Gu Changjin handed the letter to Chang Ji and said to him: "When you get to Sishiyuan, tell her for me that the bowl of longevity noodles she gave birth to this year will be replenished for her when I go to Sishiyuan to pick her up. "On

July 7, when the carriage entered the city, Xie Hushen, the commander of the Jinwu Guards, stopped their carriage.

"Master Gu, the Queen would like to invite you to the Kunning Palace to have a talk."

Queen Qi?

Recalling Xu Fu's disgust when talking about Queen Qi, Gu Changjin couldn't guess why Queen Qi summoned him to the palace.

The former dynasty and the harem were always very distinct, but Queen Qi had vigorously promoted Dayin's system of female officials in recent years, and occasionally summoned some ministers from the previous dynasty.

At the beginning, many courtiers expressed concern that Queen Qi's move was unethical. However, after the emperor sent these memorials to the Dragon Case, he ignored them every time.

Everyone then understood that what the Queen did was tacitly approved by the Emperor.

Empress Qi had a reputation as a virtuous person in Taiyuan Prefecture. She provided disaster relief, opened schools, opened women's colleges, and even personally led the palace's servants to farm wasteland with the people in years of famine.

The Queen's Temple was never a decoration, but the respect of the people of Taiyuan Prefecture from the bottom of their hearts.

When Gu Changjin entered the palace with the palace attendants, Wang Dehai had already led two young chamberlains to wait at the Jinshui Bridge.

Wang Dehai is the general manager of Qianqing Palace and the most trusted servant of Emperor Jiayou. He will be here and Emperor Jiayou knows that he wants to come to Queen Qi to see him.

His eyes faintly glanced at Wang Dehai's extremely respectful expression. Gu Changjin's heart skipped a beat. He took out a medicine from his sleeve and swallowed it while coughing under his sleeve.

Wang Dehai stepped forward to hold an umbrella for Gu Changjin.

The majestic palace was hidden in the pattering rain, and light thunder rolled over the glazed jade tiles.

There is a dragon riding under the jade steps of Kunning Palace.

Gu Changjin stepped up the white marble stairs step by step and entered the corridor.

The hexagonal palace lantern flickered with tiny light and shadow. Gu Changjin slowly clenched the hand hidden in his sleeve. It depends on today whether everything Xu Fu planned will come to fruition.

And whether he can find a way out of the path he has decided to take since he was six years old depends on today.

When life and death were at stake, Gu Changjin only had the word "fast" in his heart!

be quick! Find her quickly and send her to Four Seasons Garden! Only when everything is settled can we take her back!

...

"Chanji, hurry up!"

In the silent room, the man closed his eyes tightly and muttered something.

Rong Shu only heard the word "quick", opened his eyes in a daze, and immediately stared at the plain tent ceiling for a long time.

The curtain was made of rough material and had a dull color, something she had never seen before.

This is not Yilanzhu, nor is it the place where she has stayed.

Rong Shu glanced sideways slightly, looking at the shadowy figure outside the curtain, vaguely remembering that the "quick" just now was shouted by the person outside.

She felt extremely uncomfortable, her whole body felt like it had been run over, everything hurt, and her head almost split open.

Rong Shu took a deep breath, half propped himself up, opened the curtain and looked outside.

I don't know if she made too much noise and woke him up. The moment he opened the curtain, the man happened to open his eyes.

There seemed to be a bit of trance in his eyes. The moment their eyes met, Rong Shu heard him call out in a low voice: "Rong Zhaozhao."

Rong Zhaozhao.

This is the way Gu Yunzhi calls her, and this is also the tone in which Gu Yunzhi calls her.

Rong Shu's hand froze, and the curtain fell from his hand, slowly hanging down, cutting off the two people's intertwined sight lines.

Just when she was wondering if the sound just now was an auditory hallucination, a slender white hand reached in, slowly opened the curtain, and hooked it firmly with a copper hook on one side.

"What's so uncomfortable about it?"

The man's voice was low and hoarse, as if it had been ground in gravel.

Rong Shu raised her eyes and glanced at him. His eyes had returned to clarity. He lowered his eyes and was looking at her for a moment.

The memory of yesterday wakes up bit by bit.

She was poisoned in Yilanzhu, and it was he who detoxified her and saved Sister Luoyan and Mama Zhang. After that, he probably took her away from Shen Garden and came to Pingnan Street.

Then she said: "It's not uncomfortable."

She paused as soon as she said the words, her voice was not much better than his, it was hoarse as if she had typhoid fever.

Gu Changjin turned around and poured her a cup of warm water at the table, saying, "Drink some water first."

