When facing the first downside

"...I'll go find Sister Xiaotao to take a look." Lu Shi diverted from this dangerous topic.

Before Gu Cenyuan could speak, Lu Shi felt that the hem of his clothes tightened. When Chunniang on the ground heard the words "Sister Xiaotao", she suddenly woke up and pulled his hem of his clothes. "Slave is being rude."

Gu Cenyuan didn't think he wanted to respond, Lu Shi immediately glared at him, and Prince Gu immediately changed his words: "No problem."

Chunniang no longer insisted, and stood up with Lu Shi's support, but she didn't leave immediately after getting up, but looked at Lu Shi with a hint of pleading in her eyes: "Mr. Did she say okay?"

Lu Shi originally intended to let Xiao Taohong know about it immediately, but now Chunniang was hiding it and promised to tell Xiao Taohong herself, how could he bear this, she nodded and agreed.

After Chun Niang took the door and went out, Gu Cenyuan no longer covered up, and happily tore off the superficial leisurely, leaning against the edge of the table and humming, "A Shi, my feet hurt~"

"..." Lu Shi sighed, resigned himself to his fate and walked over to continue to apply ice to the pampered Prince Gu's precious feet.

After leaving, Chunniang did not go to find Xiao Taohong as promised to Lu Shi, she sent Mr. Gui away and went to the lobby on the first floor.

How indulgent and carnival Baihualou is at night, how cold and empty it is during the day, Chun Niang stood in the middle of the lobby on the high platform for the dancers to dance, and patted the gold-plated stone lion heads around the platform regularly, and the middle of the high platform clicked. With a sound, the stage moved to both sides, revealing a gap under the stage, in which lay a palm-sized iron box quietly.

He didn't take it immediately, but stood there looking at the void in front of him in a daze, his eyes were blurred, as if he was looking at something else through the box.

"Boom." As soon as the time came, the table began to return to its original state, Chunniang suddenly woke up, lifted her skirt and walked up to the table to take the tin box.

Avoiding pedestrians, Chun Niang walked alone to the pond behind Baihua Building. The pond was dug out by hand to cater to the pleasure of a group of wealthy businessmen who passed by Wangjiang. Together with Qing Zijiang.

Chun Niang rubbed the tin box in her hand, the box was uneven, and there were even mottled rust spots on the corners, she carefully took out a key from the pouch at her waist.

In stark contrast to the box, the key is smooth and moist, with a luster that will only emerge after being rubbed every day.

Insert the lock core, turn it to the right, and the lid of the tin box pops open, revealing a piece of sapphire.

It was a piece of sapphire that hadn't been polished yet, and only had a few rough lines engraved. The jade was delicate and warm, and the jade color was deep and almost black.

Chunniang's breathing became rapid when the sapphire was exposed to the air, she held the sapphire with trembling hands, the empty tin box knocked against the gravel by the pool and made a clanking sound, but Chunniang didn't feel it, she was tight Hold the sapphire tightly.

The rough edge of the jade body cut through the palm and did not let go. Tears glistened in Chun Niang's eyes, and she bit her lips tightly, trying to suppress the bitterness that was crazily spreading from the bottom of her heart to her throat, but she still choked up in the next moment.

After choking out the first cry, the long-accumulated pain finally found a breakthrough, she no longer suppressed it, and held Qingyu's hand against her lips sobbing softly.

"Auntie?"

Xiao Taohong's voice came from behind, and Chunniang straightened her back in shock. Xiao Taohong is Chunniang's adopted daughter, but Chunniang never allowed her to call herself A Niang. Xiao Taohong even lost her temper when she was young. The final result was that the two took a step back and agreed to only address each other as mother and daughter in private.

"Hmm..." Tears were all over her face, Chunniang didn't dare to turn her head back, and replied falteringly.

"What are you doing here?" Xiao Taohong asked.

The voice got closer and closer, Chunniang avoided Xiao Taohong behind her, took two steps towards the pond, and prevaricated: "The weather is bad, Auntie's back hurts, come out for a walk."

Chunniang was restless, and the movements that could be easily concealed at ordinary times were extremely stiff and deliberate at this time, Xiao Taohong suddenly became suspicious, stepped forward and asked in doubt: "Aniang?"

"It's all right, you, His Highness is still upstairs, help Auntie to take care of it." Chunniang wanted to send Xiao Taohong away, but she was incoherent when she opened her mouth.

Xiao Taohong was worried at first. Chunniang's health suddenly deteriorated without any signs years ago, and she has not improved after careful treatment. Now Chunniang is standing by the pond, depressed and acting suspiciously. She is afraid that Chunniang will think about it and commit suicide May go.

Walking forward quickly, she wanted to see Chunniang's face, but Chunniang naturally refused, and raised her arms to cover her face with her sleeves.

"Aniang, what happened?" Seeing Chunniang covering her face, Xiao Taohong's ominous premonition was completely confirmed. She didn't dare to stimulate Chunniang, so she pulled the ribbon on her dress and asked anxiously.

Chunniang thought that Xiao Taohong was going to tear off her sleeves, forgetting the fact that she was already standing by the pond, subconsciously stepped back, stepped on the ground, and fell into the water.

"Pfft!"

"Auntie!"

The sound of falling water and Xiao Taohong's voice sounded at the same time.

"Come on! Auntie has fallen into the water! Come on!" Xiao Taohong couldn't swim, so she could only step into the shallow water of the pool to reach Chunniang's clothes floating on the water, and shouted for help.

Seeing the ups and downs of the figures in the water struggling and gradually weakening, Xiao Taohong didn't have the heart to wait until someone came to rescue her, and exclaimed that "Aniang" was about to jump into the water.

"Miss Peach!"

"My peaches! My peaches!"

"Sister Xiaotao!"

Xiao Taohong's cry for help was so shrill that the servants and Mr. Turtle in the backyard rushed over one after another. The girls upstairs and Lu Shi also opened the windows when they heard the sound. When they found that she was about to dive into the water, they all screamed to stop her.

"Quick, save A Niang first!" Xiao Taohong let the servants reach out to grab his hand, telling them to save Chun Niang first.

After being reminded, the boys found that there was still a person in the water, so they hurriedly yelled to save him.

After a while of panic, Chunniang was rescued, her face was like gold paper, and the terrified Xiao Taohong passed out on the spot.

When Chunniang woke up, it was already the afternoon of the second day. She shook her palm weakly, and realized that her hand was empty. She struggled to get up to find Qingyu, but turned her head to find that Qingyu was placed on the After getting off the head of the bed, reaching out to grab it, he heaved a sigh of relief and fell back on the bed heavily.

After calming down, Chunniang heard the voices of Xiao Taohong and Lu Shi coming from outside the door.

"Sister Xiaotao" Lu Shi called Xiaotaohong back, and said falteringly: "I promised Aunt Chun to keep her secret, but now I can't keep it from you anymore."