Alluring City

Gu Yunyao was so startled by Gu Xiaowu's words that she forgot to react. Although this was her dream, she never thought that this day would come so soon.

"I..." Gu Yunyao bit her lip, looking very embarrassed.

"Is Yunyao willing to help me? The only person I can trust in the palace is Yunyao. If Yunyao is unwilling to help me, then I..." Gu Xiaowu said, looking like he was about to cry .

"No, no, that's not the case." Gu Yunyao took Gu Xiaowu's hand and explained: "I wonder if my mother will agree. Although I am only a concubine, I am also a young lady of the Gu family. If someone else becomes a concubine , will be laughed at. Although it is an honor to be able to marry His Highness the Crown Prince, but..."

"As long as Yunyao agrees, don't worry, I will find a way with your mother. Yunyao is so kind to me, as long as I marry His Highness the Crown Prince, I will definitely let you become His Royal Highness's concubine." If you say anything, you will be laughed at. I don't know how many people in the world are trying to send their daughters to the palace to be concubines!

Seeing Gu Xiaowu's happy face, Gu Yunyao seemed unable to bear to refuse, and after a long while of pretending to struggle, she finally nodded.

"Yunyao promised me? That's great. I'm going to ask my brother whether my fiancé is His Highness the Crown Prince. Yunyao, please speak for your concubine. I'll go back first, and I'll come to apologize to her sometime later. " Gu Xiaowu finished speaking in a very happy tone, hummed a song and ran outside.

After leaving Zhongcui Palace, the smile on Gu Xiaowu's face disappeared without a trace.

It's really tiring to deal with the woman of Gu's family.The nonsense she has told since she grew up is probably not as much as she says today.

I wish Lan Shenglian would tell her the real culprit who poisoned her mother earlier, so that she could turn against those people who tried to step on her to get close to Duguchen as soon as possible.

Walking to the front of Jinxiu Palace, Gu Xiaowu suddenly saw Luochen turn around and leave from the gate.

Gu Xiaowu didn't go forward to call Luochen to stop, but quietly jumped onto the wall to check what was going on in Jinxiu Palace.

Unexpectedly, she saw Lan Qingcheng walking towards Lan Shenglian's residence.

Gu Xiaowu couldn't help frowning, Lan Qingcheng couldn't have returned from her place until now, and the direction was wrong, it seemed that she had just returned from outside.

And she saw Luo Chen who was supposed to be in the East Palace outside the Fairview Palace, could it be...

Unconsciously, he took out the jade pendant engraved with the word 'Chen', maybe it's time to return this piece of jade to Dugu Chen.

Maybe it was something on his mind, so Gu Xiaowu woke up early in the morning. After washing up, before he even had breakfast, someone from Kunning Palace came.

"Miss Lan, the Empress sent a servant to invite you to Kunning Palace to accompany her to have a meal."

Is Duguchen's mother queen?The fact that she went to Zhongcui Palace last night, probably spread throughout the entire harem, right?

"Okay, let's lead the way."

After thinking about it all night, many things were finally figured out. She really didn't want to wrong herself to do something she didn't want to do.

This is the second time Gu Xiaowu stepped into the Kunning Palace, but she didn't look carefully the last time she came here, this time, she didn't bother to look, anyway, she won't stay here for too long.

Although she is a queen, the breakfast she eats is not much different from that of ordinary wealthy families.

"Sit down when you come, don't be polite." The queen smiled and beckoned Gu Xiaowu to sit down, and then picked up the chopsticks first.

Gu Xiaowu sat down without saying a word, and was not polite to the queen.

"Actually, I wanted to invite you over for a chat yesterday, but I just didn't want to be preempted by Concubine Luo." Although the queen picked up the chopsticks, she was not in a hurry to eat.

"What does the empress want to say?" Gu Xiaowu didn't want to talk nonsense. After seeing Luochen send Lan Qingcheng back to the Fairview Palace last night, she thought a lot. For an answer that she didn't know the truth of, she really didn't need to wrong herself so much.

Moreover, if she really married Dugu Chen as agreed, then...

Compared with Lan Shenglian's words, Si Jingjun is actually more worthy of her trust.

Anyway, Lan Shenglian also detoxified her, so she didn't suffer any losses. If she got back now, it would be too late. Moreover, seeing Lan Qingcheng's appearance, she should be planning to exchange it with her.

The queen was secretly surprised by Gu Xiaowu's directness.

"I know that you have a marriage contract with that child Chen'er, so I want to meet you first." In fact, I have wanted to meet this child for a long time, but I just kept procrastinating until today.

"And then?" Surely it wouldn't be as simple as just looking at it?

"You are different from the descriptions I heard from the court ladies." The queen smiled, but did not answer Gu Xiaowu's question.

