V2.Chapter 88

Fifth Master Xiao couldn’t take the initiative to tell the Gu Master that Xiao Zhenting’s son was not his own son. This Gu Master was able to reveal the identity of Yan Jiuchao so easily. It was obvious that he had come prepared. Yan Jiuchao was the hardest stone in the capital. , but it is also the fattest lamb, and the oil and water that can be squeezed out of him is comparable to the richness of the sky.

100,000 taels of gold, Yu Wan felt a severe pain in her flesh. It was obviously not her own money, so why would she feel so distressed when she spent it...

The Gu Master had a determined look on his face, as if he was certain that Xiao Zhenting would buy it.

It's not hard to guess, no matter how cold the father-son relationship is on the surface, Xiao Zhenting did not hesitate to let his subordinates sneak into the southern border for Yan Jiuchao, and brought the Gu Master back to the capital at all costs. Fake.

"I'm not in a hurry, Marshal Xiao will think about it slowly." Gu Master didn't mention Yan Jiuchao's illness, maybe he couldn't wait.

Yu Wan secretly sighed, this Gu Master's medical skills can be said in two ways, but he is definitely a master in negotiation. He knows how to speculate on the other party's psychology and make full use of their advantages. Xiao Zhenting is far more anxious than he is. The more he does not speak, the more confused Xiao Zhenting is. If he speaks, it may be counterproductive.

Yu Wan looked at Xiao Zhenting, 100,000 taels of gold is not a small amount, and after the Xiao family is not a traitor, where did you get such a waste of money? This is the rhythm of going bankrupt.

"Why should I believe that you can cure my son?" Xiao Zhenting said.

Gu Master seemed to have expected that he would have such doubts, he laughed slyly, and said, "It's late at night, don't bother, tomorrow morning, I'll prove it to you!"

That night, Yu Wan rested in Xiao Mansion, and she was arranged to enter the Wutong Courtyard.

This is a courtyard built for Yan Jiuchao, but Yan Jiuchao never lived in it.

The next day before dawn, Yu Wan woke up. She didn't choose a bed, but she missed the three little guys.

Gu Master slept until the sun rose three times before waking up, considering that he was exhausted, this was normal.

Breakfast was still spent amidst the scolding of Gu Masters. After that, the group got into the carriage of Xiao's house and wandered to Lotus Village.

When the three little guys saw Yu Wan, they rushed into Yu Wan's arms in unison. They didn't see Yu Wan overnight, and they missed Yu Wan very much.

"Third birth?" Gu Master raised his eyebrows, a look of novelty on his face.

The two Gu Master's disciples also stared at the three little guys, indescribably curious and surprised.

The third child is too rare, not to mention such a beautiful child, the young boy disciple couldn't help but roll his eyes around the child again and again, or the female disciple on the side touched him with his elbow and glared at him again. At a glance, he looked away angrily.

Yu Wan took the child out.

Gu Master began to diagnose and treat Yan Jiuchao.

During his diagnosis and treatment, no one was allowed to watch. Except for his two disciples, even Shangguan Yan, his biological mother, was invited out. After about a quarter of an hour, the door of the house opened.

"Doctor, how is my son?" Shangguan Yan asked eagerly.

"Mrs. Xiao, go and see for yourself." Gu Master said confidently.

Shangguan Yan stepped into the house.

"what--"

She screamed from inside.

Xiao Zhenting dodged and came to the window: "What's wrong with Cong'er?"

Shangguan Yan said in disbelief: "He, he is awake!"

Although he couldn't speak yet, his eyes were indeed opened, and he was not dissatisfied with the dullness of his eyes. His eyes were weak and forbearing, and it was obvious that Shangguan Yan was in tears when he was enduring unbearable pain.

Yan Jiuchao didn't wake up for a long time, then closed his eyes and fell asleep again.

This may not be a wake up in the real sense, but it gave Shangguanyan a glimmer of hope for recovery. However, 100,000 taels of gold are not so easy to come out. Even though she came from a wealthy family and had a large dowry, it was far from complete. This one hundred thousand taels.

