Aisha grew up pampered and pampered. She had never left Qiemo before, and she had never seen the tragic scenes of millions of corpses lying dead and bleeding for thousands of miles in the war in the Central Plains, not to mention the princes who had been tempered here. She was frightened by King Wei for a while, and she trembled even more sharp.

Pei Zhi had no intention of speaking anymore, and suddenly felt a numbness on the back of his hand. He lowered his head and saw Yu Tingwan's fingertips touching him lightly, and his expression finally softened.

"Your brother has some friendship with Gu." He moved his eyes to Asul, "Where is the boy your sister mentioned coming from?"

Aisha understood that King Wei was helping her brother rather than herself, and looked at Asul with a pleading look.

"Your Highness, we only know that the young man's surname is Yun, and we don't know anything about the others." Asul hesitated for a moment, then tightened his jaw and said: "He is an orphan who grew up in Qiemo. His mother is a dancer from Liangzhou, with a big belly. Fleeing to Qiemo, she died giving birth to him.”

In the troubled times, many Liangzhou slaves fled to the Western Regions after their master's family was destroyed. Since she was a dancing queen, she probably didn't even know who her children were. With such an origin, life must be very difficult.

"Don't know anything?" King Wei repeated these four words and chuckled: "Although I have many ears and eyes, I can't find a needle in a haystack."

"Your Highness." Ayesha's voice trembled, "He is hiding near Chang'an, I can guarantee that."

She pointed to her heart: "Xiangsi Yin told me."

Aisha's Central Plains dialect was not very good, and Yu Tingwan didn't understand it clearly. He also thought that her mother was a witch, and thought that Xiangsi Yin was some kind of divination method from the Western Regions.

"Is it so spiritual? I heard that animal bones are commonly used in the Western Regions for divination. Is it related to lovesickness?" Yu Tingwan leaned forward slightly and asked.

The girl froze on the spot, shook her head and explained: "This is a kind of Gu. It was originally found in Beihu. Later, I accidentally got the Zi Gu, so I figured out how to refine it myself."

Seeing that the princess was curious, Ayesha was not as displeased with her as King Wei was. She relaxed and said, "Lovesickness attracts the mother gu. I fed the mother gu to Yun Lang. The farther away he is from me, the more painful my heart becomes."

She raised her head and looked at the cold-faced King Wei: "Your Highness is well-informed and should know how effective Xiangsi Yin is. I can guarantee that Yun Lang is in Chang'an."

"I have never heard of it." Pei Zhi finally glanced at Ayesha and said calmly: "Do you have a portrait of that person?"

"Yes!" Aisha's eyes were bright and she said quickly: "When His Highness's people went to look for him, I followed him to guide him."

Asul couldn't bear it and said: "You didn't sleep for days and nights along the way. Aren't you afraid of fainting while giving directions?"

"No wonder the princess's complexion is so bad. It's better to rest first, and there is no rush." ​​Yu Tingwan said with concern after hearing this: "Since she is in Chang'an City, it will be much easier to find her."

"Princess, it's not that I don't want to rest, it's that I can't rest at all." Thinking of the pain every night, the girl's beautiful facial features twisted for a moment.

Ayesha saw Yu Tingwan frowning and murmured about the pain of the poison attack every night.

Every time the girl said a word, Yu Tingwan's face turned paler.

"Ayesha, you..." the woman sitting on top said cautiously: "Can this poison be solved?"

Yu Tingwan advised: "If it can be solved, it will be solved. Why torture yourself like this?"

Asul's eyes were bright, and he felt that the princess was speaking out what was in his heart, and he couldn't help nodding, wanting her to say more.

"It can be solved, but it requires his cooperation." The girl smiled and said, "If I can't find him, I won't be able to survive if the mother Gu dies."

"Don't worry, Princess. I paid attention when I was refining the Gu. The attack is not one-tenth as strong as the real lovesickness. It's just a little painful and it's not a problem."

Asul, who was sitting aside, had his eyelids twitching. If it weren't for the mother's poison on the boy, Asul planned to kill him on the spot as soon as he found him.

He found that his sister was rebellious, but she was still restrained in front of the King of Wei and the princess. He could barely listen to a few words, and then told the princess about Aisha's tragic night with added jealousy.

Yu Tingwan met the girl for the first time, but while drinking her brother's wine, she saw Asul's helpless look and coughed twice.

"The Western Region is so far away from Chang'an, how could the person you are looking for come here?"

