Lord, your grass jelly has slipped away again [Transmigration Book]

The two were stunned by Ye Zi holding the knife on their necks for a while, and the guards around Ye Zi who were about to arrest him were also stunned.

This person was aggressive just now, trying to outnumber ten, what is he doing now?

behave in a spoiled manner?

The other party is still this noble and cold Lord Rui?

Everyone was so shocked that they didn't dare to step forward rashly.

All eyes fell on Gu Yan.

Gu Yan closed his eyes and sighed in his heart.

During this period of time, he was really kind to Ye Zi, which made this person more and more courageous, and changed his ways every day to kill him.

But at this point, there is no choice but to cooperate with him.

Gu Yan walked up to Ye Zi, pulled him to his side, and asked softly, "Why did they beat you?"

His voice was not too loud, just enough for everyone around him to hear.

Ye Zi pursed her lips, shrank back behind Gu Yan, only showing her head, and explained aggrievedly: "They bullied this young master, and I wanted to help, but they wanted to fight me, and they recruited so many people to help. So many people bully me alone, they are too much..."

After Gu Yan listened calmly, before he could speak, the skinny guard who had been kicked to the ground by Ye Zi before knelt down in front of Gu Yan, and said, "Your Majesty, it was a misunderstanding. We are acting according to orders, who knows that this young master He came up and fought with us without asking any questions, which attracted the patrol team."

Gu Yan looked back at Ye Zi: "Is that what he said?"

Ye Zi blinked, but didn't answer.

Gu Yan said calmly: "It is a violation of the law to fight privately with officials in an important place in the government."

The thin guard's expression just relaxed a little, and he heard Gu Yan say again: "However, since this place is not in Chankong Temple, it's not considered a violation of your regulations."

"This—" the fat guard couldn't help but say, "My lord, but he..."

Gu Yan turned his head, glanced at the two of them coldly, and said: "Let's not mention this matter for now. Can someone explain to me first, who allowed you to drive patients out of Chankong Temple without authorization?"

The two guards looked at each other, and the thin guard said: "My lord, listen to the villain's explanation, it is really because of this old woman..."

"I don't need to listen to this." Gu Yan interrupted him, "You just need to tell me, who told you to do this?"

It was not yet noon, and Mr. Ge, the county magistrate, was taking a nap in the bedroom of the mansion with his arms around his concubine's room.Suddenly there was a sound of chaotic footsteps outside the door, and then someone began to knock on the door hastily.

Mr. Ge was awakened by this movement, and cursed impatiently: "If you have something to say, just say it, knock whatever, whoever doesn't have eyes."

The door was pushed open abruptly, and several attendants broke in.

Master Ge was astonished, and quickly sat up: "What are you going to do?"

From behind the crowd, Gu Yan walked in leisurely: "Besides this king, who else has no eyes and dares to disturb Mr. Ge's rest?"

Gu Yan brought a lot of people here, and made a thorough inspection of the courtyard inside and out.Ye Zi didn't know where she went, she didn't follow Gu Yan into the house, nor was she in the yard.Ah Chu was sitting alone in the courtyard, and after a while, he heard Mr. Ge's crying, as well as dull sounds of beating and begging for mercy.

Ah Chu couldn't sit still when he heard it, and suddenly someone beside him called him: "What are you thinking, you want to be so lost in thought?"

Ah Chu turned his head, Ye Zi sat down beside him carelessly, Ah Chu opened his mouth and didn't say anything.

The cries in the bedroom became louder, Ah Chu couldn't bear it any longer, and couldn't help but said, "My lord... nothing will happen, right?"

Ye Zi propped his chin, not paying attention: "It's all a lesson, what can happen?"

"But..." Ah Chu hesitated, and asked, "Firstly, there was no trial, and secondly, there was no interrogation. Isn't this considered a lynching?"

Ye Zi pondered for a moment, then said, "It should be counted."

Ah Chu wanted to say something, but Ye Zi interrupted him, and said with a smile: "Whatever, lynching is lynching, so that I can teach him a lesson, so that the dog official will not dare to do evil again in the future, and ignore human life."

Ah Chu didn't answer any more, Ye Zi turned his head to look at his face, after a while, he tentatively said, "By the way, Ah Chu, let me discuss something with you."

Ah Chu said: "Sir, please tell me."

