I became the God Brother of the Regent King after Transmigration!-Chapter 160 - 108: One by One, They Leave

Gu Lan checked Rong Heng’s injury; the arrowhead had been removed, and the bleeding had stopped.

He had bandaged it well, applied the medicine himself, and only then did he faint in relief.

She looked at the two children crawling out from the haystack and kneeling on the ground, and asked calmly, "Is this your home?"

"Yes..." The boy raised his head fearfully, glanced at her, then quickly lowered his head again.

Gu Lan was long used to the fearful looks from others, just like that child she saved back then.

She walked to the water trough in the yard, washed her hands and face, and took some silver taels out of her pocket, placing them on the ground.

"When daylight comes, go report to the authorities. Take this silver; I’m sorry to have scared you both."

"I cannot accept without merit; we dare not." The boy trembled in fear but still held the girl beside him close, protecting her behind him, cautiously refusing.

At this moment, the little girl poked her head out from behind him, looked at Gu Lan’s exceptionally handsome face after washing off the blood and dirt, and suddenly said, "I recognize you, you’re the Young Master! Young Master Gu!"

"Little sister, don’t speak!" The boy quickly stopped the girl from speaking, holding her tighter.

But the girl seriously said, "Are you fighting bad people? These people don’t look like people from Yan, they are Qiangrong people."

She pointed to a corpse on the ground with a fallen mask, and Gu Lan saw a particularly rugged face with dark red hair.

The boy also just noticed the identity of these bodies and his eyes instantly filled with hatred and disgust.

The hatred Yan Country people have towards Qiangrong is ingrained in their bones.

Gu Lan suddenly understood, no wonder the two batches of arrows were different, and the second batch even disregarded the first batch’s life and death to shoot arrows.

How could these Qiangrong people harm her uncle?

"How do you recognize me?" Gu Lan steadied herself and asked.

"Previously, you distributed porridge at the Marquis Mansion gate, saving my brother and me." The little girl replied.

Her eyes shone brightly, full of admiration.

Gu Lan asked, "Aren’t you afraid of me?"

The little girl shook her head and said, "Not afraid! These are all bad people, Young Master Gu, you’re so good-looking, and your martial arts are so high, you must be protecting my brother and me."

Gu Lan was moved, a feeling she couldn’t describe, and looked at the little girl for a moment before coming to her senses.

Then, she took out her fan and handed it to the little girl: "Take this fan to Dingyuan Marquis Mansion and say that the Qiangrong envoy tried to assassinate Gu Lan, have them arrested immediately, and also say that I’m fine."

The boy looked at the fan in his hand and asked, "Aren’t you afraid we’ll take the money and your fan and run away?"

Gu Lan said, "You’ve seen it too, those who tried to assassinate me today were Qiangrong people."

The boy’s dark eyes suddenly turned cold. He nodded resolutely, then returned the silver to Gu Lan: "My father died at the hands of Qiangrong people! I don’t want the silver, I will convey the message for you." 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

As Gu Lan watched the two children leave, she took a deep breath, carried Rong Heng on her back, and disdainfully stepped out of the blood-soaked backyard.

She was already exhausted, groping in the dark, barely managed to bring Rong Heng back to Wei Chengyuan’s courtyard, and then collapsed.

Then, a knife was suddenly placed across Gu Lan’s neck.

"Stop it, Jiu," Gu Lan pushed the knife away, "I’m dead tired, get me a cup of water."

Jiu, who walked with a limp and deliberately wore a mask, widened his eyes in shock and asked, "How did Young Master Gu know I was Jiu?"

"I guessed you weren’t dead, since Brother Hang appeared here, it means he placed you here."

"How did Young Master Gu know I wasn’t dead?" Jiu removed the mask, revealing a familiar round face.

"Thirty planks could kill an ordinary person, but not you."

After drinking water, Jiu and Gu Lan together placed the still unconscious Rong Heng on the bed.

Jiu said, he had just noticed something amiss in the alley, but because he was injured, he hadn’t dared to go out.

Until he heard the silence outside and was about to go out to look, then saw their unconscious Highness being brought back.

The sky was dark, Gu Lan’s light-colored clothes had turned red, and in such a sorry state, he hadn’t recognized Young Master Gu at first.

"So, when do you think Rong Heng will wake up?"

Gu Lan and Jiu sat together on the threshold, one too tired to speak much, the other covered in injuries, with a small lamp burning beside them.

She turned back to look at the person lying in the room and couldn’t help but ask.

