The Poison Is in the Outer Study! (Part Three)
After just a moment of hesitation, the person in black had already decided on what to say.
He quietly said: “Even if you don’t leave the Western Wing, you should have heard a bit about what is happening in the manor. Tell me about them. As for whether or not to take you away, I will let the eldest young sir know.”
Qi Ting heard this and happily said: “Then I will trouble you with it! In recent days, there hasn’t been anything… Oh, there was something! I seemed to hear that Lord Marquis was poisoned, and not even imperial physician Sun could figure out what poison it was, but who knows if it’s true or not!”
“Gu HuaiJiang was poisoned? Do you know anything about it?”
“I have been handling manual labor in the Western Wing. When would I get a chance to find anything out? I can’t even get close to Yu Fu.”
Speaking about it like this, she was not the one who poisoned Gu HuaiJiang.
The eldest young sir that she mentioned also could not be Kun WuShang.
Yu Fu was right to suspect her. She was indeed hiding something, but it was completely unrelated to Gu HuaiJiang’s poisoning.
He had gone searching for spices and found gold instead. He had ended up finding an agent that someone else had planted in Marquis Gu’s Manor.
The person in black sneered and pressed his sword against Qi Ting’s neck, “Tell me, who is this eldest young sir you spoke of?”
Suddenly, torches illuminated the bamboo forest, and the situation changed. Qi Ting’s eyes grew large with fear.
“You, you weren’t sent by the eldest young sir?”
The person in black removed his mask and revealed an expressionless face. It was as if it had been covered in a layer of frost.
It was none other than Gu HanMo.
The people carrying torches approached from all sides, and Gu ShuBai patted Gu HanMo’s shoulder, “I’ve troubled you with this, third brother. YOu rarely come to the Western Wing, so Qi Ting recognizes you the least. I could only have you come and play this role.”
Qi Ting watched all of this play out before her. She had been caught, and this was Gu ShuBai’s trap!
Gu HanMo coldly put his sword away, “This sort of disloyal servant, eldest brother, you must not let her off lightly. Even if she did not poison father, she is definitely working for one of Marquis Gu’s Manor’s enemies.”
Qi Ting’s legs became weak, as she grabbed Gu ShuBai’s arm, “Eldest young sir, I haven’t! How could I dare to poison Lord Marquis? I also haven’t done anything that would be detrimental to Marquis Gu’s Manor. I… I haven’t had a chance to!”
“Smack-”
Qi An put all of his strength into a slap, delivering a strike straight to Qi Ting’s face!
She was caught off-guard and was knocked to the ground.
Qi Zhou grabbed Qi An. The latter was already getting old and was gasping for air, “You scoundrel! Why haven’t you confessed yet? Who told you to poison Lord Marquis?”
“Grandfather, I really didn’t poison Lord Marquis! Eldest young sir Yin only told me to return to the manor and to think of a way to keep an eye on Lord Marquis and the eldest young sir, but I really could not!”
Eldest young sir Yin.
Gu ShuBai and Gu HanMo exchanged a look. Both of them reached an understanding.
Qi Ting was an agent inserted into Marquis Gu’s Manor by Yin Shuo, but she had no knowledge of the poison. It seemed that Yu Fu’s speculation was correct…
The most likely person that remained was Kun WuShang.
…
“The poison is getting worse.”
In the main hall, Yu Fu pulled her silver needles out of Gu HuaiJiang’s neck. The area that produced black needles had spread a great deal.
She would perform acupuncture for him every day. The toxicity of the poison was clearly under control, but the poison continued to spread.
There was only one possibility that remained. The poison was still at play.
Qi Zhou walked forward and said: “Young miss Yu Fu, that’s not possible! Qi Ting has already been locked up. It’s impossible for her to be the one who poisoned Lord Marquis. This servant tests Lord Marquis’ food every day before it is served. If there was any poison, this servant would also be poisoned.”
Yu Fu said: “Steward Qi, Qi Ting is not the one who carried out the poisoning. I trust your loyalty, but have you ever inspected the things in this main hall?”
