Itsui thought that she only needed to listen to a story.

I never thought that this story would be related to me.

There was only one fire in the imperial city in the eight years of Xiping, and it was during that fire that Yi Cui and Yan Zhao took advantage of the chaos to escape from the imperial city, and Yi Cui was unlucky enough to be hit by an arrow, so that his right leg was disabled. They had always thought that the fire was an accident, an accident that God had given them to change their fate.

Unexpectedly, now a girl sues him, it is not an accident, but man-made.

The instigator of this hellfire, which eventually burned down almost half of the imperial city, was only a palace maid, and the person who prompted her to carry out this retaliatory fire at the cost of her life turned out to be only a ten-year-old girl. And the reason why this little girl was so impulsive to instigate the palace maid was because someone in the palace had killed her master. And those people killed her master in order to seize the throne.

No one could have guessed that Gu Chaoge actually hid such a big secret, keeping it secret, and she left the imperial capital to wander around practicing medicine, one to complete the master's life, and the other out of guilt for the palace maid.

The matter starts with the holy decree that Miao Xianggong received to recruit into Beijing four months after Chu Dongyuan left the division.

Qin Guifei, the emperor's favorite concubine, and Empress Fu, that is, the current queen mother, are pregnant at the same time. The emperor was overjoyed and recruited famous doctors from the people to escort these two women and their children. At that time, it was rumored that the first emperor intended to choose one of these two children to be the crown prince, and it was more likely to be the son of Qin Guifei, because Empress Fu had already given birth to a son, but the first emperor never revealed the slightest intention of wanting him to inherit the throne.

Qin Guifei's child, even if the gender is unknown, it doesn't matter, after all, Dajing also had a wise empress.

This is a tricky job, the imperial doctors in the palace are unwilling to do it, no one fights with the folk doctors, and even the idea of recruiting famous doctors into the palace is ordered by the imperial hospital.

Famous doctors have to go through various examinations after entering Beijing, and Miao Xianggong stands out in these tests and becomes the royal doctor of the concubine and the empress. Miao Xianggong was expelled from the Wen family for stealing the body in the tomb in his early years, and now he has become the imperial doctor of the two most noble women. After coming and going, Miao Xianggong became famous, and simply opened a medical hall, and when he did not enter the palace, he would treat people in the medical hall, whether rich or poor, everyone who came was diagnosed.

The palace maid who later set the fire came to the door because of a chronic illness. Once a month, on the day of leaving the palace, she will come to the "Miao Xiang Court" to see a doctor, and often bring some palace snacks to Xiao Chaoge, who remembers the recipe next to Miao Xianggong, and she likes Xiao Chaoge very much.

But as the bellies of the queen and the concubine got bigger and bigger, the undercurrents began to surge in the palace. Empress Fu and Concubine Qin Guifei have had several accidents that almost slipped tires, but fortunately, Miao Xianggong rescued them and never had an accident.

As a result, his fame became even greater, and his real name began to gradually become unknown, and everyone respectfully called him "Miao Xianggong".

The naïve Miao Xianggong didn't think about what kind of vicious and sinister game was behind this, and at that time, he also proudly said to Xiao Chaoge that he must be the most famous doctor in the Wen family in a hundred years.

was expelled from the house by the Wen family, and he was haunted by it all his life.

The last time Xiao Chaoge saw his master was on a blood-colored dusk, an evening full of ominous omens. She had followed her master into the palace several times, but that time, probably the master also faintly sensed it, in the face of the eunuch who was in a hurry to summon him into the palace, Miao Xianggong carried the cage alone and got into the carriage, did not take Xiao Chaoge away, and even told her to close the door in detail, take care of the house, and don't let the bad guys in.

Ten-year-old Xiao Chaoge held the notebook that Master was still writing before leaving, stood at the door of the medical hall in a daze, looked at the emaciated cyan back of the Master, carried the heavy cage, slowly lifted one foot, and awkwardly boarded the carriage sent by the palace.

