Chapter 176
Unsurprisingly, the high-profile proposal was recorded by those present and posted online, making Gu Jiangkuo and Jiang Nuo famous again.
The omnipotent netizens dug out the popular concert video of a couple singing in a chain that had been deleted overnight. Some people were surprised to find that the assistant Gu who successfully "rose to the top" was actually the current chairman of the Gu Group.
While everyone was sighing that "excellent people will be with excellent people" and lamenting the match made in heaven between Mr. Gu and Mr. Jiang, the couple was also busy choosing a place to get their marriage certificate and hold their wedding.
"Why don't we go to Denmark? Doesn't Gu's have a business deal to discuss? It's on the way." Jiang Nuo said without raising his head.
"No way!" Gu Jiangkuo was shocked. "How can you be so careless about such an important matter in your life?"
Jiang Nuo: "...It's just a formality anyway." Domestic laws don't protect it.
"No." Gu Jiangkuo snatched the laptop from Jiang Nuo.
"Hey! Don't close it! It hasn't been saved yet!"
Gu Jiangkuo smoothly pressed Control S, then closed the computer, tossed it aside, and pulled Jiang Nuo to sit on his lap. "Save it! Now let's look up the information together."
Jiang Nuo really wanted to say that there was no need to be so serious, but he didn't dare to say it out loud. Otherwise, Mr. Gu Dajiang would definitely have a lot of theories waiting for him, and would even question him in a loud and powerful voice whether he still loved him. What if the employees heard it... Mr. Jiang couldn't afford to lose face.
Moreover, Gu Jiangkuo held him tightly and he couldn't break free at all.
While policies vary from country to country, one thing remains consistent: marriage certificates issued in China are not recognized. After searching extensively, Gu Jiangkuo remained unsatisfied, his brow furrowing with each review.
Jiang Nuo: "...Or, how about we see where to hold the wedding?"
This success cheered Mr. Gu up. "Okay, do you want a Chinese-style one, or one with a garden lawn? How about a church? I found an old castle in England that I think would be great."
Mr. Jiang, a pragmatic man in some ways, said ruthlessly, "Church is definitely not an option. Christianity is against homosexuality. Do you believe that if we encounter a priest with a bad temper, he would burn us to death?"
Gu Jiangkuo: “…”
"Let's have a traditional Chinese wedding. Find a hotel and invite friends and family. First, it's a formal announcement, and second..." Mr. Jiang said proudly, "I want to get back all the money I've given away over the years!"
Gu Jiangkuo was silent for a long time before he asked sincerely, "Nuonuo, are you allergic to romance?"
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Speaking of weddings, Jiang Nuo really doesn't care as much as Gu Jiangkuo. After all, he is an old man who has lived two lifetimes. Compared with these rituals, he cares more about whether the two of them are happy together.
So Mr. Jiang finally made a concession and decided to give himself a month's annual leave to accompany Gu Jiangkuo to personally inspect each place one by one. It was both an inspection and a honeymoon. They planned to travel to more than a dozen countries and regions on the earth where marriage is legal. When the time comes, they will see how they feel and get the marriage certificate in the place they like.
The two of them discussed and decided to go to a country that they were not very optimistic about first, so they chose the United States as their first stop.
When the couple started their trip around the world, Gu Xin also got off the plane with his family.
Aunt Gu eventually divorced Uncle Gu. Gu Xin did not blame his mother. He had always known that his parents' marriage was in name only. But after his mother left, his grandfather and father could only rely on him. Naturally, he had to manage Gu Zhonghong's huge private property worth hundreds of millions.
Gu Xin was only 21 years old. Logically, he had not graduated from college yet and was still a teenager. He was not mentally mature and had a gambling habit. Suddenly, he got a huge sum of money. His first reaction was not to settle down and work, but to go to Las Vegas to gamble.
After spending a month and losing most of his family property in one go, Gu Xin was finally forced by Uncle Gu and Grandpa Gu to leave the gambling city and move to Colorado with his family.
The good news is that there is a ready-made property here that Mr. Gu bought some time ago. The bad news is that no one has taken care of it for many years and the house has long been occupied by homeless people.
However, local laws tend to protect the homeless, and prosecution periods are long and uncertain. The Gu family, with their grandparents and grandchildren, had no choice but to contact a real estate agent and buy another house.
Since there were two elderly, weak and sick people in the family who could not be relied upon, Gu Xin had to go through the procedures himself. Due to his lack of experience, he was cheated out of a large sum of money by the agent, but at least he had a place to live. Old Man Gu thought he could finally enjoy his old age here.
Unfortunately, the good days didn't last long, and Gu Xin ran away again, taking away almost all the family savings.
Gu Xin actually didn't go there to gamble this time. He was just fed up with such a life. The two patients were both more irritable than each other, especially his father, who had been spoiled by Grandpa Gu since he was a child. When he was fourteen years old, he exchanged lives with the real Gu Min under the operation of Gu Zhonghong, and became the eldest son of the Gu family. Since then, everyone in the Gu family has obeyed him, causing him to live like a prince for decades. He could not tolerate any grievance, otherwise he would be so angry that he would fall ill.
