Chapter 157 Addiction
Seeing that Gu Shuyan was not helping but instead looking at her with pity, Ji pushed her away and simply pounced on Gu Jin.
"Sir, could you please have someone make me a bowl of chicken soup, the kind we used to have?"
Seeing the earnest gaze, Gu Jin couldn't bear it. He turned to look at the housekeeper and said, "Call all the cooks who made chicken soup before to make soup for Madam."
Upon hearing this, a smile immediately appeared on Ji's face, but that smile was somewhat eerie.
"Father, no need."
Gu Shuyan watched from the side, and it was long after the housekeeper left that she finally uttered these words.
"Shu'er, all I wanted was a bowl of chicken soup. How could you treat your mother like this?"
Ji looked at Gu Shuyan with a wounded expression, but Gu Shuyan raised her hand and instructed Mingyu and Zhenzhu to use ropes to help Ji up.
Seeing that Ji was struggling too much, Gu Shuyan even took matters into her own hands until Ji could no longer move before letting go.
"Shu'er, what are you doing? How can you treat your mother like this?"
Gu Jin was surprised that Gu Shuyan would tie up Ji Shi. When he came to his senses, he hurriedly went to untie Ji Shi, but Gu Shuyan's voice slowly rang out: "Mother has been poisoned."
"What?"
All eyes turned to Gu Shuyan, who slumped onto the stool and slowly said, "The chicken soup my mother drank before was laced with a medicine from the Southern Frontier. This medicine can enhance the flavor of dishes, but after repeated consumption, it becomes addictive and impossible to resist. Gradually, the person's body is hollowed out, and that person will also gradually become emaciated until they die."
Gu Shuyan told Gu Jin everything Zhong Lin had said in one breath. What Gu Shuyan didn't tell Gu Jin was that when people are addicted, their personality changes drastically and they suffer terribly.
But Gu Jin was a man of principle; upon hearing those words, he immediately guessed what they were.
"Wasn't that kind of thing extinct hundreds of years ago? How could your mother have been poisoned by it?"
Although Gu Jin believed Gu Shuyan's words, that thing had plagued the world hundreds of years ago and had been ordered to be eradicated. How could it suddenly reappear after so many years?
“It’s Ginkgo. She wants to control me by using my mother’s life, to make me obey her every word.”
Gu Shuyan spoke with deep regret. She thought Yinxing would harm her and Mingyu, but she never expected Yinxing to be so ambitious. She didn't just want to be a maid, but wanted to completely control her and thus control the Marquis's mansion.
For the first time since her rebirth, Gu Shuyan felt like she had shot herself in the foot. She had deliberately seduced Yinxing, but in the end, she had harmed her mother.
That's why Gu Shuyan was so angry and tormented Yinxing so recklessly. It's just a pity that Yinxing died too easily.
"My lord, since this poison has existed for hundreds of years, what is the antidote?"
Looking at Ji Shi's cloudy eyes, Wu Mama hurriedly asked.
However, Gu Jin and Gu Shuyan shook their heads at the same time, "There is no cure for this poison."
The four words weighed heavily on everyone's hearts. Even Mingyu and Zhenzhu understood why their young lady's temperament had changed so drastically. It turned out that their young lady knew about the poisoning of the madam.
"My lady, my poor lady!"
Upon hearing this, Wu Mama immediately rushed to Ji Shi's side and burst into tears. Gu Jin, on the other hand, angrily asked, "Where is that maid named Yinxing? Bring her here to me."
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