"Mother!" Gu Jian noticed something was wrong with Mrs. Gu, and shouted nervously.

Mrs. Gu rolled her eyes, and fell forward with her upper body loose, only to hear Gu Jian's worried voice piercing into her ears from afar: "Mother..."

Mrs. Gu's consciousness was soon completely swallowed by the darkness, and she fainted.

After that, she didn't know anything.

Surrounded by a boundless darkness, cold and ruthless...

When she opened her eyes again, she found herself in a carriage. The carriage shook slightly, and the monotonous sound of horseshoes and wheels outside the carriage reached her ears.

Mrs. Gu felt like a dream, as if everything just now was just a nightmare.

"Mother, you're awake!" Seeing Mrs. Gu woke up, Gu Jian shouted excitedly, "What do you think?"

Mrs. Gu turned a deaf ear to it, and her dazed eyes were a little bit erratic, she told herself in her heart:

Yes, it was just a nightmare.

After returning to Hou Mansion, this nightmare will naturally wake up...

At this time, the carriage came to a steady stop, and the carriage shook slightly, and a familiar female voice came from outside the carriage and scolded sharply, "Presumptuous!"

"What are you doing?! This is the Dingyuanhou's Mansion, and you can't tolerate nonsense..." Then came the angry voice of a young man.

"I am also following orders, you two should not make it difficult for me, lest I accidentally collide." Another strange and indifferent male voice couldn't hide the threat.

The coachman outside shouted in surprise, "Your Majesty!"

Gu Jian hurriedly raised the curtain to look out the window, and the Yuan'an Street where the Hou Mansion is located suddenly came into view, and the Hou Mansion had already arrived.

But……

Gu Jian's eyes widened involuntarily, almost to the extreme, and suffered another heavy blow.

The gate of Dingyuan Hou's Mansion is so familiar, but at this moment it is so unfamiliar, it has become completely unrecognizable, with chicken feathers all over the place.

The plaque above the gate with the four characters "Dingyuanhou's Mansion" has been taken down, and the vermilion lacquered gate with thirty-five nails on the vertical seven roads and horizontal five roads has also been removed.

Next to it, several forbidden soldiers in bronze helmets and iron armor carried two stone beasts from the town house to a carriage. Mrs. Hou, Mrs. Wang, and Gu Xiao's mother and son were confronting the two forbidden soldiers.

The mother and son were out of breath, and the soldiers of the Forbidden Army looked indifferent.

On Yuan'an Street outside the Hou's Mansion, there were still some passing passers-by gathered together in twos and threes, curiously pointing in the direction of the Hou's Mansion.

Those optimistic eyes made Wang's back like a light, and felt that their Hou Mansion was being seen as a joke.

"Master Hou!" Seeing the carriage of the Hou Mansion and Gu Jian who hurried down from the carriage, Wang's eyes lit up, as if seeing a savior.

Wang hurriedly walked in the direction of Gu Jian, pinching the handkerchief with one hand, and angrily pointing at the imperial guards with the other to complain: "Master Hou, look at them, how dare they take away the plaque and gate of our Hou Mansion?" It's all dismantled!"

Before a cup of tea, the servants came to report in fear that the forbidden army had come and wanted to forcibly demolish the plaque of the Marquis Mansion, so Wang rushed here with Gu Xiao, wanting to see what was going on.

But these imperial guards ignored their obstruction at all, just like robbers, making a mess of Hou's mansion.

The more Wang talked, the more angry she became, and she said angrily: "Master Hou, this matter can't be..." That's all.

Halfway through her words, she stopped abruptly.

Wang, who was a little slower, realized that something was wrong with Gu Jian. He looked devastated, as if he had suffered some blow.

Thinking that Gu Jian was entering the palace to pick up Mrs. Gu, Wang looked up at the carriage behind him and asked, "Master Hou, where's mother?"

To Gu Jian at this moment, these two words are like knives.

If the mother hadn't vented her anger on Gu Yuan for a while, why did she come to this!

Gu Jian's face turned dark, feeling that a big piece of her heart had been gouged out, and she was in so much pain.

This empty gate of the Hou Mansion is a kind of silent irony.

There seemed to be an enraged rhinoceros rampaging in Gu Jian's heart, and that kind of anger and madness was almost about to erupt from his body.

Gu Jian angrily pushed Wang away, causing Wang to stagger back two steps, but fortunately Gu Xiao caught her in time.

But Gu Jian turned a blind eye and rushed towards the empty gate without looking back, her slightly hunchbacked figure appeared in a state of distress.

"Lord Hou!"

"Father!"

Wang Shi and Gu Xiao shouted at Gu Jian almost at the same time.

The mother and son were at a loss, and they still don't know what's going on.

In the rear, the patriarch got off from another carriage with the help of a servant, sighing and feeling gloomy.

No one paid any attention to Mrs. Gu who was in the previous carriage, as if she had been completely forgotten.

"Grandfather," Gu Yuan leaped off a tall black horse, walked up to the patriarch, and clasped his fists, "Please also preside over the division of the family."

Patriarch: "..."

The patriarch wiped the cold sweat from his forehead with his cuff, the corners of his wrinkled mouth were drawn into a straight line, his helpless eyes seemed to ask, should we still divide?

