Bao Ning was stunned for a moment. She saw the breeze blowing up the woman's veil, revealing half of her face. The scar on her left face was wrinkled and looked as if it had been burned by something. It was horrible.

She quickly reacted, stood up and welcomed Wei Meng and the woman named Mo Nanshu into the inner room: "Go directly to the inner room."

Bao Ning also ordered Aunt Liu: "Let everyone go out, and you go and rest."

Aunt Liu responded and left.

Bao Ning rubbed her aching eyes and followed into the inner room. She intuitively felt that there was a story behind this Mo Nanshu, and there was also a story behind Yuanzi. Bao Ning's heart was pounding. She thought of Yuanzi who was not afraid of being bitten by a poisonous snake. She wondered if Pei Yuan's poison could still be reversed... When she went in, Mo Nanshu was holding Pei Yuan's wrist with three fingers, checking his pulse.

She quickly retracted her hand and said, "It hurt the bone and penetrated a little deeper into the skin, but it didn't hurt the spleen. She won't die for now."

"You can treat illnesses?" Wei Meng looked at her suspiciously. "Who are you?"

Mo Nanshu didn't say anything. Pei Yuan coughed twice and asked, "How did you find her?"

"I didn't find her," Wei Meng said. "She found her old subordinates at the general's mansion by herself. After being directed, she went directly to the gate of the manor. I saw her and asked her about it before bringing her in."

Mo Nanshu still didn't say anything. The veil blocked her expression, but Bao Ning was surprised to see that her nails were extremely white. Her hands were hanging naturally at her sides, but both her fingertips and nails were as white as a piece of paper. Bao Ning moved his eyes downward and observed that her calves were shaking slightly. This is unbearable.

Wei Meng turned to Mo Nanshu, and he took out the dignified posture during the interrogation. Just as he was about to speak, Bao Ning shook his head at him.

"Miss Mo, please sit down first." Bao Ning moved a stool and asked her to sit down with a smile, and then said, "General Wei, please sit down too."

Mo Nanshu did not refuse. She sat down and suddenly said, "I want to drink some water."

Bao Ning was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that this woman didn't look afraid or nervous at all. Bao Ning said, "Okay, I'll pour it for you."

She came back quickly and put the teacup in Mo Nanshu's hand: "It's hot, be careful of the burns."

The moment the cup was handed over, Bao Ning deliberately touched Mo Nanshu's fingertips. It was as cold as a piece of ice, as if it had been frozen for a long time in the coldest days of winter. When Bao Ning touched her, his heart trembled.

"I'm dying." Mo Nanshu took a sip of water and said calmly, "I'm here to entrust my child to you."

Baoning asked softly, "Is it Yuanzi?"

"Yes." Mo Nanshu said, "But his surname shouldn't be Pei, his surname is Gongsun. I named him Yuan, the Yuan of fate."

Baoning looked at Pei Yuan in shock. She couldn't immediately understand what Mo Nanshu meant. Pei Yuan's mind raced with memories, and he suddenly remembered Yuanzi's little rattle drum, with bamboo leaf patterns on the handle. Yuanzi said that the little drum was given to him by his grandfather...

Pei Yuan narrowed his eyes: "Yuanzi is Gongsun Zhu's grandson?"

"I was originally Gongsun Zhu's medicine boy. I learned poison techniques from him since I was a child. As time went by, I developed a love for you. Later, Gongsun Zhu became Pei Xiao's disciple and refined many poisons. You thought it was despicable and didn't want to do it, so you parted ways with us and left. He is Gongsun Zhu's only son. Gongsun Zhu was once shaken by this and wanted to leave Pei Xiao." Mo Nanshu said slowly.

"I asked Pei Xiao for help and was willing to help him set up a trap to trap the young master and Gongsun Zhu. My method now seems really stupid. I overestimated myself and the relationship we had over the years. He treated me as a junior sister, never a lover... But I said I was going to die, tricked him back, and drugged him. It was a warm night. The next day, he didn't stay and marry me as I thought, he chose to leave in anger, and our plan failed."

She seemed very weak and tired. After saying these few words, she kept coughing. Bao Ning stepped forward and patted her on the back.

Mo Nanshu glanced at her.

She slowed down and continued, "It can't be considered a failure, because I left his child in my belly. I was very scared at the time. I was afraid that my master would blame me. I was afraid that the young master would never come back. What should I do with this child by myself? But Pei Xiao told me that he was willing to take me as a concubine and would take care of me in the future. I believed it. I didn't know that he had already discussed it with Gongsun Zhu at that time. Gongsun Zhu needed the continuation of the bloodline. He didn't care whether it was the young master or the young master's child. He promised Pei Xiao that if I gave birth to a boy, he would be willing to stay by his side and work for him."

