When Duke Yang suddenly heard the news about the assassination at the Princess Mansion, he was like a huge thunder blasting over his head. He was so frightened that he couldn't make a sound, and he rushed through the door tremblingly.
Ji Shanjing was waiting outside the mansion. He was afraid that Ran Ran would be even sadder after seeing his father. He wanted to stop him, but seeing that Yang Guogong was so anxious, he had no choice but to let out a long sigh and get out of the way.
Duke Yang rushed into the inner room and saw the imperial doctors and maids from the Princess's Mansion silently surrounding the sickbed. When they saw him coming, they all moved away.
Jimo Ran cried loudly only when he saw his father.
Seeing his daughter's eyes slightly open on the hospital bed, Yang Guogong's body twitched slightly, but without saying anything, he walked over and held his daughter's hand.
Standing aside everyone, they heard Ran Ran crying like a child. Her father held her in his arms and couldn't help comforting her. Lowering his head, he caught a glimpse of the bruises on her wrists.
The imperial doctor did not dare to say more, and only said: "After listening to the pulse, I found that there were not many symptoms of illness in the pulse, but it was so weak. If I was frightened, I had to take the soothing medicine of Qiutong leaves and so on."
Ji Shanjing stood aside and did not dare to say anything, but he knew exactly what was going on. Wei Lang was very powerful in martial arts. He could not only use the barrier to temporarily block the sound in the room, but also sneak in on the princess's big day. Wedding room, it can be seen that his martial arts skills have recovered, but he was not hasty when he escaped, as if he was waiting for Ji Shanjing to meet him.
As if there was a tacit understanding between the men, he suddenly felt bad when he saw Wei Lang's provocative expression.
These days, he has endured the unknown fire in his heart to serve the princess. He neither dares to show his anger, nor is he ashamed to tell the people of Ji's house. He is even more worried about seeing Ji Liyou's mocking look. He has always been unwilling to be in Ji Li's house. Worry is at a disadvantage.
After coaxing Ran Ran to sleep, Yang Guogong slowly walked to the inner courtyard to talk.
Full of doubts and anger, he said: "Where did the thief come from?"
Ji Shanjing's expression changed drastically. He was about to tell Wei Lang's identity, but he was afraid that Ran Ran would plead with Yang Guogong and was reluctant to let him chase Wei Lang.
Jimo Ran had been refusing to reveal the assassin's identity just now, presumably because he couldn't bear to let his father kill Wei Lang. Thinking of this, Ji Shanjing clenched his fists secretly, with bright eyes, and said: "The assassin ran too fast, and no one could see him clearly. His face." His face was solemn and he spoke extremely seriously.
After hearing this, Duke Yang Guo said in Ji Shanjing's ear: "If you don't know today, it's best not to know in the future."
Ji Shanjing looked into Yang Guogong's eyes and immediately understood what he was thinking. Even if he didn't know who the visitor was, Ji Shanjing was not allowed to use this to manipulate Ran Ran.
Seeing this, he could only smile and said, "Yes, Shan Jing understands."
Yang Guogong looked at it and said: "I will investigate this matter to the end. You don't have to interfere. Just take care of the affairs of the princess's house. The Ji family..."
Ji Shanjing's voice was very weak, "I didn't tell my mother."
Ji Shanjing returned to Ji's Mansion ten days later. After greeting his mother, Ji Liyou waited outside for him to come out.
Unexpectedly, when he saw him, he didn't even look at him, let alone exchange greetings.
Ji Liyou stopped him, "How is Princess?"
Ji Shanjing was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, "What does it have to do with you?"
"I'm just worried about her."
"Those who don't know think that you, Erlang of the Ji family, are Princess Tangshuo's consort." He said sarcastically.
"I want to see her. Please inform me that I have never had any friendship with Duke Yang. Now, Duke Yang's people are guarding the princess's residence."
Ji Shanjing asked, "Why should I let you see the princess?"
"Private affairs between you and me have nothing to do with the princess. She is my friend, and it is reasonable for me to care about her."
