The Ninth Lady is a rebellious person.

Chapter 336 The Hexagram of Response, I've Divined Myself to Death

What Lang Jiuchuan didn't expect was that before she could get the list of Zhenbei Marquis's political enemies from A Piao, she first heard the news of the deaths of Ou Yuanzheng and his grandson.

When the news of the death arrived, she was just about to go to Huguo Temple with Cui and others to handle the matters of the memorial service for Lang Zhengfan on his death anniversary when the messenger came to the Marquis's residence.

"Academician Ou and his grandson are gone?" Lang Jiuchuan looked at the Ou family servant who came to announce the death with some shock.

The servant, dressed in hemp clothing with a white cloth wrapped around his waist, wiped his eyes upon hearing this and said, "Yes, when the master and the third young master went to visit friends in the suburbs, rocks rolled down outside the city, startling the horses and causing the carriage to overturn and fall into a ditch. The two could not be saved on the spot."

Lang Jiuchuan's face darkened. He could fool others with this kind of accident, but he couldn't fool her. It was probably because of the love potion. He didn't know whether their deaths were caused by others or by themselves.

But isn't it only Ou Sixing who is going to die?

A few days ago, although she saw that the old headmaster's aura was weak, it was not yet the time when he was surrounded by death energy, but now he is dead.

He will not have a good end, as predicted by the divination.

Lang Jiuchuan closed his eyes briefly, then stepped forward and said to Madam Cui, "I have some connection with the old master. Upon hearing of his passing, I will go to offer incense to him before heading to Huguo Temple. Madam, please go ahead."

Madam Cui frowned and said, "It's not appropriate for a young girl like you to go alone. Since someone from the Ou family has come to report the death, your uncle should go to pay his respects. You should go with him."

Lang Jiuchuan had no objection. After watching their carriage leave, she returned to the gatehouse and asked someone to inform Lang Zhengping. She waited in the gatehouse while thinking about the deaths of the Ou family's grandfather and grandson.

Her divination was half-fulfilled by the Ou family, though not entirely as the divination indicated, but it was ultimately due to his grandson.

Lang Jiuchuan sighed.

Thinking of Professor Ou's kind and gentle appearance, she felt a little uneasy.

When Lang Zhengping arrived in a hurry, he saw his eldest niece sitting in a chair with her head slightly lowered, wearing a sullen face that seemed to say "don't approach strangers." Even the gatekeepers and servants dared not get close to her.

Upon seeing Lang Zhengping arrive, Lang Jiuchuan stood up, nodded slightly in greeting, and went out with him to get into the carriage.

"You have a connection with Academician Ou, how come I've never heard you mention it?" Lang Zhengping straightened his collar, which he hadn't had time to smooth out, and sighed, "It's truly unpredictable that they, grandfather and grandson, both met with an accident."

"It can't be called unpredictable. I guess I predicted Professor Ou's death."

pat.

Lang Zhengping ripped off the mandarin collar button with a forceful tug. The button fell onto the car with a crisp sound. He stared at her in astonishment: "You, what did you say? You predicted death? You predicted the death of Dean Ou?"

Good heavens, why is it that whenever he goes to a funeral with her, he always hears some unbelievable things from her?
Lang Jiuchuan nodded and said, "I performed a golden needle acupuncture on Lord Zeng of the Ministry of Personnel a while ago. He happened to come along, and judging from his appearance, he was destined for an untimely death, so I gave him a divination."

Lang Zhengping: "..."

So this calculation led to the person's death; it was incredibly accurate, especially since the person was ugly!

Seeing his blank expression, Lang Jiuchuan said, "His death wasn't caused by himself, but by his grandson, the one who died with him, Ou Sixing. By the way, Ou Sixing was infected with a love potion. Guess who did it? Xie Zhenming. He gave the love potion to his daughter, Consort Qing, and then implanted it in Ou Sixing."

Upon hearing this, Lang Zhengping immediately sat up straight, his mind racing. A palace concubine had planted a love potion on a royal physician—this was causing chaos in the palace! No wonder he died.

"Is your divination telling Professor Ou that his grandson has caused this huge disaster?"

Lang Jiuchuan hummed in agreement. “Then it’s no wonder they died. Causing trouble in the palace is a capital offense punishable by confiscation of property and extermination of the entire clan. Even if the royal family doesn’t bring it up openly for the sake of face, the charge of harming the emperor and princes is enough.” Lang Zhengping said, “That old fox, Academician Ou, is taking these troublemakers with him to die in order to save his entire clan.”

"Isn't just pushing Ou Sixing out enough?"

Lang Zhengping shook his head: "How could that be? She is a palace concubine. For a mere imperial physician to be involved in such an improper relationship with a palace concubine, and even to use a love potion, wouldn't that be putting a green hat on her? Who could tolerate that? I'm afraid even the Imperial Physician Ou himself knew it wasn't enough, which is why he risked his old life."

He sighed and said, "For the sake of the family, the head of the family must be willing to go all out to preserve the family line. Those who fail to choose sides often suffer the same fate. Power is like that; it can make people stand at the top, surrounded by flowers and brocade, or it can make people fall into the mud and be defeated and sunk to the bottom."

"If you were in that situation, would you do the same? Sacrifice your own interests for the greater good!"

"Of course..." Lang Zhengping paused, looking at her nervously: "Are you trying to tell me that our family is also in trouble?"

Lang Jiuchuan shook his head.

Lang Zhengping breathed a slight sigh of relief.

But before he could fully exhale, Lang Jiuchuan added, "But I have an enemy who is even more difficult to deal with than this one, the Rong family of the Xuan clan."

Lang Zhengping: "!"

He looked at Lang Jiuchuan for a long time before saying, "Even if we have to be shameless, we should still try our best to curry favor with the Gong family."

Lang Jiuchuan smiled but didn't respond.

Lang Zhengping looked gloomy. Their Lang family was too useless. They really had no chance of winning against the Rong family. They could only rely on their own strength!

When the carriage stopped at the Ou residence, Lang Jiuchuan and his group happened to run into Zeng Jichuan. Zeng Jichuan no longer needed to wear a veil to see Lang Jiuchuan, so he immediately spotted him and quickly walked over.

Zeng Jichuan, the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, was approaching Lang Zhengping, though he knew the occasion was inappropriate. He couldn't hide his excitement. Um…

He walked over to his eldest niece.

"I guessed you would come, but I didn't expect to run into you here." Zeng Jichuan looked at Lang Jiuchuan and sighed, "I never thought that in just a few days, I would be separated from Lord Ou by death. Life is so unpredictable."

Lang Zhengping looked at Zeng Jichuan with the same gaze he would give a junior, and for some reason felt that the gaze was familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before, until he saw some familiar faces walking towards him.

Yes, aren't they all people my niece knows?

Lang Zhengping looked at Lang Jiuchuan with a complex yet proud gaze, and quietly straightened his chest. Although this connection wasn't his, as the uncle, he felt honored to have it.

Look, they greeted their niece, and they greeted him too. Did you see the strange, astonished, and envious looks they gave him? Ha, even Lang Zhengping has a day when he is envied.

Lang Jiuchuan was unaware of her uncle Lang's thoughts and only vaguely replied to Zeng Jichuan's words. Although she wished Xie Zhenming would suffer a great misfortune, Ou Yuanzheng and Ou Sixing were already dead, and she didn't know what they had sacrificed. She couldn't drag the Ou family into the quagmire.

Zeng Jichuan seemed lost in thought. Was it all fate?

　Where am I? I must be drunk and still not sober!

　　(End of this chapter)