Wang understood clearly that in Bianjing now, no other woman's status could compare to that of the mistress of Zhenguo Duke Manor, fortunately when she was a young lady at Dongping Earl Manor years ago, she did not bully Gu Ying too much.
Now, relying on her was the wisest way out.
"In fact, Grandmother never liked your Mother all along, just because Master QingFeng said one sentence that your Mother's birth eight characters, face, body and temperament were in conflict with the Earl Manor..."
Gu Ying said in disbelief, "What?"
Wang quickly said, "I also overheard their conversation before I knew it. Afterwards, I observed secretly, trying to find Grandmother's handle, so I also saw her ordering to put drugs in your Mother's food..."
Gu Ying's body shook violently, and her whole person felt as if falling into an ice cellar.
She was only about five years old at that time...
Mother suddenly fell ill, and Grandmother specially invited a doctor to see her. After the doctor saw her, he only said Mother had caught a cold and needed to stay in bed and take some medicine to get well.
Every day Gu Ying was with Mother. She saw Mother drinking medicine bowl by bowl, but Mother's condition got worse and worse. She naively and romantically held Mother's hand and asked Mother to get well soon to accompany her to see the peach blossoms outside the city.
Mother smiled and nodded. In less than three days, she died in bed with a pale face.
She didn't know what death was. She stood stupidly at Mother's bedside, at a loss seeing the maids coming in and out busily carrying white cloth, and Grandmother's old face that showed no expression.
She was extremely scared and ran to Grandmother to ask for a hug, but Grandmother looked coldly at Mother who had lost her breath on the bed. With one hand Grandmother pushed her away and said, "Don't block your Mother's path."
Now when she thought about it, what path?
The path of reincarnation, or the path where Dongping Earl Manor let Mother get out of the manor?!
Gu Ying didn't dare to think further down. Her heart ached endlessly, and a strong sense of hatred surged in her heart again.
Wang thought for a while, her eyes tightened, and she added, "What's more, Grandmother was afraid your Mother would continue to pester the Earl Manor after death. She gave Master QingFeng a large sum of money to nail soul-suppressing nails and large pieces of talisman paper on your Mother's coffin..."
As if thinking of something, Wang's whole body shuddered, and she didn't dare to continue.
Gu Old Madam sobbed for a good while, her pair of red old eyes stared at Gu Ying tightly.
Gu Ying laughed coldly with despair. As she laughed, tears came out of her eyes, and her eyes gradually turned icy cold. "Come on! Go get my father!"
Only then did Gu Old Madam's face completely collapse, and her old eyes quickly showed panic.
After Gu Ying asked someone to call her father, she explained the matter clearly in a few words.
When Gu Boqing heard it, his expression changed and he shouted, "Ying, what are you saying?"
Gu Ying said with red eyes, "Dad, I want to go to Mother's tomb now and open the coffin!"
Gu Boqing stood stiffly in place for a good while, unable to react.
When he came to his senses, Gu Ying had already given orders to first send Yan'er to the carriage, then asked Yin Lan to go to Zhenguo Duke Manor and Ye Family to call people. She wanted to uncover the truth of her Mother's death years ago!
Gu Boqing's legs went weak and he collapsed into a chair with a dazed expression. He looked at his mother with trembling eyelashes.
Still full of hope, he asked, "Mother, what Ying said is not true, right?"
Gu Old Madam pulled at the corner of her mouth. Her cheeks were pale white. She stiffly looked away without saying anything, looking a dozen years older all of a sudden.
Gu Boqing's eyes showed disappointment and coldness again. Without saying anything, he left with his head down.
From Bianjing to Ye Zhuoning's tomb, it was only an hour's journey.
When everyone gathered at Ye Zhuoning's grave, night began to fall.
Qin advised, "Ying, opening the coffin is unlucky... Otherwise wait for auntie to calculate an auspicious time for you, it won't be too late to open the coffin then?"
Ye Qingchi also frowned and said reluctantly, "Auntie has been sleeping here for more than ten years. Why does Ying have to disturb her peace at this time?"
Ye Zhuoning's death was a thorn in everyone's heart.
But now if the thorn was not pulled out, it would be for Ying's sake.
They just wanted Ying to forget the sufferings at Dongping Earl Manor in the past and live in peace and joy. Why make the past grievances tear a family apart?
Gu Boqing had been quietly lowering his head, his eyes fixed on the lotus flowers he had just sent to the tomb a few days ago. The twin lotuses had already withered and turned yellow, as if the person buried here never forgave him.
