Chapter 7 I Left a Great Gift for the Emperor
Ji Mingzhu's breathing became heavy when she thought about what she had handed over today.
However, she also knew that if she didn't give it to him, the emperor would not let her or the Zhou family go easily.
But if he just treats me like a soft persimmon...
Zhou Yunshu saw Ji Mingzhu lost in thought and thought she was worried about Zhou Jianying.
"Grandma, my aunt..."
Under her grandmother's gaze, Zhou Yunshu swallowed the words she had not yet finished speaking.
She just felt that the suddenness of the incident was a little strange.
Suddenly, there was a burst of hurried horse hoofbeats outside. After the sound of the hoofbeats died down, Nanny Wang opened the carriage curtain and asked about Chuwu outside. Then she lowered the curtain and looked at Ji Mingzhu and said, "Master, there is an urgent report from the northwest."
Zhou Yunshu raised her eyes slightly. If she remembered correctly, this urgent report from the northwest was about the invasion of the Western Turks and the outbreak of plague in Xizhou.
The world is really going to be in chaos.
Ji Mingzhu obviously knew something about this. She held Xixi's hand and said to Nanny Wang, "Speed up."
"yes."
The carriage traveled at high speed for almost two hours, and only stopped when it became dark and could no longer be seen.
Because they missed the village in their hurry, they had to sleep in the wild.
There was still some food left after Chunque bought it at noon.
Dong Ge is good at cooking. Although the conditions in the wild are limited, she still made a pot of fragrant chicken porridge and sprinkled some green onions on it as decoration.
In addition to the shredded chicken porridge, Dong Ge used the four large bones bought by Zhou Yunshu to make a large pot of bone soup, which was paired with noodles and crispy roasted meat patties. It was also a good dinner.
Zhou Yunshu noticed that Ji Mingzhu only drank half a bowl of chicken porridge and stopped eating, so she took the pastries she bought in the afternoon and went to Ji Mingzhu.
"grandmother."
Ji Mingzhu patted the cushion beside him and motioned Zhou Yunshu to sit down.
Although they were in the wilderness, in addition to the Zhou family, there were more than twenty soldiers in disguise escorting them.
"You eat very little, would you like a few more cakes?"
Zhou Yunshu heard from Nanny Wang that her grandmother had only eaten half a bowl of chicken porridge today. Thinking about the long journey ahead, Zhou Yunshu was worried that Ji Mingzhu would not be able to bear it.
Ji Mingzhu shook her head, held Zhou Yunshu's hand and said, "Grandma knows what's going on."
Zhou Yunshu nodded, and then she found that her grandmother had written a word on the palm of her hand, "Wait".
Zhou Yunshu wasn't quite sure what Ji Mingzhu meant by "wait", but she knew that her grandmother must have her plans, but she couldn't tell them for the time being.
Li Jialan looked at her daughter sitting next to her mother-in-law and did not move forward. Not only her, but Wu Yue also did not move forward.
In order to prevent the emperor from being too wary of the Prince of Zhenbei's Mansion, Zhou Cungao chose two daughters-in-law from families of low status.
Li Jialan was an orphan under Zhou Cungao and married the eldest son of the King of Zhenbei; Wu Yue was the daughter of the Censor's family and married the second son.
Even though they have been married into the Zhenbei Palace for many years, the time they spend with their mother-in-law is not as long as the time their children spend with her.
At night, Zhou Yunshu bought thick straw mats, laid them on top of thick mattresses, and covered them with quilts. Except for the fifth and seventh days who kept watch, everyone spent the night like this.
But the people at home were used to a life of luxury, and coupled with the successive blows of bad news, after sleeping in the wild for a night, Ji Mingzhu and Wu Yue both developed high fevers in the early morning.
Zhou Yunshu was the first to know that Ji Mingzhu had a fever, and Wu Gui was the first to know about Wu Yue.