"He is my lover, and I have always wanted to come to the Central Plains to visit." The girl's eyes were blazing.

"Ayesha, that's not the meaning of the lover in Zhongyuan dialect." Asul had a headache. "He was just your medicine slave at first, and then he became a face-shou."

If he wanted King Wei to help, he had to tell the truth. Asul bowed his head to the man above him and said: "Your Highness, that young man was just a runaway slave. When we caught him... if he struggled, it didn't matter if he lost one of his legs. When he was sent back he would still be alive." It’s good to be alive.”

Pei Zhi didn't show anything on his face. He noticed that the woman beside him had stiffened, and silently held her hand, stroking the back of her hand with his fingertips.

"I haven't agreed yet."

His tone was very indifferent.

Asul regretted very much. King Wei didn't like to care about this, so he asked shamelessly.

Yu Tingwan's face turned pale and she said softly: "Fugitive slave? Ayesha, does he know that you have lovesickness in you?"

The girl said easily: "I have raised him since he was a child. He ran away because he didn't know there was a lovesickness in him. When I tell him, he will go back with me obediently."

Yu Tingwan had never seen Gu before, and said with some suspicion: "He swallowed a bug alive, does he really not know?"

Ayesha smiled when she heard this: "Princess, Xiang Si Yin is not a bug, there is only this -"

The girl raised her hand and gestured with two slender fingers, trying to explain Xiangsi Yin's appearance, but was suddenly interrupted.

King Wei, who had been silent all this time, finally spoke, "My princess, be careful what you say about witchcraft."

Aisha swallowed the next words and said seriously to the princess: "He really doesn't know."

Seeing the girl's stubborn face, Yu Tingwan looked complicated. Just as he was about to speak, he saw Pei Zhi hand over a porcelain plate.

She lowered her eyes and saw that in the lotus leaf celadon plate was snow-white shad meat, with all the spines carefully removed.

"Marquis Pingyang mentioned that you like anchovies." Pei Zhi turned to look at her and whispered, "It's Jingzhou's way of making it. Try it."

Ayesha could tell that King Wei didn't want the princess to talk to her, so she kept silent.

*

After lunch, King Wei and Asul discussed something in the study.

Yu Tingwan was at the lotus pond in the backyard. Ayesha liked Xiaobai and couldn't help but hold it and rub its head.

It's early spring now, but the sun is setting slightly, and the twilight is gradually closing.

Aisha's face became increasingly ugly, but she kept holding on. Yu Tingwan noticed something was wrong with her and ordered his servants to call the doctor and Asul.

As the sky darkened, the girl slowly slid down the pillar and sat on the ground, covering her heart, curled up into a ball, and said to the woman beside her in a daze: "Kill me."

Trembling, she took out the dagger from her sleeve and stuffed it into Yu Tingwan's hand, revealing her snow-white forearm, with the dense knife marks on it shocking.

She was so cold that she subconsciously looked for something warm to lean on. Her eyes couldn't see clearly due to the excessive pain. Ayesha hugged the person next to her, nuzzled into her arms, and let out a comfortable sigh.

Ruyi opened her eyes wide and wanted to step forward to separate Ayesha. Yu Tingwan raised her hand and asked the maids next to her not to move, and asked, "Where is Asul?"

As soon as he finished speaking, at the end of the gravel road, a figure ran towards him regardless of the etiquette in the palace.

Nestled in the soft and warm embrace, Ayesha's eyes became clearer.

"When I get that kid back, you can cure this poison." Asul cursed angrily.

"I don't want it." The girl said in a daze, "He will leave only if he doesn't know. If he knows, he can't bear to leave."

Asul was speechless, picked up his sister, and said apologetically: "Princess, my sister is rude, I just offended you."

"It's okay." Yu Tingwan shook his head. Seeing that Ayesha was still somewhat conscious, he said slowly: "Princess, it's not what you think."

"If he likes you, why would he run away thousands of miles away? If he doesn't like you, he will probably just be happy when he sees you like this, and he wishes you were tortured by Gu insects."

Every word is extremely clear and resounding.

If it weren't for the fact that he was holding his sister in his arms, the man behind the princess had such cold eyes that Asul would have wanted to jump up and cheer for the princess. This was what he wanted to say to his sister.

"Asul, you can take the people and leave."

Only then did Yu Tingwan realize that Pei Zhi was standing behind her. She turned around and looked up to see those eyes as dark as ink, without a trace of smile.

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