Chapter 6 Chapter 6 Do you really want to marry the Xuanyi Marquis's son? Really...
It was very hot in the afternoon, so the few of them took a walk and then went back to their rooms.
The two elders of the Song Mansion had originally arranged a guest room for Gu Yanzhou, but as soon as they opened their mouths, he rejected the idea. He simply said that there was no need to bother and that he and his wife would stay in Qiushui Garden.
What's even more strange is that Ah Yun actually agreed.?!
Mrs. Song confirmed it several times and was even more shocked after getting approval.
Ah Yun, are you in love?
The two elders returned to Shuixieju with full of doubts.
Dinner was held at Fushanzhai.
When the maid came to deliver the message, Song Siyun and Gu Yanzhou exchanged glances before following.
On the way, she deliberately lagged behind the maidservant for a few steps, tugging at the sleeve of the person next to her to remind her, "Let's do what we agreed to do later. I'll go drink with Daddy under the pretext of complaining, and when he's drunk, I'll take Mom with me so you can take him back to his room alone. Then you'll seize the opportunity to search for the key."
I felt relieved when I saw him nod.
It didn't take long to reach Fushanzhai.
As soon as the two entered the door, they saw Song Siyun turn around and glare at him with resentment. Before he could react, she sat down next to Song's mother with a breath held.
Maybe because he sat down too quickly, the chair made a creaking sound.
Gu Yanzhou was stunned. Just as he was about to follow her, he saw her raise her hand and point at the opposite side, angrily saying: "Don't come over here! Didn't you say that you don't like sitting next to me and having to serve me food? Then go over there and stay away from me!"
She glared at him with bulging eyes while accusing him.
The two elders of the Song family looked left and right, then glanced at each other. They didn't dare to speak and lowered their heads tacitly.
The atmosphere at dinner was horrible.
At the table, Song Siyun remained silent, his face darkening as he drank silently. Madam Song couldn't stop her, so she kept serving her food to urge her to drink less. Grand Tutor Song, seeing how distressed she was, decided to give up, even though he didn't drink much, and with a wave of his hand, he placed a glass on the table.
But by the time he went out to send someone to pass on the message, when he came back, someone had fallen on the table.
Grand Tutor Song lay on the table and could not be woken up no matter how Song Siyun shook him.
"Daddy can drink a lot—"
She looked up drunkenly, pulled Mrs. Song, and was halfway through her words when she saw Gu Yanzhou who had just finished giving instructions and came in.
The smell of alcohol thickened all over her body, and her thin eyebrows were instantly knotted. She pointed at him while holding the wine pot and said to Madam Song in a coquettish tone: "Get out! Mother, let him go out! This is my house, how did that bastard Gu Xiaochuan get in? Let him go out! I don't want to see him!"
Drunkards are harder to serve than the emperor and empress in the palace. You can't reason with them, so you have to just go along with them.
So Madam Song had no choice but to hug her and comfort her, then turned to Gu Yanzhou with an apologetic look on her face: "Minister Gu, don't mind Ah Yun's drunken talk. You see I can't get away either, so why don't you help me send my old man back to Shuixieju?"
"Mother-in-law is worrying too much. This is what I should do."
As he spoke, he walked to Master Song, squatted down, and put his hands on his shoulders.
When he stood up, he couldn't help but glance at Song Siyun. He wanted to wink at her but ended up scolding her again: "What are you looking at! Why are you still here? You come to my house every day to pester my sister. Aren't you annoying! She's my sister, not yours. Get out of here!"
Well, with such acting skills, you should go to the opera theater or sing in a wealthy family. I, Gu's family, live in peace and quiet in the backyard. It's really unfair to you.
He kept complaining in his mind, but his feet never stopped moving.
The waterside residence is not far away and can be reached in a cup of tea.
After the maid led her to the gate, he asked her to leave and carried her into the room alone.
It was a hot summer day, and because the Grand Tutor was honest, after nightfall, everyone except the two gatekeepers at Shuixie Residence was allowed to go back and rest.
Qingfeng had already found out all this.
In other words, at this moment, there were only him and the Grand Tutor in the entire waterside residence.
He placed the person on the couch, and after several attempts to confirm that he was not pretending, he began to look for the key.
The key is hidden in the secret compartment of the belt, very concealed.
He searched several times before he found it.
After getting the key, he followed the route given by Qingfeng and headed to the secret room in the study.
