That night, Uncle Gu and Gu Hui had a bumper harvest.
King Kang and his wife wanted to invite the father and daughter to come again tomorrow!
Uncle Gu was naturally willing, but Gu Hui didn't want to play anymore. Playing cards was such a waste of time; she'd rather go home and practice her martial arts.
So Gu Hui suggested that they call on the other ladies to fight together, or have the maids practice with them first before finding the other ladies.
Gu Hui's meaning, both openly and implicitly, is that she wants to win money from her at the card table, even if they have a grudge against her but don't want to turn against her.
Upon hearing this, Princess Kang and Madam Xue exclaimed, "That's right!"
Tomorrow, I'll have the maid come tomorrow, so she can practice and get used to it first.
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After returning home, the siblings were given a severe scolding by Gu Shouxin, and their practice time was to be doubled the next day.
After she finished cursing, Gu Xin followed Gu Shouxin around.
Gu Shouxin chuckled: "What do you want to say?"
Gu Xin then told Gu Shouxin about what had happened during the day, and then expressed her suspicions.
Gu Shouxin told her to go and rest, as someone was watching Li Shan.
Gu Xin then mentioned Li Muyan's matter. After listening, Gu Shouxin decided to have Cai Xiaolian have a good talk with Gu Nian.
It's not good for my daughter to be listless and preoccupied!
The daughter can be comforted by her mother, and the Rongguo Duke's mansion can be left to him!
You've been messing with his daughter for no reason, huh? Well then, we'll give you something to do!
Gu Xin was a very obedient girl. She knew she wasn't omnipotent. Her father was very powerful, so she would leave the things she couldn't handle to him.
After washing up in her room, she wrote a letter to Lu Zheng before going to sleep.
That night, the Third Prince couldn't fall asleep for a long time. He waited until his men brought him Li Shan's biography.
After the Third Prince reviewed the document, he discovered a suspicious detail: in October of the year before last, Li Shan stayed at the estate for a month, and afterwards, all the people who served her met with accidents.
Does a whole month mean she had time to travel back and forth to Tongzhou?
Was she the girl who saved her that time?
The Third Prince had an accident in Tongzhou two years ago, and no one knew about it except for his closest confidants.
He was locked in an ice cellar, where a girl was also locked up. The two nearly froze to death, eventually taking off their clothes and huddling together for warmth. He eventually fainted. When he woke up, he was in a room. He asked his closest confidants, who told him that he hadn't been found in the ice cellar, but outside, and they hadn't seen the girl.
The jade pendant he was carrying that day has gone missing.
During the day, the jade pendant that he saw fall out of Li Shan's sleeve was his; he really liked that jade pendant.
Although they were fourteen and ten years old the year before last, and hadn't done anything, in his eyes, that girl was not only his savior, but also his woman.
If it really was Li Shan, then the fact that all the people who served her had accidents indicates that the Li family didn't want others to know that Li Shan hadn't been on the estate for a month, in order to protect the Li family's reputation.
But Li Shan was only ten years old at the time, so why did she go to Tongzhou?
The Third Prince ordered his men to continue investigating, but in his heart he believed most of Li Shan's claims.
At this moment, Li Shan was lying on her bed, covered in injuries, and it hurt whenever she moved. She wasn't angry at all. Although her plan to make the Third Prince hate the Gu family had failed, she had at least let the Third Prince see this jade pendant!
The Third Prince will surely believe that she is that girl!
In her past life, Li Shan served the Third Prince for so many years, so of course she knew that the Third Prince had a girl he couldn't forget, and she also knew what was going on. But unfortunately, when the Third Prince found that girl in his past life, she was already dead.
Li Shan has been in the capital for several months and has already found that girl. She stole the girl's jade pendant, impersonated her, and killed the family. The Third Prince will only ever believe it was her for the rest of his life.
Unbeknownst to her, Gu Shouxin and Lu Zheng were behind everything she did. How could Lu Zheng not know what she knew?
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