After the prosperous period, the Yuewei Museum looked a little desolate on this starry and moon-filled night.

Gu Juefei glanced at it, but what suddenly came to mind was Xue Chi's answer sheet, but it was Lu Jinxi who was watching him with a dangling demeanor.

He smiled slightly, then turned around and walked outside: "Let's go, it's getting late, it's time to go back."

When the child has entered.

There are thousands of households in the capital, and there is silence. Apart from the soldiers patrolling the city, there were no other figures on the street. Whether it is a dignitary or a commoner, they are now in a general sound sleep.

But at this moment, Wan Baochang, the chief steward of the Grand Master's Mansion, felt uneasy.

"Ugh……"

He stood near the side door, looking at the lantern of the Taishi's mansion hanging next to him for a while, and the stars and moon in the sky for a while, but his heart was full of ups and downs, and he couldn't help but start pacing back and forth.

"Tattoo..."

On the silent road, the sound of horse hooves was heard in the distance, and it was getting closer.

Wan Bao often heard it, he was shocked, and quickly stopped to look at the source of the sound.

Not long after, a tall jujube red horse and a carriage appeared on the road at the back. Gu Juefei, who was wearing a black azure crane cloak, came back alone.

When he reached the gate of the mansion, he turned over and dismounted, and there was a faint smile on his lips.

"Housekeeper Wan, are you still here at this hour?"

At a glance, he saw Wan Baochang who was waiting by the door, Gu Juefei handed the reins to the servant who came up, walked up, and asked in a normal tone.

Wan Baochang was relieved when he saw him: "You are back, Master has been waiting for you for a long time."

"..."

At this moment, Gu Juefei stepped into the gate of the mansion, but suddenly stopped, and the faint smile on his lips slowly disappeared.

"wait for me?"

"Yes, in the ancestral hall, after you come back, I will let you go."

Wan Baochang glanced at him cautiously, but in fact, he felt a little bit scared. Because today's scene always reminds him unconsciously of six years ago...

Also night.

Also waiting for Gu Juefei to come back.

It is also the shrine.

The difference is that the moon and stars are sparse tonight, and it was raining heavily that night.

Gu Juefei looked back at the night sky, as if he wanted to see if there would be an earth-shaking downpour tonight, but soon, he withdrew his eyes, nodded, and smiled plainly: "I'll go."

This demeanor seems to be no different from Gu Juefei of the past.

After speaking, he started again, but the direction he was going was no longer his own courtyard.

Wan Bao often looked at it, only to feel inexplicably uncomfortable.

He wanted to follow, light a lantern for the eldest son, and send him over, but when he thought of Gu Chengqian's order, he stopped and stayed where he was.

In the huge Taishi Mansion, the lights were turned off everywhere.

Only the ancestral hall located in the deepest part of the house is still lit, three or five dim yellow lamps, according to the plaques in the hall, according to the portraits of the sages of the Gu family hanging on the three walls, according to that. A dark red wooden staff on the table—

The "Family Law" of the Gu family.

Of course, it also followed a figure in the hall.

The Taishi, who used to be the most powerful in the court, now has a little old-fashioned dragon bell. The gray hair was dazzled by the dim candlelight. But his figure was still straight, as if he was still standing on the court.

The events of the past overlapped in his mind.

Xue Kuang's young face kept flashing in front of his eyes, and in the blink of an eye, it was covered with blood, which was cut off by the sharp light of the sword.

Gu Chengqian stood for so long that he had forgotten the time and was even a little dazed.

Behind him, when the footsteps sounded, he did not react immediately.

Until the voice he was waiting for sounded: "It's so late, I don't know if the Grand Master is looking for me, what's the matter?"

His voice was calm, and he could not hear the ups and downs of emotions.

The unfamiliar and polite "Master Taishi" separated the father and son who should have been intimate.

When Gu Chengqian looked back, Gu Juefei had already walked in.

He stopped a few steps behind him, his face was calm, and he couldn't pick out the slightest mistake, and there was even a little smile in his eyes.

It was as if he was not facing his father, but any ordinary person in the world.

How familiar?

How strange.

This is what people all over the world praised, and he was the next head of the Gu family.

At this moment, great ridicule, accompanied by disappointment and anger, poured out of his heart.

Gu Chengqian closed his eyes slightly, and almost tried his best to keep himself calm. He only looked at him and said coldly, "Kneel down."

kneel down?

Gu Juefei heard the words, but suddenly hooked his lips, and there was no surprise in his demeanor. It seems that before he came, he already knew what would happen and what would happen.

Six years ago, wasn't that the case?

When he returned from the palace, Wan Bao often told him that his father was waiting for him in the ancestral hall. So he went, and what was waiting for him was the same "kneel down" that seemed to be completely disappointed.

Six years ago, I didn't know what was waiting for me, so I knelt down according to my words.

But today...

Gu Juefei's gaze swept across the "ancestors" of Gu's family in the ancestral hall, and finally fell back on Gu Chengqian's body. He opened his mouth with a smile, and asked lightly, "Master Taishi, What did you hear today?"

There is no sarcasm in the words, and there is no concealment in the slightest.

People are still standing upright in the hall, where does it mean to kneel at all?

"Okay, okay, okay! You're good at it now..."

When Gu Chengqian saw it, the anger that had been suppressed was constantly rising and falling in his chest. He turned around directly, took down the "family law" on the record, and held it tightly in his hand.

"I'll ask you again, do you kneel or not?!"

"kneel?"

Hearing this, Gu Juefei finally sneered.

"I'm not at fault, why should I kneel?"

"No fault and no fault?!"

Gu Chengqian couldn't help but questioned loudly, almost all of Zaisuke's calmness and rationality all his life was exhausted at this moment.

"You Gu Juefei dare to say so openly that you have no faults and no faults?!"

"boom!"

The dark red wooden staff was raised high and swung directly towards Gu Juefei!

"Xue Kuang has already made plans for you. He died in battle, but his bones are gone! How lonely is his widow alive?"

"It's not enough for you to figure him out, and now you have to accept him as a posthumous student!"

"A six-year-old child, innocent and ignorant of the world! Gu Juefei, Gu Juefei, how dare you do such a thing that betrays God's conscience and destroys human relations!"

"boom!"

It's heavy again!

The excruciating pain immediately came from his body.

This is the pain that Gu Juefei had experienced six years ago. At that time, not only did he feel pain, but he even felt full of incomprehension. The bone-eroding chill was more than physical pain.

But now, what is left?

Sure enough, he knew that he wanted to accept Xue Chi as a student.

Princess Yongning, who was the insider of what happened back then, didn't like him very much, let alone his father who always felt sorry for Xue Chi, a "loyal and good general"?

He should have thought that when he came back, it would be a violent storm.