When Shangguan Yan was thinking about whether to sell the property under her name, Xiao Zhenting stroked her shoulder: "You take care of Cong'er, and leave the remuneration to me."

"But……"

"Cong'er is also my son."

From the first day he married you, he was.

Shangguan Yan nodded with tears in her eyes. She didn't say anything hypocritical, and she didn't care whether she was right or wrong. She only had one thought in her heart, that is, to save her son!

"I'll pay you half of the remuneration first, and if my son recovers, I'll give you the other half." Xiao Zhenting said to the Gu Master.

Gu Master has no opinion on this.

Xiao Zhenting said sternly: "You better be able to cure, otherwise my Xiao Zhenting's reward will not be so easy to deceive!"

The Gu Master raised his chin and said, "I know what Marshal Xiao is capable of, if I lie to you, you will kill me all over the world, I won't ask for trouble, I do have a way to lift his poisonous curse, otherwise I won't brag about this seaport to you. I also know that 100,000 taels of gold is too much, so I will give you three days to raise the remuneration, and I will guarantee that the poison in his body will not deteriorate in these three days."

Xiao Zhenting gave him a fixed look, then got on the carriage and returned to the house.

Three days... being a parent can't wait that long.

Xiao Zhenting returned to the house, called the housekeeper to his room, and asked the housekeeper, "How much cash do we have in our hands?"

The butler went to the accounting room to get the ledger and the abacus, and after a while, he said, "60,000 taels, this is from the house, and if you count the ones in the shop, there should be 200,000 taels."

Two hundred thousand taels of silver, that is, twenty thousand taels of gold, is too little.

"Pay first." Xiao Zhenting said.

The housekeeper was stunned: "All, all?"

Xiao Zhenting said sternly: "All, I want it immediately."

The housekeeper opened his mouth and wanted to ask something, but in the end he didn't say a word, he took the abacus and went to the account room.

"Jiro!"

Xiao Zhenting was inventorying his storeroom when a luxuriously dressed woman walked in angrily, a maid tremblingly chased her, came to the door, and gave Xiao Zhenting a salute: "The madam must come in, we didn't stop her. …”

"Understood, you go down first." Xiao Zhenting said to the maid.

The maid stepped back.

Mrs. Xiao crossed the threshold and entered the room coldly.

Xiao Zhenting asked, "I heard that my sister-in-law had a headache, but is she feeling better?"

Mrs. Xiao sneered: "You still have my sister-in-law in your heart. When I am Erlang, you are already defiant, and you have completely ignored my sister-in-law!"

"What did sister-in-law say?" Xiao Zhenting asked.

Mrs. Xiao said angrily: "Don't go around with me! I just heard that you want all the cash in the house to be taken away. What are you going to do?"

"There will be no less monthly money for a few rooms." Xiao Zhenting said.

Mrs. Xiao choked, and then said again: "Am I worried about my monthly money? I want to ask you, what are you doing to take all the money in the house?"

"I need it urgently." Xiao Zhenting said.

Mrs. Xiao sneered: "What is the urgent need? Tell me honestly, are you planning to treat that sick seedling again? How much money are you planning to put in this time? You don't hurt the blood of your own Xiao family, you have to go to the side. It hurts an outsider! What? Co-author is your own person? Neither of us?!"

Xiao Zhenting sighed: "Sister-in-law, I never said that."

Mrs. Xiao said angrily: "But that's what you did! You said it nicely, raising Yan'er yourself, so that Yan'er could inherit the Xiao family in the future, but what happened? Yan'er died! My son is dead! You killed him! You didn't send him to the border, he is fine now! I can't hear him calling me mother! It's all your fault! Xiao Zhenting, it's you!"

Xiao Yan's death was a blow to the entire Xiao family. Mrs. Xiao did not dare to complain because Xiao Yan died for the country. In Xiao Yan's own words, he died well, but for Mrs. Xiao, she not only Having lost a son and the huge wealth of the Xiao family, today's remarks are more or less borrowed from the topic.