Gu ShuBai and Gu JiuGe were waiting to the side, and Gu JiuGe said: “Steward Qi and I inspected everything here. There definitely aren’t any problems. Since there’s nothing wrong with his food or with the things that he uses on a daily basis, how exactly did the perpetrator have father come into contact with the poison?”
Gu HuaiJiang got up from the bed and put his clothes on, “These past few days, I have stayed in the manor. Aside from the main hall, I have been in the outer study. Yu Fu, do you think the perpetrator might have done something inside the outer study?”
“Outer study? Right, it must be the outer study!”
Yu Fu had a sudden realization, “The outer study is a place that the servants cannot enter. That’s why we never thought of investigating it. But Kun WuShang did indeed go in, right?”
Saying this, she ran out of the main hall and rushed straight for the outer study.
Gu HuaiJiang waved his hand, “You guys go too!”
When everyone reached the outer study, Yu Fu only allowed them to stand there and look. They were not allowed to touch anything.
“It’s very likely that this is where Kun WuShang used the poison. Have you guys come to the outer study recently?”
While she searched through the bookshelves, she questioned Gu ShuBai and the others without looking at them.
Gu ShuBai said: “We did indeed come, but we never looked through any of the books, nor have we sorted through any of the reports. Second brother and I have not been poisoned. If the poison is in the outer study, father must have touched something that we have not.”
In the past few days, what had Gu HuaiJiang touched that the two of them had not?
Yu Fu looked through the various bookshelves then turned to Gu HuaiJiang’s desk. There were many reports that had not yet been handled and some that had been taken care of.
These past few days, he had not attended court, but he was unwilling to stop working. From time to time, he would come to the outer study to take care of some work.
She slowly approached the desk, and a strange odor entered her nose.
Author’s note: Do you still remember the foreshadowing from the time that Marquis Gu’s Manor held the birthday banquet? After being warned by Yin Shuo, Kun WuShang did not immediately leave. Instead, felt the desk… which left behind some poison.
Also, why did Yu Fu take the initiative to call Qi Ting back but decide to humiliate her by having her perform manual labor? It was because she noticed that something was off, thus she changed her attitude. In truth, little Yu Fu is usually very magnanimous~
TN: I very rarely translate author’s notes.
The Poison Is in the Outer Study! (Part Three)
After just a moment of hesitation, the person in black had already decided on what to say.
He quietly said: “Even if you don’t leave the Western Wing, you should have heard a bit about what is happening in the manor. Tell me about them. As for whether or not to take you away, I will let the eldest young sir know.”
Qi Ting heard this and happily said: “Then I will trouble you with it! In recent days, there hasn’t been anything… Oh, there was something! I seemed to hear that Lord Marquis was poisoned, and not even imperial physician Sun could figure out what poison it was, but who knows if it’s true or not!”
“Gu HuaiJiang was poisoned? Do you know anything about it?”
“I have been handling manual labor in the Western Wing. When would I get a chance to find anything out? I can’t even get close to Yu Fu.”
Speaking about it like this, she was not the one who poisoned Gu HuaiJiang.
The eldest young sir that she mentioned also could not be Kun WuShang.
Yu Fu was right to suspect her. She was indeed hiding something, but it was completely unrelated to Gu HuaiJiang’s poisoning.
He had gone searching for spices and found gold instead. He had ended up finding an agent that someone else had planted in Marquis Gu’s Manor.
The person in black sneered and pressed his sword against Qi Ting’s neck, “Tell me, who is this eldest young sir you spoke of?”
Suddenly, torches illuminated the bamboo forest, and the situation changed. Qi Ting’s eyes grew large with fear.
“You, you weren’t sent by the eldest young sir?”
The person in black removed his mask and revealed an expressionless face. It was as if it had been covered in a layer of frost.
It was none other than Gu HanMo.
The people carrying torches approached from all sides, and Gu ShuBai patted Gu HanMo’s shoulder, “I’ve troubled you with this, third brother. YOu rarely come to the Western Wing, so Qi Ting recognizes you the least. I could only have you come and play this role.”
Qi Ting watched all of this play out before her. She had been caught, and this was Gu ShuBai’s trap!
Gu HanMo coldly put his sword away, “This sort of disloyal servant, eldest brother, you must not let her off lightly. Even if she did not poison father, she is definitely working for one of Marquis Gu’s Manor’s enemies.”
