Don't Hurt Me

Xing Yusheng sent Qi Yan to drive over to pick them up, and Su Liang took Ren Dong out of the prison and went home.

Pushing open the door, a burning brazier came into view.

"Sister Su, step over the brazier, and all the bad luck will go away!" Lin Xueqing stood on the other side and waved at Su Liang.

Su Liang lifted her skirt and stepped over the brazier, and was hugged by Lin Xueqing, "I hope that everyone who harmed Sister Su will disappear!"

Su Liang chuckled and patted Lin Xueqing on the back, "Everyone will die, and everyone will disappear."

Xing Yusheng next to him held his forehead, "Su Liang, you are so heartless, as if nothing happened."

"What else? Crying and waiting for you to save me?" Su Liang asked back.

Xing Yusheng shook her head, "You can solve any problem. We worried for a few days and found it was useless."

Su Liang smiled, "It's because I know that even in the worst case, someone will save me with a gold medal of immunity from death, so I am not afraid, so I can calm down and think about how to solve the problem."

In fact, the greatest credit should go to Gu Ling...Su Liang thought, but some things she and Gu Ling did before cannot be told to others.

Rosewood's neck was pinched by Duanmu Che, leaving purple marks. When Su Liang returned to Yuanming Pavilion, the first thing she did was to find her a bottle of smear medicine and asked her to deal with it quickly.

Wan Hui brought Zheng'er to see Su Liang, and was relieved to see that she was safe and sound. Zheng'er happily said that his grandfather was coming to Beijing for the New Year, and his uncle and cousin were coming.

Wan Hui asked the restaurant to send a table of dishes over, and everyone celebrated that Su Liang was out of danger.

Everyone was happy here, but Duanmu Che's life was not easy on the other side.

He was "escorted" from the prison to the palace by Duanmu Yi, and he was not given the opportunity to return to the Fifth Prince's Mansion.

If Su Liang was under house arrest in the cold palace for the previous three days, Duanmu Che could be considered imprisoned. The doors and windows were sealed, and he was heavily guarded, not allowed to step out of the door.

However, outsiders only knew that Su Liang was released after clearing the suspicion, but still did not know who the real murderer of Duanmu Qianqian was. Duanmu Yi has always attached great importance to the reputation of the royal family. Few people knew about it, and he was ordered to keep silent.

Su Liang was not surprised by this, and even guessed that Duanmu Yi would eventually spread the word that it was the royal family of Yan Kingdom who secretly did it, with the purpose of destroying the marriage between Gan and Liang. This is very reasonable, and it is also easy to explain to Liang.

As for the marriage between the two countries, it will not be cancelled because of the death of a princess. Without Duanmu Qianqian, there will be other princesses for marriage.

Duanmu Chen received Duanmu Yi's order and led people to thoroughly investigate the Fifth Prince's Mansion and control all the people in the mansion.

After receiving the report from his subordinates, Duanmu Chen entered Duanmu Che's study and saw that the normal calligraphy and paintings were hung with portraits of Su Liang. There were more than a dozen portraits, front, side and back. Half of them were portraits of Duanmu Che and Su Liang, and the people in the portraits were very close.

Chang'an was dumbfounded, "Your Highness the Fifth Prince..." He must be insane...

Duanmu Chen said coldly, "Take it down and keep it, and send it to the palace for my father to review."

Before this, Duanmu Chen thought that Duanmu Che had figured it out and planned to compete with him for the position of crown prince. But he didn't expect that the calmer Duanmu Che was on the surface, the crazier he was in his bones.

This was not a bad thing for Duanmu Chen. You know, Duanmu Che was once Duanmu Yi's most beloved child. If Duanmu Che wanted to fight for power, even without the support of his mother's family, it would be a big threat to Duanmu Chen.

But obviously, Duanmu Che's body was cured, but his morbid psychology became more serious.

Or it was too smooth... Duanmu Chen thought. From childhood to adulthood, Duanmu Che has been protected by Duanmu Yi. Except for illness, everything he wants is within his reach, and no one dares to offend him, including Duanmu Sheng and Duanmu Ao, who avoid Duanmu Che when they see him.

Duanmu Chen is not a legitimate child, and he has been cautious since childhood, fearing that he would say a wrong word or do a wrong thing. He has to avoid the edge of Duanmu Sheng's faction, and he has to deliberately let Duanmu Yi see his talent.

In addition, having seen many unfeeling people in the royal family, Duanmu Chen has always believed that you can't have both fish and bear's paw. If you want to get power, you must give up your feelings, otherwise you will be dragged down by it.

