The hand lifted her face gently but without resistance. Zhang Xueming saw that the object of her praise was looking down at her with deep eyes, and the other hand was holding a soft silk handkerchief and carefully wiping her face.

The silk handkerchief was stained with a cool paste, which melted the dried blood and wiped it clean bit by bit.

The eyes of the handsome young man were filled with spring water, so gentle that he seemed to want to tempt her to indulge in it and forget about the present day: "Zhao Zhao, you must not act like this again in the future. Do you know how worried I am about you?"

As he finished speaking, a teardrop fell like a pearl from a string.

But there is only one drop.

His eyes were still red, but he was stubborn and refused to cry anymore. He just looked at her with his clear and gentle eyes.

Zhang Xueming read extremely confusing messages from Gong Yuanzheng's pitiful and well-behaved face: [No matter what, she can't leave... She must not die before I die... Her kindness to me is not fake, and I can't take it back... If you can't beat her, you can always trap her. If she doesn't listen, just lock her up...]

No, I can't blame her, I can only blame myself for being careless. If I hadn't left her here alone, she wouldn't have been in danger... It's all my fault. Forget it, am I that good in her eyes? Be restrained, don't scare her...

I can never say no to anything she wants to do... I just need to be more careful. She is very curious and likes to do dangerous things. I just need to discover and prepare in advance to minimize the danger... It's fine as long as she is happy... It doesn't matter what, as long as she lives happily. 】

He coaxed himself into submission in front of Zhang Xueming.

Zhang Xueming was stunned.

She seemed to hear the sound of the teardrop falling from Gong Yuanzheng's eyes hitting the floor again, "Pah"...

It seemed to hit her heart.

After a moment, Zhang Xueming looked away, curved her red lips, and said softly, "Then you have to keep a close eye on me."

The hand retracted, and she heard him sigh softly: "Okay."

Gong Yuanzheng returned to the seat opposite.

One of the two people lowered his head, and the other looked at the person who lowered his head, and neither of them spoke.

After a long time, Zhang Xueming calmed down and raised his head. His eyes were bright and smiling again, and he was exactly the same "Zheng Zhaozhao" as usual.

She took back the papers that had been drying on the windowsill, arranged them one by one in order, stood them up neatly and tapped them on the table, then handed the whole stack over: "Take a look."

Gong Yuanzheng stared straight at Zhang Xueming until her eyes were sore, but she did not withdraw her gaze or her hands.

He stretched out his hand angrily, but was afraid that the edge of the paper would scratch her hand if he pulled it, so he could only take the stack of papers obediently.

When his eyes fell on the first line of words, Gong Yuanzheng was stunned for a moment, and his breathing became rapid. He quickly read the contents on the paper, making the pages rustle.

It was a record of medication experience, with detailed description and accurate wording. If the handwriting was not different from his, Gong Yuanzheng would have thought it was written by his men.

Gong Yuanzheng was only excited for a moment, but then he became sad: "So it wasn't an accidental ingestion, or out of curiosity?" He gritted his teeth to hold back his tears, feeling sad, but also terrified: "You just don't want me to... continue testing the drug on myself?"

Zhang Xueming saw him conquer himself in just a few words, and his scalp was a little numb, but when the pair of wet eyes looked at him, he couldn't help but smile at him: "I need to taste all the poisons in the world and build a body that is immune to all poisons, and you need someone who is proficient in medicine and pharmacology to help you test the medicine, so as to prevent the eagle from breaking its wings and the genius from falling."

"...I understand." This time it was Gong Yuanzheng's turn to lower his head and remain silent.

Zhang Xueming got up and went to find a medical book to read. He also asked, "Ayuan, I want hot tea and snacks, no medicinal tea."

Gong Yuanzheng's train of thought was disrupted before he could come up with a conclusion. He glared at her unhappily and went out to find the servants.

As soon as he entered the pharmacy, he sent all the people who were not working to the next door, so he had to go to the backyard where the herbs were drying to look for them.

