Seeing that the canonization ceremony was about to begin, but Emperor Jinghe fell ill at this moment, Gu Xun made a decisive decision to suspend the canonization ceremony, and the wedding banquet originally scheduled after the canonization ceremony was also postponed.
When the little gray bird heard the news, her eyes were red with anxiety, and she immediately wanted to go to Gu Xing, but the maid refused to let him go.
The two sides were at a stalemate, so Ye Zi had no choice but to tug on the hem of the little gray bird's clothes under the bed, signaling him to calm down.
The little gray bird calmed down a bit, waved the maid back, and Ye Zi crawled out from under the bed.
"Little Ye Zi..." Little Gray Sparrow was weeping, looking as if she had been wronged more and more.
"Don't worry," Ye Zi comforted, "It must be a mess outside now, I'll go out and have a look first, you wait in the bedroom and don't mess around."
The little gray bird opened its mouth, as if it wanted to say something more, but in the end it had no choice but to nod: "Yeah."
Ye Zi comforted the little gray bird, left the dormitory where he lived, returned by the same route, and changed back into his clothes in a secluded courtyard.
As soon as Ye Zi walked out of the palace, he saw Gu Yan waiting for him from a distance.
Seeing Ye Zi walking out, Gu Yan smiled and reached out to him: "Come here."
Ye Zi walked up to him and asked tentatively, "This...wouldn't be part of your plan, would it?"
Gu Yan hugged Ye Zi naturally, and the corners of his lips raised slightly: "Why did my beloved concubine say that, that old thing couldn't do it last night, and I've been with you every day these few days, how can I give him time? Poisoned?"
Although he said so, the smile on the corner of his mouth betrayed his true heart.Gu Yan seemed to be in a good mood, walking leisurely and pulling Ye Zi back.
Ye Zi thought for a while, then suddenly asked, "You didn't inject the poison on Emperor Jinghe's body, did you?"
"Of course it's not me." Gu Yan said flatly, "I can't bear the crime of killing the king."
Ye Zi sighed softly, and lowered his eyes: "That's Gu Ting...you told him everything?"
Gu Yan didn't hide it: "When I was in the south of the Yangtze River, I left a bag of pollen from the orchid flower, and I sent someone to give it to Gu Xing a few days ago."
Ye Zi said silently, "It's because of this that you don't let Gu Xun know that Que'er is still alive, right?"
"That's right." Gu Yan bent the corners of his lips, "I did Gu Xing a favor, and asked him to do me a favor, so it's clear. However, I didn't expect Gu Xing to be so cooperative, so quickly It's time to attack Emperor Jinghe."
"It seems that this third prince, oh no, it should be His Royal Highness the Crown Prince now, and his hatred for that old man, Emperor Jinghe, is not light."
Ye Zi subconsciously bit her lower lip.
Gu Xing hated Emperor Jinghe, of course there was a reason.
When his biological mother died of illness in Lenggong, he was sent to be raised in Concubine Yu's palace. Now, because of these two, he was forced to marry someone else.He didn't know that the crown princess was Que'er, so he naturally harbored hatred towards those two in his heart.
Moreover, poisoning Emperor Jinghe was the only way to postpone the wedding banquet.
Ye Zi suddenly couldn't laugh or cry in his heart. If Gu Xing knew that the person he was about to marry was not some rich lady, but someone he was thinking of, he wondered if he would regret today's dangerous move.
Gu Yan didn't say anything more, and walked forward quietly with Ye Zi in his arms.
Ye Zi tilted her head to look at his profile, thoughtful.
It had been a long time since he had seen Gu Yan so happy.
Ye Zi had expected that Gu Yan would not do nothing, but he never expected that this person would be so decisive.
Only now did he understand what Gu Yan meant by making those people pay the price they deserved.
Emperor Jinghe spread the plague in the past, and now he himself is disturbed by the poisonous orchid flower. This is indeed the best revenge.
The two walked through the imperial garden, but Ye Zi realized that the road they were taking was not in the direction of Emperor Jinghe's palace, so he asked, "Where are you going? Emperor Jinghe should be looking for you everywhere now, don't you go?" see you?"
Gu Yan stretched out his hand and gently squeezed Ye Zi's side face, and said with a smile, "What's the rush, let them find it. I'll take you somewhere first."
The more anxious Emperor Jinghe was, the happier Gu Yan felt, and he wanted to keep this happiness longer, so why would he send it to his door now.
Ye Zi understood what he meant, didn't say any more, and followed Gu Yan obediently.
Gu Yan led Ye Zi through the courtyard wall of the palace, and came to a corridor carved with hollowed out flowers.Ye Zi looked at the familiar corridor, and her heart trembled heavily.Turn right from the end of the veranda and pass through the courtyard gate. There is a secluded small courtyard with lush flowers and plants, and a tall banyan tree stands in it.
Ye Zi raised his eyes to look at the luxuriant tree crown, his eyes softened.
This is where he met Gu Yan for the first time.
At that time, the young Gu Yan climbed up the tree, but he didn't know how to get down, and almost fell from it.
It was Ye Zi who saved him.
Gu Yan stepped forward, stroked the trunk of the banyan tree, and said in a warm voice, "I still remember when I was a child, I always loved coming here."
"...At that time, I was taken into the palace by the imperial grandfather, but in fact there were not many people who could accompany me. The imperial grandfather treated me very well, but he was busy with government affairs and could not accompany me all the time. The little eunuch only regards me as his master, and most of the time, I don't even have anyone to talk to."
