Chapter 347

"What bitterness do you have to suffer?" A domineering male voice carried a hint of coldness as it came from outside the courtyard.

"May the Emperor live for ten thousand years, ten thousand years, ten thousand times ten thousand years." Yan Hongtian had just stepped into the Qingfeng courtyard, and the accompanying eunuchs and palace maids were already kneeling on the ground. Qingfeng bowed and performed a salute, Gu Yun and Zhuo Qing also awkwardly did the same, while Yue Sheng still stood to the side, seemingly having no intention of performing a salute.

Looking up slightly at the domineering man, Gu Yun's mouth corners lifted slightly. Bringing Yue Sheng into the harem naturally required Yan Hongtian's consent, and Su Ling went to talk about it early in the morning. It was not strange for Yan Hongtian to come over to take a look, but it was a bit too urgent that he didn't even have time to change out of that bright yellow court dress.

"Can you heal her face?" The dark black eyes swept over Yue Sheng's ordinary face. Just this one sentence, not light and not heavy, already made people feel a sense of oppression.

Yan Hongtian was always moody. Zhuo Qing began to worry about Yue Sheng. Yue Sheng's expression remained as usual, and he replied coldly: "As long as I want to heal it, let alone this small injury, even if the whole face is rotten, I can change her into a new one. However, within the three months I help her heal her face, except for me and her personal maid, she cannot see anyone. If this cannot be done, then that face doesn't need to be healed."

His black eyes darkened, and Yan Hongtian scoffed, "Including me?"

"Of course."

Qingfeng also broke into a cold sweat for Yue Sheng. According to Yan Hongtian's character, he would definitely not let people who disobeyed him have a good time. She had already experienced it many times when she first entered the palace. Sure enough, Yan Hongtian laughed coldly: "Alright, I promise you. From today on, no outsiders are allowed to step into Qingfeng Palace within three months. If her face is not healed after three months, I will take your life." Leaving this sentence, he flicked his sleeves and left.

Everyone thought Yan Hongtian was angry at Yue Sheng, but Gu Yun discovered that before Yan Hongtian turned around, he looked at Qingfeng, but Qingfeng turned her head away extremely quickly, not making eye contact with him. Gu Yun guessed that Yan Hongtian walked away with a dark face, it should be because of Qingfeng.

Yue Sheng looked at Yan Hongtian's cold and fierce back and laughed coldly: "The evil spirit is too heavy, no wonder the offspring are sparse."

Hearing Yue Sheng's words, Qingfeng trembled, her complexion much paler than before.

"You two go too." Waving at Gu Yun and Zhuo Qing, Yue Sheng also drove them out of Qingfeng Palace.

"What did you say? Say it again!"

A shrill cry sounded in Yilan Palace. Xin Yuening looked like she was burning with anger. Shui Xin was calm, and repeated the words she had said once before, word for word: "Qing Ling and Qing Mo found a doctor to heal Qingfeng's face. The Emperor has already approved it, and issued an edict that no one is allowed to step into Qingfeng Palace to disturb her within three months..."

"Enough, stop talking!" Having already heard it clearly, Xin Yuening just couldn't believe it. "Didn't you say that Qingfeng has been staring at the courtyard thinking about her son all day? This is clearly going crazy! Not looking for someone to heal her brain, but healing her face? And her face is rotten like that, can it still be healed?"

Xin Yuening paced back and forth in the inner room, talking from time to time, and Shui Xin did not answer her, only standing quietly to the side.

While talking, she suddenly stopped and stared at Shui Xin, saying anxiously: "What if she really heals her face?"

Shui Xin smiled slightly and replied softly: "Your Ladyship need not worry. Not to mention that her face is not so easy to heal, even if it is healed, there is nothing to be afraid of. You are the master of the East Palace, and you have Prince Jing by your side..."

Hearing Shui Xin's words, Xin Yuening nodded, and the anxiety on her face faded a lot, smiling with quite a bit of complacency: "That's true, who in the palace is not a beauty? She even lost her son, what kind of trouble can she still cause."

Shui Xin lowered her eyes slightly, not looking at Xin Yuening's complacent face.

Qing Mo could actually find a Ghost Doctor to heal Qingfeng's face. She really didn't expect it, but she was actually looking forward to Qingfeng's face being healed. Watching such a beauty play tricks and fight for schemes, how pleasing to the eye it would be. Shui Xin's mouth corners hooked into a shallow arc. Anyway, it was their Xin family who said that she didn't need to act on her own, so don't blame her for completely ignoring it...

Gu Yun and Zhuo Qing walked out of Qingfeng Palace. Walking on the palace road out of the palace, Gu Yun suddenly pulled Zhuo Qing to a small path to the side and said in a low voice: "Let's go to the Imperial Medical Garden."

Zhuo Qing raised her brows slightly. A few days ago, she suggested going to the Imperial Medical Garden, but Yun always said not to be in a hurry. Today she suddenly said to go, she must have found some clues. Zhuo Qing nodded, and the two quickened their pace toward the Imperial Medical Garden.

Arriving at the medicine decocting room of the Imperial Medical Garden, Gu Yun scanned the inside, and her gaze finally fell on an eighteen or nineteen-year-old little medicine boy.

"Are you Zhang Qian?"

That was a fair and clean boy. Hearing the call from behind, he turned back and was stunned for a moment. Seeing their attire, they did not look like people working in the palace, but people who could enter and leave the palace freely were probably of some status. Zhang Qian turned his thoughts several times, and said flatteringly: "Which two sisters are you?"

