After safely leaving Jiang Guanshi's house, he went back to the mansion, asked for a horse, left the city gate, and went up to Zhuangzi in the south of the city. After hearing about the incident of the eldest young master falling into an ice cave, the old Marquis was so angry that he broke a glass cup and personally went to pick four strong martial arts men aged 16 or 17 among the guards to send them to Gu Jingzhi as his long-term followers.
The Zhongyong Marquis Mansion started with military exploits. The ancestor Gu Tiezhu was originally a military household. He was eight feet tall and extremely powerful. He swept through thousands of armies with an iron spear. He made many military exploits and was worshiped as Zhonglang General. The most outstanding person after that was the grandfather of the old Marquis, who was excellent in martial arts and good at strategy. He fought for the country and stationed in the southern border area, and was named Zhongyong Bo.
The old marquis himself was also extremely brave. In the tenth year of Qiantai, when the emperor was on a personal expedition, he was besieged by the Nanman people in Yecheng. The old marquis protected the emperor and fought his way out of the siege. His two sons died in the battle. He himself was also seriously injured and almost died. He is still limping. leg.
The Holy Spirit was grateful for the loyalty of the Gu family, and the Jin Dynasty granted him the title of Marquis of Zhongyong. He gave him an iron-volume elixir book and married Song Wanru, the sixth daughter of King Xian, to Gu Huainan, the eldest son of the Hou family.
After the old Marquis resigned from the military power, he had nothing to do and trained his servants, guards and guards as entertainment. He was currently training in Zhuangzi.
When he heard that his grandson Jingzhi had fallen into the ice cave, he didn't care about what was going on around him. He picked up Gu Jingzhi's entourage and asked him to go home, pack his things, and go on errands in the mansion. After giving a few instructions to the guard leader Gu Chuancheng, he led the guards back to the city.
Twenty guards were uniformly dressed, riding tall horses, carrying waist knives, and with murderous intent, guarding the old Marquis to the Zhongyong Marquis Mansion. When the master saw his master coming back, he opened the main gate. These people did not dismount and galloped all the way in the courtyard, raising dust all over the sky.
Gu Jingzhi had dressed early and was waiting. He felt the sound of horse hooves on the ground in the distance and told Mother Li to open the courtyard door.
After a while, the old Marquis strode over, lame on one foot, but his walking posture was a little weird, but it didn't affect his speed.
The old marquis was dressed in purple silk clothes and walked in with a sullen face. Gu Jingzhi stood up to greet him, his eyes were a little hot, and he pressed his hand.
"I fell back into the ice cave, and I'm still promising. Why, I still want to cry!" Old Marquis shouted, Gu Jingzhi smiled and held back his tears, "Hurry up and go back to bed and lie down, you are cold. You need to take good care of him." He pushed him back to the bed and covered him with a quilt.
In the previous life, Song Wanru introduced a scapegoat, but Gu Jingzhi did not suspect his aunt at all. After the old prince's investigation, there was no result. He only took Gu Jingzhi to Zhuangzi to train on weekdays, and only returned to Xuexuan to live on festivals and sacrificial days.
Gu Jingzhi thought about it for a long time. The matter of rebirth was too shocking to tell others, but he had to tell his grandfather about his suspicions about Song Wanru. Moreover, many things needed his grandfather's support to make early preparations.
Gu Jingzhi waved his hand and saw that Ping An was interested and went to guard the door. He coughed and whispered: "Grandpa, I suspect Song Wanru is going to harm me."
The old Marquis frowned, then raised his eyebrows and asked, "Tell me, how did you see it?"
Pingshun loves skating. When the ice on Yingyue Lake becomes solid in winter, he will go skating several times. After this year's martial arts competition, he often showed off to Gu Jingzhi that he could jump upright, jump one and a half times, and spin more than ten times. Gu Jingzhi was so excited that he followed him a few times.
Today, I had a drink with my friends outside. Pingshun said he wanted to skate. He also said that it was snowing and he was afraid that he would be sweating after skating. Gu Jingzhi caught a cold and asked Ping An to listen to Xuexuan to get his cloak.
After the two fell into the ice cave, Pingshun hugged his feet tightly. If they hadn't struggled desperately, they would have died.
The old marquis's face changed, and he said bitterly: "Take out Pingshun's body and throw it into a mass grave. The body is not allowed to be collected. The whole family will sell it, the men will be sold to the mines, and the women, regardless of size, will be sold to low-class private houses. No ransom allowed."
