beauty heart thorn

Chapter 156 Cause and Effect
Gu Mingzhu never expected that that day would be the last meeting.

Three days later, Gu Xiurong took Yue Jingshu out of the border of Ming country and entered Li country.

At nightfall, the two stayed in an inn in a border town of Li Country.

The two were silent all the way. After dinner, Yue Jingshu packed up her things and opened the door. She stared silently at the opposite door, and quickly turned around and went downstairs.

The evening breeze was gentle, and there were a lot of people in the small town at night. She rented a carriage, paid the money, and left the town in the dark.

After walking for a while, the road became more and more bumpy, Yue Jingshu felt that something was wrong, she opened the curtain of the car, and the scenery on both sides was fast, she said: "Why is the road so bumpy?"

The coachman replied, "Miss, it's not easy to travel at night."

Yue Jingshu withdrew her hand suspiciously, but her brows furrowed slightly. With a vigilant look, she touched the dagger in her sleeve, and the next moment the dagger slammed against the driver's neck: "Who are you! Who sent you here! This is not to go The road to Jiangling!"

The coachman panicked, and was strangled by the cold dagger: "Girl..."

Yue Jingshu's eyes hardened, and she ordered: "Stop!"

The coachman was forced to stop the carriage.

Yue Jingshu slammed her hands hard, the dagger pierced into the flesh and snowdrops emerged, the driver was so frightened that he broke out in cold sweat, Yue Jingshu asked coldly: "Who sent you here?"

The coachman stammered: "...someone gave you money... let me take you this way...it's none of my business..."

Yue Jingshu hesitated for a moment when she heard the words, she couldn't guess who it was for a while, she kicked the person: "Now go back the same way immediately!"

The coachman hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, yes! Let's do it, little one!"

The coachman was terrified by the knife, and when he was approaching the entrance of the town, the flames were soaring into the sky in the distance, and everywhere he looked were prairie fire snakes.

She couldn't help but let go, and the coachman immediately rolled out of the car in fright, and ran away in a hurry.

Yue Jingshu's expression was shocked, a bad thought rose from the soles of her feet, she almost ran forward, and some people were awakened, seeing that the fire was out of control, they dared not rush to put out the fire, they could only watch the blaze start.

In the backyard of the inn, seven or eight men were besieging Gu Xiurong. The slender sword was blood-colored, and there were several corpses lying on the ground. If this stalemate continued, both sides would be engulfed in flames.

The two sides fought together again.

Yue Jingshu's face was pale, she staggered and rushed in without even looking, a scorched beam was falling behind her, the movement was too loud, both of them turned their heads, both startled.

Gu Xiurong shouted angrily: "Get out!"

Yue Jingshu's expression was unprecedentedly determined, but what was even more strange was that because of her arrival, the fight stopped abruptly.

Yue Jingshu's eyes were mixed with shock, astonishment, disbelief and unbelief. She stared at the person in front of her, obviously recognizing him: "...Did my father ask you to come? Or did you come by yourself?"

The man seemed to be unable to bear it, and after a while, he still replied softly: "Miss...Master, he is also doing it for your own good!"

Yue Jingshu's eyes darkened, and she forced herself to accept the news almost instantly: "...let him go! I'll go back with you!"

The man wondered: "Young Nu can't follow orders, the general ordered you to bring back the head of Xiu Rong!"

Yue Jingshu sneered: "What conditions does he have?"

The man secretly thought that it was true.

The general really knew things like a god!

The man bit the bullet and brought back the original words: "The general said that the son of the Song family in Jiangling has not yet married."

"I'm married." Yue Jingshu said with a blank expression, "Can you let me go?"

The man stepped aside in an instant: "Mr. Gu, please!"

Gu Xiurong frowned, but remained motionless. He stretched out his hand to the person beside him, and said coldly, "Come here!"

Yue Jingshu was taken aback.

Gu Xiurong clenched the hilt of the sword in his hand, and looked sideways at her: "What are you still doing?"

The man looked serious, and moved the knife in his hand: "What does Mr. Gu mean?"

Gu Xiurong sneered: "Why don't you say you're stupid! You can't understand such a simple human language!"

Yue Jingshu stretched out her hand uncontrollably.

The man's face turned cold instantly: "Looking for death!"

"It's up to you?" Gu Xiurong held onto him, took him behind him, and glanced at the group of people: "You guys? You're not ashamed to say anything!"
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Gu Mingzhu's heart ached for no reason, and the soup in her hand almost spilled out.

Seeing her in pain, Chun'er hastily came to help her, and asked with concern, "Miss?"

