Poor Lady Chapter 82: Are you okay?

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness." Qi Surong held up the imperial decree and bowed to King Jing.

"Don't be in a hurry to thank me." King Jing stood with his hands behind his back, "I have already done one of the things you asked for before, as for the second thing..."

Qi Surong suddenly raised his head, looking at King Jing with expectant and cautious eyes.

"When I sent people to investigate, I found the bodies of several nursing homes of the Gu family in the wild. From the murderer's method of killing, we can roughly determine who did it." King Jing looked at Qi Surong and said slowly, "The murderer It has nothing to do with Mr. Gu, but has a grudge with you, can you guess one or two?"

"Have a grudge with me?" Qi Surong was slightly taken aback. Before she married Gu Jinyun, the people who had grudges against her were only a few boudoir girls, but it's not enough to get rid of the grudges, right? If there is really a murderous intention, then the only person Qi Surong can suspect is Luo Yanyi, her father is the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, and secretly trained many dead men. Now that King Jing ascended the throne, the Eighth Prince fled away with Luo Yanyi, while Luo Yanyi's father was detained in the dungeon, waiting to be dealt with. I don't know what happened to those dead men?

Although Qi Surong knew something in his heart, he couldn't say it clearly. King Jing may be open-minded, but as a superior, he is very jealous that his subjects have too much unknown information.

She thought for a moment, and replied: "The women can't guess, so please ask the emperor to make it clear."

King Jing stared at her for a while, then said with a smile, "If you say you can't guess, then you can't. The person in question is not the daughter of the Luo family, but Feng Zhan's wife, the Liu family."

Liu Qianer? A trace of surprise flashed in Qi Surong's eyes: "Why did she do this?"

"I don't know about this." King Jing continued, "The group of dead men are all dumb. If one of them hadn't been able to understand a little bit of writing, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to ask anything."

"Did the emperor ask about my husband's whereabouts?"

King Jing looked at her with a smile that was not a smile: "Seeing that you have been calm and composed since you entered the palace, I thought you were like this by nature. Now that you are asking about your husband's whereabouts, you have just revealed your true nature."

"The emperor is laughing." Qi Surong lowered her head, secretly depressed, knowing that others are impatient, but deliberately teasing others, looking left and right, is it fun?

"The dead man did explain something." King Jing said, "Their target was you originally, but after stopping the carriage, they only found your husband. This whereabouts are unknown. I sent people to investigate along the way, and finally found this."

Speaking, he took out a jade pendant from his sleeve.

Qi Surong took it with both hands, with an excited expression on his face. This jade pendant is exactly what Gu Jinyun carried with him, and the pattern engraved on it is the pattern of Gu's firm.

"Your Majesty, where did you find this jade pendant?"

"A **** shop." Without waiting for her to ask, King Jing said again, "The people who pawned it were the villagers of Ruoshui Village. Your husband was rescued by them, but he only stayed for a few days and left."

"Leaving?" Qi Surong was stunned, "Where did you go?" Why didn't you go home? And there has been no news for two years.

"I'm afraid it was not his intention to leave." King Jing walked to the side and sat down on a carved chair. "According to the villagers, your husband was not only seriously injured, but also poisoned and unconscious."

"Then how did he leave?"

"He was taken away by a group of passing merchants from the Western Regions." After King Jing finished speaking, he found that Qi Surong, who was originally anxious, had calmed down. He felt strange and asked, "Aren't you worried about your husband's safety? Not afraid Those merchants from the Western Regions are planning to do something wrong?"

Qi Surong smiled and said: "Who would plot against a person who is dying? On the contrary, the woman is very fortunate that it was not someone else who took him away, but a person from the Western Regions."

"Why?"

"Because my husband is poisoned by the strange poison of the Western Regions, and only the people of the Western Regions can cure it."

"Then how do you know that among the group of merchants from the Western Regions there happens to be someone who can cure this strange poison."

"If not, my husband may have been buried in Ruoshui Village by now, instead of being taken away by them."

"Haha." A hint of appreciation flashed in King Jing's eyes. The woman in front of him really did not disappoint him. She was meticulous, calm and composed, and always maintained a clear judgment. Can a weak woman grow up to this point after several years of experience?

"Next, are you planning to go to the Western Regions to find someone?" King Jing asked.

"Yes." Jin Yun hasn't contacted his family for two years, so he doesn't know what happened. Qi Surong believed that he was still alive, but it was hard to say that the poison on his body would not cause damage to his health.

"So, then I have something to entrust to you." King Jing restrained his expression and looked serious.

"What is the emperor's order?"

"I received news a few days ago that several tribes in the Western Regions are eyeing our borders, but I am not sure which tribes are planning in secret. So I hope to use your Gu family's business connections to go to the various tribes in the Western Regions to find out."

It turned out that this was the purpose of King Jing secretly summoning her today, no wonder she was specially allowed to come to the saint in men's clothing. There are forty or fifty tribes in the Western Regions, and most of them are good-neighborly and friendly with the Kingdom of Wei. However, for hundreds of years, conflicts caused by the borders of the Western Regions are not uncommon.

