Gu Nian didn't expect to see the former Duchess of Qi here, the Yang family.

Yang's dress is very ordinary, and his face is much older.

After Mrs. Yu died, after the Gu family moved away from Anyuan Houfu, Gu Nian vaguely heard that Gu Liangdong's family went to live in the Gu family's old house in the suburbs.

It's just that why did Yang light an everlasting lamp for his mother?

Moreover, it seems that there have been a lot of years, just now when she donated the money for sesame oil, she reported her mother's name to the monk in charge, and he said that someone had already lit the lantern......

Didn't you expect it to be Yang?

Yang smiled at Gu Nian, put the incense well, calmly put the incense well, then turned around and looked at Gu Nian calmly.

In the past, Yang's image in Gu Nian's mind has always been mean.

But today, I don't know if it's because she was in the temple, she actually saw a trace of softness in Yang's body.

The Yang family saluted the two of them, and said to Xiao Yue with a smile, "Lord Wang, can you let the woman and the princess have a conversation alone?" ”

Xiao Yue looked at her coldly, not quite wanting to let go.

Gu Nian said, "You can't say anything to people, if you have anything to say, the prince can listen to my affairs." ”

When Yang heard this, he looked at the newlyweds in front of him with complicated eyes, sighed lightly, and said, "It is said that you have a bad life, but who would have thought that it would be you who married the best." ”

"Evil star, you have blessed yourself." Gu Nian replied with a smile.

Yang lowered her eyes when she heard this, and then raised her head, as if she had made up her mind, she said, "Since it has been discovered, there is nothing to hide." ”

"Yes, for so many years, I have been lighting a lantern for the county lord, not for anything else, just to make myself feel at ease."

"I came to incense today, because I heard the old man go back yesterday and said that her bones were gone, and I don't know who it is, such viciousness made her unable to enter the ground."

She seemed to be caught in a memory and said slowly.

"I used to be a noble girl, and I was the pearl in the hands of my parents when I was not out of the cabinet. Originally, I could have married better, but when the old Duke Qi took Gu Liangdong to my house to ask for marriage, my father somehow agreed. ”

"You must know that there were many people with better conditions than Gu Liangdong at the beginning, but my father took a fancy to Gu Liangdong."

"Marrying a chicken with a chicken, marrying a dog with a dog, although the lord is very mediocre, but the person is not bad, but slowly he has changed, he has become greedy and lustful, and the aunts in the family have been brought in one after another."

When Gu Nian heard this, he wanted to interrupt her narration, frowning, thinking about it, he still endured it.

"Later, your mother married, and your father treated her consistently, and the two lived in harmony. Especially when your mother was pregnant with you, your father hated to carry her in his arms, for fear that something bad would happen to her.

"Who hasn't given birth to a child? Why is she so squeamish? But your father is willing to eat it. You say, how not to make people jealous? ”

"Xiao Wu, you are a smart and capable child, and you can feel that I don't get along well with your mother, I am jealous of her, and I rarely interact with her."

"But despite this, I never had any intention of harming her."

When Gu Nian heard this, he sighed in his heart and asked, "Then do you know who killed my mother?" ”

When the county lord of Jingning died, Gu Nian was still too young and did not have much memory of this mother, but she had the memory of the princess of the country and Gu Shi'an, and she had a natural good impression of the county lord of Jingning.

The death of the county lord of Jingning has always been in front of her, and she is desperate to find the cause of her death.

Yang's lips trembled, and he said in a trembling voice,

"At first, I was only jealous of her, until one day I found out that the old lady had planned to abort your mother's womb, and my jealousy disappeared without a trace, and it turned out to be just a poor worm like me, what do I have to be jealous of."

"I had too many opportunities to tell your mother, but I didn't say anything, including what happened to her poisoning later, I knew about it."

"You can't imagine who poisoned your mother!"

