Chapter 35: Resentment
When Gu Wanzhi was depressed, he saw the scholar who was serving Wei Minzheng poking his head out of the side wall and asked him to wait at Taiping Bridge at night, and said that the little master would go.
Gu Wanzhi rekindled hope for a while and went to the appointment on time, but he didn't wait for Wei Minzheng to come, but waited for the old housekeeper with a stick and a few subordinates.
When Gu Wanzhi saw this kind of battle, she already knew in her heart that the Taiping Bridge would not be peaceful tonight. But he really couldn't understand what had happened to make him fall to such a point, and he wanted to know what Wei Minzheng thought, so he recounted his experience these days, and begged the old butler to see Wei Minzheng again.
At this time, the old housekeeper said to Gu Wanzhi that the little master was already the choice of Jinke, and when the time came, Lafayette would appoint the young master as the fifteen-grid horse master, and said that the little master had accepted it gladly, how could he delay his career for the sake of men.
Gu Wanzhi only felt a blow to the head, he didn't believe that Wei Minzheng would treat him like this, but if this was not the truth, then why didn't Wei Minzheng come to him for half a month, and then he thought that the cold window had worked hard to make this matter go to waste, love and hatred came to an end, and he insisted on going to the Wei Mansion under impulse. β
"Smack~!" The tape finished playing at the critical moment, and Qin Ding hurriedly put the fourth tape in.
The old housekeeper saw that Gu Wanzhi was a little out of control, and knew that this matter could not be publicized, so he suddenly showed a fierce appearance, and asked his subordinates to take advantage of his unpreparedness, hit Gu Wanzhi with a stick on the back of the head, beat him to death, and then took advantage of the night to bury him nearby.
Gu Wanzhi became a ghost with misunderstanding and resentment like this, while Wei Minzheng on the other side didn't know anything about it.
It turned out that after Wei Minzheng came out of the examination room that day, he was eager to look for Gu Wanzhi, but he was pulled aside, and what made him a little angry was that this person was none other than his father.
Before Wei Minzheng could question the exam questions, Wei Guofu shut him up, forcibly pulled him into the carriage, and rushed home for several days.
Wei Minzheng was shocked and angry, he didn't know what was going on with his father, he didn't even care about Gu Wanzhi, taking him was like running for his life.
When their carriage came to a secluded place, his father nervously asked him if he had told Gu Wanzhi about the exam questions.
Wei Minzheng understood what his father was afraid of, he was afraid that Gu Wanzhi would poke this matter out, and at this time, he remembered the joke he had made the night before, and suddenly became a little worried, and planned to turn back to pick up Gu Wanzhi.
But his father told him to leave it alone, and then told him what shocked him.
It turned out that his father knew that Gu Wanzhi's literary knowledge was slightly superior, and if the two of them fought for a place at the top of the list, then Wei Minzheng would inevitably suffer.
Over the years, the purpose of taking in a person who has eaten and drunk for nothing is to help his youngest son rise to the top, but he didn't expect it to become the biggest obstacle inadvertently.
So his father used his relationship and silver to risk fraud, found a high-ranking official in the capital who was close to his family, and spent a lot of money to buy it off and get a problem.
He thinks that with this question alone, his son will definitely have an advantage over Gu Wanzhi and is expected to win Huiyuan, and the high-ranking official has also reached a condition with him, and when his son gains fame, he will recommend good words in front of Lafayette, and when the time comes, he will give marriage and give his family a concubine, so that he can have the best of both worlds.
Wei Minzheng was shocked and angry, he was not ashamed of his father's heart, he would do such a despicable thing, and he only had Gu Wanzhi in his heart, so he didn't want to be a colt, not to mention that Gu Wanzhi must be the one who won the championship.
Wei Minzheng said what was in his heart, and at this time he didn't know that Gu Wanzhi had failed the exam, and his test paper had been selected and submitted by the examiner.
When Wei Guofu heard that his son had this attitude, he was immediately furious and asked his son if it was because of Gu Wanzhi.
When Wei Minzheng saw his father's reaction, he knew that his father already knew about their relationship.
