mourning hall.
Since Lin Xiaodong is still an outsider in name, whether Mr. Gu has any other relatives in the town, his funeral affairs are all handled by the butler.
The door of Gu's mansion was opened, and people in the town who had been close friends with Mr. Gu in the past came to express their condolences, but even in the process of talking, everyone's eyes could not help but wander, and they fell on the plain figure kneeling in front of the mourning hall. superior.
Lin Xiaodong was wearing a snow-white mourning dress, kneeling on the futon.
He closed his eyes quietly, as if all the noise outside had nothing to do with him.
But as the saying goes, if you want to be pretty and filial, even though he didn't do any attire today, he simply tied his long hair behind his head with a wooden hairpin, but that thin and thin back alone is enough to make everyone present The guests were full of imagination.
In such a strange atmosphere, a man in a black gown strode in.
"Hey, where's your invitation card?" The doorman hurriedly chased after him and shouted loudly, "This is my master's place of worship, how could you trespass!?"
"Who is so bold?"
The butler, who was busy socializing with the guests and getting closer, turned around dissatisfied, but his eyes widened the moment he saw the visitor:
"Less, less...Master???"
He blurted out subconsciously, but regretted it almost in the next second.
The shout of "Young Master" immediately alarmed inside and outside the mourning hall.
Everyone turned their heads to look, only to see that the person who came was wearing a black moiré gown, the collar was buttoned to the last button motionless, his back was straight, he was tall and handsome, and there was a hint of rain in his dark eyes. Gloomy breath.
You can tell at a glance that it's not easy to mess with.
"Master Gu is back?" After confirming his identity, the people who had gathered around the butler immediately dispersed and lined up to greet the man, "Oh, you are really a good-looking talent! It's a pity that Master Gu didn't get to see you for the last time." one side."
Watching this scene, the housekeeper's remorseful expression gradually became gloomy.
But the man was unmoved by these, just kept silent, walked to the futon beside Lin Xiaodong, knelt down with a "plop", kowtowed deeply at Master Gu's coffin, and said in a hoarse voice: "Unfilial son Gu Xingzhai, pay homage to Father!"
A few seconds later, he straightened up, his gaze passing over the "woman" next to him calmly.
Although it was just a scrutinizing glance, Lin Xiaodong lowered his head, and his white and helpless expression was deeply burned into his pupils.
Looking at Lin Xiaodong's snow-white cheeks and neck that were almost transparent, he didn't know why, but a strange emotion slowly surged in his heart.
After receiving the letter from his father, he drove for a full day and night, but in the end he was still one step too late.
He couldn't bear to rest in the tavern before, and in just a short cup of tea, he had already heard countless gossip about "Mrs. Gu" and his father's possibly strange death process from people.
To be honest, Gu Xingzhai's attitude towards his father, the rumored "wife", was very indifferent.
On the one hand, this comes from the natural rejection of being the eldest son of the original partner, and on the other hand, it comes from Lin Xiaodong himself.
He is a descendant of a celestial master, although he does not have the yin and yang eyes like his master who can distinguish ghosts and ghosts at a glance. After so many years of practice, he has a set of self-judgment methods.
The breath of the woman in front of him gave him a very bad feeling.
"I heard about you in the letter." He thought about his words and said to Lin Xiaodong calmly, "Thank you for taking care of my father these years. Now he is gone, if you want to remarry, I will not stop you you."
Hearing the voice next to his ear, Lin Xiaodong shook his body, looked at Young Master Gu in a trance for a few seconds, and then said softly: "Thank you, Young Master. But..." He wanted to explain that he was only doing this to repay his kindness. Staying by Master Gu's side, but thinking of the old master's earnest instructions yesterday evening, he silently swallowed these words back.
"If you don't mind, just leave me at the house and serve as a itinerant doctor," he said.
It is impossible to leave, you must find a reason to stay in the town, otherwise his good guy card will be collected somewhere.
