marriage contract

The morning sun falls, the sun rises in the east, the birds fly on the branches, and the crisp birdsong is melodious.

The master and servants of the Gu family got up one after another, ready to start a new day.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."

Suddenly, a piercing shriek broke the tranquility of the morning. Some people were so startled that they dropped the things in their hands, and some people were so frightened that they hit the door frame directly. Even the birds shuttling among the branches were too frightened to flap their wings. wing.

But the sound didn't last long, the ending seemed to be choked by someone, and it stopped abruptly before anyone could distinguish where the sound came from.

In the main room in the backyard, Mrs. Gu looked at the hairpin that fell to the ground, and shouted angrily: "What's going on?! Ask me clearly!"

Seeing that the master was angry, the girl in the room immediately ran out to inquire about the situation.

In the study room in the front yard, Mr. Gu supported the door frame, rubbed his swollen forehead, and yelled at the boy next to him, "Who yelled?! Let me find out!"

The boy nodded hurriedly, and then ran out to ask about the situation as if being chased by a dog.

Grandma Gu was helping Uncle Gu tie his belt just now, her hands trembled in fright from the scream, and she almost strangled Uncle Gu to death.

Uncle Gu rubbed his stomach with an ugly face, and saw that Grandma Gu sent someone out to ask about the situation, so he didn't say anything.

Just as the girl ran out, the ear-piercing screams rang out again, this time more and more horribly, as if dozens of people were shouting one after another, it made people's scalps go numb and their bodies feel cold.

But as before, those screams lasted for a short time, and stopped abruptly after a few breaths.

The entire Gu Mansion fell into a dead silence, everyone looked at each other, they really couldn't figure out what was going on with the screaming.

The masters of the Gu family turned pale and ordered to find out who was screaming in the mansion.

Unfortunately, I searched and found nothing.

Uncle Gu and Mrs. Gu met, and Uncle Gu and Fourth Master Gu also brought their wives and children over to make sure that there was nothing serious about each other. Only then did they remember that there was no movement in Mrs. Gu's yard so far.

The conflict between Mr. Gu and Mrs. Gu was so intense that even Qiang An didn't want to go over it, and only asked his son to sue him for him, saying that he was not feeling well, so as not to get sick.

Uncle Gu accompanied his mother, wife, children and Fourth Master Gu's family to Mrs. Gu's yard, but found that the gate was closed and there was no movement inside. A group of people dived in.

The scenery in Mrs. Gu's courtyard is the same as usual, but at this time there is no one in the courtyard, which is really strange.

A group of people came to the door of the main room. Uncle Gu stretched out his hand and opened the door. Seeing the situation in the room, the faces of the female relatives and maidservants instantly turned pale, and the ear-piercing screams rang out again.

Uncle Gu was startled by the situation in the room at first, and then he had a headache when he was stimulated by the screams close to his ears. He yelled many times before he stopped their screams.

I thought that with Uncle Gu here, I don't have to worry about anything, but Uncle Gu didn't expect that not long after that, the screams sounded again.

After dropping the teacup in his hand, Mr. Gu stepped into Mrs. Gu's yard full of anger, but when he saw the situation in the main room, his legs went limp and he fell to the ground.

"Legs, legs, legs—!" Mr. Gu repeated one word endlessly, pointing fingers in the room tremblingly, and said tremblingly: "Foot feet, feet, feet—! This, this, this this……"

Uncle Gu asked the girl to help him up and send him away first, then asked Mrs. Gu to leave here with her daughter-in-law and grandson, and finally brought the wives into the main room.

The main room in Mrs. Gu's courtyard is a standard main room with five fronts, four ears, front and back, and three huts. It usually looks spacious, but now it looks extremely crowded.

There is no other reason, only because there are densely packed corpses hanging on the beams in the house, which at first glance look like they are all feet, and those with poor psychological quality can be frightened to death directly.

Uncle Gu seemed calm, but he actually felt creepy in his heart, but Mrs. Gu was probably still in the room, and he couldn't leave her alone, even if he really didn't want to.

The women were almost scared to pee, but they had to listen to the master's order, so they put down the corpses hanging from the beam one by one in fear, and then carried them to the open space in the courtyard.

Uncle Gu entered the house just for Old Madam Gu, carefully avoiding the legs and feet of the corpse, Uncle Gu came to Old Madam Gu's bed.

Mrs. Gu was lying on the inner side of the bed, facing outwards, but her face was frighteningly blue, her eyeballs were protruding, as if she had been frightened to death.

There was not only old lady Gu alone on the bed, but another person was facing inward, facing old lady Gu.

Uncle Gu hesitated a little, and carefully stretched out his hand to turn the person whose back was facing him over. It was fine if he didn't touch him, but he rolled off the bed when he touched it.

Uncle Gu backed away in shock, but bumped into the corpse hanging from the beam.

At that moment, a chill swept through his whole body, almost freezing Uncle Gu in place.

