Chapter 024: Summer Night Windproof
Yun Yao returned to the courtyard where she lived, closed the door, and cut off the view from the outside. And the next second she turned around, Gu Qingming's figure fell from the sky and landed in front of her.
"King Hao has returned to the palace, I have heard the news of His Royal Highness King Yi......" As soon as Yun Yao saw Gu Qingming, she greeted him and said hurriedly, but before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by Gu Qingming.
"I've heard it all, the girl surnamed Gu. Gu Qingming said, with a smile in his eyes, and a little more ridicule in his tone.
Yun Yao saw Gu Qingming hear her say that her surname was Gu, her face turned red, and she said coquettishly: "I'll tell you something serious!"
"I'm telling you a serious thing. Gu Qingming smiled, "A-Yao, you are the wife that my Gu Qingming identifies as, and you are a member of the Gu family, and you will always be." ”
Obviously, what Gu Qingming said was very ordinary, but when he heard these words in Yun Yao's ears, he felt that it touched people's hearts.
She muttered, "Isn't it yours for a long time......?
Gu Qingming looked at Yun Yao's shy expression and couldn't help but smile. No matter how long it has passed, no matter whether there is already a skin-to-skin relationship between the two of them, she is still the little girl back then, and she will blush in front of him.
"Then let's not talk about this, let's talk about His Royal Highness King Yi. Gu Qingming appropriately changed the topic, "King Hao has returned, and according to the distance, His Royal Highness King Yi should also arrive in Yiguo in the next few days." Listening to King Hao's meaning, the Empress Dowager Qin has already placed a charge on His Royal Highness King Yi for conspiracy, and I am afraid that King Yi will not sit still. ”
"The Empress Dowager Qin still doesn't know about King Yi's secret military training, that is to say, after His Royal Highness King Yi returns to Yiguo, it is very likely that he will strike first and take the lead in the war. Yun Yao said, "After you were demoted to a commoner by the emperor, the Gu family army has been hiding on Yuncang Mountain to practice, the Qin family army is stationed on the border of Beidi, and the old department of General Wu is in the southwest to guard against Nanyi, at this time there are no troops in Beijing, it is a good time to attack the capital!"
"No, the army led by our generals is generally used to defend against foreign enemies, and the capital is an important place in Gyeonggi, and there are 70,000 troops in the city defense battalion to defend it. After the 20,000 defenders of His Royal Highness King Yi's fiefdom, plus the 50,000 soldiers and horses I secretly helped him train, there were only 70,000 in total. Gu Qingming shook his head and analyzed, "In terms of numbers, Yiguo does not have an advantage, plus the people who go north all the way are sleepy and lacking, compared to the city defense battalion waiting for work, the Yiguo army is obviously more at a loss." ”
Although Yun Yao doesn't know how to march and fight, she can still understand this kind of truth. After listening to Gu Qingming's explanation, she could also understand why Shen Che was in such a hurry to form an alliance with King Hao, after all, Hao's soldiers were strong and strong, and there was plenty of food and grass, which was indeed a good help.
"I have told the queen that I am ready to close the net. Yun Yao said, "You go out of the palace at night, let Yingquan hand over the prayer post as Queen Yi, and prepare to negotiate with King Hao." The day after tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Hao Palace must be lively, and the Hao King must not want to expose all this in front of the ministers. In order not to complicate the situation, tomorrow is our best chance. ”
"The plan is feasible, but I'm always worried about what danger you will be in the palace alone. Gu Qingming said, "In case I'm not there, I'm afraid of ......."
"It's just one night, it's going to be fine. Yun Yao said, "I will be careful myself, you have to believe me." ”
Gu Qingming sighed and nodded helplessly in agreement.
It's not that he doesn't believe in Yun Yao's ability, it's just that she is alone, and the other party is vicious, if something really happens, he won't even have time to regret it.
But now there is no other way, Lu Yingquan is outside, he doesn't know the situation in the palace, and he doesn't know where they are going, so he can only be notified by Gu Qingming.
"I won't go out all night, and when it gets dark, I'll come back to accompany you after I go out of the palace and inform Niang Niang of your plan. Gu Qingming said, "It may take two hours to go back and forth, and in these two hours, you stay sober and vigilant, and don't let others take advantage of it." ”
Yun Yao nodded vigorously, indicating that she understood.
Everything was going according to Yun Yao's plan, the sky gradually darkened, Yun Yao, as usual, boiled Qi Shuning with fetal pills, and watched her drink it before returning to her yard and preparing to rest.
Gu Qingming came over to say goodbye, and before leaving, he told her several times again, telling her to be careful. Although he had only been out for a few hours, what had happened during that time still worried him.
When he was in Ning Palace before, Gu Qingming was also worried about Yun Yao's safety, so he used all the connections in the palace, including Xiao Yinzi, to help Yun Yao. But at that time, Gu Qingming had not seen the danger experienced by Yun Yao with his own eyes, even if he was worried, he could not empathize.
But in recent days, he has been hiding in the dark, watching her deal with people in the palace, speaking and doing things carefully, but he is still inevitably calculated, and the endless guns and arrows that appear in an endless stream of open guns and arrows even he, a person hiding in the shadows, feel shocked, let alone her standing in the light?
