Chapter 249 The Truth
As soon as Shen Qingtan entered the room, he saw the green-glazed teacup shattered on the ground.
Gu Changsheng sat at the table with a cold and indifferent expression. It seemed that breaking a teacup was a very common thing for him with poor vision.
Shen Qingtan knew very well in his heart that even if Gu Changsheng was blind, he would not fail.
There must be something wrong with his body.
"Brother Changsheng." Shen Qingtan came to his side, staring at his pale face that was almost transparent without blinking, and asked, "I brought Chen Yuanshi here, let him take your pulse?"
Before, at the Zhenbei Palace, every time she mentioned his physical condition, he would interrupt her and deliberately change the subject.
After he detoxified Zhao Yi today, he left the Zhenbei Palace alone and asked Chen Yuanshi and Gu Zongci to stop her.
All signs indicate that he has been hiding things from her and dealing with her from the very beginning.
"Manman, since I lost my sight, I can't work too hard. If I work too hard, I'll get a headache." Gu Changsheng said in a calm tone, with a hint of fatigue: "I'll drink a bowl of medicine and take a good sleep, and I'll be fine."
Shen Qingtan looked at his face, which was calm and without any clue, as if he was really too tired and that was why he looked so bad.
She pursed her lips. The things he didn't want others to know were really airtight.
Even if she asked Chen Yuanshi to take his pulse, she probably wouldn't get the answer she wanted.
Suddenly, Shen Qingtan thought of Zhong Heng. Gu Changsheng had lived with Zhong Heng for more than ten years, and no one knew Gu Changsheng's situation better than him.
She decided to find Zhong Heng and inquire about Gu Changsheng's situation.
"Brother Changsheng, you've been working tirelessly these past few days to treat the Second Master. You should have rested well in the palace. You hurried back because I was afraid you were hiding something from me."
Shen Qingtan seemed to believe his words, and said in a casual tone: "I thought you were sacrificing yourself to treat the Second Master. Now that I see that you are fine, I am relieved."
Gu Changsheng looked surprised. She had not expected her own behavior, which made her even more worried.
He explained, "The poison my brother-in-law was poisoned with was developed by my master, and I know how to detoxify it."
When mentioning this matter, Gu Changsheng was still confused.
The master was not only a skilled doctor, but also a master at making poisons. He once said that no one in the world could cure his poison, let alone make it.
The master took him in as his apprentice. After he had learned enough, he gave him the poison he had spent his whole life developing to study.
The master said: "Changsheng, if you can detoxify these poisons, then no poison in this world can stump you."
It took him four years to detoxify his master from all the poisons.
This was the first time in all these years that he saw someone being poisoned by the poison developed by his master.
The master developed the poison in order to improve his medical skills and never used it to harm anyone.
Who poisoned Zhao Yi?
Shen Qingtan was shocked and asked, "Is this the poison developed by your master?"
Gu Changsheng's master is Zhong Yuan.
Emperor Jing'an and the Duke's Mansion have been looking for Zhongyuan to detoxify Zhao Yi. They probably don't know the source of the poison Zhao Yi was infected with.
Where is Zhongyuan?
Does he know the inside story?
"Hmm." Gu Changsheng said softly, "I don't know why it was used on my brother-in-law, but I can tell you for sure that it wasn't the poison my master gave me."
Shen Qingtan suspected that Zhong Heng was Zhong Yuan. If it was Zhong Yuan who poisoned Zhao Yi, they would never have returned from Northern Qi to detoxify him.
I'm afraid someone got the poison by chance and put it on Zhao Yi.
Gu Changsheng clenched his hands on his knees, as if he was trying his best to endure something.
He calmed himself down and asked slowly, "Manman, do you have anything else to say?"
Shen Qingtan understood the meaning of Gu Changsheng's words and gently urged her to leave.
"Nothing else for now." Shen Qingtan advised: "Brother Changsheng, take a good rest. I will come to see you tomorrow."
"Okay." Gu Changsheng agreed without hesitation.
Shen Qingtan walked to the door, paused, and turned to look at Gu Changsheng.
He always maintained the same posture as when she came, sitting there motionless and properly, his shoulders and back looking stiff, without his usual leisurely and natural demeanor.
She walked out of the house and told Tingxue who was waiting beside her: "Go and clean up the debris on the ground."
Tingxue responded: "Yes."
Gu Changsheng sat stiffly in his place. He heard footsteps leaving the room, and then someone came in and cleared the debris at his feet.
He had a splitting headache and his ears were buzzing. The crisp sound of porcelain pieces colliding gradually became blurred.
