The fire shot up into the sky with great ferocity.

Gu Boyu and Gu Chengyan chatted for a whole hour. After they had basically said everything they needed to say, he had nothing more to say and quietly waited for his life to end.

Gu Chengyan didn't want to die, so he climbed up and down, trying to get out.

But no matter how familiar the room is, once a fire starts, you will no longer be able to find the door you remember and you will lose all sense of direction.

The smoke from high above choked him and he couldn't breathe, so he had to lie on the ground.

The raging fire burned him so much that he felt his skin was about to burst and the pain was unbearable.

He grabbed Gu Boyu and shook him vigorously, feeling both fear and hatred, and shouted, "Open the door for me, you irresponsible bastard! I am where I am today because of you!

Do you know how difficult it is to survive in Kyoto, where the rich and powerful gather? I am looked down upon by others, and everything I do is difficult for them!

Because you have no future, your mother forces me to succeed, and wants me to stand out. I'm almost driven crazy!

You only know how to eat, drink and have fun all day long. The mansion has been declining day by day in your hands. You are the culprit for the loss of the mansion! If you want to die, why do you drag me into it?"

Gu Boyu just let him scold him and didn't even bother to argue.

Gu Chengyan pulled him so hard that he fell down, with his hair and beard on fire. Gu Boyu didn't care. He just laughed as he watched Gu Chengyan yelling and crawling around looking for a way out.

"Ahem, Gu Chengyan, don't, don't look for me. If you look for me, just wait quietly. Wait to die... You can't get out. I, I have locked it up. Ahem, ahem, ahem."

"Shut up, you should have died long ago, cough cough cough..." Gu Chengyan continued to struggle for life, shouting, "Help..., cough cough cough..."

The fire in the study started suddenly and hugely. The gate to Gu Boyu's yard was locked, and no one from outside could come in for a while.

Butler Zhang's eyelids were drooping. When he heard Ping An shout "Fire!", his first reaction was Gu Boyu's room full of tung oil.

Sure enough, when I turned around, I saw a raging fire in my uncle's yard.

He immediately shouted: "The fire is coming out, put it out quickly."

He ran desperately to Gu Boyu's yard. The servant was frightened when he saw the fire. Only when he heard the housekeeper Xiao Zhang kicking the door did he crawl to unlock it.

As the door was kicked open with a clang, the tung oil jar in the study also exploded with a bang, and the jar fragments mixed with bricks, stones and tiles flew far away.

Amid the explosion, Gu Chengyan's sharp screams could be faintly heard, and were soon engulfed by the fire.

Butler Xiao Zhang led everyone in the mansion to put out the fire. They carried buckets of water from the lotus pond, but it was of no use and was just a drop in the bucket.

Gu Boyu put too much tung oil, and he was determined to die. Not only could the tung oil not be extinguished, but huge explosions occurred one after another.

"Boom"

The entire study and the uncle's yard were reduced to rubble.

When tung oil came into contact with water, the fire not only did not go out, but spread along with the water. The entire yard of Gu Boyu, whether it was trees or objects, was on fire.

Fortunately, it was quite far away from other courtyards, otherwise the entire mansion would have been burned down.

Housekeeper Xiao Zhang burst into tears, and while crying, he desperately asked everyone to dig the soil to put out the fire.

The explosion was so severe that other mansions in West City were alarmed.

Gu Zheng sent the letter to his second and third uncles. On his way back to the Bo's residence, he was told, "Gu Zheng, hurry back. There's a fire in the Bo's residence."

Gu Zheng rushed to Bo's house desperately, but the house was already in chaos.

Some were trying to put out the fire, some were fainting, and many were injured by the explosion.

When Gu Zheng heard that his father and brother had died in the fire, he cried anxiously.

Gu Shaoyu had not yet left the court when Xie Zhaozhao received the letter. It was addressed to "my third brother" and she did not dare to open it.

But when he heard that Gu Boyu asked Gu Zheng to deliver a letter to Gu Zhongyu and Gu Shaoyu respectively, he felt uneasy and immediately sent Bei Chen to Gu Boyu's house to see if anything had happened.

Beichen left quickly and came back even faster.

"Madam, it's bad. Master Bo and Master Gu were discussing something in the study room. There was a fire in the study room. The fire was so big that the study room exploded."