During the time when Gu Xin was taking care of his grandfather and father like an old nanny, he couldn't count the number of times Uncle Gu had lost his temper with him, not to mention that Old Man Gu sighed all day long. The house was full of negative energy, and Gu Xin felt like he was suffocating.
This is how life is, and after so long, the online abuse has never stopped. As long as you open your social account, you will still receive countless malicious attacks such as "descendant of a mistress" and "shameless" every day. Some people even photoshopped Mr. Gu's photo into a black and white posthumous photo and sent it to him in private messages.
Gu Xin wanted to escape countless times, wanted to give up his identity as a descendant of the Gu family and start over.
Today, he has a lot of wealth - after deducting the money squandered in casinos and spent on buying houses, he still has tens of millions left - as long as he quits his gambling addiction, it seems that it is enough for an ordinary person to spend a lifetime.
The two thoughts of "changing the name and starting over" and "taking care of my father and grandfather until the end of their lives as a descendant of the Gu family" were constantly playing in Gu Xin's mind. In the end, he couldn't resist the temptation, cancelled all his social accounts, and blocked his former friends, classmates, father and grandfather.
After making a breakup, Gu Xin took the money and fled the United States directly. He planned to settle in the neighboring Maple Leaf Country. After everything was settled, he would submit an application to the welfare agency requesting social workers to take care of Gu Zhonghong and Uncle Gu to avoid exposing his whereabouts.
"They still have real estate under their names, so they shouldn't starve to death." Gu Xin thought.
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At first, Mr. Gu and Uncle Gu had a nanny to take care of them, but when the salary was not paid, the black aunt quit and looted several valuable electronic products in the house before leaving - she even took away the juicer.
Gu Zhonghong and Uncle Gu were one old and weak, the other sick and disabled, and had almost no ability to take care of themselves. Gu Xin's phone was completely unreachable, and they relied on the bread at home for a few days. When they were really out of food and ammunition, they finally had no way to go out. It was at this time that the father and son met Gu Jiangkuo and Jiang Nuo.
The couple usually attend business events. If they are not in a meeting, they are on the way to a meeting. They rarely relax and walk leisurely on the street like this. Jiang Nuo even has an ice cream in his hand.
"This street is the dividing line. This side is the rich area, and across this road is the poor area. The housing prices vary greatly, and most of the residents are low-class black people. They bully the weak and fear the strong, and they like to rob the weak Asian faces. Mr. Gu, you and your lover had better not go there." The black-haired and blue-eyed mixed-race tour guide advised.
Jiang Nuo looked towards the black area curiously and whispered, "It seems a bit shabby."
Gu Jiangkuo squeezed Jiang Nuo's hand soothingly: "Don't be afraid, I'm here."
Upon hearing this, the tour guide quickly flattered him, "Yes, with Mr. Gu's skills, there's nothing to be afraid of. You must exercise regularly, right? Those vicious robbers may not be your match."
Before he could finish his words, several people witnessed a robbery.
Several tall black youths stopped two yellow men who came out in wheelchairs. One looked to be an old man in his seventies or eighties, and the other was a sickly middle-aged man. Several black thugs had guns in their hands, but facing such a weak robbery target, the guns were obviously redundant.
A frail middle-aged man was grabbed by the collar and pulled out of his wheelchair, shouting "Help" in Chinese.
"See, I was right!" the tour guide said in fluent Chinese, and couldn't help sighing, "Ah, they are also Chinese. How pitiful."
"Help!" The middle-aged man who was lifted up kicked his legs weakly, looked towards Gu Jiangkuo, and shouted: "Akuo! Is that you? Help! I'm being robbed!"
Jiang Nuo then saw clearly that the man was actually Uncle Gu!
And Mr. Gu beside him also looked over.
If Uncle Gu hadn't spoken, Jiang Nuo would never have recognized them. This father and son had been so glorious in the past. Not to mention them, even the housekeeper of the Gu residence was very arrogant and looked down on others. Wherever they went, the local government would give them some face and treat them as potential investors.
But now, the two men were ragged and dirty, with their hair and beards almost tangled together. If it weren't for the electric wheelchairs they were sitting in that looked valuable, those thugs probably wouldn't have targeted them for robbery.
"Hey? Mr. Gu, Mr. Jiang, do you know each other?" the tour guide asked curiously.
The black youths obviously thought the same thing, and as if they had discovered a new world, they let go of Uncle Gu and walked towards them with ill intentions.
But Gu Jiangkuo was faster. He pulled out a gun from the tour guide's pocket like lightning and fired a burst of shots with rapid and standard force, hitting the gangster's feet.
"Fuck!" Several thugs were startled, but they didn't dare to move forward. Guns are not banned here. The more a guy has been committing crimes for years, the better they can tell those who just bought a gun for self-defense but don't know how to use it, and those who are real professional players who have touched a gun.