Pei Yuan understood and said, "Later, it was indeed a boy, but Pei Xiao wanted to kill you because he needed the child, but not the child's mother. You were redundant and knew too much."

"Yes." Mo Nanshu said, "After I gave birth, he gave me a bowl of tonic with poison in it. I was unconscious at the time and didn't know what was going on, so I drank it. He thought I was dead, and told others that I had lost my beloved concubine. Then he hastily found someone to bury me in the suburbs. But he didn't know that I had followed Gongsun Zhu for many years and had taken countless poisons. How could I die so easily?"

Wei Meng said, "You just crawled out of the grave?!"

"I crawled out. He gave me a cold poison. I used fire to cure it. My face was burned, but at least I didn't die." Mo Nanshu paused for a long time. It seemed that she had used up all her strength. After a long time, she slowly said, "After dying once, I realized how disgusting I was when I was possessed by ghosts. I became like this, neither human nor ghost, and I am a dead person. I can't do anything that normal people can do...but I still have my child."

"I just want to watch him grow up safely." Mo Nanshu's voice suppressed the pain, "But his identity is so embarrassing, like me, he should not exist in the world. No one likes him, he is very unhappy, he can't even speak a few words, because no one is talking to him. I live in a dry well in the mansion. I am afraid of being discovered, so I made an agreement with him that at the end of every month, at midnight, I will go to see him and give him candy. At that time, he will be very happy."

Pei Yuan asked: "Why is Yuanzi not afraid of snakes, is he immune to all poisons?"

"It's all thanks to his guilty grandfather." Mo Nanshu laughed, "Gongsun Zhu has done so many bad things and poisoned so many people. He is afraid that someone will poison his only lifeline again. Since Yuanzi was one year old, Gongsun Zhu has secretly fed him medicine to train him to be a medicine man who is immune to all poisons. He hopes that Yuanzi can live a long life."

"Do you know?" Mo Nanshu suddenly asked, "The blood of a medicine man can detoxify. But not now. We have to wait until he is twelve years old and has been soaked in medicine for eleven years. By then, his blood can detoxify almost all poisons in the world."

Baoning was immersed in the story she had just told, but after hearing this, her heart skipped a beat and she looked up at Mo Nanshu.

Mo Nanshu said: "I told this secret because I hope you can take Yuanzi back from Pei Xiao and protect him safely. I know that no one else can and is willing to do this except you. I have nowhere to go now. I am going to die. I can't stop the Crown Princess. I am afraid that if I lose myself in secret, how can Yuanzi survive in the Crown Prince's Mansion where there are many attacks from both sides. I don't want him to become... Pei Xiao wanted to take Gongsun Xu's pawn. Oh, by the way, I forgot to tell you that after the poisoning, Pei Xiao was still poisoned and Gongsun Zhu was dead. The only person he could count on was Gongsun Xu, who was nowhere to be found. Yuanzi was his only bargaining chip.

Pei Yuan asked, "If what you said is true, Yuanzi's blood is precious. How can you believe that if I get him, I won't treat him like a blood cow to satisfy my selfish desires?"

"Just treat it as a gamble, betting that you still have a bit of kindness in your hearts." Mo Nanshu smiled, "I've heard him secretly say many times that he likes being with you."

Bao Ning asked: "Will taking blood have any effect on Yuanzi's body?"

Mo Nanshu said: "If not much blood is taken, she will be temporarily weak for a few days, and she will feel better after eating something good. But if too much blood is taken, she will die."

"I've never seen you act like a mother." Pei Yuan suddenly laughed, "Are you a fool? You believed Pei Xiao so easily back then, and now you believe us so easily."

"Just think of me as a fool, a fool who trusts his eyes too much." Mo Nanshu stood up and said in a cold voice, "I advise you to treat him well and protect him until he is twelve years old. Then I will cure your poison. The condition is that he can be as happy as he was in those days for the rest of his life. If you don't agree, I will not let you go even if I become a ghost."

Pei Yuan said "tsk", "Who are you trying to scare?"

Mo Nanshu straightened her back, bent her knees, knelt in front of them, and kowtowed, "Thank you."

Pei Yuan stared at her coldly, but did not wake up. Mo Nanshu struggled to get up and asked Bao Ning for paper and pen. She walked to the table and quickly wrote down two prescriptions: "This is the medicine that Yuanzi usually takes. He always thinks it's bitter. Adding honey and rock sugar together can alleviate the bitterness, but the servants in the mansion think it's troublesome and don't make it for him. The second one is a medicine that can temporarily relieve pain, but it's not good for your body. Unless it's necessary, take less. As for whether you believe it or not...you can believe it or not."

