They are thick-skinned and have no problem with bumps and bruises, but not Gu Yi, who would be in a lot of trouble if …… he were to get bent out of shape.
“Young master Gu, you, you, you ……”
Gu Yi has steadily sat down next to Song Wan Yue, “Second uncle, you can call me Gu Yi.”
Song Shu opened his mouth, but could not shout out, so he could only say, “The ox cart is bumpy, you’d better go and take the carriage.”
After saying that, fearing that he might not agree, he hurriedly said to Song Wangyue, “Yue’er, go with him.”
The corners of Gu Yi’s mouth peeked out and quickly closed again, looking at Song Wan Yue with bated breath.
Song Wangyue really wanted to kick him down and gave him a fierce glare, “Go down.”
Gu Yi grinned and nimbly got off the bullock cart.
Song Shu let out a sigh of relief.
When Song Wan Yue got off the ox cart, Gu Yi pulled her onto her own carriage, and before she could sit down, he looked at her with a pitiful expression, “Little girl, are you angry?”
“What do you think?”
“You are definitely angry.”
Gu Yi sounded sure.
“Good that you know that, now shut up, I want to be quiet.”
Gu Yi covered his mouth with both hands.
Song Wangyue leaned against the wall of the carriage, her body swaying as the carriage moved, but her mind drifted back to the several times she had seen Master Zhang today.
She could guarantee that this matter was definitely related to Master Zhang!
Thinking of this, she snapped her eyes open, “Did you tell Uncle Gu about the robbery and murder we encountered on our way to the capital?”
Hearing her call out for Uncle Gu, Gu Yi narrowed his eyes with a smile and shook his head.
“Turn around and go to the tavern.”
After shouting, Song Wangyue lifted the curtain of the car and said towards Song Shu who was following behind her, “Second Uncle, I need to go back to the restaurant, you go home first and tell my family that I will be back before dark.”
Song Shu responded, stopped the cart and waited for their carriage to turn around and head for the restaurant before resuming the cart.
Inside the room in the back of the restaurant, Doctor Yao suddenly slapped his thigh, “Oh no!”
Master Gu was thinking about something and was startled by him, frowning, “What’s all the fuss about?”
“I just lost my temper a little after I saw it was Beauty’s Smile at the Yuan Mansion, Miss Song saw it but didn’t ask, she wouldn’t think we had this poison in our hands, would she?”
Master Gu was simply amazed by this brain circuit of his, as if he didn’t know him he looked him up and down, left and right, carefully and seriously sizing him up several times, “You’re not saying in your next sentence that the little girl of the Song family would really think it was us who had poisoned her, are you?”
“Where is your lordship thinking, I am afraid that if Miss Song really thinks that we have such poison in our hands, she will think that we are not a good family and will not be willing to be betrothed to our young master.”
Master Gu, ……
On second thought, there was a real possibility of this, narrowing his eyes and stroking his beard, “Actually, it’s not ……”
“Young master, Miss Song.”
The courtyard rang with the voice of Wei’s shopkeeper.
Master Gu swallowed back the words that followed.
The door to the house was pushed open and Gu Yi and Song Wan Yue walked in.
Master Gu and Doctor Yao looked at Gu Yi’s face at the same time and saw that he was as usual, one was relieved and the other slightly regretful.
“Uncle Gu, I’m afraid that the death of Yuan Min has the hand of the Zhang family.”
Song Wangyue opened the door.
“Tell me about it.”
The matter of Song Si and Zhang Huai was known to Master Gu, so Song Wangyue did not say any more, and only told the story that they had gone to the capital because they had been robbed and killed.
“At that time, we suspected that the Zhang family had moved, but at that time, we were afraid that my elder brother would wake up and find out, so we didn’t leave any survivors. I think the Zhang family didn’t wait to hear back and got scared, and guessed that it was the Gu family who protected us, so they came up with such a double-crossing plan.”
After hearing this, Master Gu instantly looked at Gu Yi, “How come you didn’t say anything when you came back?”
Gu Yi was not impressed, “A few unworthy things only, coming back and telling father would have added to your worries.”
Dr. Yao also followed suit and blamed, “Young master, you have too big an idea, if you had told us earlier, we would have been prepared and the master would not have gone to the county court for this journey.”
“Just go, my father hasn’t been a guest at the magistrate’s office for a long time either, so it’s a good time to get on good terms with the county magistrate.”
Yao Daifu,……
Is that what he means?
“Nonsense! I go to the court matter is small, if today is not Yue’er saw Yuan Min’s death, we and the Yuan family’s feud will also be formed, the county will have two tiger eyes want to calculate our people. As the saying goes, it’s hard to protect yourselves from the dark arrows. You often come to the county, what if you are being schemed?”
“They wouldn’t dare.”
“What is there to be afraid of? Today, Yuan Cheng asked for two million taels of silver, because he wants the Gu family to take it out and empty the family’s money.
Gu Yi wanted to say something else but was stopped by Song Wan Yue, “Uncle Gu is right, he really shouldn’t have hidden it from you, but things have come to this, it’s useless for you to blame him, why don’t we think about what to do next with the Zhang family?”
Hearing her defend herself, Gu Yi’s eyes instantly glowed with light, he joyfully approached Song Wan Yue, “Little girl, are you feeling sorry for me?”
Song Wangyue,……
Master Gu and Doctor Yao, ……
Master Gu’s beard was sticking up in anger.
“What do you say?”
Song Wangyue gritted her back teeth and asked word for word.
Gu Yi was quite confident, “You just have a heart for me! They say that love grows with time, you have me in your heart.”
Song Wangyue once again, ……
If it wasn’t in front of Master Gu, she would have put her foot on the surface of Gu Yi’s foot fiercely.
Yao Dafu held her forehead, not wanting to see her own silly young master again.
Master Gu’s beard was sticking straight up, and it took him a lot of effort to smooth it down.
To avoid exasperating himself to death, he picked up where Song Wangyue had left off, “If Yuan Min really was the one who did it to the Zhang family, Yuan Cheng will also find out, so let’s stay put and see how he follows up, and secretly help him out if necessary.”
“Listen to Uncle Gu.”
Elder Gu nodded and changed the subject, “Yue’er girl, ah, today’s betrothal was spoiled, you won’t be uncomfortable in your heart, right?”
“No, don’t worry Uncle Gu.”
“Good, then Uncle Gu will be relieved. Today Uncle Gu is tired and wants to go straight home later, so I won’t go to your house, I will wait until tomorrow when your Aunt Gu and I will come to your house together and apologise properly to your family.”
“No need, it happened for a reason, my family won’t think much of it.”
“Yes, you do, besides, the two of you have not changed your gengtis yet, so the two of us have to go over there in person anyhow.”
“Fine, I’ll go back and tell my family, and I’ll wait for you and my aunt at home tomorrow.”
Elder Gu was about to nod when he saw Gu Yi reach his hand into his bosom, take out a brocade box and open it, handing it to Song Wan Yue, “Little girl, this is my family’s real ancestral jade bracelet, you can’t pawn it this time.”
Master Gu,……
