Chapter 907 The Truth About Time Travel (First Update)
Liao Chen was really worried. He thought that becoming a monk would stop him from being pressured to get married. He was so naive.
Gu Jiao stood to the side, a look of schadenfreude on her face.
Liao Chen chuckled and said, "Why didn't I urge you?" Don't think he didn't know that her marriage to Xiao Heng was just a sham.
Gu Jiao shook her head: "I'm engaged!" This time it's for real!
Liao Chen was hit in the knee by an arrow.
He clenched his fists secretly, planning to urge Shangguan Qing to marry him once he returned to Zhao Kingdom!
There's also a small clearing!
What's wrong with being six years old?
Start pressuring children to get married from a young age!
...
After leaving the mansion, Shangguan Yan sent a eunuch to convey her imperial edict, ordering the Ministry of Works to come and repair the Xuanyuan family mansion. This way, when Xuanyuan Qi and Liao Chen returned from visiting Jingkong, they could move into the renovated mansion.
As she boarded the carriage, Shangguan Yan looked at Gu Jiao and asked, "Jiaojiao, would you like to come to the palace with me later?"
Duke Anguo: "Jiaojiao wants to come back to the manor with me."
Shangguan Yan: She is my daughter-in-law.
Duke Anguo: She is my daughter. Besides, we are not married, so she is not my daughter-in-law!
Liao Chen, leading his horse, looked at Duke Anguo and then at Shangguan Yan, thinking to himself, "Are you trying to kidnap someone in the street?"
The two of them immediately looked at Gu Jiao, waiting for her to make a decision.
Gu Jiao blinked: "Well, I have to go to the Imperial Preceptor's Hall later, there's something I need to take care of."
The two who were treated fairly had no objections. Shangguan Yan boarded the carriage to return to the palace, and Duke Anguo also boarded the carriage to return to his residence.
Gu Jiao mounted her horse, bid farewell to Xuan Yuanqi and Liao Chen, and rode away into the boundless night.
Liao Chen watched her departing figure and said strangely, "This girl's connection with the Xuanyuan family is truly bizarre."
Just how bizarre it was, he himself finds hard to believe when he thinks back on it.
The husband she casually picked up was the grandson of Empress Xuanyuan, the little monk she adopted on the mountain was the last bloodline of the God of War Xuanyuan, and even the red-tasseled spear she obtained by chance was a divine weapon of the Xuanyuan family.
She was also adopted as a son by the Duke of Anguo. She was disguised as a man, so she should actually be considered an adopted daughter.
Her connection with the Xuanyuan family seemed to have been preordained long ago; they were deeply bound together. He even had the illusion that no matter how the wheel of fate turned, she would inevitably come to the Xuanyuan family.
“It’s about returning to the Xuanyuan family,” Xuanyuan Qi corrected him.
"What?" Liao Chen was taken aback, not quite understanding what his father meant.
Xuanyuan Qi stared intently at the small figure disappearing into the night, but did not answer.
...
Gu Jiao went to the Imperial Preceptor's Hall. She was a favorite of the Imperial Preceptor, and everyone in the hall knew that this new commander of the Black Wind Cavalry was deeply favored by the Imperial Preceptor. She could come and go freely in the Purple Bamboo Forest, and her status was comparable to their senior brother.
Tonight, Yu He is on duty in the purple bamboo forest.
He was surprised to see Gu Jiao arrive: "Liu Lang, what brings you here at this hour?"
"Has your master gone to bed?" Gu Jiao asked. It was a bit late. She had only come to try her luck. If the Imperial Preceptor was asleep, she would come again tomorrow.
Yu He shook his head: "No, Master has been sleeping very late lately." He paused and said softly, "I feel that Master's condition has not been good lately. His body is deteriorating quite quickly. I suspect that he has been forcibly performing divination again."
Divination and revealing heavenly secrets come at a price.
The divination I performed for the Great Yan Dynasty made my master age ten years. Now, I wonder who he's divinationing for, and it seems even more powerful than the last time.
Gu Jiao thought for a moment and said, "I understand."
She tossed the reins to Yu He: "Boss hasn't eaten yet, thank you for your trouble."
"Okay." Yu He took the reins and went to feed the horse.
Gu Jiao came carrying a small basket on her back; she brought some things for the Grand Preceptor to review.
The Imperial Advisor knelt on a cushion in the main room, with an unfinished chessboard in front of him.
"Imperial Advisor!" Gu Jiao greeted him and sat down opposite him.
The curtain at the entrance was rolled up, and the back door was wide open, letting in a gentle breeze that brought a slight chill.
"You've arrived," the Imperial Advisor said.
"I want to show you something." Gu Jiao put down her small basket and took out a brocade box from it. Inside were several dried gromwell flowers and two dried gromwell plants. "We're out of fruit. We sent them all to Shangguan Qing."
She had originally kept some for research, but later a letter came from Zhao Kingdom saying that the purple gromwell fruit was useful, but required long-term use, so she sent the remaining half bottle of fruit back to Zhao Kingdom.
The Imperial Advisor's gaze fell on the dried plants, and he exclaimed in surprise, "These flowers are...?"
