Favoring the concubine and killing the wife? She divorced the concubine and lived with her concubine

Xiao Lan sat at the table eating melon seeds, thinking that the beggar should have been questioned by Su Ze by now.

Have you got any useful news?

Xiao Lan wasn't good at judging people. To her, the beggar was just a child of about ten, so she couldn't bring herself to do anything cruel to him. It would be better to hand him over to Su Ze, so she could get some information from him.

Thinking of this, Xiao Lan thought of Su Ze's series of actions in the morning, and her heart suddenly felt like being pinched by someone, and she felt very uncomfortable.

Liu Hu leaned on the couch in Xiao Lan's room with a tired look on his face, staring at Xu Yi who was taking his pulse.

Xu Yi studied the pulse carefully for a long time and said, "Indulgence in sex is harmful to your body. It will cause loss of both Qi and blood. You need to replenish your energy. Don't have sex recently..."

"Hey! Doctor Xu, I've been drugged. Don't I need to detoxify or something?" Liu Hu glanced at Xiao Lan and changed the subject guiltily.

"I can hardly feel any residual poison in your body. Are you feeling unwell?" Xu Yi answered seriously.

"I just feel anxious and weak, oh, and a little tinnitus!" Liu Hu said solemnly.

"This is also a symptom of kidney essence deficiency..."

"Okay, okay, stop talking!" Liu Hu jumped off the bed, his legs feeling weak. "Hurry up and prescribe some medicine for me. I need to replenish my body."

"Well, yes, but tonics are quite expensive, and you should have enough money." Xu Yi said as he wrote the prescription.

"I'm not short of money, Xiao Lan, give it to me!" Liu Hu grabbed two melon seeds from Xiao Lan's hand and threw them into his mouth.

Xiao Lan then turned to look at Liu Hu, "Why should I give you money if you indulge in excessive sexual activities?"

"I was drugged for you. Don't keep saying that word. I didn't do it voluntarily!" Liu Hu scratched his head awkwardly. After all, Old Yu had seen his whole appearance, and he didn't know what Old Yu had said when he got back.

Su Ze's drinking with Liu Yu that day was just a cover-up. The real lure of the tiger away from the mountain was the fire at Miweixuan. If it was just that fire, Liu Yu might not have let his guard down so easily. But with Su Ze drinking before him, suspicion had already been aroused, and he would have let his guard down.

"Didn't I save you?" Xiao Lan softened her tone a little when she saw that he was indeed tortured. After all, this was too humiliating for Liu Hu.

"I had made up my mind to remain a virgin for you, but who knew my brother would resort to such despicable tricks!" Liu Hu said angrily, chewing the melon seeds viciously without spitting out the shells.

"I heard that when you were getting drunk at Miweixuan, you went to Xiangmanlou every night." Xiao Lan glanced at him with a sarcastic look on her face.

"I was just trying to confuse them. I didn't even touch the hands of the girls inside." Liu Hu quickly clarified that the first time he went to a brothel, he just wanted to drink!

"What's there to explain? I didn't ask you to remain a virgin for me." Xiao Lan patted the remaining melon seeds on her hands.

"Xiao Lan..." Liu Hu was about to reveal his true feelings to Xiao Lan, but Xu Yi handed him a prescription.

"Just catch him according to this!" After saying that, he turned and left.

Liu Hu was interrupted by this and could only silently take the prescription and put it in his arms. He thought about who to ask to help him get this embarrassing prescription, anyway, he couldn't go.

Xiao Lan also stood up to leave, not knowing where to go. Liu Hu hurriedly stood up and followed, "Did you get together with that Su Ze during the few days I was away?"

Xiao Lan turned around and looked at him, "No, didn't you hear it this morning?"

"Then why does he listen to you so much? He apologizes when he says he will apologize, and leaves when you tell him to." Liu Hu didn't believe it.

"Isn't that the same for you?"

"That's because I like you!" Liu Hu said anxiously, his voice quite high. The maids who were cleaning nearby glanced at the two of them, covered their mouths with their hands, smiled shyly, and ran away.

Xiao Lan felt a little embarrassed by what he said in public, but she still replied, "Isn't he the same as you?"

"Who do you choose?" Liu Hu didn't care. He straightened Xiao Lan's shoulders and asked her to face him.

Xiao Lan looked at him helplessly, "I respect you as a man!"

"What do you mean? Who asked you to respect me as a man!" Liu Hu felt that this was not a nice thing to say.

"I don't choose anyone! Why do you always ask me to be someone's woman? I belong to no one!" Xiao Lan broke free from his hand and wanted to go back to the house.

"Then can I be your man?" Liu Hu hurriedly followed.