The secret room in the study was opened by a celadon vase on the wall cabinet. On the day of the wedding, Qingfeng came to visit early.
At this time, Gu Yanzhou came in naturally without any obstruction.
Soon, he saw the locked door in the secret room.
Hidden behind a box of calligraphy and paintings, and disguised as a window, it is easily overlooked.
He held the key in his right hand and quietly grasped the soft sword at his waist with his left hand to guard against traps.
He made every possible preparation, but when the door opened, everything was in vain.
It was unknown how long it took before Gu Yanzhou came to his senses and carefully put the things back in their place.
Tiptoe out of the secret room and return the key.
He didn't react until he left Shuixieju.
The Song Mansion actually hides such a big secret.
But at the same time, he also clearly understood:
Grand Tutor Song would never commit treason.
After all, the succession of the throne of Dayuan was just a matter of his thought.
I had something on my mind and didn't know where to go.
It was only when I returned to Qiu Shui Garden that I realized that Song Siyun was still stalling for time in Fu Shan Zhai.
Tsk——
Regretful that he was too engrossed in his thoughts, he immediately rushed to Fushanzhai.
In Fushanzhai, Song Siyun was not yet satisfied. He shook Madam Song, who was lying on the table, and yelled at her to get up quickly.
But no one paid any attention.
He smacked his lips in boredom, then walked out with the wine jug, as if looking for someone to drink with.
Cuiyu Quemei couldn't stop her, so she had to follow her on both sides to protect her safety.
But at the corner of goose intestine, I still couldn't see it.
They only heard a sound of "Ouch", and when they looked again, they saw the girl falling backwards.
"Girl!" He panicked and ran to help her.
But someone grabbed the person before them.
The snow-gray hem of the clothes is in the style of a man's robe.
"Oh no." Quemei was an expert in clothes and could tell it was a man just by looking at a piece of clothing.
The next moment, my heart was in my throat.
Cui Yu, who was standing by, also became alert upon hearing this, "We must not let anyone else see this."
After saying this, he found an excuse to send the people out of the yard.
But when he heard the man's puzzled question, "Why did you drink so much?", he stopped, put on a smile, came back and pulled Quemei away.
Que Mei also recognized who this person was and said in a loud voice, "Sir, the young lady is drunk. Please take her back to the courtyard. The two of us will go back first to prepare some sobering soup."
A soft "hmm" was heard from the shadows.
The two of them happily retreated.
Under the pavilion covered with wisteria flowers, amidst the interplay of blue and purple, Gu Yanzhou stared at the drunkard who was grinning foolishly while holding a wine jug in his hand.
I really don’t know what to do.
But the drunkard didn't know it, and he put the wine pot under his chin and asked him with a smile: "Who are you? You are so handsome."
After saying this, she shook her head again, her eyes lighting up as if she had thought of something. She tapped his nose lightly, her voice filled with sudden realization: "Ah, I see. Could you be the prince of Xuanyi? Since you're so handsome, why wouldn't I want to marry you?"
Gu Yanzhou lowered his eyes to glance at the slender fingers sliding restlessly down from the tip of his nose, and his face finally darkened, "Song Siyun!"
His hands exerted a little force, pulling her closer and forcing her to raise her head. "Look at me, who am I?"
He stared at her without blinking, and when she blurted out "Prince Xuanyi Hou, I know" without thinking, he actually laughed strangely in anger.
"Okay." Gu Yanzhou nodded, his patience gone. He just held her in his arms rudely, leaned over and whispered, his eyes and eyebrows full of evil, "Do you really want to marry the Xuanyi Marquis's son? What a pity, your husband is me—the second son of the Gu family, the Gu Yanzhou you hate the most."
He pronounced the three words "Gu Yanzhou" very heavily, as if he was afraid that she couldn't hear clearly.
As expected, upon hearing the name "Gu Yanzhou", her face suddenly changed, disgust evident in her expression, "No! I won't marry! I don't want to marry that bastard Gu Yanzhou! He has been pestering me since I was a child. To get rid of me, he even imitated the teacher's handwriting to trick me into staying in class and copying, just so that he could go to the shadow play with my sister. He is a—"
As he was speaking, he suddenly felt lighter under his body. After the world spun around, he felt that he was much taller, as if he could touch the sky with his hands.
She glanced at it curiously and continued to ramble, "He's a jerk! And that candy cake, that was bought for me by my sister! Why did he get one too? What's even more abominable is that my sister likes him so much, but what about him? When he learned about the imperial decree to recruit my sister into the palace, he actually did nothing?"
