Can't die?
Xiao Tao felt even more uneasy after hearing this.
Just as she was about to ask a few more questions, the housekeeper rushed over, followed by a sobbing young woman.
Xiao Tao's face immediately darkened; she recognized the girl.
Xiaohe was Chen Yunniang's personal maid.
"General, my young lady's heart condition has flared up again, and she wants to see you."
Lu Ziqian's expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly left with Xiao He.
Xiao Tao stomped her feet in anger, thinking that her mistress must have been blind to marry such a heartless man.
She turned to go to the main courtyard to find the madam, only to be told that the madam had gone to the estate to check the accounts and would not return for two or three days.
Helpless, Xiao Tao could only wait for news in the courtyard.
After waiting for a while, she went to the Su family again, wondering if the young mistress had gone back to her parents' home in a fit of pique.
As it grew dark, Su Yujiao neither returned nor went to her parents' home.
Xiao Tao grew increasingly anxious. Could something have really happened to her young lady?
The Gu residence.
Xiao Tao pleaded, her voice trembling with tears, "Lord Gu, could you please go and look for my young lady?"
After hearing the whole story, Gu Heng immediately went inside to pack his luggage.
Seeing his hurried manner, Zhang asked in confusion, "Why are you packing your luggage all of a sudden?"
Who's looking for you outside?
Are you going on a long trip?
"Mother, I'll explain when I get back."
Gu Heng packed his luggage, led the two horses, and hurriedly went out.
Xiao Tao looked at the pastries, water pouch, and warm clothes he had brought, and once again marveled at his thoughtfulness and consideration.
If Miss had married Lord Gu, things wouldn't have turned out this way... sigh...
When Zhang chased after them, she only saw the backs of a man and a woman carrying luggage as they rode away.
Zhang stared at the woman's back for a long time, then suddenly slapped his thigh, as if he had guessed something very important.
Oh no, that little bitch Su Yujiao seduced her son and eloped with him.
So Zhang locked the door and went to the entrance of the general's mansion to rant and rave.
"Su Yujiao, you shameless little whore...you ruined my son's future, you'll die a horrible death."
"Are all the people in the General's mansion dead?"
"Your daughter-in-law seduced my son and eloped with him. Are you going to do anything about it?"
Before Gu Heng became the top scholar in the imperial examination, Zhang was a typical peasant woman who was very good at throwing tantrums.
Zhang didn't want to ruin her son's reputation; her big fuss was to get the General's Mansion to send people to bring the two of them back.
Her son is destined to be an official; she can't give up his bright future for a worthless woman.
After her outburst, the news of the General's young mistress eloping with the top scholar spread throughout the capital.
Lu Ziqian stayed overnight at the Orchid Garden, and as soon as he stepped outside, he heard rumors and gossip on the street.
When he returned home, he found that Su Yujiao had not come home all night, and even her personal maid who had come from her parents' home was gone.
The man's face darkened: "Is the news true?"
"I asked her, and Zhang saw it with her own eyes. Otherwise, she wouldn't have come to make trouble. She wouldn't be so foolish as to deliberately ruin her son's future."
"Moreover, Gu Heng is this year's top scholar in the imperial examination. He rode a horse through the streets in great style and everyone, young and old, knew him."
"He rode his horse at breakneck speed yesterday, and many people on the street saw him."
After the butler finished speaking, he clearly felt the temperature around him suddenly drop.
Lu Ziqian's face was terribly gloomy: "We must dig three feet into the ground to find that adulterous couple."
"yes."
Inside the dungeon, Su Yujiao was unaware that rumors about her were already flying everywhere.
After questioning him last night, she learned from the chubby boy that his name was Liu Ji'an and that he had just turned six.
He has been detained here for five days without being abused.
That's strange. If it's not for extortion or revenge, why would they risk kidnapping an official's child?
The only possibility is that someone wants to use this child to threaten Imperial Censor Liu!
After all, as an official responsible for remonstrating with the emperor, Censor Liu's duty was to supervise officials at all levels, which inevitably made him many enemies in the officialdom.
And yesterday, that white-haired woman wanted to give her to a big shot. She wondered if that big shot might be an official.
Collusion between officials and criminals?
Having figured this out, Su Yujiao suddenly had a plan in mind.
"An'an, your sister has something to tell you."
Su Yujiao whispered some careful instructions in the little fat boy's ear.
Soon, dawn broke, and two burly men carrying large knives led her up the mountain to gather herbs.
"You better not try anything funny, or I'll chop you up with one stroke."
Su Yujiao had no intention of taking the opportunity to escape; she was indeed seriously looking for herbs.
However, she wasn't looking for herbs that could cure albinism, but rather balsam flowers and indigo leaves that could be used to dye hair.
Albinism is incurable even in modern times, let alone in this backward ancient era.
Therefore, all she needed to do was dye Li Fengying's hair and eyebrows black to fool her.
However, it's best not to let Li Fengying see her dyeing her hair, so she still needs to find a medicine that can make anesthetic.
After searching all morning, Su Yujiao had collected a full basket of herbs, including rhododendron, jasmine root, angelica, calamus, impatiens, and woad leaves.
After returning home, Su Yujiao began to prepare the medicinal herbs, since making hair dye required grinding the herbs into powder first and then mixing them with warm water to form a paste.
Moreover, processing medicinal herbs requires water, fire, and a stove. As long as she has a chance to enter the kitchen and get close to the water tank, she will have a way to escape.
Clearly, these bandits were wary of her, giving her a small courtyard with a small kitchen, confining all her movements to that dilapidated space.
However, Su Yujiao was not discouraged. As long as she was alive, there would always be a chance to escape.
After drying all the medicines, Su Yujiao mixed the powders together according to the proportions, and then added honey and warm water to make a paste.
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