But how could Gu Xingzhai really regard Lin Xiaodong as a traveling doctor: "If that's the case, forget it."
After finishing speaking, he turned around indifferently, ignoring this side.
But looking at the man's stern side face, Lin Xiaodong always felt that something was wrong: "Tong, are you sure that Gu Xi really didn't follow? Why does this Gu Xingzhai look a bit like him to me?"
System: "... Where does it look like?"
Even if it uses the most cutting-edge technology in the universe to analyze the facial features of the two, it can't draw the conclusion that they look similar. The system really doesn't know what Lin Xiaodong bases his judgment on.
"Temperament." Lin Xiaodong said firmly.
system:"…………"
"In short, this possibility is very, very, very small," the system specially used three "very" to emphasize, "it is so small that it is almost as if you went out and bought a lottery ticket and won 500 million, and then bought another one and won 1000 million." So big. Do you think you are an African chieftain or a European emperor?"
Lin Xiaodong reflected on his usual luck and fell silent.
But he still has a stubborn idea deep in his heart, or intuition is more appropriate.
Even though this young master of the Gu family is completely different from Gu Xi in terms of appearance, voice and personality - the personality needs to be further explored - but he just feels that the two are very similar.
System: "You can try him out."
Lin Xiaodong humbly asked for advice: "How to test?"
"Doesn't he still have a good person card on him, anyway, sooner or later he will have to attack," the system urged, "You can try to seduce/lure Gu Xingzhai, and see if he will be tempted by you."
Lin Xiaodong said strangely: "No, didn't you always tell me to be a good person before? You must know that in the eyes of this Young Master Gu, I am his dead father's wife."
System: "You're not really related to Mr. Gu. Besides, if this Gu Xingzhai is really Gu Xi as you think, then you're not called seduction."
"What's that called?"
"Husband and wife fun."
Lin Xiaodong: "..."
He began to reflect on whether he had really broken the system.
But the system's words also inspired Lin Xiaodong. Currently he only knows the housekeeper and Gu Xingzhai in this town. If there is no accident, these are two good person cards.Except for the one of Mr. Gu, the remaining two cards have no clue at all for the time being. With his current slightly embarrassing status, it is indeed quite difficult to clear them.
Most importantly, after kneeling in the mourning hall all afternoon, Lin Xiaodong was already hungry.
He looked around secretly from the corner of his eye, and the guests were almost gone, only a few scattered people were still talking to the housekeeper.The only ones left in the mourning hall were him and Gu Xingzhai who had just returned from the wind and dust.
The man was still kneeling on the futon beside him, his eyes were closed tightly, the fundus of his eyes was slightly black and blue, and he was muttering something like the sutra of the past life.
Lin Xiaodong noticed that he was wearing a string of dark wooden beads on his right wrist. Although he didn't know what kind of wood it was made of, but just looking at the densely carved patterns on it, he knew it was extraordinary.
Gu Xingzhai's big hands are very beautiful, slender and fair, with well-defined joints.Facing the coffin of his deceased father, he obviously felt ashamed. He lowered his head, and his fists on his knees were clenched white, revealing light blue blood vessels, which could not be clearly seen in the curling cigarettes in the mourning hall.
There is a kind of man who, although his whole body is tightly wrapped in cloth, can always inspire a strong desire to conquer.
I want to tear off his calm and calm mask, I want to take off his clothes one by one with my own hands, I want to see the anger of being offended on his face, but the desire to succumb to desire is hidden deep in his eyes Struggling and forbearance.
"If you are too weak to hold on, you can go back to your room to rest."
As if he had noticed the gaze beside him, Gu Xingzhai closed his eyes and said calmly without turning his head.
Lin Xiaodong came back to his senses, but he didn't refuse, he just gave a soft "hmm" and said, "Thank you, young master."
Although he knows that Mr. Gu is a good person, it is really difficult for him to develop too deep feelings for a person who only met once, and even passed away within a day of knowing each other.
