Chapter 54: The Inner House
There is no need to send slaves to remind him, Gu Shenwei has already thought about it carefully.
Xue Niang dares to engage in a conspiracy in Jinpeng Castle, what she wants must be great, and she is likely to have a solid backer behind her, Gu Shenwei feels that she should unite with her, and even reveals her truth to her.
He considered all kinds of possibilities, and finally decided to give up this plan, the reason is very simple, the difference in strength between the two sides is too big, tell the truth, except for giving Xue Niang one more handle to control him, nothing else can be obtained.
He is only fifteen years old, and his martial arts are ordinary, but what he wants is to kill the entire Shangguan clan, who will "unite" with him?
Once it loses its use value, Xue Niang will inevitably kill people.
But he didn't have a choice at the moment, and he also very much wanted to know the secret of the "Six Killings" wooden knife, which might be the secret of Jinpeng Castle's unique martial arts, or a huge treasure, in short, it could be of great help to revenge.
This will be a game of walking on a tightrope, no matter forward or backward, as long as you make a wrong step, you will lose the whole game.
In the afternoon of the next day, Huan Nu was sent into the inner house, but the person who took him was not Xue Niang, but two middle-aged servant women who didn't know.
The two servants kept looking at him all the way, which made him very embarrassed, and when he was placed alone in a small hall, he couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.
There are many portals in Jinpeng Castle, only the door of the inner house is red, but there is no big difference between the inside and the outside, but there are more flowers and plants, the house is well repaired, not like the East Fort and the West Fort show the traces of decay left by the years, the interior decoration is also more gorgeous, and the tables, chairs and utensils look relatively new.
Gu Shenwei always felt a little weird, but when he calmed down and thought about it alone, he suddenly realized that the style of the inner house was completely different from his imagination, not at all like the residence of the "King of Killers", but more like ...... A gentle township where a wealthy businessman took a concubine.
In contrast, the peeling stone walls and tenacious weeds of the east and west forts are more murderous, more like the places where killers should live.
Gu Shenwei waited for a long time, stood all the time, did not dare to sit down, every time someone came in, he had to bow and salute, but it was not until the early lights that two young maids came to pass him.
Yahuan was also the same as the servant, and when she came, she looked at him blatantly, as if he were a novelty animal from a foreign country.
One of them smiled and said, "Look at him...... No wonder the Ninth Prince ......"
Gu Shenwei's face flushed, everyone thought that Shangguan Ru liked him, but in fact, it was a complete misunderstanding, Shangguan Ru was not only young, but also didn't think of herself as a girl at all, her heart was full of dreams of the rivers and lakes, fighting and killing, more like a boy than the little boy Shangguan Fei.
Yahuan led him through a series of roads and corridors, and it was a long time before he entered a slightly larger room, which was covered with a thick carpet and wafting with a rich fragrance, and the huge candles burned and illuminated the room as bright as day, crowded with groups of women, laughing and laughing uncontrollably.
Gu Shenwei understood who he was going to meet, so he lowered his eyebrows, took a few steps forward, and knelt down without waiting for Yahuan to call.
"Ma'am, this is the minion. ”
"The little slave knocked to see Mrs., and wished Mrs. Shaohua eternal residence and a blessed life. ”
There was a burst of laughter in the room, and a woman on the other side said:
"Look at this child, who can speak, and look up for me to see. ”
Gu Shenwei straightened up, still lowering his gaze, as soon as he entered the room just now, he had already seen Dubu Wang's wife and the twins' biological mother.
This lady surnamed Meng is in her thirties, she looks very young, her appearance is extremely beautiful, the twins are very similar to her, the customs of the Western Regions are different from those of the Central Plains, and the master mother does not hide much in front of male slaves, so Gu Shenwei can understand why Miss Luo Ningcha, who stubbornly refuses to show her true face, is not loved by her mother-in-law.
"You are also handsome, no wonder Ru'er has to take you to the rivers and lakes. ”
Madame's words were obviously teasing, and the women in the room laughed again, Gu Shenwei had never seen so many women gathered together, and he felt very uncomfortable, and his body did not dare to move.
"Traitor! I don't want to take him. ”
It was Shangguan Ru's voice, she sat beside her mother, holding her mother's arm, snorting angrily, and turned her head not to look at the Huan slave opposite.
On the other side of the lady sat Shangguan Fei, who smiled happily and winked at his sister.
"Don't blame people indiscriminately, you were found before you left the inner house, everyone didn't squeak, he was a little child, he dared to accompany you out of the castle, he was already loyal, what do you want him to do?"
"Traitor!"
"Okay, okay, people have carried you away for half the night, finally have affection and righteousness, don't be angry. ”
"Traitor!"
Madame softly comforted, Shangguan Ru's face was tight, and all he spit out were these two words, and the "apprentice" didn't listen to the "master", and secretly sent the "master" back to the stone castle, which made her angry.
Gu Shenwei knelt there silently, he originally thought that the lawlessness of the twins came from his father Shangguan Fan, but now he understands that it is his mother who spoils the two of them like this, the so-called son is precious by the mother, this lady must be deeply favored by the Dubu King.
The daughter of the big-headed god wanted to fight her, which was tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg, and Gu Shenwei felt more and more that the young lady was too stupid.
"Then do you want him to be a little girl? If you don't like it, I'll kick him out. ”
"No, he's a traitor. Shangguan Ru replied crisply.
