Yu Qiu couldn't fall asleep again, and when she closed her eyes, her mind was filled with blood, which was the scene of her father's tragic death.

Enduring the sticky cold sweat and draping his clothes, his eyes jumped over the wall, and he saw that the sky in the east was pale with fish belly, and the light orange morning glow was slowly gathering.

This is a vibrant morning, and the fragrance of branches and leaves is in the breath.

It's good to be alive.

Yu Qiu sighed, looking at the jumping sparrows on the branches, he couldn't help thinking of Yun Heng's green-haired parrot, and he didn't know when it fell into Yun Heng's hands.

As soon as he thought of the prince, he remembered that weird nightmare again. Yu Qiu tried his best to forget it, thinking, the prince is also strange, why do he have to teach a parrot to talk?

She folded a branch of peach blossoms and leaned against the window, thinking endlessly. The maidservant who got up early came into the courtyard with water, saw her, and approached with a smile, "Miss woke up so early today, but you are waiting for Mr. Yu to pick you up?"

When Yu Qiu heard someone mentioning Yu Yanzong, his lungs felt a twinge of colic, and he clasped his fingers tightly on the window lattice, and asked, "What do you pick me up for?"

"Miss, you forgot, Mr. Yu said the day before yesterday that he would take you and Second Young Lady Yu out for an outing."

Yu Qiu was in a daze for a while, and slowly remembered that because of the third prince's humiliation, Yu Yanzong wanted to take her out to play with Yu Manxiu in order to make her happy.

It was during this trip that Yu Qiu stumbled and nearly fell off a low cliff when she was releasing paper kites on the mountain. Fortunately, Yu Yanzong reacted quickly and pulled her back.

There are jagged and strange rocks everywhere under the short cliff. If you really fall, you will be seriously injured if you don't die.

Yu Yanzong often teases Yu Qiu with this matter, saying that she owes her life-saving grace.

The two families have been friends for decades, and Yu Qiu never took this seriously before, until his family was ruined and he coerced him to poison the prince, and Yu Qiu realized that perhaps he was not joking from the beginning.

Yu Qiu stood up abruptly, startling the servant girl, "What's wrong, miss?"

"I feel dizzy……"

Yu Qiu held her forehead in a delicate state. She was already in a trance, and she had a horrifying dream after a sleepless night, and her complexion was indeed not good.

The servant girl hurriedly helped her to the bed, and taking advantage of the early hour, she sent someone to deliver a letter to Yu's mansion, so that Yu Yanzong and his sister did not have to come.

She could use the incident of falling off the cliff to prove to her father that she really lived her whole life again, but Yu Qiu didn't want to experience the feeling of being held hostage by others again.Taking a step back, even so, her father might not believe it. What if she thinks it was on purpose?Maybe you will only believe it on the surface, but disagree in your heart.

Not long after she pretended to be sick, Yu Yanzong came to visit her personally, and Yu Qiu hurriedly closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep.

It is a fact that Yu Yanzong saved her in the previous life, and it is not wrong to be implicated by her.

People don't kill heaven and earth for themselves, that's right, this is the truth.Yu Qiu comforted himself in his heart.

The period of time waiting for people to leave was the most difficult. Yu Qiu curled up on the bed, fearing that the pain that tortured people in the previous life would come again.

Not long after, there was a knock on the door, and it was Yu Xingshu.

Something was wrong with Yu Qiu yesterday, and he was sick again today. He deliberately asked for leave to stay with him at home. Thinking of Yu Qiu's tearful cry yesterday, he said in a good voice: "Father knows that you are dissatisfied with Yanzong because of the nightmare, so you have already sent him here.The tonic was returned."

Lying on the couch, Yu Qiu opened her eyes slightly, her heart ached, all the grievances from her previous life welled up in her heart, and tears flowed down Sai Xue's delicate dimple.

Yu Xingshu stuffed her hand under the brocade quilt, and when her mood stabilized, she coughed and said, "It's just a nightmare, forget about it after crying. Qiu'er, you have to remember, you have love in your heart,Don't love deeply, hate something in your heart, don't hate deeply, open your heart and not be disturbed by everything, this is the way to live a long life."

Yu Qiu, who was crying, almost passed out again, pressed his chest to stop the tears, nodded obediently, and then persuaded Yu Xingshu to go back to the official office for duty.

She understands it, her father really understands it, and doesn't believe in herself.