Therefore, after hearing Gu Xingzhai's words, Lin Xiaodong supported the cold floor tiles of the mourning hall, and wanted to get up and leave.
But he forgot that he had been kneeling for too long before, and his feet were already numb. As soon as he stood up, he felt an unbearable soreness in his calves.
But at the last moment, a powerful big hand grabbed his arm just in time.
Lin Xiaodong turned his head to look, subconsciously smiled at the man: "Thank you."
Although such a close contact is just a little help, Gu Xingzhai's expression is obviously still a little uncomfortable.
He took a deep look at Lin Xiaodong's white face and those crooked eyes when he smiled. The young man has a pair of beautiful phoenix eyes. In the words of those townspeople, "If you look at it any more, you will be hooked."
Gu Xingzhai quickly averted his gaze.
Such a beautiful woman, he thought, no wonder his father was tempted.
"Be careful next time," he said.
After supporting Lin Xiaodong, the man withdrew his hand almost immediately.
But the butler standing outside the door had a panoramic view of the scene just now. Looking at Gu Xingzhai's tall and tall back, he clenched the hand hanging by his side bit by bit, and his eyes also changed from facing the shrewd enthusiasm of the guests. Gradually turned into a cruel and cold.
Mr. Gu's heirs are withered, and he has accumulated a lot of wealth in half his life, but he only has one son who has been away for many years.The housekeeper had prayed to God several times, hoping that the Gu patriarch would never return to the town - in this way, not only would he be able to sit on Master Gu's large inheritance, even Lin Xiaodong would be his too!
But now Gu Xingzhai is back.
Anyway, in the eyes of others, he is the legitimate heir of the Gu family.
But his butler can only be a butler forever, devoting his whole life to the Gu family... Thinking of this, how could he be willing?
"Brother Zhao, don't worry too much," a cloth shop owner in the town who was usually close to him came over and whispered in his ear, "I have a plan, I promise you will take down this brat without bloodshed."
The housekeeper narrowed his eyes slightly: "Oh? My dear brother, please tell me."
"Women harm the country, and beauty is evil, and it has existed since ancient times." The owner of the cloth shop laughed in a low voice, "As the saying goes, the sharpness of words is better than swords. Brother Zhao, you are a fan of the authorities. The ready-made chess pieces are right under your nose. Why? Why don't you make good use of it?"
Hearing this, the housekeeper couldn't help frowning.
Although he really wanted to bring down Gu Xingzhai, he still had plans for Lin Xiaodong. If it was not a last resort, he still didn't want to sacrifice such a beauty to achieve his goal.
"Hey, Brother Zhao is sympathetic and cherishes jade, I understand," the cloth store owner patted him on the shoulder, shook his head and said, "But I don't want the child to be caught by a wolf, and you think, when Gu Xingzhai is gone, Miss Lin will naturally be in your hands." Is it a thing? A mere woman who has no strength to restrain a chicken, can she find her way out of the sky without relying on you?"
The butler frowned and thought about it, and the more he touched it, the more reasonable he felt.
"Listening to what you said is really enlightening!" He clasped his hands politely, and said solemnly, "If there is a day when I, Zhao, become prosperous, I will not forget my old brother's contribution today!"
"Where."
The two looked at each other, with a tacit smile on their faces.
They thought they could avoid people's eyes and ears by standing outside the mourning hall where people come and go, but Gu Xingzhai has practiced for many years, and his hearing power has long been far superior to that of ordinary people. .
He took a deep breath and opened his eyes.
Looking at the pale mourning banner blown by the wind in front of him, the man's eyes were neither sad nor happy.
He hasn't returned home for many years, and the small town today is no longer as simple as it used to be. The people's hearts are treacherous, and demons have entered the world... It's a hundred times more sinister than he imagined.
"Father," he held three sticks of incense, and solemnly said to the front, "my son is not filial, but don't worry, I came back this time to find out the truth and let you rest in peace under the Nine Springs."
"If that person really did it, I will never forgive him lightly!"
