Qingge muttered in confusion, "How come it was that guy who saved me? Where is Gu Liyan...?"
Qingge raised her head, looked at the little maid, and asked with a serious expression, "What's your name?"
"Your Highness, my name is Emerald," Emerald said timidly.
Qingge nodded. "Jade? I ask you, do you know if there were any other people present when General Yang rescued me? Or..."
Qingge thought for a moment and then asked, "Or perhaps there's an injured fox?"
Qingge believes that if Gu Liyan is seriously injured, he will definitely transform into a fox to conceal his identity.
Jade thought for a moment and shook her head. "Your Highness, I don't know if there are any foxes, nor did I hear that anyone else came back with you."
Qingge asked, somewhat puzzled, "Didn't he come back with me?"
Didn't we agree that you'd come with me...?
Qingge checked her body and found that she was full of energy. Not only was she fine, but she also had inexhaustible strength.
"Strange, I clearly remember being poisoned with the Seven-Day Death Poison, how come I'm perfectly fine now?" Qingge frowned. "Right, wasn't Gu Liyan also poisoned back then? If I'm alright, then he..."
Qingge's eyelids twitched. She suddenly remembered a woman's voice in her memory. She seemed to have said that as long as Gu Liyan followed her, she would save Gu Liyan...
So, does that mean Gu Liyan has already started following that woman?
Qingge clenched her fists subconsciously, feeling unwilling. "Gu Liyan, are you that afraid of death?"
"Your Highness?" Seeing Qingge's angry expression, Emerald spoke cautiously.
"What is it?" Qingge asked coldly.
“Well, um… I just heard that your four guards have arrived at the main hall and are enjoying a banquet now. Would you like to join them…” Emerald said.
"Lan Ying and the others have arrived already? I didn't expect these girls to have completed my training so quickly!" Qing Ge said with a delighted expression. "Get ready, I'm going to the banquet too!"
"yes!"
Inside the palace, amidst revelry and celebration, unbeknownst to many, in that humble abode, someone had already stepped one foot into the realm of death.
"Splash!"
Li Hao poured the scalding liquid into the basin. The scalding steam made him dare not take another step closer, because the water and the steam were poisonous!
Li Erniang took out her medicine box and waved to Li Hao, "Alright, that's all for you. You can leave now."
"Oh." Li Hao nodded, glancing at Gu Liyan lying on the bed. His face was bloodless, and his lips were pale. He asked with some concern, "Second Aunt, the poison has already invaded his internal organs. Can he really be saved?"
"There is a way, it just depends on whether he can hold out until the end!" Saying this, Li Erniang glared at Li Hao angrily, "What's it to you! Get out of here!"
After being kicked out by Li Erniang, Li Hao turned to look at Gu Liyan. Li Erniang said helplessly, "Sigh, I didn't expect that before you could help me, I would have to trouble you to save one more chance!"
As he spoke, he took out more than a dozen silver needles from his medicine box and threw them directly into the boiling poison water.
After a short while, Li Erniang retrieved the silver needles and quickly inserted them into the acupoints on Gu Liyan's chest.
Surprisingly, the silver needle pierced directly into Gu Liyan's body.
"Ah—" Gu Liyan screamed and spat out a mouthful of blood.
"Go ahead and vomit, it'll be clean once you vomit it out." As Li Erniang spoke, she took out a handful of silver needles and inserted them into the acupoints on Gu Liyan's limbs.
"Ugh—" Gu Liyan groaned, awakened by the pain.
Opening his eyes, all he saw was darkness. Gu Liyan tried to get up, but couldn't feel any strength in his limbs. He immediately panicked, "My, my legs..."
"Oh, you're awake!" Li Erniang said with a smile. "Your legs are fine. I just bound your limbs to prevent you from escaping!"
"It's you!" Gu Liyan recognized Li Erniang's voice and became somewhat flustered. "What...what are you going to do?"
"I'm not doing anything, I'm just taking pity on you and healing your wounds!"
"Healing?" Gu Liyan's eyelids twitched, and a sudden, sharp pain in his body almost made him faint.
Sweat poured down his body, soaking the bed in the blink of an eye. Gu Liyan gasped for breath, "Are you trying to save me or hurt me?!"
Li Erniang said irritably, "My treatment method is to fight poison with poison. For a patient like you whose internal organs have been eroded by toxins, of course I have to prepare poison of equal value!"
"You..." Before Gu Liyan could say anything more, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his lungs and immediately clutched his chest, spitting out a mouthful of blood.
"Ugh..." Gu Liyan gritted his teeth, his whole body convulsing in pain.
"Hehe, you'd better not get angry, otherwise your blood will rush up and instead of expelling the toxins, you'll vomit all the blood first, and that would be terrible!" Li Erniang said with a smile, sitting aside and watching Gu Liyan writhe in pain.
"You... ah..." Gu Liyan's upper body twitched in pain, but he couldn't feel anything in his limbs.
More and more blood was spitting out of his mouth, but it was turning from black to red.
Seeing that Gu Liyan's chest was stained red with blood, Li Erniang smiled and said, "I didn't expect to succeed on the first try!"
Gu Liyan lay weakly on the bed, his whole body powerless. He was constantly tormented by drowsiness, but he was too painful to close his eyes. He didn't even have the strength to scream.
Seeing Gu Liyan's pitiful appearance, Li Erniang couldn't help but laugh, "How pitiful! In order to save others, you've ended up like this!"
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