As soon as Chu Duo'er left, the two servants serving Gu Tingzhi automatically disappeared, leaving Gu Tingzhi and the regent Chu Rong looking at each other.

It was obvious that Gu Tingzhi had been outside for too long and his body could no longer support him. Chu Rong naturally went over and carried him back to the house.

Gu Tingzhi struggled a little but didn't move again.

Chu Rong hugged him who was so thin that he only had a handful of bones left, and felt very uncomfortable. His life was almost lost a few years ago, but he used some special methods and some tonics to save him.

Keep living and stay with her.

She has been trying to save him these years, but to no avail.

Gu Tingzhi let her hug him and put him on the bed. She covered him with a quilt with concern on his face and brought him the so-called tonic.

He drank it resignedly and allowed her to serve him.

She wanted him to live, but she never asked him if he wanted to live.

Living like this is worse than death.

I really don't know what this person is thinking.

In the past, he would have thought that she was greedy for his broken body, but now, his broken body is probably just an off-putting thing.

Seeing how lifeless he was, she couldn't help but speak.

"Don't be discouraged. I've sent people to Northern Xinjiang to invite famous doctors there. I heard that the medical skills there are different from those here. Maybe there will be a solution."

"In this case, I can only say thank you to the prince."

"You don't have to. I know you blame me, but I just want to keep you by my side selfishly. Even if I can only look at you, as long as I live, that's fine."

Gu Tingzhi smiled bitterly and said nothing.

Thinking of the little girl who was at war with him just now and almost made him angry and take action, he couldn't help but ask.

"Your Majesty, is that little girl's father?"

The regent Chu Rong frowned, glanced at Gu Tingzhi subconsciously, and quickly moved away.

She can't tell him the truth yet.

She knew that he still had hatred in his heart, and if he knew Duo'er's true identity, she was afraid that he would do something to Duo'er.

Although she admires him in her heart, she also has responsibilities and guilt.

Back then, she had no choice but to agree to let Chu Ning's child inherit the throne, but she also became a disloyal and unjust person, so she had to keep the child and the bloodline of the late emperor no matter what.

"I bumped into Duo'er's father by accident. He is very similar to you. I got drunk that time and then we had Duo'er. But he is stubborn and knew that I just regarded him as a shadow of you, so he started to live.

I left after giving birth to the child."

She had no choice but to use lame excuses to deal with him.

"I see, I was right. Alas, I thought that girl was arrogant and annoying at first, and I almost thought of getting rid of her. But I didn't expect that girl to be pitiful."

He didn't shy away from anything in front of her because he would rather she get angry and kill him.

But this time I was still disappointed.

Although some anger flashed across her face, it disappeared in the end.

She then looked at him with a look of helplessness, even some pleading.

"Duo'er does have a pitiful life, and she was born into this world just for you. I know that you have always been worried about your inability to have children. In fact, as long as you are willing, I can tell Duo'er

, you are her biological father. Although Duoer's child is naughty, he is still a filial child at heart. What do you think?"

"Your Majesty has really troubled me. How can I, a demon, conceive a child? I'm afraid that Your Majesty himself doesn't believe it, right?"

"You? How could you think that? You? Forget it, when will you figure it out, just ask someone to tell me. In fact, this is not just for you. You know, Duo'er is getting older, and her heart is fragile and sensitive.

She always felt very sad when she saw that other people had fathers but she didn't.

I know that you actually don’t hate Duo’er, otherwise Duo’er wouldn’t have walked out alive.”

"Your Majesty, you think too much. She is your blood after all. I have been taken care of by Your Majesty for many years, so I still have to give you this face."

"Really? Do you really care about me?"

The regent Chu Rong seemed to see some hope, his usually cold eyes suddenly became more hopeful, and he looked at Gu Tingzhi excitedly.

"Ahem, I'm tired, Your Majesty. I think you still have a lot of official business to deal with, so I won't keep Your Majesty." He lowered his face and issued the eviction order.

Chu Rong nodded calmly, told the boy to take good care of him, and left.

