The Poisonous Consort, the Regent's Beloved

Gu Qibai?

Su Fuying looked up and found that the person standing in front of her was actually Gu Qibai.

Thinking about it carefully, it's not surprising that he would appear here, after all, this mountain has abundant medicinal resources, and it makes sense that he would come to collect them.

However, she was not disguised at this time, so Gu Qibai naturally did not recognize her, and she pretended not to know Gu Qibai.

"Is something wrong?"

When Gu Qibai saw the man in front of him, the image of Fusu flashed through his mind.

Why are they so similar?

Gu Qibai was filled with doubt, but it was clear that the two did not have any resemblance in their faces, only their figures were somewhat similar.

"Young master, are you perhaps troubled by something? If you have something on your mind, feel free to tell me, and perhaps I can help you resolve your worries."

So he thought she was going to jump off a cliff? Looking at Gu Qibai's slightly nervous expression, if it weren't getting dark, she would have really wanted to tease him.

"You've misunderstood. I just wanted to gather herbs from this cliff."

Gu Qibai was taken aback upon hearing this. "You're here to pick the Snow Spirit Mushroom?"

"Yeah, what, you want one too?"

Su Fuying looked him up and down, wondering what he wanted this for. She had never heard him mention that the shop needed this medicinal herb.

Gu Qibai pursed his lips slightly and hesitated before speaking, "Young master, I saw this medicine half a month ago. May I have it? I can buy it with silver."

Su Fuying looked at him without any politeness, "Unfortunately, I had my eye on it a month ago."

Gu Qibai looked troubled, but still forced himself to say, "I am willing to offer double the price, please, young master, be so kind as to agree."

Su Fuying frowned, thinking that this guy was usually quite frugal, so why was he being so generous today? She couldn't help but ask curiously, "What do you need this medicine for? I need it to save my life."

Gu Qibai remained silent for a moment before slowly saying, "To be honest, a friend of mine also urgently needs this medicine. But since you are doing this to save someone, I will have to find another way."

After speaking, Gu Qibai turned to leave. At that moment, Su Fuying suddenly remembered a prescription she had given Gu Qibai, which seemed to contain this particular herb. Could it be… he was going to sell…

For myself?

Who cares if it is or not? Anyway, this medicine was originally intended to develop an antidote for the poison. Now that Lu Yanxiu might be dead, I'm not in a hurry anymore.

"Wait, never mind, here you go."

Lu Yanxiu paused upon hearing this. Although he did want it, he refused, thinking that it was for saving someone. "Young Master, how could I dare to accept it if you are saving someone?"

Su Fu thought Gu Qibai's personality was really too good; he would suffer for it in the future.

"It's alright, I know another place that has it, but it's a bit far. We can go there tomorrow."

Hearing the man's nonchalant tone, Gu Qibai assumed that he really had other places to pick herbs, so he stopped being polite.

After putting down the basket, we braced ourselves against the cliff face and started walking down. This cliff wasn't very high; it was just a slightly higher embankment.

Su Fuying, who was about to leave, stopped in her tracks, looking at Gu Qibai's thin and frail appearance, worried that he might accidentally fall and die.

However, the imagined scene did not appear. Instead, the man leaped up, gripping the rock wall tightly with one hand, his body dangling in mid-air, while carefully picking the herbs with the other.

Then, with a light touch of his toes, he landed steadily on the flat ground.

Su Fuying was utterly shocked. He knew martial arts!

When I applied medicine to Gu Qibai last time, I found it strange that this person looked so thin, yet had such good muscle definition. How could a doctor have developed such good muscle definition?

Good heavens, even I was fooled. It's just that it's inconvenient for me to show my face right now, otherwise I would definitely ask them a lot of questions.

With only a sliver of light remaining, Su Fu, still hoping to enter before the city gates were locked, decided not to linger and turned to leave.

"Young master stay."

Gu Qibai picked up his basket and immediately caught up.

Su Fuying simply stopped without turning around, and Gu Qibai took out a few silver notes from his waist and handed them over.

"The money I promised you."

"Need not."

He left those words behind and strode down the mountain.

As we reached the foot of the mountain, night fell, all was quiet, and a bright moon hung in the sky, like a shimmering silver mirror, casting down a radiance like the Milky Way.

He thought to himself that it seemed he couldn't go back, and he could only spend the night outside the city. He could go into the city early the next morning, but he was afraid that little Biluo would worry.

The night was as dark as ink. Su Fuying suddenly gripped the reins tightly, her sharp eyes piercing through the darkness ahead.

A faint smell of blood lingered in the air, a subtle scent that reminded her of the approaching danger.

The sounds of fighting in the distance reached her ears like faint ripples; though faint, they were clearly audible.

She knew the source of the sound was still far away, but it was getting closer every second.

Su Fuying hesitated for a moment, but soon decided to follow the principle of "it's better to do less than more," and gently pulled the reins to guide the carriage to a side path overgrown with weeds.

The sound of horses' hooves echoed in the silent night sky, intertwining with the distant clanging of metal to create a tense symphony.

As the carriage moved slowly forward, the sounds of fighting gradually became clearer.

Su Fuying quickly tightened the reins, and the carriage came to an abrupt stop on the path in front of the city gate.

The path is separated from the main road only by a dark grove of trees.

The sound of horses' hooves is too loud and can easily attract unnecessary attention.

Su Fuying decided to take refuge here for the night, after all, the person who dared to commit violence in front of the city gate was no ordinary person.

“Madam Pei, I advise you not to make a futile struggle and to obediently hand over that item.” A gloomy voice rang out in the night.

“Absolutely not!” Madam Pei’s voice was firm and powerful.

The faint sound of conversation drifted on the wind, and Su Fuying, who had been resting with her eyes closed, suddenly opened them.

Lady Pei – the wife of Grand Commandant Pei!

A series of questions welled up in her mind: Who on earth dared to lay a hand on a first-rank imperial lady in front of the city gate? What did they want?

Su Fuying tried hard to suppress his curiosity. He braced himself against the carriage wall with one hand and closed his eyes to rest.

The fighting continued for about half an incense stick's time before he finally slowly opened his eyes in the carriage.

For some reason, his thoughts involuntarily returned to the scene in the palace that day.

That day, Madam Pei's gaze, though only seen once, has somehow remained unforgettable to this day.

With this thought in mind, she quickly tore off a piece of her clothing, covered her face, and, using the dim moonlight, silently moved through the woods.

Soon, he arrived at an open space, where the scene before him was shocking: dozens of corpses lay haphazardly on the ground, and more than a dozen men in black were staring menacingly at Madam Pei across from him.

Madam Pei was covered in blood, but she held her long sword firmly in her hand, her face resolute, showing no sign of backing down.

Behind her, the bodies of seven or eight guards lay silently, and she faced a dozen or so enemies all alone.

"Stubborn to the end, don't blame us for being ruthless!" one of the men in black said, his tone furious.

They were originally a team of thirty or forty people, but unexpectedly, half an hour later, they still hadn't been able to capture the woman.

"If you want to fight, then fight. Stop talking nonsense." Madam Pei sneered, raised her longsword, and charged at the enemy again.

Despite the tense atmosphere, Su Fuying was almost amused by Madam Pei's words. As expected of a general's wife, even in dire straits, she maintained her dignity and composure.