Under the unmanned corridor, the Yin family brothers talked frankly, Yin Qixiu actually didn't know what Yin Jiheng's plans would be, but he seemed to have the certainty of victory, and sincerely advised Yin Shaochu: "Second brother, I know you appreciate her, but she is the Gu family after all, the Gu family's heart is the most unpredictable, you have to guard against her, and you really hope to be able to live in peace with her and make close friends? ”

Yin Shaochu was speechless, bowed his head and pondered, it was not that he didn't understand Yin Qixiu's warning, but the people who had never paid attention to this, listening to these intrigues, felt uncomfortable, and after being silent for a while, he turned his mind and asked: "I understand all this...... But Qi Xiu, when did you have such a mind? You never calculated these things in the past?"

Hearing his question, Yin Qixiu realized that he had indeed undergone some changes, and when he thought that these scheming words were indeed not born in his own heart, where did they come from?

Including Fang Cai's suspicion and speculation about Gu Qingning, if he had let it go, even if he would have suspected Gu Qingning, he would not have thought it so carefully......

Last night, I rested at home, and I heard about the Ministry of Works, but I didn't do a deep study, but this night, after a little discussion with the person next to the pillow, my mind became so deep?

He realized that these opinions and speculations all came from Yuan Xin, and it was she who analyzed Gu Qingning's various things in his ear, making him often hostile to the Gu family, but then again, how could she know Gu Qingning so well?

Yin Qixiu was full of doubts in his heart, and he couldn't show it in front of his brother, so he only replied: "What's the matter? The Gu family is now openly and secretly against their father, obviously calculating our Yin family, I just need to be more vigilant." Second brother, don't forget, our family's restaurant was changed to a 'ghost building', and there was the idea of the Gu family behind it, and my father was almost angry, don't you understand? In any case, my father will not tolerate them to be so presumptuous! Wait and see! I have to expose the true face of this family to the world!"

The momentum of the two families has gradually become fire and water, and they are destined to not coexist, Yin Shao's heart has already understood it.

Yin Qixiu guessed: "Second brother, this Immortal Sect has been really strange recently, and it has dealt a big blow to my father, maybe it really has something to do with the Gu family......

Yin Shaochu was a little incredulous, and asked: "How can you have such an idea? Is it that some plants and trees are all soldiers? How can they be manipulating behind their backs? Others don't know, it's just that you and I know the things of the Immortal Sect by heart......

Yin Qixiu choked for a moment, thoughtful, his eyes were worried, and then he looked at Yin Shaochu, and he asked in a deep voice: "Second brother, do you think ...... It's my father's fault?"

Yin Shaochu seemed to change his mind, and looked up at the gray sky, as if he was sad, "At that time, you were still young, and everyone deliberately hid it from you, you may not understand...... However, my eldest brother and I experienced that change firsthand...... Everyone in Chang'an City is in danger and haze, which is even more terrifying than it is now...... But the most terrifying thing for me is that I know what the root of it all is...... I looked at the priests, magicians, priests, and noblemen who used to come and go to the house, and the famous men who supported my father...... They were all pushed out by their father to be substituted for the dead ghosts...... It was also a October day, and my father was beheaded...... Execute those who have been beaten to the point where their tongues have been pulled out and beaten into human shapes, and the heads of people roll on the execution table at the entrance of the vegetable market, and the blood flows like rivers......"

The bloody and terrifying scene seemed to appear in front of him again, Yin Shaochu's voice was trembling, he closed his eyes, held his forehead with one hand, took a deep breath, and turned to look at Yin Qixiu, both of them had bloodshot eyes, "So, you say, how should you judge right and wrong? What is right and wrong in this Chang'an City?"

Yin Qixiu also gradually recalled that in those years, his family's wealth and status were flourishing, but their father Yin Jiheng was becoming more and more depressed, and he was in a trance for a long time, and he always locked himself in the study in his free time, constantly burning things, wisps of black smoke floated out from the cracks in the flower window of the study of Yin Mansion Zhengyuan, he had a misunderstanding of a fire, slammed the door and broke in, only to see his father, who had always been glamorous and exquisite, sitting by the brazier in his clothes and shoes, while throwing letters, papers, books and other things into the burning fire, while looking up at the imperial plaque hanging in the study……

……

In order to cooperate with the investigation, the workers were temporarily not allowed to enter the court, and even Liu Yingsu had to withdraw from the lobby, and in his public room, someone sorted out the drawings and documents of the anti-danger secret room to hand them over to the Lang Intermediate Court.

