The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 217

Chapter 217: 134 The Real Culprit (First Update)

Gu Chengfeng wanted to offer some explanations for his younger brother, but his eldest brother’s aura had significantly cooled, leaving him tongue-tied.

He now blamed the Yao Family. How did their usual submissive attitude disappear all of a sudden? Their drama exposed everything, now even things that didn’t exist appeared to be true.

“Eldest Brother…” Gu Chengfeng began.

“Shut up!” Gu Changqing commanded coldly, then looked at Gu Chenglin, “Go kneel in the ancestral hall! Don’t stand up until I tell you to!”

“Eldest Brother!” Gu Chenglin’s face turned pale.

Wasn’t he just told to kneel in the study room a moment ago? Now he was being sent to the ancestral hall?

The ancestral hall, where the tablets of ancestors were enshrined, was generally a place for punishment by kneeling for grievous errors.

Gu Chenglin refused: “I won’t go to the ancestral hall!”

“Go! Even if you don’t want to!” Gu Changqing grabbed Gu Chenglin by the collar.

Gu Chenglin was already severely beaten by Gu Jiao, and his elder brother’s forceful pull made him feel as if his neck was going to snap off.

Gu Changqing sent him to the ancestral hall of the Marquis Residence and left two guards, “Don’t give him any food or water.”

Gu Chengfeng grabbed his elder brother’s arm, “Eldest Brother, Chenglin is badly hurt. Aren’t you afraid that he feels alienated with your punishment?”

Gu Changqing retorted coldly, “He feels alienated, others won’t?”

Gu Chengfeng argued, “Despite everything, that lad is an outsider. Are you going to punish your own brother for him? Did you forget our mother’s deathbed wish that you take care of me and Chenglin? You swore by our mother’s bed that you wouldn’t let anyone bully us! But look at what you’re doing!”

Gu Changqing gave him a meaningful look, “You go kneel as well.”

Gu Chengfeng was startled.

After leaving his two brothers in the ancestral hall, Gu Changqing turned around and went back to the courtyard.

In the meantime, Gu Chengfeng and Gu Chenglin’s personal attendants brought food for them, but were stopped by the guards at the entrance.

The attendants could only seek help from the Songhe Court.

“What did you say? Chenglin and Chengfeng were locked up in the ancestral hall?” Lady Gu had just removed her forehead patch and was about to rest. Upon hearing this news, she ordered her maids to do up her hair again.