Chapter 590: Waking Up In Shock (2)
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
The Empress Dowager nodded. “Yong Chang is a pure and kind person. People say she is knowledgeable, capable in both literature and martial arts, and an exemplary noblewoman, the number one person in Great Chang. But in my opinion, she’s nothing but a fool.”
It turned out that Princess Yong Chang had taken the initiative to stand up at that time and say that she was willing to marry into the north on behalf of her second sister.
However, the late Emperor did not agree and even ordered the Second Miss of Duke An Manor to be sent out.
It was at that time that the matter of the Shared Fate Gu was exposed. It turned out that Princess Yong Chang and the late Emperor were both found to be inhabiting the Shared Fate Gu.
In this way, in the eyes of outsiders, the former Emperor’s intention of protecting Princess Yong Chang was self-evident.
Firstly, it was to survive. With Princess Yong Chang by his side, he could monitor her at any time.
Secondly, it was for love. The Shared Fate Gu allowed the two of them to share their lives. Moreover, it was a love Gu used by the Eastern Desert Kingdom.
“Later on, we found out that Princess Yong Chang was indeed poisoned by the Shared Fate Gu, but the person she was linked to was not the previous Emperor, but with Consort Ru. Consort Ru believed the rumors and wanted to poison Princess Yong Chang before ending her own life. However, she miscalculated the timing. When Yong Chang was poisoned by the Gu poison, she was killed by another concubine. Yong Chang’s life was not connected to hers. As for the late Emperor’s Gu poison, it was implanted by the Second Miss of the Duke’s Estate. She wanted to protect herself and marry into the royal family. From the beginning to the end, she was the instigator. Back then, she was also present at the Empress Dowager’s banquet and had a deep love for the late Emperor. That was how everything happened…”
At this point, the Empress Dowager sighed. The people involved in the story were either sentenced to death on the spot, killed, or disappeared like Yong Chang.
In the end, she was the only one who knew the entire story.
Now that the late Emperor had passed away 24. years ago, many people did not care about this matter any more. They didn’t even know that the Empress Dowager was guarding this old secret. In the past, she would never tell anyone anything about it. Whoever asked would die.
This year, she suddenly felt that it was boring holding onto this ancient matter. Since someone was asking, she was willing to tell them.
After Ah Yu heard the story, she was extremely puzzled. “Empress Dowager, I still don’t understand. Since the Shared Fate Gu is a very important Gu, and ordinary people can’t obtain it, why is Big Brother All You still poisoned?”
The mission guide Meatbail received was to let her enter the palace and guide her to find the “storyteller”. Then, she would be able to obtain the traction clues of the Shared Fate Gu.
However, even after the Empress Dowager had explained it so clearly, Ah Yu still did not understand.
The Empress Dowager looked at Qin Huai and waved at him. “Child, come over and let me take a look.”
Qin Huai took a step forward.
The Empress Dowager rolled back Qin Huai’s eyelids and looked at his palm. She nodded. “It’s a sign of the Shared Fate Gu. However, you should have eaten the medicinal catalyst made by the Golden Rain Worm. In fact, your life is no longer in danger. Back then, Yong Chang also ate the medicinal catalyst of the Golden Rain Worm after being inflicted by the Shared Fate Gu. Later on, she was fine. Don’t worry, it won’t harm your life.”
“No, Empress Dowager. My Grandma said that we have to find the person who also inhabits the Shared Fate Gu with him because that person is very likely Big Brother All You’s mother. It’ll be very dangerous if we don’t cure her! However, we can’t completely confirm that it’s her, so we came to look for you.”
“Oh?” The Empress Dowager understood. She had confirmed Qin Huai’s identity.
Recently, her son had been running around the palace like a crazy dog and shouting at the imperial physicians, threatening that he wanted to bury their entire families. It seemed that the Empress was not doing well.
Linking all the clues together, how could she still not understand?
The Shared Fate Gu had acted up, courtesy of a third party controlling things in the background, causing the Empress’ life to be in danger.
This palace was like a sieve. It had yet to filter out all the spies in the Eastern Desert Kingdom.
“Empress Dowager, please!” All Yu pressed her palms together. “On account of the fact that you’re very similar to my Grandma, help us more. I’ll make tea for you to drink!”
As long as she could save Big Brother Ah You and his mother, Ah Yu was willing to spend the Myriad Spirit Sacred Fruit and nutrient fluid.
In any case, the elf had said that after saving Big Brother All You, she would marry Big Brother Ah You in the future. What was his would be hers. What was hers could be considered his too. Only by giving would there be gain.
Ah Yu felt that it made sense.
After the Empress Dowager drank that tea just now, she knew that it was definitely not her regular sweet tea. That tea was very strange. It must be some kind of spirit pill.
She couldn’t even feel the pain from her chronic illness.
When one was old, they would not ask for anything else. They only wanted less illness and a better mood.
Now that she had obtained them, she naturally would not make things difficult for the child.
The previous Emperor was already dead, and she had been angry for so many years. It was time to let go of her anger.
“Qing Ye,” the Empress Dowager called out.
Qing Ye quickly walked in. “This servant is here.”
“After noon tomorrow, ask Commander Zhang to come and see me.” The Empress Dowager looked at All Yu and Qin Huai and added, “Clean up the Hall of Abundance and let the two of them stay. Send someone to talk to the Emperor.”
This time, Qing Ye lowered her head decisively. “Yes.”
Ah Yu pulled Qin Huai and followed behind Qing Ye.
“Big Brother All You, should we get someone to talk to Teacher Chi Jia too?” He must already be anxious from waiting outside.
Qing Ye, who was walking in front, pretended to straighten her back even more, looking like she would definitely not help them.
Ah Yu didn’t even look at her. She took out three jade stones from her pocket and threw them in a direction.
Under the moonlight, with a light flash, the jade stones were caught by the hidden Inner Palace experts.
Ah Yu’s happy voice sounded along with the jade. “It’s the payment along with the promised amount for just now. Help us send a message. Thank you!”
The Inner Palace expert who subconsciously caught it:”…”
“Wastrel,” Qing Ye muttered.
Ah Yu hummed and pulled Qin Huai’s arm, swinging it around happily.
She had a lot of jade.
Because they were all bought by Meatbail, she went to the lottery with one point and found a bunch. She had 12 bags of them, and each bag contained 100 jade. They were all very exquisitely carved.
She did not like them much, but it was not good to discard them.
She liked the things Grandpa sculpted the most!
“Achoo!” In the middle of the night, Old man Wang, who was sleeping well, suddenly woke up from his dream with a start and sneezed fiercely.
He turned around and saw Old Madam Wang sleeping soundly beside him. He gritted his teeth and said in a low voice, “Old woman, that’s not right. Why are you still scolding me in your dream!”
Old Madam Wang was woken up in a daze. She kicked him and Old man Wang fell off the bed.
“Who scolded you? Is your brain fried?! Why aren’t you sleeping in the middle of the night? Are you pretending to be a ghost here?!” With that, Old Madam Wang turned around and fell asleep again.
Old man Wang crawled back under the blanket, satisfied. He muttered and fell asleep. “I knew it. You must have scolded me.”
Otherwise, why would he sneeze in the middle of the night?