Astute Princess: Married to be the Empress Novel - Chapter 96

Chapter 96 Antidote
“I’m sorry, Princess Ling Hua,” he said. After saying that, he placed the female Gu on Mu Lenghua’s heart.

Mu Lenghua could feel the rapid flow of blood in his body. She could also feel the process of the female Gu wandering around her body in search of the child Gu, and how it slowly guided the child Gu in her body towards her throat through the esophagus after finding the child Gu. Then, she opened her mouth uncontrollably. With a stinging pain in her throat, she could feel something crawling out of her mouth.

Immediately after, Elder Wu repeated his previous actions and caught the child Gu that had crawled out of Mu Linghua’s body. He also put it into the brocade box and swallowed the female Gu into his body. Then, he walked to Prince Nanjiang and said, “Reporting to Your Majesty, Emperor Ye Lan and Princess Ling Hua, the Concentrated Gu in their bodies has been removed.”

“Yes, it’s been hard on Elder Wu.” As Prince Nanjiang spoke, he walked to Mu Lenghua’s side. He also activated his internal force. Not long after, he saw a black insect crawl out of his finger. Then, he placed it on Mu Lenghua’s heart without hesitation and watched the insect enter Mu Lenghua’s body helplessly.

Then he coldly said to Mu Ling Hua, “Apart from the loyal Gu that must be raised by the Southern King himself, the other important Gu insects are raised by several adept-level elders. However, apart from the previous Southern Kings, no one knows who raised what Gu. This King only found out the day before he succeeded to the throne.

And today, in order to remove the Concentrated Gu from your body, This king has no choice but to invite them all over, Originally, this king only needed to invite Elder Wu over. The reason why they were all invited here, The purpose is to keep this secret, so this king doesn’t want anything to spread out today. I think you should know what to do. This king has planted a loyalty gu for you just now, and this king will send an envoy to send you to Da Chen to marry your cousin, who is also the second prince of Da Chen, Chen Bao, as a concubine.

This king hopes that you can remember your identity, Everything in the future should be based on the strength of Nanjiang, Remember, once you betray Nanjiang, “You will suffer the backlash of the Loyalty Gu day by day, and you will die in a very embarrassing manner after a long time. Besides this king, there is no one else who can solve this loyalty Gu. If you can truly serve the Southern Border, after this king returns to heaven, your brother will be Prince Nanjiang, and the mother Gu will also be passed on to him. Perhaps he will remove it for you at that time.”

Prince Nanjiang is slapping me and giving me a sweet date. This means that when I was still Prince Nanjiang, you had better listen to me obediently. As long as you can endure until I die, you might be free. This is giving you hope and letting you give up the idea of suicide.

As expected of Mu Linghua, after hearing his words, he forcefully blinked his eyes twice to show that he understood.

Seeing this, King Nanjiang nodded his head in satisfaction. Afterwards, he patted Mu Lenghua gently. Mu Lenghua immediately moved freely, and her first performance was to roll down from the bed and support the corner of the wall to spit out an earth-shattering sound. No wonder she was like this. Just thinking about that female insect crawling into and out of the mouths of Elder Wu and Emperor Yelan, then into her own body, crawling out of her mouth, made her feel extremely disgusted.

When Prince Nanjiang saw her like this, he didn’t find it strange. He just called over the guards and instructed, “Take Emperor Ye Lan directly to the prison. Also, send a few more people to guard her. Perhaps it will be of great use in the future.” Since he had already lost the value of using it, he could only enjoy the treatment of a prisoner.

When the guard heard the order, he answered in unison, “Yes, Your Majesty.” Then, he carried Emperor Yelan to the prison. As the Concentrated Gu had been resolved, Mu Lenghua’s affection for Emperor Yelan was gone. Thus, it was as if she did not hear him. She allowed others to carry Emperor Yelan away. However, she herself only slowly stood up and wiped her mouth. She rubbed her mouth and walked behind Nanjiang.

Prince Nanjiang glanced at her and ordered the palace maids at the door to come in and tidy up the secret room. He then led everyone out of the secret room.

Neither of them noticed that two of the palace maids had disguised themselves and sneaked in. After exchanging glances, the two of them nodded and silently followed the other palace maids into the secret room to clean up.

As the saying goes, The night was dark and windy, After dinner, the Southern Xinjiang Palace was brightly lit. In a dark corner, a few masked men in black were plotting and discussing something. One of them whispered, “You two go to the Queen’s dormitory to set a fire and lure everyone over. The others will follow me to the Celestial Prison and the Emperor will be there.”

“Yes, Young General.” Then everyone dispersed, They went their separate ways, and this young general was Mu Hai, the son of Grand General Mu Feng of Yelan. Ever since Huyan Mingshuo found out that the Emperor had been kidnapped by Mu Lenghua, he had sent people to secretly sneak into the Southern Jiang Palace. After the Southern Jiang King removed the Concentrated Gu from the Emperor’s body, he immediately awoke the Emperor and left with him.

At this moment, the Southern Border King and Mu Lingfeng were also discussing their next plan. Suddenly, they saw people fleeing in all directions in the palace. Everyone was shouting, “Someone is coming. Not good. The water in the Queen’s palace is running. Quickly put out the fire.”

After the father and son exchanged a glance, Mu Lingfeng instantly reacted. Then, he bowed to Prince Nanjiang and said, “Father, I’ll go take a look first.” Afterwards, he hurriedly went to the queen’s bedroom. After all, she was his biological mother. She must be more attentive than Prince Nanjiang. After all, there was only one mother, but there could be many women.