Rong Shu was indeed thirsty, holding the tea cup and drinking in small sips. He drank three cups in a row before he stopped, and his throat was burning. The fever-like discomfort finally subsided.

She looked at his dry, thin lips and subconsciously asked, "Aren't you going to drink?"

After he drank two glasses of water, she added, "Sister Luoyan and... where is Mother Zhang right now? "

Miss Luoyan is in the next room. She has been seriously poisoned. She will have to wait another three to five days before she wakes up. As for Zhang's mother -" Gu Changjin's voice turned cold, "Zhuiyun sent her away." He went somewhere else."

Rong Shu squeezed the cup in his hand, "Isn't Mother Zhang awake?"

"Yes. She had poison in her nails. When she caught Miss Luo Yan, her nails broke. She was also poisoned. The reason why she was unconscious was because of the poison, not because of you." Gu Changjin said every word.

Mother Zhang couldn't even take Yangjinhua and Chunfengsan, so how could she fall into coma due to the poison she developed herself?

She couldn't wake up, probably because of her stabbing.

Gu Changjin said this just to reassure her.

Rong Shu slowly rubbed the rim of the cup with his fingertips and said with a smile: "Don't worry, sir, I'll be fine. If I didn't stop Mother Zhang, Sister Luoyan and I would have died."

It's not that she couldn't understand this. reason.

The only person she hurt was her wet nurse who had been with her for nearly twenty years. She was sad after all.

But these sorrows should not be the reason for her guilt and self-blame.

The little girl's eyes were open, not forcing a smile, but really seeing things clearly.

When an ordinary person hurts or kills someone for the first time, he or she always needs to be silent for a while before he can recover from the fear and guilt. She did this very well.

Gu Changjin raised his lips and smiled, saying "hmm".

"What excuse did you use to take me away from Shen Yuan?"

"I told the steward of your house that the three of you were injured because someone wanted to take revenge on me, so they sneaked into Shen Yuan to wait for an opportunity to commit murder."

The old steward saw them. One of the three people was bleeding profusely, and two of them were almost poisoned to death. They were so frightened that they were covered in white hair and sweat. How could they doubt Gu Changjin's words? In addition, Gu Changjin's reputation is really good, so he naturally believes whatever he says.

After hearing this, Rong Shu breathed a sigh of relief.

What happened in Yilan Zhuli cannot be known to outsiders, especially Shen Zhi.

Shen Zhi will be back from Fujian soon, and Rong Shu will go back to Shen Yuan to look for evidence. Gu Changjin's excuse is just right.

As if he guessed what she was thinking, Gu Changjin added: "If you want to go back to Shen Yuan, you must get rid of all the remaining poison in your body. Don't be afraid of wasting time. I will help you find out about Shen Zhi." "

"Your Excellency, you are not going back to Beijing?"

"My old injury has recurred, and I have to stay in Yangzhou for some more time before I can go back to Beijing to resume my life. Furthermore, if Shen Zhi really does something that violates etiquette and law and harms Dayin's interests, as a Naturally, the court official cannot just sit back and watch. "

His complexion is indeed not good.

Rong Shu looked at him for a moment, and finally nodded and said, "Thank you, sir."

Gu Changjin had solved the case for many people who were in desperate situations and had no other way out. Rong Shu never doubted his ability, and she would not refuse just to avoid suspicion. his help.

The words extracted from Zhang's mother's mouth are enough to prove that Shen Zhi is not innocent, and the fact that the Shen family collaborated with the enemy in his previous life is most likely true.

As for the role played by the Hou family in this case, we can only investigate it from Shen Zhi.

Shen Zhi is very wary. If he really conspires with the people in the Cheng'an Marquis' Mansion to collude with the enemy and treason, he will definitely leave some evidence of the Marquis's crimes in his hands to prevent the Marquis' Mansion from crossing the river and demolishing the bridge in the future.

Gu Changjin saw the girl lowering her eyes and thinking, her eyebrows frowning more and more, and said: "Since turning into a salt merchant, Shen Zhi has often gone to Shandong Prefecture to pick up salt, and every time he goes, he will detour to Qingzhou. In the past ten years, he no longer Instead of going to Shandong Prefecture, we diverted to Fujian, and occasionally went to Liaodong

, Qingzhou, Fujian, Liaodong, and Shangjing.

Rong Shu always felt that these place names were vaguely forming a clue, but she couldn't catch it for a while, and she always felt like she could catch it in just one step.

What exactly is it?

The more she thought about it, the more she felt a headache, and dense cold sweat broke out on her forehead. She subconsciously held her head, her eyes showing pain.

