Chapter 5: Sleep with him while he's drunk
Seeing Gu Wanru saying goodbye and preparing to leave, Gu Huan made up her mind.
He quickly followed and whispered in a voice that only Gu Wanru could hear.
"Eldest sister, serving tea is the only way to show your respect for the Duke. If you want to leave a good impression on the Duke, why not serve tea before leaving?"
Gu Wanru was unwilling to accept this, but she just couldn't do it for the moment.
After Gu Huan's reminder, she agreed deeply.
Now is indeed an opportunity to show filial piety, as it won’t be long before I can see my father-in-law again.
Gu Wanru shamelessly turned around and bowed: "Father, I want to offer you tea to show my filial piety. Otherwise, my husband will blame me for not knowing the rules when he comes back."
All of Gu Huan's little movements fell into Mu Junyan's eyes.
Looking at the little girl with lowered eyebrows and obedient ears, ripples slowly appeared in his eyes.
You were so bold last night, but today you don’t even dare to look up at him?
"Okay." The man's voice had a lingering ending, revealing a hint of meaning.
"Serve tea." Zhou Chunyu ordered the servant.
Gu Huan hurriedly said, "Let me do it."
She lowered her head and walked straight to the servant: "Please take me to the tea room."
Gu Wanru was very satisfied, as this showed that she was good at disciplining the servants around her.
She is determined to gain the power of housekeeper.
The servant looked at Zhou Chunyu and saw him nod: "Miss, please follow me."
The two of them entered the tea room next door one after the other. The servant glanced behind him quietly to make sure that no one was around before he dared to whisper, "Miss, you don't have to do anything. I'll make it and you can just take it out."
The servant was a student of Duke Yong, and his name was Dong Mo.
Gu Huan exchanged the time when her master returned home last night from him.
The excuse she used was that the young lady wanted to know when the master would return home so that she could prepare some food to show her filial respect.
"I'll do it."
Gu Huan's voice was so soft that it made Dong Mo's ears turn red.
Dong Mo saw her reaching out her hand and hurriedly moved away, but he saw that her palms were covered with red and swollen blisters and screamed in fright.
"What happened to your hand?"
Gu Huan quickly made a gesture to keep quiet: "Don't scream, Dong Ge. I can't let anyone know that I'm injured."
Dong Mo lowered his voice and said anxiously: "Such a severe burn, your hand will be damaged if you don't apply medicine."
Gu Huan's eyes were slightly red: "It doesn't matter. If I don't make tea well, my elder sister will punish me."
Dong Mo opened his mouth in surprise: "Eldest sister? You are the sister of the young lady? Then why are you wearing a maid's dress and calling yourself a slave?"
Gu Huan had only been in the mansion for over a month. Except for Housekeeper Zhou who knew her true identity, everyone who had seen her thought that she was a new maid sent by the young mistress's family as a dowry.
Gu Huan wrapped her hands with two handkerchiefs and choked up, "I was born to my aunt and married into the mansion as a dowry. Am I not just a slave?"
Dong Mo couldn't believe it.
Seeing her forbearance made me feel pity for her, and I couldn't control my anger.
"Gu Houfu is a noble family. Even if she is born out of wedlock, she is still the master's daughter. How can you treat her like this?"
"Brother Dong, please don't say that. If my elder sister hears me, I'll be dead."
The little beauty was so frightened that her face turned pale, no one could bear it.
Dong Mo was so soft-hearted: "I won't tell you. You tried so hard to help the young lady find out the news about the master, but she was so cruel to you. It's too much!"
Gu Huan felt a little guilty and didn't dare to look at him: "My elder sister wants to give me to her son-in-law tonight. What can I do if I don't want to? She is the master and I am the slave. No one can save me."
Dong Mo blurted out, "Give you to the young master? There are seven or eight concubines in the young master's room, and they are making a mess! Isn't this pushing you into the fire pit? You are her biological sister!"
Gu Huan cried, "Oh, it's all my bad luck. Brother Dong, you must not tell anyone about this, otherwise, my elder sister will punish me severely."
Dong Mo frowned: "Well, I know the severity of the situation."
The tea was ready. Gu Huan's eyes were red. "Brother Dong, can you help me bring it in? My hands are like this. If the master sees it, he will misunderstand that my elder sister is abusing me, which will affect my elder sister's reputation. That would be bad."
Dong Mo was speechless: "You...it's like this, and you still think about her everywhere? You are too stupid."
"Please."
Faced with the girl's pitiful plea, Dong Mo quickly picked up the tea tray.
