slave like jade

Chapter 84 The Truth Comes Out
The garden on a rainy day was very quiet. Yu Ruyan was walking all the way to Chen Bo's house when she suddenly heard footsteps behind her.

At first she thought it was a servant passing by the garden, but then she realized something was wrong, the footsteps had been trailing not far behind her, the sound of her footsteps followed, and the sound of her footsteps also stopped.

Shocked, she quickly turned around and hid in the flowers and bushes beside her, hid her body, and carefully looked towards the way through the gaps in the flowers.

Sure enough, after a while, a little girl who didn't know her face came, she walked cautiously and looked around, as if she knew that she had lost Yu Ruyan, she immediately muttered with a mournful face: "It's obviously in front, why is it so hard?" Missing? How do we make a deal now?"

The little girl anxiously walked forward a few steps and then turned back, staying on the spot at a loss, but the next moment she suddenly burst into tears!

Yu Ruyan was puzzled, she had never seen this girl before, why was she following her?
She quietly walked around behind the little girl, and asked abruptly, "Why are you looking for me?"

The sudden human voice frightened the little girl and she fell to the ground. She turned her head in horror to see the disappearing person suddenly staring at her from close at hand. With a blushing face, she got up and knelt down in front of Yu Ruyan and said in panic, "Girl , please save my master!"

Wen Yanyu Ruyan looked confused, she stared at the people on the ground twice, and asked in confusion: "Who is your master? And who are you? Why do you say such things suddenly?"

The little girl prostrated herself on the ground, and whispered in fear: "My maidservant's name is Dongcao, it's... I beg you to follow this servant girl, the master is waiting for your help!" The ground knocked her head a few times.

Yu Ruyan was confused, she pulled up the winter grass on the ground, and asked in confusion: "Which yard girl are you? You asked me to save someone but didn't tell me who to save, how dare I go with you?"

Dongcao was so anxious that she was about to cry, her little face was flushed, she seemed to have something hard to say, so she kept begging: "I will never harm the girl, I really want to ask the girl, the master won't let me tell who she is "Young lady, follow me and you'll know."

Yu Ruyan took a serious look at her, and saw that her anxious expression did not seem to be lying, and she couldn't help but have doubts in her heart—who asked her for help?

The girl led her straight along the path in the garden, seeing the direction she led her, Yu Ruyan's heart froze and she stopped in her tracks!

"Are you from Ziluoyuan?" She frowned and asked coldly.

Seeing the courtyard in front of her eyes, Dongcao knew she couldn't hide it, so she nodded lightly, Yu Ruyan turned and walked back without thinking.

When her legs sank, Dongcao actually caught up and hugged her legs and begged: "Girl, please show mercy, the master is really not well, she said... she said that the palace Only you can save her, so I let the slaves find you secretly. Girl, please follow me in!"

Yu Ruyan didn't want to step into the Ziluo Courtyard at all, but Dongcao kept hugging her legs tightly, lying on the ground with her whole body, and the accumulated water on the ground made her whole body wet, which was very pitiful.

Helpless, she had no choice but to turn around and say, "Get up first and tell me what's going on? I'll think about whether to go in or not!"

After hearing this, Dongcao quickly got up from the ground and panted, "Master accidentally fell while walking in the yard this morning, and her stomach hurts until now. She asked her servant to invite the girl, and she also asked the girl to help the master!" As soon as she finished speaking, Dongcao knelt down on the ground again.

Hearing that Gu Qing'er fell down, Yu Ruyan's eyes darkened, she gritted her teeth after thinking for a moment: "Stop kneeling, get up and lead the way!"

There is dead silence in the Ziluo Courtyard. The once prosperous courtyard is now deserted and depressed, covered with weeds and dead leaves. It is obviously the beginning of spring, but the world here seems to have been shrouded in cold winter. People walk in and feel inexplicably biting. the cold.

Dongcao hurriedly led her into the house, the door opened, and an unpleasant smell of traditional Chinese medicine filled her nostrils.

