mtl008 Chapter 203 I Will Kill You with My Own Hands
Chapter 203 I Will Kill You with My Own Hands
Chapter 203 I Will Kill You with My Own Hands
Life in Qucheng was more comfortable and carefree than Baili Ce had imagined.
No one would require her to like anything, whether it's a smell or a color.
She can ride horses in Nanshan wearing brightly colored clothes, or she can quietly practice calligraphy and read books in the courtyard.
She can be happy all day if she wins an argument, and she can be so angry that she can't sleep at night because she can't win an argument, and she gets up to figure out where she went wrong...
But I would never kill someone over something as trivial as arguing, or because I smiled politely at someone or glanced at them a few more times.
You can also do nothing but chat with the vendors at the entrance all day about gossip, or squat on the street and comment on passersby.
Then he was chased and beaten by others, and they agreed to continue next time.
Of course, how could someone as kind and hardworking as her be so idle and unproductive?
For example, yesterday, she made an appointment with a girl and a boy she got along with to catch eels in the middle of the night. However, she caught a snake instead. In her fright, she screamed and accidentally dropped the snake on a guy who "didn't mind".
For example, today she helped her older siblings look after their children while they were working in the fields, taught them to play crossword puzzles, and acted as the eagle in the story of Eagle Catches Chicks, making all the chicks cry.
Then I started to worry, "Sigh, what should I eat later?"
But could the rooster next door please not crow tomorrow morning?
Also, how can I stop those kind-hearted old men and women from introducing her to potential partners, and where exactly did the mice in my house get in from?
It's impossible to catch them! (I almost got myself caught in the mousetrap)
But whether it was a case of extreme joy turning into sorrow or a post-traumatic stress reaction, she dreamed of Wang Qingyan almost every day since arriving in Qucheng.
It wasn't exactly terrifying, but it made her feel really uncomfortable.
Most importantly, this dream didn't seem to have any guiding significance; it was just a normal replay of people or events experienced in real life while I was sleeping.
She wasn't deeply in love with him, nor had she wronged or blamed him, so why did she keep dreaming about him?
Unable to understand it any longer, she decided to see a doctor...
Gan!
The doctor said she simply had excessive liver fire!
She's low-class and sarcastic!
You're blind!
But she didn't mind. After taking a few doses of tranquilizers, her sleep quality improved dramatically, and she never dreamed of Wang Qingyan again.
And my temper has improved a lot too... Pshaw, no way!
She has a really good temper~
......
Listening to the rain on the lotus leaves, I can finally sleep peacefully by the window.
After two months of recuperation, Wang Qingyan was finally reborn on a rainy night.
Like those years of countless failures and restarts, he not only survived completely, but also became stronger than before.
"Pitter-patter..." Standing under the eaves, watching the raindrops hitting the leaves not far away, Wang Qingyan thought of Baili Ce.
To be precise, he had been missing her ever since that day.
She was truly the most heartless wife in the world.
but--
I decided to walk into the rain and get thoroughly soaked.
The first time he couldn't control himself, he told her, "A-Zhu, I like you."
She did not respond to him at that time.
Instead, she took his hand and said, "Let's get soaked in the rain together."
He remembered that when he looked up at her, all he saw was tenderness.
And so, in that overwhelming feeling of attraction that spread like a torrential rain, he placed her into his entire world.
So, Ah Zhu, it's all your fault for being there for me in the rain. That's why I can't stop thinking about you on every rainy day, and I'm so stubborn about it.
......
"Huh?" One day, while changing clothes, Baili Ce accidentally discovered that the injuries on her waist and back had disappeared!
That was a huge scar that had the rotten flesh removed, the wound cleaned, and it even required more than a dozen stitches (traditional Chinese medicine also uses stitches)!
It was there just two days ago, how come it's gone today?
It wasn't that she wanted to have a few scars to show off her personality, but how could such scars disappear without a trace in such a short time?
Even when skin is replaced, the color will be different because the old and new skin are different.
Bai Li Ce quickly touched his leg again...
The ankle area where the "yin-yuan rope" was torn off was indeed perfectly healed, with the skin and flesh intact.
It's as if I've never been hurt...
Pale-faced, Bai Lize slumped onto the bed, realizing he might have overlooked something very, very important...
Lu Jian was so frightened by Bai Li Ce's three urgent letters that he rode his horse at full speed and rushed to Qu City alone overnight.
As soon as he appeared, Baili Ce was seen pacing back and forth at the city gate like an ant on a hot pan, cursing as he went.
"What happened? Why are you so late?!"
Lu Jian was furious. Before he could even explain what had happened, this person had turned around and accused him!
"I......"
But Baili Ce didn't give him that chance, and directly led his horse into the city, saying, "Forget it, let's find a secluded place first..."
"This is the deserted place you were talking about?"
In the fields and by the river, Baili Ce bought two jugs of wine and two chickens, rolled up his sleeves, and was about to sit down and talk business.
He was, after all, an emperor; how could he...
“Hey hey——”
"Sit down," Baili Ce said, pulling Lu Jian down to sit. He completely ignored everything else.
"..." Lu Jian, whose buttocks were already touching the mud, took a deep breath.
Let's stop thinking about these things, and the frogs of all sizes jumping past him. "So, you're saying we might have been tricked?"
"It would be better if he really outsmarted us."
Lu Jian looked suspicious.
Bai Li Ce took a sip of wine, seemingly calm, but inwardly he was so anxious he wanted to jump off a building.
"Being outmaneuvered at least proves that everything he did before was right, and that he did indeed sense the crisis."
"But if even the Ancestral Gu can't suppress Chao Sheng, then we..."
