Lord, your grass jelly has slipped away again [Transmigration Book]

Chapter 78

Early the next morning, Zhizhou sent someone to the posthouse to invite Gu Yan to discuss the treatment of the plague with him.Gu Yan sent the servant who came to deliver the message, and quietly walked into the inner room.Ye Zi was still curled up in the quilt, her whole body was tightly wrapped, only the soft and fluffy back of her head was exposed.

Hearing the noise, Ye Zi opened his eyes in a daze, and turned his head: "What's wrong?"

Gu Yan took his coat and put it on, leaned over and kissed Ye Zi on the forehead: "Zhizhou came to see me, I'll go there. It's still early, you can sleep a little longer."

Ye Zi hummed like a small animal from his nasal cavity, and closed his eyes again without saying anything.

Gu Yan rubbed his hair, turned his head and left the bedroom.

The room was quiet for a while, and after Gu Yan left, Ye Zi didn't feel much sleepiness either. He rubbed his eyes and sat up, feeling a little dazed on the bed.Gu Yan went there for half an hour, Ye Zi waited in the house and waited for no one, finally couldn't wait, got up, put on some clothes and went out.

While walking, a shallow silver bell rang in the house.

Ye Zi raised his hand to look at the silver bell tied with the red string on his wrist, and sighed helplessly.

In order to prevent him from changing into his original form and running around again, Gu Yan put this thing on his wrist again, no matter how much Ye Zi begged him, he refused to untie it for him, so now Ye Zi is nowhere to be seen no matter where he goes Its people hear its voice first.

Ye Zi hid the silver bell in his sleeve, and was about to go downstairs to ask someone about Gu Yan's whereabouts, when the door beside him suddenly opened.

Gu Yi walked out from inside.

Ye Zi subconsciously took half a step back, but Gu Yi just leaned against the door and said with a light smile, "I knew it was you when I heard the silver bell, Xiao Ye'er, where are you planning to go so early? Oh, I know, I want to go Is it right to find a son?"

Ye Zi looked at him and nodded, "Yeah."

Gu Yi smiled and said: "I saw people from Zhizhou come to look for Zicheng in the morning, maybe they should be in the government office at this time, you can look for it."

"Thank you, Emperor..." Before Ye Zi finished speaking, he subconsciously glanced into the room, and changed his words, "Thank you, Prince Jing."

Gu Yi knew what he wanted to say, and explained: "Don't worry, there is no one in my room. Although I am interested in beauties, I just look at them from a distance. What's more, there is a beauty like Xiao Ye'er in front of me, how can I be so happy?" Have time to see other people."

As soon as Gu Yi finished speaking, there was a sudden noise from the corridor behind Ye Zi. Ye Zi turned around, and Ah Chu was standing at the stairs, looking a little embarrassed.

Ye Zi glanced at him, then looked away, and said in a low voice, "Prince Jing, stop talking nonsense."

Naturally, Gu Yi also saw Ah Chu, he straightened up, and walked out of the bedroom: "It turns out that Ah Chu is here, so hurry up."

He turned his head to look at Ye Zi, and said again: "Little Ye'er, I was just joking with you just now, it just so happens that I have something to go to find Zhizhou, I'll go with you, Quan will lead you the way."

Ye Zi subconsciously shook her head: "No need, I..."

Gu Yi interrupted him: "Why don't you need it? Aren't you coming out now to find your son? Guangling City is so big, it's not easy for you to find it yourself. With me leading the way, it just saves some trouble."

"I..." Ye Zi was silent for a moment.

What exactly Gu Yi wants to do, he still can't figure it out.Just like now, he doesn't understand why this person insists on taking him to find Gu Yan.Ye Zi instinctively felt that something was wrong, and was about to refuse, but the smile in Gu Yi's eyes faded.

Gu Yi said lightly: "Why, after following Zicheng, you don't even pay attention to my words? Xiao Ye'er, don't forget, even if Zicheng is standing here, he would not dare to disobey my ideas."

Although Gu Yi and Gu Yan are both princes, Gu Yi is the younger brother of the Holy Majesty after all, and his seniority is higher than that of Gu Yan.Even Gu Yan didn't dare not listen to him, let alone Ye Zi was only Gu Yan's concubine.

