"He's just a gambler, isn't he your wife's nephew?"
"He is not here to propose marriage, but to rob our master and daughter's property!"
The shopkeeper became angrier and angrier as he spoke, and his old face turned red.
Master Zhen, who was almost hit by the broom, took two steps back in embarrassment, a vein popped out on his forehead, and he said arrogantly in a matter-of-fact tone: "Who is stealing the family business?"
"I am the eldest son in the family. If the old man hadn't been partial and given the family property to his second wife and youngest son... all of this should be mine."
Looking around at the gold, silver and jewelry around him, Master Zhen's eyes flashed with greed.
Zhen Ruzhu frowned, took another step closer to Master Zhen, and angrily retorted: "Before Grandfather passed away, you, Uncle, wanted to divide the family. You got 2,000 acres of good land, and my father only got 2,000 taels of silver. As soon as Grandfather passed away, you drove my grandmother and my father away, and even wanted to steal the 2,000 taels of silver."
"My father worked hard for half his life to save up this family fortune, but what about you? You are addicted to gambling and have gambled away all the 2,000 acres of good land that your grandfather left you."
An acre of ordinary good farmland costs ten taels of silver. The family fortune worth twenty thousand taels was squandered by her uncle, and now he is coveting her own property.
"What do you know, a little girl? You are talking nonsense!" Master Zhen's face turned pale, but he still held his head high and said, "When the family was divided, you hadn't been reincarnated yet!"
"Your father has spoiled you since you were young, which is why you have developed such a stubborn temper. You even dare to talk back to your elders. Now that your father is sick, I, as your uncle, will teach you a lesson on his behalf!"
Master Zhen looked a little angry and embarrassed.
"Miss Zhen, is your father sick?" Anle frowned slightly. "I remember your father was in good spirits the last time I saw him." It's only been a few days.
Zhen Ruzhu's face showed a bit of bitterness, and her voice was a little hoarse, "My father fell ill three days ago, and now he can't get out of bed..."
It was because her father was ill that she had to fight here alone.
Zhen Ruzhu had always looked smart and capable, but she was only sixteen years old after all. At this moment, cracks finally appeared in her strong shell, revealing deep fatigue and worry.
Gu Yanfei asked, "What symptoms does your father have?"
Zhen Ruzhu took a deep breath, tried to calm down, and said in a difficult voice: "My father has a heart disease. Three days ago, he suddenly started to feel palpitations and chest pains..."
She was only halfway through her sentence when Master Zhen interrupted her coldly, "Stop talking nonsense!"
As he spoke, Master Zhen took a few steps towards Gu Yanfei and Anle, glancing at them with contempt, "This is my Zhen family's internal affairs, and you outsiders are not allowed to interfere. Zhen's Silver Bank will not be doing business today!"
The tone of his voice sounded as if he was the owner of this silver shop.
"Then I can always have a say." A weak and hoarse male voice just happened to take over Master Zhen's words.
The door curtain was lifted up, and the shopkeeper looked in the direction of the door curtain and shouted, "Boss."
Boss Zhen, wearing a black cloak, walked in slowly with the help of a servant.
He looked very weak, staggering, his face was pale, and his lips were slightly purple.
"Get lost!" Boss Zhen looked deeply at Master Zhen and said weakly, with difficulty but quite firmly, "If you want to exterminate the clan, then do it. I won't serve you anymore!"
After saying this, he vomited a mouthful of blood.
The bright red blood left a pool of blood on the bluestone floor, which was so red that it was shocking to the eye.
"Dad!" Zhen Ruzhu was frightened and rushed towards Boss Zhen with a pale face, holding her father's other arm.
Boss Zhen grabbed his daughter's hand and said in a hoarse voice, "No..." How could his daughter marry such a scum with bad intentions! Boss Zhen's body softened and he fainted, vomiting blood several times in a row.
There were pools of blood on the ground, and even Zhen Ruzhu's dress was stained with blood.
"Dad, don't scare me. How are you?" Zhen Ruzhu's eyes were filled with tears. She was so anxious that she was about to cry. "Quick, go call a doctor!"
A waiter hurried out to call a doctor, while Zhen Ruzhu and the servant helped the unconscious boss Zhen to sit down on a chair.
Master Zhen stood with his hands behind his back, his belly bulging, shaking his head and sighing, "See, you are the one who brought bad luck to your father."
"Ruzhu, you have to be obedient. Women have to get married and have children."
"I won't marry!" Zhen Ruzhu gritted her teeth, tears streaming down her eyes, but her expression remained stubborn. She picked up a pair of scissors beside her and said, "Today, I will comb my hair myself!"
As she said this, she was going to get her hair cut, her eyes were red, with a hint of tragedy and determination.
