Gu Ranzhou glanced at the two of them and saw that they were the Hai couple he had seen at the banquet not long ago. He asked, "Mr. Hai, are you and Mrs. Hai here looking for Zhenchuan?"
Upon hearing this, Madam Hai quickly shook her head and explained, "No, we're not looking for him. We've taken the liberty of coming here to look for you."
"I?"
At this time, Lu Zhenchuan interrupted them and said, "Zhou Zhou, eat first. We'll talk after you eat." Then he looked at Hai Yaoping and his wife and said, "Brother Hai, you guys haven't eaten yet, right? Join us?"
"Isn't this inappropriate?"
Lu Zhenchuan smiled and told his nephew to go to the kitchen: "It's okay, Haoyu, go to the kitchen and get some more dishes and chopsticks."
Hai Yaoping didn't think it was a big deal, so he sat down at the table: "Okay." After seeing her husband sit down, Mrs. Hai also sat down next to him.
The whole time they ate together, they were very quiet, with only the occasional sound of chewing food.
After the meal, Lu Zhenchuan cleaned up the dishes on his own. Seeing that his father (uncle) was going to talk to his uncle and aunt, Lu Haoyu and Gu Yu'an obediently went back to their rooms.
Gu Ranzhou watched the two children go back to their rooms by themselves, then slowly asked, "Mr. Hai and Mrs. Hai must have something urgent to tell me. What is it?" Lu Zhenchuan brought a pot of brewed tea from the kitchen and placed it on the table, then poured a cup for each of them.
Hai Yaoping smelled the faint fragrance of tea, then picked up the teacup and carefully took a sip. "I heard that Mr. Gu saved Brother Du's son shortly after arriving in the imperial capital, so I came here this time to ask Mr. Gu for help?"
Everyone present knew who the Brother Du Hai Yaoping was talking about. Gu Ranzhou didn't immediately agree to his request. Instead, he asked the couple without hesitation, "You think I have a solution? Why don't you bring your youngest son with you?"
The couple's faces turned grim upon hearing this, especially Hai Yaoping's, who looked extremely dark. "They say family disgrace should not be aired in public, but at this point we can't really care less."
Seeing her husband's ugly face, Mrs. Hai hurriedly began to explain why her youngest son didn't come: "My youngest son was bewitched by that woman and only listened to her. He turned a deaf ear to us. We used tough measures to separate the two of them, but I don't know how they got together again. We really have no other choice now, so we asked you for help." After she finished speaking, her hands were still tightly clutching her clothes.
Upon hearing this, Gu Ranzhou looked up at Lu Zhenchuan who was sitting next to him, then returned his gaze to them and asked, "When did this start? Have you investigated the cause?"
When Mrs. Hai heard Gu Ranzhou's question, she remembered that woman pretending to be weak in front of them and her useless son defending her in front of them. With a hint of anger in her eyes, she replied anxiously, "Yes, ever since that incident happened, our old man has sent people to the village where Guo Biling lives to investigate."
Guo Biling is the name of that woman.
"She is a widow." Mrs. Hai shouted in anger, and Hai Yaoping's face became even darker as he remembered something.
Mrs. Hai seemed to realize she had lost her composure and quickly explained, "No, no, it's not that our family dislikes her because she's a widow. It's mainly because my father-in-law sent people to investigate and found that she had relationships with many men in her village. The investigators also sensed resentment from the other women in the village. When our son took her away from the village, the men who had been friendly with her... seemed to have lost their souls."
Then he continued, "And we recently sent someone to investigate again. Most of the men she had relationships with have gotten into trouble."
Gu Ranzhou and Lu Zhenchuan exchanged a glance. For safety reasons, people in his line of work would not jump to conclusions before seeing someone, because who knows what accidents might happen. He could only say to them, "There's nothing we can do unless we see them."
Upon hearing this, Hai Yaoping stood up instantly and said, "I'll go and tie up that rebellious son right now." Seeing her husband stand up and go back to catch their youngest son, Mrs. Hai didn't say much and stood up as well.
Gu Ranzhou didn't care about that. After all, he wasn't a member of the Hai family. At best, he was hired by their family to help. They would pay him later, so he wouldn't interfere in the matter. He just had to wait for them to make the arrangements. "It all depends on what you guys think, Mr. Hai. Once you're all prepared, just send someone to find me. I'll usually be at home if nothing unexpected happens."
"That's great!"
Mrs. Hai said, "We won't disturb Mr. Gu's rest."
"Goodbye." Gu Ranzhou nodded and smiled.
Lu Zhenchuan looked at the backs of Hai Yaoping and his wife, his eyes dimmed slightly, and turned to walk towards Gu Ranzhou.
Gu Ranzhou sat on the chair, looking up at the sky with deep eyes, lost in thought for a moment. Actually, he was held in Lu Zhenchuan's arms. Gu Ranzhou looked up at him.
"What are you thinking about, Zhou Zhou? Why are you so lost in thought?"
Gu Ranzhou had gathered a lot of information from the Hai couple's conversation. Seeing Lu Zhenchuan asking, he began to explain, "Based on what they said, I'm pretty sure their son was infected with a love poison. But what puzzles me is what on earth that woman used to cultivate such a strange love poison." "Can love poison be sold wholesale now? He had been living in peace for too long and had left the Xuan Sect."
"Love Gu? What is that?" Lu Zhenchuan asked with a frown.
Then he said, "Is it poison?"
Gu Ranzhou practiced orthodox Taoism since he was a child, and then became a monk by chance. Logically, he should not know much about witchcraft, but he read all the books in the Taoist library, became interested in witchcraft, did some research on it, and even practiced it, so he has a relatively good understanding of this kind of thing.
Gu Ranzhou smiled faintly and said, "It's not a poison, but it's somewhat related. Love Gu, as the name suggests, makes people fall in love and cannot extricate themselves. Moreover, the more affectionate the person who is poisoned is, the easier it is for him to be bewitched by the person who raises the Gu, and he will listen to the person who raises the Gu. However, it is not a deadly Gu worm, and the love Gu is raised with women's menstrual fluid." That's why Gu Ranzhou said that love Gu is a poison, but it is not a poison.
"So, this woman is really powerful." When Lu Zhenchuan heard about the effect of the love Gu, he instantly felt goosebumps, but then he thought of the woman's methods and praised her.
Gu Ranzhou thought for a moment and then spoke, "Just now, the Hai family couple said that she had inoculated more than one person with love poison. However, as far as I know, the Miao people only raise one love poison in their lifetime, and they would inoculate it on their loved ones. I wonder what method she used to create so many love poisons."
Lu Zhenchuan was stunned when he heard this, and quickly asked, "Zhou Zhou, is there any way to prevent this?" He thought this thing was too weird.
"It seems not now."
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