Chapter 31: A Thought Falls
Song Ming was imprisoned in the dungeon of the Hou Mansion, and the Hou Mansion tortured her for a few days without asking Gu Qi'er's whereabouts, Gu Qi'er was actually already in Qingyang City at this time, she was wearing a hat, disguised as a fishmonger, she wanted to sneak in to save him, but the Hou Mansion was heavily guarded, and she didn't dare to reveal her identity, so she couldn't enter at all.
The Hou Mansion who couldn't ask the result, put Song Ming into the execution ground of Qingyang City, Song Ming's spell was sealed by the Taoist priest, and he could only be the fish and meat on the chopping board of the Hou Mansion, and the Hou Mansion claimed to the outside world that the monsters were causing trouble to the people, and the crime was extremely evil, and now he was burned at the stake, and the people of Qingyang City were peaceful.
Although Song Ming is a demon, he is a demon with a high cultivation, he has never done anything to hurt the people of Qingyang City for thousands of years, he knows that this is a rumor deliberately released by the Hou Mansion, they are trying to lure out Gu Qi'er.
It turned out that this trick of the Hou Mansion worked, Gu Qi'er sneaked into the execution ground, and she saw that Song Ming was tied to a tree stump, and the stump was full of firewood, and just a little spark would kill him.
Gu Qi'er was anxious and didn't know what to do, Song Ming saw Gu Qi'er hiding in the corner, he tried to hint to her, he didn't want her to stand up for him, if his death could change her for a lifetime, he was willing, he had lived alone for thousands of years, if he wanted to live like this, he would rather do something for her.
Song Ming's hint didn't stop Gu Qi'er, she saw that there was no way to save him, so she could only beg her father, she couldn't watch him die in the fire, she couldn't sit idly by.
Gu Qi'er walked to the door of the Hou Mansion and knelt down, the housekeeper of the Hou Mansion saw the eldest lady who had not seen him for a few days, he ran in excitedly and shouted: "Miss is back, Miss is back." ”
The servants of the Hou Mansion all ran out, they were very surprised, the young lady who was kidnapped by the monster was able to come back unharmed, the second lady hugged Gu Qi'er who was kneeling on the ground and cried bitterly, she once thought that she was going to lose this daughter.
Gu Qi'er, who returned safely, was taken to Hou Ye by the housekeeper, and as soon as she arrived in the lobby, Gu Qi'er suddenly pulled out a knife from her cuff and put it against her neck.
Qi'er was unfilial, which made her father angry, Qi'er dared to ask her father to release Song Ming, and Qi'er was willing to marry into the Li Guo Mansion. ”
Gu Houye sat in the center of the hall with a gloomy face, he got up and walked slowly to Gu Qi'er, and kicked over his daughter who was kneeling on the ground.
"If you want your mother to be safe, marry me honestly. ”
Gu Qi'er didn't expect that her father, who had always loved her, would threaten her with her mother, and she sat on the ground and didn't know what to do for a while.
Song Ming was not rescued, but Gu Qi'er was locked in the room again, she wanted to end her life, but she was afraid that it would affect her mother, her mother had been oppressed in her life because of her status as a concubine, if she was affected again, her mother didn't know how to live in the future.
She tried to bang on the door in the hope that her father would let Song Ming go, but no one responded to her outside the locked door.
After a while, a maid hurried over to tell her through the crack in the door that Song Ming had been executed, that the raging fire had burned him to ashes, and that the maid handed her a deformed hairpin that had been burned, and that she said that the soldier she had bought for execution had picked it out of the ashes.
Gu Qi'er clutched the pitch-black hairpin tightly and cried silently, her father still didn't let him go after all, they just met in Pingshui, but he lost his life for her.
Gu Qi'er went on a hunger strike for three days, her father didn't come to see her, he only sent someone to tell her that her life and death would determine her mother's life and death, Gu Qi'er could only force herself to continue eating, she could only let herself live, she didn't know that her father would be so ruthless, she began to envy those ordinary children, they had the freedom she longed for.
The second memory fragment picked up by Nanyan Xue Lingzhi was five days later, in front of the dresser with the red gauze tent, a sunflower-shaped copper mirror reflected Gu Qi'er's reflection, the phoenix crown and the xiaxia veil, the red lips and teeth, the slender waist was like a tight silk belt, the ten fingers were like the tips of fresh green onions, the bright red hijab could cover thousands of tears, and what could not be covered was the sadness that wrapped around the heart like silk threads.
Gu Qi'er held a red fan and slowly walked out of the Hou Mansion, her husband, Li Lang, the second son of the Guogong Mansion, rode a tall and sturdy white horse wearing a red flower, he was dressed in a red robe, wearing a red brocade and jade crown, and the golden hairpin tied the man's black hair in it upright, neatly.
She was affectionate and sad, and there was no smile on his face, and the two people with their own hearts and minds completed the wedding etiquette thoroughly, and sent her away with red makeup, surrounded by envious people, and she heard them praise her for her beauty and beauty, and praised him for being very handsome.
They said that the daughter of the Hou Mansion was really a blessing, marrying into such a good family, and there were two young girls who were still sighing, why they were not born into such a family, they envied her, they didn't know, she also envied them.
