Gu Lingze narrowed his eyes. It was Lu Manning again. It seemed that the source of the problem was already obvious.
Although Su Wenyu didn't know what the problem was, she didn't think Lu Manying was up to anything.
"Man Ning and I have known each other since childhood. At that time, I..." Su Wenyu paused, "She has always been there to accompany and comfort me. If anyone wanted to harm me, it would definitely not be her."
Gu Lingze nodded without expressing any opinion. After all, he had never met this young lady from the Lu family.
He asked the maid to bring paper and pen, wrote a recipe for keeping warm and gave it to Su Wenyu, then said goodbye.
Su Wenyu felt a little uneasy. She was a little excited in her words just now and wondered if she had offended the other party.
She wanted to speak several times but didn't know what to say, so she had to personally send the two of them to the door and get on the carriage.
"Lingze, is there something strange about the second young lady of Zuo Canzheng's family?"
Gu Lingze shook his head slightly. "I don't know if Lu Manning is weird or not, but there must be something wrong with the jade pendant."
The two had just returned to the general's mansion and had not yet sat down when Gu Tianhua and others returned from court.
"Mom, you and Lingze just came back too?" Gu Feirui asked.
Xie Qingwan nodded and glanced at Gu Xiuyi vaguely, "Wenyu is sick, I will take Lingze to see her."
When Gu Xiuyi heard Su Wenyu's name, his hands involuntarily tightened and then immediately relaxed.
This scene happened to be seen by Gu Lingze. Since Su Wenyu is his future sister-in-law, it seems that he has to take care of this matter.
"Is she sick?" Gu Tianhua looked at Gu Lingze, "Lingze, what's wrong with her?"
Gu Lingze frowned suddenly, "Miss Su's condition is very complicated. Although it is not obvious now, I am afraid that in the future..." He shook his head after saying this.
In fact, Gu Lingze did not lie. If Su Wenyu had been treated by an ordinary doctor, she would have died of the cold in a short time.
"Is it cured?" As soon as Gu Xiuyi asked this question, the eyes of several people in the Gu family shifted to him, and only Zhao Chengmo was confused.
Gu Lingze pretended to be deep and said, "That depends on Miss Su's luck."
Gu Xiuyi's temperament has always been calm and composed, but after listening to Gu Lingze's words, he rarely felt panic in his heart.
"I'm going out for a while." After saying that, he walked towards the door in a hurry. As for where he was going, everyone knew it.
Gu Lingze turned sideways and whispered to Zhao Chengmo, "Brother and Miss Su have been engaged."
Zhao Chengmo suddenly understood. No wonder Gu Xiuyi was acting so abnormally.
Gu Xiuyi rode his horse at full speed all the way, but when he was about to reach the Wenxin Marquis Mansion, he reined in his horse and stopped. Gu Lingze's words kept echoing in his ears. Finally, he dismounted and walked in.
"General Gu!" The butler seemed very excited when he saw Gu Xiuyi.
"Your young lady..."
"Isn't this the famous General Jianwei? How come you have time to visit my humble abode today?"
Young Marquis Su looked at Gu Xiuyi with his arms folded, his tone provocative.
"Don't tell me you're here to see my sister. She doesn't have time to entertain you."
Gu Xiuyi lowered his eyes, bowed and said, "Then I'll take my leave." After that, he turned and walked out.
"Hey! You!" Su Xuancheng was angry and anxious. He looked at the housekeeper and asked, "Why did he leave like that?"
The housekeeper silently complained, it was you who drove them away, and now you come to ask me.
Su Xuancheng gritted his teeth in anger, and felt guilty again when he thought of Su Wenyu.
If my sister knew that I had angered Gu Xiuyi and he left, she would definitely ignore him for a long time.
"Butler." Su Xuancheng called out with a smile. The butler suddenly felt something was wrong and took a step back involuntarily.
"Please don't tell Wenyu that I drove Gu Xiuyi away, otherwise she will definitely be angry with me."
The housekeeper nodded helplessly, and suddenly remembered something and said to him: "Mrs. Gu and Mr. Gu San came this morning, and they didn't look very well when they left."
Su Xuancheng frowned. His sister had clearly been to the plum blossom viewing banquet at the general's mansion yesterday. Why was Madam Gu coming as a guest today and bringing the third young master Gu with her?
"I'll go ask Minyu what's going on."
Gu Lingze was wiping Zhao Chengmo's face in the room. The scar on the man's face was almost invisible now, but he was still very careful.
"Lingze, the book you gave me..."
Before Zhao Chengmo finished speaking, there was a knock on the door. Gu Lingze said "Come in", and Gu Xiuyi pushed the door open.
"Brother, are you here to ask me about Miss Su's condition?"
Zhao Chengmo had heard Gu Lingze talk about what happened between them before, and he didn't understand why Gu Xiuyi, who was always wise, was so hesitant about this matter.
Gu Xiuyi nodded, "Wenyu, is her condition really that serious?"
Gu Lingze raised his eyebrows, neither nodded nor shook his head, but just told him about the jade pendant first.
"That thing is a genital organ. If you put a cicada-shaped jade pendant in the mouth of a dying person, it will preserve the last breath of the person before death."
The reason why it is made in the shape of a cicada is because cicadas burrow into the soil from trees in the cool autumn, and then come out of the soil and climb up trees again when the spring warms up next year. This cycle can repeat endlessly, so the deceased can hold a jade cicada in his mouth and pray for reincarnation.
Even if nothing happened with ghosts and gods, the jade pendant was pried out of the dead man's mouth and Su Wenyu kept it on her body for such a long time. Just from this alone, she would be infected with corpse poison, and even if she didn't die, she would get seriously ill.
Now the maidservant beside Su Wenyu said that the jade pendant was warm, so there must be something fishy going on.
After hearing this, Gu Xiuyi frowned tightly. Seeing him like this, Gu Lingze didn't want to joke anymore, "Brother, I added a little spiritual milk to the bottle of beauty pill that mother gave to Miss Su today. At least she won't have any problems."
Gu Xiuyi breathed a sigh of relief and understood the intention of Gu Lingze's previous words to him. In fact, the problem was with himself and he was indeed sorry for Wenyu.
But what Gu Lingze never expected was that the bottle of beauty pills actually fell into someone else's hands.
When Gu Xiuyi was standing at the door of the Marquis' Mansion, Su Wenyu was talking to Lu Manying in the room.
"Is this the beauty pill made by Mr. Gu San?" Lu Manning picked up the bottle with curiosity and looked at it from left to right. She even took off the stopper and smelled it. "It actually has a floral scent. It smells really good."
Su Wenyu smiled and said, "I am also benefiting from Madam Gu's help."
Lu Manning sighed with envy, "Mrs. Gu treats you so well." Then she showed a bit of joking, "But sister, you will be her eldest daughter-in-law in the future. If she doesn't treat you well, who else can she treat well?"
Su Wenyu pretended to cover her mouth, but Lu Manning dodged and joked with her. After a while, they joked around, and Su Wenyu suddenly started coughing.
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