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"So the best thing to do now is to keep each other safe?"

Gu Liuyan was puzzled as she glanced at Duan Chengxuan.

She had only hastily heard a few sentences, but she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to tell if it was true or not. It wouldn't be good if she said something wrong that would cause others to misunderstand her.

This was the first time Duan Chengxuan had discovered that Gu Danyan's carefulness was quite cute, so he faked a light cough and nodded his head, "While our respective levels of stability and nervousness may seem to be the best case, in reality, it's the best case scenario. And while we're stationed here, we're actually trying to pull the line to the pass through the water.

No wonder she had to stay here for such a long time. However, Gu Danyan had never thought that he would not even hear a sound. Thinking of this, she glared at him: "You didn't tell me anything."

"I'm telling you, you must be going upstream to investigate." Duan Chengxuan looked over with a serious expression, and his fingers, which were placed on the table, were clenched tightly.

Gu Danyan opened his mouth, but in the end, he just turned his face to the side and didn't say a word.

Qi Lin and Qi Rou's eyes were wide open as they looked at Gu Danyan, as if they hadn't expected that she would actually listen to everything Duan Chengxuan said.

Only Yin Gou quietly gave her a piece of pastry. She leaned over and whispered, "Others say that the King Jing is attacking the city for you."

Gu Danyan awkwardly put away the pastries, thought for a while, then covered her mouth and went close to her ear and purposely said a few words. In a flash, she covered her red face and ran away, but Gu Danyan laughed so hard that he couldn't even straighten up.

Qi Lin hurriedly chased after her. Qi Rou looked at her curiously. "You bullied her again."

"It's always been fun, I didn't expect her to be with Qi Lin for so long, I just told her about the hidden secrets and she ran away blushing." Gu Mingyan smiled as she thought back to those days at Prince Jing's estate. She also teased Yin Gou in such a way, but it wasn't as straightforward as it was today.

Qi Rou's face turned pale as she slapped her hard on the shoulder. "She's thin-skinned, even your sister doesn't know how she became one."

As he spoke, he chased after them.

Watching the few of them leave, Gu Daiyan was ready to stop laughing. He wiped the tears from the corner of his eyes and mumbled to himself, "The little lass from before has become someone else's wife. Unknowingly, a few years have passed."

Duan Chengxuan didn't notice the loneliness in Gu Danyan's eyes and could only helplessly say, "You've always been the Madam."

"Do you think I look like that?" Gu Danyan didn't know whether to laugh or cry as he pointed to himself and helplessly said: "Perhaps you are right. Heaven gave me up to be a woman. He didn't want me to become anything big."

Duan Chengxuan frowned as he looked at her. He raised his hand and fiercely rubbed her head. "A savage person like you started to feel inferior. You aren't giving others a chance to live."

Gu Danyan held his head and looked at him, "Didn't you want me to become your subordinate? Isn't that what men do? "

Veins bulged on his forehead, and Duan Chengxuan placed a hand on his forehead as he coldly said, "Don't compare me to Ai Xu."

"You're not a man, you're a beast." Gu Daiyan pointed in the direction of the river: "You want me to fish to relieve the boredom, where is the bait?"

"It's in the box next to it." Duan Chengxuan suddenly felt a headache.

Gu Liuyan tilted his head: "Aren't those earthworms? I was stuck in the ground, didn't you say you were going to relieve my boredom? "

"…" Duan Cheng Xuan was speechless for a moment, but instead it was the ghosts that laughed out when she heard this. They pushed open the door curtain and walked in as they asked Gu Mingyan, "Could it be that earthworms aren't bait?"

"Aren't earthworms the stuff of the earth? Furthermore, with such a thin and long line, how could he hang it? The bait should be a piece of meat about the size of a thumb. " Gu Daiyan looked at ghost with a strange expression.

"Whatever you say." He then walked out with a smile and decided to share the matter with the others.

Duan Chengxuan was silent for a long time before he asked her, "Do you know the brocade on your body?"

"How would I know? They look the same." Gu Daiyan tugged at her sleeve and glanced over. After which, she noticed that Duan Chengxuan also had an expression of being able to hold back his laughter and frowned. "What's wrong?"

He didn't even know what was used to wash the wok. He followed the kitchen maid to fry the tomato eggs, and the moment he lit the fire, he threw the eggs and tomatoes in, shocking the kitchen maid to chase the two of them out.

"You have no common sense." Duan Chengxuan pulled her back.

Ever since she was young, she had never been good at doing these chores. She was only glad that she was a young miss in her entire life and did not need to do anything by herself. Even when she followed Duan Cheng Xuan and the ghosts, she would never personally organize everything.

"What about the goose feathers on your fishing rod?" Duan Chengxuan continued to ask.

"Pull it out …" Gu Xuan carefully looked at Duan Chengxuan.

Four eyes met, and Duan Chengxuan could only sigh lightly and lead her to the riverside. "The goose hair can see that the fish didn't hook onto the hook, and I even intentionally had the goose hair tied up a little."

"I... "I pulled it off." Gu Danyan felt increasingly guilty.

Before they reached the river, Gu Daiyan could hear the laughing ghost and Qi Lin. Both Yin Qiuyi and Qi Rou were holding back their laughter, so she could only raise her hand to cover half of their face: "I didn't do it on purpose."

"Don't your studies include these?" The corners of Duan Cheng Xuan's mouth had a light smile as she looked at her.

"Not really. These things are usually made by others. I've never done it myself." Gu Danyan drooped his shoulders in dejection. He decided to return to his room to supplement his knowledge. Duan Chengxuan, who was beside him, pulled her back and said, "You don't need to know in the future, but now, it's time for us to leave."

"Where to?" Gu Liuyan was curious.

"Blackwater Town, your mother has sent an impressive item over, but you should need her to personally explain it to you." Duan Chengxuan brought him along as they walked into the mountain forest. The carriage had long since been prepared, and the wooden box that was brought over earlier was taken away by someone else as well, as if it was prepared to head to Navy Tide.

"The dock over here has not been tidied up yet. Let's go to the water gate first, then take the water route." Duan Cheng Xuan carried her onto the carriage and stuffed a cushion behind her.

"Then Qi Lin and the others …"

"Shang Jia wants to do business with the Gong family, I want to use them to open up a path." As Duan Chengxuan spoke like this, he tidied up her messy clothes with his fingertip. "This idea was suggested by the Third Prince, and he thinks that it's a way for commoners to come into contact with the imperial government. In this way, those Humble Class offspring don't have to risk their lives to study, and they can even have other choices."

Gu Danyan lightly smiled, and was not surprised by Duan Chengxuan's actions. "It's so great, although it's not equal for all, it's good enough already."

Duan Cheng Xuan nodded and instructed her men to head to the Water Pass.

On the other side, Gu Daiyan's hand was on the back of his hand. He leaned forward slightly and said, "I don't want that to happen again. You …"

"I won't let you." Duan Chengxuan slightly leaned forward and kissed the tip of her nose. "I'll try to be a good lover."

Gu Liuyan's heart dropped back into her stomach – she didn't want to experience that kind of fear anymore.