Ye Zi had no choice but to say, "Then thank you, Prince Jing."

Gu Yi took Ye Zi and Ah Chu along the street.Gu Yi turned to the two of them and said, "By the way, there are many people in and out of Guangling City these days, so it's not very peaceful. You have to follow me closely, and if something happens, don't run around."

Ah Chu hurriedly answered "Yes", but Ye Zi frowned indistinctly.

Today coincided with going to the market, and both sides of the road were crowded with vendors. Gu Yi rarely encountered such a bustling scene. He walked slowly and slowly, looking left and right with great interest.

Ye Zi and Ah Chu followed behind him, neither saying a word.

There were more and more people on the long street, the crowd was crowded, and they were scattered away without paying attention.When Ye Zi turned around, Gu Yi and Ah Chu were no longer around.

"Wang..." Ye Zi was about to call out when he suddenly felt a strange movement behind him.

Subconsciously, Ye Zi dodged sideways and grabbed the man's hand: "Who are you?"

That person was just dressed as an ordinary civilian, and he didn't even have a good kung fu.Ye Zi narrowed his eyes, and was about to ask again, when someone beside him suddenly attacked him.

They are now among the crowd, Ye Zi is afraid of hurting innocent people, so he dare not fight back easily.While dodging, he observed the surrounding situation and estimated in his heart.There were about four or five people who attacked him, none of them were masters, they just hid in the crowd, which was quite tricky.

Ye Zi dealt with these people for a while, finally found a gap, and got out of the crowd.

He walked into the alleyway beside him, and before he could breathe a sigh of relief, someone suddenly sprinkled some white powder on his face.

Ye Zi was unprepared and inhaled a lot at once.

The dust dispersed, and Ye Zi finally saw the person in front of him clearly.

He was also dressed as a commoner, with no experience at first glance. After spraying the powder, he stood there staring at Ye Zi in a daze, with a somewhat embarrassed and expectant expression.Ye Zi's face was covered in white powder, and she was in a daze when she heard footsteps behind her.

As soon as the person who sprinkled the medicine saw someone coming, he said anxiously, "Brother Wang, why doesn't he fall down?"

Ye Zi: "..."

Forgot, mortal medicine is useless to him.

Ye Zi thought about it for a while, but didn't resist anymore, and pretended to fall down, only to be caught upright by the person behind him.

The person who sprinkled the medicine was relieved: "Finally, it's down. It's no problem to stun a cow with this medicine. I thought it had no effect."

The person beside Ye Zi said: "Stop talking, come and give me a hand, don't be found out."

"Eh!"

With eyes closed, Ye Zi was hurriedly picked up and sent into a carriage.As soon as he entered the carriage, Ye Zi's wrists were tied up with hemp rope, and a black cloth was placed over his eyes.He could see nothing but feel the carriage going forward.

Ye Zi collapsed in the carriage with his eyes closed, and heard the kidnappers whispering around him.

These people all spoke the unique Wu dialect of the Jiangling area. Ye Zi could understand a sentence or two if they spoke slowly, but Ye Zi couldn't understand what they were saying at all when they spoke quickly.

Those people chattered a lot around Ye Zi, Ye Zi became dizzy more and more, and gradually became drowsy.These ecstasy drugs in the mortal world don't have much effect on him, but the effect is still there.Ye Zi gradually felt that his body was a little weak, so he stopped being hard on himself and closed his eyes to rest his mind.

He wasn't sure if his kidnapping had something to do with Gu Yi, but seeing that the man was so eager to take him out, it shouldn't be possible to get rid of it.

But Ye Zi couldn't figure it out, if it was really Gu Yi who did it, why did he find such a half-hearted kidnapper, his professional ability is too worrying.

Ye Zi's wrist hurt a little from being pricked by the thick hemp rope, so he struggled lightly, not daring to use too much force.

——This way of tying people, he might be able to break free with a little force.

Just as Ye Zi was thinking this, the carriage suddenly jolted and stopped.Ye Zi was carried out of the car.

This place should be a yard that has been abandoned for a long time. As soon as I entered, a decaying smell rushed towards me.Ye Zi was carried into the house, and was roughly thrown to the ground.Ye Zi's shoulder hit the ground, it hurt so much, he couldn't help but move slightly.

