The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 383: Revealing the Secret (Part 2)

He was not born when the first emperor died, but he once followed the emperor to the nunnery to visit Concubine Jing.

At that time, he was still young, and he didn't know what he had accidentally seen. It wasn't until he grew up that he realized that it was an imperial edict, and from the content, it looked like an imperial edict left by the late emperor.

He never mentioned this to anyone.

I didn't mention it when I was young because I didn't understand it, and I didn't mention it when I grew up because I thought it was too serious and I was afraid of bringing disaster to the Hou Mansion.

He came across that not long after arriving at the imperial decree, he was poisoned near Renshou Palace.

He never put these two things together, even after he grew up, he didn't feel that there could be any relationship between them.

As for why he didn't doubt Dowager Jing's intention to steal the imperial decree, because if it was him, he would do the same.

But he thought that there must be a knot in his heart, otherwise, it would not have prevented Gu Jiao from going to the nunnery outside the palace to treat Concubine Jing's illness.

Perhaps Concubine Jing had discovered that he had seen the imperial decree long ago, so she poisoned him.

Not only to frame the Empress Dowager Zhuang, but also to kill people.

After he recovered his life by chance, Marquis Xuan Ping and Princess Xinyang stepped up their protection, and Concubine Jing couldn't do anything about it until——

"Hey, why did you stop talking all of a sudden? Could it be that you were frightened?" Gu Chengfeng waved his hand in front of his eyes, "Where is this?"

Xiao Liulang came back to his senses: "No, I was just thinking about what you just said."

That day he went to the teacher next door, and heard that the teacher and Gu Changqing mentioned Princess Xinyang, the teacher said that he had something to ask Princess Xinyang, but he didn't hear much, he didn't expect it to be about the imperial decree.

He thought he was asking Concubine Jing.

Gu Chengfeng didn't know that he was thinking about the imperial decree, and he thought he was as shocked as himself by the fact that Concubine Jing drugged the emperor: "I know she is vicious, but I didn't expect that she would do it to His Majesty, right? , she..."

Gu Chengfeng suddenly found that he couldn't find words to describe this old hag, he curled his lips and snorted, "It's been really difficult for the Queen Mother these years, Your Majesty and her didn't have to go this far... But, I heard that Your Majesty The effect of the medicine is about to expire, so the old hag went to someone to buy medicine again. I don’t know if she has given medicine to His Majesty recently..."

Gu Jiao is at the top of the news pyramid, and Gu Chengfeng is ranked second. It is not yet known that Concubine Jing has given the emperor the wrong medicine.

But maybe soon he won't even be ranked second.

Xiao Liulang paused, and said, "Wait a minute, I'll write back to Jiaojiao."

Gu Chengfeng's face darkened.

I just brought you something to eat, and you still have to write her a letter!

The day he dies, he must be soured to death by these two people!

Xiao Liulang wrote a note to Gu Chengfeng, folded it and put it in the purse that Gu Jiao gave him.

He didn't take any secrecy measures. First, he trusted Gu Jiao's vision. If Gu Jiao could let Gu Chengfeng come over, it meant that Gu Chengfeng was one of his own. Freedom, it's impossible to have no skills. No matter how tightly he sealed it, Gu Chengfeng could still see it if he wanted to.

"Okay, then I'll make another trip. I planned to return to the Marquis Mansion after delivering the food for you." Gu Chengfeng accepted the purse, and when he mentioned the food, he glanced at the snacks on the table. It doesn't look good, but the dim sum is extremely delicate.

"Thank you." Xiao Liulang thanked him sincerely.

"If you thank me sincerely, give me a piece of your snack." Gu Chengfeng said.

"No." Xiao Liulang ruthlessly refused.

Gu Chengfeng: "..."

Gu Chengfeng performed lightness kung fu and left the Gongyuan. Because of the fire in his heart, he went to Bishui Hutong without even showing up, and directly threw the purse that Xiao Liulang asked him to bring back on Gu Jiao's window sill.

Gu Jiao didn't need to guess to know that Gu Chengfeng brought them here.

Gu Jiao threw the medicine bottle into the air.