Then, never came back.

She didn't know what the specific situation was in the palace that night, only that Qin Guifei was announced to be intent on murdering Queen Fu and the fetus in her womb. And Empress Fu's hatred tried her best to push down Qin Guifei, so that the concubine had a fetal gas, and gave birth to one in less than a month...... Stillbirth.

Whether it was Empress Fu's slippery fetus, or Qin Guifei's stillbirth, all the blame was overwhelmed by the angry emperor Miao Xianggong. Almost without hesitation, he ordered the forbidden army to kill Miao Xianggong on the spot. Later, the witch doll was found in Qin Guifei's palace, which escalated the situation again, the emperor no longer hesitated, Qin Guifei was immediately beaten into the cold palace, and all the people in the Qin Mansion were arrested and interrogated by the forbidden army.

Empress Fu used her unborn child to completely defeat Qin Guifei, and Shun lì helped her eldest son to the position of crown prince. And the Miao Xianggong who died innocently in this palace change, no one cares, and no one regrets it, after all, no matter how good he is, he is just an insignificant little person.

Perhaps, when the former emperor was seriously ill in bed due to the accumulation of anger and sorrow, and no imperial doctor could save him, he once remembered and regretted the folk doctor he killed under impulse. However, it was too late, and this was his due retribution.

The last time Xiao Chaoge entered the palace, it was to collect the body of her master. The palace became bloody and bloody, Miao Xianggong, a small folk doctor, has no background and no status, and if he kills it, it will be forgotten, it is the palace maids and eunuchs who have been treated by Miao Xianggong, and they kindly sent the body that was whipped to the outside city.

It was also autumn, and it was cold with a north wind blowing outside the imperial city in late autumn. Xiao Chaoge waited by the most remote gate in the outer city, watching the two eunuchs slowly transport out a scarred corpse covered with white cloth on a dilapidated cart, the eunuch couldn't bear to let her see it, but Xiao Chaoge insisted.

She opened it to see at a glance how tortured her master had been before he died.

The two little eunuchs secretly stuffed her with some silver and jewelry, saying that a few eunuchs and palace maids made it together, and gave her a heart, so that she could bury Miao Xianggong with dignity.

Then, take the rest of the money and leave quickly, never to come back.

Who knows one day, the people above will think of her master, and then kill them all, even this little girl?

From the outer city of the imperial city to the medical hall, it is necessary to walk through two long streets, cross three street corners, and walk a tea time, which is not a very long distance in the past. But that autumn afternoon, Xiao Chaoge, who was struggling to pull the master's cart, felt that he could not finish it, it was as long as there was no end, as if he was going to go to hell like this.

Along the way, many well-wishers came to help her push, and they all received the favor of Miao Xianggong. Everyone helped her push like this, without her thanks, and then silently handed over to the next person, leaving silently, without her thanks.

If it weren't for the help of these people, Xiao Chaoge would not have been able to go far at all with the strength of a child.

The last one to help her was the palace maid who had a chronic illness. She is still so yellow and thin, and she falls down when the wind blows. She accompanied Xiao Chaoge, sent Miao Xianggong back to the hospital, helped Xiao Chaoge carry him down and placed him together, and waited for the funeral in two days.

Xiao Chaoge, who couldn't hold back his crying all the way, finally couldn't help crying loudly when he looked at the master who seemed to be sleeping quietly.

The palace maid accompanied her quietly until the sun was about to set and she had to go back to the palace, at this time she stood up and couldn't help but ask Xiao Chaoge: "Is there any medicine that your master prescribed to me before?" ”

"Yes, but it's useless," Xiao Chaoge wiped away her tears and looked at her expressionlessly, "Your prescription must change every month, my master is dead, and no one will prescribe you a suitable prescription anymore." ”

"You're dead." Children are sometimes more indifferent and cruel than adults, and the young Gu Chaoge showed this cruelty for the first time after losing his master, who depended on him for his life. She threw this sentence coldly, then turned her head away, and knelt straight in front of the master's corpse, expressionless and silent.

