Chapter 148: Farewell

"Mother, aunt, aunt, and sisters and sisters." Gu Jue gently pushed a food box under the dim oil lamp, and said calmly, "I'm here to see you."

"You still dare to come?!" After all, the Gu family is a noble family. Even if the situation is over now and the emperor didn't order it, the prison still gave some care.

It is to allocate a relatively large cell, so that the female relatives and young children are locked together.

Because the surrounding lights were dim, looking in from the aisle there were shadows, and the faces could not be seen clearly.

Most people had no reaction to Gu Jue's arrival.

It's not that they don't hate Gu Jue, but because the matter of the three corpses was mainly done by the back house, so the women's relatives are quite punished.

Now almost everyone is wounded and very tired. Even after hearing Gu Jue's voice, many people still have more than enough energy and still lie on the pile of straw without making a sound.

Only one woman rushed to the door with disheveled hair, screaming, "How dare you have the face?! Gu gave birth to you and raised you..."

"But I was also sent to the palace to accompany my aunt for Gu's sake." Gu Jue glanced at her and said casually, "Then I was sent to Qiongjiu Palace to be the concubine of the King of Qin. You treat me like a commodity , What did I say? Now that the general situation is over, even if I protect the family, will the family be spared? It's better to follow the noble concubine, so even if you can't survive, I still have a glimmer of life. I am also of Gu's blood. Why does Auntie think that if you can't survive on your own, all Gu's blood must be buried with you?"

Her aunt's eyes were red, and she said sadly: "You really voted for the imperial concubine! The imperial concubine has a deep hatred with our family, and you actually managed to collude with her! It's just that you, a lowly maid, really think you can get it?! Concubine Min has been in the palace for more than ten years, how has she ever given a good end to the enemies? It would be strange not to kill them all! Today you have harmed the whole family, and in the future we will wait for you on the ground!!!"

Gu Jue sighed, very helpless: "Why does my aunt think that I have harmed the whole family? Let me put it in a bad way. If nothing happened to King Chongxin, my aunt is still in the back seat. Don't say that I always know how to behave. Even if you don’t know, even if you mess around, at most I will be punished alone, so how can the huge Gu family be involved? As I said, this is the end of the Gu family’s life. Without my exposure, there are other people and other things. In short, the Gu family is There is no escape. It is better for others to go to the imperial concubine to sell good meritorious deeds, how about me, a daughter of the Gu family, to save a little bit of Gu's blood, what's wrong with that?"

"My aunt is a Gu family, and she also watched me grow up, why? My surviving is more difficult for my aunt than the survival of a stranger or even an enemy?"

She said these words with confidence, even if the clansmen in the cell hated her to death, they opened their mouths for a while to get acquainted, but they couldn't refute.

Annoyed by her aunt, she simply didn't make sense, lost the manners of a noble lady, and just yelled at her.

Gu Jue was not angry, but just listened quietly. After watching the aunt tired of scolding for a while, she said, "I understand how Auntie is feeling now. If you haven't finished venting your anger, just scold me a few more words. I If we were afraid, none of us would come here today."

This calm attitude really made people indignant. Her aunt glared for a moment, and then she was so angry that she burst into tears: "The ancestors of the Gu family didn't accumulate virtue, how did you give birth to such a thing!"

"I gave birth, but I couldn't strangle me back then, so what can I do now?" Gu Jue said lightly, "Auntie, let's calm down, it's not what it used to be, if you get angry here, But you can’t invite the imperial doctor to see it. When the time comes, you will be the one who will suffer, and the one who will be worried, won’t it be your children and juniors?”

"Okay!" Her aunt was so angry that she squeezed to the fence and wanted to reach out to hit her, but Gu Jue took two steps back to avoid it. At this moment, a somewhat old voice came out from the shadow of the prison cell, full of fatigue. , "Stop making trouble. It's been a while, what's the use of beating her? Don't say you can't beat her if she doesn't want to be beaten. Even if you do, can we go out?"

"Old lady." Gu Jue's aunt knelt down and walked into the shadows, but helped an old lady with silver hair on her temples, and cried, "The family has never treated her badly. When she was selected in the palace, she Going in with Jing'er, if you were wronged at that time, how many girls in the family were looking forward to such an opportunity, how could you force her to enter the palace?! After entering the palace for so many years, why did the queen make her feel wronged! As a result, at this moment, she sold the whole family and is still so confident, how could our family raise such a thing?!"

The old lady was very quiet, and she only said in a low voice: "When the branches are luxuriant, there are always a few branches that are superfluous and must be cut off, otherwise, it will be harmful to the tree itself. The same is true for the Gu family. I realized that, instead, the whole family was implicated. This was due to the old master’s negligence, and it was also due to the decline of the Gu family’s fortune. It was destined to have this catastrophe. It’s meaningless to hold on to her now. There’s no need to talk to her.”

After saying this, he turned to Gu Jue and said, "Even if you take refuge in the imperial concubine, this imperial prison is not a place you are entitled to wantonly go in and out of. After all, what is the imperial concubine asking you to come here for?"

Gu Jue didn't care about his aunt, but he was a little afraid of his own grandmother. He bowed solemnly and said: "The family has been watching the Xie family's children for many years, and they must have learned something. Now everyone can't live anymore, so why bother to guard?" Going on with those secrets? Why don’t you tell the imperial concubine, so that the imperial concubine can know, where does my family need to be taught?”

Her aunt laughed angrily: "The imperial concubine and our family are enemies. Do you think we might tell you about such a thing, and ask you, a lowly maid, to tell her?"

