Chapter 97 The dust has settled

"Did you spread those rumors outside?" Lord Gu asked, suppressing his anger.

"No, no, we didn't spread them. At most, we just added fuel to the fire after they spread." The fifth elder knelt on the ground and waved his hands to clear himself of the part that had nothing to do with him. "

Are the things that were spread true?" Lord Gu asked again.

"It is true, but the person who did those things was not Tingye." The fourth elder rushed to answer, perhaps because the following words were difficult to understand, he stopped talking halfway.

Lord Gu glared at him. Lord Wu was scared at first. He went on to say, "It was our good-for-nothing son who borrowed Tingye's name to stir up trouble outside. But later, whoever did something shameful would blame it on Tingye. Gradually, his reputation became worse. Everyone said so, and everyone believed it. Big brother, don't you believe it too?" Lord

Gu's heart bleeds at Lord Wu's last words. His good son was harmed by these people! He even beat him without any reason!

Lord Gu was extremely disappointed with the Fourth and Fifth Elders and didn't want to say anything more. "I will pay off your debts. Let's split up!"

The Fourth and Fifth Elders knelt there, begging Lord Gu not to split up. They were just two leeches that only knew how to suck the blood of Ningyuan Marquis's mansion. If they were not allowed to suck blood, there would be no useful descendants in their family. How could they survive?

"I will not pursue the matter of you framing the Second Elder. I have done my best for you. If you dare to make trouble again, I am not afraid of exposing this family's shame again!" Lord Gu shouted angrily.

"Brother, don't just blame us. It was sister-in-law who gave us this idea. It was sister-in-law who brought the concubine into the family. Gu Tingyu also knew that Gu Tingye was wronged, but none of them spoke for him. Didn't you beat Gu Tingye yourself? Didn't you not ask a single question before you beat him?" The fourth master was desperate. He was going to divide the family anyway, so he exposed all the dirty thoughts of these people.

After hearing these words, Lord Gu's blood surged up and he could no longer hold on and fell to the ground. The people outside the door heard the noise and came in. They saw the Marquis fell to the ground and hurried to call the doctor. Fortunately, the treatment was timely and Marquis Gu was not seriously injured, but it was obvious to the naked eye that Marquis Gu had aged a lot, and the family was in turmoil!

After Marquis Gu woke up, he went to see Gu Tingye. Qi Heng was still there.

"Young Master, go back. I will ask someone to take good care of him!" Marquis Gu asked Qi Heng to go back as soon as he entered the door.

Qi Heng wanted to insist on staying, but seeing Marquis Gu's suddenly old face, he didn't want to confront him anymore. After all, Gu Tingye's fever had subsided and his life was no longer in danger. "That night, senior, I'll take my leave!"

After Qi Heng left, Lord Gu sat alone by Gu Tingye's bed for a long time. He had been in charge of the Gu family for more than 20 years and thought he had done a good job. He didn't expect that the family was in a state of disgrace, with unkind parents and quarrels among brothers!

The sound of the door opening came. It was Xiao Qinshi. Xiao Qinshi knew that Gu Yankai had called the people from the fourth and fifth rooms to the study room. In addition, Gu Yankai fainted from anger. With Xiao Qinshi's intelligence, she didn't need to ask those two idiots to know that she must have been betrayed.

"What are you doing here?" Lord Gu asked coldly.

"I came to see if Gu Tingye was beaten to death by you!" Xiao Qinshi changed from her usual gentle and virtuous self and spoke vicious words as soon as she opened her mouth.

Lord Gu slowly raised his head and tried hard to see the woman in front of him clearly in the dim light. He couldn't understand why this woman was like this. Her sister was gentle and kind, and she had been in the Ningyuan Marquis Mansion for nearly twenty years. Why did he seem to understand her less and less?

