"Don't touch me, get out!"

Mu Rushuang pushed him away, "I think you're disgusting!"

Afterwards, he said to the maid he brought with him: "Let's go home. Whoever comes to the Prime Minister's Mansion again will be a dog!"

Gu Qinghua was caught off guard and fell to the ground in the snow. He got up and subconsciously looked in the direction of Xifeng Courtyard.

His heart suddenly started beating very fast, and an inexplicable feeling of uneasiness surged in his heart, as if someone had caught him with some terrible evidence.

In the end, he didn't even care about Shen Jiaojiao and hurried to find Shen Ruyi.

Shen Jiaojiao rushed to the window and trembled as she called out, "Brother Qinghua!"

But Gu Qinghua did not look back.

Shen Jiaojiao was so angry that her nails dug deep into her palms. "I never thought that even at this point, he is still so cowardly and is still afraid of being discovered by Shen Ruyi!"

"It seems that I have to add more fuel to the fire!"

Shen Jiaojiao said to Cuiyu, "Go and keep an eye on him. If there is any movement, report it immediately!"

It was windy and snowy, and Cuiyu didn't want to go out.

But Xifengyuan no longer wants her, so she can only stay with Shen Jiaojiao to make a living, and she has no choice but to do as she is told.

Shen Jiaojiao was so angry that she couldn't sleep and her stomach felt even worse.

Before coming here, she had thought that as she was in a very high position in the Prime Minister's Mansion, it wouldn't be difficult to find a good doctor to cure her stomach cold. However, she didn't expect that finding so many doctors would be useless!

Sometimes she was really jealous of Shen Ruyi.

Kneeling in the snow, locked in the woodshed, yet still able to jump around...

…

At this time, Gu Qinghua came to Xifengyuan.

The light was on in Shen Ruyi's room. She was sitting by the brazier, looking intently at something, looking peaceful.

Gu Qinghua was stunned by what he saw.

In the past, he thought Shen Ruyi was immature. She was still acting like a child at the age of sixteen and was not fit to be the mistress of the house.

But looking at her now, she seems like the wife I have been thinking about day and night, with beautiful women by my side, and talking to her by candlelight late into the night, isn't that what it's like?

Moreover, they grew up together as childhood sweethearts.

Gu Qinghua's heartbeat suddenly became intense.

"As one wishes……"

He couldn't help but call out.

In the twilight, Shen Ruyi looked at the man standing at the door and pretended to be stupid, "Why did Master Gu come to see me again?"

Seeing that she looked like she knew nothing, Gu Qinghua slowly breathed a sigh of relief, "Ruyi, I came here to tell you that I will marry you soon. We have been childhood sweethearts for so many years and have grown up together..."

Through a door, he looked at Shen Ruyi who was sitting by the brazier, lighting a lamp and looking at the acupuncture point map. An indescribable complex emotion surged in his heart. "Although the Ninth Prince likes you now, he is a disabled person and will not be able to have children in the future."

"As a woman, if you marry him, what hope do you have for the rest of your life?" He took a deep breath, softened his voice, and walked into the house. "Don't worry, when you come to my Gu family, as long as you do what a mistress should do, I will not treat you unfairly."

"At least, I'll give you a child, so you can have something to think about for the rest of your life."

Gu Qinghua looked at her, as if she had foreseen her second half of life: marry her, and then be forced to explain the matter of the prescription to the emperor, help Shen Ci return to the Imperial Hospital, and she herself would be sent to the laundry bureau, or the Xinzheku.

If they are lucky, they will be old and ugly when they get out, and can only work hard for the Gu family for the rest of their lives.

If I'm unlucky, I'll die in the Gu family.

For the Shen family and the Gu family, only one daughter is needed for marriage; two would be redundant.

Therefore, the look in his eyes when he looked at Shen Ruyi contained a bit more compassion and sympathy that was not there before.

The last mercy.

Shen Ruyi raised her eyes, looked at him for a long time, and then said: "Mr. Gu is right, you and I are childhood sweethearts after all, in ten days, I will go to your old lady to celebrate her birthday in person."

At the old lady’s birthday party in her previous life, Gu Qinghua tore up the engagement with her own hands, making her a laughing stock in the entire capital.

She will never forget.

This time, she would give it back to him.

Gu Qinghua looked at her like this and thought she had agreed, so he nodded and said, "Then you have a good rest, I will come to see you tomorrow."

"Slow down."

Shen Ruyi raised her eyelids and didn't look at him again.

Gu Qinghua thought, it was so late now, and Mu Rushuang didn't come to see Shen Ruyi again, so she definitely wouldn't come again.

But things turned out like this, and for some reason, he no longer had the heart to look for Shen Jiaojiao.

So after leaving Xifengyuan, he hurried back home to prepare for the proposal.

…

"The sun is rising from the west!"

After he left, Fang Fei went to close the door and asked in surprise, "Why did Mr. Gu suddenly start talking nicely?"

"Because I feel guilty."

Shen Ruyi glanced at her and said, "I thought that the situation forced my father and others to marry me as soon as possible."

In her previous life, she had been entangled with these people for a lifetime. Although she did not know every character of them very well, she could understand about 80% of them.

"My father learned that Rong Yan might be targeting me, and was afraid that I would lose control and not speak up for my second brother, so he asked Gu Qinghua to marry me earlier so that he could control me and force me to go to the emperor and send my second brother back to the Imperial Hospital."

"The former dynasty and the harem have always been about sharing weal and woe. The Concubine Li, whom my father supports, cannot do without my second brother, and the Prime Minister's Mansion cannot do without Concubine Li. Therefore, compared with the interests of the family, the life and death of a daughter like me is insignificant."

"When Shen Jiaojiao learned that Gu Qinghua wanted to marry me, she was determined to make Gu Qinghua's heart stay with her. Gu Qinghua couldn't stop her crying, so he had to be affectionate and affectionate with her."

"But he still has to pretend to be a gentleman on the surface. He said I was a vicious woman, and he wanted to be innocent. But this innocence was just exposed by Mu Rushuang."

Shen Ruyi sneered when she said this.

"In this way, all his previous arrogant attitude and criticisms of me will no longer be tenable."

"He came here just to prevent Mu Rushuang from coming to me, and I would make a big deal out of it. He was also afraid that after I found out, he would lose face and have something to hold against him in the future."

The wind and snow were raging outside and the candlelight was flickering in the house.

There was a crackling sound in the brazier.

Shen Ruyi was talking about things that were closely related to her, but there was no fluctuation on her face, as if she was telling someone else's story.

Fang Fei felt distressed and stunned at the same time.

After a long while, he asked, "Why didn't you ask him, girl? You obviously already knew that Miss Mu had caught them... No, you had expected it a long time ago!"

Mu Rushuang was invited by Shen Ruyi, and Fang Fei delivered the letter personally.

Unexpectedly, Shen Ruyi did not have any follow-up response, which made Fangfei confused.

"I'm not making a fuss because it's not the right time."

Shen Ruyi put a piece of charcoal into the brazier, fanned the flames, and said, "If you don't make a move, it's fine. But if you do, I'll kill him with one strike."