He didn't know what he was feeling. He just felt his internal organs being cruelly squeezed, exceptionally painful.
Gu Ying shook her head and ordered without hesitation, "No, open the coffin now."
With an order, the guards got busy with iron shovels in the night.
Gu Ying added, "Light the torches."
Everyone answered, "Yes."
Soon Ye Zhuoning's coffin gradually emerged before everyone. Ninety-nine soul-suppressing nails were nailed to the black coffin, dense and creepy, making people's scalps tingle and hair stand on end.
At this moment, everyone was stunned. Even Qin and Ye Qingchi who had not believed that Gu Old Madam would dare to do such a thing to the Ye Family's daughter darkened their faces.
"How can this be!" Ye Qingchi said angrily. "Does the Gu Family still have any royal law?"
When the old house in Haizhou knew about this, wouldn't grandfather spit blood from anger?!
Previously grandfather was lenient to the Gu Family for Ying's sake. Indeed the Ye Family was too benevolent!
Gu Boqing looked blankly for a while. His heart felt pierced through by a sharp knife, so painful that he couldn't take a step. He felt he had no face to see Zhuoning again.
Gu Ying looked at the coffin with tears and gritted her teeth. "Come on, open the coffin!"
Qin hugged Gu Ying's arm with slightly red eyes and said, "Ying, forget it..."
The coffin was already like this. Seeing the bare bones inside would only add to the sorrow, right?
Gu Ying ignored her and insisted on having the coffin opened.
More than a dozen torches surrounded it. The precious black wood coffin lid was flipped open and placed aside.
But the scene in the coffin made everyone shrink their pupils and hold their breath.
Gu Ying's eyes tightened and her heart jumped to her throat directly.
Under the coffin lid, including inside the coffin, there were countless old scratches of varying depths, which had become dark and profound after more than ten years.
But it could still be seen how desperate and terrified the person who was put into the coffin while not dead must have been when she woke up to find herself sealed in the lightless darkness!
She shouted for help over and over again. And because of suffocation, she kept slapping and scratching the coffin, but no one came to save her, thinking she was dead!
She had no way out. As a last resort, the pitiful and lonely woman was suffocated to death in the coffin... More than ten years later, she turned into a pile of decayed bones!
Wang understood clearly that in Bianjing now, no other woman's status could compare to that of the mistress of Zhenguo Duke Manor, fortunately when she was a young lady at Dongping Earl Manor years ago, she did not bully Gu Ying too much.
Now, relying on her was the wisest way out.
"In fact, Grandmother never liked your Mother all along, just because Master QingFeng said one sentence that your Mother's birth eight characters, face, body and temperament were in conflict with the Earl Manor..."
Gu Ying said in disbelief, "What?"
Wang quickly said, "I also overheard their conversation before I knew it. Afterwards, I observed secretly, trying to find Grandmother's handle, so I also saw her ordering to put drugs in your Mother's food..."
Gu Ying's body shook violently, and her whole person felt as if falling into an ice cellar.
She was only about five years old at that time...
Mother suddenly fell ill, and Grandmother specially invited a doctor to see her. After the doctor saw her, he only said Mother had caught a cold and needed to stay in bed and take some medicine to get well.
Every day Gu Ying was with Mother. She saw Mother drinking medicine bowl by bowl, but Mother's condition got worse and worse. She naively and romantically held Mother's hand and asked Mother to get well soon to accompany her to see the peach blossoms outside the city.
Mother smiled and nodded. In less than three days, she died in bed with a pale face.
She didn't know what death was. She stood stupidly at Mother's bedside, at a loss seeing the maids coming in and out busily carrying white cloth, and Grandmother's old face that showed no expression.
She was extremely scared and ran to Grandmother to ask for a hug, but Grandmother looked coldly at Mother who had lost her breath on the bed. With one hand Grandmother pushed her away and said, "Don't block your Mother's path."
Now when she thought about it, what path?
The path of reincarnation, or the path where Dongping Earl Manor let Mother get out of the manor?!
Gu Ying didn't dare to think further down. Her heart ached endlessly, and a strong sense of hatred surged in her heart again.
Wang thought for a while, her eyes tightened, and she added, "What's more, Grandmother was afraid your Mother would continue to pester the Earl Manor after death. She gave Master QingFeng a large sum of money to nail soul-suppressing nails and large pieces of talisman paper on your Mother's coffin..."
As if thinking of something, Wang's whole body shuddered, and she didn't dare to continue.
