"When you become a high-ranking official, you will have to attend court every day. Don't you have to stay in the capital?"

Gu Lingze had said similar things two or three times before, but Xu Mingyan thought he was just encouraging him as a friend.

But now Gu Lingze has obviously taken action, and Xu Mingyan couldn't help feeling a little surprised.

As the three were talking, Gu Xiuyi and Gu Feirui arrived.

"You three are crowded in the kitchen, what are you talking about?" Gu Feirui said, then looked at Zhao Chengmo and Xu Mingyan suspiciously, and quietly blocked Gu Lingze behind him.

Gu Lingze pushed him away and asked, "Why are you blocking me?"

Gu Xiuyi saw the ice in the can and asked, "Are you making red bean iceberg?"

Gu Feirui's eyes lit up when he heard it, "I want one too."

"You don't know that even the chefs in the mansion who cook according to your method can't cook as delicious as what you cooked that day."

After spending some time together, Gu Lingze discovered that Gu Feirui was just as much of a foodie as he was.

Out of sympathy for his fellow humans, Gu Lingze would send some food to the Gu Mansion whenever he cooked.

But that’s not the focus today.

"Brother Gu, we are making ice."

"Making ice? Can ice be made in such a hot day?" Gu Xiuyi asked doubtfully.

Anyway, there was still a lot of raw saltpeter left, so Gu Lingze demonstrated it to the two of them again.

Now the expressions of the Gu brothers became the same as those of Zhao and Xu.

"Where did you learn this from?"

"I read about this method in a book a long time ago, and I wanted to try it when I saw it today."

"Which book?" the two brothers asked in unison.

"Maybe I saw it in the old mansion when I was a kid, but I can't remember the name of the book anymore."

Gu Lingze just made up an excuse casually, but he didn't expect the Gu brothers' faces to change drastically after hearing it.

"What's wrong? Is there a problem?"

Gu Xiuyi and Gu Feirui quickly came back to their senses, "Nothing."

"Do you still remember things from your childhood?" Gu Xiuyi asked tentatively.

"There are only some scattered fragments, but I can't remember the specifics very clearly."

Before the brother could breathe a sigh of relief, Gu Lingze said another sentence.

"But I don't care. After all these years, they haven't come to see me, and I don't think about going back."

"No..." Gu Feirui was about to speak when Gu Xiuyi grabbed his wrist.

Gu Lingze watched the two people's actions, with a hint of doubt in his eyes.

"Nothing, we'll leave first."

Gu Lingze tilted his head and asked, "Aren't you going to eat before leaving?" The two of them had never stayed together for such a short time before.

"No, I have some things to do in the mansion. I'll come back later."

Seeing that both of them were absent-minded, Gu Lingze did not stay long. He sent them to the door in the carriage and turned back.

Gu Xiuyi and Gu Feirui hurried back home. Before they could tell their parents about this, a servant came to report that Gu Yangjia was making a fuss again.

From some distance away from the main hall, Gu Yangjia's hysterical screams were heard.

"Why don't you think about me? Now that the Third Prince won't marry me, are you happy?"

I heard footsteps behind me, turned around and saw Gu Xiuyi and Gu Feirui walking in.

Gu Yangjia immediately turned the gun around and pointed it at the two men again.

"Brother, I begged you so much that day, but you still went to the Third Prince's house to kidnap Bao Min."

"We have never gotten to the bottom of this matter, and someone has died in our house. Now the Third Prince is making an excuse that the Emperor is not feeling well, so the matter of marrying a concubine is on hold."

"Are you satisfied?"

There was a flash of disgust in Gu Xiuyi's eyes, and he didn't want to pay any attention to him.

"Where did you two brothers go today?" Gu Tianhua asked.

"I went to Lingze to have a look."

It would be fine if Gu Lingze was not mentioned. As soon as Gu Yangjia mentioned it, he would get angry.

"He also said that he has no interest in you. Ever since he moved out of the house, you have been like a possessed person, running there every other day."

Gu Yangjia looked at Gu Xiuyi sarcastically, "Why don't you just marry him directly? You don't have to be so secretive."

"Shut up." Gu Xiuyi shouted.

Gu Tianhua stood up and shouted to the door: "Brother Qian, bring the cane."

Upon hearing this, the housekeeper ran out nimbly and brought the things back in a short while.

“Kneel down!”

Gu Yangjia didn't believe that Gu Tianhua would really hit him, and he took the cane just to scare him.

So he still stood there with his neck stiff, not moving.

Gu Tianhua had reached his limit of patience, so he stepped forward and kicked Gu Yangjia down.

Before he could react, the cane rained down on him, making him piss and shit all over and howl in agony.

Gu Tianhua hit her twenty or thirty times, and Xie Qingwan stepped forward and pressed his waist, and Gu Tianhua stopped.

"Come here, carry him back to his own yard. Don't let him out without my order!"

After returning home, no matter how much Gu Yangjia cried and howled, no one paid any attention to him. Not even a doctor was called. He could only cry like that.

Gu Yangjia lay on the bed, gritting his teeth at the four members of the Gu family, but the one he hated the most was Gu Lingze.

Thinking of the instigator, Gu Yangjia swore in his heart that he would never let Gu Lingze have an easy time.

In just half an hour, the news of Gu Yangjia being beaten reached the ears of the Third Prince.

"That idiot." The third prince sneered, "Don't worry about him."

"If I were Gu Tianhua, I would have taught him a lesson long ago. Unfortunately, this general who guards the country will also grow old. When people get old, they will become soft-hearted."

After Qi Yixuan finished speaking, he frowned as if he suddenly remembered something.

"What about the one called Gu Lingze?"

"Master, please rest assured. I will always send people to keep a close watch on you."

"Regarding his movements, you must report to me in detail."

The guard knelt down and bowed his head, clasping his fists, "Yes."

"Okay, go down."

As soon as the secret guard left, a man in a black robe came out.

"Why did you ask me to send someone to monitor a young man so closely?"

The man in black robe had a mask on his face, so no one could see his appearance or expression.

"If you ignore someone just because of their identity or gender, you will suffer a great loss in the future."

Although Qi Yixuan was disdainful in his heart, he could only swallow what he wanted to say. After all, he still had to rely on the man in front of him for something.

"If he makes any unusual movements, I will notify you immediately." After saying that, he stretched out his hand, "This time I am here to get medicine."

The man in black pulled out a bottle from his sleeve and handed it over.

Just as Qi Yixuan was about to reach out to take it, the man in black grabbed the bottle again.

"Don't be careless, or you'll end up ruining the whole thing."

Qi Yixuan sneered, "Don't worry, as long as Qi Junhuai dies, the second son is a good-for-nothing who can only write poetry. If the emperor doesn't pass the throne to me, who else can he pass it to?"