"Prince consort, you fainted on the road," Xiao Wei asked Gu Xinglang, "Who took you out of the library courtyard?"
Gu Xinglang shook his head, having no impression at all.
"Then," Xiao Wei lowered his voice and said, "Prince Consort, did you see how those two maids were killed?"
Gu Xinglang said: "I didn't see them. No, it wasn't the princess who killed them?"
Xiao Wei shook his head, wondering if his princess would be sad knowing that she was such a cruel image in her husband’s mind.
"Is there an assassin in the palace?" Gu Xinglang became nervous and tried to sit up, but failed. He fell back halfway.
Xiao Wei put Yu Ziyi on the bed, held Gu Xinglang with both hands, and said, "Prince Consort, you can't move now, just lie down."
"Where's the princess?" Gu Xinglang asked Xiao Wei anxiously, "Did she go after the assassin?"
Xiao Wei's mouth twitched. So in the eyes of the Prince Consort, his princess was either cruel or brave? Could this be good?
"Is the princess okay?" Gu Xinglang asked again.
"The princess never came back after she set the fire," Xiao Wei told Gu Xinglang the truth and whispered, "I don't know where she went."
Gu Xinglang was still anxious when he heard Xiao Wei's words, "Then where can she go?" Setting fire to the Imperial Palace, after his wife did such a big thing, how could she still have the mood to go out and play?
"Prince consort," Xiao Wei pressed Gu Xinglang's shoulder and said, "Don't worry about the princess yet. There's blood on your hands."
Gu Xinglang was stunned. He raised his hands with great effort and looked at them. His hands were clean without any blood.
Xiao Wei said, "I wiped it for you, the prince consort. The emperor was here just now, and Jingzhong was also here. I was afraid that he would see the blood on your hands, and the eunuch would cause trouble."
"Is there blood on my hands?" Gu Xinglang asked Xiao Wei.
Xiao Wei nodded. He looked at Gu Xinglang's hands carefully. There were no wounds on Gu Xinglang's hands. The blood could only be from someone else. "Did the assassin take you, the Prince Consort, out of the library courtyard?" Xiao Wei asked Gu Xinglang.
Gu Xinglang still shook his head, his mind was blank. Young Master Gu only remembered that Xiao Wei had taken him down from the Book Pavilion.
"Xiao Gu," Yu Xiaoxiao's voice came from outside the door.
"The princess is here," Xiao Wei turned around and ran to the door. He didn't feel anything when he was with the princess before, but today the princess disappeared for half a day. Xiao Wei felt the importance of Her Royal Highness the Princess. It turned out that she was his backbone!
Just as Yu Xiaoxiao was about to push the door, Xiao Wei opened it from the inside. "Xiao Wei," Yu Xiaoxiao waved at Xiao Wei and said, "Are you okay?"
Xiao Wei stepped aside to let Yu Xiaoxiao enter the room, glanced at the eunuch who had retreated to the steps, closed the door again, and replied to Yu Xiaoxiao: "Princess, I'm fine, the prince consort is tired."
"Are you tired?" Yu Xiaoxiao walked to the bed, glanced at Gu Xinglang, and then frowned. Why did this man look so bad? "What did you do?" Yu Xiaoxiao reached out and touched Gu Xinglang's forehead. It was a good sign that he didn't have a fever. "Did you fight with others for hundreds of rounds?" Yu Xiaoxiao asked while touching Gu Xinglang's body up and down, and then checked her little Gu's feet and ankles.
Xiao Wei was standing with his back to the two masters. After waiting for a while, he wanted to turn around to see if his princess had finished. Unexpectedly, when he turned around, he saw his princess looking at Gu Xinglang's ankle. Xiao Wei quickly turned around and asked with concern: "Princess, is there any problem with the prince consort's injury?"
Yu Xiao: "Didn't the imperial physician examine Xiao Gu? What did the imperial physician say?"
Xiao Wei said, "Doctor Zhou said that the injury on the prince consort's ankle is fine."
Yu Xiaoxiao removed the gauze wrapped around Gu Xinglang's wound. The thick scab on the wound looked like an ugly, fat soft-bodied worm clinging to Gu Xinglang's ankle.
Xiao Wei took the candle off the candlestick, held it in his hand to illuminate Yu Xiaoxiao, and asked in a low voice: "Is the prince consort okay?"
Yu Xiaoxiao looked at the crack on the thick scab and said, "Xiao Gu, are you walking?"
Gu Xinglang shook his head. If he stood up, his wound would hurt so much that it was unbearable. How could he possibly walk?
Xiao Wei wanted to say something, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was impossible. The cobblestone path was quite far from the Book Pavilion. How could Gu Xinglang walk such a long way?
"Did someone touch your wound?" Yu Xiaoxiao asked.
Knowing that Gu Xinglang must be clueless at this moment, Xiao Wei told Yu Xiao what happened and finally guessed, "Could it be that the assassin brought the Prince Consort there, and then found it difficult to kill him because there were too many people around, so he left the Prince Consort behind and left?"
Gu Xinglang said: "If the assassin wanted to kill me, he could have done it in the Book Pavilion. Why did he take me away?"
Xiao Wei shook his head. This didn't make sense.
"We'll interrogate the assassin once we catch him." Yu Xiaoxiao saw that Gu Xinglang's wound was only slightly cracked, but the connected tendons were not broken, which made Yu Xiaoxiao feel relieved. She said to Gu Xinglang, "When I see him later, I'll beat him up and let you vent your anger."
Xiao Wei felt sorry for the emperor now. This was an assassin who broke into the palace to kill him, but the princess was only thinking about her husband and not the emperor at all.
Yu Xiaoxiao wrapped the gauze around Gu Xinglang again and said, "Are you still feeling uncomfortable?"
Gu Xinglang said: "No, I'm just a little tired."
Xiao Wei said, "Princess, the Prince Consort had a headache before."
"Headache?" Yu Xiaoxiao looked at Gu Xinglang's head again.
Gu Xinglang said hurriedly: "It's okay now."
The skull that was nailed with spikes in the previous life somehow appeared in front of Yu Xiaoxiao's eyes, which made the princess' heart clenched. She reached out and touched Gu Xinglang's head. Yu Xiaoxiao: "Why do you have a headache?"
Gu Xinglang wanted to sleep very much at this moment, and he forced himself to say to Yu Xiao: "It's okay, it just hurt for a while, but it doesn't hurt now."
"Oh!" Yu Xiaoxiao sighed softly. When she was watching the life of the cruel empress, she really didn't feel anything when she looked at the pile of bones in the barren mountain. But now that the bones had become the living Gu Xinglang lying in front of her, Yu Xiaoxiao suddenly thought about how painful it must have been for her little Gu when he was being tortured to death.
Gu Xinglang rarely saw any emotion on Yu Xiaoxiao's face. Looking at the way Yu Xiaoxiao looked at him, Gu Xinglang felt that his wife was sad. "It's okay," Young Master Gu smiled at his wife and said, "It really doesn't hurt anymore. I may have been tired recently. I'll be fine after a good sleep."
Yu Xiao: "Are you tired from going to Ruyun Mountain today?"
Gu Xinglang shook his head and said, "No, Xiaoxiao." He didn't care that there was a little guard standing next to him. Gu Xinglang held Yu Xiaoxiao's hand and whispered, "When I recover from my injury, I will take you to hunt rabbits. We will hunt a lot and bring them home."
Yu Xiaoxiao leaned over and kissed Gu Xinglang on the head, smiling with eyes curved, "Okay."
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