When Gu Qing arrived at the main hall of the county lord's mansion, his expression was very solemn, and he looked at Gu Mingzhu who got up to meet him with a gloomy face, and his smile did not change at all, before he sat down on the couch.

"Today's matter is your ......" He thought about Old Madam Gu, and finally couldn't help but open his mouth, wanting to ask Gu Mingzhu.

Gu Mingzhu's smile grew cold, and he interrupted him mercilessly: "Father is right, I made it happen." ”

"The Gu family and my father may not care, but I can't care, I can't be at the mercy of others." Gu Mingzhu sneered and said, "Ants are still greedy, why should I let others do my own thing." ”

Gu Qing choked for a while, and then sighed in a low voice: "She is your grandmother, she is inevitably a little confused when she gets older, why should you ......?"

Gu Mingzhu laughed angrily: "What my father said is that the father told the son to die and the son had to die, since my grandmother wants to trample on me, I should be punished, right?" A word of confusion can cover up the past? ”

She stood up and walked a few steps on the side of the mat, her eyes full of gloom: "It's like when my father watched A-Niang have to cut herself off in order to save the lives of the whole house and me, and still say that it was a difficult birth?" ”

Gu Qing's face suddenly changed greatly, and his hand suddenly clenched the tea pot: "What did you say?" What are you talking about?! ”

Gu Mingzhu ignored him, and just said coldly: "Hasn't my father felt guilty all these years?" If Ah Niang knew that the old lady and you would treat me like this after her death, and wanted me to suffer such humiliation and calculate to survive, would she still have no hesitation to save the whole house with death? ”

Gu Qing looked straight at Gu Mingzhu with both eyes, the tea soup in his hand was spilled out and he didn't know it, and muttered in his mouth: "How do you know, what do you know?" ”

Gu Mingzhu stepped forward step by step and took the tea pot that had been spilled most of it from his hand: "Isn't my father going to tell me?" Do you want me to think that A-Niang really died of dystocia? ”

Gu Qing's face darkened little by little, and after all, he lost the slightest brilliance, and said in a low voice: "You shouldn't know." ”

"Your aunt said in the letter she asked me to bring when she left, I will definitely not let you know about these things in the future, these things should be ended when she dies, and what should be borne by us, and it has nothing to do with others."

Gu Qing said, wiping his face with a wry smile, as if he wanted to erase the past of these years.

"Your aunt is the emperor's favorite princess, such a beautiful appearance and such a gentle temperament, I never thought that I could marry such a good woman one day, when I got the marriage edict, I thought I was dreaming, otherwise how could there be such a blessing to get her favor."

"I and your aunt are also in love, and they have always been deeply married and respectful of each other, if it hadn't happened to that incident, I'm afraid that this is not the case in our house now." Gu Qing's sigh was so low that even the wrinkles on his forehead became deeper, "At that time, the first emperor suffered from head wind, sometimes good and sometimes bad, and even went to Vientiane Palace to recuperate, but it still didn't get better. ”

"Speaking of this disease, it is also because of the battle for the storage position, the first prince and the king of Wei, your aunt and the current saint are brothers and sisters of the same mother, but for this storage position, it is a brotherly rebellion, fratricide, your aunt is a woman, although she has not been involved in this open and secret fight, but it is also for these entanglements for a long time, until she is pregnant with you, she let go of some of her heart."

"But at that time, the first emperor was seriously ill, and your aunt was a concubine who had to enter the palace to serve the sick, and she was still left in the palace Taiji Hall to serve while she was pregnant, although I was worried, I had no choice but to enter the palace every day to greet her and see her."

"It was the ninth day of October, I entered the palace with Lu Jun and Guo Sheng to say hello, but I was left in the Taiji Hall by the first emperor, he sent all the palace maids and concubines out, leaving only your aunt in front of her, because she was a princess and won the trust of the first emperor, so she could stay there to serve, but I didn't expect that it was this trust that killed her."

"Since the abolition of the prince to practice witchcraft Gu Zhen was investigated, locked in the cold palace and died, the King of Wei was found to frame the prince to fabricate the town of the town to imprison the palace to commit suicide, the first emperor was full of suspicion, after setting up the current saint as the prince, but also ordered Zhao Guogong to secretly investigate the matter, and finally there were clues, but it was found that the initiator of all this is the current saint, which made the first emperor who had fallen ill on the couch sad and angry, he summoned us that day to discuss the abolition of the prince."

"The first emperor asked Lu Jun, the Duke of Zhao, to draft an edict abolishing the crown prince, and asked the young master of the crown prince Guo Sheng to assist the imperial grandson to enter the East Palace. Gu Qing slowly recalled, more than ten years of pain seemed to be just yesterday, making his tone more and more low, "It's just that the first emperor was too sick to hold the jade seal, and he was unable to preside over the abolition of the establishment, this matter can only be discussed and arranged, and the first emperor will be arranged when he is sick, but no one thought that less than a day after we left the Taiji Palace, the first emperor passed away." ”

"And what happened next was what I and your aunt didn't expect, and on the second day, the prince drafted an edict to let all the concubines and servants serving in the Taiji Hall be martyred, and no one was left. He's going to kill him! Your aunt was the first to think of it, and hurriedly asked someone to go to the palace to send a message to me, telling me to quietly leave the palace no matter what, not to go back to the house, and to rush back to the Northwest Army. ”

"I didn't understand it at the time, but when she was pregnant and worried too much, I quietly went back to the house to see her, but she was so anxious that she only said a few words to me, asking me to return to the army immediately, even if the sage summoned me back to Chang'an, I can't go back."

Gu Qing's hand was already clutching the corner of the table, and the green tendons on his forehead were bursting out, recalling the past that had been repeated countless times in his mind: "I asked her when I would come back, what about her and the child in her womb, and the old and young of this family." ”

"She told me that she would protect this family, as well as our unborn children, and I would not be able to come back until I got the news of her death, and from then on I could not stay in Chang'an for a long time, nor could I be close to the children, so that the palace would believe that I was a merciless person who did not care about her and the life and death of this house, in order to save the lives of this family."

Gu Mingzhu was stunned by this sentence, and did not move for a long time.

She looked at Gu Qing in a daze, but Gu Qing was dry, and said with a wry smile: "I didn't understand what your aunt meant, why did she choose ...... by herself?"

"She left Chang'an and returned to the northwest with a dead appearance, and the news of her death came a few days later, and I rushed back and couldn't see her for the last time, and the palace let people take her to be buried in Anling, and then I realized that something was wrong. I can only entrust you to the old lady, and hurry back to the northwest according to her instructions. ”

"It wasn't until Zhao Guogong's mansion was beheaded that I understood what your A-Niang finally meant, it turned out that we were already an obstacle in the eyes of others, and we were thorns in the flesh that wanted to pull it out quickly, your A-Niang temporarily kept the Gu family and us with death, but if the palace still thinks that I will never forget your A-Niang's death, I am always concerned about you, and when I take the Gu family very seriously, it is difficult to guarantee that I will not do it again, so I have not returned to the house all these years."

He said and slowly lowered his head and smiled bitterly: "It's just that I didn't expect it, I thought it was to protect you, but I made you suffer so much, after all, it was my fault and my incompetence!" ”