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Ye Ruan didn't dare to think too much about what role her brother played in this mission, but she still couldn't help asking Gu Chen, "What will happen if we get lost in here?"
While holding her hand and focusing on the road ahead, Gu Chen replied, "We'll encounter some terrible things, and we might even lose our lives."
Ye Ruan's heart skipped a beat again.
She looked out into the courtyard of the old house.
They are still in the courtyard. The artificial hill and pavilions in the courtyard are built according to the shape of the mountain, and there is a babbling stream under the artificial hill and pavilions. It should be a stream created by drawing water from the mountain.
Ye Ruan followed Gu Chen through the courtyard before finally seeing the full view of the antique and magnificent mansion she had seen from the outside. Upon closer inspection, she realized that the mansion was indeed exactly like the palace in the TV series.
I only saw people after entering the house.
However, everyone here had a meek and obedient demeanor. When they saw her and Gu Chen enter, they all stood respectfully to the side without saying a word. Moreover, they were all wearing Tang suits and cheongsams.
The room, as grand as a palace, had an unusually oppressive atmosphere.
Gu Chen noticed Ye Ruan's discomfort and instructed Qiu Shun, "Let them all leave!"
"Yes," Qiu Shun replied respectfully, and then walked towards the servants.
Ye Ruan noticed that although Qiu Shun spoke normally when he was communicating with them, the people responded with a gesture similar to bowing.
After Ye Ruan and the other servants left, she looked at Gu Chen and asked with a hint of surprise, "Can't they all talk?"
“Yes.” Gu Chen nodded. “They are all deaf and mute.”
Ye Ruan spoke again, tentatively asking, "Does your family specifically hire deaf-mute people as servants?"
She had heard of a company in China where half of its workers were disabled, and the company used this method to help the disabled, which could be considered a good deed.
Gu Chen lowered his head, his deep eyes meeting hers. After a moment of silence, he said, "No."
"The servants in the old house are similar to the servants of ancient large families. They are passed down from generation to generation. When they are still in their mothers' wombs, someone will give their mothers a kind of medicine so that they will be born unable to hear or speak."
Gu Chen spoke calmly, and Ye Ruan was not actually very upset, although her first reaction was to think positively.
However, judging from Gu Chen's resistance to the old house, she could tell that the Gu family's old house was not a kind place.
During her time in the training camp, she had already become accustomed to life and death and all sorts of cruel methods; however, making someone deaf and mute was completely within her acceptable range.
Gu Chen gripped her shoulders with his large hands, his deep, ocean-like eyes staring intently into hers, and asked, "Ruan Ruan, are you scared?"
Ye Ruan honestly shook her head and said, "I'm not afraid."
Gu Chen slightly curved the corners of his lips, released her shoulder, and instead took her hand, asking gently, "Would you like to rest for a while, or would you like to tour the house first?"
Ye Ruan tilted her head and looked up at him with her little face. "Can I go inside the house for a tour? You just said that there are other people living in the old house. If I run into them and they find out that you brought an outsider here, will they blame you?"
The people living in the house that Gu Chen mentioned earlier were certainly not the deaf and mute servants from earlier.
Gu Chen raised his hand and gently stroked her soft hair, saying tenderly, "It's alright, I'll go with you. They won't make things difficult for me, and they wouldn't dare to make things difficult for you."
“Okay, let’s go for a walk first.” Ye Ruan took Gu Chen’s hand.
Gu Chen glanced down at the little hand holding his, then looked up at the outside, a shadow of gloom flashing across his eyes.
If those parasites who only know how to leech off him still want to control him, then he wouldn't mind taking this opportunity to clean them up!
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