Chapter 4: Queen

Gu Yi felt sore and weak throughout his body. He knew that he was feverish and the vitality in his body was losing bit by bit. Gradually, his perception of surrounding things became slower and slower. Only on the back, because of the stubborn drugs, stinging into the bone,
He was even a little grateful for these pains, at least to keep him awake.
He didn't want to die, even if he had fallen to this point, even if every moment of his life was the pain of death.
The grievances suffered by the family, the tragic death of his father and brother, and countless comrades who shared the same ups and downs... His eyes are full of red blood. He clearly remembers that day, he led two thousand elites, and waited for the orders from the front to step into the battlefield to support. For three full days, only a messenger covered in blood was seen, sending news that the main force was in an ambush and the entire army was wiped out.
He was full of energy and blood, and was anxious, wishing to take the soldiers and horses to the front immediately to pick up his father and brother. But what followed was the Northern Rong cavalry over the mountains and plains.
In that battle, they fought so hard that he finally broke through with less than a hundred elite riders, and several cities in the north fell.
Soldiers and horses were urgently transferred from the rear to take over the defense. As a general of the defeated army, he could only leave the border non-stop, head south to return to the capital, waiting for his defeat.
He was unwilling to die like this, bearing the grievances of his father and brother and the blood of his comrades-in-arms.
If he were to die, he would rather die on the border with his father and brother in a grand battle that day. Rather than exhausting the last ray of life in this aggrieved place.
That woman... can only be hateful. She had a chance to start that day, but she fell short in the end.
The high fever made his mind confused, as if the door was open and someone came in. In the confusion, a hand fell on his forehead and then on his neck. It was cool and comfortable. He groaned reflexively.
Yuan Luo feels complicated.
The place where Gu Yi was placed was in a hut at the far northwest corner of the Zichen Palace. It was originally the residence of the sweeping servants, but it looked like it had long been abandoned.
Fortunately, the room is quite spacious, but the internal facilities are a bit rudimentary.
Seeing the young man lying on the bare wooden bed, there was not even a bedding in the cold weather, Yuan Luo felt a little sad.
She reached out and tried Gu Yi's forehead, which was terribly hot. Putting down his hand, thinking of the goodwill degree again, he touched his neck again.
Favorability -54.
Haha, it really dropped again. Yuan Luo was speechless and put her hand down.
But she didn't know how much she shocked Sixi and Tian Pan with a few simple actions.
Concubine, this is...
Yuan Luo was self-contained and rarely had contact with others, but he touched the little General Gu on the bed.
The two of them felt as if they had an insight into an incredible secret, and they bowed their heads at the same time.
Yuan Luo didn't notice the little Jiujiu in the two of them, and turned around and said sharply: "Take care of the injury, I don't want to see people killed in the Zichen Palace. If he has a long life and two shortcomings, you only ask!"
Out of a subtle mentality, Tian Pan said that this time he accurately understood the spirit of instructions from the superiors.
The next day, when Yuan Luo came to visit the sick number again, she found that the simple hut was greatly changed.
The whole room was cleaned spotlessly, the bed was covered with clean and refreshing bedding, and the corner of the room was burned with a copper stove. It was finally a suitable place for healing.
Even the teenager who was half dead on the bed yesterday still has energy today.
Tian Pan's medical skills and abilities are worthy of recognition. Yuan Luo nodded again and again.
At this time, she saw Gu Yi's face clearly for the first time. She was an extremely beautiful young man with fair skin and delicate features. When she lowered her eyelashes and didn't speak, she was as cute as a doll. Yuan Luo vaguely remembered that Gu Liangyong was a poor fellow from the border regions, and he was of Western descent, and Gu Yi was also considered a mixed-race. No wonder he was so beautiful.
About she had been staring for too long, Gu Yi's whole body was tense, like a small animal in a territory invaded by wild beasts, he raised his head and stared back at her. His eyes are alert, with determination, or the killing intent is more appropriate.
Yuan Luo had no doubt that if it hadn't been for this kid to be dying of illness, she would definitely rush to bite her neck.
"How is the injury?" She turned to ask Tian Pan.
However, when he turned his head, he found that Tian Pan had actually retreated. Even Sixi, who originally followed her, automatically stayed outside the door.
what's the situation?
Yuan Luo was dazed, and a hoarse tone came from before him.
"You can't die after all."
Yuan Luo turned his head, this kid thought he was asking him about the sentence just now.
Well, who is not asking.
She shrugged: "It's fine if you can't die, otherwise this palace will be wasted." For fear that this kid was really dead under torture, after Yuan Luo returned to the bedroom yesterday, she ordered Si Xi to open the warehouse and take a few samples. The precious medicinal materials are here.
Gu Yi bit her lip and stared coldly at the woman in beautiful dress. This woman tried to frame their Gu family, cruel, and now she ordered someone to hang her for a lifetime without knowing how to torture her.
