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Chapter 12 Falling ill
"...As soon as the prince closes his eyes, there will be a female ghost entangled in his dreams. It has been more than half a month, every night!"
"She's still a white-clothed female ghost, with an eagle nose and protruding eyes, and blue-faced fangs. She can crush a human skull with her bare hands! She can disembowel a human with just one hand!"
"Also likes to eat people's eyeballs, more terrifying than the evil ghosts in the storybook!"
"It's like this every night, and I can't even sleep well. No wonder the prince is getting more and more haggard."
Hearing this, Yu Qiu couldn't bear it any longer, and asked secretly, "Why is he haggard?"
The person who couldn't sleep well all day, was haunted by nightmares and was strangled was obviously her, Yu Qiu!
The servant girl said: "The last time we met the prince, he looked good, but it was all just pretending. For a person like the prince who is as white as jade and flawless, the most important thing is to behave properly. You must not lose your manners outside."
Yu Qiu was annoyed and asked, "How do you know he's just pretending?"
"That's what people say outside. People from the Crown Prince Residence invited the imperial physician and fortune-tellers to go there this morning. If the prince hadn't been unable to hold on and fell ill, the news would not have spread."
Another servant girl also said: "The crown prince is afraid that if it spreads and disturbs the hearts of the people, he keeps it a secret."
"Who is going to murder the prince?"
This is beyond what they can talk about, and the older maid hurriedly stopped him.The maids shrank their necks and changed the subject.
Yu Qiu was exhausted physically and mentally, refused the rouge handed over by the maid, and looked at himself in the bronze mirror, with eagle nose and hazel eyes?Blue-faced fangs?
She looked down at her hands again, the hands that had never done rough work were smooth and tender, how could they crush a human skull?Yun Heng almost crushed her!
In the previous day's dream, Yun Heng was calm, and the two of them were talking while playing chess, but they didn't say a few words in total, but Yu Qiu felt as if he had been hollowed out.
No matter how you look at it, she should be more haggard than Yun Heng!
Yu Qiu said weakly: "I want to rest for a while, you go out first."
Yu Qiu originally planned to tell Yu Xingshu about the dream when he was busy for a while, but now he hesitated.If one more person knows about it, there is more danger. If the father is eager to protect the daughter, when will he say it in front of others?
She couldn't tell others, but Yu Qiu thought about what happened in the dream last night by herself, and vaguely felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't figure out exactly what was wrong.
After struggling for a long time, I remembered what the maid had said, and simply cut the beginning and end of the matter between myself and Yun Heng, and made it into a story about a fairy and a scholar, and asked someone to pass it to Xiao Qingning.
Xiao Qingning said that she was not allowed to deliver the letter, but she still replied, first criticizing her for reading idle books, and then saying: "The immortal is in danger."
The fairy is the one who refers to Yu Qiu in the story. Yu Qiu was shocked, but saw that the letter was empty, why Xiao Qingning didn't write it.
Yu Qiu panicked, and hurriedly sent someone to send a letter to ask more questions. This time, he only got four words: read more and think more.
Yu Qiu would like to read and think about it, but there is no such book!
She was restless, so someone sent a letter to ask Xiao Qingning for an interview.
This compartment was tidied up, and just after stepping out of the courtyard, he saw Ge Qi walking towards him.Yu Qiu's footsteps stopped, and he forcibly suppressed the urge to turn his head and go back to the house.
Ge Qi is dedicated to protecting her, whenever he goes out, he will follow.The reason why he owed Yu Yanzong his life-saving grace in his previous life was because Ge Qi escorted his nanny back to the countryside and temporarily left Yu Qiu.
Obviously, he already knew the purpose of Yu Qiu's going out, and consciously prepared to accompany him.
The servants of the mansion treat him as half a master, and they don't hide anything from him, it's normal to know.Thinking of this, Yu Qiu's heart sank and he could hardly breathe.
Squeezing out a smile, Yu Qiu glanced past his arm and landed on the bamboo leaves behind him, "You came back after days of hard work, rest in the mansion first, you don't have to follow me."
Pausing for a moment, he called softly, "Uncle Qi."
