"You're always so calm." Gu Yuancheng let go of my hand, propped up the bed with both hands, and sat up.

I took a step back from the bed, turned my face away, and focused my gaze on the flickering curtains by the window.

"Don't you want to ask Ben Shao why he came to you?" My quiet performance made Gu Yuancheng feel uncomfortable.

"Aren't you about to tell me?" I said softly.

Gu Yuancheng's eyes narrowed for a moment, but he quickly recovered to his original state.

"Ben Shao already knows why the officials in Jiangnan will increase taxes privately."

My eyes darkened, and I didn't speak.

"What's the matter, the matter of Jiangnan is about to come to light, aren't you happy?" Gu Yuancheng sometimes really couldn't understand the person in front of him.

"Gu Yuancheng ......" I pursed my lips, then turned my head to look at him, "Your injury, was it suffered in the pawnshop of life and death?" ”

Gu Yuancheng was stunned, he never thought that a person who had always wanted to kill him would ask him this question.

Secretly pulled the brocade quilt up, Gu Yuancheng let out a "hmm", and turned his head very awkwardly.

I bit my lip and was silent for a long time.

"It's just a skin wound." Gu Yuancheng saw that I hadn't spoken for so long, so he somehow popped out of this sentence, but as soon as the words came out, he felt that something was burning on his cheeks, so he hurriedly put his hand under his mouth and coughed twice.

"You told me the news of the pawnshop of life and death, just for me to lure the people inside for you, so that you can go inside and investigate, but?" I lowered my eyes, and there was a chill in my voice.

Gu Yuancheng naturally felt the coldness in my tone for a moment, he raised his eyes to look at me, and something in his heart was covered in an instant along this coldness, and it was difficult to see the light of day.

Pursed his lips, he sneered.

"Yes, how are you doing?"

I raised my eyes to look at him, and there was a deep coldness in my eyes, mixed with a trace of stubbornness that I couldn't detect, "Jiangnan is my business, you don't have to risk it." ”

I can only lead away the people on the surface of the pawnshop of life and death, there is no way to know how dangerous it is inside, I don't know why Gu Yuancheng is willing to take such a big risk to do this, what can he get by helping me?

"Even now that you have died in the pawnshop of life and death, I will not be half moved by it."

Gu Yuancheng seemed to suddenly understand something, looked at me and laughed, laughing until the wound was torn, and blood gushed out of his chest, staining his plain white middle clothes.

The bright blood red pierced into my eyes, and I subconsciously turned my head, frowned and said angrily, "What are you laughing at?" If you really don't want to live, just laugh! ”

Gu Yuancheng lay straight back on the bed, although he made a sound, his voice still revealed the weakness of the injury, "I really didn't expect that you were such a person." ”

"What do you mean?" I glared at him.

"In the past, I always thought that we were very similar, the same calm, the same keenness, the same love to hold the world in our hands, let it become a pawn for you and me to use, but now it ......"

"What's going on now?"

Gu Yuancheng suddenly raised a hand and looked up at me, with a suppressed interest in his eyes, "I found that you and I are actually very different. ”

I pursed my lips and waited for him to finish.

Gu Yuancheng stopped talking and looked at me directly.

Taking a deep breath, I closed my eyes.

"Anyway, I promised to cooperate with you, you don't have to worry about anything else, I hate this the most, if you anger me, we'll break up!"

Gu Yuancheng raised his eyebrows, but he didn't refute me.

"Are you really ......" Seeing Gu Yuancheng's distracted look, I was angry in my heart, and I was about to say something more about him, but his face suddenly turned pale, he closed his eyes and frowned, and grabbed the brocade quilt with both hands, and the green tendons on the back of his thin hands were highlighted, and after a while, he was already in a cold sweat.

"What's wrong with you?" Shocked, I hurriedly approached the bedside to check Gu Yuancheng's condition, "Gu Yuancheng? Gu Yuancheng, what's wrong with you? Gu Yuancheng? Gu Yuancheng! ”

Gu Yuancheng was speechless in pain, his whole body trembled slightly from the beginning to twitched, he bit his lower lip with his teeth, and a trace of blood flowed from his lips, instantly turning into a jet black color, which was shocking.

This is...... Poisoning?

I was shocked and immediately rushed out the door and shouted, "Someone, someone!" Chen Yi, hurry up and find a doctor, your young master has a toxic attack! ”

Chen Yi, who was guarding downstairs, heard my shout, and did not dare to slack off for a moment, and hurried to the residence where the doctor had been invited earlier.

I saw that Chen Yi had already gone to ask for a doctor, so I was worried, and I went back to the bedside to check on Yuancheng's condition.

"Gu Yuancheng, you hold on, the doctor will be here soon." I saw that he was really in pain, and my fingers fell on the top of an acupuncture point on his body, and after a few hesitations, I still didn't know whether to click on it or not. Listen to the school bag

With this finger, his whole body will fall into a state of ignorance, that is, no matter how painful his body is, he will not feel half a minute, but his meridians will be quickly blocked in a short period of time, even if the acupuncture points are quickly unlocked, it is not necessarily that the meridians can be re-opened, if he is not careful, he may be paralyzed in bed forever.

But...... He looks like this, maybe if he doesn't wait for the doctor to come, he will die of painful convulsions.

