northernbook Chapter 1025 The Empress's Profound Meaning
Chapter 1025 The Empress's Profound Meaning
A moment later, Jiang Fenghua brought Gongsun Lan over. She had already explained to Gongsun Lan that they might be under the control of some kind of drug.
Gongsun Lan followed along to check the situation, half believing and half doubting.
When Feng Qingyu saw Gongsun Lan, he just wanted to bury his head in his neck; he didn't dare look at her.
The two felt awkward when they met again. Gongsun Lan didn't know that Feng Qingyu had become like that because he had been poisoned by the old witch.
Jiang Fenghua knew what was causing their awkwardness, and said to the guards, "Tie up Feng Qingyu as well."
The guards took ropes and tied Feng Qingyu up. Feng Qingyu said, "Ruan girl, why are you tying me up?"
"I tied you up so you wouldn't harm anyone. Tying you up is the least of my worries. Be careful, or I'll have your old man beat you up." Jiang Fenghua was also trying to give Gongsun Lan an explanation. Jiang Jinyan had told her everything, and she didn't know how to defend Feng Qingyu after hearing it. These kinds of things were indeed hard to explain. Even if Feng Qingyu was being controlled, he shouldn't have done such a beastly thing.
If it were any other girl who had been bullied, she probably would have jumped into the river long ago. Gongsun Lan was able to fight back and subdue Feng Qingyu. Fortunately, Gongsun Ling wasn't there; tying him up was already too lenient a punishment.
Upon hearing the old man's name, Feng Qingyu immediately stopped causing trouble.
Seeing that Jiang Fenghua was serious, Gongsun Lan said, "Your Majesty, there's no need to tie them all up. I wasn't hurt, so let's just let this matter go!"
If this gets out of hand, people will think she was really being bullied by him.
Jiang Fenghua said, "I did this not entirely for Lanlan's sake. I just wanted Lanlan to help me see if their emotional distress was caused by the whale totem on their chests."
Jiang Fenghua had their clothes pulled off to reveal the crescent moon whale pattern on their chests. "How can this thing control their minds? Xiao Yu almost killed Qin Yunyan today, and my uncle almost lost control again."
She briefly explained what had happened, and Xiao Yu and Feng Qingyu were both embarrassed, realizing they had been tricked by Yan Dinghai.
Gongsun Lan said, "I was there when they were tattooed with whale totems that day. I could smell that they used a kind of medicine. It's possible that this medicine can make people lose their self-control and control their minds."
"Why weren't they controlled back then? Why are we only realizing the problem now?" Jiang Fenghua continued, "Why didn't Yan Dinghai control them directly after he captured them? Why wait until now? Danji Mai was originally a doctor, so it's not surprising that he knows how to make poisons."
“Perhaps not much medicine was used, and the effects of the medicine slowly seeped into their bodies through the whale tattoo.” She said, “I suspect that it was the venom of the red spider lily that poisoned them. Ancient books record that the entire red spider lily is poisonous, and those who accidentally ingest it will become confused and even be in danger of death. The poison they were poisoned by was not just one kind, but possibly many kinds.”
Jiang Fenghua pointed to her forehead, "Is it this?"
Gongsun Lan suddenly said, "The other shore flower spell between Your Majesty's eyebrows is different now."
"what happened?"
Gongsun Lan then asked, "Has Your Highness been having headaches lately?"
"It doesn't hurt, I don't feel anything at all. It clearly disappeared that day, but I don't know why it grew back." Jiang Fenghua thought of what Ashina Xue told her in her dream: as long as she has no resentment in her heart, the Other Shore Curse will automatically disappear. It did disappear, so why did it come back?
Gongsun Lan said, "The mark between the eyebrows of Your Majesty no longer resembles the Other Shore Curse; the petals have become fewer."
"What do you mean? Wasn't this something Danji Mai made? It can change at any time." She even suspected that Danji Mai had an inside agent in the palace who had drugged her.
“It is indeed too bizarre.” Gongsun Lan recalled the dream she had in Xichuan and said, “In the dream, I often went to pick herbs, and Feng Qingyu was there with me at the time.”
The group was stunned. Gongsun Lan quickly corrected himself, "I meant the girl named Mu Qilan and her husband Danjiqing. They often went out to pick herbs with baskets on their backs."
Everyone felt awkward when the topic came up. Feng Qingyu said, "What does their picking of herbs have to do with our current poisoning? Why are you talking about this? Everyone says it's a dream, and you can't take a dream seriously."
Gongsun Lan said in a deep voice, "What if it really happened? What if they were us?"
Gongsun Lan then asked, "When Your Majesty entered Xichuan and met Queen Ashina, was it she who allowed you to appear in her dream?"
Jiang Fenghua said, "Yes, I entered the Queen's dream and saw what happened a thousand years ago. I know the method to break the curse, which is why I was puzzled as to why the Other Shore Curse between my eyebrows had reappeared even though it had been broken."
Gongsun Lan then slowly began to speak, “There are some things I’ve kept hidden for twenty-five years. I’ve never revealed my innermost thoughts to anyone. All along the way, I’ve been trying to find an answer, an answer to why I’ve known medicine since birth. I can even sense how my mother died. I’ve always felt like a freak, but now I’ve finally found the answer.”
Jiang Fenghua was able to be reborn from her previous life into this one, and Gongsun Lan was also able to come here from a thousand years ago, except that she had forgotten everything.
Feng Qingyu was stunned after hearing this, because he was the same as Gongsun Lan. When he was born, he seemed to have known this world for a long time. Even when he was about to suffocate, he was thinking about living. He stared blankly at Gongsun Lan, "So we may have really been husband and wife in our past life. You are my wife. No wonder I felt familiar with you the first time I saw you. It was as if we had known each other for a long time."
Gongsun Lan didn't want to talk about this topic with him right now. "I might be able to find a way to cure you. As long as we can recall what happened after we entered the dream, there must be a reason why Lady Ashina let Fenghua enter the dream and also let us enter the dream. As long as we can think about what places we have been in the dream, we can find a way to defeat Danjimai."
Xiao Yu also fell into deep thought. Could it be that he had also missed a lot of important information? At that time, his mind was on Danji Aruan, and he mistook Danji Aruan for Jiang Fenghua.
Jiang Fenghua also said, "Baili Ayu died long ago. It was only after Aruan married Baili Shang that she avenged Ayu by destroying the three major families, including the Danji family. Why did Xiao Yu enter the dream? What clues can he provide?" What does "female ruler" mean?
Xiao Yu also put aside his feelings for Jiang Fenghua, "Why is my dream different from yours? Baili Ayu and Danji Aruan got married, he became the city lord, and he didn't die young."
Gongsun Lan asked, "So your dreams are different? Why is that?"
Jiang Fenghua said, "It's possible that I did some irrational things after entering the dream. I changed their lives. I thought that the only way to eliminate Danji Aruan's resentment was to let her and Ayu be together and let her marry Ayu, so that the tragedy would not happen. Who would have thought that I actually didn't change anything?"
Jiang Fenghua did this partly out of guilt towards Xiao Yu.
Xiao Yu had already guessed it. The others said, "You were able to travel back a thousand years to change their fate. We all thought it was just the Queen letting us enter a dream to see things from our past lives."
Jiang Fenghua smiled awkwardly, "I just wanted to relieve Aruan's resentment and break the curse on myself."
Could it be that the Queen's decision to let everyone enter the dream had a deeper meaning, but they were simply too poor at understanding it?