Chapter 136
Zhou Li had a very uncomfortable sleep. There was always someone making noise in her ears, which made her restless. She wanted to continue sleeping, but she was upset by the noise and was yelling in her head.
"Stop arguing."
"Wake up! The concubine is awake!"
Everyone in the room shouted anxiously. Gong Yinai strode over with red eyes. He walked to Zhou Li's bedside and called softly: "Liu... Concubine, Concubine..."
Gong Yinai wanted to call out Liu Yingzi's full name, but there were people around her, so she couldn't call out the sinner's name.
Zhou Li tried hard to open her eyes, but she felt her body was heavy and her face, body and hands were all in pain.
"Quarrel……"
Zhou Li was still mumbling, but Gong Yinai, who was sitting beside her bed, breathed a sigh of relief.
"You're finally awake." She spoke in a casual tone, but her hands were clenched into fists. "How are you? Do you feel uncomfortable?"
Zhou Li was a little bewildered. She looked at Gong Yinai and murmured, "It hurts..."
Gong Yinai pursed her lips in pain, "I fell on the table and knocked it over. How could it not hurt?"
Zhou Li's memory came back, and she raised her hand to touch her cheek, but was caught by Gong Yinai.
"You just put medicine on your face, don't touch it."
"Am I disfigured?" Zhou Li asked in a low voice. Otherwise, why would his face hurt so much?
Gong Yinai let out a helpless smile, "No, I bumped into the plate, it's a little red and swollen."
"Oh." Zhou Li was obviously relieved.
Gong Yinai sighed, and his nerves, which had just relaxed, became tense again because of Zhou Li's words.
"I'm so sleepy." Zhou Li yawned and closed his eyes, obviously wanting to sleep again.
Gong Yinai held Zhou Li's wrist tightly, and a tingling sensation came from his wrist, forcing Zhou Li to open his eyes. "It hurts." Zhou Li felt aggrieved.
"You can't sleep!" Gong Yinai would rather let her feel pain than let Zhou Li fall asleep again.
"Why?" Zhou Li opened her eyes wide with innocence. Gong Yinai pursed her lips and wanted to help her up. "The imperial physician said you were poisoned by Man Haitang. This poison makes people sleepy and eventually die in their sleep without knowing it."
Zhou Li was pulled up. She had slept for three days and her body was weak. She could not sit still and slid down again. Gong Yinai simply held her in his arms. The people below hurriedly lowered their heads and did not look at her inappropriately.
Gong Yinai said in a heavy tone, "The imperial physician said that people who have been poisoned by the Man Haitang poison usually don't develop symptoms this quickly. Once the poison is planted, it will slowly take effect, making it difficult to notice. The onset time is three to five years. The fact that it's showing up now seems to be due to the other drugs, which have accelerated their effects."
Zhou Li was listening in a half-asleep state, and was woken up by Gong Yinai just as he was about to fall asleep.
"The imperial physician is trying to find a way to detoxify you. You can't sleep!"
Zhou Li smiled weakly and was about to speak, but before he could open his mouth he vomited blood.
The imperial doctors who were still discussing how to detoxify Zhou Li were shocked as they watched the dark red blood continuously flowing out of Zhou Li's mouth.
Gong Yinai smelled a strange fragrance coming from Zhou Li's blood.
Zhou Li covered her mouth with her hands, but she couldn't stop vomiting blood. The blood soon dyed her lapel and Gong Yinai's snow-white sleeves red.
"Imperial Physician!" Gong Yinai screamed. She had never felt so helpless since her mother's death. She seemed to have returned to the late night when her mother passed away, watching her mother curled up on the sickbed, suffering from illness and dying unwillingly.
Gong Yinai stared blankly at Zhou Li being rescued by the imperial physician. She was soon invited to the outer room by the servants. The attendant whispered, "Prince, please change your clothes." She could not hear it and her eyes were fixed on the screen that blocked her sight, as if the person inside would disappear if she didn't look at him for a moment.
Gong Yinai grabbed the blood-stained sleeve in his hand and said, "Get out! Get out of here!"
She sobbed weakly, unable to understand why fate had to play a joke on her when everything was going well, and this joke was not funny at all.
The servant was startled by the prince's roar, and knelt on the ground and slowly retreated. The room was empty, and Gong Yinai dared to let the sadness on her face reveal itself. She ridiculously thought that Liu Yingzi was not important to her. Those images, whether far or near, sad or happy, rolled in her mind, and finally gathered in Liu Yingzi's eyes, which were neither happy nor sad.
"Liu Yingzi." Gong Yinai gritted his teeth and said in his heart, "You can't die!"
"I haven't avenged you yet, don't you want to see your revenge?"
Gong Yinai clenched her fingers tightly, and suddenly a broken groan was heard in the quiet room. Gong Yinai could no longer bear it. She waved goodbye and walked into the inner bedroom, where she saw a heartbreaking scene.
Zhou Li lay on the bed, dark red blood constantly flowing out from the corners of his lips, the corners of his eyes, and his nose.
Gong Yinai pushed the person in front of her away and ran to Zhou Li. She was at a loss as to what to do. Finally, she pressed Zhou Li's shoulders and whispered in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Liu Yingzi..."
Zhou Li wanted to look up and smile at Gong Yinai, but she spat out another mouthful of blood. Gong Yinai became even more panicked, "You...you can't die..." These words were spoken with tears in her eyes.
Something slid down Gong Yinai's cheek and landed on Zhou Li's hand. Zhou Li raised her hand to cover her mouth and struggled to sit up. Gong Yinai supported her and turned her face to the side, trying to hide it, but Zhou Li still saw the tears in the corners of her eyes.
This person actually cried for her.
But Liu Yingzi's fate cannot be changed.