"You don't have to be suspicious. You can recover from your illness with peace of mind. The frontier wars. This palace has other considerations. Since it saved your life, it won't kill you. This time it can be considered as spared by the palace." Yuan Luo simply was in the middle of the room. Sit down on the stool.
She thinks it's better to speak up, and how to spare him by herself is a favor.
Favor?
There was a mocking smile on Gu Yi's face. A teenager of this age could not completely conceal his emotions.
Yuan Luo sighed: "Do you think that the Gu family was brutally slandered and the entire family was extinct, and it was all caused by this palace. But have you ever thought that your father, as a foreign minister, repeatedly instigated the emperor and abolished my position as a noble concubine? Isn't it just killing me?"
Yuan Luo said plainly, Gu Liangyong was a general from a poor family who was hand-drawn by Emperor Xianning. He was loyal to the first emperor, and he was considered a imperial party that supported Si Konglin, the orthodox bloodline of the first emperor. To draw a clear line between the powerful family of the court and the king of East China Sea. From this perspective, he and Yuan Luo should be of the same school. So the original owner vigorously wooed him at first, wanting to rely on each other. Unexpectedly, he was beaten in the face and finally came to this point.
"The palace is calculating, and the courtesy exchanges, and now I have a good game to save my life. If I am a noble concubine, can I still have my life?" Yuan Luo is telling the truth. She is in the palace. Enemies are everywhere. Once you lose your position, you will die without bones.
Gu Yi was stunned. No matter how sinister and insidious the Gong Wei conspired, it was a private matter, and there was always a fig leaf on it. The woman in front of her said these private things in a grand manner. And it seems to make sense...Bah! how is this possible. My family is very loyal to the court, and my father wrote a letter just because this treacherous concubine acted viciously and interfered with the government, and was absolutely selfless.
He bit his lip: "If you keep your duty, how can your father impeach you for no reason?"
"What is duty?" Yuan Luo sneered. With the origin of the original owner, if you don't form a party for personal gains and domineering in power, how can you keep your position among the concubines from the rich and powerful? I was trampled to death by those concubines.
Anyway, she didn't expect to resolve the youth's hatred with a few words anyway.
And one more thing. Yuan Luo stepped forward and grabbed Gu Yi's right wrist.
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Before she had time to take a closer look, she was stunned by the sound of the +1 prompt sound.
How can you increase your favorability? Does this make sense to what she said? This boy is literally inhuman. Even if normal people are persuaded, as a victim, it is impossible to resolve their hatred.
Suspecting that he had auditory hallucinations, Yuan Luo couldn't help but poked his hand on the young man's forehead.
When she poked backwards, Gu Yi frowned and stared at her in confusion.
Determined to add a point, Yuan Luo retracted his hand.
What is this person doing? Gu Yi was full of uncomfortable feelings, and forced himself out of Yuan Luo's restraint.
After a brief contact, Yuan Luo had already seen the scratch on the back of his hand. She laughed: "How did your scar come from?"
Gu Yi's body trembled lightly, his lips pressed, and he did not answer.
"As far as the matter is concerned, you return to the capital to apologize. Don't beg the emperor for mercy. You even dared to sneak into the court at night and assassinate the noble concubine. The boldness is comparable to treason. How to judge this crime?"
Gu Yi's body trembled, and she actually recognized herself.
Yuan Luo recalled the situation when she was crossing the past few days. It was obvious that someone pushed herself into the water. The murderer hid his head and covered his face and did not show any signs. However, based on the favorability prompt at the time, she could naturally determine who it was. And she scratched the opponent with a hairpin at the critical moment, and now there is a scar on the back of Gu Yi's hand.
Afterwards, she briefly learned about Gu Yi's resume. Before following his father on the battlefield, he had served as a guard in the palace for several months. So the road in the palace is clear.
After returning to the capital from the border, this kid should have been burned with hatred. He sneaked into the palace that night and assassinated himself. The assassination was impossible with him alone.
As a second-ranking member, Gu's family also had a certain influence in the palace. In other words, the imperial concubine originally made countless enemies, and some unsuspecting people secretly helped one or two. She couldn't tell anything else, she could infer at least one accomplice. It was Shen Dongliu who invited her to the attic to enjoy the piano music that night.
It was because of Shen Dongliu's invitation that the original owner went to the appointment alone. Let Gu Yi take advantage of it.
Gu Yi was not stupid enough to directly kill the killer. In order to avoid leaving traces, he pushed himself into the water to create the illusion of a trip and drowning, otherwise ten Yuan Luo would also be choked to death by his martial arts.
Unexpectedly, if the time was delayed for too long, it would still fall short.
It happened that Yuan Luo crossed over, not knowing the situation, and did not say anything about it, otherwise a torture involving the entire court would be inevitable.
Gu Yi lowered his head, his thick eyelashes drooped, hiding everything. In fact, his heart is far from being as calm as on the surface. He is really surprised. There is silence in these heavenly palaces. It stands to reason that with this woman's character, after being assassinated, he must set off a storm and wantonly clear away dissidents.
