"What?" Although he didn't know what the so-called confession letter was, Gu instinctively felt that it must be related to him.
Liu and He were both delivered by Grandma He, and later they both died. Although she was not a direct participant in the twists and turns, she knew exactly what role Grandma Gu played.
"Speak slowly, don't panic." The more critical the moment became, the calmer Gu became. If panic could solve the problem, the world would have been peaceful long ago.
"This is it. Granny He wrote it. The original was delivered to the main hall of Jingzhao Prefecture. This is a copy. I'm afraid half the families in the capital have seen it now!"
Gu took the pages of paper, glanced at them quickly, and beads of sweat immediately dripped down her face. She looked at Huiting in shock.
It begins: I am He Ma, from the east of Beijing...
Gu had no interest in reading these things. The key point was that the words "confession" and "guaranteed to be true" written on them scared her to death.
Because apart from the beginning, the rest of the text was filled with dates, names, and amounts of unknown meaning. After just two pages, Gu was unsurprisingly surprised to see her family's name.
On a certain day of a certain month of a certain year, Gu Pozi, a servant in the Fuyuan General's Mansion, collected three hundred taels of silver and asked the concubine named Liu to be sterilized.
On a certain day of a certain month of a certain year, Mrs. Gu, a servant in the Fuyuan General's Mansion, received 500 taels of silver as hush money to prevent the news of Mrs. Gu killing the concubine named He from being leaked.
On a certain day of a certain month of a certain year...
Gu couldn't make out a single word of the following words, feeling dizzy and dazed. Why? Why was Grandma He about to die, yet she still made such a fuss! She didn't want the rest of the He family to continue living in the capital, right?
"Did she really write this?"
"It's absolutely true. The original is kept in Jingzhao Prefecture. I heard that Lord Shen has already compared the handwriting and there are absolutely no mistakes or omissions."
"Didn't they say she became demented after the accident? How could she possibly write something like this!" Gu rushed forward a few steps and grabbed the boy by the collar.
"This, this, this, this. I heard from her family that she suddenly got better last night. She confessed deeply to the Buddha and wrote this. Then she told her family to report it to the police. After that, she died..."
"Dead, ha, dead!" You bitch, you were relieved before your death. Do you know how much shock this confession letter will bring to the capital?
It’s all over now. Not to mention the power of the housekeeper, I’m afraid the master can’t even protect himself this time. What should I do?
Gu suddenly regained consciousness: "Has the master left the court? Has he returned?"
"Not yet, but I think it will be soon."
"Go to the door and answer it, go quickly!" Gu drove the servant away with a dark face, her heart filled with fear. She had never thought that such a day would come.
Even if I tell the master that this was all Mrs. Gu's idea, he will never believe it. No matter what, he will definitely suspect me.
What should I do? What should I do?
"Huiting, go quickly! Go back to my house and tell my parents that I've suffered a great injustice in the mansion. Ask them to come over no matter what. Go quickly!"
Huiting was already scared to death. When he heard the order, he stumbled out of the door to look for help.
There was no one in the room, and Gu took the time to read the confession again. In addition to the affairs of his own family, everything from the prime minister to the jailer's family was involved. It was a full seven pages long, and some of the things on it were very famous. Not to mention the parties involved, even outsiders like themselves had discussed them as topics of conversation.
Is this... is this true?
Gu didn't believe it. Even though she knew that the confession was not directed at her, it was very likely that the things written on it were true. She didn't believe that Grandma He would make such a suicidal confession.
This doesn't make sense. Although Grandma He is dead, there are still other people in the He family. Once this confession is released, the He family will probably immediately attract a large number of revenge seekers and truth seekers, and the He family will definitely be doomed.
Could it be that Grandma He really offended the gods and Buddhas, which led to her being forced to repent in the human world?
Thousands of solutions flashed through Gu's mind at once, but he rejected them one by one.
This matter is too difficult to handle.
She even suspected that some other noble was going to get rid of someone, which was why she was implicated. Otherwise, this confession should only be in Jingzhao Prefecture. How could a handwritten version be published so quickly and spread throughout the capital so quickly?
There was a hint of despair in her eyes, and Gu recalled the words of reassurance that Nanny Gu had said to her.
"Madam, don't worry. Although Aunt Liu is beautiful, she will never have children again. You can just sit back and relax as the General's Wife!"
"Madam, Concubine He is dead... For the sake of your reputation as a virtuous woman, I suggest you praise her in front of the general and keep the young master with you!"
"Madam, some things can be done by me, so just rest assured."
However, she ultimately did not listen to Nanny Gu's advice and raise Xu Yiwen as her own. That was because she had just married into the general's mansion not long ago and did not believe that she would not have her own children in the future.
She didn't want Xu Yiwen to take the title of eldest son, so she didn't choose to raise him. This led to the fact that when she slowly came to her senses later, Xu Yiwen was no longer tamed.
"Mammy, are these things you did for my own good or to harm me?" Gu was already sobbing uncontrollably. She had rejected countless countermeasures in her mind. Now there was only one way to go.
That's a sign of weakness.
He begged for peace and forgiveness, and refused to admit what Grandma Gu had done, insisting that what Grandma He wrote was false.
Only in this way can she maintain her position as the legal wife of the general's mansion and continue to call the shots in the Xu family.
Gu was filled with humiliation, but she wasn't short-sighted; she was just a little willful. Now that she no longer had Nanny Gu's protection, she had to shoulder all the responsibilities on her own.
She walked silently to the mirror, removed the makeup on her hair bit by bit, and then washed off all the makeup on her face with clean water.
To be punished for taking off her hairpin was the heaviest humiliation for a woman in that era. To preserve the overall situation, she had no choice but to temporarily endure it from her master.
After packing up, Gu staggered towards the study door, raised her legs, and knelt on the floor tiles at the study door.
She knew that once the master learned about this, he would definitely go to the study to find out what happened first, instead of going to his main courtyard.
So she waited, she waited for the man to soften his heart, and she also bet that this man was a man who cared about face and would never do anything to her because of rumors.
Otherwise, once the charges are proven, the biggest damage will be to his reputation.
Sure enough, after just a cup of tea, the master came in like a gust of wind. When he saw Gu, he went straight into the study without saying a word and locked the door from the inside.
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