Duanmu Che, who has everything he wants, is not so much in Su Liang's hands as Su Liang's appearance, which exposes Duanmu Che's insidious, selfish, paranoid and morbid nature.

In addition to Su Liang's portrait in the study, Chang'an also found a doll with birth dates and needles in the secret compartment of the desk.

Obviously, it was the witchcraft that this world, especially the royal family, most tabooed.

When Changan brought the puppet to Duanmu Chen, he subconsciously felt a chill on his spine, remembering the scene in the palace when he was young where he saw a concubine being beaten to death for a similar thing...

"I don't know what this is..." Changan's voice stopped abruptly when he turned the puppet over and saw the words on the back, and silently held it in front of Duanmu Chen.

Duanmu Chen could only say that he shouldn't have been accidentally stabbed by Duanmu Che.

Because Duanmu Chen was standing here today because Duanmu Che killed Duanmu Qianqian and framed Su Liang, and according to the crazy words Duanmu Che said in the sky prison when facing Su Liang pretending to be Rendong, he was obviously stimulated by Su Liang's enthusiastic and active pursuit of Gu Ling.

Even now Duanmu Chen was thinking that perhaps Duanmu Che had wanted to secretly plan to seize the position of the crown prince, or even the throne, so that he could do whatever he wanted, and naturally the chance of getting Su Liang would be greater. As a result, Gu Ling returned and Su Liang was moved, which made Duanmu Che lose his mind.

On the wall hung a portrait of Duanmu Che and Su Liang intimacy, and in the secret compartment was a figurine of Gu Ling pierced with needles. If Duanmu Che only wanted Gu Ling to die, Duanmu Chen could barely think he was a human being, but Duanmu Che wanted to kill Su Liang first. He was really crazy!

"Pack this up and send it to the palace for your father to review." Duanmu Chen ordered.

After searching the study and Duanmu Che's residence, Chang'an asked Duanmu Chen how to search other places.

"Dig in the garden to see if anyone is buried." Duanmu Chen suddenly thought of the missing Duanmu Sheng and decided to dig deep into the ground, perhaps there would be some new discoveries.

Chang'an asked, "Do you want to search the lake in the garden?"

Duanmu Chen nodded, "Search! Search all the places where people and things can be hidden!"

In the middle of the night that day, Duanmu Chen received a report that there was a new discovery, and he went to the Fifth Prince's Mansion in person.

Seeing the two bone hands put together, Duanmu Chen's eyes narrowed fiercely, and he immediately thought of Ning Jing who was killed a few months ago.

Chang'an whispered, "Should we tell Miss Su? This is probably Mr. Ning's..."

Duanmu Chen sighed deeply, "Present it to my father. As for Su Liang, let's talk about it tomorrow."

...

Before the morning court, Duanmu Yi saw the pair of bone hands after Su Liang's portrait and Gu Ling's witchcraft figurine.

And this completely confirmed what Su Liang said, that she picked up the jade pendant of Duanmu Che's confidant in her garden. "Ning Jing"'s hands were chopped off, and it was indeed not Duanmu Sheng or Wan Cong who did it, so the half blood word must have been left by Duanmu Che's people.

Looking at the pile of hand bones, Duanmu Yi was furious, and he deeply suspected that Duanmu Sheng's disappearance was related to Duanmu Che! He knew everything from the beginning, and kept instigating in secret, and he did everything he could to frame Su Liang!

When Duanmu Yi learned that Duanmu Che really killed Duanmu Qianqian just to frame Su Liang, he was completely disappointed with his son.

Evidence after evidence that Duanmu Che was a madman was presented to Duanmu Yi. He was responsible for the death of "Ning Jing". He cursed Gu Ling and even wanted Su Liang to die. In the past few months, Duanmu Che became calmer on the surface, but he became more and more crazy in his bones.

This made Duanmu Yi, who had planned to talk to Duanmu Che today, give up completely. He didn't want to see him again, but ordered Duanmu Chen to go and ask Duanmu Che if he was related to Duanmu Sheng's disappearance.

...

"You are here to see me laugh." Duanmu Che looked at Duanmu Chen with cold eyes.

Duanmu Chen sat near the door, looked at Duanmu Che's appearance, and sighed deeply, "Fifth brother, why bother?"

"Don't pretend! You dare to say that you don't want to get Su Liang?" Duanmu Che sneered.

Duanmu Chen shook his head, "Don't think everyone is like you. You obviously hated her at the beginning, so why are you so crazy?"

"I can't control it..." Duanmu Che said faintly, "She must have poisoned me and bewitched my heart..."

Duanmu Chen sighed, "You killed Ning Jing, right?"

Duanmu Che murmured, "I wanted to kill him, but unfortunately I failed, but I succeeded, hehe."

