Traitor Concubine Growth Manual

Chapter 94

After the flood, there were countless casualties. At this time, it was May and early summer, and the weather was getting warmer, which made it easier for the terrible plague to break out.

The courtiers urged, and the people panicked. In order to appease the people, Gu Qite issued an edict, asking Chu Yan to go to Jingyun Temple to pray for blessings on behalf of the royal family. .

Before leaving, Gu Qi gave thousands of instructions in the imperial study, and even Xiao Che, who was usually more than calm, couldn't help the corners of his mouth twitching, and helplessly shouted: "Your Highness..."

Gu Qi stopped talking: "What's wrong?"

Xiao Che glanced at Qin Yuanshan who was at the side, so Qin Yuanshan glanced at the booklet in his hand to record important instructions, and calculated: "Your Highness said a total of 21 times 'be sure to protect the safety of the crown princess', thirteen times 'along the way No matter what happens, you must stay within five feet of the Crown Princess', seven times, "If there is an emergency, keep the Crown Princess at all costs."

Gu Qi's face darkened, and he waved his hands, indicating that they can get out.

Thousands of exhortations and ten thousand exhortations, we must say goodbye.

On the day of departure, Gu Qi stood on the tall city tower and watched the mighty team leave the palace.Thinking of what Chu Yan did before leaving, there was still a faint smile on the corner of his lips.

Just now at the entrance of Yong'an Palace, she smiled and grabbed his collar, expressing that she had something to say, but he lowered his head cooperatively, but heard her whispering to him: "Until I come back, Your Highness must not change his mind."

That voice revealed a sense of barking teeth and claws, viciously, it was an order, not a request.

He couldn't help laughing, and nodded obediently: "Don't worry, don't say before I come back, even after I come back, I won't change my mind."

The team went straight forward, passed through the palace gate, and walked further away.

The [-]th day of their trip, they will be separated for a full [-] days, but now she has just left, Gu Qi has already started to sigh, thinking about the remaining [-] days, it really feels like a year.

There was a wind blowing his clothes, he smiled slightly, and said silently to those who had gone away: "Safe journey, come back soon."

There is a small courtyard in Prince Gong's mansion with the door closed all the year round. The courtyard is clean and the hall is also elegantly furnished, but the strange thing is that all the tables and tables are round, even the stools are no exception.

Wooden products such as doors and windows cannot be made round, and the sharp corners are wrapped with layers of thick white cloth, turning into four bulging bags.

The furnishings in the house are simple, without any porcelain, and even the teacups on the table are made of wooden fish and stone cups, not porcelain cups that will shatter when touched.

In the afternoon, the palace was quiet and everyone was taking a lunch break.

Suddenly, there was a shrill scream coming from nowhere, first it was a relatively rapid first cry, and then there were intermittent follow-ups.

It was a woman who was screaming, her voice was as horrific as a Rakshasa from hell, horrifying and creepy.

Gu Chushi, who was taking a lunch break, sat up suddenly from the bed, picked up his coat and walked out. Without anyone's guidance, he had already walked quickly along the corridor towards the small courtyard.

In the palace, other people woke up one after another from their sound sleep, but most of them just frowned and muttered impatiently: "Why are you here again?"

Gu Chushi pushed open the courtyard door and strode into the house, only to see a woman with disheveled hair slamming her head against the wall with a sad expression, her forehead was already dripping with blood.

Each of the two maidservants pulled an arm and tried to stop her from continuing to harm herself.

Another older nanny knelt on the ground while wiping her tears and begged her: "Madam, please don't do this, the old slave kowtowed to you, please wake up!"

Gu Chushi's complexion changed drastically, and he rushed forward to hold the woman, preventing her from harming herself, and at the same time shouted in pain and despair: "Mother!"

This woman turned out to be the concubine of the late Prince Gong - Gu Chushi's mother, Du Shi.

Seeing that she was desperately trying to break free like crazy, she mechanically repeated a sentence: "I want to go with him, I want to go with him..."

And Gu Chushi hugged her tightly, blocking between her and the wall, she couldn't hit it again, so she could only scream miserably again, endlessly, like a wild beast out of control.

"Mother, be sober, I am Chushi, look at me, I am your son Gu Chushi!" He whispered in her ear word by word, trying to comfort the person in her arms.

