After the rebirth, I became the darling of the tyrant

Chapter 57

Gu Chen took a few steps back, giving space to the siblings.Jiang Chong followed and retreated to his side. Seeing Yun Shuang's expression changed from shock to excitement, to collapse and crying, he couldn't help raising his eyes to look at Gu Chen.

"Is this her brother?" he asked in a low voice.

"Yes." Gu Chen sighed softly, "She and her younger brother have been dependent on each other since she was a child, and they have a deep relationship. Back then, she entered the palace just to support her younger brother."

Jiang Chong couldn't help but click his tongue: "...how do you know these things?"

Gu Chen laughed: "After Your Majesty rescued her family, I went to see her brother and had a brief chat."

Jiang Chong quietly gave him a thumbs up: "If it was me, I would just save him and settle down. I wouldn't think so much."

Gu Chenxin said that there is no way for him to do this. The family seems to be the only breakthrough for Yunshuang. Now that they have been rescued, how could he not go and have a look—in case the relationship between Yunshuang and his family is not good Woolen cloth?What if Yunshuang's family is not enough to make her fall in love?

There are only ten days left before the wedding, if Yunshuang's path fails, Gu Chen will have to watch Xiao Tingshen marry his sister.On the one hand, he doesn't want his sister to marry someone she doesn't love, and on the other hand, he doesn't want Xiao Tingshen to marry someone else, so he can't allow himself to make any mistakes.

Fortunately, this path looks like it has a good chance of being successful.

The Yunshuang sister and brother talked about the past for a long time, during which Gu Chen and Jiang Chong stood far away and did not move forward.After they finished speaking, younger brother Yunshuang left the cell, and Gu Chen and Jiang Chongcai stepped forward one after the other.This time, before Gu Chen could speak, Yunshuang gave a deep salute.

"Master Gu." The corners of her eyes were still a little red, and there were still some tears, but her tone was unusually calm, "Thank you, Master Gu, for taking care of my younger brother." Remember in a second m. biqiudu． com

After Yunshuang's family rescued Shenjing, Gu Chen suggested to Xiao Tingshen that although Yunshuang did a lot of evil things for the empress dowager, her family is innocent after all.It's better to release the crime of being implicated, and let them settle down in Shenjing and live a stable life.

Xiao Ting thought about it deeply before agreeing. With a swipe of a pen, he allocated an acre of land in the suburbs of Beijing to their family, and sent someone to help build two new houses. It seems that Yunshuang brother told her all these things just now.

"It's nothing more than a little effort." Gu Chen said.

"Master Gu cares about my servant's family like this, and this servant should reciprocate." Yunshuang said solemnly, "I don't know what Master Gu wants to know? This servant must tell the truth, and I will tell you everything I know, and I will say everything."

"I know that you have been with the Empress Dowager for many years, and you know many things about her clearly." Gu Chen said, "If there is no evidence, that's all. If there is still evidence, tell me everything in chronological order." speak."

He paused while speaking: "Are you literate?"

Yun Shuang shook her head: "This servant is illiterate."

"Then tell me, let me write." Gu Chen signaled the jailer outside to bring pens, ink, paper and inkstone, and set up two chairs and a small table in turn. "After I finish writing, you can draw a note."

Yun Shuang did not express any objection, so Gu Chen sat down on a chair, spread out the paper, and dipped it in ink.Then he stopped and looked up at Yunshuang, waiting for her to speak.

"The first thing is the four years of Emperor Xiande..."

Yun Shuang began to speak slowly, intermittently at first, about two or three things that happened in the late emperor's harem, basically a certain concubine "accidentally" died, or a certain concubine "accidentally" miscarried.In addition to these, Yun Shuang slowly talked about the matter of Gu Chen's elder brother——

"...The empress dowager sent a letter to General Wang Yongke from her servants back then, telling him to find a way to get rid of General Gu Heng in the Battle of the Huaihe River. Only in this way can the Wang family take over the military power in southern Hubei..."

Gu Chen's heart tightened: "She asked you to send a letter... Did you write a letter?"

Yunshuang nodded.

"What about the letter?"

