The Ninth Lady is a rebellious person.

Chapter 356 The visitor is a guest, but he looks like he has lost his wife.
In Young Master Gong's view, the Rong family's spiritual energy over the past decades had all fallen on that Fourth Master Rong. He was a prodigy who learned everything quickly and mastered it. Such a person was proud and difficult to tame. While Young Master Gong was learning to draw talismans stroke by stroke, Fourth Master Rong had already scattered talismans all over the sky.

Every generation of the Xuan clan has its troublemakers, and in the generation of the young master Gong, the fourth master Rong is the troublemaker. He is rebellious and difficult to deal with, and yet he cannot be coaxed. For him, the old men of the Rong family have exhausted countless brains and pulled out countless beards, especially when it comes to the matter of marriage.

"It's not that young masters with Dao roots don't easily marry outsiders, but rather that they marry into families with Dao roots. Does Xi Yun have Dao roots?" Lang Jiuchuan interrupted Gong Qi.

Gong Qi said, "That is indeed true, but who is it? Rong Qingcang. Just from his name, you can tell he's domineering. He doesn't want to follow the clan's arrangements and insists on free marriage."

"So you've become free, Xi Yun?"

"That's not true. I heard that when he was traveling, he made a secret engagement with another woman, but that's just hearsay and shouldn't be taken seriously. He still obediently married the person arranged by his clan, Xi Yun." Gong Qi said, "After the wedding, he became a different person. He was no longer as unruly and difficult as before, but became calm and gentle."

Lang Jiuchuan gently tapped his teacup and said, "Then how did he become crippled?"

"He suffered great damage while fighting a fierce ghost king. His Dao root collapsed and his cultivation regressed." Gong Qi stroked his chin. "I heard that it happened three years after his wedding. Since then, he has stopped caring about worldly affairs and even the affairs of his clan. Ordinary people rarely see him."

"His wife and daughters can't be seen either?" Lang Jiuchuan raised an eyebrow.

Gong Qi shook his head: "I don't know, but I have never seen Master Rong and his wife attend any banquets. I have never seen him."

Lang Jiuchuan said, "In other words, after the Fourth Master Rong was crippled, the Rong family appointed the current Young Master Rong as their new young master."

"Ah."

"Does the person he secretly pledged his life to really exist?"

Gong Qi smiled faintly: "This kind of scandal, just like Young Master Rong's demonic possession, will only be covered up tightly. How could it be publicized? Whether it exists or not, only Fourth Master Rong himself knows."

“Interesting.” Lang Jiuchuan’s eyes flickered. “So Xi Yun’s hopes are all pinned on Young Master Rong.”

"Of course, the young master's mother is of such high status." Gong Qi glanced at her and asked, "What did she do to you?"

Lang Jiuchuan said, "Can you find out if Master Rong has any descendants living outside the family?"

puff.

Gong Qi spat out a mouthful of tea, stared at her with wide eyes, and said, "What the hell are you talking about, the bloodline of Fourth Master Rong?"

Lang Jiuchuan nodded: "Didn't you say he had a lover he was secretly engaged to? Who is that person? Did they have any children? If you can find out, I'll get you a talisman that's even higher level than the Five Thunder Talisman."

Gong Qi: "You believe this hearsay, this baseless rumor?"

“There’s no smoke without fire. It’s strange that such a wild and untamed person would suddenly obediently agree to the clan’s arranged marriage. Something must have changed his mind.” Lang Jiuchuan smiled faintly: “If such a person really exists, it’s not surprising that there are other bloodlines outside the clan.”

"No, if he were, why would he stay obediently in the clan's territory?" Gong Qi shook his head.

Lang Jiuchuan remained noncommittal: "What if he doesn't know either?"

Gong Qi remained silent for a moment, staring intently at Lang Jiuchuan, and asked, "Why are you investigating this?"

