Junior grimaced as he listened from outside the door.
He hadn’t known before that his young master had such a problem of taking things for granted. Even now, Miss Song still refused to marry him, but he was already imagining what would happen after the marriage.
Naturally, Master Gu and Madam Gu didn’t believe him either, but they didn’t poke him.
Master Gu changed the subject without a trace, “Have you bought any presents yet?”
“Yes, I bought a catty of tobacco for Grandpa Song and a good bow for Uncle Song.”
Master Gu waited for a long time but didn’t hear about the gifts for himself and his wife, so he couldn’t help but ask, “No more.”
“It’s gone.”
Gu Yi had a matter-of-fact tone, “Our family has so many good things, better than even the li of the capital, I have nothing to buy.”
Master Gu and Madam Gu’s hearts were sour.
It was said that women were too old to stay, and they couldn’t keep their son even before he was old enough to go out and buy things for their father-in-law and in-laws grandfather, but they didn’t even have anything.
“Does father want it badly?”
Gu Yi reluctantly said, “How about I give you half a tael of the tobacco I bought?”
Master Gu was so heartbroken that he didn’t even have the strength to wave his hand, his body leaning helplessly against the back of his chair, “Since you didn’t buy anything, return the twenty thousand taels of silver I gave you.”
“It’s not with me, the little girl said I spent it recklessly and she gave it for safekeeping. Father, you are so rich, 20,000 taels is just a drop in the bucket to you, so don’t ask for it back, take it as a fee for Little Girl’s hard work in taking me to the capital.”
Master Gu, ……
raised his voice and shouted, “Xiao Si.”
Xiao Si hurried in, “Master.”
“Get your young master out of here, I don’t want to see him.”
……
Today Gu Yi got up early in the morning and waited for Song Wan Yue to come to his door, but even though he waited left and right he did not come, he was about to instruct Xiao Si to prepare a carriage to go to the Song family when Xiao Si came in leading the restaurant’s mate.
“Young master, something has happened!”
Gu Yi looked over.
The mate told what had happened at the pawnshop.
Gu Yi’s eyes shone out brightly as he listened.
With the jade bracelet broken, the little girl couldn’t not be betrothed to him, so shouldn’t he go and talk to his parents now and ask them to prepare something for the betrothal?
The servant thought that Gu Yi would get up immediately after hearing this and go to the county to see Miss Song, but he did not hear any movement for half a day, so he quietly looked up and saw that his young master was grinning from ear to ear, not knowing what had occurred to him.
He looked strangely at Xiao Si and asked with his eyes what was going on.
Xiao Si is the roundworm in Gu Yi’s stomach, of course he knew what he was thinking, and skimmed his mouth in contempt, the young master is going to take advantage of someone’s danger.
Gu Yi got up, “Let’s go and see my parents.”
The mate thought he was being asked to follow to speak to Master Gu and Madam Gu, and was busy following behind him.
After walking out for a while, Gu Yi turned back and saw that he was actually following, his brows knitted slightly, “What are you doing following me?”
The mate was momentarily confused, “I …….”
“Go go go, go find a place to drink tea and eat first, no one is allowed to go back without my order.”
The mate fumbled and responded.
Gu Yi quickly went to the main courtyard, “Father, mother, I’m going to be engaged!”
Sitting in the flower hall, Master Gu and Madam Gu, ……
The two looked at each other and wondered which gust of wind he had come up with again.
The two of you are not sure which wind is coming up again.
Master Gu and Madam Gu looked at each other again.
Mrs Gu asked carefully, in a gentle tone that tried not to irritate him, “Ah Yi’er, why did you suddenly think of getting engaged?”
“Because the jade bracelet the little girl had pawned was dropped.”
“Dropped?”
Gu Yi nodded happily, “Well, it was dropped by the pawn shop proprietor’s daughter, just in time for Little Girl and I to be betrothed.”
Master Gu listened in confusion and glanced at his own wife, who asked with a smile, “Yi’er, can you make it clearer.”
“Don’t I make myself clear? It’s that the jade bracelet has fallen, so little girl and I can be betrothed, and father and mother should hurry up and prepare for the betrothal.”
Master Gu and Madam Gu, ……
……
The housekeeper came in, “Master, there is a proprietor outside who claims to be from Yuan Ji Pawn Shop asking for an audience, saying that his daughter dropped the jade bracelet that Miss Song pawned and he has come to make amends.”
“He still dares to come?”
Gu Yi changed his face in a second and stood up haughtily, “Take him to the parlour!”
The butler responded and retreated.
Outside the gate, Yuan Dongjia waited apprehensively. It was rumoured among the rich circles in the county that Gu’s family was large and wealthy, and he had thought that it was an exaggeration. Today, he realised that the Gu family’s mansion alone was worth half of the county.
The butler came out from inside and made a gesture of invitation, “Yuan Dongjia, please.”
It was really the Gu family’s, and Yuan Dongjia’s heart lifted. Before he came here, he had thought that if Master Gu was not good at talking, he would at most fight him to the death. Today, when he arrived at the Gu family, he realised that even if he, the fish, died, there would not be a single hole in the Gu family’s net.
He followed the butler to the parlour, where Master Gu was sitting at the main table and Gu Yi was sitting at the bottom left of him.
When Dongjia Yuan entered, Master Gu rose to greet him, and Yuan hurriedly returned his salute, “Please forgive me for taking the liberty of disturbing Master Gu at my door.”
“No harm, please sit down.”
Gu Yi sat unmoving, only lifting his eyes slightly to look at him.
Yuan Dongjia was also peeking at him at the same time, and as the four eyes met, Yuan Dongjia’s heart trembled and he hurriedly withdrew his gaze, just about to sit down –
“What are you looking at me for?”
Gu Yi asked in an unkind manner.
Yuan Dongjia’s heart trembled and he hurriedly replied, “I have always heard of Young Master Gu’s great name, but have never seen him in person, so I couldn’t hold back my curiosity for a moment.”
“Heard that I am a fool, right?”
Sweat instantly broke out on Yuan Dongjia’s forehead, “I dare not, I dare not.”
“If you didn’t dare, you wouldn’t have sized me up just now. I could see clearly that you had a probing look in your eyes just now, you just wanted to know how stupid I really am? Don’t think I didn’t see it!”
The fine sweat on Yuan Dongjia’s forehead turned into beads of sweat at a speed visible to the naked eye, “Young Master Gu misunderstood, I ……”
“You’re treating me like a fool! Let me tell you, the previous person who treated me like a fool now has old grass on his grave.”
Yuan Dongjia, ……
Master Gu, ……
The corners of the mouth did not hold back a twitch, the first few sentences sounded like that, but this last one was somewhat present.
“I heard that your b*****d daughter dropped the jade bracelet that the little girl had stored in your pawnshop?”
Yuan Dongjia dared not deny it, “Yes, I came here today to ……”
“That is our family’s ancestral jade pendant, for the sake of your personal apology at home, we won’t blackmail you, just give one million taels of silver.”
Yuan Dongjia felt his body go weak and he couldn’t even open his lips.
Gu Yi looked at him indifferently, “You don’t say anything, do you agree or disagree?”
