Chapter 198 Does he really have ambitions, or does he have other intentions?
Marquis Anyang sat steadily on the armchair, tapping the armrests rhythmically with his fingers again and again. The subtle sound broke the brief silence around him.
"Mrs. Feng has been kneeling outside for quite a while. It's no use for her to remain like this. Let's just let her go."
Chu Ruohan didn't rush to respond, but instead changed the subject: "Father, my third brother has not been home for the past two days. Where did he go?"
Marquis Anyang's expression was calm, as if he were discussing a mundane matter. "The Spring Examination is approaching, and he has gone to a quiet place to study hard. As for where exactly he went, I have no idea."
He answered so quickly...
Chu Ruohan withdrew her gaze, a faint smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, but it did not reach her eyes. She just said softly: "It's time to go into seclusion."
She was already certain in her heart that the masters around Gu Chengyan must have been secretly arranged by Marquis Anyang.
When Marquis Anyang was young, he was just an unfavored bastard in his family, but he was able to marry the eldest princess and gradually rose from a son-in-law to the position of marquis.
How could it be a thing in the pond...
Anyang Hou's eyes flashed with impatience, "The most urgent matter is to resolve Madam Feng's matter first."
He sat up straighter, "After all, she is the only daughter of Duke Shan. Even though she made a mistake, we can't let her kneel down forever. How will outsiders view our mansion?"
Chu Ruohan couldn't help but sneer when she heard this, and retorted without showing any weakness: "Father, what you said is really unreasonable. My daughter-in-law is the one who suffered in this matter, but you always side with outsiders. Could it be that you are afraid of the Shan Guogong Mansion?"
Marquis Anyang was immediately furious. With a loud "bang", he slammed the table so hard that the teacups on the table shook a few times.
He stood up and pointed at Chu Ruohan, "Is this how you talk to your elders? This is simply disobedient and unfilial! Is this the Chu family's upbringing?"
Chu Ruohan's face also turned cold. This was the first time she was criticized for her upbringing, and it also affected her family...
Gu Junze immediately protected Chu Ruohan behind him and looked at Anyang Hou with cold eyes, "Elders need kindness so that the younger generation can be filial. As a father-in-law, how can you be kind when you blame your daughter-in-law so indiscriminately?"
His chest rose and fell slightly as he suppressed his inner anger, his voice low but resounding.
Marquis Anyang was choked by Gu Junze's words and was speechless for a moment, his face turning pale and blue.
The hand he stretched out froze in mid-air. After a long while, he gritted his teeth and said, "You...do you still have me as your father in your eyes?"
The situation in the house was tense, but Gu Junze was determined and refused to give in.
After a while, Marquis Anyang was defeated. He took a few deep breaths and suppressed the anger in his heart.
"Then, according to you two, what exactly do you want in exchange for letting Madam Feng go?"
Gu Junze sat down slowly, raised his eyes slightly, and said, "Let Madam Feng kowtow to Han'er in front of everyone and admit her fault..."
The Feng family wants to use misunderstandings to cover up the truth and preserve their reputation, but they are dreaming!
"In addition, pay another 100,000 taels of silver as compensation."
Just as the Marquis of Anyang was about to scold him for asking for too much, he heard Gu Junze say, "My leg has healed, and I don't want to waste my time doing nothing all day. I plan to go to Dongying for training...one to serve the court, and two to find a future for myself."
Marquis Anyang narrowed his eyes instantly. This bastard was becoming more and more incomprehensible.
Does he really have ambitions, or does he have other intentions?
In the end, Marquis Anyang agreed...
After Marquis Anyang left, Chu Ruohan couldn't wait to close the door.
"What are you thinking? Dongying is the territory of the Feng family army. If you go there, won't you be walking into the tiger's mouth?"
Gu Junze explained, "Don't worry, listen to me slowly. Before my mother passed away, the Shadow Guard was not in the capital. She only had a personal guard by her side, and this personal guard is now the Feng Family Army."
"Think about it, Feng Shaoyu was just a soldier back then, how could he have become a general and even married the only daughter of Duke Shan?"
His eyes became firm and persistent. "There are too many strange things going on here. I must get to the bottom of it."
"Even so, there's no need for you to be imprisoned," Chu Ruohan frowned. "Earlier, in order to settle the usury issue, the Marquis of Anyang sold off a lot of the princess's assets. I ordered people to secretly buy them all..."
"In the manor outside the capital, there are still elderly people who used to serve the princess. We can investigate from this aspect. There is no need to put ourselves in danger..."
Gu Junze stood up and interrupted her chatter: "Have you ever wondered why he poisoned his own son?"
Chu Ruohan took two steps back and sat down on the chair. How could she not have thought of it? She just didn't dare to think about it too deeply.
Gu Junze is not the Marquis of Anyang's biological son, so he...
Then it all fits together.
Gu Junze told her a secret. The heroic eldest princess was the most dazzling person in the capital and the object of pursuit by many young men from aristocratic families.
But for some reason, she fell in love with an insignificant bastard in the Marquis's mansion.
The late emperor and the empress dowager strongly opposed this marriage, after all, there was a huge disparity in their status, but the eldest princess was determined to marry him, and no one could persuade her...
Just over a month after their marriage, news came that the eldest princess was pregnant.
Eight months later, the eldest princess gave birth to a son prematurely with great difficulty. The child was weak and sickly since childhood.
The poisonous pregnancy-preserving medicine, the Rebellion of the Five Kings, the death of the eldest princess...all of this seemed like a huge conspiracy with one ring after another.
There is an invisible hand controlling everything.
Chu Ruohan couldn't help but think, if Gu Junze was not born prematurely but was born at full term, then he really was not the biological son of Marquis Anyang.
So who was the man who made the princess pregnant?
Why was he so irresponsible as to let the princess face it alone?
Gu Junze saw her confusion, squatted down, looked up at her, his eyes full of helplessness.
"I asked the shadow guards, but they all kept silent. I guess my mother must have given them a strict order not to reveal a single word."
He sighed softly and took Chu Ruohan's hand, "Han'er, I once thought I would be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of my life. It was God who took pity on me and allowed you to be reborn by my side, giving me hope to live."
"But as a son, I can't rest in peace until I avenge my mother. I must find out the truth of that year myself."
Chu Ruohan said regretfully, "If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have let Feng kneel outside."
Gu Junze smiled softly and stood up. "Marquis Anyang has long been in collusion with them. Whether or not I take down the Feng family, they will not let me go."
Chu Ruohan's face was still filled with worry. "I'm really worried about you going to Dongying."
Gu Junze gently stroked her cheek and comforted her, "Han'er, don't worry. Since I dared to go deep into the tiger's acupoints, I have naturally made all the necessary preparations."
"I won't let anything happen to me. I will come back to stay with you forever and see the prosperity of this world together."
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