Chapter 86: Selfishness
Three days later, the news of Prince Yu and the Shen family's concubine marrying spread throughout Qianjing.
As the emperor's favorite son other than the crown prince, among all the emperor's sons, the only second prince who was named a prince was originally a light and breezy person, and did not show the slightest interest in that position, except for the crown prince, others, including the emperor, also felt that this was an extremely docile son.
However, such a docile son actually married the only concubine of General Shen, who held 400,000 male divisions, can this ambition be more obvious?
The emperor also has some organizations in his hands that specialize in collecting information, and after the emperor found out what happened on the princess's birthday, the suspicious son of heaven naturally thought that it might be Prince Yu who deliberately designed to marry Shen Rou, after all, he slept with other girls when he was drunk, and then disguised himself as being framed, this kind of drama The emperor did not think of it.
In the imperial study, the emperor is slamming the teacup in his hand on the ground, Prince Yu has never asked about court affairs, and he has traveled all year round, and he doesn't even know a few ministers in the court.
Although Concubine De is domineering, she never asks about things in the court, but just makes some innocuous petty temperament in the harem, which makes the emperor feel that such a Concubine De is more real.
However, when Prince Jade suddenly surprised the emperor by something, the emperor's suspicion was like a charcoal fire dormant in the ashes, and as soon as the wind blew, it burned brightly, even more than before.
As a result, Prince Yu's indifferent fame and fortune exiled from the rivers and lakes and did not care about the world, in the eyes of the emperor, it became one word: pretend.
"Check! Check it out for me! Look at what friends Prince Yu has made, where he has gone, and what he has done over the years, don't let go of any of it! The emperor said with a gloomy face.
The order issued by the emperor in the imperial study soon reached Yun Yi's ears, and Yun Yi's side was standing next to the prince, who looked at the gradually growing snow outside the window, and said faintly: "I really envy Brother Yun's ability, and even what happened to my father in the imperial study can be known clearly." ”
Yun Yi copied his hands, his cold face was a little pale, the laziness on his face was not there, he just said lightly: "This world is fair, what you want to gain, you must lose something, sometimes, I know too many secrets, and it is not what I like, if not...... If the second prince dares to attack my idea, I will not pay attention to what the emperor of the Great Qianguo said. ”
The prince smiled slightly, somehow, he always felt that Yun Yi's sudden move to clean up Huangfu Jade must have something to do with the girl named Gu Li, but what did it have to do with him, he didn't know yet.
When Gu Li returned to the Gu family in Qingniu Village, she unexpectedly found that several brothers were there, and she didn't know how she knew, but she just felt that there were a few brothers in the air, except for the eldest brother Gu Chen, everyone else was there.
She was frightened by this discovery, although she could tell the animals in the jungle or the lurking humans by some clues in her previous life, but it was the first time that she could sense who the people in the house were by her breath alone.
"Second child, your strength is the strongest, you say, do you want to save Xiaorou?" Gu Li's voice was interrupted by Gu Li's somewhat impatient voice.
"Old Five, you calm down, no matter how powerful I am, I'm just the prince's guest, can I be as powerful as General Shen? Why don't you want to, why didn't General Shen make a move? Gu Lun's voice was as cold as ever, making Gu Li choke.
But soon, Gu Li's suppressed angry voice came: "I'm also very curious, why General Shen knows that Xiao Rou doesn't want to marry the second prince, but he still insists on letting Xiao Rou marry the second prince, if it's a concubine, it's just a concubine, it's actually a side concubine, it's a good word, but in the end, it's just a concubine, when are we girls from the Gu family going to be a concubine." ”
"Second, fifth, don't argue first, I think there must be something else hidden in this matter, but we don't know, we need to know more information." Old Si Gu Yuan's voice was a little cautious, "Too many mistakes are made because we don't know the situation, we need to investigate." ”
"Investigation? What to investigate? Xiao Rou said very clearly, it was General Shen who sold his daughter for glory, and he had to marry Prince Yu, she was now locked in the house by General Shen, and the maidservants around her risked death to send this letter, begging us to rescue her, what are you still hesitating about, do you want to wait for Prince Yu to marry her into the prince's mansion and then save people? ”
Gu Li's voice almost roared, if he had Gu Lun's ability, he would probably have gone to save Shen Rou a long time ago, and he didn't have to talk nonsense here with these guys who forgot about their old sisters when they had a new sister.
"However, this is what Xiao Rou said, if what she says is what she says, then what happened to Xiao Meng's disappearance before ......" Gu Yan's voice stopped, there was no need to finish speaking, because Shen Rou said that Gu Li took Xiao Meng away, which led everyone's thinking astray, so that everyone thought that Xiao Meng and Gu Li stayed together, and they didn't really look for Xiao Meng well, causing Xiao Meng to be taken to Qianjing.