"Give it to General Wang Yongke." She said, "Maybe General Wang burned it."

"Then is there any other evidence for this matter?"

"Yes." Yunshuang said, "At that time, General Wang Yongke also wrote a letter to the empress. He wrote a lot, and some of them didn't look like my Dajing writing...The empress dowager asked me to gather them together and take them away. Burn it, I didn't burn it."

"You didn't burn it?" This time it was Jiang Chong who spoke, and he looked suspicious, "Why didn't you burn it?"

Yun Shuang glanced at him: "I can't just let others bully me, I just want to leave a way out."

Gu Chen probably understood what she meant: it was likely that her family was already held by the Empress Dowager at that time, and she was afraid that the Empress Dowager would suddenly attack one day, so she kept such a handle in order to protect herself and her family in hand.

"Where is the letter?" Gu Chen asked.

Yunshuang recalled for a while, and reported a place name: "I packed them all in a wooden box and buried them in the ground."

Gu Chen glanced at Jiang Chong, Jiang Chong nodded knowingly, and asked a trusted Long Xiangwei to go out and report to Xiao Tingshen, and then went to dig the letter.

"Anything else?"

Yun Shuang nodded: "Back then, the Empress Dowager wanted to kill her mother and seize her son, and get rid of His Majesty's concubine, Concubine Xian, so she ordered the slaves to prepare a pair of poison. The prescription is still in the hands of the slaves, and those who Put the letters together."

She hesitated for a while: "There is one more thing..."

"What else?" Jiang Chong was startled, "How many outrageous things has she done!"

Yun Shuang glanced at him, did not answer his words, but said to Gu Chen: "It has something to do with Mr. Gu."

Gu Chen had a vague guess in his heart: "But that time in Tongshan?"

Jiang Chong's eyes widened suddenly, and Yun Shuang nodded: "The Empress Dowager sent people to Tongshan to scuttle the boats of Lord Gu, Commander Jiang, and Doctor Zhao."

"Why didn't she just kill us?" Jiang Chong was furious immediately, "Just use some tricks to hide in the dark and dare not see people!"

"She probably didn't want to confront me head-on at that time." Gu Chen mused, "She might just want to kill Zhao Zhongqi to prevent Dajing from marrying Baiyi at that time."

Yunshuang nodded.

"But how did she know that I was going to Tongshan?" Gu Chen was a little puzzled, "I remember that when this matter was decided, only me and His Majesty were present."

At that time, he and Xiao Tingshen discussed this matter in the newly built pavilion in the imperial garden. At that time, Xiao Tingshen drove all the palace people out, only Wei Dequan and his two apprentices were guarding the door of the corridor.Could it be... Gu Chen suddenly had a bad guess in his mind-could there be a traitor among these three people?

It couldn't be Wei Dequan, if it was Wei Dequan, then Xiao Tingshen and Gu Chen wouldn't be able to live today, and they might be killed by the Queen Mother before they could do anything.Then the traitor can only be...

"The empress dowager once asked the servants to find ways to get close to the eunuch on duty in Ganquan Palace, so as to obtain information about His Majesty." Yunshuang smiled bitterly, "But Your Majesty's vigilance is too high. Like an iron bucket, the servant has spent a lot of effort to get close to a person."

"who is it?"

"It's Shao'an." Yunshuang said, "The servant and he became enemies, so he passed the news of Ganquan Palace to the servant."

Shaoan!That apprentice who always follows Wei Dequan's body and is quite valued by Wei Dequan!No wonder there are so many hidden news spread like wildfire...!

"But Eunuch Wei is also an old fox." Yunshuang said, "He doesn't take Shao An with him for many things, so Shao An doesn't know about it."

Gu Chen's back felt cold, and he was in a cold sweat: If Wei Dequan hadn't been so cautious, they would have died long ago without a place to bury them.Who would have thought that Shao An would be the Empress Dowager's man?

"Go and tell His Majesty about this now." Gu Chen immediately said to Jiang Chong.

Jiang Chong nodded, knowing that the matter was of great importance, he left for Ganquan Palace without ordering anyone.Gu Chen watched him leave with a serious expression, turned his head and continued to face Yunshuang: "Aside from letting Shao An pass the news, have you done anything else?"