Gu Yun smiled slightly and said: "You come out."

Zhang Qian saw that they were just two thin women, so he did not think much and followed them out.

Just walking out of the Imperial Medical Garden, Gu Yun grabbed Zhang Qian's collar with one hand and dragged him directly to the alley behind the Imperial Medical Garden. Zhuo Qing looked at Gu Yun dragging someone like a chicken with amusement, and remembered when Gu Yun caught criminals in the past, she also did this, but at that time she was dashing and handsome, and now doing it with this underdeveloped body, although it was still smooth, it was a bit funny.

Zhang Qian never expected that the little girl who looked like she only reached his chest would have such great strength, and threw him into the corner of the wall casually. Zhang Qian just wanted to call someone, but heard the woman ask coldly: "On the day the prince passed away, who took the medicine dregs?"

"You... who exactly are you?" Zhang Qian's face turned pale, staring at the two, retreating a step, and saying in a fluster: "How would I know who took the medicine dregs! It wasn't my turn on duty that day!"

"You don't know?" Gu Yun scoffed, not wasting time with him, and continued to press: "On the 8th and 16th of every month, the number of people on duty in the Imperial Medical Garden is the smallest. The day the prince passed away happened to be the 8th. You used to sneak in to steal some precious medicinal materials to sell, so you were definitely in the Imperial Medical Garden that day. The medicine storage pavilion is on the second floor of the decocting room, so you not only know where the medicine dregs went, but you should also have seen the person who took the medicine dregs. Speak, who is it?"

Listening to Gu Yun's words, Zhang Qian's complexion could no longer be described as pale. In the cold weather, his forehead was covered in dense sweat, and his back was already soaked. She... how did she know everything?! Facing Gu Yun's sharp eyes, Zhang Qian was so panicked that he did not dare to move. A drop of cold sweat slid down his forehead and just happened to slide into the corner of his eye. Zhang Qian's eyes hurt, and the spell of Gu Yun was also broken. Zhang Qian retreated another big step, his back against the cold wall, and roared: "I... I don't know what you're talking about!"

"Refuse to speak?" Seeing his reaction, Gu Yun was not in a hurry, leaning against the other side of the narrow alley, and said not lightly or heavily: "Since I can say these things you did, I naturally have evidence in my hands. Secretly selling medicinal materials from the palace is a crime in itself, and once this matter spreads, I think not only do I think you saw the person who took the medicinal materials, but that person will also think you saw it, and you might even be killed to silence you..."

Zhuo Qing laughed. She had always admired Gu Yun's interrogation techniques, whether it was a street hooligan who was slippery and tricky, or a drug lord who killed without blinking, there was no one she could not capture. Such a young medicine boy who had not yet entered the world, if he really knew who took the medicine dregs, he would definitely tell the truth in the end.

Sure enough, before Gu Yun finished speaking, Zhang Qian's face, which had long been scared white, began to turn blue. Stepping forward to Gu Yun, Zhang Qian said anxiously: "Don't, don't, spare me, I'll say it. However, you must promise me that you cannot expose me."

The fish took the bait, and Gu Yun's patience was basically exhausted, shouting: "So much nonsense! Speak!"

Zhang Qian looked left and right to make sure there was no one in the alley, then whispered: "It... it is Commander Ming!"

"Ming Jian?" Zhuo Qing was stunned.

Zhang Qian put his hand to his mouth and said anxiously: "Shh! Don't shout!"

"When did he come to take the medicine dregs?"

"It was... half an hour after Ruyi from Qingfeng Palace came to call away Imperial Physician Wang and Imperial Physician Hu."

Zhuo Qing calculated the time. The time Ming Jian took the medicine dregs should be before Fuling went to find the medicine dregs. If Ming Jian was the one who poisoned the medicine, he should have collected the medicine dregs in the afternoon, not wait until the prince passed away to come and take them. Zhuo Qing looked up at Gu Yun beside her. Her eyes were cold and deep, seemingly thinking about some problem. Zhuo Qing did not disturb her.

Zhang Qian saw that neither of them spoke, and moved toward the direction outside the alley, "That's all I saw, I really don't know anything else!"

Gu Yun did not make things difficult for him anymore, waved her hand, and said: "You go."

Zhang Qian did not stop his feet for a moment, and in a flash, he rushed out of the alley and disappeared. While running, he wiped his sweat, scared to death. The matter of him stealing and selling medicinal materials had already been discovered. If it really didn't work... he would just escape from the palace. Anyway, he had just sold the news of Commander Ming taking the medicine dregs to Sister Ruyi a few days ago and earned a lot of silver. If he didn't run now, when would he? If the matter was exposed, he would have to lose his life. The more he thought about it, the more he felt it was reasonable. Zhang Qian quickened his pace and ran toward his room.

The two walked out of the Imperial Palace in silence. Zhuo Qing really could not understand: "How could it be Ming Jian? Why did he take the medicine dregs?"

Gu Yun crossed her arms, her expression much more relaxed than before, "What if it was instructed by Yan Hongtian?"

Yan Hongtian? Zhuo Qing stopped and looked at Gu Yun, as if she had figured something out, and replied: "Then we should go and visit the Criminal Justice Official Dan next!" Gu Yun shrugged, looking like she had the same intention.

(End of chapter)