It was time to light the lamps, there were no candles in the room, and the light was very dark, only the screen in the middle glowed with red, purple, and white brilliance. It was the purple jade coral screen that Mu Lingzhi gave her before, and the light from the screen illuminated not far away. Yu Ruyan looked at the bed next to the light, and saw a person half lying on the bed. Hearing the sound of the door, he turned his head and looked at each other, which shocked Yu Ruyan a lot!

I haven't seen Gu Qing'er for a long time, and when we met again, Yu Ruyan was taken aback by her description——

The person on the bed had a big pregnant belly, which seemed to be six or seven months old. The belly was as big as a drum and high and swollen, but the body and limbs were as thin as sticks. It looked strange and terrifying.In the past, the delicate and beautiful face was also too thin, and the big charming eyes were deeply sunken like two empty and godless caves, without any light, staring blankly at Yu Ruyan not far away, it took a long time to be sluggish Turning her dry eyeballs, her lips fluttered for a long time without saying a word, she turned her head to the side before the tears were about to drip down, as if she didn't want others to see her.

Dongcao lit the candles in the house, and the lights turned on, but Gu Qing'er was still hiding on the bed, facing inside without saying a word, Dongcao stepped forward and whispered in her ear: "Master, Miss Xiaoqing is here."

Gu Qing'er still didn't say a word, Yu Ruyan stood in the middle of the room and said coldly: "Mrs. Gu called someone to come over, why didn't she say anything, what do you mean?"

A dry voice came from the bed, and he said coldly: "I have been demoted to the common people, what do you still call my wife?"

After the words fell, Gu Qing'er turned around slowly, and with the help of Dongcao, she struggled to get up.Sitting on the edge of the bed wearing a blue jacket, barely supporting the edge of the bed with both hands, his thin body seemed to fall down when the wind blows!
Yu Ruyan cut to the chase and said, "What do you want me to help you with?"

Gu Qing'er's face was pale, her eyes were gloomy, she bit her lip and hesitated for a long time before saying: "Are you sincerely willing to help me?"

Yu Ruyan sneered and said, "Since you don't believe me, why did you ask me to come in? If there is nothing else, I will leave first!"

"Please stay!" Gu Qing'er's urgent voice came from behind, she tremblingly said: "I have harmed you before, and made things difficult for you everywhere... Please forgive me and help me for His Highness's sake." Me, save my child! As long as you are willing to save my child, let me do anything!"

She spoke quickly and incoherently, Yu Ruyan turned her head in surprise when she heard the words, looked at her in a daze, her eyes darkened, and said coldly: "Isn't your child well, what happened?"

Gu Qing'er's complexion darkened, and his whole body trembled before he could speak, as if he had encountered a ferocious beast.She suddenly raised her five fingers to Yu Ruyan, and said tremblingly, "Look at my hands, do you notice any difference?" After that, she bent her fingers a few times with difficulty, but she performed the simple bending movements abnormally difficult.

Yu Ruyan's heart was shocked, and she looked at her fingers intently, only to see that her thin fingers seemed to be frozen one by one, and they were very stiff and inflexible when moving.Dongcao took a walnut from a small table and handed it to her for her to grasp, but after working hard for a long time, she still couldn't grasp the walnut firmly, slipped from the palm of her hand, and rolled onto Yu Ruyan's footsteps.

Bending down to pick up the walnuts at her feet, Yu Ruyan looked at Gu Qing'er, who was full of misery, with a shocked face, and asked in a daze, "What's wrong with you?"

Gu Qing'er sneered, and tears dripped down while laughing: "In the past month, I have found that my body is getting heavier and heavier day by day, and I can't do anything except want to sleep. At first, I just thought it was pregnancy. normal reaction until..."

"A week ago, I suddenly found that I couldn't even walk. At first I thought that I was not used to it after staying in bed for a long time, so I asked Dongcao to accompany me to the yard, but finally moved to the yard. I let go of Dongcao's hand, and before I could take three steps, I was knocked down by a pebble, hehe, a stone smaller than an egg can knock me down, and I have become a useless person!"

Gu Qing'er's tears became more and more turbulent as I went down——

"When I fell down, I wanted to turn my body to the side so that my stomach wouldn't touch the ground, but my whole body was so stiff that I couldn't move, so I could only helplessly let myself fall to the ground... If Dongcao hadn't acted according to circumstances and put her body under me Protect my stomach, I'm afraid my child will die long ago!"