Ge Qi had already learned about the third prince from the maid, and attributed all of Yu Qiu's anomalies to that matter, and replied: "This journey is hard work. You are going to see the Xiao family today, and I willFollow along."
Both of them understood this, after all, he was able to come to Yu's house because of Xiao Yufeng's push.
"That was all ten years ago."
Ge Qi smiled gratifiedly, "Yes, it's been almost ten years in a blink of an eye, and Miss has grown up."
The courtyard that had just rained smelled of green grass, and the dewdrops on the bamboo leaves were blown by the wind and rolled to the ground one after another.Yu Qiu watched a drop of dew being blown obliquely onto Ge Qi's sleeve by the wind, leaving a slightly darker mark.
She bit her lower lip lightly, raised her head to look at Ge Qi, and asked seriously: "Uncle Qi, have you ever thought about leaving?"
Ge Qi was stunned by her question, and quickly realized, "Where are you going?"
"The world is so big, it can be anywhere."
"The world is so big, I have nowhere to go." After saying this, Ge Qi smiled again, "Miss, do you think I'm bored?"
Yu Qiu squeezed an ugly smile on his face, "Yes, some, you always follow, I want to talk to people about girls, but it won't work."
Ge Qi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and said helplessly, "I'm not always so close, okay, I'll stay away from you later when you talk, and let the servant girl guard you."
Yu Qiu nodded, and continued to lead the people out.
No hurry, there is still time, take your time.She comforted herself in this way.
Her luck has always been bad, especially today, when she was about to step out of the mansion, a carriage with the sign of Yu Mansion stopped.Yu Yanzong jumped down, raised a smile and said, "Aqiu, where are you going? Are you fully recovered?"
Yu Qiu looked at him, his mind was pounding, and the words he heard in the previous life lingered in his mind again.
"Aqiu, that medicine only hurts you, it won't kill you. Be obedient and put it in the prince's meal...as long as you do what I say, I will definitely cure the poison before it goes away.The medicine is brought to you, trust me, I will not let you die."
"If it wasn't for me that day, you would have fallen to the bottom of the cliff to die without a whole body, or you would have been defiled by the street people and become that dirty whore!"
"As long as you are obedient and the matter is resolved, I will marry you. Even if your father and in-laws are gone, I will treat you well. We grew up together as childhood sweethearts. Trust me, I will not harm you."
A sound of accusations and pressing questions echoed in her mind, Yu Qiu saw Yu Yanzong walking towards her, saw the smile on his face slowly turn into doubt, and knew that she should respond, but at this moment her body seemed to be out of her control, she was stiff,Like a clay sculpture.
"Miss?" Ge Qi, who was following behind, noticed something strange and called her in a low voice.
This was tantamount to another thunderstorm, Yu Qiu shook her body, and the servant girl hurried to support her.
Yu Qiu was helped back.
Yu Yanzong got off the carriage first, followed by Yu Manxiu, and stopped outside Yu Qiu's room together, "What's wrong with Aqiu? Isn't it the wind and cold? Why hasn't he recovered for so long?"
The servant girl said: "Miss, the wind and cold are capricious, and it will flare up from time to time in the past few days, so I need to rest."
Yu Yanzong frowned, remembering what his sister said a few days ago, and asked, "Who is Aqiu going to see?"
"Miss Xiao."
"The Xiao family?" Both brothers and sisters of the Yu family were shocked, "Xiao Qingning of her maternal ancestor's family? The two families have reunited?"
The servant girl said truthfully: "It's just that Miss Xiao has some contacts with Miss Xiao, and the rest is still the same as before."
Yu Yanzong's complexion sank.
He has liked Yu Qiu since he was a child. Yu Qiu is beautiful, obedient, and doesn't like to go out. She is a charming young lady raised in a deep boudoir.He guarded Yu Qiu as tightly as he guarded a treasure, and only waited for the age to get married.
It's a pity that there was a Luming banquet not long ago, the emperor opened his mouth and asked all the ladies to go to the banquet.From then on, Yu Yanzong was worried, fearing that Yu Qiu would be taken away.
