Chapter 71 Chapter 71 Confusion

"Mukuro?"

Du Lingjing didn't expect Jiang Fengchuan to suddenly appear. But she didn't care about much at the moment, and quickly asked someone to pull up her second sister.

Du Runqing wanted to run away but failed. He was held by Ai Ye and was trying hard to shake her off. However, when he turned his head inadvertently, he saw the man standing next to him with his hands behind his back. His eyes first passed by his sister's hand which seemed to be dripping with blood, and then fell on her face, which was even colder than before.

She shuddered involuntarily.

Qiu Lin took the opportunity to step forward and hold her down.

The little girl had no way to go. Before she came, her grandmother had told her to be good and obedient today and not to mess up the arrangements.

Even her uncle patted her shoulder in the morning, changing his previous gloomy expression, and said, "Uncle has prepared a banquet for you. When you come back from the flower banquet at the palace, we will also have a family dinner..."

But now she was being held captive by her eldest sister's men, and the plan could not be accomplished. How could she explain this to her grandmother? And how would her uncle look at her after she returned?

"Big sister only knows how to bully me. Has she ever thought about my situation?!"

She struggled, "Let me go! Why are you holding me down? I have to find my grandmother!"

Seeing that she was still going to go see Madam Wan, Du Lingjing finally lost her patience in trying to persuade her.

The cut on my palm was burning with pain.

She looked at her second sister with a frown on her face, "You won't be able to find your grandmother today."

After saying that, he didn't waste any more time talking to her and went straight to call someone.

"Take her back to Chengqingfang, immediately!"

"Why? Why are you keeping me under house arrest?!"

Du Runqing almost screamed, but the palace was full of guests, and Ai Ye quickly covered her mouth.

Du Lingjing said even more.

"Lock her up in Chengqingfang. She is not allowed to step out of the door without my order!"

As soon as the words fell, the two of them took Du Runqing away, but Du Lingjing was inexplicably stunned.

How could one day she also be influenced by someone's dominance and lock her second sister up in the mansion?

In the past, in Qingzhou, she could hardly imagine that she would have such a day, but now...

Du Lingjing couldn't do anything about it, but someone took two steps forward and grabbed her wrist.

His injured palm was aching, so he held her wrist and turned her palm over, and blood dripped onto a large rock beside him.

"Rokuro, I'm fine."

She wanted to take her hand back, but Jiang Fengchuan didn't let go and asked her.

"Madam, do you want to take the blood back to the banquet?"

"this... ..."

Qiulin and Ai Ye had not returned yet. Du Lingjing thought that she could stop the bleeding by wiping it with a handkerchief, but he did not let her go. Instead, he pulled out a handkerchief from his sleeve and wrapped it around her hand.

Du Lingjing inexplicably felt that he was a little strange today and looked at him with a frown.

Jiang Fengchuan pretended not to notice her gaze and remained silent. He waited until he had bandaged her wound before letting go of her hand.

He let her go, and seeing that she was slightly relieved, he stopped frowning and looked at her, and said.

"Liu Lang, please just pretend you didn't hear or see anything about my little sister. I'll thank you specially some other day."

Du Lingjing finally managed to stop her second sister, but she didn't want the matter to get out of hand.

But when she said she was going, she heard the person in front of her ask.

"What date did Madam mention?"

He asked again, looking at her with a smile, "Madam, can you leave the Marquis' Mansion?"

When he looked at her with a smile, there seemed to be some different connotation, just like his strange expression today, but Du Lingjing didn't know how to explain the fact that she couldn't leave the house.

Just at this moment, voices were approaching nearby. Du Lingjing took two steps back and distanced herself from Liu Lang.

"Anyway, don't tell anyone about my little sister's affairs. Just consider it as a favor to me."

After she finished speaking, Qiu Lin came back. She finally gave him a requesting look and turned to leave.

Jiang Fengchuan's eyes fell on her coral red headband. He picked up a leaf and covered the blood that dripped onto the stone path. His eyes fell on the place where Du Runqing was held down by the maid and struggled repeatedly.

His eyes showed thoughtfulness.

After a long while, he left.

There was no one here, only a yellow bird flapping its wings and flying past.

But suddenly a figure walked out quickly from the bushes, picked up the medicine bottle that had fallen from Du Runqing's sleeves in the deep grass, and disappeared in a flash.

*

Madam Wan can't find her granddaughter.

"Where did Qingniang go? Have you found out? How come even Ruixue is missing?" She gathered her gray hair again and again.

In just over half a year, his hair turned increasingly gray, and even his face looked obviously old when he looked at it in the bronze mirror.

