Pingshuo Zhai.
When something like that happened at the racecourse before, everyone's faces were a little unsightly. A dozen people sat around and whispered: "Why did the horse suddenly go crazy?"
"It is estimated that the Leping County Lord wanted to win too much, and the horse went crazy because of the pain."
"These horses were originally sent from a foreign country. They are wild and hard to tame. Fortunately, there was nothing wrong with them, otherwise..." The man said this and did not go on.
After a moment of silence, someone else said, "I don't know how the Princess Leping is now? Why don't we go and see her?"
Especially when something like this happened today, they were really worried.
A few people were about to agree when Lu Yan, who had sent Gu Wuyou over just now, came back. When a group of people saw her coming back, they all asked, "Ayan, how is Princess Leping? Is she alright?"
Lu Yan walked all the way and was thirsty. Hearing that, she took the tea from the waitress and drank it before replying, "It's alright, Madam Zhang has already applied the ointment."
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this, and even Xiao Yi, who had never spoken, was also relieved. She didn't even realize that she had been clenching her hand since she came back from the racecourse.
Until now, it was like waking up from a big dream, and the tightly clenched hand also loosened, only a few nail prints were hidden in the red palm, which had penetrated deeply into the flesh and blood, and was almost bleeding.
But just as her heart fell, Lu Yan spoke again, "But—"
When everyone heard this, they all asked, "But what?"
"Ding Guo Gong is here, and he also brought a lot of personal soldiers..." Lu Yan frowned, and his voice became lower, "I see that some of them are heading towards the horse farm."
As soon as the words fell, the room was quiet for a while, and then a lot of people discussed, "What do you mean? He brought his own soldiers and went to the horse farm? Could it be that Duke Ding thinks that there is something wrong with the Leping County Lord?"
"Speaking of which, it's really strange that the horse was crazy just now."
"If someone really used the means, it would be too arrogant! That's a life! If Li Qinyuan hadn't protected the Leping County Lord just now, who knows what she would have become now?"
A group of people in the room said they were outraged and very angry.
No one noticed that Xiao Yi's complexion changed after Lu Yan had said those words. Her gentle and beautiful face was very pale, and even the hand that had just been released was clenched tightly at this moment.
There was a lot of noise around, but she didn't seem to hear anything.
No, there is still sound...
"The Duke of Dingguo came and brought a lot of his own soldiers", "some people have already gone to the horse farm", "that person who used the means is really too arrogant, you should really find out, or keep such a person By my side, what peaceful days will we have in the future?"
These words kept echoing in her ears, making her ears explode.
Xiao Yi wanted to screen out these sounds, but found that no matter how much she shook it, she couldn't shake it. In this increasingly loud voice, she only felt her heart beat like a drum, and even gave her the illusion that her heart was about to jump out of her throat.
When Xu Wan heard them say this, she frowned and turned to talk to Xiao Yi next to her, "Ayi, do you really think someone would harm Gu Wuyou?" Although she didn't like Gu Wuyou, she never liked Gu Wuyou. It is only verbally taking advantage of it, but in private, he dares not take any action.
After talking for a long time, Xiao Yi didn't see an answer.
Looking back, she found that her face was very pale. She was startled and worried: "Ayi, what's wrong with you? Why is your face so bad?"
As soon as the hand touched it, Xiao Yi suddenly stood up, and even the pen, ink, paper, inkstone and inkstone on the table fell to the ground. The heavy voice made the whole room quiet, and everyone looked back. Go, I saw the girl wearing a lilac-colored sur skirt was pale, and her dark red lips were full of tooth marks.
He had never seen Xiao Yi like this before, everyone was stunned for a while, and just as he was about to speak, Gu Yu walked in from the outside with a sullen face.
Seeing Xiao Yi's expression and the things that fell to the ground, Gu Yu's eyes flashed slightly, followed by her little face, which sank even more. She stared at Xiao Yi, and it seemed that this was the first time she looked at people so seriously. When the light in Yi's eyes gradually gathered, he said in a deep voice, "Come out with me."
