Jackie Chan's Son-in-Law

Chapter 16 The human heart is sinister
Chen Qing has been at the Gu family's house for almost half a month, and during that time, he has not had the chance to see Miss Gu.

Of course, the most important choice here is that he never went to ask to see this Miss Gu.

At this very moment, these two "young couples," who were already engaged and could be considered fiancés, met on this unremarkable morning.

This should have been a wonderful meeting, but because of this extremely bad news, even Chen Qing frowned.

He stepped aside and said, "Miss Gu, don't rush, let's talk slowly."

Miss Gu couldn't care less about anything else at this point. She led Yue'er into Chen Qing's room and sat down on a stool by the table. Chen Qing poured her some tea and asked, "How did Gu Shouyi's son die?"

"Someone delivered a letter this morning saying that."

Miss Gu looked at Chen Qing and said, "They said it was lost last night. They searched all night and found it early this morning in an uninhabited house. It was already lifeless."

Chen Qing thought for a moment, then looked at Gu Pan and said with a wry smile, "Why are you looking at me, Miss?"

Miss Gu sighed: "My family made a scene at Anrentang, saying... saying someone saw it..."

"Young master, you've been wandering around the city these past few days. You said you went to Gu Shouyi's house, and that you've been wandering around because... because..."

Chen Qing frowned: "Is it to hide a body in an uninhabited house?"

Miss Gu replied with a worried expression, "Yes."

Chen Qing narrowed his eyes, first letting out a cold laugh, then looking at Gu Pan and asking, "Does Miss also think this way?"

Gu Pan said sadly, "If I thought the same way, why would I have come to inform you, young master? I would have brought the county officials to arrest you directly."

At this moment, with Mr. Gu not at home, Miss Gu was clearly flustered by such a major incident. She looked at Chen Qing and said, "I left someone at Anrentang to keep an eye on things. They might come to our house to cause trouble in a little while."

"Young master, why don't you go back to Huzhou Prefecture to hide for a while? It won't be too late to come back after the officials have investigated the matter."

Gu Pan's words clearly showed she had lost her composure, but her intentions were good; at this moment, she was still thinking of Chen Qing.

Without hesitation, Young Master Chen shook his head: "I can leave Deqing anytime, but not now. If I were to leave now, there would be no way to explain myself."

Even if the authorities find the real culprit in the future, no one will believe it.

At this point, Chen Qing lowered his head and took a sip of tea. After a long while, he slowly said, "These past few days, I've considered many things, but I never expected that we'd be from the same family..."

"How could someone be so ruthless!"

This matter was indeed beyond Chen Qing's expectations.

In the past few days, he had thought of many ways that the Gu family members might use to deal with him, but he never expected that something like this would happen.

After all, Gu Shouyi was the first among the Gu family members to make trouble for him, and Gu Shouyi was clearly being used as a pawn.

Most of his men were among his cousins.

In this era, there is certainly a difference between cousins ​​and uncles, but the difference is not very big. Chen Qing never imagined that someone would kill Gu Shouyi's only son because of this matter!
Even though Chen Qing was an outsider, he never made things difficult for Gu Shouyi's three children when they fell at his feet that day!

Miss Gu was at a loss. She looked at Chen Qing and asked, "Young Master Chen, what... what should we do about this?"

Chen Qing closed his eyes, his mind racing. After a while, he looked at Gu Pan and asked, "Miss, can you contact Uncle Gu?"

Gu Pan shook her head.

"I don't know where he went to visit his friends."

Chen Qing was silent for a moment, then continued, "There's not much else to do, we just have to deal with whatever comes our way."

He took a deep breath and said, "With Uncle Gu gone, Miss, you are the head of the Gu family. Don't panic. Just handle this matter as it should be handled."

"Go to Anrentang first and see what's going on. If they really are coming to the Gu family to find me..."

Chen Qing said slowly, "I'll wait here for them to come find me."

"If they want to put me in jail."

Chen Qing closed his eyes and continued, "Then this matter is not as simple as just a few members of the Gu family stirring things up behind the scenes."

