Chapter 258 Bewitched by Evil (Part 2)

"Yo." The astonishment on Gu Yanfei's face was fleeting, and he muttered softly, "Interesting."

She was just talking to herself, her voice was not too loud.

But Gu Yuan heard it clearly, and asked, "What's interesting?"

Gu Yanfei smiled without answering, a pair of shallow pear dimples bloomed, casually picked a bright yellow winter jasmine flower on the branch, and twirled it casually between her fingers.

Gu Yuanben just asked casually, without getting entangled in it, and immediately said to himself: "Sister, after the second room moves out, this house will be empty, I plan to lock half of the courtyard..."

The house they live in now was bestowed by Emperor Taizu when he was ennobled, and it was regulated according to the rules of Marquis.

The emperor didn't take back the house because of seizing the title, and it was a gift for them to continue to live here, but they also had to make some attitudes.

Gu Yanfei knew that the eldest brother was just chatting with her about family affairs, so he responded casually.

The two brothers and sisters were chatting one after another, talking about his plan to transfer Wutong's father back to the mansion, about Zhuang Nanny's injury being almost healed, and also planning to let her come to the mansion to help Gu Yanfei, and then Speaking of his plan to slightly renovate Chenghui Garden...

The two walked and talked all the way until they came to Yimen.

Gu Yuan has been busy with errands recently, and today he took half a day off for family separation, and now that he has done everything he should, he plans to go back quickly.

Unexpectedly, besides his beloved horse, there was also a black lacquered flat-topped carriage parked at Yimen.

Gu Yuan recognized at a glance that this was his sister's carriage, and seeing that she was going out, he smiled and said, "Sister, I'll give you a ride."

"Okay." Gu Yanfei was not polite to his elder brother at all, "Jiaoniang and I made an appointment to go to the Shuijing Tower to watch a play, so we happened to drop by."

Gu Yanfei and Wei Jiaoniang agreed that they would never go to Tianyin Pavilion again, so Wei Jiaoniang found a newly opened theater, and the two made an appointment to go to the theater today.

Gu Yuan also knew Shuijinglou, and said with a smile: "The opera in Shuijinglou is well sung."

Gu Yuan felt that a girl at the age of her younger sister should go out more often, instead of nestling in Yuheng Garden every day, who is less fond of going out than her cat.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the brothers and sisters drove out, they ran into Wei Jiaoniang's personal servant girl.

"Magpie?" Gu Yanfei lifted a corner of the carriage curtain.

The magpie bowed to Gu Yanfei who was in the carriage, and said with some embarrassment: "Miss Gu, the ninth girl of my family caught a cold last night, and was detained in the house by Mrs. Shizi, and she was not allowed to go out."

"Miss asked the servant to come and talk to Miss Gu Er, and said that I would invite you to play some other day."

There was nothing wrong with Gu Yanfei, so he said, "Then I'll go and see her."

Gu Yuan sent his sister off for a ride, and the magpie followed behind in the carriage of the Duke's mansion.

Although Gu Yanfei came to visit without warning, everyone in the Duke's Mansion knew that she was on good terms with her nine girls, and the concierge welcomed her in respectfully.

The maid in Tsing Yi led Gu Yanfei to the main courtyard to greet Mrs. Wei Guogong, and led her all the way to the quiet and elegant left room.

"Yan Fei, you really have a heart." Madame Wei Guogong showed a hearty smile on her heroic face. When she smiled, a few wrinkles appeared at the corners of her eyes, which softened her slightly tough outline.

She had already listened to the servant girl's report, and knew that Gu Yanfei had come to visit Wei Jiaoniang specially.

Gu Yanfei smiled generously, and said calmly: "I'll come to see Jiao Niang, and I'll also come to say hello to you."

Not only Mrs. Wei Guogong and his wife were in the room, but there were others.

Sitting at the bottom is a beautiful woman in her thirties, with an oval face, crescent eyebrows, willow-leaf eyes, and a graceful appearance.

The beautiful woman wore a begonia red begonia red ten-pattern brocade beige, a frosty white hang silk jacket with a stand-up collar, paired with a white thread-stitched long skirt, and a pair of dragonfly dotted lotus shoes exposed under the skirt, her whole person was elegant and noble.

In addition to the beautiful woman, there are two children, a boy and a girl. They are both six or seven years old. Both children are fair-skinned, pink and jade-carved, very beautiful, but their personalities are very different. The boy is arrogant, and the girl is quiet. .

"Yan Fei, this is Jiao Niang's twelfth aunt, you haven't seen her yet..." Mrs. Wei Guogong smiled and introduced to both parties.

It was only then that Gu Yanfei knew that this extravagant and beautiful woman was Duke Wei's youngest sister, Mrs. Ji'an Marquis Wei Wan.

And this pair of children is a pair of dragon and phoenix twins under Mrs. Hou's knees, named Xu Luo and Xu Yao.

After Gu Yanfei greeted Wei Wan, the twins also stepped forward, shoulder to shoulder, and saluted Gu Yanfei.

The beautiful dragon and phoenix twins are about four or five points alike, wearing the same color of water blue clothes, when they stand together, they are as beautiful as boys and girls under the seat of Guanyin.

Gu Yanfei smiled and gave the dragon and phoenix a purse filled with golden melon seeds as a meeting gift. The girl said "Thank you sister" and obediently accepted it. The boy pursed his lips and silently reached out to take the purse.

From his wide cuffs, Gu Yanfei could see the blood-red scars on his white wrists, like whip marks, and traces of iron chains, which disappeared into the depth of the cuffs.

Gu Yanfei glanced at Xu Luo twice, her delicate willow eyebrows were slightly frowned, and she quickly looked away as if nothing had happened.