A layer of cold sweat broke out on Yu Ruyan's back, she clasped her hands involuntarily, and felt hairy in her heart.

"What's wrong with your body, why is it suddenly like this?" Yu Ruyan asked without thinking.

After hearing this, Gu Qing'er signaled to Dongcao with her eyes, and Dongcao immediately took out a white cloth bag, and when the cloth bag was opened, there was a pile of boiled medicine dregs inside.

Seeing this, Yu Ruyan's eyes were slightly cold, and she knew it in her heart, but she still couldn't help asking: "What is this?"

Dongcao lowered her head and said softly: "Returning to the girl, this is the birth control medicine that the master usually takes, but...just..." She didn't dare to say the next words, she glanced aside carefully Gu Qing'er.

Gu Qing'er's complexion turned from white to green, and she dug deeply at her skirt with her nails, and said in a trembling voice: "It's obviously an anti-fetal medicine, but it has yellow heart grass in it, and I didn't find any abnormalities when I first took the medicine, but After eating for a long time, the mother will become weaker and weaker, not only the body is stiff and inconvenient, but also the action and thinking will be affected. I asked Dongcao to ask the doctor in private. He will become a hollow person with an empty body, unable to move his whole body, his brain is broken, he can't remember anything, he can't do anything, he becomes a... a living dead!"

His whole body shook, and the walnut in his hand fell to the ground uncontrollably.Yu Ruyan stared blankly at the haggard, stiff and inconvenient woman in front of her. Although she had done many hateful things before, seeing her like this now, her heart softened, and she couldn't help asking: "What is it? Who drugged you? Didn't I ask His Highness to send someone to take care of you secretly? How could you be framed?"

Gu Qing'er's whole body was shocked, she looked at Yu Ruyan in disbelief and murmured: "It turns out that it was you who begged His Highness for my kindness..."

Her dark eyes flickered slightly, and a look of hesitation and tangled flashed across her face. After touching her protruding belly with her hands, she said firmly again: "Your Highness just sent someone to take care of the safety of the Ziluoyuan, but the food soup and medicine It is the kitchen supply of the Wangfu, and now she is in charge of the Wangfu, and I hold her secrets in my hands, how can I be at ease for a long time if she doesn't kill me?"

Yu Ruyan's eyes dimmed, and she thought to herself, it's not just because you know the secret of her doing evil, the most important thing is because the child in your belly blocks her child's future, so you must not be allowed to stay!
On the face she said calmly: "That day you believed her words to bring down Concubine An, but have you ever thought about what you get after Concubine An loses power? What does she get? A person who treacherously betrayed the former master, you Do you believe it too?"

Gu Qing'er's face froze, and she looked at Yu Ruyan with a shocked expression. She never expected that she knew everything about her previous activities with An Lan!
"you······"

"Although Wu Jinshao was released by you, the person who pushed me to Shekou was not you, and the little wooden figure used by witches..." Yu Ruyan looked at her coldly, slowly Slowly said: "The rockery, the little wooden figurines are all An Lan's idea for you. In order to make you trust her, she even prepared the wooden figurines and put them in the rockery to gain your trust. Am I right?"

"..."

Gu Qing'er opened her eyes wide in horror and looked at the calm woman in front of her. Suddenly, a chill spread from the soles of her feet to her whole body, and she shivered, "How do you know?"

"If you want people not to know, you have to do nothing!"

Yu Ruyan's eyes turned cold, and she said coldly: "The little wooden man was found by the copper coin and brought back to Yunsong Courtyard. His whole body was covered in mud. He vaguely saw your name and birth date written on it. Later, he fell to the ground and was taken back to Yunsong Courtyard. I picked it up, and the clods on it fell off. I clearly saw the name on it. Although your name was written on it, Gu Qing’er, but when I looked carefully, I found that the three characters were many strokes and few strokes. can not tell!"

"In the end, you are still afraid that witchcraft will really harm your children and you, so you dare not bet on yourself, so An Lan gave you an idea to write the wrong words on purpose, and then wrap them in mud to make people At first glance, I thought you were the one who cursed, but in fact, it’s not you!"

