Chapter 109 The Small Porcelain Bottle
Chu Yanluo was more confident in the first method because she knew Xiao Qingyuan. As long as she established a good persona, she wouldn't worry about Xiao Qingyuan not loving her.
She wasn't confident about the second option because she couldn't see through Gu Qianhan.
However, these two methods are not contradictory and can be used simultaneously.
She wrote a letter and handed it to her maid: "Send this to the Duke's mansion and give it to the Second Young Master Gu personally. Do not return until you see him in person."
The maid dared not accept the letter: "Miss, this...this is not appropriate, is it? If the young master finds out, he will be angry."
Chu Yanluo raised her hand and slapped her across the face, making the little maid scream in pain. Then she turned to another maid and said, "Go and deliver it. If you don't dare to deliver it, or if you can't deliver it, I will sell you to Chichun Lane and make you the lowest of prostitutes who will be abused every day."
The maidservant took the letter, trembling: "This servant will definitely deliver it to you, young lady."
Chu Yanluo casually picked up a pair of scissors and gestured towards the maid's face: "I don't want anyone else to know about this, you understand what I mean?"
The maid trembled even more violently: "I understand, I won't tell anyone."
"Okay, go ahead."
The maidservant took the letter and fled as if she were escaping.
She went to the Duke's mansion, thinking it would be difficult to meet the rumored second young master of the Gu family. However, as soon as the servant at the door heard that she was Chu Yanluo's maid, he immediately let her in.
She met Gu Qianhan much easily and without any trouble.
With trembling hands, she handed over the letter: "Young Master Gu, this is a letter from Miss Chu to you."
Gu Qianhan sat at the head of the table, a white jade teacup between his fingers, his sharply defined face cold and indifferent: "Auspicious."
The servant immediately stepped forward, took the letter for him, gave the man a reward, and then told the maid to leave.
Then, the servant opened the envelope and handed the fragrant letter to Gu Qianhan.
Gu Qianhan gave him a cold look: "What am I supposed to do with you? Read it."
Jixiang knew that he disliked Chu Yanluo, which was why he wouldn't even touch her letter, so he had no choice but to read it aloud:
"It is as if we are meeting in person upon reading this letter. Yanluo is trapped in a difficult situation and has no way to escape. The Crown Prince wants to take Yanluo as a concubine, but Yanluo is unwilling and wants to leave the palace. However, the Crown Prince is persistent in his pursuit, and Yanluo has nowhere else to turn but to seek help from the Second Young Master. I wonder if the Second Young Master's previous promise still stands? Yanluo admires the Second Young Master's chivalry and courage, and is impressed by his wisdom and talent. Thinking of the Second Young Master's affection, Yanluo's heart is pounding, and she is tossing and turning, unable to sleep. I hope that the Young Master can help Yanluo escape this predicament as soon as possible. Yanluo is willing to repay him with her life."
After hearing this, Gu Qianhan's expression turned cold: "Xiao Qingyuan wants to take a concubine? They've only been married for two months, and he's already taking a concubine. He really doesn't care about the face of his heir's wife."
Jixiang couldn't help but scratch her head. "Young Master knows that she is someone else's Crown Prince's wife, so why are you so obsessed with her every day?" She even specifically instructed the servant at the door to deliver any news about the Ning Prince's residence immediately, otherwise, how could Chu Yanluo's maidservant get in so easily?
Wait a minute, isn't the focus right now on Xiao Qingyuan and his Crown Princess? Wasn't it Chu Yanluo who wrote the letter?
"Young Master, Chu Yanluo is begging you for help. Aren't you going to ignore her? It seems... she doesn't want to be Prince Xiao's concubine? Right now, the whole capital is buzzing with rumors that you're infatuated with Chu Yanluo and are spending lavishly on her!"
Gu Qianhan took a sip of tea and asked indifferently, "Besides spending lavishly, what else could make people think I'm infatuated with Chu Yanluo?"
Jixiang thought for a moment and said, "They say that anger can make one's hair stand on end for a beautiful woman, why don't you get angry?"
Gu Qianhan nodded: "That's feasible."
Ji Xiang was stunned: "Young Master, are you really going to help Chu Yanluo?"
"Who said I was helping her? She wanted to use me, and I wanted to use her too."
Jixiang suspected that the letter he was reading and the letter the young master was listening to were not the same. He rubbed his eyes and couldn't help but read the letter again: "This... I didn't see that Chu Yanluo intended to use you either! I just felt that Chu Yanluo seemed to like you and even said that she would repay you with her body."
"Like me? What do you think she likes about me? Is it my thousand taels of gold, or her status as the second young master of our Duke's mansion?"
"This...should all of these be available, right?"
“Xiao Qingyuan has both gold and status. She thought she could surpass Shen Wantang and get the position of Crown Princess, so she moved into the Ning Prince’s mansion without knowing why. Now that Xiao Qingyuan wants to take her as a concubine, she realizes that she can’t be the principal wife at all, so she thought of me. I have never been married, so being my principal wife seems much easier than being Xiao Qingyuan’s principal wife.”
Jixiang looked puzzled. His young master was already twenty years old and still unmarried. Was it because he couldn't find a wife? Of course not.
It's because the young master is too picky. He thinks this person is stupid and that person is foolish. He didn't even take a liking to Liu Nanshi, the only talented woman who is his equal in status.
If it weren't for the young master's interference, the two families would have already formed a marriage alliance, instead of waiting until today.
The difficulty of becoming his son's legal wife is far greater than that of becoming Xiao Qingyuan's legal wife.
"Young master, what are your plans next? How do you intend to act impulsively for your beloved? Do you need my cooperation?"
Gu Qianhan didn't reveal her own plans, but simply asked, "Has the house I asked you to arrange been completed?"
"It's all taken care of. As you wish, young master, we've bought a large house in a prime location. The neighbors are all wealthy and influential. Would you like to take a look?"
"No need."
Gu Qianhan didn't care what the house actually looked like; it was just a place he used to "keep his mistresses," and it wasn't worth his time.
He put down his teacup, took out a small porcelain medicine bottle from his sleeve, and handed it to Jixiang: "Wash this."
Jixiang recognized at a glance that this small porcelain bottle was given to her by Shen Wantang on the day the young master was punished to kneel in the palace.
As he took the medicine bottle, he asked curiously, "Young master, didn't you finish the medicine inside a long time ago? Why are you still keeping this bottle? Are you planning to wash it and use it to store more medicine? We have plenty of these new bottles in our manor!"
Gu Qianhan was silent for a moment, then took the medicine bottle back from his hand: "Never mind, I'll wash it myself. You're clumsy, you'll easily break it."
Ji Xiang was stunned. He watched as the pampered second young master personally fetched water and stood by the copper basin, carefully washing the most ordinary little medicine bottle.
After washing, he dried himself with his personal handkerchief and then opened the sachet he always carried with him.
That sachet was given to her by the Empress. She obtained it from the abbot of Fazhen Temple. Inside, there was a peace charm and several medicinal herbs that could clear the mind and improve eyesight.
I've been wearing the sachet for two years now, and I change the herbs every few months.
Now, the young master poured out all the medicinal herbs that the Empress had personally packed, and then he put the small porcelain bottle into the sachet.
Then, he hung the sachet back on his waist.
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