Chapter 27 If Heaven Fall, I Will Be Your Pillars

Gu Xiaowen ran down the walk path to Si Pangfu, and the scales of the broken porcelain flew behind him. Gu Yingjie hit another porcelain lantern hanging on the side of the doorway. With his own internal strength, he sent the broken porcelain pieces to Gu Xiaowen's back. The impact made Gu Xiaowen fall forward on the walk path. Gu Yingjie grabbed a sharp piece of broken porcelain on the floor and flew straight towards Gu Xiaowen. The piece of broken porcelain is aiming right at Gu Xiaowen's throat.

Si Pangfua stood behind Gu Yingjie and said, "Kill him, you never know why your mother died."

Gu Yingjie, "My mother…"

Si Pangfu said indifferently, "If your mother is just an ordinary woman? Why was she killed secretly?" She looked at Gu Yingjie. "I may be old, but I'm not stupid. I know why you want to stay in Gu Manor. Your goal is to find out who killed your mother. Am I right?"

Gu Yingjie, "You know who killed my mother."

Si Pangfua, "I don't know, but I happen to know your mother's story."

Gu Yingjie, "Tell me."

Si Pangfua, "I will only tell you if you let him go, and step down from being heir to the leader seat. This leadership seat should belong to my son. If it's not Xiaowen, it will be Gouliang, but it's defiantly not you."

Gu Yingjie dropped the piece of broken sharp porcelain from his hand on the ground. He said, "Tell me."

Si Pangfua, "Xiaotao, take the young master back to the room and let the doctor look at the wound."

Xiao Tao helped Gu Xiaowen up, and the two walked away from Gu Yingjie and Si Pangfua.

Si Pangfua looked at Gu Yingjie and said, "Followed me this way."

When they got inside the guest room, Si Pangfua sat at her chair, holding up her teacup, and Gu Yingjie sat on her right.

Si Pangfu said, "I married your father when I was seventeen. I didn't know your father at that time. The big marriage was between the Fu family and the Si family. Your father and I were engaged when we were born." She drank her tea. "One year later, I gave birth to Xiaowen. When I was pregnant with Gouliang, your father brought a young woman home to marry her as his second wife. That woman's name was Gu Qianru."

Si Pangfu cried in the temple behind the Guanyin statue. She was awakened by the voice of three people talking. She looked out and found that the three were Lao Furen, a woman, and her husband Gu Tingfuang.

Lao Furen, "Tingfuang, are you crazy? You can't marry her."

Gu Tingfuang, "Mother, we love each other. Please allow this marriage to happen."

Lao Furen, "Your father will never allow this to happen. How can Gu marry Gu? This is unacceptable."

Gu Tingfuang, "Why not? Anyway, we are not related by blood. Please mother, you and father ask me to marry Pangfua as arranged by the two family. I only ask you let me marry the woman I love, I choose, why can't you agree?"

Lao Furen, "Tingfuang, do you really love her so much?"

Gu Tingfuang, "Yes, if mother and father don't let me marry Qianru, then we will run away together."

Lao Furen, "You..." She sighed and shook her head. "Qianru, if you love Tingfuang as much as he loves you, then you have to change your surname."

Gu Qianru said, "I am willing."

Lao Furen, "Very good then. This secret will only remain with just the three of us here. The fourth person should never know of this."

Gu Tingfuang knelt in front of Lao Furen, "Thank you mother."

Then the door of the Buddha praying room opened, and Master Gu and Lin Ruchao walked into the room.

Master Gu asked, "It's so late, what are you three doing in the room?"

As soon as Gu Qianru heard Master Gu's voice, raised his head and saw Young Master Gu. She opened her eyes wide and slowly got up.

Gu Qianru, "Father." She looked at Master Gu. Then, she looked at Lin Ruchao in tears. "Lin Shushu."

Gu Tingfang quickly stood up and asked, "Qianru, do you know my father and his guards?"

Gu Qianru pointed at Master Gu, "Is he your father?"

Gu Tingfuang, "Yes."

Gu Qianru cried bitterly, "He is also my father." She turned to Master Gu. "For so many years, you lied to my mother and me." She looked at Master Gu. "You are not a fisherman who goes to sea for several months at a time, but the leader of the Gu family?"

Master Gu, "That's correct."

Gu Tingfuang, "No this is not true." He looked at Master Gu. "She is not my sister. How can she be my sister?"

Master Gu said, "She is your half-sister."

Gu Tingfuang, "This is not true, we are getting married."

Master Gu said, "Tingfuang, is true. She is your half-sister."

