Demoting my wife to a concubine? After being reborn, I turned around and married into the imperial f

Chu Xunzhen scoffed, "She suffers from a serious illness; it might be contagious."

Granny Li frowned, her gaze sweeping across the screen, a hint of apprehension flashing in her eyes.

With a whoosh.

Chu Wanrou put on her clothes and stepped out from behind the screen.

"A ghost!"

Upon seeing Chu Wanrou's face, Granny Li immediately screamed in panic.

Granny Li covered her chest.

She's quite old; she's seen it all.

I've seen plenty of dead people, let alone patients.

But the face of Chu Wanrou before me was so terrifying.

There was white pus on the red rash. Inside that white pus, something seemed to be wriggling.

too frightening.

Is this still the beautiful and refined Second Sister?

"Ziyuan, what happened to the Second Miss's face? Have you called the physician?" Granny Li asked anxiously.

"We've already summoned Physician Gao. Granny, he's already prescribed the medicine. The physician said she'll definitely recover within three days."

Zi Yuan answered.

After saying that, Zi Yuan glanced at Chu Wanrou again, and her eyes widened immediately.

Why does the second young lady have so many more red rashes on her face? And they're even oozing pus?

"This old servant will inform the madam. Young lady, please come with me."

Granny Li gave Chu Xunzhen a forced smile.

"Lady Hou is currently unwell and needs to rest. Xunzhen still needs to pay her respects to her grandfather. Granny, please go back and report."

Granny Li glanced at Chu Xunzhen and said, "This old servant will report the truth."

Without waiting for the downpour, Granny Li left.

His appearance made it seem as if Chu Xun was some kind of monstrous beast.

Granny Li is now wary of Chu Xunzhen.

In the past, she would have looked down on this legitimate daughter of the emperor.

Too cowardly.

At the mansion, Chu Xunzhen tried to please everyone, and often tinkered with some worthless trinkets to give to the Marquis's wife.

But now, if they say they won't call the lady "mother," then they really won't call her "mother."

They seem to disregard their own reputation; these are the most difficult people to deal with.

She absolutely cannot afford to offend her.

Since the sachet incident, Granny Li has come to a conclusion.

That is, Chu Xunzhen is different from before.

No longer the weak and easily bullied little good-for-nothing, Granny Zhou has passed away, but Granny Li has not yet lived enough.

She even began to look at Chu Xunzhen with new respect.

Although the imperial advisor predicted that she was a jinx, it was clear from the last incident that someone had framed her.

Granny Li, I reckon that was what Wanrou did last time.

But the lady liked Wanrou very much, and even ordered her to destroy the sachet she had found.

She hid the sachet.

It might come in handy someday.

At the entrance of the small ancestral hall.

Ah Lin was somewhat bewildered when she saw Chu Xunzhen, whose skirt was already soaked.

"Girl, it's raining so hard outside, please come in quickly."

Chunxi put away her umbrella and waited outside.

"Uncle Lin, there's no need to disturb Grandfather. I've come today to see the dregs of the tonics he's been drinking."

dregs of medicine?

Alin was shocked.

"Thank you so much, young lady. Please wait a moment."

Ah Lin sighed and went to collect the dregs of the medicine.

"Wait, Uncle Lin, bring me the medicine bowl that Grandpa drinks every day too."

Alin was taken aback.

Although he didn't understand medicine, Chu Xunzhen's meaning was that someone wanted to harm the old man.

"Alright. Young lady, please rest first, have some hot tea, and don't catch a cold."

He didn't think anyone would be so bold, but who knows?

In less than fifteen minutes, Ah Lin brought in today's medicine dregs along with the medicine bowl.

Chu Xunzhen first checked the medicine bowl.

The medicine bowl was clean and free of poison.

Even if she soaked it in water and poured boiling water in it, the medicine bowl would still be fine.

She also examined the dregs of the medicine.

It is a highly nourishing tonic.

"Well, young lady, are there any problems with the dregs and the medicine bowl?" Ah Lin paused, then said, "Actually, I also checked the dregs and the medicine bowl. I didn't find any problems."

Chu Xunzhen understood.

If he could think of it himself, how could Uncle Lin, the old Marquis's capable assistant, not have thought of it?

When Uncle Lin was young, he was my grandfather's deputy.

Chu Xunzhen glanced at the pile of medicine dregs again.

She got it.

There's nothing wrong with the dregs.

If an ordinary person drinks it, it can indeed nourish the body, and even for those with severe coughs, it can strengthen the body's foundation, stop coughs, and moisturize the lungs.

Drinking this tonic regularly can indeed be beneficial to the body.

But my grandfather was not suffering from cold poison or lung heat, but from Gu poison.

These were nourishing medicinal herbs for others, but to my grandfather, they were poison.

"Uncle Lin, these medicines can't be boiled anymore, but we still need to make it seem to outsiders that we're drinking them every day."

What?

Alin was a little confused.

"Is there something wrong with the medicine the old man is taking?"

Inside are century-old Ganoderma lucidum and various precious medicinal herbs, which are imperial gifts. Outside, they are priceless and only available to the royal family.

"Uncle Lin, now that things have come to this, I won't hide it from you anymore. My grandfather has been poisoned by a Gu worm. Drinking tonics is essentially strengthening the Gu worms in his body. That's why the more medicine my grandfather takes, the worse his health becomes."

Arlin was shocked.

He never imagined it would be like this.

"Young lady, what you say makes sense, but how do you know that the old man has been poisoned by a Gu curse?"

So many imperial physicians and palace doctors have come to see me before, and none of them said it was a Gu worm.

"Uncle Lin, does Grandpa experience mild abdominal cramps every day around noon? And even occasional headaches?"

"Grandfather must drink a lot of tea every day, right? More than three times what he used to?"

"Is my grandfather's weight loss abnormal? He eats a lot at every meal, yet he's getting thinner and thinner?"

Arlin was shocked.

How did you know?

Ah Lin had been serving Old Master Chu.

There were no other maids or servants in this small ancestral hall.

What Chu Xunzhen just said were all symptoms of the old man.

"Uncle Lin, as you know, I grew up in the countryside when I was a child, and some people in my area raised Gu worms. So, I know a little about Gu worms."

"I see." Ah Lin looked at Chu Xunzhen with surprise and said, "Then shall we go to your childhood home and find someone who can cure the Gu poison?"

"No need for that, Uncle Lin, I can solve it."

As Chu Xunzhen finished speaking, Alin frowned.

Mastering the theoretical knowledge is simple, but to actually detoxify, one must be proficient in Gu techniques.

"Young lady, I know you want to do something for the old man. But killing the Gu and curing the poison is no ordinary task. Let's find someone more powerful to remove it."

"And this matter, let's not tell the old man for now, otherwise I'm afraid he'll be frightened."

"But it's also possible that he already knew. The old man is very shrewd..."

Ah Lin was talking to himself when he realized that Chu Xunzhen was gone.

What about people?

Alin scratched his head.

Chunxi happily told him, "Uncle Lin, the young lady has already gone in to see the old man."

"Ah? No way!" Ah Lin was furious. Even if Chu Xunzhen was sincere, she couldn't use her own grandfather's body as a test subject.

He rushed in, but as soon as he stepped into the room, he witnessed a scene he would never forget.

He stopped in his tracks and stared wide-eyed.

In the dim candlelight, Chu Xunzhen held a silver needle and stabbed it toward Old Master Chu's heart.

puff.

Old Master Chu's head lolled to the side, dark red blood spilled from the corner of his mouth, and in an instant, his face turned as pale as paper, and he collapsed stiffly onto the bed.