The person who rolled down from the bed finally showed his face, his face was bruised and purple, with a strange and stiff smile on his face, his eyes were wide open, and a white silk was tied around his neck. This person belonged to Mrs. Gu. The confidante, nanny, is also the person Mrs. Gu trusts the most.

Uncle Gu stroked his beating heart, swallowed his saliva, avoided the corpse and went straight to Mrs. Gu, stretched out his hand to sniff, the breath was weak, but he was still alive.

Just now, I have sent someone to invite the imperial physician. No matter how you say it, Mrs. Gu is an imperial wife. The imperial order on her body comes from Mr. Gu Ge, so she is qualified to ask the imperial physician for diagnosis and treatment. Resigned to fate.

Uncle Gu has already figured out what happened to the screams in the morning, not to mention Mrs. Gu, even if he saw a dead man lying beside him when he opened his eyes, and there were so many corpses hanging from the beams, maybe he would I was so frightened that I fainted.

The screams in the back were the night guard girls in Mrs. Gu's house. When they woke up, they saw the corpse on the beam, and they also passed out after screaming.

The corpses in the room were all moved to the courtyard, and they were arranged in several rows, and there were as many as nearly 30 people according to a rough calculation.

The mothers-in-law hid by the wall and huddled together and shivered. Uncle Gu was not much better, but he was a man, so he couldn't show negative emotions at a time like this.

The corpses on the ground all had bruised faces, were all aged in their 20s, and had obvious marks on their necks. They should all have been hanged.

These people are all maids and women who served Mrs. Gu in the past or now. Uncle Gu can't say he knows all of them, but most of them still have some impressions.

"Didn't Mrs. Chen be taken home by her son? Why...appear here?" A woman in the corner muttered in a low voice.

Uncle Gu's eyes swept over, making the talking mother-in-law tremble.

Uncle Gu just had a vague impression of the people who served Mrs. Gu. He was a man, so he couldn't spend all day in the inner courtyard, so he didn't know when these people left Mrs. Gu's side.

No matter why these people hanged themselves in Mrs. Gu's room, this matter is always a family scandal, and the imperial doctor will come later, so it's better not to encounter it.

Uncle Gu asked his mother-in-law to carry the fainted girl to the servant's room, and ordered people to move the corpse to another unused yard, and then asked Fourth Master Gu to call the imperial doctor to treat the old lady Gu, Mrs. Gu and her daughter-in-law Soothe a few kids.

As for Mr. Gu, this guy has been scared out of his wits for a long time, and Mr. Gu didn't count on him.

The broken-mouthed woman is not called for nothing, and there are few things in the family that they don't know. Uncle Gu learned from them that the people who hanged themselves had worked in the old lady's yard, and his brows could not help frowning .

Summing up what the mother-in-law said, among those who died, the first person to leave Old Madam Gu's side was 11 years ago.

Uncle Gu's expression became very subtle. He had seen the lottery that Mrs. Gu asked for: whether it is a grudge or a grudge, it will be settled, and the deceased will return after 11 years...

Who is the old friend from 11 years ago?

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in Uncle Gu's mind, and his expression changed instantly. Yesterday 11 years ago...was the day when Mrs. Gu's soul returned to the underworld. Could it be...

He did forget, or not only him, but the whole Gu family was consciously forgetting about it.

The servant woman on the side was also thinking hard: What happened 11 years ago?

But they are not as afraid of the death of Mrs. Gu as the master of the Gu family, so even if they don't know the content of the sign, they can still remember the woman who passed away 11 years ago.

"Could it be, could it be that the second wife came back for revenge?!" A woman exclaimed in shock.

"Shut up!" Uncle Gu glared at her viciously, causing the woman to cover her mouth immediately.

Originally Mrs. Gu wanted to ask about the situation, but when she heard what the old woman said as soon as she entered the yard, her face turned pale instantly, her body was on the verge of falling, fortunately there was a girl beside her to support her, otherwise she would definitely fall to the ground.

In recent days, Mrs. Gu has been restless. Mrs. Gu knows that Mrs. Gu is concerned about the content on that sign, and she also knows what she is worried about, but Mrs. Gu has been dead for so many years, how can she return to the world? ?

When she saw those corpses, Mrs. Gu was really frightened to death, not only because she saw the corpses, but also because of the content on the sign. She still remembered the anniversary of Mrs. Gu's death, so she wanted to survive yesterday. It's all right, but when she saw this kind of scene, especially when she saw the face of the hanged corpse, she knew that it must be Mrs. Gu who came back to take revenge.

Mrs. Gu insisted that it was Mrs. Gu who did it, and she didn't care how the dead man wanted to get revenge.

The servants in the mansion talked a lot, and the two grandmas and the children were also very frightened.

Uncle Gu had a terrible headache, so he severely punished a few servants with bad mouths, telling them not to speak out.

Then he had to comfort his mother, wife and children, fortunately there was Fourth Master Gu who could help, otherwise Uncle Gu would not be able to break himself into eight pieces.

