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The candle flickered in Gu Changqing's study.
A dark guard stepped in and gave him a salute, "Shizi!"
Gu Changqing's face was hidden in the dark, which made him appear a little cold.
He looked at the dark guard and asked, "How's the thing I asked you to investigate going?"
The dark guard cupped his fist in the other hand and said, "To answer shizi, this subordinate is unable to find anyone."
Gu Changqing frowned, "Not even one? There were at least seven or eight servant girls and four or five wet nurses in my mother's courtyard in those days. Why couldn't you find any of them?"
This was really weird.
Just like the servants who accompanied Yao shi when she was giving birth, they all had disappeared without a trace.
At that time, Yao Shi did not have many servants accompanying her in childbirth. There were only two little servant girls and an old wet nurse. The old wet nurse had died, but the servant girls, who had supposedly married faraway, couldn't be found.
Yao Shi was not of high birth and her servants didn’t go through a very strict scrutiny, but the servants of Ling shi were all strictly screened, so much so that their families could be traced back to three generations, hence it was impossible to completely not hear any news about them.
The dark guard said, "Those are all servants brought by the First Madame from her parental home. If shizi really wants to check, we have to start with the Ling Family."
The Ling Family was Gu Changqing's maternal grandparents’ home, and he had always trusted the other side.
But if he truly wanted to find things out, he must first learn to put aside the sentiments in his heart.
"Investigate." He ordered.
The dark guard was stunned, "Shizi?"
Gu Changqing firmly said, "I need the truth."
The dark guard took a deep look at the shizi and bowed down, "...Yes!"
After the dark guard left, Gu Changqing took out the evidence of that year—— Yao Shi's letter to Marquis Gu.
The letter said that Ling shi's illness wouldn’t last for a few days, when would Marquis Gu marry her? She was from a low background, and if this marriage wasn’t decided earlier, she feared there would be some changes in the future.
These words implied that both of them already had an affair long ago. They took advantage of Ling shi's critical illness as an opportunity for Yao shi to come over the estate and take care of her.
If she had truly done these, what kind of scheming, vicious woman would she have to be?
But if she was innocent, what kind of terrible existence was the person who forged this letter?
Apart from this letter, there were also those people who saw Yao shi enter Marquis Gu's study with their own eyes.
Did those witnesses just see it wrong, or was it instructed by someone?
Who else could order Ling shi’s servants around?
Gu Changqing felt like in a fog. He got up, put the letter back in the box, opened the door of the study and went out.
There was a faint snow outside.
He got on his horse and made his way out of the Marquis Estate, riding through the wind and snow.
He didn’t have a destination in mind, but his horse stopped in front of a house in Bishui Alley.
The gate of the house was open, and lanterns were lit in the hall and yards.
From his point of view, he could see several boys sitting in the snow, unafraid of the cold. It looked like they were playing cards.
Gu Yan's face was written with the characters for turtles[1] and pasted with many stickers.
Little Jing Kong's face was clean, without any drawing or anything.
There was also the other thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy.
Although Gu Changqing had been here before, taking care of Gu Yan for a night, Gu Xiaoshun also had chickenpox at that time and was in his room recovering from illness, so the two of them did not meet each other.
But this did not stop Gu Changqing from guessing his identity.
Gu Xiaoshun seemed to have lost many times as well as his face was also covered with words.
The elderly woman, holding the candied fruit jar in her arms, came over while eating. She touched the heads of the three people in turn, and when she felt that their temperature was still fine, she continued to nibble on her candied fruits.
Gu Changqing watched this scene and couldn’t understand.
Gu Xiaoshun was a child of Gu Jiao's adoptive parents’ family, while Little Jing Kong was a young monk she adopted from the mountains. Neither of them had any blood relationship with Gu Jiao.
But their status at home was the same as that of Gu Jiao and Gu Yan.
Could unrelated people really get along so well?
"Oh, big brother Yan, you're cheating again!"
Gu Yan stole a card and was caught by Little Jing Kong on the spot.
"I didn't!" Gu Yan solemnly denied it.
"Then what is this?" Little Jing Kong decisively found the leaf card stuffed by Gu Yan in the snow.
Gu Yan said, "How should I know? I’m not the one who hid it."
"It's you! It's you! I saw it!" The little guy was so angry that he climbed up the stool, stamped his feet with both hands on his hips, and then jumped about!
The two of them started quarreling.
The two people's pets also began to fight. Pretty soon, the scene of chicken flying and dog jumping could be seen in the yard.
Suddenly, Gu Xiaoshun looked at the gate and exclaimed, "Who?"
The two quarreling guys looked at the gate in unison.
Gu Changqing was just watching quietly from the sidelines. In his fascination, he unknowingly walked forward and stood at the gate.
It was too late to avoid them.
Both of them already saw him.
"Whoa! Big brother!" Little Jing Kong instantly forgot his unhappiness, jumped down from the stool and ran to Gu Changqing.
Gu Yan also wanted to go there, but he suddenly thought of something. He let go of the leaf cards in his hand and tore the stickers off his face in a hurry.
After that, he remembered that his face was painted with words.
He put the stickers up again in despair!
"Big brother! Bless your fortune!" Little Jing Kong cupped his small hands and bowed politely as a New Year greeting.
This was what their neighbors did and said when they came to their house; he just copied it.
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