"It's true that Young Master Rong suffered a qi deviation and damaged his Dao root. This is news from Tongtian Pavilion." Lang Jiuchuan answered irrelevantly, looking at him and saying, "Therefore, the Rong family's marriage alliance with the royal family is something they have no choice but to do."

Gong Qi's pupils contracted slightly.

It's true! The Rong family was probably so eager to form a marriage alliance with the Gong family back then because they were afraid that if something happened to their heir, the Rong family would have no one to rely on. "She's gone mad. What kind of cultivation did she do to become possessed by a demon?" Gong Qi frowned and murmured.

Lang Jiuchuan also wanted to know, and she was already looking forward to seeing how Young Master Rong would appear before her during the Qingming Festival.

Just in case, it's better to be even stronger, so that we won't be outmatched when they come knocking.

Gong Qi looked at her spirited appearance and couldn't help but feel a little strange. Was this sudden excitement because Young Master Rong had gone mad?

Fu Qi walked in and looked at Lang Jiuchuan, saying, "Xiao Jiu, we have a guest."

Gong Qi tactfully got up and walked out with her. When they arrived at the shop entrance, they saw a man with a cold face and a tall, imposing figure, but who looked haggard, standing in front of a colorful ink painting. Hearing footsteps, he turned his head and looked over.

Lang Jiuchuan raised an eyebrow. He was the heir of the Duke of Dingguo's mansion and the Left Yan.

When Zuo Yan saw Lang Jiuchuan, he nodded slightly. When he saw the person standing next to her, his eyes flashed. This was a member of the Gong family, the seventh son of the Gong family, who was now working in the Surveillance Department and whose Taoist name was Qinqian.

Gong Qi saw Zuo Yan, dressed in fine clothes and standing upright, and her gaze fell on the area between his eyebrows on his face. She frowned, looked at Lang Jiuchuan, and said, "You don't mean to interfere in the matter of life and death and reincarnation, do you?"

Zuo Yan had practiced martial arts since childhood. Upon hearing this, his eyelids twitched and his heart pounded rapidly. What did it mean?
Lang Jiuchuan also noticed that Zuo Yan's marital palace was dark and gloomy, and asked directly, "Is your wife seriously ill?"

In just a few days, the signs of his wife's death became obvious.

Zuo Yan's face darkened, not with anger, but with shock. He hadn't said anything, yet these two had spoken of life and death and reincarnation, while the other had made it clear.

Gong Qi is a member of the Xuanmen sect and knows how to read faces, which he can understand. But Lang Jiuchuan only knows medicine. He only saw Ning'er once and said she was seriously ill. Is he just judging her by her appearance?

He suppressed his eagerness and nodded, saying, "Miss said before that you could come to Wan Shi Pu for help if you had any troubles. Now I have come to ask you to come to my residence to treat my wife's illness."

"She's dying," Lang Jiuchuan said. "You should have come sooner."

Zuo Yan's expression suddenly changed, and he said in a deep voice, "Don't talk nonsense."

"If the other imperial physicians hadn't said there was no cure, the young master wouldn't have come to my little shop looking for me, a young girl, would he? You must have known this all along, and you came here just in case."

Zuo Yan swayed, the color draining from his handsome face, his eyes bloodshot as he said, "The Shop of Everything, solving everything, is this idea just a gimmick to fool people?"

Wow, that's a clever way to provoke someone.

Lang Jiuchuan was not happy about this and said, "Of course not. Guests are guests, and there is no reason to let them leave empty-handed."

Gong Qi's face darkened: "Are you crazy?"

Intervening in the cycle of life and death, even if you cure someone, comes with the three deficiencies and five lacks that you must bear—it's no joke.

Lang Jiuchuan smiled and said, "Don't worry, this person isn't dead yet, is he? Being alive means there's still a glimmer of hope. I know what I'm doing."

Zuo Yan: "..."

These words are harsh, but somehow they make people afraid to refute them.
(End of this chapter)