Xue Miao'er said foolishly, "Yeah, turns out we know each other. I knew it. Yi Qing wouldn't betray me. But..."
But why did she feel that there was nothing like a master - servant relationship between Deng Xiao and Yi Qing? Instead, they seemed more like bickering lovers?
However, the aura of this demon-like Deng Xiao was too powerful. With just a cold glance from him, Xue Miao'er immediately quieted down.
Xue Miao'er, looking like a wronged daughter - in - law, tightly grabbed Yi Qing's sleeve and hid behind her, not daring to make a sound.
Yi Qing looked at Deng Xiao and said, "Stop acting up. I've got something important to talk to you about."
Deng Xiao snorted, "I don't know you. You left the capital without a word, and it made my mother keep nagging about you."
Yi Qing suddenly felt a bit guilty. She sighed and said, "Didn't I leave you a letter?"
Seeing that Deng Xiao was about to scold her, she made a surrender gesture, "It's my fault. I shouldn't have left without saying goodbye. Now let us in to talk about the important matter."
Only then did Deng Xiao proudly step aside, "Then why don't you come in quickly? Are you waiting for me to invite you?"
Xue Miao'er followed Yi Qing in step by step.
Yi Qing couldn't help but say because her sleeve was being grabbed too tightly, "Have you forgotten how brave you were on the mountain?"
Xue Miao'er murmured in a low voice, "Being a king on the mountain doesn't mean I'm still a king when I'm off the mountain!"
Yi Qing was speechless. She led Xue Miao'er to sit down.
Deng Xiao sat on the main seat with his legs crossed, sipping his tea slowly. He glanced sideways at Yi Qing and said, "Where's your lover?"
Before Yi Qing could react, the tea that Xue Miao'er had just sipped sprayed out. She looked at Yi Qing in disbelief and said, "Lover? Didn't you say that was your husband?"
Oh my god, did Yi Qing actually elope with someone?
Wasn't this the plot she had fantasized about countless times in the storybooks?
Unexpectedly, Yi Qing had actually made it happen!
"That's just another way he refers to a husband. He's different from us. You should know that." Yi Qing said expressionlessly.
"Oh." Xue Miao'er took out her handkerchief to wipe her clothes and then murmured, "But Yi Qing, I don't think your tone sounds like you're talking to your master at all."
"Master?" Deng Xiao caught this word and immediately laughed, "Yi Qing, did you tell her I'm your master? If I were really your master, do you believe I'd beat you eight times a day?"
Yi Qing said, "Shut up, all of you. Let's talk about the important matter!"
Xue Miao'er quickly nodded, "Yes, yes, yes. Let's talk about the important matter."
Deng Xiao leaned back on the chair, "Making me happy is the important matter."
"Stop pretending." Yi Qing said bluntly, "Now there's something I need your help with. You can also say it's a ready - made achievement for you. But before I say it, I want to ask you, did the emperor really send you to Henan just to deliver an imperial edict? If it's inconvenient for you to say, then forget it."
After a long while, she didn't get a reply from Deng Xiao. She couldn't help but say, "Say something!"
"Inconvenient." Deng Xiao said proudly.
Xue Miao'er laughed heartlessly, "Yi Qing, you've also got a time when you're frustrated."
"You shut up." Yi Qing said bluntly, "You go out first. I have something to talk to Lord Deng alone."
Xue Miao'er was a bit reluctant, "There are all the imperial bodyguards outside..."
"Isn't he one of them?" Yi Qing pointed at Deng Xiao.
After being glanced at by Deng Xiao, Xue Miao'er immediately ran away faster than a rabbit.
Yi Qing said, "Did the emperor really send you to help Xiao Tian?"
"Who's Xiao Tian? Why should I help him?"
Looking at his uncooperative look, Yi Qing was speechless and said, "Can you talk properly?"
She told him the whole story and then continued, "Now Yi Qing and I have concealed our identities and deceived them first. If we reveal our identities now, I'm afraid they'll be on guard. I just heard that you're here, so I'll just give this achievement to you. How about it?"
Xiao Tian had such a good relationship with the emperor that he actually didn't care about this little bit of achievement at all.
Moreover, he was Xiao Jinghan! The Xiao Jinghan whose achievements were too numerous to be written down!
Deng Xiao said proudly, "I don't want it."
Yi Qing: "..." "Can you just do me a favor? I don't want to stay here any longer. I want to go back and see my son."
"That sounds better." Deng Xiao said, "Say it one more time for me to hear."
Yi Qing glared at him angrily. After talking for so long and getting so thirsty, he actually hadn't listened?
Seeing her angry, Deng Xiao seemed happy, "When you're asking for help, you should have the attitude of asking for help. Are you trying to out - stare me?"
Yi Qing had to be patient and say it one more time.
Deng Xiao propped his chin with his hand and said, "Why do you think that Xue, Xue Tianlang? will really hand over the evidence to me? Just because you told him so?"
Yi Qing had already considered this, so she was confident.
She slowly said, "So this matter also needs your cooperation. You can come out and scare him for me, saying that you really came this time to settle the score with the Meng family. Then he will surely hand over the things first to make contributions. Am I right?"
Deng Xiao stared at her and said, "Even if what you said is all right, don't you think you're being too nosy and too bold?"
"What do you mean?"
"You've made decisions for the emperor."
Yi Qing was silent for a moment and quickly understood what he meant.
"Do you know how to write the words 'remnants of the previous dynasty'?" Deng Xiao said word by word, "Do you know how to write 'the emperor's heart is unpredictable'?"
Seeing that she didn't say a word, Deng Xiao said again, "Of course, if you just want to deceive them, there's nothing wrong with saying so. But I can see that your relationship with that Xue Miao'er seems to be even better."
"Xue Miao'er is innocent." Yi Qing said, "If all the rebels were such fools, the emperor would probably wake up laughing in his dreams."
"That's your opinion. If the evidence is handed over, the emperor may accept the bandits' surrender, but for the remnants of the previous dynasty, the result is hard to imagine. It may turn out to be the opposite of what you want."
Yi Qing thought of Xiao Tian and said, "The emperor will agree."
If all else failed, she could let Xiao Tian go and plead.
In fact, if Xue Miao'er were a bit smarter and more scheming, Yi Qing might have been able to harden her heart and ignore her.
But faced with such a naive and innocent girl, Yi Qing really couldn't bear to be cruel.
"I'm just saying the ugly things first, so that you won't regret it later." Deng Xiao stood up and stretched, "Let's go. First accompany me to have a meal."
"It's this late and you still haven't had a meal?" Yi Qing looked at the sun high in the sky and couldn't help but complain.
Unexpectedly, Deng Xiao got angry when he heard this. If it weren't for rushing day and night to see her earlier and having a chaotic schedule, would he still not have had a meal at this time?
He ate with a gloomy face. Yi Qing was confused and didn't care about him. She just ate on her own.
Deng Xiao's meals were obviously carefully prepared. Although Yi Qing had already eaten, she still ate half a steamer of crab - roe buns.
"If you like it, take the cook back to the capital later."