Duanmu Chen snorted, "Because Wan Cong got there first, you took advantage of it and even slandered the eldest brother?"

"What did you say?" Duanmu Che raised his head and looked at Duanmu Chen.

Duanmu Chen shook his head, "The evidence is irrefutable, so I won't ask about this matter. Father asked me to come here to ask you if you have anything to do with the disappearance of my eldest brother?"

Duanmu Che gritted his teeth and said, "Of course it was Su Liang who did it! How could Su Liang let Duanmu Sheng go! She must have killed Duanmu Sheng a long time ago!"

Duanmu Chen shook his head and stood up, "Forget it, I knew you would say that. You said Qianqian was killed by Su Liang, but it turned out that you killed her yourself. She is our biological sister, how could you do it?"

After saying that, Duanmu Chen left, ignoring Duanmu Che's crazy accusations against Su Liang: Xiao Muyun was killed by Su Liang, Duanmu Ao was also killed, and Duanmu Sheng was also killed by Su Liang.

Duanmu Chen sneered in his heart. In fact, he also believed that the deaths of Duanmu Ao and Duanmu Sheng were related to Su Liang, and that she was secretly taking revenge. However, she was clever and had a motive, but she did not leave any evidence pointing to her. The fact that Duanmu Che killed Duanmu Qianqian was enough for Duanmu Yi to blame him for the other two sons.

In other words, after this twist, although Su Liang seemed to be very passive, she took the opportunity to clear all the previous suspicions.

Duanmu Che seemed to have taken the lead, but because of his own dirty deeds, and Su Liang had obviously long been classified as a target to be guarded against, and even kept a hand for him, he lost everything.

At this moment, Duanmu Chen lamented the depth of Su Liang's scheming, but he was not afraid of her. He just reminded himself again that he should win over Su Liang and not offend her. This must be a lucky star sent by God to him, clearing the obstacles for him to rise to the top.

…

Duanmu Chen asked Duanmu Yi about the matter of the white bone hand, and went to Su Liang in person after leaving the palace to inform him.

As for how to deal with Duanmu Che, Duanmu Chen did not ask Duanmu Yi, because it was no longer important. Not to mention that Duanmu Che could not run away, if he really did something else, it would only make him die faster.

Lin Xueqing had given Su Liang a Chinese knot that she had made herself. She was talking to her when she heard Rendong say that Duanmu Chen had come. Su Liang guessed what was going on and asked Lin Xueqing to go back first.

When Lin Xueqing was leaving, she ran into Duanmu Chen and saw Chang'an holding a wooden box. She thought it was a gift for Su Liang and didn't think much about it.

After sitting down on the first floor of Yuanming Pavilion, Chang'an put the wooden box on the table and left.

"What is this?" Su Liang asked knowingly.

Duanmu Chen sighed before he spoke, "It's Ning Jing's hand."

Su Liang was slightly stunned, "What did you say?" He opened the wooden box and saw the hand bones inside, frowning fiercely, "This is..."

"It's Ning Jing's hand. It was dug out from the lake in the garden of the Fifth Prince's Mansion." Duanmu Chen said, "Wan Cong killed Ning Jing, and Duanmu Che's people cut off his hand, wrote that half blood word, and framed Duanmu Sheng."

Su Liang closed the wooden box, lowered his eyes and said nothing.

"My father asked me to give this to you." Duanmu Chen said.

"How does the emperor plan to deal with Duanmu Che?" Su Liang asked.

Duanmu Chen shook his head, "I don't know, but he shouldn't die."

Duanmu Yi would not execute his son for anything, no matter the previous Duanmu Sheng, Duanmu Ao or the current Duanmu Che.

Su Liang was not surprised. Even if ordinary parents want their children to live even if they have made a huge mistake.

Duanmu Chen told Su Liang about the things he had found in Duanmu Che's house, "You don't need to look at those things, my father has had them burned."

Su Liang nodded, "I'm afraid I'll vomit after seeing the portraits you mentioned."

Duanmu Chen suddenly frowned, "Did he send someone to assassinate Gu Ling? I forgot to ask, but he won't admit it if I ask."

Su Liang snorted, "What is the strength of Lady Gu? If you go to kill him, you will never come back."

Duanmu Chen's mouth twitched slightly, "Indeed, Gu Ling is very strong. Do you think Gu Ling is perfect?"

But Su Liang shook his head, "No, he is not perfect."

Duanmu Chen expressed curiosity, "What else are you dissatisfied with him?"

Su Liang nodded slightly, "Everything else is perfect, except that he doesn't like me."

Duanmu Chen got up and left, turned back outside the door, stood at the door, and looked at Su Liang steadily.

