When facing the first downside

Lu Shi was pushed and staggered, and fell to the ground. He was stunned, subconsciously grabbing the straw under his hand.

Rough and prickly, not a dream.

Looking around, it was dark, damp, and full of old musty smells. Occasionally, a few mice and reptiles swaggered past.

Lu Shi pursed his lips into a line. He glanced at the only wooden bed above the ground in the entire cell, stood up and walked over with difficulty.

As soon as he sat on it, the wooden board protested violently. Lu Shi didn't dare to use force, and leaned against the side in a vain manner.

The disease, which was not cured at all, eroded the body even more after the rain during the day.

Lu Shi felt that his limbs were so sore that he was about to fall apart, and wanted to call someone, but found that his voice was so hoarse that he could get angry.

Feeling dizzy for a while, Lu Shi fell down on the wooden bed with a "boom", the wet clothes on his steaming body dried and wet again, his eyes began to blur...

Gu Cenyuan, why don't you come...

——Eastern Palace——

Gu Cenyuan walked back and forth restlessly in the side hall, hammering on the door panel and growling, "Where are you?! I'm just asking you, is Lu Shi still on Qinglong Street?!"

There was a burst of noisy chatter at the door, Gu Cenyuan could only hear someone talking, but couldn't hear what they were saying.

Silently swearing a foul word, he took a few steps back, turned around and kicked the door panel.

There was a huge bang, but the door panel remained motionless.

"Your Highness," Yadan's voice came from across the door, "This is His Majesty's order."

Gu Cenyuan gritted his teeth, and he approached the door fiercely, knocking hard on the hammer, "Gu won't go out! Gu wants you to go to Qinglong Street to see if Lu Shi is still there!"

"Your Highness, this is His Majesty's order."

Crow Dan repeated without emotion.

Gu Cenyuan's anxious eyes were red and his hair was disheveled. He completely lost his former calmness and composure. He suppressed his anger and patiently explained, "Lu Shi's illness is still not healed. It's raining heavily today, and Qinglong East Street will definitely be flooded. , his body can't take it anymore, you go and say something for Gu and let him go back home."

Lu Shi didn't sleep last night, and the whole palace was brightly lit all night.

The palace gave an order to keep silent, but everyone knew that the Second Highness was completely doomed this time. It is said that not only was he completely blind, but also deaf in both ears, and he vomited blood overnight.

Gu Cenyuan was also locked in the side hall of the East Palace by Emperor Chongde at this time, Gu Cenyuan was so cruel that he came.

"Your Highness, this is His Majesty's order," Ya Dan paused, and added, "Please don't embarrass your subordinates."

"roll!!"

Gu Cenyuan scolded angrily. He walked towards the table, swung away the delicate and expensive teacups on the table, kicked over the table, and threw everything that could be smashed and dropped to the ground, growling uneasily, like a trapped animal at its end.

The whole side hall was broken continuously, and it was a mess.

There was still a dead silence outside the door.

Gu Cenyuan exhausted all his strength and sat slumped on the ground. The sharp fragments easily passed through the fabric and mixed with flesh and blood.

He didn't feel any pain, and his eyes were empty.

Ashi...

——Dali Temple Prison——

Lu Shi woke up from his lethargy, he raised his eyelids with difficulty, it was still that small prison cell.

He closed his eyes, relieved himself, and lay still, comforting himself.

Anyway, it's a single room.

"Hey, Miss Jiang, please slow down, go this way and this way." The jailer flattered and led the way.

Jiang Yao covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief, frowned and waved the dust floating in front of her, and put a piece of silver in his palm, "You go down first, I'll have a word with Lord Hou."

The jailer weighed it up, smiled brighter, and said, "Your Majesty, you are a sinner. You can talk as long as you want, Miss."

Jiang Yao ignored him, waved her hands, and the jailer walked out with a bended waist tactfully.

Looking at the surrounding environment, Jiang Yao sighed, "Master Hou, you shouldn't take what I said to heart."

As early as when the jailer said the first sentence, Lu Shi knew that this Miss Jiang could not be anyone else except Jiang Yao.

He wanted to plug his ears, every time Jiang Yao spoke, all kinds of things would happen.

