"I saw it too! The golden light formed a halo behind her, just like the Guanyin Bodhisattva in the painting."
"This must be a goddess from heaven, with golden light protecting her body, so those evil spirits can't get close to her!"
"A goddess descended to earth? Could it be to save all living beings?"
“…”
In this heated atmosphere, many people spoke without thinking, and their words became more and more exaggerated, until they even began to believe them themselves.
Gu Yanfei's fingers hidden in her sleeves curled up, her scalp tingling at what she said, and she thought: What is this Xiahou doing! Even in the Yaoling Realm, she was ordered by her master to go to the mortal town to do things, and at most she was respectfully called "Fairy".
This guy named Xiahou must be trying to disgust her on purpose!
Chu Yi put his fist to his lips, smiled silently, and his eyes were gentle.
Even if he didn't say anything, Gu Yanfei was sure that he must have heard those exaggerated whispers just now.
Gu Yanfei pursed her red lips and turned her eyes away proudly, feeling a little annoyed and angry in her heart.
The guy named Xiahou is probably hiding somewhere and watching her make a fool of herself.
Thinking of this, Gu Yanfei gritted his teeth secretly and raised his head as if nothing had happened, which made the lines of his chin and neck more beautiful and slender, like a clear breeze and bright moon.
She raised her eyes to look at Chu Yi and asked calmly, "Where is the eldest princess?"
Chu Yi had seen her in all kinds of ways: embarrassed, cunning, confident, decisive, laughing freely... But this was the first time he saw her like this, and his eyes softened a little.
He didn't want to make her angry, and Anle's condition...
Chu Yi's heart sank, his eyes narrowed slightly, he raised his hand and made a silent gesture, a middle-aged eunuch behind him immediately understood, bowed and accepted the order, and hurriedly retreated.
The common people were all eagerly waiting, while the twenty or so yamen runners were sweating profusely, their bodies were wet as if they had been fished out of the water, and their hearts were as cold as ice.
The eldest princess had not arrived yet, but the Jingzhao Yin arrived in a hurry.
Looking back and forth at the emperor on the city wall and Chu Yi, Zhang Min and others below, Jingzhao Yin frowned and waited aside with a serious expression.
He quickly exchanged glances with a figure in the crowd, then stood with his head lowered and his hands hanging down.
Immediately, a eunuch noticed the arrival of Jingzhao Yin and whispered something to the emperor.
The emperor nodded, and out of the corner of his eye he saw a wheelchair being slowly pushed over.
The wooden wheels of the wheelchair made a "clacking" sound as they rolled.
The onlookers looked over, wanting to see what kind of person this legendary princess was.
About seven or eight feet away, a little girl in a purple cloak was sitting in a wheelchair, being slowly pushed over by a white-faced, beardless eunuch.
The little girl, not even ten years old, was thin and weak, with a pale face, distinct black and white pupils, and her cheeks were slightly sunken, as if she would be blown away by a gust of wind.
The palace maid serving beside her carefully supported Anle's shoulders, fearing that she might bump into something.
The people all widened their eyes in shock, staring blankly at Anle in the wheelchair.
In their imagination, the eldest princess would be an arrogant, overbearing girl who was lawless. In order to survive, she was willing to sacrifice her own life and ordered her servants to kidnap children in the capital.
But I didn't expect that the princess was so weak and pitiful, totally different from the arrogant girl in "The Golden Branch"! "Brother," Anle called softly to Chu Yi, still very weak, and his voice was erratic and weak, "Ask father to help them find the child."
"They lost their children, so they must be very anxious, worried and scared."
"Big Brother, please tell Father... not to be angry. If I... get lost, Father will also be... anxious."
Anle's voice was soft and gentle, and intermittent because of her weakness.
Such an innocent little girl is like a flawless piece of white paper, or like a clear spring water, everything is visible at a glance. No one can believe that she could be such a vicious and cruel villain.
Just looking at her, I couldn't help but feel sympathy and pity.
The people who were closer also heard what Anle said, and couldn't help but tell the others behind them, and the news spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred.
There really can’t be any misunderstanding here, right?! Many people couldn’t help but have this thought in their minds, shaking their originally firm beliefs.
Even the scholar Zhang Min was a little uncertain. The eldest princess looked younger and more fragile than his daughter, like a fragile porcelain doll that would break if touched.
Chu Yi gently touched An Le's soft hair and said in a soft voice, "Don't worry, father knows what's going on."
He also knew the situation.
An extremely cold light flashed across Chu Yi's eyes and disappeared in a flash.
When facing Anle, he is always her gentle and reliable elder brother.
Anle looked at Gu Yanfei again and smiled happily: "Sister."
This smile added a faint blush to her pale cheeks, making her face more lively.
Great, she still had time to hand over the white rabbit lantern she and her eldest brother made to her sister personally.
From the moment Anle appeared, Gu Yanfei's eyes fell on Anle's little face like everyone else, but she was observing Anle's complexion.
Looks pale.
The breath is weak.
The forehead is black.
