Chapter 53 Chapter 53 "Was he the only one who saved you at that time? ...
==Chapter 53==
When Feng Wenyu learned the news sent by Yan Yunhe, his first thought was disbelief.
"I was a little late. The people from the Music Bureau said Shen Jingchen had already left." Yan Yunhe shrugged. He frowned slightly as he finished speaking. "Didn't my aunt send someone there?"
Yan Yunhe was also puzzled. The emperor's attitude towards the Shen family was obvious. Apart from them, who else would interfere in the Shen family's affairs?
Qiao Anyu?
As soon as this thought came to his mind, Yan Yunhe immediately denied the answer.
With the Fourth Prince incident first and the Li family's impeachment of the Qiao family later, the Qiao family could hardly protect themselves and it was impossible for them to redeem Shen Jingchen. If the Qiao family was really willing to get involved in this muddy water, Qiao Anyu would not have come to find Feng Wenyu.
Feng Wenyu's mind was in a mess. In his previous life, the Jiaofangsi kept saying that Shen Jingchen could not be redeemed. Why did they give in so easily now?
She knew very well that it was absolutely impossible that her mother had sent someone to redeem Shen Jingchen.
Otherwise, her mother would have told her about this earlier and told her not to waste her time on Shen Jingchen anymore.
Seeing Feng Wenyu shaking his head, Yan Yunhe couldn't help but raise his eyebrows: "Who else could it be?"
Feng Wenyu's heart sank slightly. In fact, she had another answer in her heart. Ever since that memory came back, the people around her had completely different attitudes towards Shen Jingchen. This made her realize one thing - Gu Yushi in her dream was not as indifferent to her contact with Shen Jingchen as she had imagined.
As soon as this thought came to her mind, Feng Wenyu was almost certain that the reason she couldn't redeem Shen Jingchen in her dream must be Gu Yushi's doing.
Especially when Gu Yushi saw Shen Jingchen, he did not hide his disgust for him at all.
So in this life, why did Gu Yushi redeem Shen Jingchen?
But apart from Gu Yushi, Feng Wenyu couldn't think of any other candidates.
Feng Wenyu couldn't sit still anymore.
She stood up hurriedly and ordered, "Come, prepare the carriage."
Yan Yunhe was confused and narrowed his eyes:
"Where are you going?"
Feng Wenyu didn't have time to explain to him and walked out quickly. Yan Yunhe followed her all the way and naturally heard her say after she got on the carriage: "Go to Gu's house."
Yan Yunhe's steps suddenly stopped.
Gu Yushi?
In this matter, he even suspected that Xie Zhujing had attacked Shen Jingchen before him, and did not suspect Gu Yushi.
Logically speaking, Gu Yushi should not know the ins and outs of the Shen family incident, nor should he know the past of Feng Wenyu and Shen Jingchen.
How did Feng Wenyu lock onto Gu Yu?
He thought a little annoyedly, why is Gu Yushi everywhere!
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The carriage went all the way to Gu's house.
Feng Wenyu got off the carriage and someone knocked on the door. The door opened and the servant inside stuck his head out. When he saw Feng Wenyu, he was also surprised:
"Miss Feng?"
Feng Wenyu looked up at the house, with a hint of trance in his eyes.
In the dream, she and Gu Yushi got married here, and she lived in this house for five whole years until Gu Yushi was demoted to Guizhou by the emperor because of the Gao Party incident. Later, the new emperor ascended the throne and summoned Gu Yushi back to Beijing, and they moved into what would later become the Gu Mansion.
Feng Wenyu suppressed the emotional fluctuations in her eyes and stated her purpose: "I want to see Gu Yushi."
The servant was a little embarrassed: "Miss Feng, our master hasn't finished his shift yet. How about I go and inform the old lady, and ask you to come in and wait for a moment?"
Feng Wenyu paused and felt that he was really stupid. He had never thought that Gu Yushi would not be at home.
She frowned and turned around when she heard hurried footsteps coming from the mansion behind her: "Sister Feng!"