Jiu had a blade of grass in his mouth, looking not very worried: "I just checked, Your Highness’s injury is not serious, he’s had worse injuries before, he’ll be fine after a good sleep."

Gu Lan held some candy in her hand, eating one piece after another: "Why do I feel... Rong Heng fainted from hunger?"

Jiu: ...Actually, he thought so too.

He looked up at the moon in the night sky, then at Gu Lan eating candy, and whispered, "Young Master Gu, aren’t you curious why I had to fake my death to leave the palace?"

Gu Lan: "Not being dead is already good."

Saying this, she poured a piece of candy into Jiu’s palm: "Besides, from now on, you don’t need to call yourself a slave anymore, isn’t that good."

Jiu didn’t dare eat Rong Heng’s candy, he smiled and said: "I... I also recently found out about the things His Highness said to you a while back."

Gu Lan bit into the candy in her mouth with a "crunch," letting out a cold snort: "Heh."

"Actually, I’m sure His Highness regrets saying those things, and certainly misses you. You see, he bought this much candy, I’ve never seen him care so much about someone, Young Master Gu, he truly values you," Jiu said deliberately.

While His Highness was still asleep, he had to quickly say more, otherwise, His Highness wouldn’t say it himself and wouldn’t let him say it either.

Gu Lan stared at the scattered candies: "How do you know he’ll regret it?"

He was a talented, decisive, and bold man; how could he regret anything?

Jiu said: "Young Master, I watched His Highness grow up... You see, although His Highness is somewhat cold in temperament, he’s actually a very gentle person. He appears to not care about anything, but actually, I know he’s afraid to care."

Gu Lan frowned slightly, asking: "Watched him grow up? Didn’t you grow up together?"

Saying this, Young Master Gu glanced towards Jiu’s lower body.

Jiu felt a chill beneath him and said, "Young Master Gu, I’m actually not a eunuch."

His instinctive use of ’slave’ in his words lacked any persuasion.

Jiu twitched the corners of his mouth: "Sorry, I’m used to saying it."

"Then prove it to me," Gu Lan raised an eyebrow.

Jiu stammered: "I’ll... next time, next time."

He tilted his head up, his clear and gentle round eyes reflecting the moonlight, his voice hoarse:

"Young Master Gu, I did watch His Highness grow up. At first, I wasn’t his eunuch but was sent by the old Marquis to protect His Highness as a Hidden Guard.

Originally, there was a eunuch in the palace named Jiu, sent by the Empress Dowager to spy on His Highness. He was just a five or six-year-old child, and no one in Xiaoxiang Palace guarded against a child. But unexpectedly, he secretly poisoned the young lady, and by the time the young lady and His Highness found out, it was too late."

Gu Lan knew that the young lady Jiu mentioned was Rong Heng’s mother, Princess Consort Xiao.

In the hearts of the former Hidden Guards of the Xiao Family, Princess Consort Xiao, if still the young lady of the Xiao Family, if she had never become a concubine of the former Emperor, how great it would have been.

"The young lady was critically ill, beyond cure, and passed away soon after the former Emperor’s death, and the real Jiu was killed by Xia He in retribution..."

As Jiu spoke, familiar yet fleeting faces flashed in his mind, his eyes slightly reddened.

"Xia He?" It was the first time Gu Lan heard this name, yet she already realized who she was.

Jiu: "Xia He was Princess Rong Luo’s personal maid."

So, the maid who caused Rong Luo’s death was called Xia He, and she once decisively killed ’Jiu’ too.

Listening to him, Gu Lan turned around, staring at Rong Heng in the room.

Was he eight or nine years old when he went through all that?

"At that time, the Xiao Family was gone, everyone was dead, I didn’t know where to go, and I was still young, not having learned the Xiao Family’s martial arts skills. It was the young lady and His Highness who hid me away. Since Jiu was dead, I became Jiu."

Jiu wiped away tears, staring more intently at the moon.

"The young lady died, Xia He died, the princess too... one by one, those who accompanied His Highness left. Young Master Gu, His Highness is afraid you’ll be hurt by him too, he doesn’t dare let anyone get close to him anymore.

Today, presumably someone wanted to kill His Highness, which involved you."

Gu Lan: No, someone wanted to kill me, which involved Rong Heng.

She walked to the bedside, looking at Rong Heng’s pale face with closed eyes, and gently spoke: "The one I choose, I will not let go."

At this moment, Rong Heng’s eyelids twitched, and he slowly opened his eyes.