Qi Ting’s legs became weak, as she grabbed Gu ShuBai’s arm, “Eldest young sir, I haven’t! How could I dare to poison Lord Marquis? I also haven’t done anything that would be detrimental to Marquis Gu’s Manor. I… I haven’t had a chance to!”
“Smack-”
Qi An put all of his strength into a slap, delivering a strike straight to Qi Ting’s face!
She was caught off-guard and was knocked to the ground.
Qi Zhou grabbed Qi An. The latter was already getting old and was gasping for air, “You scoundrel! Why haven’t you confessed yet? Who told you to poison Lord Marquis?”
“Grandfather, I really didn’t poison Lord Marquis! Eldest young sir Yin only told me to return to the manor and to think of a way to keep an eye on Lord Marquis and the eldest young sir, but I really could not!”
Eldest young sir Yin.
Gu ShuBai and Gu HanMo exchanged a look. Both of them reached an understanding.
Qi Ting was an agent inserted into Marquis Gu’s Manor by Yin Shuo, but she had no knowledge of the poison. It seemed that Yu Fu’s speculation was correct…
The most likely person that remained was Kun WuShang.
…
“The poison is getting worse.”
In the main hall, Yu Fu pulled her silver needles out of Gu HuaiJiang’s neck. The area that produced black needles had spread a great deal.
She would perform acupuncture for him every day. The toxicity of the poison was clearly under control, but the poison continued to spread.
There was only one possibility that remained. The poison was still at play.
Qi Zhou walked forward and said: “Young miss Yu Fu, that’s not possible! Qi Ting has already been locked up. It’s impossible for her to be the one who poisoned Lord Marquis. This servant tests Lord Marquis’ food every day before it is served. If there was any poison, this servant would also be poisoned.”
Yu Fu said: “Steward Qi, Qi Ting is not the one who carried out the poisoning. I trust your loyalty, but have you ever inspected the things in this main hall?”
Gu ShuBai and Gu JiuGe were waiting to the side, and Gu JiuGe said: “Steward Qi and I inspected everything here. There definitely aren’t any problems. Since there’s nothing wrong with his food or with the things that he uses on a daily basis, how exactly did the perpetrator have father come into contact with the poison?”
Gu HuaiJiang got up from the bed and put his clothes on, “These past few days, I have stayed in the manor. Aside from the main hall, I have been in the outer study. Yu Fu, do you think the perpetrator might have done something inside the outer study?”
“Outer study? Right, it must be the outer study!”
Yu Fu had a sudden realization, “The outer study is a place that the servants cannot enter. That’s why we never thought of investigating it. But Kun WuShang did indeed go in, right?”
Saying this, she ran out of the main hall and rushed straight for the outer study.
Gu HuaiJiang waved his hand, “You guys go too!”
When everyone reached the outer study, Yu Fu only allowed them to stand there and look. They were not allowed to touch anything.
“It’s very likely that this is where Kun WuShang used the poison. Have you guys come to the outer study recently?”
While she searched through the bookshelves, she questioned Gu ShuBai and the others without looking at them.
Gu ShuBai said: “We did indeed come, but we never looked through any of the books, nor have we sorted through any of the reports. Second brother and I have not been poisoned. If the poison is in the outer study, father must have touched something that we have not.”
In the past few days, what had Gu HuaiJiang touched that the two of them had not?
Yu Fu looked through the various bookshelves then turned to Gu HuaiJiang’s desk. There were many reports that had not yet been handled and some that had been taken care of.
These past few days, he had not attended court, but he was unwilling to stop working. From time to time, he would come to the outer study to take care of some work.
She slowly approached the desk, and a strange odor entered her nose.
Author’s note: Do you still remember the foreshadowing from the time that Marquis Gu’s Manor held the birthday banquet? After being warned by Yin Shuo, Kun WuShang did not immediately leave. Instead, felt the desk… which left behind some poison.
Also, why did Yu Fu take the initiative to call Qi Ting back but decide to humiliate her by having her perform manual labor? It was because she noticed that something was off, thus she changed her attitude. In truth, little Yu Fu is usually very magnanimous~
TN: I very rarely translate author’s notes.