Feng Wenyu turned around and saw Gu Yuci running towards him. He stopped and was slightly out of breath. Feng Wenyu subconsciously said:
"Why are you so anxious? You're not feeling well, don't you know?"
As soon as he said this, Feng Wenyu couldn't help but look away with a stiff expression when he saw Gu Yuci looking up in surprise.
Before her wedding to Gu Yushi, she actually had very little interaction with Gu Yuci.
This is normal. Gu Yuci is in poor health and is trapped in the mansion all year round, not allowed to go out. Even if she makes an appointment with Gu Yuci, she will not often visit the man's house.
But later, when she married Gu Yushi, she couldn't help but meet Gu Yuci more often. Perhaps because of his experience and physical condition, he was afraid of being seen as a burden, so he was even a little cautious in his attitude towards her.
As long as her brother-in-law has a good attitude, she won't be a bad sister-in-law.
But no one expected that an accident would happen.
At that time, she had just been pregnant for three months, and her mother-in-law wanted to take her to Qingning Temple to fulfill a vow, believing that her pregnancy was the result of the wish she had made while burning incense and praying to Buddha. However, Gu Yushi was on duty at the Ministry of Justice at the time and was very busy, so he did not want her to suffer the hardship of traveling.
But the mother-in-law insisted, and said that if she did not fulfill her vow, there might be trouble in the future. Feng Wenyu was frightened by her words, but thinking of the child in her belly, she agreed to fulfill her vow.
It's only a half-day trip after all.
She did not let Gu Yushi take a break, thinking that there was no need to make a big fuss. She suggested that Gu Yuci should accompany him as well, because she felt sorry for Gu Yuci who had been cooped up in the mansion for years.
The mother-in-law believed that Qingning Temple was efficacious and wanted to pray for Gu Yuci's safety as well. She hesitated for a moment before agreeing.
The trip was smooth.
When she came back, she was pregnant. The whole family treated her very carefully, worried that she would catch a cold, and let her get on the carriage early. As soon as the mother-in-law stepped onto the small wooden steps, no one expected that something unexpected would happen. The horse suddenly got frightened for some reason, and the mother-in-law was thrown to the ground. She didn't care to cry out in pain, but cried out with bloodshot eyes:
"Hurry up and save the lady!"
She covered her stomach with a pale face.
The groom's panicked voice said, "Madam, there's a lake ahead!"
As the world spun, Feng Wenyu had no idea what was happening. She had barely fallen into the water when someone pulled her out. However, the next moment, her mother-in-law's cries brought her back to her senses: "Hurry up and save them!"
Feng Wenyu stared blankly at the young man in the lake. He fell into the water, his face flushed red and a little blue from the cold. The servants quickly rescued him.
He coughed a few times and shivered with cold, but he kept looking at her, his lips trembling with cold:
"...Sister-in-law, how is your sister-in-law?"
Feng Wenyu no longer remembered what she answered him.
I only remember that day, when I returned home, the entire Gu family was in chaos. Perhaps for an ordinary person, falling into the water would at most cause a fever, but his health was too poor, and he had a high fever that night.
The doctor came and went, and she boiled bowl after bowl of medicine. Before dawn, she sent a message to her grandfather and asked him to invite the imperial physician, but he remained bedridden for several days, losing weight at a speed visible to the naked eye, and ultimately did not survive.
The Gu family hung up a white banner.
The mother-in-law's attitude towards her had subtly changed after the loss of her young son. Was she taking her anger out on her? Not really.
But in the end, he was a little cold towards her.
Perhaps he was blaming her for suggesting that Gu Yuci go with them to fulfill his vow.
Feng Wenyu saw it all but had no way to vent her feelings. After all, Gu Yuci had fallen into the water to save her. No one could ask a person who had lost a loved one to be rational.
Later, a quarrel broke out in the Gu family, not between her and her mother-in-law, but between Gu Yushi and her mother-in-law.
