Gu Shaomiao is dead?

Everyone immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and the hanging heart was immediately put back into their stomachs. Since the person who died is not a big girl, not their relatives, then if they die, they will die. But looking at Shang Cheng's heavy expression full of sadness, everyone didn't want to show their joy in front of him, and they all accompanied him to make a sad face.

The question is, who is this dead Gu Shaomiao? What is the relationship between him and the Huo family, how can he let Huo Shiqi and his family set up a carriage to go to the funeral in the middle of the night?

Lianniang and Yue'er both looked at Erya, thinking that she must know, but Erya didn't know anything. Except for her brother-in-law, Lord Gu, she didn't know that her family actually had relatives surnamed Gu; Could it be that this deceased Gu Shaomiao is a relative of his brother-in-law's family? She hesitated for a moment before she babbled to ask the question.

Shang Cheng put his hands on his knees and grabbed his trouser legs, staring blankly at the bare osmanthus trees in the courtyard, and did not speak for a long time. After a long time, he rubbed his cold and numb cheeks, sighed long, and said slowly: "Gu Shaomiao, it's your brother-in-law......

He went out in the early morning, jogged all the way, walked less than an hour for twenty miles, and when he arrived at the county seat, the sky had just brightened, the city gate had just opened, and the entire Yixian county was still immersed in the silence and silence of the long winter night. Because he still didn't know what was going on, he didn't immediately look for someone to ask the address of the eldest girl's husband, but went to Huo Liubo's house first from memory. A few months ago, the eldest girl had taken him to find Huo Liubo, and he still had some impression of the approximate location, and then asked two people who got up early to carry water on the road, so he quickly found the street where Huo Liu's house was located.

Unlike the last time he came, the street was a little chaotic and noisy. Still far away, he saw a lot of people around the street, and faintly he could hear the sound of drumming and mourning. From time to time, the crowd watching the excitement on the street dodges a path for people and carriages to enter and exit. The people who came in and out were all in a hurry, and they were solemn.

Is it a big girl? Almost instinctively, he connected Huo Shiqi's night entry into the city with the situation in front of him. His heart chuckled, and his heart seemed to stop beating. A cold chill instantly spread from the vest all the way to the whole body. Could it be that she ...... She......

No! No way! Definitely not a big girl! He immediately said to himself in his heart.

He settled down, squeezed a way out of the crowd watching the excitement, and went straight to the diagonal opposite of the funeral family, which was Huo Liubo's mansion.

At the corner gate of the Huo Mansion stood a dim and wooden-looking servant, and before he could get closer, the servant waved his hand and warned him: "Look at the bustle, stand far away!" Get out of the way! As he spoke, he also flashed to the side, and then a few people who knew that they were yamen servants as soon as they looked at their attire and dressed up rushed out of the corner gate carrying a square table and carrying wooden stools, and without stopping, they stepped into the courtyard opposite where the funeral was held.

Shang Cheng also avoided the wall, and when the officials passed, he said to the gatekeeper: "Excuse me, may I ask ......?"

"Go, go!" He didn't finish his sentence. The man was already impatiently pushing at him.

“…… Is Huo Liubo at home? ”

Hearing "Huo Liubo" come out of his mouth, the man's face softened a lot, but he still blocked the door and didn't let him in, and he didn't report it for him. The man looked him up and down and asked, "Who are you?" What are you looking for my lord? ”

“…… I'm from Huojiabao. ”

This vague answer made the man's face more and more calm, he lowered his eyebrows, bowed slightly, and asked in a low voice, "What are you looking for my master?" ”

The repeated questions of the Huo family's servants made Shang Cheng a little impatient. He held back the anxiety and urgency in his heart, and interrupted the man's words: "You go and inform Huo Liubo, and say that Huojiabao Shangcheng wants to see him." ”

"My lord is not at home......"

"Where did he go?"

"The lord is in the Gu Lord's Mansion opposite."

Shang Cheng almost wanted to punch the servant in the face. This rapper, he doesn't know how to finish the words in one breath? Where the hell is this Gu Lord's mansion?

"Lord Gu died in the middle of the night last night, and my lord went over to help in the middle of the night, and he hasn't come back yet."

