in the sound of swallows

Chapter 195 Incurable Disease
Shen Guiyan looked painful, her body twitched twice, and blood came out from the side of her head, she didn't listen to Xu Mengdie's words at all, her whole body was shaking.

It didn't look like a fake, Xu Mengdie was stunned for a while, then panicked, and hurried out to call the military doctor.

The body was carried to the soft couch, Shen Guiyan closed her eyes tightly, and only prayed silently in her heart, hoping that Vice General Zhang would be smart enough to listen to her words and go back to guard Yecheng soon.

Vice-General Zhang lived up to her hopes, and when he listened to the order, he called for gold and retreated with some of the defenders.Fortunately, he retreated quickly. As soon as the empress disappeared into the yellow camp, the yellow and blue sides stopped fighting, and even some "corpses" lying on the ground stood up again, gathered a force, and counterattacked the red defenders.

It was clear from this look that the empress would never come back.Vice General Zhang was filled with grief and anger. The situation in front of him changed so fast that people couldn't react to anything else at all, so he quickly retreated into the city and closed the city gate.

what should I do now?Vice General Zhang panicked completely, the enemy army was clamoring under the city, the traitor Gu Chaonan rode his horse and stood in front and shouted loudly: "The emperor and empress are both outside the city gate, how dare you not open the city gate?"

The reinforcement generals also panicked, not knowing what to do.The morale of the soldiers in the city was also low, and they sat weakly under the city wall to rest.

"Father, queen, and empress are outside?" Xu Zhuangzhou pushed the eldest prince up the city wall, and said in a childish voice, "Then let them put a basket down, and let them bring in father, empress, and empress."

Vice General Zhang was taken aback for a moment, then turned his head to see the eldest prince, and hurriedly said: "It's dangerous here, why did Your Highness come here?"

"He didn't push the prince out." Ming Sigui honestly pointed to the person behind him.

Vice General Zhang frowned and looked at Xu Zhuangzhou: "What does Mr. Xu mean?"

Xu Zhuangzhou lowered his eyes and said softly: "The queen was caught in a trick, isn't there still His Royal Highness in the city? This city of Ye protects the entire country. If they only want the emperor and queen to enter the city, then it would be better to use baskets to pretend to be people." If you want to open the city gate, don’t you just want to take the opportunity to occupy Yecheng?”

There was silence for a while, and Vice General Zhang sighed: "That's what you said, but Jiangshan belongs to the emperor, and now guarding the city empty-handed, leaving the emperor and queen outside the city, there is no way to justify it..."

"The queen mother said that I will guard the country in the future." Ming Sigui looked at the thousands of troops below him in a daze. The little people don't understand what is a country and what is a guardian, but he remembers his father. The emperor said that the queen mother would not harm him, and what the queen mother said must be right.

So he said such a sentence that was completely out of line with his age.

It also shocked Xu Zhuangzhou and Deputy General Zhang.

"Your Highness, do you want to open the city gate?" asked the deputy general of the reinforcement army.

A few adults surrounded a child in a wheelchair, and the sound of thousands of people clamoring outside, the scene was a bit strange.

Ming Sigui didn't know what would happen if the city gates were opened, or what would happen if they didn't open the city gates, but when the queen mother was around, the most common thing she said was that she couldn't open the city gates.

So he nodded.

Although he is only a three-year-old child, he is the only son and the eldest son of the Holy Majesty after all. In his name, he can continue to guard the city, right?

Deputy General Zhang wiped the cold sweat off his brow, and bowed his hands in response.

Yecheng still did not open the door, Gu Chaonan continued to lead troops to attack the city.In Gu Jun's camp, Xu Mengdie was frowning at the military doctor.

This military doctor is a barefoot doctor recruited from a nearby town. He likes to call himself a miracle doctor, but his medical skills are a bit foolish.But at this moment, no other military doctor could be found, so Xu Mengdie had to be a dead horse as a living horse doctor.

After looking at the pulse for a long time, the military doctor muttered for a while before saying: "He vomits blood, is comatose, and convulses again. I'm afraid... he has some incurable disease."

"Afraid?" Xu Mengdie frowned: "Can't you diagnose it?"

The military doctor shivered for a moment, and said bravely, "Who says it can't be done? This lady's pulse condition is chaotic. It's a rare disease that has been seen for many years. It's called... It's called heartbroken disease, and ordinary doctors can't diagnose it."

Xu Mengdie was skeptical when he heard it: "Really?"

"Really!" The military doctor said, "If you don't believe me, go and see another doctor!"

Xu Mengdie's heart sank, this is so difficult, she still wants to keep Shen Guiyan to threaten the emperor, if Shen Guiyan dies before the emperor arrives in Yecheng, the emperor will be angry Under the circumstances, why not just razed the Gu family's barracks to the ground?
No, I have to find a way to bring the emperor back quickly.

At the beginning, Gu Chaonan used the news of the defeat to lure the emperor to the border, and then joined forces with Fanbang to lure the enemy deep, and led the emperor all the way to the border of Fanbang. Afterwards, the emperor chased Fanbang hard, so they had the opportunity to leave the border with their own soldiers, in order to move the rescuers. First of all, let's take Yecheng first.

