Xiao Liulang's heart seemed to be rubbed fiercely, and he looked at her with a complex expression in disbelief.
Why
Why are you being so nice to him
He is not worth it.
Gu Jiao continued logging and said, "I've got the hot water ready, you can go wash and sleep, I'll finish it soon."
As soon as she finished speaking, she put down the saw and said, "I'll go fetch water."
Xiao Liulang grabbed her arm and looked at her deeply: "Jiaojiao."
"Um?"
"Don't be so nice to me."
I would be reluctant to let go.
If one day you regret it, maybe I will do anything to keep you by my side.
I'm not a nice guy, not as harmless as you see.
Gu Jiao met his complicated gaze and said frankly, "You are also very kind to me."
Xiao Liulang's heart suddenly became a mess.
He took a deep breath, slowly raised his hand, and gently touched her cheek with his fingertips: "Silly girl, you will regret it."
Gu Jiao seriously thought about this possibility, then she shook her head firmly: "I won't... The big deal is to leave you."
Xiao Liulang: "..."
- was not comforted.
Xiao Liulang looked at her fixedly, and suddenly laughed.
Gu Jiao looked strange: "What are you laughing at?"
He answered truthfully: "Laugh at you."
He originally wanted to feel sad, but he was clearly infected by the sadness in his heart, but when the girl interrupted, he couldn't go any further.
Xiao Liulang couldn't help laughing, and pinched her little face: "You said, how can you ruin the atmosphere like this?"
Gu Jiao didn't understand what atmosphere she had destroyed at all, so she looked at him for unknown reasons.
Xiao Liulang was amused by her small appearance, he put one hand on the back of her neck, turned his head slightly, and covered her.
This is... are you going to kiss her
Gu Jiao rolled her eyes and closed her eyes for a second.
However, after waiting for a long time, she didn't wait for his kiss, but a muffled low smile came from her ear.
Gu Jiao opened her eyes, turned her head to look, saw someone holding a piece of sawdust with her fingertips, straightened up, and looked at her with a smile: "You have this on your head."
Gu Jiao's face darkened: "Oh."
Xiao Liulang understood what she wanted, and he also thought about it, thinking that all his dreams at night were her, and he wished that he could press her under him regardless and treat her like a dream.
But he can't do it.
She had just found out about his background, and she had not really felt sorry for her yet. She didn't understand what it meant to be a slave girl's son.
He will give her time to regret it or not.
But he won't give it too long.
…
For the next few days, Xiao Liulang stayed in Bishui Hutong to recover from his injuries, and Gu Jiao began to investigate what was behind the scenes.
On the fourth day, Yuan Tang went to the hospital.
Gu Jiao thought that he was here to get medicine for Liu Yisheng. Liu Yisheng's severed finger had been sutured and the stitches were removed. The intervention effect was good, but he still needed to continue taking medicine, and then began to rehabilitate according to the situation.
"Twelve taels." Gu Jiao said.
Yuan Tang's body was shocked: "You, your medicine is so expensive! How can my cousin look down on it?"
Gu Jiao said lightly, "It's you who bought it, not your cousin."
Yuan Tang asked, "What do you mean?"
Gu Jiao said, "People are different and prices are different."
Yuan Tang: "...you are a profiteer."
Yuan Tang resignedly took out ten taels.
Gu Jiao took the money, and seeing that he didn't leave, she looked at him strangely: "What? Is there something else? If you want to sell me news, I advise you to give up."
The corners of Yuan Tang's proud lips collapsed for a second: "Are you a worm in my highness's stomach? Why do you know what my highness does?"
Oh, Feishhuang plays the rest.
Gu Jiao sat back in the chair and immersed herself in sorting out today's medical records.
Forget it, he was just teasing her, wanting to get the 10 taels of silver back, but it wasn't that he didn't say anything if he couldn't get the money.
Yuan Tang opened the folding fan and said slowly, "I heard that your husband has disappeared, do you know who did it?"
"Who?" Gu Jiao asked.
Yuan Tang hooked his lips and smiled: "King Ning."
Gu Jiao was not very surprised to hear this answer. She put a medical record back on the shelf and looked up at Yuan Tang: "Are you sure?"
Yuan Tang snorted and raised three fingers: "My Highness swears to the heaven as the future prince of the Chen country, there is absolutely no mistake, and there is absolutely no fraud! But—"
He put down his sworn hand and patted his palm with a folding fan, "Isn't King Ning someone from Queen Mother Zhuang's line? Why did he arrest your husband? Is he avenging you for killing so many of his masters? The master came to me, but you helped me, so he holds a grudge?"
It wasn't this matter that King Ning held a grudge, but she found Princess Ning later.
But even so, he just burned her workshop.
Then she emptied his vault.
To be honest, Gu Jiao didn't think King Ning would move Xiao Liulang for a treasury.
Gu Jiao thought of the Crown Princess's guilty expression.
She has something to do with it.
Is it—
Is it because she has guessed Xiao Liulang's true identity? And also told King Ning
King Ning won't move Xiao Liulang, it doesn't mean King Ning won't move Xiao Heng.