Du Shi just yelled in a daze and crazily, and because he couldn't break free, he bit down on Gu Chushi's hand with such force that he obviously couldn't tell who the person in front of him was, and he bit him bloody and painful. endlessly.

But he didn't dare to let go, because once he let go, the person in his arms would hit the wall again.

"Call the doctor! Go and call the doctor!" Gu Chushi hugged her tightly, turned around and shouted at the two maidservants.

The two ran out in a panic, and came back with the doctor from the mansion after a while.The doctor's expression remained the same, obviously he had become calm and accustomed to seeing things.

He opened the medicine box, took out a silver needle from it, first put it on the candlestick and burned it for a while, then walked quickly to Du Shi's side, and stabbed it lightly towards the back of her neck.

In the blink of an eye, the screaming woman slowly weakened, and quickly fell quietly into Gu Chushi's arms.

He hugged Du Shi, and the doctor skillfully took out the gauze and ointment, first cleaned up the dirty blood for her, then applied the medicine for her, and finally bandaged the wound.

"No water for three days."

Gu Chushi's face was so ugly that he carried the person in his arms to the bed in the back room, then covered her with a quilt, and walked out again.

The doctor saw his bloody arm from the bite, and hurriedly took out the medicine and gauze: "My lord, let's take the medicine first."

Gu Chushi sat at the table and stretched out his hand, his brows never relaxed for a moment.

He asked: "Madam's attacks are getting more and more frequent, what's going on?"

While treating the blood stains on the wound with a cotton cloth, the doctor said in amazement: "Madam's illness is caused by a mental breakdown, not cured by medicine stones. As long as you maintain a peaceful mood, you should not suffer from frequent illnesses again." The prescriptions that the villain usually prescribes for her are all for recuperating her body. There is no injury or pain on her body, and the wife stays in the small courtyard all day long. The villain thinks that she can always be peaceful and safe. Today I'm afraid, I'm afraid it's because I saw some scene that stimulated my emotions."

Nanny Liu, who was still weeping on the ground, was the old man appointed by the palace when Mrs. Du married into the mansion. She has served Mrs. Du for so many years, from when she was a pretty girl to now this mad woman.

Gu Chushi saw Nanny Liu knelt there crying all the time, frowned, and asked her, "Why is Madam sick today?"

Nanny Liu said tearfully, "Mrs. was in a good mood when she woke up. She was fine all morning. How did you know that a few birds landed on the trees in the yard just now? When Madam heard that, her expression immediately changed. Wait." She walked to the door, lifted the curtain to look, and found two birds on the tree were feeding each other, and it became like this..."

Gu Chushi closed his eyes with an ugly face, and his heart was congested in a panic.

Of course he knew why Du Shi fell ill, because she saw the birds in pairs on the branches and thought of his late father again.

His name as Prince Gong was inherited from his father's title. His father was originally the eldest brother of the current emperor, the great prince, and the son of the former Empress Dowager Dou.

When the first emperor was still there, because he loved Dou Shi, he pushed her to the next position. At the same time, he also loved Wu Jiwu. Among the seven sons, the eldest son was the favorite.

He appointed the great prince as the crown prince, and he wanted to pass on the throne to this son, but unexpectedly the great prince didn't want to be the emperor at all.

The great prince is a gentle and gentle person, lacking in courage and determination.If you want to compare any emperor in history, Li Yu may be more appropriate.He loves landscapes, insects and fish, and is very good at painting, so he has always had the desire to travel around the beautiful scenery of the world.

This kind of person is not born to be an emperor, not even a politician, but only a literati.

However, Empress Dowager Dou had high expectations for him. Even though she knew that his whole heart was not on the throne, she was ambitious to pave the way for him since he was a child, especially when it came to suppressing others.

In those few years, all the concubines who gave birth to princes were thrown into limbo or kicked out of the palace because of mistakes, or died of sudden illness.What's more, Ling Concubine, the biological mother of the current emperor, couldn't bear the change of heart of the former emperor and left her three-year-old son at that time to commit suicide.

Of course, after the current emperor ascended the throne, it turned out that Ling Ling was indeed killed by the Queen Mother Dou, rather than committing suicide.

However, the first emperor was old, romantic and affectionate in his early years, and his health was not good later, so he had no intention of pampering beauties, so the life and death of these Yingyingyanyans could not affect him much. As long as his children are good, he Just get by.