Hearing the humiliating words of the third prince, he was angry for Yu Qiu at first, but later he knew that Yu Qiu's reputation was bad, and he felt a little secret joy in his heart.
In terms of his father's family alone, Yu Qiu does not have a mother or brother, so he is considered a match.But if you count her mother's family, Yu Qiu is Xiao Taiwei's granddaughter, and her status is much higher than him.
From the bottom of his heart, he didn't want the two families to reconcile. Even if they reconciled, they would have to wait until Yu Qiu married him.
Yu Yanzong didn't believe what "Kefu" said, and now he suspected that the Yu family and the Xiao family were going to reconcile, and he already looked down on him, and Kefu made it up to perfunctory him.
But it doesn't matter, Yu Qiu is simple and easy to deceive, just a few words of coaxing will do.Yu Yanzong thought so.
Yu Qiu was blocked from going out, and Xiao Qingning also had an accident on her side, and was arrested before she could leave the courtyard.
"The concierge said that someone handed you something just now, what is it?"
Xiao Qingning said: "It's just a script."
"What's the script?" The one who stopped her was the twin brother Xiao Yufeng, who had been given a lot of homework recently, and ran to her when he wanted to be lazy.
Before Xiao Qingning could answer, he had picked up Yu Qiu's fabricated story and read it. Xiao Qingning waited for him to read it, and asked, "What do you see?"
Xiao Yufeng said: "Who wrote this story, it has no beginning and no end, and it's so unreasonable."
"Where is it unreasonable?"
"This scholar dreamed of being an immortal, and he didn't even ask about the origin and reason of his name. He only spoke out as a test. He is a scholar pretending to be a Taoist priest."
Xiao Qingning felt that her stupid younger brother was smarter than Yu Qiu, but Xiao Yufeng threw away the things casually, and said: "The prince is haunted by nightmares, and now there is a lot of ups and downs outside, you still read this book about ghosts dreaming, beware of your grandfather scolding you."
"Nonsense, do you believe it too?"
Xiao Yufeng was just saying it to scare her, seeing that it was not going to work, he turned around and said, "Where are you going? Don't think I don't know. You have been sneaking out several times these days, not to see your little sisters at all."
Xiao Qingning's eyes fluctuated, knowing that she couldn't hide from her twin brother, she lowered her voice and said, "I dare to say, do you dare to listen?"
Sooner or later she couldn't hide her relationship with Yu Qiu, and if her grandfather found out, she would be punished. Now that someone has come to her door, why not drag her down to block the scolding.
She knew this brother best, and it was easy to handle him.
Xiao Yufeng hesitated, seeing her look at her with a smile that was not a smile, he was not provoked, but asked cautiously: "Will I be scolded by my grandfather?"
Seeing Xiao Qingning smile after asking, Xiao Yufeng felt a chill in his heart, and immediately turned around to leave. She had already said, "I'm going to see Yu Qiu."
Xiao Yufeng staggered, and continued to leave quickly without turning his head. Xiao Qingning said behind him: "If my grandfather knows about this, I will definitely say that you are with me."
Xiao Yufeng stopped and stared at her, Xiao Qingning remained unmoved, "You go with me, you are destined to be punished anyway."
Because of this, she left a bit late, and when she arrived, she didn't see Yu Qiu, only the maid of the Yu family."My lady is sick and can't come."
"She just sent a letter to me and fell ill within an hour?"
Xiao Qingning didn't believe it, and Xiao Yufeng was also unhappy about being coerced to follow, and fanned the flames: "Maybe they didn't even want to come, they were just playing tricks on you."
Xiao Qingning frowned, asked someone to take off the Xiao Mansion logo on the carriage, and rushed to Yu's house.
He stopped at a nearby place, just in time to see Yu Yanzong and Yu Manxiu being sent out by servants.
Xiao Yufeng in the carriage looked at his sister's frosty face, coughed, and said in a low voice, "I'm just talking casually..."
Xiao Qingning put down the curtain of the car, and said coldly, "Go home."
The carriage quickly drove out of the street where Yu's house was located, and she instructed the maid again: "If you receive a letter from her in the future, just throw it away."