Knowing that Yin Qixiu was here, he couldn't be angry with the people of the Criminal Department, and his heart was really unhappy, so he scolded his subordinates who sorted out the documents, and after they finished tidying up, they hurriedly took their things out of his public room.

After all, they are the top bosses, and they are both prosperous and lossy, they have resentment in their hearts, and they complain that Gu Qingning has robbed them of the credit of their adults and caused them to suffer, and they are muttering on the way to Lang Zhongyuan.

These words of complaining about Gu Qingning happened to be heard by one person, and those who paid attention to it knew the contradictions between the high-level leaders of the Ministry of Industry.

Lu Yuansi took advantage of official business to walk freely in the Lang Court, and took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention, so he left the Lang Court and went to the Lang Middle Court.

She knew the way, including Shi Lang Ting, who was familiar to her, because she had been here, and had been here a long time ago, so after the fall of the Lu family, she was able to sneak in to find Gu Qingning......

Once upon a time, the master of this courtier was still her brother......

At this time, looking inside and outside here, who still remembers that the lord's surname was Lu?

With her memory, she chose a remote path to go around to the back door of Lang Zhong Courtyard, covered by a stone pillar carved window under the corridor, and looked at the main hall of Lang Zhong Courtyard from a distance, Gu Qingning sat on the main seat, looking solemnly at a group of subordinates under the hall, and said something seriously, wearing a man's official uniform and full of energy, and the dignified momentum overpowered the full house......

She felt that she not only had hatred for Gu Qingning in her heart, but also more jealousy.

She kept looking at Gu Qingning, and was in a trance, and suddenly felt a keen gaze coming from the opposite side, she subconsciously dodged, turned to the stone pillar, and quickly disappeared.

In the courtyard of Langzhong, Gu Qingning turned his head and looked at one ......

The subordinate who was close to her was startled by her sudden movement, and couldn't help but follow her gaze, only to see the shadows of the stone walls and trees outside, and there was no one under the corridor, "My lord, what do you see?"

She came back to her senses and shook her head: "Oh, nothing, let's move on ......"

……

Two days later, the personnel of the Criminal Department completed the evidence collection and investigation in the Ministry of Industry, and all of them withdrew from the Shilang Court. Shi Langting resumed normal affairs, and Liu Yingxu returned to the lobby council, but he was already very idle.

On the other side, the Lang Zhongyuan is so busy that people are turning over all day long, Gu Qingning is busy making drawings every day, and he is busy personally taking people to various official offices to survey and explore, and he must be prepared to be summoned for trial by the Criminal Department at any time.

After she was fully responsible for this fortification, it can be said that the entire Ministry of Works is revolving around her Lang Zhongyuan, and she is the one who mentions it the most every day, plus she is already popular, and her reputation is even higher, everyone only knows that she Gu Qingning is powerful, and completely ignores her top boss, Liu Yingxu, who has done nothing.

On that day, when she was busy drawing, someone suddenly came to her and interrupted her train of thought, and she almost got angry and reprimanded, but she still restrained herself. At this time, she had not eaten water and rice for half a day, and when she stopped driving, she felt dizzy.

Then I heard the clerk say, "Tell Lord Langzhong, Lord Lang, please come over and discuss something." ”

Anyway, it was summoned by Shangguan, and there happened to be no tea on the case, so she thought that she would just take a break to go to Shilangting to drink a good cup of tea, so she immediately left.

Liu Yingsu was not in the lobby, but waiting for her in his public room.

Once she was inside, he told them all to exit and shut the door.

"What is the matter with the summoning of the lower officials?" she saw Liu Yingxu's strange expression, and she was suspicious in her heart, but for some reason she only felt faintly uneasy, and she was inexplicably panicked.

Liu Yingsu cleared his throat and pretended to be serious: "Gu Langzhong, this official hopes that you will present it to Lord Shangshu in the last time, and say that you are the one who is in charge of the fortifications of the anti-danger secret room, and you are really not capable enough, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to do it, so please resign from the power of the principal, retire to the deputy position, and let the official continue to lead the fortifications." ”

Gu Qingning felt that he must have been so tired that he was hallucinating, so he heard him say this and saw him like this, "My lord, what are you talking about?" Do you think I will agree?"

