"Stay away."
Gu Lingze pushed open the coffin lid, revealing the female corpse inside. Now only a skeleton was left.
He took out the jade pendant, pried open the skeleton's jaw, and stuffed the jade pendant back. Just as he was about to withdraw his hand, many images flashed through his mind.
A woman was strangled by the neck with a rope by four maids. Another woman in luxurious clothes stood at the door of the room, watching everything happening in the house indifferently, her eyes cold and cruel.
Gu Lingze sighed. It seemed like another story about Madam Qi.
He closed the coffin lid and sighed, "Karma and reincarnation, the person you resented has already turned into a pile of yellow earth, you should also let go of your obsession and go to reincarnate."
Gu Lingze asked the tomb robbers to fill the soil. He took out three incense sticks, lit them, and inserted them into the soil in front of the tombstone.
Gu Lingze held the Sanqing Bell in his left hand and rang it, and made a spell with his right hand, "The Supreme Command has ordered your lonely soul to be liberated. All ghosts and spirits will be blessed by the four lives. Those who died openly or secretly, died unjustly. Enemies and creditors are here to claim your life. Whether you are rich or poor is up to you. The Supreme Command has ordered everyone to be reborn quickly."
A breeze blew by, and Gu Lingze vaguely saw a stunningly beautiful woman walking out of the tomb. She bowed to him, then turned around and disappeared between heaven and earth.
After the matter was completely resolved, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
This group of tomb robbers wanted to sneak away when they were not paying attention, but they were caught by Zhao Chengmo and his men in a few seconds and then sent to the government.
The four of them returned to the Marquis' Mansion together and told everyone that the matter had been resolved. Lu Honghua and Lu Manying were no longer around. Gu Lingze did not ask in detail how she would be dealt with in the end.
Marquis Wenxin invited Gu Tianhua and the others to have dinner, while the others moved to the main hall first, leaving only Gu Xiuyi and Su Wenyu alone.
Su Wenyu took off the giant clam bead from her wrist and handed it over, "Thank you, General Gu, for the bead string."
Gu Xiuyi didn't answer, but looked at her intently, "Wenyu, I was serious about what I said before."
"I like you, so I asked my mother to propose to Marquis Wenxin." He smiled and lowered his head, "You may not know how happy I was on the day when our two families exchanged engagement letters."
"I was wrong in my thinking and doing things before. I don't expect you to forgive me, but can you allow me to spend the rest of my life making up for my mistakes?"
Su Wenyu pursed her lips, a blush appeared on her cheeks, she looked to the other side embarrassedly and nodded slightly.
Gu Xiuyi took the giant clam bead string from her hand and put it back on her wrist himself.
"Thank you so much, nephew Gu. If you hadn't discovered it in time, my daughter's life would have been in danger."
Gu Lingze smiled and said, "My Lord, you are too polite. I am sorry to say that Miss Su will be my sister-in-law in the future. I should do my best for her."
Marquis Wenxin laughed out loud and nodded, "My dear nephew, you are right. When Xiuyi marries Wenyu, our two families will be one family."
The host and guests enjoyed the meal very much. When Gu Lingze returned home, he found that Gu Xiuyi had given the giant clam pearl to Su Wenyu, so he took another one and gave it to him.
"Brother, congratulations." Gu Lingze looked at Gu Xiuyi jokingly.
The other party raised his hand and tapped him lightly on the head, then smiled and said, "This time it's all thanks to you for finding it in time, thank you very much, big brother."
Gu Lingze also smiled and said, "Why should we be polite to each other, brothers?"
After being busy all day today, Gu Lingze did not sleep last night, so he went to bed early today.
The next day, Marquis Wen Xin wrote a memorial to the emperor about the matter. After reading it, the emperor directly sentenced Lu Honghua to the crime of lax household management, fined him one year's salary, and demoted him from the third-rank position of Left Counselor of the Ministry of Civil Affairs to the fourth-rank position of Deputy Envoy of the Ministry of Censors.
Even though it was only a one-rank demotion, the Censorate was just a small department of the imperial court, not as important as the fifth-rank position of the Governorate.
The queen also issued an imperial decree, stripping Mrs. Lu Honghua of her title of a fourth-rank lady. The couple felt as if they had lost their parents, and in anger, they sent Lu Manying directly to Puyue Temple in Yongxun Prefecture to become a nun.
Gu Lingze got up and found that it was snowing outside. This was the first snow of this winter.
Thinking of the scene when everyone gathered together to eat hot pot last year, Gu Lingze's eyes suddenly lit up.
He got up late today and those who were supposed to attend court had already left early. Xie Qingwan and Jin Zilingzi accompanied him for breakfast.
"Mom, ask the kitchen staff to buy some more lamb spines and prepare two pieces of tofu and freeze them outside."
Xie Qingwan looked at him curiously, "If you want to eat mutton, mother asked them to make a few more dishes with mutton. There is not much meat on the spine, and it is not convenient to eat."
Gu Lingze smiled and said, "You can ask them to buy it for me. I will make you delicious food at noon."
When Lingzi heard this, she knelt up from the chair and asked with her big eyes flashing, "Brother, what's delicious?"
Gu Lingze scratched her nose and said, "Anyway, I'll make sure you, little greedy cat, are well fed."
Xie Qingwan smiled, looked at Jin Zi and said, "In a few days, your adoptive father will send you to Nanlin Academy to study. You must work hard."
Gu Lingze was a little surprised to hear this. Nanlin Academy was the best academy in the capital, and many children of officials were scrambling to get in. However, it was said that the threshold of the academy was high and the rules were strict, so many people were stopped outside.
"Mom, I'm afraid it's not easy to get into Nanlin Academy, right?"
Xie Qingwan replied: "Principal Meng of Nanlin Academy is your grandfather's student. Your grandfather has already written to him, but he also needs to pass Chaoyu's course."
After hearing this, Jinzi said seriously that he would study diligently and not let himself slack off.
Xie Qingwan touched his head and said, "Don't make yourself too hard. Your foster grandfather praised you for your talent. You must have confidence in yourself."
Jinzi nodded a little embarrassedly and grinned at Xie Qingwan.
Afterwards, Gu Lingze went to Mu Taoyuan. When he arrived, he went to the fire room to check on the fermentation of the koji.
Aunt Li stood aside somewhat nervously. Gu Lingze lifted a corner of the straw felt, pressed it to feel its softness, and then smelled it.
"This wine yeast is well fermented. Thank you for your hard work, Aunt Li."
Aunt Li finally smiled. "It's not hard, it's not hard, as long as I don't do anything wrong."
"When you go in and out of the fire room, remember to keep warm. It's hot inside, and you'll catch a cold easily if you go out into the cool wind."
Aunt Li smiled and nodded.
This time, Gu Lingze took them to the general's mansion for dinner. Aunt Tao rubbed her hands a little embarrassedly and said, "I was drunk last time and said something I shouldn't have said. Did it make your family sad?"
Gu Lingze hugged her shoulders affectionately and said, "Auntie, what are you talking about? We are a family, and no one would take these things to heart."
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