Sure enough, Gu Chengfeng turned around neatly and caught the hair restorer.

He landed in front of Gu Jiao's window, and said angrily: "Just throw it like this! Don't be afraid of giving it to the wrong person! Hmph!"

After all, he carried Gu Chenglin's medicine into the endless night.

Gu Jiao took out the note from her purse - I know the content of the imperial decree, don't act rashly, wait for me to come back.

When she saw the first two sentences, Gu Jiao didn't feel any turmoil in her heart, but when she read the last sentence, the corners of her lips curved slightly into a beautiful arc.

"Wait for me to come back..." Gu Jiao read the last four words, leaning her elbows on the window sill, and looking into the distance with her chin resting on her hands.

Why be a little happy?

The corners of Gu Jiao's raised lips could not be pressed down.

"Hey!"

Gu Chengfeng came back suddenly, hung the golden hook upside down from the beam, hung his head outside Gu Jiao's window, and almost came face to face with Gu Jiao.

The difference is that Gu Jiao's face is upright, while his is upside down.

Gu Jiao looked at the uninvited visitor who ruined the atmosphere: "What are you doing?"

Gu Chengfeng said: "I forgot to tell you something, your husband was poisoned in the Gong Yuan."

Gu Jiao's expression turned cold.

"Fortunately, I went early, just in time..."

Before Gu Chengfeng finished speaking, Gu Jiao jumped out with one hand on the window sill.

Gu Chengfeng was dumbfounded: "Uh... so what, I haven't said the second half of the sentence yet."

With Gu Jiao's current skills, it is not a big problem to sneak into the tribute courtyard. Although the tribute courtyard is large, the structure is simple, and the proctors live in Jingyi Pavilion.

Xiao Liulang had just finished washing and was only wearing a thin coat. He turned off the oil lamp on the table and was about to fall asleep, but someone knocked lightly on the door.

"Who is it?" Xiao Liulang came to the door, took off the latch, and gently opened the door.

The person outside the door was not any of his colleagues, but a petite figure in black, wearing a gaudy mask.

The pair of eyes under the mask, like the light of a river of heaven, illuminated to the darkest place in his heart.

He looked at her in a daze, and also at himself in a daze in her pupils, forgetting to react for a moment.

"You two, go over there and have a look!"

A guard's voice sounded not far away.

Xiao Liulang hurriedly stretched out his hand, dragged her in, and slammed his head into his arms. He hugged her with one hand, and quickly closed the door with the other.

Almost the moment he put the bolt on, the guards outside the door also arrived.

"You two, go over there and have a look, you two are looking in this yard, follow me!"

"Yes!"

Gu Jiao was held tightly in Xiao Liulang's arms, she didn't move, and looked at him with big eyes blinking.

Xiao Liulang raised his index finger and gently placed it on his lips.

Gu Jiao understands.

Don't speak, she understands!

"Ah Choo—"

But I can't hold back the sneeze!

The masks are all crooked!

"What movement!"

A guard walked towards Xiao Liulang's house.

"It's me." Xiao Liulang said in his usual tone.

"It's so late, is Master Xiao still awake?" the guard asked outside the door.

Xiao Liulang hugged Gu Jiao, not daring to move a step: "I fell asleep, but I woke you up again."

"Sorry." The guard outside the door cupped his hands, "It was our brother who found a fainted guard near the kitchen. He seemed to have passed out for a long time. I don't know if some thieves sneaked in. We are being ordered to search in the tribute courtyard. Lord Xiao please be patient."

Gu Jiao took off the crooked mask, but was held tightly by him, unable to move away, she simply buried her little head in his arms.

Xiao Liulang's heart fluttered and his breathing became heavy. He collected himself and said, "I didn't hear any movement here. You should go to the adults to have a look."

"Yes." The guard responded.

"Brother, I didn't find it here."

"Not there either."

"Walk!"

The guards left Jingyi Pavilion one after another, Xiao Liulang listened carefully to their footsteps, and made sure that the last guard had also gone away, and the surroundings became quiet again.

However, Xiao Liulang didn't move, and neither did Gu Jiao.

There is no lamp in the room, only the thin moonlight unsatisfactorily projected in from the window paper, almost no light.

