Alluring City

Gu Xiaowu didn't ask Su Yunqing to send them out of the city, because she didn't like parting, so she didn't want to see such a scene.

When they came, they stopped from time to time on the way, but on the way back, they were really on the road day and night.

I don't know how many horses were exhausted, and I don't know how many wheels were broken.

The original journey of sixteen or seven days forced them to arrive within eleven days.

Gu Xiaowu didn't go back to Jiangning City first, but went directly to the cottage.

With Su Xin in mind, she picked up tools in the cottage, and went directly to Lin's cemetery without even drinking a cup of tea.

The cemetery has been cleaned very clean, and there are still unburned candles in front of the grave, which shows that someone has worshiped her not long ago.

Gu Xiaowu gritted his teeth, and started to dig the grave with all his heart.

Su Xin was standing behind her, tears were rolling in her eyes, and finally fell silently.

One, two, three...

The palms of his hands were already blistered with blood, but Gu Xiaowu still didn't stop.

Finally saw the pitch-black coffin, Gu Xiaowu still did not rest, and dug the entire coffin out in one go.

Throwing down the tools in his hand, Gu Xiaowu closed his eyes and silently said sorry in his heart.

As if he had made up his mind, Gu Xiaowu suddenly opened his eyes and pushed the coffin away with all his strength.

At the moment when he saw Lin's corpse, the world seemed to be silent. Gu Xiaowu, who had always been fearless, had a feeling that the sky was about to fall.

Lin's bones were more than half dark, and some were even dark purple.

The skeleton was still intact, but it was as black as ink.

Gu Xiaowu stood in the tomb blankly, as if time stood still.

She forgot that Su Xin was still standing behind her, and she also forgot that she was standing in her mother's tomb.

But Su Xin couldn't stand it anymore, she stepped forward quickly, and jumped into the grave without hesitation.

"Miss, it's snowing again, let's... cover the coffin!" Su Xin trembled.

Gu Xiaowu stretched out his hand to catch a few snowflakes, and watched them melt in his palm.

Quietly maintaining that movement and standing in place, it took a long time before he said: "Okay, snowflakes are so cold, if they fall on mother's body, she will feel cold too!"

Hearing this, Su Xin, who finally stopped crying, shed tears again.

Gu Xiaowu reached out to wipe away the tears on Su Xin's face, and said softly, "Don't cry, I'm fine."

She's fine, really fine.

She will be absolutely fine until she finds out who poisoned her mother!

Su Xin nodded heavily, and then said: "Miss, let's... quickly cover the coffin!"

Gu Xiaowu nodded, "Okay!"

The two worked together to cover the coffin again and seal it.

When burying the soil back again, Gu Xiaowu didn't ask Su Xin to help.

By herself, she slowly shoveled the dirt back into the grave with a shovel.

It was completely dark when all the aftermath work was done, but fortunately, the surrounding snow was thick, so even without torches, they would not be unable to see the road clearly.

On the way back, neither of them spoke, the only sound was the creaking sound of the two stepping on the snow.

"Miss, should we go directly to Jiangning City or stay in the cottage?" Su Xin asked cautiously.

"It's getting late, let's stay in the cottage tonight, and return to Jiangning City tomorrow." Gu Xiaowu said lightly.

The temperature at night is very low, and the medical skills of this era are so backward, if you catch a cold or have a fever, it will be very troublesome.

Right now, she still has a lot of things to do, and she must not fall ill.

Back at the cottage, even though everyone in the cottage is very happy, Xiaocaoer and Xiaoluer cheerfully proposed to prepare a banquet for Gu Xiaowu and Su Xin, but Gu Xiaowu refused.

After arranging Su Xin's residence, Gu Xiaowu went straight to Lin's original room.

The furnishings in the room are still the same as before. Since Mrs. Lin passed away, this place has been empty, but occasionally someone will come to clean it.

Gu Xiaowu carefully inspected the items in the room.

It's all normal, nothing suspicious.

The only harvest is to find a token engraved with the word "Holy" in the dark compartment in the room.

Made of pure gold, besides the extremely eye-catching word 'Holy', there are also some totems engraved on it that Gu Xiaowu can't understand.

The tokens are small, but also delicate.

Gu Xiaowu didn't know the purpose of this token, but just vaguely felt that this token might be a breakthrough.

So without any hesitation, Gu Xiaowu put away the token.

Although she didn't know, Su Yue might know something.

Gu Xiaowu spent most of the night searching for Lin's room, but found nothing except for that delicate token.

sleepless nights.

Gu Xiaowu dug Su Xin out of the bed early in the morning, and went straight down the mountain without even eating breakfast.

Perhaps it was because it was still early, so there were almost no pedestrians on the streets in Jiangning City.

