There was thunder and lightning tore a crack in the gray sky.

The light in the room was dim, the little girl's tender breasts were covered with blood, and tears kept pouring out of her eyes.

Gu Changjin walked quickly towards Rong Shu, with Chang Ji and Hengping following closely behind him.

Changji glanced at the scene inside and quickly closed the door.

Gu Changjin lifted his robe and knelt down, feeling the pulse of Mother Zhang's neck. Immediately, his eyebrows relaxed, and he said to Rong in a soothing voice: "Mother Zhang is not dead, Rong Shu, you did not kill anyone."

He opened his palm and pressed gently . Holding Rongshu's cold, blood-stained hands, he continued: "Let go now and leave it to me."

He glanced at Hengping as he spoke, indicating to him to get the medicine.

The man's hands are warm.

A deep and powerful voice also has the power to calm people's hearts.

Rong Shu's tightly covering hand finally let go.

She looked at Gu Changjin and was about to open her lips to say something when she suddenly felt an itch in her throat, and strands of black blood escaped from the corners of her lips and fell on the front of her clothes "tick" and "tick".

It hurts.

——"If I die, the girl will die too."

Rong Shu suddenly understood what Zhang's mother meant.

She was poisoned, and the medicine Zhang's mother fed her every day was both poison and antidote.

Obviously her throat hurt terribly, but the pain at this moment actually made her heart not hurt so much.

Seeing Gu Changjin's sudden change in expression, Rong Shu smiled softly.

It's really rare that this man who is unshakable at all times can have times when his face is full of panic.

She wanted to tell him that she was fine and that she no longer hurt.

The pain was indeed gone. After the severe pain, she felt as light as clouds in the sky, floating higher and higher, unable to reach the ground.

Until a pair of arms hugged her tightly.

The scent of rosin soaked by the heavy rain hit his face, and Rong Shu's consciousness became increasingly blurred.

Soon there was another heavy dull sound in the room.

Luo Yan, who had been stiff and motionless before, unexpectedly passed out as well. Her eyes were white, her lips were purple, and her face was flushed, as if someone had strangled her neck and couldn't breathe.

"Hurry and save people!" Gu Changjin said in a deep voice.

The man's voice was calm, but his hands were trembling slightly.

Gu Changjin gritted his teeth, took out a pill from his waist, pressed it with his jaw, peeled off the sealing wax, put the pill into his mouth, and chewed it quickly.

Immediately, he gently opened Rong Shu's jaw and fed the medicine to her.

He pressed his hand on an acupuncture point on her jawbone and said in a vague voice: "Rong Shu, swallow it."

As soon as he said this, a terrifying familiarity swept through his heart.

It was as if, at some point, he had done this and said this.

"Plop", "Plop" -

his heart seemed to be clenched tightly, and the pain was so painful that he could hardly breathe.

Gu Changjin's eyelashes trembled, and he suppressed the dull pain in his heart. He slowly pushed the concoction to the base of her tongue, and then pressed hard with his long fingers.

Rong Shu felt pain.

The place where he held her jaw hurt, and the wound on the tip of her tongue also hurt, but it was these pains that pulled her consciousness out of chaos.

"Rong Shu, swallow it." Gu Changjin said again, "Swallow it."

The tip of the man's tongue crossed the tip of her tongue and pushed the bitter medicine down her throat.

The little girl's thick black eyelashes trembled slightly, her eyelids opened a slit, and she was stunned when she looked at Gu Changjin's eyebrows so close.

He said again against her lips: "Rong Shu, swallow it."

There was a rare urgency in his voice, and Rong Shu subconsciously swallowed the medicine.

She wanted to say "It's so painful".

Only the tip of his tongue was still between her lips and teeth, and their breaths were intertwined. Rong Shu was speechless and could only slowly open his eyelids and stare at him blankly.

Gu Changjin's mouth was full of bitterness.

When I gave her medicine before, I was only thinking about getting her to swallow it, and I didn't realize how intimate such a move was.

At this moment, she swallowed the medicine and felt relaxed. The intimate touch between her lips and tongue was like wildfire, burning his reason.

He didn't dare to use the tea in the room. In a moment of desperation, he used such an intimate method to give medicine. Now that she has regained consciousness, if she uses this method again, she will be taking advantage of others' danger.

Gu Changjin's Adam's apple rolled, he raised his head slightly, his warm lips brushed the tip of her nose, and asked softly: "You are poisoned. This medicine can protect your heart. I will give you another detoxification pill. You may Chew and swallow it by yourself?"