"Ayu?" Xiao Yi seemed to be stunned for a moment.
Without waiting for her to say anything, Gu Yu stepped forward and dragged the person out, completely ignoring where Xiao Yi bumped into when he was walking, and regardless of the group of people behind him calling her two names, he dragged the person and went outside. .
"Ayu, you hurt me."
Xiao Yi didn't know what happened to Gu Yu. Her first thought was that she discovered what she had done, but not to mention that Ding Guogong's talents had passed, she said that the needle had already pierced into the horse's belly. .
It's just an ordinary embroidery needle, how could Gu Yu know that she made it
So after a while of panic, Xiao Yi returned to her original face, gentle and kind. Even if she was treated like this by Gu Yu, she just complained softly behind her.
Gu Yu heard her voice as always, and the steps under her feet also stopped.
She even wondered, did she guess wrong? Maybe someone else? Ayi has a good temper when she is young, how could she do such a hurtful act? How about a thinner needle? There are so many people in Pingshuozhai, maybe there are others too? But thinking of Xiao Yi's panicked look when he entered just now, and the fact that the ground was broken, Gu Yu still closed his eyes.
She and Xiao Yi grew up together and knew her better than anyone else. If something hadn't happened, she would never have shown that look. Finally came to a clean place, Gu Yu stopped, shook off Xiao Yi's hand, ignored her staggering figure, looked at her with a sullen face, opened her mouth and said, "Why?"
No matter how mild-mannered Xiao Yi is on weekdays, at this time, she was somewhat agitated by her attitude and actions.
Her face was a little unsightly, and she stood firmly against the wall, rubbing her wrists with finger prints, frowning at her and saying, "Ayu, what's wrong with you? What and why?"
"You know what I'm asking."
Gu Yu was still the same as before, her hands were clenched into fists, and her red lips were pursed tightly, "I and Jing Yubai found traces of embroidery needles on the saddle." Seeing her long eyelashes trembling slightly, her expression There was also a flash of panic.
"So what?" Xiao Yi returned to normal after a brief panic.
She put her slightly trembling hands behind her, and forced her usual face to look at people, "Ayu, we are all women, and we just took the women's red class before, why do you think it's me?"
Done.
She sighed softly again, looked at Gu Yu, and seemed a little disappointed, "I don't know what's wrong with you, and I don't know what the Princess Leping told you to let you..."
Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Gu Yu, "It's all over, you still lie to me?!"
Different from the gloomy and unbelievable before, Gu Yu was angry at this time, she stared at Xiao Yi with red eyes, and the peach blossom eyes that were usually slightly raised were already bursting with tears at this time, "Do you know that? Knowing that the uncle is here, he has sent people to the stables, and soon they will check out the saddle."
"Do you think you can hide from the sky and think that no one will find out about you?"
"Xiao Yi, are you being too smart?!"
In the eyes of those in high positions, these people are just children playing the house, they think that there are no mistakes and foolproof, but in this world, no matter what you do, how can you really be foolproof
She looked at Xiao Yi, and when she saw her pale face, she still had to open her mouth to defend herself. I wonder if she was tired, or she didn't want to talk to her anymore. Gu Yu looked at her, no longer angry, but said to her in a very calm tone: "The needles on the saddle are smaller than ordinary embroidery needles, and you were sending someone from Jiangnan to bring a box of embroidery needles not long ago. come over."
Seeing Xiao Yiru's face struck by lightning, Gu Yu looked at her and said lightly, "Did you forget this when you were doing these things?"
"I… "
Xiao Yi was really panicked, she really forgot about it.
Seeing her like this, Gu Yu spoke after a long time. It was an extremely disappointed tone mixed with endless sighs: "Ayi, why did you become like this?" Xiao Xiao in her memory Yi has a gentle temperament and is very polite when dealing with people. She spent most of her childhood playing with Ayi.
