Gu Tianhua and Xie Qingwan had been waiting anxiously for a long time. When they saw them come in, they quickly stood up.

"These are my parents." Gu Xiuyi introduced.

"Meet Gu..."

"What's wrong with you!?"

Just as Gu Lingze and the others were about to greet each other, Xie Qingwan noticed the bloodstain on his sleeve and asked anxiously.

Gu Xiuyi lowered his head and said self-reproachfully: "Yes...I was bitten by Fei Rui."

"Go get a doctor quickly!" Gu Tianhua frowned, staring at Gu Lingze's wound intently.

"Wait!" Gu Lingze stopped people.

"General Gu, please order the gates of the mansion to be closed now. No one is allowed to enter or leave. Everyone in the mansion must return to their bedrooms and not move around without permission."

"What about your injury?"

"I will take care of the injury myself, don't worry General."

Seeing that he was so determined, Gu Tianhua could only follow his instructions.

"Brother Gu, please find me a dagger, a candle, and some medicine to stop the bleeding."

"good."

After Gu Xiuyi prepared everything, Gu Lingze asked Zhao Chengmo to tear open his sleeves.

"Let me do it." Xie Qingwan found a pair of scissors and carefully cut open the cuffs.

When Gu Lingze's arm was revealed, everyone gasped.

The bitten area had begun to rot and fester, and the black color attached to the wound had now spread to Gu Lingze's entire arm.

Xie Qingwan's eyes immediately turned red and her nails dug deeply into her palms, barely managing to hold back from losing her composure.

Gu Lingze, however, acted as if nothing had happened. He took the dagger and disinfected it repeatedly over the candle flame. After he was done, he took a pill and handed the handle to Zhao Chengmo.

"Cheng Mo, please help me cut off this piece of rotten meat from my hand."

Everyone was shocked when they heard this. Xie Qingwan could no longer hold back and burst into tears.

"Is there no other way?" Zhao Chengmo was almost pale now.

In fact, Gu Lingze didn't want to do this. If he hadn't lost too much blood and hadn't been weakened by the Yin Qi, he could have done it himself.

"If you move faster, I can suffer less." Gu Lingze said weakly when he saw that he was slow to respond.

Zhao Chengmo quickly took the dagger from his hand, took a deep breath, clenched his teeth, and forced himself to calm down.

After controlling his hands and stopping their trembling, Zhao Chengmo gripped the dagger tightly and quickly slashed across the wound, cutting off all the rotten flesh on his wrist until red blood flowed out of the wound.

Gu Lingze’s face was pale. He was also a mortal, so of course he felt pain, but he just endured it because he didn’t want to worry others.

Zhao Chengmo threw away the dagger in his hand, carefully sprinkled medicine on his wound and bandaged it up.

"Brother Xu, please go to the inn and get my luggage. There are things I need in it."

"Okay, I'll go right away."

Gu Xiuyi immediately sent someone to go with Xu Mingyan.

Xie Qingwan felt heartbroken when she saw Gu Lingze's pale face, and quickly asked someone to clean up the room for him to rest.

Gu Lingze shook his head and said, "Thank you for your kindness, Madam. However, General Gu's soul has been detained and must be found immediately."

"If not, not only will your life be in jeopardy, but after a long time, even if you find it back in your body, your soul will be incomplete and you will be no different from a walking corpse."

The three members of the Gu family were in a dilemma, worried about Gu Feirui and feeling sorry for Gu Lingze.

"Brother Gu, please tell me exactly what happened today."

Last night, everyone in the house was asleep, when suddenly in the middle of the night, a ping-pong sound was heard coming from Gu Feirui's bedroom.

The servant on duty called out to the Second Young Master several times, but received no response. Instead, the noise in the room became louder and louder.

The servant hurried to Gu Xiuyi to inform him. When Gu Xiuyi kicked open the door, the room was in a mess.

Gu Feirui was covered in blood. When he saw him come in, he gave a hideous smile and slashed at his neck with the sword in his hand.

Fortunately, Gu Xiuyi was quick-witted and punched him in the face, otherwise Gu Feirui would have died.

He asked someone to tie up Gu Feirui, but he didn't expect that he would try to bite his tongue to commit suicide as soon as he woke up. However, Gu Tianhua, who was in the room, removed his jaw and stuffed his mouth with a cloth.

After listening to this, Gu Lingze tapped his fingers on the table and pondered. After a while, he asked, "Has anyone come to your house in the past three days?"

Gu Xiuyi looked at him and shook his head.

Gu Lingze frowned, "Then someone in the mansion must have done something."

After saying that, he stood up and said, "I'll take a look around the mansion."

Zhao Chengmo held him down, turned around and squatted in front of him, and said in a calm voice: "Come up, I'll carry you."

Gu Lingze didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "I'm not that weak yet."

But Zhao Chengmo remained motionless in the same position, and Gu Lingze felt helpless.

"Let me do it." Gu Xiuyi felt inexplicably unhappy.

Gu Lingze didn’t know what the two people were talking about. Zhao Chengmo was fine, but what about Gu Xiuyi?

"Let me support you." Xie Qingwan walked over.

Neither of them dared to argue anymore. After all, one was their biological mother and the other was their future mother-in-law.

Gu Lingze walked into the yard, took out a paper man from his sleeve and placed it on the ground.

He made a seal with his left hand and shouted in a low voice: "Go!"

The paper man then quickly ran eastward in full view of everyone.

Before the other three could be surprised, Gu Lingze said, "Hurry up and follow me."

Finally, the paper figure stopped in front of a locust tree and kept spinning. Gu Lingze moved his fingers and the paper figure returned to his sleeve.

"Cheng Mo, Brother Gu, take a close look at this tree to see if there is anything unusual."

The two of them hurriedly looked carefully from top to bottom. Suddenly, Zhao Chengmo found that the color of the bark was wrong, so he said to Gu Lingze: "Here."

"Dig this up."

Before Zhao Chengmo could do anything, the bark fell off the tree, and everyone discovered that there was a hole inside.

Gu Lingze took out the things in the small hole, a piece of talisman paper and a small pot in the shape of a bronze bell.

After looking at these two things over and over again, Gu Lingze narrowed his eyes slightly, thought for a while, and then looked at Gu Xiuyi.

"Brother Gu, has General Gu ever had a great grudge against someone, and is that person no longer alive?"

Gu Xiuyi frowned and thought carefully.

"Although Fei Rui is usually a bit impatient, he is also reasonable and will not easily make enemies with others. For the moment, I..."

"There is one." Gu Tianhua suddenly spoke at this time.

"Yuan Mingjun, the second son of Yuan Lun, the Minister of the Dali Temple."

"This man drank alcohol in the army and almost made a mistake on the battlefield. Fei Rui punished him with fifty military sticks."

"After I learned about this, I had him sent back to the capital. I didn't expect that just a month later, he committed suicide in the lotus pond in his mansion. He left a letter saying that he had suffered such a great humiliation and had no face to live in this world."