Chapter 167 The entire Gu family is mobilized!
This problem is like an invisible noose around Chu Jingya's neck.
Looking at Su Yue's excessively pale face, and recalling the coldness in her words devoid of any emotion, she shuddered in fright and blurted out everything as if pouring beans from a bamboo tube.
"It's...it's in the old house in the western suburbs of Beijing."
“My grandmother, Madam Chu, and my aunt, Chu Yanran, they both live there. I… I don’t want to go back at all. That place is like an icebox. My grandmother chants scriptures all day long, and my aunt is like a crazy old woman, talking nonsense. She curses at me whenever she sees me…”
Chu Jingya was completely unprepared and unaware that her words had tolled the death knell for the Chu family.
She felt guilty towards Su Yue and wished she could tell everything she knew to clear herself of any connection with those two vicious women.
In the living room, the faces of everyone in the Gu family were increasingly grim.
Gu Zhengfeng's face was so black it could drip ink.
Zhang Huilan looked at Su Yue with heartache, her eyes reddening. She reached out her hand, wanting to say something, but didn't know where to begin.
It was Gu Beichen again. He took Su Yue's cold hand into his large palm and gently rubbed it. Then he looked up at Chu Jingya, who was about to cry, and Gu Beixiao, who looked awkward beside her.
"Bei Xiao, take Jingya back."
His tone left no room for argument.
"Huh? Me?" Gu Beixiao pointed to his nose, completely unwilling.
"Go when I tell you to!" Gu Zhengfeng roared, startling Gu Beixiao so much that he shrank back.
Zhang Huilan quickly smoothed things over, saying, "Yes, yes, Jingya, it's getting late. Let your brother Beixiao see you off. You've been through a lot today, go home and get some rest."
Chu Jingya was completely bewildered and could only nod blankly.
Gu Beixiao reluctantly grabbed the car keys and walked ahead with a dark face.
Chu Jingya followed behind like a primary school student who had made a mistake, her head down. Before leaving, she turned back and looked at Su Yue with concern.
The sound of the jeep engine starting faded into the distance as the two figures disappeared outside the door.
The living room door was closed.
With a "bang".
The atmosphere in the entire Gu family changed instantly.
The carefully maintained calm and gentle demeanor vanished, replaced by a sense of impending doom and simmering anger.
"Yueyue, come here and sit down."
Gu Zhengfeng pointed to the sofa next to him, his voice low and hoarse.
With Gu Beichen's help, Su Yue slowly sat down.
"What exactly happened? Tell Dad everything from beginning to end." Gu Zhengfeng looked at Su Yue's pale face, his eyes filled with unprecedented seriousness.
Su Yue raised her head and met her father-in-law's probing gaze.
She knew that this was the Gu family making their stance clear to her.
From this moment on, her affairs are the affairs of the entire Gu family.
She was no longer avenging her father alone; behind her stood a colossal figure.
Su Yue took a deep breath and recounted her father Xiao Shouzhen's ordeal, from the complete annihilation of the "Lone Eagle" squad to being labeled a traitor, to the exoneration after 23 years of injustice, and what she had just learned from Chu Jingya about the name "Huo Shouzhen" and the vicious framing by the Chu family mother and daughter, in detail, without omitting a single word.
The living room was eerily quiet, with only Su Yue's cold and restrained voice echoing through it.
With each word spoken, the Gu family members' expressions grew increasingly grim.
When Su Yue mentioned that Chu Yanran, out of jealousy and hatred, colluded with her mother to constantly slander and defame Huo Shouzhen in front of high-ranking military officials, Gu Zhengfeng could no longer hold back.
"Bang!"
He slammed his hand hard on the mahogany coffee table in front of him, the thick surface making a dull thud, splashing water from the teacup.
"Outrageous! Absolutely outrageous!"
Gu Zhengfeng was trembling with rage. This deputy commander, who had been through many battles and was used to all kinds of storms, had bloodshot eyes and was furious.
"Frame a combat hero! Stab your own comrades in the back! What the hell is the difference between this and an enemy agent?!"
A single curse word revealed the raging anger raging within him.
"This matter cannot be left unresolved!"
Gu Zhengfeng stood up and paced back and forth in the living room, exuding the menacing aura of a soldier.
"I'm going to the Military Commission Archives first thing tomorrow morning! I'll investigate personally! I want to see just how many secrets we don't know are still hidden in the files from twenty-three years ago!"
He stopped, his gaze sharp as a knife, and said to Su Yue with unwavering resolve.
"Yueyue, don't worry! Dad will stand up for you! Once it's verified, not even the Heavenly King himself can protect the Chu family!"
These words, spoken with resounding force, were a father's promise to his daughter-in-law, and even more so, an old soldier's oath to his unjustly accused comrade.
Zhang Huilan held Su Yue's hand, her eyes welling up with tears of heartache.
“My dear child, you’ve suffered so much… Don’t worry, this isn’t over! But right now, your most important thing is to recover, you’re pregnant! No matter what happens, we’ll support you. You mustn’t get upset, okay?”
Looking at her mother-in-law's worried eyes, Su Yue nodded, feeling a warm glow in her heart.
Gu Beichen remained silent throughout.
He simply sat quietly beside Su Yue, holding her cold hands tighter and tighter.
Only then did he slowly raise his head, and a chilling storm was brewing in his deep eyes.
He looked at Su Yue, speaking slowly and deliberately, his voice low but carrying a chilling, bloodthirsty edge.
"Yueyue, don't worry."
"I will handle this personally."
"Whether it's that one codenamed 'Vulture' or those two venomous snakes from the Chu family, I guarantee I won't let either of them go."
The man's eyes were like those of a tiger locking onto its prey, revealing its sharpest claws.
Dragons have scales that cannot be touched; to touch them is certain death.
Su Yue is Gu Beichen's Achilles' heel.
The eldest brother, Gu Beihan, who had been silent all along, pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses, revealing a sharp gaze behind the lenses.
“Dad investigated through the military; this was the most direct lead, but it was also easy to alert the enemy.”
He analyzed it calmly.
“I’ll investigate from the outside. The Chu family has deep roots in Beijing, especially in the education and health systems, where they have a complex network of connections. The whereabouts of Chu Yanran and her daughter over the years, the hospitals they’ve been to, the people they’ve come into contact with… as long as they’ve lived, they will leave traces. I will dig up their secrets completely.”
Gu Beifeng, the third son of the Gu family who was always joking around and never serious, also put away his carefree and irresponsible demeanor at this moment.
He sat up straight, his face unusually serious.
"Dad, eldest brother, second brother, count me in too!"
"I fly domestic and international routes all year round and know all sorts of people. Some information is hard to find through official channels, but rumors spread the fastest. I'll ask around and maybe I'll get some unexpected information!"
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