Lu Yao raised her hand and touched Su Ningjie's face. "You are so thin. Go to dinner with your aunt. Eat more and gain some weight."
"Yeah, okay, I'll help you up."
Seeing this, Lu Yuan smiled with relief, "Nanxiang, hurry up and serve the meal."
Nanny Sumin was happy to see Lu Yao wake up, and without waiting for Lu Yuan's instructions, she brought Qiao Yun and others to serve her.
Lu Yuan pulled Xiao Lingyu out of the room and said, "Sister, thank you so much this time. If you hadn't intervened in time, Sister Yao'er would have been in great danger."
"Sister, you are my brother Jie'er's 'relatives'. We are a family, and family members don't need to thank each other."
Si Chuyu hurriedly said, "Madam Su, my grandfather wants to see you. Please move to the dining hall."
Lu Yuan took Xiao Lingyu's arm and said, "Sister, let's go over there."
She deliberately emphasized the word "relatives" so that the couple didn't even notice it.
"good."
"Mother, my third brother and I are having dinner here."
Xiao Lingyu glanced at his stomach and asked, "Are you sure you can eat enough here?"
Si Chuyu hurriedly said: "As long as you can eat enough, it's enough!"
Si Chuyu immediately arranged for someone to deliver large portions of food to the side room.
Seeing this, Xiao Lingyu nodded in agreement and followed Si Chuyu and his wife to the dining hall.
An old man wearing indigo brocade clothes, with white hair, ruddy complexion and peaceful eyes, was waiting at the door of the dining hall with one hand behind his back and his back straight.
Zhou Tong came forward and said, "Old Master, you shouldn't stand for long. Please take a seat and wait."
"No problem."
Soon, Xiao Lingyu's figure came into Lu Shiyuan's sight.
Lu Shiyuan saw a hint of surprise in Xiao Lingyu's eyes. Madam Su looked only a few years older than Yao'er. She didn't look like someone who had given birth to four children. Instead, she looked like a newly married bride into a wealthy family.
"Grandfather." Lu Yuan pulled Xiao Lingyu closer and introduced him, "This is Madam Su, Jie'er's mother."
Seeing Lu Shiyuan's peaceful expression and amiable demeanor, Xiao Lingyu performed the junior's greetings and said, "Greetings, Mr. Lu."
Lu Shiyuan quickly reached out and helped Xiao Lingyuxu up, "Madam Su, this is impossible. You saved my life."
Xiao Lingyu smiled and said, "Mr. Lu, this is a coincidence. You need a hundred-year-old ginseng to prolong your life, and I just happen to have it. This is fate."
"Yes, yes, it's fate."
Lu Yuan stepped forward to support Lu Shiyuan, "Grandfather, let's go in and have dinner. The food won't taste good if it gets cold."
"Oh, yes, Madam Su, please come in."
Lu Shiyuan sat down in the main seat before he remembered Su Ningjie, "Madam Su, are you the only one here today? Didn't my great-grandson come?"
Great-grandson?
If the test is correct, her brother Jie is probably Mr. Lu's grandson.
"Brother Jie is dining with Sister Yao'er." Lu Yuan placed a piece of snow fish in Lu Shiyuan's bowl. "After dinner, I'll have him come see you."
During mealtime...
Seeing Xiao Lingyu eating slowly and leisurely, Lu Shiyuan said when she stopped to rest:
"Madam Su, please forgive my intrusion."
"Old man, please speak."
Lu Shiyuan, "I wonder if Brother Jie'er's father has a red mole at the end of his right eyebrow?"
Lu Yuan, Si Chuyu glanced at him calmly after hearing this.
That day, Lu Shiyuan was told whether Su's husband had a red mole on his face.
Xiao Lingyu's eyebrows moved slightly when he heard this, thinking that they had some doubts.
"My husband's face is smooth and flawless, without any red moles. But my brother Jie has a red mole on his face that he inherited from his grandmother, so it can be considered as skipping generations."