The news that she wanted to withdraw from the marriage had already spread throughout Qingyang City, and the Guogong Mansion naturally knew about it, but Li Lang still decided to marry herself, whether it was active or passive, he was very cooperative.
She also cooperated with him to complete the marriage ceremony, and the guests of the Guogong Mansion said that it was a good marriage, and she heard two children running to the red carpet shouting: "Father, father." Then a grandmother walked up and picked them up, and she knew it was his child.
She didn't expect much more from him, and if this was her fate, she could only choose to accept it.
In the night of the cave room, the full moon hangs on the branches, the floating clouds spread in the sky, the wedding candles reflect the shadows of the flowers, Gu Qier sits in the new house with the red cover of the mandarin duck playing in the water on her head, and the grandmother at home teaches her to be gentle on the wedding night and take care of the groom.
But she waited for a long time and didn't wait for him, and when she arrived, the maid in the house came to tell her that the second son went out of the house to the other courtyard, she took a deep breath, took off the hijab, and lay down with her clothes.
Fortunately, he didn't come, if he really came, she didn't know how to deal with it, Gu Qi'er, who was lying on the bed, didn't sleep all night, and when she thought of Song Ming, tears flowed out of the corners of her eyes.
On the second day, Gu Qi'er went to ask the old lady of the Guogong Mansion to say goodbye, and the old lady obviously liked her very much, she pulled Gu Qi'er to sit beside her, saying that she wanted her to treat this place as her home.
Gu Qi'er asked An to come back and met Li Lang, who had just come back from outside, he glanced at her and said in a sarcastic tone: "I heard that you are going to withdraw from the marriage when you are in the Hou Mansion, why didn't it work?"
She raised her head and looked at him embarrassedly, a chill in his eyes: "If it weren't for your father's support, I wouldn't have married you. ”
She lowered her head and whispered, what qualifications does she have to cause chaos in the Guogong Mansion, she just wants to live here in peace, the moment she stepped into the sedan door, she was already dead to her future life, Song Ming was dead, if it weren't for her mother, she thought she would never marry.
Now that he is married, everything is settled.
In the following year, the days were dull and quiet, Gu Qi'er always stayed in her Xishui Garden, except for greeting the old lady and some necessary things, she rarely went out of her yard, Li Lang never came, he also had a side room in another courtyard, he always slept there, everyone in the Li Guogong Mansion knew that the second prince and his wife had a bad relationship, so no one took her seriously, she didn't have a reliable person here, she could only do everything herself.
These hardships are nothing to her, at least she is quiet, she reads, paints, and occasionally plays a little song, and the sons of other families envy Li Lang for marrying a talented and beautiful woman, only he does not cherish it.
If life goes on like this, it won't be difficult, but everything was broken in the second year of her marriage.
Li Lang insisted on taking that woman as a concubine, he called her Yun Niang, he said that she was the woman who knew him best in the world, and he said that the two little sons needed their mothers to take care of them.
Grandpa Guo was silent, and the old lady only had one request, she had to have Gu Qi'er conceive the heir of the Li family before she would allow that Yun Niang to enter the door.
Li Lang didn't dare to disobey the old lady, he stepped into Gu Qi'er's room for the first time for Yun Niang, Gu Qi'er was so panicked that she wanted to dodge, but she was caught by him.
He looked at her and said viciously, "You have to make things difficult for Yun Niang like this, you want a child, right? I'll give it to you!"
"I didn't ......" Gu Qi'er was pushed onto the bed by Li Lang before she finished speaking, she didn't know why he hated her so much, she had never met him before she got married, after getting married, she stayed in her Xishui Garden honestly as he said, even if the people in the house snubbed and made it difficult for her, she didn't complain, but that's it, he was still full of anger at her, he ridiculed her when he got the opportunity, she knew that she wanted to withdraw from the marriage and made him dissatisfied, but after so long, she didn't know why he refused to let her go.
Gu Qi'er stumbled and fell on the bed, she tried to block him with a pillow, Li Lang grabbed the pillow and threw it on the ground, he looked at Gu Qi'er who was trembling in the corner of the bed, and the anger in his heart was even stronger, Gu Houye didn't take a fancy to him at first, and then the date of marriage was finally set, and she insisted on repenting of the marriage.
He told his father that he did not want to marry Gu Qi'er again, but his father insisted on marrying her for the benefit of the Guogong Mansion, and in exchange, his father no longer cared about his concubine.
But this Gu Qi'er reminds him every day in the mansion that he is not as good as others, she does not quarrel or quarrel in the mansion, reciting poems and paintings, and everyone praises her, as if he did something wrong, today he wants to see how good she is.
He approached Gu Qi'er, who was huddled in the corner, Gu Qi'er waved her hands and kept resisting, he grabbed her neck and pressed her down on the bed.
He has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and his body is strong, even if he doesn't practice martial arts, he is tall and tall, and she can't do anything.
She clung to the curtain on the bed, tears running down her cheeks, she wanted to cry loudly, but she couldn't, she whimpered and looked at him, his eyes full of anger.
She knew that he didn't love her, and she didn't dare to expect him to love her, she just wanted to stay here in peace, and even this little wish could not be fulfilled.
She watched him fall asleep beside her, his handsome and indifferent face, his brows furrowed slightly, if it weren't for the fate of fate, she might have fallen in love with him, but without ifs, she and him were destined to be entangled.