After the death of the previous emperor, the Empress Dowager became arrogant

Chapter 233 Uprooting

"When was she poisoned?" A man suddenly spoke behind the crowd.

Yuan Qing immediately turned around and found that it was Lu Zhao who had disappeared for many days.

He came out of the secret passage and heard this as soon as he came out.

Fang Yuemei looked at him blankly and stretched out six fingers.

It has been six days since I was poisoned.

Lu Zhao's brows relaxed.

Yuan Qing pulled him aside and asked in a low voice: "Do you have a solution?"

"I'm not sure if it will work, after all, I haven't done any experiments before." Lu Zhao said, "Now I have a live Yang Gu worm in my hand. Whether she is willing to do it depends on her own willingness."

Hearing his words, Yuan Qing's heart suddenly relaxed.

She saw Lu Zhao off, went back to the room and sat down in front of Fang Yuemei.

"I have a method. Although it cannot get rid of the poisonous insect, it can free you from its control. What do you think?"

Fang Yuemei looked up suddenly.

Just now, Lu Zhao told her that the Yin Yang Gu cannot stay in the body for more than one month, otherwise it will take root in the bones and will be impossible to remove.

But now the court is in turmoil, and Lu Zhao has heavy responsibilities, so he cannot show up at this time, so he can only delay the time.

Fang Yuemei didn't expect that things would take a turn for the better.

She stared at Yuan Qing blankly and asked again unsurely, "Really?"

Yuan Qing nodded: "Really."

Let's talk about that girl next." Lu Zhao changed the subject, "It's impossible to pull out the poisonous insect by force. It will kill the host. The safest way is to replace it."

Yuan Qing came back to his senses and subconsciously repeated, "Replace?"

"Use new Gu worms to replace the ones that have been planted. This is what I heard from an old wizard in the South. However, this method requires enduring great pain, and the host must be planted within a month, otherwise it will be ineffective."

Yuan Qing said: "That's why you asked her how long she had been planting it."

Lu Zhao took out the box containing the poisonous insect from the wall. "This method is extremely risky. Even if the replacement is successful, the host body will definitely lose its lifespan and vitality. I wonder if she can bear it?"

"Don't worry about that. I've explained everything to her. She promised me that she would give it a try even if it meant losing her life."

Lu Zhao nodded, "That's good, then you tell her that when His Majesty gets better, I will perform a replacement for her."

Fang Yuemei is staying in another inn, and Lu Zhao will help her get rid of the evil spirit after some time.

Lu Zhao led Yuan Qing into a secret room and asked her to meet someone.

Yuan Qing looked at the young boy standing awkwardly in the corner and asked curiously, "What is this?"

Lu Zhao called the young man over and asked him to face Yuan Qing.

The young man moved over slowly, then looked up reluctantly.

Yuan Qing thought for a long time before he found this familiar face in his memory.

"Isn't he the pervert we caught at the inn?"

"I'm not a pervert!" The boy clenched his fist angrily, "You are the perverts!"

Yuan Qing pretended to be afraid and hid back, "Oh my, how dare the assassin be so arrogant!"

The boy gritted his teeth, "You!"

Lu Zhao knocked his fingers on the table, "Come here."

These two plain words frightened the young man so much that he shuddered all over and stood over obediently.

"My goodness," Yuan Qing looked at Xinqi, "What did you do to him to make him so afraid of you?"

"Nothing much, just locked up in a small dark room for a few days and put some things in it."

Yuan Qing stammered and shut up.

Although she really wanted to ask what was put in there, her strong intuition made her give up the idea immediately.

"Do you remember what I told you, that I have a live Yin-Yang Gu in my hand?" Lu Zhao looked up at her.

"I remember," Yuan Qing looked at the young man and had a vague guess in his mind, "Could it be related to him?"

"The last time he came to the inn and tried to attack you, he was carrying the Yin Yang Gu."

After Lu Zhao said this, Yuan Qing immediately felt a layer of cold sweat on his back.

What does he mean?

Lu Zhao continued, "The Yin Gu is already in his body, and the Yang Gu wants to be planted in you. Think carefully about what's going on here."

Yuan Qing was suddenly excited. She suddenly looked at the young man, "Who is behind you?"

The young man was intimidated by Lu Zhao's eyes. He wanted to get angry, but he didn't dare to. He could only stare at Yuan Qing and said unhappily: "Who knows? You said I was begging for food in a dilapidated temple, and suddenly I was kidnapped by a group of people and fed a worm to me."

His face turned grim. "Then they showed me a portrait and asked me to come to you. They wanted you to accept it and feed you another worm. But you found me before I could do anything."

Lu Zhao spoke up at this time: "Take another good look at his face."

He shouted at the young man, "Raise your head, don't block it."

Yuan Qing looked at the boy's face carefully several times, and the more he looked, the more he felt something was wrong.

Lu Zhao asked the boy to go out first.

He clasped his hands together and said lazily, "What did you see?"

"He..." Yuan Qing swallowed, "He looks like someone I know."

Not to mention anything else, just based on that face, he is 70% similar to Gong Qinshan.

With Lu Zhao's reminder, Yuan Qing immediately realized the secret behind this.

Could it be that this young man is Gong Qinshan’s biological son, the legitimate fifth young master of the Gong family?

It's impossible, how could it be such a coincidence?

"I haven't found out his true identity yet, but based on my observations these days, he grew up among beggars. That's true. Even the poisonous insect was planted not long ago. He is straightforward, a bit childish, and naughty. He doesn't look like a spy trained in those places, so it's basically impossible that he is a chess piece they arranged in advance."

He turned around and asked her, "I heard that you liked to recruit people everywhere before?"

Yuan Qing glanced at him and said, "I don't accept just anyone. I have conditions, too."

Lu Zhao looked at her meaningfully and said, "Let's make a hypothesis. If you had found him in the inn and found the shadow of Gong Qinshan in him, what would you do then?"

"Of course I will investigate first and prove it step by step."

"What if all the evidence matches?"

Yuan Qing's brain was shocked, "Then I..."

Then she would secretly communicate with the head of the Gong family and tell them that "Gong Bin" was still alive.

At that time...

Lu Zhao seemed to have read her mind. "If the Gong family believes that you are in league with those people, and then they try to alienate you from the Gong family, and then spread your background to the public, you will be criticized by everyone."

Isolated and helpless, he could only be imprisoned and wait for death.