Rong Shu blinked slowly and said, "Mr. Gu, Mother Zhang..."

"Don't worry, she's not dead," Gu Changjin responded warmly, leaning away. He raised his head and said: "Chang Ji, medicine."

Chang Ji's ears were always standing up.

He had just stopped Zhang's mother's bleeding. After hearing this, he quickly took out a small jade bottle from his arms, poured out a white pill, and handed it over.

His eyes were always lowered, and his eyelids did not dare to rise at all.

Just now, the master had his back to them when he was holding Miss Rong. Although he could not see clearly, he could roughly guess how the master administered the medicine.

This makes her wish she could take Mother Zhang away and leave space for the two of them.

Gu Changjin put the antidote into Rong Shu's mouth, and his eyes paused for a moment on the tip of her injured tongue.

The tip of her tongue was covered with nerves, and she bit it until it was bloody and bloody. She was so afraid of pain that even the slightest touch would hurt her. When he was giving the medicine just now, his force was a bit heavy, and it seemed that he... touched her wound.

"Does the wound on the tip of your tongue still hurt?"

As soon as the words fell, the air immediately became silent for a few breaths.

It would have been better if he didn't say this, but once he said it, it would bring back the memory of their lips and tongues intertwined just now.

Rong Shu looked away and said in a hoarse voice, "It doesn't hurt."

Gu Changjin lowered his eyes to look at her.

When this girl lied, she wanted to pinch something with her fingertips. Now she had no strength and couldn't hold it, so her fingertips trembled slightly.

After a pause, he suddenly took her left palm and turned it over gently. The wound on the palm was completely exposed to his eyes.

It turns out that the blood in her hand is not only Zhang’s mother’s, but also her own.

Gu Changjin clenched his jaw, took out a bottle of wound medicine, and lowered his head to apply the medicine on her. When he was about to ask the girl if it hurt, he raised his eyes and saw that her long eyelashes were closed, her head was on his chest, and she was completely asleep. passed.

The old lady doctor has always believed that the best healing effects are achieved when a person is asleep. The Heart-protecting Pills and Jidu Pills are both medicines given by the old lady doctor, and they have a calming effect.

Her body could no longer hold up for a long time, and the medicine was already taking effect, so she couldn't resist the drowsiness.

Rong Shu slept deeply, but his sleep was extremely unstable, trapped in one bizarre dream after another.

The scene of her piercing the silver hairpin into Zhang's mother's neck appeared many times in the bedroom. In the dream, her movements were extremely slow, so slow that the sound of the hairpin digging into her skin could be clearly heard, one after another.

"puff"!

"puff"!

"puff"!

She threw down the silver hairpin in her hand, squatted on the ground, and covered her ears with both hands, but she still couldn't block the sound.

I don’t know how long it took, but the sound finally disappeared.

Rong Shu put down his hand, and the blood in front of his eyes suddenly disappeared, replaced by a piece of white covered with silver.

In the snow, Zhang's mother hugged her with a look of distress on her face, "Girl, be good, don't be afraid, mom

will stay with you." "Mom, grandma is gone, will you leave?"

"No, if mom doesn't leave, mom will Stay with the girl all the time. "

...

It's raining like crazy."

A green-covered carriage broke into the rain, and a series of water droplets flew out from the wheels.

"Are you... going to leave?"

In the carriage, the little girl asked this question over and over again in her dream.

The blood-stained little hands tightly grasped the hem of his clothes.

Gu Changjin lowered his head and whispered in her ear again: "No, Rong Shu, I won't leave."

She didn't know if the dream had dissipated or if she heard what he said.

The frowning brows of the girl in his arms slowly relaxed, her hand loosened, slid down his chest, and soon fell into a hand with distinct joints.

Gu Changjin held her hand and looked at the car roof that was clanging with the wind. He thought of the dream he had in the cabin last night, his eyes darkened.

In the dream, he was investigating Shen Zhi in Qingzhou.

Twelve years ago, Shen Zhi often went to Shandong Prefecture to collect salt, and every time he returned, he would detour to Qingzhou.

What he was checking was who Shen Zhi went to Qingzhou to meet.

Just when he was finding some clues, something happened on the other side of Beijing. The person who happened was the Marquis of Cheng'an, who was accused of collaborating with the enemy and treason.

"According to the information we received from the secret stake in Shangjing, the mastermind behind the Cheng'an Marquis Mansion is the Qi family." Chang Ji said worriedly: "Meng Zongxian of the Metropolitan Procuratorate personally went to the Qi Mansion to secretly lock Qi Heng in the custody room. "

The Qi family?" Gu Changjin frowned.