At that time, the great prince was unwilling to be emperor no matter what, but was forced by Queen Mother Dou to participate in political affairs. He loved Danqing, but Queen Mother Dou thought that he was not doing his job properly, so she ordered all his paintings to be burned, and he was never to be touched again. .

The great prince's hard work was ruined, and he was so heartbroken that the gentle man finally couldn't help but exploded. He picked up the sword and chopped off the hand of the servant who burned his paintings, and wrote a letter and ordered it to be handed over to the third prince. All the way out, riding a horse to leave Beijing.

This trip lasted for several years, and when he returned to Beijing, the crown prince had been abolished, and the third prince, Gu Yuan, had already become the crown prince.I'm afraid that if the crown prince hadn't changed, the great prince would never have come back.

And the letter to Gu Yuan back then was obviously his excuse for entrusting him with the crown prince.

Empress Dowager Dou hated her teeth so much, but there was nothing she could do. For the past few years, the great prince who had been living and sleeping outside worked as a painter in the streets and alleys. He lived a comfortable life, but his health was not good.Originally, a prince who was pampered and spoiled since he was a child is alone, how can you expect him to take good care of himself?

Empress Dowager Dou married Mrs. Du for him. Although the two had no basis for love, Mrs. Du was gentle and virtuous. Apart from his lack of talent in governing the country, his personality was gentle and courteous, quite artistic.He would tell Mrs. Du what he had seen and heard during his travels in the past few years, and the two laughed together. He would also let Mrs. Du stand under the tree in spring when the apricot blossoms were all over the branches, and draw her a scene of beauty in spring with apricot blossoms.

The days are also leisurely.

However, the Eldest Prince's health is getting worse and worse. Even with the continuous rewards of rare medicinal materials from the palace, he finally passed away in the seventh year after marriage, leaving behind the young Du Shi and his five-year-old son to pass away.

Du Shi was hit so hard that he lost the focus of his life and suffered from angina every day. In the end, he went crazy and often didn't even recognize his son.And when she finally woke up, she was able to sit there quietly, but she just sat there, either wiping her tears or saying nothing.

So day by day it has come to where it is today.

The doctor went down to fetch medicine for Du Shi, and there were only Gu Chushi, two maidservants, and a weeping Nanny Liu left in the room.

Gu Chushi leaned back on the chair with his eyes closed tiredly and weakly, and Nanny Liu winked and let the two maidservants go out first.

"My lord, can I listen to this old slave?" She wiped away her tears, still kneeling.

"Get up, stand up and talk." Gu Chushi was still relatively gentle to her. This was the person who had been by Du Shi's side and took care of Du Shi all the way. Even if Du Shi has become a lunatic today, she has been doing her best.

"If the old prince hadn't been instigated by the current emperor, he would not have left the capital just like that. After those years of hard life, he would not have returned with a sick body and died young. The old slave thought The emperor is very thoughtful and covets the throne, so he doesn't care about the old prince's life and death, but he has a good heart, so he really gave up the throne to him and suffered by himself. If the emperor was not cruel, why did the old prince leave so early? How could Madam be like this today?" Madam Liu hated her tightly, her words were careless, and she wiped her tears while talking.

These words were amazing to hear, Gu Chushi opened his eyes suddenly, looked at Nanny Liu fixedly, and said two words coldly: "Shut up."

Even in the mansion, you have to know what to say and what not to say, walls have ears, this is a truth that has not changed for thousands of years.

"You are old and confused. This king doesn't care about your words today, but what to say and what to say, you'd better figure it out, so that you don't know how to die in the future." He said one word. Throw away such heavy words in one sentence, then turn around and leave.

The warm sunlight shone in the small courtyard, and he walked out with his clothes fluttering, without looking sideways.

The two orioles on the branch suddenly started chirping. He paused, stopped under the tree and looked up... Flying in pairs?

His eyes were so cold that they were harder than the unmelted ice in winter, and without hesitation he told the boy guarding the gate of the small courtyard, "Cut down the tree, and from now on, don't let me see any birds in this courtyard that can settle down." place."

But in the end, I couldn't let go of it.

Walking in this huge palace, he suddenly felt a heavy powerlessness hit his heart.

