Gu Yuqi stayed motionless for a long time, until it was approaching the morning when she suddenly stood up, lit the oil lamp in the room, and looked at herself in the mirror.
Fingers brushed the lips that had been ravaged by Yun Ke. His faint blood still remained at the corners of his lips, which made Gu Yuqi want to vomit, but couldn't, and that feeling made her pale even more. The hair has become very messy between the two people's tugging, Gu Yuqi subconsciously picked up the comb on the table and combed her knotted long hair for herself.
Scenes from previous lives. It played back in my mind again. In a trance, she seemed to have returned to the Wuchen Palace. The so-called Wuchen Palace is the cold palace where she was imprisoned. There was almost nothing in the palace except for a bed and a small bronze mirror that she brought with her. Winter is very cold, she and Yanzhi only have a thin quilt, the tires are hardened, and they can't resist the winter cold in Beijing. They will wear all the clothes they can wear, cuddle together, wrapped Quilt, even if it is like this, it is still too cold to sleep.
Yanzhi is not like her, she has more or less learned some martial arts, her body is thin, and she can't stop coughing in winter. But in order not to disturb her, she kept holding back. Their daily meals are just some cold things, sometimes they have it, sometimes they don't. At that time, in order to make Rouge's life a little better, she could only set up traps in the yard by herself and catch birds. She even stole the fish in the pond of Wuchen Palace. Without charcoal, she could only secretly demolish other palaces. Burn the windows inside the house. At that time, she tried every means to make Yan Zhi's body a little better, so that she would not be lonely, and she also tried her best to keep herself as busy as possible, so that she would temporarily forget about Yun Ke.
Once she was caught stealing fish by an eunuch in charge, and reported to Zhang Wanyi. Zhang Wanyi came, and as a noble concubine, she appeared in front of her with all manners. Her appearance is still beautiful, her figure is still slender and graceful, but what about her? His face was sallow and thin, and his pitch-black hair became dull. Zhang Wanyi was wearing a long skirt made of high-quality lake silk, embroidered with gorgeous and luxurious peonies with gold and silver silk threads.
Standing in front of her, she looked down on a lowly mortal girl like a mysterious girl from the Nine Heavens, which made her want to laugh suddenly. Zhang Wanyi is really not suitable for such a dress, beauty is beautiful, but it is a bit more exaggerated, and it lacks a bit of her own beauty like a clear water lotus.
But she is a noble concubine, and she is just a talented person who has been punished for a crime.
Zhang Wanyi wanted to punish her according to the palace rules, and it was Yanzhi who stepped forward and angrily reprimanded the palace people for their neglect of her. This silly girl defended her wholeheartedly, but she didn't know that Zhang Wanyi ordered all of this.
Zhang Wanyi wanted to torture her, let the hard life wear away her beauty, her talent, and everything about her.
Yanzhi was slapped 20 times for contradicting Zhang Wanyi. The eunuch in charge of Zhang Wanyi's palace really slapped that cruel hand, knocking out Yanzhi's two front teeth, her face was covered in blood, and her cheeks were completely deformed.
At that time, she was angry, and while the guards guarding her were not paying attention, she kicked Zhang Wanyi in the stomach, and then flew onto her body, hitting Zhang Wanyi with her fist like raindrops. She knocked off Zhang Wanyi's phoenix hairpin, tore Zhang Wanyi's skirt, and even wanted to scratch Zhang Wanyi's face like a shrew. hold on.
She looked back, and what she saw was Yun Ke's ruthless and cold eyes like ice and snow, his eyes were full of anger.
"Thanks to Wanyi still begging for you in front of me, saying that you are not doing well here, I beg you to come and see you, is this how you treat a person who sympathizes with you? Do you still have the heart!" The cold voice Words overflowed from Yun Ke's lips one by one, and he pushed her hard, pushing her to the ground.
She panicked for a moment at that time, and then suddenly realized that she had fallen into Zhang Wanyi's scheme again.