Fortunately, Nanny Wang was an excellent doctor and had been prepared. After a simple breakfast, she gave the two of them a pill, and the team continued on their journey.
The herbs that Wu Gui prepared in advance were not used yet.
However, in order to prevent the disease from spreading to the younger generation in the family, Wu Yue and Wu Gui gave Yuan Ruo to Li Jialan on a mule cart.
Zhou Yunshu originally wanted to accompany Ji Mingzhu, but Ji Mingzhu asked Zhou Yunshu to return to Li Jialan and their mule cart on the grounds that she was pregnant.
Ji Mingzhu meant that even if it was a little crowded, it was better than accidentally catching a cold around her.
Because Ji Mingzhu and Wu Yue were sick, Zhou Yunshu wanted to stay here for a few days when she arrived in Hengyang.
Ji Mingzhu is old and sick, and Zhou Yunshu is worried that she won't be able to bear the long journey.
As soon as Zhou Yunshu and her friends checked into the inn, the people who had been following them also checked into the inn openly.
The surveillance distance is really close enough.
Li Jialan and others went to pack up, while Zhou Yunshu went to Ji Mingzhu's room.
Zhou Yunshu looked at Ji Mingzhu, who was sitting on a chair with her hand on her forehead, then glanced at Nanny Wang, who was making the bed, and said, "Grandma, do you have any plans for where we should go next?"
There were their own people on both sides of the room, and Chuwu and Chuqi were guarding outside, so Zhou Yunshu dared to ask this question.
She had a hunch that her grandmother would not listen to the emperor's words and would be exiled to the Southern Barbarians under surveillance.
Ji Mingzhu took his hand off his forehead and said in a hoarse voice, "Tentatively, Haizhou."
Zhou Yunshu's eyes showed a hint of surprise.
She originally thought that even if her grandmother did not go to Nanzhou, she would choose a state closer to Nanzhou, but she did not expect that her grandmother would choose Haizhou.
Although she had never been to Haizhou, she knew that it was not peaceful there, and pirates often came ashore.
Zhou Yunshu looked at Ji Mingzhu's pale face, "Grandma, your body..."
"We'll set off tomorrow."
"But grandma, your body won't be able to handle it!"
In Zhou Yunshu's eyes, nothing is more important than Ji Mingzhu's body.
Ji Mingzhu exhaled a breath of foul air and said to Zhou Yunshu, "One day is already the limit. We must leave the capital as soon as possible."
"Grandma, why?" This is what Zhou Yunshu has always wanted to ask.
Ji Mingzhu leaned back in his chair and said in a cold voice, "I have left a great gift for the emperor."
"If you don't want your whole family to die here, you must get rid of the surveillance of those people around you as soon as possible and disappear from their sight."
Zhou Yunshu swallowed silently as she heard Ji Mingzhu talk about such a great gift.
Because she suddenly thought of an incident that happened in her previous life: four days after being exiled to the Zhou family, the emperor suddenly went mad in the harem and killed four or five concubines.
There were rumors that those concubines had angered the emperor; others said that the emperor suddenly became impotent and, in a rage, killed those concubines who served him.
For some reason, Zhou Yunshu felt that the latter guess was the truth.
The emperor has made no progress in his pursuit of immortality in recent years. There are many more women in his harem, and he even gave birth to several princes and princesses.
Ever since the emperor went crazy in the harem, there seemed to be no news of anyone being pregnant in the harem, and the emperor's behavior became more and more crazy.
Zhou Yunshu's eyes lit up. It's not just the emperor!
She once accidentally overheard a conversation between Ji Sheng and his men, in which they said that it was difficult for the prince to have an heir, and it seemed that it started after the Zhou family was exiled.
Zhou Yunshu glanced at her grandmother silently.
Is this the real-life version of "If you threaten my whole family, I will make sure you have no descendants"?
Zhou Yunshu touched her belly unconsciously when she thought of this.
Her child is from the Zhou family.
"Grandma, what do I need to do?"
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