Chapter Seventy-Six: The Plague
Feng Junyu walked out of the side hall of Fengyi Palace, and Lin Xiao immediately greeted him, "Imperial Doctor Feng, how can my daughter be like this, is there anything wrong with her life?" ”
"Don't worry, Miss Lin's life was saved, but she injured her head and couldn't wake up for a while." Feng Junyu replied truthfully, "You guys wait here, I still have to go back to the emperor." ”
Lin Xiao nodded gratefully, "Thank you, Imperial Doctor Feng." ”
Feng Junyu said a few more words to the queen and left to return to the emperor.
"Lin Xiao, the emperor has already said that when Miss Lin is well, he will hold a wedding banquet for them, you can rest assured, the palace will definitely ask the prince to be responsible for Lin Qian." The queen walked in front of Lin Xiao to appease the angry Lin Xiao, although Lin Xiao is just a teacher in Qianjiang, but his students are all over the world, and many ministers in the court are his students, just rush this, the queen will never let go.
Lin Xiao's face was still ugly, but with the emperor's words, he didn't say much, "Thank you, queen, but let's wait for Lin Qian to wake up." ”
"Okay." Then, the queen's resentful gaze fell on Gu Ningyan's
body, "Princess Lan, it's none of your business, go back to your palace." ”
Gu Ningyan saw that the queen resented herself, but she didn't expect the queen to be so direct.
"Well, since that's the case, then the courtiers have retired." Gu Ningyan was not angry, and left Fengyi Palace with a light smile.
Out of the door of Fengyi Palace, Gu Ningyan was stopped by a little palace maid, and after the little palace maid explained her intentions, she didn't say a word and missed the palace maid's side to leave.
However, the little palace maid behind her suddenly caught up and blocked in front of her again, "Princess Lan, Concubine Su said that I want to invite you to Changle Palace." ”
Gu Ningyan had a voice in her heart reminding her that she needed to stay away from Concubine Su Lingruo, she looked away at this person, and she turned out to be a very scheming woman.
"Go back and tell Concubine Su that this princess still has something to do today, and it is inconvenient to go to see her, so let's go another day."
The little palace maid was very panicked and begged again, "Princess Lan, Niangniang said that you must be invited over, otherwise Niangniang will feel that the slave maid is incompetent, and send the slave maid to the washing warehouse." ”
"Hmph, tell your concubine Su, it's useless to threaten me, it's better for us to keep our distance in the future, after all, she is the mother of the palace." After speaking, past the palace maid, Gu Ningyan left.
When she returned to the Emperor's Diligent Palace, Wei Qianlan was already waiting for her outside the palace, and when she saw her come back, she turned her wheelchair and asked, "How is Lin Qian?" ”
"I can't die, Feng Junyu's medical skills should be understood, she will be fine, after all, she is not determined to die." Gu Ningyan snorted coldly and replied to Wei Qianlan's inquiry.
"Why, something, don't you seem to be happy? Said by the queen? Wei Qianlan could see that her face was ugly.
Gu Ningyan sighed and pushed Wei Qianlan towards the outside of the palace, answering his question while answering his question, "I don't care about what the queen said at all, but Concubine Su sent the palace maid beside her to stop me and wanted to invite me to her palace, but in view of what happened before, I refused her invitation." ”
"You're right, she's a very deep woman, you can't be deceived by appearances, and I suspect that she's someone who deliberately put her in the palace, for what purpose we don't know, but we must stay away." Wei Qianlan was very satisfied with Gu Ningyan's decision.
Gu Ningyan, who was praised, snorted coldly at Wei Qianlan, and then asked curiously, "Who are you talking about?" Who put her in the palace? ”
Wei Qianlan's eyes sank slightly, and he slowly spoke, "I don't know." ”
Gu Ningyan didn't believe it, "I said, King Lan, why are you like a girl, what secrets can't you tell me, talk about it." ”
Wei Qianlan still pretended to be silent, "Go home." ”
Gu Ningyan couldn't ask when he saw it, and he didn't care about Wei Qianlan when he snorted angrily, turned around and didn't ask any more, and got into the carriage quietly all the way back to the palace.
In the calm of the next few days, the prince's marriage was handed down, and the emperor decreed that the marriage would be set on the fifteenth day of the first month, that is, one month later. It was supposed to be as soon as possible, but considering Lin Qian's injury, it could only be delayed until a month later.
A few days later, in the early morning, a strange thing happened, a certain man, his face, hands and feet were covered with bruises, fell at the gate of the Lan Wangfu.
The guards quickly informed the butler, who arrived and pointed to the man at the door and asked, "What's going on?" ”
"Butler, I don't know why this person fainted in front of the gate of our Lan Wang's Mansion, you can see that his hands and feet are hot, and there are still bruises."
"I see that this man is very strangely injured, so don't carry him in
, I'll go to the prince and princess first. The butler hurriedly explained and went back.
Wei Qianlan and Gu Ningyan came to the gate after hearing this.
Gu Ningyan frowned and just approached the unconscious person, lifted the broken hair that covered his face, his face sank, and immediately blocked Wei Qianlan's approach. "Don't come over, retreat."
"What's wrong?" Wei Qianlan's eyes were worried, and she couldn't understand why she was emotional.
Too late to answer his inquiry, Gu Ningyan ordered the guards who had just come into contact with people to stand outside the mansion, "You guys stay at the door for the time being, and come in after you sprinkle the medicinal powder." Then he instructed the steward, "Seal the gate so that no one can enter or leave." ”
Hearing the princess say this, all the minions present panicked, especially the four guards who were not allowed to enter the mansion.
"Princess, you need to save the minions!"
