A willow leaf fell on Gu Yuan's shoulder with the wind, Gu Yuan brushed off the willow leaf casually, and asked lightly:

"What did Gu Xiao do again?"

His voice was calm and calm, like autumn rain, raindrops falling drop by drop on the smooth stone floor.

"Master, how do you know?" Juan Bi's eyes widened in surprise, "After the second young master was taken to Beizhen Fusi, he said that he received an informant letter not long ago, and the writer told him that the Gu family had harbored Yu He even persuaded him to exterminate relatives righteously, so he came to the mansion early in the morning to check, and when he heard a baby crying in the garden, he went to Beizhen Fusi to report."

"Commander He said that the second young master is also surnamed Gu. Since he is not with the uncle, he may be with the second master, so he took Jin Yiwei to the Luwei Hutong to search."

Gu Yanfei drank scented tea slowly, without even moving the corners of his eyes or brows, as if this matter had nothing to do with her, he just asked casually: "Have you found anyone?"

"We found it!" Juan Bi nodded solemnly again, his eyes sparkled, somewhat gloating: The second master and the second young master deserved it for themselves!

Juanbi didn't feel sorry for the second master and the others at all, and wished that they would be taught a lesson this time.

Gu Yuan looked at Gu Yanfei, who was at ease, with the corners of his lips curled up. He didn't ask any more questions, but just ordered: "Let Wutong go to Luwei Hutong to have a look."

"Okay." Juanbi walked away happily again, her round face was as bright as today's fine weather.

Today the sky was clear and the sun was shining brightly, but the second room of the Gu family was shrouded in a layer of thick clouds, as if a storm would come at any time.

All the masters were driven to the hall of the outer courtyard by Jin Yiwei.

In the hall, there was commotion and panic.

No one expected that Jin Yiwei had found a stranger from their home just now.

Everyone looked at Mrs. Gu, the backbone of the family, who was sitting at the head with embarrassment.

Since Gu Jian was deprived of her title, Mrs. Gu was no longer the Mrs. Tai of the Hou Mansion. After she lost her imperial order, she was just Mrs. Gu.

At this time, Old Madam Gu's complexion was extremely bad, as motionless as a stone sculpture.

In the hall, there was silence.

"You are Yu Si's concubine Lei Shi?" The majestic voice of the man broke the silence, attracting everyone's attention to the beautiful woman in the center of the hall.

The beautiful woman was only around twenty, with soft features and a decent style, but she looked a little haggard, with blue shadows under her eyes, and her combed hair was a little messy, with a few strands of hair scattered around her cheeks, looking embarrassed and fragile.

She was holding a blue swaddle in her arms, with tears in her eyes, and her slender eyelashes cast a faint shadow on her eyelids.

"..." Leishi didn't speak, but just hugged the baby tightly.

At this time, silence is tantamount to acquiescence.

"Since the criminal is here," He Lie who was standing by a window slowly looked around at the people in the second room of the Gu family, and casually shook a letter in his hand, and said mockingly, "It seems that there is nothing wrong with this informant letter. .”

His gaze finally fell on Gu Xiao's body. Gu Xiao's complexion was extremely pale, as if he had suffered some serious blow, and half of his three souls and seven souls were scattered.

As soon as Gu Xiao saw the letter, his body shrank a little, his eyes wandered, filled with regret, annoyance, apprehension and other emotions.

He Lie's heart is like a mirror, a trace of contempt flashed in his eyes, and he thought: I'm just pretending to be smart, I'm so stupid.

For Jin Yiwei, he had never seen anything like this before.

He Lie is no stranger to Gu Xiao's behavior of preparing evidence in advance to exonerate himself.

He didn't intend to come, but Ni Zongqi reminded him that since Gu's parents' room was checked, the second room should be checked as well.

He Lie thought about it, yes, even though it was a business matter for him to bring people to Gu's house to search today, it was after all an embarrassment for Miss Gu, so he had to show something.

He brought people here this time just to show his favor to Miss Gu, and he just wanted to disgust the second room of the Gu family.

But what He Lie didn't expect was that they actually found Yu Si's outer room.

"Commander He, we were framed!" Gu Jian defended himself profusely.

"Framed?" As if hearing some joke, He Lie sneered, his tone indifferent.

Even if Mrs. Gu, Gu Jian, and Gu Xiao haven't confessed yet, He Lie can tell that they clearly failed to frame Gu Yuan, and instead fell for themselves.

Until now, they probably don't know how they got planted!

Sadly.

He Lie had seen Gu Yanfei's methods with his own eyes, and an unusually bright and sharp light flashed across his eyes, which disappeared in an instant.

"Commander He, we are really wronged!" Gu Jian gripped the armrest of the chair tightly with one hand, and raised her voice excitedly, "We don't know why this woman appeared in my house!"