The matchmaker in Beijing, who was once sought after by the rich and powerful, has lost his red thread, and no one comes to visit him anymore.

Only this time, her granddaughter Du Runqing was her last chance to turn things around. And her son at home was also eager to wait for his niece to marry the Jinyiwei commander Wei Jue.

But the person could not be found, and the person who went to inquire finally left and came back, and unfortunately Mrs. Baoguo also came.

The maid looked unhappy, and Madam Wan urged her, "Hurry up and tell me."

The maid whispered, "It seems that Madam Lu sent the second young lady away!"

"Where to send it?"

"They were sent to the Du family's house in Chengqingfang in the city. They have already left!"

It had already left. The carriage left the Beijing suburbs and returned to the city. It was too late to stop it.

Madam Wan's face turned pale instantly, and she clenched her hands tightly, digging her nails into her palms, almost making them bleed.

It was Du Lingjing again, and that girl again. An orphan girl who had never been taken seriously before, had gone around in circles and was now firmly on her head.

Madam Wan was so angry that her feet were unsteady, while Madam Baoguo beside her closed her eyes.

She was also very hesitant about this plan of forcing things to happen, as it was not an upright thing to do. But Jue'er refused to give in to the plan of marrying her in a grand sedan chair with eight bearers and a matchmaker.

She was really desperate, so before coming here today, she lit three incense sticks in front of the tablet of her deceased husband, asking for his blessing.

Unexpectedly, things still didn't work out.

"This is God's will..."

Mrs. Baoguo's expression was completely depressed.

After he stopped communicating with Nian Jia, his son never mentioned the matter of getting married. He was still relatively young at that time, but now even Lu Weishi has a wife, but he still doesn't want to get married.

If you couldn't let go of Nian Jia, why did you break up with him in the first place?

Mrs. Baoguo didn't understand. She didn't understand at all.

But when she thought of her son, she suddenly remembered something, and she quickly turned around and called the maid beside her.

"Did you take the medicine I asked you to secretly put in Uncle's wine?!"

It takes two to tango. There were two bottles of medicine, and Du Runqing and Wei Jue took one bottle each.

But just when she thought of asking, she saw the person she had sent back come back and said that the medicine had been administered. "The prince thought that the master was drunk, so he sent someone to help him to the backyard to rest."

Too late!

The drug was quite powerful. Madam Baoguo's legs began to tremble. She no longer cared about Madam Wan and her granddaughter, and quickly ran towards where Wei Jue was resting.

As she walked quickly, she remembered the strength of the medicine and gave instructions hastily.

"Go find three maids who are not allowed to be servants in the mansion. Go quickly!"

He has never married or taken a concubine. The drug is so strong, how can he endure it? !

Mrs. Baoguo was so anxious that she was sweating all over. She regretted listening to the monk's plan in the temple and setting up this trap with Mrs. Wan. The daughter of the Du family was safe, but her son was trapped.

She felt bitter, but she ran all the way to the resting house with her men, and searched room by room, but there was no one there.

"Where's Uncle?!"

There was only a basin of cold water in the room, which he had poured over himself and which had spilt all over the floor.

Mrs. Baoguo's legs were shaking. The drug was so powerful, but her son was able to force himself to leave? Where did he go?

She was completely panicked.

"Hurry, hurry and find it!"

*

Du Lingjing's injuries were not serious, and she even asked, "What's the situation with Madam Baoguo and Commander Wei?"

Ai Ye came back and forth, saying that Madam Baoguo seemed to be looking for the commander, "but I don't know why? I don't know where the commander has gone."

Du Lingjing frowned. No matter what, her second sister was sent away and locked up by her, so what happened to Wei Jue had nothing to do with her.

The wound on the palm of her hand was still hurting, and the injury could not be hidden from others. After a while, Princess Yan and a group of ladies came to see her.

"Why did you cut your hand? Do you want to call a doctor?!"

The wound was not serious enough to require a special visit from a royal physician. Du Lingjing thanked him hastily and said that she had accidentally slipped and had cut her hand in a hurry to hold onto a rock.

Princess Yan sighed when she saw the bloodstains on the white handkerchief.

"Lord Lu was not here, so you got injured here. I am sorry for not treating you well enough."

When she said this, her wife beside her saw that Du Lingjing looked fine and smiled.

"Isn't it? Princess, be careful. The Marquis's wife refused to tell the Marquis when she returned home, but how could the Marquis not see it? If he can't figure out the reason, he will go to the palace to 'raise an army and ask for punishment'."