Gu Jiao said, "Gromwell flower, I didn't expect gromwell to bloom, right? I didn't know that either. It was only after Shangguan Qing's father went to Dark Night Island that he discovered that gromwell could not only bloom but also bear fruit. Its fruit can cure gromwell poison and also cure the strange poison in Shangguan Qing's body. As for how many other poisons it can cure, I don't know, I haven't tested it."
The Imperial Advisor suddenly realized, "So that's how it is."
Gu Jiao's knowledge of purple gromwell came entirely from the notes of Marquis Xuanping. It was truly remarkable that he, who was illiterate before, could now write so much.
She continued, "The roots and stems of the gromwell are the most toxic, followed by the flowers. Gromwell is an extremely resilient plant that can grow almost anywhere, but it can only flower and bear fruit in extremely cold places."
The Imperial Advisor asked, "Was the purple herb found on Dark Night Island?"
Gu Jiao nodded: "That's right, it's the island where the Dark Night Sect is located. There are many of them inside the Dark Night Sect, covering the entire hillside! According to the young sect leader of the Dark Night Sect, the purple grass is originally from Dark Night Island, and the purple grass in the six kingdoms was all stolen from the island. It's just a pity that the purple grass they stole couldn't bear fruit and all turned into poison."
"This is a major discovery." The Grand Preceptor picked up a dried purple gromwell flower and examined it carefully.
"Did you do another divination?" Gu Jiao asked, looking at his face, which looked more than ten years older.
"I only used it a little bit, it's nothing." He didn't want to talk about it further and returned to the topic of purple gromwell, "I also made a discovery here."
"Oh?" Gu Jiao tilted her head and looked at him.
The Grand Preceptor put the dried purple gromwell flower back into the box and said solemnly, "Yinyin's mother was poisoned when she was pregnant. I suspect that she was poisoned by purple gromwell, but the poison was absorbed by the fetus in her womb, so it looks like that the poison was neutralized."
"Why do you say it's suspicion?" Gu Jiao asked.
The Grand Preceptor sighed, "I didn't think of this aspect at the time. The poison of Lithospermum is quite different from other poisons. Its symptoms are very complex and full of changes, and it is also difficult to diagnose based on pulse alone."
Gu Jiao asked, "Why do you now think it's purple gromwell poison?"
The Grand Preceptor said, "These past few days, I've heard some stories about Yin Yin's childhood from Duke Anguo. Combined with my research on the purple grass poison, I've come to this conclusion. Yin Yin absorbed the purple grass poison from Xuan Yuanzi's body and has been fighting against the poison since birth. That's why her body was very weak for the first two years. After the purple grass poison had fused with her for eight or nine tenths of her life, she developed a talent for martial arts. Even Mu Qingchen, who is three years older than her and has practiced martial arts since childhood, can't beat her."
"Furthermore, I have another suspicion: your body was once poisoned by purple gromwell."
"Me?" Gu Jiao looked down at herself.
The Grand Preceptor said, "The second Lord of Shadows learned about the Purple Grass in Zhao Kingdom before setting off there. I don't know why they wanted the Purple Grass. I only know that the Purple Grass appeared near Qingquan Village, where you were born. Xuanyuan Zheng lived in seclusion there for many years and never found the Purple Grass. Was the information wrong, or was the Purple Grass eaten?"
He uttered a question, but his tone clearly leaned more towards the latter guess.
Gu Jiao also felt that the latter was more likely. She had no evidence, only a gut feeling: "Then... did the Lady Hou eat it, or did the original owner of this body eat it?"
The Grand Preceptor shook his head: "That's impossible to know, but whoever ate it, I think it must have been by mistake."
Gu Jiao asked, "Where is Xuan Yuan Zi? And why was she poisoned by the purple gromwell? Was it also by accident?"
The Grand Preceptor shook his head again: "It was the Han family who poisoned her. Purple Grass Poison is not a medicine; on the contrary, it is an incurable poison. Very few people can survive it, let alone Xuan Yuan Zi, who is just a pregnant woman. The Han family's original intention was to kill her and her unborn child in order to strike at Xuan Yuan Li."
Gu Jiao continued, "...But unexpectedly, my attempt to steal a chicken backfired, and I ended up transmigrating into Jing Yinyin's body. How strange, why are both Gu Jiao and Jing Yinyin poisoned by purple gromwell? Could my transmigration be related to the purple gromwell poison?"
The Grand Preceptor looked at the purple gromwell flower in the box: "What we see is the form of purple gromwell, but perhaps the inside of the purple gromwell contains dark matter that we cannot see. Perhaps it is this dark matter that brought you here from another time and space."
Gu Jiao frowned slightly: "Does this happen to other people too?"
The Grand Preceptor said, "To my knowledge, no."
Gu Jiao fell into deep thought.
Suddenly, she remembered something and quickly took the small medicine box out of her basket.
"What are you going to do?" the Grand Preceptor asked, looking at her.
Gu Jiao opened the small medicine box: "No outside things can be put in this box. If you do, they will disappear into another dimension."
The Grand Preceptor roughly understood what she was going to do, and he did not stop her, because he was also eager to know the outcome.
Gu Jiao picked up a dried purple gromwell flower and gently placed it inside, then she clicked the lid shut.
She waited quietly for a while before opening the lid of the box.
Their gazes fell on the small medicine box, and their expressions changed simultaneously.
Some readers have questioned Master Qingfeng's gender. Well, Master Qingfeng is a genuine man.
(End of this chapter)
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