Zhang Wanyi provoked her on purpose. She knew that Rouge was her weakness. She had sent someone to invite Yun Ke in advance. The scene just now was just to provoke her deliberately and make her go crazy. According to Zhang Wanyi's personality, how could the guards guarding her be so careless? Besides, she punched Zhang Wanyi so many times just now, and there were so many palace maids, eunuchs and guards present, how could no one come to stop her
They all colluded in advance and waited for Yun Ke to see this scene for a long time.
Gu Yuqi was in a hurry, she knelt and crawled over to hug Yun Ke's leg, "Your Majesty, it's not what you saw..." Unfortunately, before she finished speaking, Yun Ke kicked her away, and she was kicked to the ground , watching in amazement that he helped Zhang Wanyi up like protecting a treasure, and personally tidied her hair and skirt, and asked her gently, where did she hurt...
At that time, Gu Yuqi felt that she was really stupid.
It was at that time that Gu Yuqi completely gave up on Yun Ke.
Why doesn't he listen to his own explanation... why? Could it be that everything Zhang Wanyi did was right and she was wrong? She was so stupid, she thought that the time-traveling girl was like a golden finger, that she had the beauty and the advantage of being a time-traveler, so she could completely occupy that man's heart. But that woman's machinations.
Her wholehearted dedication was not worth the woman's slight frown and soft cry of pain.
The comb pulled her hair, and there was a burst of tearing pain, which pulled Gu Yuqi's thoughts back instantly. She looked at the bronze mirror blankly, and the person in the mirror was already in tears.
Gu Yuqi wiped away her tears in a hurry, took a deep breath, and bent the corner of her mouth at herself in the mirror, trying to force a smile, but found that laughing can actually be uglier than crying.
His eyes were swollen, his lips were swollen, and his face was frighteningly pale. Now that she looks like she can't see anyone during the day, if she goes out like this and her mother sees her, she will definitely worry and ask questions, she doesn't want Liang Huaiyu to know what happened between her and Yun Ke.
Instead of doing nothing, Gu Yuqi slipped out of the room before dawn, picked up a bucket of water, gritted her teeth, poured it from head to toe, and then walked back and forth on the ground barefoot several times, feeling When it was cold from inside to outside, she slipped back to her room while no one was around.
Quickly changing out of her wet clothes, she wiped her long hair with a dry cloth before lying down on the bed.
Gu Yuqi thought that her current physique would make it difficult to get sick. After all, it has been four years since she was ten years old, and she was so healthy that she never got sick once.
Fortunately, she was tossing so hard, when the sky was slightly bright, she felt a little sick, and the cold was blowing out of her bones, but the temperature on her skin was constantly rising. She tossed herself to heat up.
When Yanzhi came in in the morning, what she saw was Gu Yuqi who was shivering wrapped in a quilt.
She turned pale with fright, and hurriedly called Liang Huaiyu. Gu Yuqi's pitiful look frightened Liang Huaiyu to death again. She promised that there is a prescription to cure the plague, but the wound does not hurt on others, but when it is her daughter's turn to fall ill, a mother is not worried.
Gu Yuqi's various comforts and explanations made Liang Huaiyu believe that she just had a cold and fever. Liang Huaiyu comforted her, but she was scared to death in her heart.
Liang Huaiyu was still worried and called Chun Xing through the door and asked her to invite the doctor over, but the doctors in the city were already busy with their heels, and they waited for a long time to invite a doctor, one was the isolation area, the doctor He refused to go in again, and the doctor was also afraid of death.
After tossing like this for a long time, the doctor looked at Gu Yuqi through the door, and then he was sure that Gu Yuqi was just suffering from the cold, and Liang Huaiyu was completely relieved now.
Gu Yuqi fell asleep after taking the medicine. She was sick. Naturally, there is no need to wait on Yun Ke, that's fine, Gu Yuqi didn't know how to face Yun Ke at first, but in this embarrassing time, seeing each other is better than seeing each other.
Hearing that Gu Yuqi was ill, Yun Ke frowned. She was still alive and kicking last night, so she just got sick. He really wanted to take a look, but due to his identity, he still held back. He guessed that the woman was pretending to be sick to get rid of him, and this knowledge made him very unhappy.
Gu Yuqi was sick intermittently for six days, and she lost a lot of weight. It wasn't that the doctor's medicine was useless, but that Gu Yuqi didn't want to get better so soon.
