Under the Empress Dowager, all members will be King

Chapter 3 The ancestral home was struck by lightning

The ancestral house was struck by lightning, and the news that Grandma Zhong and all the servants were killed was spread back home. Mrs. Gu's tone was cold, "Not enough to succeed, but more to fail."

Gu Qingrong retreated from the crowd, and went up to pour tea for Mrs. Gu herself, "Mother, don't be angry, she has been kicked out of the Gu family, what troubles can she make, even if she is a monkey who has become a spirit, she still can't escape you Wuzhishan."

"That's not bad. I'd better allow you to think forethought. Anyway, your father won't be home for half a month, so let her take her time."

Shouts came from outside the room, it seemed that someone was kowtowing, each sound was muffled, like drums beating the hearts of Madam Gu and Gu Qingrong.

"Ma'am, please show mercy and ask Chu Chu to go back to the ancestral house to serve the second lady. The second lady has kindness to the servant, please let the servant repay the kindness to the second lady."

Mrs. Gu was full of anger, and she had nowhere to vent her worries, and now she had a live target.

"It's not impossible for you to take care of the second lady."

"Thank you ma'am, thank you ma'am, in the next life Chuchu will be an ox and a horse for your madam, and tie a grass ring."

"My wife doesn't ask for the afterlife, but only talks about this life. You just said that you want to repay the kindness of the second lady and the Gu family. Don't you still want to repay the kindness?"

Chu Chu's expectant eyes dimmed in an instant, her expression flustered and she was at a loss.

"I beg Madam to be merciful, and let the servants go to the second lady's side."

"What kind of ecstasy soup did Gu Yinwei give you? You don't even want the dignity of a big maid, you are willing to degenerate to follow her in the backcountry."

Gu Qingrong didn't understand Chu Chu's actions. Chu Chu was loyal and had a knack for embroidery. She originally planned to keep Chu Chu by her side.

"It's okay to send you to the second sister's side, it depends on whether you want to part with it, this embroidered hand."

These words exploded in Chu Chu's ears like a thunderbolt, and Chu Chu's tears were like broken beads.

The maid beside Gu Qingrong, who is from the same hometown as Chu Chu, hastily stepped forward and slapped Chu Chu, "If you don't know the etiquette, don't offend your wife and young miss, and leave immediately."

She shot very lightly, seemingly slapping Chu Chu, but she was actually helping Chu Chu out of the siege.

But Chuchu didn't appreciate her, she looked at her right hand, then picked up a stone from the garden, and threw it on her right hand one by one.

The skin was smashed to pieces, and the flesh was bloody, but Mrs. Gu, mother and daughter didn't shout to stop.

Feng Tao said: "Ma'am, the death of this lowly servant girl is not a pity. If her body is allowed to pollute your yard, it will not be beautiful."

Only then did Mrs. Gu say: "Back off, since you want to follow Second Miss, you should leave as soon as possible. No luggage or bandages are allowed."

Chuchu came out of Mrs. Gu's yard in a mess, and the other maids pointed at her along the way, but no one helped her.

Bian Tao chased her out, chasing after Chu Chu and scolding her for offending the madam and the eldest lady, but actually secretly gave her a silver ring and asked her to pawn it into wound medicine and travel expenses.

Chu Chu took it silently, "If Miss and I can come back alive, we must not forget the great kindness of Sister Tongtao."

"If you can live, don't hide away and find a secluded village to live. When you come back, you will only die. Now the Gu family is no longer the previous Gu family. The current Gu family is a dragon's pond and a tiger's den."

After finishing speaking, she pushed Chu Chu out of the door and ordered: "Close the door, close the corner door quickly."

Chu Chu fell to the ground, and the doorkeeper told her to get out of the way so that she would not dirty the ground in front of Gu's house.

People in the neighborhood who knew Chu Chu worked together to send her to the hospital for treatment.

Because of Chu Chu's outstanding embroidery skills and kindness, the doctor in the medical clinic asked Chu Chu to embroider a screen. The screen was sent to the capital by the doctor's son. The governor of the capital liked the screen very much and gave a lot of rewards.