Gu Old Madam sobbed for a good while, her pair of red old eyes stared at Gu Ying tightly.
Gu Ying laughed coldly with despair. As she laughed, tears came out of her eyes, and her eyes gradually turned icy cold. "Come on! Go get my father!"
Only then did Gu Old Madam's face completely collapse, and her old eyes quickly showed panic.
After Gu Ying asked someone to call her father, she explained the matter clearly in a few words.
When Gu Boqing heard it, his expression changed and he shouted, "Ying, what are you saying?"
Gu Ying said with red eyes, "Dad, I want to go to Mother's tomb now and open the coffin!"
Gu Boqing stood stiffly in place for a good while, unable to react.
When he came to his senses, Gu Ying had already given orders to first send Yan'er to the carriage, then asked Yin Lan to go to Zhenguo Duke Manor and Ye Family to call people. She wanted to uncover the truth of her Mother's death years ago!
Gu Boqing's legs went weak and he collapsed into a chair with a dazed expression. He looked at his mother with trembling eyelashes.
Still full of hope, he asked, "Mother, what Ying said is not true, right?"
Gu Old Madam pulled at the corner of her mouth. Her cheeks were pale white. She stiffly looked away without saying anything, looking a dozen years older all of a sudden.
Gu Boqing's eyes showed disappointment and coldness again. Without saying anything, he left with his head down.
From Bianjing to Ye Zhuoning's tomb, it was only an hour's journey.
When everyone gathered at Ye Zhuoning's grave, night began to fall.
Qin advised, "Ying, opening the coffin is unlucky... Otherwise wait for auntie to calculate an auspicious time for you, it won't be too late to open the coffin then?"
Ye Qingchi also frowned and said reluctantly, "Auntie has been sleeping here for more than ten years. Why does Ying have to disturb her peace at this time?"
Ye Zhuoning's death was a thorn in everyone's heart.
But now if the thorn was not pulled out, it would be for Ying's sake.
They just wanted Ying to forget the sufferings at Dongping Earl Manor in the past and live in peace and joy. Why make the past grievances tear a family apart?
Gu Boqing had been quietly lowering his head, his eyes fixed on the lotus flowers he had just sent to the tomb a few days ago. The twin lotuses had already withered and turned yellow, as if the person buried here never forgave him.
He didn't know what he was feeling. He just felt his internal organs being cruelly squeezed, exceptionally painful.
Gu Ying shook her head and ordered without hesitation, "No, open the coffin now."
With an order, the guards got busy with iron shovels in the night.
Gu Ying added, "Light the torches."
Everyone answered, "Yes."
Soon Ye Zhuoning's coffin gradually emerged before everyone. Ninety-nine soul-suppressing nails were nailed to the black coffin, dense and creepy, making people's scalps tingle and hair stand on end.
At this moment, everyone was stunned. Even Qin and Ye Qingchi who had not believed that Gu Old Madam would dare to do such a thing to the Ye Family's daughter darkened their faces.
"How can this be!" Ye Qingchi said angrily. "Does the Gu Family still have any royal law?"
When the old house in Haizhou knew about this, wouldn't grandfather spit blood from anger?!
Previously grandfather was lenient to the Gu Family for Ying's sake. Indeed the Ye Family was too benevolent!
Gu Boqing looked blankly for a while. His heart felt pierced through by a sharp knife, so painful that he couldn't take a step. He felt he had no face to see Zhuoning again.
Gu Ying looked at the coffin with tears and gritted her teeth. "Come on, open the coffin!"
Qin hugged Gu Ying's arm with slightly red eyes and said, "Ying, forget it..."
The coffin was already like this. Seeing the bare bones inside would only add to the sorrow, right?
Gu Ying ignored her and insisted on having the coffin opened.
More than a dozen torches surrounded it. The precious black wood coffin lid was flipped open and placed aside.
But the scene in the coffin made everyone shrink their pupils and hold their breath.
Gu Ying's eyes tightened and her heart jumped to her throat directly.
Under the coffin lid, including inside the coffin, there were countless old scratches of varying depths, which had become dark and profound after more than ten years.
But it could still be seen how desperate and terrified the person who was put into the coffin while not dead must have been when she woke up to find herself sealed in the lightless darkness!
She shouted for help over and over again. And because of suffocation, she kept slapping and scratching the coffin, but no one came to save her, thinking she was dead!
She had no way out. As a last resort, the pitiful and lonely woman was suffocated to death in the coffin... More than ten years later, she turned into a pile of decayed bones!