The Crown Princess used to be Xiao Heng's fiancee, and the two grew up as childhood sweethearts. If King Ning misunderstood that the Crown Princess still had Xiao Heng in his heart, with the degree of his perversion, he would probably kill Xiao Heng.
and many more.
Kill Xiao Heng
Something flashed in Gu Jiao's mind, but she didn't catch it too quickly.
"Doctor Gu, what are you thinking?" Yuan Tang interrupted Gu Jiao's thoughts.
"I'm thinking."
"Oh! It's burning, it's burning!" A little medicine boy exclaimed in the lobby.
Gu Jiao stood up, Yuan Tang was close to the door, he immediately opened the door of the clinic and walked out.
It was a medicine boy who accidentally dropped Huozhezi into the medicinal wine, and the whole wine jar burned.
Seeing this, Yuan Tang hurriedly walked over, picked up the burning wine jar and took it to the open space in the backyard.
Seeing this scene, Gu Jiao's mind flashed, and she finally caught what she didn't catch just now.
Yes.
fire.
The fire four years ago!
Could it be that the fire was not set by Princess Xinyang? It was Ning Wang who did it
It's just that Xiao Liulang misunderstood for some reason
If he really did it, then the beam will be too big.
This time he took Xiao Liulang not just to give her a slap in the face, but to really want Xiao Liulang's life.
Originally, she planned to cut this pot of golden leeks slowly, but he dared to touch her husband!
Gu Jiao has no evidence for what happened four years ago, but it doesn't matter. Even if he doesn't count the old debt from four years ago, just talking about this time, he can't be forgiven.
In the afternoon, Gu Jiao went to the palace.
Prince Ning is a prince who is highly valued by the emperor. He is currently working in the official government office. He is occasionally summoned by the emperor to the imperial study or Huaqing Palace. The progress of the two.
Although Gu Jiao was not in the palace, she had a close relationship with Renshou Palace, and she had heard something from Eunuch Qin.
Gu Jiao came to the palace and asked the guards on duty, "Is His Royal Highness Prince Ning entering the palace?"
The guards recognized her and knew that she was a celebrity in front of Empress Dowager Zhuang and Her Majesty, and they were happy to sell her, not to mention it was no secret: "I have entered the palace."
Gu Jiao said again, "Go to the imperial study or Huaqing Palace?"
The guard said: "Go in the direction of Huaqing Palace."
"Thank you." Gu Jiao thanked her and turned to Huaqing Palace.
Gu Jiao entered Huaqing Palace before she brushed her face like she did at Renshou Palace, so she still needed some communication, but after a moment, Eunuch Wei walked over quickly and invited Gu Jiao in.
Wei Gonggong said: "Why is Miss Gu here? Did you come to ask Master Xiao's news?"
The news that Xiao Liulang had found, Gu Jiao only told her aunt, not the emperor, so Eunuch Wei didn't know.
Gu Jiao hummed: "Yes, I'm here to ask for news."
Wei Gonggong said: "It just so happens that His Royal Highness King Ning is also there. You can ask him if he has found any clues."
Clues are impossible, everyone is at home.
Gu Jiao symbolically went to see the emperor and King Ning, and asked about the progress of the case.
Unsurprisingly, there was no progress at all.
The emperor was very anxious: "There has been no news for so long, shouldn't he..."
Gu Jiao stared at King Ning's face, there was a worried look on his face, and there was no gloating on his face.
Too.
If you don't hide it deeply, you won't be with the Crown Princess for so long and no one will find it.
The emperor closed his eyes in pain: "Add staff, no matter what, you must see people in life, and corpses in death!"
King Ning bowed his hands and bowed: "Yes! My son obeys!"
The emperor sighed: "I will also send a few more people to you. You have to work harder these days... I hope to find Xiao Liulang as soon as possible."
"My son, I'll go find it now!" King Ning said, bowing and exiting the imperial study.
Gu Jiao thought for a while and said, "His Royal Highness King Ning, do you mind if I go out with you?"
King Ning was stunned for a moment, then nodded instantly: "Of course I don't mind, Doctor Gu, please."
"Your Majesty, I'm leaving." Gu Jiao said goodbye to the emperor.
The emperor was worried about Xiao Liulang's safety at the moment, so he did not leave Gu Jiao to eat at Huaqing Palace.
Gu Jiao and Ning Wang left the palace.
Along the way, the two chatted for a few words, and they couldn't see that they were at odds with each other.
Before getting on the carriage, King Ning smiled and said, "Doctor Gu, if you and I can always be in harmony like this, what happened to this king in the past has never happened."
Gu Jiao didn't answer him, but asked, "I didn't come in a carriage today, can you take me for a ride?"
"Of course you can." King Ning made a generous gesture, motioning for Gu Jiao to get into the car.
Gu Jiao got on the carriage, and King Ning got on too.
He and Gu Jiao kept a polite and polite distance.
Gu Jiao said sternly, "I have something to say to King Ning alone."
King Ning gave her a deep look, smiled knowingly, and instructed the outside world: "You all stop first, don't follow."
The Guards stopped.
The carriage went for a while.
King Ning said, "Can you speak now?"
Say you uncle!
Gu Jiao stood up in a swish, and put King Ning in a sack!
(End of this chapter)