Gong Tingyu's eyes were a little dull and shivered. She touched the bright pearl gently and suddenly said: "It's hard for you to still remember me and save me, otherwise I would be eaten by a vicious beast here.
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This sentence almost made Shi Yingxue cry. She suppressed her emotions and still maintained a smile: "Senior sister has been a great kindness to me. Of course I will not forget it."
Gong Tingyu clenched the pearl in her palm and looked at it with empty eyes: "This is the most beautiful pearl I have ever seen."
Shi Yingxue always felt that there was something in her words, so she waited quietly for her next words.
"I have seen all kinds of beauties and charms before, but I never imagined that when I fell into trouble and became a disabled person, I would actually have a little sister who only knew me for less than two days by my side. My mother once
I lied to her, but she saved my life." Gong Tingyu rubbed the pearl on her fingertips again and again. There were no tears in her eyes, but it was more pitiful than crying.
Just when Shi Yingxue was about to say something to comfort her, Gong Tingyu shook her head and said, "There is no need to comfort me. A person who has become an abandoned son of the family is not qualified to be comforted."
Gong Tingyu's voice has long lost the beauty and sharpness it once had, replaced by a coolness that can see through people's hearts.
"Would you like to hear me tell you a story?"
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Shi Yingxue felt that she had heard many stories, but Gong Tingyu's was particularly sad for her.
Only then did she realize that when Gong Tingyu competed with others for the Dream Lotus at the auction house, it was not for the sake of the young lady's ambition, but for her own family, her uncle Gong Zifeng who lived far away from the Beidou Sword Sect.
However, the Dream Lotus that Gong Tingyu and Shi Yingxue got back after some scheming was a fake.
That was not the Dream Lotus, but a black water lily that looked very similar to the Dream Lotus.
Although the black water lily is called black water lily, it does not look black at all.
The reason why it is called this name is because of its strange toxicity. If it is eaten raw, there is no harm, but if it is used as medicine, it is inexplicably extremely toxic. Even monks in the Nascent Soul stage have taken pills that use it as medicine.
The medicine also died, unable to save the life, and turned into a puddle of coke.
The appearance of the black water lily is similar to that of the dream lotus. The only difference is in the initial number of petals. The dream lotus always has an odd number of petals, while the black water lily has an even number of petals. The other parts are exactly the same, and it is difficult to distinguish them with the naked eye.
This dream-telling lotus was brought home by Gong Tingyu. After the elders saw it, they asked Gong Tingyu to personally send it to the Beidou Sword Sect. Gong Zifeng had already found Zizhi.
Dream Lotus.
The Gong family's idea is to send Gong Tingyu to study in the Beidou Sword Sect.
There is an unwritten rule in the Beidou Sword Sect, that is, monks who have formed a Nascent Soul within the sect can be exempted from many tests and recommend a disciple with a single spiritual root to enter the sect to practice.
On the one hand, this rule encourages the disciples in the sect to practice hard and form Nascent Souls to pave the way for future generations. On the other hand, it also attracts a lot of fresh blood to the Beidou Sword Sect. It has been well received since its implementation. After all, Shanlinggen's
Disciples are not necessarily able to enter such a prestigious sect, but if there is always a stable source of disciples with single spiritual roots, the strength of the Beidou Sword Sect will definitely be greatly enhanced.
Therefore, both the accepted disciples and the seniors of the Big Dipper Sword Sect are grateful for this rule.
Therefore, this Dream Lotus was personally sent to the Beidou Sword Sect by Gong Tingyu.
In fact, the Gong family's idea is very simple. They just ask Gong Tingyu to deliver the Dream Lotus, and then live near the Beidou Sword Sect for a while, waiting for the uncle who has the Dream Lotus to form a Nascent Soul, and then directly hitch a ride.
, to become a disciple of the Beidou Sword Sect, to have the best of both worlds, wouldn’t it be happy, and it would also satisfy Gong Tingyu’s cultivation aspirations.
But the mistake was that the flower was not the dream lotus, but the black water lily.
Gong Zifeng refined the highly poisonous Shenzhi Linglong Pill. Perhaps he was very confident in his alchemy skills, or maybe he was so eager to succeed that he swallowed the Shenzhi Linglong Pill without testing its properties.
So the result is clear at a glance. Gong Zifeng went crazy. The failure of the Nascent Soul was a trivial matter. Finally, he died suddenly in the cloud room. He passed away without even a chance to save his life. It was Gong Zifeng's junior brother who went to find him.
It was only then that I discovered that my senior brother had been killed by the black water lily, but by that time Gong Zifeng had long since lost his human form and turned into a piece of coke with a foul smell.
Gong Tingyu didn't know about this. She was still waiting for her uncle to call her in the Beidou Sword Sect's villa, but in the end all she waited for was an obituary and Gong Zifeng's ashes jar.
The Beidou Sword Sect did not criticize Gong Tingyu too much, but Gong Tingyu herself was already confused. She rushed to Chaningfang in a daze, but was caught by Gong Zishan who had already heard the news.
Gong Zishan didn't know what he was thinking. At this time when the whole family should have been grieving externally, he actually told several elders in the Gong family ancestral hall that Gong Tingyu was in love with Ming He and wanted to marry into the Ming family as a young man.
Madam, she colluded with Minghe and replaced the original dream-telling lotus with the highly poisonous black water lily, killing Gong Zifeng and giving the Ming family an opportunity to take advantage of it.
The situation of the Gong family at that time really made the Gong family think too much. After all, how could a Dream Lotus that passed through the auction house turn into a black water lily for no reason? What's more, the Dream Lotus is so precious, and the black water lily is even more poisonous.
Violent. Although ordinary people cannot distinguish between the two, the auction house can clearly distinguish them. How could such a mistake be made?
When the bad news came, the Gong family went to the auction house to investigate. Gu Pei, the former owner of Dream Lotus, even swore on his own sect that the one he brought out was definitely not the black water lily; the auction house was able to keep it.
The auction house did not dare to touch the Dream Lotus itself, but took a piece of the Dream Lotus' pedicle. This thing directly proved that at least what Gong Tingyu took from the auction house must be the genuine Dream Lotus.
The source has been identified, so what exactly went wrong?
After further investigation, there were indeed many people who could testify that Gong Tingyu and Minghe were talking and laughing very intimately at the auction house; and the people from Gongzishan even found Gong Tingyu's personal belongings from Minghe's servant.
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And the Ming family had indeed made arrangements long ago. As soon as Gong Zifeng died, before the Gong family could react, they directly annexed nearly 30% of the Gong family's property.
Thirty percent! That’s the hard work of generations of Gong family members!
The fact that the Ming family could do this means that they must have planned it for a long time, and the fact that they were able to break into the Gong family and plant so many spies in this way can only be said to be an insider within the Gong family.
This coincides with what Gong Zishan said that Gong Tingyu and Ming He had an affair.
This is incredible! For the sake of personal love, he actually poisoned his uncle who had always loved him and leaked important family secrets. It is simply an unforgivable crime!