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The steam was thick and half of his body was in the hot spring. It was so comfortable that he could not help but moan a few times.

Gu Danyan closed his eyes, smelling the faint fragrance of the herbs in the hot spring, and enjoyed it even more.

On the other hand, the servant girls on both sides were trembling as they looked at the two wounds on Gu Pingyan's shoulders, not to mention the purple spots on Gu Pingyan's body, even the bruises on his knees were carefully treated by the servant girls.

However, no one dared to ask.

At the same time, in the hot spring, there was also Litchi Bay that came for some unknown reason.

Litchi Bay was also wearing a snow-white robe, which was a little out of place in this hot spring. Litchi's face was flushed by the water vapor, but she didn't show any face when she said it: "Thank you for making a ruckus back then, now Your Highness is not seeing me anymore."

"He should be the person that you trust the most. Yet, you chose to hide it from him. It is simply your fault." Gu Mingyan picked up the Tiger Bone Wine beside him and gulped down a mouthful.

Litchi Bay's expression changed. "I did it for his own good."

"It's not like you don't know what he wants. Why are you doing this for his own good?" Gu Liuyan waved her hand, indicating that the maids should prepare some pastries and wine for Litchi Bay.

"Then do you know what His Highness needs?"

"At least, I never forced him to do anything." Gu Liuyan kept going back and forth with her, feeling bored.

Litchi Bay opened his mouth, but couldn't find any words to refute.

After a while, before he completely fell into the trap, Gu Liuyan quickly slipped out of the hot spring, changed into a clean set of clothes, and walked out on the wooden slippers outside the hot spring pool. She also asked for a glass of green plum wine from her servant girl and slipped out.

The ghost who was waiting outside opened his eyes and looked at her. "Are you addicted to drinking?"

"A little. The wine in this Yue Shan City is indeed the best." Gu Liuyan nodded and thought for a moment. "There's a winery on North Street. I heard that there's some good Tiger Bone Wine and Green Plum Wine there. You can go buy some and bring them to the empress dowager when the time comes."

"Tiger Bone Wine?" It's a little too strong. "

"I have the herbs here, so I'm not afraid." Gu Danyan threw the Green Plum Wine in his hand to him.

The ghost took a sip, then left with the black cloth.

Gu Liuyan led a few maids into the yard. Behind her, Litchi came out from behind: "It seems like you really are determined to oppose me."

In the evening, Gu Danyan personally delivered several jars of good wine and herbal medicine to the empress dowager. He accompanied the empress dowager to chat for a while before returning home. The courtyard was completely silent as the servant girl next to her told her, "Just now, the fourth prince's consort sent her two jars of green plum wine. She said that it was from His Highness the fourth prince. She waited for a while and left when she saw that you weren't there."

There was still some green plum wine left on the stone table.

Gu Daiyan shook his head helplessly, but he still ordered his men to accept it.

After hurriedly washing her face and rinsing her mouth, she fell into a deep sleep.

The night was a restless one. Nightmare was haunting him. When he woke up, he was covered in cold sweat. His fingertips were trembling and his head was still aching.

Her clothes were wet, so she had to get up and change into a clean set of clothes.

Just as he was about to pour a glass of water, he heard a loud bang as the two windows were suddenly pushed open. The ghost staggered a few steps and kneeled at the entrance, and the white shadow that had appeared in the village was standing in the courtyard.

"Someone, come!" The servant girl outside the yard screamed.

Countless guards rushed in, but the white shadow suddenly disappeared without a trace. Gu Mingyan frowned slightly and quickly helped the ghost into the room. She then shut all the doors and windows and ordered, "Don't let anyone into the courtyard!"

"Yes sir!" The guards outside nodded their heads. They did not have any objections to Gu Pingyan closing the windows like this.

Gu Mingyan saw that the ghost wasn't injured, so she put some effort into feeding him a pill. She squatted on the ground and tried out the tea.

The silver needle turned into a bluish-purple color.

Gu Daiyan's expression changed. He had found some venomous insects' joints in the tea leaves.

The book said that the seedlings used Gu poison, and the poisonous insects raised by Miao Jiang could also be soaked in poison. However, this person didn't seem to strictly follow the rules of crushing the dried poisonous bugs.

"This tea is poisonous. That white shadow is here to help me." Gu Danyan supported the ghost and spoke in a low voice.

The ghost was surprised, and then coughed, "That man is very cunning, his qinggong is very high, but his palm strength is not that great?"

"How did you get hurt?"

"I saw him knock out a servant girl, and when he caught her, he was hit with a palm." Ghost coughed.

Gu Liuyan was about to say something when the door was knocked. The two officials beside Lord Qi knocked loudly on the door and shouted, "Your Highness, it's bad! The fourth prince's consort was just ambushed and poisoned! "

"I'm coming. Send people to chase him. We must catch him!"

As Gu Danyan said this, he gave a meaningful glance to the ghost and said in a low voice: "You come with me. Do not let that man in white get caught."

"Yes." Phantom nodded seriously.

The other two officials also brought a group of people to protect Gu Liu Yan. When they arrived at the Litchi Courtyard, Duan Chengyu was in a hurry to turn around, and when he saw Gu Liu Yan enter, he immediately said, "Quickly look at her!"

Gu Liuyan nodded. After taking her pulse, she was slightly surprised.

This poison was a poison of the Yun clan, and it was in a poison book Yun Qingyang had given her.

Unfortunately, she had no antidote, so she could only send someone to boil the medicine while she waited in her room, deep in thought.

With a dark expression, Duan Chengyu sent people to search for the assassin's whereabouts. After a while, he returned and said, "This assassin is the man in white who attacked you earlier."

"Is that so?" Gu Daiyan's face was sullen, but he felt weird in his heart.

Could it be that the man in white was also from the Yun family? If he mistook Changping as the person who attacked him as a ghost, then why did he make a move on Litchi Bay this time?

Feeling that something was amiss, Gu Pingyan let Duan Chengyu leave: "Go out first, I want to give her the acupuncture in a while, don't let anyone in."

"Alright." Duan Chengyu nodded his head and quickly ordered his men to leave.

Gu Liuyan wasn't in a hurry to use the needles. Instead, she carefully searched through the rooms in Litchi Bay and found a box of live poisonous insects. On the other side, there was a jewelry box the size of a palm containing dried poisonous insects.

It was almost the same as the one in his tea.

He put the item back in its place without any change in expression, causing Gu Danyan's face to turn completely cold.

Litchi Bay could use poison? She had underestimated him.

It took a few hours to cure Litchi Bay of the poison. She woke up in a daze and saw Gu Pingyan sitting on the bed. She subconsciously screamed and retreated to the corner of the room, pointing at Gu Danyan but couldn't say a word.

How could she still be alive!