Qingxing had been feeling uneasy in the room, fearing that the young lady would be bullied by the Queen Mother. But when she heard that the prince would be accompanying her, she finally felt relieved.

"Okay, my poor little thing, you're already so injured, and you still have the time to think about me. I was able to return safely, which means that the Queen Mother didn't do anything to me. It's just that now there is another trouble for me to deal with. I should have known not to meddle in the princess's affairs."

When she thought of the troublesome princess, Gu Yunru felt powerless to resist.

"I heard that the princess was put under house arrest by the Queen Mother. She has to copy a thousand words of Buddhist scriptures in the Great Hall before she can go out. It seems that she can't come out during this period. What did the Queen Mother ask you to do with the princess?"

Qingxing's almond eyes were wide open, and she became more alert after hearing about the princess. Gu Yunru put the egg drop porridge on the table, touched her hand and said, "It's about the matter between her and the musician. If they really love each other, no one can separate them. But if they can't stand the test, then this matter is what I want."

Gu Yunru was unsure, so she sent someone to inquire about Chu Ziqiao's daily behavior to see if it was reasonable.

Qingping Temple.

Gu Junyao had to go up the mountain every day. She was arranged by the nuns to collect firewood. If she couldn't bring back two loads, she would have no dinner. This made her unable to sleep day and night, and her body almost collapsed.

"Cough cough..." Gu Junyao was sweating profusely and wiped the sweat from her forehead with her dirty old sleeve.

"Miss, why don't you take a rest first? It's still early for sunset."

Lan'er looked at Gu Junyao with a distressed look on her face. When had she ever done so much work? All day long she was either carrying firewood or fetching water. Was this the life a human being should live?

"I'm fine. I'm just wondering when my mother will remember me and take me back, and when the prince will let me go." Whenever Gu Junyao thought of this, she would be so excited that tears welled up in her eyes. She seemed to be forgotten in the abyss, and no one could even remember her.

"Miss, half a month has passed, and no one in the Gu Mansion has replied to a letter..."

Gu Junyao had had enough of living a life worse than death in Qingping Temple for half a month. She bit her lips tightly and narrowed her eyes. "It's all because of that Gu Yunru. If it weren't for her, how could I have fallen to this point?"

Gu Junyao stood up and threw all the sand in her hands. She was picking firewood on this broken mountain every day, and she was numb from picking firewood. She accidentally fell down. Lan'er looked at her in panic, but she didn't dare to go down the mountain to look for it. She hurried back to the temple and prepared to ask people to look for it together.

"Master, master, please save my young lady. She fell down the mountain when she was collecting firewood." The masters had just finished lunch. Seeing Lan'er yelling, they frowned unhappily and said, "I don't think it's a big deal. The mountain is not high and no one can die from falling."

"But...but my young lady has never suffered such hardship before. If no one saves her, she will die." Several nuns rolled their eyes impatiently. "Okay, stop yelling. I'll bring someone to look for her after we finish eating."

At dusk, the nun led the people in the temple to search for people on the mountain with torches, but they couldn't find them after a long time. Lan'er also forgot which hill she fell from. The area below the mountain was lush and green, and all kinds of grass and trees covered the terrain below the mountain. No one knew what was at the foot of the mountain.

"There is a shoe here, come and see!" An exclamation attracted everyone's attention.

It was an embroidered shoe. Lan'er hugged the shoe and cried bitterly, "It's the young lady's...it's the young lady's shoe." Everyone looked strange when they heard it.

"She will definitely die if she falls from such a high mountain. We should notify the people from the Gu Mansion to come and collect the body." Lan'er shook her head in despair and said, "Tell the nun to take someone to the bottom of the mountain to check. Maybe the young lady just fainted now. She will be fine."

Several nuns looked embarrassed. It was not that they did not want to save people, but the terrain at the foot of the mountain was complicated. What would they do if their lives were lost?

So after weighing the pros and cons, he decided to go back and ask someone to take a letter to the Gu Mansion.

On the other side, Master Gu and Madam Gu almost fainted after receiving the letter. Gu Junyue looked at the servant who brought the letter back in disbelief and asked, "Is this true? Did something really happen to my sister?"

The servant nodded tremblingly and said, "Yes, that's what the people from Qingping Temple said. They asked the master to bring people over to collect the bodies early in the morning."

"Yao'er..." Mr. Gu vomited a mouthful of blood. His health had been just fine these days, but he didn't expect to receive such bad news. Mrs. Gu helped Mr. Gu to sit on the chair with tears streaming down her face, wailing in grief.

The next morning, people from the Gu family rushed to the scene and looked for Gu Junyao's body on the top of the mountain. However, they couldn't find it after searching for a long time. When Gu Junyao woke up, she was lying on a dilapidated straw boat.

The wind was very strong on the sea, making her shiver with cold, which also made her more conscious. There was a man in a bamboo hat on the bow who seemed to be spreading a fishing net. His back was broad and he was a little hunched, and it seemed that he had some difficulty moving.

The man seemed to notice someone was looking at her from behind and slowly turned his head. It was an ugly face that Gu Junyao would never forget in her life.

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The man lowered his head with a sense of inferiority and said to her: "Girl, you're awake. The fish will be caught soon. Don't worry." Gu Junyao screamed in fear, but when she found that the man did not do anything to her, she calmed down.

The man was very skilled and he peeled off the fish scales in just two or three moves. There was also a small fire on the boat, which was convenient for roasting fish. The straw boat was quite far from the shore and the wind was strong on the sea. Gu Junyao was shivering with cold. The man seemed to notice it and put his raincoat on her.

"Thank you... who are you?"

Gu Junyao only remembered that she lost consciousness after falling from the mountain, and found herself on his boat when she woke up.

"You can just call me Achou." The man spoke very little, and although his movements seemed a little clumsy, Gu Junyao could see that his internal strength was extremely profound.

"Achou... are you the only one here?" Gu Junyao couldn't understand why someone would give him such a strange name, but when she saw his face half covered by a birthmark, she understood that he was really ugly.

"I'm alone. I found you when I was collecting firewood at the bottom of the mountain. I saw that you were not dead, so I brought you back."

As Ah Chou said this, he handed the grilled fish to her. Gu Junyao's hands were shaking a little. She took the fish but still didn't dare to look directly at his face because he was really too ugly.