Although they are not close sisters, they are more affectionate than close sisters.
But now-
The panic-stricken woman in front of her clearly has the same appearance as Xiao Yi from before, but why... makes her feel so unfamiliar.
She seemed to have exhausted all her strength and asked her in a low voice, "Have you ever thought about what would happen if Li Qinyuan hadn't followed him at that time, and if he hadn't been able to save Gu Wuyou, then... what would it be like now?"
Xiao Yi did not answer.
She didn't know how to answer.
She never thought that the horse would be so crazy, she just... wanted to scare her.
When she saw that the horse ran so crazy, she regretted it, she just hated Gu Wuyou, didn't want her to die, she just wasn't willing... Every time this woman appeared, she would pay all attention force to attract away.
Not reconciled to everything she tried so hard to get, Gu Wuyou can always get it easily.
But she really, really never wanted her to die.
Seeing her like this, Gu Yu didn't want to say anything anymore. She seemed to sigh deeply, and finally she held her hand and said to her, "Ayi, go see Uncle with me, go to Gu Wuyou and admit your mistake."
"Then what?" Xiao Yi said with a pale face, "Gu Wuyou will not let me go."
Gu Yu frowned, and her voice sounded a little stern, "You did something wrong, no matter what she does to you, you should suffer..." Xu Shi felt that her tone was too heavy, she added a sigh, " I will accompany you."
Xiao Yi knew that Gu Yu was right, but when she thought of the consequences, her face turned pale, "No, no..."
Gu Yu couldn't hear her clearly and asked her, "What?"
Xiao Yi raised her head, she grabbed Gu Yu's hand with her backhand, like a drowning person grabbing the last piece of driftwood, and she said in a trembling voice, "I can't let others know that I did it, Ayu, help me, no one knows me There's that needle..."
"As long as you don't say it, no one will know."
Gu Yu seemed to be stunned. She stared blankly at Xiao Yi, and at Xiao Yi who begged her in a low voice, she said in disbelief after a while, "You said... what?"
At this time, in the yard separated by a wall from them.
Gu Jiufei stood up straight from the wall against which he was leaning, and he glanced at the wall with a light expression. There was no superfluous expression on his face, only his eyes were deep and deep, as if splashing ink.
He didn't say anything, and continued to walk in the direction he came from. He stopped when he encountered a few personal soldiers on the way.
"Ninth young master." The personal soldiers greeted him.
Gu Jiufei nodded, glanced at the saddle in his hand, and said in a low voice, "Go to Pingshuozhai and bring Changning County Master here."
The soldier was stunned, "What?"
"Go, go and look through her desk. If there is a needle, bring it with you. If someone stops you..." Gu Jiufei thought of Gu Yu, her eyes dimmed, "Bring it with you too."
"Yes!"
"Go back and ask my father, don't say it's me." This was the last sentence Gu Jiufei left before he left.
The soldier was stunned, looked at his back, and responded slowly, "...Yes."
When Gu Jiufei returned to Mrs. Zhang's side, he happened to hear Gu Wuyou talking, "Daddy thinks my accident was murdered by someone?" This layer comes to mind.
He didn't say anything, just took a step and continued to walk into the house.
He has always been such a person. If he didn't want others to pay attention to him, he would have no sense of existence in most situations. When he entered, only Li Qinyuan, who was facing the door, seemed to notice something and glanced at him.
But didn't say anything. The wind turned and fell to another place.
He didn't say anything, went back to his seat and sat down, continued to hold a bowl, lowered his head and drank slowly.
Gu Wuji didn't expect her to guess that he was actually reluctant to let his daughter see the ugliness of the human heart. He hoped that his Man Man would always be happy and carefree forever. Eyes, but did not want to lie to her, he hesitated before saying, "Let's take a look first, if it's accidental, it's naturally the best, if it's not... it's better to eradicate these evils together."
