Has the villain taken his medicine today?

"Forget it, Qingli, let him go."

Hu Yan glanced at the young boy who was trying to break free, turned sideways and said softly.

She could tell that Ah Bing didn't take her words to heart, and her own brother might have been successfully coaxed by Su Qing.

That being the case, Hu Ning didn't apologize half-heartedly, and she didn't want to hear it either.

"Humph."

Qingli stared at the little kid in her hand, sneered, let go of her hand mercilessly, and let the brat fall to the point of crying for her father and mother.

"Bad guys, you are all bad guys!"

Hu Ning covered his broken head, cried and shouted, turned around and rushed out of the palace gate, knowing at a glance that he was going to complain to Prime Minister Hu.

Hu Yan didn't look back, but stared blankly at the white porcelain teacup on the table with a dazed expression.I just felt empty in my heart, as if I had lost the last pillar, and was at a loss.

"Your Majesty." Qingli called out softly, with worry hidden in her eyes.

"It's nothing, I just suddenly feel that it's not worth it." Hu Yan smiled, but the gloom between her brows became more and more serious.

She just felt...it wasn't worth it for her to enter the palace for her younger brother, really...not worth it.

Prime Minister Hu was standing outside the door, waiting for his son to finish speaking and take him away, but in the end he waited for his son to complain crying.

After hearing the whole story, Prime Minister Hu just wanted to slap this stupid son away.

"Idiot! I told you to be respectful to Mrs. Zhaoyi. Didn't you take what you said about being a father to heart! You are a man, how can you be crying like a little girl!"

Being scolded angrily by her most respected father, Hu Ning shrank her shoulders and held back her tears, feeling very wronged in her heart.

It's all my fault on Sister A, if she hadn't refused to help Aunt Su and Sister Yin, my father wouldn't have been so cruel to him.

Although he scolded his son, Hu Cheng was also very annoyed by his daughter who was relatively indifferent. He asked Hu Bin to talk to Hu Yan, mainly because he wanted to use his son to soften Hu Yan's heart and agree to help.

Unexpectedly, Hu Yan's attitude was not only firm, but even that lowly servant Qingli dared to do something to his son.

Even if he doesn't like this son any more, isn't Qingli's move a slap in the face? !

Prime Minister Hu brought his son into the palace again, and he ordered Hu Ning calmly, "Kowtow to your mother to make amends."

Hu Ning didn't dare to disobey his father's order, pouted his mouth, knelt down and kowtowed reluctantly: "The boy is rude, please forgive me."

"Get up." Hu Yan lowered her eyes and didn't look at her younger brother who was bowing to her. She just said in a low voice, as if she didn't care about anything, Hu Bin's rudeness, or her father's alienated attitude.

"Since I've already met the empress, I'll go first as a father." Prime Minister Hu said casually, and then shifted his gaze to the green-clothed palace maid, his eyes turned cold.

"Qingli, you also leave with me, there are some things I need to ask you."

Hu Yan was taken aback, and immediately looked at Qingli, her brows frowned, and she was about to say no for Qingli, but Qingli answered first: "Your servant takes orders."

"Qingli." Hu Yan frowned even tighter, she had a bad premonition in her heart, and she didn't want Qingli to leave.

"Your Majesty, don't worry, Qingli will be back soon after finishing her work for Master Xiang."

Qingli looked at Hu Yan with no expression on her face and a very calm tone, but she always gave people a feeling of peace of mind, as if she would definitely do what she said.

Seeing the back of Qingli leaving with her father, Hu Yan suddenly felt a tightness in her chest, she clutched her chest, her eyes were dim.

Qingli said that she would come back immediately after finishing her work, so Hu Yan waited all day, from day to night.

She was wearing a white shawl, standing on the path outside the palace, looking up into the distance, but she could only see blackness.

"Your Majesty, it's already late at night, otherwise go back first, Sister Qingli will tell you when she comes back, Your Majesty doesn't need to wait here all the time."

Wan Xing, who was holding a lantern behind her, yawned and persuaded in a low voice.

She really didn't understand, Hu Yan, a lady, why bother to wait for a slave, that's a slave.