"You ......" Gu Yuancheng had been in pain for a long time, and seemed to be a little used to such intense pain, calming down a few times, he opened his eyes slightly, and spit out the words with difficulty...... If...... Handful...... I...... Do...... Do...... Crippled, I'm ...... Sure...... You...... Handful...... Lifetime...... Accompany...... Accompany ......"

Seeing that he was both afraid of my recklessness and angry that he could only threaten but could not do anything now, I actually felt a little laughing.

Gu Yuancheng, Gu Yuancheng, am I so terrible?

The two fingers changed direction, and the point forced him to open his mouth, and I quickly shoved my white handkerchief into his mouth, and because his mouth was full of blood, the blood immediately stained the white handkerchief bright red.

"Try to bite on the white handkerchief and don't hurt your tongue."

"Hmm......" Gu Yuancheng glared at me, struggling to remove the handkerchief with his hand, but the severe pain in his whole body almost consumed all his strength, and he didn't have the extra strength to take the white handkerchief at all.

I ignored him, brushed my clothes and sat down on the side of the bed, leaned over and hugged him, and tried my best to stop his body from convulsing, trying to relieve his physical exertion.

"Don't worry, that handkerchief was just embroidered and given to me by a girl, it is absolutely clean and fragrant."

The body below seemed to stiffen for a moment, but when I looked at him closely, he was still the same as before, convulsing and breaking out in a cold sweat, without the slightest abnormality.

Shaking my head secretly, I felt that I was nervous too much.

The doctor was quickly brought by Chen Yi, and I didn't move away, but only gave up the position where the doctor could diagnose it, and pressed his arm to take the doctor's pulse.

"How?"

The doctor's expression was grim, and after looking at Gu Yuancheng's eyes, he said to me, "This son has been blindly poisoned, I'm afraid his life will not be saved." ”

I couldn't believe it, and asked, "Is it really hopeless?" ”

Chen Yi looked at me for a moment, his expression was nervous, his whole body was tense, and his right hand almost invisibly grasped the saber at his waist.

I naturally felt Chen Yi's wariness of me, but now is not the time to worry about this, I saw that the doctor's eyebrows seemed to be hesitant, and immediately said, "There is a way to cure this poison, right?" You say, we'll do our best to cooperate with you. ”

Seeing that my expression was firm, the doctor no longer hesitated in his heart, and after signaling me to suppress Gu Yuancheng's body, he took out a silver needle and began to prick Gu Yuancheng.

Gu Yuancheng's whole body twitched so badly that the doctor almost pierced the wrong acupuncture point several times, I saw this, I was afraid that it would not be good, and immediately asked Chen Yi to help hold down Gu Yuancheng's body.

The doctor was careful to get every stitch in place, and by the end of the day, it was already dusk.

"There's Dr. Law." I bowed my hand to the doctor, and then said to Chen Yi, "Wait for the doctor to go to the side room to rest, and my son will take care of it here." ”

Chen Yi hesitated, but still followed my words and took the doctor down.

But after a while, he was back here.

"Have you taken down the prescription written by the doctor and fried it according to it?" I pulled Gu Yuancheng's brocade quilt up.

After the doctor finished administering the needle, he no longer had convulsions all over his body, and immediately fell asleep, according to this situation, he probably won't wake up until tomorrow.

"Yes, already on the stove." Chen Yi replied.

"Hmm." I nodded, remembering the doctor's words before leaving, I asked Chen Yi, "Is the branch that you treasure in the Qi Kingdom Palace still there?" Would your Majesty be willing to give this medicine to Gu Yuancheng? ”

Chen Yi's face was very solemn, and he said, "Our Majesty and the young master are like brothers, if it is to save lives, they are willing to give it, but ......"

"But what?" I couldn't hide my anxiety.

Chen Yi glanced at me and said, "The young master has already given you the branch of the Qi Imperial Palace." ”

I was stunned, and then stood up in shock, "He was originally taken out of your Qi Kingdom Palace, is it really a condensation branch?" I thought he had found a medicinal herb similar to the condensation branch, so he took it so easily for me to try! ”

Chen Yi smiled bitterly, "Is Shen Gongzi joking?" Since the pawnshop of life and death dared to threaten Lord Jia Chunjia with this, how could it not know Ning Zhi? No matter how similar it is, it can't be a real condensation after all. ”

He ...... Why did he ......"

"Because of you." Chen Yi didn't wait for me to ask, and answered my question directly, "Ning Zhi was originally a life-sustaining medicine given by my emperor to prevent my young master from having an accident, but my young master expected that if you took the fake medicine, you would be discovered, and then you would be in danger and your life would be in danger, so I took the real medicine for you." ”

I was a little stunned, but more shocked and puzzled.

Gu Yuancheng and I are mortal enemies, there will be a fierce battle in the future, this is something we all know well, why should he think about my safety?

Thinking of him taking risks alone and exploring the pawnshop of life and death, the more I thought about it, the more confused I became, but I subconsciously became vigilant in my heart.

What exactly is he going to do? Crazy?

"What then?" I feel tired and powerless, "The doctor has already said, your young master's poison can only be solved by the condensation branch and the fog stone that is a specialty of your Qi country, and he can only temporarily alleviate the spread of the toxin, at most a month, after a month, he will die of poison, and the medicine stone is useless." ”