"Mother, aunt, aunt, and all the sisters and brothers." Gu Jue gently pushed a food box under the dim oil lamp and said calmly, "I'm here to see you."
"You still dare to come?!" After all, the Gu family is a high-ranking family. Even if the situation is over now and the emperor has not given orders, the prison still provides some care.
A relatively large cell was allocated and the women and children were locked together.
Because the lights around were dim, there were many shadows in the walkway, and the faces could not be seen clearly.
Most people had no reaction to Gu Jue's arrival.
This is not because they don't hate Gu Jue, but because the incident involving the Three Corpse Insects was mainly committed by the back house, so the female family members were severely punished.
Nowadays, almost everyone is injured and very tired. Even if they hear Gu Jue's voice, many people are still lying on the straw without making a sound.
Only a woman with disheveled hair rushed to the door and screamed, "Why do you have the nerve to come here?! Mrs. Gu gave birth to you and raised you..."
"But for the Gu family, I was first sent to the palace to accompany my aunt." Gu Jue glanced at her and said in a casual tone, "Then I was sent to Qiongjiu Palace to be the concubine of King Qin. You treat me like a commodity. , what did I say? Now that the situation is over, even if I protect my family, will my family be spared? I might as well be a concubine, so even if you don't survive, I still have a glimmer of hope. I am also of Gu family blood. Why does Auntie think that if you can’t survive on your own, all the Gu family members will have to be buried with you?”
Her aunt's eyes were red and she said sadly: "You really voted for the imperial concubine! The imperial concubine has a deep feud with our family, and you actually colluded with her! It's just that you, a cheap maid, do you really think you can get it?! Concubine Na Min, who entered the palace more than ten years ago, has never given a good ending to her enemies? It would be weird if she didn’t kill them all! Today you have harmed the entire clan, and we will be waiting for you on the ground tomorrow!!!"
Gu Jue sighed, feeling very helpless: "Why do you think it was me who harmed the whole clan? To put it bluntly, if nothing happens to King Chongxin and my aunt is still in the back seat, don't say that I always know what's appropriate. Even if I don’t know, even if I am messing around, at most I will be punished alone, and how can I involve such a big Gu family? I said, this is the end of the Gu family. Without my exposure, there are other people and other things. In short, the Gu family is There is no escape. Instead of taking advantage of others and selling it to the noble concubine to make meritorious service, why don't I, the daughter of the Gu family, come and tactfully preserve some of the Gu family's bloodline? What's wrong with this?"
"My aunt is a housekeeper, and she also watched me grow up. What's wrong? My survival is more difficult for my aunt than strangers and even enemies."
She said these words so confidently that even the tribesmen in the cell hated her, and for a moment they even opened their mouths to get acquainted with her, unable to refute.
Her aunt was so angry that she simply refused to be reasonable. She lost the manners of a noble lady and just cursed.
Gu Jue wasn't angry either. He just listened quietly. After a long while, he saw that the aunt was tired of scolding him, and then he said: "I understand how aunt feels now. If you haven't finished venting your anger, just scold me a few more times. I If I were afraid, no one would come here today."
This calm attitude was really infuriating. Her aunt glared angrily for a moment, and then she was so angry that she burst into tears: "The Gu family's ancestors didn't have any good deeds, how could they give birth to a thing like you!"
"She has given birth and she couldn't strangle me to death. What can she do now?" Gu Jue said lightly, "Auntie, you should calm down. Things are different now. If you get sick out of anger here, But you can’t ask an imperial doctor to come and see you. When the time comes, you will be the one suffering, and your children and younger generations will be the ones who are worried and afraid?”
"Okay!" Her aunt was so angry that she squeezed in front of the fence and wanted to hit her, but Gu Jue took two steps back to avoid it. At this moment, an old voice came out from the shadow of the cell, full of fatigue. , "Stop making trouble. It's now, what's the point of hitting her? Don't say you can't hit her if she doesn't want to be beaten. Even if she gets hit, is it possible that we can go out?"
"Old lady." Gu Jue's aunt knelt down and walked into the shadow, then she helped an old lady with silver hair on her temples and cried, "The family has never treated her badly. When the palace chose someone, she Going in with Jing'er, if she said she was wronged at that time, how many girls in the family were eagerly waiting for such an opportunity, how could she be forced to enter the palace?! After all these years in the palace, how could the queen have made her feel wronged! As a result, now, she has sold the whole family and is still so confident, how could our family raise such a thing?!"
The old lady was very quiet and just said in a low voice: "When the branches are lush and leafy, there are always a few branches that are superfluous and have to be cut off. Otherwise, it will be harmful to the tree itself. The same is true for Gu. He failed to do so in time. He noticed it, but was implicated in the whole clan. This was due to the negligence of the old master and the others, and it was also due to the declining fortune of the Gu family. It was destined to be like this. Now there is no point in holding on to her. There is no need to be nagging her. "
After saying this, he turned to Gu Jue and said, "Even if you seek refuge with the imperial concubine, this prison is not a place where you are qualified to come and go at will. After all, what does the imperial concubine want you to do by asking you to come here?"
Gu Jue didn't care about his aunt, but he was a little afraid of his grandmother. He bowed sternly and then said: "My family has been watching the Xie family for many years, and I must have learned something. Now that everyone around me can't survive, why bother guarding them?" Go down with those secrets? How about telling the imperial concubine, so that the imperial concubine can know, where can the family members need to be taught?"
Her aunt laughed angrily: "The imperial concubine and our family are enemies. Do you think we can tell you about such a thing and let you, a cheap servant, tell her about it?"
