Not an Ordinary Woman
The complicated truth
"I'm sorry, sir, I want Mr and Mrs to join him upstairs" the Guards said.
Gu Shanzheng looked at his eldest brother as he looked and nodded his head, "Damn, why did Gu Shanfeng know of my whereabouts?" inner Gu Shanzheng, "alright!" gu Shanzheng said shaking off the dragon-pictured fan.
"Greetings Your Highness Pu-" said Gu Shanfeng.
"Not to be so formal we're outside. I don't want anyone to know where we are here," Gu Shanfeng replied staring at his sister who had not met for 20 years.
Although they did not meet but their father always brought and exchanged their face paintings so that they could know each other well.
"Come, please sit down! Is she really your wife?" gu Shanfeng asked looking towards Tan Jia Li.
"We were married without my father knowing, before we got here. Um, I'm still confused what to say! Jia'er introduced this to my eldest brother Gu Shanfeng, this older brother Tan Jia Li the daughter of General Tan Yuan Ji," Gu Shanzheng said.
"Greetings to Sister-in-law, aren't you General Tan Jia Li?" gu Shanfeng said clenching his hands on his chest.
"Greetings to Sister-in-law Gu Shanfeng," replied Tan Jia Li slightly bending her legs.
"Come on, please sit down!" take Gu Shanfeng, he called the waiter and ordered to serve food.
"Sister, why is Brother alone out of the palace? What if something happens?" gu Shanzheng asked looking at his handsome brother so loved by many women.
"Well!" Gu Shanfeng sighed, "you know, there are too many strange events in Wuling. I want to investigate it myself. But, I haven't found anything during these few months, other than that. The Empress's mother was seriously ill with poison" Gu Shanfeng said.
"What's? Can the physician not treat it?" gu Shanzheng asked confusedly.
"No healer can treat it, we've been to a neighboring country but no one has ever arrived" Gu Shanfeng said, "it's not just that there's a lot of plague in Wuling, he said, makes Ayahanda confused.
"Consort Liu Jang Yin's mother is also in quarantine as is the empress' mother" Gu Shanzheng said.
"Do we need to bring a Physician from Donglang Empire?" tan Jia Li.
"Daughter-in-law I've sent some people there but never came back, I don't know what happened. Moreover, there were always a lot of missing people in Wuling especially the nobles and scholars," Gu Shanfeng replied.
"How did the outbreak begin, brother?" gu Shanzheng asked curiously.
"Since the Mongol King's Grandfather died, the one who took over was his nephew King Shan Xi'er. They sent a general to invite Wuling to plot to bring down Emperor Liu Min.
"But Father refused, considering Consort Liu Jang Yin and you were there, it was impossible.
"However, the right of the Empress Mother was revoked in the Mongol kingdom, since when Mother returned from Mongolia she immediately became ill and spread the virus.
"Until the first infected were Consorts Liu Jang Yin and Father then Shanzhai. I was not contaminated from being on Mount Sun with Emperor Liu Fei and Queen Mother Li Hun.
"Learn the history and rules of government, before being appointed as the next king, for the last 3 months," Shanfeng said.
"Then why didn't Big Brother tell you of Brother's whereabouts if you were at Sun Mountain?" ask Shanzheng.
"I'm afraid someone is trying to kill all three of us" Shanzheng said, "in addition, Father forbid. You're overworked, but I saw you in Shandong when you came home from the Qin Empire's rebellion, "Shanfeng said.
The three of them were silent, "Then, what will Big Brother do?" ask Gu Shanzheng.
"I don't know for now. If you're curious you can go to the inner palace, but as my bodyguard tonight, I can't introduce you to everyone, blatantly, because I don't even know the enemy we're facing!" Shanzheng.
"Empress Zhu and Consort Liu are also second princes as well as King Gu Tian, sure to be well healed, but ..the empress is pregnant and the situation is very precarious in the empire," Tan Jia Li said.
"All right, here it is! We will come with you tonight, Brother" Gu Shanzheng said.
"Wait for me outside the inn" Gu Shanfeng said.
"All right!" gu Shanzheng and Tan Jia Li.
Right at midnight the two met outside the inn, "Come!" take Gu Shanzheng darting quickly on a horse disguised as a commoner through the back door of the palace entering a secret door that immediately penetrated into the main room of the Wuling kingdom.
"Uhuk! Uhuk!" the sound of coughing echoed in several rooms, the ladies-in-waiting downstream.
"Greetings Your Highness the Crown Prince!" said the guards and maids carrying basins filled with water and a small cloth.
"How are Father and Mother Empress and Consort's Mother also the second prince?" ask Gu Shanzheng.
"The pain is getting worse!" said the court lady and healer, "sorry, our Crown Prince doesn't know what else to do?" physician Guan.
"Can we see it?" ask Gu Shanzheng.
"But ...," said Physician Guan objected.
"It's okay!" gu Shanfeng said.
"What if it's contagious?" physician Guan asked, "look at us" said Physician Guan, undressing in his hand, filled with increasingly blackish and festering patches.
"This, like the plague in Xihe!' tan Jia Li said, "i remember Wong Fei's assistant concocting her medicine" Tan Jia Li said.
"REally!?" gu Shanfeng asked Girang.
"Is the potion hard to come by?" ask Gu Shanfeng.
"No, it's so easy!" gu Shanzheng.
"Alright, let's go to the palace kitchen to concoct it," Gu Shanfeng asked.
The four of them walked quickly towards the palace kitchen and made a potion, after finishing Physician Guan drank it a little hot taste and caused smoke on the body, "Hot! I'm thirsty!" shouts Physician Guan.
Tan Jia Li immediately gave him a drink that a lot bit by bit the smoke started to decrease and the pus blistering then dried up.
"Well, it works! Come, let's bring it to father and empress and concubine Liu is also the second Prince" Gu Shanzheng said happily.
They arrived at the room where the four people and the court healers had already contracted terrible boils all over the body even Empress Zhu Sia was already blind.
"Mother, take this medicine!" said Gu Shanfeng feeding the potion into the empress' mouth. Gu Shanzheng informed his father Tan Jia Li to concubine Liu and Physician Guan to the Second Prince.
They waited for the medicinal reaction for several hours and sure enough everyone had recovered, "Gu Shanzheng? What are you doing here? What if the Mongols and Qin knew?" gu Tian said.
"We're investigating Xihe and sending food stamps and medicine. Emperor Liu Min had no idea what was happening in Wuling," Shanzheng said, and told him of all the problems Consort Qin and Consort Chien had with him as well as the leader of Lu Dang's black poison cult.
"Consort Chien? As far as I know Consort Go Zhu did not have children and died young, I also do not know how my father's twin Go Zhu's daughter could have children? But we must not make a sound" Empress Zhu Sia said.