Due to her psychological and physical mysophobia, Shen Jiangli didn't want to stay any longer. She just took a sip of tea and then excused herself as having urgent matters to deal with, and immediately left with the military documents to be dealt with.
Before leaving, she handed He Gu a pass indicating his identity as a military doctor and left a message that she would try her best to facilitate his movement regarding the secret investigation.
Nowadays, the army is only stationed around Black Rock Village and there is no fighting. Naturally, the military doctors are free and have plenty of time to move around freely.
She just hopes that He Gu will not make a big fuss, and besides that, he can use the secret technique to provide her with some useful clues or directions.
She didn't understand Tianji at all, so she didn't ask anything.
Counting this, this is already the second time He Gu has experienced the cold treatment from his cheap fiancée, and the clever thing is that the similarity is that he happens to be in the disguise state of a stranger.
I couldn't help but smack my lips, and couldn't help but murmur in my heart.
It would be much easier if you had the same attitude when facing the real me...
Since the other party was so assured that he would continue to stay in the big tent, he stayed without any hesitation out of a complacent attitude of unnecessary waste.
Without getting up to say goodbye, he conveniently put the handkerchief in his hand into his storage bag, and then happily asked Yun Ying to sit down, while he took the chopsticks and started working.
Yun Ying sat down as he was told, and his clear eyes wavered slightly when he saw this.
As if nothing had happened, she ate quietly and said nothing about returning the handkerchief.
After the meal, the two returned to the medical tent.
Late at night, He Gu quietly left the military camp with Yun Ying, and then sneaked into Black Rock Village.
Most of the villagers in Black Rock Village cannot practice cultivation, and a few are of low strength. There is no need to worry about being accidentally noticed by them, and it is easy to find where to go.
Relying on the search sense of the power of divine consciousness, the two of them sneaked towards a place where the most popular people gathered.
At this time, in the secret cellar of a villager's house, the old village chief and his son were sitting together with several male villagers who had been summoned urgently, and they were discussing in a low voice the matter of leaving the village early tomorrow morning to worship their ancestors.
On the surface, they only talked about ancestor worship, but in fact, they used slang that only they could understand to refer to the abyss stone transaction with the devil.
"Sacrificing ancestors" means continuing to fulfill the ancestral precepts left by the ancestors of Shicun.
He Gu listened in the dark outside for a long time, but in the end he was still confused, so he had to give up for the time being and prepare to follow up secretly at dawn tomorrow.
The transaction of the Abyss Stone is first, just two days after tomorrow. Maybe there will be some extra gains in the process that will be beneficial to the secret investigation. He plans to start with this matter first.
After coming out of Black Rock Village, He Gu took Yun Ying to the Abyss Boundary Heyao and walked along the shore for a while, checking out the spots in advance.
It wasn't until I had a rough idea in my mind that I returned to the medical tent along the same route.
The medical tent is actually divided into two parts: the inside and the outside. It is not only the place where military doctors work, but also the place where they sleep.
I don't know if Shen Jiangli forgot about it for a moment or if it was the usual practice in the military camp, and Yun Ying was not assigned a rest tent elsewhere.
He Gu walked to the simple bamboo bed and was about to get ready to sleep, when he saw Yun Ying coming in closely behind him, and then he realized this.
Although they had been resting in the carriage together on the way here, their natures were somewhat different.
Although practitioners can rest wherever they want, and they can pass the time by meditating on the ground no matter how hard it is, when it comes to the privacy of men and women’s personal lives, having it is definitely better than not having it.
Just like in the Shaoguo Prefecture before, the two of them had always lived in separate rooms and had never shared a room.
After all, this wasn't something that was going to end in just a day or two, and he didn't really treat her like a servant.
Suddenly there was a bit of embarrassment on his face.
He immediately began to think about it, wondering whether he should make do with it for one night. There was a bare bamboo frame provided for the wounded to lie on temporarily outside. He could sleep there for one night, and then when it was empty, he could find another cheap fiancée to arrange another place.
Or say it now.
At the moment, his thoughts are more inclined to the former, mainly because he doesn't want to find a cheap fiancée at this ambiguous moment, lest he be misunderstood by her as a slut with other ideas.
