Traveling through time and space

"Princess, I'm fine. I can do the job." The person on the bed had just had his wound bandaged by Zhuo Bo, and he struggled to get out of bed to greet him. Zhuo Bo shook his head helplessly.

"Princess, this is very strange. My master took his pulse this morning and said that his bone injury has healed. Now he only has flesh wounds, which are not too serious." Zhuo Bo's words made Gu Yuanyuan nod.

Kuizi came in and said, "Princess, I have closed all the gates of the courtyard." His words successfully made Gu Yuanyuan laugh out loud.

"Xiao Kuizi, that door can only protect against gentlemen, not villains. Ah Yu, if you see anyone sneaking around, kill them all." Gu Yuanyuan ordered directly. After all, his father had said that anyone who followed him was an enemy, not a friend, so he should just kill them. Everyone went to another room. Looking at the person in front of him, Gu Yuanyuan couldn't help laughing again. Is this a tied up pig? He was tied up. "What are you doing?"

"Princess, he's been making a lot of noise since he woke up. I was afraid the neighbors would hear him and cause trouble, so I just tied him up."

There was another knock on the door. Everyone looked at Su Yuanyuan, who nodded. This time, the person knocking must be one of their own. Kuizi left, followed soon by Xiao Maozi and Nanny Xiang. Gu Yuanyuan sat on a chair and gestured to remove the gag from the man's mouth. "Princess, I'm afraid he'll scream," Shuanzi tried to stop her.

"It's all right, little bastard. First, sever one of his hamstrings. You should have heard what I said. If you start yelling, I'll sever both of your legs, then both of your arms, and finally all ten of your toes." Gu Yuanyuan pulled a dagger from her sleeve. Without a second thought, the little bastard slashed his left hamstring. "Now, I'm asking you questions. Answer them well. I hope we can work together happily, without you suffering and without me having to worry."

"I'm just an ordinary person. I don't know what the princess wants to know." He looked very cold, but if you looked closely, he was not very old, probably in his thirties.

"You are not an ordinary person. This princess can see your nobility from you. This princess is even more bold in guessing that you are not from our Qingyang?" Gu Yuanyuan saw fear and a hint of inexplicable panic in his eyes. After looking carefully, Gu Yuanyuan boldly expressed his guess.

"Princess, I am from Qingyang, a native of Suixi, Yuqing Prefecture."

"How could you die in the palace and be picked up by this princess? You are not a eunuch, and you don't look like a servant. Are you a member of the imperial guards or something else? Otherwise, you wouldn't appear among the dead over there for no reason."

"Princess, I'm just a servant."

"It seems like you really think this princess is a persimmon. Xiao Mao, cut the other leg tendon as well. He doesn't want to live anyway, otherwise why would he keep telling the truth?" Gu Yuanyuan's face turned cold. Kuizi and Shuanzi held the man down. Xiao Maozi stepped forward calmly to do the work. Everyone watched calmly. "Shuanzi, stuff this medicine into his mouth. He doesn't want to live anyway, so this princess is here to try it out."

"Princess, what is this medicine?"

"The first one we developed, when consumed by humans, will cause drowsiness, vomiting, cold limbs, suffocation, and ultimately death from intestinal rupture. We haven't even had time to test its medicinal properties yet."

"Princess, is there an antidote?" Kuizi asked.

"Of course, of course not. This princess hasn't developed an antidote yet. There are seventy-seven kinds of poison in this. If you eat it, you will die in no time."

"Princess, this won't take long, right?" Shuanzi asked cautiously.

"About three hours," Gu Yuanyuan sat down again.

"I didn't expect that the legitimate princess of Qingyang, despite her young age, is as poisonous as a scorpion."

"It's the same for you, but this princess is not as good as you. This princess saved your life, but you won't even tell the truth. This shows that you are not a good person, let alone a friend. Then what's the point of keeping you in this world? It's better to just send you on your way. This is just this princess's bodhisattva heart." He was fed only intestinal hook, but the effect was very fast. However, she had an antidote pill, so she was not afraid of his death. Seeing that he was in pain and rolling on the ground, "You'd better tell it, so as not to suffer so much," Nanny Shang comforted him.

"Yes, our princess is the most merciful. As long as you tell her, she will not let you suffer." The little Maozi squatted down and sang in unison with the monk and the nanny.

"I will give you another quarter of an hour at most. If you die, it won't be a big loss for me. I picked you up anyway." Gu Yuanyuan was thinking that she had to entertain guests when she got home in the evening and couldn't go home too late. Gu Yuanyuan stood up, walked around, looked at the people on the ground, and watched his performance quietly.

"I, this king, am He Chengyan, the seventeenth prince of Feng Yan."

"I never thought I'd find a prince. I'm really lucky. But, how could you die in our Qingyang Palace? I want to hear the truth."

"I am Feng Yan's prince. I hope the princess will release me. I will repay you when you are my son. Otherwise, if people knew that the princess had killed me, I am afraid it would cause a war between the two countries."

"Oh, this princess is so scared, so scared. But, no one knows that you are here with me, right? Otherwise, you would be picked up by me. Just imagine, if this princess kills someone, will anyone know?" These threatening words coming out of Gu Yuanyuan's mouth did not have any deterrent effect, maybe because Gu Yuanyuan did not look fierce.

