Chapter 56
Lin Qingyu returned home and told Hualu and Huantong that there would be guests coming tonight. Since the family split up and set up their own residence, no guest has visited this house. Huantong guessed that the guest was Hu Ji, and Hualu said he was a relative of the Lin family.
"Neither." Lin Qingyu said, "It's my sworn brother, General Gu."
Huantong jumped for joy when she heard this, and Hualu's face also turned red with excitement. In Dayu, Gu Fuzhou is a household name as a god of war, and men and women of their age worship him. Without Lin Qingyu saying much, the two of them excitedly got busy preparing wine, food and tea for the guests.
Lin Qingyu remembered something and asked Huantong, "Have you finished the things I asked you to order?"
"It's done. It's already in the study."
After his death, Lu Wancheng could still enjoy incense worship in the Lu family's ancestral hall, but General Gu, who was famous throughout his life, no one knew that he had sacrificed his life for the country, and he could not enjoy the worship from future generations. Although Gu Fuzhou said that he saved a pregnant woman who had a chance to be reborn, General Gu was such a good man who saved countless lives, so he must have traveled to another world. But Lin Qingyu still asked Huantong to order a monument without words and place it in the dark room behind the study.
It was getting dark and it was past dinner time but there was still no sign of Gu Fuzhou. Huantong waited at the door eagerly, and finally saw Yuan Yin coming over. Yuan Yin told Lin Qingyu that Duke Wu suddenly visited the general's residence with two bottles of good wine, wanting to drink and talk about heroes with the general. After all, Duke Wu is the elder and has made a lot of efforts in the Tianjiying matter. The general cannot refuse and can only come back later.
"The general also said that if it was too late, Doctor Lin should not wait for him and should go to sleep first."
Lin Qingyu thanked Yuan Yin and went to the study after dinner. Although Gu Fuzhou told him not to wait, how could he sleep knowing that Gu Fuzhou would come?
It was not until the end of the night when everyone was asleep that Lin Qingyu suddenly heard a whistle and knew that someone had arrived. Logically speaking, Gu Fuzhou would definitely come to report to me when he arrived at Huantong. I don’t know what that person is doing.
When Lin Qingyu walked out of the study, he saw a dark shadow climbing over the wall. Its movements were as smooth as flowing water and it landed steadily on the ground. Gu Fuzhou clapped his hands and said, "Good evening, Qingyu."
Lin Qingyu had a blank expression on his face: "Why do you want to climb over the wall? It's not like I didn't leave a door open for you."
"It's boring to visit a widow's house at night and walk through the main door. If you want to pursue excitement, then go all the way."
"Who said we should seek excitement?"
Gu Fuzhou asked knowingly, "If it's not about seeking excitement, then why did Doctor Lin invite me to his mansion in the middle of the night?"
Thinking of how miserable this person's last days in his previous life were, Lin Qingyu took a deep breath, tried to control his temper, and said patiently: "It is inconvenient to talk in the palace during the day - come here."
Lin Qingyu's house is much smaller than the marquis's mansion and the general's mansion. Gu Fuzhou looked around and said, "I have given you so much property, you can definitely buy a house as big as the Nan'an Marquis's Mansion."
Lin Qingyu said: "And then be accused of usurpation by the censor? There aren't many people in my house, so why would I need such a big house?"
They came to the study. The study has two rooms, the outer room is lined with bookshelves, and the long table in front of the window is where the owner works his desk. If the owner is tired of reading or writing, he can go to the inner room to rest for a while. As soon as Gu Fuzhou entered the inner room, he saw the bunk bed that he had designed himself and where he and Lin Qingyu had slept together.
Gu Fuzhou was stunned for a moment, then laughed out loud: "Why did you bring this here too?"
Lin Qingyu said: "The mansion just happens to be short of beds."
He didn't expect Gu Fuzhou to believe such a clumsy lie.
With Gu Fuzhou's current height, he would be much taller than the bed when standing on the ground. He reached out and touched the silk quilt on the upper bunk. In the past, Lin Qingyu slept here, accompanying him through night after night of pain.
Gu Fuzhou turned around, looked at Lin Qingyu and smiled.
His pupils were dark and bright, reflecting Lin Qingyu's face. Under his gaze, Lin Qingyu felt inexplicably uneasy.
In addition to the smell of pens, ink, paper and inkstone, there is also a faint scent of medicine lingering in the study.
Lin Qingyu lowered his eyes and said softly, "Didn't you drink with Duke Wu? How come there's no smell of alcohol on you?"
Gu Fuzhou curved his lips and said, "I took a shower before I came to see you. Now you know how much I value you."
"Bathing before meeting me means you respect me?"
"Yes," Gu Fuzhou said as if it were true, "This is the highest honor."
He wanted to show his best side to Lin Qingyu, and was always worried that he was not handsome enough in front of him. He was very strange. He thought he was a decent looking boy, but he still felt insecure when facing the person he liked.
Lin Qingyu smiled faintly: "This is the first time I've heard of this."
Gu Fuzhou's breathing gradually became unstable. Duke Wu's alcohol is very strong. It didn't seem like anything special when he first drank it, but now it's starting to make him feel drunk. Gu Fuzhou sat down on the lower bunk, supported himself with his hands, and said lazily: "Qingyu, I'm a little drunk."
Lin Qingyu asked: "I'll make you a bowl of hangover soup?"
Gu Fuzhou shook his head. "The hangover soup is useless. Let's talk business first. Even Duke Wu has heard that the emperor wants to marry the seventh princess to me. He kept congratulating me while drinking and even said that he would take my future son as his apprentice. Do you have any way to make the emperor change his mind?"