Neither she nor Su Xingyi had any red moles on their faces, so this was the only way to say it.
A hint of surprise flashed in the eyes of the three people when they heard this. Lu Shiyuan smiled and said, "What a coincidence! Jie'er's great-grandmother had a red mole at the end of her right eyebrow."
"So, maybe the gift that the old man gave to my brother Jie was because of the red mole on his face?"
Lu Shiyuan nodded: "That's right. If my eldest grandson were still alive, he would be as old as Jie Ge'er now. Maybe he also inherited his grandmother's red mole."
Xiao Lingyu understood. If the test was correct, and Lu Yuan and Jie Ge'er had the same mitochondria in their cells, then Jie Ge'er was Grandpa Lu's grandson and Lu Yuan and Lu Yao's biological brother.
"Grandpa, sister and brother-in-law, I have the confidence to cure Yao'er. However, in order to prevent her illness from recurring in the future, I need to understand what stimulated her to become like this today?"
Lu Shiyuan glanced at Lu Yuan and said, "Yuan'er, after lunch, have a good talk with Madam Su."
After lunch, Lu Yuan took Xiao Lingyu to his own room in the main courtyard.
"Sister, to be honest, six years ago when my mother gave birth, Ayu, my grandfather, and I were in Luo County preparing for the opening of Luyuan Qionglou. My mother was originally due in half a month, but she went into labor unexpectedly that day. By the time we rushed back home, my mother had already passed away. My aunts said that the fetus was too big and neither the mother nor the child could survive."
Xiao Lingyu frowned, "Have you ever seen your brother in person?"
Lu Yuan's face showed pain, and after a while he said, "My brother was still in my mother's womb at the time. When the midwife used some means to take my brother out of my mother's womb, he was still breathing."
Xiao Lingyu raised his eyebrows slightly, "Did something go wrong later?" He was thrown into a mass grave!
"My brother was held in the womb for too long and died shortly after being taken out."
What?
This doesn't match up with the fact that Su Xingyi found Brother Jie in the mass grave!
Lu Yuan continued, "Sister Yao'er hugged me and cried loudly that day, then she fell into a coma. She didn't wake up until after mother and brother were buried. From that day on, she became mentally unstable. She couldn't remember many things, and her memory was confused. She often woke up in the middle of the night from nightmares..."
Xiao Lingyu's face was grave. Could the test data be wrong? Was Brother Jie not the sisters' biological brother?
Could it be that the murderer behind this was so cruel as to dig up the graves, steal the bodies and throw them into a mass grave?
This is absolutely impossible!
Xiao Lingyu stared at Lu Yuan's hair in fascination, and after a while he said, "I don't think it's that simple. Last time when you were away from Xishui County, I checked Sister Yao'er's pulse. She was supposed to see results after taking Master Du's prescription for a month or so, but there hasn't been any effect at all. And today she was poisoned and unconscious for no apparent reason. I'm afraid someone doesn't want her to get better, worried that she'll reveal the truth about your mother's difficult childbirth."
Xiao Lingyu's words were like thunder, which frightened Lu Yuan so much that he trembled all over and took him a long time to come back to his senses.
"You...you mean to say that there's something else going on with my mother's difficult labor?"
"How else can you explain your sister's poisoning?"
Xiao Lingyu took Lu Yuan's hand and took her pulse, pursing her lips slightly. She had hinted to the couple that day, and they had indeed taken action.
"And the people behind the scenes don't want you to have children either. But your pulse looks healthy today. What did you do?"
Lu Yuan said, "My A-Yu has a small kitchen in the side room, and she always has soup and medicine on hand for dinner."
Xiao Lingyu asked, "Do you already have doubts?"
Lu Yuan nodded. "To be honest, the 100-year-old ginseng you sent was ambushed on the way Wei Xiao was delivering it to Huayang County, so we became suspicious."
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