Chapter 182: The Death of the Second Wife
The two people were still chatting in the room, but Gu Feixue had already turned and left.
She was still wondering whether Yuchi Shuo had eaten.
Just as she walked away, the girl approached the Madam again and said, "Madam, you can rest assured. This servant has arranged this matter perfectly. The poison of the celery is very strong. Even if someone dies from the poison, there will be no trace. Who can suspect you or me?"
"She's usually arrogant and domineering, and I've had enough of her. I'll leave this matter to you."
As she spoke, the eldest lady gave the girl a golden hairpin.
The girl pushed it softly and put it away with a smile.
She gritted her teeth and said, "Don't worry, Madam. I am the most careful person and will handle everything in an orderly manner."
"What's the matter? What do I want you to do?" The lady rolled her eyes.
The woman took advantage of the situation and said, "What else could it be? Madam said the weeds outside the courtyard are as tall as waists, and they need to be eradicated."
"Yes," the lady said with a cold smile, "if you don't remove the grass at its roots, it will grow again in the spring breeze."
On the other side, Gu Feixue had returned to the straw house.
Yuchi Shuo is still waiting.
Seeing Gu Feixue coming back, he grabbed her hand.
"I've been waiting for you for a long time."
"What are you waiting for me for?" Gu Feixue said politely and handed the food over, "Eat quickly, it's getting cold."
Yuchi Shuo ate something and pointed to the corner with a smile. Gu Feixue took a look and found that it was a furry little rabbit. The little rabbit was so cute that people couldn't let it go.
She touched it and felt happy. But then she noticed something unusual. "The little guy's hind leg is broken. It's terrible to see. I'll treat him."
Gu Feixue asked Yuchi Shuo to help, and the two worked together. Half an hour later, the little rabbit's back was fixed with a wooden stick. Gu Feixue gently stroked the little rabbit's head and said, "You and I are in the same boat. By the way, do you have a mother? Where is your mother? Oh... you can't speak."
Yuchi Shuo couldn't help laughing when he saw Gu Feixue's stupid and low-intelligence performance.
He thought she was always serious, but now seeing Gu Feixue looking so naive, he felt she was very cute.
"Starting tomorrow, I'll have to prepare more food. You're also a member of our family." Gu Feixue patted the little rabbit's head. "Okay, good night."
Yuchi Shuo also squinted his eyes and smiled.
The next day, she still followed the rules and went to the palace of Baimumen. However, when Gu Feixue arrived at the backyard, she saw several girls crying inconsolably. "You, why are you crying?"
She noticed something was amiss.
The guards had replaced the colorful lanterns with white ribbons and lanterns. Gu Feixue suddenly realized, "What? The Second Madam?"
"Xue'er," a maidservant serving the Second Madam clutched her hand, tears streaming down her face. "I don't know what happened. She was fine last night, but early this morning, after breakfast, she suddenly complained of heart pain. We, the maidservants, had no idea what was going on, so we helped her to rest. Then, when we called in the doctor, we found her already on the verge of death. It's all our carelessness."
"How is this possible?"
She has been almost inseparable from Zhang Xueyue these days.
The second wife was a little neurasthenic, but she didn't have an incurable disease, so how could she die suddenly?
Hearing this, Gu Feixue went to the inner room, thinking that the body was still there, but the maid chased in.
In a deserted corner, the maid grabbed Gu Feixue's hand and said, "Miss Xue'er, I suspect our Madam has been poisoned."
"Poisoned, please speak slowly."
Gu Feixue grabbed the haggard girl.
The girl rolled her eyes, blinking them brightly. She lowered her voice in a secretive tone, "Madam's death is full of suspicious circumstances. Firstly, the eldest lady came right after she passed away, as if she had predicted the future. Don't you think it's strange?"
"What else?"
Although Zhang Xueyue and Gu Feixue did not have a close relationship, Zhang Xueyue had saved her from the hands of Diao Nu after all, and she was very grateful to her.
Now that Zhang Xueyue had died in such a confused manner, she couldn't let the matter go unresolved.
"What else? Tell me quickly!" Gu Feixue grabbed the girl's hand tightly.
The girl choked with tears and said, "After the first lady came, she didn't even ask a doctor to see the second lady. She said she wanted to be buried in peace, so she had the second lady sent directly to the cemetery."
"Cemetery?" Gu Feixue stamped her feet. "How could you allow yourself to be slaughtered after something like this happened? It's obvious that something is wrong."
"Our words are insignificant, and the Second Madam is dead. From now on, the First Madam will have absolute power. If we make things difficult for her today, she'll make things difficult for us tomorrow. How can we live like this?"
It turns out that everyone has their own problems.
Hearing this, Gu Feixue suppressed her anger and asked, "What else did you observe?"
"I see something's not right, so I simply hid the Second Madam's breakfast. Anyway, no one's on her side anymore. I'll go and argue with the Master when he comes back. Our Second Madam is very kind to the servants, but the First Madam is a notorious scoundrel. I can't let her ascend to heaven for nothing."
Hearing this, Gu Feixue nodded and asked for the bowl.
The girl also knew that she had medical skills, so she hurriedly brought over the remaining breakfast.
Gu Feixue grabbed the white porcelain spoon and smelled it, identifying the composition of the poison.
"This is Zoumaqin."
As she spoke of this, white sweat broke out on her back. Last night before leaving, she passed by the house of Madam Wu Yuemei. Wu Yuemei was chatting with a maid, and there was a faint fragrance in the house.
This Celery has the fragrance of Galan. It is not so fragrant that it becomes clearer even after a distance, but the smell is guaranteed to be fresh in people's memory.
"What horse?"
"Zou Ma Qin, extremely poisonous."
"She plotted against others so blatantly?" The girl was terrified, as if she had fallen into an icy cave.
Gu Feixue sighed.
"Leave this matter to me. I can't just die looking for your wife in vain."
She clenched her fists.
At this moment, the eldest lady went to the cemetery. According to the girl's description, the coordinates of the cemetery were where Yuchi Shuo was hiding. This was a funeral, so there were countless people accompanying her.
When she thought of this, she suddenly became panicked. What would happen if they found Yuchi Shuo in the cemetery?
"We're going to the cemetery too."
"The eldest lady doesn't want us to go. I won't go. You go if you want to go."
This girl planned to stay here. After all, she might be killed by the eldest lady if she wasn't careful, and she also had to think about her future.
Gu Feixue doesn't care about that.
In the cemetery.
Wu Yuemei cried, "Little sister," she hugged the coffin, "my poor sister, what a cruel fate!"
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