Gu Yuan didn't speak, but only raised his eyes to look at the empty lintel directly in front of him.

After the plaque of "Dingyuanhou's Mansion" was taken down, a plaque was left on the lintel.

The young man raised his clear chin slightly, and there was a slight smile on the corner of his resolute lips.

He is obviously smiling, but it makes people feel heavy, as if there is something heavy on his shoulders, but his figure is still tall and straight, like a green pine and a long sword.

The patriarch stared blankly at Gu Yuan's handsome side face, and vaguely felt the sense of mission from his bright eyes and resolute lips.

The future of their Gu family is pinned on Gu Yuan.

This idea suddenly appeared in the patriarch's mind, and then he understood it like a enlightenment, and his heart was like a mirror.

That's right, it can be seen from today that Mrs. Gu and Gu Jian's mother and son are narrow-minded, and they simply cannot tolerate Gu Yuan's success.

If the family is not separated, the mother and son may have troubles in the future, hindering Gu Yuan's future.

At this point, the long room and the second room must not be accommodated.

Let's split up.

The patriarch nodded heavily, and said with his hands behind his back: "Brother Yuan, let's go to the hall first."

Wang looked at Gu Jian's back, and then at the dignified face of the patriarch, feeling even more uncertain, always feeling ominous.

She tightly squeezed the handkerchief in her hand, just watching the 狻猊 stone beast being removed by the imperial army.

Gu Xiao frowned, her chin tensed, and she said to Gu Yuan in a strange way: "Brother, someone is making trouble at home, so you just look at it like this and do nothing?"

Isn't Gu Yuan always crazy? Now he actually let others bully him to the door of his house, and he didn't dare to say a word!

It turns out that he is just a crook.

Gu Yuan only gave Gu Xiao a slight sideways glance, as if Gu Xiao didn't catch his eyes at all, ignored him at all, and stretched out his hand to the patriarch directly as a petition, "Uncle, please."

Gu Yuan walked side by side with the patriarch and passed the high threshold.

Gu Xiao squeezed the bones of his fists and rattled, so he could only drag Wang Shi to chase into the mansion, and said to himself, anyway, the eldest brother can only be arrogant at this moment, and when the Hou Mansion completely separates the family, they will be the head of the house. We are about to move out of the Hou Mansion.

Thinking about it, Gu Xiao straightened her back and walked towards the main hall of the outer courtyard with strides.

The sky outside was bright and sunny, but in the main hall, people were panicking.

The hall was in a mess, half of the boxes containing the account books were opened, most of the account books were taken out, some of them were piled high in piles, and some were spread out on the long case and coffee table.

All the clan elders didn't care to look at the account books, some were sitting and drinking tea, some were pacing back and forth in the hall, and some were looking in the direction of the gate restlessly.

"The patriarch is back!" Someone shouted.

Immediately, the clan elders were refreshed, and they all looked at the clan leader and Gu Yuan outside the hall, their faces beaming with joy.

The elders of the clan gathered around the head of the clan one after another, saying in one go:

"Brother, you are back."

"Where is Mrs. Tai? Can you take it back?"

"Hey, why is Hou Ye not with you? Could it be that he is dealing with those forbidden soldiers at the gate?"

"You should have seen the forbidden soldiers at the door, why did the forbidden soldiers come?"

"..."

Since the patriarch and the others left, these elders have been looking at the account books here, staring at the accounting room to check the property, and later the Wang family called Gu Xiao to accompany them.

Everything was fine at first, but who would have thought that the forbidden army suddenly came aggressively.

The clan elders felt uneasy, so they didn't have the mind to manage the account books.

Meeting the questioning eyes, the patriarch waved his hand feebly, and uttered three words wearily: "Exorcised."

Excommunicated? !

The elders of the clan were startled, and Wang and Gu Xiao's mother and son couldn't believe their ears.

Several people sat on the chairs at the back exhaustedly, some stood there in a daze, and some blurted out in disbelief: "Excuse me? How could I be expelled?"

Although the title of Marquis Dingyuan belongs to Gu Yao and Gu Xuan, for the entire Gu family, the title is a kind of protection, a kind of help, and even more a kind of honor.

The Dingyuan Hou Mansion is the confidence of the Gu clan.

How could the Hou Mansion be confiscated? !

The more the clan elders thought about it, the more excited they became, and the more they thought about it, the more heartbroken they became. They gathered around the patriarch and asked:

"Patriarch, what is going on?"

"Yeah, for no reason, how could the Marquis Mansion be confiscated?"

It was like pouring a spoonful of cold water into a hot oil pan, and the pan crackled and exploded in the main hall.

In the turmoil, only Gu Yanfei sat on the side calmly, without even moving the corners of his eyes and brows, with a bit of calmness as if a mountain collapsed in front of him without changing his face.

Gu Yuan went straight to Gu Yanfei and sat down, took the tea from his sister and smiled slightly.

Surprised by the bad news of the conquest, Wang's mind went blank.

After recovering from her senses, her first reaction was that Chu Jue must have been caused by Gu Yuan, her angry eyes scraped towards Gu Yuan's face like a knife, and pointed at him.

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