Gu Nian stepped forward and stared at Yang Clan, not daring to miss any slight expression on her face, "Who is it?" ”

Yang laughed, "Originally, I wanted to take this secret to the ground, so that I could use this to laugh at your mother, she was so naïve." ”

"At the beginning, the county lord was begged by your father to come back, and your grandfather originally wanted him to marry a girl from the British government, but your father refused, and only recognized the county lord."

He once swore that if he couldn't marry the county lord of Jingning, he would never marry a wife in this life, too, he did a really good job, Jingning died for so many years, he didn't even have a person waiting by his side, although the county lord of Jingning died early, but she had a husband that many women dreamed of. It's worth it! ”

Gu Nian was still very eager to force Yang to tell the poisoner at first, but when she heard what she said, her heart slowly calmed down, and Yang quietly talked about the past between her parents.

"The old man loves your father the most, people say that he loves the house and Wu, and he will definitely be good to the county lord, but in fact, he has not been indifferent to the county lord."

"At that time, I watched coldly, and I often saw the disgust for the county lord in the eyes of the old prince. I knew he wanted your father to marry a girl from an English family, but I didn't expect him to hate the county lord so much. ”

Gu Nian suddenly raised his head and looked at Yang in disbelief, "You won't say that the person who poisoned my mother is the old man, right?" ”

Yang nodded, as if he sighed, and said, "That's him." ”

"How do you know it's the old man who poisoned it? What did you see with your own eyes? Xiao Yue asked.

When Yang spoke, he had been observing her expression, and it was not unnatural at all, and there was no thought between the words, such a smoothness, if it was made up and memorized, then what benefit could she get?

Xiao Yue has interrogated many prisoners, so he naturally knows the skills of interrogation, and he will also pay attention to the expressions of the prisoners.

Yang doesn't look like he's lying.

Gu Nian couldn't believe what Yang said, she followed up and asked, "Are you sure?" ”

Yang groaned for a while, and then said slowly, "I saw it with my own eyes and heard it with my own ears. How to deceive. ”

"I have lit the lantern for the county lord for more than ten years, because I have always felt guilty,

"What evidence do you have? Some words are easy to say when the upper and lower lips touch, but the consequences behind them are to kill people. Gu Nian thought that if his father knew, it was the old Duke Qi who used to love him the most who poisoned his mother to death.

How could he stand it?

The most subversive thing in the world is often the truth.

You think that the person who is good to you turns out to be the person who wants to kill you, you think that this matter has been closed, but there are still many murderous opportunities behind it, you think that this matter is extremely complicated, but in fact it is very simple.

She knew that her father had a deep admiration for the old man, and if it weren't for the Gu family's death, he wouldn't have done anything to the Gu family.

He definitely didn't expect that the emperor would directly take back the Gu family's title.

Every time he talked about the old man, his tone was slowly nostalgic, she had doubted many people, but she had never doubted the old man.

But the truth is that it came with such a cruel and fierce attitude, how will Gu Shi'an face his mother in the future? How to face the tombstone of the old Duke of Qi?

What should he use to withstand the heavy blow when he knows the truth?

Gu Nian knew in his heart that now, the Yang family did not need to use lies to confuse himself,

Speaking of this, Yang's face suddenly fell, a piece of iron ash, she clenched Gu Nian's hand tightly, and her eyes became hollow, "After the death of the county lord, I have been uneasy and unable to sleep at night, although I have convinced myself again and again that this matter has nothing to do with me, and it is not my poisonous hand." ”

"But actually, I think it's all my fault, and the worst thing is that I know it's my own fault, and if I had informed the county lord, or your father, it would have been a completely different outcome today."

"But I don't dare to admit it, and I don't dare to compensate you, for fear that people will see that my heart is weak, and I treat you harshly with the old lady, as if it were like that, as if those things had never happened."

Yang's tearful confession did not make her feel better, but she only felt cold.

She is not the kind of person who indiscriminately concludes that a person is innocent or innocent, because she has suffered so many injustices that she has developed the need for evidence and her own careful judgment to determine the outcome of a matter.

