When You Yuji ran to the back door, Lin had advised that the wall of the back door should be chiseled before entering to put out the fire, which would take too much time. But soon, Lin saw Princess Que, who rarely showed her face, coming out of the narrow path and asking people to go in through the back door to put out the fire, and she couldn't help but look at Si Que a few more times.
When did the princess go through the back door
But she was worried about Chen Shunzhi, so she didn't have time to think too much and hurriedly followed the large number of guards to the back. The path was narrow, so she walked behind and let the guards and servants who were fighting the fire and saving people go first. When she walked over anxiously, she saw You Yuji carrying the princess out.
"Princess!" Lin exclaimed.
She could no longer squeeze forward, so she had to hide in the snow on one side to make way, stretching her neck and looking around anxiously. Not long after, the guard who had rushed in with Chen Shunzhi to rescue people came out carrying the unconscious Chen Anzhi.
Lin stood on tiptoe, looking eagerly, until she saw Chen Shunzhi, with a dark face, carrying Chen Lingyan out, her eyes became wet, and her legs softened. Her heart, which had been hanging in the air, finally settled down.
"Hurry, go get the doctor!" Lin ordered with forced calmness.
She waited until Chen Shunzhi came over, and immediately went to meet him, not caring about Chen Lingyan in his arms. She looked Chen Shunzhi up and down, and saw that a large area of his hair was burnt, which made her feel distressed. When she finally set her eyes on Chen Lingyan's face, she couldn't help but feel a pang in her heart.
She hoped that the burn on Chen Lingyan's chin would not leave a scar... This is on a girl's face!
Prince Jinnan hurried back to the palace. Before he reached home, he saw the fire from afar and his heart tightened.
"Hurry up!" he ordered angrily.
The carriage finally stopped in front of the palace gate, and the King of Jinnan jumped off the carriage. He was always calm, but he ran all the way. In the cold winter, his heart was burning.
"What happened? What happened? Have the people been rescued?!" He ran towards the sea of fire. His jade crown tilted and his steps were so unsteady that he almost fell.
The steward went to put out the fire himself, and the dirt on his hands rubbed onto his face, leaving several black stains. He hurried to meet the King of Jinnan. Before he could even open his mouth, the King of Jinnan grabbed him by the collar.
"Tell me, how is the person?"
"Save, save them!"
King Jinnan immediately breathed a sigh of relief and loosened his grip on the steward's collar.
"But..." The steward swallowed his saliva, "The prince and the princess were seriously injured, and the princess sent someone to the palace to invite the imperial physician..."
"Go and invite him quickly!" King Jinnan pushed the steward aside and strode forward.
"Someone has been sent to invite him." The steward said as he followed behind King Jinnan.
Prince Jinnan was stunned for a moment and asked, "You said the Crown Princess asked someone to invite the imperial physician?"
"Yes! It was the Crown Prince's wife who entered the sea of fire from the back door and carried the princess out personally! The eldest son also rushed in with the guards to rescue people. The eldest son also had several burns on his body."
The steward continued to speak slowly: "It's strange, in order to keep out the cold, the back door of each courtyard is built with brick walls. I don't know why the back door of Aunt Fang's house was demolished in advance..."
King Jinnan has stopped.
The steward immediately stopped talking.
King Jinnan looked at the direction of the fire that had not yet been put out and narrowed his eyes slightly. He thought about what Wangjiang had said to him and the various doubts about this matter.
"Your Highness?" the steward asked softly.
King Jinnan came to his senses and asked, "Have all the people been rescued?"
The steward looked embarrassed: "Fang Qingyi has disappeared."
Prince Jinnan did not ask any more questions. He walked quickly forward and returned to the courtyard in one breath. As soon as he opened the curtain, he heard the princess groaning in pain.
"Qingqing!" King Jinnan was startled and took two steps at a time.
The princess lay sprawled on the bed, her clothes and flesh burnt together, a horrifying sight.
King Jinnan's pupils suddenly shrank.
