Chapter 160 Chapter 160 is the only genuine version...
"Meow~"
The cat was a scumbag. It no longer loved Gui Niangzi and lay on the couch licking its paws like a scoundrel. Suddenly, its ears tilted back and it raised its nose excitedly.
It jumped down from the couch, meowed, and ran out, looking very happy.
Lady Gui stared intently at the figure reflected on the window paper. Even though she couldn't see the face, she could recognize it at a glance.
It’s Brother Xian.
She tried to catch him countless times in her dreams, but she missed him countless times.
"You can't move."
Gu Zhizhuo pushed her back and said seriously, "You've truly died once before. No matter how off-center the knife stabbed you, it still hit your heart. No matter how effective the elixir is, your heart meridians have been severed. Furthermore, you expended too much of your spiritual energy nourishing the formation earlier. You can't move for at least ten days or half a month. You must lie still."
Gu Zhizhuo rarely uses the word "must" when speaking to patients.
Madam Gui is obedient.
She lay back down, but still facing the window, her eyes greedy.
She didn't dare blink, for fear that once she closed her eyes, he would disappear from her sight again, just like he had done countless times in her dreams.
"You lie down first, I'll go out and take a look."
Gu Zhizhuo took her pulse, pulled the quilt closer, and then put the blood-stained handkerchief he had used to wipe his hands into her pockets.
When I walked out of the wing room, I saw the fiery red figure at a glance.
Sure enough, it was Shen Xu.
Well, as soon as he came, the whole small courtyard was gone.
The shopkeeper was gone, Ting Lian was gone, and even the servants were scared away by him. Only Sheng Jiang and Qing Mei were standing far away.
Should this be called a vicious monster?
The cat circled around his feet, meowing affectionately, and pawed at him with its front paws, asking for a hug.
Gu Zhizhuo said politely, "Master."
She looked at him, then at the window, then at him again.
He was a full step away from the window, so there was no way he could see anything.
At least the window paper should be broken!
I don't know how this weird personality came about.
"Master Governor, aren't you going in?" Gu Zhizhuo couldn't help but ask.
Shen Xu said nothing, ignoring people and the kitten.
The kitten felt aggrieved and rubbed against his clothes.
Gu Zhizhuo walked up to him and suggested, "How about I go and call her out?"
"You're not allowed to go."
Chen Xu's face darkened and he pressed down on one of her shoulders, his meaning very clear: If you dare to scream, I will break your legs.
Gu Zhizhuo sneered, raised his chin, and showed no fear towards him: Why don’t you try to fight me?
This Miss Gu always preferred to engage in open combat with the Governor, frightening him to the point of convulsions. Sheng Jiang silently retreated several steps, clinging to the tree, pretending he didn't exist.
After a while, Shen Xu finally spoke first: "I lost her."
"...That day, I found my sister's footprints on the edge of the cliff. I wanted to climb down and find her. I wanted to find her alive or dead. Then, someone stopped me."
"I recognize him. He's Daddy's good friend, Uncle Jiang. Uncle Jiang brought a dozen people with him, saying they came specifically to rescue us. He cried bitterly and confessed his regrets. He said they were too scared to admit that the Yin family were bandits. However, the entire Yin family was wiped out, and they couldn't bear it, so they took advantage of the chaos and quietly escaped."
"I believed them. I told them my sister had fallen off a cliff and begged them to help me find her."
"Guess what happened next?"
Gu Zhizhuo squinted his eyes at him and said, "I've read your fortune before. It's on Zhuangzi."
Chen Xu put down his hand and laughed. His laughter gradually became heavier and more crazy. His eyes were bloodthirsty red, surging with hatred and regret.
He was laughing at himself, laughing at the part of himself that was willing to believe others.
"Uncle Jiang's men hit me from behind with a club. When I woke up, I was put into a cloth bag."
"They said, bring me back to claim the reward."
He was once again betrayed by the city of Blackwater, which he had once wanted to save.
It's so stupid that dying a thousand times is not enough.
As he was being beaten unconscious, Shen Xu used his last remaining consciousness to smash the jade pendant he was carrying to the ground, then clutched a piece of the shard tightly in his palm. It was with this broken piece of jade that he slowly cut the ropes that bound his hands and feet.
Cut open the cloth bag.
He also slit the throats of those people.
This was his first murder.
"Later, when I went to look for my sister, I couldn't find her."
There was only blood and torn clothes at the foot of the cliff.
If he hadn't trusted others so easily, he would have found her.
"I lost her."
He clenched his fists.
He was extremely stupid and trusted others like a fool, and ended up paying a bloody price.
After Shen Xu finished speaking, he turned and left.
Knowing she's alive is enough.
Now he was so dirty that he was no longer worthy of seeing her again.
Gu Zhizhuo called out from behind him, "But, are you really not going to see Sister Yin for the last time?"
Chen Xu turned around: "What do you mean?"
"Why."
Gu Zhizhuo's hand trembled, and he "accidentally" dropped a blood-stained handkerchief on the ground.
Shen Xu lowered his head subconsciously, his eyes reflecting a deep blood color.