The day before yesterday when she first met Anle on the palace's painted boat, although Anle was a little weak, he was not as weak as he is now, on the verge of death.
Just judging from Anle's expression at the moment, it seemed like she was only holding on to her last breath.
Gu Yanfei could conclude that if left alone, Anle’s life span would probably not exceed twenty hours.
Gu Yanfei narrowed his eyes thoughtfully, his thoughts racing.
As the saying goes, illness comes like a mountain falling.
But in fact, the deterioration of any disease is a process. After all, disease is not a knife that can kill you in one blow.
Therefore, when Gu Yanfei heard the news that the eldest princess was critically ill this morning, he clearly realized one thing -
This is not a disease.
If it's not a disease, what else could it be? Poisoning?
Or maybe…
Gu Yanfei's pupils twitched slightly. He walked to Anle's side in two steps, pinched her right wrist, and just touched it lightly, and his face changed.
Gu Yanfei murmured to himself: "Gu!?"
Her voice was very soft, and only Chu Yi, who was closest to her, heard it.
Chu Yi's expression changed, his eyes darkened, and he lowered his eyes to look at An Le's pale little face.
Gu Yanfei took out his needle bag, took out a silver needle, stared into Anle's dark eyes, and said in a gentle and soothing tone: "Don't be afraid."
Anle smiled obediently: "I'm not afraid."
Anle was weak and sickly. She drank more medicine than water in recent years. From time to time, the imperial physician would give her acupuncture and bloodletting. She had long been accustomed to this.
"It doesn't hurt." Gu Yanfei quickly pricked the tip of Anle's ring finger with a silver needle.
She moved quickly, and before Anle could react, the silver needle had been taken back by Gu Yanfei.
A drop of bright red blood flowed from Anle's fingertips.
To ordinary people, there is nothing wrong with this.
But in Gu Yanfei's opinion, there was something wrong with the drop of blood on the silver needle.
The blood was filled with a thin gray gas that was invisible to the naked eye.
It's a Gu.
Gu is the king of all insects. Put tens of thousands of poisonous insects in a jar and let them devour each other. After a year, the last poisonous insect left is the "Gu".
There are so many types of盅, and different methods can produce different kinds of Gu, such as golden silkworm Gu, unicorn Gu, snake Gu, stone Gu, swelling Gu, and harmful god Gu... There are hundreds of kinds that she knows alone, and there are countless kinds of Gu that she doesn't know about.
Gu is much more troublesome than poison! Gu Yanfei looked at the drop of blood on the needle tip, and his expression became unusually serious.
The air suddenly became heavy, and dark clouds gathered in the sky again, as if a storm was about to come.
The palace gate was becoming more and more crowded. More people heard the news that the emperor had arrived at Chengtian Gate and hurried over to catch a glimpse of his face. Some people left quietly without disturbing anyone.
A young man in gray rode his horse at full speed through the streets and alleys of the capital, heading towards Yu's residence in the south of the city.
Before him, another person left from the right gate of Chang'an half an hour ago and also went to the Yu family.
At this time, the man had already arrived at the outer courtyard hall of the Yu residence and was reporting what had happened at the palace gate to the head of the Yu family.
Outsiders all thought that it was Madam Yu who came to the capital with her niece this time, but no one knew that the head of the Yu family had also come quietly.
Lady Yu, wife of the Duke of Ying, was also in the hall, sitting at the lower end.
The hall was filled with a depressing and solemn atmosphere.
"...The runners from Jingzhao Prefecture failed to stop the scholar named Zhang Min who had already struck the drum to report to the emperor half an hour ago." The middle-aged man standing in the center of the hall maintained a fist-holding posture with his face slightly lowered in respect.
After reporting, the middle-aged man stood there like an ancient pine tree, motionless and no longer speaking.
The room fell into dead silence.
The faces of the Yu brothers and sisters were not looking good, dark clouds gathered on their foreheads, and their hearts sank to the bottom.
The whole thing had gone out of control and went in a different direction, completely beyond their expectations.
Yu tightly grasped the handkerchief in her hand, her face gloomy, and said angrily: "What on earth is Shangqing doing?!"
"How could he let things turn out like this?!"
Her brows were deeply furrowed, her voice became high-pitched, and she could no longer maintain her aristocratic demeanor.
This matter was originally a game in which the life and death of the eldest princess was used as a bargaining chip.
Ever since the eldest princess was dying, Shangqing proposed to the emperor to use the blood of young boys and girls to refine the heart pill. It no longer mattered whether the emperor was willing or not.
With this excuse, they can add fuel to the fire.
As long as someone was killed at the right gate of Chang'an, public indignation would inevitably be aroused, and all the people would believe that the emperor was a cruel and unjust tyrant.
In this way, they could naturally push the people to the opposite side of the emperor, creating a situation where the emperor was unpopular.
By then, King Kang only needs to raise his arm and call for action, and not only the aristocratic families, but even those from humble backgrounds will stand with King Kang to fight against the emperor.
If you lose the support of the people, you lose the world! The emperor's throne will naturally be unstable.
(End of this chapter)
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