"..." Lu Jian's face instantly fell.
Well, he was frustrated too.
After downing half a pot of wine, he asked, "What did they say from Thorn City?"
"Take a look for yourself," she said, handing Lu Jian a letter. She didn't know how to comment on it.
Since Jicheng had only recently been brought under the control of the imperial court, Lu Jian feared that ordinary generals would not be able to keep order, so he sent the Fifth Commander there.
Lu Jian opened the letter and immediately clicked his tongue...
His brows were furrowed like an earthworm's.
Although I could barely understand it, the words... calling them dog shit would be too mild, and the punctuation was wrong throughout.
I couldn't resist taking out my pen and starting to revise...
"You went easy on him?" Lu Jian was even more frustrated after reading this.
They even began to doubt Baili Ce.
Bai Li Ce, who only eats chicken wings, exclaimed, "Have mercy?!"
Shock!
"Please, he almost beat me to death!"
"Then you still think he saved you?" Lu Jian indicated that he couldn't believe it.
Bai Li Ce paused, holding two chicken wings, and said, "You just don't understand."
"He's dead, what's worse than being alive? He probably wanted to do something underhanded, but he just didn't have time to."
“Hmm…” Lu Jian nodded deeply; it sounded reasonable.
The Fifth Master's reply essentially stated two things.
First, he wasn't ready yet and didn't want to come to Qucheng to see Baili Ce for the time being.
Secondly, there was no sign of the human Gu in Thorn City being re-infected, and those who were injured in the great battle did not experience the same situation as her.
"Phew..." Lu Jian let out a long sigh of relief.
I feel much better after revising the letter.
He stood up, put his hands behind his back, lowered his gaze slightly, and looked into the distance, exuding a sense of grandeur, as if saying, "The country is full of storms, and I am worried about the people of the world."
After finishing the chicken wings, Baili Ce casually tossed the bones next to the ant nest, letting the ants enjoy nature's bounty.
"I'm more concerned about the efficacy of the dispersed Ancestral Gu than whether he's plotting against me again."
"The situation in the capital is still normal."
After receiving Baili Ce's first urgent letter, Lu Jian thoroughly investigated all those in the capital and its surrounding areas who had been poisoned by the Chaosheng, and found no signs of them turning back into human poisoners or going mad.
"In Shucheng, my sister and Minister Cui are also investigating, and so far they have said they have not found any problems."
"But I always felt that he was waiting for the right moment to strike at the root of the problem."
The thought that all his efforts would ultimately be in vain made Baili Ce want to change his name to Baili Clown.
“Perhaps…” Lu Jian looked at Baili Ce with a solemn expression, “He doesn’t need any opportunity at all.”
Bai Li Ce's expression immediately turned solemn.
"The essence of 'Seeing the Moon' is to use Gu to control Gu."
"The 'antidote' that I, those who used it to stimulate the medicinal properties, and those who had their 'morning life' Gu removed was actually just a product of replicating the effects of the ancestral Gu, not the power of the ancestral Gu itself."
"So, strictly speaking, the antidote and the ancestral Gu are actually two different things."
"So even if you can never awaken the Ancestral Gu, or even if the Ancestral Gu disappears, it should not affect the effect of the antidote in the human Gu."
"..." Bai Li Ce was stunned by Lu Jian's deduction.
"But precisely because of this, we have no basis to judge what Wang Qingyan will do next."
With a chessboard and pieces, even if the opponent resorts to underhanded tactics, there are clues to follow and ways to defend against them.
But if the opponent has already turned the tide and is using no moves against them, then there's no way to turn the tide.
"Ugh......"
"Ugh......"
"Bang..."
They both sighed and clinked their wine jugs together.
If that's really the case, they can only take it one step at a time.
However, Baili Ce still wanted to say beforehand, "I've already discussed this matter with my sister and the Fifth Master. If..."
"If one day you are truly no longer in control of your own destiny, I will kill you with my own hands."
It is the emperor, not me.
If the day ever comes when she is controlled, killing her will not be for myself, but for everything that everyone once desperately tried to protect.
“…Okay,” he said, looking at Lu Jian with a relieved smile.
Bai Li Ce immediately felt that even if Wang Qingyan really did implant a fertility seed in him, it wouldn't matter.
"Bang!" Another one.
They started chatting idly, "By the way, why didn't you just slit his throat back then?"
"Ha!" Baili Ce scoffed.
The absurdity of this question is as ridiculous as when Tang Sanzang and his disciples passed through Jisaguo in Journey to the West, and the Nine-Headed Insect told Benboerba, "Go and get rid of Sun Wukong for me."
"You, an emperor as great as you, can't do this, and you're asking me? Are you kidding me?"
"Isn't it because you haven't been practicing enough?"
"Ha!" he sneered. "His hand bones are broken, what am I supposed to use to heal?!"
Should we use our toes to pinch a stone and stuff it into his mouth?
Lu Jian shook his head repeatedly, his face full of disdain, "Tsk tsk tsk, the gentle embrace of women is indeed a hero's grave."
"you..."
"Hey~" Lu Jian raised a finger to stop her, "Swearing will get you executed along with your entire family~"
Gan!
I...
"Eat, eat, eat!! Have you ever thought about how many people haven't eaten meat? How can you be so shameless?!"
They wouldn't even let him eat chicken or drink alcohol, and they "reported" Lu Jian to the county government!
I heard that Li Yuanzheng is currently short of a field inspector. Who else would you give such a lucrative opportunity to?!
When the emperor travels incognito, is he not allowed to experience life?
That's how it's portrayed in "Kangxi's Private Visits"!
Anyway, Lu Jian definitely doesn't love money!