Therefore, even if Gu Qingming has only been away for an hour or two now, his concern for Yun Yao is deeper than before.
After Yun Yao finished washing, she sat on the bed and read a book, she naturally wouldn't read other books, all of them were medical skills, and she specially asked Qi Shuning to borrow them. The library building of King Hao's palace also has a lot of unique books, and she is fortunate to see it, which is also a creation.
On summer nights, the air is also stuffy, making people drowsy, but they can't sleep because of the heat, so their minds are not very clear.
But Yun Yao always kept Gu Qingming's words in mind, as long as she survived these two hours, Gu Qingming would return to her, so that she would be safe.
But as time passed, the more she wanted to wake up, the heavier her eyelids became, and she obviously didn't want to sleep, but it was as if someone forced her to sleep with her eyes closed.
In a daze, she looked at the candlestick beside the bed, and her heart moved.
She distinctly remembered that when she went out in the morning, the candles in the house were already half burned, but after reading the book for so long, the candles were only a third of the burned.
Someone took advantage of her absence and went to her room to change the candles!
As soon as this thought popped up in her mind, Yun Yao immediately held her breath, took out the silver needle beside her, and stabbed it towards her arm.
After a needle, she quickly turned the medical book in her hand to the page with herbal medicine and fengfeng, and folded the corner of the book, so that the corner of the book was aimed at the word "fengfeng", and then spread out the book and put it on the bed, pressing it under the pillow.
Then, Yun Yao stretched out her hand and smashed the teacup placed on the table, making a sound, and then fell to the ground with a bang, pretending to be unconscious.
With her eyes closed, Yun Yao heard the door being pushed open, someone came in and blew out the candle, and then replaced it with a light that did not have a **, put it in its place, and restored everything in the room to its original state.
Yun Yao also felt that her body was light, and she was lifted up head and foot, put her in a sack, and carried her out of the room, not knowing where to go.
The night was deep, Yun Yao was knocked into the dark sack, closed her eyes and felt the road they had walked, went out of the courtyard to the right, bypassed the corridor, and walked about half a cup of tea, when she heard the sound of the door opening, it should have taken her out of the Ningkun Palace.
And that door should be the back door of Ningkun Palace. Out of the back door, Yun Yao couldn't tell the direction clearly, because she was not familiar with the road of Haowang Palace, and she didn't know the layout here, so she didn't know where she was taken at all.
I don't know how long it took, Yun Yao felt these people stop and put themselves on the ground.
One of them spoke, and it was the voice of the little bolt: "Madam, the minions have brought this medicine girl. ”
Madam?
When Yun Yao heard this title, she thought slightly in her heart, according to the results of Gu Qingming's investigation along the vine, the master behind this little bolt was indeed a certain lady in the palace, who had been following King Hao for a long time, and had a certain status in the palace.
"Open it and let me see. A slightly vicissitudes of life female voice spoke, and soon, Yun Yao felt that the sack on her body was untied, and several lanterns were dangling on her face, as if to illuminate her clearly.
Yun Yao closed her eyes tightly, feeling everything around her, and she seemed to feel that two cold gazes had been falling on her.
After a long time, the woman who had just spoken said again: "I thought that this doctor girl had three heads and six arms, and she could escape so many catastrophes and help the queen protect the fetus, but it turned out that she was just an ordinary person." Without her this time, the child in the queen's womb must not be able to be saved. ”
"That's what Madame said. The little bolt said, "When this doctor girl is solved, the slave will know what to do." ”
"Throw her to the old place, and remember to be unaware. The woman said, not seeming to linger, but turned and walked away.
As her footsteps got farther and farther away, Yun Yao was lifted up again, but this time the sack on her body was not fastened, the mouth of the bag was open, she thought slightly, and pulled off the rosewood hairpin on her head and gently threw it on the ground.
Calculating the time, Gu Qingming should be back soon, if he saw the word "prevention" on the medical book, he would definitely know that she was taken away voluntarily, the purpose was to confirm the person behind the scenes. Coupled with Gu Qingming's own investigation results, maybe he can speculate on her location and find her.
If there is anyone in this world who can understand him except Gu Qingming himself, this person must be Yun Yao.
Gu Qingming took the light work to the extreme, went to the house in the alley, and after telling Lu Yingquan about Yun Yao's plan, he returned to the palace non-stop, and sure enough, he saw that Yun Yao was no longer in the house.
And the broken teacup on the ground let him know that Yun Yao must have had an accident.
Although he was anxious, he also believed that Yun Yao would definitely leave clues, and after careful searching, he found the medical book under the pillow, as well as the word "prevention" pointed at by the corner of the book.
Gu Qingming went out without hesitation and headed towards the palace where Mrs. Min lived, and this Mrs. Min was the person behind the scenes he had found out earlier.
According to Gu Qingming's conjecture, Yun Yao must have been taken away by Mrs. Min in the Ningkun Palace, which should be a small bolt. And the destination should be Mrs. Min's dormitory, even if it is not a dormitory, it should be a place near the dormitory.
In the middle of the night, the guards of the palace came and went, and if they were too far away from the palace, it would arouse suspicion. According to Mrs. Min's cautious nature for many years, she would definitely not take such a risk.