"Are you awake now?" asked Queen Pei.
Changping covered his face, bit his lip and nodded.
"I have already told you that the person you should not offend the most in the capital is Gu Yong. Are you turning a deaf ear to my words?"
"Aunt, I just..."
Empress Pei didn't listen to her explanation, but just stated the facts, "Even if you are my niece, the daughter of a prince, whoever holds the real power now has the final say. Changping?" Empress Pei looked at her with a look of disappointment, "I have always felt that you are different from ordinary women, with talent and strategy, but you are just trying to make a little profit now. Can't you see that Marquis Gu is a vicious tiger waiting outside?"
Changping was stunned for a moment, "Aunt, what do you mean?"
Empress Pei sighed, "Just wait and see. Now it's not about whether you care or not, but whether Gu Yong will care or not with you."
"What else does he want to argue about? I'm already like this?!" Changping looked at his broken leg.
Queen Pei ignored her, but felt a little regretful.
——
The Liu family member woke up, but he was still in a bad mood.
Especially when she thought about what happened in the Princess's Mansion, she felt sick. The Princess of Changping was really a wolf in human skin. She was a woman but she kept other women in captivity. If they were prostitutes, it would be fine. She only found women from decent families or official families. If they were too shameful, she would strip them of their clothes and throw them into the prison downstairs.
Liu watched how those people trained these women. She only stayed for two or three days but she felt that the days were passing by like years.
"Take the medicine."
A voice sounded behind him, and it was Gu Yong who walked over clumsily with a medicine bowl in his hand, blowing away the hot steam from the bowl as he walked.
Liu got up from the bed and leaned against the mattress. "How are you? Do you feel better today?" Gu Yong fed her a spoonful of cooled medicine. Liu nodded and looked at Gu Yong again. Her voice was a little hoarse. "My Lord, I am not worthy of you. You shouldn't do this for me."
Naturally, Liu knew that he had gone to ask for marriage from the Emperor.
"I am a fallen woman. If you marry me as your legal wife, you will be laughed at." She was not worthy of him and had never thought of marrying him as his legal wife.
"You want me to disobey the imperial edict?" Gu Yong said.
Liu bit her lip.
Gu Yong stretched out his hand and stroked her lips, "If you want to be my legal wife, I will give you the position of legal wife. I don't care what people say outside, and I will tell you honestly that it makes no difference to me whether you are my wife or my concubine. I just hope that when I come down from the battlefield, someone will warm my bed and pour me a cup of hot tea."
"Ayun, it's a bit inappropriate to talk about love at our age. Whatever the case, it's a done deal. No matter if it's a coincidence or someone's scheme, you are destined to marry me, so live a good life with me."
He stretched out his hand, and Liu thought about their past.
It was only half a year, but it was more eventful than her entire life. After a light sigh, she placed her hand in his.
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"This is really ridiculous! The emperor is also ridiculous. Why would he promise you such a woman?! Who is she to marry you?"
The old lady Xu of the Marquis's residence flew into a rage after hearing about the marriage. "I will never allow a woman like that to marry me. If the emperor insists on doing so, I will hang myself at the palace gate."
It also shows that no matter how powerful the old ladies are in the world, they still tend to rely on their seniority to take advantage of others when it comes to handling things.
"Grandma, she is already a princess." Gu Yong said.
"What kind of princess is this?!" Xu cursed, "Don't even think that I was awarded the title of princess because of you. Even if it's a real princess, I don't want her!"
Gu Yong was too lazy to talk to a woman who didn't understand. He just said, "The imperial edict hasn't come down yet. I'm afraid it won't work if Grandmother wants to disobey it now. Wait a few days. If she really can't bear to see her enter the palace, Mother will hang herself at the gate of the palace and see if the emperor will change his mind."
"You, you, you!" Xu covered her chest in anger, "You are a disobedient and unfilial person!"
Gu Yong waved his hand and said, "Please forgive me, Grandmother. I have something else to do in the army, so I will take my leave now!"
"What a stinky character! Look at what a stinky character he has!" Xu was so angry that she couldn't bear it anymore. The old nanny beside her also hurried to comfort her. Xu was helped to sit on the chair and sighed again, "How come the Gu family has such a disobedient and unfilial person who has become so powerful!"
Gu Yong has been a barber since he was young, and he was a devil. No one thought that he would achieve what he has today.
I think that Xu is regretting it now. If she had known earlier, her relationship with her grandson would not have been so strained...
"It's a pity for the Xiao family. The old marquis had arranged the marriage many years ago." Xu sighed. Gu Yong wanted to marry Liu according to the emperor's wishes. What was the point of her stopping him? Besides, it had been all these years and Gu Yong had not mentioned going to the Xiao family to propose marriage.
The confidant nanny also comforted the old lady, "If the marriage between the Marquis and the eldest daughter of the Xiao family fails, don't we still have Miss Ruqin and our fourth young master? I think the two of them are a perfect match. When they get married in the future, it won't be considered a violation of the marriage contract that the old Marquis made at the time."
Xu could only nod.