Since Lin Xiaodong is still an outsider in name, whether Mr. Gu has any other relatives in the town, his funeral affairs are all handled by the butler.
The door of Gu's mansion was opened, and people in the town who had been close friends with Mr. Gu in the past came to express their condolences, but even in the process of talking, everyone's eyes could not help but wander, and they fell on the plain figure kneeling in front of the mourning hall. superior.
Lin Xiaodong was wearing a snow-white mourning dress, kneeling on the futon.
He closed his eyes quietly, as if all the noise outside had nothing to do with him.
But as the saying goes, if you want to be pretty and filial, even though he didn't do any attire today, he simply tied his long hair behind his head with a wooden hairpin, but that thin and thin back alone is enough to make everyone present The guests were full of imagination.
In such a strange atmosphere, a man in a black gown strode in.
"Hey, where's your invitation card?" The doorman hurriedly chased after him and shouted loudly, "This is my master's place of worship, how could you trespass!?"
"Who is so bold?"
The butler, who was busy socializing with the guests and getting closer, turned around dissatisfied, but his eyes widened the moment he saw the visitor:
"Less, less...Master???"
He blurted out subconsciously, but regretted it almost in the next second.
The shout of "Young Master" immediately alarmed inside and outside the mourning hall.
Everyone turned their heads to look, only to see that the person who came was wearing a black moiré gown, the collar was buttoned to the last button motionless, his back was straight, he was tall and handsome, and there was a hint of rain in his dark eyes. Gloomy breath.
You can tell at a glance that it's not easy to mess with.
"Master Gu is back?" After confirming his identity, the people who had gathered around the butler immediately dispersed and lined up to greet the man, "Oh, you are really a good-looking talent! It's a pity that Master Gu didn't get to see you for the last time." one side."
Watching this scene, the housekeeper's remorseful expression gradually became gloomy.
But the man was unmoved by these, just kept silent, walked to the futon beside Lin Xiaodong, knelt down with a "plop", kowtowed deeply at Master Gu's coffin, and said in a hoarse voice: "Unfilial son Gu Xingzhai, pay homage to Father!"
A few seconds later, he straightened up, his gaze passing over the "woman" next to him calmly.
Although it was just a scrutinizing glance, Lin Xiaodong lowered his head, and his white and helpless expression was deeply burned into his pupils.
Looking at Lin Xiaodong's snow-white cheeks and neck that were almost transparent, he didn't know why, but a strange emotion slowly surged in his heart.
After receiving the letter from his father, he drove for a full day and night, but in the end he was still one step too late.
He couldn't bear to rest in the tavern before, and in just a short cup of tea, he had already heard countless gossip about "Mrs. Gu" and his father's possibly strange death process from people.
To be honest, Gu Xingzhai's attitude towards his father, the rumored "wife", was very indifferent.
On the one hand, this comes from the natural rejection of being the eldest son of the original partner, and on the other hand, it comes from Lin Xiaodong himself.
He is a descendant of a celestial master, although he does not have the yin and yang eyes like his master who can distinguish ghosts and ghosts at a glance. After so many years of practice, he has a set of self-judgment methods.
The breath of the woman in front of him gave him a very bad feeling.
"I heard about you in the letter." He thought about his words and said to Lin Xiaodong calmly, "Thank you for taking care of my father these years. Now he is gone, if you want to remarry, I will not stop you you."
Hearing the voice next to his ear, Lin Xiaodong shook his body, looked at Young Master Gu in a trance for a few seconds, and then said softly: "Thank you, Young Master. But..." He wanted to explain that he was only doing this to repay his kindness. Staying by Master Gu's side, but thinking of the old master's earnest instructions yesterday evening, he silently swallowed these words back.
"If you don't mind, just leave me at the house and serve as a itinerant doctor," he said.
It is impossible to leave, you must find a reason to stay in the town, otherwise his good guy card will be collected somewhere.