And Gu Tingzhi himself did not expect that in the following days, he would stand up for that little girl again and again, and would give her advice to deal with the children who bullied her. He would also look forward to seeing her when he could not see her.

Seeing her seemed to be the motivation for him to live.

…

The next day it was slightly brighter, and a homing pigeon flew over and landed on the eaves of Lu's house.

Zhao Wanning got up early and happened to see it, so he took the letter and handed it to Chu Qingmei.

Probably only a few aristocratic families in the capital can raise such homing pigeons.

And this Chu family's carrier pigeon was extraordinarily different, so she guessed that there was something going on in the capital and Chu Qingmei was asked to go back.

After Chu Qingmei read the letter, she hurriedly asked Gou Dan to prepare her luggage and rushed back immediately.

It's just that Gou Dan was drunk with Lu Ming last night, and now he is like that boneless insect, unable to wake up at all.

With no other option, Chu Qingmei had no choice but to take matters into her own hands.

At that time, Zhou Xiaomeng, who was drunk last night, had not yet woken up, and it was inconvenient for him to wake up, so he asked Gou Dan to stay with Zhao Wanning for a few more days, not forgetting to bring back the wine she brewed.

.

Instruction: "When someone wakes up, tell me."

"Is he the master of this house or your servant?"

"That's all. By the way, tell Gou Dan to bring me a few jars of green plum wine she brewed herself when she leaves."

With that said, Chu Qingmei hurriedly drove the carriage away without waiting for Zhao Wanning to speak.

It seems really urgent.

Zhao Wanning sighed with emotion.

But what does this have to do with her?

She went to the latrine to relieve herself in a daze, and then climbed into bed to catch up on her sleep.

In the next few days, she would go to the bookstore with Zhou Xiaomeng, run around in the mountains and forests, make various delicacies, make wine, and do other things at home.

She also discovered another layer of Zhou Xiaomeng's identity.

"It turns out that Meng Mengzi, who is popular in the capital, is actually you."

Zhou Xiaomeng did not hide it and admitted it openly.

"It is a dream of mine to write storybooks for everyone. When I was in Qingshui County, I wrote storybooks by myself. At that time, I was still cooperating with historians."

When it came to her old friend, she did not continue talking, but took Zhao Wanning to her bookstore.

These days, she has been nostalgic about meeting old friends, eating, drinking and having fun, and the number of visits to the bookstore has become less frequent.

But I made a lot of money less.

However, when I remembered that I had just received 20,000 taels from Zhao Wanning, I felt that I had not lost much.

Zhao Wanning couldn't help but click her tongue, and thought about getting the license to issue the book. When she heard that she had cooperated with a bookstore in Beijing called "Wuxin Bookstore", she said nothing more.

However, she felt that Zhou Xiaomeng did not seem to know the true identity of the owner behind Wuxin Bookstore.

well.

The fate of this person is really unclear.

They have all hid here, but they can still be involved.

The strange thing is that Shi Keshuang should have been aware of it. After all, he had cooperated with her before, but Shi Keshuang is busy running his own brothel now, and I am afraid he has no time to calm down and paint.

.

But why did she still hear that Shi Keshuang gathered many beauties in his backyard, each of them looked like someone, and they painted every day?

But she, Zhao Wanning, is not a gossip, and she will not talk about these things casually.

After all, it's just hearsay, and it may not be accurate.

"What’s wrong with you?"

Zhou Xiaomeng didn't hear what she said and thought it was because she was unhappy because she had handed over the publishing business to others a long time ago.

"It's okay, I just feel that fate is so wonderful sometimes. I always thought you were gone long ago, but I didn't expect you to be still alive, and the name that used to be so popular was yours."

"Well, don't say that. If you say that, I will treat it like you are praising me, and I will be proud."

Zhao Wanning saw that she was feeling shameless again, and was too lazy to say anything more.

And based on her experience, it was only a matter of time before she found out, and maybe she could add fuel to the fire.
To be continued...