The palace maid rushed over and grabbed her arm, her yellow and thin face was full of anxiety and despair: "Is there no other way?" You have followed Miao Xianggong to write the recipe for so long, can you help me cure it? The desire for life made her lose her mind and even pinned her hopes on a ten-year-old child.

"Except for my master, no one can save you." The young Xiao Chaoge slowly turned his head and coldly sentenced the palace maid to death. She couldn't figure out why her master had done good deeds all his life, and in the end he had died tragically, he had saved so many people, but no one could save her in turn.

Xiao Chaoge had deep doubts about her medical skills at that moment, and she even hated these palace maids and eunuchs who were working on errands in the palace but couldn't save their master.

So she looked at the palace maid viciously and sneered: "It was the emperor and the empress who wanted your life, they made you die, you have to die!" If you want to hate, hate the emperor and hate the queen! Tong Yin's sneer was sharp and short, echoing in the empty medical hall, looking a little weird and hideous.

The palace maid finally left in despair.

Xiao Chaoge didn't know when she left, she cried for half a night guarding the corpse of her master, and slept next to the corpse for half a night. It wasn't until the next morning that the shops next door opened one after another, and people began to knock on the door, urging her to bury her master early and bury her in the ground.

They helped her bury her master, and then took away Master's medical hall and changed it into another shop, they wanted to take in Xiao Chaoge, but she didn't want to. After the first seven, she began to organize her master's things and her own things, and prepared to leave the imperial capital alone with her simple bags.

On the day she left, she received a letter forwarded to her by a guard who had gone out of the palace on errands. The letter had only one sentence on it: "They must pay the price." "The payer is the palace maid who has a chronic illness.

Xiao Chaoge felt very inexplicable. There have been frequent changes in the past few days, and she has long forgotten the words she said to the palace maid that day, she just took that sentence as a temporary catharsis, and she didn't expect the adults to remember it.

So Xiao Chaoge didn't react. She folded the letter at random, stuffed it into her bag, and then drove out of the city on a small windward cart from a familiar vendor, all the way south, and when it was time to say goodbye, she found a remote place with a mass grave by herself, to practice, to experience, to complete Master's unfinished notes.

Two days after she left the city, the imperial city caught fire, and a fire spread rapidly by the east wind, burning the queen's Fengzhi Palace, burning the emperor's imperial study, and even almost affecting the most important council hall of the previous dynasty. In this fire, the teenagers Yi Cui and Yan Zhao escaped from the hidden court where the prisoners gathered, and met Gu Chaoge on an unexpected occasion.

When Gu Chaoge returned to the tomb keeper's hut with the medicine, only to find that both of them had left, Gu Chaoge, who had seen a lot of changes and warmth during this time, was not angry, and casually picked up the handwritten letter left by Yan Zhao on the table and looked at it. She glanced at the reason for saying goodbye to the two strange teenagers, but her eyes paused at the place where Yan Zhao mentioned in his essay "Fortunately escaped from the fire". She remembered that when she was buying medicine, the people in the town were discussing the fire in the imperial capital, and they all said that the fire was weird.

At this time, she finally remembered the letter that she had casually stuffed.

This time, she could smell the strong smell of tung oil on the letter.

"Later, I quietly returned to the imperial capital again, and found the guard who brought me a letter, and he said that the palace maid's sister had been burned to death on the day of the fire, and her bones were charred and unrecognizable. Some people say that they saw her secretly scattering something on the day of the fire, and some people say that they saw her secretly hiding tung oil, but there is no proof of her death, and in the end, no one knows how the fire started. Of course, because the emperor suddenly fell ill, no one had the heart to pursue it anymore. ”

"But I know that she died because of my words," recalling Gu Chaoge, who has now grown into a girl, a tear slipped across her cheek, "She could have lived a few more days, and I was the culprit who killed her." ”

If it weren't for the guilt, she would not have been able to continue studying and practicing medicine alone for eight years by virtue of her dedication to Master's last wishes. She wanted to comfort the spirit of the palace maid sister in the sky with more rescues, and wanted to atone for her sins.