When Gu Yan said this, he sighed softly, turned to look at Ye Zi, and bent the corner of his mouth: "So no matter what, I am very grateful to him for sending you to my side."
"Zi Cheng..."
Gu Yan said: "Perhaps I shouldn't have said that, but Ah Zi, if it wasn't for this, how would we be here today."
"Sometimes, when I think of the past, I still feel unwilling, resentful, and disgusted. But I understand that if it weren't for those experiences in the past, we wouldn't be where we are today." Gu Yan looked deeply at Ye Zi, his tone calm, his eyes bright Softly, "If everything in the past is just for today, I think it's worth it."
Ye Zi's eyes moved slightly, staring blankly at the person in front of him, and understood why Gu Yan brought him here today.
Gu Yan always looks like a stranger in front of outsiders. Others say he is difficult to get close to, and that he doesn't understand style, but only Ye Zi has seen this person's gentle side.He hid the softest part of his heart, and from beginning to end, he only showed it to one person.
The lingering anxiety and doubt in Ye Zi's heart suddenly dissipated.
It wasn't until this time that Ye Zi came back to his senses. He still couldn't get out of the haze of the past these days, and worried whether Gu Yan would hold grudges against him.But on the contrary, it's not a kind of distrust for him to Gu Yan.
Gu Yan must have seen his thoughts, but he didn't say it clearly, but brought him here to enlighten him on the sidelines.
When this person treats Ye Zi, he is always gentle and considerate, making people feel distressed.
Ye Zi's heart was sore and soft, she grabbed Gu Yan's hand tightly, and said awkwardly: "Zi Cheng, I..."
The corner of Gu Yan's mouth curled up, and he put his hand on his lips, and said in a low voice, "I told you before, if you still want to apologize to me, I will punish you severely."
"Then... let me talk about something else." Ye Zi pursed her lips, raised her eyes to look at Gu Yan, tiptoed to kiss his lips lightly, "Zicheng, I really... like you so much .”
The sun shines on the two of them through the shadow of the tree, leaving mottled light and shadow.Ye Zi took half a step forward, gripped Gu Yan's collar tightly, gently pushed his back against the tree trunk, and kissed him again.
Gu Yan's lips were a little cold, and Ye Zi traced those two lips carefully, solemnly and piously.
Until a moment later, there was a sound of "ouch" in the distance.
Ye Zi was startled, subconsciously took half a step back, but Gu Yan grabbed his waist and pulled him closer.Gu Yan still wanted to ask him, but Ye Zi turned his head away: "Someone..."
He turned his head awkwardly, the two eunuchs were standing outside the courtyard, looking embarrassed, they didn't know whether to advance or retreat.
Gu Yan frowned, obviously dissatisfied with being disturbed.
Ye Zi broke free from Gu Yan's embrace, tidied up her robe guiltily, and stood there with her head bowed in silence.
The two eunuchs suddenly came to their senses at this moment, hurried forward, and knelt down in front of Gu Yan: "My lord, I have found you, and His Majesty and His Royal Highness have sent people to look for you everywhere."
Although the canonization ceremony was interrupted, the edict has been issued, and Gu Xing is already the current prince.
Gu Yan straightened his clothes unhurriedly, the dissatisfaction in his eyes still persisted: "I see that it's still early, and I'm walking around the palace with my concubine, what happened so anxious?"
The eunuch said: "Your Majesty is ill!"
There was no surprise on Gu Yan's face, and he said without pain or itching: "Since I am sick, I should seek an imperial physician. Why do you want me? I don't know how to treat."
The eunuch looked anxious, but he didn't know how to speak, so he just said: "I don't dare to say more details, please go to your majesty's bedroom first."
He talked about this, and Gu Yan couldn't shirk it, so he had to agree.
The two were led by the eunuch to the palace of Emperor Jinghe.
The palace was already full of people. The plague was extremely contagious. In order to avoid infection, the imperial physician only kept a small number of people in the palace, and most of them were driven out.
A group of palace officials and eunuchs knelt outside the hall, panicking for a while.
When the epidemic occurred in Chang'an 20 years ago, most of these people were still young or not born yet, but even so, they still heard about the terrible plague that killed half of the people in Chang'an and the former prince.
It's strange to say that not long ago, Gu Yan had just cured the plague in the south of the Yangtze River. How could it be said that it was so good that it was reported back to the imperial city?
Gu Yan and Ye Zi were quickly led outside the bedroom by two eunuchs. The two eunuchs were not allowed to enter, so they pushed open the door for them and stopped moving forward.
The two stepped into the bedroom.
Compared to the outside, the bedroom was extraordinarily quiet, so peaceful that it was a bit lifeless.Only the sound of coughing could be heard faintly in the inner room.
The two walked into the inner room, and Emperor Jinghe was lying on the bed, surrounded by a group of imperial doctors, who were carefully examining him.Gu Xing stood quietly behind the crowd, watching all this calmly, with an almost indifferent expression.
Seeing the two of them coming in, Gu Xun nodded slightly towards them: "Cousin, cousin."
Several imperial physicians noticed Gu Yan's arrival, and turned their heads to salute the two of them.When Emperor Jinghe heard the noise, he raised his bony hands, and a hoarse voice came out of his throat: "...is that Yan'er?"
There was a trace of disgust in Gu Yan's eyes, but he quickly restrained himself and stepped forward to hold Emperor Jinghe's hand.
Gu Yan called out: "Your Majesty, it's me."