"He didn't do anything!" Song Siyun angrily pounded his shoulders, not caring about the life or death of the people below him. "He's a coward! A coward! My parents tacitly agreed that he would be my brother-in-law, but when my sister was in danger, he abandoned her in the deep palace and ran off to the Northern Frontier without even an explanation!"
Having said this, he swung his hand violently and said viciously, "I should have whipped him on the neck with a horsewhip and killed him. A whip on the arm was too light."
"He should be spanked, spanked..."
Gradually, the sound disappeared.
Gu Yanzhou lowered his eyes and looked at the wine jug at his feet, which had fallen to the ground and broken into pieces due to her wave, and did not move for a long time.
I couldn't help but think of the scene of the expedition four years ago.
The sky was very gloomy that night, very dark.
The soldiers in the northern border were in a critical situation, so the Crown Prince led the army on His Majesty's behalf to boost the morale of the troops. As the Crown Prince's companion, he could not shirk his responsibility.
That day, as the army had just left the city gate, a soldier came with a message saying that someone was looking for him.
He didn't even have time to tell his brother and sister-in-law that he was going to the battle today, so who could be looking for him?
As he was thinking, he felt a strong wind pass by his ear and land on his left arm. After the burning pain, he heard the girl's brutal abuse: "Gu Yanzhou, you bastard! You are a coward and a heartless man! From today on, we are completely done with each other! See you in Kyoto someday, I will beat you to death!"
After saying that, he left again.
Coming and going only takes a few breaths.
He recognized the horse.
He specially selected two identical horses from the stable and gave them to the two young ladies of the Song family.
A few days ago, he was still teaching them how to ride horses.
He learns really fast and even dares to ride it on his own.
Facing the puzzled gazes of the soldiers, he suddenly felt such an inappropriate emotion.
Seeing her safely enter the city gate, he bowed and apologized to the entire army: "I'm sorry, Gu's personal affairs have delayed the march."
Inside the carriage, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was the first to speak up for him and ordered him not to mention the matter again. Even though the officers and soldiers were filled with suspicion, they could only scratch their heads.
He never explained that.
Therefore, even His Highness did not know what on earth was worth a woman risking her reputation to chase after him.
Thinking of this, Gu Yanzhou's shoulders suddenly slumped.
He was indeed wrong about that matter, but he—
No regrets.
Even if it happened again, he would not bet the entire Gu family.
This was the oath he made thirteen years ago when his parents died one after another and his brother lost a leg in the search for him, making his career in the government impossible.
Remain unchanged throughout life.
The moonlight is cold and the most heartless.
Gu Yanzhou lifted his leg and stepped over the broken porcelain pieces on the ground and walked towards Qiu Shui Garden.
This journey is really, really long.
The sobering soup made by the Green Feathered Sparrow Plum had already warmed up before they saw the two figures.
Seeing that he looked unhappy, the two of them did not dare to say much. They just served the girl some sobering soup and then led the son-in-law to the guest room and went to bed.
When the moon was above the willows and she was in a daze, Cui Yu, who was keeping watch, suddenly felt some movement on the bed.
Rubbing his eyes, he turned around. Before he could stand up, he saw his daughter's eyes light up. She asked with a stern face, "Where's Gu Yanzhou?"
Cui Yu was startled. She covered her pounding heart and pointed to the left tremblingly. "My son-in-law is resting in the guest room."
Following the direction of her finger, Song Siyun lifted the quilt, stood up, put on his shoes, and put on his coat before leaving. He reminded her, "Go to bed. The floor is not comfortable."
After saying this, he walked out in a rage.
Cui Yu closed the door, and before she could come to her senses, she heard a loud "bang" and was startled again.
Okay, no need to sleep.
I am already awake and cannot be more awake.
Over there, Song Siyun burst in with anger. When he saw Gu Yanzhou sleeping soundly on the couch, he was even more furious, "Gu Yanzhou, you don't keep your word!"
She pulled back his blanket and saw him looking over. "You promised to tell me the news after the investigation. Where is the news now?"
He silently released the soft sword from his waist, rubbed his brow tiredly and explained: "You are drunk as a puddle of mud, how can I tell a drunkard?"
"So I'm here." Pushing him in, Song Siyun sat on the edge of the bed and asked, "What's the matter? Is my Song family innocent?"
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