She would rather comb her hair and stay single for the rest of her life than invite a wolf into her house and let others manipulate her fate! "It's not a disease." Gu Yanfei's clear and gentle voice sounded again, immediately attracting everyone's attention.
She looked at the haggard face of the unconscious Boss Zhen on the chair and said with certainty, "It's poisoning."
Everyone's expression changed, especially Zhen Ruzhu, whose slender body trembled violently as if struck by lightning.
The scissors in her hand slipped out of her hand and fell to the ground with a clang. A strand of hair cut by the scissors was floating down from mid-air...
Zhen Ruzhu almost wanted to ask "Are you sure?" but she bit her tongue hard and hurried to look at Anle's expression. Seeing that she looked as if it was a matter of course, she knew that what the girl said was most likely true.
She bit her lip deeply with grief and indignation in her heart, and then she heard Gu Yanfei say, "Miss Zhen, your father not only has palpitations and chest pains, but also has dizziness, fever, fatigue, vomiting and diarrhea, right?"
Zhen Ruzhu nodded quickly: "Yes."
Gu Yanfei asked, "Can you see if your father's tongue is swollen?"
Zhen Ruzhu quickly opened Boss Zhen's mouth, took a look, and nodded again: "Yes!"
Gu Yanfei asked again: "Are your father's nails white or purple?"
Zhen Ruzhu looked at Boss Zhen's nails again and nodded again: "Yes!"
Zhen Ruzhu's eyes widened. From her previous surprise and suspicion, she was now completely convinced of Gu Yanfei.
This girl was right about everything! It turns out that Daddy was not sick, but poisoned!
The strand of hair that was cut off slowly floated to the ground and landed on a pool of blood on the ground.
Zhen Ruzhu's face became paler and paler, and she asked in a trembling voice, "Excuse me, young lady, what kind of poison has my father been poisoned by?"
She was not stupid. After the extreme shock, some guesses emerged in the fog of confusion: Daddy was seriously ill before, and she didn't think much about it. But if Daddy was poisoned, then the timing of his poisoning was too coincidental...
Zhen Ruzhu felt heartbroken and terrified: her father was her only relative in this world!
If he hadn't met the princess today, what would have happened to his father? Zhen Ruzhu almost didn't dare to think about it anymore.
"Oleander." Gu Yanfei said slowly, "You only need to take a small amount of this poison to produce the above symptoms, but it won't kill you."
"When you get married, your father's illness will naturally get better. By then, even if the son-in-law saved your father's life, it would also be equivalent to confirming your strong luck."
"Oleander juice can also numb a person's skin and even cause paralysis."
Once Boss Zhen becomes paralyzed, he will naturally no longer be able to manage his own business, and his life will be worse than death.
Zhen Ruzhu was young, but she was labeled as having a hard life and unlucky for her parents. She would be hated by others and would lose her foothold.
The son-in-law not only gained a reputation for being kind and righteous, but also easily took control of the Zhen family's assets. He really had a good plan! "Eating up the entire family." Gu Yanfei concluded.
Zhen Ruzhu's face turned paler and paler. She understood the pros and cons of the matter. Hatred surged in her heart. She looked at Master Zhen with a look that wished she could cut him into pieces.
Master Zhen's expression was as ugly as Zhen Ruzhu's, with panic, shock and anxiety in his eyes.
Gu Yanfei took out a talisman from his sleeve pocket. With a shake of his hand, a corner of the talisman paper spontaneously combusted without fire and turned to ashes in the blink of an eye.
He casually shook the talisman ashes into the cup of tea that he hadn't drunk yet, and said, "Let your father drink it."
"Thank you, young lady!" Zhen Ruzhu tried hard to suppress her emotions and choked up as she thanked Gu Yanfei. She wanted to go forward to get the cup of talisman tea on the table, but was rudely pulled away by Master Zhen.
"Ruzhu, this girl is a liar. Your father was clearly ill, but she just took a look and didn't even check his pulse, and she just spoke nonsense."
"Don't rush to seek medical treatment when you are sick!"
Master Zhen acted like an elder and reprimanded Zhen Ruzhu for a few more words. Then, he pointed at Gu Yanfei's nose and said, "Tell me, where did you come from, you liar? How dare you use this magic water to poison my second brother!"
"For a liar like you, I should arrest you and bring you before the authorities!"
Master Zhen walked towards Gu Yanfei with big strides, and his big palm like a palm leaf fan reached out to grab her...
Gu Yanfei sat leisurely on the chair, motionless, neither dodging nor avoiding, his eyebrows even curved in pleasure, one hand pressing on the Xuanyan Whip on her waist.
“Wow——”
A cup of scalding hot tea was poured towards Master Zhen...
(End of this chapter)
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