Empress Dowager Guide

Chapter 98

"It's hard for you to be sober, and you can hear who I am."

Princess Lin Yang leisurely sat on the stool brought by the servants, and Ji Baochuan also stood behind Princess Lin Yang, condescendingly looking down at Shen Gui who was lying on the bed.

However, Shen Gui struggled for a while and wanted to get up to salute, but he still couldn't get up.

Because of the incomparably clear pain brought by getting up, Shen Gui's nerves were grinded, and the expression on his face became grim.

Princess Lin Yang saw his embarrassment, "The Privy Councilor is so embarrassing, it's better to be excused."

Shen Gui also gradually woke up from the dream of a family reunion. In the fierce battle last night, those brothers who were born and died with him all died to protect him. Now, he is left alone in this hometown called hometown with nothing to do. There is no hometown feeling in Beiliang.

Princess Lin Yang turned her head and asked Li Taiyi again, "How is the detoxification on the privy envoy?"

Doctor Li's heart was shocked when he heard the identity of this person, could this be Helian's Northern Privy Envoy? !How could he be in Beiliang?And why was he seriously injured in the Princess Mansion? !

In a blink of an eye, he looked up at the princess with a slightly warning look, and immediately bowed down and said, "If you go back to the princess, I have already pulled out the poison in the blood for your lord, but some of the poison may have penetrated into the bone, and it still needs to be done slowly." Pull it out slowly."

Shen Gui was also shocked when he heard this, was the knife quenched with poison?

He... is really poisonous!

Princess Lin Yang nodded and said, "Northern Privy Envoy, don't worry, this Imperial Physician Li is the best at this. He will definitely be able to expel the Privy Envoy's poison within a few days and restore your health."

Shen Gui struggled to sit up with the help of his servants, tried his best to cup his fists at the princess and said, "The minister thank you princess!"

Then he asked the imperial physician, "Dare to ask the imperial physician, what kind of poison is in my body?"

Li Taiyi glanced at the princess, saw the princess nodded slightly, and answered boldly, "I don't know the exact name of this poison, but as far as I know, this poison is taken from Helian. The female flowers of the hermaphrodite medicinal flowers on Shenshan Mountain are poisonous flowers, which are made by extracting the essence of the male plants and adding various poisons in different proportions..."

Before Li Taiyi finished speaking, Shen Gui continued, "If you take it internally, you will die immediately. If the poison is only infected on the wound, you can only live for a few days. If you can't get effective treatment, within three days, you must die." Take people's lives."

"Hey," Li Taiji said in shock, "Why do you..."

Before the word "know" could be uttered, Imperial Physician Li closed his mouth resentfully in the eyes of Princess Lin Yang.

Shen Gui snorted, "Xiangsiyin, thank goodness he figured it out!"

Doctor Li hurriedly took out his notebook and wrote down the poison's name.

Princess Lin Yang heard Shen Gui's meaning, maybe she already knew who the murderer behind this scene was?

Could it be that both her and Ji Baochuan's conjectures were uncountable, it wasn't that he was selling miserably by Shen Gui, but the truth was as the Queen Mother thought, that someone in Helian was behind the scenes?
"The foreign minister has something to say to the princess alone, can you..."

Shen Gui glanced at all the people present, and suddenly caught a glimpse of Ji Baochuan with an indifferent expression behind Princess Linyang, feeling a little guilty in his heart, but this emotion was just swept away, and then he looked at Princess Linyang's playful eyes, and moved silently. Opened the line of sight.

"Emperor Li, go and see if the medicine is ready?"

Everyone in the room retreated knowingly, and Princess Lin Yang suddenly said, "Bao Chuan stay here."

Ji Baochuan's footsteps paused, Shen Gui also wanted to say something, but he just opened his mouth without making a sound.

"My lord... please send someone to Haojia Lane, the back street of the Princess Mansion. If there is someone peddling Tianshan snow lotus at the corner, can you just ask him for three dollars and one tael?"

Princess Lin Yang laughed and said, "Is this what you want to tell Bengong to make me retreat?"

Shen Gui shook his head, "The foreign minister also wants to confirm the foreign minister's guess before reporting it in detail."

"Lin Zhan Shi!", Princess Lin Yang called Lin Zhan Shi, whispered a few words in his ear, Lin Zhan Shi turned around and left.

"Secretary envoy Shen, I invited you to Beiliang to meet Bao Chuan, but I didn't expect you to cause such a big trouble."

Shen Gui grinned the corners of his mouth, gave a wry smile, and said nothing.

But Ji Baochuan sneered, "Princess, if you had told my wife about his current identity earlier, my wife would rather treat him as dead on the battlefield, and give up all thoughts of looking for him."