"I'm afraid my family has run away a long time ago!" In the previous life, he said that he went to visit relatives and came back three days later. It was a shame that he gave him a hundred taels of pension money.
"I will catch them all even if I run to the end of the world." The old Marquis looked at his grandson playfully, "You have been raised by your fourth wife since you were a child. She has never treated you badly. She is even better than the two brothers Jing Shen. Why do you doubt her? ?”
"If there is no benefit, I won't start early. Whoever is most beneficial to me if I die is the one who did it." Gu Jingzhi couldn't say that Song Wanru said it to him personally, so he could only find this reason.
The old Marquis nodded approvingly, "Even if it's her, what are you going to do?"
"Lang Nan, there is nothing I can do. She and her father are married by the emperor. Even though she is a concubine, she is still the prince's daughter. We can't divorce her, let alone kill her." Gu Jingzhi spread his hands and had no choice but to do anything.
"You are very powerful in martial arts, but she is a girl. On a dark and windy night, she can raise and lower a knife without anyone noticing." The old Marquis laughed even louder.
How could that be enough? Death would be the end of it. She needed to be allowed to experience the sins she had suffered in her previous life in order to relieve the hatred in her heart.
Gu Jingzhi said sincerely: "That's not possible. You can't bring trouble to the whole family just because of me." His eyes turned red with grievance, and he admired himself in his heart for his good acting skills. "I want to move out to Zhuangzi, don't get in the way." Her eyes."
The grandson who brought him up knew his temperament. He would train hard day and night and find others to fight with him every day. He would not stop until he won. The old Marquis didn't believe it and asked with a joking smile: "Is this the end?"
Gu Jingzhi said sternly: "It's not over, she is afraid that I will take away the throne of the Crown Prince, so I want to be the Crown Prince. Because she is the prince's daughter, the Holy One will show favoritism and will not punish her. I want to make more military achievements and let the Holy One rely on me. I can't do it without me. . What kind of royal family can only feed off the people’s fat and the people’s wealth, bullshit!”
The old Marquis comforted Gu Jingzhi and patted Gu Jingzhi's hand, "This is the son of my Gu family. Only by being ambitious, able to bend and stretch, and enduring what ordinary people cannot endure, can he achieve great things. When your father and I go west, the Zhongyong Marquis Mansion will be left to you. You can deal with that poisonous woman however you want."
Gu Jingzhi raised his eyebrows and smiled, "My grandfather is the one who knows me, hahaha!" The grandfather and grandson laughed.
Just like in his previous life, the old Marquis endured hardships to compensate him and gave him five thousand taels of silver notes. Gu Jingzhi saw the words Mingtong Bank on it and fell into deep thought.
In the Ruyi courtyard of the Zhongyong Hou Mansion, the eldest maid Dongqing trotted all the way. The little girl opened the curtain for her and entered the house, "Madam, the old Marquis is back. Call the madam to go to the main courtyard."
Song Wanru was leaning on the couch. She was startled when she heard this. She thought for a while and said, "Step aside first. I'll go over after I put on my clothes." After looking at Aunt Dong, Aunt Dong sent Dongqing out and took off the gold bracelet on her wrist. He stuffed the bracelet with jade in it and said, "Miss Dongqing, please run this trip and wear it for you to play with." Dongqing declined a little, then took it and put it in her sleeve pocket.
"The old Marquis has assigned guards to serve as long-term attendants for the eldest young master. I heard that all the maids and women in the Xuexuan courtyard have been sent away. This must not be a good thing." Using money to help others eliminate disasters, Dongqing picked up what she could say. Well, the old Marquis didn't reveal what he said about Song Wanru's scolding to Aunt Dong.
After listening to Aunt Dong's report, Song Wanru, who was inserting a hairpin, slipped her hand and scratched her finger, causing blood to flow out. Aunt Dong felt distressed and hurriedly put on the dressing and bandage, "My good lady! Don't be messy. They have no evidence, just suspicion. Even if they are found out, they will blame it on the mother, and the old slave will bear the responsibility." Aunt Dong was Song Wanru's nanny. Her own child was gone, and she had been treated like an eyeball since she was a child.
Song Wanru calmed down, plugged in the hairpin again, and smiled slightly, "Mom, I'm not that far yet, I'm just a bastard. Even if they find me, they can't do anything. After all, it's a marriage given by the Holy God, and my father will not just sit back and watch. in spite of."
