Madam Xu was originally sitting on the bed. After hearing what Gu Xingnuo said, she half-knelt on the bed, stretched out her hand to grab the collar of Young Master Gu's clothes, and screamed, "I am your mother!"
Gu Xingnuo leaned aside, giving Madam Xu an opportunity to catch him, and said, "Mother, Xingyan and I have the same question. If Xinglang wasn't there, which one of us would you give to exchange for father?"
Mrs. Xu opened her eyes wide, but her eyes were empty as she looked at Gu Xingnuo, as if she didn't understand what Gu Xingnuo said.
Gu Xingnuo said: "This place is quiet, with food and clothes provided, and the servants will serve you wholeheartedly, so you should just practice Buddhism here."
"I want to go back home," Madam Xu suddenly became excited again. She looked at Gu Xingnuo with resentment and said, "I gave birth to you and this is how you treat me? Aren't you afraid that people all over the world will laugh at you?!"
Gu Xingnuo smiled and said, "Why did you return home? Waiting for father?"
"You," Madam Xu reached out to grab Gu Xingnuo's collar again, and said in surprise, "The general is back? Where is he? Take me to see him, quickly, quickly!"
Mrs. Xu looked like a madman.
Gu Xingnuo pulled the quilt off the bed and covered Madam Xu with it, whispering, "It's good to be crazy. Crazy people don't know sadness, no sorrow or joy. It's not bad to live like this."
"Xing, Xingnuo?" Mrs. Xu called out.
"Please pray to the Buddha," Young Master Gu helped Madam Xu lie down on the bed, and said, "Maybe the Buddha will let father come back. But you have to be sincere, otherwise the Buddha will be angry, and father won't come back."
Madam Xu said, "Xingnuo, your father is coming back soon, so I have to go back to the mansion to wait for him."
Gu Xingnuo shook his head and said, "If he comes back, I will know about it. Mother should pray to the Buddha more."
Madam Xu stared at Gu Xingnuo, as if trying to determine whether what Gu Xingnuo said was true or false.
Gu Xingnuo lowered the bed curtain for Madam Xu and walked out the door. He was filled with anger, but what could he say to his half-crazy mother?
At this time, the gatekeeper of the Buddhist Hall saw a man riding a horse to the gate of the courtyard. Before the gatekeeper could see his face clearly, the man turned his horse and walked towards the street. The gatekeeper ran down the steps and stared at the man's back. He thought that this man looked like the young master of their Gu Mansion. His figure looked like him, and so did the horse.
"Young Master?" the doorman shouted.
The rider stopped his horse for a moment, then whipped it and rode away again.
The disciples were totally confused. Why did the young master come to the door and then leave?
Gu Xingnuo was standing in the corridor at this time, and said to the two leading housekeepers: "Madam was frightened when she was imprisoned in the palace by Zhao Qiuming, so her mental state is different from that of an ordinary person now."
The two mothers-in-law stood with their heads bowed, not daring to speak.
"She told me that my father would come back," Gu Xinglang sighed, "Isn't this crazy?"
A gust of wind blew, and the flowers and trees in the courtyard rustled. The two mothers-in-law felt terrified. They had heard Madam Xu call the general many times, but they did not dare to think about it. Now that Young Master Gu had spoken out, it was hard for the two mothers-in-law not to be afraid.
"I will ask a doctor to come and see Madam tomorrow," Gu Xingnuo did not even look at the two women-in-law. He only looked at a camphor tree in the yard and whispered, "Madam is in this state. You have to worry about her."
The two maids knelt down in front of Gu Xingnuo and said, "We obey your command."
Gu Xingnuo listened to the noise in the room. It had been a long time, but Madam Xu hadn't made any noise. Regardless of whether this person was really crazy or just pretending to be crazy, Young Master Gu looked at the brightly lit courtyard in front of him and thought to himself that this was where his mother would end her life.
The two mothers-in-law didn't hear Gu Xingnuo calling them to get up, so they knelt on the ground and dared not move.
Gu Xingnuo looked at the courtyard for a long time, and finally raised his hand to the two mothers-in-law, asking them to stand up, and said, "Madam's affairs must not be spread to outsiders. If Madam's illness is exposed, the first people I will look for are you two."
The two mothers-in-law almost knelt down to Gu Xingnuo again, secretly groaning in their hearts, this job was really not easy.
Gu Xingnuo was about to walk out of the corridor when one of his guards rushed in, ran down the steps, and said to Master Gu in a panic, "Master, a family in front of the street was just wiped out!"
"What?" Gu Xingnuo was immediately shocked. It was not the time for Zhao Qiumin and his gang to cause chaos in Fengjing City. How could such a tragic incident happen that an entire family was wiped out out of the blue?
"He is a clerk in the Imperial Censorate," the guard said, "but I didn't get his name."
Gu Xingnuo walked down the stairs in a few steps, turned around and ordered the two housekeepers, "Serve the Madam well."
When the two mothers-in-law heard that a family nearby was wiped out, they turned pale with horror and answered with a trembling voice, "Yes."
Gu Xingnuo came out of the Buddhist temple. He didn't notice anything when he was standing in the backyard, but now that he was standing in front of the gate, he realized that the whole street was in chaos.
Gu Lin ran over from the street with a few guards, stood in front of Gu Xingnuo and said, "Master, that family is all dead."
Gu Lin and the others also turned pale, obviously they were frightened.
Gu Xingnuo glanced at his captain of the guards and said, "Did that family die in a tragic way?" Logically speaking, Xiao Lin had been on the battlefield with him many times, so he shouldn't be afraid of seeing dead people.
Gu Lin whispered, "Master, the murderer, ah, I can't tell you, please go and take a look."
Gu Xingnuo followed Gu Lin and walked to the house in front of the street. Many people gathered in front of the door of the house, but they were all hesitant to move forward and no one dared to go in.
"It was the night watchman who discovered blood on the door of this house and started shouting, and that's when this happened," Gu Lin said to Gu Xingnuo, pointing at the blood-soaked door of this family's house.
The night watchman squatted on the ground holding the gong he used to beat the night watch, curled up into a ball. One of his colleagues had just been seriously injured by someone on this street and almost lost his life. Today, he encountered another tragic incident of his entire family being wiped out. Was there something wrong with the feng shui of this street? Or was there something dirty?
Gu Xingnuo glanced at the night watchman, stepped over the threshold and entered the house.
There were two bodies lying in the front yard. They looked like servants of this family. However, the way they died made Young Master Gu frown even though he was a general who fought in battles. The bodies of the two men were cut into several pieces, with their heads on the east and feet on the west. Their intestines were piled on the ground, and the blood dyed the small front yard red.
"I have checked," Gu Lin whispered to his master, "This family member was not injured by a sharp weapon, it seems that their bodies were torn apart by force."
Gu Xingnuo felt something under his feet. He moved his feet and took a closer look. It turned out to be a human heart.
"Killing is not the right thing to do," Gu Lin muttered to Master Gu, "What grudge does this murderer have against this clerk? Why does he kill people like this?"
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