Emperor Jinghe moved his eyes, coughed heavily, and said with difficulty: "Let...let them go down first."
"Yes." Gu Yan replied softly, then turned to look at Gu Ting, "His Royal Highness, you and the imperial physicians should go out first."
Gu Xing nodded, motioning for the imperial physician to go out with him.Ye Zi hesitated, Gu Yan winked at him, and he followed Gu Xing away.
For a moment, only Emperor Jinghe and Gu Yan were left in the dormitory.
Gu Yan looked down at him for a while, then said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, everyone has left, so what you want to say, just say it."
Emperor Jinghe raised his eyelids, as if confirming something from his face.But Gu Yan's expression was indifferent, without any flaws.Emperor Jinghe couldn't see anything. After a while, he closed his eyes and said softly, "...the antidote."
Gu Yan said: "It's gone."
Emperor Jinghe's hand suddenly tightened.
The illness came like a mountain, and the night after the poisoning seemed to drain all his strength, compared to the appearance when Gu Yan saw him a few days ago, he was even more haggard.Even though he used all his strength to hold on to Gu Yan, it still did not prevent Gu Yan from breaking free easily.
But Gu Yan didn't break free.
Emperor Jinghe's fingers were trembling, and he asked in a hissing voice: "Only you, only you have been in contact with Wulanhua, do you think I will believe it?"
Gu Yan chuckled lightly, and said lightly: "Your Majesty, don't you think that it was your nephew who poisoned you?"
Emperor Jinghe's pupils shrank slightly.
After realizing that he was poisoned, Emperor Jinghe's first thought was Gu Yan.Besides this man, who else could possibly be exposed to the pollen of the turnip flower right now?
Gu Yandao: "Your Majesty, don't even think about it. It is precisely because my nephew has just cured the disease, and it is even more impossible to turn around and use the same method to harm you. What's more, it's so good, why did my nephew give you a medicine?" poison?"
Naturally, it was because he harmed the former prince with this method.
Emperor Jinghe opened his mouth, but said nothing.
He knew how much his brother Jing Wang Gu Yi respected the former prince.As much as that respect is, so much is the hatred for him.
Therefore, whether Gu Yi told Gu Yan or not, Jinghe Emperor was not sure.
He didn't dare to attack Gu Yan for a long time, because he was worried that if he knew about it and acted rashly, it would make this matter public.He hesitated for a long time, but before he could make up his mind on how to deal with Gu Yan, he fell down first.
The orchid flower, this kind of poisonous flower that once helped him win the throne, has turned against him and strangled him by the throat.
If you talk about the poisoner, Gu Yan will be the first to bear the brunt.But until now, the person Emperor Jinghe dared not touch the most was Gu Yan.
Because this person may be the only person in this world who has the antidote.
Gu Yan glanced at the hand tightly held by the other party, and said calmly: "I found out in Guangling that Feng Yihai cultivated poisonous flowers, and used the roots of the poisonous flowers as an antidote. After curing the diseases of the people in Jiangnan, those flower roots have disappeared As for those poisonous flowers, His Majesty didn't want to have extra branches at that time, so I burned them all secretly, not leaving a single one."
After investigating Feng Yihai, Gu Yan once wrote a letter to Emperor Jinghe, telling Emperor Jinghe that Feng Yihai poisoned the people to fake a plague.However, Emperor Jinghe's reply at that time was that it was unavoidable, so Gu Yan treated the matter as an ordinary plague, and destroyed all the poisonous flowers, and did not mention the poisoning anywhere.
Gu Yan paused, then said softly, "I did all these things according to His Majesty's orders."
"You—" Emperor Jinghe tried to sit up, as if he wanted to say something, but he was short of breath, causing a severe cough.
Gu Yan tilted his head to hide for a while, stretched out his hand to stroke the back of Emperor Jinghe a few times, and said lightly: "Your Majesty, please take care of the dragon body. Although the antidote is gone, my nephew still has a prescription that can alleviate this illness. If Your Majesty agrees, my nephew can invite the doctor beside me to the palace to treat Your Majesty."
Emperor Jinghe raised his eyes and stared at him, but did not speak for a long time.
After many years, there were no turnips around him.In the past, Imperial Concubine Yu only gave Feng Yihai a few seeds of the orchids, and asked him to plant them and poison them with pollen.
Even if Concubine Yu still had the remaining radix orchid seeds, it was impossible to obtain the root antidote within seven days after cultivating them now.
Emperor Jinghe felt a sudden sadness in his heart.He never imagined that one day, he would attach his life to Gu Yan, whom he had feared all his life.
Gu Yan sat beside Emperor Jinghe with a calm expression, as if waiting for his answer.
Emperor Jinghe had no choice but to nod his head: "...OK."
There was a faint smile on the corner of Gu Yan's mouth, and he carefully and properly supported Emperor Jinghe to lie down, got up and said, "In this way, my nephew will go to pass on His Majesty's will. From tomorrow onwards, the imperial doctor will not have to come, and I will be the one next to my nephew." Doctor, don’t worry, your majesty, my nephew has tried that decoction when he was in the south of the Yangtze River, and at least it can save your majesty’s life for more than a month, maybe your majesty will find the antidote during this period.”
Emperor Jinghe's eyes moved slightly, but in the end he didn't say anything, and closed his eyes dejectedly.
Gu Yan looked at the old man with a sick face on the bed quietly, almost unable to restrain his joy.He loves Emperor Jinghe's appearance of being manipulated by others very much, but this is not enough, he wants to continue this man's life, so that he can see more good shows.