"What information did you get from your brother? It wasn't just about him being poisoned and sleeping with women, was it?" Xiao Lan changed the subject to avoid Liu Hu's endless questioning.

Although Liu Hu desperately wanted to know the answer, he didn't dare to ask too quickly. He felt guilty and, for some reason, suddenly unsure of himself. He knew Su Ze was interested in Xiao Lan, but he hadn't imagined he was so devoted to her that he would obey her every word.

He was very worried. He felt that he was inferior to Xiao Lan in every way. Now he had betrayed Xiao Lan because of the medicine. He felt that he was about to lose.

"Of course there is news. Don't turn around. I'll tell you slowly." Liu Hu didn't know why Xiao Lan looked absent-minded and anxious, so he could only comfort her and ask her to sit down first.

After being seriously injured last time, Liu Hu also made it clear to Xiao Lan that he would never ask her to abandon her family property again. As long as Xiao Lan wanted something, he would help her if he could, and even if he couldn't, he would help her at the cost of his life.

"You say!" Xiao Lan sat down and stared at Liu Hu seriously.

Liu Hu felt itchy when she stared at him, but he also knew that now was not the time to think too much because the medicine had not been taken yet.

"That day, Old Yu rescued me and asked me to stay. It really made my brother trust me a little. They told me that they couldn't let you die, and you had to stay so that they could play tricks on you. So I guess they might want to do something and let you take the blame." Liu Hu didn't say that they would help him get Xiao Lan.

"Then do you know the poison your brother used on me? All the doctors at the time said that no medicine could cure it." Xiao Lan lowered his eyes and arranged the melon seeds on the plate into a line.

"What?" Liu Hu was shocked. He thought carefully about what they said. None of them mentioned this news. "No...no..."

"So, who wants me dead, your brother or Xiao Zongwen?" Xiao Lan continued fiddling with the melon seeds, but she couldn't quite figure it out. One wanted to make him a scapegoat, and the other wanted his life. This meant there was going to be a rift between Liu Yu and Xiao Zongwen.

"Xu Yi saved you?" Liu Hu held Xiao Lan's hand, only to feel the coldness in his palm.

"Yes, acupuncture saved him," Xiao Lan said perfunctorily. Xu Yi didn't know if it was his acupuncture that saved Xiao Lan, but simply called it a miracle. However, there was no way to know what the poison was, and the doctors' claim that no medicine could cure it was just a lie. It was hard to guarantee that those doctors weren't paid by Xiao Cheng and his ilk. After all, no one could be sure which side the doctors in the Xiao family's business would side with after Xiao Zongshan's death.

"Thank goodness!" Liu Hu held both of Xiao Lan's hands. After all, people who practiced martial arts had strong firepower, not to mention that there was a charcoal stove lit in the room.

Xiao Lan was naturally no match for him and couldn't pull his hand back.

"I don't like you, I'm just using you."

After Xiao Lan said this, she could clearly feel the rough palm wrapped around her hand stiffen for a moment. She didn't want to look at Liu Hu's expression and felt that what she said was a bit cruel.

"Fortunately, it is still useful, which is a good thing!" Liu Hu said after a while, with bitterness in his eyes. Xiao Lan lowered her head and did not see it.

"You're seriously ill too. Love-brained, you're only fit to pick wild vegetables!"

Fang Qingqing pushed the door open and saw exactly what Xu Yi had described. Just now, Xu Yi handed them the prescription and hurried to Fang Qingqing, saying that Liu Hu was plotting against Xiao Lan and asked her to go and help.

Liu Hu didn't quite understand what she was saying. Fang Qingqing handed Xiao Lan a hand warmer, and Liu Hu reluctantly let go of her hand.

"Who is seriously ill!" Liu Hu glanced at Fang Qingqing and turned away.

"Look, you're seriously ill! They say he's taking advantage of you, yet you still think you're taking advantage. Someone with only love in their head deserves to be digging wild vegetables in the mountains; they'll never amount to anything!" Xiao Lan told Fang Qingqing about Liu Hu's transformation after his injury. He no longer urged her to give up the family business, but instead offered to help her gather information and protect the Xiao family. Fang Qingqing felt that Liu Hu was a man of character, and a man like him would be a hot commodity in modern times.

"Madam..." Jasmine also hurried in from outside, looking anxious. Mother Xu was running behind her, not as fast as her, but she was also trying to catch up.

"What's the matter again?" Fang Qingqing turned around and looked at the two of them, only to feel that troubles kept coming up every day.

"The managers of several workshops are all in the Xiao family." Mother Xu said breathlessly.

"What are you doing in the Xiao family?"

"He said he wanted to see the future head of the Xiao family!"