Outside the gate, Gu Wen looked expectantly towards the door, and as soon as Song Wan Yue’s figure appeared she saw it, her eyes instantly reddened and she waved towards Song Wan Yue, “Yue’er!”
Song Wan Yue also saw her and trotted out of the house, “Second sister.”
Hearing this long-lost second sister, Gu Wen’s tears instantly stayed, and she hugged Song Wan Yue, howling as if she had countless grievances to vent.
Kong Qing, who was holding the child at the side, could not help but have red eyes too, they thought they would never see the person they knew so well again in this lifetime.
The child in his arms was only a little over a year old, and seeing his mother suddenly burst into tears, he was shocked and cried along with her.
Kong Qing hurriedly coaxed softly.
Gu Wen sobbed, “I thought… I thought I would never see you guys again.”
Song Wangyue didn’t expect to see them in Jinling either, so she patted Gu Wen’s back with both hands to soothe her.
When Gu Yi had sent Gu Wen’s family away early, they should not have known about the Gu family’s news. With Gu Wen looking like this, she was afraid that she thought Gu Yi was afraid that they would fight over the Gu family’s assets and had done this to them on purpose.
It was only after a while that Gu Wen stopped crying and opened her mouth with shaking lips, wanting to say something but unable to say a word.
She thought she was good to her younger brother, and although she hadn’t grown up watching him like her eldest sister, she had always spoiled him, thinking of him first when there was something delicious and fun to eat, even giving him the pocket money his parents gave him in secret to buy snacks.
But to his surprise, he was tricked into coming to Jiangling and then confined here, not allowed to go home.
“If you have anything to say, come into the house and say it.”
Gu Wen didn’t move, she was eager to ask Gu Yi why he was doing this to them?
“Wen’er.”
Kong Qing reminded in a soft voice that the doorway was really not a good place to talk.
Gu Wen swallowed the words that had reached her mouth.
Meng Yang had already walked out and Song Wan Yue introduced, “This is my uncle grandfather.”
The two men gave Meng Yang a salute.
Meng Yang gave a false support, he heard Gu Wen’s cries from afar, and thinking of their surname, he intuited that they were Gu Yi’s relatives, his words softened a bit, “What do you have to say inside.”
Several people entered the mansion.
Meng Yang personally took them to the courtyard he had arranged for Song Wangyue, and had them served tea, cakes and melons before he said he had something to do and left,
When his footsteps disappeared at the courtyard entrance, Gu Wen grabbed Song Wan Yue’s hand tightly and shed tears before she spoke, “Yue’er, little brother, he, he, he is too cruel.”
As expected, they had thought wrongly, Song Wan Yue’s voice was sad, “It’s not that he is cruel, but he is protecting you.”
“Protecting us?”
Gu Wen’s tears flowed even more fiercely, not believing her words at all, thinking of her own joyful energy when she first heard Gu Yi say that she would let her family come to Jiangling, feeling like a heavenly fool, “Do you know, he is lying to us, there is no business over here at all, he bought us a mansion over here long ago, and had someone give us a sum of silver to keep us from leaving Jiangling’s land, he, he ……”
Gu Wen couldn’t go on, she only had this one brother, she had been good to him out of her heart since she was a child, she didn’t think Gu Yi would do this to her.
“Second sister, do you know what has happened to the family?”
“What can happen, big sister is dead, and I am confined to this place by him, and all the property in the house is his ……”
Gu Wen’s voice was filled with hatred, she suddenly paused here, both hands clutching Song Wan Yue, “He, he won’t kill, kill ……”
Not waiting for her to finish, Song Wan Yue cut her off, “Second sister thinks he is that kind of person?”
Seeing her reaction, father and mother should be fine, Gu Wen let go of her hand and covered her face, tears slipping from her fingers and splashing as she shook her head, “I don’t know, I don’t know.”
Before she was tricked into coming to Jiangling, if someone had said something bad about Gu Yi, she would have fought that person to the death, her brother was just a bit stupid, he did have the best heart in the world, not a trace of bad intentions. But now she didn’t dare to say that, and she even wondered if Gu Yi was also responsible for the deaths of her elder sister and brother-in-law in the first place.”
“Second sister should trust him, you are his family and everything he does is for your own good.”
“What happened at home?”
After being tricked into coming here, Kong Qing had hated it, but Gu Yi had not only bought them a large mansion, he had also given them a large sum of silver that would keep them clothed and fed even if they did nothing for the rest of their lives. After calming down he had been thinking about why Gu Yi had done this, Gu Wen was a married daughter, the family’s estate would not have been her turn, it was simply superfluous for him to trick them into coming here.
“Gu family ……”
Song Wan Yue paused, looked at the two men, and whispered, “One hundred and thirteen mouths were all killed, including Master Gu Mrs. Gu and Gu Yi.”
Kong Qing’s pupils grew wide, Gu Wen raised her head, her eyes were incredulous, “You, you, what did you say?”
“All of the Gu family are dead, except for you, second sister.”
Gu Wen’s eyes went black and her body went limp, Song Wan Yue was quick to help her and helped her sit on a chair.
Kong Qing also felt that he could not stand up anymore and sat down next to Gu Wen, placing the child on the table, with one arm around her and the other hand shaking uncontrollably, asking the same thing, “How, how could it be?”
Song Wangyue closed her eyes, hiding her weakness and replacing it with a sinking pain, “Grandfather Grandpa was lecturing at the Qingping County Academy and fainted from poisoning, the third prince came over to investigate with the holy orders and set eyes on the Gu family’s property, killing all the Gu family members and then setting fire to their bodies.”
Gu Wen couldn’t stop blackening in front of her eyes, she didn’t know how many times she had cursed Gu Yi since she was tricked, cursed that he wouldn’t end up well, but she hadn’t thought of really letting him die, that was the brother she had grown up loving, even if he had a million bad qualities, as long as he apologized to her, she would forgive him.
“Impossible, impossible, how could it be.”
“Gu Yi actually made arrangements for the family, he was just a step slow to be ……”
Kong Qing’s hands shook as he couldn’t wrap his arms around the child, he opened his mouth and made a sound with difficulty, but it was so small that he couldn’t even hear himself, “Third, third, third prince did this, this kind of evil thing, and there is, is there no one to take care of it?”
But Song Wan Yue heard her, she looked at the two of them, “I relied on the relationship that my grandfather had given to my grandfather and went to the capital to sue the imperial government, the emperor relegated the third prince to the bitter cold and fined him a million taels of silver, I kept it useless, so I donated it to the Ministry of War, so that they could use it on the soldiers at the border.”
“Father, mother, little brother!”
Gu Wen slid to her knees and cried loudly and painfully.
Kong Qing tried to help him, but he himself slid to his knees after him, big tears falling down.
The child was frightened and cried out. Song Wangyue picked him up and coaxed him gently.