Chapter 63

Mu Yuanzhi also didn't know how to explain it to them, what should she say? Say that Qilin would be made into a human pig by Pei Shangling?

No way, she could only blurt out: "I've been having a dream lately, a very real dream, in which you were made into a human pig by these evil people, I was so scared, I went to ask the National Teacher, he said this might not be a prophetic dream."

After hearing Mu Yuanzhi's words, Gu Rongjin fell silent, he intuitively felt this wasn't as simple as a dream.

Qilin heard and instead went to comfort Mu Yuanzhi: "Senior sister, don't be afraid, I'll take good care of myself, it's not that easy for bad people to get close to me, my poison is second to none in the world!"

"Someone actually claims to be second in the world? Who's first then?" Gu Rongjin asked amusedly.

"Naturally it's my senior sister!" Qilin admired Mu Yuanzhi from the bottom of his heart.

"Oh come on, you haven't seen each other in ten years, you flatterer!"

"Don't keep stirring up trouble between us senior sister and junior brother! My senior sister is exceptionally talented, my master said she's a once-in-a-century genius in medicine and poison!"

Gu Rongjin nodded in agreement, he said to Mu Yuanzhi: "Little Yuanzhi, since you're so worried about this little friend, may I teach him martial arts?"

"You?"

"What? You still doubt my martial arts?" Could it be that the image of him as a spoiled noble son is that deeply ingrained?

Qilin gave Gu Rongjin a dismissive once-over: "You? Your martial arts are that high?"

"Haven't you seen me kick over the imperial secret guards with one foot? Do you know how formidable the imperial secret guards are, little one?" Gu Rongjin boasted, raising his eyebrows.

After careful consideration, Mu Yuanzhi nodded; with Gu Rongjin teaching Qilin, Qilin's keen intellect would surely learn it.

Just fearing Pei Shangling would use underhanded tactics.

"Don't worry, little Yuanzhi, I'll love the house and its crow, I'll protect your junior brother." Gu Rongjin patted his chest, guaranteeing.

Not much, Mu Yuanzhi's heart remained in suspense.

She herself in her previous life could be said to have been too stupid, bringing it on herself, but Qilin is innocent; if not for protecting her, Qilin would never have incurred Pei Shangling's grudge!

"Don't cry and scrunch your face, little Yuanzhi, good luck will be scared away by you; what's there to fear, you have me now." Gu Rongjin pinched her cheek, smiling.

Mu Yuanzhi lifted her eyes to look at Gu Rongjin.

Gu Rongjin thought he was about to be hit, but she rushed over and smiled at him, saying: "Mm, you're right, over-worrying isn't good."

"I thought you agreed with the fact that 'I have you now.'" Gu Rongjin sighed.

Qilin watched their interaction and blurted: "You two look so loving!"

Mu Yuanzhi snorted, loving?!

Really?

Gu Rongjin grabbed Qilin in a hug, "Tsk, your vision is poisonous, no wonder you're a poison user."

Qilin tilted his head: "Because my master and mistress get along like that, they call it loving."

"Exactly, after all I'm your brother-in-law, I should be loving with your senior sister." Gu Rongjin pushed his luck.

"Brother-in-law?! You guys got married?!" Qilin's pupils shook.

Gu Rongjin: "Soon, we're currently in an engaged relationship."

"Let's go, back to the palace to detoxify the great-grandmother." Mu Yuanzhi ignored them and turned to leave.

"She's shy." Gu Rongjin helped explain.

Qilin didn't really understand, is this what being shy is?

So the senior sister also likes this person named Gu Rongjin?

"But if I teach Qilin martial arts, then I'm his master, so are you his mistress or his senior sister? This seniority is so messed up!" Gu Rongjin caught up with Mu Yuanzhi to ask, successfully earning a hit.

At that moment in the Grand Yue Palace, Pei Shangling had already sent people to fetch the prescription Qilin wrote, and he told the Emperor that this prescription was bought at great hardship by Pei Yunxi from the Miao people.

Seeing Pei Shangling so confident, Pei Yunxi couldn't feel happy at all.

She had finally managed to keep that old woman from jumping about; if she really woke up, wouldn't she just cause trouble again?

She understood what Pei Shangling was planning, but this is a gamble; who knows if that old woman will take a liking to it? What if she still sides with Mu Yuanzhi?

"Ling brother, you should discuss this with me." Pei Yunxi whispered in Pei Shangling's ear.

"No delay, little sister, rest assured, I'll back you up on everything." Pei Shangling thought Pei Yunxi was just worried he wouldn't be able to round out the lie.

An honest, kind child who wouldn't lie.

The Emperor sat before the Grand Empress Dowager's sickbed, personally feeding her medicine; it's hard for an unconscious person to swallow medicine, feeding requires care and patience, the Emperor didn't mind the trouble, taking very careful care.

Granny Zhang watched anxiously from the side.

"Father Emperor, please rest assured, this prescription has been examined by the physicians of the Imperial Medical Institute, there's no problem; once the great-grandmother takes it, she will surely improve!" Pei Shangling said, and without delay went on to praise Pei Yunxi: "This is the prescription little sister painstakingly retrieved."

The Emperor's face beamed: "Yunxi's filial piety will surely move heaven and earth."

After feeding the last spoonful of medicinal soup, he gave the bowl to Granny Zhang beside him, then gazed hopefully at the wan face of the Grand Empress Dowager on the sickbed.

"Yunxi doesn't dare claim credit; this is what Yunxi should do, surely it's Yunxi's daily prayers that moved the heavens!"

Pei Shangling was full of anticipation, thinking that once the great-grandmother woke up and knew it was little sister who saved her, she would certainly, like them, dote even more on little sister's kindness and filial piety.

By now, Pei Yunxi naturally hoped the prescription would work, otherwise she'd become a laughingstock.

However, after a quarter hour passed, the Grand Empress Dowager on the sickbed showed no sign of waking, moreover her complexion hadn't improved at all.

The Emperor's expression was no longer as bright as before; he gestured for the imperial physicians to come over and have a look.

The imperial physician took the Grand Empress Dowager's pulse, found it hard to speak, glanced at Pei Shangling and Pei Yunxi, then finally told the Emperor: "Your Majesty, the Grand Empress Dowager's pulse remains unchanged; the gu poison seems not to have been dispelled."

Upon hearing that, the Emperor's face immediately sank a few degrees.

Pei Shangling didn't believe it, he shoved the physician aside: "How could that be, is your pulse-taking accurate?!"

"This..." the physician, drenched in sweat: "If Your Highness the Fourth Prince has doubts, you can have other imperial physicians come take the Grand Empress Dowager's pulse."

Granny Zhang was extremely disappointed; she just knew Pei Yunxi was unreliable!

Seeing that the Grand Empress Dowager truly showed no sign of improvement, Pei Shangling instantly flew into a rage.

Good! That stinking brat dared to deceive him!

Pei Shangling's eyes blazed with fire, his whole appearance looked terrifyingly fierce.

Pei Yunxi couldn't help but recall the day of her adoption ceremony; Pei Shangling was also more or less like that, her whole person seemed to be on fire.

Who deceived him?

"This prescription seems to have no effect at all." the emperor said, his voice dim and unclear.

Pei Yunxi was extremely embarrassed, and also felt wronged.

Obviously it wasn't her fault; she was being forced to do something she couldn't!