Beijing, Liulichang Street, the backyard of the Gu family's late fourth lady Shen's wedding tea shop.

Wu Dacheng knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Gu Chongyang three times: "Miss, I really didn't expect Miss to remember the villain." ”

He was so excited to see Gu Chongyang that he almost cried.

Hearing his choked voice, Gu Chongyang thought of his deceased mother and Mama Wu, who had always loved her, and his heart was also sour.

"Uncle Dacheng, hurry up, where have you been these days? What happened the day my mother died? ”

She has too many questions in her heart to figure out urgently, and the only one who can solve the doubts in her heart is Wu Dacheng.

And this "Uncle Dacheng" made Wu Dacheng couldn't help but wet his eyes.

Wu Dacheng's mother-in-law, Mama Wu, is Shen Qiongzhi's nursing mother, and the Shen family is a merchant family, unlike those high-ranking eunuchs in the capital. Shen has always called Mama Wu as a nurse since she was a child, and Wu Dacheng is also called a nurse brother, and if she is older, she is called Dacheng brother.

This name was not changed until Shen Qiongzhi married into the Gu family.

On the surface, they are called Mama Wu and Wu Dacheng, but in private they are still called the same as before. The Shen family would even say to Gu Chongyang, how is your Uncle Dacheng. It's just that Gu Chongyang in the past believed that he was the daughter of the Hou Mansion, and he never disdained to call a subordinate an uncle.

Now that she is living again, she understands that those with the same surname as her are not necessarily her relatives. Although Wu Dacheng in front of him is just a subordinate, he treats her very well.

Gu Chongyang's uncle Dacheng made Wu Dacheng moved and sad, he lay on the ground, kowtowed to Gu Chongyang again, and said in a trembling voice: "Miss, I can't help it, I can't help it, you still call me Wu Dacheng." ”

His sad appearance made Gu Chongyang's heart even more blocked: "In that case, then I will call you Uncle Dacheng, you are my elder, and you deserve to be called by me." ”

Uncle Dacheng is a more modest name, and the young ladies and young masters of the Hou Mansion, when they see the elders serving beside the Venerable Master, there is nothing wrong with calling them uncle.

Wu Dacheng said yes at this time, and then got up from the ground.

Only then did Gu Chongyang see Wu Dacheng's face clearly, he had dark skin, yellow muscles and thin muscles, and a miserable expression, and he knew that he had suffered a lot at a glance.

But now is not the time to think about this, figuring out how my mother died, more important than anything else: "Uncle Dacheng, what happened that day?" ”

"Miss, speaking of which, even I am confused." Wu Dacheng shook his head and fell into a painful memory: "On the seventh day of the first month of November, I was in the outer courtyard as before, because my uncle would arrive in the capital in those two days, so my wife asked me to wait for news in the outer courtyard, saying that as long as the person who reported the news came back, I would notify her immediately." I didn't dare to go anywhere, so I waited at the porter. ”

"From morning till the end of the hour (eleven o'clock in the morning), no one came to see the messenger. I thought that my uncle would not be able to arrive in the morning, and I was about to go in to talk to my wife, when Mama Qiu in my wife's house suddenly came to me, saying that my mother was suddenly seriously ill and asked me to go and see it quickly. ”

Hearing this, a feeling suddenly flashed in Gu Chongyang's mind, and he felt as if something was wrong.

This puzzlement and hesitation were only fleeting, and she hurriedly asked, "What happened later?" ”

"I was startled, anxious and worried, and followed Mama Qiu towards Rongdong Courtyard. But what I didn't expect was that as soon as I entered Rongdong Courtyard, someone gave me a stuffy stick from behind and knocked me unconscious. ”

Gu Chongyang's heart also mentioned, I'm afraid this is the purpose of that person. first deceived Wu Dacheng into entering the yard with a trick, and then created the false impression that his mother was having an affair with Wu Dacheng, and finally found someone to catch the adulterer, so as to confirm the mother's crime of not abiding by women's morals.

What a vicious heart!

"When I woke up, I found myself in the firewood room. There were two people guarding me at the door, gossiping as they watched. A person said that the fourth lady died at a young age? ”

"I was so angry that I wanted to rush out and teach that a lesson. The fourth lady is obviously alive and well, and she asked me to wait for my uncle's letter in the morning, how could she die? ”

"But I found that I was tied up and my mouth was gagged. I realized that the situation was not good, and that the Fourth Lady might really have had an accident. I decided to stay put, trying to untie the rope from my body, and quietly moved to the door to eavesdrop on the two men. ”

The man continued, Mama Wu is also a loyal person, and it is really rare that she actually hanged herself.

"I never thought that my mother would die, I didn't believe it, I just thought it was a prank, I was afraid that the servants were deliberately playing tricks on me."

"But what I didn't expect was that another person actually said that my mother was not a martyr, but poisoned the fourth lady, and because she was discovered, she committed suicide in fear of sin."