The situation outside is going on like in the last life. In six days, many people died in Jiangxia City. Refugees started rioting, smashed up shops, and robbed food and medicinal materials. Catch the rioting refugees. The normally prosperous Jiangxia City has become a mess. There are still many refugees fleeing from other places, and the city gate has to be closed again. Even Yunqing feels a little overwhelmed.
The situation in the capital city is not much better. The normally luxurious and arrogant nobles are now panicking all day long. The price of food is soaring like a blow. Unfortunately, there are still many shops that are pressing down on food and refuse to sell more. They only hope that the price will rise again. If they increase their prices, they can earn more money. Compared with their greed, two shops and a medicine shop under Gu Yuqi's name are very prominent. Although they have also raised prices, they are already higher than other shops. The price is much lower, and the supply is sufficient. As long as someone buys it, they never say that the goods will not be sold, so their reputation is increasing day by day.
Because the actions of Gu Yuqi's store also stabilized the price of goods in the capital to a certain extent, this also got the attention of the court. After all, in the face of disaster, it is considered a conscientious merchant to be able to do this.
Prince Yunxuan has been criticized by Emperor Jing because of the plague and floods everywhere, and the soaring rice price in the capital has made some honorable families a little bit too much. Logically speaking, their families have fields, but this year the plague is rampant. Floods flooded, the gates of the city were closed, and the things in the various farms could not be transported out. First, they were afraid of being robbed, and second, they could not enter the city when they arrived in the capital, so some of them had to spend real money to buy food. Those damn merchants still have rare goods to live in, and their stockpiles of food are waiting to increase, which makes them complain a lot, and even complain to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, blaming him for his poor supervision. In order to restore some of his reputation, Yunxuan had no choice but to condescend and summon several big rice merchants in the capital, and asked them to open warehouses to sell grain.
The rice merchants saw an opportunity to take advantage of it, and put forward various demands one after another. Yun Xuan could only listen to them one by one with a dark face. Compared with these profiteers, those shopkeepers who did not make demands on His Royal Highness, but promised to fully support His Royal Highness, were appreciated by the Crown Prince. Those shopkeepers all belonged to Gu Yuqi's shop. In other words, Gu Yuqi's shop has successfully caught the eyes of the prince.
Yunyi was very happy to see Yunxuan, who was in such a state of distress, and he was not idle, trying to find the prescription, because he knew that at this time, whoever could come up with a prescription to cure the plague would be a miracle. pieces. He invited the name of the capital to the palace, and studied it day and night.
The news that Yun Ke was infected with the plague spread back to the capital, and Yun Yi could only look up at the sky and let out a long sigh. This man might not survive. Unfortunately, he has been cultivating Yun Ke for so many years, and now he can be regarded as entering the Ministry of War. Just waiting for him to make meritorious service in disaster relief, Yun Yi asked Concubine De to give Emperor Jing another blow and mention his position.
Concubine De is a virtuous and virtuous concubine, so naturally she can't fight for her son in front of Emperor Jing, but it's different if she fights for Yun Ke. Yun Ke's mother is dead, and she was raised by her. Yun Ke treated her own son better, and even Emperor Jing praised her for her actions.
So once Yun Ke's disaster relief mission was successfully completed, Concubine De would have an excuse to mention Yun Ke in front of Emperor Jing.
It's a pity that Yun Ke is now trapped in Jiangxia City, and even Defei feels very unlucky. After many years of management, he has put so much effort on Yun Ke, and it seems that it is going to be in vain. . So she has already set her sights on Zhang Wanyi.
Zhang Wanyi is the prime minister's daughter, and the prime minister has no right to say that she can stand against His Royal Highness the crown prince. Yun Ke's line was broken, if Yun Yi could marry Zhang Wanyi, it would be tantamount to capturing Prime Minister Zhang.
All kinds of things in the capital are going on silently as in the previous life, but Gu Yuqi is missing, something is missing, but the big trend is still advancing as usual.
On the outskirts of the north of Jiangxia City, corpses are burned every day. Those are people who died of the disease. Every evening, the smell of burnt corpses will blow into Jiangxia City with the night wind, covering the city even more. A breath of death.
