Chapter 61 Chapter 61 "Don't ruin my reputation."...
==Chapter 61==
Mingxinxuan.
Shuyao hurried over, her face a strange color, her tone vague: "Miss, Master Gu is here, he wants to see you."
Feng Wenyu turned her head subconsciously, but soon she lowered her eyes and pursed her lips, her eyelids trembling slightly.
She could almost guess why Gu Yushi came, but the marriage was already settled, so there was no need to make trouble.
Feng Wenyu recalled what she had said to her grandfather. She let out a light breath and picked up the silk thread again. Her voice rang out:
"not see."
Shuyao was surprised and couldn't help but look at Jinshu. Jinshu also signaled her to go down quickly. She didn't dare to delay and hurriedly retreated.
Jinshu also sat down and helped the girl pick out the silk thread. Without mentioning Gu Yushi, he asked, "Miss, what are you planning to do with the thread?"
Feng Wenyu whispered, "Make some clothes for my second brother."
Maybe Yan Yunhe let the cat out of the bag in front of her second brother, letting him know that she had specially made a purse for Xie Zhujing. He looked at her with a strange look in his eyes several times. Now that she had time, she decided to make some clothes for her second brother.
Whenever she had nothing to do, she would feel anxious. It would be better for her to find something to do so that she wouldn't have any random thoughts.
As for Gu Yushi...
Feng Wenyu lowered her eyes and twisted the silk thread. She thought, that was just a thing of the past.
Reception room.
Gu Yushi was still wearing the official uniform he wore when attending court. He stood in the reception room with a gloomy look on his face, but he stared intently at the door of the reception room, fearing that he would miss someone.
Shuyao came very quickly, and Gu Yushi saw that there was no one behind her. Realizing something, his heart sank suddenly.
Shuyao glanced at Gu Yushi and said, "Master Gu, our lady is not convenient to see guests. Please come again next time."
She doesn't want to see him.
He should have known this earlier, but he still didn't want to give up. He whispered to Shuyao, "Can you please ask again?"
Shuyao looked embarrassed and said:
"Master Gu, you should understand my daughter. My daughter said she won't see you. Even if I ask her two or three times, she still won't see you."
Although my girl is easy-going and easy to get along with, once she makes a decision, it is difficult to change it.
After saying this, Shuyao bowed, turned around and left. She had to go back to serve her own girl.
In the blink of an eye, Gu Yushi was the only one left in the living room. He felt as if his feet were nailed to the spot, and his heart seemed to be constantly pulled and tightened by silk threads, suddenly falling and sinking into the icy lake. He took a step back abruptly, put one hand on the table, lowered his head and gasped continuously.
The intense pain that surged up from his heart made him feel suffocated.
He knew Feng Wenyu so well that he could easily understand her subtext - she was telling him that this marriage was a done deal.
Gu Yushi's eyes gradually turned red, and it was clear that they had returned to the past, but the one before and the other after had left the issue of breaking off the engagement stuck between the two of them, with no room for maneuver.
It was as if no matter in the past life or this life, the two were destined to become strangers.
Drops of water fell to the ground, one drop at a time, soaking the ground.
Of course, the news of Gu Yushi's visit reached Zhou Yueyu's ears. She did not stop him, nor did she intervene. When she learned that Feng Wenyu had not met Gu Yushi, she was not surprised. As for Gu Yushi—
Zhou Yueyu snorted coldly:
"I regret it now. What were you doing earlier?"
She always remembered the months her daughter was forced to leave the capital. If Gu Yushi had not come to cancel the engagement, A Yu would not have had to go through such a tiring journey.
The two families did not have an awkward quarrel. According to the master, Gu Yushi had privately revealed a lot of information about political affairs to the Feng family.
This made her feel complicated about Gu Yushi, and she also felt a little aggrieved.
After all, one thing is one thing, she did have some resentment in her heart about the broken engagement, but she was embarrassed to vent it to a junior. But not showing it doesn't mean that she doesn't have any resentment at all.