But how could Gu Xingzhai really regard Lin Xiaodong as a traveling doctor: "If that's the case, forget it."
After finishing speaking, he turned around indifferently, ignoring this side.
But looking at the man's stern side face, Lin Xiaodong always felt that something was wrong: "Tong, are you sure that Gu Xi really didn't follow? Why does this Gu Xingzhai look a bit like him to me?"
System: "... Where does it look like?"
Even if it uses the most cutting-edge technology in the universe to analyze the facial features of the two, it can't draw the conclusion that they look similar. The system really doesn't know what Lin Xiaodong bases his judgment on.
"Temperament." Lin Xiaodong said firmly.
system:"…………"
"In short, this possibility is very, very, very small," the system specially used three "very" to emphasize, "it is so small that it is almost as if you went out and bought a lottery ticket and won 500 million, and then bought another one and won 1000 million." So big. Do you think you are an African chieftain or a European emperor?"
Lin Xiaodong reflected on his usual luck and fell silent.
But he still has a stubborn idea deep in his heart, or intuition is more appropriate.
Even though this young master of the Gu family is completely different from Gu Xi in terms of appearance, voice and personality - the personality needs to be further explored - but he just feels that the two are very similar.
System: "You can try him out."
Lin Xiaodong humbly asked for advice: "How to test?"
"Doesn't he still have a good person card on him, anyway, sooner or later he will have to attack," the system urged, "You can try to seduce/lure Gu Xingzhai, and see if he will be tempted by you."
Lin Xiaodong said strangely: "No, didn't you always tell me to be a good person before? You must know that in the eyes of this Young Master Gu, I am his dead father's wife."
System: "You're not really related to Mr. Gu. Besides, if this Gu Xingzhai is really Gu Xi as you think, then you're not called seduction."
"What's that called?"
"Husband and wife fun."
Lin Xiaodong: "..."
He began to reflect on whether he had really broken the system.
But the system's words also inspired Lin Xiaodong. Currently he only knows the housekeeper and Gu Xingzhai in this town. If there is no accident, these are two good person cards.Except for the one of Mr. Gu, the remaining two cards have no clue at all for the time being. With his current slightly embarrassing status, it is indeed quite difficult to clear them.
Most importantly, after kneeling in the mourning hall all afternoon, Lin Xiaodong was already hungry.
He looked around secretly from the corner of his eye, and the guests were almost gone, only a few scattered people were still talking to the housekeeper.The only ones left in the mourning hall were him and Gu Xingzhai who had just returned from the wind and dust.
The man was still kneeling on the futon beside him, his eyes were closed tightly, the fundus of his eyes was slightly black and blue, and he was muttering something like the sutra of the past life.
Lin Xiaodong noticed that he was wearing a string of dark wooden beads on his right wrist. Although he didn't know what kind of wood it was made of, but just looking at the densely carved patterns on it, he knew it was extraordinary.
Gu Xingzhai's big hands are very beautiful, slender and fair, with well-defined joints.Facing the coffin of his deceased father, he obviously felt ashamed. He lowered his head, and his fists on his knees were clenched white, revealing light blue blood vessels, which could not be clearly seen in the curling cigarettes in the mourning hall.
There is a kind of man who, although his whole body is tightly wrapped in cloth, can always inspire a strong desire to conquer.
I want to tear off his calm and calm mask, I want to take off his clothes one by one with my own hands, I want to see the anger of being offended on his face, but the desire to succumb to desire is hidden deep in his eyes Struggling and forbearance.
"If you are too weak to hold on, you can go back to your room to rest."
As if he had noticed the gaze beside him, Gu Xingzhai closed his eyes and said calmly without turning his head.
Lin Xiaodong came back to his senses, but he didn't refuse, he just gave a soft "hmm" and said, "Thank you, young master."
Although he knows that Mr. Gu is a good person, it is really difficult for him to develop too deep feelings for a person who only met once, and even passed away within a day of knowing each other.