Fortunately, the people who kidnapped him didn't seem to realize Ye Zi's strangeness, they turned around and left the house, leaving Ye Zi alone in the house.

No, he's not alone.

Ye Zi held his breath, and obviously heard low gasps and deliberately low coughs from not far away.

Ye Zi waited patiently for a while, the people who kidnapped him were making noise outside, and didn't pay any attention to the situation in the inner room.

Ye Zi finally couldn't bear it any longer, and made a low noise on purpose, pretending to just wake up.

He struggled a bit but found that he couldn't move, he huddled in the corner in panic, and asked where the cough came from just now: "Who is where, what did you bring me here for?"

After a long while, a haggard voice sounded: "Young master is awake? Don't be afraid, we won't hurt you."

The man spoke Mandarin. Although he had some accents unique to Wu dialect, communication was not a problem anyway.According to his voice, he is not considered very old, he should be in his thirties, but his voice is hoarse and haggard, as if he is suffering from a serious illness.

Ye Zi pretended to be scared, and said in a trembling voice, "What are you going to do, I... I am Prince Rui's man, are you not afraid that he will find you?"

"Look here? We're almost dying, isn't it good to find us?" Another voice answered, equally hoarse.

Only then did Ye Zi come to his senses, there were far more people hidden in this room than he had imagined.After experiencing what happened in Yi'an, he couldn't tell that these people were already suffering from the plague.

But didn't you say earlier that there were no traces of the plague in Guangling City?

Ye Zi vaguely realized something.

The person who originally spoke lowered his voice and coughed twice before saying, "Don't be afraid, young master, we just asked you to help me. Cough, I believe you can see that we are hiding in this poor village. Everyone inside has been infected with the disease and is dying, we just want to live."

Ye Zi was silent for a moment, and said: "If you want to survive, you can go to the government to help, and the government will naturally save you. Why are you arresting me?"

"Government?" The man chuckled hoarsely, and said, "The government will not save us. If we fall into the hands of the government, only one will die."

Ye Zi frowned: "What do you mean by that?"

The man stopped talking, and at this moment, a person from the outside came in, involuntarily tore off a jade pendant from Ye Zi's body, and turned to the seriously ill man, "Brother, we have finished writing the letter, and I will send it to you immediately." Went to the post house, let Prince Rui send someone to bring medicine to replace him."

"Okay." The man coughed twice again, as if he was out of spirits, so he stopped talking.

Ye Zi leaned against the wall, lowered her head, feeling a little dumbfounded.

Sending medicine to change people, now he is even more worried that Gu Yan will directly lead people to level this place after receiving the letter.But now it seems that if they really found this place, it wouldn't be a bad thing.

The crowd came in and out, and after an unknown amount of time, someone walked up to Ye Zi and helped him up.

Ye Zi struggled subconsciously, and the man said, "Don't be afraid, I'll help you to sit on the chair, the ground is cold."

Ye Zi could tell right away that this was the person who had sprinkled the drug on him earlier.His Mandarin had a heavy accent, and he didn't speak it very neatly, Ye Zi struggled to hear it.

Ye Zi didn't struggle anymore, and was obediently supported by him to sit on the wooden chair beside her.Ye Zi maintained the original posture for a long time, his arms were tied behind his back and felt a little numb due to the blocked blood vessels, he moved impatiently, and realized that the man seemed to come to help him, but stopped his movements, just quietly stood beside him without saying a word.

Ye Zi's eyes were covered with a black cloth, so he couldn't see his expression clearly, but he could feel the awkwardness on that person's body.

Ye Zi suddenly chuckled, and said, "I'm tied up like this by you, I can't escape, you don't have to guard me like this."

The man said embarrassingly: "No, no, brother and the others said, they have to guard you, if you escape, everything will be in vain."

Ye Zi had never seen such a guilty and timid kidnapper before. He paused and asked again, "Who are you all? Why are you hiding here?"

The man was silent for a while, before he said: "We came to Guangling to make a living after fleeing famine from various places more than a month ago."

"Since that's the case, why do you live here in groups, and why are you suffering from the epidemic?"

The man replied: "This is because..."

"Ah Qing, shut up." The patient who had spoken to Ye Zi before stopped talking.

The man called Ah Qing gave an awkward "hmm" and didn't dare to say more.

