The Prime Minister s Darling

Chapter 278: 157 Scapegoat (Second Update)_2

Gu Chenglin rose angrily, not concerned about who was the county’s primary daughter. He got up from his wheelchair and charged at Yao’s Family with gritted teeth.

Madame Yao protected Gu Jinyu in her arms.

Gu Jiao walked out calmly, standing in front of Madame Yao.

Upon seeing this familiar face, the fear infused in Gu Chenglin by the dark room surged over him.

He froze!

Gu Chengfeng watched his younger brother without betraying any emotion, then glanced at Gu Jiao, his eyes deep and inscrutable.

Gu Jiao said indifferently, “Let’s go.”

Gu Jinyu then left, accompanied by Madame Yao.

“The Marquis Residence is not fun at all! My cousin even slandered me! I’ll never come again!” Ling Shuixian felt incredibly guilty, fearing that she’d be exposed by Gu Changqing’s questioning, so she quickly found an excuse and left as well.

Gu Changqing returned to the courtyard a half hour later.

He was ill, covered in sweat, his face still pale.

But his composure was unchanged, his aura as formidable as ever.

“What happened?” he asked, looking at his two silent younger brothers.

Gu Chenglin embellished the story of Gu Jinyu breaking the vase but framing Ling Shuixian. He truly felt sad; that vase was their mother’s favorite, and apparently, he even peed into it when he was little.

His mother laughed so hard at that story, hugging him and cooing affectionately.

He actually didn’t remember any of this.

But every time someone mentioned it, he would desperately construct the scene in his mind.

He believed that his mother was very gentle and loved him very much, she was the best mother in the whole world.

Gu Chenglin wiped away his tears.

He didn’t cry this much even when he was beaten half to death by Gu Jiao.

“That’s not a relic from our mother,” Gu Changqing said.

“Huh?” Gu Chenglin was taken aback.

Gu Chengfeng also looked at his eldest brother strangely.

Gu Changqing sighed, “The vase you peed in was already buried with our mother’s tomb. I didn’t know that you would cry for it the following day. So an imitation was made.”

Gu Chenglin: “…”

Dammit!

Had he been crying over a fake all this time?

But Gu Changqing frowned, puzzled. That vase was placed atop a curio shelf. How could Ling Shuixian or Gu Jinyu have knocked it over?

He went into his study room.

He noticed something was wrong at first glance.

The urn of his mother’s ashes that had been beside her spiritual tablet on the table had disappeared.

A chill ran through him, and when he turned his head, the place where the vase should have been was holding his mother’s urn.

Someone had been here.

The person had switched the places of his mother’s urn and the vase.

If not for this, the object that had been knocked over in the afternoon wasn’t an imitation vase but his mother’s urn.

“Who has been in my study room?” He called a servant.

The servant said, “Only the two Young Masters and the two Young Ladies.”

It wasn’t them.

They didn’t even realize the urn had been moved.

Could it be that someone knew the urn would be knocked over, so they moved it beforehand?

Gu Jiao and the others returned to Madame Yao’s courtyard.

Recalling the injustice she suffered in her eldest brother’s courtyard, Gu Jinyu’s eyes inadvertently reddened, “Mother, I want you to believe me, I did not touch anything in eldest brother’s study room. I know it’s off-limits. I only went in when I heard a weird noise. I was worried that something happened to Cousin. I didn’t expect Cousin to shatter the vase and then blame me for it…”

Madame Yao’s expression was not good, “Does it matter who broke it? How many times has Mother told you not to get close to your elder brothers? Or else you will face innumerable troubles. Isn’t it coming true now?”

Gu Jiao looked at Gu Jinyu, whose tears flowed like rain, her expression indifferent.

Madame Yao continued, “If your sister hadn’t stepped in today, Gu Chenglin would have laid his hands on you! Why are you still foolishly going to them?”

Gu Jinyu said in grievance, “But they are my brothers…”

Madame Yao sternly said, “You don’t have elder brothers. You only have a younger brother and an elder sister.”

It was harsh, but weren’t those three thinking the same?

Madame Yao continued, “From now on, you should also stop associating with the Ling Family.”

The Ling Family, the family of the late Lady of the Marquis, held great prejudice and dissatisfaction towards Madame Yao’s faction.

With tears in her eyes, Gu Jinyu said, “Grandmother asked me to tutor Cousin…today…”

She glanced at Gu Jiao, “If sister had been with us at the time, Cousin wouldn’t have gotten the chance to frame me!”

Madame Yao said, “How could your sister have been with you? She just arrived at the residence and doesn’t even know who Miss Ling is.”

Gu Jinyu stuttered, “Cousin initially invited me to invite sister to the pavilion with us. I went to call sister, but sister didn’t agree…”