Hearing Lu Ping mention her face, Feng Yuheng simply followed up with a question - "How did you get better?"
Lu Ping looked at her, rubbing her face with her hands. After a while, she said, "There was a poisonous insect in my body, and no medicine could cure it. As for why it healed, I don't know. It seemed to happen overnight. The wound was still hideous before I went to bed, but it was back to normal when I woke up. I heard that the person who raised the poisonous insect died, and the poison naturally faded away in my body. It sounds magical, doesn't it?"
"Yes." Feng Yuheng nodded and had to admit, "It is indeed amazing. Do you know who cast the curse on you? Was it the Seventh Princess of the Ancient Shu Kingdom?" Thinking back to the palace banquet that year, the only person from the Southern Realm who was in the capital was the Seventh Princess of the Ancient Shu Kingdom, and she seemed to be quite close to the Lu family.
But Lu Ping said, "It shouldn't be her. If the Seventh Princess of Ancient Shu died, such a big thing would definitely be reported to Dashun. You went to the southern border to fight, but you didn't hear about the death of the royal family of Ancient Shu, right?" She pondered for a while and said, "The Seventh Princess is from a wealthy family, and she doesn't look like someone who raises Gu. If I'm not mistaken, she brought the Gu worm, but it was raised by someone else for her. She is a princess, and a princess of Ancient Shu, so it's normal for her to have one or two Gu masters behind her."
Feng Yuheng looked at her and suddenly asked, "Do you know a lot about Gu?"
Lu Ping was a smart person. After hearing Feng Yuheng's question, she immediately guessed the purpose of her visit today. "Does the princess want to learn about Gu?" She spread her hands. "Unfortunately, I have to disappoint you. My understanding of Gu also started when I had the bug on my face, but I don't know much. I only know that most Gu are bugs, and there are also snakes. If a person who is poisoned wants to remove the Gu, there are only two ways. One is for the Gu breeder to remove the Gu himself, and the other is for the Gu breeder to die, and the other party's Gu will naturally be removed. But there are exceptions, such as the death Gu, which is the kind of Gu that has no solution, and it cannot be removed no matter what. There is also a kind of death when the person who is poisoned dies with the death of the Gu breeder, and the person who is poisoned also dies. This kind of Gu is mostly applied to the heart and lungs, but I am lucky, the Gu worm is only on my face."
Lv Ping told Feng Yuheng everything she knew about Gu in one breath, and then said to him sincerely, "The princess has been very kind to me, and I will tell you everything I know. But it is really hard to find out more about Gu. When the Lu family realized that the thing on the face was a Gu worm, they thought of many ways, and even asked the Seventh Princess of the Ancient Shu Kingdom, but it was a pity that it didn't work. Later, the Lu family fell out with the Eighth Prince and cut off contact with Ancient Shu. It was even more difficult to find out about this kind of thing. Fortunately, my face has healed, and the Lu family is no longer obsessed with it, so until now, this is all I know about Gu."
Feng Yuheng knew that what she said was true. She didn't have high hopes of finding out much valuable information from Lu Ping. It was good enough to hear this. She nodded and said to Lu Ping, "Thank you."
Lu Ping quickly said, "I can't help much, Princess, you don't have to thank me." She was smart enough not to ask why Feng Yuheng was asking about Gu, and just said, "I really hope I can help Princess more, but unfortunately my ability is limited."
Feng Yuheng knew that her ability was indeed limited, so she decided not to stay in this mansion for long. As for asking about the Gu matter so directly, she was not afraid that Lu Ping would tell others about it, because she believed that Lu Ping was a smart person and would not tell others.
When leaving the house, Lu Ping personally saw him off, and the first wife of the Lu family, Mrs. Ge, also followed. Mrs. Ge seemed to want to keep Feng Yuheng for a while, and kept winking at Lu Ping, but Lu Ping seemed to not understand at all, and was focused on sending Feng Yuheng to the palace carriage.
It was not until Feng Yuheng's carriage had gone far that Ge said angrily, "It's not easy for the distinguished guest to come to our house, why don't you stay a little longer? It's almost noon now. If you can stay for lunch, wouldn't the relationship between our family and Prince Yu's Mansion be much closer!" After saying that, she took a step back in disgust and covered her nose with her hand, obviously disliking the scent of Lu Ping.
Lu Ping looked at Ge with an expression of incomprehension in her eyes. She said, "She is a princess, or a princess. What can we use to entertain her? A lunch is easy to say, but mother, do you know what the rules are for entertaining a princess? Is it too late to prepare it now?"
With just one sentence, Mrs. Ge was speechless. Yes! You can't be casual when entertaining the princess, unless the relationship is very good. But the relationship between the Lu family and Feng Yuheng is obviously not very good, not even good. At best, they are former enemies whose relationship has eased a little. She felt very embarrassed when she thought of this relationship, but she was unwilling to be scolded by Lu Ping, so she followed up with a sentence: "At least you should accompany her outside, or have something to eat in the restaurant. I heard that Princess Yu often goes out to eat with her sisters who are on good terms with her on weekdays. Why can't you get into that circle? Ping'er, you are not young anymore, you should think more about your family."