Prince Nanjiang looked at Mu Lingfeng’s anxious departure. He was slightly worried. This son was too kind and valued his family too much. He was undoubtedly a good son and a good brother. However, he might not be able to be a good king in the Southern Region. At this moment, he actually had Yi Chu’s plan. However, ever since Mu Lingfeng was made the Crown Prince, he had nurtured the Loyalty Gu in his body. Now, he was about to become an insect.

If it were to be replaced now, it would probably be too late. Thinking of this, the Southern Border King couldn’t help but sigh softly. Everything should be obeyed by the heavens. After all, no one knew what would happen in the future. Afterwards, he also got up and went to the queen’s bedroom. After all, it was his main palace queen. If anything happened, he should go and take a look.

Yes, The Loyal Gu did not have a female Gu, It wasn’t like what he had told Mu Lenghua, It’s inherited, Instead, every generation of Prince Nanjiang grows up with its own body, From the day they were made Crown Prince, The current Prince Nanjiang would implant two loyal Gu larvae into his body at the same time. When the Crown Prince reached adulthood, the loyal Gu would also reach adulthood. After adulthood, the male and female Gu insects would naturally merge. At this time, the female Gu would absorb the male Gu into its body, and at the same time, the female Gu would be able to give birth to the larvae of the loyal Gu.

When the Southern Jiang King arrived at the Queen’s bedroom, the fire was already under control. Mu Lingfeng raised his head and saw the Southern Jiang King arrive. He hurriedly ran over and reported, “Reporting to father, the fire has been controlled. Apart from a few eunuchs and palace maids on duty, there are no casualties.”

When King Nanjiang heard this, his brows furrowed. He immediately felt that something was amiss. Just as he was about to order people to visit the prison, a guard stumbled in and reported, “Reporting to the king, the prison has been robbed. Emperor Yelan has disappeared.”

When King Jiang heard this, Immediately, Huo Shangxin thought, As one could imagine, The person who kidnapped Emperor Ye Lan must be someone sent by Yehuyan Mingshuo. When he thought of how he had just helped them remove the Concentric Gu, Nanjiang immediately knew that he had been tricked. The reason why the Ye Lan Kingdom did not send people to save their Emperor was not because they did not pay attention to him, but because they wanted to borrow his hand to remove the Concentric Gu from Emperor Ye Lan’s body before rescuing him.

After thinking about this, the Southern Border King closed his eyes and took a deep breath to calm his irritated mood. Then, he ordered, “Crown Prince, immediately instruct us to seal off the entire capital and search for Emperor Yelan with all our might. We absolutely cannot let him escape from the Southern Border.”

“Yes, I will arrange it immediately.” After saying that, Mu Ling Feng turned around and left, He also took with him a group of elite guards from the palace, After leaving the palace, He immediately ordered, “The assassins have taken Emperor Ye Lan away. They will definitely not be far away. Inform them immediately and instruct all checkpoints and strongholds to strictly investigate everything that comes across carriages and sedans. Emperor Ye Lan is now a living dead person. He simply cannot rush on his own. He must be carried by someone to make them pay more attention to this aspect.”

Apart from being easily emotional, The rest of the world is more shrewd and capable, This was something that the other Southern Princes could not compare to, However, he never imagined that Huyan Mingshuo would be so relieved. Leaving the life of a country’s emperor to a subordinate would actually send people to bring the Gu worms that had absorbed Emperor Ye Lan’s soul. They would first wake the emperor up and then leave. Therefore, he had mistaken the direction of the search from the beginning and was destined to return in vain this time.

Prince Nanjiang looked at his departing back and said, He could only pray silently in his heart, Hopefully, this son would be able to change his environment in the future and lead the Southern Region to become stronger. Now that everything was settled, there was nothing he could do. Therefore, he no longer had to worry. He turned around and strode into the Queen’s dormitory, comforting the Queen and staying in the Queen’s dormitory.

After the young general brought his men to the emperor, he immediately took out the brocade box that Huyan Mingshuo had given him, took out the green ball, and according to Huyan Mingshuo’s instructions, rescued the emperor. Afterwards, he knelt down and bowed, “Long live Mu Hai, son of Jiang Mu Feng, to the emperor.”

The Emperor had already returned to his normal self-thinking. Looking at Mu Hai who was kneeling on the ground, He knew that this was the Crown Prince’s man. He couldn’t help but recall what he had done in the past few years. He felt that it was incomparably ridiculous. He then glanced around and found that he was currently in the Heavenly Prison. He also knew that this was not a place to speak. Thus, he said to Mu Hai, “Get up, this place is not suitable for us to stay for long. Let’s leave this place first.”

“Yes, Your Majesty. However, in order for us to leave safely, I dare to disguise Your Majesty. Please forgive me for any disrespect.” As he spoke, regardless of whether the Emperor agreed or not, He immediately took out a disguise tool and smeared it on the Emperor’s face. He had promised His Highness the Crown Prince that he would save the Emperor smoothly. Therefore, no matter what method he used, he had to bring the Emperor back to Ye Lan safely. Even if he offended the Emperor, he would not hesitate. The Emperor did not say anything and allowed him to smear it on his face.

After an incense stick of time, several eunuchs walked out of the prison with food boxes in their hands. After a rough inspection, the guards guarding the prison released a few people and left. They did not even notice that there was one more person than when they entered.