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Gu Jiao hadn't seen Yao shi for several days. Although Yao shi came over last night, Gu Jiao went out for an emergency treatment and missed Yao shi’s visit.
Gu Jiao calculated that Yao shi's medicine should have been used up by now. After breakfast, she took a trip to the Marquis Estate with her back basket.
Last night, Yao shi had fallen into the trap Concubine Ling had set up for her. She was half scared and half angry and didn’t fall asleep until very late at night. She even failed her duty to wait upon the Old Madame at bedtime and greet her in the morning.
Grannie Fang sent someone to report that Madame had a cold. Afraid that she would pass her illness to the Old Madame, she would come back again in a couple of days to pay her respects.
In the past, Old Madame Gu would have thought that this was Yao shi not taking her mother-in-law seriously again, but Yao shi's recent performance successfully captured the trust of Old Madame Gu.
Old Madame Gu not only believed her, but also asked the servant girl to send a good ginseng to Yao shi.
It wasn’t that she liked Yao shi, but the sooner Yao shi got better, the earlier she could continue to dominate Yao shi.
Gu Jiao came neither early nor late as Yao shi just woke up. She washed up and drank some porridge.
When Yao shi caught sight of her daughter, her eyes were involuntarily filled with smiles.
She walked over and took her daughter's hand, leading her into the heating room, "Why are you here today? Is it fine that you’re not in the medical hall?"
"It’s not busy in the medical hall." Gu Jiao replied.
Yao shi and her daughter sat down on the stool at the table. She didn't like sitting in the official hat chairs because there was always a tea table between the official hat chairs, which made people feel separated from each other.
Gu Jiao put her back basket on the table and said to Yao shi, "You don't look well."
Yao shi touched her cheek and smiled, "I went to bed late."
"Why did you sleep late? Is there something bothering you?" Gu Jiao didn't know what happened to Yao shi yesterday.
Yao Shi thought about it and wondered how to explain it to her daughter.
Her daughter was already carrying a lot on her shoulders, and she didn’t want to add her own affairs to her burden.
Moreover, her relationship with Zhen Ping was difficult to mention in front of her daughter.
However, just because she didn’t say it didn’t mean Grannie Fang wouldn’t.
After returning to the estate last night, Grannie Fang tiresomely thought about everything that happened, putting two and two together until she understood all the ins and outs of the incident.
She felt that there was nothing she couldn't say to the eldest young miss.
"It's Concubine Ling yet again!" Grannie Fang gnashed her teeth as she told the story of how Concubine Ling schemed against Yao shi.
"At first, we thought she had tampered with the offerings, did something to the carriage, or simply wanted to borrow the third young master’s hands to humiliate Madame. Who would have thought that her killing move was having investigated Madame in secret and made an issue of her former engagement!
Madame hasn't had any contact with the Zhen Family since she married into the Marquis Estate, but there are some things that can't be said! Lord Marquis must now have ill-feelings in his heart. And even if Lord Marquis isn’t angry, what about the Old Madame? Madame has finally managed to gain the trust of the Old Madame in these days. If Lord Marquis and the third young master had caught Madame yesterday, all her hard work over the past few days would have been totally wasted!"
Grannie Fang got more and more indignant the more she thought about it. She just didn’t understand how that woman surnamed Ling could come up with so many evil ideas!
"If it weren't for the shizi’s timely appearance, things could really have ended up bad for Madame yesterday! Alas, it’s all thanks to shizi!"
Actually, it didn’t matter to Yao shi if her own hard work would be wasted. What she was truly worried about was that a vicious woman like Concubine Ling would use this incident to slander her children.
When the time came, there would be rumors in the estate that Gu Jiao and Gu Yan were bastard children, that they were not Marquis Gu's own flesh and blood.
Yao shi was scared to death when she thought that her pair of children had almost carried such dirty water.
Because of this, she made no retort when hearing Grannie Fang expressed gratitude to Gu Changqing.
No matter what occurred in the past or what would happen in the future, at least in this matter, she really should thank him.
Gu Jiao made note of this in her mind.
She suddenly remembered the dream about the former Gu Jiao returning to the Marquis Estate.
In her dream, Concubine Ling was the one who incited disharmony between her and Gu Jinyu and guided her to oppose Gu Jinyu step by step.
Gu Jinyu was actually quite nice to that timid girl at first.
Yao shi and Gu Yan in the dream were dead, and she was taken back to the Marquis Ding'an Estate in the capital by Marquis Gu.
Marquis Gu treated her well. After all, his wife and son had died and she was the only connection left between Marquis Gu and Yao shi in this world. She was the proof and product of his marriage with Yao shi.
Whenever Marquis Gu saw her, he would think of his wife who had died young and pour all of his longing for his wife on to her.
And she was also very dependent on Marquis Gu.
In the first year or two, she had a very harmonious relationship with her father and sister.
She couldn’t compete with Gu Jinyu, so Gu Jinyu wasn’t jealous of her. On the contrary, Gu Jinyu worked hard to teach her. It was just that no matter how hard Gu Jinyu taught her, she never learned.
Gu Jinyu was very patient and caring for people who could never surpass her.
Concubine Ling, on the other hand, had always been a threat to Gu Jinyu.
After Yao shi’s death, Concubine Ling tried her best to climb to the official wife status from being a concubine. She worked hard in the estate for more than ten years, coaxing Old Madame Gu and the Gu Family brothers into submission, until she was really only one step away from becoming the official wife.
But Gu Jinyu didn't want to see this happen.
The two of them fought repeatedly, turning everything upside down. As a result, that one in the dream became their cannon fodder.
At the moment, because of the appearance of Yao shi and her present self, the two of them had more troublesome enemies to deal with and were not fighting each other.
"En." Gu Jiao responded with a sound.
Anxious that her daughter would start worrying herself about matters involving Concubine Ling, Yao shi gave Grannie Fang a disapproving look and said to Gu Jiao, "Fall into the moat and you'll be wiser next time. Mother won't be fooled again and will deal with her. Don't worry."
Concubine Ling had been in the capital for more than ten years, with a powerful Ling Family as her backer. It was difficult for Yao shi to take her down in a short time by herself.
"Okay, I won’t worry." Gu Jiao replied and then took out two bottles of medicine from her medicine chest. She packed them in porcelain bottles as before. "This is a new medicine, and its usage is the same as before."
These medicines looked different from the previous ones, but Gu Jiao had already changed her medicines once and Yao shi didn't doubt anything.
Gu Jiao paused. She seemed to have thought of something as she said to Yao shi, "By the way, Grandaunt has something for you."
"What is it?" Yao shi asked.
Gu Jiao opened her small medicine chest and took out a bag of medicinal powder from it, saying, "Grandaunt said you will understand once you see it."
Yao shi took the small medicine bag, and her little heart jolted.
Was this another help from the elderly woman?
Even though she hadn’t had time to ask the elderly woman for advice yesterday, the elderly woman was able to see her difficulties.
Yao shi's eyes flashed, and she cleared her throat, saying, "Ah, I, I have rats in my courtyard. I asked Grandaunt for some rat poison."
Gu Jiao: "Oh."
Gu Jiao then got up to say goodbye.
References
1. — This type of chair is called the "Official Hat" chair because of the shape of the crest rail. These chairs were most popular during late Ming and early Qing Dynasty.
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