Gu Xiaowu smiled and said, "Everyone has a different opinion, and it's normal to have discrepancies."

She just wanted to know what the Queen's purpose was for looking for her.

"Although it's a bit abrupt to say this, I hope you can marry Chen'er." It's just marriage, not love.

"Why did you tell me this on purpose? Is it because I am Miss Lan's?" It is absolutely impossible for the Queen to say such things for no reason.

"I know you are not. 14 years ago, before you were born, I met your mother. Seeing you, I recognized you as her daughter." The queen said with a smile.

That night 14 years ago, she lost her hearing, and even her legs were seriously injured so that she could no longer walk.Although all this was caused by the child's mother, she was not the one who hurt her, so she didn't blame her.

If it weren't for the fact that she couldn't walk freely and lost her hearing, the emperor probably wouldn't be so sympathetic to her.

"You...know my mother?" Gu Xiaowu was taken aback, not because the queen immediately recognized that she was not the real Lan Qingcheng, but because she knew her own mother.

The queen nodded and said: "Well, you were not born at that time, but it's a pity that she left too early. At the last Hundred Flowers Banquet, although I saw you, but because of you and your father There is no similarity in the looks of your mother, so I dare not ask about your mother rashly."

When I wanted to confirm later, she was no longer in Jiangning City.

"Since you know that I'm not the real Lan Qingcheng, why do you want me to marry Dugu Chen?" Logically speaking, shouldn't she be angry?In this world, no one likes to be deceived, right?

"Do you know that I can't actually hear you at all? And I can't walk?" The queen smiled and suddenly asked Gu Xiaowu.

"I don't know..." She really didn't know that the queen couldn't hear and couldn't leave, they could talk like ordinary people, she thought...

However, if you look closely, what she is sitting on is indeed a wooden chair with wheels instead of an ordinary chair, presumably it was specially made for the convenience of movement.

"Because I lost my hearing, the emperor specially found a lip-reading person for me to teach me how to read lips. Speaking of which, Chen'er can also read lips, but Chen'er's lips The language is indeed taught by Ben Gong!" Thinking about it now, when she first found out that she had lost her hearing, she really almost collapsed, but fortunately the emperor has always been with her, otherwise, she might not be able to survive.

"You haven't told me why you lost your hearing and legs." She was indeed a little surprised that Dugu Chen could speak with her lips, but what does it have to do with her?It doesn't matter.

"14 years ago, the Gu family designed to frame your mother and kicked her out of the Gu family because they were coerced by people from the Holy Spirit Island. Your mother was cut in two. After your mother left the Gu family, she was hunted down, and it happened that at that evening, I took Chen'er to go hunting... It was at that evening that I lost my hearing and legs."

Although the price she paid was too great, she never regretted it.If she didn't save that woman that day, then she would regret it.

"How do you know this?" As the queen of Tianchen, it is very easy to find out that her mother was driven away by the Gu family, but she even knew that the Gu family was threatened by people from the Holy Spirit Island, which made her suspicious.

"Actually, at the beginning, I only found out that your mother was kicked out by the Gu family because of certain things. As for the threat of the Gu family being threatened by the people of Holy Spirit Island, I only found out later." The queen explained with a chuckle, "Later, the Gu family is now The mistress of the house is Mrs. Gu. She kicked out a concubine who had just given birth to a baby boy for Master Gu. The maid of the palace is from the same town as the concubine who was kicked out of the Gu family, so she begged the palace to save her. After she died, the Gu family was threatened by the people of Holy Spirit Island, and that concubine told me."

"Then where is she now?" Gu Xiaowu suppressed the urgency in her heart, if that concubine was still in the palace, then she would be able to find her and ask what happened back then.

"Back then, I sent someone to bring her into the palace. I wanted her to follow my maids and serve by my side. It's a pity that she became ill because of missing children, and passed away soon." If she becomes the queen, if not, she can also ask the general to come over from the Gu family for her.

"Was your injury caused by people from Holy Spirit Island?" If the person who assassinated your mother was the person Si Jingjun said, then the queen who happened to be hunted down by her mother should have been caused by those people. .

"I don't know if it's from Holy Spirit Island, but my injury was indeed caused by the person who chased and killed your mother." It doesn't matter who caused it, what matters is that the child Chen'er thought the injury was the Holy Spirit made by the people of the island.

The reason why the child has worked so hard to improve his abilities these years is to avenge her. She is really worried that the child will do something that she regrets one day.

"Does Duguchen also know about this?" Gu Xiaowu suddenly remembered Duguchen's expression when she heard Si Jingjun say that she was the young master of Holy Spirit Island in Nanman. At that time, she felt a little strange, but now that she thinks about it , if he really knew about this matter, then he would have such a complicated expression at that time, so it would be understandable.