When she arrived, the argument was over. Her mother-in-law was crying at her desk. Gu Yushi was silent for a moment, then took her away. Without waiting for her to ask, Gu Yushi calmly said:
"You and her became a family because of me, so you owe nothing to each other."
Feng Wenyu could hear the implication of these words, which was that there was no need for her to be inferior to her mother-in-law.
But the reason for her tolerance was not the secular relationship between mother-in-law and her husband.
Gu Yushi seemed to see what she was thinking and said bluntly, "Aci saved you because you are his sister-in-law and you are pregnant."
He was saving his sister-in-law and the bloodline of the Gu family, and it had nothing to do with Feng Wenyu himself. This was the message Gu Yushi was telling Feng Wenyu.
"Even if there is a debt, it is owed to him by me."
Feng Wenyu said hoarsely: "How can you count it like that? He saved me after all."
Judge by deeds, not by heart.
After a long moment, Gu Yushi only said one sentence: "Was he the only one who saved you at that time?"
Of course not.
After she fell into the water, the first people to jump in to rescue her were the servants. In other words, even if Gu Yuci was not there, she would have been rescued.
Gu Yushi didn't know what he was thinking. He said, "He has been weak since he was a child. His mother took care of him more than her own eyes. He can't swim at all."
Is helping without self-awareness saving lives or causing trouble?
Gu Yushi didn't want to ask whether the person who saved Feng Wenyu was Gu Yuci. Since his mother asked him to accept this favor, he accepted it.
After all, Gu Yuci had gone into the water without regard for his own safety. But agreeing to go with Gu Yuci to fulfill the vow was a decision made by the whole family, so why should Feng Wenyu be blamed alone?
Feng Wenyu was also frightened and fell into the water during the incident. She was already one of the victims, and now she has to take responsibility for another life for nothing?
His attitude was too clear, and people in the mansion did not dare to neglect her in the slightest. He asked her to take good care of her body and cut off her chance to meet her mother-in-law. When she met her mother-in-law again, she became the same as before, as if there had never been any grudge between the two of them.
After regaining his composure, Feng Wenyu looked at the person in front of him, his emotions becoming somewhat complicated.
Gu Yuci also looked at her cautiously: "Sister Feng, my eldest brother should be back soon, would you like to come in and sit for a while?"
Feng Wenyu felt depressed, all kinds of emotions pulling at her heart. She let out a sigh:
"When will he be back?"
This was tacit approval of his arrangement.
Gu Yuci's eyes lit up, and he led her on the way himself, his face full of smiles: "Very soon! As soon as big brother gets the news, he will definitely rush back without stopping!"
Feng Wenyu remained noncommittal.
At this time, Gu Yushi was in the palace. After redeeming Shen Jingchen, he arranged for someone to send Shen Jingchen back to Qi and Lu without any delay.
The two places were nearly a thousand miles apart. After Shen Jingchen was sent away, unless there was an accident or some villain causing trouble, he and Feng Wenyu would never see each other again in this life.
He just left the palace and looked directly at Mu Fan:
"How's the investigation going?"
Mu Fan scratched his head, his tone revealing a hint of admiration and confusion. "Your Excellency is very foresighted. Someone did deliberately bring up Miss Qiao and the Music Bureau in front of Master Li that day, causing him to impulsively seek trouble."
He glanced at the adult secretly. How did the adult guess that someone had deliberately instigated Master Li to cause trouble for the Music Bureau?
Gu Yushi's eyes darkened: "Who is it?"
"A junior of the Lu family."
Lu family?
Gu Yushi instantly thought of a person, Lu Minxing, the chief commander of Quzhou City.
He and Gao Qianming were classmates and friends. When Gao's party fell, he had already withdrawn from it. He even provided some of the evidence of Gao Qianming's crimes. However, he was not like others to take advantage of others' misfortunes, so Emperor Wenyuan did not dislike him.
Gu Yushi's eyes darkened.
Lu Minxing is a madman.
He can do anything, as if he doesn't care about the consequences at all.
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