marriage contract

Chu Junyi's lips were cold and soft, Gu Cheng held the medicine bowl in one hand, and held his head in the other.

When the lips touched, Gu Chengzhi's mind suddenly went blank, and the soup in his mouth almost choked him.

After stabilizing his mind, he took the medicine slowly.

Seeing that Chu Junyi drank the medicine smoothly, Gu Chengzhi heaved a sigh of relief, suppressed the throbbing in his heart, took another mouthful of the soup and passed through.

Imperial Physician He stood aside, frowning as he watched Gu Cheng feed the medicine mouthful by mouthful.

After the bowl of medicine was finished, Gu Chengzhi turned his head and asked, "Is that all right?"

Imperial Physician He replied vaguely.

"When will he wake up?" Gu Chengzhi got up and put the medicine bowl on the table beside him.

"I'll wake up almost tomorrow." Imperial Physician He glanced at him.

Gu Chengzhi frowned, and then relaxed, "Can you come over again tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow night, I'll check things by the way." Imperial Physician He glanced at the person on the bed, rubbed his chin thoughtfully.

Gu Chengzhi didn't ask him what he wanted to check, but he almost slapped the money on his face when he wanted to pay some money.

In the end, Gu Chengzhi still folded up a bank note and stuffed it into the hands of Imperial Physician He, so he couldn't let people make a trip in vain.

Imperial Physician He and the Chu family were sent away, and all the servants in the hospital came back one after another.

Gu Chengzhi looked at them coldly but did not speak.

The servants felt uneasy and didn't know how the master would deal with them.

When all the servants in the courtyard came back and the courtyard door was locked, Gu Chengzhi went back to the room without saying a word, leaving all the servants in the courtyard awake all night.

After returning to the room, Gu Chengzhi came to the bed and sat down, stretched out his hand to caress Chu Junyi's forehead, he didn't have any fever, and touched his face again, full of coolness.

Gu Chengzhi sighed, if it wasn't for Chu Junyi still breathing, he really would have thought that...

Shaking his head and putting those unreliable thoughts to the back of his head, Gu Chengzhi got up and took off his coat, lifted a corner of the quilt and got in.

Chu Junyi's body temperature has always been low, so he always leans towards Gu Chengzhi unconsciously.

But now he was unconscious, Gu Chengzhi looked at him for a while, but still stretched out his hand to pull him into his arms.

In the early morning of the next day, Gu Chengzhi got up to change his clothes, lifted up the quilt that Chu Junyi was covering, and went out alone.

The servants in the courtyard were terrified. They already knew what happened last night, but they really didn't expect the consequences to be so serious.

If Shaoyao succeeds in climbing the bed and wins Chu Junyi's favor, they will be reprimanded if they talk about it.

As a result, the two masters now, one unconscious and the other calm, they have no idea at all, and can only hope that the masters will be merciful.

Gu Chengzhi came back not long after he left, and when he came back, he was not alone, and there were eight burly men behind him, and it was obvious that he was from the Lian family.

They didn't bring weapons, but they hung a lot of ropes on their bodies. They followed Gu Chengzhi into the courtyard. Eight people lined up, showing a fierce look.

There was a dead silence in the courtyard, and the servants looked at Gu Chengzhi and the eight people behind him stupidly.

"Catch it!" Gu Chengzhi narrowed his eyes, waved his hand, and gave the order directly.

"Yes!" The eight big men answered in unison, and their movements were uniform.

The eight people rushed into the courtyard like tigers descending from the mountain, grabbing the servants like pulling onions, grabbing one by one and binding one by one.

The servants didn't realize it at first, and after a while, half of them were tied up and thrown to the ground.

Gu Chengzhi watched with indifferent expression.

When the subordinates realized that there were fewer and fewer people around them and more and more people were being tied up, they became terrified, screamed for help, and fled in all directions.

But how could they be the opponents of these big guys, the rest of them were caught and tied up in a very short time.

Looking at the people sitting, lying or lying on the ground, Gu Chengzhi sneered.

"What's going on?!" An exclamation came from the gate of the courtyard.

Gu Chengzhi restrained the smile on his face, turned half sideways and looked towards the gate of the courtyard.

Mrs. Chu always felt that she was having an affair with Sanfang. The incident last night had been going on for a long time, and it was already late at night when she took a rest, and she was still a little dizzy when she got up this morning.

I thought that Sanfang's side had calmed down, but I heard ghosts crying and howling again.

"Master Gu, what the hell is going on?!" Mrs. Chu gritted her teeth with veins popping up on her forehead.