The imperial physician was still on the way, so the mansion had invited a doctor over first. The doctor was busy writing a prescription outside and asked two maids in the mansion to find a way to get the clothes off the princess's skin, even if they had to cut them off with a knife.
The princess's face was covered in sweat, as if washed by water. She was in so much pain that she couldn't say a word. Seeing the King of Jinnan coming, she could only reach out to him with red eyes.
"It will be fine! It will be fine!" King Jinnan held her hand tightly, and the usually majestic man trembled in public.
Nanny Gu walked in anxiously and choked up as she spoke, "Your Highness, the doctor wants to ask you to come over and talk."
Prince Jinnan patted the princess's hand and quickly went to the outer room.
"When will the princess be well?" King Jinnan pressed.
The doctor had just finished writing a prescription, but he didn't dare to give it to the servant to boil the medicine. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Your Majesty, the princess is in unbearable pain at this moment, and she should take the painkiller immediately..."
"Then what are you waiting for!"
"It's just..." the doctor explained, "The princess is pregnant, and the fetus is already unstable. If she takes too much medicine at this time, it may affect the fetus."
King Jinnan was stunned. For a moment, he recalled how happy they were when they learned about the child. He swallowed his reluctance and ordered: "Prepare medicine for the princess! The princess's safety is the most important thing!"
After hearing what King Jinnan said, the doctor felt relieved to pass on the prescription.
King Jinnan did not return to the house immediately, but went next door to see Chen Anzhi.
Chen Anzhi hadn't woken up yet. Another doctor was treating his abdominal wound. When King Jinnan stepped through the threshold, the first thing he saw was the burnt hair of Chen Shunzhi, who was sitting beside the bed.
"Father." Chen Shunzhi stood up immediately. "My brother was stabbed in the abdomen. Although he avoided the vital parts, he lost a lot of blood. In addition, his chest and hands were burned."
King Jinnan stood by the bed and looked at Chen Anzhi, who was pale.
Chen Shunzhi sighed and said, "It was the Crown Princess who arrived first. She said that her brother was on top of her at the time, so his hands must have been burned when he was trying to put out the fire for her."
Chen Shunzhi frowned and said, "Lingyan was the least injured, but there was a burn on her chin, so it might leave a scar..."
"Go down and change your clothes so that the doctor can take a look." King Jinnan said.
"Yes." Chen Shunzhi looked at his brother again before turning around and walking out.
The King of Jinnan watched the doctor treat Chen Anzhi's wound for a while by the bed, then turned and walked out. He stood under the eaves and called out, "Changping."
"I am here."
"Catch Fang Qingyi and Wang Jiang." King Jinnan had a cold face and slammed the doorpost with his clenched fists again and again.
It turns out that human hearts can be so dark.
"Yes!" Changping turned and walked out.
When the fire started, the guards and servants in the mansion were most concerned with putting out the fire and saving people, and they could not take care of anything else. But after the people were rescued, they thought back to how strange the fire was.
Fang Qingyi had originally thought that after she came out from the back door, she would shout for help to put out the fire, put on a show with great emotion, and then frame Chen Shunzhi, so that he would have no reason to defend himself and there would be no evidence. But she didn't expect Chen Shunzhi to risk his life and rush into the sea of fire with the servants and guards to save people. Even if she succeeded in running out to shout for help, others would probably doubt her words based on Chen Shunzhi's reckless behavior.
Her heart was rotten, and she was blinded by the temptation of power, so she thought that others could not resist the temptation either.
Fang Qingyi never expected that when she ran out from the back door, before she could throw the bloody dagger into the dry well and start calling for help as planned, she met Si Que.
At this moment, she lay on the ground helplessly, looking at Si Que who was sitting in the armchair. He was leaning lazily against the back of the chair, holding a crystal clear bracelet and teasing a black cat sitting on his lap.
Fang Qingyi wanted to struggle, but her limbs seemed not to belong to her and she could not move at all. She knew that her desperate plan had failed. She stopped struggling and stared at Si Que.
It seemed that her heart began to change since she met the Princess of Si State.
