"Young Master, there is... a corpse in Beiyuan." The little maid's green tree shook like a sieve, and her eyes were full of fear. She tried hard to calm down, and then she managed to speak clearly.
Xiao Cheng sent someone to Tingfeng Tower to invite Mo Qi, and he followed Lushu to Beiyuan.
The guards in the mansion had dug the body out of the soil and covered it with a white cloth.
Xiao Cheng opened the white cloth, and a wet smell hit his face.
Under the white cloth was a skeleton. According to the autopsy results, the deceased was a ten-year-old girl who had been dead for four years.
There are obvious marks of cold weapons being pierced on the ribs, and it can be basically judged that he was killed with one blow.
The murderer's attacks were swift and his martial arts were extraordinary.
"Sir, this was found on the corpse."
A guard presented a jade plaque to Xiao Cheng.
The jade plate is engraved with a large Chinese character "Liu" and a snake-shaped totem underneath.
Snake shape? Surname Liu?
"It's taken care of. Don't let this matter spread."
Xiao Cheng wrapped the jade token with a handkerchief and put it away. He planned to give the jade token to Bai Liyu. After all, he could protect Su Qing better than himself.
Moreover, there are many people with the surname Liu in the capital, but the only ones who can take action against Su Qing are Shilang Liu, Queen Liu, and King Pingnan. Among them, King Pingnan is the most likely.
These three people all belong to the eldest prince Baili Mao's party, and Baili Yu is better at court affairs, so it is most appropriate to leave this matter to him for investigation.
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A man about thirty years old checked Su Qing's pulse again. When he felt the pulse, his brows furrowed and he looked very unhappy.
Mo Qi checked Su Qing's pulse and said: "There are two poisons in the girl's body that are conflicting. If it weren't for the Huichun Pills to mediate it, she wouldn't be able to survive even seven days."
"..."
Baili Yu, who was standing by, had a terrifyingly low pressure, and his frown could kill a fly.
Mo Qi asked someone to put out the incense and use tongs to pinch out a fist-sized piece of musk.
Then I pulled out the oleander by the window and dug out a lot of magic pollen from the flower pot.
"The incense contains a lot of musk, and there's phantom pollen buried under this oleander plant."
Magic pollen is a hallucinogenic flower ground into powder from the Western Regions. Inhaling just a little bit can cause neurasthenia, cause a person to fall asleep for seven days, and die in a dreamland.
Add musk and oleander to phantom pollen, and a nightmare is created.
Although nightmares only require these three things to make, magic pollen is hard to find, and magic flowers are rare even in hundreds of years.
Who is so generous and wants to kill Miss Su? Is it the one from Donglan Kingdom?
"There is hidden poison in Miss Su's body. If it were not for the pull of the nightmare, the hidden poison would never attack in her lifetime. Now the two are in conflict. Even if there is a rejuvenation pill to reconcile, it is extremely dangerous and can only last for ten days at most."
Mo Qi wrote a prescription to Bai Liyu, "This is a prescription that can prolong her life, but it still lacks the fire lotus."
The fire lotus grows in extremely hot places. It is rare to see it in a hundred years and is extremely rare. The hope of finding the fire lotus is even slimmer.
"Is there no other way?" Bailiyu rubbed Su Qing's pale face and lowered his eyelids. It was impossible to guess what he was thinking.
"Yes, yes, but you will be in danger, my lord."
"I don't care." Bai Liyu's voice was calm, as if he didn't take Mo Qi's words to heart at all.
He will definitely save her, no matter what the cost. He will not let go of anyone who secretly harms her.
"Use... feed the life and death Gu with the prince's blood, feed it continuously for seven days, plant the death poison on the girl, and plant the live poison on the prince, so that the prince can share the poison for the girl and extend the girl's life for three years, Your Majesty.
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Mo Qi was in a bit of a dilemma. The prince would be in danger just by raising the poison with his blood, let alone share the poison with the girl.
It's all because of his bad mouth, why can't he control it. If something happens to the prince, it would be strange if Ning Liu didn't beat him to death.
Moreover, the life and death Gu can only be fed by the prince, because once two people plant the life and death Gu, they must become husband and wife.
He can't let Miss Su marry someone else. If that happens, the prince won't break him up.
No, he must find a way to ensure that the prince and the girl are safe so that they can give birth to a little prince.
But apart from the fire lotus and the life and death Gu, what else can help the girl survive?
By the way, there is another person who can save the girl.
"Your Majesty, it's the strange doctor Piao Miao, that is, your uncle can save the girl, but the strange doctor Piao Miao's whereabouts are uncertain. I'm afraid..." It's harder to find someone.
Mo Qi looked at Bai Liyu's cold face and swallowed the words silently.
Because if he keeps talking, even if Ning Liu doesn't beat him to death, the prince will take half of his life.
"Bring the Gu."
"Your Majesty..." Mo Qi wanted to persuade Bai Liyu again, but she felt that the pressure on her body was almost unbearable.
He had no choice but to painstakingly take out the life and death Gu from his medicine box.
This life and death Gu was his treasure. He didn't expect it to be used so soon. His heart ached.
The life and death Gu is a transparent insect egg, only the size of a grain of rice. There are two Gu in the egg, also known as the Biwing Gu.
They are like flying birds, clinging to each other, never leaving each other, living and dying together, and never living alone.
"Life and death Gu, life and death depend on each other. If the life of either party is in danger, the life of the other party will also die. Has the prince thought about it?" Mo Qi asked without giving up.
Bailiyu nodded and followed Mo Qi to the side hall.
But he didn't notice the tears falling from the corners of Su Qing's eyes.
Su Qing was awake for a moment just now, and she could hear Baili Yu's voice.
She desperately wanted to open her eyes, but she couldn't control her body, and slowly even her remaining consciousness was gradually dissipating.
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For the next seven days, Bailiyu stayed in Su Qing's room.
He stayed in the side room, raising Gu while watching Su Qing.
Taking blood every day was already too much for his body, but he had no intention of giving up.
On Xiao Cheng's side, since the bones were dug up, he began to strengthen the troops in the mansion. They guarded the city lord's mansion like an iron barrel with five posts and one sentry.
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In the past seven days, he also captured many spies, all of whom were imprisoned in water cells and ordered to be interrogated day and night.
But even so, it was still very sparse, and one person was ignored, and that was the little maid who served Su Qing - Shitou.