Qi Surong knew the general situation without having to check what King Jing was worried about. Because in the last life, King Jing took advantage of the border turmoil to disperse his military power, and finally succeeded in winning the throne. In this life, because of her influence, this matter has been advanced by more than two years.

This border turmoil involved eleven tribes, about 35,000 people. They occupied five border cities in only three months at an extremely fast speed, and captured nearly 100,000 lieutenants. country people. But after all, they are only nomads, good at attacking but not good at defending, and their number is too small, they were driven back to the grasslands of the Western Regions within half a year. In the end, only two or three of the eleven tribes were still lingering until they were annexed by other tribes. .

Although the rule of the Wei Kingdom has not been shaken, many people of the Wei Kingdom died in the turmoil. It would be a blessing if it could be stopped in advance.

Qi Surong accepted the task cautiously. Since the emperor found out that Jin Yun might have gone to the Western Regions, he planned to entrust this matter to her. Firstly, King Jing trusted her previous actions; secondly, on the surface, she had nothing to do with the imperial court, but was just a well-connected businessman; thirdly, the Gu family had business dealings with Western Region merchants, which would not arouse suspicion.

Qi Surong's eyes turned around the imperial decree in his hand, and he finally understood the intention of King Jing who chose to hand over the imperial decree to her instead of directly sending someone to the Gu Qi family to read it out publicly. Before she returned from the Western Regions, this imperial decree could only be temporarily suppressed.

"Okay, I will send ten guards to **** you along the way." King Jing sighed, "It will attract attention, but I can only help you so much, the rest is up to you to adapt."

"Yes, women must do their best."

"You don't want to call yourself a civilian woman anymore. In my heart, your status is no less than that of any imperial lady."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your appreciation."

"Well." King Jing looked at the imperial edict in her hand and said, "After you go back, this imperial edict..."

"Secret." Qi Surong only said four words.

King Jing smiled.

Back home, Qi Surong handed over the imperial decree to Gu Chang, asking him to keep it in a safe place and not make it public for the time being, and then he told about his upcoming trip to the Western Regions. She didn't tell Gu Chang about Jin Yun, worrying that if she couldn't find anyone, it would give Gu's family another blow. For more than two years, Gu Chang and Gu Yufeng had almost given up, and Qi Surong didn't want to break their peace at this time.

Gu Chang naturally disapproved of Qi Surong's going to the Western Regions, but since the matter was personally appointed by the emperor, he could only accept it.

"Sister-in-law, shall I go with you?" Gu Yufeng has long wanted to venture out, and now is the perfect time.

"You are leaving, who will manage the business of the Gu family?" In the past two years, Gu Yufeng has grown a lot, and he is gradually familiar with the business process of the Gu family. Qi Surong thought that maybe in a few years, she could retire behind the scenes.

Gu Yufeng was discouraged all of a sudden, and his face was full of frustration. Why is it that Qi Surong, who is a woman, can travel thousands of miles, but he has to stay at home?

After arranging everything for the Gu family, Qi Surong sent another letter to the family, not telling her whereabouts, but only saying that she would be away for a few months. She regards herself as "Zhuo Fan" to the outside world, and it is inconvenient for her to go back to her natal home, so she can only communicate by letter. Fortunately, the Qi family has been taken care of by many parties, overtly and secretly, so there will be no trouble at all.

Afterwards, Qi Surong personally went to Yunwu Mountain to bid farewell to Yunyouzi.

Yun Youzi nodded, handed her a small porcelain bottle, and said, "This is for you. When you meet that kid, let him take one pill every day. No matter whether he is sick or not, he can keep fit."

Qi Surong was overjoyed and quickly expressed his thanks.

Then she looked around and asked, "Where's Brother Feng? Did you go home?"

"No, he's chopping firewood in the back mountain." Yunyouzi said with a smile, "He knows how to do more work than you. Look at how tidy the house is."

Qi Surong secretly sympathized, and Feng Zhan probably suffered a lot when he fell into the hands of the master. It is said that in the first few months, Feng Zhan escaped dozens of times, but was easily captured by his master. If you want to use force to solve it, but you are not the master's opponent at all, you can only admit defeat in the end.

Yun Youzi didn't trap him on the mountain, he would let him go back every other month. His position does not require him to go to court every day, and the Feng family is affected by the Luo family. His father's position was temporarily dismissed. Although he did not offend the younger generation, most of them were left idle, so Feng Zhan spent most of his time on the mountain. The training of cloud wanderers.

In two years, Qi Surong has noticed his changes. A little less vigor, a little more calm, although his personality is a little weird, but at least it is still in the category of normal people.

It's good that I didn't see Feng Zhan this time, but she just learned that the murderer who hurt Jin Yun was actually Liu Qian'er, and she really didn't know how to face him. This couple has really caused them too much trouble. It would be a lie to say that there is no hatred for them. But after more than two years of precipitation, nothing is as important as Jin Yun.

In a sense, Feng Zhan and Liu Qian'er are really a perfect match.

Three days later, Qi Surong embarked on a journey to the Western Regions with the Gu family caravan.

Jin Yun, Su Rong is here, are you okay?