Liu Yingxu raised his eyebrows proudly and nodded, "You will agree." ”

Then he got up and walked over to her, looked at her with very playful and light eyes, and leaned into her ear and said a word. Gu Qingning was stunned when he heard this, as if he had been thundered, his eyes glared at Liu Yingxu.

Liu Yingsu helped her who was unsteady, and laughed even more rampantly, "Don't be afraid, Gu Langzhong, as long as you are obedient, this official will not say it." ”

She didn't know how she got back to her public house, and then she sat in front of the drawings and drawings for a long time, without saying a word, without a single action, sitting there alone, after a long, long time, she suddenly laughed, at first she sneered, and then laughed more and more crazy, her eyes were red with laughter, her eyes stared at the painting case, and finally she overturned the painting case in front of her, and it was a mess......

On the same day, she wrote a submission and asked people to hand it over to Shang Shutang.

She left the mountain of official work, didn't say hello, went directly out of the Ministry of Works, and walked home alone.

However, she didn't realize how she got home at all, after she went back, Gu Qingfeng also came back early, and was marrying red silk with Tang Bo under the porch, decorating the main hall, and preparing for the wedding banquet in a few days.

She stood in the middle of the gate, looking at the red wedding lights in this house, her eyes were rendered red, her vision began to blur, and a burst of dizziness rushed to her mind.

"Sister, sister, what's wrong with you?" Gu Qingfeng saw her, so he put down the red silk and ran to her.

Gu Qingning saw Gu Qingfeng's appearance clearly in a haze, and saw that he had a worried look, so he showed a pale smile and handed his hand to him, Gu Qingfeng took her arm and supported her, and she could clearly feel that she had no strength.

He carried Gu Qingning and walked slowly to the house, Gu Qingning kept looking at the hanging colors in front of him, Gu Qingfeng kept looking at her, and asked softly, "Sister, what's wrong with you?"

She smiled and shook her head: "It's nothing, it's just, it's too tired." ”

"Shall I help you back to your room to rest? Would you like to eat something?" or will I call you at dinner?"

She only shook her head and turned her eyes to look at his face, "It's so good, we Qingfeng are going to get married......"

"Sister......" He became more and more unable to understand her, and was very worried.

……

I don't know how much time passed, she woke up in a room of orchids, the lights in the room were dim, and her ears were suddenly filled with noisy joy, gongs, drums, suona, and bells rang in unison, overwhelming, just roaring in her ears, tearing her nerves.

In the midst of this music, she heard bursts of crying, very thin and faint, continuous, heartbreaking...... Baby crying......

She was startled into a cold sweat, sat up suddenly, subconsciously wanted to escape, to escape the noise in her ears, she had no consciousness at all how to move, she rolled and fell down all of a sudden, her body fell out of pain, and her hair crown was scattered, she had consciousness, and the noise in her ears dissipated, it turned out that those did not exist, but she was just an auditory hallucination.

But when it all dissipated, she felt lost and overwhelmed, and the silence around her frightened her.

Gu Qingning wrenched up from the ground, wore his hair loose, and ran out of the door barefoot.

When it was almost dinner, the servants and their families were all busy in the front garden, and there were few people in the back, and the courtyard was empty, and she ran through the uninhabited courtyard and ran wildly on the long corridor, as if she was chasing something, but as if she was just fleeing aimlessly.

"Miss!"

"Miss!"

"Qingning! Qingning!"

"Sister, sister, sister!"

……

When I ran to the front garden, the lights in front of me were bright, and there were more and more red silk lights along the way. They saw her like crazy, and they all came to chase her and shout at her.

Her gaze swept over these people who were surrounded from all sides, and she didn't know where to land, and finally stopped in front of her, it was Gu Qingfeng who flew to block her way.

She stopped, looked at Gu Qingfeng, and then turned her eyes to look at Gu Qingxuan and Gu Qinghuan who had come to her side, and after seeing their worried faces clearly, she finally came back to her senses, looked down at her raised hands, and said to herself: "I, what's wrong?

