Chapter 191 She Helped Me
"Hey! Where are you going? We were just joking, do you really have to leave?" Helange called him.
Gu Feicheng turned around and looked at him: "He Laoer, who cares about you? You have to take back the things you bought. Are you going or not?"
"Of course I have to go. Two hundred thousand taels! That's enough to build so many academies! You're such a spendthrift." Helangge felt sorry for him.
"That's right. Fortunately, Boss Mu left. Otherwise, he would have thought you bought it with his sister's dowry." Liang Wenyu echoed.
"Whatever you think." Gu Feicheng couldn't explain to them. If he told them that the jade tripod was for Shangguan Lan's sister, he believed that it would be difficult for him to see his wife again in the future.
The auction downstairs continued. Yun Wansheng felt relieved when she saw that Miss Lin did not win the bid.
Next, I wanted to take a picture of something suitable for Qiao Xue, but after looking around, I didn’t find anything I liked. They were all men’s things.
On the other side, Gu Feicheng walked out of the auction house holding the gift box containing the jade tripod in one hand, and then separated from the two friends. He then went directly to the Regent's Palace.
They arrived at Mu Xingci's main courtyard without any obstructions. The door was closed and guards were standing diligently on both sides.
Gu Feicheng walked up and knocked on the door: "Boss Mu, I brought the jade tripod." When it came to matters between brothers, they didn't use the official terms.
"Come in!" Mu Xingci's faint voice came from the room.
When Gu Feicheng walked into the room, he saw his brother-in-law sitting behind the desk doing official business. He didn't even raise his head when he came in.
"Boss Mu, I bought this Jade Face Cream back for you. It cost two hundred thousand taels!"
Mu Xingci kept saying, "Why are you so distressed? The auction house won't collect the money from your Gu Mansion. Okay, put the things on the table and go back!"
"Hey!" Gu Feicheng obediently placed the brocade box on a corner of the table, but he did not leave obediently.
"Boss Mu, didn't you say you owed Miss Lin? You also said you would be more tolerant and lenient with her in the future. But today, you knew she really liked the Jade Tripod, yet you deliberately snatched it away from her without showing her any mercy. Is this the attitude of someone you owe someone?
I know you haven't forgotten Yun Wansheng yet, but compared to Lin Yao, I think you owe Lin Yao more. She has been waiting for you for many years and has always wanted to marry you.
But as soon as you were hurt, you broke off the engagement, forcing a 20-year-old girl to get married in a hurry. Her life was not satisfactory. Her in-laws didn't like her, and her husband didn't like her because she was too old.
And I didn't see you treating Yun Wansheng harshly when she was with you. But you broke off all ties with you just because you lost a child. She didn't even think about what she had done for you. Does she hate you so much until now?
I think you don't need to please that woman between the two. Lin Yao is the one you should help.
Xingci, I'm only advising you as a good brother. You'd better give up on that woman! It's better for you to give this jade tripod to Lin Yao, so that you will owe her less.
Mu Xingci stopped writing with his brush at some point, and after hearing what he said, he slowly raised his head and looked at Gu Feicheng with a serious expression.
"Gu Lao San, I understand everything you said, but you're wrong about one thing. Yun Wansheng did help me, otherwise I wouldn't have conquered two countries so quickly. When it comes to contribution, national affairs take precedence over personal matters."
"What did she do?" Gu Feicheng's eyes were full of disbelief.
"Do you know who made that crossbow with a range of three thousand miles?"
Gu Feicheng's eyes were filled with suspicion: "You're not going to say it's her credit, are you?"
"Indeed! If it weren't for her extremely advanced crossbow, I don't know how many years it would take to unify the Three Kingdoms." Mu Xingci said seriously.
When the woman gave him the crossbow diagram, he was very excited. But when he took a closer look, he found that such a precise and secret drawing could not be planned overnight. She must have drawn it in advance and hidden it away.
The reason why she didn't give it to herself was probably because she was just thinking of waiting for a suitable opportunity to give it to herself.
From this point of view, the woman did not intend to use it to make a deal with me at first. It was because I pushed her into a corner that she used the set of pictures to exchange for her freedom.
"She...how could a woman like her know all that?" Gu Feicheng said in disbelief.
"Don't worry about how she knew all that. Although I owed Lin Yao, I didn't ruin her life.
I wrote a letter to the Emperor asking him to find her a good husband so that she could live a life of luxury and prosperity in the future.
But what about her? After three or four years of marriage, she doesn't know how to maintain a harmonious relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, let alone a harmonious relationship between husband and wife. She always wants to dominate others in everything, making people argue with her even if they don't want to.
She is unhappy now. It's her own fault. Don't blame me.
"The reason I told you I'd be more tolerant and generous with her in the future was simply because of our past relationship. If she crossed my line, all my debts to her would be wiped out," Mu Xingci said sharply.
"But Yun Wansheng obviously doesn't want to pay attention to you. How can it damage your image as the regent by rushing to find her?" Gu Feicheng felt sorry for his brother.
"Who said I was going to rush to find her? This jade tripod was bought for my mother." Mu Xingci's eyes flashed slightly and he denied it.
Gu Feicheng was about to speak when he heard the door behind him open and someone walked in: "Xingci, what did you buy for mother?" Wu walked in with a smile on her face.
Mu Xingci was speechless for a moment. Seeing this, Gu Feicheng looked at the visitor with a playful look: "Mother-in-law, today my brother-in-law has found something for you..." Before he finished speaking, a wolf-hair brush was thrown at him.
Subconsciously, she caught the pen, raised her head and looked at the man with a gloomy face, and complained fearlessly: "Brother-in-law, why did you throw me, mother-in-law? Look at him, he only knows how to bully me."
Mu Xingci stared at him coldly: "Gu Laosan, if you dare to act like a spoiled brat in front of my mother again, I will send you to the military camp for a month."
"Xingci! Why are you so angry? Feicheng treats me as her mother, unlike you who stopped acting like a spoiled child with your mother when you were three years old. You have to learn from Feicheng in the future." Mrs. Wu patted her son-in-law's head in admiration.
"Mother-in-law, you are still good to your son-in-law. Xinglan and I will come back often to see you and accompany you in the future." Gu Feicheng ignored someone's cold eyes and tried to please his mother-in-law.
"Okay! Mother knows that you two are the most filial, but Xinglan is not well now, so you should spend more time with her. If she needs anything, please let me know and I will send it to her."
"Don't worry, mother-in-law. Apart from coming to your place and attending court, I stay at home with Xinglan all the time. I will prepare the best of everything she wants to eat and use. You don't need to worry about her." Gu Feicheng looked serious.
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