Mikago

Tian Liangxing bandaged and fixed Lu You's wrist, prescribed a prescription and sent someone to decoct it, and then sent Lu You back to rest.

Lu You followed Qi Yunchu out of the Penglai Pavilion, walked to a secluded place, and asked impatiently: "Grandpa Qiu, are you really going to find Prince Anle back?"

Qi Yunchu didn't say it directly: "I originally thought that Tang Ruilang had already confessed my intention to you."

"Swiss Lang did tell me a lot of things... Excuse me, Prince An Le has been away from Zhaojing for many years, but there is no news at all. Does this mean that he has no intention of returning to Zichen at all?"

"So what if you don't have the heart. After all, how many people in this world can be satisfied for the rest of their lives."

Qi Yunchu looked towards the west with his hands behind his back: "No matter what, I have to find Nan Jun and ask him face to face - what exactly has he been doing these years, did he ever think of the old things in the Zhao capital, and watch the clan court The hall is declining day by day, what kind of feeling does he have in his heart..."

Sensing the deep resentment in his words, Lu You couldn't help sighing: "Do you really think that Nan Jun must be a more qualified ruler of Daning?"

Qi Yunchu chuckled: "Da Ning? Who is Daning in your eyes? Is it the person sitting on the throne of Zichen, the officials in the court, or the land under your feet, the people of Li on the land? The Daning in everyone's eyes is different, you and I, and Nan Jun's Daning, will not be the same thing after all."

"My Daning," Lu You said thoughtfully, "it is..."

"You don't need to tell me the answer." Qi Yunchu interrupted him, "If you want to get the fruit, plant the cause, and never put your hope in the hands of others. You should understand this truth."

"I understand." Lu You nodded.

I don't know if it touched that nerve, but Qi Yunchu's various teachings to him over the years came to my heart at the same time.An inexplicable reluctance suddenly surged in Lu You's chest.

And Qi Yunchu seemed a little moved.He stretched out his hand and stroked Lu You's cheek very rarely.

"After this trip, I don't know when I will be able to return. Or maybe I have gone through many dangers, but failed to achieve my long-cherished wish... Speaking of which, you have entered the palace for three or four years. If you were outside the palace, I am afraid that you have already performed the crowning ceremony. Farewell Before, I taught you the last lesson - the enemy is not the enemy; and the friend is not the friend."

"You mean..." Lu You moved his lips slightly.

Qi Yunchu motioned for him to be quiet, then pondered for a while, and then spoke again.

"Actually, you were injured in the Qinglong Temple and died at Lu Yinger's place. It was the design of me and your master. What hurt you was not the bow and arrow of the pursuers, but Li Hongqu's hidden weapon. "

After saying this, he calmed down and waited for Lu You's reaction.

For a while at first, Lu You did fall into a stiff silence.However, his expression was always almost calm, as if there was no too intense struggle in his heart.

Finally, he asked softly: "Grand Qiu, if you tell me these things, if I resent you and turn against you, wouldn't it be worth the loss for you?"

Qi Yunchu said: "To this day, if you are still the kind of person who will turn against you in person, I have nothing to be afraid of. Besides, I just said that you should never place your hopes on others. Even if it is you, I have never held it. any luxury."

Do not seek extravagant expectations, is it because you have lost too much in the past, or is it because you are afraid of being betrayed once you surrender your defenses?

Lu You looked at Qi Yunchu in front of him.

The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Lord Changqiu, who has always been calm and self-sufficient, turned out to be just an ordinary man in his thirties.The so-called invulnerability is precisely the scabs formed after too many injuries.

"Actually... I also vaguely guessed a little bit, and felt that the injury back then shouldn't be so strange."

After thinking about it again and again, Lu You slowly opened his mouth again: "If it were someone else who designed me this way, I would definitely retaliate with an eye for an eye. But for you, I can't hate you. Thank you for teaching me everything, I will also be in Zichen Palace, pray for you and Prince An Le."

Having said that, he changed the topic again: "But, I will personally protect the Daning I am looking forward to, so that even you, Qiu Gong, cannot easily change it."

"You, you can give it a try."

Qi Yunchu smiled softly, and was about to take a step, but remembered something.

"By the way, at that time I told Lu Ying'er to show mercy to you. If he really did, there should be a possibility of recovering your body. Find a doctor you trust and go and have a look."

Lu You didn't tell him that he had already practiced it, but only nodded in response.

Qi Yunchu left just then, and the quietness returned to the deserted garden.

