Chapter 20 - Gamble

Such a good Prince Li, he had not even given her the opportunity to explain herself out. There was no one in the hall, only a bowl, what was inside the bowl, no need to use her mind, anyone could figure out what was inside it.

The guiding man said, “Eldest Young Miss Gu, two days ago, our Prince had said, today is the day you had mentioned for the both of you to meet up, hopefully you still remember this.”

Gu Qianxue understood his words, “This is the poison?”

“Indeed it is.” The man confirmed. “If Young Miss Gu has no courage to drink down the liquid, this one beneath(*zaixia) is able to help Young Miss Gu.”

Gu Qianxue lightly laughed while shaking her head, stretching out her hand slowly taking the warm bowl of poison medicine into her hands, “Rest assured, whatever this young miss(* ben xiaojie) lacks, the thing that I lack the least most of is courage. It’s just that there’s something I’d need to trouble you to bring a word for me to his Prince, brother”(*not literally, 小哥)

“What word(s)?” The man asked.

Gu Qianxue made the gesture of drinking down the warm bowl of poison, “Consort Qin’s illness, perhaps I am able to treat it.”

At this moment, there were only two people present in the hall, the male guide and Gu Qianxue.

Everyone else was blocked from the outside, no one knew what had happened in the hall at all.

“Young Miss Gu, what had you said just now?” The guiding man was in a state of shock.

Gu Qianxue’s heart knew, what she had done was the right thing, in the past she had heard news about how Consort Qin’s body was not well and was out of sorts, our family ancestors had passed down a book on medicine, there were very few records about the rare diseases in the world, yet I wonder if I could be of assistance to Prince Li.”

The man furrowed his eyebrows, his eyes within them held suspicion, “There is a book on medicine that has been passed down by the ancestors in the Gu’s Residence, why had this news been not passed before?”

Gu Qianxue slowly put down the bowl, “Not the Gu family, but the Zhao family.”

“Zhao family? Could it be that Marshal Zhao Yuanzheng, Field Marshal Zhao?” The man continued to ask.

“Naturally, Field Marshal Zhao is my grandfather, don’t know if this little brother would have known this already?” Gu Qianxue answered. “Could little brother be thinking that, how could this book end up under my hands, why had I not taken this book out before, am I right?”

The man was quietly silent without a word.

Gu Qianxue congenially continued to explain answering to him, “Perhaps my grandfather had heard of this book, but whether he had seen it or not, this book, was something that had been given from my grandmother to my mother, as a form of wedding dowry. A few years back my hands and head were hard up, secretly snuck into the warehouse to steal my mother’s jewelry to exchange for some silver for myself to spend, within all the gold and silvery jewelry, I had spotted a torn ancient book, thus I had brought it out.”

These had been all naturally made up by Gu Qianxue at will, but they are not made up in a blind manner.

As for Zhao Shi’s mother she had no memory about, even Zhao himself had no memory, because she had already passed away.

According to legend, my grandmother was an orphan and was rescued by Marshal Zhao. They became husband and wife, she died while giving birth to Zhao Shi. Marshal Zhao loved his wife so much that he didn’t marry once again. He had only one wife and one daughter all his life.

“I’ve read that book several times and had burned it, the contents of it is a little boring.” Gu Qianxue lifted her eyebrows and shrugged her shoulders. Obviously, the movements that were made by her looked rather playful on her body.

The man hesitated, not knowing if Gu Qianxue was talking freely, with the thought of whether he should tell is His Highness Prince Li about this matter.

Gu Qianxue looked at the man with a smile. The slender jade like hand held up the bowl filled with poison. “Little brother, you are the last person I will be seeing before my death. Shouldn’t you tell me your name?”

“……” The young man who is still pondering is speechless. It is really Gu Qianxue’s topic is too big.

“They all say that the one who ends up in this life is the one whom they are also destined to be reincarnated. Maybe you and I are the so called predestined.” Gu Qianxue squinted her eyes at the man, her thick eyelashes, like a butterfly’s wings, gently shook delicately.

Gu Qianxue was flirting with handsome men? Not really. She was just stalling for time, because she knows there was still one person that was hesitating.

“……” The man is much more embarrassed, his mouth was wide open, he had not a clue of what to say.

“Do you know, the consequence of fooling benwang?”

Suddenly, a deep but pleasant male voice came from behind the screen on one side of the hall.