Chapter 245 Xie Huiguang's Threat
Chapter 245 Xie Huiguang's Threat
Gu Zilu: ???
Why does this person look so scheming and determined?
What? Do you still think you can snatch it from Prince Rui?
Gu Zilu thought about all the possibilities, but it was impossible. Xie Huaiguang couldn't snatch it from Prince Rui, unless...
Unless Xie Huaiguang becomes emperor himself.
Thinking of this, Gu Zilu shuddered and shut up completely.
Hmm, how could such a thought appear in his head? He must have not studied enough recently.
Gu Zilu ate his meal obediently.
Ning Ruolan left after dinner. Su Jin didn't let her accompany him into the palace. After all, Ning Ruomei was just a young girl, and he was already in his thirties. Couldn't he control her?
It would be so embarrassing to tell others about it.
"Congratulations, Mr. Xie, on your promotion."
Su Jin looked at Xie Huaiguang with a smile. It had been more than a month since the beginning of the Chinese New Year, and they had only met once during that time. Now that they met again, she could only say that young Master Xie was getting more and more handsome.
Xie Huaiguang remained silent, just looking at Su Jin, which made her full of questions: "Is there something wrong with me?"
Xie Huiguang shook his head and said after a while: "Sixth Miss, do you like Prince Rui?"
like?
Su Jin shook her head: "I only consider him a friend."
In fact, it is to be a golden thigh~~~
Xie Huaiguang seemed to be somewhat happy. Although there was no smile on his face, he was obviously in a better mood.
Dingdang was full and satiated. She licked her pink nose and rubbed Su Jin's leg. Su Jin picked up the cat and put it on her lap, petting it with satisfaction.
Dingdang yawned lazily, squinted his eyes and snored, as if he didn't see Xie Huaiguang at all.
No one was talking in the room, it was extremely quiet and comfortable enough that Xie Huaiguang felt a little sleepy. This kind of place where he could put aside all vigilance and relax comfortably was invaluable to him.
"Ruolan, I mentioned a method to increase wheat production..."
Xie Huaiguang suddenly brought up this matter, his eyes fixed on Su Jin's face, trying to see some changes from it, but unfortunately, he could not see anything.
Su Jin smiled and said, "Miss Ning is really amazing. She is good at business and she even knows all this."
Xie Huiguang couldn't see any flaws, so he just nodded and said, "In my heart, the Sixth Miss is more powerful than her."
"Me? I'm not that great. I'm just a divorced woman."
She might have been quite successful in her previous life, after all, she was a senior executive. But now, she is just a housewife.
"Sixth Miss is very clear-headed and open-minded. No matter what others think, you only pursue your own path. Huai Guang admires this very much."
How many people in this world can break away from the guidance of others, how many people can break away from the seemingly easy and comfortable life, and choose to be themselves unswervingly?
Etiquette, filial piety, loyalty, trustworthiness, integrity and shame, which one is not a constraint on people?
Thinking about it, he leaned forward slightly and said thoughtfully: "Actually, I..."
"Girl, girl!"
Yuchuan came in from outside: "Oh no, Lord Gu is here, but he is standing at the door, neither coming in nor leaving. What should I do?"
Xie Huaiguang paused slightly, and his eyes suddenly became gloomy.
Su Jin didn't care at all. He just held Dingdang and stroked the cat while saying, "Don't worry about it. If he likes to stand, then let him stand. By the way, Mr. Xie, what did you say?"
What else could Xie Huaiguang say?
The atmosphere was there, but it was interrupted by someone.
The handsome boy could only stand up and said, "It's getting late. I should go back, or else people will spread rumors again."
When talking about this, Yuchuan gritted her teeth and said, "If he wasn't an official, I would have kicked him out long ago. He just got a sinecure because of the benefits of the Yong'an Marquis's Mansion. Now we can't touch him. How can there be such a difficult person in this world? He didn't know how to cherish me when I was around, and now he comes to wait for me. I can't drive him away. It's really infuriating!"
The more Yuchuan spoke, the more she wanted to cry.
The rumor was originally spread by Gu Changqing. Originally, they didn't know who spread the rumor. They just thought it was a dirty old woman in the yard. So Gu Suiyu interrogated them one by one when he came back. In the end, he didn't find a single person who had let the secret slip. Who would have thought that the problem was actually with Gu Changqing!
Apart from suing the officials and asking the prefect of Shunjing to deal with Gu Changqing, they had no other options. Fortunately, Xie Huaiguang stepped in and finally cleared the girl's name. But now, the man has come to their doorstep again. He is an official and they are the people, and the people really have no way to deal with the officials.
Yuchuan was so angry that she wanted to cry. Xie Huaiguang glanced at Yuchuan indifferently, then stood up and said goodbye.
Before leaving, she looked back. Su Jin was leaning on the beauty couch holding the cat. In the vase in the Duobao Pavilion behind her, someone had planted a wintersweet. All the wintersweets in the palace were bright red, vying for beauty, but the one behind Su Jin was yellow. The bright yellow dotted the warm-toned room, making this landscape, like a meticulous ink painting, bright and cheerful.
But the most brilliant one was Su Jin. Gu Changqing was clearly pestering her outside, and Yuchuan's eyes were clearly red with anger, but Su Jin was still leisurely and relaxed, with a smile on her lips, as lazy as the same kind of lion cat.
Su Jin.
She is indeed a very strange woman.
Of the women he had met, unmarried women worried about their fathers and brothers, and their own marriages; married women worried about their husbands and children, and were irritated and depressed by the disturbances in the harem. This was the only woman who lived for herself and lived so leisurely and freely.
Xie Huaiguang retracted his gaze and slowly walked out of the door.
Outside, Gu Changqing was indeed standing in the darkness.
The night in early spring was still chilly. Gu Changqing wore a thick cotton coat and a fur cloak, but white mist still came out of his breath, which was enough to show how low the temperature outside was.
Seeing Xie Huaiguang coming out, Gu Changqing was really furious: "Why are you here?"
Xie Huaiguang nodded: "Does Master Xie want to make up rumors about me and the Sixth Miss? But this time, Master had better do it more cleanly, otherwise if it is found out again, Master will be demoted from the seventh rank to the ninth rank."
The ninth rank is a joke, although that’s what they say. However, in the eyes of officials, the ninth rank is a joke.
Gu Changqing was so angry that he was shaking all over.
"Xie Huaiguang, don't think you are great just because you hold a higher official position than me. You still have to bow your head and salute my old man! Even if I am incompetent, I am still the son of the Yong'an Marquisate. Even if you climb higher, when you resign and return home in the future, you will be nothing more than an ordinary citizen!"
Scholars, farmers, merchants, artisans, royal family and nobles, these classes are just classes and no one can cross them. Even the Su family of Hexi are just a farming family and cannot become royal family and nobles.
This can never be crossed.
Xie Huaiguang was extremely calm.
His eyes were dark, his features were handsome, and he was as calm and reserved as a stone statue, but it frightened Gu Changqing. He said without thinking, "Even if we are divorced, Su Jin is still mine. You can control the world, but you can't control our Yong'an Marquis Mansion. I advise you to stop thinking about it!"
"Oh……"
A low laugh was heard in the darkness.
"What if I don't accept it?"