"Just like you can see." Gu Chengzhi's tone was cold.

Mrs. Chu glanced at the "zongzi" on the ground, and said bitterly: "What mistake did they make to tie them up with rope?! If Mr. Gu sees a servant who is not pleasing to the eye and tells me, he will naturally tell me." Why do you tie people up like this?!"

"Eldest wife doesn't know what mistake they made?!" Gu Cheng said mockingly.

"Even if there is a mistake, you shouldn't let outsiders intervene! Does Gu Sanye not even understand this kind of truth?!" Mrs. Chu looked at the straight men standing behind Gu Chengzhi, "And you actually let the outsider Entering the inner courtyard is your fault in itself!"

Gu Chengzhi glanced at Mrs. Chu contemptuously, but didn't answer, just reached out and tapped the servants on the ground, and said coldly: "Take it away!"

"Yes!" The eight big men said in unison, and Mrs. Chu trembled unconsciously.

"Stop!" Another voice came from the gate of the yard.

The big men paused for a moment with their outstretched hands, then turned their heads to look at Gu Chengzhi.

Gu Chengzhi waved his hand to signal them to wait, and when he turned around, he saw Mrs. Chu approaching angrily.

"What are you doing?!" Old Master Chu was very angry, and became even more angry when he saw those big men, "What are you arguing about so early in the morning?!"

Pointing to the people on the ground, "What's going on?!" Pointing to the big man beside him, "What's going on?!"

Mrs. Chu hastily explained what happened just now.

Gu Chengzhi didn't stop her, and waited until Mrs. Chu had finished speaking before he said slowly: "They neglected their duties and left their posts without permission. Do you still plan to let me keep them?"

The old man Chu and Mrs. Chu's momentum weakened, and they both thought of what happened last night.

"That shouldn't be the case. You should ask the steward to punish them." Mrs. Chu gritted her teeth and said.

"The steward?" Gu Chengzhi snorted coldly, "Before they let the woman into the yard, I asked them to go to the steward to get the punishment. What happened! Since the steward's punishment is useless, I don't mind doing it myself."

Old Mrs. Chu frowned. He didn't know that Mrs. Chu gave Chu Junyi a housemate before, and he never cared about the affairs of the inner courtyard.Chu Junyi is now in a coma. Apart from the reason of Shaoyao, these servants are also responsible.

Thinking about it this way, there is no such resistance to Gu Chengzhi's tying up of people.

Mrs. Chu was shocked. She knew that Mrs. Chu sent Tong Fang away, but she also knew that Shao Yao turned around and was sent to Liuyuan. That is, a symbolic penalty.

But now Gu Chengzhi insists on holding on to this point, and even tied up everyone, which is slapping her in the face.

"If Gu Sanye thinks that the management is not good, you can say it out, why bother to treat others like this." Mrs. Chu put on the smile of Mrs. Hou in the past, "Besides, this is the inner courtyard, and outsiders should not come in casually. .”

The old lady Chu's attitude eased a little, "Your aunt is right, let them go out quickly, and talk about our family's affairs behind closed doors, don't let outsiders see the joke. Since these servants have made mistakes, we will hand them over to you." The steward handles the matter, you are the master, there is no reason to do everything yourself."

Gu Chengzhi only felt that these two people were hypocritical and disgusting. Chu Junyi was still lying in the room, but after they came in, they only focused on saying that he was not in compliance with the rules, and didn't even ask about Chu Junyi's situation.

family? !Who is family with them? !Don't want such a disgusting family!

"I think you two may not understand what I mean." Gu Chengzhi's eyes were ice-cold, and he said slowly: "A few days ago, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince gave me a document, and I placed the document in the main room. In the small study, I went to His Highness the Crown Prince's place in the next few days, and never thought about..."

The expressions of Old Master Chu and Mrs. Chu changed at the same time.

"I never thought that when I came back, I found that the document was gone." Gu Chengzhi curled his lips into a chuckle, "It's understandable that the woman poisoned the master and was killed with a stick, but the lost document can't be found no matter what. That's why I Take them away and interrogate them carefully, maybe you will find out who took my documents."

Old Master Chu and Mrs. Chu's faces were extremely ugly. Gu Chengzhi was close to the crown prince, so it was common for him to take over the crown prince's documents, and Gu Chengzhi had the final say on whether to lose the documents.

He said that if he lost it, he would definitely lose a copy, and then the crown prince...