"The more I listened, the more I felt that it could never be a prank, and no one in any room would dare to joke about such a thing. I was very bitter and frightened, and although I did not understand what was happening, I knew that the fourth lady and my mother must be very lucky, and even myself was very dangerous. ”

"Fortunately, when I was a beggar, I was very nimble with my hands and feet stealing with the old beggars, and after a while I untied the rope, and I gently pushed open the window, and put a shoe by the window, giving the illusion that I had jumped out of the window to escape, and climbed out of the chimney. Because I was from the south, and there was a small lake in the back garden of the Gu family on the other side of the window, they all thought that I had escaped from the lake. ”

"It was a very cold day, and there was a lot of snow, so how could I run out of the lake? Maybe the people in the family were unwilling to brave the cold wind to chase me, so I escaped. ”

Wu Dacheng's voice suddenly became a little bitter: "I didn't dare to go anywhere, so I pretended to be a beggar and asked for news." Only then did I know that my wife had really died, and that something had happened to my mother. And the people in the Hou Mansion all say that my wife died of a heart attack, and my mother was a martyr and hanged, but I don't believe it at all. Madame is in good health and will not die. Even if my wife is sick, why should she tie me up? I didn't know what was going on, but I knew someone had to be doing it. ”

"Fourth Miss, Madame was killed by someone." Wu Dacheng looked at Gu Chongyang, angry and unwilling: "My mother was also killed, they can't die in vain." But you are still young now, you can't do anything, you can only wait, when you grow up and have the ability to protect yourself, can you kill the enemy and avenge your wife. ”

Wu Dacheng's words were finished, but Gu Chongyang's mind was a little chaotic.

Her thoughts did not become clear because of Wu Dacheng's words, but became more chaotic.

But his determination to avenge his mother has not wavered in the slightest.

"Uncle Dacheng, you're right, my ability is too weak, I should keep my eyes on it." Gu Chongyang suddenly raised his voice and said: "But I don't have time, Ge Bilian will enter the door at the beginning of spring next year, I must figure things out before Ge Bilian enters the door, so that my father will no longer misunderstand my mother." ”

"I do have limited ability now, but I still have a father, and I want to tell my father about my mother's innocence, and let him help me find the murderer."

"Innocence?" Wu Dacheng was suddenly stunned: "Miss, do you know anything about the murder of Madame?" ”

"Yes!" Gu Chongyang looked at Wu Dacheng and said without hesitation: "After you were knocked unconscious, others took you to my mother's room and let you be in the same room as my mother, creating the illusion that you were having an affair with my mother and making my father misunderstand." In order to prove her innocence, the mother hanged herself. ”

"The crux of the matter is that you and my mother are innocent. We must find your murderer. ”

Wu Dacheng's face changed greatly when he heard this, he was frightened by Gu Chongyang's words.

He never thought that there would be such a terrifying rumor in the mansion.

His face was pale, his body was stiff, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

After he reacted, he suddenly said, "But Miss, on the day of Madame's accident, the fourth master was always at home." ”

Gu Chongyang was like being struck by lightning, and at that moment, he only felt that his mind was blank.

She looked at Wu Dacheng and asked in disbelief, "You said my father was always at home that day?" ”

"yes." Wu Dacheng nodded busily: "He went out at the end of the morning (seven o'clock in the morning) and came back at the end of the morning (nine o'clock in the morning), and after he came back, he never went out." ”

Gu Chongyang listened to Wu Dacheng's words, his hands were twisted together, his lips slowly turned white, and the blood on his face retreated cleanly, very pale.

"You...... Is that true? Her voice was very tense, and you could tell that she was very nervous and even scared at the moment.

"Yes, miss." Wu Dacheng nodded solemnly and affirmed: "That day, I waited for my uncle in the concierge at the order of my wife, and waited until the end of the hour (eleven o'clock in the morning), and I can be sure that after the fourth old man came back at the end of the morning (nine o'clock in the morning), he never went out again." ”

Gu Chongyang only felt a boom in his head, feeling like it was about to explode.

She sat down in her chair and didn't speak for a long time, and unprecedented fear and confusion came over her.

Qingbo said that after his father came back, he went directly to Aneiin, quarreled with his mother, and then went to the study. Half an hour later, my mother committed suicide.

She always thought that those people called Wu Dacheng in first and framed her mother, and her mother was insulted and couldn't get her father's trust, so she died to prove her innocence.

But now it seems that she was wrong, very wrong.

According to Qingbo and Wu Dacheng, it was clear that the mother and father quarreled, and after the quarrel, the mother committed suicide, and after the mother died, someone deceived Wu Dacheng into it.

's mother committed suicide first, and Wu Dacheng entered the inner house last.

In other words, there is no such thing as adultery/adultery being broken in the end.

It was someone who forced his mother to death, and in order to cover up his eyes, he planted the blame on Wu Dacheng.

The mother did not commit suicide in shame, she was forced to die.

And when these things happened, my father was at home all the time.

Gu Chongyang felt like he had fallen into an ice hole, and he shivered with cold.