Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Chapter 1355: Chapter 1013: The Maid Wants the Southern Emperor to See Him!

Gu Changsheng, leaning against the soft pillow, watched the palanquin that had been brought to her bedside, and could not help but frown.

”Ling Xi, why are you still standing there? Help me get the Southern Emperor onto the soft sedan!”

At this moment, Shi Wei glanced at the speechless Ling Xi beside her and urged in a deep voice.

”But Sister Shi Wei, Sister Shi Wei, the Southern Emperor is still very weak and needs proper care. How can you...” Little Palace Maid Ling Xi hesitated upon hearing these words, her face conflicted as she spoke.

”Yes, the Southern Emperor is indeed weak, but she will recover one day. What about our City Lord though?” Shi Wei turned her gaze upon Ling Xi with a mournful expression upon hearing this.

These words successfully interrupted the protest that Ling Xi had yet to utter, and as she thought of her Hall Master, Ling Xi hesitated.

Shi Wei looked at Ling Xi standing there foolishly and said nothing more, stepping directly to the side of the White Jade Bed and bending over again, ”Southern Emperor, I apologize for the intrusion!”

With this, she reached out, intending to help Gu Changsheng on the bed up!

”No need!” Gu Changsheng coldly waved her hand, rejecting Shi Wei’s assist, struggling to move her legs, and supporting herself on the bed. Slowly standing up, she gazed down at Shi Wei and said firmly, ”I can do it myself, Shi Wei. As you wished, you want me to see, I will go see. I want to see how your so-called ’facts speak louder than words’ indeed hold true!”

Saying this, Gu Changsheng slowly moved her stiff legs towards the palanquin.

Each step seemed to expend all her energy, causing her forehead to be covered in cold sweat.

This body once exhausted its vitality, even if now it is rejuvenated, it has suffered too much loss and requires good recovery; it’s truly not dependable!

However, she, Gu Changsheng, has always been proud!

She dislikes Shi Wei’s coercive method very much!

She dislikes being chosen by others very much!

She has her persistence, her stubbornness!

Shi Wei is so confident to let her see, so she will look, she will see what exactly this Palace Maid’s grievance is all about! What have they owed them, worth tearing faces, risking lives, doing such things!

”Huff huff...”

Step by step, stumbling to sit on the palanquin, Gu Changsheng was already panting heavily, yet she still stubbornly waved off Shi Wei’s assist, not even bothering to give her a proper look!

Someone who, in her sickbed, would speak wild words without asking her will, a Palace Maid who would attempt to control her in such a coercive manner, she’s sorry, Gu Changsheng doesn’t like this! Doesn’t like it at all!

Shi Wei looked at Gu Changsheng’s stubborn back sitting on the palanquin, her face flushed alternately red and white, but still determined, waved to the four guards carrying the sedan, ”Set off!”

”Yes!” The four responded in unison, lifted the palanquin, and headed out.

The palanquin had no curtains, only a luxurious canopy hanging down with palace tassels, subtly masking the regal presence!

In the Heaven Deceiving Hall, the path paved with jade stones was surrounded by fresh grass and the fragrance of flowers...

But once leaving the Heaven Deceiving Hall, Gu Changsheng couldn’t help but pause, glancing back from the palanquin, slightly frowning, and incredulously looking at the hall she had been resting in...

This... this black and barren hall, was it really the exquisite luxury in her eyes that was akin to fairyland for rehabilitation? How does it appear so gloomy and dreary from the outside?

The palanquin continued to move slowly through the lush canopy, Shi Wei following behind, looking at Gu Changsheng somewhat lost under the cover of palace gauze, began to speak slowly as if murmuring, ”This hall is called Heaven Deceiving! Heaven Deceiving Hall...”

Upon hearing these words, Gu Changsheng’s face froze.

Turning to look again at the black and barren hall, Heaven Deceiving Hall? Then she looked upwards at the lush canopy overhead, completely blocking the sky, and her face showed a hint of seriousness...

”In fact, this is the Shi Family’s greatest secret in Linyuan City. The entire Linyuan City is actually a great formation, an Evil Gathering Formation! And this Heaven Deceiving Hall is the place where the array’s eye of the Evil Gathering Formation is located, gathering evil, masking heaven’s secrets!”

Shi Wei did not look at Gu Changsheng, speaking as if narrating a matter unrelated to her.

And Gu Changsheng, upon hearing these words, was slightly lost, murmuring, ”Evil Gathering Formation gathering evil... masking heaven’s secrets...”

No wonder...

No wonder she would recuperate here, no wonder she would be alive...

Masking heaven’s secrets indeed!

Using the forbidden Sacrificial Witchcraft recklessly, summoning Red Lotus Karma Fire, if not for the place capable of masking heaven’s secrets, how could she escape the divine backlash? How could she survive unscathed, with a chance to see the sunlight once more?

