"How did you know about this?"
Qi Yuan suppressed his shock and asked Zhao Yushu again softly.
Before she could speak, Zhao Yushu shed another tear and held his hand tighter, saying, "My mother-in-law told me a few days ago. She didn't say how she knew it, but I guess it's a secret." It has been hidden in her heart for a long time. There is a disease in the Xie family that is passed from male to female. The blood of blood relatives is used to make medicine to cure the disease. There are several secret rooms behind the palace of the father, and there are several Taoist priests living in them who practice medicine every day. Secret medicine.”
"pass……"
Qi Yuan tilted his head to express surprise.
A disease that is transmitted from male to female.
Then, what about him?
"What kind of disease is that?" he asked again.
Zhao Yushu shook her head and replied with sobs: "I don't know, my father has never been sick in front of others. He kept it secret. I don't know what the disease looks like when it occurs."
After listening, Qi Yuan couldn't help but press his heart.
He turned around and looked at the palace maid kneeling dead on the ground. If he had known earlier, he would not have killed her so quickly.
Then he thought about it but shook his head. Even if he asked clearly, so what. If you want to cure that kind of disease and you have to drink the blood of your blood relatives, it would be better not to know.
"Why did he only take your blood? There are other princes and princesses in the palace, but I think they are all fine."
"Why haven't you taken it?" Zhao Yushu got out of bed, stood up and said again: "Most of them have had their blood taken to make medicine since they were born, but the effect is not good. After all, if all the princes and princesses of the royal family are sick, It is a disaster and will inevitably attract criticism from people all over the world."
In other words, for so many years, only her blood, Zhao Yushu's, was the most effective in curing the emperor's disease.
Qi Yuan looked back at her, looking at her blood-stained wrist sleeves.
She lowered her head and followed his gaze to look at her arms and wrists, "Actually, it was okay in the first few years. Blood collection was not very frequent. Later, it slowly increased from once every few months to once every half month to now once every few days. My father is getting older, and his need for blood is also increasing. He threatened me with the life of my mother and concubine, and I could only force myself to get used to it, but I was still naive, I thought my mother and concubine was gone. , I can end this torture, but in fact I don’t even have the freedom to die.”
Before she knew it, her face was already covered with tears, and her cheeks felt like raindrops.
She was obviously still so young, not yet old enough to have hairpins, but her face was filled with a sullen look.
Qi Yuan took a deep breath, feeling that he could no longer hold back his bitterness.
No matter how resentful he was in his heart, what he had to admit was that if he had not been sent away back then, he would probably be in the same situation as Zhao Yushu, and he could not control his life or death. He had no chance to see the vastness of the world and the beautiful scenery of the West. Zhao Yushu had never experienced this before. She was locked up in this deep palace every day, not to mention the imperial palace, even the Qingchen Palace. You can usually get out.
In a way, she was suffering for him.
Half of the pain she endured should have belonged to him.
But every time her clear eyes looked at him, they were always filled with joy, glad that he had not been imprisoned and suffered in this dark imperial city like her.
Thinking about it, he still couldn't hold back his tears.
"elder brother?"
Seeing him shed tears, Zhao Yushu was shocked.
"I'm sorry. It's all my fault. I shouldn't have told you these terrible things. I'm sorry, brother."
"It's not your fault." Qi Yuan glanced at the darkening sky outside the window, took another deep breath and said, "Go out first and then leave the rest to me. I will settle you down so you don't have to worry about anything."
If he were alone, he would come and go as easily as the wind.
It will definitely be a little more difficult to take Zhao Yushu with her, but as long as the sky is dark and she wears dark clothes, she cannot be taken out of the palace. Moreover, the Qingchen Palace where she lives is in a remote location and is not crowded with other people in the harem. It also avoided more trouble.
Zhao Yushu dug out a dark black cloak with a tail hood from the bottom of the wardrobe, and put it on after it was completely dark.
Several maids waiting outside the dormitory have been knocked unconscious by Qi Yuan.
Going out went very smoothly. After carefully checking the surrounding situation, Qi Yuan took Zhao Yushu out of Qingchen Palace.
They did not jump up to the rafters and walk. In the palace, it was easier to be spotted at high places, and the masters in the palace were not vegetarians.
Zhao Yushu's heart was beating very fast, she was so happy that she was about to escape, and she was so weak that she was afraid of dragging her brother down. The only thing she could do was to obey her brother's instructions in silence. When her brother said he was leaving, she forced herself to follow him. Let's go. When her brother told her to stop, she obediently hid her body, avoiding groups of palace maids and eunuchs. When she reached the high wall where she had to jump, her brother went up to check the situation first, and then came down and took her over after confirming that it was safe. The wall passed.
Such an exciting escape made me panic and even more excited.
Only such a violently beating heart made Zhao Yushu, who was living in a pool of stagnant water, feel that she was really alive.
And those who left Qingchen Palace with their front foot, and those who are still looking for smoke with their back foot arrived at Qingchen Palace.
Perhaps she had not seen her return to life with Zhao Yushu's blood for a long time, so the emperor sent someone. When he entered the bedroom and saw the tragic death smoke, he screamed, and then the pot exploded. The princess's disappearance soon came to an end. It was passed to the emperor's ears.
"Outside is the moat outside the palace wall, hold on tight."
Qi Yuan told Zhao Yushu, and as soon as he finished speaking, he hugged her waist and jumped up to the high palace wall.
Zhao Yushu saw the wide moat outside and thought that her brother was going to take her to jump into the river and swim out. So she was so scared that she closed her eyes and held her breath for fear that she would be choked and make a noise and attract people, but the feeling of drowning in the water never came. It came, and when I opened my eyes, I was even more shocked.
The two of them flew across the river like kites and landed firmly on the other side without touching a drop of water.
Looking back, let's not talk about how high the palace wall is, but the moat is as wide as two Qingchen Palaces.
"Brother, you..."
She marveled, wondering what kind of identity her brother had been over the years. It was unusual for him to have such extreme lightness skills and such alert awareness. When he was inside, he could always avoid the guards at critical moments, and could even predict the palace guards in advance. Where will it appear and in what direction. She felt dizzy even when she was growing up in the palace, but he felt as relaxed as walking in his own backyard.
My brother must have had a hard time over the years to develop such a skill.
Before she could say anything else, Qi Yuan frowned and said into the darkness, "Come out."
From the dense tree, a man dressed in black immediately jumped out. It was the man who had been ordered by Shen Zhixi to come over to meet Qi Yuan.
"Commander Qi, this is what the master asked me to give you."
The man handed the ruby and the note into Qi Yuan's hands.
Qi Yuan held the ruby in his hand and his heart beat faster. He never thought that Shen Zhixi would give him the 'Chaoyun Order'.
She is also really smart, as expected of her.
He actually guessed that he would enter the palace to save people.
