Bai Baozhu's tears flowed instantly. She took out a handkerchief to wipe them away. She wanted to say something, but thinking that Gu Xin had traveled all night, hadn't rested well, and was hungry, she held back and told Gu Xin and the others to eat first.

Gu Xin said, "Princess Baozhu can tell us what happened now, and we can listen while we eat to save time."

Seeing that Gu Xin had picked up her chopsticks and started eating, and then said that, she couldn't care less about anything else and told her what she had seen.

"My father fell seriously ill before the New Year, and everyone thought he wouldn't make it through the year. Fortunately, my husband found the Divine Physician Long, who examined him and cured him. He said that as long as he rested well, didn't get angry, and didn't lose his temper, the illness wouldn't recur. Before, when I asked Bai Feng to go to the palace to see the Emperor, I wasn't sure if he would be able to see him, so I didn't mention the Divine Physician Long. He only agreed to treat my father because he owed my father-in-law a favor."

“During the first month of the lunar calendar, my father had fully recovered. After I returned to my parents’ home, he took the children fishing and traveling together. He did not relapse after that. I was thinking of going home to visit my father and mother during the Dragon Boat Festival, but when I arrived home on the first day of the fifth lunar month, I did not see my father. Finally, on the morning of the second day, Uncle Zhong, who was by my father’s side, said that my father had an accident and was in a secret room.”

"Only he and Zhongbo, who has been with him for over thirty years, know about Father's secret chamber. Mother should know about it too. Zhongbo goes to clean the secret chamber at the beginning of each month. This month, Father was not at home on the first day of the month, and Zhongbo went back to his own home. That's why Father was discovered on the second day."

“At that time, I went to the secret room with my three older brothers. There was a strange smell in the secret room. I asked my brothers, but they all said they couldn’t smell it. Father’s eyes were open, as if he had seen or heard something terrifying before he died. However, only Uncle Zhong and my mother knew about the secret room. After Uncle Zhong returned to the mansion, he went to clean the secret room, and my mother was always in the Buddhist hall. What could he see? So, I felt something was wrong.”

"The brothers, however, thought that Father must have been angered by someone, and after returning home, he couldn't think things through, causing his old illness to relapse. But why did he fall ill in the secret room?"

"Another point is that Zhongbo discovered Father when he opened the secret room to clean it, so he hadn't cleaned it at all. Usually, if it wasn't cleaned for a month, there would be dust in the secret room, as Zhongbo himself said. But when we went there that day, I found the secret room to be very clean, as if someone had cleaned it on purpose. My brothers said that Father might have seen that Zhongbo hadn't cleaned it, so he did it himself. He can't overwork himself, so he got tired and then fell ill. I don't believe it."

"Finally, we found a memorial in Father's secret chamber. It was a memorial from Father requesting that my second brother be granted the title of heir apparent. However, when Father was seriously ill before the New Year, he clearly said that if he did not live to see the New Year, Mother should make the decision to request that Shijie be granted the title of heir apparent. Shijie is the son of my deceased eldest brother. Father was interested in Shijie, but after his death, there was a memorial requesting that my second brother be granted the title. I also felt that something was very wrong."

"Since my eldest brother passed away, Father has entrusted all external affairs of our manor to my second brother and Shijie. When Shijie was young, it was my second brother who helped him. Therefore, everyone in the manor is my second brother's man. My third and fourth brothers all listen to my second brother, and even Mother does."