Just as he was thinking about this, Xiao Yi Xiu grabbed the lower jaw of Gentleman Ye and popped a pill into his mouth. He smiled warmly, "Boss Ye, regardless of what benefits anyone has to offer, their lives are still more important. If you take this duke's pill, you will be a part of this king's person from now on. The Mo King's Manor will send you the antidote every month. If anyone notices Qiu Yue's situation, they will want to find you to do something else … You know what to do? "
Ye Shaoyang was caught off guard as he swallowed the pill. He understood immediately after he heard the old man's words, and smiled wryly in his heart. He realized that the epidemic situation was not as simple as he had thought, and was likely to involve the royal family's internal strife.
He braced himself and nodded, indicating that he would not let the matter of the autumn moon gradually recover. He respectfully sent them out the door.
As the night fell, cold rain began to fall from the sky. As snow covered the sky, the cold winter winds of the capital began to strike.
"I wonder if this snow will complicate the situation …" Those patients outside the city who live in simple jobs, I'm afraid they will worsen. " Gu Qingli stretched out her hand from the carriage to see the snow falling between her fingers and seeping into her skin. She was worried as she recalled the harsh facilities in the simple shed outside the city.
"Don't think too much." Xiao Yi Xiu held her in his arms and consoled her, "Tomorrow we will meet and invite him. You can ask him for permission to return from the outer city. Imperial Father should call him to inquire about a lot of things."
Gu Qingli's eyes lit up, "Not bad, we still have to go and see what's wrong with the medicine that Wu Teng ordered his men to distribute."
"Tomorrow, it will be dark." He gently embraced her. He felt that the delicate figure in his embrace was stiff without any feedback. He even somewhat refused.
He knew exactly what it was for, but he felt powerless and could only use a little more strength until her arms began to hurt.
That night, when they were sleeping, Gu Qingli uncharacteristically asked to be moved back to Feng Lingxuan as she was currently pregnant, and it was very inconvenient for them to share the same bed.
"I don't agree." Xiao Yi Xiu's eyes reddened as he flatly refused.
"I …" She hesitated for a long time. "I want to give birth to this baby, whether he's male or female, whether he's healthy or not."
"Alright."
He agreed without a second thought. Gu Qing Li's heart felt more like a dull knife that was slowly moving forward. Gu Qing Li knew that he was only obedient to her because he was carefully taking care of her emotions. She thought that he didn't know what she was thinking.
"That's why I have to move back to Feng Lingxuan. It's not only inconvenient to sleep in the same bed, but I can also use my womb's energy …"
Xiao Yi Xiu immediately said, "I never move about after I go to sleep. You know that. I will be more careful not to touch your stomach, and I will also control myself not to be with you... "In the living room."
His eyes dimmed for a moment, but when Gu Qing Li heard his words, his heart suddenly tightened. He turned his face to the side, endured the sour look in his eyes and rushed out before saying softly, "It's better not to, it's inconvenient." Endure it … "It feels terrible too."
"Then you stay in the room next door, I'll get Yu Ying to clean it up a bit more." He hurried out, not giving her a chance to refuse.
Gu Qingli wanted to call out to him, but she still compromised and sat down.
It was the night that the two slept separately. This was something the two of them had never experienced ever since they became husband and wife.
Gu Qingli rolled over on the bed, feeling that the bed was too hard and the quilt too cold to be warm. Thinking of Xiao Yixiu's warm embrace caused his tears to fall uncontrollably into his pillow, tightly holding onto the corner of his bed to prevent himself from making a sound.
She thought that even if he tried to keep a straight face and comfort himself, it was only pity and worry, but he did mind. Which man in the feudal era wouldn't care about this sort of thing?
And thinking that perhaps her fate with him could only end here, that was why she desperately wanted to give birth to this child, regardless of whether it was sick or crippled, no matter how many problems there were, even if he despised her, she had to bring him along to raise her, to prove that the two of them had once carved into their bones, dissolved in their blood, and were intimate with each other.
This was also good. The Gu in his body could not be cured, and he didn't have to waste any more time. He could wait until the child was born and leave him, or wait for the plague to pass … The Gu in her body also seemed to sense her pain, as it started to move uneasily, jumping around in her meridians. Her vision turned black, her body turned cold, and in the end, she was unable to resist as she fainted.
On the other side, Xiao Yi Xiu was also rolling on the bed. Thinking of the scene he saw today, his eyes almost popped out of their sockets. Hatred flooded him like a tidal wave, and he almost wanted to immediately fight Helian Yu to the death and tear him into a thousand pieces.
He clenched his fist and restrained himself a few times before he managed to catch his breath, knowing that he couldn't do anything to Helian Yu right now. For one, if something were to happen to him in the Eastern Abyss, it would lead to a war between the two countries. And secondly, if he really did do that, it would mean that he believed Helian Yu's words.
He had to show that he didn't believe the Helian siblings' words, in order to convince Gu Qingli to believe him as well.
However, that scene was like a heavy hammer that continuously smashed into his sea of consciousness. She did not know where she had gone, but she rubbed her wrinkled outer clothes and his snow-white skin … Helian Yu was sitting on the edge of the bed, staring at her.
After an unknown period of time, he was still unable to sleep. He got out of bed and stealthily went over to take a look at her while she was sleeping. He just wanted to take a look and give her a hug.
Quietly pushing open the door, Xiao Yixiu walked in silently. He was confident that his lightness skills wouldn't wake her up, so he lifted the tent flap and looked at her through the thin moonlight coming from the window.
There was about a snowfall outside, and the light reflected off the silver moon. His night vision had also been trained to see the pain on her face clearly, and there was an infinite sadness between her eyebrows.
After sitting there for a while, Xiao Yixiu started to feel that something wasn't right. Gu Qing Li was extremely vigilant. If she really hadn't woken up from her sleep, he wouldn't have such a pained expression on his face.
He sat on the bed and carefully picked her up before gently shaking her. "Qing Li, wake up."
She never opened her eyes. The space between her eyebrows was becoming more and more tense. Her body stiffened and her palms were tightly clenched. It was as if she was using her will to resist something.
Xiao Yi Xiu suddenly thought of the battle with the Gu worm in her body. His heart turned cold as he saw a faintly discernible black aura appear on the center of her brows. He realized that if she wasn't fighting the Gu in her dreams, she would be fighting against it on her own. Both of these things would trigger the Gu's backlash, and with her pregnancy, she definitely wouldn't be able to bear it.
"Qing Li!" He pressed down on her back and channeled some of his Qi into her. Carefully sensing the Qi channels in her body, he tried his best to calmly guide them, not allowing her to continue fighting against the Gu worms.
Perhaps because she felt that the internal energy he channeled was not hostile, the surging noise inside her body gradually calmed down. The ancient battle that was going on inside her body had yet to begin, but it had already started to die down.
Gu Qingli finally groaned. The space between her eyebrows gradually relaxed, but her body was still struggling.