After listening to Gu Lu's narration of the cause and effect, the head of the Gu family frowned and paced in the room.

Seeing the old man's solemn expression, Mrs. Gu said: "It's also my wife who is confused, and she actually believed in the Xuanyi technique that the maid said, so she arrested the three maids and interrogated them, how do you know that this murderer will appear at the family banquet today?" Eleven Niang, this girl doesn't know what evil she has committed recently, how can someone want her life wherever she goes? ”

Everywhere she goes, someone wants her life?

Hearing this, the old man's eyes suddenly sank, stopped, and pondered for a moment before he said: "Okay, if you suppress this matter, you can suppress it, and don't mention it to anyone in the future, especially the so-called Xuanyi technique!" ”

"Yes, husband, the concubine is exactly what it means, if Eleven Niang really knows what kind of mystic techniques, it may be beneficial to my Gu family, but if it is passed out, it will do more harm than good, this point, the concubine still understands."

After that, Old Madam Gu got up again, sent a robe to the old man, and asked softly, "By the way, the concubine heard that in the healthy Taicheng, the Son of Heaven wants to recruit good women, and the nobles of the mortal clan, whether they are concubines, can fill the harem, but what is the matter?" ”

When the old man heard this, his eyes turned quickly, looked at Gu Lu's and said, "What do you mean by asking?" Do you want to send the girl of my Gu family to the harem as well? ”

Seeing the unhappy face of the old man, Mrs. Gu smiled again and said: "Xu is concubine thinks too much, the concubine originally thought, the queen of heaven is in the air, if I enter the palace as a girl of the Gu family, I may not have a noble life like the Empress Dowager!" ”

Since the Eastern Jin Dynasty, where married with the royal family, which is not the center and Pan Zhen power, Wang Dun married Princess Xiangyang, became a generation of ministers in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Yu daughter married Emperor Ming, as the emperor's uncle Yu brothers have successively controlled the government, and now Sima Huanwen, because of the Nankang princess as the attached horse captain, has been prosperous in official fortune, soaring, until the Yu brothers fight against the court.

What Mrs. Gu thought was that if the Gu family also produced a queen, the Gu family, as the head of the Nanshi, might not be as hot as those overseas Chinese families with power in their hands.

Unexpectedly, Lord Gu Lao Lang smiled coldly: "A noble life like the Empress Dowager Yu? You don't want to think about it, why are all the queens married today short-lived? Are you planning to send Eleven Niang to the palace? ”

When Mrs. Gu heard this, her heart jumped suddenly, could it be that those queens had a short life because the palace violated the yin and private interests?

Seeing that her face was a little dull and fearful, the old man didn't say any more, but said: "Eleven Niang's marriage, don't worry about it for the time being!" What's more, she hasn't done the ritual yet, and she will talk about it when she does! ”

As one of the ancient gifts, the ceremony has always been only practiced by noble women, and many families do not pay much attention to concubines, even if they do it, they are hasty. Listening to the meaning of the old man, don't you want to give Eleven Niang a grand operation?

Old Madam Gu's face changed slightly.

At this time, the old man said that he wanted to go to the study to practice calligraphy, so he brushed his sleeves and pushed open the door of the partition and left, leaving Mrs. Gu alone in a daze.

But the old man who came to the study did not immediately take out the celebrity law and pen, ink, paper and inkstone, but called a small servant and ordered: "Call Eleven Niang to come to my study!" ”

"Yes."

When the little servant conveyed the order, Gu Yu was standing side by side with Zhang Shishilang in the twilight smoke pavilion, as if he was talking and laughing, at that time, the sun was brilliant, and through the sparse shadows of the treetops, a piece of golden light fell, and the light surrounded the two of them, shining directly like a golden boy and a girl.

The little guy was stunned for a moment, and then walked up to Gu Yu and said, "Eleven Niang, Lord Lang asked you to go to his study!" ”

Zhang Shishilang also turned around, and smiled at Gu Yu again: "How is it?" Did I guess that? ”

Gu Yu smiled and strode forward.

The corners of Zhang Shishilang's mouth twitched, revealing a face full of dissatisfaction and resentment.

"Eleven Niang, you really don't want to tell me, you and I are so angry now?" He said.

Gu Yu still flicked his sleeves and replied with a nonchalant expression: "When you grow up a little more, I'll tell you again!" ”

"What did you say?" Zhang Shishilang didn't seem to understand, his face was full of disbelief, and after she walked away, he couldn't help but sneer: "You little girl, you are getting better and better at playing tricks, naughty!" ”

After he finished speaking, Shiqin came over curiously and quipped: "Zhang Jialangjun, what did you say to our lady to make her so happy?" ”

"Isn't your lady happy?" Zhang Shishilang asked rhetorically.

Shiqin's face was pale, and under Zhang Shilang's gaze, she suddenly seemed to remember something, ran into the study of the Dusk Smoke Pavilion, took out a book, handed it to Zhang Shishilang, and said, "By the way, Zhang Jialangjun, this is what the lady asked me to give you!" ”

"For me? What is it? Show me! ”

Zhang Shishilang didn't believe it at first, but then his eyes revealed a bit of pleasure, the corners of his mouth were crooked with a smile, and he hurriedly took the book and opened it, but as soon as this gaze touched, the stubborn and irreverent smile on his lips suddenly faded.