After meeting the princess of Siguo, she finally realized that her cousin who was obsessed with her had always treated her as a substitute. She, who had a beautiful and ignorant vision of the future, died at that moment.
Si Que, who was teasing Bai Sui with an expressionless face, suddenly raised his head and looked towards the door. The door of the flower hall was open, and he saw You Yuji coming back from outside.
He stood up and went to greet You Yuji.
You Yuji tiredly stepped over the threshold and placed her hands on the door, enduring the dizziness. She saw Fang Qingyi lying on the ground and just as she was about to speak, she couldn't help but cough intermittently.
Zhenxu and Baohe, who went to put out the fire, were also covered in dust. They looked at Fang Qingyi lying on the ground and glanced at each other, both of them confused.
Si Que supported You Yujie and touched her forehead.
—After all this trouble, she started to have a fever again.
Si Que lowered his head, touched You Yuji's cold forehead with his lips, and blamed: "Sister, you shouldn't mind these trivial matters."
You Yuji looked at Fang Qingyi lying on the ground and said tiredly, "Send the person to the prince."
She had done her best to save the princess, and she really didn't want to worry about other things anymore.
Fang Qingyi's heart tightened when she heard You Yuji's words. The feeling of fear slowly swept over her, drowning her dark heart. Could it be that all she had done with all her heart had failed? She had even prepared the chronic poison for the prince, but she hadn't had time to use it yet. She had thought about it, and when the prince was heartbroken after losing his wife and son, giving him a chronic poison would be the least likely to arouse suspicion.
She had planned everything, but every move was risky. Her status as a concubine drove her crazy, making her want to get out of her current predicament at all costs, leaving no way out for herself. If she made a mistake, she would lose everything.
Si Que picked up You Yuji and told Zhenxu and Baohe who were standing outside the door, "Prepare hot water for your master to bathe, and boil ginger soup to drive away the cold."
He carried You Yuji out of the hall and went to the next room. The maid looked at Si Que holding You Yuji with curiosity and couldn't help muttering in her heart: Princess Que looks so sick and weak, but she can still hold a living person!
The maid pushed open the door, and before Si Que stepped in, Baisui rushed into the room first, jumped onto the beauty couch in a few steps, and curled up into a ball at one end.
Si Que carried You Yuji into the house. He did not put You Yuji down, but still held her and sat down on the beauty couch under the window. You Yuji was very tired, and her head was dizzy because of her illness. She did not feel that uncomfortable when she went to Anxiangyuan just now, but now that it was over, she felt weak all over. She was held on Si Que's lap and did not struggle.
Zhenxu and her maidservants went in and out of the clean room at the side to deliver water. When they saw the overly intimate behavior of the two people on the beauty bed, they silently prayed that they should not look at what was inappropriate and quickly lowered their heads.
You Yuji knew that this was not appropriate, but she did not move. She even let Si Que carry her into the clean room, undress her, and help her into the hot water. She had to rest first. When the people woke up later tonight, the King of Jinnan might ask her to come over for questioning.
Soaking in the hot water and smelling the familiar incense, You Yuji suddenly felt that the physical discomfort was relieved a lot.
"The medicine hasn't taken effect yet." Si Que's tone was a little disappointed.
You Yuji opened her eyes and looked at Si Que who was undressing. She spoke, her voice still hoarse: "Si Que, did you really drug me?"
Si Que paused in unbuckling his belt, then continued. After removing all his clothes, he brushed past You Yuji's wet arms, stepped into the tub, and sat down opposite You Yuji. The narrow tub couldn't hold two people, and the water rippled and overflowed.
You Yuji stared into his eyes, waiting for his answer.
Si Que was silent for a while, frowned, and said in a muffled voice: "Sister, I'm starting to feel uncomfortable."
He leaned closer and rested his wet chin on You Yuji's shoulder.
You Yuji glanced at him with lowered eyes, then slowly leaned close to his ear and whispered softly with a smile: "Isn't the owner of the Poison Tower immune to all poisons?"
The author has something to say: Sister: Haha, I believe you, you big head ghost