Xiao Zhenting was also very saddened by Xiao Yan's death, but if he was asked to do it all over again, he would still do it. Xiao Yan belongs to the battlefield. He is a natural general. He got a detailed list, and he chose the most suitable person. He ended the Huns' campaign.

He is the pride of the Northwest Camp, and also the pride of his Xiao Zhenting.

No one can escape death, and if he were to choose, he would also hope that he would die on the battlefield.

Xiao Zhenting looked at Madam Xiao's direction coldly: "Come on, Madam is tired, help Madam back to the room to rest."

Immediately, two maids stepped forward and said to Madam Xiao, "Madam, please."

Mrs. Xiao is furious. Strictly speaking, her husband Xiao Dalang is the eldest son of Mrs. Xiao. It was Xiao Zhenting who asked the old man to be expelled from the house, and it was Xiao Zhenting who interceded for the eldest brother, so that the old man was relieved.

Mrs. Xiao used to get along well with Xiao Zhenting. After all, Xiao Zhenting has no son. In the future, everything he has will be her son's, so it will be hers, but since Xiao Yan's death, this balance has been broken.

Mrs. Xiao wanted to say something, so the maid was dragged out.

Xiao Zhenting returned to the house with a solemn expression.

The housekeeper took the accountant in the house and spent a whole day to count all the shops under the Xiao family's name in the capital. In the evening, he returned to Xiao Zhenting and said, "Master, including what can be pawned, a total of 20,000 taels of gold."

Not enough, far from enough.

Xiao Zhenting was silent.

The housekeeper said: "That Gu Master's remuneration is too much, how can someone ask for 100,000 gold? Why don't you talk to him again...?"

The housekeeper emphasized the word "talk".

Xiao Zhenting understood what he meant and shook his head to deny his proposal.

The steward sighed, the master is all good, just a muscle, this matter is much simpler if it is done by a villain. Haha, do you understand the top ten tortures?

Of course, the housekeeper was just pissed off. Thinking about it this way, he really didn't dare to gamble with Yan Jiuchao's life. Gu Master medicine could heal people and kill people, so it wasn't easy to offend him.

"You go down first, I'll think of a way."

"Then... I'll go see what else can be pawned in the house?"

Xiao Zhenting paused and nodded, "Okay."

The butler sighed and went out.

Xiao Zhenting came to his arsenal. He was a rough man, and he didn't know how to recite and write poems. In order to cater to Shangguan Yan's taste, he pretended to build a study, but it was this cold arsenal that was really used.

Pushing open the door, the breath of cold iron rushed towards his face, which made Xiao Zhenting feel very at ease.

Xiao Zhenting came to a pair of silver armor. This armor was made of black iron, which was twice as heavy as ordinary armor. He would wear it every time he went on an expedition. Xiao Yan liked it very much.

This is the silver armor of the god of war.

Xiao Yan didn't say anything, but he always wanted it in his heart.

I originally planned to wait for Xiao Yan to return, so I passed this pair of silver armor to him.

Xiao Zhenting raised his hand, touched the silver armor that had accompanied him for half his life, and slowly closed his eyes.

...

In the afternoon of the second day, Xiao Zhenting took 50,000 taels of gold tickets and set off for Lotus Village.

Originally, Gu Master wanted to bring Yan Jiuchao back to Xiao Mansion for medical treatment, but Xiao Mansion's food was too bad, far less good than uncle's cooking skills, Gu Master ate a meal of braised pork and stinky tofu, so he stayed and didn't want to leave. .

Two of his disciples also lived in the Ding family's new house, and they only said that they were the famous doctors in the rivers and lakes invited by Wan Gongzi.

Gu Master's daily routine is to eat, eat, eat braised pork after eating stinky tofu, eat snail noodles after eating braised pork, and eat anything spicy.

He didn't go out, but the two apprentices couldn't lock them up, especially the female apprentice. I heard that she was a powerful Gu girl. She liked to go to the back mountain. Yu Wan had encountered her several times when she was digging wild vegetables. She was digging Some bugs and wild herbs.

This afternoon, she did not go to the back mountain to dig insects, but carried a bucket to the ancient well at the entrance of the village.