In his past and present lives, he has been suspected and calculated by this person many times, and now it is finally time to pay back.
Gu Yan sneered in his heart, turned his head and left the inner room.
He pushed open the door of the sleeping hall, and told the eunuch next to Emperor Jinghe what Emperor Jinghe had promised.After explaining, he found that Gu Xun and Ye Zi had disappeared.
In a secluded palace not far from Emperor Jinghe's palace, Ye Zi stood on the spot, looking at the gloomy face of the man not far away, who was almost dripping with water, with a bit of embarrassment and embarrassment in his eyes.
On his shoulder, the little gray bird that had changed back to its original shape was grabbing his clothes, its round eyes were staring at the same direction, and its fluffy feathers were trembling in fear.
Just now when he left the Jinghe Emperor's bedroom, Ye Zi was worried that Gu Xun was in a hurry, and wanted to explain the matter to Gu Xun.
He avoided the palace people and called Gu Xing here, before he could think of how to speak, a fluffy gray ball fell from the sky and hit Gu Xing on the top of his head.
Gu Xun's face suddenly became very exciting.
Gu Xing stared at the chubby little sparrow, gritted his teeth and said, "Where have you been all this time?"
The little gray bird shrank her neck, a little afraid of his appearance, and said honestly in a low voice: "I...I will wait for you to marry me."
"What are you talking about—" Gu Xun's voice stopped abruptly, his eyes narrowed, and he took a step forward, "It's you?"
The little gray sparrow hid behind Ye Zi and dared not come out, and said in a low voice, "Ah, what are you talking about... I am me."
Gu Xing settled down, quickly went through the events of this period of time in his mind, and asked, "Is the princess concubine you?"
The little gray bird almost buried its head in its feathers: "...Yes."
"You..." Gu Xun's eyes suddenly became darker, "Since you are fine, why didn't you tell me, I thought you—"
He took a deep breath and eased his gaffe slightly.
No one knows how he got here these days.
That day, he threatened with the secret of Wulanhua, trying to force Concubine Yu to return Que'er to him, but was told that the man had died under the knife of the Ouchi guards.Concubine Yu apologized to him in every possible way, but Gu Xing couldn't listen to anything, and only wanted to avenge Que'er.
In order to get revenge, he deliberately pretended not to care, and deceived the trust of Concubine Yu, and secretly planted orchid pollen in the bird's nest that Concubine Yu gave to Emperor Jinghe.
The poisoned Concubine Yu could not escape death, and Emperor Jinghe would also die from the poisonous orchid flower because there was no cure.
He even made up his mind that even if he fought to the death, he would drag those two people to be buried with him.
But now, the bird actually flew back by itself, as if nothing had happened?
Gu Xun's face was gloomy, and Ye Zi was extremely uncomfortable being caught between them, and couldn't help but said: "Your Highness... No, His Royal Highness, there is some misunderstanding on this matter, please listen to my explanation."
Gu Xun glanced at him, and suddenly realized something.
He was already extremely intelligent, and after calming down, he quickly cleared up the matter.
Que'er was supposed to be executed by Concubine Yu, but not only survived, but also entered the palace disguised as a beautiful girl and became the princess.Among them, there is nothing that this stupid bird can do by itself.
Gu Xun was hesitating and asked Ye Zi, "Did the cousin save Que'er?"
Ye Zi's eyes wandered for a moment, and he suddenly regretted it.Even if he wanted to explain, he should have waited for Gu Yan to arrive, so that he would not have to face the anger of the newly crowned Crown Prince directly.
He subconsciously glanced in the direction of Jinghe Emperor's bedroom, the door of that bedroom was still closed, and he didn't know if Gu Yan had come out or not.
Ye Zi swallowed, and bit the bullet to tell about Gu Yan's rescue of Que'er.
Gu Xing's eyes narrowed slightly, and it took a while for the anger in his eyes to calm down.Ye Zi didn't dare to say that Gu Yan took advantage of his affairs, but Gu Xing was not stupid, and immediately heard what Ye Zi meant.
He calmed down a little, and in a blink of an eye he turned back to the calm third prince in the past: "No matter what happened today, Yuan Hui would like to thank my cousin for saving his life. I also hope that my cousin will take me to tell my cousin that Yuan Hui must Remember his kindness and repay it someday.”
Ye Zi hesitantly responded, Gu Xing seemed not to want to talk to him, and his eyes fell on the little gray bird: "Come here soon."
The little gray sparrow's feathers shook and said, "If you don't hit me, I'll go over."
Gu Xun was so angry that he had a headache, and said patiently: "I won't hit you, come here quickly."
Only then did the little gray bird feel relieved.He cautiously flew to Gu Xing's side, tentatively pecked his lips lightly with his bird's beak, and fell into his palm.
Gu Ting's expression softened a little, and he said to Ye Zi: "Cousin, I'll take my leave first, I'm afraid my cousin will have to worry about my father's side."
The implication is that he does not want to care about the life and death of Emperor Jinghe.
Ye Zi nodded quickly, watching the two leave.
Gu Xun walked out of the palace with the little gray sparrow in his arms, and he could hear the conversation between the two from a distance.
"Where are you taking me?"
"The bedroom."
"No, I have to go back. I sneaked out. They must be very anxious."
"...It's okay, I'll send someone to tell them later that the wedding banquet is temporarily cancelled, and I'll take you back to the bedroom directly."
"Oh."
"Can't you change back now?"