"This is the handwriting written by Eleven Niang?" He asked, surprised.

Shiqin nodded repeatedly.

Zhang Shishilang held the book and read it several times, his eyes became heavier and heavier, and he became more and more dignified.

Gu Yu followed the little guy to the old man's study, at that time, the old man was spreading out a piece of oil silk sprinkled with gold paper, ready to study ink and write, and when he saw Gu Yu walk in, he asked the little man to close the door and motioned for her to sit down.

Gu Yu was not polite, and after giving a salute, he sat down on the futon under his grandfather's head, and the grandfather and grandson looked at each other like this, and the study was quiet for a moment.

Or Gu Yu took the lead in asking: "Grandfather, but I want to ask Ah Yu about pointing out that the maid is the murderer at the banquet today?" ”

Gu Bi seemed to look at Gu Yu for a moment, and when he heard her ask, he smiled as if he had just woken up from a dream.

"Yes, yes, grandfather wants to ask you how you can tell that the maid is the murderer?" He said.

Gu Yu replied: "Actually, it's very simple, Ah Yu will observe words and looks, and when the maid brought the plate of goat milk jelly, she deliberately glanced at the goat milk jelly." ”

"Just by looking at it, you can confirm that that plate of goat custard is poisonous?" Gu Bi asked again.

"Of course not, the plate of goat custard that the maid brought me is different from the plum blossoms on it." Gu Yu replied.

Gu Bi thought back to the situation at that time, she also looked at the plate of goat milk jelly in front of Gu Yu, and didn't find any difference.

"What's the difference?" He asked.

Gu Yu replied: "The color of the plum blossom is darker!" After thinking for a moment, she added, "The plum blossom looks more showy and smells more fragrant, but the more showy the thing, the more poisonous, and the more fragrant the smell, the more narcotic it is." ”

"You mean, that plate of goat cummel isn't poison, or a stunner-making drug?"

Gu Yu nodded.

At this time, a small servant knocked on the door, and Gu Bi called for him to come in.

The little guy glanced at Gu Yu and reported to the old man: "Master Lang, the dog fell to the ground after tasting the plate of goat's milk jelly, but it doesn't seem to be out of breath and is still asleep!" ”

Gu Bi was slightly stunned at first, then laughed out loud, waved his hand to order the little guy to go down, then pulled Gu Yu to sit on top of the collapse, and said: "Come, come, tell your grandfather about you and Shi Niang falling into the water, how did you deduce that the person who wanted to kill you must have been injured by the sharpened bamboo?" ”

Gu Yu replied: "My granddaughter was led to the Jinlu Pond by that person that day, and I saw a sharpened bamboo in the small bamboo forest near the Jinlan Pond, and a stone next to it was stained with blood, so I speculated that the person must have tripped over the stone and unfortunately bumped into the bamboo. If this person is armed with martial arts, then she will definitely hurt her left hand, because when a person trips, her first reaction will be to push away the obstacle with her hand! ”

At this point, she paused for a moment, and then continued, "Although the left hand of the maid who assassinated me at the banquet today looks flawless, she has a little red mole on her left wrist! ”

"A little red mole? What does that mean? Gu Bi asked again curiously.

Gu Yu pondered for a moment, as if thinking about whether to say it or not, but seeing that her grandfather was looking at her with an earnest face, she replied truthfully: "It means that the skin on her left hand is fake!" ”

There is also a lesson in Chongqilou that teaches people how to erase the evidence of their crimes, and how to cover up their wounds, one of the most cruel ways is to change the skin, and even after changing the skin, there will be some traces, which others can't see, but she can see it.

Naturally, this trace is not that red mole, that mole can only show that the woman is still a virgin, the owner of Chongqi Lou has a habit, that is, the women who collect the ice clear jade knot, on their wrists dotted this cinnabar mole, these women usually after the completion of training as a very valuable gift to those noble families for fine work.

In her previous life, when she was handed over to Huan Che by that person, she was still complete, so she was sold for a good price.

Hearing this, Gu Bi's face sank, and he hurriedly called the little servant in, commanded in his ear, and then waved his hand: "Go!" Take a closer look at her left hand! ”

The little guy looked frightened, stunned for a long time, then nodded yes, and then turned around and quickly ran out of the study.

Gu Bi turned his gaze to Gu Yu again, pondered for a moment, and asked, "Ah Yu, have you really learned any Xuanyi technique?" ”

Gu Yu shook his head and said, "No." Grandfather, the sage made "Yi", showing people good luck and evil, saying "Li Zhen", not saying "Li is not chaste", the so-called Xuan Yi art is just a spiritual medicine that soothes people's hearts! Ah Yu believes in just his own eyes. ”

Although Old Madam Gu believed in the Tao of the Heavenly Master, she knew that her grandfather was not such a pedantic and superstitious person, so she did not have to use the Xuanyi technique to deceive her grandfather, which would not only not gain his trust, but also arouse his suspicion.