"Master, do you think the heavens are so easily deceived?" Gu Zhizhuo gestured at the length of the dagger, exaggerating it by at least twice. "A dagger this long, stabbed into her heart, would have nearly killed her. Even now, I can't say for sure she'll survive."
"You don't mean Daan?"
"Ah," Gu Zhizhuo sighed and said with embarrassment, "You should know that Sister Yin is the center of the formation."
The center of the formation?
Chen Xu had heard this word several times from Changfeng and King Jin.
"The core of the formation is integrated with the formation. If the transfer formation is broken, how can the core of the formation be fine? Not to mention that she has been seriously injured."
"Master, if I couldn't even move, why wouldn't Sister Yin chase me out?"
"You're standing here, and even I recognize you. How could she not recognize you?"
In just a few words, all kinds of uneasy emotions brewed and magnified in Shen Xu's heart. He became more and more panicked as she talked more and more. He almost didn't have time to think and turned around to run inside.
At the moment when she was about to push the door, Shen Xu reacted and looked back at her with narrowed eyes.
She almost fooled me!
The more exaggerated she spoke, the more it indicated that the person was fine.
Their eyes met, and Gu Zhizhuo shrugged, not caring at all about being exposed. She fished out a hair tie from her purse and handed it over: "Yes."
Shen Xu stared at the hair tie for a while.
"New!"
This person has a really unpleasant temper.
Finally, Shen Xu took it over. He took off the hair crown, and the black hair fell on his shoulders.
Chen Xu tied his hair into a ponytail with a headband, then took off the red Qilin robe and threw it away along with the jade pendant and purse.
Sheng Jiang:?
I don't understand, but the governor must have his reasons for doing things!
He picked it up with his head lowered.
Chen Xu simply threw the jade ring to him. Without all that, he seemed to be the same young man from the Yin family ten years ago, as bright as the moon.
Instead of the current East Factory Supervisor whose hands are stained with lives and blood, who has relied on viciousness and unscrupulous means to get to where he is today.
Shen Xu took a deep breath and finally made up his mind. He put his hand on the door and didn't move again.
It was a kind of homesickness-like panic.
Gu Zhizhuo felt so tired just watching him.
She opened the door and pushed it behind him with a quick and nimble movement.
Sheng Jiang:!
Chen Xu was not careful for a moment and stumbled in. Gu Zhizhuo closed the door again.
Looking back again, Sheng Jiang looked at her with an expression as if he had seen a ghost.
“You, you…”
"Don't point fingers. Your Lordship seems to be very decisive and ruthless, but he's actually quite slow. How could he not understand such a small matter?"
Shen Xu was pushed in, and even through a door, he could clearly hear what she was saying.
I laughed out of anger.
With this smile, the original hesitation seemed to fade away a little. Shen Xu took a deep breath and walked forward step by step.
This is just a small room with simple decoration and no unnecessary decorations. It is completely incomparable to my sister's elegant boudoir back then.
It only takes a few steps to walk from the front to the house.
Forehead?
Chen Xu thought there was at least another door blocking his way, asking him to think it over carefully. However, as soon as he turned, he found himself staring blankly into the eyes of the person leaning on the couch.
It's over.
It's too late to run anymore.
Chen Xu's feet moved backwards, his eyes wandering.
"stop!"
Shen Xu froze in his tracks.
Lady Gui Yin Xiyan sat up straight, looked at the young man in front of her, and described his eyebrows and eyes with her eyes.
He was very different from when he was little, but she recognized at a glance that he was still the little boy who liked to run behind her and learn abacus, horse judging, and account keeping with her.
Yin Xiyan's eyes were filled with excitement and joy.
"come over."
Shen Xu walked forward slowly and came to her couch.
Her frailty, the scars on her face, and the blood on her chest all made Shen Xu's heart ache. "Xian'er."
Yin Xiyan smiled, her smile blooming like a multitude of flowers: "You've grown taller."
Chen Xu: “…”
He looked at the hand reaching out to him, and the nightmares and regrets of countless nights overlapped at this moment.
Chen Xu held it tightly, just like he did in his dream. Only at this moment, there was no separation.
"elder sister……"
"Why."
"elder sister."
“Here I am!”
The nightmare finally changed at the very end.
It turns out that he, who crawled out of the abyss and underworld, can also wait for the sunshine.
Gu Zhizhuo waited outside for a while and felt relieved when he saw that there was no movement.
She said to Sheng Jiang, "I have a prescription for the sister from the Yin family. Lord Sheng has ordered three doses to be prepared and can be consumed immediately after boiling."
Sheng Jiang: “…Yes.”
I have to do it quickly, before my master gives the order. When my master finds out, he will definitely praise me for my foresight.
Gu Zhizhuo wrote the prescription with charcoal on the yellow paper she carried with her and handed it to him, then explained everything that needed to be explained again. Sheng Jiang wanted to borrow a charcoal pencil from her to write it down.
After finishing her words, she called out to Qingmei and left first.
By the way, take the "lonely and helpless" cat with you.
"Tell me, what's going on?" Gu Zhizhuo asked interestedly.
Qingmei told everything exactly, including what she saw and what she asked Sheng Jiang specifically on the way to Tianxi Tower. Gu Zhizhuo basically restored everything.