In fact, the Wei family knew about the two of them, and only Wei Guofu was kept in the dark. But not long ago, Wei Guofu accidentally overheard the chat, and then he knew that his youngest son, who valued him the most, actually liked men, so he was angry and had a plan to drive Gu Wanzhi away, and at the same time, he didn't want Gu Wanzhi to win the first place, so he had a side-by-door deed.
And now the youngest son actually wants Gu Wanzhi's official position and family faΓ§ade for the sake of Gu Wanzhi, and even has to commit crimes to offend the court and abandon the family, which makes Wei Guofu itch with hatred.
Wei Minzheng just didn't go back, since he was clear, he wanted to be with Gu Wanzhi even more. and said that Gu Wanzhi will definitely be the champion, and when the time comes, she will become an official, and she will definitely rise to prominence.
But Wei Guofu told him that Gu Wanzhi might not even be able to make the list.
Wei Minzheng was shocked, and then he realized that his father not only wanted him to do well in the exam, but also knew that he would discuss with Gu Wanzhi and use their relationship to influence Gu Wanzhi's performance.
Wei Minzheng was angry and worried, jumped out of the car to go back to find it, but was held down by his father and his subordinates, tied up all the way home, and imprisoned indoors and not allowed to go out.
This dilemma is more than half a month. At first, Wei Minzheng tried all kinds of ways to no avail, and he didn't know why Gu Wanzhi didn't come back, which made Wei Minzheng extremely worried.
So Wei Minzheng began to fight with hunger strikes, but Wei Guofu did even more. He told his son that he originally planned to settle Gu Wanzhi so that he would no longer have anything to do with his hometown, but now his son wants to make a big deal out of it, abandon the family, and insist on disobeying orders, then he has the right to not have this son, and he doesn't want the name of Yaozu anymore, he will let Gu Wanzhi be done now, and he can still be sealed.
Wei Minzheng became scared for a while, he thought about it and felt that his father would do this, in order to protect Gu Wanzhi, he compromised after careful consideration.
He made two requests to his father, one was to see Gu Wanzhi for the last time, and the other was to settle Gu Wanzhi's future life and ensure safety.
Wei Guofu saw that his son had a change of heart, so he readily agreed.
Within a few days, the capital released the apricot list, and sure enough, Gu Wanzhi was not on the list, which shocked Wei Minzheng.
He didn't believe that Gu Wanzhi could fail the list with his talents, but it turned out that Gu Wanzhi gave up that topic for him, and Wei Minzheng felt guilty about it.
He only waited to make amends after seeing Gu Wanzhi, and planned in his heart that he would be proper in the future and continue the frontier, after all, saving his life is the most important thing.
But Wei Minzheng waited left and right, but waited for a news that he didn't expect.
His father sent someone to pick up Gu Wanzhi, but he had already left the capital. According to the innkeeper, Gu Wanzhi fainted after leaving the examination room, thinking that he was sick from the cold, and the candidates sent him back to the inn, and he didn't get better until he was out of the list. But seeing that he was not on the list, he looked very gloomy, and then checked out and left. As for where it went, no one knows.
Wei Minzheng was heartbroken when he learned this, and regretted that he didn't find a way to carry the letter during this time, he couldn't imagine how helpless and sad Gu Wanzhi would be after suffering such a big blow after misunderstanding.
So he frantically asked people to look around, but there was no news of Gu Wanzhi at all.
In this way, the Beijing Palace trial was held as scheduled in the Taihe Palace, and Wei Minzheng was indeed appointed as the leader by Lafayette, and immediately gave marriage, Wei Minzheng did not disobey, and Wei Guofu was also relieved.
A few years have passed, Wei Minzheng is still the editor of the Hanlin Academy, and he has not been promoted because of the nepotism, all because he and the fifteen grids have never been husband and wife, so the relationship exists in name only.
In those years, Wei Minzheng never gave up looking for Gu Wanzhi, until Wei Guofu was critically ill, he hurriedly returned to his hometown, and before his father died, he tentatively asked about something that he had been doubting in his heart for many years, only to know that Gu Wanzhi was long gone.
