The outer door was locked, and with that click, Guan Yingying's heart sank to the bottom.

Instinctively, she thought about how to escape.

However, Gu Boyu had made thorough preparations. Four or five days was enough time for him to make the courtyard impregnable, leaving no room for escape.

Gu Boyu and the old lady sat in the two main seats, while Madam Lu sat in the first seat next to the old lady.

Gu Boyu said, "Today I've summoned both the eldest and second wives and, in front of Mother, I'm going to announce something: the truth about your encounter with bandits when you returned to Ouyang."

Guan Yingying immediately felt a buzzing in her head.

His whole body began to tremble.

She jumped up and ran out, but two servants immediately stopped her, pinned her to the ground, and she couldn't move.

“Aunt Yue, why are you so agitated?” Gu Boyu said. “It’s not too late to do anything after I finish speaking.”

He recounted how Guan Yingying had secretly instructed the two maids to deliver a message to a man named Wei Bufan, and how Wei Bufan had gone to find bandits to rob the women of the Earl's mansion.

I recounted the whole story to everyone.

Gu Boyu's voice was low and full of sorrow. His original anger had faded over the past few days, leaving only exhaustion and pain.

After they finished speaking, the women of the Earl's mansion were so angry that their faces contorted with rage.

"It took me four days to bring this woman back from the Crown Prince's residence, and I even had to use my connections. This woman is guilty of heinous crimes; if we keep her alive, our entire Earl's mansion will be doomed. I've decided to kill her on the spot!"

Gu Boyu said decisively, "It's up to you. Beat them as you please. I'll handle what happens if they die."

As soon as he said that, all the women in the courtyard swarmed at him. Who didn't hate her? Who didn't want to skin her alive?

Gu Boyu had already ordered people to place many bricks, stones, and wooden sticks in the courtyard. There were no sharp swords or knives, only small, blunt weapons.

Lu Shi was still recovering, and she cried as she said to Ruan Su, "Ruan Su, Wen Shi, smash her to death, to avenge yourselves, to... smash her to death!"

Ruan Su and her concubines gritted their teeth at the thought of the two young ladies who had been ruined and the hellish scene that had unfolded before them.

Bricks, stones, and wooden sticks were all thrown at Guan Yingying.

The women from the first and second wives, numbering in the dozens, were filled with overwhelming hatred. They blocked all of Guan Yingying's escape routes and kept smashing and beating her.

At first, Guan Yingying was able to shout and run away, but as her injuries gradually worsened, she became as panicked as a trapped beast.

With her head and face covered in blood, she had to save herself!

She tried to rush into the house and take the old lady hostage, but Gu Boyu was guarding the door from inside. How could he let her get close? He kicked her out.

Various sticks came crashing down again in a disorderly manner, and she fled like a headless fly.

Climbing walls and taking hostages are both pipe dreams.

Finally, she could only scream hysterically: "I am the Crown Prince's technician. The best weapons on his side are made from my skills. If you dare to kill me, the Crown Prince will wipe out your entire household tomorrow!"

Everyone was taken aback for a moment.

Guan Yingying leaned against a tree, wiping the blood from her face. She was extremely dizzy. She needed to get out of the manor as soon as possible, or she knew she wouldn't live to see dawn.

"Open the door and let me out."

"Get out?" Gu Boyu said coldly, "Keep fighting, I'll take full responsibility."

Who would let her go? Not even Madam Lu alone could let her go. Both of her daughters were ruined. How saintly must she be to let her go?

"Smash her!" Mrs. Lu said, her eyes bloodshot. "Smash her bones inch by inch, and I'll take responsibility for it."

The second branch of the family attacked Guan Yingying again. Everyone was covered in blood and had completely lost their minds, only knowing how to smash and slash in anger.

When a person loses their mind, their brain goes blank, and they will only destroy what needs to be destroyed in the most tragic way in the face of a surge of anger.

Guan Yingying fell to the ground and could not get up again. Madam Lu shouted for everyone to stop.

"Ruan Su, go to the kitchen and get a few knives. I want to slice her into pieces."

Gu Boyu handed them several small knives with a blank expression: "Knives, I've prepared them."

The extremely sharp knife was not a slicing knife used by executioners, but it was still a very sharp knife for cutting meat.

Lu Shi, Wen Shi, and all the concubines of the main branch were fearless and vied to cut off pieces of her flesh.

Dig little by little, cut piece by piece.

Guan Yingying could no longer cry.

Before she died, she could no longer recall her past and future lives. When a person is in extreme pain, they have no thoughts, only fear, and their heart is breaking.

The methods of killing were unprofessional; they simply smashed every bone in her body to pieces and didn't even manage to cut off three thousand pieces of flesh for dismemberment. In their anger, they cut and chopped, but only managed to cut off a few hundred pieces.

But everyone kept cutting, smashing, and digging, and it was no longer a person, just a piece of ordinary rotten flesh.

She died. Gu Boyu picked up the kitchen knife and said to everyone, "I'll do it!"

He started chopping from the feet, section by section, piece by piece, until he had minced meat, and he kept chopping!

They cut, smashed, and chopped because of the humiliation they felt.

His chopping was a manifestation of his deep hatred for her for ruining the entire Earl's Mansion.

Actually, he really wanted to kill Gu Chengyan, but he wasn't in front of him.

Guan Yingying was smashed into a pulp, and all the women seemed to have lost all their strength, collapsing to the ground one by one.

Everyone's face was covered in blood, mud, and tears.

The old lady was so shocked that she fainted.

Gu Boyu packed up the minced meat sauce and told Steward Zhang, "Take a bucket of tung oil, burn it, and scatter the ashes into the cesspool."

Butler Zhang was terrified, but he suppressed his panic, picked up the human flesh scraps, and also carried a bucket of tung oil.

They set fire to the stone house in the storage yard where manure carts and chamber pots were kept.

Smelling the strange aroma of meat wafting from the crack in the door, Manager Zhang's legs trembled, and he leaned against the wall, retching repeatedly.

When his father was alive, he often helped Young Master Gu deal with people he couldn't handle, but when it came to himself, he was truly afraid!

After burning, the ashes were collected and, as instructed by the Earl, scattered into several manure buckets that were to be transported away.

Back in the front yard, Gu Boyu had already tidied up the yard and had Steward Zhang send off the women of the second branch of the family, including Madam Lu.

He said to the other women, "You should all rest well. The young master should have arrived early this morning. No matter who you ask, you should all say you don't know."

Everyone nodded, and now they were a little nervous because Aunt Yue was the young master's unconditionally doted-on woman!

They killed Aunt Yue. Will Gu Chengyan fight them to the death?

After all, they were all concubines, while Gu Chengyan was still the eldest son!

Gu Boyu told them not to worry, and that he would take full responsibility.

The next day at 9:00 AM, Gu Chengyan and Gu Zheng returned.

As soon as they entered the door, the two brothers choked up and said to Gu Boyu, "Father, we didn't send Mother to the old house."

Gu Boyu looked at them calmly without saying a word.

Gu Zheng, being honest, knelt on the ground and cried, "We had already reached the border of Ouyang County when a group of masked men came. They poured tung oil on my mother and set her on fire. Her ashes were blown away by the strong wind..."