Therefore, after hearing Gu Xingzhai's words, Lin Xiaodong supported the cold floor tiles of the mourning hall, and wanted to get up and leave.
But he forgot that he had been kneeling for too long before, and his feet were already numb. As soon as he stood up, he felt an unbearable soreness in his calves.
But at the last moment, a powerful big hand grabbed his arm just in time.
Lin Xiaodong turned his head to look, subconsciously smiled at the man: "Thank you."
Although such a close contact is just a little help, Gu Xingzhai's expression is obviously still a little uncomfortable.
He took a deep look at Lin Xiaodong's white face and those crooked eyes when he smiled. The young man has a pair of beautiful phoenix eyes. In the words of those townspeople, "If you look at it any more, you will be hooked."
Gu Xingzhai quickly averted his gaze.
Such a beautiful woman, he thought, no wonder his father was tempted.
"Be careful next time," he said.
After supporting Lin Xiaodong, the man withdrew his hand almost immediately.
But the butler standing outside the door had a panoramic view of the scene just now. Looking at Gu Xingzhai's tall and tall back, he clenched the hand hanging by his side bit by bit, and his eyes also changed from facing the shrewd enthusiasm of the guests. Gradually turned into a cruel and cold.
Mr. Gu's heirs are withered, and he has accumulated a lot of wealth in half his life, but he only has one son who has been away for many years.The housekeeper had prayed to God several times, hoping that the Gu patriarch would never return to the town - in this way, not only would he be able to sit on Master Gu's large inheritance, even Lin Xiaodong would be his too!
But now Gu Xingzhai is back.
Anyway, in the eyes of others, he is the legitimate heir of the Gu family.
But his butler can only be a butler forever, devoting his whole life to the Gu family... Thinking of this, how could he be willing?
"Brother Zhao, don't worry too much," a cloth shop owner in the town who was usually close to him came over and whispered in his ear, "I have a plan, I promise you will take down this brat without bloodshed."
The housekeeper narrowed his eyes slightly: "Oh? My dear brother, please tell me."
"Women harm the country, and beauty is evil, and it has existed since ancient times." The owner of the cloth shop laughed in a low voice, "As the saying goes, the sharpness of words is better than swords. Brother Zhao, you are a fan of the authorities. The ready-made chess pieces are right under your nose. Why? Why don't you make good use of it?"
Hearing this, the housekeeper couldn't help frowning.
Although he really wanted to bring down Gu Xingzhai, he still had plans for Lin Xiaodong. If it was not a last resort, he still didn't want to sacrifice such a beauty to achieve his goal.
"Hey, Brother Zhao is sympathetic and cherishes jade, I understand," the cloth store owner patted him on the shoulder, shook his head and said, "But I don't want the child to be caught by a wolf, and you think, when Gu Xingzhai is gone, Miss Lin will naturally be in your hands." Is it a thing? A mere woman who has no strength to restrain a chicken, can she find her way out of the sky without relying on you?"
The butler frowned and thought about it, and the more he touched it, the more reasonable he felt.
"Listening to what you said is really enlightening!" He clasped his hands politely, and said solemnly, "If there is a day when I, Zhao, become prosperous, I will not forget my old brother's contribution today!"
"Where."
The two looked at each other, with a tacit smile on their faces.
They thought they could avoid people's eyes and ears by standing outside the mourning hall where people come and go, but Gu Xingzhai has practiced for many years, and his hearing power has long been far superior to that of ordinary people. .
He took a deep breath and opened his eyes.
Looking at the pale mourning banner blown by the wind in front of him, the man's eyes were neither sad nor happy.
He hasn't returned home for many years, and the small town today is no longer as simple as it used to be. The people's hearts are treacherous, and demons have entered the world... It's a hundred times more sinister than he imagined.
"Father," he held three sticks of incense, and solemnly said to the front, "my son is not filial, but don't worry, I came back this time to find out the truth and let you rest in peace under the Nine Springs."
"If that person really did it, I will never forgive him lightly!"
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