Gu Chengfeng wanted to explain a few words for his younger brother, but his eldest brother's aura was completely cold, and he was too frightened to speak incoherently.
He really blames Yao Shi at this moment. Why did he suddenly say that his air bag was gone? Let her make such a fuss, she can't hold back anything, and she has become what she doesn't have.
"Big brother..." Gu Chengfeng said.
"Shut up!" Gu Changqing shouted coldly, then turned to look at Gu Chenglin, "Go to the ancestral hall and kneel for me! Don't get up without my orders!"
"Big brother!" Gu Chenglin suddenly changed color.
He just asked him to go to the study and kneel, but now it's going to the ancestral hall
In the ancestral hall, the tablets of ancestors are enshrined. Generally, only those who have committed unforgivable mistakes will go there to punish and kneel.
Gu Chenglin quit: "I don't go to the ancestral hall!"
"You have to go, you have to go if you don't!" As soon as Gu Changqing finished speaking, he grabbed Gu Chenglin's collar.
Gu Chenglin had already been beaten hard by Gu Jiao, but if he let his eldest brother drag him like this, he felt like his neck almost fell off!
Gu Changqing threw the person to the ancestral hall of the Hou Mansion, and left two guards to guard: "You are not allowed to eat him, and you are not allowed to give him water to drink."
Gu Chengfeng grabbed the eldest brother's arm: "Brother, the third brother is seriously injured. You punish him like this... Aren't you afraid that his heart will be cold?"
Gu Changqing said coldly, "He's cold, but others aren't?"
Gu Chengfeng defended: "That kid is an outsider after all, do you want to punish your own younger brother for an outsider? You forgot that your mother asked you to take care of me and my third brother before she died, and you swore before your mother's bed that you would not allow anyone Bully us! But look, how did you do it?"
Gu Changqing gave him a deep look: "Go and kneel too."
Gu Chengfeng was stunned.
After Gu Changqing locked both younger brothers in the ancestral hall, he turned around and returned to the courtyard.
In the meantime, the servants of Gu Chengfeng and Gu Chenglin came to deliver food to the two, but they were all stopped by the guards at the door.
The servants couldn't, so they had to ask Songheyuan.
"What did you say? Lin'er and Feng'er were imprisoned in the ancestral hall by them?" Madam Gu had just had her forehead wiped off and planned to rest. After hearing the news, she hurriedly asked the maid to brush her hair again.
Gu Chenglin's valet said with a sad face, "Yes, old lady, the two young masters are locked up! The third son is still injured, so he will be locked up for a night without food or drink, I'm afraid he will die—"
Madam Gu was furious, and hurriedly asked her subordinate Cai Ma to go to the ancestral hall to lead people out.
After a while, Mama Cai came to reply: "Old Madam, those two guards said that without the order of the prince, they can't let people go!"
"It's the other way around!" Madam Gu slapped the table and said to Madam Cai, "Where's the prince? Call him for me!"
"The prince just went out, not in the mansion." Cai Ma said.
Madam Gu thought of her precious grandson, and she felt both pain and anger. Among the three direct grandsons, the old man valued the eldest grandson the most, while Madam Gu spoiled the youngest grandson the most. For Gu Chenglin's indifferent temperament, Madam Gu most of the time gave it to Madam Gu. used to it.
"I'll go there myself!"
The Hou Mansion covers a large area, and it took a quarter of an hour to walk from Songheyuan to the ancestral hall. Mrs. Gu couldn't wait to walk over slowly, so she directly asked the servants to prepare a sliding pole.
When she arrived at the entrance of the ancestral hall, the two guards who guarded her gave her a salute: "Old Madam."
Old Madam Gu supported Cai Mama's arm with one hand and pointed at their noses with the other: "Do you still know who I am? I'm still the mansion of the Marquis and it's up to you to call the shots! Why don't you release the second son and the third son? come out!"
The two guards did not move.
Mrs. Gu's eyes were like torches: "What? Now what I said is useless?"
One of the guards said: "This is the order of the prince, and the subordinates dare not disobey."
"I'm his grandmother!" Madam Gu was so angry that she looked up and asked the servant on the side, "Where's the Marquis?"
The servant said: "Master Hou is not in the mansion either."
After Mr. Gu had been away from the court for so long, the official business had already piled up like a mountain, and he had been busy dealing with official business these few days.