The result of the imperial doctor's diagnosis and treatment was that Mrs. Gu had a stroke. If she didn't take good care of her, she could directly prepare for her funeral. Even if she took good care of her, she would lie in bed for the rest of her life.

At this time, Mr. Gu suddenly woke up, ran to Mrs. Gu's room and opened his mouth for a long time, but he didn't say a word.

In the end, when Uncle Gu was about to send the imperial physician away, Uncle Gu stared at his red eyes and roared, "Gu Chengzhi! He must have done it! He definitely did it!"

Uncle Gu's complexion changed suddenly, he hurriedly sent the imperial doctor out of the hospital, and after thanking him, he tactfully mentioned that he hoped he would forget what happened just now. Uncle Gu was talking nonsense because of his heartache, and Mrs. Gu's stroke had nothing to do with Gu Chengzhi .

The imperial doctor smiled and nodded, his face turned cold only after leaving the Gu's residence. He couldn't understand the Gu family's way of doing things, even Gu Chengzhi was deceived by them, and they didn't plan to let him go.Murdering a grandmother is such a serious crime, but even a little bit of it can destroy a person. Fortunately, the emperor sent Gu Chengwai to the capital. If he stayed in the capital, he would really be thrown into the Yellow River.

In fact, Uncle Gu is also suspicious of Gu Chengzhi, but he knows Gu Chengzhi well, and he won't do anything unless he is fully sure.

If Gu Chengzhi really did this, they wouldn't let them catch it.

Now that Gu Chengzhi was sent out of the capital by the emperor, it took two days to go back and forth from the capital to the capital, and he disappeared for two days without reason, how could Gu Chengzhi leave such a flaw.

If Master Gu's words just spread out, it would be a great disadvantage to the Gu family. Others can think of the things he can think of, as long as they ask Gu Chengzhi if he has left without authorization.

Public opinion always sympathizes with the weak. Compared with the Gu family, Gu Chengzhi is the weaker side.

Uncle Gu tried his best to comfort Mr. Gu, but Mr. Gu killed him because Gu Chengzhi did it, so it doesn't make sense.

Gu Chengzhi has been cold and they have never said a bad word about Gu's family for so many years. If Gu's family just put this basin of dirty water on Gu Cheng's head like this, even the elders of the clan will not see it. go down.

Uncle Gu and Uncle Gu have the same opinion, Gu Chengzhi must have done this, but they have no proof.

Furthermore, Gu Chengzhi's forbearance has finally paid off for many years, and almost everyone thinks that he will not take revenge on the Gu family.Mrs. Gu had a stroke. It is not uncommon for people at her age to have a stroke. If you say that she had a stroke because of Gu Chengzhi, would anyone believe it? !

When Mr. Gu mentioned those corpses, Mrs. Gu was frightened into a stroke. Gu Chengzhi must have done it.

Uncle Gu's face was slightly cold. What he wanted to say was this. It was impossible for Gu Chengzhi to leave his post without authorization, because he did not leave Beijing alone. It is impossible for him to disappear for two days without being reported.

Master Gu knew what he meant, but what he wanted to say was that Gu Chengzhi didn't have to be responsible for this matter, it could be entirely up to him to come up with ideas, and then let others take over.

Uncle Gu's face was cold, and he said in a cold voice: "Leave it to someone else? To whom? Father is afraid that no one will know that an outsider has entered the inner courtyard, right? If this matter gets out, outsiders may say what about our family, Does father want mother to commit suicide with the whole family?"

If a foreigner enters the inner courtyard, especially at night, the reputation of the whole family will be ruined. Uncle Gu's eldest daughter is about to be engaged. That's her.

Master Gu also thought of this, but he really couldn't bear it. Gu Chengzhi is the only one who would do such a thing.

Uncle Gu secretly sighed, and comforted him. Rather than Gu Chengzhi doing this, he was more willing to believe that Mrs. Gu returned to the world. After all, it was only the servants who died, and Mrs. Gu was simply scared.

Those servants died because they murdered their master. Even though it was the old lady Gu's order, they still did it.

Gu Chengzhi didn't kill the old lady Gu, he killed a servant, and no one would blame him if this matter was told, he just avenged the murder of his mother, but he didn't hurt the old lady Gu.

If Mrs. Gu had other injuries, it is possible to push this matter to others, but she was frightened into a stroke, how can she push this matter to others?

The fright may be a dream, or it may be a gust of wind outside the window at night, so many people were hoisted to the beams of the house, it must be done by martial arts practitioners, it is impossible for Gu Chengzhi to come back, do they have to admit that outsiders sneaked into the house?

Master Gu was comforted by his son, and his mind gradually turned to gods and ghosts, but he still felt that Gu Chengzhi was suspicious. Gu Chengzhi was not in Beijing, but Chu Junyi was.

Uncle Gu thought about it, and still sent someone to invite Chu Junyi to come over.

When Chu Junyi arrived at Gu's house, Master Gu asked straight to the point: "Did you guys do what happened yesterday?!"