The husband who forced her to marry her couldn't keep her warm, and she didn't want him to

The Jiang family came from a military background, and they had servants who specialized in raising and training pigeons.

In the early years, the Duke used them as messengers on the battlefield. Later, after the Jiang family handed over the military power, these pigeons were not abandoned.

If you treat it as delivering a letter home, it can save a lot of time compared to traveling by car.

There was a period of time in his previous life when Cheng'en was very interested in this kind of carrier pigeon. It was when Jiang Nansheng told his eldest son about it that Gu Jinchu heard about it.

She was very confused by Jiang Nansheng's way of sending a message to her.

The paper was not big and only had a few short sentences on it.

The imperial physician Wu Zizhen, whom she asked the princess to find, had been brought back from Nanzhili by the Jiang family and was now staying at the Xianghe Inn. She could bring him back by mentioning her name.

Gu Jinchu: "..."

The agreement between her and the eldest princess was that after the Dragon Boat Festival, she would send her guards south to pick up Imperial Doctor Wu.

Just a few days later, Wu Zizhen was brought to Xianghe.

The Jiang family is the eldest princess's maternal family. Gu Jinchu didn't dare to think too much about it, but he also felt that Jiang Nansheng's arrangement made sense.

Maybe he didn't want the Gu family to be associated with the Jiang family.

Mr. Jiang Wu and his eldest cousin were classmates. Even if she and the eldest princess were not close friends, they had some interactions during their first few times together.

In this way, even if it is a private relationship between daughters, it has nothing to do with several families.

Thinking of this, Gu Jinchu decided to return a generous gift and felt at ease.

Gu Jinchu didn't dare to keep the note, so he stretched it over the candlestick prepared by Bai Zhi and burned it up.

It is not appropriate to send Wu Zizhen back to Baodi rashly now. Tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival, and next month she will have her coming-of-age ceremony, when her grandparents will definitely come to Xianghe.

We can only bring Doctor Wu back to the Gu family first. He has been away for such a long time and I don’t know whether they will agree or not.

Suspicion flashed through Gu Jinchu's mind, and after thinking about it carefully, it was unbelievable and too scary...

She thought for a moment and said to Bai Zhi, "You and your brother go to the inn to bring Doctor Wu back. Don't disclose his identity for the time being."

"Miss, my brother and I have never seen Doctor Wu."

"Xuan Lian, who is beside Master Jiang Wu, is in the inn..."

Bai Zhi took the order and left. Gu Jinchu picked up the pomegranate on the kang table and went to the pomegranate tree in the yard.

They all come from the same tree, so why is there such a big difference?

Just as he was comparing the fruit in his hand with the ones on the tree, Xiao He came running in from outside, his hair disheveled, his clothes on his shoulder torn, with the emerald green leaves of the holly caught in the scratch.

Bai Shao pointed at her and opened her mouth to say something, but when she saw Gu Jinchu, he knelt down in front of her with tears in his eyes. He covered his mouth and sobbed, "Miss, Xiaohong is dead..."

Gu Jinchu looked at her holding half a pomegranate in her hand. The flesh inside was rotten and the red juice was flowing all over the little girl's hands.

Hearing the word "death", he gave Bai Shao, who was standing next to him, a look and said, "Pull her up and go into the house to talk."

Xiao He obediently got up from the ground and looked at Gu Jinchu with tears in his eyes, "Miss, I brought someone back..."

Gu Wen was standing outside the courtyard gate holding a black lacquered box, looking as disheveled as Xiao He.

His eyes were empty as if he was frightened, and it seemed that he didn't dare to come in without Gu Jinchu's permission.

Gu Jinchu frowned and told Mother Xu to see if anyone was following them outside.

...

In the main room, Gu Jinchu asked, "Tell me, what's going on?"

Hearing the young lady's gentle tone, Xiao He's tears that had just stopped flowing began to flow again. Not willing to put down the pomegranate in her hand, she raised her arm, wiped her eyes with her sleeve and said:

"The lady gave us pomegranates yesterday. Today, I went to find Xiaohong, wanting her to have a taste... Who knew that when I opened her door, Xiaohong was already dead on the ground..."

He was foaming at the mouth, his face was hideous, and he was curled up in a heap. She was scared to death!

She didn't dare tell the young lady about this tragic situation because Mother Xu would twist off her ears.

Gu Jinchu closed his eyes after hearing this and asked her again: "Were you seen by anyone when you came back?"

Someone in the first wife's house died, and she won't be able to explain what it means that the maid from Sui'antang brought the third young master back.

Xiao He rubbed his face randomly, leaving a black and red streak on it, and continued to sob: "No one, I brought the Third Young Master here from the holly bush."

Gu Jinchu looked at her and asked Bai Shao to help her up. "Don't be afraid. Follow your sister Bai Shao to wash up."

Xiao He went over and tried to grab Gu Jinchu's skirt, but gave up after seeing her dirty hands and begged:

"Miss, how could Xiaohong die suddenly? That's not the normal way to die..."

Gu Jinchu sighed, "You also said that you always went to see her secretly, and no one has ever seen you two interacting. Her death has nothing to do with you, and you don't need to blame yourself."

"Xiao Hong is a maid of Biluozhai. What I can do is to arrange a decent afterlife for her after she is thrown out."

Xiao He started to cry again after hearing this. She knew that the young lady could be fierce at times, but she was also the best person.

She said she would give Xiaohong dignity, and she would definitely do it.

He kowtowed and followed the maid crying.

At the young lady's signal, Bai Shao went out and closed the door of the main room.

Gu Jinchu looked at Gu Wen, not knowing what to say for a moment.

Gu Wen is 13 years old this year and is about the same height as his two eight-year-old cousins.

Wearing ill-fitting clothes and holding a black lacquered box in his arms, he was shaking visibly while sitting in a chair.

"Third sister, Xiaohong died for me." There was a layer of despair on his childish face.

"After dark yesterday, Mother Chu came to my mother's place and brought me two meat dumplings, saying that my brother had won the Jinshi Biluozhai Award."

"I didn't dare to eat it, I gave it all to Xiaohong..." After saying that, his nose twitched, his face was stern, and he clenched his teeth tightly.

Gu Jinchu poured some hot tea into the teacup, stood up and handed it to Gu Wen, then placed a plate of cakes on the small table next to him and told him, "Eat slowly."

In his previous life, Gu Wen died the day before the Dragon Boat Festival, which is today.

But at that time he was found in a pond. I heard that his little body was white and swollen.

When Gu Jinchu saw him putting the pastry into his mouth, he choked and drank the tea in one gulp, and simply put the teapot on the small table.

After a while, Gu Wen's pale little face turned red.

Seeing that he couldn't eat anymore, Gu Jinchu stood up and said, "Let's go."

Gu Wen raised his head, and his face, which had just relaxed a little, became tense again, "Third sister, you always secretly gave me food in the past. Since Chun Xing got pregnant, I haven't eaten anything from Biluozhai anymore..."