After leaving a legend that could never be surpassed at the Dashiqiao Bridge, Yu Xiaoxiao did not ask about the life or death of the four men she had thrown into the river, and followed Gu Xinglang home in a carriage.
When the carriage arrived at the gate of Gu's mansion, Yu Xiaoxiao finished the last sesame dumpling in the bowl.
Gu Xinglang looked at Yu Xiaoxiao's belly and said, "Isn't it bloated?" He was really worried that his young wife's stomach would burst.
"Here," Yu Xiaoxiao fed a mouthful of glutinous rice dumpling water to Gu Xinglang's mouth and said, "There's sugar in it, try it."
Gu Xinglang opened his mouth and took a sip of the sweet soup, and said to Yu Xiao: "Do you like snacks?"
Yu Xiaoxiao nodded. She liked everything that was edible. She had to eat it quickly while she had time. What if she woke up tomorrow and the world had ended? (Hey, thinking too much is a disease. It needs to be treated!)
"Third brother," Gu Xingyan poked his head in from the car door, looked at the two people in the car nervously, and said, "Princess, you are not hurt, are you?"
Gu Xinglang said: "We are just going to a banquet, what are you worried about, second brother?"
Gu Xingyan said: "You don't know yet? A building collapsed in Deyi Winery. My God, such a tall building can collapse!"
"Oh——" Yu Xiaoxiao said with a long "oh".
Xiaozhuang and Xiaowei outside the car were both trembling with fear. Oh my God, the building really collapsed!
Gu Xinglang was surprised and said, "The building collapsed? When did it happen? I don't know."
Gu Xingyan said: "Just now."
Yu Xiao: "Did anyone get hurt?"
Young Master Gu said in annoyance, "Don't mention it. Not a single Zhuri was hurt."
Since no one was hurt, Yu Xiaoxiao had nothing to worry about. Without waiting for Gu Xingyan to help her, she jumped out of the car and drank half a bowl of the glutinous rice balls sweet water in one gulp.
Gu Xingyan waved to the servants in front of the gate to come forward and carry Gu Xinglang out of the carriage.
Seeing that everyone was busy with Gu Xinglang, Xiaozhuang came up to Yu Xiaoxiao and whispered, "Princess, the building really collapsed!"
Yu Xiaoxiao said with a wooden face: "Yeah, I don't know who did it, it's too much!"
Xiaozhuang almost bit his tongue. So this is what it means to refuse to admit it.
Gu Xinglang was carried down from the carriage by two servants. Seeing Yu Xiaoxiao standing there yawning with an empty bowl in her hand, he said, "Princess, go and rest first. I'll go see my grandfather."
Yu Xiao: "Do you want to have dinner with grandpa again? I'll go too."
"No need!" Gu Xinglang shouted. Would he die if he continued to eat like this?
Gu Xingyan was startled. He looked at his third brother, then at his third brother's wife, and asked Yu Xiaoxiao: "Princess, didn't you eat enough at the banquet?" The second young master Gu felt that he could understand this. When the princess and his third brother met Jing Mo, they must have talked about the seventh prince. How could they have the mind to eat?
Yu Xiao: "The dishes are too small, no wonder that winery is about to go bankrupt."
"What?" Gu Xingyan looked at his third brother. What was his sister-in-law saying?
Gu Xinglang didn't understand why his young wife was so sure that Deyi Winery was going to close down. He waved to Gu Xingyan and said to Yu Xiao seriously, "Grandfather must have had dinner, Princess. I just went to tell Grandfather that we are back. You go and rest first. I will be back soon. You..." After hesitating for a while, Gu Sanshao still promised, "Let's go to Dashiqiao tomorrow."
When she heard that there was no food to eat, Yu Xiaoxiao lost interest. She said "oh" and went into the house with Xiaozhuang and Xiaowei.
Gu Xingyan watched Yu Xiaoxiao disappear before asking Gu Xinglang, "Did something happen?" Logically, the young couple should have gone to meet their elders together, but Gu Xinglang sent Yu Xiaoxiao away, so something must have happened.