Gu Qingfeng slowly approached her, gently held her hand, and held her, "Sister, it's okay, it's okay, don't panic, don't be afraid......"

She obediently obeyed the support of him and Gu Qinghuan, and moved into the main hall, and the maids hurriedly brought her silk shoes to put on.

Entering the hall, the hall is different from before, at this time the wall is posted with big red words, hanging gold bells and silver spikes and other things, in front of the hall there are a lot of gift objects.

The two younger brothers helped her to sit down, but as soon as she touched the chair, she suddenly jumped up, went crazy uncontrollably, and ran towards the long case where the congratulatory gift was placed in the hall.

On the case, there was a pair of white jade dolls given by others, tied with red silk, round and lovely, vivid, this gift means to congratulate the early birth of a noble son, which is an ordinary gift for the wedding ceremony.

She rushed over, picked up the pair of dolls, and smashed them out.

Everyone exclaimed, and the rescue could not be saved, and a pair of delicate jade carvings became fragments.

She also collapsed to the ground, her arms folded on her knees, and she sat hunched under the beams.

They looked at her in shock, almost all of them frightened, not knowing how to react or make a sound.

After a long time, Gu Qingxuan walked over, squatted in front of her, spoke, and said softly, "Okay, Qingning." Can you tell your father what happened?"

She raised her head in a daze, met Gu Qingxuan's eyes, and dodged weakly, and muttered cluelessly: "I just can't escape, I can't hide......"

"Qingning ......" he knew that she still didn't want to say, so he wouldn't ask again, holding her hand and facing her eyes, "Since you can't escape, then don't escape, since you can't hide, then deal with it." ”

She felt her father's strength, listened to his words, and nodded.

Gu Qinghuan and Gu Qingfeng were so frightened by her that they wanted to ask the reason, but Gu Qingxuan only waved his hand at them, signaling them not to ask.

They ignored a glance, said no more, and squatted down, carefully coaxing her to get up from the ground.

After the maid had cleaned up the debris on the ground, she got up, sat for a while, drank a few sips of water, and seemed to be back to normal.

During the night, she lay on the couch and tossed and turned, and got up again, called the maid who was waiting for her, the one who had collected the pieces before, and asked, "Where did you throw those pieces?"

It turned out that the maid saw that the doll was a good jade, and thought that she might be able to sell it for some money if she glued the broken pieces, so she hid those broken pieces privately, and when she heard her question, she was really frightened, and hurriedly took out the bag of broken pieces to her, thinking that she was going to be punished, but Gu Qingning didn't say anything, just held the bag of broken jade and left.

She went to the backyard to find a hoe, and then went to the old tree in the front garden, dug a deep pit one by one, put the broken jade into the pit, gently plucked the soil with her hands, buried it next to the roots, patted the ground, looked up, the sky hooked the crescent moon, the moonlight was bright, cast between the leaves, the wind blew, a shadow of the tree.

Looking at the ground beneath her feet, she picked up the hoe again, changed directions, and continued to dig.

Gu Qinghuan, who was watching her under the porch, pulled his light fur, walked towards her, and asked, "Sister, what are you doing?"

She looked back at him, continued to dig, and replied: "There are ninety-nine jars of daughter red buried in the ground, and I want to dig them out and make the wedding wine on the day of Qingfeng's wedding." ”

Gu Qinghuan's eyes were a little distressed, he pressed her wrist and persuaded: "But this is what your father and mother prepared for your marriage, sister...... Wait, can't you?"

Gu Qingning looked at him and smiled, but he saw tears in her eyes.

The sister and brother looked at each other speechlessly, and after a while, Gu Qinghuan let go of his hand, held back his painful tears, and smiled at her: "Okay, I'll help my sister dig together." ”

……

Early the next morning, Gu Qingxuan went to the front garden to make eight sections of brocade, and saw boxes of aged wine under the old tree, and he was stunned for a long time.

Gu Qingning walked over and saw his father's surprised look, but didn't explain anything.

She was as calm and safe as usual, as if it wasn't her who had gone crazy last night.

She asked, "Father, do you remember, you said before that you had heard Uncle Jiang say that when Yin Qixiu was investigating the case in Luo Hongge, he fell in love with a girl in the pavilion and took her away?