The Female Supporting Character's Counterattack: The Evil King's Doctor Consort's Ent

Chapter 34 This king has no such good intentions

Mo Jiuxiao frowned deeply, and in an instant, the long sword in his hand landed on Bai Junshi's neck.

Bai Lianchuan's smile remained smug. He gripped his sword blade without a trace of fear and said calmly, "Do you feel like I've exposed your true intentions and want to kill me to silence me? Don't be impulsive. Do you think I don't know what you're doing?"

Mo Jiuxiao lowered his eyes, his gaze falling on a mountain of official business to be dealt with.

However, Bai Lianchuan shamelessly continued, "The news of Eunuch Li's death has already reached the ears of the Emperor and the Third Prince's Consort. After all, he held the position of military supervisor, and the Emperor will surely be furious and hold you accountable. You don't want her to become a target, do you?"

"Ah!"

Mo Jiuxiao touched the long sword beside him, a cold glint flashing in his eyes.

"I have no such good intentions!"

Bai Lianchuan looked at him and said, "Stop being stubborn. Everyone knows how you managed to get to the border three years ago."

Upon hearing this, Mo Jiuxiao's eyes darkened, and the pen in his hand snapped in two.

"Bai Lianchuan."

When Bai Junshi heard Mo Jiuxiao call his name, he instantly cowered.

"These important matters need to be reviewed and handled properly by tomorrow morning!"

After saying that, he actually got up and pushed open the tent flap to leave.

Bai Lianchuan's face turned red and then green. He had meant well, but he ended up like this.

The thought of not being able to rest all night filled Strategist Bai with regret.

Gu Lingzhi glanced at the bed, which still smelled strongly of mildew, and couldn't help but sigh.

The autumn wind was bleak outside, and the nights had grown colder in just a few days. Gu Lingzhi touched the cold, hard bedding on the bed, which was stained with a lot of oil, and really didn't know how to lie down.

It wasn't that she was a germaphobe, but rather that the environment here was terrible.

The women were all wearing tattered, patched-up coats, and there were even two four- or five-year-old toddlers who were so thin and pale from hunger. This large group of people lay casually on a single, tattered quilt that offered no warmth whatsoever.

Feeling several gazes directed at her, Gu Lingzhi turned her head to look over. The gazes faltered for a moment before quickly disappearing.

Gu Lingzhi felt something in her heart.

Someone is watching her.

Although she didn't know the purpose, Gu Lingzhi still laid the cleaner-looking quilt under herself, lay down, and closed her eyes.

Gu Lingzhi wasn't fast asleep. After a short while, a buzzing sound, like that of wild insects, came from the doorway.

A rustling sound came from behind her. Gu Lingzhi pursed her lips slightly, and a cold glint flashed in her half-open eyes.

Suddenly, the footsteps drew closer.

Because the people lying on the ground were scattered in a crisscross pattern, the woman made a lot of noise when she approached.

All around was quiet. Gu Lingzhi clenched her hands and felt someone pat her shoulder.

Gu Lingzhi pretended to have just woken up from a dream, slowly opening her eyelids to look behind her.

"what are you doing?"

The woman's voice was pitiful. She was young and had a scar on her forehead, but she wasn't ugly. Her eyes were filled with tears as she spoke: "Could you...could you come with me to the outhouse? I'm a little...scared!"

Such a voice, especially coming from an innocent woman, would normally be met with silence. However, Gu Lingzhi was no fool.

The sudden chirping of insects, the eerie gaze, and the fact that this woman has lived here for so long shouldn't have chosen a newcomer to accompany her.

However, Gu Lingzhi pretended not to notice, even if she didn't go out now, those people wouldn't let her go.

She hesitated for a moment, but still said, "Yes."

Not far from the military tent was a bamboo grove.

There were no real outhouses; the women could only try to avoid people and walk as far away as possible.

Gu Lingzhi and the woman walked in the pitch-black night, their feet sinking into the woods. Before they had gone far, Gu Lingzhi sensed that someone was following her.

She had done counter-surveillance countless times back then; the woods were her domain.

Although she was just a doctor at the time, she had undergone training equivalent to that of a special forces soldier.

That person once said that if you want to save others, you must first save yourself.

Gu Lingzhi had kept those words in mind all these years, so the moment those people caught up, she already sensed it.

She remained calm, but then said, "It's probably not safe here. Come with me."

She grabbed the woman's wrist with her other hand.

The woman seemed startled and tried to break free, but Gu Lingzhi stopped her with a single look.

"What's wrong with you? I wouldn't hurt you. Or do you have some other purpose?"

Upon hearing this, the woman clearly felt guilty.

However, fearing she would be exposed, she quickly nodded.

It was obvious that this woman was doing this for the first time; she was completely inexperienced.

Gu Lingzhi grabbed the woman's wrist and led her deeper into the woods, casually placing a blade of grass from the ground into her palm.

"Take this, it's good stuff."

The woman naturally couldn't tell what this wonderful thing was.

She couldn't help but look back, but after walking for so long, a damp and hazy mist had appeared in the woods.