Tingxue called out, "Cousin, would you like to rest on the couch? I'll clean up the porcelain shards on the floor to prevent any broken pieces from falling and hurting you."
Gu Changsheng heard someone talking in his ear, but it seemed like he was hallucinating. He tried his best to hear what the person next to him said. The buzzing sound in his ears became louder and louder, almost covering up all the sounds around him.
He couldn't hear, see, or respond.
Tingxue waited for a while, but there was no response from Gu Changsheng. She suspected that he was blind and had difficulty moving, so she was unwilling to go to the couch.
She cleaned up the debris neatly and checked carefully before leaving the room.
With a "bang", the door closed.
Gu Changsheng could not hear the sound of the door closing, nor the sound of footsteps leaving. He didn't know if there was anyone in the room, so he kept sitting on the round stool until he could no longer support himself. Then he held on to the table and slowly stood up.
His hands were shaking uncontrollably, and the severe headache made his brain confused, making it impossible for him to tell the direction of the house.
Gu Changsheng took off the gauze tied around his eyes. Originally, he could see blurry shadows, but now everything was dark in front of him and he could only sense faint light.
He slowly groped his way towards the couch, but after only a few steps, he had exhausted all his strength and fell to the ground.
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Shen Qingtan left Chen Yuanshi and the palace physician at Gu's mansion to take care of Gu Changsheng.
She led Tingxue out of the courtyard and asked solemnly, "Tingxue, has Elder Zhong returned to Beijing?"
"Mr. Zhong has been in the capital for two or three days. I made some inquiries and found out that he left Baohua County for the capital on the day the Second Master was cured of the poison."
Tingxue muttered, "Master Zhong doesn't treat himself as an outsider. He charges all the expenses in the capital on us."
"Old Zhong is Brother Changsheng's benefactor, so if you think about it, he's not really an outsider." Shen Qingtan's frown relaxed when he heard that Zhong Heng had arrived in the capital. "Where is he?"
Tingxue replied, "In the house under the Second Master's name."
Shen Qingtan had an idea in mind and prepared to go to the house to find Zhongheng.
As soon as I walked out of Gu's house, I saw Zhongheng getting off a carriage.
"Mr. Zhong." Shen Qingtan came over and said politely, "I have a few questions for you. Do you have time?"
Zhong Heng's eyes flickered across Shen Qingtan's face, as if he knew what she was going to ask: "Do you want to talk in the mansion, or somewhere else?"
Shen Qingtan wanted to invite Zhongheng to Gu's house to talk, but was afraid of complications. After weighing it over, he invited Zhongheng to the carriage to talk.
The two of them got into the carriage. Before Shen Qingtan could ask anything, Zhong Heng spoke first: "Are you going to ask about that brat?"
Shen Qingtan nodded: "I want to know what's wrong with Brother Changsheng's eyes, and whether it can be cured?"
Hearing this, Zhong Heng fell silent, his thoughts drifting away, as if he was lost in memories.
Back then, Gu Changsheng met a little girl in her teens who was abducted by gangsters and sold to a brothel.
Gu Changsheng is a cold-hearted person who doesn't meddle in other people's affairs. He only wants to find his sister.
The reason why he went to save the little girl was because he heard the sound of bells coming from the little girl's body, so he went to save her regardless of anything.
At that time they were in a border town, which was a very chaotic place with all kinds of people gathered there.
The owner of that brothel was a bandit, and the guards inside were all very powerful. They colluded with local officials, and Gu Changsheng fell into trouble.
They blinded him with poison and threw him into the river.
When he found Gu Changsheng, he was seriously injured and half dead. If he had been a little later, even the Great Luo Immortal would not have been able to save his life.
He was furious and angry: "The little girl looks a year or two older than your sister, how could she be your sister? Are you willing to sacrifice your own life before you give up?"
Gu Changsheng said: "I know she is not. The moment she asked me for help, I couldn't just stand by and watch."
He was too lazy to bother with this stubborn guy.
After a long time, Gu Changsheng's voice came softly.
"When I saw her, I thought of Manman. Is she also facing the same situation, longing for someone to save her?"
All the anger and resentment in Zhongheng's heart disappeared, and he only felt pity for this half-grown boy.
He knew very well that his sister was Gu Changsheng's obsession and knot in his heart, from the moment he lost his sister.
He was no longer himself.
"Changsheng's eyes were blinded by poisonous smoke while he was saving a little girl." Zhong Heng sighed sadly, "Whether his eyes can be cured depends on him."
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