Qiuyu quickly handed it to him, and he immediately asked, "Is this Madam Gu's blood?"

Qiuyu shuddered all over and froze in place, not daring to say a word.

Emperor Sheng An spoke without hesitation: "Doctor Lin, don't use this bowl of blood yet. Marquis Zhan Yi and I saw with our own eyes that the blood was taken from her wrist. It's not Madam Gu's at all!"

Qiuyu wanted to die at this moment, but as a mother, she was strong and she didn't care about anything else in order to take care of the Fifth Young Master.

She urged anxiously, "Doctor Lin, please use this bowl of blood quickly. Isn't the life of Master Gu Wu the most important thing right now?"

Doctor Lin frowned and said, "How can I dare to use him? If anything goes wrong with him, how can I explain it to Madam Gu? No, we have to invite Madam Gu over immediately!"

Qiuyu was so frightened that she knelt before him and begged, "Doctor Lin, it's not too late to ask Madam for help later. Please detoxify our young master first. Please, detoxify him first!"

Doctor Lin looked at Emperor Sheng An, who said calmly, "Master Gu Wu's life is important, but determining who his mother is is equally important. Someone, go get Madam Gu!"

Soon, Madam Gu was supported and brought before Emperor Sheng'an.

She bowed cautiously and said, "Your Majesty!"

Emperor Sheng An said, "Madam Gu, please be polite. I heard that your son was suddenly poisoned at the banquet?"

Mrs. Gu's tears welled up in her eyes. She said in a trembling voice, "Your Majesty, please grant justice to my son. He is so innocent. How could anyone deliberately murder him?"

Emperor Sheng An nodded and said, "Don't worry, I will definitely give the Gu family an explanation. However, when I came here with Marquis Zhan Yi just now, I saw your maid secretly taking blood. Could she be your son's biological mother?"

Mrs. Gu widened her eyes in astonishment. How could it be possible?

Qiuyu is her personal maid!

She shouted, "Qiuyu, what's going on?"

Qiuyu sobbed and argued, "No, Your Majesty and Marquis Zhan Yi were mistaken. This servant was not taking blood. Madam, please be clear!"

Madam Gu was no fool. She immediately lifted her arm and asked, "Since you didn't take blood, how did you get this wound? Tell me!"

Qiuyu was in so much pain that cold sweat broke out on her forehead as she pressed her wound.

Mrs. Gu was so angry that she immediately raised her hand and slapped her hard in the face.

She didn't care about anything else and quickly urged Doctor Lin: "Take my blood again. No matter what, saving my son's life is the most important thing!"

Doctor Lin was about to cut her arm again, but Qiuyu desperately stopped him: "No, Madam, just use my blood. Only my blood can save the young master. Please!"

Madam Gu was so angry that she almost laughed. Why should her own son use the blood of a slave girl?

Wait, isn't this son her biological son?

Thinking of this, her body shook violently.

She rushed towards Qiuyu with gritted teeth, raised her hand and grabbed her neck fiercely, and shouted: "You bitch, tell me the truth, whose child is Gu Wu?"

Qiuyu rolled her eyes as she was pinched, how could she say anything!

Zhan Yan spoke slowly: "Mrs. Gu, calm down. If you accidentally strangle her to death, you will never know the truth!"

Mrs. Gu subconsciously let go and saw Qiuyu lying on the ground coughing violently.

She said in a trembling voice: "Madam, please spare me. I have no choice but to do so. After all, you raised me, and he is your own son!"

Madam Gu kicked her to the ground and said, "Nonsense! I worked so hard to raise someone else's son, and I deserve to be kept in the dark by you."

Qiuyu was kicked so hard that she vomited blood. She reached out and grabbed Madam Gu's clothes and begged, "Save the young master first. Don't let him die. Save him!"

Mrs. Gu was no longer willing to save him. She just wanted to kill that bastard.

She gritted her teeth and said, "If you don't tell me the truth, I'm going to buy that child a coffin and bury him in a pit!"

Qiuyu shook her head vigorously: "No, no, don't bury him!"

Madam Gu pressed on, "Then tell me, whose child is he?"

Qiuyu refused to speak anymore, but turned to look at an old woman standing not far away.

That was Mrs. Gu's wet nurse, who had raised her since she was a child and followed her to the Gu family to serve.

Madam Gu asked in disbelief, "Mammy? You actually knew about this?"

The old nanny knelt before her with a pale face and said, "Madam, calm down. This is all my fault. When you became pregnant, the baby was already dead in your womb. But you refused to listen and refused to have the abortion. I thought maybe there would be a chance of recovery in the future. Who would have thought that after you gave birth, the baby would still be dead!"

Mrs. Gu staggered back half a step. She never expected that the wet nurse would do such a thing to deceive her.

She lost her mother at a young age and was raised by her wet nurse with great difficulty.

Although she is called a wet nurse, she is actually like a biological mother.

However, it was precisely because she was like her biological mother that she was emboldened and even did something like secretly swapping children.

Madam Gu was furious and raised her hand to slap her hard in the face, but in the end, she didn't.

She angrily demanded, "Why on earth would you do this?"

The nurse replied, "I don't want to make you sad. I know you wanted to give me another son. You've been lying on the bed for six months because of him. If you found out that the baby was stillborn, it would be such a huge blow!"

After hearing this, Mrs. Gu almost couldn't stand.

But she still had doubts in her heart: who was Qiuyu? What was her child's relationship with the Gu family?

She didn't dare to touch the fact, she was afraid that she was the master's concubine.

She could only suppress her overwhelming anger and speak: "What's going on with Qiuyu? Whose child is hers?"

It had come to this point, so the old lady simply stopped hiding it.

She lowered her head and explained, "Qiuyu was a pregnant woman I picked up from the street. She collapsed in the woods outside the farm, and I saved her life. We agreed that if you give birth to a stillborn baby, you'll swap it with her child!"

Mrs. Gu could no longer bear the blow, her eyes rolled back and she fainted.

Emperor Sheng An and Zhan Yan both had complicated and ugly expressions when they heard this. No one had expected that things would have such twists and turns.

Now that it is confirmed that Gu Wu and Madam Gu are not related by blood, we should find out whether his mother Qiuyu is the disappeared courtesan.

He said in a deep voice: "Come here, go and invite the head of the Gu family into the palace!"

No one knew what Emperor Sheng An had talked about with him, but he only brought Madam Gu back with him, leaving the old nanny and Qiuyu and her son in the palace.

When Mrs. Gu woke up, she saw her daughter beside her, wiping away tears.

She asked in a trembling voice, "Lan Xin, does your father know about Gu Yuan's situation? What did he say?"

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