"No, I have no strength."
"..."
"what's wrong?"
"It's okay, we'll talk about it when you transform back."
When the little gray bird heard the news, her eyes were red with anxiety, and she immediately wanted to go to Gu Xing, but the maid refused to let him go.
The two sides were at a stalemate, so Ye Zi had no choice but to tug on the hem of the little gray bird's clothes under the bed, signaling him to calm down.
The little gray bird calmed down a bit, waved the maid back, and Ye Zi crawled out from under the bed.
"Little Ye Zi..." Little Gray Sparrow was weeping, looking as if she had been wronged more and more.
"Don't worry," Ye Zi comforted, "It must be a mess outside now, I'll go out and have a look first, you wait in the bedroom and don't mess around."
The little gray bird opened its mouth, as if it wanted to say something more, but in the end it had no choice but to nod: "Yeah."
Ye Zi comforted the little gray bird, left the dormitory where he lived, returned by the same route, and changed back into his clothes in a secluded courtyard.
As soon as Ye Zi walked out of the palace, he saw Gu Yan waiting for him from a distance.
Seeing Ye Zi walking out, Gu Yan smiled and reached out to him: "Come here."
Ye Zi walked up to him and asked tentatively, "This...wouldn't be part of your plan, would it?"
Gu Yan hugged Ye Zi naturally, and the corners of his lips raised slightly: "Why did my beloved concubine say that, that old thing couldn't do it last night, and I've been with you every day these few days, how can I give him time? Poisoned?"
Although he said so, the smile on the corner of his mouth betrayed his true heart.Gu Yan seemed to be in a good mood, walking leisurely and pulling Ye Zi back.
Ye Zi thought for a while, then suddenly asked, "You didn't inject the poison on Emperor Jinghe's body, did you?"
"Of course it's not me." Gu Yan said flatly, "I can't bear the crime of killing the king."
Ye Zi sighed softly, and lowered his eyes: "That's Gu Ting...you told him everything?"
Gu Yan didn't hide it: "When I was in the south of the Yangtze River, I left a bag of pollen from the orchid flower, and I sent someone to give it to Gu Xing a few days ago."
Ye Zi said silently, "It's because of this that you don't let Gu Xun know that Que'er is still alive, right?"
"That's right." Gu Yan bent the corners of his lips, "I did Gu Xing a favor, and asked him to do me a favor, so it's clear. However, I didn't expect Gu Xing to be so cooperative, so quickly It's time to attack Emperor Jinghe."
"It seems that this third prince, oh no, it should be His Royal Highness the Crown Prince now, and his hatred for that old man, Emperor Jinghe, is not light."
Ye Zi subconsciously bit her lower lip.
Gu Xing hated Emperor Jinghe, of course there was a reason.
When his biological mother died of illness in Lenggong, he was sent to be raised in Concubine Yu's palace. Now, because of these two, he was forced to marry someone else.He didn't know that the crown princess was Que'er, so he naturally harbored hatred towards those two in his heart.
Moreover, poisoning Emperor Jinghe was the only way to postpone the wedding banquet.
Ye Zi suddenly couldn't laugh or cry in his heart. If Gu Xing knew that the person he was about to marry was not some rich lady, but someone he was thinking of, he wondered if he would regret today's dangerous move.
Gu Yan didn't say anything more, and walked forward quietly with Ye Zi in his arms.
Ye Zi tilted her head to look at his profile, thoughtful.
It had been a long time since he had seen Gu Yan so happy.
Ye Zi had expected that Gu Yan would not do nothing, but he never expected that this person would be so decisive.
Only now did he understand what Gu Yan meant by making those people pay the price they deserved.
Emperor Jinghe spread the plague in the past, and now he himself is disturbed by the poisonous orchid flower. This is indeed the best revenge.
The two walked through the imperial garden, but Ye Zi realized that the road they were taking was not in the direction of Emperor Jinghe's palace, so he asked, "Where are you going? Emperor Jinghe should be looking for you everywhere now, don't you go?" see you?"
Gu Yan stretched out his hand and gently squeezed Ye Zi's side face, and said with a smile, "What's the rush, let them find it. I'll take you somewhere first."
The more anxious Emperor Jinghe was, the happier Gu Yan felt, and he wanted to keep this happiness longer, so why would he send it to his door now.
Ye Zi understood what he meant, didn't say any more, and followed Gu Yan obediently.
Gu Yan led Ye Zi through the courtyard wall of the palace, and came to a corridor carved with hollowed out flowers.Ye Zi looked at the familiar corridor, and her heart trembled heavily.Turn right from the end of the veranda and pass through the courtyard gate. There is a secluded small courtyard with lush flowers and plants, and a tall banyan tree stands in it.
Ye Zi raised his eyes to look at the luxuriant tree crown, his eyes softened.
This is where he met Gu Yan for the first time.
At that time, the young Gu Yan climbed up the tree, but he didn't know how to get down, and almost fell from it.
It was Ye Zi who saved him.
Gu Yan stepped forward, stroked the trunk of the banyan tree, and said in a warm voice, "I still remember when I was a child, I always loved coming here."
"...At that time, I was taken into the palace by the imperial grandfather, but in fact there were not many people who could accompany me. The imperial grandfather treated me very well, but he was busy with government affairs and could not accompany me all the time. The little eunuch only regards me as his master, and most of the time, I don't even have anyone to talk to."
When Gu Yan said this, he sighed softly, turned to look at Ye Zi, and bent the corner of his mouth: "So no matter what, I am very grateful to him for sending you to my side."
