Mrs. Gu opened the window of her guest room and heard the sound of hawkers outside. A peddler carrying a load of goods walked along the alley, shouting, "Selling osmanthus sweet soup, selling lotus sweet soup."
"Sixty cents a bowl, buy one get one free. Buy a bowl of sweet soup, get a piece of sweet cake for free."
When Gu Shenzhi arrived in Kyoto, he seemed very irritable. He had a tantrum, and now he almost stood still, slowly holding the back of the chair, and walked around to sit down.
Mrs. Gu closed the window, and the hawking sounds outside gradually died down.
After resting for a night, the couple went to Qifeng Pavilion to visit Gu Qingrong.
Gu Qingrong is a person with lofty ambitions. Now that her face is ruined, her heart has calmed down. When a person is calm, his IQ goes up.
During the three months of disfigurement, she stayed indoors and imagined many different kinds of future lives.
The first option is to steal the IOU from Gu Yinwei, and then take the IOU to Xi Chai Hutong to find someone from the Qiu family. Even if the IOU is real, she will get to see the Queen Mother as she wishes, but her future life will be nothing more than being a slave.
The second option is to spend all your family fortune to treat the scars on your face. However, even if your family fortune is gone, the situation may not improve and may even get worse.
The third option is to stay at home quietly and bide his time, and advise his father to support Gu Yingxia. Once Gu Yingxia is favored, the Gu family will also prosper.
She has a younger sister who is a favorite concubine and her father is a minister. Even if her appearance is ruined, she will not have trouble finding a good marriage.
What's more, the maidservant beside Ning Heyu was also wrong. She could still blackmail the Ning family with such a ferocious face.
Gu Qingrong hugged Mrs. Gu and they cried sadly. They planned to return to Yizhou to recuperate.
"Mother was wrong. She shouldn't have destroyed other people's families. She shouldn't have ordered Mrs. Zhong to poison Gu Yinwei. If there's going to be retribution, let it be on me. Please, Master, let my child go."
Mrs. Gu repeatedly exposed her crimes in front of the Buddha statue in the inn, trying to mitigate her guilt.
Gu Shenzhi knew all of this, and he even acquiesced to it. He didn't like women who were not under his control, such as the late wife, and he would not raise a daughter who did not obey his orders, such as Gu Yinwei.
"No, you must enter the palace."
Gu Shenzhi held Gu Qingrong's shoulders and looked at the spider-web-like poison spots on her face, as if he was not looking at his own daughter, but at a damaged commodity.
Gu Qingrong felt Gu Shenzhi's emotions and suddenly felt a sense of fear. It turned out that all the fatherly love she had felt over the years had a price.
"No, I don't want to enter the palace."
"If you don't want to enter the palace, forget it. I will take you home tomorrow."
Mrs. Gu put a veil on Gu Qingrong and went to hold her hand.
Gu Qingrong has accepted the fact that she is disfigured, but Gu Shenzhi cannot accept the frustration caused by the failure of his plan.
"No one is allowed to leave. Qingrong wants to be the imperial concubine, and I want to be the father-in-law of the emperor."
Gu Shenzhi's obsession was so deep that he almost went crazy.
He grabbed Madam Gu's neck and shouted, "I won't let you take my daughter away. If you dare to ruin Qingrong's future, I will kill you."
Madam Gu struggled in pain, "Master, please let go. I'm pregnant."
"Child? Who knows whose child this wild child in your belly belongs to? Maybe you've already cheated on me."
Mrs. Gu’s strength to resist was dwindling, and she was about to die.
"Bang."
A vase with a thick bottom and a long neck smashed hard on Gu Shenzhi's head. Gu Shenzhi looked back at Gu Qingrong, then fell into a pool of blood with his eyes wide open.
Gu Qingrong was terrified, trembling all over, unable to utter a complete sentence. Only Mrs. Gu still had a trace of rationality.
She hugged Gu Qingrong and coaxed her gently: "Don't be afraid, dear child, it has nothing to do with you. It was just a mistake on your part. Hurry and leave through the back door."
Gu Qingrong was in a state of dismay. Madam Gu changed her into clean clothes, burned the bloody clothes, and then pushed her out of the guest room.
Seeing her like this, and hearing the strange noises upstairs, Bian Tao guessed that someone had died upstairs, so he followed Gu Qingrong back to Qifeng Pavilion without saying anything.
Bian Tao knew that Gu Qingrong was frightened, so he secretly lit some calming incense, helped Gu Qingrong to sleep, and then rushed to inform Gu Yinwei.
It happened that Gu Yingxia was there too, and Gu Yinwei did not ask her to avoid her, so Bian Tao told her everything.
Gu Yingxia clapped her hands happily: "It's so refreshing, so refreshing."
"Hahaha, now the plan of the whole clan offering sacrifices to the heavens has finally been realized."
Gu Yinwei suddenly realized: "Did you do this?"
"Yes, it's me. I've disliked Gu Shenzhi for a long time. If you hadn't stopped me, I would have killed him long ago."
"If I don't kill them, they will come and kill me."
"My aunt's pregnant brother was killed by Xiao Fengyu. Now she is pregnant. I chose this time to attack her, but it is just tit for tat."
"Gu Shenzhi deserves to die for shielding the murderer, and so does Xiao Fengyu. They both have lives on their hands."
"Gu Qingrong did something harmful, but he didn't kill anyone."
"So I spared her life and only destroyed her face, even though she had bullied me for all these years."
"I'm curious, how do you control Gu Shenzhi?"
"I drugged his tea, which triggered Gu Shen's anxiety."
"Gu Shenzhi became ill and strangled Xiao Fengyu, refusing to let go. Gu Qingrong, in desperation, killed Gu Shenzhi."
"You were honest with me before, and I'm honest with you now. If you want to report me, I have no regrets."
Gu Yingxia squatted on the ground and cried, her cries were miserable.
Gu Yinwei patted her back gently. She understood everything she did.
"Don't be afraid, sister is here."
"I'm not afraid of anything. I've grown up. I can protect the people around me and I can protect myself."
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