"What did you say?"
Yue Qiao'e's eyelids twitched involuntarily.
She couldn't believe Gu Jiangli's words, shaking her head incessantly, every movement indicating her disagreement with Gu Jiangli's statement.
"Impossible. The King appreciates me greatly, and he also appreciates Gu Xun. He would never treat me as a pawn to be discarded..."
"Why is it impossible?" Gu Jiangli retorted coldly. "Your illness came on strangely, and no medicine can cure it. Doctors who have been in contact with you have all contracted the disease in a short period of time. Isn't that enough to prove something?"
"Think about it carefully again. You must have encountered something special in the Southern Kingdom, but you overlooked it."
Upon hearing this, Yue Qiao'e was stunned and lost in memories.
After a while, Yue Qiao'e seemed to suddenly remember something and said:
"When I was preparing to leave the Southern Kingdom, there was no one around the city gate."
"Finally, a maid with a scar on her face came to see me off on the king's orders. She gave me some silver and a pot of farewell wine..."
Now that I've said that, everything makes sense.
The King of Nanlin remained treacherous, outwardly surrendering but secretly harboring the intention to provoke war.
Unable to defeat them militarily, they came up with other tactics.
It just so happened that they ran into Yue Qiao'e, that fool, and through her, they brought this strange disease to Northern Qi.
The Prince of Nanlin knew that contracting this disease might mean certain death, but he was willing to use any despicable means to defeat Northern Qi.
But Gu Jiangli frowned and thought about it carefully again.
If the Southern Kingdom truly developed this highly contagious poison on its own, then simply poisoning a few soldiers on the battlefield would end the war.
But he didn't do that.
The reason is that they also have no control over this disease, so they cannot use it when the two armies clash.
In other words, there were people in the Southern Kingdom who were infected with the disease, but the king discovered it in time and may have already imprisoned the infected people, preventing the disease from spreading further.
However, Yue Qiao'e's appearance gave the King of Nanlin a new and wicked idea.
He released a woman who was already infected with the disease to see Yue Qiao'e off. Once Yue Qiao'e stepped out of the city gate, she was considered to have left the Southern Lin Kingdom. Every place she went afterward would be within the territory of the Northern Qi Kingdom.
All those who came into contact with her and contracted the disease were people from the Northern Qi state.
The King of Nanlin also knew that Yue Qiao'e's purpose this time was to go to the Gu family to find Gu Xun.
As Gu Xun's daughter, Gu Jiangli would inevitably contract the disease if the plan succeeded.
If Gu Jiangli contracts this disease, Xie Shiyan, as her husband, will inevitably be unable to avoid it.
In this way, the only general who could resist Nanlin would lose his fighting ability, and the soldiers would also contract the disease through contact with their families.
At that time, it will be an easy task for Nanlin to invade Beiqi...
This scheme is vicious and astonishing.
After Gu Jiangli understood all this, resentment burned in her heart like a raging fire.
"Yue Qiao'e, I originally thought that since you only have one leg left that you can still move, I would just give you a quick death, but it seems that your suffering is yet to come."
"What do you mean? I've said everything I can say!" Yue Qiao'e struggled to defend herself.
Gu Jiangli replied fiercely, "Now you are the one who has brought disease and disaster to Northern Qi. How to cure this disease will probably require further study on you."
Yue Qiao'e stared wide-eyed in disbelief, "You're going to use me as a test subject for your drugs?!"
"Otherwise what? Who else has this ability besides you?"
"Your suffering is all self-inflicted; I can only accept fate."
Gu Jiangli shook off her chin, leaving Yue Qiao'e to fall to the ground in a disheveled state.
When she returned to Xie Shiyan's side, her legs felt weak.
"Shiyan..."
Xie Shiyan instinctively tried to support her, but she dodged him.
"Shi Yan, don't touch me yet. I'm worried that I touched her wound just now, and maybe I'm already..."
Before she could finish speaking, Xie Shiyan suddenly put his arm around her shoulder.
"I had already massaged both of her shoulders before you even touched her wounds."
"If it really is a disease like a plague, I won't be able to escape it either."
There's no need for you to avoid me.
This time, Gu Jiangli did not resist; she looked worriedly in Wen An's direction.
Several of Xie Shiyan's men were still standing there.
A sense of self-blame filled her mind.
“We are both adults, and we can take care of ourselves when we are sick, but what about Wen An... if he gets sick, how will he cope?”
"And your subordinates, they know nothing and are completely innocent."
"There are other people, but we have no idea how many places Yue Qiao'e has been or how many people she has met since she entered Northern Qi."
"If this disease is truly severe, the Northern Qi dynasty would probably be..."
Gu Jiangli didn't dare to say the rest of her words.
In such times, plague is deadly to a city.
If they cannot find a way to completely resolve this issue, then the fate of Northern Qi will be absolutely bleak.
Xie Shiyan listened to her words and held her in his arms.
Her tone was gentler than ever before, "Jiang Li, don't feel so guilty. These things are not things that you and I could have foreseen."
"Moreover, a plague also occurred in the Northern Qi a hundred years ago. The situation was much worse then. Anyone who contracted that disease would die within seven days."
"But look at her now, Yue Qiao'e is still alive, and her cough and fever can be suppressed. Maybe no one will die from this disease at all."
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