She wasn't so resentful as to want to make Gu Yushi miserable, but she was also happy to see Gu Yushi regretting it now.
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Feng Wenyu spent the whole day choosing needles and threads, choosing patterns, and then she picked out a piece of blue Shu brocade and spent the whole afternoon cutting. The dress had already taken shape.
When she stopped, she realized that a light drizzle had started outside.
It was raining, and the light in the room was a little dim. Jinshu lit the candle in time, but stopped Feng Wenyu:
"It's getting dark, girl, please continue tomorrow, otherwise it will be bad for your eyes."
Feng Wenyu nodded and let Jinshu put away all the things. The window panes that had been propped up were also lowered, and only the light of candlelight remained in the room.
The scene was very quiet, which Feng Wenyu was used to. She was stunned because she obviously liked lively atmosphere in the past.
Not long after, Shuyao came in with an umbrella in one hand and a lunch box in the other. Her hair was slightly wet. She put down the umbrella, raised her hand to play with her hair, and her voice came through with the sound of rain:
"Madam said that the roads are slippery due to the rain, so she asked the young lady to have dinner in her own courtyard. There is no need to go to the main courtyard."
Feng Wenyu sat down at the table and asked, "What is mother doing?"
Shuyao covered her lips and laughed secretly:
"I heard that Madam ordered the housekeeper to look for the embroiderer who had previously left the palace."
Hearing this, Feng Wenyu knew what her mother was planning. She couldn't help but be speechless. After a long while, she whispered, "It's still early. I can make the bottom clothes myself and embroider the patterns after he's transferred."
In her previous life, when she married Gu Yushi, she made her own wedding dress. Now that it was Xie Zhujing's turn, did she really have to let another embroiderer take over?
It was customary for women to sew their own wedding dresses.
She also didn't want to play favorites.
Shuyao thought it was all good, but she listened to the girl. She just said, "Then the girl will have to work harder."
Feng Wenyu couldn't help laughing:
"Working hard for yourself is not worthy of the word hardship."
Jinshu felt relieved when she saw that the girl was amused by Shuyao. She always felt that the girl had become much quieter since she didn't know when. She couldn't figure it out, and was afraid that asking would touch upon the girl's sad memories, so she had to suppress her confusion in her heart, but her worries never eased.
The dinner was very sumptuous, but Feng Wenyu usually didn't eat much at night, so Shuyao put away the dishes and chopsticks, and Jinshu also ordered the servants to prepare hot water.
When she turned around, she saw the girl leaning on the couch and reading a book. Jinshu glanced at her inadvertently, and she suddenly paused, with doubts in her heart rising up.
The girl has always only liked to read storybooks, or at least travelogues. When did she become interested in these poems and essays?
Feng Wenyu didn't know what Jinshu was thinking, and even if he knew, he didn't know how to answer.
In the last two years of her previous life, she could hardly read any books. Only poems and essays could calm her down. As time went by, she got used to reading them from time to time. Although there were not many other things in Gu Yushi's study, there were always a lot of these things.
She remembered that one day, after she had finished reading those essays, there were suddenly a lot of new poems and essays in Gu Yushi's study.
Until the dream ended, she had not finished reading those new poems and essays.
Feng Wenyu's hand that was turning the pages of the book suddenly stopped. She sat up and flipped through all the poems and essays at hand. After she read them clearly, her breathing suddenly became a little faster.
These things were what she asked her eldest brother for. They were also the test papers of candidates over the years. Those seen by the examiners or the emperor were copied by people to prevent the candidates' handwriting from being recognized.
The handwriting in her hand was different.
Regardless of whether hers was the candidate's handwriting or copied by someone else, it could not have been written by one person.
But in the dream, the new batch of poems and essays that appeared later were clearly written by the same person.
In the dream, she was in no mood to pay attention to these things, but outside the dream, she suddenly realized that something was wrong. She should have been able to recognize who wrote those strategies at a glance.
She once praised his beautiful handwriting, and he even wrote a copybook for her to copy.