Mrs. Gu felt her liver hurt from anger: "Then I can go in and see them, right?"
The prince only explained that people were not allowed to give food and drink, but he did not say that people were not allowed to visit.
The two made way for Mrs. Gu.
Madam Gu hurriedly entered the ancestral hall.
Gu Chengfeng was kneeling on the mat honestly at this time. Gu Chenglin was so injured that he couldn't get up from his knees. He just lay on the ground halfway, describing how miserable it was.
Madam Gu's heart throbbed, she hurriedly rushed over, knelt on the mat and hugged her baby grandson into her arms: "Lin Er, what's wrong with you? Who hurt you like this?"
As soon as Gu Chenglin saw Mrs. Gu, tears came up: "Grandma—you have to decide for your grandson—"
Gu Chenglin told Mrs. Gu about his tragic experience. He knew that his grandmother favored him, and he believed everything he said, so he was completely open-minded and did not consider logic at all.
"I didn't touch him, I didn't touch him at all. He recognized me as his third brother, and he remembered that I bullied him when I was a child, so he asked his sister to beat me!"
"That girl grew up in the countryside, she fed pigs and farmed a lot, she was brute force, and she didn't care about her actions!"
"I'm thinking that she is my younger sister, so I can't do anything with her... woo woo... grandmother... "
"As a result, the big brother punished me..."
"Big brother doesn't believe me..."
"Grandmother... ah-"
Gu Chenglin burst into tears and cried terribly.
Madam Gu's heart is broken!
She said to the guard outside: "You don't let me take them out today, I'll die here!"
The guards are also very embarrassed.
They had to obey the prince's orders, but they couldn't really let Mrs. Gu make trouble here.
Fortunately, Gu Changqing just went to deal with a small matter and returned home soon.
After hearing the news, he went to the ancestral hall.
Mrs. Gu actually values her eldest grandson very much, but the relationship between people sometimes needs a little maintenance. Gu Changqing trains with the old man all the year round, and is not often by the old lady's side.
He is not as coquettish as the two younger brothers, so his relationship with the old lady is not as close as the two younger brothers and the old lady.
Mrs. Gu thought that he was the eldest brother, and he treated her own brother so cruelly, and she was so angry that she could not wait to use the family method to him: "Open your eyes and see, what have you done to your brother?"
Gu Changqing said sternly: "Grandmother, the ancestral hall is cold, you should go back to Songheyuan, be careful of catching a cold."
Mrs. Gu gritted her teeth and said, "You also know that the ancestral hall is cold! You are not afraid that your brother will catch a cold? Look at how badly he is hurt? You don't go to avenge him, but instead punish him? How can you be a big brother? ?"
Gu Changqing glanced coldly at Gu Chenglin.
Gu Chenglin lowered his head in a guilty conscience, not daring to meet his elder brother's sharp eyes.
Madam Gu said coldly, "Why are you staring at him? Come at me if you have the ability!"
Gu Changqing said indifferently: "He committed the crime himself, and he knows it himself."
Madam Gu said angrily, "What did he do?"
With the old lady supporting him, Gu Chenglin became a lot more courageous: "Yes, brother, I said I didn't do anything, why don't you believe me?"
Gu Changqing's eyes were cold: "Gu Yan almost died."
Mrs. Gu was unhappy: "Yao said that her son almost died, did he really almost die? You don't believe in your brother, but an outsider?"
I rescued the man, I fed the medicine, and I watched him in front of me... and nearly died.
Gu Changqing didn't say these words.
Because even if they said it, they would think that Gu Yan must have been injured by Gu Chenglin. Your big brother saw Gu Chenglin tying Gu Yan with his own eyes
Who knows who he has offended outside, but he counts it on Gu Chenglin's head!
Gu Changqing was not trying to help Gu Yan. The whole thing had nothing to do with whether the other party was Gu Yan or not. What was important was Gu Chenglin's character.
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, how could Gu Changqing dare to believe that his own younger brother had grown like this
Gu Changqing refused to let anyone go, so angry that Mrs. Gu asked for a family law and made him kneel in front of the tablets of the ancestors and be punished.
One after another, the ruler was beaten down, but Gu Changqing didn't snort.
"Can you let your brother out?"
"Don't let it go!"
