Chapter 351 The Western Jin Gu Poison Arrives Just in Time

Chang Lu paced anxiously in circles at the courtyard gate.

After Ji Qingwu came out dressed neatly, Chang Lu immediately rushed forward, knelt down and said, "Fifth Miss, it was the Princess who asked me to come and beg you."

Hearing that it was Tao Wanyin who sent someone, her drowsiness vanished instantly, and she asked with a frown, "Has something happened to the Princess?"

Chang Lu hurriedly said, "The princess has experienced a miscarriage and is showing signs of bleeding, but this is because the prince is in trouble and has been detained in the palace, which is why she is in such a hurry."

Is the princess's unborn child harmed? Is Prince Yong also in trouble?

Ji Qingwu was surprised, after all, she had only left the Yongwang Mansion in the afternoon, and only a few hours had passed before such a big mess had occurred.

Chang Lu hurriedly said, "Oh dear! Madam, please come with me first, and I will explain everything to you on the way."

Ji Qingwu pinched her little finger, raised her eyes and said, "You need to explain yourself first. I need to know what happened that made the princess's pregnancy unstable and caused bleeding before I can decide whether or not to intervene."

Seeing her resolute attitude, Chang Lu, with two maids standing behind her, said, "It's because the prince has been detained in the palace. The prince used some torture to extract a confession in the imperial prison, which has left Prime Minister Su barely clinging to life. However, the problem is that his accomplices haven't revealed everything yet."

"The Emperor was furious upon learning of this, and said..."

Ji Qingwu smelled the blood on Prince Yong and had already made a guess in his mind. He wasn't too surprised, but he wondered what kind of torture Prince Yong had used to almost kill Su Fengyue.

She calmly asked, "What did the Emperor say?"

Chang Lu sighed and said, "The Emperor said that if Prime Minister Su dies like this, he no longer needs to be a prince. After the Princess Consort heard the news, she started to feel unwell."

"Xuemei, go and get me a cloak."

Ji Qingwu crossed his arms, looking a little cold.

She specifically requested: "I want that cloak with red feather gauze and stone-blue embroidered silk."

Lanzhi was about to say she would go get it, but Xuemei was not familiar with Ji Qingwu's clothes. However, when she heard her mistress say she wanted the one with the red feather gauze fabric, she stared at her blankly.

Ji Qingwu then asked, "Eunuch Chang, why weren't you with Prince Yong in the palace?"

Normally, wherever Prince Yong went, Chang Lu would follow behind him, and the master and servant were rarely separated.

Chang Lu said, "When the prince went to the imperial prison again, he instructed me to stay in the mansion and take good care of the princess."

Ji Qingwu smiled and nodded, then suddenly clapped his hands at the large banyan tree on his left.

The crisp sound of a slap startled the "bird" hiding in the tree.

Sihai, like a black eagle in the night, swooped down from the tree and pinned Changlu to the ground.

"Madam, what are you doing! This servant is just here to deliver a message!" Chang Lu's head was pressed to the ground, and he had no idea that there was someone in the tree. He shouted loudly.

Ji Qingwu frowned and said, "Tell him to keep his voice down."

If he shouts a few more times, the entire Wei family will be woken up.

Without saying a word, Si Hai swung his arm violently, and when he raised his hand again, Chang Lu had already been knocked unconscious.

Ji Qingwu originally just wanted to shut him up, but now...

It's not impossible.

Lanzhi was terrified when she saw Sihai descending from the sky, and she covered her mouth to keep from screaming.

She could tell that this was the guard who used to watch over the Wutong Garden. He had come to help her young lady, while the eunuch from the Yongwang Mansion had a lot of problems.

Ji Qingwu turned to Lanzhi and said, "Go inside and help Xuemei look for it."

Lanzhi nodded vigorously and said seriously, "Miss, cough once as an instruction, and then I will bring Xuemei out."

As Ji Qingwu had just mentioned, the red feather gauze cloak with stone blue embroidered silk was something Lanzhi knew there was no such style in the wardrobe; it was the young lady who deliberately wanted to get Xuemei away.

Lanzhi pushed open the door and went back inside. It was late at night, and there was no one else around.

Ji Qingwu's gaze fell on Chang Lu's face, and he said, "Sihai, check if he has a human skin mask on his face."

Sihai asked, "You suspect that his identity is fake, or that he's being impersonated?"

Ji Qingwu nodded: "He called me Madam right away. No one in the Yongwang Mansion has ever addressed me like that before."

Si Hai, with his keen insight, said, "But in the Wei family, it wouldn't be wrong to call you Madam. Perhaps they wanted to avoid the servants overhearing and gossiping behind your back."

Ji Qingwu said, "I just checked Princess Yong's pulse this afternoon. The princess's pregnancy is very stable and she will not experience bleeding or metrorrhagia because of this news, unless someone hits Princess Yong's stomach with external force."

Confident in his medical skills, Ji Qingwu began to doubt Tao Wanyin's identity when Chang Lu mentioned that Tao Wanyin had drawn blood.

This was the first time Sihai had ever heard of a doctor who could be so certain of his medical skills, instead of being vague and ambiguous.

Seeing Ji Qingwu's bright eyes as he spoke of this, Si Hai felt a sense of relief. His new master was not just a pretty face; he was intelligent and discerning.

Tonight, Emperor Wusu came with a pout and left with a long face; he saw it all clearly from the tree, but didn't mention punishing him. Therefore, the world has a new understanding of Ji Qingwu's "strength."

Ji Qingwu raised his chin: "Let's see how he is first."

Sihai immediately squatted down and carefully rubbed and pinched Changlu's face, but found nothing unusual.

He said, "He wasn't wearing a human skin mask; he is Chang Lu himself."

Ji Qingwu frowned; that strange feeling was definitely there.

She crouched down and, in the dim moonlight, noticed a small red mole behind Chang Lu's ear.

With a deft twist of her slender wrist, as if by magic, she pulled a gleaming silver needle from her sleeve and, to everyone's astonishment, stabbed it straight at the red mole.

Ji Qingwu picked up the silver needles and handed them to the two of them.

Sihai said, "This is...."

This isn't a mole at all; it's been picked up with a silver needle. It's clearly a small, blood-red spider.

“It’s the spider gu of the Sa tribe of Xijin.” Sihai quickly recognized what it was and frowned in disgust.

Ji Qingwu pressed further, "What are the specific effects of the Spider Gu?"

Sihai said, "...I'm not quite sure about that."

The bodyguard had special training, but he felt nauseous at the sight of spiders, and what he heard went in one ear and out the other, so he didn't remember much at all.

Ji Qingwu slowly concluded, "At the very least, it can control people's minds. But who is controlling it from behind the scenes?"

Sihai said earnestly, "He came to take you away. The person behind him must be connected to Xijin. The fourth prince of Xijin escaped the pursuit..."

The two were thinking the same thing, and Ji Qingwu smiled slightly.

"Oh, it's him. He's just in time."

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The things Chang Lu told us weren't entirely false.

To lure Ji Qingwu into their trap, they mostly used real information.

After making an excuse to escape during the day, Zhao Minghong returned to the palace as night fell.