"Your Majesty, Miss Tang has been feeling a bit unwell these past two days. She shouldn't be out in the wind for too long."
Xun Rong, who had originally been standing behind Tang Youyou, suddenly stepped forward at this moment and casually glanced at her.
Rong Jiangyu frowned. "Is it an old ailment flaring up? Has she been taking her medicine on time these days?"
When Tang Youyou left, she had also brought along the prescription given to her by Wanqiu. After arriving here, the guards boiled the medicine for her every day.
She had once tentatively asked Xun Rong if he knew what illness this medicine was for, but seeing his blank look, she immediately felt relieved.
It's good that he doesn't know. If he did, she didn't know how she would explain it.
"Yes, she has been taking the medicine on time, but the effect is not very obvious. Her cough has gotten a lot worse these days."
Tang Youyou looked at him in surprise, but then quickly reacted and pretended to cover her mouth and cough twice.
"Actually, it's nothing serious. It's just a cough. I'll be fine."
"I also thought it wasn't serious, but yesterday I saw Miss Tang suddenly cough up blood—"
"What!"
Upon hearing this, Rong Jiangyu's expression immediately became extremely serious. "Hurry inside."
Tang Youyou was rushed into the room. When she saw Rong Jiangyu enter, the figure of General Li was nowhere to be seen behind him.
"What on earth is going on with you? You were fine before. How could you suddenly cough up blood?"
She also wanted to know what was going on. This so - called coughing up blood was just something that guard Xun Rong had made up on his own.
"I'm not very sure. Maybe it's an old ailment flaring up, but it's nothing serious."
At this time, the guard behind her continued, "I don't know if it's serious or not. But last night when I was on night watch outside, I heard continuous coughing sounds from the room in the middle of the night, as if she was going to cough up her lungs."
Tang Youyou stared at this guard who was "fabricating out of thin air" in disbelief. She didn't know why he was doing this.
"It just gets worse at night. There's no need to worry."
At this time, it was Rong Jiangyu's turn to be anxious. "No need to worry? Haven't you given me enough to worry about? I'll go and call the doctor from the Quzhou camp right away."
After Rong Jiangyu left, Tang Youyou looked at Xun Rong, who had just stood up for her, with caution.
"What are you doing?"
"Of course, I'm helping you."
"Why are you helping me?"
Xun Rong's eyes on her carried a certain meaning, but Tang Youyou couldn't understand what this meaning represented.
"Naturally, it's because I want to help. If you don't want my help, I'll go and explain it to His Majesty right now."
The man pretended to leave, but was stopped by Tang Youyou.
"How can you be like this? I didn't say I didn't want your help. But you have to tell me why you're doing this, or how can I trust you?"
Tang Youyou's intuition told her that this man was trustworthy, but her rationality told her that no one could be easily trusted, especially someone she had only known for a few days.
The look in Xun Rong's eyes when he looked at her was not innocent. There was a hint of playfulness and joking in his deep eyes, which made him look very different from before.
"You can choose to trust me." Xun Rong walked towards her, getting closer and closer, and finally cornered her against the wall.
"I will help you. I will do whatever you want me to do. Whether you trust me or not doesn't matter to me."
Regarding what he said, Tang Youyou always felt that this man was testing her.
"Really? Well, prove it to me first and let me see if I should trust you."
Xun Rong looked at her with interest. "Of course, I can. But how should I prove it to you?"
The man thought for a moment and then said, "How about getting His Majesty's waist token for you?"
Tang Youyou was instantly shocked. How did this man know what was on her mind?
But this was also an opportunity. If this man could really get the waist token back, she didn't care whether he really wanted to help her or was a spy.
So Tang Youyou immediately agreed to this method.
She gave this man two days. On the last night, Tang Youyou paced restlessly in the room.
This man had shown no signs of activity in the past two days. His quietness made her wonder if he was lying to her.
But she hardly saw his figure tonight. From dawn to sunset, she had hardly seen him.
The waiting time was always difficult. Tang Youyou paced back and forth in the room and occasionally went to the door to see if there was any news.
She didn't know how many times she had paced back and forth. Just as she was about to go out to check the situation, a figure suddenly appeared in front of her.
Tang Youyou was so frightened by his sudden appearance that she almost took a few steps back. Fortunately, he grabbed her waist.
"Be careful."
She straightened up and quickly escaped from his touch, fearing that he would notice the abnormal situation in her abdomen.
But fortunately, he didn't show any strange expression, so it seemed that he hadn't noticed.
"How about it? Did you get the waist token?" Tang Youyou asked anxiously.
"I'm sorry." Xun Rong shook his head disappointedly.
Although she thought it was a pity, there was nothing she could do about it.
The waist token had always been on Rong Jiangyu's body, and he didn't give anyone a chance to get close. It was really difficult to take it off.
Maybe she was being a bit too demanding this time.
"I almost got caught. This is what you wanted."
Xun Rong took out two things from his bosom. One was Rong Jiangyu's waist token.
Tang Youyou reached out and snatched the waist token from his hand and carefully looked at the words on it.
"How did you get it?"
"Of course, I have my own way. I said you could choose to trust me."
Tang Youyou didn't care how he did it. She was very grateful. With this waist token, she could go anywhere now. She just wanted to stay away from Rong Jiangyu.
As for what the second thing was, Tang Youyou didn't have the time to care about it at this moment. She was quickly packing her luggage and planned to leave here tonight.
"When do you plan to leave?"
"Nonsense. Of course it's today. If I don't leave now, when will I?"
As Tang Youyou was packing, she thought that if she left, she wouldn't go back to Dashuiwan first. If Rong Jiangyu found out about her disappearance early tomorrow morning, he would definitely send people to look for her, and the first place he would think of would be Dashuiwan.
As for where to go after leaving, these were all problems.
"Do you want to come with me?" Tang Youyou asked.
Once the waist token was lost, Rong Jiangyu would surely conduct a thorough investigation. If he found any clues and suspected Xun Rong, wouldn't he be in trouble? It would be better for him to come with her.
"I can. But I'm getting paid every month for serving in the army. If I come with you, will I still get paid?"
Upon hearing this, Tang Youyou's eyes widened in surprise. At a time like this, he was still worried about this. What a strange person!