Ye Zi thought for a moment, and said: "Actually, the purpose of the prince's return to Guangling this time is to find out the source of the epidemic and cure the people affected by the epidemic. You can tell me what happened, so that I can It’s good to be by the prince’s side to help you.”

The man sneered and said: "We appreciate the kindness of the young master, but we can't trust the government, sorry."

Seeing that he couldn't ask anything from this person, Ye Zi thought for a while, then turned the subject and said, "I'm curious, my lord and I just arrived in Guangling yesterday, how did you find out the relationship between me and lord so quickly, and you still do it?" Capture me? Is someone secretly helping you?"

"This is natural, otherwise how could we know that you will pass by there, we..."

"Aqing!"

Ah Qing was silent for a moment, and tentatively asked: "Can't you say that?"

What responded to him was the other party's heavy coughing.

Ah Qing anxiously said: "I'm sorry big brother, don't worry, I won't say any more... Big brother, you're coughing up blood! I'll find medicine for you—"

After he finished speaking, he immediately rummaged in the house.

Ye Zi vaguely realized something was wrong, and asked, "Looking for medicine?"

Ah Qing froze for a moment, stopped talking, and took out the medicine and fed it to the man.The man ordered something to Ah Qing, Ah Qing responded, turned around and walked out the door.

The room returned to silence, Ye Zi suddenly asked: "How long have you been like this?"

The man coughed a few times and said hoarsely, "It's been more than a month."

"you……"

The man whispered: "...I'm afraid I won't last tonight."

In just this moment, his voice seemed to have aged several years.

"I'm not the first, I hope I can be the last." The man said, "There was a flood in our hometown, and less than 30 people survived in the whole village. Now I'm suffering from Guangling disease. There are less than ten of us here."

Ye Zi felt uncomfortable, and asked in a low voice, "Did someone poison you?"

The man fell silent and did not speak.

Ye Zi knew that he might have guessed right, and asked again: "The person who poisoned him is related to the government? Where did your medicine come from?"

The man still didn't answer, Ye Zi wanted to ask something more, when suddenly he heard a loud noise from outside the door.What followed was the sound of scattered footsteps. Ye Zi listened attentively, and guessed that there should be no less than a hundred people coming.

Ye Zi was about to get up when someone pressed his shoulders suddenly, and a chill came from his neck.

A sharp dagger was at his throat.

When Gu Yan walked into the inner room, he happened to see this scene.His eyes darkened, and Ye Zi suddenly said, "Zi Cheng, don't—"

The middle-aged man who captured Ye Zi was extremely thin, his face was as pale as paper, and there were still some bloodstains on the corner of his mouth.He pressed the dagger against Ye Zi's throat, his fingers trembling slightly, as if he would scratch the delicate skin there if he was not careful.

Gu Yan stared at Ye Zi for a moment, then took half a step back, and said patiently: "You can discuss everything you want, let him go first."

The man said: "Your Majesty, what we want has been clearly stated in the letter we sent."

"I know." Gu Yan swept across the room, and there were several patients crowded in the dim room, all pale and emaciated.He withdrew his gaze and said calmly, "You want a medicine that can cure the disease."

"Give me the medicine!" the man said in a hoarse voice, "or I'll kill him!"

While speaking, his hands trembled more violently, Ye Zi only felt a slight tingling pain, it should be that his flesh was cut by the dagger.

A look of cruelty flashed across Gu Yan's eyes, before the man came back to his senses, he suddenly stepped forward and kicked the man on the shoulder.

Ye Zi only felt the sound of howling wind suddenly came from his ears, followed by the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground.He knew that Gu Yan must have been irritated, and hurriedly said: "Zi Cheng, don't kill him!"

Responding to him was the fingers that gently landed on his neck.Gu Yan gently touched his wound with his fingertips, as if to confirm whether the injury was serious or not.Afterwards, Gu Yan bent down and untied Ye Zi's hand, and pulled off the black cloth from Ye Zi's eyes.

Ye Zi was about to open his eyes, but Gu Yan said: "You haven't seen the light for a long time, don't open your eyes yet, I will take you back."

"Can……"

Gu Yan said: "Don't worry, I didn't kill him, I just passed out."