She put down the pen, rolled up the square paper, stuffed it to Baoning, looked at her and said, "I heard that you cook delicious food?"

After that, she didn't care about anything else, drank the rest of the tea, turned around and strode out the door.

Bao Ning stared at her back in a daze, unable to describe his feelings. This is really an extraordinary woman...

Pei Yuan ordered Wei Meng, "Send someone to follow her."

Wei Meng asked, "Young General, can you believe what this woman says?"

"People like this, even if they stay in the mountains since childhood, they will never see anyone, and their tempers will become stupid." Pei Yuan looked down at his nails and said lightly, "She is smart, but not smart, and she is not stupid either. She uses a line to divide the world into two, thinking that black is black and white is white, there are only pure good people and bad people in the world, good people will not become bad, and bad people will not become good. Fortunately, she thinks I am a good person."

Wei Meng frowned and said, "So..."

Pei Yuan said, "So you go ask the young lady what to eat for lunch, I feel hungry."

...

In the study room in the front yard of the Prince's Mansion, under a dim light, Pei Xiao and Tao Maobing stood side by side with the imperial map in front of them, reviewing the strategy for the last time.

Tao Maobing said: "...I know, I have already given the order, and the brothers have set up an ambush overnight, which is foolproof. When the matter is done, we will put the blame on the Fourth Prince, saying that he was assigned by him and that he intended to rebel. We can kill two birds with one stone."

Pei Xiao threw down his pen and said in a light voice: "That's great."

Tao Maobing glanced at his profile and said hesitantly: "Your Highness...I think that His Majesty is already jealous of me, and he is also jealous of Your Highness's mother's family, the Gao family. And I heard from the rumor that His Majesty has secretly sent people to look for the eldest prince, and has found clues. The horse tracks are in the northwest of Qilian Mountain. The eldest prince also has the Bashu Army. Although they are soldiers loyal to the emperor, they are all the eldest prince's old subordinates... and the fourth prince has always been in contact with Qiu Mingshan, and most of the Northern Frontier Garrison are his friends. We have ministers in the court, but we have no soldiers. I only have the garrison in the capital, a mere 30,000..."

He worried, "What we did is, to put it bluntly, treason. Even if we succeed in killing the emperor and ascend the throne, how can we make those civil officials and generals obey the people?"

"You haven't even finished the present task, but you're already worrying about the future." Pei Xiao looked into his eyes, "Are you afraid?"

Tao Maobing's body trembled, noticing the chill in his eyes, and immediately said, "Of course I'm not afraid! Fortunes are sought in danger, and those who accomplish great things should be like this, what is there to be afraid of?!"

"The emperor has lived too long, and I can't wait for him to grow old and die, so I'm sending him on his way. Pei Yuan is not honest either. On the surface, he moved to Lihu, as if he was living in seclusion, but I know what he's thinking. The longer it goes on, the more difficult it will be for me when he becomes powerful." Pei Xiao's throat itched again, he drank a sip of water, suppressed a cough, "The emperor doesn't like me, you know."

He tilted his head to look at Tao Maobing, "Besides, if I don't get power as soon as possible, how can I hunt down Gongsun Xu?"

"I must win this plan!"

…

The next day, it was still cloudy and rainy.

Pei Yuan drank the medicine left by Mo Nanshu, and after sitting quietly for a while, he really felt much better. He tried archery, pulled the bow to the full length, and the range was almost the same as before.

Bao Ning almost didn't sleep the whole night last night. She was worried about Pei Yuan and today's plan. Now seeing Pei Yuan getting better, she felt happy, but also had a slight worry in her heart.

Bao Ning tidied his clothes, held an umbrella to send him out, and looking at the road in the distance, Bao Ning knew that Pei Yuan's trip this time was different from the past. What would change was also unknown.

Baoning looked up, pulled his sleeve, and whispered: "Ayuan, if you can beat him, then fight, if you can't, then run, no matter what, you have to come back safely!"

Pei Yuan laughed and scolded: "Run away, can't you say something nice? In front of the enemy, you are busy backing out."

Baoning said: "I miss you."

"Well, I'll bring you the soy sauce duck next door to Ruyi Building when I come back." Pei Yuan suppressed his smile, hugged Baoning, and kissed her hard on the forehead in front of everyone, "Go and warm the wine, wait for me to come home."