Gu Mingzhu rubbed her chest with her hand, Chun'er made a cup of tea, she drank some reluctantly, her heart palpitations eased, and Xu Pingan, who was sleeping and thinking, suddenly started crying.

Gu Mingzhu hurriedly walked to the bed, picked up the little man and coaxed him patiently, she comforted in a low voice, but a strong uneasiness rose in her heart.

night time.

There was a knock on the door of the palace, and Jiuyue's anxious voice came from outside: "Master, urgent report at the border!"

Xu Jue was woken up, and the person in his arms shrank his head and opened his eyes.

Xu Jue patted people, stood up, put on his robe, and opened the door. Behind Jiuyue was a messenger soldier, half-kneeling on the ground: "The frontier customs urgently reported that after nightfall yesterday, the country of Li launched a surprise attack on Shuzhou. If it is lost, the people will retreat to Changde County!"

Gu Mingzhu felt sleepy and sat up. Xu Jue had already returned. Seeing that she was about to get up, she said, "It's still early, you should fall asleep."

Gu Mingzhu could only nod.

At the end of June, the peace treaty between the two countries was torn apart, and wars raged at the border once again.

It was the fourth day when I received the news. Xu Jue had just had dinner with Gu Mingzhu and was cooling off in the courtyard.

Gu Mingzhu was rarely interested, so she ordered Chun'er to take the piano and play a new song. When she was tuning the strings, Xu Jue was looking at her with her head on her hands.

Gu Mingzhu smiled slightly, ignored it, tried the piano sound just right, took a breath, moved her fingertips, and a string of melodious piano sounds flowed out...

Chu Qiu staggered down the corridor and walked quickly, with an extremely ugly expression on his face. When he came to him, he couldn't help but call out: "...Miss."

Gu Mingzhu kept ten fingers, and the sound of the piano suddenly turned and rushed straight up, with a majestic momentum rushing towards her face.

Chu Qiu's face was pale: "... I got the news... Young Master... Young Master is gone!"

There was a ferocious sound from the sound of the piano, and the strings suddenly broke with a snap, and a streak of dark red blood dripped on it. Gu Mingzhu raised her head: "What did you say?"

Chu Qiu replied with difficulty: "In the woods of Pingguan Town... I found Young Master and Miss Yue..."

Gu Mingzhu's face turned pale, and she stood up without knocking over the guqin. Xu Jue looked coldly: "Are you sure?"

Chu Qiu said: "The corpse... is already on its way back."

Gu Mingzhu didn't listen to the words that followed, she was anxious to go out, Chu Qiu didn't know what she was going to do, she was afraid she couldn't think about it, so she cried out: "Miss!"

Gu Mingzhu took two steps and then stopped. She turned her head to look at Xu Jue. Xu Jue walked up to her, but she didn't know how to comfort her.

In the evening, Gu Mingzhu couldn't wait to get out of the city, and met someone on the official road.

Xu Jue opened the curtain of the car. After several days of transportation, it was summer again, and the corpse already had an unconcealable smell.

Xu Jue's face was ugly, and he turned his head in the hazy night to look at the person behind him.

"I found this on a corpse in the woods." The person from Hongyelou handed over a token.

Gu Mingzhu's pupils shrank.

An ordinary token, but Gu Mingzhu has seen it before!

Xu Jue took the token, and the word Yue was engraved on the back. He was silent, and confirmed after a while: "It's the Yue family's cronies, that's right."

Gu Mingzhu stared at the token, and her eyes were red when she raised her head: "Why did he do this! This is also his daughter! How could he do it! Wasn't he the most satisfied with his brother before! Why? !why!"

Xu Jue hugged her madly: "Pearl...Pearl..."

Gu Mingzhu rushed outward with all her strength, and her whole body became manic, struggling desperately: "I want to kill him! I want to kill him! I will definitely..."

Xu Jue stabbed the man in the back, knocking him unconscious.
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Gu Mingzhu hasn't had a nightmare for a long time.

This time, she couldn't tell the reality from the previous life, and when she heard the news of her brother's death, she had a high fever in a daze.

She questioned herself over and over again: Is it wrong to get to this point?
In the previous life, my brother died in battle because of her bondage.

Now my brother is also decapitated because of her.

If there was no rebellion at the beginning, there would not be so many insurmountable gaps between him and Yue Jingshu!
is it wrong?
Is everything wrong?
All of a sudden, the blood qi surged up, and the uncontrollable fishy smell surged up strongly, and Gu Mingzhu spat out a big mouthful of blood.

(End of this chapter)