Gu Xinglang shook his head and whispered, "Second brother, let's go see grandfather and call eldest brother as well."
Gu Xingyan followed the sedan chair that Gu Xinglang was sitting in. After entering the mansion, he couldn't wait to ask, "What happened?"
Gu Xinglang said, "The one who left."
Gu Xingyan was speechless now. The one who left, in the Gu family, was the great-uncle Gu Li. Seventeen years passed in a blink of an eye. This great-uncle was enjoying honor and wealth in Zhuri, but in the Gu family in Fengtian, this person had become a taboo.
Gu Chen had been waiting in the study for Gu Xinglang to come back. After Gu Xingyan carried Gu Xinglang to the chair and sat him down, the old man asked, "How did you talk to the princess and Jing Mo about the matter of the Seventh Prince?"
Gu Xingnuo also hurried over at this time, sat opposite Gu Xingyan and Gu Xinglang, and asked: "One of the wooden buildings of Deyi Winery collapsed, what happened?"
Gu Xinglang didn't want to think about the wooden building, and whispered, "Gu Li asked Jing Mo to bring us a message, saying hello, and also said that he was very worried when he heard that our whole family was imprisoned."
Gu Xingyan snorted coldly and cursed: "The cat cries over the rat, and he still has the nerve to ask Jing Mo to tell him something? Yes, if he had some dignity, he wouldn't have killed my father and then run off to Zhuri to be his grandson."
"Second brother!" Gu Xingnuo called out to his second brother and said, "Let Xinglang finish what he is saying."
Gu Xinglang told Jing Mo how he wanted the Gu family to surrender and offer the defense map of Wangxiang City, and how he bought Qingyu and used Qingyu to sow discord between him and his wife.
Gu Xingyan was so angry that his face turned blue and he wanted to curse, but when he saw that his grandfather and elder brother both had angry faces and remained silent, Gu Xingyan also remained silent.
The lights in the study crackled and popped several times. After a long while, Gu Chen sighed and said, "I am born at the wrong time. Life is difficult."
Gu Xinglang said: "If we don't agree, Jing Mo will definitely take the Seventh Prince away. Grandfather, are we just going to watch the Seventh Prince go to Zhuri as a hostage?"
There was silence in the study again.
Gu Xingyan scratched his head vigorously, looked at Gu Xinglang and said, "Have you explained the matter of Qingyu to the princess? What did the princess say?"
Gu Xinglang was silent again. He wanted to explain, but what happened in the end? Oh, by the way, the princess wanted to go to Dashiqiao to eat snacks, but he didn't say anything more about it.
Gu Xingyan said: "You didn't say it?"
Gu Xinglang thought, can I say that the princess cares about food and doesn't care about Qingyu at all? Ah, why do I feel depressed again?
"Forget it," Gu Chen said, "I will ask your grandmother to talk to the princess in person about Qingyu tomorrow."
Gu Xingnuo said: "Grandmother came forward to explain the matter of Qingyu, what about the matter of the Seventh Prince?"
Seeing that his grandfather and two brothers were silent again, Gu Xinglang gritted his teeth and said, "Even if the princess and I are not husband and wife, the princess saved me twice, so I have to repay her."
Mr. Gu said, "What are you going to do?"
Gu Xinglang said: "Grandfather, I want to take the Seventh Prince away from the capital."
"You want to take the Seventh Prince away?" Gu Xingyan shouted, "Can you ride a horse or fight with others now? How are you going to take the Seventh Prince away?"
"Just say I'm leaving Beijing to seek medical treatment," Gu Xinglang had already thought about this, and said resolutely: "I'll take the Seventh Prince away first. Jing Mo can't stay in Beijing for long. If the Seventh Prince is missing, the emperor will definitely send another prince to kill him. After the matter is over, I will take the Seventh Prince back to Beijing and let the emperor deal with it."
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