The son she gave birth to after nine months of pregnancy was taken away by Xu Yan. Later, Xu Yan brought a baby girl to her to raise. He said that he would make their Luo Ge'er the future heir of the Marquis' Mansion.
She also knew that this was best for her son.
However, this was her son, her own flesh and blood, how could she bear to let him go! She had hatred and resentment in her heart, resentment that the woman named Wei Wan had taken away her Xu Yan and her only son.
Unfortunately, the baby girl in the cradle kept crying, and her crying became louder and louder, which made her very upset.
She ignored the baby girl, covered her head with the quilt and fell asleep.
When she woke up, she found that the baby girl had stopped crying and her little body was turning blue.
The baby girl died, frozen to death in those thin swaddling clothes.
Thinking of this painful memory, Yu Qing's face turned even paler, as pale as a dead person, and her slender body trembled constantly.
"Frozen to death?" Wei Wan's plump pale lips trembled violently, her eyes were as red as blood, but there were no tears. She said sternly, "You killed her, didn't you!"
Wei Wan yelled in emotional breakdown, her whole body in a trance, her breath stuck in her chest, and her lips turned frighteningly white.
Gu Yanfei was quick-witted and quick-handed. He tapped the Xinshu point on Wei Wan's back with lightning speed.
Wei Wan's red eyes gradually regained some clarity and she came back to life.
"Wow!" Wei Wan burst into tears, tears welling up in her eyes like a flood that broke through a dam, "My child!"
She seemed to want to release all the grievances, anger, regret, unwillingness and other emotions she had experienced that night, and the only sound in the room was her extremely sad crying.
Gu Yanfei handed a plain white handkerchief to Wei Wan, glanced at her face calmly, and then gave a look to the Duke of Wei and his wife, indicating that they should feel relieved as soon as possible.
The deathly look on Wei Wan's face finally disappeared.
Only at this moment did her life-threatening situation finally pass!
The Duke of Weiguo and his wife received Gu Yanfei's look and breathed a sigh of relief, but they still felt heavy in their hearts.
The truth that had been buried for six years was revealed, but it didn't mean that everything was over. It should be said that it had just begun...
The wife of Duke Weiguo sat down beside the bed, gently stroked Wei Wan's back, and comforted her softly.
Wei Wan tightly grasped the hand of the wife of Duke Weiguo and sobbed with her head down.
"No, it's not me." Yu Qing shook her head and kept mumbling, "She was too weak and I couldn't take care of her."
"My Lord, please believe me!" She clutched Xu Yan's robe with one hand, her body trembling slightly, her breathing becoming rapid, as if she was about to faint at any moment.
Xu Yan gently embraced Yu Qing's slender waist, "Of course I believe you!"
Gu Yanfei glanced indifferently at the affectionate couple and took the initiative to say goodbye.
Wei Wan’s crisis of life has passed, and what happens next is the family affair of the Duke of Weiguo’s Mansion, which has nothing to do with her.
"Second Miss Gu, I am really sorry to bother you today. I am really grateful..." Duke Weiguo bowed to Gu Yanfei in a deep voice, "The city gates have been closed for a long time now. Why don't you rest in this farm tonight? We will send you back tomorrow morning."
Gu Yanfei readily agreed, and the Duke of Weiguo ordered a maid to take Gu Yanfei downstairs to rest.
Lady Weiguo was still gently comforting the sobbing Wei Wan, and gave Gu Yanfei an apologetic look.
"Miss Gu, please stay!" Seeing Gu Yanfei was about to leave, Xu Yan hurriedly shouted, with one hand still tightly holding Xu Luo, who was scratching his skin repeatedly and almost crazily.
Yu Qing also reacted and crawled a few steps on her knees, trying to chase after Gu Yanfei. She shouted in a trembling voice, "Second Miss Gu, please save my child..."
There was no need for the Duke of Wei to give any orders, as a guard stopped Yu Qing.
Gu Yanfei walked through the two door curtains without looking back and went out of the wing room. From behind, Wei Wan's vague sobbing could be heard, followed by Yu Qing's sorrowful pleading: "Madam... Luo Ge'er was raised by you personally. He has called you mother for six years. You can't just ignore him."
When Gu Yanfei walked out of the wing room, he could hear nothing.
A new moon hung high in the night sky outside, and the stars were shining brightly. The night in the suburbs of Beijing was very quiet and peaceful. A few lanterns hanging under the eaves illuminated the dark courtyard.
"Second Miss Gu, please come this way." The old woman in green who led Gu Yanfei looked at her with a bit of awe, holding a lantern, and led her to the guest room to rest.
The two walked along the corridor.