"Let's wait and see how things develop."

As he spoke, Chen Qing looked at Gu Pan and instructed her, "First of all, this matter has nothing to do with me. It won't be so easy for them to frame me."

"Secondly, what they want is the Gu family's assets, not for me to go to jail." At this point, Chen Qing looked at Gu Pan and continued, "So, no matter what, Miss Gu must not panic. If you panic at this time, you will be at a disadvantage in every situation."

"Remember that."

Chen Qing said, "Go to Anrentang immediately and find out what's going on. If they insist on coming to see me, don't try to stop them. I'm not going anywhere today; I'll just wait for them here."

Miss Gu took a deep breath and nodded: "Okay, I'll go to Anrentang right away."

After saying that, she took Xiaoyue and prepared to leave.

Chen Qing walked to the door to see her off and said, "Miss Xiaoyue, could you find someone to go to the first house in Niluo Lane and tell them that I have something to do today and can't go, but I will definitely come another day?"

Xiaoyue hurriedly agreed and then went with Miss Gu.

After the master and servant left, Chen Qing did not close the door. Instead, he sat alone at his desk, slightly lost in thought, muttering to himself.

"I underestimated the Gu family..."

He was lost in thought.

"They weren't taken seriously..."

Previously, although Chen Qing had planned to settle down in the Gu family, he had never thought about the extent of the Gu family's wealth!

He subconsciously felt that this was just a family feud and wouldn't lead to anyone's death.

Therefore, he decided to handle it slowly.

Now, upon closer reflection, the fact that Master Gu was able to connect with people in the capital and even arrange a "marriage" with his father, who was a prefect, demonstrates that, in a sense, Master Gu was on the same level as these people.

And the Gu family's wealth...

You have to understand that in this era, a few dozen taels of silver were enough to hire someone to kill someone and take their life!
In reality, it was not uncommon for people to fight and even kill each other over a tael or half a tael of silver.

Given the Gu family's wealth, it's not just that they could cause a death, it's that they could... cause a death far too easily!
Chen Qing didn't go anywhere all morning; he barely moved at all.

Around noon, a commotion finally broke out outside.

Chen Qing heard the noise outside. He took a deep breath, stood up, and his expression returned to normal.

He walked to the doorway and looked up. He saw Gu Shouzhou, the nephew of Master Gu, striding ahead and looking at Chen Qing with a gloomy expression.

Behind him followed dozens of people, mostly members of the Gu clan and their families. Many of them had angry expressions on their faces and were glaring at Chen Qing.

Most of the women had red eyes, clearly having cried.

Gu Pan and his servant stood not far away, also watching Chen Qing, both with worried expressions on their faces.

In the middle of the procession, two men carried a stretcher, inside which lay a child of only five or six years old. The child's skin had turned bluish, indicating that he had been dead for some time.

The two men placed the stretcher in front of Chen Qing's door, then looked up and glared at Chen Qing.

Gu Shouzhou strode forward, looking at Chen Qing with a furious expression: "You, surnamed Chen, what have you got? Come at our superiors!"

Chen Qing remained calm, turned to look at him, then glanced at the child on the stretcher in front of him. He squatted down, looked at the child carefully for a while, and then sighed, "I remember this child."

“That day at the entrance of Anrentang, he grabbed my trouser leg, crying and shouting, and kept saying something.”

Young Master Chen looked up at Gu Shouzhou and said, word by word, "Spare my father, spare my father."

Gu Shouzhou felt a chill run down his spine under his gaze, but he quickly turned fierce: "How dare you even mention it!"

“My sworn brother had someone beat you up. It was his fault, but he’s already in jail and is serving his sentence!”

"With such a deep grudge, why must you bring disaster upon his only son?!"

Chen Qing looked around, then his gaze fell on Gu Shouzhou. His eyes sharpened, but he didn't say anything more, only repeating what Gu Shouzhou had said.

"Yes."

Chen Qing remained expressionless.

"Does he really have to bring disaster upon his only son?"

(End of this chapter)