Chapter 570 Major Discovery (First Update)
Gu Chengfeng had only ever used a fake voice before, but today was the first time he had ever dressed up as a woman, which was really tough on this straight man.
It took Gu Chengfeng a long time to get the two little ones symmetrical.
"Hmm, not bad."
He was quite satisfied.
Eunuch Wei: So this is what Princess Xinyang is like!
Gu Jiao administered acupuncture to the emperor to alleviate his condition, but the specific effects would depend on further observation.
"Let's go," Gu Jiao said to Gu Chengfeng.
"Hmm." Gu Chengfeng switched to Princess Xinyang's voice in an instant, stood up, bent his knees, and let his gorgeous skirt trail on the ground.
He then gracefully extended his hand, "Little Jade, help this princess."
Gu Jiao didn't even look at the hand and walked past him.
Gu Chengfeng, who was ignored: "..."
Gu Chengfeng forced himself to save face, saying, "Little Yu'er is still so eager to clear the way for this princess. Alright, you can open the door then."
Gu Jiao looked at him with a dark face, "Can you stop acting so dramatic?"
The two left Huaqing Palace.
Gu Chengfeng said, "I'm going to return the key to her. You wait for me outside the Bixia Palace."
Gu Jiao glanced at him and asked, "Is this outfit convenient for you?"
It is indeed a bit inconvenient.
Women's clothes are so complicated, layer upon layer, binding him from head to toe, he can't even move his legs.
Gu Jiao stretched out her hand: "I'll go. You wait for me in the Imperial Garden."
Gu Chengfeng thought for a while. His clothes were really hindering his movement. He handed her the key and said, "Then you should be careful. Eunuch Qin said that a dozen servants came from the border. They said they used to serve Huangfu Xian. Does that little cripple need so many people to serve him? I think there's something fishy going on."
"Understood." Gu Jiao took the keys and turned to go to Bixia Palace.
Gu Jiao had never been to Bixia Palace, but that didn't stop Eunuch Qin from drawing a picture of it for her.
She easily found Princess Ning'an's bedroom. Princess Ning'an's key was originally in her purse. She hadn't opened the purse along the way, so there was no possibility that it had fallen out. In order to avoid being discovered by Princess Ning'an, she had to put it back in its original place.
Gu Jiao was lucky. Princess Ning'an had just taken the purse off and placed it on the dressing table before going to the side room.
Gu Jiao put on gloves, gently opened her purse, and put the key inside.
When Princess Ning'an came out of the side room, Gu Jiao had already jumped out of the window.
Gu Jiao planned to meet up with Gu Chengfeng, but as she passed a house, she heard a suppressed groan coming from inside.
There are patients.
Gu Jiao took a few steps back and peered through the narrow gap in the window frame, where she saw an empty wheelchair.
She had a pretty good idea whose house it was.
There was a royal physician on duty inside the room, but he went to the outhouse.
Gu Jiao flung open the window and leaped inside.
She came to the bedside.
Huangfu Xian's condition was very bad. He was breathing rapidly, his pulse was unstable, and sweat kept seeping from his forehead and body, as if he was enduring great pain.
"Does it hurt somewhere?"
Gu Jiao frowned strangely.
She examined Huangfu Xian's upper body and found no injuries that could cause such intense pain, except for a small, healed abrasion on his palm.
She then gently pulled back Huangfuxian's blanket.
She lifted up Huangfuxian's trouser leg and finally understood the problem.
His bones grew out of his flesh, and bones grow faster than flesh, so many patients who have had limbs amputated in childhood will undergo bone-shaving surgery more than once during their growth.
This surgery is a torment for both the patient's physical and mental health.
His condition has already caused mild inflammation.
He needs to undergo bone-shaping surgery as soon as possible, or at the very least, he needs to treat the wound and stop the inflammation.
Gu Jiao didn't bring a first-aid kit, but she did bring a small emergency medicine kit, about the size of her palm.
She took out disinfectant and gauze, cleaned the inflamed area, and then fed him two anti-inflammatory pills.
Huangfu Xian was in a daze, feeling as if he had fallen into a cold embrace.
He wanted to open his eyes to see, but he didn't even have the strength to lift them.
"Drink it."
He heard someone speaking to him in his ear.
He was a rebellious teenager, and no one could order him around.
Gu Jiao said, "If you don't drink, I'll pull down your pants."
Huangfu Xian: "..."
Huangfu Xian drank the medicine with a wronged expression.
He was in a lot of pain, so Gu Jiao gave him another special painkiller from the research institute.
This painkiller has few side effects and can be taken by children, but Gu Jiao still generally doesn't give it to her children.
But isn't this an emergency?
I can't worry about that now.
Gu Jiao laid him down and pulled the blanket over him. At that moment, the imperial physician returned.
Gu Jiao jumped out of the window.
...
"Why did you take so long? Did something happen?"
In the Imperial Garden, Gu Chengfeng looked at Gu Jiao, who had arrived late, and asked.