Thinking of this, Gu Changsheng suddenly felt relieved, yes, this explains it, she was originally puzzled, with her evildoer’s ability, without a place like Heaven Deceiving Hall helping, how could she possibly be saved?

Now, it finally makes sense!

Shi Wei glanced at Gu Changsheng sitting in the palanquin and immediately understood her thoughts, a trace of poignant sorrow flickering on her lips.

Southern Emperor, you think too simply!

Things are far from simple.

The palanquin bearers were steady in their steps, and Gu Changsheng, seated within, didn’t feel the slightest bump.

The palace gauze on the canopy swayed with the movement of the palanquin, strands of golden light flowing like water waves, yet a blossom petal slowly floated through a gap in the gauze, landing on Gu Changsheng’s red gown...

As red as blood...

”What’s this? A peach blossom?” Gu Changsheng reached out, picked up the petal that had fallen on her, glanced at it, and spoke in confusion.

Hearing this, Shi Wei looked at the petals dancing in the air, a trace of pain showing in her eyes, and replied solemnly, ”It is.”

”Rarely seen, such bright and blood-like peach blossoms, truly beautiful...” Gu Changsheng sighed at this, having stayed bedridden in the Heaven Deceiving Hall for quite some time, venturing out rarely; seeing the outside world lifted her mood, dissipating some of Shi Wei’s unpleasantness.

”Beautiful? Haha... I hope the Southern Emperor still thinks so in a moment...” Shi Wei glanced at Gu Changsheng upon hearing this, speaking with deep meaning.

Gu Changsheng heard this and couldn’t help but furrow her brow.

This palace maid!

So hateful!

Why is she speaking so cryptically, making her feel unsettled?

”Where are we going?” Gu Changsheng’s tone involuntarily sank, watching four guards carrying the palanquin, weaving through the shaded path, her brow slightly furrowed.

”Once we arrive, the Southern Emperor will naturally know. The Southern Emperor can rest assured; I have no ill intentions, only wish to show the Southern Emperor the truth...” Shi Wei spoke softly, leading a few steps ahead, reaching a corner side gate of the palace wall, standing by the gate, glancing back at the palanquin, a cold smile upon her lips as she slowly asked, ”Southern Emperor, are the peach blossoms beautiful?”

Upon hearing this, Gu Changsheng’s face became more bewildered; she looked down at the blossom petal in her hand, yet to be discarded, frowning at Shi Wei’s cryptic words, nodding and answering honestly, ”Beautiful!”

She, Gu Changsheng, loves all pure colors, especially favoring red!

These peach blossoms, seeing for the first time, the legendary Peach Yaoyao, blazing like fire!

So vividly red, as if dripping blood...

Shi Wei heard Gu Changsheng’s words and suddenly laughed, yet the smile was peculiar, ”Then let me show the Southern Emperor the world’s most beautiful peach blossom!”

With that, Shi Wei slowly pushed open the tall palace wall’s side gate...

The moment the side gate was opened, Gu Changsheng’s eyes tightened...

Through the palanquin’s gauze, she could faintly see beyond the gate, where everything was bright red...

Seeing the side gate open, Shi Wei stepped aside, the four guards immediately carrying the palanquin through the gate; at that moment, Gu Changsheng felt the scenery shift abruptly, no longer the shaded path just traversed, all green now, but now before her eyes, all red!

Blazing like fire, wherever her gaze met, an endless expanse of red...

”This is... a peach grove?”

”Indeed, this is a peach grove, the secret garden of the City Lord’s Mansion, ten miles of peach grove, now, blossoms are falling...” Shi Wei quietly replied, waving to the four guards carrying the palanquin, ”Let’s go...”

Watching the palanquin weave among the peach trees, petals whirl and dance all around, Gu Changsheng had no mood to admire these scenes; inside the gauze, her brow furrowed more, ”Shi Wei, you forcibly brought me here just to stroll your City Lord’s Mansion secret garden?”

No longer able to bear it, Gu Changsheng finally voiced her displeasure, her voice a bit cold, ”Even though this Ten Miles Peach Grove is picturesque, rare, and fiery red, I have no leisure to roam a garden now!”

Shi Wei, walking ahead, halted suddenly, turning to the palanquin, her voice also cold, ”I brought the Southern Emperor here not to view peach blossoms, but to see... him!”

With that, Shi Wei abruptly turned, lifting the gauze before Gu Changsheng, pointing far among the peach trees...

Gu Changsheng, upon hearing, was stunned, her gaze involuntarily following Shi Wei’s pointed direction...

Beside her, the peach blossoms blazed, and ahead, several peach blooms lifeless, branches withered, vivid petals covering the ground, wind stirring them in a captivating dance, yet utterly out of place against the withered peach trees...

And among those withered peach trees, a slumped figure leaned against a dry trunk, clad in a black garment, white hair dancing in the wind, stark against the swirling petals, now, wind lifted his white hair, faintly revealing his bowed head, pale face, and a trace of blood at the corner of his mouth...