"I told them to take it. It was her. She injured my General Yongwei!" Gu Shaoqing pointed at Shen Qingqiu and said.
Gu Yong looked at Shen Qingqiu.
Shen Qingqiu didn't explain. She wanted to see who he would choose to favor between her mother, herself, and the relatives of the Gu family. "General Yongwei?" Gu Yong said, walking to the side of the big dog that was still panting and whimpering. "Take it to the kitchen. We're having dog meat stew today."
"Uncle Jiu!" Gu Shaoqing shouted.
"What's the matter?" Gu Yong looked at his nephew.
The fourth young master of the Gu family, who was usually arrogant in front of others, didn't dare to speak loudly when he saw his ninth uncle. He just bit his lip and asked, "Why did Uncle Jiu kill my dog?" He had raised the dog since it was a baby.
"If a vicious dog bites someone, shouldn't it be killed?" Gu Yong said.
"But I didn't bite her at all!" Gu Shaoqing said, "Besides, it is the nature of dogs to bite people. Who told her to walk to the place where I usually train General Yongwei. You can't take General Yongwei's life for this, Uncle Jiu, I remember you are a dog lover too?" Gu Shaoqing was unwilling to let others touch his dog.
"Not only your dog, but also you." A grown man who attacks a woman, is he worthy of being a child of the Gu family? Seeing that Gu Yong was about to cause trouble for the fourth young master Gu, the second grandmother of the Gu family, Shen Anyuan, the biological mother of Gu Shaoqing, arrived.
"Ninth brother," Shen Anyuan, although old, looked well-dressed and well-mannered, "This child has always been spoiled by the elders in the mansion, and is a little naughty. Ninth brother, you should give the Buddha some consideration and stop arguing with the child."
Seeing that Gu Yong was silent, Shen Anyuan said, "Ninth brother, you should also think of this child's father. If he hadn't blocked a bullet for you on the battlefield, I'm afraid..."
"Sister-in-law, when are you going to talk about this favor? Just because of this favor from my brother, I gave the position of the prince of the Marquisate to Gu Shaoqing. I have never done anything to let him down."
Shen Anyuan was speechless for a moment, and after a while she bit her lip, "But the dog didn't hurt anyone, it was just a child's play -
"Children's play?" Shen Qingqiu said, "Madam, do you think this is children's play?" He then looked at Gu Shaoqing, who was about fifteen or sixteen years old and tall, "Is this a child?"
If she hadn't had some martial arts skills, the other two women here would have probably been eaten by the dog.
"How can a stinky girl like you interrupt my mother when she is talking to my uncle?! Who do you think you are?" Gu Shaoqing turned his head and said in disgust. Shen Qingqiu curled his lips slightly, "Okay, I'll show you what I am--" After saying that, he walked to the mighty general lying on the ground gasping for breath.
"Don't touch my dog!"
Shen Qingqiu touched its neck, and the dog, which had been howling, stopped barking. After a while, it got up from the ground, sniffed twice, and suddenly, like a sword shot from a bow, it rushed towards Gu Shaoqing.
A black shadow rushed towards him and Gu Shaoqing hurriedly dodged backwards.
General Yongwei was worthy of being General Yongwei. He let Gu Shaoqing run away in a hurry and still bit his butt with his mouth wide open. Gu Shaoqing cried bitterly. Shen Anyuan could no longer maintain his calmness and hurriedly called on everyone to drive the dog away. Shen Qingqiu did not want to kill Gu Shaoqing. General Yongwei just stared at Gu Shaoqing's butt and bit it. When someone came over and opened his mouth, he naturally let go.
"What on earth did you do just now?!" Why did his General Yongwei suddenly go crazy and bite him?
Gu Shaoqing held his buttocks in an indecent manner with one hand while questioning Shen Qingqiu.
Before Shen Qingqiu could even speak, the young mistress of the Gu family pointed at Shen Qingqiu and said, "What a vicious little girl, ninth brother, let me ask you what you should do about today's incident?!"
Shen Qingqiu couldn't help but sneer, "So he let the dog bite me just because he was a child playing around, but I let the dog bite him then I'm vicious?"
"How can you compare with my son!" He is just a pariah! Her son will inherit the title in the future, and he will be the future marquis!
Shen Qingqiu sneered.
"Why not?" Gu Yong lowered his body, "It's because I am a lowly person. My daughter is not worthy to be mentioned in the same breath with your son."
"Ninth brother, that's not what I meant..."
Gu Yong was already impatient, "Sister-in-law, didn't you just say that the children were playing? Why did you change your words in an instant? Qiu'er is only seven years old, isn't she younger than your fifteen-year-old eldest son?"
Shen Anyuan was speechless for a moment, "Shaoqing didn't mean it, but she deliberately went to the dog just now, and the dog suddenly went crazy. This girl did it on purpose."
"That's enough," Gu Yong was also getting impatient, "What do you want my sister-in-law to do? Drag her down and give her a few beatings?"
Shen Anyuan didn't understand the hidden meaning of Gu Yong's words. She was only thinking about venting her anger on her son. "Of course she has to be beaten. A few strokes is too light. At least thirty strokes will make her remember the mistake she made today."
Gu Yong laughed out of anger. He actually felt that since he had not been in the mansion for many years, his elder sister-in-law had become the real master of the mansion and could beat anyone she wanted.
"Okay," he put Shen Qingqiu down, "Let the sister-in-law handle it."
