RPAGF Chapter 375 She's simply a monster
Chapter 375 She's simply a monster
On the first day after Consort Liang was released from confinement, the sunlight outside the palace gates was particularly dazzling.
She gripped the handkerchief tightly in her hand, the fine Suzhou embroidery making a tearing sound between her fingers under the strain.
Confined for a month, she longed to see the light of day again, thinking about how to rebuild her life when she came out. But she never expected that what she would receive was the news of Yu Song's death!
"what is going on?"
Her voice seemed to be squeezed out from between her teeth, each word trembling, "How could Yusong be dead?"
Gao Peng knelt on the cold floor tiles, his forehead pressed against the patterns of the gold bricks. His Adam's apple bobbed a few times, but no sound came out.
How could I tell Consort Liang how unbearable Yu Song's death was?
Her face was covered in festering sores, and her elegant clothes were torn to shreds...
"Your humble servant...does not know."
"Don't understand?"
Consort Liang slammed her hand on the table and stood up abruptly, knocking over the teacups and spilling scalding tea onto the table, creating a cloud of white steam.
Her eyes were bloodshot, and her voice suddenly rose: "She is the legitimate daughter of the Liang family! She is the Second Prince's cousin! How could you let her..."
At this point, she suddenly choked up, her chest heaving violently.
When the news reached the palace, Consort Liang immediately summoned the Second Prince, but he waited and waited without appearing.
She could only turn to Gao Peng.
Gao Peng's fingernails dug deeply into his palm.
What could he say?
His daughter fainted after only one glance at the coffin and has not woken up since.
His wife, Hua Buxian, secretly checked and found that Yu Song had indeed preserved his chastity, but what use is chastity now that he's dead?
What's even more infuriating is that rumors are now circulating throughout the capital that the eldest daughter of the Liang family was violated by countless men before her death.
Those foul words, like venomous snakes, seeped into every corner of the Liang mansion, and even the servants in the mansion were secretly gossiping about them.
Consort Liang pressed for the truth, and Gao Peng lowered his eyes, a mocking bitter smile appearing on his lips.
the truth?
He recalled the scene at the Liang family's mourning hall, where Liang Shangjiong, like a raging beast, grabbed the Second Prince's collar and demanded in a hoarse voice, "Why did you abandon her? Our Liang family risked our lives for you, and this is how you repay us?"
And what about the second prince?
The prince they had devoted everything to supporting only argued, "Uncle, I had no choice at the time. Liang Zhong was replaced by Sun Haining, and we had no more bargaining chips. Yuan Wanru was just too powerful. My cousin and I couldn't both perish in there, could we?"
At that moment, Gao Peng felt utterly chilled to the bone.
If he hadn't still had a sliver of clarity left, he would have wanted to step forward and question the Second Prince, asking if the reason for all this was simply his incompetence.
Liang Zhi is dead, Yu Song is dead, who will be next?
His daughter?
Or is it the entire Gao family?
Over the years, the Liang family has been working hard to help the Second Prince and Consort Liang. Now that their great cause has not been accomplished, they can discard the Liang family members one by one like trash. What is the Gao family compared to that?
Consort Liang suddenly trembled all over, as if someone had poured a bucket of ice water over her head.
Her most beloved niece, Yu Song, who always called her "Aunt" with a sweet smile, Yu Song, whom she personally taught court etiquette, Yu Song, whom she loved like her own daughter, proud and radiant... just like that, gone.
Just like that... such a wretched death?
"Who…" she said, her voice hoarse and strained, "Who killed her?"
Gao Peng swallowed hard and recounted the plan by which the Second Prince conspired with Liang Yusong to kidnap Sun Haining and lure Yuan Wanru.
At the end, his voice was almost inaudible: "Your Majesty, Yuan Wanru is by no means a weak woman... She is skilled in Gu poison and poisons. The Second Prince fell for her trap and was unable to protect himself, which is why he couldn't protect Yusong..."
Consort Liang staggered backward, barely managing to stand by grabbing the table for support.
"The person we've been looking for all along is actually her!"
"is her!"
Consort Liang suddenly laughed, a sharp, piercing laugh: "What a Yuan Wanru... what a Lu family!"
Consort Liang's fingernails dug deeply into the table, making a harsh scraping sound, and the hatred in her eyes was almost overflowing.
Thinking of those vile rumors and the humiliation Yu Song would suffer even after her death, her voice turned as cold as a poisoned knife.
"Kill her!" she said, each word laced with hatred. "No matter the cost, kill her now! I cannot... let Yu Song die with her eyes wide open in anger!"
Gao Peng smiled wryly and said in a low voice, "What about the poison in the Second Prince's body?"
He paused, then spoke with difficulty: "This poison... I truly have no confidence in its effectiveness."
These words made him feel extremely humiliated.
He, the head of the Imperial Medical Academy, who had practiced medicine for decades, was defeated by a young woman!
But that's the truth, and he had to admit it.
Upon hearing this, Consort Liang calmed down slightly, her brows furrowing: "Wasn't she an orphan raised in the Lu family since childhood? Where did she get her medical skills? Where did she get her Gu poison techniques?"
The more she thought about it, the more unbelievable it seemed: "I've seen her before; she's so young, how could she possibly have such skill?"
Gao Peng remained silent.
He and his wife were equally baffled.
Yuan Wanru's medical skills are unpredictable, her prescriptions are cunning, and her detoxifications are precise, which is simply beyond what one would expect for someone her age.
And how did she learn to use Gu (a type of poison)?
In short, I'm completely baffled.
Consort Liang clenched her fists, her knuckles turning white, and said bitterly, "This is simply... absurd!"
If asked for a reason, no one but Yuan Wanru could answer it.
In this era, the transmission of medical knowledge was extremely closed off. Each family regarded their medical skills as a closely guarded secret, and they would never easily show their treasured medical records and classic texts to others.
But she was different. She came from the modern world a thousand years in the future. In that era of advanced medicine, she was not only a descendant of a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, but also completed her advanced studies as a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine.
In that information-rich era, she read extensively from a young age, from the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic to the Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases, from the Compendium of Materia Medica to medical records of famous doctors throughout history. These classics, which were regarded as treasures by the ancients, were ordinary reading materials that she could study at any time.
What's even more valuable is that the modern medical system has allowed her to come into contact with tens of thousands of clinical cases and witness intractable diseases that were unimaginable to people in ancient times.
These unique advantages allowed her to surpass even the most renowned doctors of her time in medical skills.
Although Gao Peng practiced medicine for decades, the number of medical cases and classic texts he could access in his entire life was probably less than what Yuan Wanru could read in a year in modern times.
This knowledge gap spanning millennia destined Gao Peng to be unable to win this contest of medical skills.
Thus, she became an incomprehensible "monster" in Gao Peng's eyes.
Right now, that "monster" Yuan Wanru is writing a letter.
Lu Jiangnian had been gone for more than half a month, and the couple tried their best to maintain close contact. Of course, she had to tell him about Liang Yusong's death.
In his last letter, he mentioned the matter in Qingzhou, which should be resolved in about half a month.
Judging by the time, he should have been heading back by the time he received this letter.
Yuan Wanru looked at the clear sky outside, a sweet smile appearing on her lips.
She really missed him.