As soon as these words came out, all the women in the room laughed. Although Princess Yan was not old, she was of a higher generation. She also laughed when she heard these words and said, "What can we do? We have to prepare the apology in advance. I hope Marquis Lu will give the prince some face and calm down his anger."

Everyone burst into laughter when they heard this.

Only Du Lingjing's face was extremely hot.

It's all his fault.

It was because of what he said at the birthday banquet of Marquis Jing'an's mansion last time, "My wife is very introverted and quiet. I was always afraid that she would be bullied outside and would not tell me when she got home."

"I think all the ladies are people who love the younger generation. My wife is just like that. I beg you to keep an eye on her for me in the future. She didn't tell me when she was bullied outside. She didn't do anything wrong, but she was accused for no reason and suffered a loss..."

There were not many ladies present at the meeting at that time, but within a short time, all the ladies of high families in the capital had heard about it.

At this moment, everyone was staring at Du Lingjing and smiling.

Everyone in the capital knew that Lu Shenru, the powerful Marquis Lu, married his wife Lu at the age of 25 and would never allow her to suffer any grievances outside.

Du Lingjing's face looked like it was on fire.

Seeing that she was really embarrassed, Princess Yan got back to the point.

"Although the injury is not serious, it is painful."

She said she had a headache. "Whenever I have a headache, I ask someone to pour me a glass of Sichuan wine. The Sichuan wine has some magical effects of relieving pain. You might as well have a glass."

She said the alcohol wasn't very strong, "but it made the pain go away."

Princess Yan said this and asked someone to get her wine. Du Lingjing wanted to stop her and said it was not necessary, but Princess Yan went to stop her.

"Don't worry, I'll have someone warm it up for you first. You'll feel good after eating it."

Du Lingjing couldn't resist other people's kindness.

Princess Yan's maid brought the pain-relieving wine from time to time. According to the princess's instructions, she warmed it up for Madam Lu first and then sent the wine to the tea room.

There were countless guests at the flower banquet, and people were coming and going in the tea room. Tea was served out continuously, and firewood was added to continue burning.

The water for warming the wine had not yet been boiled, and the maid who was to deliver the wine was waiting, chatting with the man for a while.

But she didn't notice that a pair of hands reached out quietly from behind.

In that hand was a small medicine bottle——

Unfortunately, it was the one that Du Runqing lost deep in the grass!

The hand was extremely quick. It poured all the medicine in the bottle into the wine jug, and then immediately withdrew the hand.

The maid serving the wine didn't notice anything unusual, and outside the tea room, the person who had finished doing something secret threw the empty bottle into the lake nearby.

Several bubbles came out of the empty bottle and soon sank to the bottom of the lake...

The pain-relieving wine was warmed up, and the maid from the palace carried it all the way and quickly walked into the room where Du Lingjing was resting.

The maid poured a full cup for Du Lingjing and handed it to her, and Qiulin took it in his hands.

"Would you like a drink, ma'am?" she asked softly.

Du Lingjing's wound didn't hurt much, and she had no intention of drinking more.

Especially before coming, a certain marquis specifically told her, "Drink less alcohol."

He repeated that twice, "I'll pick you up later, remember to drink less."

Du Lingjing didn't want to offend Princess Yan, so she said she would wait.

Who would have thought that before he could finish his words, hurried footsteps were heard outside and Nian Jia ran in quickly.

"How did Jingniang get hurt? And she was bleeding? How am I going to explain this to Lord Lu later?"

As soon as she said this, all the women in the room laughed out loud.

"Oh my, the princess is just worrying about how to apologize to Marquis Lu, and the princess is also worried about how to explain to Marquis Lu..."

Du Lingjing wanted to hide her face in the crack of the wall, and she never thought that she would face such an embarrassing day.

But with her calm and peaceful personality, she married the most flamboyant man who was the most feared person in the court and the most flamboyant person.

Nian Jia came over and took a closer look at her injured hand. "It's not clear either."

She looked at the wine Qiu Lin was holding beside her, "Painkillers?"

Du Lingjing said yes, and said that she hadn't drunk yet, "I just had a cup of tea, and now I have some wine."

Unexpectedly, Nian Jia said, "Forget it if you don't want to eat it, I'll eat it."

She said she had just heard that she was injured and rushed over.

"I was drunk and rushed in too fast, so I bumped into the doorpost. My shoulder still hurts!"

Everyone laughed when they heard this. The princess scolded her for not going slower, "It's not a small matter if it falls."

Nian Jia took the pain-relieving wine and drank the whole cup in one gulp.

The empty wine glasses were left on the small table. Everyone chatted for a while in the room, and Nian Jia leaned on Du Lingjing's shoulder.