"If you're sleepy, go back to sleep, I'll wait by myself." Hu Yan said indifferently without turning her head.

However, Wan Xing was agitated, and his drowsy mind immediately woke up.

"My maidservant is not sleepy, my maidservant waits with my mother." Even if Hu Yan said the truth, she would not dare to do this. In case she went back to sleep and left Hu Yan to wait here alone, if something happened Whatever the case, she was the first to die!

Hu Yan didn't speak any more.

After waiting for a while, a familiar figure finally appeared in the distance.

Hu Yan walked forward quickly, walked in and took a look, only to find that the woman's face was extremely pale, her lips were bloodless, and her footsteps were weak, as if she had been severely tortured.

Her heart trembled, and she quickly asked, "Qingli, are you alright?"

"Your maidservant is fine. It's windy at night, and your mother is weak. Come in quickly." Qingli tried her best to hide her weak look, and said softly.

Hu Yan pursed her lips, and reached out to support Qingli's arm, but saw that the usually cold and rigid woman frowned, with a slightly painful expression.

Her pupils shrank, she quickly let go of her hand, and said in a hurried tone, "Did your father torture you?"

"Wan Xing, go and get the imperial physician!" She turned her head and ordered Wan Xing, her face was a little ugly.

Qing Li stopped Wan Xing, and shook her head slightly at Hu Yan: "Your Majesty, there is no need, the servant has not been tortured." She said, looking up and looking around, her tone was cautious: "Your Majesty, let's talk after entering the room, it is inconvenient here."

After entering the palace, Hu Yan supported Qing Li to sit on the soft bed, Wan Xing had already left, and there were only the two of them in the inner room.

"What's going on?" Hu Yan asked with a frown, she looked at Qingli's still pale face with worried eyes.

"Every hidden guard in the Hou Mansion has a Gu worm in his body. This is the method used by the Prime Minister to control us. Once the Gu worm attacks, unless he takes the antidote, he will suffer."

"Today I was rude to the young master and caused Gu worms. This is the punishment of the Prime Minister."

What happens when the Gu worm is activated?

That feeling was like countless poisonous insects biting her internal organs, like a hammer, hitting her celestial cap hard again and again.

It's painful, and this kind of pain is slow, so painful that people want to end it by themselves.

Even if Qingli had let the system shield her from more than half of the pain, the remaining pain would be unbearable for ordinary people.Simply Qingli had already experienced the burning pain of the soul in the previous plane, but she still endured it.

After all, she was impulsive today, but it's okay. In order to maintain the personality, it is inevitable to go through this experience, but the next time I see Prime Minister Hu, he will be the one who suffers.Qingli thought coldly.

Qingli said it lightly, but how could Hu Yan underestimate the power of that Gu worm.

Hu Yan's body froze as her gaze fell on Qingli's blood-stained phalanx.

Needless to say, she also knew that it must be the injury that Qingli suffered from hitting the wall with her hands when she was being tortured. Just now she was outside in the dark and couldn't see clearly. Now that she was back inside, she saw it at a glance.

Hu Yan immediately brought the medicine bottle and carefully applied the medicine to Qingli.

"Thank you, ma'am." Qing Li's eyes warmed up, and she said softly.

Looking at the glaring scars on her fair skin, Hu Yan pursed her lips, lowered her head, and said in a low voice, "I'm sorry, it's all because of me that you were implicated."

"Father asked you to monitor me, so you just do your job well. There's no need to suffer for me, and I have nothing of value in me, so it's not worth your suffering for me." She Clenching his fists, his eye sockets felt a little sore.

Ever since her mother passed away, she has known the evil deep in human nature. The weak can only be exploited by the strong. Those who have no value are not worth wasting time and energy.

Hu Yan clearly defines herself as a weak person, she has no martial arts, no rights, she just has a skin, but this skin will only bring her countless disasters in the future.

She has no value to use. What Qingli has done for her now, because the suffering she has suffered has far exceeded the balance line of interests.

"So, let's restore everything to the original." She raised her eyes to look at Qingli with a calm face, and said with a smile.