"This kind of thing, this kind of thing..." Old Master Chu was also a little anxious, and said in a low voice: "If you lose the document, it will not look good on your face. If you are dissatisfied with the punishment of the steward, I will personally watch over it!"

Gu Chengzhi sneered and remained silent.

At this time, someone from the concierge reported that several women had come outside, all of them came to look for Gu Chengzhi.

Gu Chengzhi asked the concierge to let him in.

Mrs. Chu didn't know why, Mrs. Chu wanted to speak, but she saw that Mrs. Chu didn't speak, neither did her father-in-law, and it was hard for her daughter-in-law to rush to talk.

Several women came soon, all of them were women in their twenties, with ordinary appearance and strong figure, and they all carried a stick in their hands. When they entered the courtyard, they first saluted Gu Chengzhi, and then Then he stood aside.

"This is?" Mrs. Chu asked unconsciously.

Gu Chengzhi didn't pretend to be a fool, and said directly: "The servants of your mansion have too high a vision, and we can't afford the third house, so we will find the servants ourselves, and don't bother."

Mrs. Chu's eyes widened, but she was interrupted when she was about to speak.

"Since the old lady decided to watch it personally, then I don't bother." Gu Chengzhi turned to the steward standing at the gate of the courtyard: "These people are all dragged to the corner gate, and I don't want their lives. Five people per person Ten sticks, after the beating, this matter will be wiped out." The last sentence was said to the old man Chu.

The old man Chu thought for a while, and nodded in agreement. He waved his hand to let the steward go down to find someone, and drag all the things on the ground down.

The servants who were tied up had been stupid for a long time, and they didn't realize what they were talking about until they were dragged away. Fifty sticks were enough to kill a person, and even if they didn't die, their skin would peel off.

"It was the old lady who sent someone to tell us to leave!"

"I beg Mr. Gu to be merciful!"

"Help, madam! You know, we really didn't want to leave on our own initiative!"

"You're wronged! My lord, my lord! Please save us!"

Old Master Chu roared angrily: "Drag it on, drag it on! Shut up their mouths!"

Gu Chengzhi stood aside and watched coldly. The peony was sent by Mrs. Chu, and the only one who could transfer all the servants of the third room was Mrs. Chu, except Mrs. Chu.

He couldn't do anything to Mrs. Chu just because of a girl, but he didn't mind making things difficult for them at all.

Regardless of whether the servants of Sanfang were innocent or not, they did not guard the courtyard last night.

Imperial Physician He said that if Chu Junyi spent the night like that, the body could be collected the next day.

As long as he thought of Chu Junyi's death, Gu Chengzhi's heart would be on fire, even if all these servants were beaten to death, his anger would not be quenched.

Fifty sticks may seem like a lot, but those old women can't kill them if they beat them, let alone raising them for a few months.

When Gu Chengzhi married into the Chu family, he didn't bring a girl with him. One was because he was not used to it, and the other was because there were almost no girls around Mrs. Gu.

The Gu family has always been very good at things. After the second Mrs. Gu died, all the girls around her were killed by the old lady for various reasons. In the end, only a little girl in her early teens was left.

This little girl was taken away by Gu Chengzhi, but the Chu family was not a good place, so Gu Chengzhi put the little girl in the Zhuangzi under his name.

Almost all the servants of the third room were assigned after they got married. The people around Chu Junyi were all in the front yard, while only a few of Gu Chengzhi's attendants were kept in the Chu family, and the rest were placed outside the mansion.

None of the important things were brought to the Chu family, and usually the servants would not come near the main room. After returning from the study tour, they could feel that the servants were a little loose, but Gu Chengzhi didn't pay much attention to it. In the end, something happened to Shaoyao, let alone It didn't work after thinking about the penalty.

With ghosts crying and howling wolves outside as the soundtrack, Gu Chengzhi turned his head and said to the women on the side: "There are fewer people, and your monthly money will be more. Control your mouth and your legs, and do your job well." , I won’t treat you badly. Another point, don’t let anyone in casually, anyone who dares to break in will be killed directly!”

"Yes!" The women answered sonorously.

After sending away the old master Chu and Mrs. Chu, and sent the eight big men out of the Chu family, Gu Chengzhi went straight into the main room when he returned to the courtyard.

Even though there was such a commotion outside, Chu Junyi still didn't wake up.

Gu Chengzhi sighed, and sat on the side of the bed. He regretted it. If he hadn't gone out in those few days, so many things wouldn't have happened.

He reached out and touched Chu Junyi's face, it was still a little cold, but it was much better than last night.