The doctor and Chu Chu are old acquaintances, and they did not hide her cause of disease.

"The injury is too serious. I'm afraid I won't be able to use needles in the future."

"Doctor, help me think of a way." Chu Chu begged with tears.

"Girl, I really tried my best, not to mention I am old, even the imperial doctor in the palace may be difficult to cure, unless I find the Daluo Jinxian, there is no hope of recovery."

Chu Chu, whose hopes were shattered, hired a bullock cart and rushed to Yugu Village.

Gu Yinwei hadn't eaten for a day, and her belly was croaking with hunger. The villagers were busy with work and had no time to pay attention to her, so she had to go to the Earth Temple under the bridge to get something to eat.

Gu Yinwei babbled while eating, "Today I'll go to Longyou Shoal and eat two pieces of steamed buns from your little land god."

The clay sculptures of the land gods were motionless.

"If you don't speak, it means acquiescence. After eating the steamed buns, eat a peach."

Gu Yinwei took a peach to the river to wash it, but the peach was washed away by the water, so she jumped into the water to fish it.

Chu Chu passed by the bridge in a bullock cart and shouted in fright, "Miss, come back quickly."

"No, my lady jumped into the river, coachman, go down and save my lady."

The coachman just made new clothes and shoes today, and he was a little embarrassed: "The water is so deep, I...I can't do anything about it."

"I'll give you the hanging money, no matter what, I will save my young lady."

The coachman plunged into the water, Gu Yinwei had already picked up a peach, but the coachman carried her on his shoulder, and the peach she just picked up fell again.

Chu Chu held Gu Yinwei's hand and cried, "Miss, miss, you can't let it go."

She didn't think about it, she just wanted to wash a peach, not to jump into the river.

The coachman took the money and left happily, Gu Yinwei asked: "You gave him all the money?"

"He saved the young lady's life, the servant should give the money."

Gu Yinwei's expression froze on his face, not knowing whether to cry or laugh.

Chu Chu was injured and had run out of money, so she had to find a way to make money.

Chu Chu was a wounded person, and the burden of making money had to fall on her. Gu Yinwei inspected around and found that there was nothing in the ancestral house that could be exchanged for money. At this moment, there was only one ice talisman left on her body.

A man squatted in front of a lush green bamboo grove. This man tiptoed around, even breathing lightly.

The bamboo leaves are glowing with green light, and the bamboo stems are straight and straight, exuding a faint fragrance.

No bamboo makes people vulgar, and no meat makes people thin. It can be seen that the ancestor of the Gu family was a pursuer, different from his unreliable cheap father.

The ground of the bamboo forest is covered with withered and yellow bamboo leaves. The bottom of this bamboo forest is full of bamboo roots, and few weeds grow out.

Gu Yinwei stared at a bamboo leaf green in the bamboo forest. It was green all over, like a string of green emeralds.

The sunlight in the bamboo grove leaked from the gaps in the bamboo leaves, and the green light on Zhuyeqing's body was even stronger, which is now, three feet in front of the left.

The ice talisman flew out quickly, and Zhuyeqing was instantly frozen.

Gu Yinwei opened the sack that had been prepared, collected the prey, and returned to the cowshed with the sack.

It was evening when Gu Yinwei went back, and flocks of birds were busy returning to the forest.

A few wisps of cooking smoke slowly drifted out from the roof, the air was filled with the smell of food, and a human voice came from a distance, "Cuckoo, drip, drip."

The plump ducks waddled home, and the chicks and roosters outside the fence ran towards their owners.

Chick and Duck have food to eat, but Gu Yinwei and Chu Chu have nothing to eat.

"When the servant is ready, the servant will make embroidery to support the young lady."

When Chu Chu said this, even she herself didn't believe it.

Gu Yin patted her on the shoulder slightly, comfortingly said: "The food money for the next half month has already been settled, and tomorrow we will go to the village chief's house to get the money."

Chu Chu didn't refute Gu Yinwei's words. In a rural farmhouse, money is hard-won, so naturally they value it more than their lives. How could they give up others easily? The young lady doesn't understand this truth, but the young lady is so happy, and she can't bear to disappoint her.