In fact, when he was looking for Gu Wanzhi for many years without success, Wei Minzheng already suspected that his father had deceived him, he really didn't expect his father to really do this, and he was sad and angry for a while.
It was he who indirectly killed Gu Wanzhi, the person he loved most in his life. But everything is irreparable, and Wei Minzheng can't extricate himself in remorse.
During Wei Minzheng's funeral for his father, he asked the old housekeeper about how he dealt with Gu Wanzhi at the beginning, and the old housekeeper thought that the old man had informed the young master of this matter, so he directly confessed how he tricked Gu Wanzhi into going to Taiping Bridge to kill him through the master's instructions, and how he buried it on the spot.
In order to please Wei Minzheng and not be angry with him, the old housekeeper said a lot, including what Gu Wanzhi experienced later, and Wei Guofu was afraid that Gu Wanzhi would become a resentful ghost and take revenge, so he specially found someone to plant nine peach trees in the place where the bones were buried and surrounded and suppressed, so that he could not be overborn.
Wei Minzheng's face was full of tears after hearing this, and he was in pain.
The more he thought about it, the more difficult it became to calm down, drank a lot of wine, and went straight to Taipingqiao.
At that time, he planned to find the place where Gu Wanzhi's bones were buried, cut himself off, and go underground to make amends, but when he arrived at the place, he found that there were indeed several large peach trees scattered in all directions, and on the edge of one of the peach trees, there were some people around.
Wei Minzheng was very strange, he looked inside and found that there were some strange things on the ground, and there were several Taoist priests discussing something with the people around him.
At this time, Wei Minzheng was halfway drunk, so he pulled someone to ask what he was doing, and the man told him that there were ghosts and ghosts in this Taiping Bridge, and the Taoist priest was going to eliminate harm for the people.
Wei Minzheng was surprised, and asked what kind of ghosts and ghosts, the man said that in the past few years, there were always accidents in the area of Taiping Bridge, as long as it was dark, there would be inexplicable fog on the bridge.
At first, I couldn't see the road clearly, but I could get through it by groping, but then people saw people in red looming in the fog, but they couldn't see what it looked like, and some people could hear a man crying, and then someone would always fall under the bridge inexplicably.
In the past year, there have been seven or eight accidental drowning deaths, and in the past few years, there have been dozens of people.
At first, people didn't pay attention to it, but then more people died, and they all said that there was something wrong with the bridge and it was very evil.
Isn't this the Taoist of Xuanwu Temple who has heard about it, and now he is looking for someone to set up a formation.
After hearing this, Wei Minzheng completely woke up, he was shocked in his heart, looked around, and determined that this was the place where Gu Wanzhi's bones were buried, and then he thought of it, could it be that the resentful soul that people are talking about is Gu Wanzhi.
Although Wei Minzheng doesn't believe in the theory of gods and ghosts, if Gu Wanzhi still has a soul, then can they see each other again.
But at the moment, in this kind of battle, the Taoist priest wants to kill the ghost, and Gu Wanzhi's soul is about to be scattered.
As soon as he thought of this, Wei Minzheng stepped forward desperately to stop him, and the Taoist priest at that time was your master. β
"Smack~!" After the fourth tape was played on side A, the old man continued to talk after changing to side B.
In fact, Master also heard about the frequent incidents of people drowning at the Taiping Bridge, and felt a little strange, so he came to check it out himself.
When he arrived at Taipingqiao, he found that the yin qi in the vicinity was very heavy, and around a few peach trees not far away, there was a strange aura, where there was both yang qi and a deep resentment flowing.
Your master thought that the problem might come from there, so he stood on the bridge and looked over there, and found that there were nine peach trees planted in that area, and the formation of the peach trees was clearly a partial formation in the Maoshan branch - the executioner slash.
You should know what an 'executioner' is. β
"Yes. It is to trap the soul of a person in a circle surrounded by nine peach trees. The peach wood belongs to the yang, the soul belongs to the yin, and if you are surrounded in it, you will not be able to escape, but you will always be scorched by the yang energy, just like being tortured every day by a thousand knives, and over time, the soul will be annihilated by ashes, and you will not be able to be reborn. β