Shen Gui didn't know whether it was weakness or genuine remorse, he didn't refute what Ji Baochuan said, and just closed his eyes silently.

After a while, the people sent by Lin Zhan came back and reported, "Back to the princess, the people sent turned the back street upside down, but they couldn't find the Tianshan snow lotus that the princess wanted."

Princess Lin Yang looked at Shen Gui who opened his eyes suddenly, and asked, "Why, can we talk now?"

The last bit of flame in Shen Gui's eyes went out, and he said quietly, "It's fine."

"The princess must be puzzled, where did those assassins come from, and why they were able to familiarize themselves with the terrain of the princess mansion, touch the courtyard where the minister is, and assassinate the foreign minister when the shift is handed over."

Princess Lin Yang raised her eyes in amazement, met Shen Gui's gaze, and said tremblingly, "It really is you!"

Otherwise, as the assassinated person, how would he know that the group of assassins assassinated him while the guards in her house were changing over?

Shen Gui glanced at Ji Baochuan behind Princess Lin Yang and said, "It seems... the princess has already made a conclusion."

Ji Baochuan avoided Shen Gui's sight as if he saw something dirty, and only said in a low voice, "Never forget the past, and guide the future."

"At the beginning, I heard that the princess was looking for someone for Bao Chuan. On the one hand, I was shocked that Bao Chuan had not remarried; Report it to our lord in advance, therefore, for the loyalty of the cousin, the foreign minister has no choice but to perform such a play."

"You were assassinated in Beiliang, not only can you completely clean up your relationship with Beiliang, but also make Helian go to Beiliang for a fortune, Shen Gui, you are really calculating!"

Shen Gui smiled wryly, "No matter how exhaustive the minister is, it can't compare to the unpredictable nature of God's will."

When he went to Helian alone, he never mentioned that he had a wife in Beiliang, and if the king knew that he had a family in Beiliang, he might have doubts about his origin and suspected that he was a spy of Beiliang. And his struggle with the Southern Privy Envoy is at a critical time, he can't give up all his previous efforts, and let years of painstaking efforts go to waste because of a small mistake.

"I will make an appointment with the lord of the country that day. After the matter is completed, someone will meet you in Haojiaxiang, the back street. After that, Helian will submit the letter of credence..."

Princess Lin Yang was stunned for a moment, then she suddenly reacted and said, "There is no such person now, so that means..."

Shen Gui said in pain, "I don't think it's strange that the Southern Privy Envoy acted like this, but the king..."

"He actually..."

Princess Lin Yang was silent for a long time. When discussing with the Queen Mother last night, the Queen Mother just thought that the Nan Privy Envoy was a black hand, and that one would be killed first and then played. The dead cannot be resurrected. Even if the Lord Helian was angry, there was nothing he could do. Liang took the benefits and finished the job.

But I didn't expect that there is such a complicated plot in it.

Shen Gui sacrificed himself to come up with such a bitter plan, not just to show his loyalty, but he never thought that he would be directly betrayed by his lord and his deadly enemy, what a tragedy!
However, Princess Lin Yang only had two words for Shen Gui: deserve it!
"It's no wonder that the dead last night were so ruthless. They didn't even want to leave you a way to survive, North Privy Envoy."

Princess Lin Yang deliberately emphasized the last four words "Northern Privy Envoy", and the long ending echoed in the silent room, making it even more ironic.

Shen Gui no longer had the heroic figure that he had when he came to Beiliang that day, his dying appearance is enough to make people who don't know where he is here feel an impulse of sympathy.

However, thinking about what this person did in the past and his purpose of coming to Beiliang, Princess Lin Yang's sympathy for him no longer exists.

If you sympathize with him, what is the suffering that Baochuan has suffered all these years?
Her father taught her that she could sympathize with the weak, but not the enemy.

Shen Gui said gratefully, "The foreign minister is very grateful to the princess for saving her life, but now I have nothing, except for this life, I have nothing to repay."

Princess Lin Yang said in distaste, "Why does this palace want your life?"

Shen Gui froze for a moment, suppressed the bitterness in his heart, and remained silent.

This life, once Helian is out, is worth a few pennies, not to mention, he can be regarded as an abandoned son of Helian now, and he is no different from a dead body to the king.

"However", Princess Lin Yang suddenly thought of something, and said to Shen Gui, "Since you want to be grateful for Ben Gong's life-saving grace, you can sign the letter of resignation, and you will have nothing to do with Bao Chuan in the future."

"Princess!"

Ji Baochuan hurriedly wanted to interrupt the princess's words, how could such trivial things offset the princess's life-saving grace to Shen Gui, it was too unworthy!
Princess Lin Yang gave Ji Baochuan a reassuring look, stopped her refusal, and stared at Shen Gui to let him make a decision.