Ye Zi went straight to the point: "My lord has now found a medicine, which may be able to cure the plague in Yi'an. But the doctor still needs to test the medicine on a patient to observe the effect, so that he can use this method to prepare the medicine. I think..."

"Young master, you want to use my mother to test the medicine?" Ah Chu asked.

Ye Zi nodded: "Yes."

Ah Chu was silent for a moment, then hesitantly said: "But...there will be risks in testing medicine."

Ye Zi truthfully said, "Indeed."

Ah Chu's eyes darkened, and he didn't answer for a long time.

Ye Zi knew what he was thinking.

According to the current situation, Achu's mother can continue to take the medicine given by Gu Yan, and she can live for a few more days. If the antidote is successfully developed during this period, there may be a glimmer of life.But if you participate in the drug test, there are only two paths left in front of you, either you can survive successfully, or you will die soon.

As the Son of Man, it is impossible to make this decision.

This is human nature, and because of this, Gu Yan was unable to make up his mind.No matter who the person testing the medicine is, he always has to bear a certain risk, unless...

Ye Zi closed her eyes and thought, and said to Ah Chu, "Wait here for me."

He got up and left the courtyard.

Ah Chu stayed where he was for a while, and Ye Zi quickly returned to the yard.But for some reason, his face looked a little pale at the moment, and his complexion was much worse than before.

Ye Zi was not in a hurry to speak, and shook the empty kettle on the table, then turned around and ordered the attendants in the yard to bring him a kettle of water.

Ah Chu looked at him for a while, then asked in a low voice, "My lord, are you alright?"

The attendant quickly brought up the warm water, Ye Zi drank two glasses of water, his expression changed a little, and he smiled lightly: "It's okay, what can I do?"

Ah Chu wanted to say something more, but Ye Zi said, "If I say that I have another method here that can guarantee to save your mother's life, would you agree to test the medicine?"

Ah Chu was stunned for a moment, and said, "Really..."

Ye Zi turned his head to look at the bedroom not far away, the movement inside hadn't stopped, and it should continue for a while.He reached into his bosom, and took out a few fragrant, exquisite green leaves.

Ye Zi handed the leaves to Ah Chu, and said: "This is the way to save your mother. You put this thing away, and if the test fails, you give this thing to Dr. Pei, and ask him to use it to save you." Mother."

Ah Chu was not in a hurry to pick it up, and asked doubtfully, "This thing...can really save my mother?"

Ye Zi said: "If you don't believe me, you can ask Doctor Pei about this thing. However, you can't tell anyone about the origin of this thing."

Ah Chu fell silent again.After deliberating for a while, he stretched out his hand to take the leaf in Ye Zi's hand, and said in a low voice, "Okay, I promise."

Ye Zi breathed a sigh of relief, and then instructed, "You must promise me that you will not tell anyone how this thing came about. Besides Dr. Pei, you must not let anyone see it, especially Prince Rui, understand? "

Ah Chu nodded, carefully put away the thing: "I know, I will never tell the prince."

"Absolutely don't tell me anything?" A voice suddenly sounded behind the two of them.

Ah Chu trembled all over, and stood up in panic.Ye Zi was no less frightened than he was, and laughed nervously: "My lord, are you done with your affairs?"

"En." Gu Yan responded, and said again, "What were you talking about just now?"

Ye Zi winked at Ah Chu calmly, got up and walked to him, and pulled his sleeve: "I just told Mr. Ah Chu..."

"I'm not asking you." Gu Yan interrupted him with a stern face, and said, "I know you have a lot of tricks, so I'm asking him."

Afterwards, he turned his head to look at Ah Chu, and asked, "What did you say you would never tell me?"

Ah Chu lowered his head in fear, not daring to look at Gu Yan, and twisted his sleeves tightly with his fingers: "Cao, Cao Min just said, never tell the prince... If you don't tell the prince, it was Mr. Ye who persuaded me to let my mother participate in the trial." medicine."

Gu Yan loosened his frown, looked at Ye Zi, then turned to Ah Chu and said, "Are you really willing to let your mother test the medicine? Do you know the risks involved?"

Ah Chu breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "Yes. If the prince hadn't come here, we might not have any room for maneuver. Now that there is a cure, the grass people are naturally willing to cooperate. Even if there is any mistake... the grass people are willing to bear it by themselves The consequences."