"Of course I'll take it. Hurry up and untie the handkerchief. It won't be good if the blisters are squeezed and burst before applying the medicine."
Gu Huan gratefully took out a silver ingot and put it into Dong Mo's hand.
"That's impossible! You gave me five taels yesterday."
Gu Huan's eyes were red. "My eldest sister gave it to me yesterday, and this one is mine today. First, I want to thank Brother Dong for keeping it a secret for me. Second, Brother Dong is a kind person. Can you help me find some good medicine?"
This is also her last savings.
burn one's boats!
Dong Mo's eyes turned red.
Her own sister's hand was burned like this, and she still wanted her to make tea. Couldn't she even give her medicine?
This young lady has a really bad character.
Gu Huan and Dong Mo walked into the main room. Gu Wanru picked up the teacup on the tray and knelt down to serve tea.
Mu Junyan took it and drank: "Get up."
Gu Wanru was very attentive: "Father, are you coming home tonight? I will prepare a feast for you and your son to have a good chat, okay?"
"Let's talk about it later." Mu Junyan's attitude softened a lot.
"Yes." Gu Wanru was happy.
Although we didn't invite anyone tonight, my father didn't completely refuse.
She had to do the important task of asking her husband to be crowned as the Crown Prince so that he would look up to her.
Gu Huan's heart skipped a beat.
If Mu Junyan doesn't return home tonight, won't she be able to escape her fate?
She couldn't help but quickly look up at the man sitting above her, but she didn't expect to be met with a deep, scrutinizing gaze, which scared her so much that she quickly lowered her head.
"Why don't you leave quickly?" Gu Wanru frowned and said in a low voice when she saw her pale face.
After the two left, Zhou Chunyu waved to Dong Mo and said, "Go down."
Dong Mo hesitated, seeming to want to say something but stopped himself.
Zhou Chunyu glared at him: "If you have to fart, do it now."
Dong Mo mustered up his courage and said, "Master, won't you give the young lady a reward?"
He wanted to deliver medicine to poor Miss Gu, so he had to have an excuse to go to the young lady's yard.
Zhou Chunyu's eyes widened: "You little bastard are getting bolder and bolder!"
Mu Junyan looked at Dong Mo thoughtfully.
"Dong Mo's reminder is correct. I went to war the day after Gu Wanru got married. Today is the first time I had her daughter-in-law tea, so I should give her something as a reward."
Dong Mo was overjoyed.
"What does my lord want to reward me? I'll go to the storehouse to pick it out." Zhou Chunyu tried to figure out what his lord meant.
"Go ahead, Dong Mo. Pick whatever you want."
Dong Mo was stunned: "Little one, go and pick it?"
"You made a good suggestion, so of course you should go." Mu Junyan's face showed no emotion.
Dong Mo was frightened.
Is the master angry that he talks too much?
He quickly looked to Zhou Chunyu for help.
Zhou Chunyu seemed to have guessed something, and took off his badge and handed it to Dong Mo: "Tell the warehouse that the master asked you to pick it, go quickly."
Dong Mo stretched out his hands fearfully, holding the badge carefully, and looked away with empty eyes.
Oh my God!
This is the master's badge.
Let him pick whatever he wants in the warehouse?
Why does he feel so panicky about whether he's alive or dead?
"Look what he picked."
As soon as Mu Junyan finished speaking, a figure flashed out from the darkness and followed Dong Mo away.
Zhou Chunyu glanced at his master's face and asked tentatively, "Do you think the woman last night was the maidservant beside the young lady?"
The master said that she had a unique body fragrance and a pair of charming eyes, and was a natural beauty. Such a person would be a disaster if she stayed in the mansion, and he must dig her out.
Just now he met the Gu sisters at the door and vaguely smelled a unique fragrance on the young lady's sister, which was definitely not something that the maids in the mansion would have.
Looking at her face again, she would be able to withstand a beating even if thrown among the top noble ladies in the capital.
Zhou Chunyu immediately decided to send people to secretly investigate Jinxiu Pavilion.
In the past, those who failed to climb into bed would be beaten with thirty sticks and sold.
This time, he successfully climbed into bed while his master was drunk, and even dared to steal his pajamas and escape. If he was found, he would be beaten to death.
"Have you found my pajamas?" Mu Junyan glanced at him.
When he woke up this morning, he stared at a bloodstain on the bed sheet that looked like a plum blossom and laughed out of anger.
Was he taken advantage of by someone to sleep with him when he was drunk, and then left without leaving a single cloud?
You daring little thing, if she dares to threaten me with my nightgown, she deserves to die.
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