Lin Qingyu collected his thoughts and said, "The Seventh Princess is the youngest daughter of the Emperor, and the Emperor has always regarded her as the apple of his eye. If you are a brave and skilled general with outstanding military exploits, you will be a perfect match for her. But if you have a hidden illness, the Emperor will not be willing to let her marry you and become a widow."
Suffering from a hidden illness and being a widow?
Gu Fuzhou reacted, stood up in a flash, and said in disbelief: "Lin Qingyu, do you want to piss me off to death?"
Lin Qingyu said calmly: "No."
Gu Fuzhou said sarcastically: "Come on, I think you just want to piss me off to death, and then find a girl to marry."
"I want to find a girl to marry, why do I have to piss you off first?" Lin Qingyu asked curiously, "Can't I find one while you're still alive?"
Gu Fuzhou was stunned, and then he laughed while getting angry: "That's so beautiful, brother. It's well-reasoned and I can't refute it at all."
Lin Qingyu softened his tone: "Are you still not confident in my medical skills? I just made you temporarily inhumane. When the storm is over, I will let you stand up again. When you were still Lu Wancheng, didn't you accept this matter very well?"
"I was forced to do that at that time. I couldn't even save my life, so I had no time to care about these things. But now it's different." Gu Fuzhou said in a deep voice, "I want to live with dignity."
Lin Qingyu emphasized: "It's only temporary."
"Not even temporarily." Gu Fuzhou sneered, "Earlier you said that for the sake of General Gu's reputation, he couldn't be labeled as a 'male wife'. Now, you're just throwing a hat of impotence at him. Doesn't your conscience hurt?"
Lin Qingyu thought for a moment and said, "What you said does make sense." If Gu Fuzhou really became impotent and the matter was publicized by those who like to gossip, Gu Fuzhou would no longer be able to live as a human being, and it might even affect his prestige in the army. "In that case, we can only..."
Gu Fuzhou was so angry that he couldn't help but ask, "You're here to marry?"
"We can only find a way to let the emperor and Xiao Cheng die together." Lin Qingyu said it so lightly, as if he was just talking about killing two chickens and making soup. "As long as the emperor is alive, the marriage is inevitable. If the emperor dies and Xiao Cheng ascends the throne, our situation will only become more difficult." Lin Qingyu's eyes darkened and he lowered his voice, "Unless... they are all dead and another prince succeeds to the throne."
Gu Fuzhou was silent and not too surprised. Lin Qingyu dared to attack the crown prince, so what difference is there between that and regicide?
"Imperial Physician Lin's ambitions are getting bigger and bigger." Gu Fuzhou said with a smile, "Could it be that you still want to use the emperor as a puppet and use him to control the princes?"
Lin Qingyu raised his eyes slightly: "Why not?"
He has little interest in the country. He originally just wanted to study medicine peacefully, but these two people kept coming to bother him and Gu Fuzhou, which was annoying and tiresome. It would be better to go all out and support a new emperor who pleases him and will never cause trouble for them.
Gu Fuzhou thought for a moment and said, "The emperor's princes died or were crippled in the fight for the throne three years ago. Now, apart from Xiao Cheng, there are only Xiao Jie and Xiao Li left. Xiao Li is a fool, and even if he is the legitimate son, he cannot inherit the throne. So only Xiao Jie is left? A beautiful fool."
Lin Qingyu grasped the point: "Do you think he is beautiful?"
The sudden desire to survive made Gu Fuzhou immediately change his tone and joke: "It's just so-so. It's just like that after seeing it many times. Unlike Doctor Lin, it's amazing at first sight, but it becomes more and more beautiful the more you look at it. It's too much."
Lin Qingyu snorted coldly and said, "Xiao Jie is a fool, and it is easier for us to control him."
Gu Fuzhou disagreed: "Xiao Jie has smart people around him, I'm afraid it's not our turn to control him."
"who?"
"You should have seen that man before. He used to be a young eunuch serving Xiao Jie. Later he grew up to be a senior eunuch and left the palace to build a mansion with Xiao Jie. Now he is the housekeeper of Xiao Jie's mansion."
Lin Qingyu remembered that there was such a person. "Is this person very smart?"
"He can be ranked in the top three in Dayu." Gu Fuzhou said, "Besides, this person has a paranoid and sinister personality due to his physical disability. It takes some thought to deal with him."
Lin Qingyu's brows relaxed: "These are all matters of the past, let's talk about them later. The most urgent thing is to think about how to take the lives of those two people." It is not difficult to take the emperor's life. The emperor is already seriously ill. He only needs to slightly change the prescription to make the emperor look like he died from a worsening illness. After all, the most difficult person is Xiao Cheng.
Gu Fuzhou also thought of this: "Xiao Cheng won't take medicine, and only eats things from the East Palace. With the previous experience, there is no need to use incense. Poisoning is impossible, the only way out is..."
Lin Qingyu took over the conversation: “Shen Huaishi.”
Gu Fuzhou nodded: "But Qingyu, I can't wait long. From what the emperor means, he wants me to get engaged immediately."
"If our plan succeeds, the marriage will naturally come to nothing; if it fails, it won't be too late to discuss a second marriage."
Gu Fuzhou concluded: "Whether we remarry or not depends on when Xiao Cheng dies."
Lin Qingyu nodded: "That's right."
Gu Fuzhou said with a complicated expression: "This mood has suddenly become subtle. I originally hoped that Xiao Cheng would die immediately."
Lin Qingyu's voice was slightly cold: "Don't you want it now?"
Gu Fuzhou smiled and said, "That's still hopeful."
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