Is it a coincidence? Xu Fu originally wanted to use Liao Rao's case to bring down the Qi family and the second prince last year.

Unfortunately, after Mrs. Liao was seriously injured by Uzhida, Liao tied a suit of explosives and boarded the ship where the three Uzhida brothers were, blowing up the entire ship and the pirates on board to ashes.

The clues halfway through were completely interrupted.

After Jiao Feng learned that Pan Xueliang was forced to commit suicide, he would rather be convicted and punished as an enemy than reveal a word about Liao Rao's collusion with the Water Dragon King.

The old minister pitted himself against Pan Xueliang. He originally wanted to take the opportunity to expose Liao Rao and the second prince's collusion with the enemy and treason. Unexpectedly, in the end, he lost everything!

No one could win, but tens of thousands of innocent people in Yangzhou died.

Not only was Liao Rao not convicted, he even risked his life to blow up three pirate leaders of the Wuri clan. The people of Yangzhou Prefecture who survived the robbery were extremely grateful to him, and many people built a tomb for him.

Xu Fu, the oriole, originally wanted to use the old minister's hand to bring down the Qi family, but this plan failed in the end.

"You said Mr. Zong Xian personally captured Qi Heng?"

"Yes."

Meng Zong rarely arrests people himself. Now that the Qi family has captured Qi Heng in a grand manner, it is obvious that the Qi family will never be able to recover again. The storm has broken out, and there is no hope for the second prince to recover in the future.

In other words, it is certain that the Qi family and the second prince will be convicted this time.

Xu Fu couldn't do such a neat and neat work on his own.

Gu Changjin's right eyelid kept twitching, and his mood, which had always been as stable as a mountain, was a little uneasy for some reason.

The only person who could make him feel so uneasy was her.

"Prepare your horses. Leave Zhuiyun to check what happened in Qingzhou here. You and I will go back to Beijing."

The two of them galloped all the way. On the day they arrived in Shuntian, it was also pouring rain.

That day was the fourth day of July, a few days away from her birthday.

Chang Ji delivered new news, saying that Shen Zhi sent evidence to Dali Temple that the Shen and Rong families secretly purchased a large number of firearms.

"These firearms were purchased under the order of the second prince, so that Emperor Long Yubin and Queen Tian could seize the opportunity."

Ever since Emperor Jiayou coughed up blood in the Jinluan Palace, there were rumors that he had made a will. It's a pity that no one knows until now which prince's name is written in the edict.

Gu Changjin frowned slightly, "Where can we find these firearms?"

"They haven't been found yet." Chang Ji shook his head, "Now people from Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment are investigating. After Shen Zhi secretly sent the evidence to Dali Temple, people Then he disappeared."

Gu Changjin muttered: "Send a letter to Zhuiyun and ask him to go to Yangzhou to check Shen Zhi's whereabouts. A person will disappear, either because he senses danger and hides himself, or someone else kills someone. Silence her. No matter what, she will see her alive and her body will be seen."

Thinking of the girl's temper, he paused and said: "After I go back to Beijing, I will find a way to send the young lady to the Four Seasons Garden. You and Hengping are guarding her. It's a troubled time now, and it's dangerous for her to stay in Shangjing."

Chang Ji looked hesitant: "Now that the Hou Mansion is in trouble, I'm afraid the young lady won't want to leave."

Gu Changjin's eyes darkened.

Indeed, her relationship with her mother was so good that even Shen Zhi was someone she cared deeply about. If something happened to them, she would definitely go find out. How could she leave Beijing at this time?

"I wrote a letter in handwriting. You will give it to her after leaving Beijing. After she reads the letter, she will stay at Sishiyuan with peace of mind and wait for my news."

The carriage bumped, and the hurried handwriting lacked the usual majestic and neatness. .

However, before the letter was finished, Gu Changjin felt a sudden pain in his chest, and a drop of thick ink hit the rice paper heavily.

He woke up and his dream came to an abrupt end.

No, perhaps it should be said that the memory of another Gu Changjin came to an abrupt end.

There is a "Maple Lady" in this world, and his dreams are never just dreams.

Heavy rain pounded on the roof, and humid air poured in from the cracks in the car's roof.

Gu Changjin's hand holding Rong Shu tightened slightly.

He still remembers that in that dream, the first four words he wrote were "My Wife Zhao Zhao".