"What else does the prince want to tell you?" Su Liang asked.

Duanmu Chen narrowed his eyes, "I said, you are so obsessed with Gu Ling. If Gu Ling never accepts you, won't you become as crazy as Duanmu Che in the end?"

Su Liang snorted, "You are insulting me by comparing me to Duanmu Che, but it doesn't matter. Thank you for your concern, Prince."

"Just kidding." Duanmu Chen shook his head and really left this time. It was indeed a joke. He knew that Su Liang was not the kind of person Duanmu Che was.

Su Liang was just about to arrange for Song Qi to return to the Ning family in Xunyang City, so he called him over and gave him the pair of white bone hands, asking him to take them back and put them in the coffin of "Ning Jing".

After a few days, it was reported that Duanmu Qianqian was killed by Yan Guo's spies, and it was even said that it was arranged by Yan Guo's female general and Prince's concubine Mu Ya, who killed Duanmu Qianqian and framed Su Liang, who had defeated her.

This news had nothing to do with Su Liang, and was released by Duanmu Yi. Because he learned from Ren Dong that the poisoning of Gao Jiabao in the army was caused by Mu Ya's spy.

Therefore, Mu Ya was smeared, but it was not wrong. She did do something similar. She didn't publicize it last time, so it was just right to take the blame this time.

Su Liang didn't let Ren Dong go to Yan Kingdom to kill Mu Ya again because Mu Ya was pregnant. But this doesn't mean that they don't have to settle the accounts. There is always a chance.

...

It was a snowy day when Gu Ling and his party arrived in Xuanbei City.

Xing Ji arranged for them to live in the general's mansion. Gu Ling lived in the same courtyard where Su Liang lived before. He said he liked the pine trees in the courtyard.

Lin Qi came to Gu Ling with good wine and meat, and also brought Chen Yun and Lin Bojun. Lin Boyan was not used to the cold weather in the north, and he had a cough in the past two days.

"Lady Gu, do you still remember me? We met in the back hills of Huguo Temple in Beijing ten years ago. I wanted to play with you, but you told me to stay away from you! Haha!" Lin Qi sat next to Gu Ling very familiarly.

Gu Ling looked indifferent, "I remember, I was watching the sunset, and you suddenly hugged me from behind."

Lin Qi coughed lightly, "I just wanted to play with you! You are so beautiful! I also invited you to eat the oranges grown in my family!"

Gu Ling nodded, "I didn't want it, but you insisted on forcing it on me. I said thank you at that time."

Seeing that Chen Yun and Lin Bojun were both laughing, Lin Qi didn't feel embarrassed. He tilted his head and leaned on Gu Ling's shoulder, sighing, "I went to discuss with my grandfather that day to take you home, and my grandfather tied me to a tree and beat me. I can't forget it."

Gu Ling stood up after hearing this, and Lin Qi almost fell to the ground.

"Do you like men?" Gu Ling asked calmly.

Lin Qi blinked and smiled at him brightly, "Yes, I like you!"

Seeing Gu Ling frowning, Chen Yun hurriedly helped Lin Qi explain, "He was joking. He has a girl he likes. Marquis Gu should know that. It's Su Liang, the imperial physician in the capital! But he was rejected!"

Gu Ling nodded slightly and sat back, "Really? That Miss Su said she likes me."

Chen Yun and Lin Qi were both stunned.

Lin Bojun lowered his head to eat meat, thinking that this man was too good at pretending, and he really wanted to beat him!

"Did Su Liang say it herself? She said she likes you?" Lin Qi grabbed Gu Ling and asked.

Gu Ling nodded, "Wherever I go, she always follows me and sends me the dishes she cooked. I told her to stay away from me, but she didn't seem to hear."

Lin Qi slammed the table and stood up, pointing at Gu Ling angrily, "Ahhh! You're going too far! Su Xiaoliang likes you and actively pursues you, why are you so troubled? If you don't like Su Xiaoliang, who else do you want to find? Are you the only one who likes men?"

Gu Ling's face was calm, "Too noisy. Even if I like men, I won't like you, don't worry."

Lin Qi: ... I really want to hit him!

Lin Bojun couldn't bear it any longer, "Brother Lin, please sit down."

"I've said it before," Lin Qi said in a faint voice, "Su Liang doesn't like me, I can accept it, but the man she likes in the future must at least be someone like Gu Meiren, otherwise I won't accept it. I didn't expect it, I actually got it right, she really likes you. I tell you, Gu Ling, Su Liang is my best friend, you can't hurt her!"

Gu Ling pushed Lin Qi away who was leaning over again, and said calmly, "Please tell your best friend not to hurt me."

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