Feng Wenyu stared at the words intently, her fingertips turning white from pressing them, and she suddenly began to doubt her own understanding in the dream.
Clearly in her own perception, he was so cold that he refused to say a word to her, but why...
Someone interrupted her thoughts: "Girl, the hot water is ready."
Feng Wenyu looked up in a daze. When Jinshu called her again in confusion, she came back to her senses and responded with a vague "OK".
She was helped up by Jinshu, and when she turned to walk towards the clean room, she couldn't help but look back at the policy papers.
The clean room was filled with hot air, which made people's faces covered with a layer of moisture. Feng Wenyu blinked, and water droplets fell from her eyelashes. The sound of raindrops outside seemed to drift away. Her thoughts were a little confused, and even after taking a shower, she still couldn't sort out her mood.
She lay down on the bed a little irritably.
Shuyao was on guard tonight. She spread out her quilt on the floor and when she lay down, she saw that the girl was still awake. She habitually told her what had happened in the mansion today:
"When I went to fetch dinner, I heard Lin Guang at the back door say that someone had been staying by the back wall all day, got caught in the rain, and didn't know how to leave."
Feng Wenyu listened quietly, but his thoughts couldn't help but drift away.
Back wall? Her yard was not far from the back door. A wall led to the alley outside. Back when she and Gu Yu were still engaged, he often waited for her in that alley. There was a wooden ladder in her yard. She climbed up the wall and could see the idiot standing in the alley.
As soon as this scene flashed through his mind, Feng Wenyu suddenly sat up from the bed.
Just as Shuyao finished her last sentence, she said, "Lin Guang said that the man was well-dressed and just stood in the alley doing nothing, so he didn't chase him away."
Feng Wenyu's bad premonition grew stronger and stronger. She subconsciously moved her gaze to the window. The window was closed, and she couldn't see what was happening outside, but just by listening to the crackling sound, she could guess that it was raining heavily outside.
Feng Wenyu was dizzy from her own guess. She couldn't help but put on her coat and quickly got out of bed. Shuyao was startled by her and hurriedly got up as well.
As soon as Feng Wenyu went out, she saw the umbrella on the veranda. She opened the umbrella and walked into the rain. Shuyao was scared.
Feng Wenyu looked up at the top of the wall. Her cloak was wet by the slanting rain. She took two deep breaths. Shuyao also found an umbrella and ran out. Seeing that the girl had climbed up the ladder by the wall again, she was stunned and realized something. She didn't dare to persuade her or stop her. She silently held the ladder steady for the girl.
The wooden ladder was wet from the rain and was a little difficult to climb, but Feng Wenyu still used it to see the person outside the wall. He was standing in the alley, like a wooden sculpture, and was in a mess because of the rain.
He heard the sound and looked up. When their eyes met, he was instantly panicked:
"It's raining, don't climb the wall."
Feng Wenyu's nose suddenly felt a little sour.
Gu Yushi, what are you doing?
She threw the umbrella down and suppressed the surging emotions in her heart: "Go back, don't stay here."
Before Gu Yushi could feel happy, he heard the woman say:
"Don't ruin my reputation."
Those few short words drained all the color from his face. The umbrella fell at his feet, but he felt nothing as his heart ached and became numb.
The woman on the wall has disappeared.
Mingxinxuan was in a mess. Shuyao hurried to pick up the girl. She was so panicked that she was about to cry: "Girl, if you want to give him an umbrella, just take mine. How can you let yourself get wet in the rain!"
The chaos woke up the servants in the yard.
As soon as Jinshu came out and saw this scene, her heart skipped a beat and she immediately asked someone to prepare hot water.
Feng Wenyu was surrounded by a group of people and taken into the bathroom. After a soak in hot water, the coldness on her body disappeared. She was then wrapped in a coat and helped to the head of the bed. Jinshu was wiping her hair. She didn't know what was going on and was not in the mood to ask.
Until the girl asked: "Is he gone?"
Jinshu looked at Shuyao, who was wiping her tears.
"I'm gone, and my umbrella is gone too."
It is now late at night and everyone is asleep.
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