"Zi Cheng..."
Gu Yan said: "Perhaps I shouldn't have said that, but Ah Zi, if it wasn't for this, how would we be here today."
"Sometimes, when I think of the past, I still feel unwilling, resentful, and disgusted. But I understand that if it weren't for those experiences in the past, we wouldn't be where we are today." Gu Yan looked deeply at Ye Zi, his tone calm, his eyes bright Softly, "If everything in the past is just for today, I think it's worth it."
Ye Zi's eyes moved slightly, staring blankly at the person in front of him, and understood why Gu Yan brought him here today.
Gu Yan always looks like a stranger in front of outsiders. Others say he is difficult to get close to, and that he doesn't understand style, but only Ye Zi has seen this person's gentle side.He hid the softest part of his heart, and from beginning to end, he only showed it to one person.
The lingering anxiety and doubt in Ye Zi's heart suddenly dissipated.
It wasn't until this time that Ye Zi came back to his senses. He still couldn't get out of the haze of the past these days, and worried whether Gu Yan would hold grudges against him.But on the contrary, it's not a kind of distrust for him to Gu Yan.
Gu Yan must have seen his thoughts, but he didn't say it clearly, but brought him here to enlighten him on the sidelines.
When this person treats Ye Zi, he is always gentle and considerate, making people feel distressed.
Ye Zi's heart was sore and soft, she grabbed Gu Yan's hand tightly, and said awkwardly: "Zi Cheng, I..."
The corner of Gu Yan's mouth curled up, and he put his hand on his lips, and said in a low voice, "I told you before, if you still want to apologize to me, I will punish you severely."
"Then... let me talk about something else." Ye Zi pursed her lips, raised her eyes to look at Gu Yan, tiptoed to kiss his lips lightly, "Zicheng, I really... like you so much .”
The sun shines on the two of them through the shadow of the tree, leaving mottled light and shadow.Ye Zi took half a step forward, gripped Gu Yan's collar tightly, gently pushed his back against the tree trunk, and kissed him again.
Gu Yan's lips were a little cold, and Ye Zi traced those two lips carefully, solemnly and piously.
Until a moment later, there was a sound of "ouch" in the distance.
Ye Zi was startled, subconsciously took half a step back, but Gu Yan grabbed his waist and pulled him closer.Gu Yan still wanted to ask him, but Ye Zi turned his head away: "Someone..."
He turned his head awkwardly, the two eunuchs were standing outside the courtyard, looking embarrassed, they didn't know whether to advance or retreat.
Gu Yan frowned, obviously dissatisfied with being disturbed.
Ye Zi broke free from Gu Yan's embrace, tidied up her robe guiltily, and stood there with her head bowed in silence.
The two eunuchs suddenly came to their senses at this moment, hurried forward, and knelt down in front of Gu Yan: "My lord, I have found you, and His Majesty and His Royal Highness have sent people to look for you everywhere."
Although the canonization ceremony was interrupted, the edict has been issued, and Gu Xing is already the current prince.
Gu Yan straightened his clothes unhurriedly, the dissatisfaction in his eyes still persisted: "I see that it's still early, and I'm walking around the palace with my concubine, what happened so anxious?"
The eunuch said: "Your Majesty is ill!"
There was no surprise on Gu Yan's face, and he said without pain or itching: "Since I am sick, I should seek an imperial physician. Why do you want me? I don't know how to treat."
The eunuch looked anxious, but he didn't know how to speak, so he just said: "I don't dare to say more details, please go to your majesty's bedroom first."
He talked about this, and Gu Yan couldn't shirk it, so he had to agree.
The two were led by the eunuch to the palace of Emperor Jinghe.
The palace was already full of people. The plague was extremely contagious. In order to avoid infection, the imperial physician only kept a small number of people in the palace, and most of them were driven out.
A group of palace officials and eunuchs knelt outside the hall, panicking for a while.
When the epidemic occurred in Chang'an 20 years ago, most of these people were still young or not born yet, but even so, they still heard about the terrible plague that killed half of the people in Chang'an and the former prince.
It's strange to say that not long ago, Gu Yan had just cured the plague in the south of the Yangtze River. How could it be said that it was so good that it was reported back to the imperial city?
Gu Yan and Ye Zi were quickly led outside the bedroom by two eunuchs. The two eunuchs were not allowed to enter, so they pushed open the door for them and stopped moving forward.
The two stepped into the bedroom.
Compared to the outside, the bedroom was extraordinarily quiet, so peaceful that it was a bit lifeless.Only the sound of coughing could be heard faintly in the inner room.
The two walked into the inner room, and Emperor Jinghe was lying on the bed, surrounded by a group of imperial doctors, who were carefully examining him.Gu Xing stood quietly behind the crowd, watching all this calmly, with an almost indifferent expression.
Seeing the two of them coming in, Gu Xun nodded slightly towards them: "Cousin, cousin."
Several imperial physicians noticed Gu Yan's arrival, and turned their heads to salute the two of them.When Emperor Jinghe heard the noise, he raised his bony hands, and a hoarse voice came out of his throat: "...is that Yan'er?"
There was a trace of disgust in Gu Yan's eyes, but he quickly restrained himself and stepped forward to hold Emperor Jinghe's hand.
Gu Yan called out: "Your Majesty, it's me."
Emperor Jinghe moved his eyes, coughed heavily, and said with difficulty: "Let...let them go down first."
