The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 1480

Chapter 1480: 723 Sister Complex (First Update)_2

Gu Jiao thought about it, "Fatty Dahai?"

How could someone have such a strange name?

Pang Hai: "..."

"Please lend me some wound medicine," Gu Changqing said to Pang Hai. After a pause, he added, "I need to send my fellow townsman back. Please take this coachman back. I’ll meet up with you at the inn later."

"Do you know which inn?" Pang Hai asked.

"Fuyun Building," Gu Changqing replied.

Pang Hai, seeing that he had not remembered incorrectly, turned to go to his own carriage to get the wound medicine.

He chose the bottle with the best efficacy.

By the time he came over to give Gu Changqing the medicine, Gu Changqing had already lifted Gu Jiao into the carriage.

Gu Jiao’s left ankle was severely swollen; even the top of her foot was puffed up, practically bursting from her shoe.

Gu Changqing sat down next to Gu Jiao, picked up her foot, and gently placed it on his own leg. "Let me see, bear with it a bit."

When Pang Hai came over with the medicine, the scene he glimpsed through the carriage window was that of Gu Changqing removing someone’s shoe and cradling their white, tender, little plump foot in his broad palm.

Pang Hai was completely flabbergasted!

Was it really so sensational?

You, you, you...you couldn’t have taken a fancy to her, could you?

No wonder you showed no interest in women; turns out you damn well prefer men!

And prefer them that much younger than yourself!

Have you no shame, no shame at all!

It’s no wonder Pang Hai misunderstood. After all, Gu Changqing was notoriously difficult, once throwing to the ground the most famous courtesan in the region when she threw herself at him, mistaking her for an assassin!

That courtesan had broken three ribs and was still bedridden.

The world is declining, the world is declining!

After placing the wound medicine on the table inside through the carriage window, Pang Hai walked away without looking back!

...

In the Imperial Palace, Zhaoyang Hall.

Shangguan Yun’s breath gradually weakened, and even the life-sustaining elixir given by the National Master showed little effect.

The monarch had skipped the morning court.

He paced restlessly in the room, glancing towards the door from time to time.

His eyes were icy and fierce, and he was known to be a tyrant and a mad emperor—no one knew what dreadful things he might do in a fit of anger.

All the palace maids were as silent as cicadas in winter.

He snapped impatiently, "Not yet? Are the National Master Hall’s disciples dead?"

The National Master Hall held a distinguished position, and the monarch of Dayan rarely used such harsh words to rebuke the National Master Hall.

Zhang Dequan hurriedly trotted out and said to the eunuch at the door, "Go check again to see if the disciples from the National Master Hall have returned."

The monarch looked at the National Master and said irritably, "I told you to let Wang Xu bring him here by force! But you insisted on having the National Master Hall’s disciples invite him!"

The National Master replied, "That young man, I’m afraid Wang Xu might not be able to bind him."

"Hmph!" the monarch scoffed coldly and flung his sleeve.

"He’s here, he’s here! He has come!" Zhang Dequan suddenly rushed into the room, excitedly announcing, "The disciples of the National Master Hall have brought the person!"

The monarch frowned and ordered, "Bring them in quickly!"

"Yes!" Zhang Dequan shouted outside, "Hurry up, all of you, hurry!"

They were indeed hurrying, as the disciples from the National Master Hall and Xiao Hen had almost run at full speed into Zhaoyang Hall.

Although Gu Jiao had entered the palace before, she had not been granted an audience by the monarch, hence the monarch did not recognize "Xiao Liulang."

His gaze fell on this young man with an ordinary appearance: "You are Xiao Liulang?"

Xiao Hen glanced at the screen in front of the bed and said, "I am Xiao Liulang’s medicine boy. We were attacked on the road, and she was held back by assassins. This is her first aid kit."

As he spoke, he removed the small basket from his back and passed it to Zhang Dequan standing by.

Knowing to give it to the supervising eunuch showed a knowledge of rules that no ordinary medicine boy would understand.

But at such a critical juncture, no one bothered with such trivial details.

The monarch was furious at the assassination attempt on the former princess’s physician—no one would believe that was a coincidence!

The monarch roared, "Summon Wang Xu!"

Zhang Dequan quickly responded, "Yes!"

The National Master looked deeply at Xiao Hen.

Xiao Hen’s peripheral vision also caught the National Master.

This man closely matched the characteristics Gu Jiao had described, and he stood by the monarch with neither flattery nor fear on his face.