"When did mother become so confused?"
Gu Tingchen glared at Mother Fang in dissatisfaction, and stood in front of the door curtain with his whole body, blocking Mother Fang's way.
Mother Fang hurriedly explained, "Young Master, I heard that this marriage at the Yongning Palace was arranged by Prime Minister Ji for my cousin. They say that parents' orders and matchmaker's words..."
“Pah.”
Gu Tingchen slapped Fang's mother hard in the face, knocking her to the ground.
Ye Huaisu and his two children were all stunned.
"Tingchen, what are you doing?" Ye Huaisu asked dissatisfiedly.
"When did Ji Yuan ever make decisions for a girl raised in a duke's house?" Gu Tingchen glared at Mother Fang and said sternly, "I think it's you bastards who have bewitched Mother and made her unable to distinguish right from wrong."
After he finished speaking, he immediately waved to the outside, and then Liu Zhang led a group of soldiers in.
"Drag this old woman Fang and these idiots in my mother's yard away and beat them to death," Gu Tingchen ordered in a cold voice.
Seeing the soldiers coming forward to arrest people, Ye Huaisu, Gu Qingmian and Gu Tingji all became anxious.
"Second brother, what did Mother Fang do wrong? Why did you beat them to death?"
Gu Tingji quickly stepped forward to stop Liu Zhang: "They are all elderly people who have followed my mother for many years and are loyal to the Duke's Mansion. I won't allow you to hurt them."
"Tingji, you are still young, so I won't argue with you, but there are some things I want to explain to you and Qingmian."
Glancing at Ye Huaisu with dissatisfaction, Gu Tingchen said solemnly, "Your cousin is being deceived. She is in danger in Yuezhou. Second brother must find a way to bring her back, but before that, second brother must punish all those who want to harm her."
"You're talking nonsense." Gu Qingmian scolded, "My cousin has always wanted to go to Yuezhou. How could she be in danger in Yuezhou?"
"If someone hadn't bewitched her, why would she want to go to Yuezhou?"
When Gu Tingchen thought of how close his cousin and Fu Mingchi were together, his heart was like a raging wave crashing against the shore, surging endlessly.
Staring at Ye Huaisu with eyes filled with anger, Gu Tingchen clenched his fists until they rattled. "Wanwan has been close to her mother since she was young, and she's especially fond of Qingmian and Tingji. If someone hadn't bewitched her, how could she be willing to leave you and the Duke's Mansion?"
Ye Huaisu's eyes were filled with tears, and he kept shaking his head: "Tingchen, just let Wanwan go. Wanwan now has the life she wants. Since you and Tingzhou don't have her in your hearts, why bother to keep entangled with her?"
Gu Tingchen was furious when he heard this and yelled at Liu Zhang, "What are you still standing there for? Drag him away."
"yes."
Liu Zhang ordered his men to forcibly drag away Gu Qingmian and Gu Tingji, brother and sister, and escort all the servants out of the house.
Ye Huaisu, protecting his two children, was stopped by several soldiers. He burst into tears and said, "When did your heart become so cruel? Mother Fang saw you and your brothers grow up. How could you have the heart to beat her to death?"
"Vicious?" Gu Tingchen stepped forward and grabbed Ye Huaisu's neck in a rage. "When it comes to viciousness, how can a son's heart compare to a mother's? You knew that I only had Wanwan in my heart, yet you still lied to me and let her go to Yuezhou."
"Second brother, please let my mother go." Gu Qingmian and Gu Tingji, brother and sister, gnashed their teeth in hatred and grabbed the hem of his clothes, tearing them apart.
Gu Tingchen, however, seemed to be going mad, pinching Ye Huaisu's hand even harder. "You knew that Wanwan's closest relatives in this world were only her mother and me, yet you cruelly let her leave the Duke's Mansion. Who in the Yongning Prince's Mansion would be willing to treat her sincerely?"
Ye Huaisu was pinched so hard that his face turned pale and he was completely unable to breathe.
Gu Tingji was extremely anxious and bit Gu Tingchen's other arm viciously.
A piercing pain came over him, and Gu Tingchen had to let go of Ye Huaisu. He angrily picked up Gu Tingji and threw him out.
"Tingji."
Ye Huaisu was so frightened that his body went limp. He staggered over to support Gu Tingji. When he looked over, he saw that blood was oozing from the back of his son's head.
"Mother, my cousin finally left the Duke's Mansion with great difficulty. You must not let her come back."
Lying in Ye Huaisu's arms, Gu Tingji begged weakly.
Hearing this, Gu Tingchen became even more annoyed. He looked in the direction of the mother and son with murderous intent in his eyes.
"Second brother, do you want to kill Tingji?" Gu Qingmian gritted his teeth and stretched out his arms to stop Gu Tingchen from moving forward.
"Get out of here." Gu Tingchen pushed her to the bedside and walked straight towards Ye Huaisu and Gu Tingji, mother and son.
"Write a letter immediately and send someone to bring Wanwan back." Gu Tingchen threatened sternly, "Otherwise, I will make sure you never see Qingmian and Tingji again in this life."
Ye Huaisu was so angry that he gasped: "Your father is not dead yet, how dare you be so unscrupulous?"
"Mother is such a traitor, yet she still has the nerve to mention Father?" Gu Tingchen snorted coldly, "Wanwan doesn't understand the affairs of the court. Could it be that Mother is also confused and doesn't know that the Queen Mother is most afraid of the Yongning Palace?"
Glancing at his unconscious son in his arms, Ye Huaisu's expression was now completely devoid of optimism. "If you two hadn't repeatedly hurt Wanwan, how could she have been so disappointed as to travel all the way to Yuezhou? Isn't everything you've done today a result of your own actions?"
"I have never hurt her." Gu Tingchen's eyes widened and he shouted loudly: "Everything I did was just to give her the best. Why can't mother understand my painstaking efforts?"
Counting the days, half a month had passed. Gu Tingchen no longer had the energy to argue with her and directly ordered people to take Gu Qingmian and Gu Tingji away.
"I'll give you one day. If you still can't make up your mind, don't blame me for being ruthless."
After giving a final warning, Gu Tingchen hurried out of the door.
When I walked to the middle courtyard, I suddenly saw Gu An walking in with a sullen face.
Seeing his father's embarrassed expression, Gu Tingchen clasped his fists respectfully and asked calmly, "Where are you going, father?"
Gu An glared at him in dissatisfaction: "What did you do to your mother, brother, and sister?"
"What can a son do?" Gu Tingchen smiled and said, "It's just to persuade mother not to make mistakes again."
Gu An gritted his teeth and was about to go in when Gu Tingchen reached out to stop him. "Father, it's not too late to go see Mother after you've made up your mind. Ji Yuan has personally led the Emperor's Divine Mighty Army to Yuezhou. If Wanwan marries Prince Yongning again, it won't be a good thing for our Gu family."
Gu An took a deep breath and stopped helplessly: "What are you going to do?"
"Of course, that depends on whether father wants to preserve the Gu family's property or the lives of my third sister and fourth brother." Gu Tingchen smiled faintly.
Gu An suddenly fell silent.
After a long pause, he finally spoke, "Wanwan is a sensible child. You just need to ask your mother to write a letter and bring her back. Don't hurt Qingmian and Tingji. You should know how much Wanwan loves them."
Hearing that his father tacitly agreed to his suggestion, Gu Tingchen smiled faintly: "Don't worry, father. Unless it is absolutely necessary, I will not harm Qingmian and Tingji."
After hearing this, Gu An felt relieved and turned back to the study.
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