"Yes." Gu Yan replied softly, then turned to look at Gu Ting, "His Royal Highness, you and the imperial physicians should go out first."
Gu Xing nodded, motioning for the imperial physician to go out with him.Ye Zi hesitated, Gu Yan winked at him, and he followed Gu Xing away.
For a moment, only Emperor Jinghe and Gu Yan were left in the dormitory.
Gu Yan looked down at him for a while, then said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, everyone has left, so what you want to say, just say it."
Emperor Jinghe raised his eyelids, as if confirming something from his face.But Gu Yan's expression was indifferent, without any flaws.Emperor Jinghe couldn't see anything. After a while, he closed his eyes and said softly, "...the antidote."
Gu Yan said: "It's gone."
Emperor Jinghe's hand suddenly tightened.
The illness came like a mountain, and the night after the poisoning seemed to drain all his strength, compared to the appearance when Gu Yan saw him a few days ago, he was even more haggard.Even though he used all his strength to hold on to Gu Yan, it still did not prevent Gu Yan from breaking free easily.
But Gu Yan didn't break free.
Emperor Jinghe's fingers were trembling, and he asked in a hissing voice: "Only you, only you have been in contact with Wulanhua, do you think I will believe it?"
Gu Yan chuckled lightly, and said lightly: "Your Majesty, don't you think that it was your nephew who poisoned you?"
Emperor Jinghe's pupils shrank slightly.
After realizing that he was poisoned, Emperor Jinghe's first thought was Gu Yan.Besides this man, who else could possibly be exposed to the pollen of the turnip flower right now?
Gu Yandao: "Your Majesty, don't even think about it. It is precisely because my nephew has just cured the disease, and it is even more impossible to turn around and use the same method to harm you. What's more, it's so good, why did my nephew give you a medicine?" poison?"
Naturally, it was because he harmed the former prince with this method.
Emperor Jinghe opened his mouth, but said nothing.
He knew how much his brother Jing Wang Gu Yi respected the former prince.As much as that respect is, so much is the hatred for him.
Therefore, whether Gu Yi told Gu Yan or not, Jinghe Emperor was not sure.
He didn't dare to attack Gu Yan for a long time, because he was worried that if he knew about it and acted rashly, it would make this matter public.He hesitated for a long time, but before he could make up his mind on how to deal with Gu Yan, he fell down first.
The orchid flower, this kind of poisonous flower that once helped him win the throne, has turned against him and strangled him by the throat.
If you talk about the poisoner, Gu Yan will be the first to bear the brunt.But until now, the person Emperor Jinghe dared not touch the most was Gu Yan.
Because this person may be the only person in this world who has the antidote.
Gu Yan glanced at the hand tightly held by the other party, and said calmly: "I found out in Guangling that Feng Yihai cultivated poisonous flowers, and used the roots of the poisonous flowers as an antidote. After curing the diseases of the people in Jiangnan, those flower roots have disappeared As for those poisonous flowers, His Majesty didn't want to have extra branches at that time, so I burned them all secretly, not leaving a single one."
After investigating Feng Yihai, Gu Yan once wrote a letter to Emperor Jinghe, telling Emperor Jinghe that Feng Yihai poisoned the people to fake a plague.However, Emperor Jinghe's reply at that time was that it was unavoidable, so Gu Yan treated the matter as an ordinary plague, and destroyed all the poisonous flowers, and did not mention the poisoning anywhere.
Gu Yan paused, then said softly, "I did all these things according to His Majesty's orders."
"You—" Emperor Jinghe tried to sit up, as if he wanted to say something, but he was short of breath, causing a severe cough.
Gu Yan tilted his head to hide for a while, stretched out his hand to stroke the back of Emperor Jinghe a few times, and said lightly: "Your Majesty, please take care of the dragon body. Although the antidote is gone, my nephew still has a prescription that can alleviate this illness. If Your Majesty agrees, my nephew can invite the doctor beside me to the palace to treat Your Majesty."
Emperor Jinghe raised his eyes and stared at him, but did not speak for a long time.
After many years, there were no turnips around him.In the past, Imperial Concubine Yu only gave Feng Yihai a few seeds of the orchids, and asked him to plant them and poison them with pollen.
Even if Concubine Yu still had the remaining radix orchid seeds, it was impossible to obtain the root antidote within seven days after cultivating them now.
Emperor Jinghe felt a sudden sadness in his heart.He never imagined that one day, he would attach his life to Gu Yan, whom he had feared all his life.
Gu Yan sat beside Emperor Jinghe with a calm expression, as if waiting for his answer.
Emperor Jinghe had no choice but to nod his head: "...OK."
There was a faint smile on the corner of Gu Yan's mouth, and he carefully and properly supported Emperor Jinghe to lie down, got up and said, "In this way, my nephew will go to pass on His Majesty's will. From tomorrow onwards, the imperial doctor will not have to come, and I will be the one next to my nephew." Doctor, don’t worry, your majesty, my nephew has tried that decoction when he was in the south of the Yangtze River, and at least it can save your majesty’s life for more than a month, maybe your majesty will find the antidote during this period.”
Emperor Jinghe's eyes moved slightly, but in the end he didn't say anything, and closed his eyes dejectedly.
Gu Yan looked at the old man with a sick face on the bed quietly, almost unable to restrain his joy.He loves Emperor Jinghe's appearance of being manipulated by others very much, but this is not enough, he wants to continue this man's life, so that he can see more good shows.
In his past and present lives, he has been suspected and calculated by this person many times, and now it is finally time to pay back.