The dead man's family is surnamed Gu? The eldest girl's husband is surnamed Gu, and he is still a seventh-grade official, is the funeral house the eldest girl's home? Could it be that the family is holding the funeral of the eldest husband? No way! It is said that the two sons of Lord Gu are also on errands in the transfer department in the south of the city, and it seems that they are both officials with positions and titles, and they can also be honored as "Lord Gu......

He turned around and walked towards the mansion, where drums and mourning reverberate.

The door god has been pasted with white paper on the gate of the valley house, and the four big red lanterns under the lintel are also all covered in black, and the spirit banner of black gauze and white curtain hangs out along the door hole. There are still scraps of red joy on the doorposts on both sides, and there are still half of the "mouths" on the lower edge of the big red double happiness on the snow-white courtyard wall. There is an empty space the size of half an acre in front of the gate of the house, which is more pompous than Huo Liu's courtyard at a glance. There are all kinds of horse tethering stakes and horse stones in the open space. On both sides, several carriages were parked against the blue brick false wall, and the coachmen standing by the wheels were looking around, some were wrapped in sheepskin jackets and holding horsewhips and bowed their heads silently, all of them looked dull. There are constantly people coming out of the valley house, or walking or getting on the car, and there are constantly people coming from both ends of the street to mourn, the master of ceremonies at the door droops the corners of his eyebrows and mouth, a sad and painful look, holding a sticker and prolonging the voice loudly announcing the identity and name of the new mourner.

The closer Shang Cheng approached Lord Gu's mansion, the more he muttered in his heart. What should I say when he passes? Are you looking for Huo Liubo? Or is it to find Huo Shiqi? People are crying and crying for funerals, he recklessly ran to find someone, in this case, the master is whipping him, and he doesn't dare to fight back, but he can't help but go to Huo Lao Liu!

Just as he hesitated, a mourned man noticed a flaw in the courtyard wall. The man frowned and turned back, whispering in the ear of a middle-aged man who was at a gate to greet him. The two servants carrying the water and carrying the rags immediately ran out of the valley mansion, and under the man's guidance, they quickly wiped away the dazzling red.

The man took two messengers to inspect the courtyard wall to see that there was nothing incompatible with the funeral, and then arched his hand to the middle-aged man at the door with a gloomy face, and walked towards the street with his head down.

Shang Cheng immediately greeted him, and saluted the man after a few steps: "Mr. Li......"

Li Qiyi raised his eyes and stared at him carefully, before returning the salute, he arched his hand and said: "It's you, Shang Zhuangshi, you are also here...... He immediately realized that he had said the wrong thing, and changed his words after a pause, "You come...... Looking for me? Something? ”

"I'm looking for Huo Liubo......" Shang Cheng didn't know if Li Qi could understand this, so he immediately continued, "It's okay to find Uncle Seventeen." ”

"They're inside." Li Qichao pointed to the mansion behind him. He glanced at Shang Cheng and immediately understood that with Shang Cheng's dress, it was impossible for the people of Gu Mansion to let him in, and now that Gu Fu was in chaos like that, who would pay attention to Shang Cheng? He thought for a moment, frowned, and said, "If it doesn't matter, you don't have to go." If it's urgent, tell me one by one, and I'll tell them. ”

Knowing that Huo Liuhuo and Seventeen were all in Lord Gu's mansion, Shang Cheng was even more anxious, and he asked anxiously: "...... Lord Gu and the Huo family are?"

Li Qi shook his head and sighed, and said: "Master Gu is Huo Gongze's son-in-law, but he has only been married for less than six days, and now he has left his wife and children......

I'm really afraid of anything, this dead Gu Lord is really the husband of the eldest girl! It's just that I pity the girl, she is only sixteen, and she has just passed the door for less than six days, and the man is ...... Shang Cheng's brain was buzzing immediately, he didn't know what he said to Li Qi, and he didn't hear what Li Qi said to him clearly, and when he came to his senses, Li Qi had already walked far away. Li Qi's voice cursed in his ears: "...... Treacherous! Treacherous and harmful! Treacherous and misguided country! Gu Shaomiao, Master Gu, you died unjustly! Die unjustly! ”

Shang Cheng knew that his identity would not be able to enter the Gu Mansion, and even if someone let him in, he would not be able to help him at this moment, so he could only hurry back. He also had to tell the people in his family the news, so that they wouldn't worry about their relatives, one by one, Gu Shaomiao, who had just become Huo Shiqi's son-in-law, and of course Lord Gu couldn't be regarded as a relative......