In just a few words, Gu Jian's face changed several colors, and the colors changed wonderfully.

He had many questions in his mind to ask Gu Xiao, but Gu Xiao seemed to have lost his soul.

He Lie gave Gu Jian a cold look, and was too lazy to argue with him, so he gestured to President Ni.

Ni Zongqi immediately understood, took a step forward with a saber at his waist, looked directly at the beautiful woman standing in the hall, and asked in a stern tone: "Mr. Lei, but you are framing them?"

Lei Shi bit her dismal lower lip, hugged the swaddling baby tightly with one hand, shook her head desperately, and said in a trembling voice: "Concubine... I dare not!"

"It was the Gu family who took in the concubine, how could the concubine dare to break into the private house..."

Lei's slender body trembled uncontrollably, as if he was about to faint at any moment.

"Nonsense!" Mrs. Gu retorted sharply, pinching the string of Buddhist beads in her hand even tighter, she really couldn't understand why Lei Shi appeared here.

As soon as the words came out of her mouth, she realized that she was too excited.

She suppressed the irritability and panic in her heart, looked at He Lie by the window, and tried to calmly say: "Commander He, I have never had any contact with the Yu family, and I don't know why this woman wants to pour dirt on our family." Water, let alone why she hid in our house!"

"Commander He, someone really wants to frame her." Gu Jian stood up, bowed respectfully to He Lie, and lowered her posture.

He has neither a title nor an official position now, and he will only suffer losses if he confronts Jin Yiwei head-on.

Fortunately, as soon as he heard that Jin Yiwei was coming, he quickly sent someone out through the back door to look for Gu Yunxie.

Gu Jian was extremely anxious, and only hoped that Gu Yunxie would come back quickly. Gu Yunxie is now the only support for their family.

Ni Zongqi looked at Gu Jian, then at the old lady Gu, and grinned, but there was no smile in his cold eyes, and said slowly: "Is it true that the old lady has no relationship with the Yu family?"

"Old lady, your maiden name is Qi, and Yu's family should both be in Yingchuan, Yuzhou."

"You are still close friends with the subjugated queen of the previous dynasty, aren't you?"

Ni Zongqi's gaze was fixed on Old Madam Gu, like an eagle catching its prey.

"..." Mrs. Gu's delicately cared for hands shook violently, and the beads almost didn't come out of her hands.

No, she and that Empress Yu are no close friends!

When Empress Yu got married, she was only three or four years old, but she just went to Yu's house with her parents to congratulate her.

She has only been to Yu's house once in her life.

The Yu family is the mother's family of the former empress. If it wasn't for a girl in the family who married into the British government and became the wife of the British government, the Yu family would have been completely lost; their Qi family was also able to survive because they married Gu Xuan. keep.

At that time, Emperor Taizu intended to suppress the family and make the family prosperous. During his reign, most of the family gradually declined, and they barely survived by marrying the new rich.

The old lady Gu naturally didn't want or want to associate with the Yu family anymore. In the past few decades, the friendship between the two families has always been weak.

If Gu Yanfei and Fang Mingfeng hadn't been engaged since they were young, and the British wife's surname was Yu, their Gu family would have been completely alienated from Yu's family long ago, and they would never see each other until death.

Gu Yanfei, this girl, has been a disaster since she was born!

The old lady Gu was thinking angrily, her mind became more and more chaotic, as if stuffed with a mess.

Seeing her silence, President Ni smiled coldly, and took a step closer to Mrs. Gu, saying sharply, "Mr. Qi, don't you think that everything will be over after decades? What does Jinyiwei not know?" !!"

"The Yu family was in trouble this time, so Lei Shi brought the child to beg you to take him in. You couldn't refuse, so you hid him until now."

Ni Zongqi's expression was extremely determined and unhurried, as if he had witnessed all this with his own eyes.

"No!" Mrs. Gu denied with difficulty, her complexion became more and more ugly, the wrinkles on her face seemed to have doubled in depth in just a cup of tea, and she was extremely old.

Her body trembled uncontrollably, and her eyes were terrified.

Ni Zongqi was only 70% to 80% right.

On the night of Lantern Festival, this Lei Shi suddenly came to the door with the baby in his arms and threatened her: "Mrs. Gu, you don't want everyone outside to know about the 'substitute', do you?"

That night, Lei's understated voice echoed in Old Madam Gu's ears again, and beads of sweat the size of soybeans rolled down her forehead.

"Stand-in" is a heart disease for Mrs. Gu, and every time she thinks about it, it hurts her heart.

She was blackmailed by Lei Shi, so she had to hide her in the small garden of Gu Mansion... But how could this Lei Shi appear here!

Wang hesitated to speak, his eyes wandered, and his thoughts also returned to the night of the Lantern Festival, regretting the beginning.