Gu Xiaowu and Su Xin rode horses and arrived at Tianxiang Tower soon.

At this time, Tianxiang Tower was not open.

The two jumped over the wall and entered directly.

Su Yue was still sleeping, Gu Xiao Wu didn't ask anyone to wake her up.

Gu Xiaowu asked Su Xin to find a wing room by herself to sleep again, while she went to the wing room on the third floor.

She took out the token engraved with the word "Holy" from her bosom and played with it in her hand. The tea in the teacup was already cold, but she seemed not to notice it, picked it up and drank it sip by sip.

I don't know how long I kept sitting on the mat in that position, until dawn, when Su Yue pushed the door open, obviously Su Xin told her that Gu Xiao Wu had returned.

Seeing Su Yue walk in, Gu Xiao Wu didn't say anything, just held the token in his hand.

"Master, didn't you send a letter saying that you won't be back until the fifteenth day? Why did you suddenly come back now? Could something have happened?" Su Yue asked cautiously.

After staying by Gu Xiaowu's side for so many years, she naturally knew that she was angry now.

"Sit down." Gu Xiaowu said expressionlessly.

Su Yue responded and sat down opposite Gu Xiaowu, with her head lowered, feeling a little nervous.

She didn't know what she did to make the master angry, so she was very nervous.

Gu Xiaowu put the token in his hand on the table, then looked at Su Yue and asked, "Do you know him? Don't rush to answer, I want to tell the truth!"

Su Yue's face turned pale when she saw the token on the table, and the fear in her eyes was obvious.

"It seems that we know each other. Then, can you tell me the purpose of this token? Or, can you tell me where you and my mother are from?" Gu Xiaowu said lightly, but there were too many lips. Silk ridiculed.

Su Yue's body was trembling slightly, she didn't dare to look at the token after just one glance.

Seeing that Suyue didn't speak, Gu Xiaowu said again: "Suyue, you have been with me for so many years, I think you should be very clear that my patience is not good."

"Master, I..." Su Yue opened her mouth, the words were already on her lips, but she hesitated again.

"I came back yesterday, but I didn't go back directly to Jiangning City, but went to my mother's cemetery." Gu Xiaowu looked at Suyue and said slowly, "I know that the first thing I do after I come back is What? The first thing I did was dig my mother's grave. Guess what I saw when the coffin was opened? Huh?"

Seeing Su Yue's face getting paler and paler, Gu Xiaowu knew that she had guessed right, Su Yue really knew something!

"Suyue, tell me, under what circumstances would a person's skeleton be black?" Gu Xiaowu's fingers tapped on the table intentionally or unintentionally, his expression became calm.

"Master, I...I..." Su Yue didn't dare to look into Gu Xiaowu's eyes, she bit her lip, hesitated for a long time, but stopped again.

"Su Yue, I'll just ask you once, what do you really know? Don't try to use excuses to prevaricate me, you should know that I won't believe those so-called reasons." Gu Xiaowu said seriously.

She only gives her one chance, if she still chooses to hide it, then...

Then, she will choose to abandon her.

It doesn't matter what her reasons are, she, Gu Xiaowu, doesn't need disobedient people.

Even if her concealment is for her own good, she doesn't need it. She is the person involved and has the right to know everything.

It's not anyone else's turn to make decisions about her affairs.

Su Yue looked at Gu Xiao Wu in disbelief, convinced that the other party was serious, she suddenly panicked.

"I...I..." Su Yue almost bit her lips, but Gu Xiaowu just looked at her quietly without saying a word.

"The poison my wife has been poisoned is called 'Drunken Moon'. There is no cure for this poison, and it will not attack during the day, but it will be painful every night. This poison will not die immediately after being poisoned. The poison of my wife was 14 years ago. The one who was laid down, you were not born at that time, master." Su Yue said tremblingly.

Drunken Moon...?

It's a beautiful name, but every night it hurts so much...

And her mother has been poisoned for 14 years, which means her mother has been in pain for 14 years!

No wonder, no wonder my mother never let me sleep with her, even when she was just born, she was placed in another room.

"Who was the person who poisoned my mother?" Gu Xiaowu's expression was calm, but there was a bit of gnashing of teeth in his tone.

"Suyue doesn't know." Suyue hurriedly said, "Suyue was already poisoned when she met Madam."

She really didn't know who they were, but she knew their identities, but she didn't know their names.

Based on her understanding of the master, if the master knew about those people, he would definitely take revenge regardless of them, and she must not see such a thing happen.

The current master is not yet their opponent.

"Did my mother leave the Gu family at that time?" Gu Xiaowu asked slowly.

She was born in the cottage, so she doesn't know when her mother left the Gu family.