Shen Gui was silent for a long time before he nodded and said, "Okay."

Afterwards, Princess Lin Yang said "recover well", and took Ji Baochuan out. Seeing that Doctor Li was still waiting outside, she told him by the way, "What should be said and what should not be said, Doctor Li is in the palace. It’s been so long, I think it’s a matter of self-control.”

Doctor Li said repeatedly, "I understand! I understand!"

After walking for a long time, Ji Baochuan said with difficulty, "Princess, you don't need to go to war over this little matter of your wife. If the Empress Dowager has other uses for Shen Gui, if you know that the princess only changed a piece of paper and leave the book, I'm afraid she will be angry with the princess!"

Princess Lin Yang smiled lightly and said, "I'm so afraid, the Empress Dowager's sister-in-law never sees such dirty things, she is the first to object to you going to Helian with Shen Gui! What's more, she told me yesterday that if Shen Gui dies, You don't have to be a filial piety for him, just pretend that he died many years ago."

Now it was Ji Baochuan's turn to be taken aback, and asked in a trembling voice, "Too... the Queen Mother also knows about the minister's wife?"

Princess Lin Yang nodded, "Don't worry, after today is over, you will be free, not to mention, last night when I was discussing the countermeasures with the Queen Mother, I thought that Shen Gui would not survive."

"Who would have thought that this kid was so lucky that he survived."

"Don't worry, I will go into the palace to discuss with the Queen Mother right now, but it's better to keep Shen Gui's waking up a secret."

Ji Baochuan nodded, and went back to the courtyard, while Princess Lin Yang also had the sedan chair ready and drove her directly into the palace.

"what?!"

After listening to Princess Lin Yang's narration, Sheng Shaoqing felt that this story was a perfect case of lifting a rock to shoot himself in the foot, "So, it was Shen Gui who dug a hole and buried himself in it?"

Princess Lin Yang nodded, "He is so clever that he was misunderstood by his cleverness. Who would have thought that Lord Helian didn't believe him at all, so he turned around and planned him with the Southern Privy Envoy."

Sheng Shaoqing asked suspiciously, "Who is this Southern Privy Envoy so sacred that Lord Helian trusts him so much?"

"This Lin Yang is not clear. I only heard that the status of the Southern Privy Envoy is second only to the existence of the Lord Helian. Even Shen Gui first worshiped under the Southern Privy Envoy's door, and later became more and more powerful, and became an independent sect. went."

"However, since Shen Gui survived now, do we have to fight to the death and deny seeing Shen Gui?"

Sheng Shaoqing thought for a while, "Is the imperial physician who treats Shen Gui reliable?"

Princess Lin Yang nodded, "Emperor Li is quite skilled in medicine, and he is also clever, so he doesn't dare to talk nonsense even if he thinks about it."

"Then let him treat Shen Gui's wounds in secret, and in the open, just follow Helian's intention and say that Shen Gui is hopeless."

"You mean, just follow the plan?"

Sheng Shaoqing pondered for a while before opening his mouth to say, "If Shen Gui doesn't "die", how can this play be sung?"

Princess Lin Yang smiled, "At this point, Lin Yang and his sister-in-law want to be together, then, after Helian has set up the stage and sang the big show, let's hand over Shen Gui, now, Let's see what they can do!"

Sheng Shaoqing was not as optimistic as Princess Lin Yang, she always felt something was wrong in the past two days, but she couldn't tell what was wrong and why, but since Shen Gui had been saved, the matter would not be so difficult.

At nightfall, when Sheng Shaoqing corrected the last paperwork, he realized that in half a month it would be the one-month period that Yun Zhi said, and the paperwork in his hand was from the Ministry of Rites, which stated the process of the spring plowing ceremony they planned .

Because the ceremonies in the past few years were held in Beijing, and now they are moved to Chenliu, there are still many things that need to be arranged in advance, so the Ministry of Rites proposed to send some officials to Chenliu to make arrangements, and then the emperor and the dowager came to Chenliu again, and Ji Cheng met This plan is also quite agreeable.

Since Boss Ji agreed, Sheng Shaoqing had no reason to object, so he changed hands and wrote a big word on the booklet: Yes.

Sheng Shaoqing has now basically summed up the rules. Whatever Ji Cheng agrees with, she agrees to it. If Ji Chengxiang disagrees, she has no chance to agree, because she can't see the book at all, and she has already been beaten back at Ji Chengxiang. The court has negotiated. At this time, her role is to listen to the opinions of all parties in the early court, and in the end, choose the most appropriate party to support him.

And ever since Wei Zhen stopped, Sheng Shaoqing actually felt a perverted sense of boredom in the morning.

(End of this chapter)