Gu Jiao looked around and said, "It's nothing. I just went to see Huangfu Xian."
Gu Chengfeng breathed a sigh of relief: "I thought you went to investigate the strength of those people from the border."
"They're not in Bixia Palace." Gu Jiao didn't sense any experts' presence. Either they had used drugs to suppress their power by destroying their bodies, or they weren't there at all.
Gu Chengfeng asked in bewilderment, "Not in Bixia Palace? Then where did they go?"
Gu Jiao said, "They might have gone to the Imperial Household Department. Didn't Eunuch Qin say that everyone who moves into the palace from outside must register with the Imperial Household Department?"
"Ah, yes, that's right." Gu Chengfeng suddenly realized, then smiled mischievously, "Why did you go to see Huangfu Xian? Did you want to capture him to threaten Ning An?"
Gu Jiao gave him a speechless look.
The next second, she twitched her ears, grabbed Gu Chengfeng, and hid in the bushes behind her.
On a path not far away, Princess Ning'an, accompanied by Lian'er and several men dressed as guards, hurried past, seemingly on their way out of the palace.
Gu Chengfeng asked in a low voice, "I've always had a question: why are men from other families allowed to live in the palace? Huangfu Xian is still young and is the princess's own son, so that's a different story, but what about the guards..."
Gu Jiao said, "The top experts in the imperial palace are all eunuchs, don't you think?"
"So they were eunuchs too?" Gu Chengfeng felt a chill on his little melon.
Gu Jiao nodded: "It should be."
Empress Xiao would not allow eunuchs to enter unless they were eunuchs. Even though Xiao Heng was so favored by his aunt, who even reserved a room for him, he never actually stayed overnight in the palace.
These are palace rules.
“Follow them,” Gu Jiao said.
The two followed at a distance that was neither too close nor too far.
They heard Princess Ning'an get into the carriage bestowed upon her by the emperor as she approached the palace gate.
The guards on duty stopped the carriage.
Princess Ning'an said, "I'm going out of the palace to buy some things. I've already told the Empress. Lian'er."
Lian'er took out a travel token given to her by Kunning Palace.
The guards quickly let them pass.
Princess Xinyang did not need to submit a token to leave the palace, and she did not originally live in the palace.
The guard was a little puzzled. Why did another princess arrive after just seeing one off? Since they were both leaving the palace, why didn't they go together?
Princess Ning'an's carriage stopped in front of a silk shop. Lian'er got off the carriage, and after Princess Ning'an spoke to her for a while, Lian'er went into the silk shop, while Princess Ning'an continued on her way in the carriage.
Four guards and a coachman also accompanied them.
Gu Chengfeng looked out from the carriage, snorted, and said, "As expected, buying things was just a pretext."
He turned his head and found Gu Jiao deep in thought, so he asked, "What are you daydreaming about?"
Gu Jiao said calmly, "Who's spacing out?"
Gu Chengfeng asked, "Then why aren't you saying anything? What are you thinking about?"
Gu Jiao said, "I'm thinking about what happened in the Imperial Study that day."
Gu Chengfeng raised an eyebrow and said, "Didn't Eunuch Qin's letter say that nothing happened? It's just that His Majesty saw Hua Xiyao's confession, and Princess Ning'an tried to commit suicide by hitting her head against a pillar to prove her innocence, but it was all in vain; His Majesty didn't believe her at all. After that, she knocked His Majesty unconscious, and the Dragon Shadow Guards made their move, but she just waved her hand, and the Dragon Shadow Guards fell down. Then she killed Sun Ping, and then stabbed and injured herself, making it look like she was injured while protecting the Emperor."
"This is what Eunuch Wei saw, but perhaps there are some things he didn't see."
As Gu Jiao spoke, she waved her hand, "This is the one that knocked down the Dragon Shadow Guard."
Gu Chengfeng took off his bamboo hat and said, "Did she use some kind of hidden weapon? But what kind of hidden weapon could make a Dragon Shadow Guard fall down so quickly? Was it poisoned?"
Gu Jiao did not speak.
Gu Chengfeng asked, puzzled, "Speaking of which, where did that injured Dragon Shadow Guard go? Eunuch Wei said he escaped, but where could he have escaped to? And aren't the Dragon Shadow Guards supposed to be loyal? Why would they abandon His Majesty and run away?"
Gu Jiao murmured, "Yes, why?"
"Hey, their carriage has stopped!" Gu Chengfeng said.
Gu Jiao lifted the curtain and said to the driver, "Stop for a moment."
Their carriage stopped in an alley about a few dozen steps away, while Princess Ning'an's carriage stopped in front of a gambling den.
When Princess Ning'an alighted from the carriage, she was no longer dressed in her palace attire, but instead wore a black cloak with the hood covering her head.
Gu Chengfeng chuckled and said, "Sneaking around like that, nothing good comes of it."
(End of this chapter)
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