Lu Ping stood there with a frown on her face. The more she looked at Ge's face, the more disgusted she felt. From childhood to adulthood, she knew that she was very beautiful, and she had seen the Lu family use one daughter after another as pawns to realize their own plans. From Lu Yao to Lu Yan, a daughter was lost in one plan, and even the only son was involved. But even so, the Lu family still refused to give up? She asked Ge: "Do you have to wait until all the children of the Lu family have died before you are willing to give up? Can't you live a good life? Do you have to cling to the powerful? Your father is already the left prime minister, what else does he want to be?"
"What are you talking about?" Ge was furious and wanted to scold Lu Ping harshly, but Lu Ping's words just now also hurt her nerves. The Lu family planned to lose one daughter at a time, including her biological daughter! Ge thought, could it be that they were wrong from the beginning? If the Lu family didn't care about this utilitarianism, her Yan'er would not have died...
Mrs. Ge was a little absent-minded. Lu Ping had no intention of talking to her and turned to leave. Before leaving, she said, "Even if I wanted to accompany Princess Yu to dinner, she wouldn't welcome me. As my stepmother, you would have to cover your nose if you got a little closer to me, let alone Princess Yu!"
After returning from Lu's residence, Xuan Tianming also returned to the residence. She told him about the Gu that she had heard from Lu Ping. After they finished speaking, they sighed at each other. The information from Lu Ping was not of much value. To save Emperor Tianwu, they had to rely on themselves.
Feng Yuheng told Xuan Tianming about his plan: "I will go to the palace tonight, by myself, mainly to investigate the Changning Palace of Concubine Li. Of course, I will also investigate Concubine Yuan Shu. If there is enough time, I will go there to take a look. These two people are the biggest suspects after all, and we have to investigate them sooner or later."
"I'll go with you." Xuan Tianming was worried about her entering the palace alone.
Feng Yuheng shook his head: "It's okay, at worst I will just hide in the space, no one can find me. But yesterday you said that the eunuchs around the emperor had been replaced, have you found out where Zhang Yuan is?"
Xuan Tianming nodded, "No need to check, the news has spread all over the palace. Zhang Yuan was framed by Concubine Yuan Shu, and the old man beat him with thirty sticks. He will be thrown into the Criminal Slave Division to serve in two days. I guess the young eunuch's body can't stand this torture. If you see him in the palace, give him some medicine! At least don't let him suffer too much."
"Father even beat Zhang Yuan?" She could hardly believe it. The little eunuch Zhang Yuan and Emperor Tianwu had always gotten along so well that people could not help but suspect that the two were gay. She had never thought that one day Emperor Tianwu would even punish Zhang Yuan, and for Concubine Yuan Shu. She could not help but feel a little angry and resentful. She said, "Concubine Yuan Shu is not only trying to monopolize the harem, but it seems that she has already started to pave the way for her son to succeed to the throne in the future. Just wait and see, there will be large-scale changes in the palace soon, and those who are annoying and troublesome to Concubine Yuan Shu and the Eighth Prince will be eliminated one after another."
"Yes." Xuan Tianming said, "So we must speed up our actions and save as many people as possible before they take action. In addition..." Worry appeared on his face, "Saving others is not the ultimate goal. The ultimate goal is to temporarily control the development speed of Concubine Yuan Shu and Old Eight, so that they will not eliminate almost all the people and then take action against the old man. After all, if Old Eight wants to succeed to the throne, it is definitely impossible for the old man to be alive."
Both of them were aware of this crisis, and not just the two of them, almost everyone knew clearly what the Eighth Prince was going to do next. The "Royalists" and the Ninth Prince's party were now racing against time, engaging in a seesaw battle with the Eighth Prince, trying to delay the coup as much as possible so that they could think of a way to turn the tide during this period of time.
Xuan Tianming said to Feng Yuheng, "We were unable to send grandpa to the palace. The palace has been banned. Except for the courtiers attending the morning court, no one else is allowed to enter the palace privately, including you." He said, "Now even if it's you, I'm afraid it's impossible to enter the palace openly."
"No one protested?" She was puzzled. "What about Tiange? Can Tiange enter the palace? And Feiyu, he came back from Xiaozhou early, can he enter the palace to see his grandfather?"
Xuan Tianming shook his head, "No. It's not that no one has protested, but it's useless. The palace ban was issued by the old man, and on the surface it has nothing to do with the Eighth Old Man. The emperor has spoken, and the court officials below cannot go against him. Besides, it's just that no outsiders are allowed to enter the palace. What can they say to refute it? As for Tiange and Feiyu not being able to enter the palace, these are the royal family's family affairs, and outsiders are not allowed to interfere."
"If this goes on, father's situation will be too dangerous." Feng Yuheng was very worried. "Concubine Yuan Shu always occupies father's place. It's difficult for me to check his pulse. If I can't do it, I can only sit in the hall and listen to their room. When they fall asleep, I will go over." She rolled her eyes when she said this. How can a daughter-in-law sit in the room and listen to her father-in-law's room? "Forget it." She waved her hand. "Let's go to the palace tonight and see. I hope we can find out something."
They had no other options, and Xuan Tianming also placed his hopes on Feng Yuheng's night walks. No matter whether it was Concubine Li or Concubine Yuan Shu, as long as they could find out some clues, it would be better than having no breakthrough at all right now.
Finally, on a dark night with strong winds, a petite figure in black appeared and disappeared, running towards the direction of the palace. However, no one expected what Feng Yuheng saw in the palace that night...
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