, we women are not necessarily weaker than men. What men can do, we women can do too. My father and grandfather told me that in this world, relying on anyone else is useless; you have to rely on yourself. Only when you are skilled enough can you avoid being bullied. Xiao Qiu, I think you are that kind of person. I like you, I admire you, and I want to be your friend. That's why I said I know about you. Actually, I know about many other people, but I don't like them, so I just pretend I don't know them."
Zheng Qiu felt her eyes sting. Over the past ten years, it wasn't that no one had ever acknowledged her, but no one had ever spoken to her like Gu Xin had.
She had no female friends, and Gu Xin was the first person to tell her, "I want to be your friend."
Zheng Qiu smiled, tears welling up in her eyes: "Gu Xin, hello, I'm Zheng Qiu, it's an honor to be your friend."
Gu Xin smiled and said, "Thank you for accepting me as a friend, Miss Zheng. Let's solve cases together in the future!"
Zheng Qiu wiped away her tears, smiled and nodded: "Okay! From now on, I will be Princess Xin Xin's personal coroner."
Gu Xin laughed heartily: "Hahaha, okay, from now on we will definitely become the two heroines of the Great Zhou detective team. Wherever we are, there will be no criminals."
Zheng Qiu also laughed out loud.
Then she started talking about her family.
She was a daughter of the Marquis of Yong'an. The current Marquis of Yong'an was her biological father, but the current Lady of Yong'an was her stepmother. Her biological mother died after giving birth to her younger brother when she was only three years old. After her stepmother entered the household and gave birth to her son, she was taken away when she was six years old.
She escaped halfway, but encountered a flood and was swept away by the water. She was then rescued by a coroner in a small riverside county in Jiangnan, who became her adoptive father.
Because her mother died early, and the maids in the mansion were gossipy and no one paid attention to her, she heard a lot of things. She also started remembering things very early. After being picked up and adopted by her adoptive father, she would think about everything she had heard every day. Therefore, it is impossible for her to have no memories.
Her mother had a large dowry, and before she died, she asked the elders of the Zheng family to promise her that when she got married, she would give her the entire dowry.
As a result, after her stepmother gave birth to a child, she had an accident. Her mother's dowry was decided by the clan elders and left to her older brother and younger brother. However, her older brother broke his leg a few years ago and became very negative. Her younger brother was spoiled by his stepmother and may have forgotten that he had a birth mother, an older brother, and an older sister.
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