Once Yecheng is captured, it will be too late when the emperor turns around and wants to return to the court. Gu Chaonan will use Yecheng as a starting point to directly kill all the emperor's soldiers in the name of pretending to be the imperial army, and finally go back and say that the emperor was killed by Fanbang , and then help the eldest prince to take over the throne and control the government.

The plan was very good, but I didn't expect Shen Guiyan to be so difficult to deal with. The few defenders guarding Yecheng dragged them away for almost a month. Now that they have finally been caught, they must be used well.

Just do what you say, Xu Mengdie immediately went out to order someone to use an urgent letter to tell Gu Chaobei about Shen Guiyan falling into Gu Chaonan's hands.

In this way, the emperor who was scheduled to arrive in Yecheng in eight days was estimated to arrive in five or six days, and Shen Guiyan would be able to play a final role if he persisted for another five or six days.

Xu Mengdie went out and sent a large number of people to guard the tent, only a few more people stood on the top of the tent, Shen Guiyan couldn't get out even if he could fly.

The military doctor was still talking to the maid in charge of serving in the tent: "This lady is really sick, look at her face, and the bloodshot around her mouth..."

Shen Guiyan felt that the fortune-telling given to her by the national teacher was really correct, she was born with a good fortune, and originally planned to bite her tongue to vomit blood, to see if she could hide it from the doctor, but who knew that she would meet such a person who loves to pretend the doctor.

There was nothing wrong with her at all, but she bit her lip and coughed up some blood, then passed out with an ugly face, and even said that she had an incurable disease.

It's amazing.

Lying on the bed, she now has the strength to slowly think about how to get out.

I don't know what's going on in Yecheng, but from Xu Mengdie's words, we can know that Gu Chaobei is not dead, so the most urgent thing is to find a way to leave this place.In the hands of Xu Mengdie, she has only two choices, either run away or die.

It is absolutely impossible to give her a chance to threaten Gu Chaobei.

It's not that she is great, but that people who have been threatened since ancient times, even if they compromise in the end, they will not get the person or thing they want to protect.Xu Mengdie is cruel and merciless, with deep thoughts.Threatening the emperor with himself, even if the emperor makes concessions, wants beauty instead of country, after giving up everything, will Xu Mengdie keep his promise and let her and the emperor go?

The ending will definitely be that the two of them died together, and they even caught up with the country.

Instead of this, she might as well solve herself first.

The little maid who served in the camp was Xu Mengdie's twin, a confidant among her confidants, so she didn't need to make a relationship if she wanted to. She had to pretend to be a person who had an "incurable disease".

So Shuang'er came to wipe her face, and Shen Guiyan didn't move when she was arranging her clothes. At night, when Shuang'er was about to fall asleep leaning against her couch, Shen Guiyan suddenly opened her eyes and sat up straight. of.

Shuang'er was taken aback: "What are you doing?"

Shen Guiyan didn't speak, her eyes were half-opened, there was no brilliance inside, her entire face was expressionless, gloomy, she sat for a while and then fell back by herself.

Shuang'er frowned, and didn't dare to sleep at night, she kept staring at her, fearing that she would play tricks, but Shen Guiyan slept soundly afterwards.

When she woke up the next day, Shen Guiyan seemed to be in better spirits. After leaning against the head of the bed and coughing up blood, she looked at Shuang'er brightly: "Why do you look haggard?"

Nonsense, if you haven't slept all night, you must not be energetic.Shuang'er yawned and asked, "What did your empress do when she sat up suddenly last night?"

Shen Guiyan leaned weakly on the soft couch, with a blank expression on her face: "Didn't I sit up?"

Shuang'er's complexion changed slightly, and she turned around and went out to ask the military doctor. After asking, she realized that it was called sleepwalking, and it was also a disease, but it was not fatal, and it was true that it might kill others.

So at night, Shuang'er stayed far away from Shen Guiyan, and when she saw her sitting up or something, she didn't pay attention to it.

The siege battle was still going on, and Yecheng was better able to defend than Shen Guiyan thought. For three days, Gu Chaonan returned without success every day.

"Your Majesty really meets nobles wherever you go." Xu Mengdie came to see her in the camp, and said in a strange way: "There are so many reinforcements in the city, how did your Majesty get them?"

Every time Shen Guiyan sees Xu Mengdie, she coughs very badly, her face is extremely pale, and her eyes are also very weak: "Please come, how else can you come?"

Xu Mengdie laughed lightly: "The reinforcements cannot be mobilized without the imperial decree of the soldiers. I am afraid that the empress used some special method?"

Shen Guiyan looked up at her.

Xu Mengdie stood up, moved closer to her, pinched her chin and said: "Your Majesty's beauty is so beautiful that the country is overwhelmed, so those generals must be very loyal to your Majesty because of this?"

This is really daring to say anything, Shen Guiyan's face darkened: "Madam Gu respects herself."

"I don't have anything to be proud of, the empress is." Xu Mengdie smiled: "The minister has already sent the situation of Yecheng to the emperor, and the empress thinks that the emperor will praise the empress in a special way." Have reinforcements been called in?"

This is not enough to threaten, but also to slander?Shen Guiyan snorted coldly: "It's better for the emperor to misunderstand, so that he won't be coerced by villains because of me."

"You are noble, you would rather be misunderstood, and want to keep your husband's country?" Xu Mengdie sneered: "It's a pity, the minister's wife has seen it clearly for so many years, the emperor will not be willing to let go of your mother."

(End of this chapter)