Yang's is like this, not even a scapegoat, what she is cold about is Yang's attitude, she knows everything, but because of that poor jealousy, she hides everything, and then pretends to be nothing.

Not only that, when Gu Nian lived in the Qi State Mansion, the grievances and blows she received would not have been like this if it had not been for the deliberate connivance of the Yang family, the lady in charge.

Gu Nian stood there in a daze, like a pine.

Xiao Yue stepped forward to protect her and give her strength, and then listened to him ask, "You didn't say it before, why did you say it now?" ”

"Who can guarantee that this is not a play made by you and your father Yang Gelao?"

Yang wiped his tears with a handkerchief, and said in a choked voice, "Since the defeat of the Gu family, I often have a dream that the county lord is standing there with a smile and asking me if I am doing well. ”

"I think this is a sign that the Gu family can fall so quickly, and it is the county lord's spirit in the sky that blesses your father and daughter. is also because of her grievances, so that the gods can't stand it. ”

Yang Shi paused and said in a low voice, "I know that the Gu family is down now, you think that I said this to ask for a future for my family, no." I didn't think of it that way. ”

"Although there is no title, but life is not impossible, the old prince bought a lot of sacrificial fields for the clan, and these have our share. As long as it's good, life can still be good. ”

Gu Nian's long eyelashes drooped, and he said in a low voice, "It seems that the eldest aunt doesn't have to blame myself for my mother's death after she says it." ”

She raised her head slowly, and her cold gaze fell on Yang's simple clothes, "As you said, if the eldest aunt could vaguely inform any of my parents at that time, maybe ...... Maybe my mother will be able to live to this point. ”

"All this could have been avoided, but when they knew, they would be alert, and my father would not have wandered outside for so many years......"

Gu Nian thought of what Mama Chen said at the beginning, her mother knew that someone had poisoned her, did she know that it was Lao Guogong's son at that time, but did not tell her father.

is because she knows her father's affection for Lao Guogong, and saying it will destroy the relationship between father and son.

However, why didn't she want to think about it, her father was not a foolish person, otherwise how could she have a stiff fight with Old Madam Yu for herself, and then move out of the Gu Mansion angrily?

She held her head high, she didn't know who to hate, as if no one was wrong, and everyone was wrong, and the most wrong thing was probably God.

Creation makes people.

A strong bloody breath surged up her throat in her chest, her eyes were gradually soaked with tears, and she held Xiao Yue's hand tightly, wanting to absorb some warmth.

Her eyes fell on Yang, and she said coldly, "I won't forgive you, and I don't want to see you again in the future, even your children had better not let them appear in front of me." ”

"Please don't spread the word about what you just said, my father, you'd better keep your mouth shut."

Yang's face was shocked, and after a long silence, she nodded solemnly, "It's my mistake, I will remember your words, but please beware of my father too." ”

"At the beginning, your father's identity was passed on by him, and now, he still holds a teenager in his hand, and it is this teenager who tells him your father's identity......"

Gu Nian was sad in his heart, and his words were extremely stiff, "Why did you tell you this? That's your father......"

With tears in his eyes, Yang smiled bitterly, "Not everyone's father is as good as your father, this, just at that time, I wanted to make up for the harm caused to your mother and you." Although, I know that the damage will never be erased. ”

Gu Nian looked at Yang silently, she didn't know how to face the old woman in front of her, indeed, she was not the murderer who killed her mother.

But what she did was so hateful, she was just an ordinary person, she couldn't do it without anger.

She really didn't want to see this face again, and when she did, she remembered her mother's despair at that time.

On the way back, Gu Nian silently leaned on Xiao Yue's arms, Xiao Yue held her in his arms with one hand, and gently stroked her back with one hand.

"Originally, I thought that there must be a lot of complexity behind my mother's death, but I didn't expect it to be like this, Lord Wang, did you say that Lao Guogong really did this just because my mother was not the daughter-in-law he wanted?"

