Chapter 151 She is outrageous
Gu Lintan was shocked. He thought Jiang Xue would ignore the matter in anger, but he never expected that she would ask the question tonight.
Gu Lintan quickly made up an excuse in his mind, but saw Huang Fu hastily crawling down to Jiang Xue's feet, saying, "Tonight's disaster is all my fault!"
Seeing this, Gu Lintan also looked at Huang Fu in confusion and asked, "Uncle Huang, what does this have to do with you? Why would such a group of thieves come to the courtyard at night to steal money and kill people?"
Murder for money? Jiang Xue sneered in her heart, and it was really lightly exposed.
Huang Fu was in tears. Due to the shock just now, his gray beard was wet with snot and tears, and was tangled together and stuck to his wrinkled face. At the moment, his hunched and skinny figure was lying on the ground, looking very miserable.
Jiang Xue saw the look of reluctance on Gu Lintan's face, so she immediately turned around and said to Xu Chong beside her:
"Help Uncle Huang up. He is old and cannot stand crawling and kneeling like this."
Gu Lintan looked at Jiang Xue gratefully, with an almost inaudible hint of surprise in his eyes.
Xu Chong stepped forward and tried to help Huang Fu up, but Huang Fu refused to get up. He just kept kowtowing to Jiang Xue and Gu Lintan, saying, "This old slave is guilty, this old slave is guilty!"
"Uncle Huang," Jiang Xue said slowly, "Let's talk when we get up. If you continue like this and really get hurt, I'm afraid it will make the Prince Consort even more worried. Besides, if it gets out, won't I be known as someone who mistreats the old servants of the Gu family?"
Xu Chong was already a little impatient when he saw this, and at this moment he didn't care about Huang Fu's struggle. He exerted a little force with his hands and pulled him up from the ground like a chicken.
Huang Fu lowered his head and shed tears, stammering, "Yes, yes, this old servant, thinking about the young master here, worried that the servants will not take good care of his food, clothing, shelter and transportation, so I always come to this yard these days."
"The west side of the city has been plagued by thieves recently, but I wasn't careful enough. I guess the thieves saw me coming here every now and then with a cart of stuff, and thought this family had some money, so they targeted me."
"Originally, there were only Miss Suxi and the young master in this courtyard, and the rest were insignificant servants. Normally, there was no young man here, and at most, only an old servant drove here. I think the gang of thieves saw that there were women, children, the elderly and the weak here, so they wanted to rob and kill people."
Gu Lintan looked at Huang Fu helplessly, as if he wanted to scold him but couldn't bear to do so. In the end, he could only sigh.
"Uncle Huang, this matter cannot be blamed on you. It is because the thieves were too rampant."
Hearing this, Jiang Xue said calmly, "Uncle Huang's words remind me of something."
"My dear Prince Consort, aren't you curious about how I found out about Suxi and the others?"
Gu Lintan was slightly stunned and murmured: "Is it because of Mr. Huang..."
"Yes," Jiang Xue swept away the various emotions on her face, revealing a dignified look, "Uncle Huang was no longer responsible for many chores in the mansion, but he still went to the stables every one or two days to ask for a carriage to go out. Every time, he either said he wanted to deliver official documents, food, or clothes to the prince consort, or he said he needed to buy some daily necessities for the prince consort."
"Although he no longer has the responsibility of stewardship, if the prince consort gives him money for expenses, it is not a big deal to ask him to buy things."
"But every time he went out under the pretext of shopping, he almost never reported it to the government office."
Jiang Xue glanced at the stunned Huang Fu and said, "Xiaochun was keeping an eye on him and later sent someone to follow him. We found that he always came here. This courtyard is secluded and the door is usually not even opened. The people sent by my room could not visit the people in the courtyard no matter what."
"I thought at that time," Jiang Xue looked around the yard with an inquiring look, and finally settled on Gu Lintan, "The person who could trouble Huang Bo to run around almost every day and make him so worried must be either his relative or a very important person to the prince consort."
"If I hadn't followed the Gu family's carriage here today, how long would the prince consort have kept it a secret from me?"
She was giving Gu Lintan a reasonable reason and also giving Gu Lintan a way out.
Gu Lintan sighed and said, "Uncle Huang... was also thinking about me. It was me who should not have left the benefactor and the child here, and I should not have deceived His Highness."
Jiang Xue looked at him with a complicated expression, and slowly said, "Even though I'm not one of those heartless people who doesn't know how to repay a favor, I know that saving my life is more important than Mount Tai, and I believe that you really are not half-hearted, but to be fair, I can't help but be angry."
"Even if you have a thousand reasons and are helpless, you have deceived me and you have a child with someone else."
"It's my fault," Gu Lintan looked at her, his eyes filled with deep shame. "I only ask Your Highness to give them a place to stay."
Jiang Xue nodded and said, "Put them in my yard first. I'll think about how to give them a legitimate identity."
"But as a punishment for deceiving me," Jiang Xue looked at Gu Lintan steadily and said, "I want you not to meet her on weekdays without my consent."
Gu Lintan hesitated and said: "This..."
"You are my husband," Jiang Xue said, "I cannot accept that you and I are still newlyweds, and yet you are stuck with another woman, even if she is your benefactor."
Her face was firm but with a hint of arrogance, and she said, "Only if you promise me, I will allow you to take them into my house and ensure that they have no worries about food and clothing from now on."
Only with such performance could Gu Lintan feel relieved.
He didn't believe that Jiang Xue would really take Su Xi as her husband and share a husband with her.
Gu Lintan was already feeling relieved, so he immediately bowed to Jiang Xue and thanked her, saying, "Thank you, Your Highness, for helping me repay your kindness!"
After the ceremony, he leaned over and whispered to Jiang Xue, "Your Highness, I swear that I only have the wife I married in my heart, and there is no room for anyone else."
Jiang Xue was full of resistance, but she remained calm. She only looked at Gu Lintan deeply, and then said to Xu Chong, "Go and help Madam Suxi up, bring her and the young master to Wenqingxuan, and let Xiaochun Fudong serve them well."
After that, she walked towards the courtyard gate. Before getting on the car, she suddenly turned back and looked at Gu Lintan in a reproachful manner, saying, "You are not allowed to take the car. You can only walk back tonight!"
Seeing her like this, Gu Lintan responded with a helpless yet doting smile and said, "Yes, I accept the punishment as your husband."
Seeing this scene, Lu Qiongshuang, who was sitting on a tree not far away, dropped the melon seeds in his hand to the ground and vomited a few times while hugging the tree trunk.
"Are you full?" Jing Ye glanced at her.
"I am disgusted." Lu Qiongshuang responded with an expression as if he was about to vomit, and said, "Gu Lintan is so hypocritical, it is simply disgusting."
"Your good cousin is no less capable than her." Jing Ye's tone was somewhat complicated.
Lu Qiongshuang stretched out a finger, shook it, and said, "No, my cousin is different. What she did is outrageous."
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