Rebirth of the Merchant Woman's Revenge

Without anyone to support him, he didn't even have the strength to stand up.

Although the head of the Gu family, Gu Mingyuan, was over 60 years old, he was usually in good health and spirits. Seeing Gu Ziyu like this, he asked in surprise, "Ziyu, you...what's wrong? I just heard that you were ill a few days ago. How come it's so serious?"

Gu Ziyu shook his head and sighed helplessly, while Su also sighed beside him, "Who said it wasn't true? Originally, there was nothing wrong and I thought it was just a common cold. Who knew it would be so serious? Sigh..."

"What did the doctor say?" Gu Mingyuan asked.

"The doctor said that it was because my body was too weak, and it has been raining for days recently, which triggered the dampness in my body. I would be fine after taking some medicine. However, it has been nearly half a month, and there is no improvement at all." Su replied.

Gu Ziheng was greatly surprised to hear what Su said, and asked in astonishment, "Sister-in-law, why didn't you tell me in advance that my brother was like this? Your sister-in-law and I would have come to take care of him a long time ago."

Mrs. Du also nodded repeatedly. She had been holding back some words for a long time, so she said without any scruples, "Sister-in-law, although Si'er did something stupid, our two families have always been brothers."

Su's face immediately turned bad. She didn't expect that at this time, Du would actually bring up what Gu Qiongsi had done.

Gu Mingyuan also glared at Mrs. Du. "You are really bringing up something irrelevant. Why are you bringing that up now? Let's sit down and have a good discussion about how to run our Gu Family Incense Shop from now on. That's the real business."

After Gu Mingyuan finished speaking, not only Su's face looked unhappy, but Gu Ziyu's face also looked unhappy. But he finally said, "Incense shop? Is there any problem with the incense shop?"

"Brother, don't you know? The performance of the ten or so incense shops of our Gu family has declined drastically, and the key is that the reputation is not as good as before. It's all because Wei'er lost the incense tasting competition in the capital. In addition, with Brother being like this now, he definitely doesn't have much energy to manage the incense shops. We have to find a way to adjust it."

Gu Ziheng sat below the clan leader and spoke with a frown.

"I've been managing the Gu's Incense Shop. How come my second brother knows better than me whether the performance has declined?" Gu Ziheng asked unhappily, and then he coughed a few times. Su hurriedly patted his back to help him calm down.

"Brother, although you have been the one taking care of it, the incense shop is the property of our entire Gu family. Isn't it my duty as the second younger brother to show some concern for it?" Gu Ziheng retorted, looking like a good younger brother.

"Cough cough... cough cough cough..." Gu Ziyu coughed non-stop after hearing what he said, but Su couldn't bear to listen any longer. She patted her husband's back and asked, "The incense shop is the property of the entire Gu family? How come I don't know? Isn't it the property of my husband's branch? Even you, my husband's half-brother, have nothing to do with it."

After hearing what Su said, Gu Mingyuan finally lost his temper and said, "Su, you are going too far. The incense recipe has always been in your branch, but the Gu family's incense shop is also the foundation of our Gu family. You can't say that just because the incense recipe is yours, the incense shop also becomes yours."

These words were a bit shameless. Gu Ziyu wanted to laugh after hearing them, but he had to hold it back and continued watching their performance.

"If it has nothing to do with the Gu family, why do you pay for all the expenses during your annual ancestral worship? Do you also pay for the repairs of the ancestral temple? This was decided a long time ago." Gu Mingyuan then gave evidence to prove that what he said was true.

"That was decided when my grandfather was alive, because he felt that he was willing to give back to the Gu family because he was blessed by the clan. I didn't expect that this would... this would also involve our own industry, hehe..." Gu Ziyu smiled bitterly and spoke intermittently, his tone full of self-mockery.

"Brother, please don't be so insistent. You are in this situation now and you don't have a son. Are you really going to let these incense shops be handed over to someone named Xie?" Gu Ziheng was a little exasperated and advised his elder brother impatiently.

Although he is a bastard's son, he still has the right of inheritance. It doesn't make sense that he can't get any of the ten incense shops, right?

After hearing this, Gu Ziyu was so angry that she didn't want to say a word to them. Su looked at the housekeeper at the door and saw him nod to her, so she pretended to be sad and said,

"So, the clan leader and my second brother came here today to inherit the Gu's Incense Shop?"

Su's words were harsh, but that was what she meant. As for whether it was the inheritance or not, they didn't care too much about it.

Gu Ziheng straightened his back, glanced at the clan leader, and then said, "My father left in a hurry. He promised me that he would give me two incense shops."

Whether this statement is true or not is impossible to verify. After all, their father has been dead for many years, so there is no evidence to prove it.

"Is it the same for the clan leader? Did grandpa say the same thing to you before he passed away?" Gu Ziyu looked at Gu Mingyuan.

He is the younger brother of Gu Ziyu's father, not a half-brother, but a brother from the same father and mother.

Gu Mingyuan looked a little embarrassed. He opened his mouth but said nothing.

"Then did your father tell you that he needs to give you the incense recipe?" Seeing that the clan leader did not answer, Gu Ziyu asked Gu Ziheng with a sarcastic tone.

Everyone in the Gu family knows that the incense recipe is only passed down to the eldest son of the legitimate wife. It would be interesting to see how Gu Ziheng would answer this question.

"This, this..." Gu Ziheng was speechless, but he quickly adjusted his tone, "Father didn't say it explicitly, but I'm sure he will give me the recipes of a few common spices."

"Bah..." Su saw Gu Ziheng's shameless behavior and finally stopped tolerating it. She said, "No wonder the doctor said that my husband's condition was strange and seemed to be poisoned. So it was you, my second brother, who couldn't wait any longer?"

Mrs. Du was the first to exclaim, "What poisoning? How could it be... poisoning?"

Fortunately, she changed her words quickly, otherwise she would have been exposed.

It's no wonder that she was so surprised. Si'er had said that the potion was colorless and odorless. The key was that as long as the dosage was added daily, no doctor would be able to find any problems. Now what did Su say? Did the doctor find any clues?

How could this not surprise her?

Gu Ziheng kicked Mrs. Du, who was always causing trouble instead of helping others. He quickly tried to make up for it, "How could it be poisoning? All the food that my eldest brother eats is at home, so how could he be poisoned? Is my eldest sister-in-law feeling unwell?"