"An Lan is left-handed, writing on wood is not as good as writing on flat paper, so the words she writes on the wooden figurine are all slightly tilted to the left..."

The more she heard the back, Gu Qing'er's face turned paler. She originally wanted to make a deal with Yu Ruyan about An Lan so that she would trust her to help her, but what she didn't expect was that Yu Ruyan had already treated them Knowing about the dirty activities between them, she couldn't help but feel empty——

"Since you know all about it, why didn't you stand up and tell His Highness to expose her when she plotted to expose me that day?"

"What does it matter to me that you dogs bite dogs?" Yu Ruyan looked at her cruelly, and said coldly: "You have been punished for what happened that day, and she—" Yu Ruyan's eyes flickered slightly, and she said word by word: "Someone will eventually ask her to pay!"

In fact, it's more because she really doesn't want to get involved in the dark struggle in the back house!
Gu Qing'er had a look of despair on her face, she looked at her in a daze and said with difficulty: "Since you already know everything, you... are you still willing to help me?"

"How do you want me to help you?" She quietly looked at the gloomy woman in front of her. If it wasn't for Mu Lingzhi and to keep his child, Yu Ruyan didn't want to bother with these things at all.

"Girl, please, please help me find a doctor to come into the mansion to cure me of the poison of this yellow heart grass... I can't walk out of this courtyard, I'm worried that this yellow heart grass will hurt me." The child in my womb..."

Hearing that she was willing to help herself, Gu Qing'er's face was both happy and flustered, and hurriedly said: "I dare not eat the food provided by the kitchen, and I ask you to find a way for me, Your Highness please allow me... ····· Grace allows me to open a small kitchen in my own yard······"

Hearing this, Yu Ruyan frowned tightly——

Dr. Wu left the mansion some time ago to go back to his hometown to visit relatives, but he happened to be away from the mansion, so why should he bother Yue Yu again?
When she thought of Yue Yu's weak body, she couldn't bear it, but besides Yue Yu, she didn't know who to ask for help?

After thinking about it, she asked Dongcao to wrap up the medicinal residues for her to take back, and was going to take time out of the mansion to let Yue Yu see the medicinal residues first!

Before going out, Gu Qing'er begged her not to tell Mu Lingzhi what happened in Ziluo Courtyard, let alone let anyone outside know, she said: "If An Lan knows that I have seen through her plot, she will definitely think about it." Use more vicious tricks to deal with me, and now I have difficulty even moving my body, and I am trapped in this Ziluo Courtyard every day, it is impossible to prevent her!"

It is undeniable that her consideration is indeed reasonable. Before the matter is clear, she does not want to let Mu Lingzhi know too early. It just so happens that he is also worried about the affairs of the court recently. Yu Ruyan does not want to let the matter of the back house be let He is sad.

After leaving Ziluoyuan, it was getting late, so Yu Ruyan had to find time to ask Uncle Chen about the small knife next time. When she returned to Yunsongyuan and just hid the medicine residue, she heard that Mu Lingzhi had returned. , she hurried to his bedroom, and when she entered the door, she was shocked when she saw the description inside!
Mu Lingzhi was leaning on the soft couch with a tired face. His face, which was always calm and self-confident, was full of boredom and discomfort. When she came closer, she found that a corner of his silver brocade robe was torn, and his exposed arm There are a few deep scratches on it, and it looks a little tired and embarrassed!
The copper coin was rubbing medicine on his wound, Yu Ruyan stepped forward to take over the task in the hand of the copper coin, carefully applied the ointment for him, and said distressedly: "Didn't your highness enter the palace? Why did you come back with injuries? Did you fight with someone?" ?”

Mu Lingzhi was originally depressed and depressed, but when he saw Yu Ruyan's troubles inexplicably dissipate a lot, he looked at her distressed face, and a little warmth surged in his heart, so as not to let her worry about him, he pretended to be unhappy Said: "What do you mean - I lost the fight with others, but I didn't win?"

