Chapter 601: Burn the Boats, or Have Other Plans?
Lu Ge'er took a deep breath, and the confusion and pain in his eyes were gradually replaced by a determination to fight to the death.
He stood up, opened the door, and walked straight to his sister Lan Jie'er's room.
Lan Jie'er was hugging her knees, curled up in the cold corner of the bed, crying silently.
There was no light in the room, only moonlight coming in through the window lattice, making her figure look thin and pitiful.
"Lan'er." Lu Ge'er's voice was hoarse.
Hearing her brother's voice, Lan Jie'er suddenly looked up, as if she had grabbed the last straw, and threw herself into his arms.
"Brother! I don't want to get married! I'm scared!"
Lu Ge'er hugged his trembling sister tightly, his heart broken.
He patted her back gently and said word by word, "Don't be afraid, I'm here. I won't let you marry that beast."
Lan Jie'er raised her tearful face and said, "But...but grandma..."
"We can't count on grandma." Lu Ge'er held her shoulders and forced her to look at him. Her usually gentle eyes were now burning with a cluster of crazy flames.
"Lan'er, listen to me, now only we can save ourselves."
"Starting tomorrow, you'll pretend to be sick."
Lan Jie'er was stunned: "Pretending to be sick?"
"Yes, pretend to be sick. And you have to be very sick, very weird." Lu Ge'er spoke quickly and urgently, and a bold plan quickly took shape in his mind.
"Just say you had nightmares all night, felt cold all over, and saw unclean things. The doctor from the palace came to see you, but you refused to let him see, or at least made sure he couldn't figure out what was wrong."
"Just say you've been possessed by an evil spirit, or that you've run into something. The doctors in the mansion can't cure you, so you have to ask an expert from outside to see you."
Lan Jie'er was frightened by the madness in her brother's eyes and hesitated: "Brother, is this... is this okay? Auntie said she would help me..."
"We have to try!" Lu Ge'er grabbed her hand and squeezed it tightly. "After all, this belongs to the third room. It's not easy for my aunt to interfere..."
"As long as we make this a big deal, and make the doctors in the mansion helpless, then we'll have a chance to invite people from outside in, and then we'll have a chance... to escape!"
Looking at her brother's resolute eyes, Lan Jie'er's fear was gradually replaced by a glimmer of hope. She nodded vigorously, tears streaming down her face again: "Brother, I'll listen to you."
At the same time, the lights in the study in the main courtyard of the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion were brightly lit.
Chu Ruohan sat upright behind the desk with a stack of documents neatly placed in front of her.
That was what Haitang painstakingly investigated. Every single one of the dirty deeds of the Wang family in the south of the city was recorded in great detail.
She collected all the evidence and placed it in an exquisite nanmu box, preparing to present it to the third master of the Gu family early the next morning.
She believed that as long as the Third Master saw these things, saw what a quagmire the Wang family was, and saw how cruel and vicious Madam Gu was.
For the sake of Lan Jie'er's reputation and the Gu family's face, he would never agree to this marriage.
Everything seemed to be under her control.
Chu Ruohan looked at the dark night outside the window with cold eyes.
She thought she had laid a perfect net, and was just waiting to close it tomorrow, kill Madam Gu San with one blow, and seek justice for Sister Lan.
Little did she know that in another dark courtyard, a desperate brother and sister had already started another fire.
Prepare to burn a way out for yourself in the most brutal way.
Just as the sky was getting light, a shrill scream broke the tranquility of the courtyard.
Immediately afterwards, a maid who was in charge of sweeping and cleaning rushed out of the yard, her face pale and she ran towards the main courtyard incoherently.
"Oh no! Oh no! Miss Lan... Miss Lan has gone crazy!"
When the doctor from the mansion was hurriedly invited to the third room, he retreated in a mess after just a cup of tea.
He covered his face, which was scratched with blood, and shook his head repeatedly at the anxious Mrs. Gu.
"Third Madam, I am incompetent. Miss Lan's pulse is extremely disordered. It doesn't seem like she's sick, but more like... more like she's been extremely frightened and lost her mind."
When Mrs. Gu San heard this, she was furious.
What she cared about was not her granddaughter's illness, but the upcoming marriage.
She pushed the doctor aside and stormed into the inner room angrily: "I think she's just pretending to be sick! She wants to ruin this good marriage. I must wake her up today!"
In the room, Sister Lan was curled up in the corner of the bed with disheveled hair, her eyes were vacant, and she was shouting something that no one could understand.
Lu Ge'er opened his arms and stood in front of his sister like a young eagle protecting its chicks.
"Grandma!" Seeing Mrs. Gu San rushing in with a feather duster, Lu Ge'er fell to his knees with a plop, his forehead hitting the cold bluestone bricks heavily, and his voice was mournful.
"Grandma, my sister isn't pretending to be sick! She must have run into something unclean!"
"Please, please let your grandson take my sister out of the house and go to the Qingxu Temple outside the city to see the Taoist priest! If we delay any longer, my sister will die!"
Zhenguogong Mansion
Chu Ruohan had just put away the nanmu box containing all the dirty deeds of the Wang family when Haitang rushed in like a gust of wind, with a hint of panic on her face.
"Madam, something happened in the third room!"
Chu Ruohan raised her eyes, her brows slightly furrowed, "Tell me slowly."
"Early this morning, Miss Lan acted like a madman, grabbing anyone she saw and talking nonsense. The doctor in the mansion went to take a look at her and said that she was frightened." Haitang said anxiously.
Chu Ruohan's hand holding the teacup paused slightly, and she understood instantly.
Lu Ge'er, the usually gentle and quiet boy, was eventually forced into a desperate situation.
He chose the most dangerous path.
Although this was a risky move, it completely disrupted her original overall plan.
She originally wanted to expose everything in front of the Third Master with lightning speed, leaving Mrs. Gu with no chance of recovery.
But now that things have turned out like this, it has given the other party the opportunity to throw a tantrum.
"Let's go and take a look." Chu Ruohan put down the teacup and stood up immediately.
When she arrived, she saw a scene that made her furious.
Mrs. Gu San put one hand on her waist and raised the feather duster high in the other, and was about to hit Lu Ge'er who was kneeling on the ground.
"You treacherous little bastard! Did you instigate your sister to act crazy and stupid? I'll beat you to death!"
Lu Ge'er held the door behind him tightly, stiffened his neck, and let the harsh curses fall into his ears, but his eyes were full of stubbornness.
"stop!"
Chu Ruohan's voice was not loud, but it carried an air of authority that brooked no room for questioning, causing Mrs. Gu's raised hand to freeze in mid-air.
She turned around and saw Chu Ruohan, her eyes instantly turned resentful: "Humph, you came at the perfect time!"
Chu Ruohan didn't even look at her, but walked straight to Lu Ge'er and helped him up.
"Get up, the ground is cold."
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