Chapter 145 There is a cat sickness

"Have you heard? The wife of Lord Guo seems to have been beaten again. She screams every night. It's so pitiful!"

"Well, she was born in a humble family and has no help from her natal family. It's a blessing for her to be the wife of Lord Guo!"

"That's what you say, but Lord Guo has so many concubines, who doesn't have a higher status than her?"

"Oh, what a miserable life..."

The waiter had just brought a pot of hot tea and a few plates of cakes when gossip came from the table next to him.

Su He and Qing Yun both pricked up their ears and listened carefully. There was only one Lord Guo in Yanzhou, so it must be Guo Fei. The wife in his family who had no help from her natal family...

I wonder if she is the palace maid around Concubine Rong?

"Madam, I will go and ask about it later."

"Okay."

A storyteller on the other side of the street, fanning himself with one hand and holding the table with the other, vividly described the flood disaster and the process of the plague, and then mentioned Lu Huaihe's name.

"A Mr. Lu came from the neighboring county. He was very capable and it only took him two days to investigate the case of embezzlement of disaster silver! He then asked the accompanying doctors to rescue the patients in the city who were suffering from the plague, and effectively suppressed the development of the disease! Otherwise, our Yanzhou would not be able to escape the disaster..."

Su He listened carefully, and was a little lost in thought.

There were many listeners sitting around the storyteller, and when Lu Huaihe's name was mentioned, there was a noisy discussion.

"The court still hasn't forgotten us..."

"Yes, yes!"

"Poor Lord Lu, he actually fell into the water while inspecting the Chengdong Reservoir. If he is still alive, he must be a good official!"

Su He's hand trembled, and the tea spilled.

They just came to Yanzhou yesterday, and they were afraid that they would expose their whereabouts if they asked the wrong questions without knowing the truth, so they haven't checked the details of Lu Huaihe's disappearance.

Unexpectedly...

Qingyun walked up to greet the man who was talking.

"My dear, you said that Lord Lu slipped and fell into the water and died?"

The man shook his head with a sigh: "The East City Reservoir is the largest reservoir in Yanzhou City. The river banks on both sides are more than twenty feet wide, and the water depth is immeasurable! That night, someone saw a floating corpse in the reservoir and went back to report to Lord Lu. Lord Lu came here alone late at night, but an accident happened unexpectedly..."

"Did no one look for him afterwards?" Qingyun continued to ask.

"What are you looking for? Who dares to go down to the reservoir? Besides, there has been no news for several days. I guess we are lost!"

After the man said this, he carefully looked at Qingyun's appearance. Seeing that he did not look like a native of Yanzhou, he asked, "Aren't you from our local area?"

"Oh, I came to Yanzhou to do business. I'm new here and I'm not familiar with the place yet." "

Is that so..." The man did not suspect anything.

After asking around, Qingyun returned to his seat. When he saw Su He's pale face, he also became depressed.

Since he entered the Dali Temple, he has only followed Lu Huaihe. He has been taught by him for many years and has long regarded him as a relative.

At this moment, he heard the news that his whereabouts were unknown and he was afraid that he had died, and he felt indescribably sad.

Suddenly, Qingyun had an idea.

"The master is missing, so where are the two doctors who accompanied him?"

If he remembered correctly, the master took the two doctors from the capital with him when he left Beijing, and they disappeared together?

Su He wiped her slightly red eyes with a silk handkerchief, suppressed her grief, and pretended to be calm: "If it is really as that elder brother said, even if it is a floating corpse, Lu Huaihe would not abandon the two doctors and go alone in the middle of the night. There must be something fishy among them."

She turned to Qingyun: "Go and check who Lu Huaihe has contacted when he arrived in Yanzhou? By the way, check Guo Fei, the inspector of Yanzhou. Since the palace maids of Concubine Rong were in his house, she must be innocent. Maybe..."

Maybe the missing case was fabricated by him.

Qingyun agreed and stretched his muscles. Since he followed the young lady, he rarely showed his kung fu, and his kung fu was almost rusty.

After resting, Pei Xia took Su He back to the guest house.

Guo's Mansion.

Guo Fei had just returned to the mansion after leaving the government office when he saw a letter from the capital delivered by the housekeeper.

He opened it and couldn't help but sneer: "A woman who traveled thousands of miles to find her husband, do you think it's too long to give up her life?"

After reading the letter, he handed it to the housekeeper and asked about the situation in the backyard.

The housekeeper reported truthfully: "Madam only drank some soup today, and couldn't eat rice or anything. The strength used by the master was too heavy."

The neighbors across several streets and alleys outside, once they heard the hysterical crying and begging for mercy, everyone knew that Guo Fei was beating Madam again.

Guo Fei didn't care about this, and was even a little annoyed.

"At first, it was the Empress who advised me to take her in as my wife because she was afraid that she would cause more troubles if she stayed outside and ruin the overall situation. Otherwise, I would have established myself in the capital and challenged the government! Look at our Guo family, with the protection of the Empress and the generals, who hasn't been doing well in the capital? Only I was driven to this remote Yanzhou and only became a small patrol officer?"

The people of Yanzhou are simple and the petty bourgeoisie lives a comfortable life. What's there to be dissatisfied about?

The housekeeper moved his lips and wanted to explain, but he was afraid of being implicated by the adults, so he had to endure it.

"It is already a great favor for me to save her life. Do I have to hold her in my hands and worship her?" Guo Fei continued to express his dissatisfaction.

The housekeeper advised: "Sir, the Queen Mother has said that after the emperor passes away, you can do whatever you want with the lady. Now is the critical moment. Anyway, the emperor is about to die and the lady will not live long. Why not let her live a few days of good life..." From time to time

, the mansion was filled with the howling of wolves and ghosts, making the maids and old women dare not even walk at night.

The housekeeper just wanted to do a good deed

for the lady because of her pity. Guo Fei didn't care whether the woman lived or died, but it would be unlucky for people to see her die in the Guo mansion, so he listened to the housekeeper's words.

In the small courtyard, the maid was applying medicine to the woman who was sobbing silently, and she couldn't help feeling distressed when she saw the bruises on her body.

"Madam, please don't talk back to me anymore. It's just like adding new wounds to old ones. I can't see any signs of recovery."

The woman stopped crying, glanced at the disfigured body, and the despair in her eyes became even worse: "Azhi, I sent you to check, is there any news?"

Azhi shook her head helplessly.

The woman had no hope to begin with, and she was even more heartbroken when she saw this.

"If it weren't for someone reporting the message I sent to Lord Lu, he wouldn't have lost his life..."

In the other side of the inn.

Seeing that it was getting darker, Pei Xia opened the window and looked outside several times, but Qingyun didn't come back. Just when she was waiting anxiously, the door suddenly rang.

Su He immediately woke up, looked at Pei Xia, and was hesitating whether to speak.

"Who are you looking for?"

Qingyun's voice echoed outside.