Several thugs didn't dare to come over. They whispered to each other for a while and guessed that Gu Jiangkuo's size, muscles, proficiency with guns, and textbook-like standard gun-holding posture showed that he was professionally trained. Could he be a plainclothes policeman or a mercenary?
"Mercenaries are more likely. I know all the police officers in this area."
"What should I do? That big guy seems to know those two weaklings in wheelchairs."
"Don't confront them head-on. That bullet was just a warning. If we go over there again, the next one will hit us. I guarantee it."
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Uncle Gu and Old Man Gu also showed a look of relief. Old Man Gu moved even faster, steering his electric wheelchair towards Gu Jiangkuo, and excitedly called out, "A Kuo, are you here to see me?"
If he had known that letting Gu Xin take care of him in his old age would end up like this, he might as well have been under house arrest at Gu's house! At least he would have had food and drink instead of eating dry bread that was getting stale for three consecutive days.
Old Master Gu was extremely regretful and hoped that Gu Jiangkuo would take him back to Nanyang for the sake of their blood relationship.
Seeing this, a few thugs were also afraid and did not try to stop it. Instead, a young man with dreadlocks shouted, "Bro! Do you recognize these two gentlemen in wheelchairs?"
Gu Jiangkuo looked at him with a fierce look. The man with dreadlocks looked at the gun in his hand and swallowed his saliva. "Don't be nervous, sir. We are just asking. If you know each other, we will leave..."
"I don't know him." Gu Jiangkuo suddenly said loudly, then protected Jiang Nuo with one hand, held a gun in the other, and retreated towards the safe wealthy area facing them.
Mr. Gu could understand simple English - even if he couldn't, he could guess the meaning from the tone of the two groups.
He shouted in shock, "Akuo, I understand you don't want to recognize me, but I'm being robbed! Can you just watch Grandpa being abused like this?"
Gu Jiangkuo still ignored him and just protected Jiang Nuo tightly.
"You won't just ignore us to protect him, will you?" Uncle Gu also shouted, "No matter how wrong we are, we are still your family. You can't just stand by and watch us die...ah!"
Uncle Gu didn't finish what he was going to say because the guy with dreadlocks was annoyed by his noise and punched him in the stomach, cursing at him while searching his body, trying to find cash.
Unfortunately, they only found a few dollars in change to buy bread. The thugs felt that their time was wasted, so they not only took the money, but also beat them up while cursing at them to vent their anger.
Gu Jiangkuo and his companions had already retreated to the safety of the wealthy area. Hearing the screams of the Gu family father and son being beaten, Gu Jiangkuo's face turned pale. Jiang Nuo wanted to offer comfort, but Gu Jiangkuo waved his hand and muttered, "You watched him die without helping? He almost forced my father to death back then, so what?"
"Dajiang..."
"I'm fine," Gu Jiangkuo breathed out, returning the gun to the tour guide and handing him a wad of cash. "Excuse me, I just fired a gun. Your gun must be registered. Do you need to report it? Sorry for the trouble. You've taken so much trouble to explain everything. Go ahead and do your work. We'll go around on our own and meet up tomorrow when we set off."
"Okay, okay!" The tour guide took the generous tip and naturally had no complaints. Before leaving, he even complimented him, "I didn't expect Mr. Gu to have a military background!"
Gu Jiangkuo remained noncommittal: "I received some military training when I was in college."
It was the first time Jiang Nuo had heard someone describe the experience of "touching a real gun during military training" in such a high-brow and classy way. However, Gu Jiangkuo was indeed talented in many areas. He had won first place in the competition during the training camp, and the military instructors had even persuaded him to join the army.
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"Brother, are you still angry?" Jiang Nuo tilted his head and looked at him.
In fact, seeing the father and son living such a miserable life, Gu Jiangkuo felt a little happy in his heart and was no longer angry, but Nuonuo called him "brother" again.
Mr. Gu was reluctant to let go of such a benefit. Gu Jiangkuo grabbed Jiang Nuo's hand and pressed it on his strong chest. "It's still a little uncomfortable here, let me rub it."
Jiang Nuo: “…………”
Hearing this tone, Jiang Nuo knew that Gu Dajiang should be fine, and pinched his chest muscle, "Stop pretending to be pitiful."
Then she stuffed her unfinished, almost melted ice cream into his hands and said, "You can't finish it."
Gu Jiangkuo took it naturally, without any disdain. He finished the remaining ice cream in two bites, wiped his hands, and said, "Nuonuo, I suddenly remembered where to hold our wedding."
"Where?" Jiang Nuo was quite interested in his jumping thoughts.
"I was just thinking about it. Many countries don't ban guns, so it doesn't seem safe for us to bring so many guests with us. Why not hold it on that small island in Fiji?" Gu Jiangkuo said. "It's our own place, and it's pretty well decorated, big enough to accommodate a few hundred people. You haven't been there yet, right? After the guests leave, we can just stay there for our honeymoon."
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