Minglan is reborn, this time with no regrets!

He nodded to his mother: "It is very likely that he regards the second brother as a thorn in his side. Now that the master seems to want to reconcile with the second brother, he might as well go all out..."

Xiao Qinshi: "Besides, he is the eldest son and can inherit the title. If he kills Erlang, no one will suspect him."

To my mother: "Madam is wise."

Xiao Qin thought for a while and shook her head again: "But putting poison in the medicine seems too unconcealed. The imperial physician found it out as soon as he checked, and he was saved before the poison took effect. Such a clumsy method, if it was really done by Dalang, it would seem inconsistent with his former intelligence."

To my mother: "Maybe he thinks so too?"

Xiao Qin's eyes slightly opened: "In other words, he did it crudely on purpose? This way, even if he is exposed, no one will guess it's him! Doing the opposite... Thinking about it this way, it's brilliant!"

To my mother: "Yes. It's a pity that my second brother escaped."

Xiao Qin sneered: "Since Dalang has decided to kill, he will definitely not just do it this time. In the future, haha, Erlang will have to bear the consequences."

To my mother: "I'm afraid the master has become suspicious. It may be difficult to take action again in the future."

Xiao Qinshi: "Gu Tingyu is the Marquis's most beloved son, and he will be the next Marquis of Ningyuan. The Master will guard against no one but him. Perhaps, he will be asked to investigate the murderer. Oh, if he wants to do it, he has plenty of opportunities and means. We just need to be more careful and don't get caught in the crossfire. Leave the rest to me, your nephew."

……

Gu Tingyu sneezed.

Shao hurried forward and handed him a handkerchief, saying, "Don't worry, didn't the imperial physician say that everything is fine?"

Gu Tingyu shook his head: "I'm not worried about the second brother, I'm just wondering who poisoned him."

Shao: "Yes, this mansion is usually fine, who would do such a thing?"

Gu Tingyu: "What kind of person do you think stepmother Xiao Qinshi is?"

"Why do you ask that suddenly?" Shao sat down next to Gu Tingyu. "Mother is kind, loving and gentle. She is also our aunt. She treats our family very well."

Gu Tingyu raised his hand and gently touched her hair, saying, "If one day, my father and I are gone, and Gu Tingye is gone too, then the title of Ningyuan Hou will fall into the hands of his own son."

Shao covered his mouth immediately and said, "Don't talk nonsense! The imperial physician came to see you and said you are fine. Why are you saying such things?"

Gu Tingyu held her hand in his palm, shook his head and laughed: "I know my own body. I'm telling you seriously, have you ever thought about what would happen if stepmother Xiao Qin really thought that way?"

Shao hugged him around the waist and said, "No, I don't understand. I don't know what to do. I just know that you will be fine!"

Gu Tingyu sighed: "I'm the one who caused you trouble."

"What are you talking about? Being able to marry you is the most satisfying thing in my life. I only hope that I can marry you again in the next life and the next life after that." Shao's voice became hoarse after she spoke.

Gu Tingyu patted her back gently: "Okay, okay, I get it. Well, don't be sad. I will live well until I am seventy or eighty years old, and watch our sister Xian get married and have children with you."

Shao nestled in Gu Tingyu's arms lovingly, but his expression was not very good.

Once the seeds of doubt are planted, they will slowly grow into thorns in people's hearts, gradually extending their fangs, tearing apart all past appearances and revealing clues to support the conjecture.

Gu Tingyu suddenly had a clear understanding, that is, if Gu Tingye really died, he would be the only one standing in Xiao Qin's way. Although he felt that Xiao Qin was very kind to his brothers, he often felt that she was particularly harsh to her own son. This harshness might be seen by others as favoritism towards her two step-sons, but from another perspective, wasn't it that she had high hopes for her own son?

If it was Xiao Qin who poisoned him this time, then once she succeeded, would she be the next target? After all, in the entire Ningyuan Marquis Mansion, Gu Tingyu was the one who drank the most medicine. If she accidentally mixed something into the medicine, who could guarantee that it would be discovered in time?

From that day on, Gu Tingyu's medicine was no longer taken from the warehouse of the Marquis' Mansion. Instead, Shao went to the pharmacy to get it herself and then brought it back to the yard to boil.

Xiao Qinshi also suddenly became very diligent. She would go to the kitchen personally for every meal, watch the servants prepare the food, and then have the maid around her test it for poison. She would only serve the food on the table after making sure it was safe.

Gu Yankai saw it all and felt doubtful, but he comforted himself, "Maybe they are just being cautious and are afraid that they will also be harmed by the villains."

Gu Er, one of the doctors, personally vouched for them, so Gu Yankai let them go after leaving their confessions. Then, he focused his interrogation on the servants who had served in Gu Tingye's room.

This was still Gu Tingye's reminder to him:

"At the beginning, my father helped me to dismiss all the servants in the room. It was for my own good, but for some people, it might be a failure. Originally, they could still stay in my room, hoping to get a concubine in the future, or have a child to take care of them. Now they can't expect anything, so they can't help but turn love into hatred and want to kill me?"

Seeing that he spoke with a relaxed expression, as if he was commenting on someone else's affairs, Gu Yankai could not help but scold him again. However, after scolding him, he still adopted his suggestion and beat all the former servants and interrogated them one by one. Finally, a young one could not bear it anymore and said that he was the one who poisoned them.

When asked what poison she had used, she said it was arsenic, and after being beaten again, she changed her story and said it was arsenic. Gu Yankai saw that she had no idea what was going on and was clearly being tortured into confessing, so she came back to beat other people.

After fighting for a long time, they didn't catch any of the real poisoners, but they did find out a few others. Some stole things, saying that they took Gu Tingye's handwriting and personal belongings to frame him for an affair, maybe they could get married; some sneaked into the room at night, saying that they wanted to make Gu Tingye remember them and rekindle their old love... All these things were exactly the same as what Gu Tingye had accused that day.

Xiao Qinshi and Gu Tingyu were both afraid that these people would reveal everything that had to do with them, so they started to tell Gu Yan about it:

"Father, these maids have worked hard for the Gu family after all. If they are beaten like this now, I'm afraid it will chill the hearts of others. Who will be willing to work hard for the Gu family in the future?"

"What Dalang said is right, sir. I think these people have been beaten and have confessed everything they can. If they continue to beat them, it will cost lives. After all, we have no evidence that they poisoned Erlang. It is not right to take someone's life for no reason."

Gu Yankai's two younger brothers, whom Gu Tingye called fourth uncle and fifth uncle, had once blamed Gu Tingye for the girls they had abused, and now they came to persuade him...