"Just like how you were indifferent when I was punished to kneel by Yubi, you can still do the same in the future." She had a smile on her face, but tears glistened in her eyes.

She didn't know why when she said this sentence, her heart felt a dull pain, as if she was forcibly cutting something away.

But no matter how unbearable she was, she would say the same.

This is the best solution, isn't it?

Qingli drooped her eyelids, her eyebrows and eyes were shrouded in candlelight, she seemed to lose her usual indifference and add a bit of gentleness.

She didn't respond, but changed the subject and said: "My lady, I went back to the mansion today and found out one thing. Aunt Su has been straightened by the prime minister."

The medicine bottle in her hand fell to the ground, Hu Yan looked at Qingli dumbly, and asked hoarsely, "When did it happen?"

"Just one day after the empress entered the palace. The young master has already been raised under Aunt Su's lap, and he is very close to the mother and daughter of the Su family."

Hu Yan's expression was a little dazed, she was silent for a while, then suddenly realized that something was wrong, she stared blankly at Qingli.

"She is already a regular wife, why do you still call her Aunt Su?"

Hu Bin also called her Aunt Su, probably because she was young, or maybe she was used to it, and she couldn't change it for a while.But his father didn't correct him, maybe he was avoiding suspicion and fearing criticism from outsiders.

After all, for a concubine to be promoted as a regular wife, this would be regarded as an idiot among colleagues.

Only by marrying a descendant with a comparable family background can he contribute to his official career. What can a concubine do?

But Qingli, as her father's secret guard, how could she be so impolite?

Qingli glanced at the gauze wrapped in her hand, and a smile flashed in her eyes.

"In the eyes of the servants, the madam is the main wife of the Hu family. This past, present, and future will not change."

These words seemed to have triggered some barrier in Hu Yan's heart, her nose was sore, and tears fell down quickly.

Since her mother passed away, she seldom cried, because she knew that only being pampered can cry, but she didn't.

But she couldn't help it.

Obviously her mother is the lady whom Prime Minister Hu is marrying, but who in the Hu family cares about this now?Even her only biological brother was elbowed out.

Just because Su Qing was kind to him, he forgot about his mother, and even happily accepted the thief as his mother, turning against her, his own sister, for the sake of Su's mother and daughter.

Being young is no reason, besides, he is almost 13 years old, so it should be reasonable.

When she was his age, she already knew how to keep a low profile in the mansion and how to protect him from growing up.

Hu Yan was really upset, she wanted to vent too much.

"Qingli, I'm not afraid of my father's indifference, nor the conspiracy of Su's mother and daughter, but I really can't accept Ah Bing's separation from me."

Hu Yan burst into tears, she had actually been crushed by Hu Finghan today, but she just kept holding back.

"I was forced to enter the palace because of him, how could he treat me like this."

She is only a girl of sixteen or seventeen, she will be afraid when she enters such a man-eating palace.

If it wasn't for Hu Ning, she could have married a family of comparable family background with her status as the prime minister's daughter. Even if she couldn't achieve conjugal love, at least she could respect each other because of her interests.

Instead of being trapped in this Forbidden City, fearing every day, always guarding against other people's schemes.

"Before mother left, she asked me to take good care of Ah Bin, but I was so useless, I still taught him to be kidnapped by Su's mother and daughter. I am ashamed of my mother, and I am sorry for her entrustment."

Hu Yan covered her eyes, her voice trembling a little.

"Miss." Qingli called softly.

Her name was Miss, not Empress.

Hu Yan was startled, and slowly put down her hands, her eyes were already a little red and swollen from crying.

She stared blankly at the dark guard in front of her, and the cold dark guard actually smiled, with a gentle and beautiful smile, like a spring breeze blowing over her traumatized heart.

She heard the dark guard Qingli say.

"Miss, don't be afraid, Ali will always be by Miss's side."

"I don't have any interest needs, I just want to protect you well."

"Miss, you have to know that Ah Li is not Prime Minister Hu's secret guard, but your own secret guard."

She... one person's hidden guard?

The author has something to say: Prime Minister Hu and his ignorant little brother will be punished