Gu Yan lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, then nodded: "Okay. Your mother has just been sent back to the Chankong Temple, and I will arrange for someone to transfer her to Dr. Pei. In the next few days, you can go to the other courtyard to help, and you will be able to get some help." a care."

Ah Chu hurriedly said, "Thank you, my lord."

Gu Yan responded, "Go down."

Ah Chu followed Gu Yan's attendants and left, Gu Yan turned back to look at Ye Zi, narrowing his eyes suspiciously: "You really didn't have any other plans?"

"Of course I didn't. How could you say that about me?" Seeing that he no longer doubted him, Ye Zi frowned slightly, and said, "I was just discussing this matter with Mr. Ah Chu, and I wanted him to bring it up to you himself. , so as not to embarrass you. I do everything for your own good, yet you doubt me like this?!"

Ye Zi snorted coldly, turned around and walked out of the yard.

Many attendants brought by Gu Yan stayed inside and outside the courtyard, and they followed them all the way. Even if these attendants didn't know Ye Zi's identity, they knew Gu Yan's attitude towards him.Seeing that he gave Gu Yan a slap in the face at this moment, they all looked at each other, pretending that they hadn't seen anything.

Gu Yan shook his head helplessly, called someone to give a few simple instructions about testing the medicine, and immediately chased him out.Ye Zi didn't go far, she was sitting under a flower corridor outside the courtyard, with her back facing Gu Yan, as if sulking.

Gu Yan walked behind him and said softly, "Are you really angry?"

Ye Zi didn't turn his head, and replied angrily: "How dare you get angry with the prince."

Gu Yan hugged him from behind, held Ye Zi's hand, and frowned slightly: "Why are your hands so cold, did you catch cold last night? Is there any discomfort?"

As he spoke, he raised his hand to touch Ye Zi's forehead, but it wasn't hot.

"I'm not going to catch a cold, it's because it was too hot when I walked back, so I went to wash my face with cold water." Ye Zi dodged his eyes awkwardly, and smiled again, "I was just joking with you just now, I'm not angry."

Gu Yan looked at him thoughtfully, walked around to Ye Zi, lowered his head and asked, "Are you all right?"

"It's okay." Ye Zi said, "By the way, what should we do next?"

"Leave the drug testing to Pei Ge, we can't help you much." Gu Yan paused, and then said, "However, there is one thing that I am a little bit concerned about."

"what?"

Gu Yandao: "Uncle Liu Huang said earlier that the orchid flower is the poison of the Western Regions, and the pollen must be dissolved in water to form poison. Regardless of whether the flower he said is true or not, and whether it exists, but I do I have always suspected that the plague here is probably not an accident.”

Ye Zi lowered his voice and said, "You mean, someone intentionally poisoned the people in Jiangnan?"

"Yes."

Gu Yan took out a piece of rolled kraft paper from his pocket, unfolded it on the stone table, it was a map.Several areas were circled with a red pen on the map. Ye Zi looked down and asked, "These... are all the areas where the plague is currently occurring?"

"Yes." Gu Yan explained, "Although I have stayed in Yi'an for the past few days, the external plague is still spreading. The following places are the places where the plague has newly appeared in the past two days, and there are two or three counties above. County, but it was the place where the plague broke out with Yi'an before. Did you find anything?"

Ye Zi looked at it carefully for a moment, and said, "It's really strange."

"What's weird?"

Ye Zi said: "If the cause of the plague is a disease, it should be the banks along the river that suffer the most floods. However, whether it is Yi'an County or several other areas, they are all inland and not close to the river. Flood damage is not serious either."

Gu Yan smiled and said, "That's right, that's why I doubt it. But there's one more thing, look here."

His fingers slid across several areas on the map, and said: "These are places where the plague broke out almost at the same time as Yi'an. They don't seem to have any connection. You may have asked someone to inquire about it. Among these counties The well water used all comes from a mountain not far from here."

Ye Zi was startled: "You mean someone poisoned the well water?"

Gu Yan nodded: "I had guessed this earlier. However, I asked someone to test the water in several wells in the city, but there was nothing to gain, so I had to let go of my doubts for the time being. But when I heard Uncle Liuhuang say this earlier, I couldn't help but start to worry again. I have some doubts. Will someone poison the well water, and then release the poison in the water after the plague spreads?"