But before Shen Anyuan's hand touched Shen Qingqiu, he saw Gu Yong's eyes coldly saying: "If Qiu'er loses a single hair today, I will report it directly to the court and choose another prince. Neither of them is my son, it doesn't matter who you choose." These words scared Shen Anyuan so much that he quickly looked at Gu Yong several times.
Seeing his gloomy eyes, I finally realized that he was really angry. I quickly lowered my head and dared not say anything more.
"She is my future legal wife. She is the daughter I want to record in the family tree. I raised you and asked you to be my prince, not to bully my wife and children!" Gu Yong said, "If you are really tired of being the prince, you can change someone else."
Gu Shaoqing shuddered, and even the wound on his butt didn't hurt so much anymore.
"Let's go." After saying that, Gu Yong held Liu's hand with one hand and carried Shen Qingqiu on his shoulder with the other hand, and soon disappeared from the crowd's sight.
Seeing the man leave, Xiao Ruqin came back to her senses. She looked at the wound on Gu Shaoqing's buttocks again, thinking that he was injured because of her. She was about to cry, but Shen Anyuan said, "Why are you causing trouble again? I usually tell you to please your uncle Jiu, but you make him angry as soon as he comes back!"
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are always at odds. Shen Anyuan was cursing Gu Shaoqing, but her eyes were looking at Xiao Ruqin.
Xiao Ruqing was thin-skinned and after being criticized by her future mother-in-law, she couldn't bear it anymore and left.
"Mom, what are you doing?" Poor Young Master Gu had just been bitten by a dog, and was anxiously looking at the back of the person who was admiring him.
"What did I do? I told you to see clearly how important that woman is in your uncle's eyes now?" Shen Anyuan had gained a lot of advantages by relying on her husband's life-saving grace on the battlefield, but it was useless now. Not only did Gu Yong humiliate her, but he also threatened to take away her son's position as the crown prince.
Shen Anyuan didn't think about what she had done just now, she felt that it must be Xiao Ruqin.
After all, her elder sister who was old and could not get married had said that she wanted to marry into the Gu Marquis's family, but now she was snatched away by an unknown woman named Liu.
He gritted his teeth again. Liu Shi hadn't even gotten married yet, but she was favored like this. If Ninth Brother had a child with her in the future, how could he not favor her? Wouldn't her son's position as the Crown Prince be in jeopardy? -
Shen Anyuan on the other side became more and more frightened the more he thought about it, but Liu could no longer live in the Marquis' Mansion.
"Why, those servants still treat you badly?"
Liu shook her head and said, "There are still many things to deal with in the Embroidery Tower." It would not be convenient for two people to live together all day long before they get married... Moreover, no matter how much the people in the Marquis' Mansion respect her on the surface, Liu can see that they don't think highly of her in their hearts.
Since she was not comfortable living here, she had nowhere else to go, so why should she force herself to live here?
Anyway, no matter how Gu Yong asked, Liu just said that she wanted to move out. Finally, thinking that she would be at the martial arts training ground all day and would not be back for a few days, she sent the mother and daughter back.
"Madam, you're finally back!" Mother Chen had received the news long ago and had been waiting at the door to greet Liu.
"Quick, step over the fire basin to get rid of the bad luck!" Mother Chen prepared a small fire basin and placed it on the doorstep. Liu smiled and stepped over it, thinking it was to get rid of the bad luck. Mother Chen said again: "Take a bath with pomelo leaves tonight, and all the bad luck will be eliminated."
"Good times will come after bad times, good luck and great fortune." Liu said.
"The days ahead will naturally be good!" Mother Chen said happily, "The emperor has made you a princess! How could I have dared to think of this before? In a year or so, you will marry the marquis and become his wife!"
It was like a dream, faster than a carp jumping over the dragon gate.
Liu smiled slightly, but there was no joy in her eyes - how could a princess with an empty title like her sit firmly in such a large mansion? Well, let's take it one step at a time!
After returning to the Liu family, Gu Yong seldom came, after all, he was very busy with his official duties every day, and only sent people to deliver some winter gifts to the Liu family every few days. As the weather was getting colder, the refugee business that Wang Qingluo had taken over for the Liu family's embroidery building was officially put on the agenda.
There is a lot of work to do in the embroidery building, but not enough staff.
Shen Qingqiu brought Mother Chen and Jin Cai outside to look at some embroiderers. However, they didn't see anything good throughout the whole day.
"Please, I don't want money for my embroidery, just give me a meal!"
Along with a pleading voice, an embroidered handkerchief fluttered down in front of Shen Qingqiu. On the handkerchief was embroidered jackdaws piling up snow. Not to mention how delicate each snowflake was, just the crow feathers alone were enough to consume a lot of energy.
"Go, go, go and ask all the embroidery workshops in the capital who dares to accept your things." The owner of the embroidery workshop closed the door, and then opened it again, "For the sake of my old acquaintance with your father, you should pack up your things and leave the capital. Maybe there is still a way out." After saying this, he closed the door and never opened it again.
The woman sniffed, cushioned the crying baby in her arms, and turned to look for her embroidered handkerchief.
"Here!"
The woman turned around and saw a pair of small hands reaching out to her. Just as she was about to take them back, the small hands retracted.
"Your embroidered handkerchief is very nice. How about one ounce of silver?"
The woman stared at the girl in the red jacket and with a lovely look in front of her, and she felt herself saying, "You, you want to buy my embroidered handkerchief?" With this tael of silver, she and her daughter wouldn't have to worry for two or three months!
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