Hearing this, Gu Wuyou revealed a light smile.
It's not that she hasn't experienced those dirty things, and she's not really as simple as a piece of white paper. Maybe Gu Wuyou in the past was like this, so she was trampled, bullied, and... Can't get up from the quagmire.
But she knows how ugly this world is.
It was because she knew that she wanted to see the light in this ugly world, and she was more willing to believe in the goodness of people's hearts.
"When the horse ran just now, I had already noticed it. Although I used strength, that strength would not make the horse become so mad..." Gu Wuyou said slowly in the silent room.
Gu Wuji was stunned, as if she did not expect that she would have guessed it long ago, and could not help asking: "Then can you guess who did it?"
Gu Wuyou didn't answer immediately, she seemed to think for a while before speaking, "Today there are three academies at the racecourse, but it's actually easy to guess, those who will be in Buzhizhai and Changrongzhai are far away, not close at all. No horses."
"And that horse was ridden before me, and there was nothing unusual about it, so the person who wanted to hurt me could only be between the time the last person got off the horse and when I got on the horse."
Gu Wuyou spoke slowly and clearly, "At that time, it was naturally impossible for the second group of people to ride horses. Ayu and I were together again... There were only a dozen people selected."
"If you want to know who was close to the horse at that time, you can ask all the remaining people, what they were doing at that time, who was around... As long as you cross-examine one by one, you will naturally be able to find the flaws. "
In fact, she has a few candidates in her heart, but there is no evidence yet, so it's hard to talk nonsense.
Everyone in the room obviously did not expect that Gu Wuyou would say such a thing, whether it was drinking tea or talking, they would all turn their attention to her.
Gu Wuji was also stunned.
In his heart, Manman has always been a small child. He was always worried that she would be injured, bullied, and suffer a secret loss, so when he heard of her accident today, he brought his own soldiers here.
Unexpectedly...
His daughter is much calmer than he thought. Not only did she guess that something was different, but she also came up with her own set of rules. Even if he didn't come today, she must be able to find out the real murderer by herself.
Gu Wuyou's face turned a little red.
In fact, this is also the skill that they learned from following the generals. Once they went to Jiangnan for a visit and encountered a murder case. Unfortunately, the two of them were involved. They thought that they would have to wait for the local prefect to come over. The general found the real culprit in a few seconds.
When the perpetrator does things, he always thinks that what he is doing is very covert.
But as long as all the mists and obscurations are removed, no matter how well the perpetrators hide it, they can still find out the flaws.
Think of this.
She couldn't help but looked in Li Qinyuan's direction.
Yin Yin Hongri passed through the fan and hit him. The boy in white was sitting on a chair. He was looking at her earlier than her. His long and narrow phoenix eyes were full of smiles, a very proud smile. , as if to say "Little girl is really amazing", her face suddenly turned red again.
The people in the room either already knew what they were thinking, or they had guessed it.
Jing Yubai and Qi Xu were drinking tea each and didn't say anything. Fu Xian seemed to be immersed in this matter, his expression was very painful. As for Gu Jiufei... He looked at the two of them and pursed his thin lips. didn't say anything.
Gu Wuji, the only one who didn't know anything, was also immersed in the feeling of "daughter has grown up" at this time, and the expression on his face could not tell whether he was happy or uncomfortable.
It took a while to hear someone faintly say, "Manman has really grown up."
Gu Wuyou retracted his gaze, turned to look at Gu Wuji, still with his sweet eyes, and smiled at him, "So daddy don't have to worry about what I will feel when I know this, and you don't have to hide it from me."
"I always believed-"
She paused. Although the last sentence was light, it was loud. She looked at Li Qinyuan's direction and said slowly, "No matter how much darkness there is in this world, there are still countless people trying to create light."
The room was silent again, and everyone was looking at her.
After a while, Gu Wuji was about to answer when Chang Shan walked in and said to him, "Master Guo, we have already found it."