Forget it, if the young lady fails to go to the village chief's house to find relief tomorrow, she will pawn the pair of earrings on her ears. "Miss, servants are really useless. Instead of being able to take care of Miss, they have become a drag on Miss."

Chu Chu burst into sobbing tears, her crying sound was particularly desolate in the silent night.

"It will get better, our lives will get better, and your hands will get better."

The master and servant sat on the hay around the fire, fell asleep delicately, Zhuyeqing in the sack turned over, Gu Yinwei moved his wrist, and the ice talisman froze it again.

The next morning, it was just dawn.

Gu Yinwei went to look for the village head with a sack, and Chu Chu held a picked up bamboo stick in her hand. Eight out of ten households in the countryside have dogs.Chu Chu brought bamboo sticks mainly to guard against dogs.

Her young lady was bitten by a dog before, so she doesn't like vicious dogs that bite people.

Seeing Gu Yinwei coming, the village head's daughter-in-law hurriedly closed the door of the stove house. The village head was a little impatient. The family was preparing to have breakfast at this point. The village head thought they were here to eat, and his expression was a little displeased.

"Village chief, do you accept bamboo leaf green? Two catties of bamboo leaf green."

"Zhuyeqing weighs two catties, dead or alive?"

"Of course it's alive."

"I'll take a look first."

Gu Yinwei handed the sack in his hand to the village chief, and the village chief opened the rope to take a look. This Zhuyeqing was alive, without any scars on his body, and it was worth a lot of money to sell it as medicinal wine to the pharmacy.

"Where did you get this thing?"

"Chu Chu caught her, her hands were injured."

Chu Chu, who was wandering in the air, was called by name, and she smiled awkwardly.

The village chief didn't suspect him, so he offered money to Gu Yinwei, but Gu Yinwei said he didn't want any money, so the village chief gave her some rice noodles and vegetables.

The village chief's wife came out with the food, "Hurry up and eat, the food is so soft and rotten after being bored for a while."

"Master, Chuchu looks so quiet, how dare she grab a two-pound Zhuyeqing with her bare hands?"

"People are in a hurry, and nothing can be done. Everyone cleans the snow in front of the door, regardless of the frost on the roof of others, who can't help, don't think about helping, it's not something we should worry about, don't worry about it. "

"That's the reason. I heard that the Gu family is going to send their daughter to the capital to choose the imperial concubine."

"I told you not to inquire, but you are still inquiring nonsense. The Gu family has a big business, so avoid dealing with them. The less you know about many things, the safer you are."

After exchanging food from the village head's house, the master and servant returned to the ancestral house to cook. The kitchen utensils and tableware were old and used. Chu Chu took Gu Yinwei to wash them together and they were barely usable.

The meal is very simple, but the two are very satisfied.

Chu Chu often weeps with her arms folded in no one's place. Learning embroidery has to start with the boy's kung fu.

Thread splitting, color matching, composition, and stitching all required many years of practice. Now her hands are useless, and most of Chu Chu's heart is dead.

Gu Yinwei decided to go to the mountains to gather herbs to treat Chu Chu's illness, but the mountains are high, the forests are dense, and there are many wild animals, so she dare not go rashly.

It seems that I have to find a way to go back home in advance. Although I won't starve to death if I am trapped here, Chu Chu will probably die of despair.

"Chuchu, trust me, I will take you back home in half a month."

Chu Chu nodded doubtfully, but actually didn't hold any hope in her heart.

Taking advantage of Chu Chu's afternoon nap, Gu Yinwei slowly walked up the stone steps behind the house, and at the intersection of the mountain, he found a dilapidated Town God's Temple. The wall in front of the temple was cracked by the wind and rain. Weeds half a person's height can be seen inside the wall.

The Town God's Temple has been abandoned for many years, there are no pilgrims, and few people pass by. It is quiet and deep, which is very suitable for summoning souls.

Gu Yinwei used his finger as a pen, and drew the soul-attracting talisman with his own blood as a guide.

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