He Muyan raised his eyes and stood up. Except for the reddish eyes, no emotion could be heard in his voice:
"Take good care of Su Lian."
"You don't need to tell me."
A trace of disgust flashed in Nan Qingchu's eyes, and he immediately replied mockingly.
"I have sent people to call you people from Hao Kingdom. If you are still responsible, go back and sit on your throne. Before you cure your illness, it is best not to appear in front of Xiao Lian again."
Nan Qingchu glanced at him coldly.
Taking a deep breath, He Muyan returned to the courtyard and looked at the palace door from a distance.
It rained heavily, and his whole body was instantly soaked by the rain, making him extremely miserable.
Su Lian heard everything that happened outside in the palace. He was about to go back to bed and pretend to be asleep when he suddenly heard the noise of people coming from outside the door.
I saw He Muyan standing in the courtyard, opening his clothes and kneeling straight:
"May my wife be in good health, safe and happy."
His voice was very high, because his body had not yet recovered, and it seemed that he had exhausted all his strength.
Bowing almost devoutly, he lowered his eyes, completely hiding all the emotions in his eyes.
When the minister who came from the side saw this scene, he was so frightened that his liver and gallbladder were almost broken.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you can't!"
But He Muyan seemed not to hear it and looked firmly at the closed door of the palace, without any color on his face.
Then he stood up and stepped back, but still took three steps and bowed.
In the rain, his figure gradually blurred until blood oozed from his forehead, but he still kept repeating this action.
Until his figure began to shake and he could no longer be seen in the distance.
In the early Southern Qing Dynasty, his eyes were complicated.
If he remembered correctly, three steps and one bow was Hao Guo's apology ceremony.
Only sinners who have committed serious crimes will perform this great ceremony to confess their sins and condemn their souls.
Su Lian almost heard everything in the palace and guessed what happened outside.
The long eyelashes trembled, covering up the crystal light under her eyes.
"How silly."
Su Lian murmured.
Suddenly she felt a little sore at the tip of her nose. She clearly couldn't fall in love with someone, but she still had mood swings because of the emotion she felt.
A drop of clear tears fell on the back of his hand. Su Lian lowered his head slowly and said in a vague voice:
"Little Pom Pom, why am I crying?"
The little pom-pom fell into silence.
In this mission, Su Lian was obviously much more emotional than the previous mission, and had more emotional fluctuations of varying degrees.
It didn't know whether this was a good thing or a bad thing, but seeing Su Lian becoming more and more popular day by day, it felt happy from the bottom of its heart.
"Master, you are tired."
The little pom-pom retracted into Su Lian's arms and patted her clenched hands with its paws.
Su Lian was silent, got up and returned to bed.
Maybe I am really tired. I just woke up from a life-and-death situation and listened to such a long paragraph. I must be exhausted mentally and physically.
Nan Qingchu opened the door with food in hand and saw that although Su Lian was lying on the bed in a daze, her eyes were a little red, so she knew that she must have heard those words outside.
"Eat something, don't be hungry."
Nan Qingchu pushed the porridge to her, but was not prepared to explain anything.
He didn't feel that he had done anything wrong. Even if He Muyan was sincerely apologizing, it could not cover up the danger he was in now.
Unless he could solve his own problems one day, he would not be able to watch Su Lian die.
"elder brother."
Su Lian's voice was a little hoarse.
She suddenly realized that she had overlooked one thing.
"Tell me, how did I survive?"
He Muyan was fine, and Nan Qingchu was standing in front of her. She didn't believe that a Gu technique that could change one's fate without paying any price.
Nan's Gu Technique itself is not a very righteous technique. There are bound to be thousands of ways to harm people, but if you rely on it to save people, you will only pay a more painful price than saving people themselves.
If the two people present at the time were okay, how did she survive?
If she lived, who paid the price for her life?
Su Lian's voice was trembling, but he still turned around and looked at Nan Qingchu stubbornly.
Nan Qingchu didn't expect her to react so quickly and opened her mouth, but didn't know what to say.
In the past few days, he went to investigate the man who broke in, and found out that his name was Jiang Pingzhi, and he was Su Lian's childhood sweetheart. It seemed that Su Lian came to Jiuzhou City this time because of him.
Seeing Nan Qingchu's evasive eyes, Su Lian seemed to understand something.
"It's Jiang Pingzhi, right?"
Apart from Jiang Pingzhi, she couldn't think of anyone else in Jiuzhou City who could do this for her.
Nan Qingchu didn't answer, but stretched out his hand to cover her eyes:
"Go to sleep, Xiao Lian, don't think about it."
He tried to push the matter away, or to be precise, delay it, at least until Su Lian fully recovered.
Su Lian was silent for a long time, trying to calm down:
"Brother, don't hide it from me. Over the years, he has been like my big brother, and General Jiang has been my savior. They are also my relatives. I should know what is going on with him now."
Nan Qingchu paused, knowing that it was impossible to hide anything, and said in a hard voice:
"Life and death Gu, one life is born and another life is destroyed. The cause and effect are eternal and cannot be changed."
"If you want to refine the life and death Gu, you need a living person to sacrifice his life and soul for it. Only the Gu that is refined with flesh and blood and continuously nourished with the power of the soul can restore the dying person to the original state.
All wounds will be fully recovered."
"Jiang Pingzhi was... like this at the beginning."
"Life...and soul?"
Su Lian's voice was trembling.
She didn't expect Jiang Pingzhi to achieve this.
The greatest punishment for a person is to keep his soul in the world, watch the person he loves meet and fall in love with others, and gradually forget about him, but he will never be able to enter reincarnation.
Su Lian knew that Jiang Pingzhi did not do this for her.
But for the real Su Lian before. He has always kept his promise and used his own way to protect her silently behind her back. In the original plot, he was never with Su Lian but still wanted to avenge her. In this life,
He gave everything for her.
The original Su Lian may have really been in love with her, but she actually approached him at first just to push him away, until she reached a distance that could ensure she could complete her mission without disturbing her.
She is not worthy of him sacrificing all his sincerity and self like this.
Su Lian was used to fair transactions, and she didn't want to owe anyone even for feelings. Therefore, when Jiang Pingzhi ended up like this, she almost couldn't breathe.
"Brother, I want to go see him, is that okay?"
Su Lian said softly.
Nan Qingchu wanted to refuse, but when he saw Su Lian's eyes, he hesitated and nodded.