Chapter 15 Qiao Wanyan: I, the Wolf Child
"Miss, I told you that the Second Miss is not as good as you think. She is just using you to get close to His Highness!" Xiaoying was very angry, and even felt a little disappointed in her.
Qiao Yihuan walked back in a daze, his face full of loneliness and hurt.
Xiaoying advised: "Miss, sometimes you have to be a little bit stubborn. Blindly giving in will only hurt yourself more."
Qiao Yihuan felt the chill piercing her fingertips. "Your Highness just likes my non-competitive personality. If I change, how am I different from other people?"
Xiaoying sighed helplessly, and looking at her lonely look, she was reluctant to say anything more.
She changed the subject and said, "By the way, Miss, I heard that there is an underground dark market in Yongzhou, where all kinds of things are sold. How about I go with you to take a look?"
Qiao Yihuan shook her head and said, "Let's do it another day. I feel a little uncomfortable today and just want to go back and rest."
Xiaoying nodded, "Okay, I'll go with you when you feel better."
Qiao Yihuan was silent for a moment, "Forget it, let's go to the underground dark market you mentioned."
For some reason, she suddenly wanted to go and see it. It was as if an invisible rope was pulling her, tempting her to go.
Xiaoying said, "Okay, I'll go with you. The underground dark market is in the south of the city, let's go and take a look!"
At the city gate, soldiers lit torches at night. Qiao Wanyan rubbed her sore wrist only after she served porridge to the last person.
He Zhiyu didn't leave, waiting for her to go back to the Qiao Mansion together.
On the way back, He Zhiyu suddenly said, "Don't go to the city gate to distribute porridge tomorrow."
Qiao Wanyan turned her head away in confusion, "Why?"
He Zhiyu couldn't say it directly, Qiao Wanyan was very beautiful, like a flower. When distributing porridge at the city gate, many refugees stared at her intently. As a man, he knew clearly what that naked gaze meant.
Even if there are soldiers guarding the place, with so many refugees, any accident that might occur would be uncontrollable.
"obedient."
Jing Yuan's eyes widened. These two words with a hint of doting, were they really said by His Highness to Miss Qiao II?
Qiao Wanyan stammered, "I don't understand why, but my brother-in-law told me to be obedient, so I will be obedient. My brother-in-law will definitely not harm me!"
After she finished speaking, she suddenly trotted over to He Zhiyu and took off the jade pendant from her neck.
"I heard from my father that the job my brother-in-law is going to do is a little dangerous. This is the jade amulet that my mother prayed for me when I was a child. I have been carrying it with me for many years. I will lend it to my brother-in-law temporarily, hoping that it can protect him and bring him back safely, so that my sister will feel at ease."
Qiao Wanyan's expression was serious without a trace of distraction, just like the warm sunshine shining into the deepest part of her heart, and He Zhiyu's heartstrings were rippling leisurely.
When he was a child, what he hoped most was that someone would give him peace and blessings.
Imperial Concubine Hui would often personally pray for blessings and peace for He Yanli. He was very envious and asked his mother for it, but in the end he would only be scolded.
"Don't waste your time on useless things. Study hard and make your father happy."
Peace and happiness have become his obsession as time goes by.
But on such an ordinary day, someone gave it to him.
Qiao Wanyan carefully captured the emotions on his face, and her heart was calm without any ripples.
The obsession from his childhood can be used a little to move him.
It’s just a pity, she just bought the jade pendant last month and she liked it very much.
He Zhiyu didn't know what kind of mood he was in when he returned to the Jin family and returned to his room. But when he came to his senses, the jade token was already in his hand.
Jing Yuan asked, "Your Highness, you seem to be treating Miss Qiao very specially now."
He Zhiyu glanced at him and could tell there was something else behind his words.
"In my heart, the most special person is Yi Huan. I only love her and will only marry her."
"In my heart, Qiao Er is just the younger sister of the one I love."
Jing Yuan paused, "But I always feel that Miss Qiao still has you in her heart and has not given up the idea of marrying you."
He Zhiyu said firmly, "What do you, a person who has never been married, know? She calls me brother-in-law all the time, how could she still have any feelings for me? Isn't that crazy?"
"She is just a little girl who is still immature and has a bit of a temper. She is not the kind of person who is full of scheming. I can judge people very well."
Jing Yuan clicked his tongue inwardly. What if he had never been married? His Highness had never been married either.
Maybe some people like this kind of excitement.
He thought that Miss Qiao was quite crazy in the past.
When Qiao Wanyan returned home, she asked someone to throw away all her clothes, including her cloak.
She had a room of her own in her grandfather's house, which had hot spring water connected to it. In the cold winter, soaking in the hot spring was a real pleasure.
Qiao Wanyan's shoulders were exposed, and her long hair was like a waterfall rippling in the water. The mist was lingering, like a fairyland.
She looked at the purple iris flowers beside the hot spring and frowned slightly. Why hasn’t the purple iris come back yet?
On the other side in the south of the city, Xiaoying took Qiao Yihuan towards the entrance to the dark market that they had heard about before.
But when they were still about a hundred feet away, suddenly four or five men with fierce looks on their faces staggered towards them.
Xiaoying was a little scared, so she helped her young lady walk to the side, not wanting to have any interaction with these people.
"Hey, where did this little girl come from? She's so pretty, what's her name?"
"What are you doing? Get out of here!" Xiaoying shouted like a hen protecting her chicks.
The scarred man sneered, "Why are you pretending? You can't be a good person if you don't go home and walk on the street so late. Be obedient and follow us to have fun, or you will suffer."
Qiao Yihuan shrank back, it was obvious that these people were drunk.
Xiaoying was also afraid, but she couldn't retreat. "Do you know who my young lady is? My young lady's grandfather is Mr. Jin from the Jin family bank. My young lady is the granddaughter of an imperial merchant!"
The men looked at each other.
The scarred man snorted coldly, "Who are you kidding? Guys, catch these two girls!"
Seeing that it didn't work, Xiaoying quickly pulled Qiao Yihuan and ran away.
Maybe it was because they were drunk, the men chased her for a few steps and then staggered around a corner, making it impossible to catch up.
Pulling a safe distance, Xiaoying patted her chest and said, "Miss, it's a good thing they were too drunk to catch up. Let's go back tonight."
Qiao Yihuan was so frightened that his face turned pale. He was out of breath because he ran so fast. "Okay, let's go back quickly!"
And those drunk men disappeared from the street and appeared in the alley at some point.
Everyone was nodding and bowing. Where was the ferocious and drunken look they had just now?
"Miss Ziyuan, what do you think of our performance?"
Zi Yuan snorted, "It's okay. Take this, this is your reward. Keep your mouth shut. If I hear anything I shouldn't hear outside, I will kill you."
The scarred man took the silver with both hands, "Don't worry! But Miss Ziyuan, since we have offended your little hoof, why don't you let us... have a taste of it! Even if we kill it secretly, no one will know!"
Zi Yuan rolled her eyes at him and said, "Just do what you are told to do. Why are you wasting your time talking?"
She would do whatever the young lady told her to do. Moreover, if something happened in Nanzhou, what if the young lady was implicated by the prince's pursuit of responsibility?
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