Iron Armored Emperor

Di Qiye sat down on a round stool not far away, and did not answer the conversation at first.

"No complaints..."

Di Qiye repeated Mu Lian's last four words, and asked calmly, "Then why are your hands shaking?"

The trembling plain knife fell to the ground with a clang.

Mu Lian clenched his hands tightly, ashamed to speak, but finally replied: "I'm afraid of death...I don't want to die."

He's not a nice guy, he knows it.

The more sober he is, the more ashamed he becomes, and the more ashamed he becomes, the more afraid he becomes.

The memories of his life are completely and clearly stored in his mind, and Mu Lian has no way to deny it.

He clearly remembered how he was kidnapped by Gao Wang, how he received Gao Wang's teachings like a clan son in Ghost Valley, not only the classics, righteousness, policy theory, but also medicine and agricultural machinery. Gao Wang himself was not so proficient in some things, he and Wei Bichen Also learn confusedly.

But after being poisoned by Zhuanji at the age of 15, those memories, although equally clear, seemed a little strange.It was as if he fell into a half-dream and half-awake when he was 15 years old, and was suddenly awakened by a big stick until recently.

For 13 years after the poisoning, he was neither completely confused nor fully sober.If you say that what you do is not from your heart, that is just sophistry; if you say that what you do is from your heart, it is not true.

In other words, before meeting Di Qiye, even though he felt pain and regret, he still didn't understand what was wrong with Gao Wang's teachings, so he couldn't wake up and resist.

Fuze is Di Qiye's attitude towards him.

It was Di Qiye's plain nature, without disgust, without excessive pity, as if he was not a monster with a strange face, but an ordinary normal person.

Only then did Mu Lian vaguely understand that he actually wanted others to treat him well.

So for the first time in his life, he rebelled against the teacher. He made many excuses for himself that conformed to Gao Wang's teachings. Although he didn't think those were excuses at the time, he never died according to Gao Wang's teachings, but fought Fate, want to go to Di Qiye's side.

Di Qiye is fire, which does not belong to him, but is the light that illuminates him.

Therefore, no matter how ashamed he is, Mu Lian never allows himself to close his eyes or divert his gaze, no matter how ashamed he is, he forces himself to look at Di Qiye.

Di Qiye remained calm.

Mu Lian, who was kneeling in front of Di Qiye's legs, already had the ability to make expressions on his face, but he still couldn't control it well. Whatever was in his mind immediately appeared on his face. It used to be a dead face, but now Di Qiye looked at him sad for a while, ashamed for a while, sad for a while, and almost crying for a while, just like watching a Sichuan opera to change his face.

"Then congratulations." Di Qiye looked into Mu Lian's eyes, "You have finally become a human being."

Mu Lian clenched his teeth desperately, endured, endured, but his breathing was still wet, and he couldn't bear it anymore, kneeling in front of Di Qiye's legs and crying loudly.

still crying.

The more you cry, the more you move forward.

Di Qiye's forehead was bruised, "If you dare to rub your tears and snot on my clothes, you will never get out of this door alive!"

I dare not move forward, but I am still crying.

"...Master."

"Woo...Master."

Continue to cry in silence.

"……Um."

"woo woo woo woo"

Mr. Zhang made a detailed diagnosis for Mu Lian, saying that Mu Lian's remaining poison has been cleared up, and how long he can live depends on his recuperation and care in the future.

Jiang Yan still didn't come, Mu Lian nodded himself, and said respectfully: "The grace of saving life is unforgettable. Mu Lian thanked Doctor Zhang."

Mr. Zhang laughed loudly: "Master Mu, I think 'White Beard' sounds good too."

Mu Lian couldn't control his expression well yet, his face instantly turned red, which made Mr. Zhang feel like he was bullying a child.Mu Lian cleared his throat, and said again: "Thank you, Mr. Zhang."

Mr. Zhang looked at the reborn Mu Lian, smiled and waved his hands, and went to take care of the medicinal materials by himself.

"Master Shepherd."

As soon as Mu Lian stepped out of the gate of the imperial hospital, he saw Zhuang Zui, the deputy commander of Jinyi guards waiting outside the gate.

"Come with me."

This was within Mu Lian's expectation. Mu Lian felt uneasy in his heart. He was deeply dependent on Di Qiye. cry in front of you.

But this is Gu Lie, the great Chu emperor who is known for his calmness and resourcefulness.

Clutching his hands tightly, Mu Lian followed Zhuang Zui into the big study of Weiyang Palace.

There was no change when Mulian and Mulian came here last time. Mulian couldn't help thinking, what is Jiang Yan doing now?What on earth is he thinking?Before I die, can I see Jiang Yan again... I don't know, all the answers are I don't know.

When Gu Lie stepped into the study, Mu Lian was already kneeling, and at this moment he bowed down and said, "Your Majesty."

"When the widow ordered people to tidy up the Tianxia Library Pavilion, they also cleaned up the Qingjian."

Gu Lie opened his mouth slowly.

"It's the ghost valley that your master Gao Wang said."

Mu Lian bowed his head and listened.

"The guards found dozens of children's skeletons in Ghost Valley, and nine corpses dressed up as domestic servants. They all died of poisoning."

"Do you know?"

Mu Lian showed surprise, and shook his head slightly: "Weichen has never seen other children in Qingjian, only Weichen and Wei Bichen. The number of servants is indeed gradually decreasing. Gao Wang said that as long as the servants are slippery and lazy , he will be driven out of the valley... When I leave the valley, there is only one old servant left. I have never been suspicious."

Presumably it was because Gao Wang was getting old and he had done too many bad things and was too suspicious. He was afraid that his younger and stronger servants would harm him, so he killed them.

