Wu Peng was so candid that it was almost heart - warming.
"So you mean I should thank you?" Yi Qing said irritably.
"No need for that." Wu Peng looked a bit embarrassed. "If you really want to thank me, choose this puppet gu I just developed. Once the gu is planted, the offspring gu will become a puppet of the mother gu." He took out a brown bottle.
Yi Qing looked at the earnest - looking Wu Peng and really didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm. "You're not sure about its effect yet, are you?"
"Er..." Wu Peng didn't expect to be seen through. "We'll only know by trying."
"You haven't done a comparative experiment with a single variable. Trying won't work either, since there are many differences in the refining of these gu worms." Yi Qing seriously discussed it with him.
Wu Peng didn't quite understand what a comparative experiment with a single variable meant. "So I want to try it on you first. If it doesn't work, maybe you can solve it yourself."
Yi Qing thought, was she destined to be the guinea pig just because she was a doctor?
Xiao Jinghan took the bottle. Wu Peng looked at him hopefully.
"Don't!" Yi Qing quickly stopped Xiao Jinghan, thinking he was going to try it.
Xiao Jinghan directly threw the bottle out.
"Even if you don't want to plant it, don't throw it away!" Wu Peng quickly got out of the carriage to look for it.
The news that Xiao Jinghan and Yi Qing had been captured reached Zisu. She was very surprised. She didn't expect Yi Qing to come to the Southern Border and fall into Xiang Beizheng's hands.
If they were sent to Cixi, it would be difficult to rescue them.
"Come with me." Without hesitation, she led people to rescue them.
"Wait a minute." Prince Zhen quickly stopped her. "Xiao Jinghan is extremely skilled in martial arts. He can't be easily captured. Be careful of a trap."
"Still, I have to go and see for myself. If they're really sent to Cixi, it'll be too late."
"I'll lead the men. They won't dare to do anything to me even if they capture me."
"They can use you to threaten the Great Jin. Then my situation will be even more passive."
Prince Zhen knew it was true and lowered his head in silence.
Zisu led her men away. Even though she knew it was a trap, since they were using Yi Qing as bait, Zisu would surely go.
Wu Peng didn't plant the gu poison on Xiao Jinghan and Yi Qing. He sat in the carriage listening to Yi Qing explain how to suppress the Illusion - Birth Gu. He got very excited when he heard something interesting.
Suddenly, the carriage stopped. Their men were surrounded.
Zisu looked at the carriage and shouted, "Yi Qing?"
Yi Qing was stunned for a moment, then immediately lifted the curtain of the carriage and got excited instantly. "Zisu?"
She thought that she might see Zisu during this trip to the Southern Border, and unexpectedly, she really did, though the way they met was a bit dangerous.
"Leave the people in the carriage, and I'll spare your lives." Zisu pointed her sword at the people who had escorted Xiao Jinghan and the others.
"You're so arrogant!" Xiang Beizheng led his men and surrounded Zisu.
Archers surrounded Zisu and her men. It seemed that they had been well - prepared.
Zisu wasn't surprised that Xiang Beizheng would show up. "If you dare to do the slightest harm to Xiao Jinghan, the emperor of the Great Jin won't spare you."
"Now it's not me who's going to harm him, but you. Then I'll just say that the Crown Princess tried to assassinate General Xiao who came to the Southern Border to look for medicine, and I avenged General Xiao." Xiang Beizheng looked very proud.
"You won't let me kill him." Zisu said with certainty.
The emperor of the Great Jin wanted to see them fight among themselves. If Xiang Beizheng broke this balance, the emperor of the Great Jin would surely target him, and there was already a ready - made reason in the form of Xiao Jinghan.
Xiang Beizheng stared at Zisu. Women who were too smart were really not cute at all. "Just because of your confidence, he's definitely going to die today."
"Wait a minute." Yi Qing walked out.
That medicine was indeed useful to them, but it didn't affect their normal activities. "Xiang Beizheng, are you so addicted to being a kept man that you don't even want to catch up with Zisu?"
Xiang Beizheng felt a pang in his chest. He was now the son - in - law of the Southern Border. In others' eyes, he was just a kept man.
"You can have two lovers at the same time, but it's okay. But in the end, you chose a broken boat. I heard that the second princess of the Southern Border likes to keep male concubines the most. You got together with her just to please her. You're really shameless. And you even killed the woman who was pregnant with your child. Are you so desperate that you don't even pick?" Yi Qing taunted.
"Shut up!" Xiang Beizheng didn't know how Yi Qing knew about this.
"What? You did it but you don't want others to talk about it? No wonder you've been hiding in the Southern Border secretly. You're just too shameful. I don't know..."
"I told you to shut up!" Xiang Beizheng shot an arrow at Yi Qing.
Xiao Jinghan quickly pulled Yi Qing into the carriage.
"Attacking a woman is not a man's act. You're just a useless kept man. You got to where you are by relying on women, and you still have the nerve..." Yi Qing continued to taunt from inside the carriage.
Zisu frowned slightly. Yi Qing had always been sharp - tongued, but it was the first time she had seen her launch a personal attack on someone. Had she had a tough time in the past two years, and her temper had become so bad?
On the other side, Xiang Beizheng was so angry that he gasped for breath. Every word of Yi Qing's hit his weak spot. He felt that the looks of the people around him had changed.
Although in fact, the people around didn't even dare to look at him.
Xiao Jinghan also frowned slightly. He thought Yi Qing was deliberately provoking Xiang Beizheng, but he didn't know what she was up to.
Xiang Beizheng's face became more and more ugly. Finally, his eyes rolled back and he fell backward, foaming at the mouth and twitching all over.
"It worked." Yi Qing looked over excitedly.
As soon as Xiang Beizheng fell, his men immediately panicked.
"Zisu." Yi Qing called out.
Only then did Zisu react and rushed over to rescue Yi Qing and the others.
Wu Peng didn't care about Yi Qing and the others anymore. He quickly went to check on Xiang Beizheng. If anything happened to Xiang Beizheng, they would all be in trouble.
The enemy lost their commander - in - chief and was quickly wiped out by Zisu's men.
At this time, Lord Ghost also arrived. A group of people took Yi Qing and the others to retreat.
On the other side, Wu Peng managed to stabilize Xiang Beizheng's condition. But unlike Yi Qing, he didn't know much about epilepsy. He used other methods to stabilize Xiang Beizheng, and Xiang Beizheng fainted.
"Why did you come so late?" Yi Qing looked at Lord Ghost who was sitting on the carriage shaft cheekily.
"I'm already doing well to come now. I burned all their Ruyi Cakes." Lord Ghost looked very proud as if asking for credit.
"You're really something." Yi Qing didn't know what to say about Lord Ghost. In this way, just the smell would be inhaled.
"Did I do something wrong again?" Lord Ghost was a bit confused.
"If you burned the Ruyi Cakes, then everyone would inhale them." Xiao Jinghan also realized this.
"Er..." Lord Ghost hadn't thought that much. "Anyway, it's a remote place, and they're all their people."
He even had a reason for doing something wrong.
Zisu led the way in front. They soon arrived at Zisu's camp.
This was their temporary camp, just to destroy those Ruyi Cakes. They didn't expect Xiang Beizheng to be here.
Prince Zhen was really anxious. When he saw Zisu coming back, he quickly stepped forward to greet them. But when he saw Xiao Jinghan and Yi Qing, he immediately covered his face.
"You know you should be ashamed, too." Yi Qing said irritably.
"I did it for true love." Prince Zhen stubbornly argued.