He withdrew his gaze and said calmly, "Eat quickly, and then finish reading the rest. Class will end today after we finish teaching the "Learning" chapter. If you delay until the last minute and miss lunch, you will be the one who suffers."

"No, I'll read it now!"

Gu Heng hurriedly stuffed the last bun into his mouth, wiped his hands with a handkerchief, and picked up the book again.

Qin Zhao glanced at the two plates of pastries that he hadn't touched and asked, "You don't want these?"

Gu Heng shook his head: "It's too sweet. My mother always forgets that I don't like cakes. If you want it, you can eat it. Anyway, you have a portion."

"Can I take it away?" Qin Zhao asked, "My husband likes to eat these."

"Of course." Gu Heng became interested and leaned over to ask, "I wanted to ask you yesterday. How did you, the top scorer in the imperial examination, marry a man and treat him so well? Is your husband good-looking?"

Qin Zhao raised his eyelids and glanced at him leisurely.

Gu Heng shrank back: "Ahem, I'm reading, I'll read right away."

Qin Zhao finished explaining the contents of the "Learning" chapter to Gu Heng before noon, and asked him to copy down what he had learned today and check it in class tomorrow.

He refused Mrs. Gu's suggestion to stay for lunch and left the Gu Mansion with the pastries.

Gu Heng walked out of the study slowly. The servant, who was about his age, came up to him and said cheerfully, "Master, how was the class?"

"Bullshit." Gu Heng threw the book into the servant's arms and said through gritted teeth, "I'll find a way to deal with him sooner or later."

The servant blinked and asked doubtfully, "But I've seen that the young master gets along very well with him. He has never been so kind to other gentlemen..."

"How am I good to him?" Gu Heng said angrily, walking forward quickly. "Let's go eat."

The servant chased after him and said, "Oh, Master, Master Zhou just sent someone to tell you that the weather is excellent these days, and he wants you to go to the suburbs to relax on the eighth day of the first lunar month."

"Why should I relax? It's not my day off. How could that bastard named Qin let me go out?"

Gu Heng was feeling upset, but suddenly he remembered something and paused: "Wait, I have a good idea."

The next morning, Gu Heng told Qin Zhao that he wanted to go to the suburbs to relax on the eighth day of the first lunar month.

He had originally prepared how to persuade Qin Zhao after he refused, but unexpectedly, Qin Zhao agreed without a second thought: "Okay."

Gu Heng: “?”

Gu Heng said, "That day is not a day off."

"I know." Qin Zhao said calmly, "So when you have a day off, you need to pick a day to make up for the lessons."

In the original recruitment notice, the Gu family wrote that Gu Heng would only teach fifteen days a month.

This was because Gu Heng was the son of a wealthy businessman, and besides studying, he also had to learn some business skills. As for how to arrange the fifteen days of classes, it was all decided by them at the beginning of the month.

This month, Qin Zhao suggested that they take classes for a few more days in a row so that the two could get to know each other and let Madam Gu see if he could teach the young master well.

According to their original agreement, they would have to wait another five days before taking a day off.

Gu Heng said: "Okay, I'll do as you say."

"I have one more request." Qin Zhao said, "I want to bring my husband with me."

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"Going out to relax in the suburbs?" Jing Li frowned, a little worried. "That bastard has come up with some new tricks to mess with you, right?"

Qin Zhao said: "It should be."

Jing Li: "Then you still agree?"

"Even if I don't agree, he'll still come up with other ways to embarrass me. It doesn't make any difference. Besides..." Qin Zhao paused and said, "Someone is treating us to an outing in the suburbs, so why not go?"

Jing Li was still a little worried.

"Don't worry." Qin Zhao soothed him, "Gu Heng isn't a bad person by nature, he just has a bad temper. He's probably just trying to play a prank this time, but he'll be fine."