Family affection? Is it important to have rights?

"You!" Gu Luo swallowed the rest of his words.

He rolled his eyes, and tears appeared in his eyes in an instant, "Shi Ming, I am your father, you can't just ignore me!"

"You, can you go ask Aunt Wang if there is an antidote for this poison? I can't just lie in bed all my life. Without me to protect you, someone will bully you and your son!"

Gu Shiming pretended to hesitate and said, "But even the imperial physician can't cure you. Does Aunt Wang really have an antidote?"

"Well, go ask her. Since she can get this poison, she must be able to find an antidote!"

Gu Shiming pretended to be in deep thought until the hope in Gu Luo's eyes grew bigger and bigger, and then he suddenly laughed out loud.

"Gu Luo, do you actually think that I will really go find an antidote for you?" The more Gu Shiming thought about it, the funnier it became. What on earth gave him the illusion that he could get help?

Gu Shiming walked closer to the bed and bent down, his eyes full of mockery as he met Gu Luo's incredulous eyes.

Seeing that he used to rely on his status as the head of the family and Marquis of Jingyang, but now can only lie paralyzed in bed like a useless person, this feeling really makes him feel happy.

"You are my son. Without me, how could you have become the crown prince? How dare you not help me?!"

Gu Luo still looks righteous, thinking that he can get what he wants by just giving an order.

The smile on Gu Shiming's lips gradually faded. Gu Luo had done so many things, why didn't he realize how hateful he was?

He hated Gu Luo so much that he wanted to cut him into pieces and eat his flesh alive!

But forget about the latter. Now that Gu Luo is stinking, he should give up the latter idea.

"You are so confident."

Gu Shiming sighed slightly, but there was a smile in his eyes.

"No one in this mansion wants you to live, not even your four concubines and those illegitimate sons and daughters."

He spoke slowly.

"Gu Luo, not only are you unpopular, but even your own children wish you would die!"

Gu Luo's eyes flashed with astonishment, his chest rising and falling more and more obviously, he denied it frantically, "Impossible, impossible! You are all my children, how could you possibly want me to die?!"

Gu Shiming lowered his eyes calmly, "How is it impossible? Ever since they saw you doting on that woman, doting on her to the point of not caring about the face of your former lover, Concubine Wang, and since you were so stupid that the emperor despised you for her, and since you seemed to have forgotten them, they also gave up on you."

"You are lying in bed now. You can neither give them money and jewelry nor promise them a bright future. You are useless now."

The voice sounded like the cruel words from the devil. Gu Luo didn't want to listen, but he couldn't escape the words that were like a knife piercing his soul.

The word "useless" surrounded Gu Luo's mind. Is he useless?

No, he is the Marquis of Jingyang who followed the emperor to the war. He is a person trusted by the emperor and was given half a tiger talisman by the emperor!

Many people look up to him!

He can't be useless!

Gu Shiming waited for a while, and seeing that Gu Luo was still immersed in what he had just said, he became a little impatient.

He took a step back and kicked his boots forward hard, and the white paper money on the ground instantly scattered all over the place.

Some of the paper money fluttered in the wind and fell on Gu Luo's face and body on the bed.

One by one, they were covered on Gu Luo's body, just like the last step before closing the coffin after his death, using paper money to commemorate him.

When Gu Shiming saw this scene, his mood improved a little.

"You are such a failure in life. No one truly loves you. No one wants you to live, not even His Majesty."

Gu Luo's heart seemed to be empty. He was suddenly confused. What did he get in this life? What else did he have?

The light in Gu Luo's eyes gradually dimmed, and he lay quietly on the bed. With the white paper money scattered on him, he seemed as dead as the corpse beside him.

Gu Shiming left after saying this and prepared to leave. He was not going to kill Gu Luo today. He wanted to make him live a life worse than death.

The most important thing is that he feels that he has been marinated by this stench!

He couldn't bear it anymore and had to go out and relax.

Gu Shiming opened the door with a smile, but when he raised his eyes, his movements froze and his heart stopped for a moment out of fear.

"Mother?" His voice trembled with nervousness, and his eyes subconsciously looked at the expression on his mother's face.

Madam Zheng had been listening at the door for an unknown period of time. Her expression remained calm and she did not even glance at Marquis Jingyang. She simply said, "Go back. It's windy today."

"Okay." Gu Shiming breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he wasn't here to scold him.

He turned to look at the two servants guarding the gate and instructed them, "You continue to guard here and don't let outsiders in. This month's salary will be doubled."

"Yes!" The two servants both needed to eat, so how could they offend the future Marquis Jingyang because of the deposed Marquis Jingyang in the house?

However, the corpse in the room became more and more smelly as time went by, no wonder Master Gu had been smelling it for so long.

As for what they just heard?

Who said they heard anything? They just had tinnitus from the lightning, so they didn't hear anything!

The fact that the monthly salary had doubled brought a smile to the servant's face. Who could resist money?

Mrs. Zheng was walking in the rain holding an umbrella, followed by Gu Shiming, who looked a little guilty. A servant was standing beside her, carefully holding the umbrella for him.

Mrs. Zheng suddenly asked, "Are you having fun?"

"I'm happy, I——"

Gu Shiming was just thinking about how to explain to his mother later when he was tricked by his mother's sudden words.

His expression gradually became serious and he wanted to explain, but should he tell his mother that he was unhappy?

Mrs. Zheng smiled and said, "Just have fun, but why did you make yourself so embarrassed? Go back to your room and wash up. Your sister just woke up and wants to see you."

She gently turned the subject over to Shi Yin, referring to Marquis Jingyang's affairs.

Gu Shiming's attention was also successfully diverted. He lowered his head with a grim face and smelled the smell on his body, which almost made him vomit.

No wonder Mu Jinfeng and the others smelled so bad. He had even come close to and touched the corpse, so the smell on his body was a hundred times worse than Mu Jinfeng's!

What's more, his sister still wants to find him, so he has to clean himself up first!

"Mother, I'm going to wash up first!" Gu Shiming said goodbye in a hurry and ran away.

He no longer cared about the rain falling on him. He was about to take a shower anyway, so he didn't delay any longer and just ran back.

The boy holding an umbrella beside him ran behind Gu Shiming, "Master, Master, slow down, be careful not to catch a cold!"

Mrs. Zheng watched this scene with a smile on her face, and after a moment she turned around and walked towards Shi Yin's yard.

She had never paid any attention to Marquis Jingyang's affairs. Ever since he became unable to move, Zheng Hualing had freed herself from the title of Marquis Jingyang's wife.

She can be the lady of the marquis's mansion, the mother of Shi Ming and Shi Yin, the lady in the servants' mouths, or herself, Zheng Hualing.

But she is no longer the wife of Marquis Jingyang!