Gu Jingxing looked at the carriage going away and asked his guard Song Yu to follow, as he wanted to live nearby.

At the same time, he ordered the secret guards to investigate Danruo's identity.

Song Yu was very quick and cleaned up the manor next to Dan Ruo, and the Samsara Pearl also sensed Gu Jingxing's location in time and reminded Dan Ruo.

While Gu Jingxing was waiting for news from the secret guard, Song Yu reported that it turned out that bandits had infiltrated the disaster victims to cause trouble, hoping to take advantage of the chaos to lure them into the mountains and become bandits. Otherwise, why would someone with a knife appear when they came to get porridge?

Gu Jingxing asked Song Yu to arrange people to suppress the bandits, while he absentmindedly ate the delicious food in front of him.

The sky gradually fell, and the news from the secret guards was brought back. When Gu Jingxing heard about Dan Ruo's identity, he didn't expect that the old fox, the Minister of Personnel, not only married his daughter off so early, but also had such a bad vision for his son-in-law.

If Danruo lived a good life and had a happy marriage, he would be a little tempted but it would only be regretful.

However, if Dan, the legitimate daughter of a second-rank official, married Du Jun, and Du Jun really stayed with her for the rest of her life, it would be a beautiful story.

However, only three years after their marriage, Du Jun was discovered by soldiers who were catching thieves while having sex with two women at night. He then took his concubine away with him, bought her clothes and jewelry worth a thousand taels of silver, and even wanted to use Dan Ruo's dowry.

Moreover, because he was protecting his concubine, he didn't want her to pay her respects to Danruo, so he quarreled with Danruo, and Danruo was so angry that she stayed at the manor for a while.

This is of course the reason Lily told outsiders why Danruo went to stay at the manor for a while. She would not tell others that her master had beaten Du Jun, and Du Jun certainly did not have the face to clarify it.

But Du Jun treated Dan Ruo like this, and Dan Ruo felt guilty about having her body looked at by him, so she wanted to commit suicide. What a silly girl, how could he bear to let her live like this.

The next morning, looking at the stained quilt, he recalled the misty eyes and the kitten-like cry for mercy in his dream. To calm his mind, he went to practice martial arts in the yard. When he was sweating profusely, he saw a snow-white cat leap down from the wall, accompanied by a familiar female voice: "Snowball..."

Gu Jingxing was delighted and responded, "Don't worry, young lady. I'll return the cat in a moment."

After a while, the other side replied: "Thank you, sir."

Judging from the distant tone, I guess the kind girl is being polite to Du Jun again.

Gu Jingxing felt depressed, but he still packed up, changed into a sky-blue robe with dark patterns, held the cat in his arms, and asked Song Yu to follow him with the medical box.

Song Yu knocked on the door next door and it was Lily who opened it.

Lily took the cat and gave it a food box as a thank you gift. Just as she was about to turn around and leave, Gu Jingxing stopped her and said, "Let me check on your master's recovery."

After saying that, she strode in and saw Danruo sitting in the pavilion embroidering clothes. The color and size of the clothes were obviously the style for men.

His eyes moved away from his clothes with soreness, and his words were filled with a subtle anger and a toughness that would not tolerate refusal: "I need to see how the medicine I gave the girl yesterday works so that I can prescribe the next dose for her."

Dan Ruo put down the clothes in her hand, motioned Baihe to bring tea, and said in a daze, "I remember that next door is the farm of Imperial Physician Zhong. Imperial Physician Zhong only has a few daughters, but I haven't heard of any sons."

Gu Jingxing had no idea whose house it was, so he followed up with, "Imperial Doctor Zhong has accepted me as his last disciple since I was young. My master said that my medical skills are not inferior to his."

There was a hint of admiration in Dan Ruo's eyes, which made Gu Jingxing feel a little guilty. Song Yu just watched his emperor making up stories seriously.

Dan Ruo glanced at her shoulder and declined politely: "My injury is not convenient for a male doctor to see. Thank you for your kindness, Mr. Zhong."

Gu Jingxing let her misunderstand that his surname was Zhong. Generally, these closed disciples were raised as sons by their masters, so it was normal for them to take their masters' surnames.

Gu Jingxing said coldly, "This place is far from the capital, where are there any female doctors? If you hide your illness and avoid seeing a doctor, you don't know if the bandit's knife was smeared with poison yesterday. You might die of the poison in a couple of days, making your parents sad."

Lily became anxious upon hearing this and directly advised Danruo that in her eyes nothing was more important than her master's life, not to mention that a man like the master didn't know that his wife was loyal to him.

Seeing that Danruo was about to move, Lily helped Danruo back to the room, while Gu Jingxing followed closely behind, and Song Yu was locked outside the door.

As Gu Jingxing entered the room, he turned his back consciously. He heard a rustling sound and then the voice of the maid saying that she was done.

Gu Jingxing turned around and saw that the brocade quilt covered the part below the injured shoulder of the beauty. He could only see the red rope around her neck, the smooth and slender collarbone, and the delicate shoulders of the beauty. There was a hideous wound on the right shoulder, which did not look ugly, but made people feel distressed.

It was exactly the same as what I had dreamed about yesterday.

Feeling the man's gaze sweeping over her, Danruo's face turned red and she turned her head away unnaturally.

Lily glared at Gu Jingxing, "Mr. Zhong, how is my wife's wound?"

Gu Jingxing shook his head in a mysterious manner: "The bandit's knife was rusty. Although it's not poisonous and will not kill you immediately, it will not only itch later, but it may become infected and fatal at any time, and it will also leave scars."

Lily cried anxiously, "Please, Master Zhong, save my wife."

Gu Jingxing took out a small porcelain-white bottle from the medicine box and told Baihe, "Use this medicine today. I'll give you another one tomorrow."

Lily applied a little ointment on her fingertips, smelling the pleasant fragrance and the faint medicinal smell. She tried it on herself first to see if it was okay.

Dan Ruo felt amused. How could the medicine specially provided by the emperor not be effective?

Seeing the beauty's blushing cheeks, Gu Jingxing asked her to leave first. He went out and waited quietly for Dan Ruo to finish applying the medicine.

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