Chapter 32 Gu Chengan Kneels
After sending all the relatives away one by one, Mother Gu could no longer suppress her anger and walked quickly towards Sui Jinxuan with a menacing look.
She kept cursing in her heart, thinking that she must show that little bitch some power so that she would know the rules of the Gu family.
As soon as she entered Sui Jin Xuan, the scene before her made Mother Gu stunned for a moment.
Gu Cheng'an knelt straight in the middle of the yard. His usually high-spirited figure now looked particularly lonely and dejected.
"Cheng'an, what are you doing?" Mother Gu stepped forward quickly. Although there was a hint of blame in her words, there was more heartache.
"Mom, why are you here?"
When Gu Cheng'an heard his mother's voice, he stood up in a panic and hurried to meet her. He could kneel down to Du Ruoling in private.
After all, it was him who was sorry for her and broke their promise.
But what would happen if his mother saw it?
Mother Gu had no time to pay attention to her son's unnatural expression. She looked straight at the closed door and understood about 80% of what was going on in an instant.
A nameless anger suddenly rose up from the bottom of her heart, burning her to the point of losing all her rationality.
"A man's knees are made of gold, and you actually kneel before her! How can this be disgraceful? I must tear that little bitch apart today. Let's see what kind of seductive tricks she used to bewitch you so much!"
As he said this, he rushed into the house.
Gu Cheng'an was horrified and quickly opened his arms to stop her. His voice was full of anxiety, "Don't worry about it, mother! This is between Ling'er and me. No matter how wrong I am, I am the one who has wronged her. Please don't make things difficult for her."
"Humph! Which man doesn't have three wives and four concubines? She's just a lowly servant, not even a concubine, and yet she dares to stop you from sleeping with the princess? This is going to cause chaos!"
Mother Gu was so angry that her chest heaved violently, and her fingers trembled as she pointed at the door, as if Du Ruoling behind the door was right in front of her and she could poke a few holes in her.
Just at this moment, a burst of crying was heard from inside the house. The crying was a little louder than before, and the sobbing sound tugged at Gu Cheng'an's heart.
He felt a sharp pain in his heart, as if being cut by a sharp knife. He just wanted to send Gu's mother away quickly, for fear that it would cause a bigger commotion and make Du Ruoling even more sad and upset.
However, Mother Gu seemed determined to finish what she was saying. She struggled to break free from Gu Cheng'an's obstruction, her brows tightly knitted into the shape of the Chinese character "川".
"I can ignore that little bitch for now, but you must accompany the princess back home. The tea ceremony today has already embarrassed the princess greatly. If this gets out, how can the Prince Yong's Mansion let it go?"
After saying that, Mother Gu suddenly turned towards the closed door and raised her voice, as if she was talking to Du Ruoling.
"If you really want to do this for her own good, then have her serve tea to me early, put away all those inappropriate thoughts, and behave herself from now on!"
Gu Cheng'an's face was filled with bitterness. He sighed helplessly and pleaded in a low voice, "Ling'er is still in confinement after giving birth and is very weak. Can we talk about this concubine tea later? She really can't stand it anymore."
After hearing this, Mother Gu curled her lips and snorted coldly, but she didn't insist anymore. She just glared at the door fiercely and left.
Gu Cheng'an was left standing alone in the yard, staring at the closed door with a look of melancholy in his heart, without moving for a long time.
As soon as Chu Ruohan came back, she saw that Gu Junze had already stood up and was sitting upright on the couch by the window.
The warm sunlight filtered through the cracks in the window lattice and gently fell on him. His originally paper-pale face seemed to have a hint of color, and he looked much more energetic than yesterday.
"Why did you get up? Are you feeling unwell somewhere?"
Gu Junze turned around, a faint smile on his face. "It's fine now, but I'm still a little tired. I've been lying down for so long and I'm feeling stuffy. I'll get up and bask in the sun, and I'll feel better."
Chu Ruohan pulled a stool and sat next to him. "Should we arrest Doctor Fang and interrogate him thoroughly? There's something fishy about that prescription, and he can't be blamed!"
Gu Junze shook his head slightly, his expression solemn, and explained slowly, "This matter is not that simple. The medicine I drank was not originally prescribed by Doctor Fang. It was prescribed by the previous director of the Imperial Hospital, Master Tian."
He paused, as if recalling the past, coughed lightly a few times, and continued, "Later, Tian Yuanzheng's family was suddenly struck by misfortune and wiped out by thieves. From then on, Doctor Fang took care of my illness."
Chu Ruohan frowned. How could Mother Gu be so bold that she even dared to kill the director of the Imperial Hospital to silence him?
"Although the prescription was not written by him, as a doctor, how could Doctor Fang not see that the prescription contained something as harmful as the ghost poppy?"
"He knew there was something fishy about the prescription, yet he remained silent and continued to let you take the medicine. He is still highly suspicious."
Gu Junze raised his hand slightly and gently pressed on the solar plexus. Although his face still looked sick, his expression was extremely solemn.
"Now is definitely not the time to move him. We can't alert the enemy."
"This imperial physician has quite a history. He was brought in by my father to the Imperial Hospital, and he's actually from the same hometown as my grandmother. My father probably recommended him to the palace out of this friendship and his medical skills."
Chu Ruohan's heart suddenly moved. Gu's mother was the niece of Anyang Hou's biological mother. In this case, this doctor Fang must be from the same hometown as Gu's mother!
No wonder……
"Should we report this to the Queen Mother?" Chu Ruohan suggested.
Gu Junze shook his head. "She went to Wuyi Mountain to practice asceticism. Even if we report this to the palace, we still can't bring her to justice without direct evidence."
Chu Ruohan nodded slightly. He was right. If he couldn't hit the target in one blow, who knows how many insidious tricks he would use in the future.
You can only be a thief for a thousand days, but you can never be on guard against thieves every day...
On the other side, Lin Xingyao was looking at the account books for the day, and the account books were piled up like a mountain beside her.
The nanny who was accompanying her looked at the meager figures in the account book, and finally couldn't contain her anger and spoke angrily.
"Princess, look at this, is this even reasonable? There are only five hundred taels of silver left in the accounts of the dignified Marquis's Mansion! The Marquis's wife even handed you the keys to the household. Isn't this deliberately trying to trip you up, Princess?"
As the nanny spoke, she put her hands on her hips and her face flushed red, looking as if she had suffered a great injustice.
Lin Xingyao knew that the Marquis' Mansion was in deficit, but she didn't expect it to be so huge.
The nanny took a few steps closer and lowered her voice before continuing, "Princess, I heard that the Marquis of Anyang sold off a lot of his property a while ago."
"Guess what? One of those seemingly insignificant, barren mountains was sold for a full two hundred thousand taels of silver! The money went into the palace, but it was like a waste of money, not a single cent was left. I don't know where it all went. Could it have been secretly embezzled?"
Embezzle such a large sum of money, who would dare?
It seems that Marquis Anyang did not keep this money in his mansion.
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