At that time, she persuaded the old lady that Mrs. Lei could not stay, but the old lady just refused to listen and insisted on going her own way, which caused a catastrophe for the family...

Old Mrs. Gu's nails almost scratched the skin of her palm, her eyes were red, but she still tried her best not to lose her composure too much.

She took a deep breath, stiffened her neck, and said firmly: "That's not the case. At that time, my Gu family was still in the Hou's mansion, and I was the wife of the Hou's mansion, and the Yu's family had already been convicted. Why should I harbor the remnants of the Yu family? !"

"It's Mrs. Lei who deliberately slandered me! This informant letter was also framed!"

"I think this Lei Shi and the person who wrote the informant letter must be in the same group!"

Mrs. Gu bit her to death, denying that she harbored Lei Shi.

Jin Yiwei is here, and she knows that she can't admit it no matter what. If she admits it, their mother and son will be doomed. Waiting for their fate, the whole family may be exiled for three thousand miles!

"I didn't..." Lei Shi's pretty face was flushed red, his eyes were filled with crystal tears, his expression was sad, moving and innocent.

Maybe it was because she hugged the baby too hard, and the baby in her arms woke up with a start, crying loudly.

The shrill cry was loud and noisy, and could not go away.

The Gu family members in the hall frowned deeply, adding to their sense of boredom.

"Good baby." Lei Shi went to coax the baby in the swaddle with distress, Wu Yan said softly, and patted the swaddle gently, a few strands of messy hair fell from the temples, trembling.

The child didn't know whether he was hungry or startled, and kept crying...

The orphan and widow are weak and pitiful, helpless and helpless.

"Enough!" Standing by the window, He Lie said calmly.

Lei Shi was frightened and hurriedly covered the baby's mouth.

He Lie sneered, and raised the whistleblowing letter in his hand again, "You have told me about the good and the bad, Mrs. Qi, and Lingsun came to Beizhen Fusi to report Gu Yuan based on this whistleblower letter. of."

"Framed? Framed?... If you insist on framing, you are the ones who framed Gu Yuan!"

The few words left Mrs. Gu and Gu Jian speechless.

Gu Yunlan and the girls were even more disturbed. Even if they are young and don't know what happened, they can at least understand that their family's current situation is quite bad.

He Lie didn't want to listen to Old Madam Gu's stubborn nonsense anymore, so he immediately ordered: "Seal the mansion, and bring Lei's mother and son back to Beizhen Fusi!"

One sentence exploded like thunder.

Everyone in the Gu family fell silent as if they had been struck by lightning, and the surroundings were so quiet that a needle could be heard.

Gu Xiao's body shook violently, her face was so pale that there was no trace of blood, and she leaned weakly on the beam beside her.

"etc!"

A graceful female voice sounded from outside the hall, panting slightly.

All the people in the hall followed the prestige and saw Gu Yunxie in a bright red dress hurrying to the outside of the hall, Ru Xuening's cheeks were flushed like rouge after trotting for a while.

Gu Yunxie went to Wancao Hall early in the morning, and hurried back when he heard that Jin Yiwei had come to search Gu's house.

"Sister Xie!" As soon as Gu Jian saw Gu Yunxie, her dull eyes lit up instantly.

The old lady Gu, Mrs. Wang, Gu Xiao, Gu Yunlan and others also looked at Gu Yunxie, as if seeing a savior, their eyes were shining brightly.

The Gu family is now in a state of desperation, and they can't rely on their in-laws and old friends. No one dares to offend Jin Yiwei. The only person in this world who they can still have a glimmer of hope for is Gu Yunxie.

Gu Yunxie is going to marry Kang Wang soon, with her here, Jin Yiwei doesn't dare to be too presumptuous, he has to be cautious!

Gu Yunxie nodded slightly to Gu Jian and the others, and crossed the threshold with her skirt in hand. The ruby ​​beads on her temples reflected her eyes, shining brightly.

She walked towards He Lie with a clear goal, and said righteously: "Commander He, there is no evidence, Jin Yiwei first searched the mansion, and then closed the mansion, so lawless, it is too rampant!"

Compared to the tall and mighty He Lie, Gu Yunxie, who was only as tall as his shoulders, looked so petite and slender, but even so, she was still fearless and calm in the face of the notorious Jin Yiwei Commander.

Her expression is neither humble nor overbearing, her eyes are clear, a pair of small dimples are looming on the corners of her bright red lips, and her pleasing face makes people not feel bad.

Everyone in the Gu family held their breath subconsciously.

He Lie's cold expression didn't soften at all, nor did he move at all, his voice was ice-cold, "Who do you think you are, dare to question Jin Yiwei's job?"

Gu Yunxie: "..."