But he didn't have the strength at the moment, so he could only hypnotize himself and pretend he couldn't hear.

Lu Shi ignored her, and Jiang Yao didn't care either, and continued to say, "Even His Highness can't save Lord Hou this time."

Contacting the previous matter, Lu Shi could also guess that it was Emperor Chongde's handwriting this time. He didn't say a word, thinking that Jiang Yao was simply talking nonsense.

"Don't the Marquis wonder why His Majesty did this?"

Not curious, Lu Shi replied in his heart.

It's not hard to understand. The martial arts forces have developed by leaps and bounds in the past two years, and the fact that Changhuai Mountain has a nest of bandits protected by Lu Zhuangshi has been exposed. It is understandable that they were deliberately suppressed. This is why Lu Shi left Wangjiang City. already anticipated.

But he didn't expect the process to be so...

"I guess Master Hou can also think of it because," Jiang Yao pointed upwards, "The higher ups are taboo against these green forest forces."

Seeing that Lu Shi didn't respond, Jiang Yao smiled and continued to sing a one-man show, "But there is another reason, Lord Hou may not know."

Lu Shi was already feeling uncomfortable, but hearing Jiang Yao say something awkwardly for a long time gave him a headache.

"Master Hou thought," Jiang Yao paused, clenched her fingers tightly, and pinched her palm, "Does Your Highness love you?"

Hearing this sentence, Lu Shi finally opened his eyes and looked at Jiang Yao in boredom.

Seeing Lu Shi looking at him, Jiang Yao bent down and saluted, beautiful and dignified, but the words she said next were full of poison, "Your Highness approached you because of the Lu family's secret medicine, and I wanted to take it slowly. , but who knows, the Second Highness's body can't wait, so..."

So he wants to cheat and cheat for personal gain.

It sounds reasonable, but Lu Shi was very strange. He asked in a hoarse voice, "What secret medicine?"

Jiang Yao had such an expression, she looked at Lu Shi and said sarcastically, "Leader Lu really protected you very well."

Half a year ago, at the gate of Jingyang Palace, the little maids and the little eunuchs bowed in and out, all of them silent, not daring to show their atmosphere.

Eunuch Xi stood in the corridor, heaved a sigh of relief, rubbed his palms vigorously, wiped his face vigorously, and kept looking with his head on his toes, muttering indistinctly, "Why isn't Doctor Li here yet..."

At the entrance of the palace, a carriage stopped, and an old man with white beard and hair got out of the carriage tremblingly leaning on a cane.

The little eunuch who had been waiting for a long time hurriedly supported him, and said: "I have seen Imperial Physician Li, and Imperial Physician Li is well. The Second Highness has just taken the medicine left over from last time, but there is no improvement. Your Majesty is in a hurry, please trouble Dr. Li to hurry up."

"Are there any new symptoms?" Doctor Li panted and asked as he walked.

"Go back to Imperial Physician Li, not yet, but this time the Second Highness did not talk nonsense."

Hearing this, Imperial Physician Li quickened his pace after a pause, and said, "It's too bad!"

When the two arrived at the main hall, Emperor Chongde and Gu Cenyuan were already waiting outside.

"I have seen Your Majesty, Your Majesty..."

"Emperor Li, what are you doing at this time, follow me into the house to see Changyang." Emperor Chongde held Li Taiyi and walked straight into the house.

After taking the pulse, Dr. Li was not in a hurry to write the prescription, and was about to kneel down when he got up.

Seeing this, Emperor Chongde and Gu Cenyuan's heart skipped a beat, and the Queen even covered her heart, grabbed Imperial Physician Li's sleeve, and asked, "Emperor Physician, what's wrong with my son?"

Doctor Li's voice was very low, "Go back to your mother, in the days to come... please make His Highness more happy."

The queen's eyes darkened, she let go of the imperial physician's sleeve, and fell straight to the ground.

"Xiuxiu!" Emperor Chongde immediately embraced the queen, "Princess Li, hurry up and see what's wrong with the queen!"

There was another group of people turning their backs on their backs. Doctor Li exhaled, and said, "Your Majesty is fine, it's just a surge of Qi and blood for a while, and you will be fine after a short rest."