Ye Zi thought for a while, and said, "It is indeed possible, but if it is really poisoned and then removed, it will be difficult for us to find evidence."

Gu Yandao: "So I thought, maybe we can go to the water sources in the mountains to investigate and see if there are any clues left."

"Then what are you waiting for, let's go." Upon hearing this, Ye Zi immediately pulled Gu Yan up.

Gu Yan took his time and looked him up and down for a moment: "You are really fine, how do I feel..."

Ye Zi said: "Of course it's fine, do you still want to find out the truth? Let's go."

Gu Yan wanted to say something more, but he couldn't help but agree to leave immediately.In order to deceive others, Gu Yan secretly led Ye Zi out of the city without any followers, and the two quickly entered the mountain.

The road into the mountain was difficult, and the two of them walked along the mountain path for more than an hour, but they still didn't reach their destination.The sun is gradually rising, but there are shade trees in the mountains, so I don't think the temperature is too high.But even so, a thin layer of sweat still broke out on Ye Zi's forehead.

Gu Yan noticed his strangeness, and quickly pulled him back: "Just say it when you're tired, what are you holding on to here?"

After being exposed to the sun, a small blush appeared on Ye Zi's fair face.He took a breath, shook his head and said, "I'm fine, let's go, we won't be able to go back until it's dark."

"No hurry." Gu Yan looked around, picked up a relatively clean place, pulled Ye Zi over to sit down, took out a silk handkerchief and wiped his face, "Blame me, I shouldn't have brought you out .You were exhausted once when you came here, so stop messing around."

Ye Zi pursed her lips, but did not answer.

The physical strength he had consumed earlier would have recovered a long time ago. If he hadn't pulled out a few leaves for Ah Chu today, he wouldn't always feel exhausted.However, he dared not tell Gu Yan about this.

Pei Ge needed someone to test the medicine, but Gu Yan didn't want to gamble with the lives of ordinary people, so Ye Zi could only think of this method due to expediency.

No one wants to see their close relatives in danger, if it wasn't for Ye Zi's leaves that can guarantee the safety of those who test the medicine, he would not be able to make up his mind to persuade Ah Chu to accept the test medicine.

Ye Zi didn't say anything else, leaning against the tree to rest for a while.The dense canopy above the head blocks the sun from the outside, and the breeze is gentle, which is very pleasant.Ye Zi looked up at the dense trees above his head, and was startled suddenly: "Hey, this tree..."

Gu Yan said: "What's wrong?"

Ye Zi smiled and said, "This is a catalpa tree, don't you know it?"

Gu Yan didn't pay attention to the trees beside him before, but after being reminded by Ye Zi, he came back to his senses and smiled knowingly: "Indeed."

Ye Zi stood up and walked around the catalpa tree behind him: "This tree is so big, it must have grown for many years, I have never seen such a thick catalpa tree before."

Gu Yan asked: "You have a good relationship with Zishu."

"That's right. There used to be a catalpa tree planted outside my yard, and my parents gave me this name because of this." Ye Zi said, "I heard that if people in the past wanted to leave their hometown for a long time, they would bring a catalpa with them. Holding catalpa seeds and planting them in the yard, in memory of relatives far away. How do you say that?"

Gu Yan answered, "...Wei Sang and Zi must be respectful."

"Yes, this is it." Ye Zi answered, lowered his head and rummaged under the tree.

Gu Yan narrowed his eyes slightly, and vaguely realized something.

"I found it." Ye Zi turned his head and stretched out his hand towards Gu Yan, with a few flower seeds lying in his palm.

He smiled and said, "Look, I forgot about it earlier, I should have given you a handful of seeds before you left. That way, no matter where you go, as long as you see it, you will think of me."

Gu Yan looked down at Ye Zi's palm, and suddenly felt his throat a little dry: "This is... the catalpa tree flower seed?"

Ye Zi tilted her head: "Yes, I will definitely not admit my mistake."

The seeds were not sown in time and have dried up a bit.But this did not prevent Gu Yan from seeing that it was exactly the same as the bouquet of flowers Huaiyuan sent him when he saw him off.

Gu Yan didn't pick up the seed, but pulled Ye Zi over.Unprepared, Ye Zi was embraced by someone, and all the flower seeds were scattered on the ground.