The night was quiet.

He hugged her, listening to each other's breathing and the sound of his own heart beating like a drum.

"I didn't knock out that guard, I didn't hit anyone."

Gu Jiao said.

"Yeah." Xiao Liulang responded vaguely, and gently let go of her arm, the night covered the crimson color of his cheeks, "It's so late, why are you here?"

"Gu Chengfeng said someone poisoned you." When Gu Jiao said this, her fingertips had already caught his pulse.

"I didn't eat." Xiao Liulang said, "The guard who fainted should be the one who brought me dinner."

"The pulse condition is fine." Gu Jiao asked, "Is the drugged person still eating?"

Xiao Liulang smeared and came to the table, took out the torch and lit the oil lamp: "Take it away, I kept some chopped green onions that were drugged."

As he spoke, he took out a small porcelain bottle from his bag.

Gu Jiao poured out the chopped scallions inside, and after a careful inspection, her face sank: "It's arsenic."

Someone actually gave her husband arsenic!

Her little fists mean they're itchy!

Looking at her fierce little expression, Xiao Liulang couldn't help but smiled.

He raised his hand and gently rubbed the top of her hair: "I'm fine. I didn't get hit this time. The other party should have guessed that it was revealing. They won't make another move in a short time."

At least he won't make a move in the Gongyuan again.

"That's why you came here in the middle of the night?"

In his opinion, this is a trivial matter. From the moment he returned to the capital, he had already expected that the road ahead would be covered with thorns.

"I will find the murderer." Gu Jiao said seriously.

"Okay." Xiao Liulang smiled slightly, stroking the little hair on the top of her head that was blown up by the wind.

It was strange that he had never done this before.

They have always been in the name of husband and wife, but there is no intersection between husband and wife. They are more like guests living under the same roof. They have their own domain and do not interfere with each other.

From what incident did their boundaries begin to blur? Their plans also started to involve each other?

Xiao Liulang lowered his head and laughed.

"What are you laughing at?" Gu Jiao asked.

"No." Xiao Liulang shook his head.

Just a little laughing.

As for what he was laughing at, he seemed to know, but also didn't seem to know.

"By the way, what exactly is written in Concubine Jing's imperial edict?" Gu Jiao skipped the question of how do you know the content of the imperial edict.

Xiao Liulang seemed to finally understand what he was laughing at, he was happy.

With her, it seemed that he never had to worry about her asking embarrassing questions, and of course he would not deliberately ask about things she was unwilling to respond to.

This is not cautious after getting to know each other well enough, it is due to each other's personalities, it is a natural tacit understanding.

Xiao Liulang said: "That is the imperial decree left by the late emperor before his death, and it contains very important things."

To say that the importance is underestimated would almost shock Chao Gang.

Gu Jiao asked, "Is it related to my aunt?"

Xiao Liulang nodded: "Yes."

Presumably it has something to do with my aunt, otherwise Concubine Jing would not have used her as her trump card for so many years.

Gu Jiao continued to speculate: "It was the first emperor who agreed that my aunt would listen to the government behind the curtain?"

If the first emperor agreed, then my aunt would not have to suffer so much criticism. Concubine Jing holding this imperial decree in her hands undoubtedly brought great obstacles to my aunt's road to regent.

Xiao Liulang shook his head: "No."

Gu Jiao changed her guessing direction: "That is to tell my aunt not to interfere with the court?"

"No." Xiao Liulang shook his head again.

Gu Jiao murmured strangely: "Isn't it really an imperial decree for my aunt to be buried by the late emperor?"

Xiao Liulang was silent.

When Gu Jiao saw his appearance, she knew the answer in her heart.

The imperial decree issued by the first emperor before his death was indeed for my aunt to be buried!

As a result, Gu Jiao became even more puzzled: "But why did Concubine Jing keep an imperial decree to let her aunt be buried? She and her aunt are so at odds, and she wished she could get rid of it quickly. Why did she hide the imperial decree? "

Xiao Liulang's eyes became darker little by little: "Because according to the imperial decree... the empress and concubine who were buried for the late emperor was not only my aunt, but also Concubine Jing."