After several days of treatment, Aya is able to speak again, but she can't say much yet. Her voice is hoarse and she can never recover her original voice.
Even so, Aya was very grateful to Su Ruojin.
Dap was overjoyed to see that his sister could speak. "Sister, don't worry, one day I will avenge you."
Aya patted Dapu's head and said, "Don't think too much, just focus on getting better."
She has already placed a curse on Yaolan; all that's left is to wait for the princess to give the order to expedite its activation.
Upon learning that the King of Qin had intended to give Dapu to his subordinates for their pleasure, Aya's eyes flashed with anger. If given the chance, she would not let the King of Qin off the hook.
Before, in Bei Li, because Da Pu was in their hands, she was controlled by them at every turn. Now that Da Pu has escaped, what does a Gu Master like her have to be afraid of?
After meeting with Dapu, Su Ruojin called Aya into her room alone. "Aya, how much do you know about this Gao Hongyuan? Who is more skilled in Gu magic, you or him?"
Aya shook her head. "I don't know him, so I don't know who is better at Gu magic, him or me."
I see!
"Do you possess any Gu techniques similar to the Palace-Devouring Gu?"
"There is a kind of abdominal-splitting Gu. After being infected, a person's abdomen will feel like it is being cut and torn apart by a knife at any time. After seven days of pain, the abdomen will rupture and the person will die."
"If this Gu technique is broken, will it harm you?" Su Ruojin knew that if some Gu techniques were broken, the person who cast the Gu would suffer a backlash.
She couldn't let Aya get hurt because of this.
Aya said, "This kind of Gu doesn't need to have the mother Gu planted in the body of the person who casts the Gu, it's fine."
"Okay, let's give it a try."
Since we don't know who's better, why not give it a try and find out?
Aya did not tell Su Ruojin that the Ripper Gu, like the Palace Devouring Gu, requires the person who raises the Gu to feed it with their heart's blood.
However, the Devouring Palace Gu only requires one year of heart's blood to cultivate, while the Split Abdomen Gu requires three years of heart's blood to cultivate a pair of mother and child Gu. She only has one pair of such Gu worms.
She would do whatever the princess wanted her to do.
With Gao Hongyuan around, Su Ruojin didn't expect this move to kill Yue Ning. Yue Ning couldn't die for the time being, but it would be good to make her feel the pain and taste what Yan Luo had suffered.
She also wanted to use this opportunity to see how well Aya and Gao Hongyuan were skilled in Gu magic, so she could make her next move.
Before Gao Hongyuan could figure out how to deal with Zhao Ruojin, a servant came to report to him.
"Imperial Preceptor, Princess Yuening has suddenly been suffering from severe abdominal pain. The Empress Dowager has dispatched all the imperial physicians from the Imperial Hospital to the princess's residence."
Yuening already had health problems and was still recuperating. Gao Hongyuan thought it was just a relapse of an old illness and didn't pay much attention.
Unexpectedly, the next day, Empress Dowager Wu sent word to Gao Hongyuan to come to the palace immediately.
Upon seeing Gao Hongyuan, Empress Dowager Wu looked anxious. "Cousin, please send Ye Zhao to the Princess's residence to treat Yuening. Yuening has been in pain for a whole day and night, and the imperial physicians have tried all sorts of methods but have been unable to relieve the pain."
"What did the imperial physician say?"
"The imperial physician said that her uterus had been injured before, and this was a recurrence of an old injury. However, neither acupuncture nor medicine could relieve her pain. Some imperial physicians even tried to make Yuening faint to relieve the pain, but she would wake up from the pain."
Gao Hongyuan frowned; he hadn't expected Yuening's illness to be so serious.
But now that he knows Ye Zhao is Zhao Ruojin, and that Yu Ning's current state is very likely her doing, why would he be willing to treat Yu Ning?
Seeing Gao Hongyuan remain silent, Empress Dowager Wu grew anxious and called out again, "Cousin..."
"Rou'er, do you know Ye Zhao's true identity?"
Empress Wu was somewhat puzzled, "Isn't he the disciple of the Sage of Medicine?"
Gao Hongyuan gently shook his head. "No, she is Zhao Ruojin."
Empress Dowager Wu was momentarily stunned. "He is Zhao Ruojin?" she exclaimed. Then, she suddenly raised her voice, "What! Ye Zhao is Zhao Ruojin? That's impossible!"
"She is Zhao Ruojin!" Gao Hongyuan said with certainty.
Empress Dowager Wu knew that Gao Hongyuan would not lie to her, and she also realized what he meant by those words.
"So you suspect that Ye... Zhao Ruojin was behind Yue Ning's condition?"
"Rou'er, you know that the day Yuening had her accident, she was the one who tried to frame Jiang Qi'an and his wife. If Ye Zhao is Zhao Ruojin, then Yuening's condition can be explained."
Empress Dowager Wu slammed her hand heavily on the table. "Zhao Ruojin! How dare a lowly merchant harm my Yue Ning! I will make sure she suffers a terrible death!"
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