"Why not?" Gu Jue said calmly, "If you don't say it, it will be more troublesome for the noble concubine. If you say it, although it can't save you, at least you can live a more comfortable life in the last days."

"Now the noble concubine is Daozu, and you are fish."

"It's already at this time. Auntie can think about it for herself, so why don't you think about it for your sisters, sisters, brothers, brothers?"

"Could it be that Auntie hoped that they would leave this world at such a young age, not to mention that in the last few days, it would be very dishonorable to leave?"

Her aunt laughed back angrily: "You are a good dog of the imperial concubine! The waiters of the Xuanqing Palace haven't come to threaten and lure you, but you are a vanguard! It's just that you are not a thing, but you think we are all like you?! Mrs. Gu No matter how you say it, you are a noble family. Even if you have committed a crime now, you are still a nobleman. You can kill a scholar and not be humiliated! This imperial prison is your majesty's imperial edict. If the imperial concubine allows you to come in and out, it is your majesty's favor for her. I don't believe what the new master of your lowly maidservant can do here!"

Gu Jue frowned slightly, and was thinking of countermeasures quickly, but the old lady over there said: "It's all right."

"Old lady?!" Auntie was stunned.

The old lady glanced at her, signaled the daughter-in-law here to shut up, and then said to Gu Jue: "Actually, the old lady has already prepared, you can ask the imperial concubine to send someone to our house, which is in the garden where you used to play, counting from the east of the pool. In the cave on the third rockery, there is an extremely hidden dark room on the ground, which should not have been searched until now. There is a box in it, which contains many records, which are all Gu's observations of Xie in the past two years. Inside There must be some news that the imperial concubine needs to know very much."

Gu Jue: "..."

Since she entered the prison, no matter how her aunt scolded and humiliated her, she remained calm.

Even though she was quite afraid of the old lady, she was generally calm.

But at this moment, he showed great horror.

Mrs. Gu actually prepared these in advance? ? ?

What does this mean?

Could it be that Gu had predicted his own defeat before Zhonggong's mother and son had an accident?

Then why not try to stop the imperial concubine's calculations?

She was in a mess and didn't speak for a while.

"Surprised?" The old lady smiled when she saw this.

Gu Jue didn't deny it either: "Since great-grandfather did everything he could, why did the Gu family fall to this point?"

"What counts as an exhaustive strategy?" The old lady said slowly, "It's just a rainy day. You are young, but you should have felt the concubine's methods... In fact, in the past two years, the concubine has restrained a lot and pretended to be a loving mother. More than ten years ago, when she first entered the palace, it was called endless! Your great-grandfather has been in a very difficult situation all these years, because the person in Xuanqing Palace is really not a fuel-efficient lamp. I went to seek victory, but I also thought about what the family should do after one day they were defeated."

"It's just that the imperial concubine is more agile than he expected, at this moment... that's all, I don't say anything."

"Anyway, the things in that box are real, and the imperial concubine will be interested."

She curled her lips slightly, showing a slightly weird smile, "After all, you are also a descendant of my Gu family. As you said just now, the Gu family is like this. It is better to take advantage of your own blood if you take advantage of outsiders. Tell the imperial concubine, she will reward you."

After saying this, he called his daughter-in-law to stop, and no matter how much Gu Jue interrogated the general, everyone in the cell ignored her.

"Why are you still wearing a colored ribbon on your head?" When Gu Jue was about to leave, her aunt couldn't hold back, and stabbed with a sneer, "Your mother was killed by a cane... It's only been a few days , as a woman, you are still in the heat of filial piety, how can you dress up beautifully!"

Gu Jue paused, and continued to leave without looking back.

"How could the Gu family have such a child? She has no heart at all!" The aunt watched her leave before turning her head and crying to her mother-in-law, "That's her mother!"

He was also the one who helped Gu Jue get the three corpses.

Although from the royal and fair standpoint, this Mrs. Gu can be described as very vicious.

But she did this, in the final analysis, for the sake of her daughter.

Gu Jue sold out the whole family without hesitation, and directly forced this mother to a dead end. Even at this moment, she is not willing to dress up plainly, and has no guilt or fear of betraying the family...

My aunt didn't know what to say.

As Gu's wife, she also came from a decent family, and she has never seen such a cruel girl.

Still so young.

What kind of bad geomantic omen did the previous generation of the Gu family have to have such an offspring? !

The old lady didn't speak, but only let out a long sigh.

... Gu Jue didn't know what he said, and it didn't matter if he knew.

She really didn't feel much guilt about betraying her family, if it was before she entered Qiongjiu Palace, it would be fine.

But after being given to King Qin as concubine, Gu Jue figured it out.

Ants are still greedy for life, since it is understandable for Gu to use the news that King Qin loves her to send her to Qiongjiu Palace in order to gain a chance of survival. Then she sold the entire Gu family for the sake of her own life, what's the problem?

She is also of Gu's blood.

Everyone is a survivalist, so of course it depends on whose method is better.

What is right or wrong?

Could it be that the family can only sell her, and she can't fight for it by herself?

Why?

She was tolerant enough to her aunt just now.

In fact, if the debate continues, she will directly ask: "Since it is natural to pay for the family, then when my great-grandfather knew that the King of Qin had no intentions for me, but still forced me to serve the King of Qin in Qiongjiu Palace, what did you do without calling you?" Is your daughter with me?"

Let alone replace her.

People always think about themselves first.

That being the case, she should enjoy the fruits now, shouldn't she?