All the servants in the courtyard were replaced by his own people. If he had something to go out, he would feel at ease. This time, in the final analysis, it was because of his negligence.

"Don't you feel angry when they bully you like this?" Gu Chengzhi stroked his cheek, his tone and eyes carried a little emotion that he hadn't noticed, "This time it's my fault, will you? Will you blame me?"

It was already dark when Imperial Physician He came, and Gu Chengzhi kept him for dinner, after which Imperial Physician He mentioned Chu Junyi's situation.

"Yesterday, I thought it sounded familiar. I went to ask about it today. It's not the first time that Sixth Master Chu has been in this situation." Imperial Physician He took a cup of tea and leaned on the back of the chair.

"Isn't it the first time?!" Gu Chengzhi was stunned.

"Yes, it's not the first time." Imperial Physician He took a sip of tea and said, "About ten years ago, Sixth Master Chu had this kind of situation once. The imperial physician who treated him mentioned it when he returned to the Imperial Hospital. , That's why I feel familiar. The whole body is cold and twitching, and the teeth are clenched, isn't it very similar?"

Gu Chengzhi frowned and nodded.

"One more thing, at that time the Chu family also killed a Tong Fang, and the Sixth Master Chu only started to get better after the death of the Tong Fang." Imperial Physician He added.

"What?!" Gu Chengzhi was stunned for a moment and quickly asked, "What is the room?!"

"I heard that it is the third master Chu's housekeeper, but this is a matter of the Chu family. Even the imperial physician is not very clear about it." Imperial physician He shook his head.

Gu Chengzhi frowned. He had checked the situation of the Chu family. The third master of Chu should have never accepted a house or a concubine, and the servants of the Chu family had never mentioned it.

Imperial Physician He went on to say: "About that time, in a year or two after that, Sixth Master Chu had this situation again, but he recovered quickly that time. Someone mentioned it when I asked today."

Gu Chengzhi frowned even tighter.

"That's all. You can wake up almost at night. If you have any questions, you can ask yourself. I'll go first." Imperial Physician He put down the teacup.

Gu Chengzhi sent the person away and returned to the bedroom.

It was already late at night when Chu Junyi woke up, and he felt dizzy wave after wave, making his chest tight and nauseated.

After fainting for a long time, he barely stopped, but when he opened his eyes, he was stung by the candlelight and closed them again.

A warm hand covered his eyes, Chu Junyi's body froze, and just as he was about to reach out and wave his hand away, he heard a voice.

"Don't open your eyes yet."

This is Gu Chengzhi's voice.

Chu Junyi's body slowly relaxed, and he blinked in the darkness.

The eyelashes brushed gently across the palm of his hand, and his heart seemed to be swayed by something, itching, Gu Chengzhi calmly withdrew his hand.

Chu Junyi gradually got used to the light in the room, but when he wanted to get up, he found that his whole body was extremely weak.

Gu Chengzhi stretched out his hand to help him up, and then asked, "What happened last night?"

Chu Junyi was taken aback for a moment, then immediately remembered what happened that night.

Seeing his pale face, Gu Chengzhi continued to ask in spite of his heartache: "Besides being drugged, what else happened?"

Chu Junyi bowed his head and remained silent.

"Jun Yi, I want to know." Gu Chengzhi held Chu Junyi's hand and said softly, "I don't want this to happen again, so I want to know what happened?"

Chu Junyi's situation is not only due to the effect of the medicine, but also something that he doesn't know must have happened, and if he wants to prevent it, he must know the reason.

Moreover, Gu Chengzhi suddenly remembered what Imperial Physician He had said before - his heart knot.

Gu Chengzhi had a hunch that perhaps, he was already very close to his heart knot.

Chu Junyi was silent for a long time, then suddenly withdrew his hand, supported the bed with his hand and began to move backwards, only stopping when his back was against the wall.

Gu Chengzhi was a little surprised when he withdrew his hand, and wanted to hold him but noticed his movement.

After a moment of silence, Chu Junyi suddenly raised his head.

Gu Chengzhi froze for a moment.

Chu Junyi felt that he seemed to be standing on a cliff. One step forward might lead to a vast sea and sky, but one step back would lead to an abyss. How should he choose? !

Gu Chengzhi saw the determination in his eyes, he was making a choice, one step was life, the other step was death.

Then he saw Chu Junyi smile, and there was an emotion in that smile that he had never understood before.

He saw Chu Junyi speak, his voice soft but firm.

"Do you believe in reincarnation?"