Chapter 259 This is a symptom of poisoning
The old grandfather had been unable to sleep at night due to discomfort, but he just endured the pain and closed his eyes to pretend to sleep to comfort Gu Yuexuan. When he heard the two of them stop talking, he finally couldn't help but let out a low cough and said in a hoarse voice, "Girl, you stay here, Bo'er will take me out."
Gu Yuexuan's nose twitched slightly, her worry evident in her words: "Grandfather, your body can..."
"It can still hold up."
Tu Subo gently took off the cloak from his shoulders and gently draped it over the old grandfather. Then he carefully carried him on his back and said to Gu Yuexuan, "Xuanxuan, obey grandfather's wishes. We will be back soon."
He also gently rubbed Gu Yuexuan's hair and said softly, "Be obedient."
Gu Yuexuan's eyes flickered, full of reluctance and worry, but in the end she just watched them leave silently.
Tu Subo's agility was far beyond her knowledge. Since all the arrangements had been made, they must have been well thought out.
At this moment, if she insisted on tracking him, it would only cause unnecessary trouble. It would be better for her to calm down and wait here.
As for the doubts that she was unable to investigate due to her grandfather's interference, they will be discussed after Tu Subo returns.
To ensure that all actions would not be noticed, after Tu Subo took the old grandfather away, Gu Yuexuan simply closed the door, folded her arms, sat on the edge of the bed and waited patiently.
Tu Subo's arrangements were indeed meticulous and thoughtful.
Three miles away, there is an abandoned post station. Few people come there during the day, and it becomes even more desolate and deserted when night falls.
Tu Su Minfei was there at the moment, waiting with the imperial physician he had secretly brought out from the camp.
The old doctor's name was Wen, and he was already in his seventies.
The old doctor with white hair and mottled beard never dreamed that his ordinary life would lead him to experience the strange experience of being carried on shoulders and in hands and having his body replaced in his later years!
Doctor Wen was carried all the way and then shaken violently on the horse's back. When he landed on the ground, he was already dying. He thought he had been kidnapped by bandits and even thought about how to commit suicide to preserve his dignity.
However, when the black cloth covering his head was removed, he discovered that the people who kidnapped him were actually the two young men from the Tu Su family!
Doctor Wen looked at the water bag handed to him by Tu Suminfei, and was furious. His neck was erected high and his beard was shaking with anger.
"absurd!"
"You are absolutely ridiculous!"
"The Fangling Camp is such an important place, how can you enter without permission? Do you understand how much trouble you will be in if you make a mistake or are discovered?!"
Doctor Wen poked Tu Su Minfei's nose with a trembling finger and said angrily, "Since you have already set foot on the territory of the Fangling camp, if you spend a little time to inquire, you will know that it is me who is accompanying you. Can't you use your brains and try to pass on a message to me? If I knew you were here, I would hide myself and how could I easily expose you?"
"In the past, Your Highness the Crown Prince was always impulsive and reckless. I even praised you for your prudence and steadiness as a young man. But now it seems that you have also gone with the flow and become so reckless! You are completely unwilling to use your brain!"
"You're just messing around!"
Doctor Wen served in the army when he was young and was a military physician accompanying his grandfather.
Although he is a gentle and refined man, he has followed his grandfather in battles on the frontier for many years, and because of his grandfather's life-saving grace, he has forged a deep friendship with the Tusu family. Regarding the rise and fall of the Tusu family, he will never act like a snobbish villain who curries favor with the powerful.
To be precise, he took the initiative to request to leave the Imperial Hospital in the palace and follow here, but in fact he had the intention of finding out the latest situation of the Tu Su family.
Facing his grandfather who was about the same age as his grandfather, and Doctor Wen who had watched him grow up and had a deep friendship with the Tu Su family, Tu Su Minfei could only bow his head and admit his mistake when he was lightly touched by a finger.
Tu Su Minfei felt full of grievances.
He also wanted to think carefully and find another way, but Tu Subo told him that there was no need to do so.
Interception was ineffective, persuasion was fruitless, and all they could do was helplessly watch Tu Subo act recklessly.
Tu Subo acted decisively, bravely and recklessly. He sneaked into the Fangling camp alone, aimed at the tent where the imperial physician was, and without even having time to recognize the other person's face, he suddenly swung a knife at the back of the physician's neck.
In less than half an hour, Tu Subo had brought the people out of the tent.
Along the way, he didn't even have time to drink water. He took off the black cloth covering his face. After seeing clearly who the kidnapper was, Tu Subo quickly turned around, put on some oil on his feet, and ran away, leaving him here to endure the blame.
Doctor Wen scolded for a long time, his mouth dry. He opened the water bag and took a deep sip to moisten his throat. Then he continued, "Why are you all so foolish? Has someone in your family met with misfortune? Is anyone ill? How serious is the illness?"
"What happened?"
Tu Suminfei gently pushed his nose bridge, and when he was about to explain, his brother Tu Subo, who had just left and returned, had already arrived at the destination safely with his elderly grandfather on his back.
As he stepped over the threshold, Doctor Wen's gaze penetrated his grandfather's tattered cloak, catching a glimpse of his gaunt, haggard face. He couldn't help but cry out in shock, dropping the water bag in his hand to the ground. "Old Marquis?"
"Old Marquis, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?"
"This matter involves serious matters, I hope you will keep it confidential."
Tu Subo walked quickly forward and carefully placed his grandfather, who was coughing constantly, on the wooden bed in the post station that had been abandoned for a long time.
Tu Suminfei was meticulous, and even being reprimanded didn't slow him down. He quickly swept away the thick dust, spread dry straw evenly on the bed, and then covered it with his clean cloak and coat.
As soon as the old grandfather leaned on the bed, he started coughing violently before he could finish his words, followed by a mouthful of black blood.
When Doctor Wen saw the blood, his eyebrows twitched and his expression changed drastically.
"Old Marquis, please extend your hand so I can examine you!"
Tu Subo tightly grasped his grandfather's trembling hand and handed it to Doctor Wen. Doctor Wen carefully felt his pulse, his expression growing increasingly serious.
"Change to your other hand."
After checking the pulses of both hands, Doctor Wen ordered without hesitation: "Bring the medicine box."
Tu Subo had made sufficient preparations beforehand. In addition to inviting this skilled imperial physician, he also took away the medicine box that Imperial Physician Wen carried with him.
Doctor Wen took out several silver needles and carefully inserted them into several important acupoints of grandfather. In the process, tiny beads of sweat oozed out of his forehead.
He timed it accurately, and when the moment was right, he quickly pulled out the silver needle. In the flickering candlelight, he noticed the needle tip was slightly black. He was startled, his tongue almost tied, and he couldn't even speak clearly: "This... this is a symptom of poisoning!"
"Poisoned?"
Tu Suminfei blurted out in disbelief: "How could there be poisoning?!"
The Tu Su family currently has few people, and the family's food and daily life are all taken care of by their own family members, and no one outside knows that the Tu Su family is temporarily staying in the village in front of the courtyard.
The neighbors in the village had harmonious relations. Who could have approached the old grandfather quietly and poisoned him in secret? And what motive did this person have to avoid the eyes and ears of the rest of the Tu Su family and attack the old grandfather alone?
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