She immediately grabbed Gu Lingzhi's wrist and refused to leave.

"I...I'm scared. Let's go back. I'll just use the restroom here..."

Gu Lingzhi hesitated for a moment: "Alright then, but you should take the herb I gave you."

The woman nodded repeatedly.

Whether she takes it or not is none of Gu Lingzhi's business, since she has already done what she was supposed to do.

The forest was shrouded in mist. Gu Lingzhi held the tender, pungent herb in her hand to her nose and sniffed it.

With her keen sense of smell, she easily found the area in the forest covered in poisonous plants.

Although this poisonous barrier cannot kill people, it has a very strong attraction to some poisonous creatures.

A scream echoed faintly from the other side of the fog.

"It looks like it's been solved."

A cold glint flashed in Gu Lingzhi's eyes, and she waited a while longer.

But the woman did not appear.

Although it was a bit cold in the woods, Gu Lingzhi still didn't want to go back. Her eyes flickered; the security here was very lax. Should she try to just leave?

Gu Lingzhi walked into the woods, and as dawn approached, she saw cliffs and precipices.

So, she finally understood why the security here was so lax; perhaps this was the place Zhao Qiankun had mentioned where she had fallen off the cliff.

When she walked back to the camp from the woods, many of the busy women stared at her.

The two children were still crying, and a kind woman was trying to comfort them.

"Don't cry, your mother should be back soon!"

"The new guy left with Xiaojuan and hasn't come back yet. Could he have been eaten by wild animals in the woods?"

"Don't talk nonsense..."

"I saw the two of them go out together in the middle of the night!"

Gu Lingzhi overheard the women's whispers and learned that the woman from last night was actually the mother of the two four-year-old children here.

She hasn't come back yet; I'm afraid she's no longer coming back.

But if she hadn't intended to harm her, she wouldn't have lost her life. Regardless of whether it was difficult or not, whatever she did, she had to pay the price for her actions.

"Look... isn't he back now?"

Many women who were washing clothes looked up at Gu Lingzhi. Gu Lingzhi's long hair was simply tied up in two strands with a rope, while the rest of her long hair was draped behind her. Combined with her delicate face, she looked like a lotus emerging from the water.

Many women in the military camp had jealousy in their eyes.

Gu Lingzhi pretended not to see it and was about to return to her military tent for a short rest when someone blocked her way.

"Where's Xiaojuan? Didn't she go out with you?"

Gu Lingzhi glanced coldly at the questioning woman: "I don't know!"

After saying that, she continued walking inside.

Although she was startled by Gu Lingzhi's gaze, the woman somehow mustered the strength to shout, "What did you do to my sister? Give me back my sister!"

Gu Lingzhi's dress was grabbed, and the coldness in her eyes intensified.

However, the woman was still crying loudly, "Did you kill her? Otherwise, why hasn't she come back yet?"

Upon hearing her words, the women who had been watching the commotion suddenly stood up and surrounded Gu Lingzhi. The two children who had been sitting not far away crying suddenly ran out and pounded her arm hard. Although it didn't hurt, their voices were full of accusation.

"Give me back my mother! Give me back my mother!"

"You're a bad woman, a bad woman!"

The screams of the two children and the woman's cries were so loud that Gu Lingzhi had a headache. With a quick twist of her wrist, she used her skill to break free from the fat woman's grasp and fling the two children away.

One of the children lost his balance and fell to the ground, starting to cry loudly.

"I've already said, I don't know where your mother went. Whether she's dead or alive is none of my business!"

Gu Lingzhi raised her voice, her tone cold and sharp.

She swept her sharp eyes across the people present as she spoke these words, but no one believed her.

“I saw you two go out together with my own eyes, it must have been you who did it.”

Despite being attacked, Gu Lingzhi remained calm and composed, a mocking smile playing on her lips.

Although her wounds hadn't healed yet, her strength had returned. She couldn't defeat the armed guards for the time being, but she didn't care about the old, weak, women, and children.

She just doesn't like bullying people, as long as they don't push her too far.

"Hit her, hit this wicked woman..."

"Yes, hit her!"

Someone in the crowd started a commotion, and immediately a woman rushed forward.

The military tent was in chaos, but many guards stood not far away watching the commotion without intervening.

Two of them sat under the shade of a tree, whispering to each other as if watching a show: "The general told us to deal with her, but we didn't expect Lei Tian and the others to be so incompetent. We went to the woods together last night, and none of the five of them came back, but this woman did."

"Who knows, but with the general's orders, this woman will definitely not have a good ending."

"But Lei Tian and his gang got off easy. I wonder if they succeeded. That delicate skin and tender flesh makes my heart itch!"

The two people were talking.

But then the previously chaotic crowd began to become clear.

Because the women had suffered some kind of injury, they all collapsed to the ground and began to wail.

Gu Lingzhi clapped her hands.

The two children were terrified, looking at Gu Lingzhi as if she were a demon.

Gu Lingzhi glanced at them indifferently: "No matter whose orders you are taking against me, you should consider your own abilities before you make a move."

The two men in military uniforms widened their eyes and suddenly stood up.

"Come over and have a look."