In the back garden of the Gu family, Xiao Ruqin was taking a leisurely stroll with Gu Shaoqing, the fourth son of the Gu family.
"Ruqin, you seem to be in a bad mood?"
Gu Shaoqing was fifteen years old, just beginning to fall in love, and was particularly sensitive to the feelings of the person he liked. Xiao Ruqin glanced at him and said, "You know that my elder sister's marriage to Gu Hou was arranged by the old marquis. But Gu Hou went to join the army in the middle of the marriage, and my elder sister was delayed. Later, the marquis went out to make achievements and never came back, and she kept waiting but never got married. But now, the best time for a girl to get married is over, and my elder sister is already twenty-five, but Gu Hou wants her to marry someone else?"
Gu Shaoqing didn’t know much about what happened in previous years. He was only ten years old at that time and was only busy finding cats and playing with dogs, so he didn’t care about these things.
But after hearing what his sweetheart said, he immediately lost his favor for the woman that his uncle kept in the backyard. "She is a vixen, and an unclean woman who has been married before. She actually wants to get close to our mansion."
One was to please his beloved, and the other was to teach Liu a lesson.
After all, Gu Yongruo married Liu's legitimate wife in a formal manner, and the lowly woman from before suddenly became the mistress of the Marquis's mansion, which really made people infuriated.
"Ruqin, let's go!" The fourth young master Gu suddenly curled his lips, and no one knew what idea he had thought of.
"ah?"
"I want to see how that woman becomes the mistress of our Gu family!" The Fourth Young Master Gu did not answer her. He pulled Xiao Ruqin left and right to the backyard, where Liu was recuperating, and said, "Wait here for a while. There will be a good show soon." After he finished speaking, he snapped his fingers, and the servant behind him came out with an exceptionally thick python rope.
Xiao Ruqin stared at him for a while, then quickly hid behind Gu Shaoqing in fear.
Liu was recuperating at Gu's house, and Shen Qingqiu habitually went out with her mother to take a walk after lunch to digest the food. But after walking for a while, Shen Qingqiu noticed something was wrong and pulled her mother back a few steps.
"Ah!" Liu looked at the money carefully and was immediately shocked.
The dog in front of him, no, it should be called a Tibetan Mastiff, was as tall as an adult woman. It looked at the mother and daughter fiercely, and saliva was dripping from its drooping black lips.
"General Yongwei, bite them!" Gu Shaoqing said from behind, and the servants next to him also took the opportunity to throw a bag of fresh meat directly to Liu.
"Woof!"
The dog called General Yongwei didn't move at first, but once the meat was spilled, it roared and rushed towards Liu. Just looking at its size, it would be a pain if it pounced on it, not to mention its sharp teeth. It's estimated that a small arm like Liu's would be broken in two with one bite.
"Bite her, General Yongwei, bite her to death!" Gu Shaoqing watched with interest from behind.
Although Xiao Ruqin didn't like Liu, she was a girl after all, and didn't want to see such a bloody scene, so she closed her eyes.
"Woof~"
“Ahhhh!”
First there was a brave bark, and then the dog's bark changed its tone, as if it was being beaten and fleeing in a hurry. Xiao Ruqin opened her eyes, and the bloody scene she imagined did not happen. Liu was still standing there. But General Yongwei was kicked and collapsed on the ground, howling.
"General Yongwei!" That was the dog that Gu Shaoqing had raised from a puppy to an adult. He was fed with fresh meat every meal, so naturally he loved it very much.
"You stinky girl, how dare you hurt my General Yongwei?!"
Xiao Ruqin closed her eyes just now, but Gu Shaoqing saw it. It was this girl who kicked his General Yongwei away.
Shen Qingqiu smiled: "What General Yongwei? He is clearly just a useless dog like his master."
"What did you say?!" Gu Shaoqing said.
"What's wrong? Are you deaf and can't understand what I say?" Shen Qingqiu said, "Then I'll repeat it again: General Yongwei, he's just a useless dog like his master!"
She wasn't just repeating herself, she was deliberately trying to anger Gu Shaoqing.
"I--" Gu Shaoqing was not stupid. He had just seen this girl kick General Yongwei away, so he would not fight with her. He looked around and said, "Catch her for me!"
The servants on both sides were a little hesitant, as they all knew that this was the little girl brought back by the Marquis.
Then Xiao Ruqin said softly beside him: "Why, you don't listen to the master? The fourth young master is the eldest son of the Gu family and will inherit the position of marquis in the future." After she said this, the servant who was still hesitant no longer hesitated. Shen Qingqiu pushed her mother aside, pinched her wrist and was about to take action.
Suddenly, I felt something light under my feet, and someone lifted me up onto his shoulders. "Why, who are you going to capture?"
Shen Qingqiu saw who it was, but he was not in a hurry. He slowly sat on Gu Yong's shoulder and prepared to watch the show.
"Greetings, Lord Marquis!" They all knelt down.
Gu Yong asked, "Who do you want to capture?"
The person who was to be captured was now sitting on the Marquis's shoulder and playing with his hair. The servants below dared not say a word and knelt on the ground angrily.
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