Sure enough, when Gu Bi heard her say this, the tense expression on his face softened, and he twisted his beard again and smiled: "Ah Yu, you are very smart!" The Langya Wang family has a variety of Langlang pearls and jades, and the Chenjun Xie family has Zhilan Yushu, I don't want my Gu family to have such a beautiful girl but I don't know it, it's my grandfather's fault! ”

As he spoke, he took Gu Yu's hand again and wanted her to get up, and said with a solemn expression: "Don't worry, this Gu Mansion grandfather will find a way to clean it up, and then arrange some parts to protect you!" ”

Gu Yu thanked him, knelt down on his knees again, clasped his hands in front of his chest, and made a big bow to Gu Bi very carefully.

"Ah Yu, what are you doing here?" Gu Bi asked in amazement.

Gu Yu raised his head, looked at him and said, "Grandfather, Ah Yu has two requests!" Please also ask grandfather to agree! ”

"What a request, you have to kneel and say, get up quickly, grandfather promises you!" Gu Bi said with a smile on his face, as if he was coaxing a child who wanted candy to eat.

Gu Yu still stubbornly knelt on the ground, and said with a very solemn expression: "The request that Ah Yu said is not a child's play, but about the fate of the Gu family, so I ask my grandfather to listen carefully." ”

Seeing his granddaughter's appearance as a little adult, the childish sneering expression on Gu Bi's face finally condensed little by little, and at this time, he stretched out his hand and called a subordinate to come in, and explained cautiously: "Guard outside the door, no one is allowed to come in!" ”

The part replied, "Yes!" He pressed his sword and retreated.

After the door of the study was opened, Gu Yu said: "Grandfather, Ah Yu's first request is to ask my grandfather to prohibit my Gu family sons and daughters from entering the West Mansion to serve Huan Da Sima!" ”

Gu Bi looked shocked, as if he didn't expect that Gu Yu's first request was related to state affairs. He was stunned for a long time before asking, "Why?" ”

Gu Yu replied: "Who is Huan Wen, he was a good gambler when he was young, he was full of people to avenge his father, he was ruthless, he was a jackal, and working with this person, isn't it seeking skin with a tiger?" ”

Gu Bi smiled, disapproving, and said: "Ah Yu, you are still young and don't understand political affairs, although Huan Da Sima was a gambler when he was young and did some unkind things, but now he is lightly punished and simplified, has a high moral reputation, and cares about his family and country, and has repeatedly gone out to fight the enemy in the Northern Expedition. ”

This is also undeniable for Gu Yu, otherwise in her previous life, she would not have relied on her little memory of future history to help Huan Che defeat other major families, hold the authority, and become an unshakable minister even Wang Xie Yuxi and the major clans of Nanshi.

But what she didn't expect was that after Huan Che ascended to the pinnacle of power, he began to reduce the wings of the major families step by step, the Yu family and the Xi family were almost wiped out, and none of the southern scholars dared to hold military power or enter the central Taicheng, and if the Wang Xie family did not join forces to fight against it and bow down to it, I am afraid it would be difficult to be poisoned.

And even Wang Xie's two major gates were finally suppressed by him, and after the battle of Weishui, they were gradually defeated and far away from the political and metallurgical center.

"But the country is easy to change, the nature is difficult to change, Huan Wen through the tomb of Wang Dun, called it Ke'er, it is enough to see his ambition, when his northern expedition to recover the Central Plains is successful, he will be like Wang Dun like the abolition of the emperor and king. And after he becomes king, those who were once so-called heroes will become the biggest obstacle on his path to emperorship. ”

In the previous life, the Gu family was also exterminated because of this, right?

Hearing this, Gu Bi's face changed slightly, Huan Wen passed through Wang Dun's tomb and called it Ke'er, he had also heard about it, and he also knew that he must have the ambition to dominate the world, but Gu Yu's last sentence had to make him ponder.

Although today's emperors are not like the previous dynasties, they often destroy the three ethnic groups, but it does not mean that the world has changed greatly, and after the change of dynasty, the new emperor will not either.

Seeing Gu Bi pondering, Gu Yu took the opportunity to continue: "Grandfather, great-grandfather escaped the rebellion of King Qi by drinking to avoid disaster and kept the foundation of the Gu family, and on the other hand, the ancestors of the Lu family, Lu Ji and Lu Yun, because they couldn't give up their careers, the rapids retreated and ended up in the end of the three clans. ”

Huating cranes, how can they be heard again? This is the emotion that Lu Ji sent out when he was unjustly killed, and the helplessness and remorse can be imagined, and before Lu Ji was killed, he had begged the CD king to let his family go, but after he died, Lu Ji's family was still wiped out.

Thinking of this, Gu Bi's eyes became heavier and heavier, and he muttered for a long time, until he heard a bird's cry, and then he muttered to himself: "The bird is hidden in the bow, and the rabbit is dead and the dog cooks ......."

Gu Yu kept looking at Gu Bi until he sighed, turned around, spoke softly, and helped her up with a sad and sad expression.

"Ah Yu, what you said, grandfather will think about it." Then he added, "And what is your second request?" ”