Chapter 793 My cousin is reborn and wants to snatch my marriage (2)
"What's wrong with that? Someone fainted, and I came to save him. Isn't that what I should do? Anyone with a conscience would do the same, so you don't have to persuade me." Gu Shiyao said righteously, and continued to shake Tang Buqing. After shaking for a while, he knew that he would not wake up, so he had to order the two guards:
"Come here and take Tang... no, this young master to the carriage."
"Miss, we don't have an empty carriage..." the loyal maid reminded anxiously.
"If there isn't one, just make room for one? Isn't there a carriage for your maids? Just get off and walk!" Gu Shiyao said with a stern face. In fact, she wanted Tang Buqing to get in her comfortable carriage, but she knew that she was still an unmarried woman in Yunying, and it was impossible for her to ride in the same carriage with a strange man. What's more, there was another Gu Shichu in her carriage, and Gu Shichu was Tang Buqing's wife in his previous life. She didn't want them to meet at all, for fear that fate could not be changed.
The maid was speechless. The guards quickly carried the unconscious Tang Buqing onto the carriage where the maids were sitting. Gu Shiyao didn't care about the simple carriage and got in.
The head maid quickly persuaded her, "Miss, the carriage is so simple, how can you get on it? Just let us maids take care of the young master."
"No!" Gu Shiyao blurted out, and only then realized that her reaction was inappropriate, and quickly explained, "I mean, this young man is obviously a scholar. Since I saved him, I will save him to the end. It's just taking care of him. It's not a heavy job."
The maidservant was unable to persuade her and could only help from the side.
When Gu Shichu failed to get Gu Shiyao back into the carriage, he knew that she was going to stay with Tang Buqing.
Gu Shichu only thought about it for a moment and knew what Gu Shiyao was thinking. She just wanted to make the favor of saving people real and let Tang Buqing see her, the "benefactor", as soon as he woke up.
I didn't expect that she could actually do this. Zhu Shichu couldn't help but laugh. The eldest daughter of the Duke of Anguo and the General of Zhenxi, met an unknown passerby who fainted on the road, and she actually took care of him personally... This was abnormal no matter how you looked at it. What's more, the unconscious person was a young student. Isn't it even more tempting?
In her previous life, the original owner only brought a carriage, a coachman, and a maid when she went to burn incense. After all, she was just an invisible person in the mansion, and it was impossible for her to bring more people. Therefore, after saving Tang Buqing, she and the maid took care of him together. But now, Gu Shiyao brought a bunch of guards and maids, and there were three carriages. With such a large group of people, how could it be impossible for her, a rich lady, to personally take care of a man she had never met before?
Although Gu Shiyao saved people, he did not order his men to return home, but continued to go to Wanfo Temple. Although Wanfo Temple was a temple, it usually allowed pilgrims from afar to stay overnight. During the spring examination, it would even take in students who were too poor to stay in the hotel. Tang Buqing originally wanted to stay at Wanfo Temple, so Gu Shiyao took him directly to Wanfo Temple.
After arriving at the Wanfo Temple, Gu Shichu separated from Gu Shiyao because Gu Shiyao wanted to stay and continue to take care of Tang Buqing, while Gu Shichu went to burn incense for his father who had died early.
"Dear female donor, I will take care of this young man. Don't delay your important business." A young monk in his teens said to Gu Shiyao. He was kind-hearted and felt it would be more convenient for him to take care of the fainted Tang Buqing himself, after all, Gu Shiyao was a woman.
But Gu Shiyao immediately refused and said, "No, I will stay and take care of him."
Seeing the young monk looking at him strangely, Gu Shiyao was stunned and quickly explained, "What I mean is, since I rescued this young man on the road, I will continue to take care of him. I won't bother you. Besides, aren't there other students staying in the temple? I guess you are all very busy now, so leave this young man to us and you can go and do other things."
"But...you are a female donor..." The little monk hesitated.
"So what if we are female donors? It is said that all beings are equal, not to mention that this is a temple. Do you still think we will cause any scandal?" Gu Shiyao said this with a stern face. Her clothes and jewelry showed that she was wealthy, and she was accompanied by a group of people. She must be a woman of status. Therefore, the little monk did not dare to continue persuading her when he saw her cold face, and had to leave on his own.
Gu Shichu didn't know that Gu Shiyao was so worried that others would take away her credit for saving people. She followed the original owner's habit, burned a stick of incense to the original owner's father, then left the temple and went for a walk in the back mountain.
The young monk who led her reminded her: "Donor lady, there are many students who are preparing for exams living in the temple now. They will also go to the back mountain to enjoy the scenery and recite poems. If you go to the back mountain, it is best not to go too far..."
"Thank you for the reminder, young master. I won't go too far. I'll just walk around here." Gu Shichu thanked the young monk.
Then he took his maid Zhiqiu to the back mountain.
"Miss, you saved a fainted man and took care of him personally. Would this... be bad for your reputation? What if you get yourself into trouble?" Zhiqiu said worriedly, "In fact, you don't have to take care of him yourself. Just tell the servants to do it."
Gu Shichu thought: Of course I don't believe this. If I order the servants to take care of Tang Buqing, what if Tang Buqing regards the servants as benefactors and ignores her? Gu Shiyao will not take this risk. She has set her sights on the future prime minister. What does it matter if her reputation is flawed? Isn't it just right? She probably wants to be involved with Tang Buqing, because then Tang Buqing will have to marry her.
"Who knows what our eldest cousin is thinking? She won't listen to us anyway, so we might as well pretend we know nothing." Gu Shichu said to Zhiqiu.
"But the Madam will vent her anger on Miss, right?" Zhiqiu frowned and said angrily, "The Madam will definitely blame you for not persuading Miss..."
The first lady, that is, Gu Shiyao's biological mother, Lady Zhou, the wife of the Duke of Anguo, was a typical noble lady in ancient times. She was dignified, virtuous, generous, decent, and smart and capable. She managed the Duke's Mansion in an orderly manner. Anyone who saw her thought she was a competent clan wife.
However, this clan lady, like all the legitimate descendants of the eldest son, disliked people born out of wedlock, and Gu Shichu was an illegitimate child without a father or mother. What's more, she lived in the Anguo Mansion, which meant that the Anguo Mansion supported her. In the eyes of Anguo's wife, didn't this damage her interests?
Therefore, once there was something unpleasant related to the original owner, she would easily vent her anger on the original owner and use some means to make the original owner's life in the mansion more difficult.
(End of this chapter)
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