Ye Zi gave a "hmm" and didn't say anything else. She closed her eyes and buried her head in Gu Yan's arms, and Gu Yan still carried him out of the door.

The courtyard was full of people, Ye Zi squinted his eyes and glanced at the courtyard. Several people dressed like civilians were pinned down by the guards and couldn't move.The rest stood in place, waiting for Gu Yan to speak.

Gu Yan didn't even look at it, he carried Ye Zi directly into the carriage.

It was already afternoon outside, the sun was shining brightly, the light made Ye Zi's eyes sting a little.He closed his eyes and leaned in the carriage, and Gu Yan still helped him apply some wound medicine on the wound on his neck.

It took a while for Ye Zi to regain his vision. He blinked and saw the face that was close at hand.

Gu Yan looked down at him and asked, "Are there any other discomforts?"

"No." Ye Zi shook his head and rubbed his arms that were sore from being tied up for too long, "Why did you come so early, I can make up some words later."

"Can't wait." Gu Yan pulled his arm and kneaded it lightly, "You're almost killing me."

Ye Zi pursed her lips and said, "Didn't you send someone to follow me? There's nothing to worry about."

In this kind of place, Gu Yan dared not let Ye Zi act alone.Therefore, when he left this morning, he left many secret guards to protect Ye Zi's safety.

Even though he knew that Ye Zi was not in danger, he was still worried that he would be trapped in this kind of place alone.

Ye Zi leaned forward and kissed Gu Yan's lips flatteringly, the lips parted as soon as they touched, but Gu Yan didn't let him hide, grabbed Ye Zi's waist and pulled him back, pressed him on the soft cushion and kissed enough money.

Ye Zi couldn't breathe well after being kissed by him, she turned her head to pant a few times: "My lord, don't...you still have business to do."

Gu Yan looked at him deeply, as if he was a little dissatisfied with his disappointment.

Ye Zi bit her lower lip, and whispered something in his ear.Gu Yan's eyes darkened, Ye Zi hurriedly pushed him away, his side face was slightly hot: "Okay, let's get down to business, don't move any more."

A smile curled up on the corner of Gu Yan's lips, and he let go of him: "Okay, let's get down to business."

Gu Yan stood up, poured a cup of tea for Ye Zi, and then said, "What have you found out, who are those people?"

Ye Zi took a sip of tea, and told Gu Yan what he had just learned from the mouths of the kidnappers, as well as his own speculation.

Gu Yan thought for a moment, and said, "You mean, those people were poisoned?"

Ye Zi nodded: "They didn't admit it directly, but judging from their reaction, it should be so."

Gu Yandao: "According to what you said, those people have been ill for more than a month, but according to the symptoms of the plague, if there is no relieving medicine, they will die within seven days. They were poisoned, but they found a way to alleviate it." Medicine, why is this?"

Ye Zi didn't answer.

Gu Yan said: "It's okay, I've ordered all those people to be imprisoned in prison, and I'll go for interrogation in a while, I believe I can find something out of the interrogation."

Ye Zi responded, and said: "Also, we have been ignoring some issues before, where did the plague come from, and why is it so similar to the plague that happened in Chang'an 20 years ago. And... Why does Liu Huangshu know these things so clearly?"

Gu Yandao: "There is only one thing that can be explained, and that is that Uncle Liu knew the ins and outs of the plague back then, and he wanted to find a solution. I have been trying to find a solution to the plague over the years, but I don't know the cause of the plague, so the progress is not good. Many. But if Uncle Six had known what the poison was, it would not be impossible to find a way to detoxify it in advance."

"But why is he..." Ye Zi paused and didn't continue.

From the beginning to the end, Gu Yi's behavior was too strange.

Today it was clearly Gu Yi who lured Ye Zi out of the post house, and according to Ah Qing's words, Ye Zi could almost conclude that it must be Gu Yi's idea to those refugees that kidnapped him to change Gu Yan's medicine.

It looked... as if he was leading them to discover this group of refugees, and to find out that someone was secretly poisoning the refugees.

Gu Yan thought for a moment, then suddenly said: "Wait, you just said, when did they get poisoned?"

Ye Zi replied, "More than a month ago."

"More than a month ago." Gu Yan pondered and said, "That's a few days earlier than the plague in Yi'an."