After Gu Yinwei left.
Ah Qing asked, "Miss, are you going to burn this book?"
"Whoever burns my books, I will strangle him to death. This cabinet contains the guide to becoming a concubine, and it is the guarantee of my favor."
"Miss, the Second Miss's plan seems to be comprehensive, but in fact there is a big loophole."
"What loophole?"
"Whether Madam Gu is willing to fall in love with Zhong Baishi is beyond her control."
"Human emotions are indeed uncontrollable, but if Gu Yinwei couldn't even do this, there's no way she would have returned alive from the ancestral home. She must have a hidden card."
"Miss, why are you so sure?"
"I can't say why."
Gu Yingxia recalled the past, her tone particularly sad: "Over the years, thanks to you accompanying me to study and learn to read, I have the wisdom I have today. Although you were sent to me by the late lady, you are only loyal to me."
"The late Madam ordered Ah Qing to assist the Third Miss, hoping that one day the Third Miss would ascend to the throne and be able to look after the Second Miss."
"She no longer needs my care. I will be the one who needs to take care of her in the future."
When Gu Yinwei passed by the pond, Gu Qingrong came in from outside with her maid Bian Tao.
"Third sister had a fight with you again, right? She just likes to be alone and ignores everyone else."
"There's nothing wrong with being alone."
"If you want to live a good life in the palace, you have to socialize. The more friends you have, the easier it is to get along. I have already made arrangements with Miss Wang and Miss Li. They will take extra care of me when I participate in the selection."
Gu Yinwei thought Gu Qingrong's words were childish and ridiculous.
With the exam approaching, the top students are practicing questions behind closed doors, while the poor students are socializing everywhere, shouting, "When Wang Xueba takes the exam, give me a cheat sheet. When Li Xueshen takes the exam, show me the answers." She is afraid that others will not know that she wants to cheat.
After nightfall, the moonlight became bleak and cold, and Chuchu came back to talk.
"Just as Miss expected, Mrs. Chen and Zhong Baishi have started fighting."
"They are very brave. They dared to drug the mistress of the house."
"I might not have dared before, but now that I've seen the Gu family's wealth, I've been dazzled and plunged headfirst into it, unable to get out."
"When will father return to Beijing?"
"We have been back home for half a month. The master will be back in about one or two days."
"Take a break, there's still a lot of trouble going on recently."
"Yes, miss."
Chuchu stared at Gu Yinwei. The young lady was really different from before.
Chuchu helped Gu Yinwei go to bed, and it was getting dark outside.
Mrs. Gu was bedridden, and Mrs. Chen came to bring her medicine. As the bowl of medicine was about to be placed next to Mrs. Gu's mouth, she opened her mouth to drink, but Bian Tao came and knocked over the bowl.
"Madam, you can't take this medicine without seeing a doctor."
Mrs. Chen was a little disappointed when she saw her plan failed. She had always been a timid person, but at this moment she was surprisingly calm.
"Miss Biantao is bullying me with her words and deeds. It would be better if Madam killed me. My loyalty is being slandered. I'd rather die than be slandered."
Gu Qingrong walked out of the door with full aura, followed by a man with his hands tied. The man's legs were broken and his eyes were gouged out.
"Then go to hell."
"Miss, you have no evidence, how can you..."
"Twenty lashes of the cane."
Gu Qingrong is not as smart as Gu Yingxia, nor as pretty as Gu Qingrong, but she is cruel and ruthless enough.
With Almond as her military advisor, she can avoid many dangers.
The heavy board hit Mrs. Chen, and she begged for mercy in a hurry.
"I confess, I confess everything, it was all taught to me by the Second Young Lady."
Bian Tao said: "Words are not enough, show me the evidence."
"I have evidence, and this is the evidence."
Bian Tao took a piece of white paper and saw the number fifty written on it, with no other words. After checking that it was non-toxic and harmless, he handed it to Gu Qingrong.
Gu Qingrong was furious at the time: "How dare you bring up the Second Young Miss? Keep hitting me."
Mrs. Gu dealt with Mrs. Chen with thundering means, but Bian Tao did not plead for mercy. She was a kind-hearted person and would always rescue one or two servants when she saw them being punished.
When Bian Tao pleaded for Chu Chu, Mrs. Gu and her daughter thought that she had already betrayed her master, and planned to use the same trick to test Bian Tao's loyalty.
No matter how incompetent Madam Gu was, she was still the mistress of the house. She had some tricks up her sleeve to get Gu Shenzhi to fool around with her on their wedding night. Mrs. Chen's plan was too crude and obvious, and she saw through it at a glance.
Mrs. Chen was first put into a sack and hung up and beaten, and then her eyes were blinded by the poisonous smoke and the tendons in her hands and feet were all cut.
There was a moon hanging in the sky, looking like a murderous scimitar.
Chuchu pushed open the door of the woodshed. The room was full of firewood and straw. There were several spiders lying on the firewood, busy weaving webs.
Mrs. Chen's lips were chapped and her eyes were covered with a roll of dirty rag with blood stains on the cloth. She curled up and hunched over the firewood pile. Not far from her was a coarse porcelain bowl with a chip on the rim, filled with turbid well water.
Gu Yinwei squatted down, picked up the bowl and put it to her mouth. Mrs. Chen made a gulping sound and then began to drink the water.
After drinking it, she gasped for breath and leaned back on the pile of firewood.
"It's hard for the Second Miss to come and laugh at my joke."
"How did you know my young lady was here?" Chu Chu was a little surprised.
"I am a blind man, my eyes are blind but my nose is not."
Blind people are several times more sensitive to sound and smell than normal people. Gu Yinwei was not surprised at all that Mrs. Chen could say this.
"From the moment you entered the house, I could smell the medicinal scent of Miss Chuchu. In the entire mansion, only Miss Chuchu smelled of the bone-setting ointment. Who else but the Second Young Lady could have bothered Miss Chuchu to open the door herself?"
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