Zhou Li said sorry in her heart. The system blocked the pain in her body. She was actually not in as much pain as she looked on the surface. She was just weak.
Zhou Li's body was covered in blood. She wiped her hands on her body, but they were still dirty. She picked up a clean piece of her clothes and rubbed it against Gong Yinai's face.
"Don't cry."
Gong Yinai grabbed her wrist and thought it was so thin, like paper, and it broke if he squeezed it hard.
"I didn't cry." She said stubbornly.
Zhou Li smiled, "The prince naturally didn't cry, it was Gong Yinai who cried."
The prince must be her, Gong Yinai thought to himself, but did not refute it.
The people below knelt on the ground. Gong Yinai coughed to calm down and asked the imperial physician for clarification.
The imperial physician said a lot, and Gong Yinai concluded that the poison had not been cured yet, but Liu Yingzi was actually poisoned by another poison in addition to Man Haitang. That poison triggered Man Haitang's poison in advance, and Man Haitang deepened the medicinal properties of that poison, so Liu Yingzi was bleeding.
"Is it possible to cure it?" Gong Yinai didn't want to know what the poison was like, she just wanted to know how to detoxify it.
All the imperial doctors fell silent.
Gong Yi Nai raised his lips and sneered: "After all this talk, it turns out you are all quacks! If you can't cure it, you..."
"Prince." Zhou Li interrupted, "You all go down."
After vomiting a lot of blood, Zhou Li felt much more sober at this moment.
Everyone knelt on the ground hesitantly, waiting for the prince's decision.
"Didn't you hear what she said?" Gong Yinai said gloomily.
Everyone in the room lowered their heads and slowly retreated. Once the door was closed, Gong Yinai pursed his lips and asked, "What do you want to say?"
Zhou Li grabbed Gong Yinai's sleeve and said with a smile, "Don't be angry, Prince. Liu Yingzi's worthless life is not worth it."
Gong Yinai took a deep breath, her fingertips trembling.
"Liu Yingzi, you are not cheap. You must live to see the day when your great revenge is achieved."
"I will definitely help you get revenge! And I will find out who poisoned you!"
Gong Yinai already had a plan in mind, which was nothing more than a struggle in the harem.
Since the imperial physician couldn't cure her, she went to An Qinan to ask for the antidote!
Zhou Li lowered her eyes, a soft smile on her lips.
"The day before the crown prince was enthroned, His Majesty sent someone to find me. He knew I was Liu Yingzi."
After hearing this, Gong Yinai looked at Zhou Li in disbelief.
Zhou Li continued to reveal the truth, "His Majesty said that if you want to ascend the throne, I must die, but he gave me three years to accompany the prince, so he gave me the antidote for Man Haitang."
"When did he poison you!" Gong Yinai shuddered.
"Prince, do you remember the time when you attended to the sick and the Saint gave me ginger soup? At that time, the Saint knew that I was Liu Yingzi."
"The saint said that you liked me, so he kept me to please you, but someone like me is not worthy of staying in the palace."
"I've known for a long time that I'm going to die soon."
Gong Yinai remained silent, his fists clenched tightly.
"Then what is the other poison..." She asked after a long time.
Zhou Li said: "Don't blame Concubine An. She didn't give me a poison that would kill me. She only gave me a drug that would make me infertile. She didn't realize that I was already poisoned."
Gong Yinai gritted his teeth: "So you know everything, but you don't refuse, and you don't say it. Liu Yingzi, what do you want?"
Zhou Li looked up, tears in his eyes.
"Gong Yinai, my enemy is not only Master Wen. He is just a gun of the Saint. I want you to remember me forever and resent me forever. I want to alienate you from the Saint. You like me, don't you?"
This was a well-planned plan. Zhou Li sacrificed herself to make Gong Yinai always resentful towards her and the saint. This was Zhou Li's plan.
"You are crazy! I will go ask the saint for the antidote!" Gong Yinai held Zhou Li's shoulders.
Zhou Li lowered his eyes and chuckled, his face as pale as paper, "The Saint won't give it to you."
"If you don't cut the grass, it will grow again in the spring breeze."
"Will you help your enemies? Gong Yinai, don't be naive."
"Unless you don't want your position as crown prince."
Gong Yinai, can you let it go? Zhou Li’s eyes seemed to be able to speak, revealing her problem nakedly.
Gong Yinai let go and stepped back in disbelief.
The palace of her life was destroyed by Zhou Li with her own hands, and she left in anger.
"Liu Yingzi! You underestimate me!"
Zhou Li coughed and spat out another mouthful of blood, and she laughed softly.
Some people just don't believe in evil and are afraid to feel the pain only after hitting a wall.
Gong Yinai went straight to the emperor.
Of course, she changed her clothes after being reminded by the servants. When she arrived, the Saint was playing chess with Master Wen in the garden. Upon hearing the palace servants' report, the Saint didn't even raise his eyelids and continued playing chess with Master Wen, saying, "None of my sons are worth anything. You guessed it right after all."
Master Wen smiled gently and said, "After all, I cannot escape Your Majesty's control." He looked at the chessboard, dropped the chess piece, and said, "I lose."
The sage also dropped his chess piece. A palace attendant offered him a towel to wipe his hands. The sage took it and said casually, "You go ahead. I'll go check on this useless thing of mine, Prince Xuan."
Gong Yinai passed by Master Wen and she couldn't help but turn her head. Master Wen nodded slightly to the prince and left with his head held high.
After being brought before the Saint by palace servants, Gong Yinai had calmed down a lot.
There must be nothing in this palace that the emperor doesn't know. The rebellion of the third prince Gong Yixiang was easily resolved. I believe they are all acting under the nose of the saint.
Gong Yinai only came to his senses now. This was the person who directly ordered the execution of his son!
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