Chapter 78 Confession
Apart from his guard Huang Zhong, there was no one else by Lord Gu's side.
Gu Jiao ruled out the possibility that he was there to arrest her.
But if it wasn't to capture her, why would she be here?
Gu Jiao had no liking for this aloof and arrogant marquis who looked down on ordinary people. She hugged Xiao Jingkong tightly in her arms and looked at him warily.
If he dares to do anything to harm them, she wouldn't hesitate to take his life right here.
Lord Gu noticed Gu Jiao's hostility, coughed lightly, and said seriously, "I am not here to arrest you. I have no ill intentions."
Gu Jiao didn't pay attention to this and continued to look at him warily and cautiously.
Lord Gu's feelings were very complicated. On the one hand, he found it hard to accept that the girl who had tricked him time and time again was his long-lost flesh and blood. On the other hand, he also had some unbearable memories of their time together.
Regardless, since we're here, we need to make things clear.
Lord Gu gave Huang Zhong a wink, and Huang Zhong backed away.
Lord Gu dusted off his wide sleeves and said, "My surname is Gu, and I am the Marquis of Ding'an, the Marquis of Ding'an of the Hot Spring Villa."
Gu Jiao had actually guessed his identity a long time ago. When they first met, Gu Jinyu was sitting in his carriage.
She recognized Gu Jinyu's voice.
It seems unlikely that there would be another person who could sit in Gu Jinyu's carriage and call himself "this Marquis".
She later encountered him in the woods and saw his face up close. It was a face that looked remarkably like Gu Yan's. She herself probably wouldn't believe it if she said he wasn't Gu Yan's biological father.
He just never said it, and Gu Jiao never brought it up either.
Lord Gu: "What happened today..."
Gu Jiao said, "If you're here to apologize, there's no need. I don't care."
Lord Gu's eyes widened: "No, I... how dare you speak to me like that? How can you be so disrespectful?"
He did come with a hint of guilt, but he was a marquis; how could he possibly apologize to a mere maid!
There are no parents who are always wrong, doesn't she know that?
Her parents didn't...
Sigh, neither I nor Yao Shi taught her.
Gu Sanlang and Xu Shi passed away early and didn't have time to teach her.
I heard she used to be mentally challenged, but she recently recovered.
Thinking of this, Lord Gu felt he could be more lenient with her.
He suppressed his surging anger and said to her, "I came to see you because there's something I need to tell you. You might find it hard to believe, but you... and me... we..."
Sigh, I just can't bring myself to say it.
Lord Gu was troubled.
"What do you and I have?" Ren Gujiao racked her brains but couldn't figure out what kind of relationship this man could have with her. But she had lived two lives and had seen all sorts of weirdos. "You don't have some kind of weird fetish, do you? You've taken a liking to me, have you?"
Although she has some physical flaws, she is young, and some men have such strong tastes.
Lord Gu stumbled and nearly fell into the well in front of him!
What does this girl take him for? How can she speak ill of her own father like that?
Lord Gu's barely suppressed temper flared up: "Do you know who I am? I am you—"
...
A quarter of an hour later, Lord Gu, limping and bruised, returned to the carriage.
Huang Zhong walked over and was stunned when he saw the scene: "My lord, you...you got beaten up? It wasn't by the young lady, was it? You can't even beat the young lady?"
Lord Gu roared furiously, "I was just choosing not to argue with her!"
I refuse to admit that I can't beat her!
This is too tragic. Even Huang Zhong couldn't bear to look at him. He had followed the Marquis for more than ten years and had never seen him so disheveled.
Huang Zhong asked, "Did Miss hit so hard? Didn't you tell her you're her father?"
Mentioning this made Lord Gu even angrier: "Why weren't you told?"
Huang Zhong asked, puzzled, "What...what did you say?"
Lord Gu said indignantly, "I said I was her father! She said I insulted her, and then she beat me up!"
They beat him up really badly!
Lord Gu has never suffered such an injustice in his life!
Huang Zhong: Why don't you just say you're her uncle? Is the word "father" too hot to pronounce?
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After beating the person up, Gu Jiao carried the sleeping Xiao Jingkong home.
Xiao Liulang is not here; he went to the provincial capital to take an exam and won't be back until next month.
Suddenly, with one person gone, the room seemed to become quiet.
In fact, Xiao Liulang was very quiet at home, and most of the time he stayed in his own room. However, when Gu Jiao pushed open the door of the west room and did not see the boy who was studying at his desk, she suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.
Gu Jiao placed Xiao Jingkong on the bed and pulled the blanket over him.
Then she went to the kitchen to cook dinner.
After Xiao Jingkong finished eating in town, Gu Jiao didn't wake him up and sat down to eat with the old lady in the main room.
Gu Jiao asked, "Huh? Xiao Shun didn't come?"
Gu Xiaoshun would only return to his old family home after dinner every night.
"He said he'd be staying at the academy for a while," the old lady said, picking up a piece of braised pork.
Without Liu Lang and Xiao Hanhan, even braised pork doesn't taste good!
Gu Jiao asked curiously, "Why did he suddenly go to live at the academy?"
The old lady said, "I don't know, he left in a hurry."
Gu Xiaoshun ruined the Gu family's good deed, and Gu Changhai and his wife, along with Liu Shi, wanted nothing more than to beat him to death. To escape the trouble, he stayed at the academy overnight.
Outsiders are not allowed to enter the academy. The only member of the Gu family who is allowed to enter is Gu Dashun. If the Gu family has the ability, let Gu Dashun beat him up, but Gu Dashun can't beat him!
"I'll send him some money tomorrow." Gu Jiao was worried that Gu Xiaoshun wouldn't have money for food.
“I gave it to her,” the old woman said.
"Where did you get the money?" Gu Jiao asked.
When the old lady first came to our house, she was very poor and didn't have a single copper coin, let alone any silver.
During the Chinese New Year, Gu Jiao did give her a large red envelope as a sign of respect, but it was in the form of banknotes.
The old lady snorted, "Did I just put on a show for people to listen to for nothing?"
Gu Jiao was taken aback. So you've started a side business at home?
The old lady said without changing her expression, "And your medicine, since you don't want it anymore, I'll sell it all."
Gu Jiao asked curiously, "What medicine?"
The old lady said, "The wound medicine! You've been tinkering with it at home for days, do you think I didn't know!"
Gu Jiao: "Oh, you know."
She made the medicine during the day when Xiao Liulang wasn't home. Although the old lady was there, she hadn't expected the old lady to recognize the wound medicine, so she didn't try to avoid the old lady too much.
She had very high standards for the medicine; she made more than a dozen bottles, but kept only the three with the best efficacy.
She didn't pay attention when the remaining jars disappeared, assuming that the old lady had thrown them away. Little did she know that the old lady had secretly resold them.
Gu Jiao could tell from her tone that she was an expert: "Have you done this kind of thing before?"
"You mean selling medicine? Hmm, maybe! But I don't think I'm selling wound medicine." The old lady thought seriously for a moment, then pulled out a name from her limited memory, "It seems to be an aphrodisiac."
Gu Jiao: "..."
Later records indicate that Empress Xiande sold aphrodisiacs to the concubines and accepted bribes to manipulate the green-headed plaques.
Empress Xiande's later words: "Don't talk to me about feelings, Your Majesty. Sleep with the highest bidder!"
Empress Xiande was a title bestowed during the reign of the Empress Dowager and Empress.
(End of this chapter)
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