C11

Chapter 11 - Ideas of retreat

The sun was waning in the west, and red clouds covered the sky.

The street vendors began to pack up their stalls and return home. The bustling street could not help but have a sense of loneliness.

The wheels of the carriage echoed but the carriage was unusually quiet.

When he went, it was as if he had deliberately taken a detour, but when he came back, he had only taken a detour.

Yun Qianliang leaned on the walls of the carriage and looked out the window. The carriage passed by the people who were rushing home.

Yun Qianliang carefully went through everything that had happened these past few days in her mind, especially the assassination attempt on their newly wedded night.

At that time, she had seen the assassin's shoes. The upper of the shoes was silk, and it was impossible for an ordinary assassin to wear such good shoes.

As a secret service agent, she was constantly on the brink of death and had many contacts with killers. For professional killers, the more dressed they were, the better it would be for them to get away. No one would wear a limited edition tag to kill people, because it would expose their identity too easily.

Yun Xiang Mansion did not lack money, but she would never be generous to such an extent, especially when her mother was a person who loved money. If there was such a large amount of expenditure in the palace for her servants, she would definitely cut it down, and in order to prevent such a thing from happening, even if there was money, it would not be revealed.

The Yun Xiang Mansion s were excluded, only Song Shujin and Tianhui Emperor were left.

He had the motive and time to plan all of these. After making Gu Yicheng feel embarrassed, he would kill the person who was disadvantageous to him, and slander Gu Yicheng as his opponent. From the topic of motive to benefits, Song Shujin was almost the best suspect.

As for the Tianhui Emperor, he was afraid of Gu Yicheng's power, and wanted to suppress him, so he betrothed the powerless direct daughter in the Yun Xiang Mansion to Gu Yicheng as his principal wife, preventing him from marrying the daughter of someone with authority in the imperial court, and making things more beautiful for her. No one would doubt her motive if she died in the General's House. However, he could completely predict Song Shujin's actions, especially since he had intentionally arranged all the conditions for Song Shujin so that he could reap the rewards while sitting still, and he could even secretly punish Song Shujin for that.

Killing three birds with one stone was also quite suspicious.

"Does Master know who sent the thief to assassinate him?" Yun Qianliang gathered her thoughts and broke the silence of the carriage.

Gu Yicheng thought for a moment, then replied: "I don't know."

Yun Qianliang squinted her eyes, seeing through the meaning behind the raise of her eyebrows, she laughed instead of getting angry, "Those people dared to barge into the Gu Xiangfu, does master not plan on investigating?"

"Questioned?" Gu Yicheng scratched his chin, then shook his head: "I don't even know who they are, how do I go about investigating them?"

"If I can find it, would the prime minister agree to one of my conditions?" There was anticipation in Yun Qianliang's heart, and nervousness was revealed between his brows.

Gu Yicheng changed his position and lazily leaned on the horse carriage, looking indifferent. "I don't care, I'm not going to die anyway."

Hearing that, anger rose up in Yun Qianliang's heart, he clenched his fist tightly and almost threw it towards that handsome face, luckily she gritted his teeth and controlled his emotions.

"Even if you say that, but if I die in the Gu Xiangfu, I'm afraid the Lord Prime Minister won't be able to explain himself." Yun Qianliang's eyebrows curved into a smile, the emotions in his eyes deeply hidden.

"Miss Yun thinks too highly of me. If you dare to touch me, then take away my power and position in the imperial court. You need to use these tricks to make sure you can't touch me." Gu Yicheng bluntly said as he strangled her little thoughts in the cradle, "If you die in the Residence of General, at most, I won't protect you properly. What's more, if I say that the Prime Minister is incorruptible and cannot afford to buy good guards, would the Emperor give me some guards or money? "

The corner of Yun Qianliang's eyes twitched, she looked extremely angry, and she laughed inside.

Pure and honest?

Your Wanshen's great scoundrel actually dared to call himself a clean and honest man. His knowledge of himself is truly rude.

Yun Qianliang let out a long sigh, and the intelligence between her brows instantly dissipated. She carried an innocent smile on her face, and brought the things she brought from the House of the Marquis of An back to her side.

"Since Prime Minister is so honest, I will take all of these items for myself. This way, I won't have to worry about any treasures that might cause you to bend over." Yun Qianliang opened the jewelry box and put it on. If he couldn't put it on, he would put it away. Seeing that the box was of no value, she smiled brightly at the clean and honest man opposite her and said generously, "After all, he is your grandfather. I will leave this box as a souvenir for you."

After taking care of the jewelry, Yun Qianliang tidied up the medicine in the box, placed both of her hands on top of the box, in a position of being afraid that others would snatch the treasure from him.

Gu Yicheng was unreliable as he wanted to amass more money. After a few days, she would take care of some things, take away some money, then bring his two servants and fly far away to a place where he could live his life freely.

A dead chess game, whoever wanted to do it would do it.

Let her sit down obediently and wait for her death.

After the two of them returned to the residence, they didn't interfere with each other and didn't say anything unnecessary.

Yun Qianliang was trying to avoid splitting the funds, so that when she returned to the Cloud Water Pavilion with the things in her arms, she closed the door and isolated everyone outside.

After Gu Yicheng returned to the Green Pine Academy, he immediately went into the study and took out some paper and a brush to write.

"Gu San." Gu Yicheng shouted once he finished writing.

Gu San who was waiting outside the door opened the door and walked in. He stood in front of the table and cupped his fists.

"Send someone to investigate the effects of this prescription." The medicine recipe that Gu Yicheng was talking about was exactly the one that Fructus Ligustris Sativus wrote.

The Gu San took it, looked at it, and said: "Master, there are three types of antidote in this prescription, all of them are antidotes."

"Can you tell what the antidote is?" Gu Yicheng asked.

"It doesn't look like a strong poison." Gu San answered, "I will immediately send people to investigate."

The Gu San took the prescription and left. Gu Yicheng sat in front of the desk for a while, got up and walked to the window.

The window of the study was facing towards Cloud Water Pavilion, and from afar, he could see the movement in the main room of Cloud Water Pavilion.

At this time, Yun Qianliang sat in front of the dresser, asking this servant to help his take off the jewelry in his hair, he was fiddling with a goat fat white jade bracelet, appreciating it seriously.

She chatted with the servant, laughing so hard that the petals trembled. It really was like a delicate flower swaying in the wind and rain, beautiful yet firm.

Gu Yicheng stood with his hands behind his back, his thoughts slowly flying far away.

Not only was it an assassination, there was also a chronic poison in the body, which could appear at any time after marriage to the Gu Xiangfu.

As expected of a game of death, he had already considered the failure of the assassination attempt and chose the conservative poison method.

Yun Qianliang suddenly shivered, she looked out the window, then stood up and walked over to the window.

Seeing Gu Yicheng standing at the opposite window, observing every single movement within her house, she slightly leaned forward and closed the window.

When he turned around, Yun Qianliang was still fuming.

Wasn't it just monopolizing those gifts, did he really have to monitor them?

"Chun Hua, take the papers and go find the other five hundred silver taels from the Lord Prime Minister."

However, Yun Qianliang did not manage to receive the last payment that day, as this servant was sent off by a simple phrase, she was so angry that Yun Qianliang did not even have enough money to eat.