Gu Yunyan's face changed slightly. When she heard Madam Gu mention Gu Yanfei, she remembered that Gu Yanfei had hinted that her marriage with Prince Kang would be in trouble when the Ministry of Internal Affairs came to propose marriage...
At this moment, Gu Yunmeng suddenly understood as if he had been enlightened.
She never believed in fortune-telling or any other vague metaphysics.
Destiny can never be calculated with just the movement of your fingers.
I see!
It’s not that Gu Yanfei calculated it correctly. She was just a rat hiding in the gutter. She set this trap in secret and waited for them to jump into it.
“Meow!”
Another long cat meow came from outside the window, sounding like joy, excitement, or impatience.
For Madam Gu, it was like a death warrant.
“Meow meow meow…”
Gu Yanfei came over amid the sounds of cats meowing.
She saw the plum tree that was badly scratched by the cat, and she also saw the bloodstains, the dagger and the torn letter of engagement in the main hall. Even if she had not seen it with her own eyes, she could almost piece together the whole story and was in a very good mood.
She didn't try to hide her good mood and just walked in with a smile and a playful look on her face.
The main hall was silent, with only Madam Gu and Gu Yunyan sitting there, and the atmosphere was solemn.
Gu Yun'er stared at the smile on Gu Yanfei's lips without blinking, his eyes darkening.
It's her!
It really was Gu Yanfei! It was Gu Yanfei who made Fang Mingfeng a sword to use against him.
Gu Yun'er was so angry that his hands were shaking like sieves, and the joints of his fingers were slightly white.
Madam Gu was also looking at Gu Yanfei, holding the Buddhist beads tightly in one hand, her slightly pale old face tense.
She wanted to ask, but couldn't bring herself to do it. It seemed that if she opened her mouth, she would be showing weakness to Gu Yanfei and begging him.
Gu Yanfei was not in a hurry. He picked a chair and sat down without being asked. He leisurely watched the servants clean up the mess on the ground skillfully.
The bloodstains on the ground were quickly wiped clean, and the torn red engagement letter was picked up and placed on the table together with the empress dowager's edict.
The house returned to its original cleanliness, as if nothing had happened.
Madam Gu lowered her eyes and slowly turned the red sandalwood Buddhist beads in her hand, one bead after another, at an extremely slow speed, as if even time was slowed down by her.
After a moment, the Buddhist beads in her hand stopped.
Mrs. Gu raised her hand and made a gesture, and Nanny Li tactfully sent away all the servants in the main hall and stayed alone in the corridor.
"What do you think we should do?" Mrs. Gu asked without any context, her voice dry.
"It's very simple," Gu Yanfei smiled and said softly, "The Madam has satisfied me, and I will satisfy her too."
Madam Gu's pupils contracted.
She immediately realized that Gu Yanfei did this for Su Niang.
She didn't like being coerced, and a trace of surprise flashed away in an instant. She softened her voice and coaxed, "Yan Fei, you and the Marquis' Mansion are one, and we will prosper together..."
Gu Yanfei shook his finger and interrupted her with a chuckle: "If Madam Tai doesn't satisfy me, I'm not happy anymore. Why should I care about the life and death of the Marquis' Mansion? Madam Tai, don't you agree?"
As he spoke, Gu Yanfei easily picked up the blood-stained dagger from the chair next to him and looked at it casually.
This dagger is made of fine iron, with a straight blade and smooth lines. After being tempered in fire and repeatedly hammered, the blade is extremely sharp and the blood on it has dried.
There was a word "Fang" engraved on the blade near the rhino horn handle, half of which was stained red with blood.
Even if no one told her, Gu Yanfei knew that the blood on the dagger belonged to Fang Mingfeng.
The cold light from the dagger was reflected in Gu Yanfei's pupils, and those unforgettable past events flashed through his mind like a kaleidoscope.
Gu Yanfei stared deeply at the blood-stained dagger in his hand. Everything in front of him was blurred, as if there was a layer of blood mist spreading in front of him.
She had seen this dagger in her previous life.
At that time, she was being forced step by step by Gu Yunmeng, and the two of them had reached the point where they were incompatible. She was desperate to let everyone know that Gu Yunmeng was born to a wet nurse and was a house-born child, and that she was the real daughter of a marquis.
In order to protect Gu Yunmeng, Fang Mingfeng stabbed her with this dagger. The blade pierced her chest, taking half of her life and leaving an indelible scar on her chest!
That piercing pain seemed to be just yesterday, deep into my bones...
Thinking of this, the blood red color in her eyes quickly spread in her pupils and flowed violently.
In her previous life, God had spared Fang Mingfeng, but she would not let him go, nor would she forget what he had done.
Gradually, her eyes calmed down and her mind calmed down as well.
"It was almost there." Gu Yanfei chuckled and threw the dagger onto the coffee table with a clanging sound.
Compared to the dagger Chu Yi gave her, this dagger is far inferior.
She said it unintentionally, but Mrs. Gu took it seriously. She always felt that there was something else behind her words.
"..." Madam Gu looked hesitant.
"Do you want me to calculate again, what will happen next?" Gu Yanfei raised his fingers to calculate again...
When Mrs. Gu saw Gu Yanfei's action, her heart began to beat uncontrollably like a drum.
Gu Yanfei pinched his knuckles two or three times in a serious manner and sighed, "Oh, this is a sign of separation. The Queen Mother is about to grant another marriage to Prince Kang. This bride is so unlucky."