Yunshuang: "...was originally planned to do it."

Gu Chen's heart hung up: "What's the matter?"

"The Empress Dowager originally thought that His Majesty was quite obedient and could be used by her." Yunshuang said, "But later, His Majesty was getting more and more out of her control, and was in danger of turning back on her, so she wanted to get rid of His Majesty and establish a new monarch. .”

Gu Chen: "..."

"The poison has been prepared, and the empress asked Shao An to wait for the opportunity to put it into your majesty's diet." Yunshuang said, "after your majesty dies, and then in the name of your majesty, get rid of the Gu family, and no one can stop her from doing it again." Mr. Li Xin..."

Gu Chen's whole head buzzed. He accidentally knocked over the inkstone but didn't realize it. He stood up abruptly and said in a broken voice, "What did you say?"

Yun Shuang thought he didn't believe it: "Shao An should always carry that bottle of poison|medicine next to him... Just grab him and search him. Or interrogate him."

However, Gu Chen was not thinking about this, he suddenly recalled the glass of poisonous wine in his previous life.Without any warning or any prior preparation, Xiao Tingshen issued an imperial decree announcing that Gu Chen would support his troops and be self-respecting, collaborating with the enemy and treasoning the country, committing a serious crime and punishing him with death.

At that time, Gu Chen's lieutenant general and all the generals couldn't believe it, their faces were full of grief and anger, and some even drew their swords, suggesting that it should be the opposite, they don't need such a tyrant.

And Gu Chen himself... how was he feeling at that time?

He stood at the gate, and heavy snow fell on him one after another. It was icy cold, and it seemed to fall on his heart.He took the imperial decree, carefully read it word by word.

Supporting soldiers with self-respect, collaborating with the enemy and treason, using power for personal gain, and treacherous.

He worked hard for Dajing for nearly ten years, defended Yanbei for Xiao Tingshen, and in the end he only got these sixteen words of evaluation.At that time, Gu Chen laughed at first, and the more he laughed, the more ridiculous he felt, and finally he simply threw the sword in his hand and laughed out loud.

Xiao Ting owes me deeply, Your Majesty owes me!

The friendship of classmates, the friendship of friends, and the love of fellow travelers can never go back. He, Gu Chen and Gu Yunding, ended up in such a miserable end, how unwilling and unfair!

After he finished laughing, he straightened his clothes, picked up the sword on the ground, and solemnly handed it to the lieutenant at the side: "Bring it back to Shenjing for me, and give it to my mother, and say that Yun Ting is not filial and cannot go back." Look at her."

"General Gu!"

Gu Chen raised his hand to stop them: "After I die, no one is allowed to move." His eyes swept over everyone's faces one by one, and his voice was calm, "This is an order."

After speaking, he smiled calmly, took the glass of poisonous wine from the hand of the messenger, and drank it down in one gulp.

He just died in Xiao Tingshen's hands.

He always thought that Xiao Tingshen killed him in his previous life, and he always thought so after his rebirth.But thinking about it now, there are many strange things in it - he thought that Xiao Tingshen expelled him, but Jiang Chong was sent by Xiao Tingshen in his previous life to protect him.If Xiao Tingshen really wanted to kill him, why bother?

After thinking about it this way, Gu Chen began to feel doubts in his heart.He couldn't see any reason for Xiao Tingshen in his previous life to kill him. Before the will of death came, he didn't even hear the slightest bit of wind.

Could it be...

Could it be that Shao An in the previous life succeeded, and under the instigation of the Queen Mother, he successfully poisoned Xiao Tingshen, and then forced Gu Chen to die.

Gu Chen stared blankly at the ground in front of him, he couldn't hear any sound, any picture was meaningless to him, and his whole body was shaking.

His face was as pale as paper, and the blood had faded from his lips.He stood like a statue for a while, then walked slowly out of the dungeon.It seemed that many people gathered around him, worried about his condition, and wanted to follow him out.

"I'm fine." He heard himself say mechanically, "I just want to be alone for a while."