"This is the first time I've heard you talk about friends. What's funny is that you don't make friends with others, but insist on being friends with Princess Tangshuo of the Jimo family. You're so good at it."
Ji Liyou felt that this person was narrow-minded, "Is this how you talk to your colleagues in the DPRK? Or is it just like this to me?"
"what you think?"
Ji Li smiled angrily, "Seeing that you can still find time to come back and chat with me a few words, it seems that the girl is fine."
"Ji Liang, let me tell you, don't miss the princess, there is no way you can be with her!"
Ji Liyou sighed, "How did you know that I, Princess Xiaoxiang, are not the worm in my belly?"
"Those little ideas of yours won't work with me at all. It's best to put them all away, otherwise I won't mind killing you again."
The two broke up unhappy.
The people in Ji Liyou's room were equally unhappy.
"Are you looking for Ji Shanjing?"
"Aren't you following me today? Why bother asking?" Ji Li said worriedly.
"I told you to stay out of Jimo Ran's affairs, why are you still interfering?"
"Don't be so petty, Wei Lang and Ran Ran. The two of them shouldn't have reached this stage. If it weren't for their own difficulties behind them, we could still be as harmonious as they were on the grassland. It's a pity that Anmuda is gone, otherwise they would There is still time for the two of them to relax." Ji Liyou felt a little sad when he mentioned An Muda, thinking of her raised head and disdainful eyes, such a beautiful prairie woman, so beautiful and miserable.
"I don't allow you to interfere with their affairs anymore. Now that Jimo Ran and Ji Shanjing have completed their wedding, we will return to Bolu immediately." The storyteller's tone was full of orders.
But he forgot that Ji Liyou was no longer the child who only listened to his orders.
Just listen to Ji Liyou say slowly: "A long time ago, there was a general who repeatedly performed meritorious service for the country. The imperial court relied on him as a pillar, and the emperor regarded him as his brother. The general was powerful enough to defeat thousands of people, and his martial arts skills were unparalleled, but he was afraid of his wife. !”
The storyteller asked, "Are you afraid?"
He heard Ji Liyou continue: "The general is about fifty years old and has no children. The emperor persuaded him to have a concubine, but he was afraid of his wife and did not dare to even think about it."
The storyteller interjected: "Whether you are afraid of your wife or not, and whether you have children, in my opinion you should not have a concubine."
Ji Liyou smiled and said, "I'm going to tell you a story. Don't interrupt me. This story has a lot to do with you."
He continued: "One day, the emperor called the general's wife into the palace, put a glass of wine in front of her, and told her that it was a glass of poisoned wine. After eating it, within twelve hours, she would bleed to death from all her orifices. , there is no cure in the world! If she allows her husband to have a concubine, the emperor will give him a maid. If she does not allow her husband to have a concubine, the emperor will give her a cup of poisonous wine to kill herself. The general's wife laughed She said, I would rather die than let my husband take a concubine! I raised my glass and drank it all. After returning home, I was very sad thinking about such a wasted death. So while waiting for death, I asked my husband to take care of her and recite sutras for her. Little did she know that after twelve o'clock, , nothing happened. The next day when the general went to court, the emperor laughed and said that I couldn't do anything about your wife. I had to let go of the concubine. The general was worried and asked about the poisoned wine. The emperor replied that she had eaten It's not poisonous wine, it's just a cup of vinegar!"
Ji Liyou laughed loudly after finishing speaking.
The storyteller suddenly sat up and said, "Who is jealous? How dare you make fun of me!"
Ji Liyou laughed and dodged his fist and said, "I didn't dare to be sure before, but now I know that you are indeed jealous, and you even ate a jar of it."
The storyteller laughed with him for a while.
After a while, he sat down and said with a smile: "Actually, fearing fate is human nature. Not fearing the dead is because of righteousness, so I am willing to sacrifice my life. The fate of life and death, and the fate of marriage, have been determined long ago."
Ji Liyou asked, "While we are talking, why are we talking about destiny again?"
The storyteller raised his head and said, "When I still had supernatural powers, I spied on your marriage."
