As a result, not long after, all of these people had festering wounds on their bodies. No one paid attention to it at first, but the wounds became bigger and bigger, and within half a month, the people died.
The villagers said that this group of people suffered retribution for stealing things from a dead person, but they didn't expect that the country gentleman who received the two jade bottles also got this strange disease, so he paid a famous doctor to come to his home for treatment.
After examining the patient, the doctor just shook his head, indicating that there was no way to save the patient.
The grieving family asked about the cause of the illness. The doctor, who was knowledgeable, said that things in the tomb could not be touched. Many of the burial objects were smeared with poison to prevent tomb robbers from stealing things. Anyone who touched them would die.
The people in the gentry's family could only cry and think that they were unlucky.
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Lu Manying took the matter to heart, took some silver and asked a servant in the mansion who often went out to purchase things to find out if there were any such burial objects.
Unexpectedly, after some time, he really found out that Lu Manning had picked out the jade pendant herself, and had carefully wrapped it in three layers of handkerchiefs and let the maid hold it.
Before leaving, Lu Manning asked a few questions indirectly. The measurer said that the wound must not be allowed to come into contact with these things, otherwise it would cause a strange disease.
Lu Manning smiled, paid the silver, and took the jade pendant back home.
Su Wenyu was so angry that she was shaking all over after hearing this. She now recalled that when Lu Manying gave her the jade pendant, she didn't touch it at all. She just opened the box and handed it to her, and never touched it again after that.
That time, when the two of them were sitting together embroidering, Lu Manning suddenly slapped her, and she was frightened and stabbed her hand. Lu Manning pretended to apologize and said that she was just joking with her, and she didn't take it to heart.
Now thinking about it, all of this was planned by the other party.
Gu Lingze sneered, "Lu Manning, what else do you have to say now?"
Lu Honghua stepped forward, raised his hand, and slapped Lu Manning from the couch to the ground.
"Evil girl, why do you do this?"
Unexpectedly, Lu Manning, who was lying on the ground, laughed softly. She raised her head and looked at Lu Honghua with hatred, "Why did I do this?"
She wiped the blood from her mouth and said, "We are both noble ladies, but why can Su Wenyu marry a handsome man like General Gu, while I have to be Yu Minrong's concubine?"
Yu Minrong, the Minister of Revenue? Concubine Yu's father?
Everyone looked at Lu Honghua, whose face instantly turned awkward. He pointed at Lu Manying and yelled, "Shut up!"
"Didn't you tell me to say that, Father?" Lu Manning stood up staggeringly. "She has her father who loves her and her elder brother who protects her. But what about me? I have to marry an old man who is half buried in the ground just to find a good future for my good-for-nothing brother. Why?!"
She turned to look at Su Wenyu again, "I am jealous of you to the point of going crazy. You have such a good family background, why did you marry my sweetheart?"
Lu Manning burst into tears instantly, "It can be anyone... it can be anyone... but it can't be you."
Gu Xiuyi walked up to her at this time, looking at her without a trace of warmth in his eyes, "It's me, Xinyue Wenyu. If you want to hate someone, you should hate me."
After hearing this, Lu Manying collapsed to the ground and cried heart-wrenchingly. After a while, she fell to the ground and this time she really fainted.
Gu Lingze looked at Lu Manning and remembered the saying that there must be something hateful about every pitiful person.
It is very pitiful that Biyu Nianhua has to marry a man who can be her grandfather, but she dare not rebel against her father and brother. Instead, she is jealous of Su Wenyu and even has the idea of harming her life, which is really hateful.
The most embarrassed person right now is Lu Honghua, who wishes he could find a hole to crawl into.
Everyone in and out of the court knew that Gu Tianhua was close to the eldest prince, and even the emperor was happy to see it happen. But he wanted to marry his daughter to Concubine Yu's father, Yu Minrong. This was simply exposing his relationship with the third prince nakedly to everyone present.
Lu Honghua gritted his teeth and looked at Marquis Wenxin and Gu Tianhua, "My daughter was confused for a moment, I hope the Marquis and the general will forgive me."
Marquis Wenxin sneered, "Zuo Canzheng really taught his daughter well. If it weren't for the Third Master Gu, my daughter would have lost her life and we would still be in the dark."
Speaking of this, Lu Honghua was also very depressed. He also listened to the maid's narration. The whole thing was obviously flawless. Even Su Wenyu herself had no doubts. How did Gu Lingze find out?
But now he could only apologize in the lowest possible manner, since Lu Manying was caught red-handed.
The matters here were left to Wen Xinhou and his men. Gu Lingze asked the housekeeper to tie up the two maids, and they went to the next room to talk.
Gu Lingze told the story of the female ghost in the jade pendant, "To save Miss Su now, we have to return the jade pendant to the tomb owner, otherwise there will be endless troubles."
The four decided to go together to find the gang of tomb robbers. They first went to the Zuo Can Government and captured the shopping boy, then tied him up and threw him into the car.
The carriage sped all the way to the outskirts of the city, and with the help of a maid, they found a house.
The servant went forward and knocked on the door. After a while, a deep voice came from inside the door, "Who is it?"
The servant also lowered his voice, "Brother Liu, it's me."
The moment the door opened, the burly man inside saw Zhao Chengmo and the others. He was about to close the door, but was kicked open by Gu Xiuyi.
The three of them quickly caught the hapless thieves who were fleeing in the room and threw them all into the yard.
Gu Lingze took out something and asked, "Which tomb did you take this jade pendant from?"
Several people were silent. Zhao Chengmo pulled out his knife and put it on the leader's neck. "Speak."
"It's in a lonely grave in Nanshan."
Su Xuancheng kicked him and said, "You think I don't know the value of things, right? How could such a top-quality mutton-fat jade pendant be buried in a lonely grave?"
The tomb robber who had just spoken suddenly became anxious, "It's true. If you don't believe me, I can take you to see it."
The three men led the group towards Nanshan Mountain. After climbing the mountain for another half an hour, they finally found a tomb in a valley.
"Let's dig the hole here." The tomb robber said, pointing to a piece of soil that was obviously different in color from the surrounding soil.
Gu Lingze looked at the tombstone. There was nothing else on it except the five big characters "Wei Qingchen's Tomb".
Su Xuancheng looked at Wei Qingchen and the other two, and the more he looked, the more familiar they looked to him.
"Wei Qingchen? Wei...Wei Qingchen!" Su Xuancheng smashed his left palm with his right fist, "I remember it!"
It is said that there was a stunning dancer in the previous dynasty who not only had outstanding dancing skills, but also played the guqin unparalleled in the world. Later it was heard that she was taken in by a governor, but unexpectedly she was buried here after her death.
Gu Xiuyi brought tools with him when he went up the mountain. He threw them to the tomb robbers and pointed to that area, "Dig."
This group of tomb robbers worked at the fastest speed and with great effort to dig up the hole that had been filled up last month, revealing the coffin inside.
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