"Gu Yunyan, all the peach blossoms in her life have withered..."
"Let me calculate again..."
Madam Gu bit her back teeth, barely controlling her emotions that were about to collapse, and asked again word by word: "What on earth do you want to do?!"
Gu Yanfei put down the hand that was calculating, and gently tapped the armrest with his index and middle fingers rhythmically, and said slowly: "The Jing Law says: Those who kidnap and sell people will be punished with 100 strokes of the cane, tattooed on the face, and exiled 3,000 miles away."
Her implication was clear.
"..." Madam Gu's pupils dilated and her breathing and heartbeat were inexplicably drawn by the rhythm of Gu Yanfei's finger tapping, becoming increasingly rapid.
"She has already received the punishment, isn't that enough?" Gu Yun'er couldn't help but ask.
Gu Yanfei had beaten Su Niang half to death, ruined her own wedding ceremony, and even caused Fang Mingfeng to be injured because of her selfishness.
Isn’t that enough?!
Gu Yanfei was still not satisfied! Gu Yun'er's body tensed up, and his face looked extremely ugly.
Even so, she did not lose her composure or say anything bad.
Gu Yanfei's half-closed eyelashes trembled slightly, and a hint of blood red appeared in the bottom of his cold eyes, but disappeared in a flash.
In the previous life, Su Niang treated Gu Yunmeng kindly, and Gu Yunmeng treated Su Niang the same way.
After Gu Yun'er married into Prince Kang's mansion, she released Su Niang's family from slavery and bought them a house and land. From then on, they lived a life surrounded by servants, dressed in fine clothes and fed with delicious food. Not only that, Gu Yun'er also hired a teacher for Su Niang's youngest son to study.
Madam Gu turned a blind eye to this.
In this life, when there is a conflict of interest, can they still stick to the choice they made in their previous life? !
"Not enough." Gu Yanfei said frankly, looking at Gu Yunyan calmly.
After all, it would be easy for her to deal with a mere Su Niang, and no one could stop her. However, even if she simply killed Su Niang with a single knife, her inner demons could not be resolved at all.
She had to put herself in the same situation as in her previous life, cut open her skin and flesh, dig out the pus and blood, scrape off the bone poison... before she could truly break out of her cocoon and be reborn . This was the meaning of her returning to this life!
It was quiet inside and outside the house, except for a few fallen leaves occasionally floating in the courtyard. It was so quiet that you could almost hear the sound of the leaves falling.
Gu Yanfei didn't urge him. He took a handful of fragrant pine nuts from the dried fruit plate next to him and started peeling and eating them.
Click, click, click…
The sound was obviously not loud, but to Madam Gu, each one sounded like a harsh noise that made her temple ache.
Madam Gu clenched her right hand in her wide sleeves, her thoughts struggling fiercely.
Gu Yun'er's tightly pursed cherry lips turned slightly pale.
This is an open conspiracy.
In other words, Gu Yanfei didn't care at all whether he found out that she was the mastermind behind it, and now she had clearly put forward her demands.
"Don't push your luck." Gu Yun'er's eyes gradually became sharper, with a flame flickering in them.
She didn't want Gu Yanfei to succeed! Gu Yanfei didn't even look at Gu Yunmeng, and peeled another pine nut with his slender fingers, and said in a brisk tone: "I want an inch, and a foot too."
"Emperor Taizu once issued a clear order that royal family members should choose their spouses regardless of their family background."
"But I wonder if the Queen Mother can tolerate a daughter-in-law who has children?"
Not asking about family background does not mean taking a slave as your wife.
Gu Yanfei's tone was nonchalant, as if he was just chatting casually.
The three words "house-born child" once again hurt Gu Yun'er.
This was a naked threat. Gu Yanfei was clearly threatening himself.
If he didn't let the other party vent his anger, his life story would be revealed to the ears of Empress Dowager Yuan.
As she thought about it, Gu Yun'er lowered her eyes, her long curled eyelashes covering her eyes, with a slight shadow in her eye sockets.
She believed that she didn't care about her background, and King Kang didn't care either.
She cannot decide her parents or her background, and this is the same for everyone.
Therefore, Gu Yunyan did not feel that she owed Gu Yanfei anything. She was just a little luckier than Gu Yanfei, and being lucky was not a sin.
She didn't care if Gu Feiyan told others about this. Even if she did, her knowledge, her talent, her wisdom, and even her insights all belonged to her, not to her identity as a daughter of the Gu family.
Just say it.
These four words were already on Gu Yunmeng's lips, about to come out.
“Crack.”
Gu Yanfei casually threw a pine nut shell on the coffee table, and it happened to roll onto the blood-stained dagger, making a crisp sound.
The blood on the dagger was still so bright red and so blinding.
Thinking of the scene when the dagger stabbed into Fang Mingfeng's abdomen just now, Gu Yunmeng suddenly became speechless.
The sound of the engagement letter being torn apart seemed to ring in her ears again, and the disgusted look of Prince Li appeared before her eyes.
She doesn't care about her background, but the world does.
Prince Li already dislikes her, what will he think if he finds out that she has a mother like Su Niang? !
What will happen to the Queen Mother?
If she cannot rise to the top overnight and reach a position where she can look down on everyone, she will always be what Gu Yanfei calls a "house-born child" and will always be inferior to others.
(End of this chapter)
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