Gu Yan sneered in his heart, turned his head and left the inner room.
He pushed open the door of the sleeping hall, and told the eunuch next to Emperor Jinghe what Emperor Jinghe had promised.After explaining, he found that Gu Xun and Ye Zi had disappeared.
In a secluded palace not far from Emperor Jinghe's palace, Ye Zi stood on the spot, looking at the gloomy face of the man not far away, who was almost dripping with water, with a bit of embarrassment and embarrassment in his eyes.
On his shoulder, the little gray bird that had changed back to its original shape was grabbing his clothes, its round eyes were staring at the same direction, and its fluffy feathers were trembling in fear.
Just now when he left the Jinghe Emperor's bedroom, Ye Zi was worried that Gu Xun was in a hurry, and wanted to explain the matter to Gu Xun.
He avoided the palace people and called Gu Xing here, before he could think of how to speak, a fluffy gray ball fell from the sky and hit Gu Xing on the top of his head.
Gu Xun's face suddenly became very exciting.
Gu Xing stared at the chubby little sparrow, gritted his teeth and said, "Where have you been all this time?"
The little gray bird shrank her neck, a little afraid of his appearance, and said honestly in a low voice: "I...I will wait for you to marry me."
"What are you talking about—" Gu Xun's voice stopped abruptly, his eyes narrowed, and he took a step forward, "It's you?"
The little gray sparrow hid behind Ye Zi and dared not come out, and said in a low voice, "Ah, what are you talking about... I am me."
Gu Xing settled down, quickly went through the events of this period of time in his mind, and asked, "Is the princess concubine you?"
The little gray bird almost buried its head in its feathers: "...Yes."
"You..." Gu Xun's eyes suddenly became darker, "Since you are fine, why didn't you tell me, I thought you—"
He took a deep breath and eased his gaffe slightly.
No one knows how he got here these days.
That day, he threatened with the secret of Wulanhua, trying to force Concubine Yu to return Que'er to him, but was told that the man had died under the knife of the Ouchi guards.Concubine Yu apologized to him in every possible way, but Gu Xing couldn't listen to anything, and only wanted to avenge Que'er.
In order to get revenge, he deliberately pretended not to care, and deceived the trust of Concubine Yu, and secretly planted orchid pollen in the bird's nest that Concubine Yu gave to Emperor Jinghe.
The poisoned Concubine Yu could not escape death, and Emperor Jinghe would also die from the poisonous orchid flower because there was no cure.
He even made up his mind that even if he fought to the death, he would drag those two people to be buried with him.
But now, the bird actually flew back by itself, as if nothing had happened?
Gu Xun's face was gloomy, and Ye Zi was extremely uncomfortable being caught between them, and couldn't help but said: "Your Highness... No, His Royal Highness, there is some misunderstanding on this matter, please listen to my explanation."
Gu Xun glanced at him, and suddenly realized something.
He was already extremely intelligent, and after calming down, he quickly cleared up the matter.
Que'er was supposed to be executed by Concubine Yu, but not only survived, but also entered the palace disguised as a beautiful girl and became the princess.Among them, there is nothing that this stupid bird can do by itself.
Gu Xun was hesitating and asked Ye Zi, "Did the cousin save Que'er?"
Ye Zi's eyes wandered for a moment, and he suddenly regretted it.Even if he wanted to explain, he should have waited for Gu Yan to arrive, so that he would not have to face the anger of the newly crowned Crown Prince directly.
He subconsciously glanced in the direction of Jinghe Emperor's bedroom, the door of that bedroom was still closed, and he didn't know if Gu Yan had come out or not.
Ye Zi swallowed, and bit the bullet to tell about Gu Yan's rescue of Que'er.
Gu Xing's eyes narrowed slightly, and it took a while for the anger in his eyes to calm down.Ye Zi didn't dare to say that Gu Yan took advantage of his affairs, but Gu Xing was not stupid, and immediately heard what Ye Zi meant.
He calmed down a little, and in a blink of an eye he turned back to the calm third prince in the past: "No matter what happened today, Yuan Hui would like to thank my cousin for saving his life. I also hope that my cousin will take me to tell my cousin that Yuan Hui must Remember his kindness and repay it someday.”
Ye Zi hesitantly responded, Gu Xing seemed not to want to talk to him, and his eyes fell on the little gray bird: "Come here soon."
The little gray sparrow's feathers shook and said, "If you don't hit me, I'll go over."
Gu Xun was so angry that he had a headache, and said patiently: "I won't hit you, come here quickly."
Only then did the little gray bird feel relieved.He cautiously flew to Gu Xing's side, tentatively pecked his lips lightly with his bird's beak, and fell into his palm.
Gu Ting's expression softened a little, and he said to Ye Zi: "Cousin, I'll take my leave first, I'm afraid my cousin will have to worry about my father's side."
The implication is that he does not want to care about the life and death of Emperor Jinghe.
Ye Zi nodded quickly, watching the two leave.
Gu Xun walked out of the palace with the little gray sparrow in his arms, and he could hear the conversation between the two from a distance.
"Where are you taking me?"
"The bedroom."
"No, I have to go back. I sneaked out. They must be very anxious."
"...It's okay, I'll send someone to tell them later that the wedding banquet is temporarily cancelled, and I'll take you back to the bedroom directly."
"Oh."
"Can't you change back now?"
"No, I have no strength."
"..."
"what's wrong?"
"It's okay, we'll talk about it when you transform back."
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