The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law
Chapter 563 - 573: No Becoming Spirits After the Founding of the Nation

Chapter 563: Chapter 573: No Becoming Spirits After the Founding of the Nation

Hearing this, Concubine Du, who had just dried her tears, began to cry again and said, "Today is the third miss’s hairpin ceremony, and I worry... with so many guests around, I fear it might turn out like a few years ago, during father’s birthday celebration. Husband, you said she wasn’t to come out and had me host it, yet she still made an appearance and humiliated me in front of so many people. I’m afraid that incident will happen again, which is why... I took it upon myself to have her courtyard locked."

Having said this, Concubine Du was already unable to speak through her tears.

Jie Residence’s second young master patted Concubine Du’s back and whispered consolations, "It’s all right as long as you explain it clearly. Now, no more tears; it’s getting late, you should rest."

After speaking, he stood up and walked outside, his heart inexplicably filled with restlessness and unease.

Ayun said she was going to die, and father loved her so much. If she were to die for these reasons, it would surely be blamed on Aqing again, even if it was unintentional. But if it really resulted in a loss of life, it would seem intentional.

She deserved to die, but she couldn’t just die like that.

After leaving Concubine Du’s courtyard, the second young master of the Jie Residence headed straight for the most secluded courtyard within the estate.

Meanwhile, Concubine Du was helped up by her maid, her eyes fixed bitterly outside the door; her gaze was so chilling that it startled the maid at her side.

"Madam, why don’t you... Why don’t you rest first?"

Privately, Concubine Du’s maids all addressed her as madam.

Concubine Du, with a calm and faint glance, bore no resemblance to the pitiful little girl from before; her eyes were filled with viciousness.

"Go, see where the second young master has gone."

The maid bit her lip, glanced outside the courtyard, and said softly, "Looking at that direction, it’s the courtyard of Miss Du."

No one dared to refer to Miss Du as the second young mistress in front of her, so they always called her Miss Du, a practice also tacitly approved by the second young master.

He had condoned many things she had done, which is why Concubine Du dared to act so recklessly.

A clatter of shattered cups echoed around the room; it turned out that Concubine Du had knocked over a set of tea utensils on the table.

Broken bowls and dishes lay scattered on the floor, followed by the furious bellowing of Concubine Du, "That bitch, why hasn’t she died yet? Her mother oppressed mine for a lifetime, so must I be oppressed by her for a lifetime too?"

"Madam, please calm down!" The maids hurriedly knelt down to plead.

"Calm down?" Concubine Du sneered, "Go, go see when that bitch will die."

...

Jin Zijin furrowed his brow as he watched the busily working woman.

If he hadn’t heard from the servants of the Lin Residence that she only returned at night, he would have never known, she hadn’t rested at all during the day, and had gone straight to the Jie Residence after leaving his place.

"My affairs aren’t urgent; why do you disregard your own well-being so much?"

He was afraid she would come to him again, weak and gasping for air, needing to be saved. Such a scare was enough once; another few times might scare her to death.

"Today was a good opportunity," Gu Youyou said indifferently.

She continued writing down the research findings of the past few days. She refused to believe that she couldn’t solve the poison.

Those damn pearls of ice and fire, said to be transformed from Sacred Beasts, who really knows what nonsense that is?

In ancient times, there were many folklore and myths about strange and supernatural beings. If it weren’t for the prohibition against such creatures gaining sentience after the founding of the nation, there would likely be many more today. Such things can neither be fully believed nor entirely dismissed; indeed, some things are inexplicable and unresolvable through science. But these legends have persisted, and she had never seen them, so she had decided... to temporarily disbelieve them.

Jin Zijin didn’t know that Gu Youyou’s thoughts were drifting at that moment, as he pondered in his heart how to discipline this woman so he could rest assured.