Xiao Qinshi seemed to understand Gu Yankai's expression. She smiled suddenly, "Why? Are you thinking about how gentle and kind my sister is? How could I be so cruel? Hahahaha... So what if my sister is gentle and kind? Didn't you abandon your wife and marry someone else? Wasn't the one from the Bai family gentle and virtuous? Didn't you treat her well? You, the Gu family, swallowed up her million-dollar dowry, and she died of dystocia the next moment! I can also be virtuous and kind. Look, haven't I always done well? Gu Tingye has always treated me as his own mother! It's you, you who forced me to become like this!"

Gu Yankai was still emotionally aroused by Xiao Qinshi's words. He looked at the nightmare look of this woman and asked her, "When did the Gu family mistreat you?"

"When have you ever treated me badly? When has the

Gu family ever treated me well? It's not enough that you have harmed my sister, why are you harming me too? Since you said that you love my sister the most, how can you marry her younger sister as your successor?" "It was your Qin family that wanted me to marry you as your successor! You said you could take good care of Brother Yu..." Gu Yan opened his mouth and wanted to refute Xiao Qin's words.

"Shut up! Do you think Lord Gu is so easy to control? You can marry her just because I let you? You marry Bai for the Bai family's money. You marry me so that I can take care of Brother Yu? Then what about us? How innocent are Bai and I? We could have married into a good family, found a husband of our dreams, and raised children. But because of your Gu family's selfish desires, you are going to ruin our lives! Poor Bai, I'm afraid she will never know why you married her but didn't treat her well until she dies. Hahahaha, leaving a young child to suffer in this devil's den! Hahahaha...how pitiful!"

"Since you know everything, why do you still want to harm him? He has always called you mother and treated you like his own mother!"

"Don't I have a son? Do I want to be a stepmother? Yes, I've been so good to him, why does he want to compete with my son? Gu Tingyu won't live long. This is a disease he brought from the womb. When you die, Gu Tingyu won't live long either. Then the whole Gu family will fall on him. But what if he is a waste? Hahahaha, the title will be my son's! This is what you, Gu Tingyu, are doing. "Your family owes me this. I married into your Gu family when I was young, and now I am old and ugly. I have worked hard without complaint, all for this day! Then how could Gu Tingye stand in front of my son? So I indulged him in everything, and I spoiled him no matter what he did. Now that he is about to become useless, you insisted on sending him to the White Deer Grotto Academy, hahahaha..." Little Qin said as she laughed and tears came down her face.

"You think very highly of him, don't you? Even though he has a bad reputation, you are unwilling to give up on him. Do you also feel that you owe the Bai family? The funny thing is that he really is the most like you. I tried my best to make him a cripple, but he turned out to be both civil and military. The son whom I tried so hard to be strict with turned out to be a good-for-nothing and I have to run after him every day. Ha! How interesting! You, the Gu family, are really interesting!" Little Qin was more sad than having her heart broken. All her years of planning had come to nothing and she no longer wanted to struggle.

After hearing these words, Lord Gu was silent for a long time, so silent that it seemed as if no one was alive in the whole room. Suddenly, Gu Yankai spoke up, "I have considered Ting Wei. His temperament is not suitable for the position of Ningyuan Marquis. He has a childish mind and a pure heart. He cannot lead the Gu family to gain a foothold in the court. As you said, Brother Yu is in poor health. Brother Ye is the best candidate. He has a good relationship with Brother Wei and can take good care of Brother Wei and ensure that Brother Wei will have no worries for the rest of his life."

Xiao Qinshi did not speak. Could she not know that Brother Wei was not suitable? She was just unwilling to accept that she had worked hard for half her life to make wedding dresses for others. Then what did she get in the Gu Mansion? She was unwilling to accept it!

Neither of them spoke, nor did they notice that the tears in the corners of the eyes of the person on the bed soaked the pillow.

When it was late at night and everyone was asleep, Gu Tingye got up, packed a bag, and climbed over the wall to leave Ningyuan Marquis's Mansion! Gu Tingye stood in front of the mansion, took a deep look, and left without looking back.