He actually didn't dislike Shen Jiangli personally, but he was very concerned about the engagement and wanted to break it off because of the hundred-year death disaster.
If she hadn't been stubborn and refused to agree, he would have been able to be her friend based on the kindness of the Shen family in indirectly protecting the He family over the years.
It can be said that the family marriage contract was a thorn in his heart, so that when facing Shen Jiangli, his mentality was completely different from that when facing other women.
Seeing the young master's concern, Yun Ying's heart was slightly touched.
But he said softly: "Before I came out, my lord told me again and again, to obey the orders of the young master, and to protect the young master is my only mission. I will never leave you when necessary..."
Although her voice was very soft, she still emphasized the word "mission" a little bit, making her look particularly serious.
After she said that, it didn't matter what she did.
Apart from the worry of sleeping in the same room, there are many solutions and he doesn't have to worry about it at all.
Seeing that the young master no longer had any worries, Yun Ying took the initiative to step forward and carefully replaced all the articles on the bamboo bed with clean ones, using the ones she took out from her storage bag.
He Gu was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt how right and necessary it was to have a caring woman by his side when going out.
After making the young master's bed, Yun Ying then set up early warning formations around it.
Then he took out a long light green ribbon from the storage bag, flicked both ends toward the thick bamboos on both sides used to support the medical tent, and tied the green ribbon securely in the air.
She always rests like this when she is outside, ensuring that she is in the best alert state and has the greatest flexibility of reaction at all times.
"I'm used to it." Seeing the surprised look from the young master, Yun Ying explained succinctly.
He Gu actually wanted to ask her to go to the outer tent, so that he would have the opportunity to explore the abyss boundary river alone without anyone noticing.
Now he finally knew that the "never leaving" in Yun Ying's sentence just now was not just an exaggerated adjective, and he suddenly felt a little headache.
It's not good to say anything about asking people to leave now. After all, as a woman who values her innocence more than anything else, she doesn't mind staying on her own initiative. If he says it again, it will look hurtful.
I had no choice but to acquiesce to her choice of bed.
He took off his outer robe and lay down on it, and immediately smelled an unusually pleasant fragrance belonging to a woman.
Upon closer inspection, it is very similar to the previous handkerchief, the only slight difference is that the fragrance is a little stronger.
He made no secret of sniffing it a few more times.
Seeing the young master's every move, the tips of Yun Ying Baijie's ears turned reddish.
Perhaps the habit she had developed by being with the Empress was ingrained in her bones. When it comes to dealing with her master's needs, she always thinks of the other person first and only thinks of herself when she is free.
Therefore, even if it was clear that he had learned a "lesson" by giving handkerchiefs not long ago, now when the young master needs to go to bed, he immediately forgets that the bedding and other items he took out are for his own personal use, which is easily misunderstood.
Just like hiding her ears from a bell, she immediately extinguished the oil lamp in the tent with a flick of her finger and used her spiritual power. She immediately jumped up and lay down on the green ribbon. She turned her back and closed her eyes as if she hadn't seen him.
The torches were brightly lit outside, so even if all the lights were turned off, the tent would still be dimly lit.
In the darkness, looking at the Qingwan figure hanging half a foot away, He Gu felt puzzled in his heart.
Why doesn't this trick work?
He had done it on purpose just now. Originally, he had hoped that Yun Ying would be distracted by shame like before, so that he might change his mind and go to the outer tent.
Facts have proved that it is not the same thing. He underestimated his inner determination as a personal guard.
Forget it, let’s talk about it later...
Yawning, He Gu stopped worrying and slowly closed his eyes.
Yun Ying opened her eyes and breathed a sigh of relief until she heard the steady and long breathing coming from behind her.
Since the temporary bamboo beds built in the military camp are designed according to the sleeping position of one person, the width is slightly narrower than the quilt.
Turning over, he saw that part of the quilt had been pushed to the edge of the bed by the young master's unconscious movement of falling asleep, and was about to fall to the ground.
Yun Ying stood up carefully, stepped forward and folded it securely.
The movement returned to the green ribbon neatly. She was always paying attention to suspicious movements around her, and then closed her eyes again.