After Gu Shaoyu and Xie Zhaozhao moved, Nanxing was appointed as the housekeeper because he often followed Gu Shaoyu and was familiar with various mansions.

Yuanyuan was capable and bold, so she was appointed as deputy housekeeper.

Some of the palace soldiers also came to Qingpuyuan's courtyard near the martial arts field.

Hearing that the Bo Mansion was on fire, Xie Zhaozhao immediately told Nanxing to take people to the Bo Mansion to put out the fire.

The Kyoto patrol officer also organized people to put out the fire.

It would be disastrous if the fire spread and burned down other noble residences in West City.

Gu Boyu's yard has turned into a smoking ruin.

Gu Boyu and Gu Chengyan have completely disappeared, even their ashes cannot be found.

The wind was howling, and smoke filled the sky, floating to the Marquis' Mansion and even every corner of West City. No one knew which one was the resting place of Lord Gu's soul.

The old lady fainted and woke up, then woke up and fainted again.

After hearing the news, Gu Shaoyu and his brother Gu Zhongyu rushed to the Bo's Mansion. Looking at the ruined yard and thinking about their brother who was busy running around for the Bo's Mansion yesterday, both brothers' eyes were red.

Gu Zhongyu burst into tears: "Brother, what are you doing?"

This brother has been a drunkard since he was a child, always spending his time eating, drinking, whoring and gambling. He is either in a gambling house or in a brothel. He will spend every penny he has and will never save it for the New Year...

His life was absurd and full of shortcomings, but now, neither Gu Shaoyu nor Gu Zhongyu could hate him, and they both remembered his good points.

Gu Zhongyu remembered that when he was a child, he stole money from home to buy delicious and fun things to share with himself.

Gu Shaoyu thought of his hair that had suddenly turned completely white, remembered his generosity when the family was divided, and remembered that after the division, he went to the homes of his two brothers to inquire about their family situation.

He stood in front of the ruins for a long time without saying a word.

Nanxing gave the letter sent by Gu Zheng to Gu Shaoyu.

Lu also gave the letter sent by Gu Zheng to Gu Zhongyu.

The letter was Gu Boyu's last letter.

"My brother Jingchen, I have to go first.

I didn't teach Gu Chengyan well, causing him to grow up to be a beast. It's all my fault. Now that he has done so many bad things, even if he dies, it's hard to say whether it won't affect the whole family.

When a person dies, his debts are settled. In order to avoid dragging down the entire family and having their property confiscated and beheaded, the elder brother decided to take his rebellious son to hell with him.

You and my second brother make the decision. The whole mansion should cry, just cry for outsiders to see. Don't consider burying your brother, just let me turn into ashes.

I want you to live a free life for me, so please don’t bury me in my ancestral tomb. Otherwise, I will be cursed by my ancestors every day, and I will not be able to bear it.

Jingchen, I don't know whether His Majesty and the Crown Prince will hold the Gu family accountable. If they don't, please help me educate Gu Zheng and teach him how to be a good person, not to be arrogant or too cowardly.

If His Majesty and the Crown Prince want to exterminate the nine clans of the Gu family, you should tell His Majesty that you are just an adopted child of your father and will not be affected by the disaster.

No one in the Gu family can read, and you don’t look like your father or mother, so you must not be their biological child…”

……

The letter to Gu Zhongyu was much more straightforward.

It is said that Gu Chengyan married a vicious and cruel concubine named Yue, which brought trouble to the entire family.

“Second brother, if we encounter a disaster that will wipe out our family, you must protect third brother at all costs.

Without the third brother, the Bo Mansion is nothing.

He insisted that his third brother was not his biological son. He said that his third brother was smart and good-looking, so how could he be his biological brother to us ugly guys?

Remember, my third brother was picked up by my father on the march to war, he is not my biological son! "

Gu Zhongyu was a little confused, but he knew that his brother used this method to deal with Gu Chengyan, the source of trouble, and did not want to drag them down; he wanted to do his best to protect his third brother and thus preserve the Gu family bloodline.

Gu Zhongyu cried like a wolf. All the hatred he had for his brother's debauchery, absurdity and squandering of the family money all those years disappeared into thin air, and he was filled with deep remorse.

If he were to come back to life, he would definitely show more respect to his brother.

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