"Did I drink too much? Why am I so dizzy?"

Du Lingjing touched her palm and found it was sweaty.

"Maybe he ate too much." But there were many other ladies chatting here, and it was quite noisy.

She turned around and called Ai Ye, "Help the princess to the small courtyard at the back to rest. Find a place where no one is and watch over the princess until she gets some sleep."

The flower banquet is not over yet, so it's just right to take a nap to sober up.

Nian Jia also nodded, and Ai Ye helped her go to the back.

Who would have thought that the further they walked, the more abnormal Nian Jia seemed. Her face flushed, sweat broke out all over her body, and her eyes gradually became blurred.

Ai Ye was shocked, as this kind of situation would not happen normally after drinking.

She became anxious, but there were few people here and she couldn't find anyone for a while. However, she saw a small courtyard hidden among the green trees. She helped Nian Jia walk over. There was no one walking in the courtyard. She saw that there were no servants around, so she thought there was no one here, so she helped Nian Jia into the room.

Seeing that she was almost unconscious, he quickly put her on the bed in the room and ran out to find someone.

The princess seems to be poisoned!

She ran out quickly, and someone came out holding the door frame of the inner room.

Wei Jue was soaked through, with the calming cold water splashed on him and the sweat from the drug. His own mother drugged him, so he was not prepared, but after a little thought, he knew what his mother wanted to do.

After all, he was a martial artist, and he forced himself to suppress the power of the drug and left the courtyard where his mother had placed him. He wanted to leave the palace, but he had not walked far when the effect of the drug could no longer be suppressed.

In such an ugly state, he could only find a deserted remote courtyard, drink some cold tea, and regulate his breathing.

But someone broke in.

Wei Jue looked at the eunuch's door plaque and saw the person beside the couch.

Hot sweat stuck to her hair and stuck to her flushed face. She tossed around uncomfortably and almost fell off the couch.

Wei Jue's eyes trembled in shock and he took two quick steps forward.

"Nian Jia..."

*

After Ai Ye finished speaking in Du Lingjing's ear, sweat broke out on the tip of Du Lingjing's nose.

Poisoned? Where did the poison come from? !

She suddenly thought of something and asked Ai Ye and Qiu Lin, "The bottle of medicine in Qing Niang's hand..."

Qiu Lin paused, "I was afraid something might happen, so I looked through the Second Miss' sleeves, but I couldn't find it, so I thought maybe it had fallen off."

If an unknown medicine is lost, it is lost. Can you look for it all over the garden?

I don't want to...

"It was picked up by someone. And this pot of wine was originally for me." Du Lingjing was stunned.

Qiu Lin gasped. Du Lingjing stood up hastily, saying that she was a little bored, and went out for a walk, saying goodbye to her friends, and then followed Ai Ye to the courtyard where Nian Jia was resting.

However, just as they reached the front of the courtyard, they almost bumped into each other.

"Mrs. Baoguo?"

Mrs. Baoguo also saw her and asked, "Why are you here?"

However, the moment Du Lingjing saw Mrs. Baoguo, her eyes trembled and she whispered.

"I'm here to find Nian Jia. She's been poisoned."

The words seemed to hit Mrs. Baoguo's feet. She staggered and looked towards the yard in shock.

Du Lingjing held her in place.

"Don't let anyone know!"

After she finished speaking, she immediately asked Qiulin and the others to guard the yard. Mrs. Baoguo also came to her senses and immediately cleared everyone out.

But when the two of them arrived at the door, neither of them could raise their hands to push the door open.

Du Lingjing saw Mrs. Baoguo's face change several times and she couldn't raise her hand. She held her breath, walked forward and knocked on the door.

No one answered in the room for a while. This time, the aunt and niece couldn't help but look at each other in confusion.

Is it over already?

If so, what will happen next? How did things turn out like this?!

At this point, Mrs. Baoguo was obviously distracted, so Du Lingjing simply pushed the door open.

The door creaked open, and the two people walked in and looked towards the bed.

At first glance, he saw Wei Jue, half-naked, through the thin gauze outside the tent.

He was only wearing a pair of almost soaked underwear, with a thin shirt half draped over his shoulders. His bare arms were covered with knife wounds, and sweat kept dripping from his neck to his heaving chest.

Normally, Du Lingjing shouldn't look at such a scene, but when she saw Wei Jue half naked, her heart dropped. Madam Baoguo was almost unable to stand.

But Wei Jue slowly turned his head to look at the two of them and opened half of the tent.

In the tent, Nian Jia leaned in his arms, but unlike him, she was half-naked. Her clothes were neatly arranged, and even her hair was not messy at all.