She once suspected that the British Duke was because he and the old Duke were both friends of King Su, and the other two were dead, and the British Duke had a good life.

The reason why Lao Guogong was able to adopt Gu Shi'an is easy to understand, because he and King Su are good friends.

Thinking about it now, it's really weird that it's really good, he can be said to have put aside his own children and only treat Gu Shi'an alone.

It's also a little great.

Because it's too loving, can't you tolerate the slightest disobedience?

Or is it because the mother is the child of the grandmother, and the old prince remembers that the grandmother killed his grandfather King Su, so he poisoned his mother.

Then is the poison on her body also under the old Guogong, I just forgot to ask the Yang family.

Mama Chen once said that the person's name was 'Grandpa', so who is the 'Grandpa' in the old lady's mouth?

She only felt that the more she thought about it, the more chaotic she became, the more she thought about it, and her thoughts were chaotic.

Xiao Yue hugged his wife in his arms tighter, "Don't worry, as long as we investigate, the truth will always come out one day, Niannian, I promise you, no matter who the person who hurt my mother-in-law and you is, I will find out this person and make him pay the price he deserves." ”

Even if that person is dead, he will let him die without peace.

Gu Nian leaned into his arms, "Don't let my father know about this, he hasn't even come out of the shadow of his mother's bones." ”

If he knew that his wife was killed by his adoptive father, it is estimated that he would collapse.

Mother is not in the ancestral grave of the Gu family, so where is she? Whether it was buried or not, if so, it would be fine, but she was more afraid that the person who stole her bones would make her unable to rest and crush her bones to ashes.

Because if you can't settle in the earth, you can't walk the road of reincarnation, and you can only be a lonely ghost forever.

She suddenly held her breath, and the thought of this possibility made her heart twist. It is important to find the mother's bones as soon as possible.

Xiao Yue felt the stiffness of her body and asked with concern, "What's wrong?" ”

Gu Nian raised his head sluggishly and said mechanically, "You say, why does my mother never fall asleep?" My father also said that he hadn't dreamed of her, so could she have been wandering around the world and couldn't be reincarnated? ”

But Xiao Yue said, "No, don't think about it." ”

Xiao Yue was very afraid to see Gu Nian's expression, which made him hate to erase all her pain, and he thought now that the person who did these things was in front of him, he was going to put him to death.

No amount of punishment can express his hatred at this moment.

He hugged Gu Nian tightly and kept saying this in her ear until Gu Nian's body softened, but his skin was burned by the tears that penetrated the thick winter clothes.

"If you want to cry, cry out." He muttered.

Gu Nian didn't cry out loud, not even a small sob, only a steady stream of tears rolling down......

There was silence on the official road, only the sound of the wheels turning, and suddenly there was a sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and then the coachman outside also held the reins, and there was a sound of talking outside, and after a while, there was a dark sound outside the carriage,

"Lord, princess, there is a little brother outside who said that Mrs. Yang from Izumo Temple just sneaked to deliver a letter."

Xiao Yue let go of Gu Nian, who was crying silently, and said in a deep voice, "Is it a message?" ”

Dark, "No." The letter is in the hands of the minions. “

"Hand it in."

As soon as he finished speaking, the door opened, the curtain was lifted, and a letter was stuffed in.

Gu Nian's eyes were red and swollen, he sat upright, took the letter handed over by Xiao Yue, thought about it, and handed it back to Xiao Yue, saying,

"You can help me see it, my eyes are uncomfortable."

Xiao Yue slowly opened it, and after taking a look, he said, "There is another insider in the matter of Yang's mother-in-law's poisoning. ”

When Gu Nian heard this, his face changed......

As soon as she wanted to say something, she heard the sound of carriages and horses outside, and when she stopped, a female voice came, "Yo, it's the maid of the fifth girl of the Gu family?" ”

"Oops, it's wrong, it's Princess Jin......"