Madam Gu shook her hands in anger, and slapped Gu Changqing's face with a ruler.
Madam Gu was stunned.
"Grandma! Stop hitting!" Gu Chengfeng hugged Mrs. Gu's arm.
At this time, Aunt Ling also arrived.
She persuaded Mrs. Gu to go back.
"Okay, I won't let anyone bring food to Lin'er, but I have to ask the government doctor to treat his injuries, so that he can kneel properly."
Aunt Ling is a very smart woman, she can always find a way to make both sides compromise.
Gu Changqing didn't say anything and went back to his yard.
"Go and call the palace doctor." Aunt Ling ordered.
"Yes." The maid responded.
The maid went to the government doctor, while Aunt Ling went to Gu Changqing's yard: "I saw your face was hurt, so I brought you some medicine for golden sores."
As soon as she finished speaking, she saw that Gu Changqing's servant was already rubbing medicine on him.
She smiled, walked over and said, "Huh? This doesn't look like the gold sore medicine in our house, but a new medicine from the military camp?"
Gu Changqing paused: "No, it was given by a doctor outside."
"How can the medicine outside be used casually? It's better to use the medicine from the house." Concubine Ling handed over the medicine for the golden sore in her hand.
Gu Changqing said indifferently: "No, this is fine."
Aunt Ling was stunned for a moment, then took back the golden sore medicine with a smile: "Okay, listen to you."
After a pause, she said again: "Changqing, this is a matter between your brothers. It stands to reason that I, a concubine, should not interfere, but Chenglin is your younger brother, no matter how bad he is, You shouldn't have convicted Madam just based on her one-sided words. I'm not saying that you were wrong, but doing so will make Chenglin think that you favored Madam and don't hurt him anymore."
Gu Changqing said, "If I've been fair to help someone else, then what is my connivance to him in the past?"
Concubine Ling was speechless and said after a while, "But he's your younger brother, you should be partial to your younger brother..."
Gu Changqing did not continue the topic, but changed the topic: "Auntie, was my mother really killed by Yao Shi?"
Aunt Ling looked at him strangely: "Why do you ask that all of a sudden?"
Gu Changqing said thoughtfully: "There have always been rumors in the house that it was Yao Shi who killed my mother."
Aunt Ling smiled lightly: "There's no evidence for this, just listen to it, don't take it to heart."
Gu Changqing said, "I have evidence, and it is because of the evidence that I have believed it for so many years."
"What evidence?" Aunt Ling asked.
Gu Changqing said: "While my mother was recovering from illness, someone wrote a letter to my father, roughly expressing his intentions to his father and asking him when he would marry her into the house. The letter fell into my mother's hands, and my mother's condition caused aggregated."
Aunt Ling was shocked: "I didn't expect that such a thing would happen to my sister."
Gu Changqing recalled: "Yao was a good friend of my mother, and she frequently came and went in and out of Hou's mansion during those days. Someone saw Yao secretly put this letter into my father's study. A few days later, my mother called Yao, When I asked her openly if she wanted to be my father's successor, I stood outside the door and eavesdropped on her, and whenever she said yes, I would not resent her for so many years."
Aunt Ling's eyes widened: "Did she reject my sister? Then why did she write a letter..."
Gu Changqing said: "Pretending to be arrogant in front of my mother, but behind my back I had a relationship with my father. Do you think my mother was mad at her?"
Aunt Ling smiled dryly: "Since there is so much evidence, why did you just ask if Yao Shi was the murderer of your mother?"
Gu Changqing said sternly: "Because she said today that she has never done anything that I am sorry for us."
Aunt Ling smiled lightly, "You believe her if she says it?"
Gu Changqing squeezed the dagger that passed from Yao Shi's body: "She came here today with the determination to die. She's going to die, so what's the point of lying?"
Aunt Ling said, "Maybe it's for her child?"
Gu Changqing said, "Gu Yan has his sister, so he doesn't care about the family property of the Marquis Mansion."
Aunt Ling smiled lightly: "Is this what she said too?"
Gu Changqing shook his head, Yao Shi did say so, but he felt it more from Gu Jiao and Gu Yan.
Gu Changqing looked at Aunt Ling: "Auntie, you say, who would really kill my mother?"
Aunt Ling gave her a hand.
(End of this chapter)