Mrs. Wei Guogong liked Gu Yanfei very much, she took her hand with a smile and said: "Yanfei, don't worry, Jiao Niang is fine, it's just that she caught the wind and cold last night."

"Tell me about her later, it's only the first month of the month, and she doesn't close the window when she sleeps at night."

Mrs. Wei Guogong teased her granddaughter a few words, then left Gu Yanfei to talk for a while, and then ordered the maid to take Gu Yanfei to Wei Jiaoniang herself.

After Gu Yanfei left, Wei Wan asked Mrs. Wei Guo a little excitedly: "Sister-in-law, I heard that the last time my elder brother vomited blood in Tianyin Pavilion, it was the second girl Gu who saved me, right?"

Her eyes were exceptionally bright, and she had also heard about Gu Yanfei saving the eldest princess at Chengtianmen, but she never thought that the second girl Gu was so young, she couldn't believe it for a while.

"Yes." Mrs. Wei Guogong nodded, and said appreciatively, "Yan Fei is a good person, and she is open-minded. She deserves to be the daughter of a general."

With a thought, Wei Wan looked at the boy sitting next to him playing Jiulianhuan, and asked in a low voice: "Sister-in-law, tell me, should I ask Second Miss Gu to show Brother Luo?"

Xu Luo hung her head down and played with Jiulianhuan, Xu Yao leaned beside her brother to watch him play, and asked him flatteringly, "Brother, do you want to eat candied fruit?"

Xu Luo acted like he hadn't heard of it, and played with his Nine Links to himself.

Mrs. Wei Guogong frowned, stared at Xu Luo for a while, lowered her voice, and leaned into Wei Wan's ear and said, "Is Brother Luo still okay?"

"It's not good." Wei Wan shook her head sadly, the corners of her eyes were slightly red, "And it's getting worse, I look like I've run into something...so worried that I couldn't sleep for several nights."

The more Wei Wan said, the more she frowned, and her hands unconsciously messed up the handkerchief.

"You said it earlier, just now I asked Yan Fei to help brother Luo take a look." Mrs. Wei Guogong also showed a worried look.

Her sister-in-law has been married to the Marquis of Ji'an for many years, and she only has this pair of children under her knees. Naturally, she regards this only son-in-law as a treasure.

"..." Wei Wan looked outside hesitantly, feeling a little regretful in her heart.

Mrs. Wei Guogong patted her hand that was afraid of her, and comforted her softly: "In a while, let's go to Jiaoniang's place together."

"However, Yan Fei is a guest. If Yan Fei is not happy, don't force it. Next time, I will accompany you to visit Gu's house with Jiao Niang."

Wei Wan was raised by Mrs. Wei Guogong, she said she was a sister-in-law, but in fact she has a kind of affection for a sister-in-law like a mother, she has always been convinced of what her sister-in-law said, and she responded repeatedly: "Don't worry, sister-in-law, I know .”

Mrs. Wei Guogong ordered the nanny to hurry up and prepare some refreshments that the girl's family likes to eat.

When the refreshment came, the sisters-in-law took the food box and the twins, surrounded by servants, to Wei Jiaoniang's yard.

The maid hurriedly ran to report, and there was laughter and joy in the inner room, and the two congenial girls gathered together, and there was endless talk.

Just as Mrs. Wei Guogong said, Wei Jiaoniang just suffered from a little cold at night, but she was in good spirits, and she kept talking like a sparrow:

"...The book is so wonderful, I wanted to read it for an extra hour before going to sleep, but accidentally saw the cock crowing."

"Yan Fei, do you want to see it? You can take it back and watch it slowly."

"I still have a full bookcase here, you can pick whatever you want, and take whatever you want."

Wei Jiaoniang said boldly, wishing that Gu Yanfei could take all these scripts away, thinking that next time they could talk about these scripts she likes.

At this time, the servant girl came in through the curtain, and reported that Mrs. Wei Guogong and the others had come.

Wei Jiaoniang was slightly taken aback, a little surprised why her grandmother and the twelve aunts came.

Mrs. Wei Guogong asked the servant girl to serve the refreshments she had prepared.

Knowing that there are distinguished guests coming to the kitchen, I chose a petal-shaped plate. Each "petal" is placed with an exquisite dessert, such as Poria cake, jujube cake, corn candy, longxu crisp, ice rice cake, flower cake, osmanthus Cakes, etc., put a full table.

Wei Jiaoniang greeted Gu Yanfei with dim sum, and told her which one was crispy, which one was sweet, which one was soft and glutinous, and which one was salty...

After Gu Yanfei had some snacks, Mrs. Wei Guogong asked someone to carry Xu Yao to the next room to play, and then she said what she meant:

"Yan Fei, my sister-in-law has a pair of direct-born sons and daughters under her knees, and she regards them as treasures. Recently, brother Luo seems to be bewitched for some reason, and I would like to ask you to help me take a look..."

Mrs. Wei Guogong only spoke up to this point, and then signaled Wei Wan with her eyes to go on.

Wei Wan frowned, and said in a deep voice, "He doesn't know where he got the 'dirty stuff' on his back... hey!"

"Brother Luo, come here." She simply called the eldest son Xu Luo over, and ordered the wet nurse to help him undress.

The wet nurse carefully loosened his robe a little, and pulled down the robe and jacket, revealing his thin back.

On the boy's fair back was a large blood-red scar, shaped like a hideous and distorted grimace, occupying most of his back.

The scar was as red as fresh blood, as if large pieces of skin had fallen off, revealing the flesh and blood underneath. When the boy breathed, his back heaved and heaved, and the blue blood vessels under the skin were faintly bulging...