"Why not?" Gu Jue said calmly, "If you don't tell me, it will be more troublesome for the imperial concubine. If you tell me, although I can't save you, I can at least live a more comfortable life in the last few days."
"Now the imperial concubine is a slave, and you are a fish."
"It's already come to this point. Auntie can think for herself. Why don't you think about your sisters, brothers, and brothers?"
"Is it possible that my aunt hopes that they will leave this world at such a young age, and that their last few days will be very unseemly?"
Her aunt laughed angrily: "You are a good dog for the imperial concubine! The waiters from the Xuanqing Palace have not come to threaten or induce you, but you are a vanguard! It's just that you are not a thing yourself, but you think we are all the same as you?! Mrs. Gu After all, she is from a high-ranking family. Even if she has committed a crime now, she is still a member of the noble family. She can be killed but not humiliated! This prison is your majesty's prison. The concubine allows you to come and go. It is your majesty's great favor. I I don’t believe what your wretched new master can do here!”
Gu Jue frowned slightly and was thinking about countermeasures quickly, but the old lady over there said: "It's okay."
"Old lady?!" Auntie was stunned.
The old lady looked at her and signaled her daughter-in-law to shut up, and then said to Gu Jue: "Actually, the old lady has already prepared. Please ask the noble concubine to send someone to our house, which is the garden where you always play, from the east side of the pond. In the cave of the third rockery, there is an extremely hidden darkroom on the ground, which has probably not been searched out yet. There is a box inside, which contains many records, all of which are Gu's observations of Xie in the past two years. Inside There is some news that the noble concubine must know very much."
Gu Jue: "..."
From the moment she came to jail, she remained calm no matter how her aunt scolded and humiliated her.
Even though he was quite afraid of the old lady, he was generally calm.
But at this moment, he showed great horror.
Mr. Gu actually prepared these in advance? ?
What does this mean
Could it be that the Gu family had anticipated their own defeat before anything happened to Zhonggong's mother and son
Then why not try to stop the imperial concubine's plan
She was in a mess and didn't speak for a while.
"Surprised?" The old lady smiled when she saw this.
Gu Jue did not deny it: "Since my great-grandfather was so thorough, why did the Gu family end up like this?"
"What is an exhaustive plan?" the old lady said slowly, "It's just a plan for a rainy day. You are young, but you should have felt the imperial concubine's methods... In fact, in the past two years, the imperial concubine has restrained herself a lot, and she has become more and more pretending to be a loving mother. In the ten years A few years ago, when she first entered the palace, it was so endless! Your great-grandfather has been living a very difficult life these years, just because the person in Xuanqing Palace is really not a fuel-efficient lamp. He has worked hard these years, although he has gone all out He strives to win, but he also considers what the family will do if it loses one day."
"It's just that the imperial concubine is more agile than he expected. At this moment... that's all, I won't say anything."
"Anyway, everything in that box is real, and the noble concubine will be interested in it."
She slightly raised her lips and showed a slightly weird smile, "After all, you are also a descendant of my Gu family. As you just said, the Gu family is like this. It is better to take advantage of your own blood than to take advantage of outsiders. Let's put this matter aside Report it to the noble concubine and she will reward you."
After saying this, he stopped his daughter-in-law, and no matter how much Gu Jue interrogated and probed the general, everyone in the cell ignored her.
"Why are you still wearing a colorful ribbon on your head now?" When Gu Jue was about to leave, her aunt couldn't hold it back and sneered, "Your mother was beaten to death with a cane... It's only been a few days. As a woman, how can you dress up beautifully when you are still in the midst of filial piety!"
Gu Jue paused for a moment, then continued to leave without looking back.
"How could the Gu family have such a child? She has no heart at all!" The aunt watched her leave, then turned to cry to her mother-in-law, "That's her mother!"
He was also the one who helped Gu Jue get the Three Corpse Insects.
Although from a royal and fair standpoint, this Mrs. Gu can be described as extremely vicious.
But in the final analysis, she did this to help her daughter.
Gu Jue betrayed the entire family without hesitation, and directly drove his mother to a dead end. She was not even willing to dress plainly at this moment, and she had no guilt or fear of betraying the family...
Auntie didn’t even know what to say.
As the wife of the Gu family, she also comes from a decent family. She has never seen such a cruel girl.
Still so young.
What kind of bad feng shui did the previous generation of the Gu family have to produce such an heir? !
The old lady didn't speak, only sighed longly.
… Gu Jue didn’t know these words, and it didn’t matter if he did.
She really didn't feel much guilt about betraying her family, and it would be fine if she didn't wait until she entered Qiongjiu Palace.
But after being given to King Qin as his concubine, Gu Jue figured it out.
Ants are still greedy for life. Since Gu, in order to gain a chance of survival, it is understandable that she took advantage of the news that King Qin loved her and sent her to Qiongjiu Palace. Then she sold the entire Gu family for the sake of her own life. What's the problem
She is also of Gu family blood.
Everyone is trying to survive, so of course it depends on who has better methods.
What's right and wrong
Is it possible that her family can only sell her and she can't fight for it on her own
Why
She was tolerant enough to her aunt just now.
In fact, if the argument continues, she will ask directly: "Since it is natural to pay for the family, then when my great-grandfather knew that King Qin had no intention of me, but still forcibly sent me to Qiongjiu Palace to serve King Qin, what did you do without calling me Will my daughter accompany me?"
Let alone replace her.
After all, people always think about themselves first.
In this case, she deserves to enjoy the results now, right