Before Ye Zi could say anything, Gu Yan whispered in his ear: "A Zi..."

Ye Zi was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "What's the matter?"

Gu Yan also smiled softly and said, "It's nothing, it's just that I suddenly remembered some old things."

Gu Yan closed his eyes, and the man's voice faintly sounded in his ears, as if it came from the distant past.

Gu Yan always knew that Huaiyuan was not that person's real name.

When they first met, the other party told him: "I was abandoned by my parents when I was a child, where did I get my name. My master named me Huaiyuan, and you can call me that too."

But when the man took the blame for him and was escorted away from the palace by the officials, he said to him: "Actually... I lied to you before. I have a name. I will tell you when I come back."

But until he died, he didn't know what the man's name was.

Only now did he realize that the man had put his real name and a piece of sincerity into that small purse and handed it over to him.

It's just that he couldn't see the meaning at the time, and didn't take it to heart.

Gu Yan didn't speak for a long time, Ye Zi stretched out his hand to touch Gu Yan's back, and called softly, "Zi Cheng?"

"It's okay." Gu Yan sighed softly, and let go of Ye Zi, "How are you resting? Let's continue on our way."

Ye Zi responded and didn't ask any more questions.

The two walked for another half an hour, and finally came to a spring in the deep mountains.There were some footprints near the spring. Gu Yan squatted down and looked at them for a moment: "The footprints should have been left not long ago, but there was some light rain in the past two days, and they have been washed away so that they can't be seen clearly."

Ye Zi said: "This place is remote, no villagers would come here in the past."

Gu Yan nodded: "Just look around here to see if there are any other clues."

"it is good."

Ye Zi and Gu Yan searched around the spring separately for a while, but apart from the few footprints just now, there were no other clues at all.

After walking for a while, he began to feel exhausted again, so he supported the tree trunk beside him to rest for a while.Suddenly, there was the sound of leaves gathering beside the two of them.Ye Zi raised his head sharply, and a feathered arrow shot out from the depths of the woods.

"Zi Cheng be careful!"

He was not too close to Gu Yan, and he only had time to remind him.Fortunately, Gu Yan's reaction was extremely sensitive, and when he noticed something strange, he immediately dodged the menacing arrow sideways.

Just as Ye Zi breathed a sigh of relief, the sound of a sharp weapon piercing the air was heard again in the forest.This time it was aimed at Ye Zi.Although he was aware of it, but his physical strength was too exhausted, he couldn't use any strength on his body, and his reaction was much slower, and there was no time to escape.

At this moment, Gu Yan suddenly threw him aside.The two rolled into the grass and avoided the arrow.

Gu Yan carefully protected Ye Zi in his arms, and chuckled: "Idiot, why are you in a daze?"

"I……"

"Let's go!" Ye Zi hadn't finished speaking when the feathered arrow behind him stabbed at the two of them again, Gu Yan pulled Ye Zi past him and dodged.

The two dodged left and right in the forest, Ye Zi's face turned pale, his palms were covered with sweat, and gradually he couldn't keep up with Gu Yan's footsteps.

Gu Yan suddenly realized something, stopped in his footsteps, and turned around to find that the face of the person beside him was terrible.

He didn't care much, hurriedly called out in a low voice: "Si Wei."

As soon as Gu Yan finished speaking, several black figures appeared from the shadows and shot down all the feathered arrows that were about to stab them.Afterwards, only a few screams were heard in the forest, followed by some kind of heavy object falling to the ground, and silence returned.

Several black shadows saluted Gu Yan, and disappeared quickly as if they had come.

Si Wei stepped out of the forest and knelt down in front of Gu Yan on one knee: "Master."

Gu Yan glanced at Ye Zi's face, and asked, "How, have everyone been caught?"

Si Wei paused for a moment, and said: "When the master lured them earlier, this subordinate has found most of the killers hidden in the dark. However, there may be some fish that slipped through the net, and this subordinate has already sent people to chase them down."

Gu Yandao: "Keep a few alive and bring them back for interrogation. Go, it's none of your business here."

"Yes." Si Wei replied, turned his head and disappeared into the forest.

Ye Zi leaned against the tree trunk, gasping for breath, his eyes turned black.

Gu Yan looked back at him, frowning: "What did you do?"