"The houseservant takes care of him, and he treats you and Wei Bichen really well," Gu Lie said calmly.

When he and Di Qiye picked up Gu Zhao in Qingjian, they wanted to change Gu Zhao's clothes. Di Qiye went to search the house and found the children's clothes. Although the styles were old, they were all made of high-quality materials. I can't even afford to wear them.

Gao Wang is all about cultivating high-level disciples who can get into the world of gold and jade, so naturally he has to spend a lot of money to support him.

It is obvious who Gu Lie is speaking for.Mu Lian thought of Di Qiye who had lived in the cave for ten years, so he had no choice but to prostrate and kowtow again.

Gu Lie asked again: "There is something that I don't understand very well, please ask Mr. You Yushi to clarify my doubts."

"The guilty minister is ashamed and dare not accept it! If your Majesty wants to ask anything, the guilty minister must know everything and talk endlessly."

Mu Lian said with trepidation.

"Wei Bichen was childless all his life," Gu Lie seemed to be thinking while he was talking. He lightly tapped the table with his fingertips, and the dark vermilion lacquered tiger maple made a crisp sound. If he is straight, there are no defects on the outside of his body, but his kidneys are deficient inside."

"Your sect also has strict regulations on this matter? Wei Bichen has no wife and self-denial, why is his kidney loss so serious? As far as you know, Gao Wang himself, does he have any children?"

Cutting the weeds has to get rid of the roots, so there must be no one left behind in this so-called master school.

Mu Lian turned pale.

Afterwards, Mu Lian bowed deeply, straightened up, faced Gu Lie and replied: "Gao Wang has no strict rules on this matter, he doesn't mention these things at all, the guilty minister once accidentally discovered that Gao Wang is a eunuch, this matter , should only be known by the guilty minister."

Gu Lie had learned from Di Qiye too many times, and when he heard such a statement, he couldn't help raising his eyebrows slightly.

This teacher's sect is simply unmatched, and there is no such neat three lunatics in the world.

"As for Wei Bichen," Mu Lian said frankly after a pause, "he really regards Gao Wang as his father. He came first to me and then to me, and I was often praised by Gao Wang for being smart, so he regarded me as stealing him away." An enemy of my father, with a grudge against me."

"I was young and energetic, and because of Gao Wang's preference, I was complacent. I often provoke him with Gao Wang's compliments. As time passed, Wei Bichen always taught me because he was three years older than me, and Gao Wang scolded him a lot."

"At that time, Gao Wang was teaching us medicine and poison, but he was not proficient in it. The guilty minister guessed that it was Young Master Li who needed Gao Wang's help when he was planting medicinal herbs and sorting out poisonous substances. That's why he understood some medical science and pharmacy."

"That day, Wei Bichen smashed my forehead with a stone, and was ordered by Gao Wang to shut up and think about it. I waited for the servant to deliver food to his door, and added spider venom to his soup."

"Gao Wang said that this kind of spider venom came from the Southern Region. It is extremely poisonous. If you accidentally touch it with your hands, you will be poisoned and make people sick."

"I just wanted Wei Bichen to get sick, so that Gao Wang would scold him for being stupid, and scold him for touching his hands even though he had said so. But Wei Bichen's kidneys are broken, so he can't drink alcohol, and he can't have sex with men."

"So, when the sinful minister tasted the poison, he finished the bowl of soup. But the criminal minister was still afraid of death, so after drinking it, he desperately wanted to spit out the soup."

Speaking of this, Mu Lian bowed to Gu Lie again: "The guilty minister regretted taking Ding Guohou into the mountains and trapped him for ten years. At that time, the guilty minister was crazy and stupid, and only regarded Gao Wang as a good person, thinking It is a good thing to take Marquis Dingguo captive into the mountains to be a high-profile disciple."

But if he hadn't been poisoned, Mu Lian didn't know what kind of person he would become, whether he would become a firm believer in Gao Wang's theory of ghosts like Wei Bichen, even if he harmed someone, he would not feel guilty at all.

There is a cycle of cause and effect in this world, and Mu Lian can't tell what the cause is and what the result is. He can only admit everything that happened and bear the consequences of his actions.

Gu Lie clapped his palms lightly, and Yuan Bao entered in response, and placed a low case in front of Mu Lian, on which was a bowl of food.

Half of it is several kinds of cooked wild vegetables, and the other half is large pieces of cooked meat.

"The widow asked Di Qiye many times, asking how he survived in the ghost valley, but he refused to tell, only saying that if he could cook vegetables and meat well, he would not die of starvation."

Gu Lie sighed.

"This is the wild vegetables that the guards picked from the ghost valley, and the wild game they hunted. At that time, Di Qiye was not yet ten years old, and the widow specially ordered them not to hunt big prey, because thinking about it, Di Qiye couldn't kill wild animals at that time." Big beasts like deer and wild boar."

"It's all boiled in clear water, it's not a good thing." Gu Lie knocked the table again, "I ate it yesterday and it was hard to swallow, but who made Di Qiye eat this kind of food for ten years?"

Gu Lie stood up and looked at the sky outside the window: "It's getting late, Mr. Mu, go home by yourself after dinner. Tomorrow, should you go back to Yushitai to do business?"

Mu Lian broke down in tears.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for the meal. The remaining life of the guilty minister is determined to be loyal to His Majesty, to the Marquis of Dingguo, and to do our best and do our best."

Gu Lie stopped looking at the person who kept kowtowing, and walked out of the study.

Jiang Yan was on duty at the gate of the palace that night, and heard the chatter of the guards, saying that Lord You Yushi is really loyal. It is said that he has just recovered from a serious illness, and His Majesty specially gave him a meal in Weiyang Palace. Still red.

Jiang Yan's heart tightened.