"Sister, don't, I want it, Huan Nu has good martial arts, and I can be my cronie in the future. Shangguan Fei interjected and said, Huan Nu was originally a slave given to him by the starling brother Shangguan Nu, and he was robbed by Shangguan Ru Shengsheng, and he still wants to come back.
As soon as the elder brother spoke, Shangguan Ru stopped and grabbed his mother's hand, "No." Well, leave him behind, and I'm going to punish this dog minion well. ”
"Okay, your minions are at your disposal. ”
The mother and daughter don't take the Huan slave kneeling on the ground seriously, as if he is a pet who can't understand human speech.
Gu Shenwei stepped back and was taken to a small room, and the two maids couldn't stop laughing and didn't take him seriously.
As a minion who has made meritorious contributions, Gu Shenwei was rewarded with a few plates of pastries, Yahuan poured the pastries on the kang and took the plates away.
There was also a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy in the room, two Yahuan came in, he greeted respectfully, Yahuan left, he continued to pack his luggage, ignoring Huannu.
Gu Shenwei recognized him, the young man's name was Lingnu, and he was one of the twins' scholars, and there was a review that Shenwei stepped on his shoulder, and let Shangguan Ru stand on the top to peek at the killer training.
Gu Shenwei didn't squeak, he had seen a lot of open and secret fights between slaves, and he was naturally careful, when he was still the little master of the Gu family, he never knew these things, at that time he thought that slaves were slaves, except for appearance, these people are all temperaments and temperaments.
After finishing his luggage, Lingnu sat on the edge of the kang and lowered his head, as if thinking about something, and after a while, he turned his head to Huan Nu and said, "I'm really glad you're here." ”
Gu Shenwei hummed softly, and there was not the slightest happy expression on the spirit slave's face.
"You are here, I can go, from now on, I don't have to work hard to practice martial arts, I don't have to fight around, find a normal master, pat his ass, beat him, everything is according to plan. Shhhh ”
"Normal master?" Gu Shenwei repeated, he had been a "master" for fourteen years, but he never knew what a "normal master" looked like?
The spirit slave's face changed, "I didn't mean that, casually, I ...... to the master"
"I'm not going to gossip. ”
"Hey, I knew you were different from other kids, you were more ...... Compare...... You know, different. ”
Gu Shenwei smiled slightly, many people said that he was different, most of the time it was derogatory, if they really knew that he was different, they would probably be scared half to death.
"I'm leaving, and I have a few rules to tell you. ”
"Speak. ”
"First, you can't walk around in the inner house, if you don't know where you can go, then don't go anywhere, but you must be diligent in your legs and feet, and when the master stretches out his hand, he can run over like a dog that sees a rabbit.
"Hmm. Gu Shenwei thought to himself that he had been running faster than a dog in the past few months.
"Second, you can't look around, your eyes are used to serve the master, not to feast your eyes, but you must have eyesight, you can't let the master open his mouth about everything, you have to be able to read words and look carefully. ”
"Hmm. Gu Shenwei has higher requirements for himself than this, and he has to stuff new ideas into his master's heart.
"Third, don't talk nonsense, like I just did, you should slap me on the spot, and then immediately go and report to the master. ”
"Well, now that I know, I'll do it later. ”
"Hehe, there are a lot of rules, you should remember these first. ”
"Thank you. ”
Someone outside called the name of the spirit slave, the spirit slave picked up the luggage, prepared to leave, looked down and thought for a while, and said: "Sometimes I think you are a madman, but I still have to advise you, don't mess with the rain boy." ”
Lingnu is gone, Gu Shen owns this room alone, he has been thinking about the task assigned by Xue Niang for the past two days, and he has forgotten that there is also a Shangguan Yushi, and the jealous girl is probably trying to prepare to clean him up.
Gu Shen was left alone, and the first thing he did was to break the three rules left by the spirit slave and go out to "walk around".
The place where he lived was in a corner of the garden, and there were more than a dozen of the same small houses, inhabited by a group of animal trainers and several companions of twins.
Those who accompanied Gu Shenwei had basically seen them, but they all ignored each other as if they didn't know each other, and there were more than 20 animal trainers, all of them walking around bare-chested, and they all disdained the young companions.
The air was filled with the smell of animals, and from time to time there was a thunderous roar.
Gu Shenwei didn't look at the beasts, but turned around along the road, and the more he looked, the more he felt that the garden was not very good: there were few strange flowers and plants, but more craggy rockeries, withered pines and cypresses, and broken toys, and the grass was trampled to a messy extent, as if those wild beasts had walked here.
Dubu Wang's inner house gave Gu Shenwei's first impression that the fat powder was too heavy, but he didn't expect the garden to be so messy, like the grassland of the northern herdsman, or the grassland that had been destroyed.
Not far to the northwest, Gu Shenwei saw a small courtyard, with a low wall built of stones, like a decaying rockery, and several stone houses stood behind, which were rarely decorated, and the whole inner house was incompatible, but it was like those cold and hard buildings outside.
A teenager Gu Shenwei had never seen before suddenly emerged from behind a tree on the side of the road, palms outward, silently prohibiting the intruder from advancing.
Gu Shenwei turned back in obedience, and the young man was armed with a knife, a real knife.
Shangguan Ru and Shangguan Yu have always worn men's clothes, Gu Shenwei originally thought that it was convenient to go to school, but now they have different ideas: in order to make these two girls masculine, many people in the stone castle have spared no effort.