Telling the biggest secret in his heart, Gu Chaoge suddenly felt much more relaxed and calm.

Chu Dongyuan was dumbfounded.

I never thought that Master's death would involve such a big secret. His whole body was immersed in extreme shock and remorse, and he thought that if he hadn't left willfully and stayed by the side of Little Tears, he wouldn't have let her suffer so much alone, and it was even possible that because of his dissuasion, Master wouldn't have died at all. He was distressed and guilty, and wanted to hold the little tear bag immersed in sadness and self-blame in his arms to comfort him, but a hand took a step ahead of him and gently wiped the tears from her face.

"So, that palace maid is equivalent to saving me and saving Ah Zhao. Then we met you, you saved Mr. Xue, you saved me twice, you saved Zheng Lin, you saved many, many people suffering from the plague, you saved Miss Wei, you saved Mrs. Zhao, and you saved ......"

Itri paused and smiled slightly: "I can't count them." ”

In this way, he owes her not two lives, but three.

"She will be proud of you when she sees it in heaven." He said softly, Gu Chaoge almost unsuspectingly crashed into his gentle and watery gaze, fell in, looked at him stupidly, and asked stupidly, "Doesn't she hate me?" ”

"Why did she send you a letter?" Yi Cui smiled and imposed his explanation on the palace maid's behavior: "She trusts you and likes you, so she will give you the biggest secret and let you bear witness to her last feat." ”

"She was voluntary, and maybe even had an idea. It wasn't you who pushed her to make this qiē, and sooner or later there were others. ”

He described the burning of the palace as a "feat," the madness of despair at the end of the road as "a voluntary idea," and the suicide note-like letter as a "symbol of trust and liking," and his ability to obfuscate the facts was unparalleled. Chu Dongyuan looked at it coldly, thinking that what this guy said was ...... And it makes sense.

He didn't think it was the fault of the little tear pack, either. Xiao Tear Bao was still a child at that time, who would take the child's words seriously, should she be counted as "guilty for her words"? A mere palace maid can cause such a big fire, there must be a driving force behind the scenes, and the emperor's serious illness may also be related to this. Where did the little tear bag get the confidence to think that he had the ability to be the culprit? Who is the culprit?

However, Chu Dongyuan and Yi Cui have the same cognition, which does not mean that he agrees with Yi Cui's current behavior of rubbing oil on his junior sister. Because he was sitting far away, he simply stood up and walked around in front of Gu Chaoge, gently pulled away Yi Cui's hand, and hugged Gu Chaoge without refusing.

This time it's not a child's hug, it's a ...... Princess hug.

"Senior brother! You, you, what are you doing! Gu Chaoge was suddenly hugged by his powerful arm, so frightened that the whole person grabbed his shoulder and didn't dare to move, and when she came into contact with the complicated gaze cast by Yi Cui, her face turned even redder into a pig's liver color, trying to struggle: "Let go, let me down!" ”

"Don't move, take you back to the room to rest," Chu Dongyuan lifted her whole person up and hugged her tighter, "Sleep well, save yourself from thinking about things and west, do you know?" ”

"It's good to be happy with the little tear pack, and the troublesome things will be handed over to the senior brother in the future, understand?" He smiled brightly at her, and walked away without saying anything, refusing to let go no matter how hard she struggled.

He moves fast and walks fast. It wasn't until he walked out of the pavilion and walked on the bamboo forest path back that he turned his head as if he had just remembered, glanced at Yi Cui sitting in the pavilion, and met Yi Cui's cold and frozen face, Chu Dongyuan laughed: "Brother Yi, let's go first, remember to keep today's matter secret, and say goodbye!" ”