Yu Ruyan, who was busy around her, raised her head and looked at someone with a serious face in confusion. Not knowing what he meant, Mu Lingzhi said seriously: "You look down on me so much? Hmph, look at me In the world, there is no one who can beat me in a fight, I have always been the only one who has let others suffer, and no one can touch me!"

Seeing his confident expression, Yu Ruyan unceremoniously poked the wound on his arm a few times, and said: "I'm still quibbling after dying, na, na, what is this? What is this? Who caught it?"

Mu Lingzhi gritted his teeth and gasped, but was at a loss for words for a while, not knowing how to explain how he got his injuries.Seeing the copper coin, he held the injustice for him and said: "That's not true, the injury on the master's body was caught by the mother..." As soon as the words came out, I realized that I was talking too fast, and hurriedly slipped out covering my mouth in fear.

The hand that applied the ointment froze, Yu Ruyan was not sure how to ask about Concubine Xie, when Mu Lingzhi's deep voice came from above her head.

"Don't worry. My mother and concubine were accidentally poisoned many years ago. Although it was not life-threatening, it has occurred regularly every month for so many years. Today is the time for the poison to occur."

"I entered the palace early in the morning to be by my concubine's side when she was in the most pain, hoping to alleviate her pain. Over the years, every time the concubine was poisoned, life was worse than death, and many times I couldn't bear to think about myself. Suicide, but because of me and my father, she gritted her teeth and persisted time and time again, enduring inhuman torture day after day. This is the real reason why I have been looking for the jade girl of Qi State!"

Although Yu Ruyan already knew the ins and outs of the marriage from An Lan, but now he said it himself, it still shocked Yu Ruyan's heart——

"So, when His Highness learned that the fifth princess was not a jade girl, he shot her to death?" She gritted her teeth and suppressed the trembling of her voice and asked the question that had been in her heart.

"No, it's just that King Qi didn't believe in his promise and deceived me so badly!" Mu Lingzhi's expression turned cold instantly, and his tone was cold, and he said coldly: "The world today Four points, Liang Qi, Wei Wu, Qi State is the weakest, and Wei Wu has always been eyeing it. When I asked the King of Qi for a jade girl, the condition that the King of Qi promised was that Daliang and Qi State would be forever good, and that they would marry Daliang. Form an alliance, if Wei and Wu attack Qi, our Daliang will send troops to reinforce without any conditions. In fact, such a condition is really harsh for Daliang. You must know that if Daliang wants to win Qi, it will be a piece of cake, but for the mother and concubine His illness, my father and I both agreed to King Qi's conditions..."

"However, when I was full of expectations to marry the jade girl of Qi State, I heard a report from the spies, saying that the princess who married Qi State was not the real jade girl, but the notorious and corrupted fifth princess of Qi State. Not only is Yan openly keeping male pets in the harem, but she is also known to be a dissolute and immoral person, what embarrassment and embarrassment does this make me feel?"

Mu Lingzhi's expression was unknowingly tainted with Xiaosha's aura, while Yu Ruyan's heart became colder and colder——

"If it was just an ordinary princess, even if it wasn't a jade girl, I wouldn't be able to kill her, but King Qi threw such a daughter to me like a rag, it's really deceiving..."

When the truth was laid bare in front of her, Yu Ruyan's heart sank to the edge of darkness. She knew that when her father forced her to marry, she was ready to give up on her.

He knew that Daliang wanted a jade girl, but he sent her here who was not a jade girl. He knew that this was a dead end, but his father still forced her to a dead end without hesitation!
Her eyes started to swell again, she blinked in pain, but unfortunately she couldn't squeeze a tear, the pain and pain in her heart welled up, she suddenly grinned——

That's right, because she was born with no tears, she was regarded as an ominous person. She was kicked out of the palace and thrown into the deep mountains and old forests to let her die on her own. Later, she was lucky enough to meet her master and left her life...
Therefore, such a self, who is regarded as an ominous person, is there anything worthy of his father's regret and nostalgia?

The light in her eyes dimmed——if she guessed correctly, the real jade girl in Qi should be the elder sister whom her father cherished like a treasure——

The most famous and dazzling eldest princess in the Qi Kingdom, Jade Pearl!

(End of this chapter)