Chapter 176 My Identity Is Exposed
"So, Your Highness is planning to do us a favor and let him go back to Qi?" Gu Siqing sighed unconsciously.
The man's eyebrows moved slightly, and he said with a smile: "You seem to regret that I didn't join hands with you to kill Xuanyuan Yu?"
"Your Highness, you are overthinking it." Gu Siqing waved his hand, grabbed a handful of nuts and started eating.
Chi Hongyuan stared at Gu Siqing for a long time, and when he saw that he was calm, he continued, "Instead of killing him, it is better to let him go. When he returns to the court of Qi, there will be a fight. It is still unknown whether he will break through the siege or die in the battle for the throne."
Since he decided to keep the other party, Chi Hongyuan's considerations were naturally not just about fear.
"Your Highness, do you want to kill someone with someone else's knife?" Gu Siqing felt a little irritated while eating the nuts, so he ate a few and stopped.
"Yes, but not entirely." Chi Hongyuan adjusted his sleeves lazily, "Xuanyuan Yu may not die. When he ascends the throne, it will take many years for him to attack the Kingdom of Yue. If I fight him many years later, I may not lose."
There was a different light in the man's eyes, that was the ambition of not being willing to be inferior to others. The one who could fight against the king of Qi was naturally the king of Yue. Chi Hongyuan had no intention of exposing his inner desire for power, but Gu Siqing's reaction was a little flat.
Chi Hongyuan left the cold palace and rushed to the battlefield just to fight for power. His goal was not just to be a small general.
"I have no intention of getting involved in this situation. Since Young Master Yu wants to see Your Highness, Your Highness should find a way to contact Young Master Yu. This is all I have to do." Gu Siqing stated his attitude and position and distanced himself from the matter early on.
Seeing that Gu Siqing disliked Xuanyuan Yu, Chi Hongyuan did not force it: "Since it is a cooperation, I think it would be best to get some benefits from him. We can't suffer losses, right? But the requirements cannot be too high, otherwise he will not cooperate with us, which will be troublesome."
Chi Hongyuan said half-jokingly and half-seriously that since he let Gongzi Yu leave, even if he helped, he couldn't do it in vain.
Gu Siqing agreed with this proposal. Gongzi Yu had his own considerations in choosing them as allies. Gu Siqing would not be able to swallow this if he did not cut a piece of meat from Xuanyuan Yu.
After bidding farewell to Chi Hongyuan, Gu Siqing left Zuixianglou alone. Standing on the long snowy street, she didn't know where to go.
She had questions and confusion in her heart. If she didn't get answers, she would have trouble sleeping for a long time.
The cold wind blew on her face. Gu Siqing came to her senses and changed direction, walking towards the wide alley at the side. She wanted to see Bai Ziyu.
Bai Ziyu lives alone in a house at the end of the alley. It is very quiet here, but when someone comes to visit on the snow, it makes quite a noise.
When Gu Siqing walked to the door, the wooden door was opened from the inside. Bai Ziyu was stunned to see the person whose face was red from the wind and frost.
"What happened?" He held a lantern in one hand and walked quickly over to hold Gu Siqing's arm.
He was very warm, and his body temperature came through his thick clothes. Gu Siqing glanced at his hand but didn't pull it away.
"It's nothing serious. I just have a question to ask you." Gu Siqing entered the yard, and Bai Ziyu closed the door with a frown.
"What problem is worthy of you coming to see me in the middle of the night? If it's not a matter of life and death, why don't you come back tomorrow during the day?"
Bai Ziyu was a little angry when he saw that Gu Siqing didn't bring anyone with him. He was afraid that his feet would be frozen if he walked here alone. However, he was still angry and took the person into the main room to keep warm.
Gu Siqing walked to the stove and sat down, looking at the red-hot charcoal fire, and asked calmly: "I met you by chance before, and then we became friends. I never cared about it. To be honest, I don't even know if you are from Yue."
As she spoke, she looked up at Bai Ziyu and clearly saw that his back stiffened for a moment when he put down the lantern.
"If I'm not from Vietnam, then what other country could I be from?" Bai Ziyu smiled and turned around, giving an answer that didn't count.
Bai Ziyu's evasive words made Gu Siqing confused, and he felt more and more that Xuanyuan Yu had ulterior motives in his words.
Gu Siqing stared deeply at the stove in front of her. The temperature of the charcoal fire made her eyes a little dry, so she closed her eyes.
Medicinal materials cannot be exposed to moisture, so Bai Ziyu did a good job of removing moisture from his room, but the air in the room became extremely dry as a result.
Gu Siqing pursed her dry lips and didn't wait for Bai Ziyu's further explanation, knowing that he didn't want to say it.
She and Bai Ziyu were just casual acquaintances, but they gradually became close. At least he had no intentions towards her. Everyone has secrets that cannot be told. Since Bai Ziyu was so secretive, why should she ask further?
She didn't want to help Xuanyuan Yu simply because she didn't like him. As for Bai Ziyu, she was the one who caused him more trouble.
"Why do you suddenly ask this?" Bai Ziyu saw her entanglement and struggle and handed her a cup of ginger tea.
Gu Siqing looked at his blurry reflection in the tea and shook his head: "My identity has been exposed."
After a pause, Gu Siqing continued, "He knows that I am Liu Mingyue, knows that I am Liu Suifeng, and also knows that I am Gu Siqing."
Her somewhat cold hands gradually warmed up, but Gu Siqing still felt like she was thrown into an ice cave.
The first person that popped into Bai Ziyu's mind was Chi Hongyuan, and his expression turned cold: "Did Chi Hongyuan embarrass you?"
Gu Siqing was surprised that he would think of Chi Hongyuan, but it was understandable that he was the only person in the capital who could make her feel intimidated.
At least, that's what it looks like.
"No, it's Xuanyuan Yu. You may not know this person. He is a hostage sent by Qi. I was bored at home today, so I dressed as a man and went out to relax. If I had known this, I should have checked the almanac before going out."
Gu Siqing held her forehead, feeling very unlucky. If she knew Xuanyuan Yu was targeting her, she would have the account books in the shop sent directly to the prime minister's residence, and she would not step out of the prime minister's residence for a year or two.
Bai Ziyu's hand that was poking the fire froze for a moment, then he put the poker aside as usual and said jokingly, "I know a little about this guy. Why did he come to you? Does he want to do business with you?"
"No, he wants to return to Qi. Before returning to Qi, he wants to reach a deal with the Ninth Prince. I don't know what kind of deal they will make. I only know that I am terrified." Gu Siqing pressed hard on the swollen and painful Taiyangxue, feeling annoyed.
"I took great pains to break off relations with Liu Mingyue for the sake of my mother. Once my identity is exposed, others will follow my identity and find out that my mother was once Zhou Junyuan's concubine. This will bring bad reputation to the Prime Minister's Mansion and my mother."
In Gu Siqing's opinion, everything in the Zhou Mansion was a past that her mother could not bear to look back on, and she did not want her mother to be sad.
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