Gu Nv's appearance is very beautiful, but her expression is cold and cold, and she looks like a thousand miles away. The villagers rarely come up to talk to her. When she arrived at the ancient well, Aunt Zhang was fetching water and saw her carrying a bucket. , said kindly: "I'll come, I'll come!"

Aunt Zhang said and went to grab her wooden barrel, but she patted Aunt Zhang's hand away coldly.

Aunt Zhang was stunned.

Aunt Bai, who was washing clothes on the side, was unhappy: "Hey, girl, they are kind enough to help you fetch water. If you don't appreciate it, don't hit people!"

Isn't it? Aunt Zhang's back was red.

Aunt Zhang smiled and said in a rounded tone, "It's alright, maybe I scared the girl."

"Does she look frightened?" Aunt Bai muttered.

Aunt Zhang gave her a wink and whispered, "This is the doctor who sees Mr. Wan, don't offend anyone."

Aunt Bai snorted, helped Aunt Zhang pick up a bucket of water, and together with Aunt Zhang, sent it back to Aunt Zhang's house.

After the two passed the Gu Nv, a cold light flashed in the Gu Nv's eyes, she moved her palm, and there was a Gu worm on her fingertips.

"What are you doing?" A plain hand buckled the Gu girl's wrist through her sleeve.

The Gu girl turned her head and saw that it was Yu Wan, her eyes became cold.

Yu Wan glanced at the small thing between her index finger and middle finger, and raised her eyebrows, "This is the Gu worm? You dig so many worms every day, just to refine this?"

The Gu girl looked at Yu Wan coldly and motioned for Yu Wan to let go.

Yu Wan smiled lightly and said, "They are all innocent villagers. Even if you are accidentally abrupt, you don't need to trick them, right?"

The Gu girl opened her mouth and said something, Yu Wan guessed that she meant to let her go, and Yu Wan said, "I can let go, but you are not allowed to casually trick people."

Yu Wan would never say anything if she didn't agree with a word, this is too small, but Aunt Zhang and Aunt Bai are both simple and good villagers. This method is so sinister. A little too much.

Yu Wan said sternly: "I know you can understand the Central Plains dialect, I will say it one last time, don't let the people in the village be tricked!"

The Gu girl glared at Yu Wan fiercely and tried to pull out her hand, but found that she couldn't move no matter what, this village girl's hand was like an iron pincer!

Yu Wan looked at her fixedly: "Do you understand? Nod your head when you understand!"

The Gu girl nodded indignantly.

Yu Wan let go, filled the bucket with water, and carried it back to her home with a pole.

In the evening, Xiao Zhenting arrived at the village.

Gu Master was already eating the number of plates of stinky tofu, and raised his head with oil on his face: "It's here so soon? Have you got all the gold?"

Xiao Zhenting put the brocade box on his table.

The Gu Master put down his chopsticks, opened the brocade box, and counted it carefully. There were 50,000 taels of gold tickets, one was not much, and one was not much.

"Well." He raised his eyebrows and accepted the brocade box with satisfaction.

Xiao Zhenting asked, "Can you treat my son now?"

"No hurry, no hurry." Gu Master touched his chin and said slowly.

Xiao Zhenting and Shangguanyan frowned, and said in unison, "What's wrong?"

The Gu Master sighed, "My disciple's Gu worm was originally used to treat your son's illness, but it is dying now."

The implication is that your son may not be saved either.

"How could this be?" Shangguan Yan asked.

Just at this moment, Yu Wan came in with a bowl of boiled spicy cabbage dumplings.

As soon as she entered, she felt two malicious eyes fell on her. She looked up and saw the Gu girl looking at her with a proud expression.

This expression is to engage in four emotions...

"Maybe it doesn't suit the soil and water." Gu Master said.

"But it's not that there is no remedy." Gu Master pointed at the Gu girl, "My disciple's Gu worm, fed with the blood of extreme yin, might be able to bring it back to life."

Extreme Yin blood? So it's a woman's blood? Shangguan Yan rolled up her sleeves: "Is mine okay?"

Gu Master shook his head and looked at Yu Wan behind the two: "Her, that's fine."

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