"Rong Shu. Don't force yourself to think about it. Some clues will become more obvious the more you think about them." Gu Changjin gently put his hands on both sides of her cheeks, raised her face, and said word by word: "Let it go for a few days, how many days." When I look back in the future, I will definitely feel enlightened. "

He always has a power that makes people believe in him.

Especially when he speaks to you solemnly, the composure in his voice is inexplicably reassuring. It seems that no matter how big or difficult it is, as long as he is here, it will be easy.

Rong Shu looked into his dark eyes, and the burning anxiety in his heart seemed to have been soaked by the spring rain, completely numbing him.

After a long moment, she smiled.

"Okay, I'll take good care of myself first. It's better to be healthy after all. Even if I think of clues, I don't have the energy to deal with them."

The little girl's voice returned to its usual gentleness, but her pale face was too pale. It was shocking. Gu Changjin should not have mentioned Shen Zhi to her just now. Gu Changjin felt a little guilty.

"Let's sleep a little longer. It's not yet dawn. I'll be watching over you in this room. You can sleep peacefully." As he said this, Gu Changjin got up and took off the curtain from the copper hook. Hold gently.

"I have something to trouble you, sir." The girl said.

Gu Changjin glanced at her thin, white nephrite-like fingers and responded: "What's the matter? Miss Rong, I just say it's okay."

"I want to take a bath."

Rong Shu pulled the clothes on her body. It was the same one I was wearing today, with blood spots on it.

This is all Zhang’s mother’s blood.

The smell of blood filled every breath of air she breathed in. If the smell was not completely washed away, she would probably be unable to sleep all night.

Gu Changjin never thought that what she was asking for was such a trivial thing. He nodded and said, "Just a moment."

The house faced north and south, and the wing where Rong Shu lived had a window facing the yard.

After Gu Changjin went out, she opened the window and saw the man walking into the small kitchen in the corner, lighting a lamp and boiling water for her himself.

Rong Shu wanted to help, but his limbs were as limp as noodles, and he had no intention of doing anything, so he had to sit by the window and silently look at the open wooden window in the kitchen.

From time to time, the man's tall figure would appear in the window.

Rong Shu waited and couldn't help but raise his chin with his hand and tilt his head.

Accidentally, the wound on the palm of my hand was involved, causing burning pain.

She lowered her eyes and saw that someone had treated the wound carefully, not only applying medicine but also wrapping it with gauze.

No need to think about who did it for her.

The man's figure appeared again at the opposite window. White mist floated out from the window. Half of Gu Changjin's profile was hidden in the mist. From a short distance away, Rong Shu could see his downturned face. Long eyelashes and a high bridge of nose.

Perhaps aware of her gaze, he turned his head and looked over.

Rong Shu subconsciously curled his fingertips, feeling inexplicably embarrassed about being caught peeking.

Just when she was about to smile at him to ease the embarrassment, she suddenly heard a creak, the wooden door was pushed open, and Gu Changjin walked towards her.

The moonlight stretched his figure extremely long, but within a few breaths, he was under the window.

"The wound hurts?" he asked.

Rong Shu was slightly startled. Did he come over because she just looked at her palm and thought her wound hurt?

It does hurt.

"It doesn't hurt." Rong Shu shook his head.

Gu Changjin glanced at her, gently held her injured hand, looked down, and felt relieved when he saw that the snow-white gauze was not stained with blood.

"I'll reapply the medicine for you after you finish bathing later."

Rong Shu said an inaudible "hmm".

The moonlight streamed down from the eaves, and the little girl's face was immersed in the soft clear light, with black hair like a waterfall and a beautiful face.

The water in the kitchen was probably boiling, but he didn't want to leave.

One of them was sitting inside the window, and the other was standing outside the window. Apart from the sound of shallow breathing, there was only the rustle of leaves swaying gently, and the chirping of autumn insects hidden in the wind.

It was obviously not quiet, but Rong Shu felt extremely quiet.

The fingertips of Rong Shu's left hand were still resting on the man's warm palm. She gently retracted her hand and brushed her fingertips against his palm.

Gu Changjin felt as if his palm was being scratched by a soft spring willow. His jaw tightened, and it took a lot of effort to resist holding the tender willow.

The man's hand resting on the window sill slowly lowered.

"It's time for the water to be ready. I'm going to bring it over now."

Rong Shu responded "Okay" calmly.

After a pause, he said his thanks again seriously.

Gu Changjin raised his Adam's apple slightly, said "hmm", turned around and walked towards the kitchen. Before he had taken two steps, there was a slight sound behind him.

She closed the window.