Zhao Qingyu blinked and turned to look at Verdant Green Maiden.
She smiled faintly and hurriedly asked, "Are we going to Mount Tai?"
"Lady Verdant Green Maiden? No... Master?"
After staring at her for a while, Verdant Green Maiden shook her head.
"No."
Not going to Mount Tai?
Seeing this, Zhao Qingyu asked in confusion, "Then where are we going?"
"Mm..."
"We're going to Guanzhong."
After thinking for a moment, Verdant Green Maiden spoke to Zhao Qingyu.
Guanzhong?
Zhao Qingyu did not understand.
Seeing the confusion on her face, Verdant Green Maiden smiled faintly, rubbed her head, and said, "Don't worry, just follow me. I'm not a trafficker—I won't sell you off. I have old friends in Guanzhong. I had originally agreed to return to them this year."
Upon hearing that, Zhao Qingyu nodded in understanding.
She also felt somewhat helpless.
"Master, what are you saying? Of course I believe you."
"Really?"
Verdant Green Maiden asked in return.
Zhao Qingyu nodded with a serious expression.
"Of course it's true!"
Yet after she said that, Verdant Green Maiden sighed.
"Ah... You say you believe me, yet even now, you still won't tell me the truth."
"Hm?"
Zhao Qingyu froze.
Verdant Green Maiden suddenly lifted her chin.
"Little Girl!"
"Tell me, just where... are you from?"
"You know how to make candied hawthorn skewers that Great Song does not yet have, and you even named someone Binghong... The term Binghong comes from Baoshan red agate, but that name does not exist yet."
"And what you said just now... at this moment? Your actions, your words—an ordinary, unfavored princess could not possibly manage them."
Verdant Green Maiden's eyes changed in an instant!
Cold light reflected in her brown-green vertical pupils.
"Don't hide it from me."
"You can't fool me."
"I..."
"This..."
Zhao Qingyu