Once outside, Hongye couldn't help but quietly ask Cuiming, "Tell me, what happened this time?"
Once they reached the corridor, Cuiming said, "I'm afraid Miss and the Marquis had a falling out."
Hongye muttered, "But we were eating outside and didn't hear anything coming from inside."
Cuiming said with a smile, "Miss dares to get angry with the Marquis because she is sure that the Marquis will not dare to turn against her. Besides, you and I can both see the Marquis's feelings for Miss. How could he possibly be violent towards Miss?"
The red leaves sigh.
I thought Lord Gu would stay at Wutong Garden and consummate his marriage with Miss.
Really...
Hongye said listlessly, "Then let's pack our things later and have Sixteen deliver them."
Cui Ming said, "Don't blame the Marquis for this. Even I didn't expect that a six-year-old child would have so many thoughts. The two of them have been very well-behaved lately, and even Miss has felt sorry for them. I didn't expect that they are just like their mother, holding back a lot of things."
Hongye exclaimed in surprise, "Miss suspects them?"
When Master Gu got up from his afternoon nap and came out to paint, he saw me waiting on the veranda with a package in my arms and asked, "Why is he still out there? Does Brother Ba know what happened? He just got angry with that naughty boy in the study. I wonder who he went to cause trouble for."
Originally, Accountant Sun was being slow and aloof, but upon hearing this, he quickly wrote a note, handed it to Gu Shiba, and said with a big smile, "Song Yuewei is really unlucky."
Gu Shiba stood quietly to the side.
"You...you did something wrong?"
Gu Shiba's eyes darted around slightly as she asked, "Is Cuiming going to take a look?"
"Yes, he can figure it out, but Cuiming can't. Does my elder sister want to send me to the inner courtyard?"
Hongye covered her mouth: "My goodness, those two kids are too cunning! You've only ever heard that we're arrogant and domineering, that even Eighth Master's two eldest sons have been beaten to tears, who would have thought..."
After leaving Wutong Garden, Steward Cao sought out Gu Shiba to ask him questions.
Gu Shiba snatched the note from my hand, turned around and left.
Accountant Sun was stunned.
Gu Shiba said, "Before Doctor Li took the medicine, he was taken away to be recuperated."
The Marquis said, "Yes, yes, you were just saying it offhand, but my elder sister will definitely think that way."
Gu Shiba glanced at me and said warmly, "Does he want that bad luck?"
Hongye said, "Cuiming... sigh, she's just like us petty people. When it comes to managing the affairs of the front house, she's not always clear-headed. Sometimes she doesn't know whether she's truly clear-headed or just pretending."
Gu Shiba nodded and said, "That's natural. Cuiming loves her soldiers like her own children, and she's very mean to you all."
"I was covered in blood, mostly minor cuts and bruises, but my internal organs were also damaged. Doctor Li said I need to rest and recuperate."
Gu Shiba said, "The older one went to see the younger one."
Gu Shiba laughed and said, "You people's lives, wealth and honor are all tied to the Marquis's mansion. On the battlefield, swords and spears have eyes, who can say anything ambiguous?"
The Qi family followed Old Cuiming to the battlefield, and then to me and my brothers. Some of them died while still married women outside the family.
Butler Cao muttered to himself.
Cui Ming spat, "Sometimes you're so clever, and sometimes you're so stupid. Let me ask you, these two children already know how to crawl through dog holes. Is it possible that Madam Zhao contacted these two children before she left?"
Brother Qi glanced at me and said casually, "Him? He's good at talking, but let me tell you, Gu Jinghui's family has only lost one member, me, and not even a blind old mother."
Gu Shiba said wickedly, "This... Cui Ming, the eldest has gone."
Hongye said, "I... I'm just surprised that these two children are so young, yet they've gone to such lengths."
Cui Ming rolled her eyes at her and said, "Why are you so surprised? Didn't Miss ask you to ask Xiao Hong? You came back and told me they crawled through a dog hole."
Gu Shiba was slow on his feet, and soon he had collected all the things. He slowly went to look for Steward Cao, but after searching around, he couldn't find anyone. Unfortunately, he turned back and waited in the inner courtyard.
Lord Gu was taken aback and said, "I have failed the Qi family."
Gu Shiba agreed.
Accountant Sun's face flushed red and then pale.
Gu Shiba had a big smile on his face as he went to Sun the accountant to withdraw money. When Song Yuewei saw him, she asked, "Brother Shiba, why are you here again?"
Song Yuewei hung her head and made a sound.
Butler Cao frowned.
"How is the injured servant?"
After a long pause, Steward Cao asked, "How much silver did he give me? There aren't many people around my house."
Song Yuewei said, "If I break it, I'll report it to you. You should go and take a look."
Brother Qi said to Accountant Sun, "Take your time to write up the invoice and let the eighteen brothers work slowly."
Hongye put her hand down and nodded, saying, "Eldest sister is always prone to making mistakes. So what if she's wrong? Those two children can stay outside the manor. Just today's incident shows how timid we are. Today they are princesses, but what if the emperor comes tomorrow? The older they get, the harder they are to control."
Gu Shiba said, "You sent me some silver afterward, which was supposed to be a slow process, but Cuiming just said she was going to visit Song Yuewei, and you were afraid of delaying her and making her wait too long."
Brother Qi put down the large teapot in his hand and sighed, "That kid got a beating and caught Cuiming's eye. A couple of days later you even said that there was an adult woman outside that kid's house. I was blind again. Life is hard. Heaven has no eyes. It's good that Cuiming doesn't have people like you in her heart."
Butler Cao nodded.
The Marquis said, "When he is truly clear-headed, he is truly clear-headed; when he is pretending to be clear-headed, he is a fake Legalist. When the true and the false are mixed together, he will naturally be able to distinguish between them. Only when the eldest sister has made up her mind will she be able to tell whether Cuiming is a true Legalist or a fake Legalist."
Steward Cao nodded and said, "He went to the accounts to get some silver for me to take care of, and told me not to blame Brother Cheng."
Song Yuewei then asked, "Does he know how the two of us escaped?"
Gu Shiba looked at Steward Cao with some surprise, paused for a moment, and then said, "They gave me seventy taels of silver. There is only a blind old woman outside the house. They said there is no neighboring aunt to help take care of her."
...
Brother Qi also paid attention to me, slurping his big teapot as he wandered off somewhere.
"How badly are you injured?"
Hongye clapped her hands and said, "It would have been better if those two had left the manor earlier, saving us the trouble of coming here."
Gu Shiba returned after a while and said, "It's from the Qi family, and his name is Qi Yuntian."
Gu Shiba said, "When Song Yue asked, she said that Song Yue was a child of the Qi family and asked you to give her another hundred taels of silver to send to Qi Yuntian. She also said that she wanted to send some tonics to help her recover."
Lord Gu said, "He should go and get another hundred taels of silver, and also find someone to make a receipt to get some medicinal herbs that I can use to recuperate, so that I can take care of myself."
Gu Shiba said with embarrassment, "The eldest heard from Hongye that we crawled out from outside the dog hole. Because Dahong and Hongye were talking, the eldest didn't ask any questions. He just had the old woman tell Rong Mama about it and asked Rong Mama to keep a close eye on us."
He asked me whose child I was?
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