Emperor Chongde also breathed a sigh of relief, but his tone was powerless, "It's been hard work for Doctor Li, Mr. Xi, go and send Doctor Li for me..."

"Princess Li." The crown prince interrupted with a frown, "Is there really no cure for Yun Qi's illness?"

Doctor Li sighed, "Your Highness, Second Highness's illness is terminal, even if Hua Tuo is still alive, it will be difficult to save him."

"Difficult to save is not impossible to save. Doctor Li, think about it carefully. Is there any therapy handed down by your ancestors, perhaps hidden under the tree in your courtyard or something like that?"

"Cen Yuan, don't be rude." Emperor Chongde restrained Gu Cenyuan with his eyebrows pinched.

Gu Cenyuan hesitated to speak, but finally closed his mouth, but his eyes were still fixed on Doctor Li.

"Your Majesty," Li Taiyi stared slightly, and suddenly realized, "After His Highness said this, the old minister suddenly remembered that there is indeed such a blind medicine."

"Really? What kind of medicine is it? Where can I find it?"

"Gu knows there must be a way!"

Two voices sounded at the same time, with surprise that could not be concealed.

Doctor Li did not see joy, and said softly, "It happened a long time ago. It is said that the ancestors of the Lu family who helped the ancestors to found the country were not only proficient in military art, but also made great achievements in medical skills. Blind medicine, it is said... can bring the dead back to life."

Emperor Chongde lowered his eyes, unable to see his emotions clearly, waved his sleeves and said, "Back off."

Everyone filed out, Eunuch Xi was the last to go out, closed the door, and stood on the porch waiting to be summoned.

Inside, the air pressure is extremely low.

"Mr. Li, how credible are these rumors?" Emperor Chongde asked, turning the jade wrench in his hand.

"Return to Your Majesty," Imperial Physician Li knelt down, bowed his head and replied, "Previously, the old minister also thought the rumors were exaggerated and ridiculous, and he didn't believe it at all. But it is said that in the early years when Mrs. Lu's wife had postpartum hemorrhage and her life was hanging by a thread, she was killed by the head of the Lu family. After feeding a pill, the person survived."

"So, very good."

Afterwards, with a big wave of the palm, it was too late to figure out whether the Lu family was a son or a young lady.

So after the marriage was unsuccessful, the absurd jokes of the second edict were explained.

The blood on Lu Shi's face faded, he struggled to get up, but fell to the ground due to lack of strength.

He scolded in Jiang Yao's direction, "You're lying to me!"

"Is it a lie, Master Hou doesn't know what it is?" Jiang Yao looked at Lu Shi's downcast appearance, and took a step back with pitiful eyes.

"I don't believe it, you must be lying to me, you are lying to me." Lu Shi lay on the ground, shaking his head in disbelief, his tone seemed to be choked with dampness from the rainy day.

Jiang Yao looked at Lu Shi in pain with a blank face, turned and left.

What Elder Jiang Ge said to her after returning home late at night came to mind, "Ayao, Daddy can no longer contribute to Dahui. After a while, Daddy will resign... Shall we go back to Runzhou?"

Thunder, rain and dew are all a gift from heaven, and the pain of this "gift" should not only be suffered by the Jiang family.

"A Shi!" Xiao Taohong's voice came from not far away, she saw Lu Shi lying on the ground, and Jiang Yao walked out with a cold face.

Seeing that Lu Shi didn't respond, Xiao Taohong held Jiang Yao back and said sternly, "What did you say to A Shi!"

"Some..." Jiang Yao smiled sarcastically, and took Xiao Taohong's hand away, "It's just the truth that everyone doesn't like to hear."

Xiao Taohong's pupils shrank, she knew what happened to Lu Shi just because she heard Yi Wang and the counselor talking about it in Yi Wang's mansion.

Regardless of King Yi's obstruction, he ran to Dali Temple alone. Because of the previous banquet, everyone in Dali Temple knew such a princess who was favored by King Yi, so they didn't dare to stop him, and said a few words They let people in.

Jiang Yao's gaze swept from Xiao Taohong to Lu Shi, "The princess is talking to Lord Hou, and A Yao will leave first."