Zhang Wanyi really failed to come up with a prescription in this life.
A few days later, Yun Ke stood at the window looking at the thick smoke rising from the north of the city, his heart surged like the water of the Hengjiang River outside. In the last life, it was really Gu Yuqi who kept looking for a prescription to save her without sleep! The dark guard found the ancient book according to what Gu Yuqi said, and the content recorded on it was exactly the same as what Gu Yuqi said. Zhuang Gan carried it wildly.
She really didn't lie to herself, but she was self-willed in her previous life and had already sentenced Gu Yuqi to death, so she took all her words as unreasonable trouble.
His hand suddenly pressed against the window edge, and his fingers were deeply pressed on the wood of the window edge, his knuckles turned white from the force.
He was really wrong. For so many years, what he had always believed in had completely collapsed.
It turned out that in the previous life, Gu Yuqi not only said she loved him, but also did so. It's just that he was blinded by too many things, and he didn't realize that the people who really cared about him and loved him were by his side.
The heart couldn't help but ache, and the resolute and tragic gaze before her death appeared in front of his eyes. How much resentment, how much hatred, how much unwillingness was contained in it could be gathered into such a gaze. So in this life, she will hide from herself, be afraid of herself, and even want to leave herself...
The bottom of my heart seemed to be sliced by someone with a blunt knife, the pain was not sharp, but it was piercing his blood.
It turns out that he cares about her too, but he doesn't know... After she dies, he will miss her smile, her words, and even her domineering behavior in his heart. The memory is so deep that he thought he It was because he hated her, not because he cared about her... He had been thinking about her for decades, and he was unwilling to let her go even if he died. It turned out that it was not hatred, but love.
The love he didn't realize...
Yun Ke's figure swayed, the pain in his heart made him barely stand still, he raised his hand to cover his chest in a daze, through the thin shirt, he could feel his heart beating under the flesh, calm and powerful , but with a trace of disorder, full and swelling, it seems to be filled with a woman's name, that is Gu Yuqi.
He wanted to see her very much, immediately, thinking of this, he suddenly turned around, opened the door, and walked out quickly.
The double doors of her room were closed, only Yan Zhi took a small stool and was doing needlework at the door. Before it was completely late, she wanted to embroider the handkerchief in her hand as soon as possible.
Hearing the sound of footsteps, Yan Zhi raised her head, and saw that it was Yun Ke who came, she hurriedly stood up, bowed her knees and saluted, "Your Majesty, my servant."
Yun Ke waved his hand impatiently, bypassing Yanzhi and was about to push the door in, but Yanzhi ran over and held the door tightly, "Your Highness, our lady is sleeping, it is not proper for you to break in like this."
Yun Ke originally wanted to slap this unknown person away with a palm, but he raised his hand and put it down again.
This girl is someone that Gu Yuqi cherishes. If he touches her, Gu Yuqi will probably become even more angry and hate her. No, he can't add fuel to the fire now.
"My lord needs to see your lady. Go in and let me know." Yun Ke calmed down and said slowly.
Only then did Rouge let go of her nervous hand. She was not afraid of the man in front of her. The cold aura emanating from his body made her terrified. Last time in Huguo Temple, he shot her She was pushed away, causing her to be unconscious for a long time.
But for the sake of Gu Yuqi, she has to stop Yun Ke. Rouge is a little silly, but she is not stupid. She has followed Gu Yuqi for so many years, and it can be seen that Gu Yuqi hates and is afraid of this man, so if there is anything, she wants Get in front of Gu Yuqi first.
Yun Ke sees that Yan Zhi is a loyal servant, and because of Gu Yuqi's affection, he doesn't care about anything with Yan Zhi.
"Your Highness, wait a moment." Yan Zhi then opened the door and went in, telling Gu Yuqi what happened just now.
"Help me up." Gu Yuqi frowned and sighed silently after hearing this. After hiding for so many days, what should come will always come. She can't be sick for a lifetime, besides, her illness has completely disappeared in the past two days. Well, it was she who was still stuck in the room and refused to go out.
The person you want to see is always the one you want to see, and Gu Yuqi understands that she can't hide from it.