Along the way, the old woman spoke to Gu Yanfei respectfully and enthusiastically: "Miss, be careful with your steps."
"Miss, would you like to eat something before you rest? Although our place is simple, the advantage is that the mountain products are fresh."
"By the way, young lady, remember to close the doors and windows tightly when you go to bed at night. Our village is quiet at night, and the slightest noise can be heard clearly by the whole village."
The old woman in green walked and talked all the way, and led Gu Yanfei to the guest room on the northwest side.
Although the guest room is simple, it is small but well-equipped with everything it needs. There are also two maids who are dedicated to serving Gu Yanfei.
Just as the old woman said, the soundproofing of this villa is really not that good. Gu Yanfei had just finished washing up when he heard the sound of horse hooves outside the house.
She looked out of a window and saw two guards riding horses and galloping out of the manor. The sound of horse hooves gradually faded away...
For the people in the Duke of Wei's Mansion, this was destined to be a long night, and Gu Yanfei always fell asleep as soon as he touched the pillow and slept very soundly.
She fell asleep to the sound of horse hooves and woke up to the sound of horse hooves.
When she opened her eyes, she found that it was already dawn outside. In the quiet morning, the air was exceptionally fresh, and even the slightest sound was amplified.
She could clearly hear the sound of hurried horse hooves approaching, the sound of birds playing in the yard, and the deliberately suppressed voices of two old women outside the house.
Gu Yanfei got up and put on his clothes. The maid outside heard the noise in the room and came over, but she stopped outside the door and didn't dare to come in.
The old woman said respectfully, "Second Miss Gu, the Duke and his wife would like you to come over."
After a quick wash, Gu Yanfei followed the old woman who came to deliver the message to the same room as yesterday.
The weather today is a little gloomy, with layers of clouds in the sky.
When Gu Yanfei went over, Wei Wan and Duke Weiguo and his wife were all there. The three of them had bloodshot eyes, and it was obvious that none of them slept well that night.
Wei Wan was lying on the couch like she had last night, with a few strands of hair sticking to her cheeks. She looked several years older and haggard.
She stared distraughtly at a small gray cloth bag on the table, about the size of a porcelain pillow.
Gu Yanfei guessed what was in the cloth bag at a glance and sighed slightly in his heart.
After the people exchanged greetings, the wife of Duke Weiguo looked at Wei Wan hesitantly, wanting to say something. She originally wanted Wei Wan to leave, but Wei Wan had been a strong and stubborn person since she was young, and she insisted on being present.
After the wife of the Duke of Wei asked Gu Yanfei to sit down, she straightened her face and said with a tired look, "Yanfei, this... was found by the Duke last night at the place Yuqing mentioned..."
She sighed deeply, "We don't know what to do. Are there any particular requirements for the burial? Also, should we hold a ritual for the child and recite the Ksitigarbha Sutra to help her attain salvation?"
As she spoke, her voice became hoarse and tense, with a hint of bitterness in her words.
Gu Yanfei slowly walked to the table, examined the mud-covered cloth bag again, and then counted with his fingers under the burning gazes of the three Wei family members.
Soon, she put away her hands and said calmly: "Rebury this child, set up a tombstone, and hold a ritual so that she can enter reincarnation as soon as possible."
This child died young and was buried hastily, leaving her soul without a place to rest. She must be reburied so that her soul can have a place to rest.
Upon hearing this, tears welled up in Wei Wan's red and swollen eyes again, and her gaze was still fixed on the cloth bag on the table.
"What about Xu Luo..." Lady Weiguo frowned and said again.
She did not sympathize with Xu Luo, but was worried that the baby girl would become a ghost for revenge and would never be reborn.
"Don't worry about him." Gu Yanfei said calmly, "The scar on his back is just a disease."
Finally, she added: "It has nothing to do with ghosts and gods."
The room fell into silence for a moment.
What?! The Duke and his wife looked at each other in disbelief. Even Wei Wan widened her red and swollen eyes in surprise.
"Sick?" Thinking back to what he saw last night, even Duke Wei, who had walked out of a sea of blood and corpses, felt a chill in his feet and couldn't help swallowing.
"This is called 'ghost face sore', named after its shape that resembles a ghost face." Gu Yanfei explained slowly, "When the disease first occurs, there will be sporadic red spots on the back, and the condition will gradually worsen within two months. Most cases are mild and can heal on their own, but in severe cases, a blood-red scar that looks like a ghost face will form on the back, and the skin will itch and hurt easily, causing the patient to become increasingly irritable."
"One of his father or mother must have had this disease before."
As soon as Gu Yanfei first saw the blood-red scar on Xu Luo's back, he knew it was a disease.
(End of this chapter)
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