"I, I am telling the truth." Perhaps the intestinal hook had begun to react, as the man began to sweat and his expression changed several times. "I am willing to tell the truth. I only ask the princess to give me medicine. I do not want to die yet."

"That's the right attitude. You'll only suffer a little, but you won't die for now. As for whether I'll give you the medicine, that depends on what you say. Is it useful to me? If it is, I'll definitely keep you alive."

"Princess, didn't you say there was no antidote?"

"There's no antidote, but there are medicines that can alleviate the symptoms. Living another thirty to fifty years won't be a problem." Gu Yuanyuan suddenly remembered something, "Seventeenth Prince He Chengyan, is your visit to our Qingyang related to the He family, He Zifang, and He Xuanzhong?" Gu Yuanyuan was clearly certain from the slight surprise that flashed across his eyes, "Are you here with them, the Crown Prince, and the Crown Princess?" Gu Yuanyuan felt that she couldn't ask any more questions. She stood up and fed Xiao Maozi a poison-dispersing pill to him. When no one was paying attention, she took out two tranquilizers and told him to have a good sleep. She had to let the emperor see him. She didn't want to get involved in anything. "Shuanzi, don't let this man wake up. Keep a close eye on him. He must have a big secret. We have to find a way to send him to the emperor."

"How can we get people in?" asked the little Russian.

"Nonsense, you guys should think about it carefully." Seeing Xiao Maozi asking her, Gu Yuanyuan asked back angrily. "How can such a living person be smuggled into the palace without being discovered? This is a big problem."

"Princess, you can enter the palace at any time," Nanny Shang reminded her, "but how can you smuggle such a big person in without being discovered?"

Gu Yuanyuan could put the person into the space, but she couldn't take the risk. It wasn't worth it. "What time is it now?"

"To answer the princess, it's now 2:45 pm." Gu Yuanyuan was calculating the time. One tablet of tranquilizer could make a person sleep for about two hours, and two tablets could make a person sleep for four hours. After thinking about it, she offered another tablet to the person on the ground. She also had an idea in mind. "Shuanzi, please bear with me for a while. At 11 pm, you and Kuizi will take the man to the back door of the princess's mansion in a carriage. Then I will pick him up and bring him into the palace together."

"Princess, do you mean we can return to the palace in style tonight?"

"Yes, Madam Shang, when you return home, please tell my father in person that since the thief was found in the princess's mansion, I have been in a state of panic and feeling unwell. I need to stay in the palace for the night. Have Xiao Xiao Xiangzi bring the sedan chair to the palace gate at 2:15 PM."

"Princess, this idea is good, but I know that when we enter the palace, we will have to change to a sedan chair. What should we do then?" Nanny Shang reminded.

"We'll talk about it when the time comes. There will always be a way out. Besides, there's nothing we can't do under cover of darkness."

"No, we can't tell you in advance. If we tell you that, won't others know it's fake? How about this? After we enter the palace tonight, I'll go and ask to see the emperor and say that the princess is sick because thieves have entered the palace and she's panicking."

"Okay, I'll do as you say." Su Yuanyuan looked at the sleeping man on the ground. "You two must keep a close eye on him. There can't be any mistakes." But she still felt it was not going to work. "No, Xiao Maozi, you stay. Shuanzi is still injured. Kuizi can't pull him out by himself."

"Yes, Princess, I can."

"You'd better take good care of your injuries. When you recover, I will have plenty of things for you to do." Gu Yuanyuan patted Shuanzi's shoulder. "Madame Shang, please go back to the carriage quietly first. I will be back soon." Madame Shang nodded, and Su Yuanyuan gave Xiao Maozi a few more instructions.

"Princess, let Shuanzi go out with Nanny Shang. I will change clothes with him. Everyone saw me following you out of the house, but I didn't go back with you because I was afraid some people would think too much."

Gu Yuanyuan nodded, "You are thoughtful. You two should change your clothes. Nanny Shang, take him out and don't let anyone notice anything unusual." After confirming again that the people on the ground were safe, Gu Yuanyuan also went out. From a distance, she saw her own carriage parked at the intersection, but she couldn't go directly there, so she also teleported to the blacksmith shop.

"Little girl, what do you want to see?" Gu Yuanyuan stopped at the edge of the shop. An old man saw her and came up to talk to her, but Gu Yuanyuan was sure that he did not notice that she appeared out of thin air.

"Uncle, do you have any daggers or anything like that in your shop?" Since he was already here, he had to ask something. "Preferably made of black iron."

"Little girl, what kind of iron is black iron? We in Qingyang have never heard of it. The best here is pure iron. Pure iron is also a good thing, but it is quite expensive. A small dagger costs fifty taels of silver. However, it is controlled by the imperial court and is rare among the people, so it is very expensive." The uncle said it with some regret.

"Uncle, haven't you heard of this thing called black iron?" Gu Yuanyuan asked curiously. She thought about the black iron in her space. If she took it out, she could really sell it for a lot of silver. "Black iron is a good thing. It can cut iron like mud."

“Is there really such a good thing in this world?”

"Of course, I have a piece here. Can you help me make a dagger?" Gu Yuanyuan secretly took out a piece of black iron.

"Weijian, come here." The old man shouted outside.

"Dad, young lady, when did you come in?" he asked the person who suddenly appeared.