Wei Jue held her in his arms and let her lean on his chest. She closed her eyes in pain and kept humming softly.

He brought the tea bowl in his hand to her lips.

"Drink some more water. You need to drink more."

Cold water can slightly suppress the power of this medicine.

But Nian Jia kept her mouth shut and kept shaking her head. She was obviously out of her mind and didn't know who was in front of her or who was feeding her water.

She didn't want to drink anymore, so she closed her eyes and rubbed her head against the hot chest.

But her face flushed to the point of purple, and tears glistened faintly at the corners of her red eyes.

Wei Jue looked down at the person in his arms. The effect of the drug made him unbearable and dazed, but he tucked her hair behind her ears and urged her to drink a little more, but she refused.

"Yuanyuan..." he couldn't help but call her.

This cry startled the person in his arms, and the next moment, tears rolled down from the corners of his eyes.

She leaned in his arms and sobbed softly.

Wei Jue was startled. "What's wrong? Are you feeling too uncomfortable? Yuanyuan, say something..."

But she was confused, hesitating for a long time, and suddenly said something.

"You are willing to call me by my nickname... Are you back to find me?"

The moment the hoarse, low voice came out from the tent, the whole room was stunned into silence.

Du Lingjing's nose suddenly felt sore. She didn't care about Mrs. Baoguo's attitude. She only saw Wei Jue's eyes turned blood red in an instant.

His blood and energy were surging, and the effect of the medicine added strength to the surging, but he gritted his teeth and tried his best to suppress it, holding the person in his arms tighter and tighter.

He lowered his head silently, his nose in her hair.

"Yes, I came back to find you..."

He spoke these short sentences in fragments. He gritted his teeth and pushed the cold water towards her lips again.

"Drink some water, be good, drink some water."

Nian Jia sobbed softly, but did not push him away. She dazedly said "hmm" and drank the half glass of water in his hand.

Wei Jue's eyes trembled, and the next moment, blood dripped from the corner of his mouth.

"Jue'er!" Mrs. Baoguo exclaimed.

Du Lingjing was also shocked. It was obvious that Wei Jue's condition was even worse than Nian Jia's.

He forced himself to suppress the effect of the medicine and not release it. At this moment, more and more blood was dripping from the corners of his lips.

But he ignored it and wiped it away with his hand.

Mrs. Baoguo became anxious.

"You were poisoned, and so was Nian Jia. This... This is God's will! You and Nian Jia should not endure it, or you will harm your health!"

She said directly, "I'll go to the Duke Zhongqing's mansion to ask the Duke's wife and the Crown Prince, and I'll go to the palace to ask the Emperor to give Nian Jia to us. Jue'er, can you marry Nian Jia? Even if the Emperor has a penalty, we'll accept it!"

As soon as these words came out, Du Lingjing felt the beams of the house tremble.

She couldn't help but think of Wei Cong. Would the prince agree? !

"I'm afraid..."

Before she could finish her words, she saw Wei Jue suddenly smile.

His eyes shattered, his gaze swept across the person in his arms, then looked at Du Lingjing, and finally at Mrs. Baoguo.

He spoke four words, emphasizing each word.

"How can my son be worthy?!"

Mrs. Baoguo was stunned.

"Why?"

She doesn't understand why she doesn't deserve it?

But looking at Wei Jue's resolute expression, he kept shaking his head.

"Why? I don't understand you anymore. I was at a loss after your father passed away. Why don't you marry?"

But Wei Jue had no time to tell her this.

"Mother, please don't be obsessed with this. Your son is a member of the Imperial Guards. He may die outside any day. There is really no need for him to marry. As for Nian Jia..."

He suddenly put Nian Jia down. Nian Jia felt uncomfortable and uneasy. Du Lingjing hurried forward and Nian Jia grabbed her hand.

"Nian Jia is me!"

But Nian Jia didn't hear clearly, so he asked, "Crown Prince? Crown Prince..."

Madam Baoguo was stunned, and Wei Jue also paused, his eyes fixed on her for a few breaths.

He turned around and put on his clothes, and more scarlet blood flowed out of his mouth.

He wiped it off, picked up Nian Jia and walked out.

"Jingniang, let me lend you my carriage!"

He said, "Nian Jia can't wait any longer, we must send her back to the Zhongqing Earl's Mansion immediately!"

Go find her real groom, Wei Cong.

To restore all the chaos today back to its original place without any error!

Don't change.

Du Lingjing looked at Wei Jue's resolute figure and was completely stunned.

But the next moment, she immediately agreed.

"good!"