Ji Liyou called him naive and ignorant, "Everyone says marriage is destined, but now that I have met you, there will be no other marriage."
"If I told you that you and I were not destined to be married, it was all my fault, would you believe it?"
Ji Li said worriedly, "So what, since we are together, we won't ask about the past."
"Jimo Ran is your destiny."
Ji Liyou was surprised, "How could that happen?"
"I secretly changed her fate. She was destined to be extremely wealthy, but short-lived. She was supposed to get sick and die after marrying you at the age of seventeen. But after changing her fate, she is now over seventeen, but she is still safe. I It’s impossible to calculate her fate.”
Ji Liyou said, "If marrying me will make her die short-lived, then you have done a good thing by changing her attitude like this."
"Is it really a good thing?"
"It's a good thing to live longer."
"She was supposed to die peacefully in her husband's arms, but I changed her fate due to my selfishness. I don't know whether she will be good or bad in the future. I just hope that your marriage to her will no longer be entangled."
Ji Liyou sighed, "I don't believe in destiny, so don't think too much about it. Ranran and I are only friends, nothing more."
Although Jimo Ran claimed to be fine, he had been restless in sleeping and eating these past few days and his body was still weak. Ji Shanjing used calming medicine to help her sleep peacefully. After half a month, she was back to normal.
After Ji Shanjing left Liangzhu for dozens of miles, he went to the mountain pass to the east to look around. At the foot of the mountain, he saw three or five horses galloping by from time to time. It looked like they were on official business.
Looking carefully, people from the Princess's Mansion and Duke Yang's Mansion were chasing after him.
After a long time, the business was over, and Ji Shanjing was about to continue on his way, when he suddenly saw several more horses flying towards him. When he saw clearly, the one riding in front turned out to be a woman, with a white horse and white clothes, very delicate.
The woman's riding skills were very good, but the three people behind her were also not weak. After chasing them down the mountain, the girl jumped into the valley on horseback. The horse suddenly neighed miserably and bent its hooves to the ground. The woman in red turned over and jumped off the horse. , chasing troops towards the mouth of the valley and beating them indiscriminately.
The three tolerance officers also jumped off their horses, drew their weapons, and in an instant, they surrounded the woman.
The girl took care of this man within a moment, looked at the hills above her head and shouted, "Wei Lang, where are you?"
He laughed out loud, it was this girl again, her kung fu seemed to be slower than before.
Wei Lang walked out and said, "Why are you here? Didn't you go back?"
"I don't trust you. Are you going to lose Wei now?"
"Yes, I want to go to Lose Wei to see him, and then go to Donghu to kill people."
"You didn't let me kill King Donghu, so I really didn't kill him. How about that? That's very loyal, right?"
"Have you been looking for me in Liangzhu?" Ji Liyou asked.
"Yes, I couldn't use magic to find you, so I kept walking and walking. Later, I followed the people from the princess's mansion and chased you out of Liangzhu City. What, you killed Princess Jimo?"
"No." He said coldly.
"Why don't you kill her because you found out that the drawings and Anmuda have nothing to do with her?"
"No, she is not innocent, but I can't kill her. I promised Anmuda."
"Anmuda is very important to you?"
"She is the person closest to me in this world besides my master."
"Then can I call Anmuda?"
Wei Lang frowned, "What are you talking about?"
"Isn't she already dead? Why can't I use her name?"
Wei Lang didn't know what she was thinking about in her mind every day, "People's names are very special. Anmuda is Anmuda, please change your name."
"No, you said she is important, I want to have her name."
"Absolutely not." Wei Lang refused.
"Why? Doesn't she no longer use this name?"
"It just doesn't work."
The two of them snatched the official's horse and were about to leave together for Donghu. The woman in white seemed to suddenly remember something and said, "I forgot my things in Liangzhu. I have to go back and get them."
"Is it something important?"
"Yes, it's a magic weapon. I carried it with me. I've been looking for you these past few days, so I forgot to bring it with me."
"I'll go back with you to get it."
