Chapter 801 My cousin is reborn and wants to snatch my marriage (10)

Gu Shiyao lived in the Qi Yang Marquis Mansion all her life in her previous life, so she was naturally very familiar with this place. She brought Gu Shichu to a somewhat remote small garden. Although the location of this small garden was a bit remote, it was decorated very elegantly, with rugged rockery and strange rocks, a lotus pond full of lotus flowers, and all kinds of exotic flowers and plants. It was obviously carefully taken care of by someone.

"Third sister, let's just stroll in this small garden to avoid making noise with those people outside. The scenery here is better than other places and should not be missed." Gu Shiyao made an excuse and said.

In fact, she knew that this small garden was the private garden of Mingxun, the son of Marquis Qi Yang. No one else was allowed to enter without his permission. Even she, his legitimate wife in her previous life, had only been here a few times.

Ming Xun treasured the things in his small garden very much. He insisted that the rockery and strange rocks were all rare and precious stones that he had specially searched for, the lotus species in the lotus pond were rare foreign species, and the flowers planted in the flower beds were also rare and exotic plants bought from foreign merchants... In short, everything in his small garden was precious.

The reason why Gu Shiyao looked down on Mingxun was that she felt that he was not only a playboy, but also a waste of time. A grown man was actually interested in flowers, plants and stones, and treated them as treasures. She couldn't accept it and had a big quarrel with him about it. When the Marquis's Mansion fell into decline, she wanted him to sell those flowers and plants to get money to support the family, but Mingxun refused.

So when Gu Shiyao looked at the vibrant flowers and plants in front of her, she felt an indescribable feeling in her heart.

But it’s also thanks to Mingxun that he has this hobby, otherwise she wouldn’t be able to make Gu Shichu and Mingxun fall in love with each other.

Gu Shichu was indeed very interested in this small garden because she actually saw a purple lavender. In this era, lavender is really just a kind of grass, and no one would appreciate it as a flower, but now, there is one here.

"Sister, do you like it here?" Gu Shiyao coaxed, lowering her voice and said mysteriously to Gu Shichu, "This small garden is the private garden of the prince of the Marquis's Mansion. He likes these things and grows strange flowers and plants."

Gu Shichu glanced at her upon hearing this and deliberately said, "Sister, you and your brother-in-law have such a good relationship. Before you got married, he even brought you to see such a private garden?"

Gu Shiyao choked suddenly, and her expression became unnatural, but she couldn't deny it. Otherwise, how could she explain how she could find such a remote place as the Marquis' Mansion?

"Don't say that. The prince is curious about everything, like a child..." Gu Shiyao said with a fake smile. While she brought Gu Shichu inside, she looked around quietly, just wanting to try her luck and see if Mingxun would appear here now.

However, she chatted with Gu Shichu for a long time but Mingxun never showed up, and she was a little disappointed.

Seeing that Gu Shichu had finished admiring all the flowers, plants, rockery and strange rocks in the small garden, the target still did not appear. If she found another excuse to stay here, Gu Shichu would become suspicious. She had to abandon the plan of letting the two of them meet here and think of other ways.

Until the birthday banquet was about to start, Gu Shichu still hadn't been able to meet Mingxun. Gu Shiyao couldn't help but become more and more annoyed. If she couldn't get these two people to hook up today, it would be much more difficult to find a way to get them together in the future.

Finally, she hardened her heart and had to take the riskiest approach.

"Third sister, don't blame me. I had no choice but to do this. Besides, you are marrying up by letting an orphan like you, who has no parents, marry Ming Xun. If it weren't for this method, you would never have been able to get close to the Marquis' Mansion. In fact, you should thank me..." Gu Shiyao found excuses in her heart to comfort herself, convincing herself that she did this for the good of her cousin, and tried her best to whitewash her own sins.

"Third sister, my mother sent someone to look for me. I will go find my mother first. You can walk around here by yourself or find other girls to play with." Gu Shiyao found an excuse to leave, and Gu Shichu was left alone, with only Zhiqiu, a maid, by his side.

After a while, Zhiqiu suddenly covered her stomach and said to Gu Shichu with a pale face: "Miss, I have severe abdominal pain, please let me leave..."

"Don't be impatient." Gu Shichu immediately took her pulse and then sneered. Zhiqiu had planted a laxative. Gu Shiyao was really capable. She could actually drug her maid right under her nose!

"Did you accidentally eat something bad? Just take some medicine and you'll be fine." Gu Shichu said as he took out a pill from his purse and stuffed it into Zhiqiu's mouth.

Zhiqiu swallowed the pill with great confidence, but the pill did not take effect immediately, so her stomach still hurt. Gu Shichu found a maid from the marquis's mansion and asked her to take Zhiqiu downstairs to rest.

A quarter of an hour after Zhiqiu left, a strange maid dressed in the clothes of a maid in the Marquis's mansion rushed to Gu Shichu and said to her anxiously, "Miss Gu San, your maid who was unwell is now more seriously ill. Not only does she have abdominal pain, but she is also vomiting and convulsing. She looks very scary. Do you want to go and see her?"

If the original owner was young and naive, and treated Zhiqiu like a sister, she would have believed it immediately upon hearing the maid's words, and would have been so concerned that she would have followed this person away without saying a word.

But now it was Gu Shichu whose soul had been replaced. She immediately realized that the maid's anxious expression was only on the surface and was simply pretended.

How could Gu Shichu not understand? There must be a pit ahead waiting for him to step into it.

However, she did not expose the maid, but followed her and urged her anxiously: "Take me to see if there is a doctor in your house? Find a doctor for me..."

The unfamiliar maid took Gu Shichu around in circles and finally arrived at a simple and remote courtyard. She pretended to be embarrassed and said to Gu Shichu, "Please forgive me, Miss Gu San. Today is the old lady's birthday banquet. There are too many guests. The other courtyards are full of distinguished guests, so the resting place for the maids and servants is arranged in a remote place..."

Gu Shichu pretended to be concerned about the maid, and was pushed into the room without any preparation. Then the door was slammed shut. Gu Shichu immediately pretended to be panicked and knocked on the door and shouted: "What do you want to do? Let me out..."

While crying and shouting, she looked around the room and found that there was only a bed and a table with a stick of incense burning on the table.

When the scent of the burning incense reached Gu Shichu's nose, she quickly recognized it as a kind of aphrodisiac, aphrodisiac that could make people unconscious, weak all over, but also full of passion.

Sure enough, they had this dirty idea! Gu Shichu felt depressed, but she quickly found a pill that could cure all poisons in the space and swallowed it. Then she pretended to be poisoned and fell to the ground with a "bang".

The maid actually did not leave. After Gu Shichu stopped shouting and heard the sound of someone falling to the ground, she opened the door. As expected, she saw Gu Shichu, who had been drugged, struggling weakly on the ground. She immediately stepped forward, helped him up, put him on the bed, then closed the door and left quickly.

(End of this chapter)