Chapter Sixty-Eight: The Ancient Shadow
"Enough!" The majestic voice of Gu Ming appeared behind Chongming, and Chongming immediately bowed down towards him, "Master! ā
"You get out. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info" Gu Ming waved his hand to signal Chongming to leave, and the latter glanced at the dying Taiyi, and then looked at the master, "But master, he hasn't said anything yet, let's leave it to the apprentice." ā
"What? If you are a teacher, you dare to disobey? Gu Ming's eyes stared directly at Chongming, and his tone was full of dissatisfaction.
"Don't dare!" Chongming immediately knelt on the ground and hurriedly explained, "The apprentice is just worried, master, you are soft-hearted, so you can't ask questions." ā
"Humph! Do you really think that you are a teacher and don't know your little thoughts? In addition to wanting to take credit in front of the teacher, I'm afraid you also want your junior brother to suffer enough! Gu Ming snorted coldly and said.
"Master, the conscience of heaven and earth! Although there is occasional friction between the apprentice and the little junior brother, they don't want to harm him! Chongming didn't dare to raise his head and explained, at this time, his whole body was soaked with cold sweat.
"Okay, hurry up and get out, you have your own plans for the teacher!" Gu Ming waved his hand and urged Chongming to leave, this time he didn't dare to delay for a moment and got up to leave, for fear that an inattentive person would anger this moody master again.
After Chongming left, Gu Ming looked at Taiyi, who was covered in injuries, sighed heavily, walked slowly to him, and fed a pill into his mouth, "Master, master......" Taiyi raised his head with difficulty, and looked at this stern master in surprise with his eyes, because he knew very well how precious the pill that the master fed him was.
"Taiyi, among the three brothers, you are the most distressed and favorite for the teacher, you did such a thing, it really makes the teacher sad!" Gu Ming said heavily, his tone revealing a touch of disappointment and heartache.
"Master, master, yes, I'm sorry......" Taiyi said with great difficulty, and the wounds on his body had begun to heal slowly because of the pill just now, and the pain in his body had also been reduced a little.
"That's it, the teacher was also angry before handing you over to Chongming, I didn't expect that kid to be really ruthless and hurt you like this." Gu Ming was full of distress and loosened the ropes that bound Taiyi one by one, and held him in his arms.
Then, Gu Ming returned to the room with the scarred Taiyi, "During this time, you will recuperate in the house, and after you heal your injuries, you will have a task to give you a task for the teacher, so rest well." After setting Taiyi in place, Gu Ming left his room.
Looking at the back of the master slowly leaving, Taiyi's eyes were a little moist, he had been following the master for four or five years, and he had never seen such an expression on the master's face, it was disappointment and sadness, he knew very well that what he did would not be forgiven by the master, and he was ready to be expelled from the master, but he never expected that the master would be so tolerant of him!
The matter of letting go of the little tanuki had already made Gu Ming furious, but it was also done hastily with just a little punishment for him, and this time, he actually sent the little tanuki out of Kyoto City under the nose of the master! This made Gu Ming furious, he handed Taiyi to Chongming, who was good at interrogation, and wanted to ask the whereabouts of the little civet cat from Taiyi, but he didn't expect that this apprentice was so tight-lipped that what surprised him was that Chongming actually killed his junior brother.
Chongming didn't like Taiyi's matter, Gu Ming had already noticed it, but because there were no big contradictions and frictions, he didn't pay much attention to it, and this time he handed Taiyi over to Chongming, originally wanted to teach Taiyi a lesson, but he didn't expect Chongming to torture him like this.
But the person was handed over to Chongming by himself, and he couldn't just start the interrogation, and if he didn't ask anything, he would be gone, so Gu Ming could only let Chongming continue, he only hoped that Taiyi could tell the whereabouts of the little civet cat because he couldn't stand the torture.
However, the development of things did not develop in the direction that Gu Ming expected, Taiyi's tight-lipped and Chongming's unscrupulous means made Gu Ming a little helpless towards these two apprentices, and finally, when he saw Tai Ming dying, he finally made up his mind to put this matter aside.
The little tanuki is gone, and in the future, he can find a replacement that is the same as him or even better than him to refine, but if Taiyi loses his life because of this incident, there will be no second Taiyi!
Speaking of why Gu Ming spoiled Taiyi so much, no one in the ancient mansion knew the reason, and at first everyone thought that maybe it was the favor owed by their master outside that they accepted this apprentice, just like when they accepted Xiao Lan.
However, judging from Gu Ming's various doting on Taiyi, the people in the house gradually began to speculate whether this Taiyi would be the illegitimate child left by the old man outside?
It's strange to say, I've never heard of a woman Gu Ming likes, let alone seen him have a relationship with any woman, although when he was young, he was dignified, and he could be regarded as one of the most beautiful men in Kyoto City, and there were countless women who fell in love with him, including many palace nobles, however, he was never seen to be friendly with any woman, and it can even be said that he had no relationship with any woman.
The Gu family has been a demon refining family hand-picked by the imperial family since ancient times, and its status in Kyoto should not be underestimated, Gu Ming has already shown excellent professionalism at a young age, and has been particularly favored by the emperor, and at the age of twenty, he has become the youngest head of the Gu family in the past dynasties.
When Gu Ming was still young, his father, that is, the head of the previous generation of the ancient mansion, was seriously injured in the confrontation with the monsters, and died soon after returning to the mansion, leaving only the young Gu Ming and his weak and sickly mother, and the uncles took the opportunity to pocket the management of the entire Gu family.
In order to protect her young son, her mother had to remarry Gu Ming's eldest uncle, but she was regarded as a servant, and it was because of her mother's humiliation that Gu Ming did not suffer too much, but showed a very high talent in demon refining, and was soon valued by the royal family, and the Gu family had no chance to do anything to him.
Gu Ming knew very well that the ancient mansion was under the control of his uncles for a day, and he and his mother would not be at peace for a day, so he practiced alchemy harder, in order to take the ancient mansion back, and when he was recognized by the royal family and became the new head of the ancient family, his mother did not wait for this good news, and died of illness in the courtyard of the ancient mansion.
Maybe it's because of this experience that Gu Ming doesn't trust anyone at all, those uncles who were extremely kind to their mother and themselves when their father was still alive would turn their faces immediately after their father died, this is the so-called family? If family members are not trusted, how can others trust them?
And this is such an ancient Ming, but he spoils Taiyi, this is the most incredible thing for the Gu family, it may be nonsense to say that he is the illegitimate son of Gu Ming, because a person like him who has never been tempted by any woman, will he really have a son?
But if it weren't for an illegitimate child, he really couldn't think of anything special about Taiyi that made Gu Ming love him so much, and Gu Ming could forgive him after he was angry, and his favor for him would only increase......