"Ah... My palace is quietly thinking these days, walking on the line of life and death, and feels that the previous methods are too harsh. So spare your life and make a decision with the past."
Yuan Luo felt embarrassed to say these words.
"It's also because," Yuan Luo paused, and finally mustered the courage to tell the bad news.
"You don't know yet, in order to beg the emperor to deal with them leniently, both Mrs. Gu and Mrs. Gu hanged themselves three days ago."
According to the timeline of the original work, Gu Yi entered the palace to plead guilty. He knelt in front of the Palace of Qianqing for several days. There was a lot of discussion in the court about how to deal with the Gu family. A group of people said that Gu Liangyong's improper command led to the defeat of the front line and the loss of the country. Can be pardoned, one group of people said that victory or defeat is commonplace in the military, and the Gu family is also considered a martyr, and it should be left a ray of life. During this period, it was reported that Gu Yi's second brother had returned after being taken prisoner by the Beiman, and immediately after that, evidence of collusion between the Gu family and the Beiman tribes and business dealings was revealed. At this moment, the Gu family couldn't stand up at all.
Mrs. Gu Liangyong's mother, Mrs. Gu, knew that this time he would be unavoidable. Gu Liangyong's wife had long since passed away from illness and did not continue. Mrs. Tai gave two granddaughters a wives letter and dismissed the servants. She took her eldest daughter-in-law and committed suicide. At the end of the day, he presented his death form, begging to forgive Gu Yi for his life. She is a second-ranking imperative, and her death form is eligible to be passed to the court.
After court discussions, Gu Yi was finally spared and exiled to the border.
The original owner, Yuan Luo, upholds the spirit of cutting the grass but not removing the roots, and sending out killers to kill them all.
On the way to exile, the male protagonist exchanged identities with others.
The assassin sent by the imperial concubine killed the wrong target, but mistakenly thought that he had completed the task, so he could sit back and relax.
But I didn't know that the hero changed his name and surname in Northern Xinjiang, starting from a low-level soldier, and rising step by step. In the end, he won the king with his military merits and turned the tide to save the world from danger.
Before coming, she asked her subordinates and confirmed that Gu's family had been destroyed according to the original timeline.
Gu Yi had been trapped in the palace for the past few days. He didn't even know the bad news. He suddenly heard of it, revealing incredible sadness.
The broken expression made Yuan Luo's heart tighten.
The tragedy of home destruction and death that I had seen in the original book now falls to the front and becomes an extremely cruel reality.
Looking closely at the young man in front of him, he is actually only thirteen years old. His martial arts training from childhood gave him a kind of fortitude that transcends his age, but he still has a three-pointed childishness, like a young eagle that has just spread his wings, and can’t wait to wave his wings and fly to the vast expanse. The sky, because of an unexpected gust of wind and rain, faced the cruel reality of the overturning of the nest.
She didn't say anything, and left the room silently. Leave calm space to the other person.
When I went out, I found that Sixi and Tian Pan were both standing in front of the door and waiting. The little who was in charge of taking medicine and taking care of it was no longer visible.
Yuan Luo blinked and said that she had been alone in the room with Gu Yi for so long, and it seemed that she was a little out of compliance, but she had done a lot of things that were out of compliance, and she didn't care about it anymore.
Instructed Tian Pan to take good care of the wounded. She left with Sixi.
Walking in the garden behind the Zichen Palace, Yuan Luo began to think about the two important tasks given by the system. It’s a matter of brushing the male lead’s favorability degree, but haste is not enough. Take your time. Anyway, it is already negative.
Another mission to save the world is to try our best to resolve the natural and man-made calamities in recent years...
Just thinking about it, Si Xi suddenly whispered, "Queen Empress."
Yuan Luo was taken aback by this name and looked up, only to find that she had walked into the small wood behind the Qianqing Palace unknowingly.
In front of me was a small hill with white stone steps on top of each other. On the top of the hill was a pavilion. In the pavilion sat a slim and slender girl, dressed in a purple palace dress, sitting on a stone table looking at herself with unfriendly eyes.
Since there are noble concubines, of course there are also queens.
Calculating the time, Sikonglin has inherited the throne for three or four years, and has been married. The empress empress is the daughter of the powerful family of Wei Clan, the girl in front of him.
She has big bright eyes, a cute face and a little baby fat, which is her favorite. Said to be the empress, in fact, is more like a little princess.
Yuan Luo started to whisper in her heart, the other party is the queen, she is the noble concubine, the other party is the wife, and she is the concubine. Should I salute? While hesitating, I saw Queen Wei staring at her, with a worried expression, and slowly stood up.
The female officer behind her gave a low cough, and the empress suddenly woke up, sat back half-stretched, and then flushed her cheeks. The eyes staring at Yuan Luo became puffy, as if it was Yuan Luo's injury. She lost face.
Yuan Luo immediately understood the way the two get along.
This empress has only been in the palace for more than half a year. From this look, she should have been suppressed by her own noble concubine.
She laughed, and went up the steps to the pavilion. Before Queen Wei could speak, she sat opposite her.