Ni Zongqi coughed dryly twice, and explained: "Commander, this Miss Gu San is the future Concubine Kang."

"Oh?" He Lie uttered this strange syllable from his throat, which seemed to imply something, "So it's Miss Gu San."

He stared at Gu Yunxie with deep eyes for a long time, until she felt a little uncomfortable, Fang said coldly: "Miss Gu San, even if you are Concubine Kang today, we Jinyiwei can't let you intervene in our affairs!"

"Don't tell me, you're not there yet!"

The last sentence rings out.

Like pouring a bucket of ice water on their heads, the flame of hope that had just been ignited in the hearts of the Gu family was extinguished in an instant.

Several female relatives fell limply to the back of the chair.

"..." Gu Yunxiu pursed her cherry lips tightly, and the dimples around her lips deepened a bit.

She was clearly just talking about the facts, and did not mean to use King Kang to oppress others, but Jin Yiwei deliberately distorted her, and she was as arrogant as the rumors said.

He Lie strode past Gu Yunxie without looking at her again, as if she was not worth paying attention to at all.

"Everyone is not allowed to leave, wait for the emperor to decide! Otherwise, don't blame our Jinyiwei for being rude!" Ni Zongqi warned the Gu family members in an orderly tone, and did not give them any chance to speak, and followed He Lie together left.

Their contemptuous eyes seemed as if the Gu family present were nothing but ants, ants who couldn't make any waves.

As for Lei's mother and son being escorted away by Jin Yiwei, the door of the hall was closed heavily, and a few Jin Yiwei with knives were left outside the hall to guard the door.

After a while, the sound of footsteps outside disappeared, and the hall fell silent. A depressing and breathless atmosphere permeated the surroundings, and everyone's heart was heavy.

"..." Gu Yunmai gritted her silver teeth slightly, and slowly turned around, her eyes were as deep as water, looking at the closed door, she felt as if she was in a prison.

Jin Yiwei deceived people too much. The emperor allowed Jin Yiwei to break into the houses and do whatever he wanted. He simply ignored the law.

Gu Yunxi comforted herself in her heart to be safe and not to be impatient.

"Gu Xiao," Gu Jian approached Gu Xiao with strides, and asked with gloomy eyes, "What's going on?"

Gu Xiao put his head in his hands and didn't hear it. When Gu Jian called his name again, he suddenly broke out and shouted hysterically: "It's you, you're the one who killed me!"

Gu Xiao rushed towards Old Madam Gu in three steps at a time, staring at her with bloodshot eyes, and clenched his fists tightly.

"Grandmother, it's because you don't want to live in this small house. You want to kill us all, and then go live in Gu Yuan's big mansion, right!" Gu Xiao said madly, looking into the old lady Gu's eyes As if looking at his enemy.

As soon as these words came out, there was silence in the hall.

"Brother Xiao..." Mrs. Gu's body shook violently, as if she had been hit hard.

She had no idea that her grandson, whom she loved since she was a child, would say such words to her, his pale lips trembled like chaff, his chest rose and fell rapidly, and his face became paler and paler.

She is over half a century old, and to put it bluntly, she doesn't have a good few years to live.

If it wasn't for her flesh and blood, and for these children in the family, how could she have fallen to this point!

Over the years, everything she has done is for them!

But now, her grandson actually accused her like this.

"You...you said...what?" the old lady Gu said intermittently, tears welled up in her cloudy eyes, and she looked at Gu Xiao in heartache and shock.

"Second brother," Gu Yunxie's expression darkened, his eyes were fierce, "How can you talk to grandma like that! You are hurting grandma so much."

Gu Jian also felt that Gu Xiao's words were inappropriate, but she was irritable and preoccupied, so she really didn't want to teach her son a lesson.

"..." Gu Xiao hesitated to speak, his face was tense, and finally, he turned away awkwardly, feeling unconvinced.

Gu Yunxie walked quickly to the old lady Gu, gently gave her back, showed a soft and bright smile, and said in relief: "Grandmother, don't be angry. This kind of thing happened at home, I think the second brother is just anxious , will fail to speak."

"He is young and has no experience..."

As she said that, she turned her head and said to Gu Xiao: "Brother Xiao, why don't you come over and apologize to grandma!"

However, Gu Xiao, who turned his face away, remained motionless and did not look at the old lady, his brows were deeply twisted into a knot.

Gu Yunxie sighed in his heart, and he didn't care about arguing with Gu Xiao anymore, he still had to solve the immediate problem first, "Grandmother, what's going on?"

"Why did that Lei Shi hide in our house?"

Old Madam Gu's eyes were flickering, and she rubbed her fingers on the string of Buddhist beads for a while before she said helplessly, "I really took in the man!"

Gu Yunxie was startled when he heard the words, and slightly opened his eyes wide.

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