Lu You was not in a hurry to return to Zitong Courtyard, but instead looked towards the side of the road with his hands behind his back: "How long are you going to hide?"

I only heard the rustling of the bamboo forest beside the road, and after a while, a tall and handsome figure came out.

Lu You asked him, "How long have you been listening there?"

"It's just a matter of a while." Tang Ruilang replied, "Just now when I went to Penglai Pavilion, I heard Tianliang Xing said that your wrist was broken by the emperor. I came here to see the situation. How are you doing?"

As he spoke, he walked to Lu You's side in two or three steps, and carefully held Lu You's hand, with a distressed expression on his face.

"I don't care."

Although Lu You was not feeling well, he had something serious to say at the moment.

"Qiu Gong found Nan Jun, and he wants to find him. I'm afraid he will leave the court for a long time."

"……I already know."

Tang Ruilang sighed: "The witch doctors secretly imprisoned by Duke Qiu in Liuquan City confessed to a place of secret contact with Guirong's side the day before yesterday. There, he found a letter passed on by Feige. It is said that in the west of Yunmeng Swamp, close to Guirong, a person with similar poison in his body was found."

"Is it Nan Jun?"

Tang Ruilang shook his head: "No, it's a woman."

woman?Lu You was stunned.

He still remembered that Qi Yunchu once mentioned the characteristics of this kind of Gu - it is passed on to men but not to women, and there is only one situation in which women will be infected with this kind of Gu poison...

But this means that there is a de facto husband and wife relationship between this woman and Nan Jun.

It is not difficult to imagine how shocked and entangled Qi Yunchu must have been when he learned of this.

Thinking of this, Lu You couldn't help feeling sad: "We have no way to intervene in their affairs, and we only hope that things will not develop as we expected."

Tang Ruilang smiled wryly: "Qi Yunchu designed to harm you, and you have counted coins for him for so many years." After a pause, he quickly put aside the relationship: "Speaking of which, I really don't know about it. ! He even lied to me!"

Lu You sighed: "So what? There are many things that I can't explain clearly. Since Duke Qiu dared to tell me this, it proves that he is not worried that I will turn against me. It's just that the court can only It's up to me."

"You are not alone, you and me."

Tang Ruilang gently hugged his arm: "Leave those things alone, let me see your hand again."

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Maybe it's because of overwork for a while, or maybe it's the injury of the wrist that caused the evil poison to enter the body.From the evening of that day, Lu You developed a low-grade fever.

Zitong Garden was always deserted, and there was no one accompanying him this night.

Lu You endured the whole night in a half-dream and half-awake state. When he woke up early the next day, his low fever turned into a high fever. He was so dazed that he couldn't even speak.

I don't know how long I lay there, but I heard someone calling his name next to my ear.Only then did he forcefully open his eyes a little, and saw Tang Ruilang's anxious face.

"You said that you are a person who is homeless and lives in a ruined temple, so it's fine if you don't have anyone to take care of you. You who live in the palace don't want a person who serves tea and water. Is this reasonable?"

After taking the medicine and porridge, Lu You regained some strength, leaning on two long pillows behind his back, and sat on the bed listening to Tang Ruilang's nagging.

Emperor Huiming's illness has been incurable for a long time, and it seems that there will be no good progress in the near future; Zhao Jing has not made any major moves for the time being.Tang Ruilang took over the important tasks of traveling between the three provinces these days, discussed with Lu You, and asked Lu You to leave Zichen Palace temporarily and live in the medicine garden for everyone to take care of.

Lu You lived in the medicine garden for about ten days.This period of time is in the thick of autumn, and the garden is full of fruits, the red leaves are about to burn, there are endless fruits and vegetables every day, and the scenery is endless.

He even celebrated his birthday here once, and there were so many people gathered around him, wishing him well—not the former Xuan Wang Zhao Yang, who was as blessed as the East China Sea and Shoubi Nanshan.

Besides him, Tang Ruilang also lived in the medicine garden.

These days, Rui Lang went out to the imperial city during the day, and when he came back at night, he would first report to Lu You on various important matters in the court today, and then he would have a good time and sleep in the same bed.

Everyone in the medicine garden naturally knew their special relationship, but they were all grateful for their benefits, so they kept their mouths shut.These days of going out of the palace to recuperate turned out to be a happy pastimes that Lu You rarely had in this life.

Until one late night, the messenger of the Ministry of Internal Affairs rushed out from the Zichen Palace and delivered him a shocking news that not many people knew——

Emperor Huiming died.