I stood still and took a deep breath: "You said... the Emperor is dead?"
"Yes!" He TaiFu's eyes were tearful. "The Emperor died on the battlefield..."
My hands trembled and I said: "How is this possible..."
He TaiFu approached me and said: "The Empress shouldn't be too sad..."
I picked up the bowl next to my pillow and accurately threw it, it hit He TaiFu in between the eyebrows. He TaiFu screamed and fell down, the spot that was hit instantly turned red and revealed a squirming worm. At the same time, the red worm he had been secretly holding also fell, both worms fell on the ground into the medicine juice that had spilled from the bowl, both squirmed and struggled and then went stiff, they died.
I dusted off my hands, then grabbed Liu Liang from under the bed, and gave him two hard slaps without mercy: "How dare you pretend to faint? That's good. I barely touched your head and you fell over...you were actually faking and had set up multiple plots, unfortunately, it's too fake."
Liu Liang opened his eyes, this time his face was in complete shock: "You even know about the 'controlling soul' technique?!"
I said: "I didn't know about it, it is all thanks to someone who gave me a book."
In the book, Situ had given me, there was actually no poisons at all, except two gu techniques from Nan; one of them is the raising the dead technique and the other is the controlling the soul technique.
**(Gu refers to poisonous techniques that involve planting insect larvae in victims)**
The technique of controlling the soul, as its name implies, it was used to control the mind of others, but the person being controlled was not completely under the mind control. The person who was being controlled behaves like usual until the person who planted the gu instructs it to move, then the person will be forced, to say or do something, and their memory will be distorted.
the main characteristic of people being controlled was that there will be red spots on their bodies somewhere, which are traces of the worms entering through the skin. This kind of gu insect can only enter the human body when it was extremely sad, for example grieving or experiencing other strong emotions.
For He Chen, it must have been implanted at the time of the TaiFu's death, and Honglian must have been at the time of her grandmother's death. Liu Ya, must have been when she was almost married to someone she didn't like...as for Bai Taiyi, it must have probably been for some other reason.
There are four of them who were planted around me, so they can work together - to lie to me and say that I am pregnant.
In fact, this was the biggest flaw, because it was not possible for me to be pregnant at all.
That night, Wu Min Jun and I didn't do anything, my monthly bleeding started so we couldn't do anything. The first night of marrying Wu Min Jun, the blood was from a cut on his arm, that is, my arm to conceal it, but...cough, it is said that the smell of the blood is different, so I specifically hinted at that to the old maid who came to retrieve it. I can guess that the people of Nan also knew about it, so they were not sure whether there was a husband and wife relationship between me and Wu Min Jun.
After all, husband and wife who do not complete the bridal chamber ceremony on the day of the wedding are very suspicious. So when Honglian cleared the bedding on that night, it was assumed that it was the first time Wu Min Jun and I had sexual intercourse, and so they were able to act and so Nan began to attack Xi.
In fact, if they had acted later, it could have worked...
but they acted too early, my monthly bleeding had not stopped, so nothing happened between Wu Min Jun and I... how was I supposed to be pregnant...is it through praying to the heavens?
In the beginning, I did not understand why they would lie to me that I was pregnant and so went along with it and drank the medicine for a month. I checked the medicine and there was nothing special in it, it was just to give me pregnancy symptoms of feeling sick, then I saw the controlling the soul technique and I saw that the fake Wu Min Jun was treating me badly and understood that they wanted me to fall into extreme sadness... For a mother, compared to being betrayed by her husband, the fact that the child was gone will be the biggest blow to her.
But unfortunately, the first step was wrong, so I could see their tricks from the beginning. I am not too intelligent, but because Wu Min Jun and I have switched bodies before and we have always had clear relations, so these were the most vital two points that failed and the things that followed, I could easily uncover it.
So the so-called fetal protection medicine's main purpose was to stop my monthly bleeding, causing the illusion of pregnancy.
The gu insect used for controlling the soul, is most afraid of plantain, a simple plant that can be seen almost everywhere, so I used this to test Bai Taiyi, and also added it to the prescription I wrote, Baiyun did not feel anything wrong from it, but Honglian could not stand it and thought it was too stinky...I knew it was because of the insect.
He Chen didn't let me out of the inner palace, just to completely block my access to news and not allow me to find out about Wu Min Jun. He Chen can easily lie to me that Wu Min Jun was back, and can also lie to me that Wu Min Jun was dead.
I just pat Liu Liang on the head and he fainted, so he could find the opportunity to control He Chen, to make him come and tell me that Wu Min Jun is dead, hoping that I had not realized, then I will be overcome with grief and they can directly implant the gu insect in me.
But... I was really puzzled, Liu Liang doesn't have a brain ah, why would he plant the worm in such an obvious place? Bai Taiyi's was good, it was on the hand, I saw it when he was checking my pulse. The others, He TaiFu and Liu Ya were planted directly in between the eyebrows...Liu Liang having "Wu Min Jun" say that Liu Ya has a beautiful mole, it was simply to cover it up...
However, if Situ had not given me the book, I really would not know it, I would not have found out and maybe would have just been fooled - at most think that Bai Taiyi was bought.
I said: "You want to use the control the soul technique on me, so you can use me to deceive Wu Min Jun."
Liu Liang: "Yes, if I can control you, you can accomplish major matters, such as secretly kill the Xi Emperor and so on."
"... Are you concerned about your reputation? What do you mean 'and so on'...also killing the Xi Emperor is enough to satisfy your desires... Why don't you just think of ways to control the Xi emperor?"
Liu Liang: "I know that the Xi emperor is very strong in every aspect, especially his willpower, I feel that I do not have the ability to set up a plan to make him overcome with grieve, let alone put him under the gu."
I bashfully suggested: "You can kill me to try."
Liu Liang: "I think he would not react."
I: "..."
"Want to die?" I was so angry that I almost killed him.
I calmed down after a while, then said: "What are your plans now, huh? Start talking otherwise, I will go out and take Honglian, Bai Taiyi, and Liu Ya to deal with it, it should work out. I suspect that except me and the people next to me, everyone else does not know that the emperor came back? From beginning to the end, only I was constantly getting the fake news."
Liu Liang: "No, this time it is done. The Empress is really a honorable person to offer help, I really didn't expect it."
I said: "Forget it, you can stay here as my prisoner."
After I finished, I realized that something was wrong - Wu Min Jun had given me some secret guards, but they did not appear from beginning to end, they could only have been settled by them or is it possible? There are also some people among the secret guards who have been implanted with the gu, who had been giving false reports of my situation to Wu Min Jun? Wu Min Jun did not know about the controlling the soul technique...
I asked Liu Liang: "What about the secret guards?"
Liu Liang said: "What secret guards?"
I said: "You are playing stupid again, I will just kill you so that there will no one to control the insects."
After I finished saying that, I stared at him and said: "Yeah, why don't I do this?"