When he returned to the small room, Gong Yuanzheng had calmed down: "I accept Zhao Zhao's proposal. But there is one thing, Zhao Zhao, you are not allowed to use the medicine without permission when I am not here. If the situation today happens again, you will not be welcome in any medicine-related places in Zheng Palace."

"I know, I'm wrong." Zhang Xueming never stubbornly said when she should be soft. She stretched out her right pinky finger and said with a smile, "If Ayuan doesn't believe me, just pinky it with me. Come on, stretch out your left pinky finger."

"Pink promise?" Gong Yuanzheng did as he was told in confusion, and saw her hook his little finger with her slender white little finger, gently shook it twice, and turned it a bit, and then her thumb pressed against his thumb.

He heard her voice as sweet as the sound of a forest or a spring, singing like a song: "Pin, hang yourself, and don't change for a hundred years~"

"What if it changes?" Gong Yuanzheng tightened his little finger slightly.

"The contract has been made. Anyone who breaks his promise shall be punished by eating rock." Zhang Xueming winked at him and played a meme from a mobile game that she still remembered.

In return, the boy gave him a puzzled look: "What is the punishment of eating rocks?"

Zhang Xueming was used to such inquiries, so he made up a story with a smile: "It's a torture of swallowing stones until death."

Gong Yuanzheng's face suddenly turned serious: "This one won't work, change another one."

Forgetting that people in ancient times were afraid of death, Zhang Xueming thought about it and asked uncertainly: "Then... people who break their promises will become puppies?"

Gong Yuanzheng's expression immediately turned from gloomy to bright. He earnestly imitated her by shaking his hooked little finger twice and pressing her thumb: "Pin it, hang it, and don't change it for a hundred years. Those who break their promise will be turned into dogs."

Zhang Xueming was amused by him, so he let go of his hand and asked while he was in a good mood, "Did you go to the Corner Palace to find your brother?"

Gong Yuanzheng didn't want to sit across from her, so he pulled a chair over and sat next to her. He casually grabbed her left hand and held it: "My brother asked me to tell you what I want to tell him, saying that you know what to do... Zhao Zhao, what exactly are you and my brother collaborating on?"

Zhang Xueming knew Gong Shangjiao was in a bad mood as soon as he heard it, so he threw the matter of explaining to Gong Yuanzheng to him. He secretly cursed him for being "cunning" in his heart, but still told the truth: "I am good at extracting valuable information from various news, analyzing and speculating. Well, let's put it this way, your brother gave me money and the things I needed, and used me as a dog-headed military advisor."

Gong Yuanzheng turned his head in surprise and looked at her for a while. He didn't ask any more questions. He just told her the two things he planned to tell Gong Shangjiao, and emphasized: "My brother said that you don't have to hide the matter of the palace gate from you, Zhaozhao." Then he told her what Master Yue of the Back Mountain had done and how Yue Palace intercepted the bladeless assassin he discovered two years ago.

While Gong Yuanzheng was speaking, Zhang Xueming wanted to pull his hand back, but failed after two attempts, so he had no choice but to let him go.

She thought for a while, took a blank piece of paper with one hand and placed it in front of her, then picked up the brush and dipped it in ink, and instructed him: "Help me hold the paper."

Gong Yuanzheng held a corner of the white paper with his left hand and watched her extract several key words from his words, such as [Old Zhiren's confidant], [Mr. Yue], [Two years ago, Yuegong took away the Wufeng assassin to be a medicine man], [Two portions of dispersing medicine] and wrote them on the upper half of the paper, and then wrote [Yuegong took away Yun Weishan to be a medicine man], [Old Zhiren quarreled with his wife], [His wife was seriously ill] on the lower half of the paper, leaving a large blank in the middle.

Then he quickly connected some words with lines and added to the upper part: [Chinese medicine in the secret passage], [Before falling into a coma, he was obsessed with the thing he wanted to do most in the near future], [The former young master went astray and rested], [Appointed a new young master]... and other words.

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