C141 (1/2)
”Junior apprentice-brother, quickly follow.” The senior brother saw that I wasn't going to come up and warned me in a low voice. I was stunned and immediately jumped in after him. But I couldn't be wrong. I had always been very confident in my intuition.
In such a large room, only Gu Junshan and the old housekeeper, Jia Wen, stayed. During the day, they looked good, but at night, they looked gloomy. In addition, there were a lot of antiques in the house.
”There's someone living in this room. I really can't figure out what the old man is thinking.” I complained to my senior brother, who signaled me to be quiet. The three of us paced back and forth in the room to check the terrain. Senior sister picked up a porcelain bottle to examine it closely, but it was so dark that I couldn't see it clearly.
Senior sister took the bottle to the window. She looked at it using the faint moonlight before gesturing for me to come over. ”Can you tell when this is an antique?”
I said, ”Senior Sister, your heart is too big. It's not like we're here to observe and learn.” After receiving the porcelain bottle, I felt that the bottle was so cold that it pierced my heart. I couldn't help but shiver. ”What is this thing so cold?”
The Senior Martial Brother looked at it and said, ”This bottle has probably been here for a long time. It must have been stained with something unclean. Maybe it left after we came in.” Hearing my senior brother's words, I rubbed my eyes, wanting to use the Heaven's Eyes to scout the surroundings. My senior brother stopped me and said, ”We have important matters to attend to, so don't provoke any unnecessary trouble.”
At this time, I heard a voice coming from downstairs, ”Jia Wen, is my son here today?” It was Gu Junshan's voice, ”Master, the young master came today and brought you medicine.” Jia Wen said calmly. That's not right, if Gu Li came, how could he not see his father? Why did that Gu Junshan seem as if he didn't know and still have to ask others?
”Oh, that's good. Will he come back tomorrow?” Gu Junshan's voice sounded especially old and desolate in the night. Jia Wen said, ”Come, you'll definitely come tomorrow. Young master said he will come every day.” Gu Junshan said, ”Then he's not busy?” Jia Wen said, ”Young master said that he has to take care of you in the days that you've been sick and will come to see you whenever he has the time.” Gu Junshan said in a low voice, ”It's best if I don't get sick. Otherwise, once I get sick, he won't come to see me anymore.” Jia Wen said, ”Old master, what do you mean by that? Not only are you feeling comfortable after you've recovered, but the young master is also feeling comfortable.”
As I listened to these two old men chat, I had the feeling that it was the evening of a hero. This Gu Junshan was quite capable when he was young, and there were many people in his family who were rich and powerful, and in addition to his own married wife, there were also several concubines and several sons of girls. They were all smart and lively, and were really quite proud of themselves, but once this person grew old, not only would he lose his health, but he would lose his luck as well.
At first, the few concubines looked down on each other, but when Gu Junshan was still young, he could still suppress them. When he was old, he could not care less, he fought like a dog all the time, and in the end, it was all for the little business behind Gu Junshan. First, the few concubines looked down on each other, but when Gu Junshan was young, he could still suppress them, and when he was old, he could do nothing.
If you don't have money, who would think you're a master then? Not long after, when the servants saw that Gu Junshan didn't have much time left, they decided to just leave, stealing from him before they left and going smoothly, almost making Gu Junshan angry. It was all because of Jia Wen, Gu Junshan still had a bit of support, and it could be said that at this time, the children he raised could not be a spectator, but the relatives of Gu Junshan were not strong enough.
His sons basically relied on his father's family property to live and should be able to take care of his father. But no, when Gu Li's older brothers heard that his father almost died, they all came back, not to see their father, but for the sake of Gu Junshan's will. They fought with each other in front of Gu Junshan, leaving Gu Junshan in a bad mood.
Since then, he also saw that he could rely on people around him, it would have been okay if he was an ordinary person, but in the past, Gu Junshan was not like this, he wouldn't have been able to endure this, and when he had nothing to do with himself, he would think, what did I do wrong, I just can't do it, it's still okay, although the people around him have changed faces, but there were still two people who didn't change, and treated him well as usual.
One was his youngest son, Gu Li, and the other was Jia Wen, who had grown up with him. Thinking of this, Gu Junshan felt a little bit of comfort, at least he didn't have to fall to the street in his later years, at least there was a person who cried and tied flags, although Gu Li had been raised in a pampered manner since he was young, unlike his older brothers and sisters, he never thought that he would become the only son who treated him as a father. Jia Wen only knew that he could do it and was a good hand outside the home, so he didn't know that he had such loyalty.
Thanks to Jia Wen and Gu Li all these years, Gu Junshan's family property was not as developed as before, but it was still much stronger than ordinary people. Besides, his own property was controlled by a few sons, and all his sons were Gu Junshan, so these sons fought over it with all their might. Gu Junshan had already thought about this a long time ago, once he was dead, he would write that all his properties would belong to his youngest son, Gu Li, and Jia Wen.
Unfortunately, how could he know that his youngest son, whom he had doted on for all his life, was old? He couldn't hold it in any longer and joined forces with the others to kill him.