The punishment of the female imperial court

Chapter 254 Choice
"Lan Shu is not a member of the Lan family, so his medicine should be given to you."

On the day of arriving at the imperial mausoleum, Jiang Jiqing asked her to see Su Niang, thinking that it was not as simple as the fatigue from the long journey.

The noise she heard by the rockery made sense now. It must have been her sister who came to bring her medicine.

As for Lanshu's surprise when he saw Su Niang for the first time.

"Lan Shu knows you?"

"I've seen it many times when I went to worship my mother."

It was inevitable that they would meet during the memorial service for the deceased's death. Since her aunt's identity was true, Lan Shu had always thought that she was his cousin.

But now when I think about it, every year when I go to worship, I always meet Lanshu and the others. I guess it is the tacit understanding between my aunt and my sister.

Lan Shu is, after all, my aunt's own flesh and blood.

Thinking of her aunt again, Su Niang couldn't tell what emotion she was feeling.

Before her death, her aunt held her hand tightly and told her the whole story, just to ask her to ask her biological sister to take care of Lanshu.

On August 17 of that year, she went to the tomb alone and looked at her "sister" carefully for the first time. She felt a sense of strangeness in her heart.

It seems like I have been living in someone else's body for so many years. Now that the false shell on the outside has been shattered, the people and scenes that were familiar to me in the past have also changed.

The girl in front of her was of the same age as her. She saw her every year and they were born to the same mother, so why had she never noticed that they looked somewhat similar?
And the bright woman with sharp eyes, seeing her coming to sweep the grave alone and seeming to want to say something but hesitated, guessed that her aunt was gone.

"Don't worry, you can continue as you wish. If you want to move, just don't go too far away from Longyuan."

She didn't like the way her half-sister spoke in such an angular and cold manner.

But she had no choice.

If he wanted to survive, he had to rely on the medicine she sent him every March.

"What about Lanshu..." Thinking of her aunt's last words before her death, she mustered up the courage to ask.

Lanzhi glanced at Lanshu, who was concentrating on cleaning the tombstone, with contempt, "Don't worry, he knows nothing and will never know anything."

"What are you talking about?" Lan Shu noticed the look Su Niang was giving him and looked over with a smile. Perhaps because he was too close to the pile of paper money, his face showed some blushing warmth.

The frail woman was so immersed in her memories that she seemed afraid of waking up from her dream, and even her breathing slowed down to an almost unnoticeable level.

Yu Qiansi unknowingly got goosebumps all over her body, and when she looked at Su Niang, there was a layer of admiration in her eyes that she herself had not even noticed.

"So, you already knew Jiang Jiqing's identity? You stayed here on purpose just to have his child so that you can use his bloodline to detoxify yourself?"

But if the blood parasite was so easy to cure, wouldn't it be possible to just capture any descendant of Emperor Gaozu? How could the Lan family be forced into such a desperate situation?

Su Niang blinked, came back to her senses, and heard her doubts. "The mother Gu's blood that can relieve the pain of the Lan family requires a special medicine to blend the blood of the previous generation of emperors into the blood of the next generation of emperors."

Yu Qiansi was slightly stunned, then suddenly a blessing came to her, and she sneered, "Emperor Gaozu is so calculating."

In other words, if the Lan family wants to survive, they must continue to support the Jiang family's emperor.

It seems that this secret must be of great importance, so important that Emperor Gaozu did not hesitate to use this method to force the Lan family to remain loyal to the Jiang royal family.

"Although the bone and blood in my abdomen now do not have that medicinal flavor, it is the bone and blood of the emperor after all. Even if it cannot completely detoxify, it is enough to slowly release the toxicity."

Although these are just her guesses, she is willing to give it a try.

The blood that was everywhere in her body and kept her alive was also the shackles that bound her. The cage shrank day by day, gradually making her unable to breathe.

It makes no difference whether your surname is Lan or where you live.

Three months is the length of her freedom.

Originally, she thought that this was how her life would be.

But God gave her a chance. She saved Jiang Jiqing, and when Bo Yi found him, she heard that he was not a simple person.

So, she decided to give it a try, what if it worked?
Maybe she could try to live for herself.

Anyway, no matter how bad life gets, how much worse can it be than it is now?
"I took advantage of his affection for me and took the initiative to flirt with him, and it was not easy for me to get pregnant."

Yu Qiansi felt an indescribable sense of self-contempt when listening to her words.

She squatted beside Su Niang, grabbed her wrist without giving her a chance to refuse, closed her eyes and took her pulse.

The words he said were still full of sarcasm. "Don't be too happy too soon. It's only been half a month. Even if you are pregnant, ordinary doctors can't find it out."

Yu Qiansi never thought that one day he would use the Yu family's unique method of diagnosing pulse, which was the most difficult to remember back then.

Su Niang also looked at her with bated breath, and even the blood from the wound on her neck stopped temporarily.

The two seemed to have merged into the dark winter forest, like ice sculptures, motionless.

After a long while, Yu Qiansi shook his head and sighed, "It's too early, and my medical skills are limited. I guess it's a pregnancy pulse."

Su Niang placed her hand on her abdomen, lowered her head and chuckled. It was not until she tasted the bitterness on her lips that she realized she was already in tears.

Yu Qiansi shook her head. Even if she was right, her fetus was unstable and she was poisoned. She might have to rely on the forbidden drug Cistanche for the rest of her life.

But when the words came to my lips, I couldn't say them.

She didn't want to waste time, so she stood up quickly, brushed off the broken leaves on the corner of her clothes, lowered her eyes and looked at the woman in front of her with a solemn look.

"In that case, I'll give you two choices. First, come back with me for now, on the one hand to recuperate your body, and on the other hand to take your time. The journey back will take more than a month. When your pulse is confirmed to be positive, I will help you leave."

"Master Yu, there is no need to say anything," Su Niang wiped away the tears on her face and said, "I choose the second one."

Yu Qiansi hesitated and refused to respond, "You have to think carefully, the path you have chosen is full of difficulties and dangers."

Su Niang pulled the corners of her mouth and said bitterly, "If it were you, Lord Yu, who had the opportunity to make your own choice for the first time in your life, would you choose to go back to the cage again? Even if I am unlucky and this stolen child is a false alarm, I would rather die than live like this again."

The last sentence, spoken by Qing Ruohongyu, was largely obscured by the wind, and Yu Qiansi did not hear it clearly.

The whole area was dark, but she clearly saw fire in Su Niang's eyes.

The image of the charred corpse in the attic during her midnight dream and Yu Linyi's bitter smile when he recognized her for the first time appeared before her eyes.

Indeed, if she could choose, she would be willing to give up her flesh and blood in exchange for a different way of living.

"Okay, come with me."