Gu Li fought half his life to save Xiaomeng, and this matter has always been a hurdle that several big boys can't overcome, and at that time, several of them were helpless, even Gu Lun, who had the best martial arts, was left by Gu Li, and afterwards Gu Lun also understood that with his own strength, I am afraid that he would really drag Gu Li down.
The expressions on the faces of several people were different, none of them later asked Shen Rou why she was lying, and Shen Rou didn't seem to intend to explain this matter, but this incident did happen, even if they didn't say it, but the foundation of trust has been stained, which is like a complete mirror with a crack, the more you ignore it, the bigger this crack will be.
After a while, Gu Li said a little angrily: "I don't care what you think, I choose to believe Xiaorou, she just didn't see it clearly that day, you don't veto everything she has because of her unintentional mistake." She won't joke about her marriage, besides, whatever the reason, it's okay for us to rescue her and ask well, let's guess here, how can we guess. ”
After Gu Li finished speaking, he got up and walked towards the door, of course, Gu Li is not a fool, he decided to go to the General's Mansion in person first, and find General Shen to ask about the situation in person, if it is really like what Xiao Rou said, he will not hesitate to take Shen Rou, this eldest lady, it is not appropriate.
"Old Five, you calm down, this matter has to be discussed in the long run."
Seeing Gu Li's impulsiveness, Gu Lun stepped forward and stretched out his hand to stop him, but Gu Liyou rudely pushed him away: "Think about it in the long run, think about it in the long run, you don't look at the time, Xiao Rou has already said in the letter, three days later, it will be the day Xiao Rou gets married, I can't wait." ”
Although Gu Lun is very good, he is not dealing with his brother, and he was pushed by Gu Li at the moment, but fortunately, Gu Yan on the side reached out to help him, so he did not fall.
A trace of guilt flashed in Gu Li's eyes, but he still turned around and resolutely opened the door, however, he didn't go out, because Gu Li was standing outside the door, looking at him faintly with those eyes that seemed to know everything.
For some reason, Gu Li's original anger was immediately extinguished by these eyes, and there was not even a little spark left, and his eyes were even a little dodgy, and the two of them stood at the door like this, one inside the door and the other outside.
After a long time, Gu Li smiled and said, "Fifth brother, won't you let me in?" It's a little cold outside! She looked up and saw snowflakes falling from the sky, oh, it was snowing.
Gu Li didn't speak, silently took a step aside, Gu Li walked into the room, then turned around and gently closed the small wooden door.
Several people in the room looked at her, except for Gu Xiaomeng who was sleeping in the room, and Gu Chen may not have come back because of business, the rest of the brothers all looked at her, as if they knew Gu Li for the first time.
Gu Li looked around, looked at the expressions of several brothers with different expressions, and smiled: "I didn't mean to, but when I came back, I just didn't want a few brothers to be involved in Shen Rou's sister's affairs." ”
"You, why do you dictate our actions?" It was still Gu Li, who had a lot of opinions on Gu Li, but when he spoke, it was obvious that people felt a little lacking in confidence.
Gu Yuan smiled: "Sister Gu Li, if you have any opinions, you have to tell a reason, right?" ”
"I came here to explain this matter to a few brothers, I don't know what Sister Shen Rou thought when she wrote to a few brothers, and did she tell you the complexity of her marriage in the letter." Gu Li's face was solemn, and if she looked closely, she could still see a trace of anger in her eyes.
She was angry because Shen Rou knew that if a few brothers went to rescue her, it would be equivalent to resisting the decree, and when the time came, not only would she pull a few brothers into the water, but also hurt her eldest brother, Shen Rou was too selfish.
"Complex? What's complicated, Xiao Rou has already explained the ins and outs of the matter, that is, his greedy and vain father, let her marry Prince Yu as a concubine, Xiao Rou is worthy of being the daughter of my Gu family, and she refused to obey, so she was locked up by Shen Yuehai. Gu Li took the lead and told the whole story of a rich daughter being used by a ruthless father to exchange for her future.
"She was desperate, so she had to turn to a few of our brothers for help, you see, she also said that when she left the general's mansion, she would never go back to that impersonal home." Gu Li took out Shen Rou's letter and carefully identified it in a dense cloud of earthworm-like handwriting, and it could be seen that Shen Rou had worked very hard to write this letter.
"The origin of her marriage is not what she said." Gu Li glanced at the miserable letter, and knew what Shen Rou had in mind, and she was really ruthless.