Just wait, there are still two days before the Fourth Prince and the Sixth Prince will have a quarrel, and her father will not believe it when the time comes.

When Xiao Qingning was attracted by the maid, Yu Qiu propped her chin on her wrist, and was lying on the beauty's couch under the peach blossom tree, lost in thought.

She was wearing an apricot and light green spring thin shirt, and the peach-pink and pear-white petals swayed one after another, some fell on her back, slid down the spine, and finally accumulated in the slightly sunken waist.

If you look closely, you can see that her sideways face is as delicate as a silver plate, her pair of watery eyebrows are slightly drawn together, with melancholy hanging from the corners of her eyes and brows, she seems to be a delicate beauty who is preoccupied with things.

Even though she had known Yu Qiu's beauty and figure for a long time, Xiao Qingning was still lost.

"Miss, Miss Xiao is here."

The servant girl's voice woke Yu Qiu up, and she turned her head to see that the black hair like a waterfall slipped from the soft couch, and piled up on the grass together with the pink and white petals on her head.

"You're here!" Yu Qiu sat up hastily, slightly embarrassed in surprise, "I thought you wouldn't come, so I didn't wash up and dress up..."

The corners of Xiao Qingning's eyes twitched. What does this mean, that she is already so beautiful without any makeup?

Seeing Yu Qiu coming to meet her expectantly, Xiao Qingning endured silently, walked towards the soft couch, and said coldly, "Since you think I won't come, why invite me?"

Yu Qiu blinked, unable to answer.

In fact, by blood, the two are cousins.

Mrs. Yu was originally the eldest daughter of Xiao Taiwei, and she married Yu Xingshu, a commoner, regardless of her family's objections. Xiao Taiwei broke the father-daughter relationship with her in anger.

Xiao Taiwei only has two daughters. His elder sister is married to Yu Xingshu, and his younger sister is married to Xiao Lun, a student adopted by Xiao Taifu.On career.Mrs. Xiao has twins, Xiao Qingning and Xiao Yufeng.

The Xiao family is a dignitary in the capital, and even after Yu Xingshu's official career became prosperous, Taiwei Xiao still looked down on him.

The husband and wife felt so guilty towards the old man that they brought Yu Qiu to the house with gifts during the holidays, but they were both turned away.

When Yu Qiu was six years old, it was snowing heavily and was pushed down by Xiao Yufeng at the gate of the Grand Marshal Mansion. He bumped his head against the stone statue in front of the gate and his head was bleeding.

After that, the Yu family couple would still come to the door, but they never brought Yu Qiu together again.

Later, Mrs. Yu passed away, and Yu Xingshu knew that his late wife felt regretful, so he still came to the door as usual, and still didn't have a good face.

Yu Qiu has never met the male family members of the Grand Marshal Mansion, but it is inevitable that the female family members of the Capital will meet each other. When she was a child, she was afraid of the people in the Grand Marshal Mansion, so she would always meet Mrs. Xiao and Xiao Qingning.Take the initiative to avoid.

These two sisters are not strangers, but the relationship is definitely not good.

In the previous life, when Yu Xingshu was in trouble, Yu Qiu went to Xiao's house for help when he was desperate, but Taiwei Xiao didn't see her.Yu Qiu originally thought he was going to stand on the sidelines, but unexpectedly, the day before his father was released from prison, Xiao Taiwei died suddenly, Xiao Lun was demoted for violating the Holy Wrath, and his family moved to Shuzhong. Only Xiao Qingning was married to the second son of Lord Jingguo, did not go to the land of depression.

Before the Yu family's father and daughter left Beijing, Xiao Qingning, who was already the second wife of Lord Jingguo, went to meet Yu Qiu in secret and gave her a lot of money.

Yu Qiu still doesn't know whether the entanglement was given by Xiao Qingning himself, or ordered by Xiao Taiwei before his death, but there is no doubt that the relationship between the two families can be repaired, and even if it cannot be repaired, we must try our best to make the Xiao family avoid it.That inexplicable disaster.

The only person in the Xiao family who was willing to pay attention to her was Xiao Qingning, so Yu Qiu sent someone to invite her, thinking that she would have to invite her at least three times and four times before she could come, but unexpectedly, it was the first time.

"Can you be unkempt at home? Did your father teach you?"