"Princess, guess what's going on?"
"This is the plague, butler, you take someone to cover all the surrounding areas of the palace and the inner courtyard with medicinal powder." Then Chong Wei Qianlan said, "This person must be sent away, otherwise it will cause the spread of the plague." ”
Wei Qianlan was very worried and asked, "Are you okay when you get close?" ”
"Don't worry, I'm fine, you go in first, I'll deal with it here." Gu Ningyan's eyes flashed slightly, her heart moved slightly, and a sweet taste came to her heart, and she didn't have time to feel more, she immediately pulled the person on the ground out of the gate of Lan Wangfu, "Mo Yang, you go to catch the carriage, I will take this person out of the city." ”
"It's the princess."
Even if Wei Qianlan wanted to follow, he couldn't, he could only watch Gu Ningyan drive someone out of the city alone in a carriage.
Gu Ningyan drove the carriage all the way to Shenjue Mountain, grabbed people and entered the Qiu family's stone room directly through the back door.
When Granny Qiuyue saw that she came back with a man who was wrong, she asked cautiously, "Miss, what's the matter with this person?" ”
"Don't ask too much, seal this stone chamber and don't allow anyone to approach." Gu Ningyan closed the stone chamber and laid an enchantment around this stone chamber, "Four elephants." ”
The four elephants appeared instantly, "Master." ”
"Guard this stone chamber and don't let anyone approach."
"Yes."
Gu Ningyan led Granny Qiuyue to bring the main hall of the Qiu family, and also summoned the other minions, "I summoned you here, not for anything else, but to tell you that no one is allowed to approach the stone room in the backyard, and you are not allowed to go out, and there has been a suspected plague in the city recently." ”
As soon as her words fell, the scene fell into a panic.
Granny Qiuyue is an old man, so she naturally knows the severity of the plague, "Miss, what you said is true, could it be that the person just now?" ”
"Yes, so, Granny Qiuyue, you deal with this, sprinkle the medicine powder all around, and don't allow anyone to come close."
Granny Qiuyue knew the seriousness of this matter, and nodded hurriedly, "This plague hasn't appeared for many years, I still saw it once when I was a child, and I don't know how many people died at that time, it's terrifying." ”
"Alright, you all go down and work." After dismissing all the minions, Gu Ningyan gave a few more instructions to Granny Qiuyue and Sixiang and left.
When she returned to the palace, she found that Wei Qianlan was still sitting in the main hall, "Lord, what are you sitting here for?" ”
"Waiting for you." Wei Qianlan replied bluntly, "Did you walk back?" Seeing that her face was flushed, her forehead was sweaty, and her breath was disordered and panting, she understood that she had run out.
Gu Ningyan sat down and drank two large bowls of water in a row, "I burned the carriage, and the people who pulled the plague must not be used." ”
Wei Qianlan felt that she was right, so she didn't ask again.
Immediately afterwards, Gu Ningyan said again, "I was still thinking on the way back, is this very strange thing you said, I also ordered a few of your elite soldiers to go to investigate and secretly visit, to see who the plague carrier is, and why did he fall in our palace?" ”
Wei Qianlan was not stupid, and naturally heard a strange meaning from Gu Ningyan's words, "You mean that someone did it on purpose." ”
Gu Ningyan's eyes flickered, and he nodded, "So I said to find the identity of this person as soon as possible, starting from his identity, you asked Mo Yang to walk around the imperial city and see if there is any situation with the plague?" ”
"You don't need to say it, I have already instructed Mo Yang to investigate, if there is a plague, the government will definitely take measures, let's just wait."
Gu Ningyan nodded with satisfaction, "That's it." ”
However, things seemed to be far worse than Gu Ningyan imagined, and in the evening, Mo Yang brought back the news, saying that there were many people in the city's medical hall who had a high fever that did not go away, and people who fainted appeared, and the doctor in the city diagnosed it as a plague, and the city was full of panic.
And what's worse is that I don't know who said it, this plague spread from the Lan Wangfu.
Lord Yazhuo took someone to find the palace.
Lord Zhuo faced the cold gaze of Lord Lan, nodded and asked with a smile, "The minister has seen King Lan and the princess. ”
"What made Lord Zhuo break into this king's palace during dinner?" Wei Qianlan wiped the corners of her mouth, raised her eyes and asked coldly.
Gu Ningyan held back the smile in her heart and beckoned Ling Ningshuang to eat the various meals in front of her.
Lord Zhuo sweated, and stepped forward to answer, "I'm sorry Lord Lan, because someone went to the palace to say that the plague in the city recently spread from the Lan Palace, so the minister brought people to find the root cause, and hoped that King Lan and the princess would forgive their sins." ”
"Who said that, Lord Zhuo?" Gu Ning chewed the food in his mouth and asked.
Ling Ningshuang also said with a smile. "Lord Zhuo, you don't want to think about it, if the plague attendant goes out from the Lan Palace, can we have dinner here in peace?"
"Who is this?" Lord Zhuo didn't know Ling Ningshuang at all, so for the
There was some dissatisfaction with her words.
Ling Ningshuang took the initiative to stand up and introduced herself. "Let me introduce, the little woman Ling Ningshuang, a native of Tanglin."
Lord Zhuo panicked when he heard this, who in the imperial city didn't know the princess of Tanglin, "Oh, Princess Tanglin forgives her sins, this official has eyes and doesn't know you, please don't be surprised." ”
Wei Qianlan said to Lord Zhuo, "You follow the appearance and take a look in the mansion, this king can't stop Lord Zhuo from doing things." ”
Lord Zhuo panicked and boldly grateful, "Thank you Lord Lan for the convenience." ”