"But after you got married, you probably understood the difficulties, right? You had to bring my father back from the brothel, take care of the family finances, take care of two concubines who were about to give birth, and face the daughter left by the previous wife. I felt so exhausted for you."
Xu Yixing wasn't lying. If Lu Anyuan was in this situation, she wouldn't marry him no matter what. She wasn't some saint or great man, so why would she put herself through this?
"You know shit." Gu just laughed at Xu Yixing a little, saying that he was just a child and didn't know anything.
"I know you're the middle child in your family, your parents treat you just fine, you don't have any special talents or looks to show off, and your family background is average.
If I were to marry normally, I would probably choose a low-ranking official of the sixth or seventh rank, or some newly promoted talent, none of whom would be as good as my father."
"I didn't marry your father for his money or power!"
Very good, Xu Yixing’s method of provoking is gradually becoming effective, but the effect is not enough.
"Come on, don't tell me you married my father out of true love. My father loves Madam Bai the most, not you, Gu Shuang~"
"Bah! I thought you knew your father very well, but it seems you're just this good."
"What do you mean by that?"
Gu Shuang was not in a hurry, she stretched out her hands to comb her hair strand by strand. However, because she hadn't washed her hair for a long time, it was all tangled together, very uncomfortable to her hands, and she even pulled some of it off.
"When I first got married, I thought he loved Bai Mier, and that was why he was so heartbroken over her death that he ignored household affairs.
Humph, no, your father only cares about himself and his future. If I hadn't been able to stabilize the Xu family, I would have become the second Bai Mi'er in no time!"
From what Gu said, Mom was abandoned by Dad because she was incapable of managing the household? Compared to the idea of eating up the entire family, this seemed even more absurd. Xu Yixing would rather believe that this was just one of the reasons.
"Xu Yiyan, you don't know your father's story of how he rose to prominence, but I know it very well. If you really want to know what he really thinks, why not just ask him directly? But I'm also sure he'll make up a very beautiful story for you."
What was his father's rise to wealth? Xu Yixing knew that his father came from the northern frontier army, rising from a lieutenant to a general through hard work. This was a very clean story. Could there be some water in it?
Xu Yixing pressed the issue several times, but Gu seemed deaf and remained silent. She felt that since Xu Yixing was not pursuing the Liu family matter, she had nothing more to say.
Xu Yixing sighed, knowing that he could not get anything more out of Gu Shuang.
"Gu Shuang, thank you for giving me a new idea. By the way, I did kill Mrs. Gu. Actually, it's not that I killed her. She saw that I went to visit you in prison, but you didn't come. She naturally thought you gave up on her, so she told me everything. Later, she was heartbroken and thought you would send someone to assassinate her, so she frightened her to death."
Gu Shuang raised her head in disbelief, her neck rising higher and higher: "When did I give up on her? When did I kill her? It was you, you deceived her, you killed her!"
"I didn't deny it. And it was me who spread the word that there were good things in Dad's back room, tempting you to steal it. And the same thing happened to Cai. I told her that her husband was killed by Gu Po, so she went to court to accuse Gu Po of death. And I also had Huixiang find Gu Po's account book. Anyway, it's all my fault. Are you satisfied?"
Gu Shuang opened her mouth wide like an idiot, and even a trace of saliva flowed out from the corner of her mouth, but she didn't even notice it.
"It's you... I knew it! I'm going back to Beijing and telling the master. I want him to severely punish you, this unfilial daughter!"
As Gu spoke, she kicked the ground with both feet as if she was going to get out of bed, but her feet were firmly trapped and she could only dangle in the air in vain, unable to touch the ground.
"Untie it, untie it for me, I know it's you! I want to go back to Beijing!" Gu screamed at the top of her lungs. The sound seemed to scare the pigs behind her. They grunted a few times and then became silent.
"Go back to Beijing? Do you think you can still go back to Beijing? Look at you now, you look like a madman. How can Dad take you back?"
"Why..." Gu hugged her head, in great pain.
"You know exactly how you acted as a stepmother. When did my sister ever punish me? Didn't you just fake the imperial decree? How did you treat Yiwen, and how did you treat me? Don't you know that?"
"It's not my fault... How could I possibly treat you like my own children? You're just daydreaming."
"The current queen is the same. Look at her, then look at you, and you'll see the difference, right?"
Gu nodded blankly, then began to shake her head frantically. This wasn't right, this wasn't right. The Queen was the Queen, how could she compare? She had been fooled by this bitch again!
"You just said that you were appointed because you could help your father run the Xu Mansion. Now that there's no one left at home, why would they need you? Just stay in this shabby place and wait to die of old age."
Xu Yixing left after she finished speaking. She had lied to Gu. She could not allow Gu to die of old age, or even live until tomorrow.
Once Gu tells others that he has been here, Dad will know too.
She didn't care about her father, but Lu Anyuan needed a strong General Xu, and she also needed the reputation of the General's Mansion to fight against the Second Prince's gang. As long as this layer of window paper was not exposed, no one could destroy her relationship with the Xu family!
When Mrs. Gu saw her second daughter leaving, she shouted even louder, constantly calling out "Come back" and "Don't go", but unfortunately she couldn't stop her.
Xu Yixing was worried that the noise would disturb others, but when he looked at Ying Si, he was not worried at all. He was very confident in his medicine and dosage.
"Master, how do you kill him?"
"Don't use poison. Just find a way to make it look like suicide."
"OK."
Ying Si came bounding into the house. Gu suddenly saw a child and was like she had found a savior: "Child, child! Where are your parents? Go quickly, go and ask your parents to come over. I have money, and I will give you plenty of money to buy candy!"
As Gu Shuang spoke, she took out a piece of gold from the pile of clothes beside the bed and tried to lure the child.
Ying Si tilted his head and said happily, "Thank you!" because he had just thought of how to kill someone.
When Gu Shuang saw the child accept the money, tears of excitement welled up in her eyes. Great! She was saved! As long as she returned to Beijing and explained the situation to her master, she could go home! It was a pity that she didn't notice that the child's voice didn't sound like a child's at all.
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