After Ying Xixi finished speaking, she observed Zhao's expression.
Zhao was stunned for a moment, then looked as if it was just as she expected, with a hint of hatred in her eyes.
"As expected! I never thought Ying Sili would tell his daughter's secret to a concubine!
Mother misjudged him!"
"Mother, it's not too late to see his true face now. Fortunately, I don't have any secrets now, so I'm not afraid of him telling my secrets to Lin and Ying Zhuer.
Mom, you should take good care of your health first. I will think carefully about what I just said.
Don't worry, Mom, no matter what decision you make, I will support you and stay with you."
Ying Xixi gave Zhao a reassurance and left temporarily.
The man in black was still waiting for her at the door.
Ying Xixi glanced at the man in black and asked, "Do you really want to stay and be my bodyguard?"
"Yes, I can swear to be loyal to you, Miss!"
The man in black bowed his head respectfully.
"Didn't you say you have elderly parents and young children?"
Ying Xixi didn't know anything about this man in black. It was a bit challenging for her to rashly keep someone who once wanted to kill her by her side.
The man in black smiled bitterly, "That's just a lie. I'm an orphan. I usually just take on killing jobs to make a living. I've been wandering for so many years, I don't want to wander anymore.
Please, Miss, take me in and give me food. I will be loyal to you!"
Ying Xixi touched her chin and did not agree immediately.
[Host, do you really want to keep him here? ]
The system suddenly spoke, and Ying Xixi asked the system cautiously.
"System, you suddenly asked this question. Could it be that there is something wrong with this man in black?"
[As for the problem, this system doesn't know either, but in the original plot, this man in black listened to Ying Zhuer's words and killed the original owner.
He can hurt the original owner once for money, and he might hurt you a second time for money. What do you think, host?
"You're right, but I really don't have anyone I can use right now. If I want to hire someone, I don't have much money."
Ying Xixi was also a little troubled.
[In this case, the host can give him an obedience potion. This way, if the host asks him to do something, he can feel more at ease and not worry about him backstabbing the host.]
The system suggested.
Ying Xixi's eyes lit up, "Yeah! I almost forgot about the obedience potion. As long as the man in black takes it, I'll have a loyal guard.
The system is really not easy, you finally made a good suggestion."
System: [? ? They've given some good suggestions before!]
Ying Xixi didn't say anything and closed the chat box with the system.
System: [!!! Too much!!]
"After all, you killed me. If you want me to keep you here, you have to drink this."
Ying Xixi said as she took out a small porcelain bottle of obedience potion.
The man in black was stunned for a moment, "Miss, didn't you already give your subordinate a meatball?"
"Oh, that, the effect of that medicine is almost gone, I'm worried."
Ying Xixi had completely forgotten about this. The meatball was actually just a small sugar pill. Unexpectedly, it actually scared the guy.
The man in black looked at the small porcelain bottle, took it without hesitation and drank it.
"I will be loyal to my master for the rest of my life! Please give me a name!"
Ying Xixi scratched her head. She was terrible at naming. If she really had to choose a name, she would really name the man in black Xiao Hei.
"What is your own name?"
"My original name was Xu Yi."
"Okay, then you can continue to call me Xu Yi."
It also saved her the trouble of racking her brains to come up with a name.
Ying Xixi asked Xu Yi to stay and protect Zhao, while she went back to her room, changed her clothes, and left the Prime Minister's Mansion through the back door.
The streets were quite busy, and Ying Xixi didn't know whether people outside knew what she, the barren daughter of the prime minister, looked like. To be on the safe side, she wore a veil.
After all, she came out to eat melons, and she couldn't let anyone discover her identity and become the one being eaten.
It was noon now, and Ying Xixi was a little hungry.
She found a small restaurant, ordered some food, and sat in a corner, waiting for the food to be served while listening to the people around her talking.
"Hey, have you heard? There's something new happening today."
"What's new? Are you talking about the Prime Minister's daughter being unable to have children?"
"Hey, your news is outdated. Now we are not discussing the Prime Minister's legitimate daughter, but the Prime Minister's concubine's daughter and the fifth prince!"
When he mentioned the three words "Fifth Prince", the man deliberately lowered his voice.
"Isn't the Fifth Prince the fiancé of the Prime Minister's legitimate daughter? What does this have to do with the Prime Minister's concubine's daughter?"
"The Prime Minister's concubine's daughter has been hooking up with the Fifth Prince for a long time! Just think about it, a concubine's daughter actually dares to compete with the legitimate daughter for a man, what does this mean?"
"What does it mean?"
The onlookers were still a little slow to react.
The man slapped his thigh and said, "This means that the Prime Minister's concubine's daughter has a higher status in the Prime Minister's Mansion than the Prime Minister's legitimate daughter!
The children of those powerful people are distinguished between legitimate and illegitimate children. Illegitimate daughters and illegitimate sons dare not go against legitimate sons and daughters, let alone steal each other's things.
If you rob someone and are discovered by the elders in your family, you will be punished according to the family rules!
But the prime minister's concubine's daughter openly competed with her elder sister for the fifth prince as her fiancé, and even spread her elder sister's secret to others in order to force her to give up her engagement with the fifth prince!
Someone even deliberately said that the news was leaked by the Fifth Prince!
Such scheming is not something an unfavored concubine's daughter at home can have!
I heard that the Prime Minister's daughter was pushed into a pond by the Fifth Prince in the middle of winter when she was five or six years old, and she became infertile.
Even the Prime Minister's wife is bedridden to this day! The engagement between the Prime Minister's daughter and the Fifth Prince had already been decided by the current emperor at that time.
Now the Prime Minister's daughter is about to reach the age of marriage, and it won't be long before she will marry the Fifth Prince as his principal wife, but this kind of thing happened.
At this critical juncture, the matter of the Prime Minister's legitimate daughter was spread by the Prime Minister's concubine's daughter. It was obvious that the concubine had been planning this for a long time!
Besides, this concubine's daughter has been favored for a long time!"
After the speaker's analysis, the onlookers were all amazed and realized what was going on.
"So this Prime Minister actually favors his concubine over his wife! He treats his concubine's daughter better than his legitimate daughter?!"
"How dare he! No wonder the Prime Minister's concubine's daughter is so bold, it turns out she has the Prime Minister's backing!"
"The Prime Minister's legitimate daughter is truly pitiful. The Fifth Prince caused her to grow up unable to bear children. She's not favored at home, and now her fiancé is being snatched away by her concubine's sister!"
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