She said no, "When you pass by Li'er, stop at Li'er Bin City and wait for me. I will catch up soon."
The two then separated and left.
Unexpectedly, just when Jimo Ran was gradually getting better and could take a morning walk, one morning, he suddenly vomited black blood, turned pale, and the spurted blood flowed all over his body.
Ji Shanjing held her hand and felt that her body was getting colder.
Duke Yang invited the imperial doctors from the palace. Five or six imperial doctors treated the princess overnight, but they still could not stop the princess from vomiting blood, which almost killed Jimo Ran.
The next morning, several imperial doctors came to the conclusion that the princess had been poisoned, and it was a snake venom from the Bohai Sea.
No one can prepare an antidote for this snake venom.
Jimo Ran is like a dying flower. It is clearly in bud but has lost all its vitality in the blink of an eye.
It was three days after the news reached Ji Liyou's ears. He was palpitating. After thinking for a moment, he thought of the girl in white on Snake Island, which happened to be located at the junction of the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea.
How could there be such a coincidence
Regardless of whether Ji Shanjing welcomes him to go, he is ready to visit the princess mansion.
The storyteller agreed not to go, but followed him closely after he left the door. Ji Liyou smiled slightly, "Don't you want to come out?"
"If you are no longer in the mansion, why should I stay there?"
The two took a carriage and horse and soon arrived outside the princess's mansion.
"Please pass the news that Erlang of the Ji family wants to see Princess Tangshuo."
After a while, someone came to say that Duke Yang had ordered not to welcome foreigners.
Ji Li said worriedly, "Tell Duke Yang that I have a way to cure the princess' poison."
The storyteller asked, “Can you detoxify snake venom?”
Ji Liyou turned around and whispered, "I can't, but you can."
"you-"
"Sir, stop making trouble, I know you must have a way to save Ran Ran."
"I have no choice, don't trust me blindly."
"Sir, I beg you." Ji Liyou stared at him.
"It's not impossible for me to save her. After saving her, we have to leave here and go back to Bolu."
"But… "
"No but, deal?"
"Sir, I... Okay, after you save her, we will leave here as soon as possible."
“Not as soon as possible, immediately.”
"Okay - immediately." Seeing him acting like a child, he was helpless.
Yang Guogong knew Ji Liyou, but he was not familiar with him. Knowing that he could save Jimo Ran, he ignored many rules.
The storyteller took his pulse and said, "The poison has penetrated into the heart. Even if it is detoxified at this time, it will damage the root."
Yang Guogong respected Mr. Wen who was calm and self-reliant. He was young, but his eyes were sharp, as if he could see through the world.
"Sir, please speak frankly."
"You only have ten years of life at most."
After Ji Shanjing heard this, he stepped forward and grabbed the storyteller's collar, "You charlatan, you are talking nonsense!"
Ji Liyou hurriedly pushed him away, "Let go!"
Jimo Ran woke up vaguely, as if having a flashback, "Brother Liyou..." she called him in a low voice.
Ji Liyou felt heartbroken when he saw her like this. He slowly squatted beside the bed and said, "I'm here, Ran Ran, just tell me."
The storyteller asked again, "Ten years, do you want it?"
Yang Guogong's eyes were red, and he turned his back and said, "Okay..."
He handed a bottle of medicine to Ji Liyou and asked him to feed it to Ran Ran.
Ranran drank the medicine and unexpectedly vomited more blood.
Ji Shanjing's sword was immediately placed on the storyteller's neck.
The storyteller frowned, "I said I would save her, so naturally I won't break my promise."
Ji Liyou helped Ran Ran up and let her lean on his shoulder, "Don't be afraid, you will get better."
"Sir, why is she still vomiting blood?" Ji Liyou asked him.
"Just spit it out a few times." The storyteller said calmly.
Sure enough, after vomiting blood, Jimo Ran's face slowly turned rosy.
Seeing that she had something to say, Ji Liyou slowly put his ear towards her.
She said, "It just so happens that he hates me so much and I am so disappointed in him."
(End of chapter)