Normally, Yu Qiu would definitely argue with her and then turn around and leave, but this time he ignored her, pushed the melons and fruit teas to her one by one, smiled and flattered her: "I don't have a mother teacher, noUnderstand the rules of big families."

Xiao Qingning's face froze, neither agreeing nor reprimanding.After a pause, he held his breath and said, "You can still laugh when people say that."

For a moment, Yu Qiu didn't understand what she was talking about. He was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized: "You said about the third prince, it's not in the way, I don't care, and my father doesn't care. Life depends on others' eyes.How troublesome."

"Don't care?" Xiao Qingning's demeanor was icy, and her voice seemed cool when she spoke, "When you can't get married, you will know whether you should care."

Before Yu Qiu could answer, she raised her eyebrows as if thinking of something, and said, "I forgot, you and that Second Young Lady are godsisters, when the time comes when sisters become aunts, there's no need to worry about marriage."

As soon as Yu Qiu heard about the Yu family, his heart ached and he shook his head again and again, "Don't talk nonsense, I never thought about it that way."

Xiao Qingning returned an indifferent look.

She didn't believe it, but Yu Qiu couldn't explain it, and muttered: "Forget it if you don't believe it, you will know later!"

Because of these few words, the atmosphere between the two of them was very cold, sitting opposite each other across the low table, no one looked at the other, and ignored each other.

This was not in line with Yu Qiu's plan. She secretly glanced at Xiao Qingning and saw her face was as cold as frost.

Yu Qiu didn't hide any resentment in his heart, it disappeared after a while, turned to her again, and said in a soft voice: "After the third prince said that to me the day before yesterday, the rest of the ladies avoided me. I really didn't expect you to be willing to talk to me."I."

"Look at the joke and ignore what you do."

Yu Qiu pretended not to hear her ridicule, pushed the low table away, moved closer to her, and asked in a low voice: "I have never offended the third prince, why did he slander me like that?"

"You can't even figure this out, and you still say he is slandering you?" Xiao Qingning first questioned the word "slandering". Seeing Yu Qiu's face showing a little embarrassment, she looked away and said calmly, "The third prince likes beautiful things.Be it inkstones, pens and inks, jadeware or paintings, as long as they catch his eyes, they are all top-grade. If you say this about you, it is likely that someone mentioned you in his ear, but he didn't like it. "

This is another purpose of Yu Qiu's invitation to her. Xiao Qingning's father, Xiao Lun, is a housekeeper and in charge of the history museum. He knows a lot about the compilation of history books, major events of the dynasty, and the royal family.

Xiao Qingning was fascinated by it, so she must know a lot.

She has no way of investigating those powerful officials for the time being, but it is still possible to get to know the royal family secretly. She has to investigate carefully who is trying to harm her father and daughter.

"That's it..." Yu Qiu fell into deep thought. The Luming Banquet was originally for acquaintances, so it was not unreasonable.In other words, being humiliated by the third prince can only be considered unlucky for her?

She didn't sleep well last night, and she became tired after sitting for a while, so she glanced at Xiao Qingning, thinking of easing her relationship, so her waist softened, and she leaned against her quietly.

"what you do!"

Yu Qiu was so shocked that he sat down hastily, and raised his eyes to see Xiao Qingning staring at him with an ugly expression.

She thought about it, and felt that the progress from a stranger she didn't like to see to a good sister was too fast, so she blushed and said, "I didn't sleep well last night, I was tired."

"You don't care anymore, why can't you sleep well?" Xiao Qingning sneered at her, straightened her skirt and stood up, saying, "I'm leaving after reading the joke, don't send me any more posts."

Yu Qiu still had a lot of questions to ask, so he hurriedly grabbed her, "Don't go, tell me about the other princes..."

Before she finished speaking, Xiao Qingning raised her brows and said sharply, "What are you asking about?"

"I, I think..."

"You want to marry into the royal family? Don't even think about it." After Xiao Qingning said, seeing Yu Qiu's hesitant expression, she waited for her for a moment, but she opened and closed her mouth without saying anything.

Xiao Qingning gritted her teeth secretly, and said again: "If you criticize the royal family, you won't have to live if people know about it."

After saying this, he flicked his sleeves and walked out, Yu Qiu hurriedly got up to see him off.

After entanglement to the gate of the mansion, the Xiao family's carriage and maids were waiting, Xiao Qingning turned her head again and warned: "Don't think about it if you shouldn't, just be yourself honestly. Otherwise, be careful and lose your life!"