Fun! Gu Zhizhuo was delighted when he heard this.
"Miss," Qingmei asked curiously, "Why are Prince Jin and the demon Taoist so different? When the demon Taoist was taken away, I saw him, and he looked exactly like someone who had been dead for two days and then dug out. Even if he said he was dead, people would believe him. But Prince Jin seems quite normal."
"Changfeng is the caster."
"The others just arrived a little later. None of them can escape."
His backlash will come the fastest, but as Yin's sister said, all those who have benefited from this fortune-changing formation will have retribution and bear the consequences.
"Meow." The cat echoed just right.
After hearing this, Qingmei was happy: "Miss, where are we going now?"
Gu Zhizhuo pondered and said, "Let's go back home first."
She was in a hurry to get out and only ordered someone to call her third uncle to entertain Prince Li. Her third uncle might still be looking for her. If she went back now, she would definitely be nagged to death.
Hey hey.
"Let's go back to the mansion first and let Third Uncle finish his lecture. Then we'll go to the Meridian Gate to check on Changfeng. I heard that the students at the Meridian Gate haven't left yet."
It must be said, these students are truly stubborn. The young master said that not only are they now sending three letters of persuasion to the emperor daily, without fail, but they've also written numerous essays and policy papers on the Qingzhou disaster. Xie Yingchen has already promoted three of them, exempting them from the imperial examinations, granting them honors, and sending them to Qingzhou to serve as officials. This precedent has many students excited.
Even if one succeeded in the imperial examinations and became a Jinshi, most people would never see the emperor in their lifetime, except for the palace examination and the hairpin flower banquet. But now their essays could be heard by the emperor, and perhaps they would catch the eye of King Chen.
Qingmei responded repeatedly, and followed Gu Zhizhuo and said, "Miss, what will happen when Changfeng Yaodao is covered with corpse spots?"
have no idea.
She had never seen such a severe backlash in both of her lives.
However, Gu Zhizhuo had read about some similar instances of backlash in an old Taoist book. Just as he was about to talk to her about it, the shopkeeper ran over and said in a panic, "Miss, the Yulin Guards have surrounded our Tianxi Tower."
"Yulin Guard?"
Like the Jinwu Guard, the Yulin Guard was part of the Twenty-Six Guards in Beijing and served as the emperor's personal guards.
The three major camps and twenty-six guards protected the capital, of which the Yulin Guard was one of the twelve highest guards.
Gu Zhizhuo remembered that apart from the Jinwu Guard and the Jinyi Guard, the Emperor had handed over the three guards of the Twelve Guards, namely the Yulin Guard, the Fujun Guard and the Qishou Guard, to the Prince of Jin.
The sudden uproar by the Yulin Guards must be because Prince Jin was placed under house arrest by Shen Xu.
The current Shen Xu is far from the powerful Shen Xu ten years later.
In his previous life, Shen Xu formed a clique and excluded those who dissented from his position, until he eventually gained control of the Imperial Stables and their Tengxiang Four Guards, gaining military power. From then on, he towered over all officials, possessing absolute power.
But now, Prince Jin is still a powerful prince in the Great Qi Dynasty and one of the three parties in the court. He has military power and connections.
"I'll go and take a look."
Gu Zhizhuo's nonchalant attitude calmed the shopkeeper, who chased after her and continued, "The Yulin Guards first came to ask if the Governor was there. When I didn't tell them, they surrounded me, drove away everyone nearby, and demanded I hand over the Governor."
Gu Zhizhuo sneered repeatedly. He wanted to emulate the East Factory, but ended up doing something weird.
If it were the Eastern Depot, they would have stormed in long ago. Why would they still need to block outside and threaten us?
Gu Zhizhuo walked out.
Qingmei signaled the shopkeeper to go in and tell Sheng Jiang first, and she followed Gu Zhizhuo closely, her hand touching the dagger at her waist.
Although she looked like a maid, she didn't seem to be doing any other job recently.
However, she was also trained by Wu Qianhu.
Bang.
Gu Zhizhuo pushed open the door of Tianxi Tower.
Nearly a hundred Yulin soldiers came, and under the leadership of a deputy commander, they blocked the entire street where Tianxi Tower was located.
Tianxi Tower could not close the door and ignored their attitude, which made Deputy Commander Yang extremely unhappy. He was about to ask someone to knock on the door, but the door opened by itself.
The girl was wearing a purple silk dress and came out leisurely with only a maid.
She swept her eyes around and shouted arrogantly, "You even dare to cause trouble in my restaurant. Could it be that our Zhenbei Palace is too easy to bully?"
Gu Zhizhuo lifted her skirt and stepped over the threshold.
She looked down upon everyone with a faint smile on her lips: "Step back, don't make me say it again."
“Meow!”
The cat-tiger pretends to be powerful, with its nails sticking out from its pads.
"Zhenbei Palace?"
Commander Yang, who was leading the troops, snorted, "I haven't heard of it. Miss Gu, aren't you from the Zhenguogong Mansion? How come you added a title to your Gu family?"
"The palace? How impressive!"
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