Lao Furen laughed, "Karma, this is the result of your being a womanizer." She grabbed Young Master Gu's hand and pointed at Gu Tingfang and Gu Qianru. "This is the disaster you caused. Take a good look at them. Your son is going to marry your daughter."

Gu Qianru screamed, ran out of the room, ran to the empty courtyard, and desperately went down the stairs.

Gu Tingfang quickly stood up, but Lin Ruchao stopped his arm. Gu Tingfang struggled hard, "Guard Lin let go of me."

Lin Ruchao, "I'm sorry young master…that's not going to happen."

Gu Tingfang knelt on the ground and begged Young Master Gu, "Father please, let me go, I'm going to look for her."

Master Gu said, "You stay here, guard Lin will go to look for her."

Gu Tingfuang, "No, I'm going to find her. She is pregnant with my child."

Master Gu and Lao Furen were shocked when they heard the news. Lao Furen almost fainted.

Master Gu, "Karma, Guard Lin go find her now."

Gu Yingjie recalled the day when his mother was murdered.

Gu Qianru stood there and talked with the murderer for a long time. Gu Yingjie looked out the window and saw that his mother was talking to a man who covered his face with a black cloth.

Gu Qianru asked, "You want to kill my son too?"

Masked man, "No, I was just ordered to kill you."

Gu Qianru, "I'll die anyway. Please tell me who ordered me to be killed. Just in case if Heibai Wuchang ask me, I could answer them correctly."

The masked man whispered in Gu Qianru's left ear. She cried and nodded. Then the masked man drew his sword and silt her throat.

Si Pangfua took her teacup and drank it. She sighed, "You are a bastard child, and everyone knew of it, everyone knows that you are the product of shame. The more your father and grandfather love you, the more disgusted I became. You want to know who is your mother's murderer. Have you ever think, maybe the murderer you have been looking for is your grandfather, grandmother or father." She looked at Gu Yingjie. "Gu Yingjie, if you don't step down, this secret will spread throughout the martial arts world. The Gu family will perish forever. Also, your beloved guard will die, but if you step down, this secret will follow me to my grave."

The door swung opened, and twenty internal guards walked into the room with Gu Tingfuang, Gu Tianjian, and Gu Xunsu.

Gu Xunsu, "Gu Yingjie, at this rate, there is no place for you to hide anymore. Surrender."

Gu Yingjie's heart was broken into a million. After listening to his mother's story, he was afraid to find out who is the murderer of his mother. He knew that the murderer must be someone his mother knew, unless she would not give in so willingly. If he dies, then he no longer needs to endure pain. Zhu Mingyang will live happily with his new lover. Everything in Gu's family remains the same. He is just an extra. A unwanted extra, that was hand away from one person to the next, now he will only be hand to death, this is nothing special about the circumstance. He replied, "Gugu, I accept my punishment."

Gu Xunsu, "Take him to the cell, and the punishment will begin in two days."

Gu Tingfuang, "No, take him to the ancestral hall. No matter who he is, he is my heir."

Gu Xunsu frowned, "Are you still protecting him?"

Gu Ting said angrily, "Are you the chief or I am the chief?"

Gu Xunsu replied madly, "You are the chief."

Zhu Mingyang and Yan Zhanjin strolled around the market until noon, and sat down at a small stall to grab a bite.

Yan Zhanjin, "Mingyang, you don't look well."

Zhu Mingyang, "I'm worry about Yingjie."

Yan Zhanjin, "By the look of it, chief Gu was pretty lenient to Gu Yingjie."

A martial artist stood beside a bun seller. The martial artist said, "Boss, gave me twenty steam buns."

The vendor owner, "My noodles are delicious, sit down and bow."

Martial artist replied, "I can't. I want to hurry up to the Gu resident."

The vendor owner asked, "What happen there?"

Marital artist replied, "I don't want to miss this opportunity. Chief Gu will announce a new heir, and the former heir will be punished. This is a once-in-a-lifetime event. There are many groups of people who have gone there, including six sectors and four clans."

Zhu Mingyang stood up, and Yan Zhanjin grabbed Zhu Mingyang's hand. Yang Zhanjin said decisively, "Mingyang, what are you going to do?"

Zhu Mingyang replied, "I will save Yingjie."

Yan Zhanjin, "You heard that martial artist."

Zhu Mingyang said, "Zhanjin, it is impossible for a person like Yingjie to survive this cruel inhuman punishment. He will die."

Yan Zhanjin, "You will die if you go there."

Zhu Mingyang said, "If Yingjie's heaven is fallen, I will be his pillars, and hold his heaven from crumbling down on him. Even If I know, that by doing so, I will not survive." He pulled Yan Zhanjin's hand away. "I will still going to do it because he will do the same for me." He ran towards the Gu Manor's direction.