Xiao Taohong didn't have time to talk to Jiang Yao, she walked quickly to Lu Shi, grabbed the wooden pillar, and called him worriedly, "A Shi, A Shi."

Lu Shi rolled his eyes slightly, lowered his head and asked, "Is what she said... true?"

Xiao Taohong nodded silently.

Lu Shi couldn't see it, but he also understood what the silence meant.

Lu Shiqiang stood up, sitting on the ground, his crescent-white robe was mottled here and there.

Barely holding back a smile, Lu Shi said, "Sister Xiaotao, please leave me alone for a while."

How can Xiao Taohong rest assured, "A Shi, there must be something hidden in this matter, His Highness can't..."

"Sister Xiaotao," Lu Shi interrupted him, his eyes were frighteningly bright, "I don't want to hear about this person."

Xiao Taohong was speechless, she got up with a sigh, and walked out.

After Xiao Taohong turned around, Lu Shi huddled his body into a ball and hugged him tightly, the tears in his eyes couldn't be held back any longer, the big teardrops fell on the straw, he hastily opened his mouth and bit his thumb joint, sucking his voice and blood Swallow it back.

——Eastern Palace——

"Speak!!" Gu Cenyuan knocked on the door, the blood on his knuckles was blurred.

"If Lu Shi comes out by accident, I want all of you to accompany him!!" Gu Cenyuan roared angrily, his eyes tearing open.

There was no sound outside the door except the movement of the guards walking back and forth after shifts.

Gu Cenyuan held his head and pulled his hair. He didn't dare to think about what happened to Lu Shi now, and he didn't dare to think about what methods Emperor Chongde would use.

He bit his lip, hammered on the door, and asked again, "Where is Lu Shi now!!"

"Your Highness!"

This is Du Wei's voice.

Gu Cenyuan was taken aback, and rapped on the door in ecstasy, "Du Wei, Du Wei, tell Gu, where is A Shi now?"

Du Wei was firmly held down by two people, he didn't reply immediately, but glanced at the sword on his neck and the token of the division in Yadan's hand.

"Tell Gu!" Gu Cenyuan urged in panic.

Du Wei took a deep breath, "Return to Your Highness, Lu Shaoxia is now in Dingdu Hou's Mansion, he is...very good."

When Gu Cenyuan in the hall heard the words, his heart sank, he breathed a sigh of relief, and said to himself, "That's good, that's good."

"Hall..." Du Wei outside the hall suddenly said.

Ya Dan quickly covered his eyes with his hands, touched the acupoints, and dragged him down.

Gu Cenyuan heard it sharply, but the voice was too short, he couldn't recognize whose voice it was, and asked vigilantly, "What's wrong?"

"It's my subordinate," Ya Dan said, "I would like to ask His Highness if I need some food."

Gu Cenyuan exhausted his energy a lot. He was immersed in the news brought by Du Wei, but he didn't realize that there was something wrong with it. He said tiredly, "No need."

"Here." Yadan retreated in response.

Outside the gate of the East Palace, Yadan unlocked Du Wei's hole and blocked his way, "Brother, this is an order from His Majesty, and also from the master."

Du Wei looked determined, he took out his token from his pocket, threw it on the ground, and the jade token shattered all over the place, "That sentence just now was the last thing I did for the master, From then on, Du Wei is only His Royal Highness's bodyguard."

After finishing speaking, I will go back to the East Palace to find Gu Cenyuan.

"Brother!" Ya Dan was stunned. He didn't expect Du Wei to be so straightforward. Seeing that he was about to go back, he slashed the back of his neck with a hand knife, beckoning the guards to lock him up too.

The rain began to fall again, and Yadan silently watched the supported figure of Du Wei gradually go away.

In the prison, Lu Shi was so burned that he couldn't wake up. The jailer came to visit him on the way. Seeing that he was burning badly, he didn't dare to ignore him.

Lu Shiyang fell on the pile of straw, suppressed the desire to vomit in his throat, and swallowed the bitter concoction that tingled the tip of his tongue.

He stared blankly at a small skylight at the top of the cell.

fully awake.

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