His father left early, and his mother became what she is now. Even his grandmother, Queen Mother Dou, was sent to Jingyun Temple to repair by the emperor in the name of "recovering illness".

Thinking of what Empress Dowager Dou said to him before leaving, Gu Chushi clenched his fists tightly.

The imperial palace is a place that cannibalize people without spitting out bones. The current emperor first urged him to hand over the imperial power and leave the capital on the grounds of understanding his father's life goals, which caused his father to get sick and leave early; then he was afraid of Queen Dowager Dou's revenge, And under the guise of recovering from illness, he also sent away his last relative.

Thinking of his mother's tragic situation, he felt as if he was in an ice cellar, cold to the bone.

Gu Chushi gritted his teeth tightly with hatred, and punched a tree trunk beside the road, causing the leaves to fall to the ground.

He turned around and walked quickly towards the study room, studied the ink, wrote the pen, wrote down the book, and finally rolled up the note.He turned around, removed the painting on the wall, pressed an uneven place behind it, and with a click, the bookcase was separated from it, revealing a dark room behind it.

He walked into it, and when he walked out again, the note in his hand was gone, only a green jade pendant was left, the color was bright and flawless.Jade is not as transparent as white jade, but is full of lines and has its own characteristics.

Press the switch again, the bookcase closes, and everything is as before, without the slightest difference.

Du's small courtyard returned to calm, only the bitter smell of medicine wafted from it.

Nanny Liu, who was wiping away her tears before, no longer showed the mournful look just now, but calmly walked into the place where Shi Du was sleeping, and stood still beside the bed.She first bent down, and stretched out her hands to grope behind Du Shi's head, as if she was looking for something. After a while, her fingers froze suddenly, and then she slowly pulled out something.

She walked out, and calmly inserted what was in her hand into the pot of orchids on the windowsill.

"I'll go to the market to buy some spices that can calm my mood. You two, take good care of your wife, and don't let her wake up and find no one."

"Yes."

After leaving the palace, Nanny Liu didn't walk towards the market, but instead walked towards a house in the alley.

She pushed open the creaking door, and there was a crooked old man chopping wood in the dilapidated yard.She didn't say hello, but walked all the way in front of the old man, and when he looked up at her, she slowly said word by word: "Uncle Dumb, I'll pass the book on."

The old man had an ugly face, and he stared intently at her opening and closing mouth. After a long while, he nodded, turned around, took out a carrier pigeon from the cage hanging under the eaves, and handed it to her.

Nanny Liu wrapped the prepared note around the pigeon's leg, and let it fly.

The movements are clean and neat, without any sloppiness, obviously very familiar with this kind of thing.

"I'll go back first." She walked out of the courtyard, and the old man whom she called the dumb uncle started chopping firewood again. Because his back was facing her, he didn't respond.

The old man was actually deaf and dumb, and he had to rely on his lips to distinguish what the other party was saying.

In the afternoon, the boy in charge of taking care of the flowers and plants in the palace walked towards Du's small courtyard with a new pot of orchids in his arms. Die too? When Madam gets sick, a pot of flowers dies, it's really scary..."

However, after entering the door, he familiarly greeted the two maidservants in the small courtyard, and said "good sister" with a smile, completely without the fear just now.

If it weren't for the two maidservants in the courtyard, he wouldn't be willing to send any flowers, anyway, he would die if he gave them, it's for nothing!
He put the flowers on the window sill, and hugged the dead orchid in his arms, "Those two sisters, I'll come back another day."

"Go, go, are you cursing Madam to get sick soon?" One of the maidservants spat at him.

He walked away with a smile on his face again.

On the way, he was playing with the pot of orchid to see why it died. When he was fiddling with the stem of the orchid, he was suddenly stung by something. The pain caused him to hiss and take a deep breath. He looked at his index finger again, oh, What a big blood hole!
He groped slowly towards the place where he was stabbed just now, good guy, he found a gleaming needle!
He quickly pulled out the needle, and it was two inches long. It looked like a thick-thread embroidery pin, not as thin as ordinary needles.

"Finally I know why I died. The two sisters are really careless. This thing can be easily inserted." He smiled and walked while shaking his head.

It seems that every time my wife gets sick, someone gets anxious and inserts the needle into the flower casually.

There was silence again in the palace.

(End of this chapter)