Chapter 315: The Regent is Cruel and Mean
Gu Xixi stood facing He Jinglan and was silent. She felt guilty for some reason.
"……Um."
"From your description, it should be... it's us without a doubt."
He Jinglan understood and said, "Then you also know who is looking for you?"
It was rare for Gu Xixi to have a vague look when talking to someone, "Maybe, I guess... Mr. Fan."
He Jinglan fell backwards and suffocated, "I knew it!"
"Gu Xixi, how could you be so confused in doing anything?"
He Jinglan took a deep breath, quickly calmed herself down, grabbed Gu Xixi's hand and went downstairs.
"Let's go talk in my car!"
The two girls walked quickly through the lobby of the inn hand in hand.
An Qinghe and Jiang Mingyuan looked up in surprise. Before they could ask anything, He Jinglan just looked straight at them and said, "I've taken the person away. You can do whatever you want." Then she pulled Gu Xixi out of the inn.
The carriage moved slowly along the street.
He Jinglan stared at Gu Xixi, "Tell me, what happened to the girl you were traveling with? When I wasn't with you, were you picking up people outside again?"
Gu Xixi had gotten into quite a bit of trouble this time. Knowing she was in the wrong, she could only mutter quietly, "Why are you picking up people randomly again? When have I ever picked up someone before?"
He Jinglan said, "Didn't you pick up Mu Qixiu? He was in our village, under the big locust tree at the entrance of the village!"
Gu Xixi straightened her back and reiterated, "I was forced to buy it for a penny, not picked it up!"
He Jinglan waved her hands, "Okay, okay, it's just one penny! What's the difference between that and picking it up?"
Gu Xixi was silent.
He Jinglan looked at her again, feeling very disappointed. "Look at you, every time you pick someone up, you make a huge noise. Why don't you learn your lesson?"
"That damn old man named Fan looks kind, but he is actually very cruel and ruthless. He loves to stab people in the back. I'm afraid he has killed many people."
"If my brother hadn't been keeping an eye on the Fan family and thought something was wrong, and hadn't found your tracks before me, my heart is still pounding when I think about it now!"
Gu Xixi raised her head and smiled, "I know you are worried about my safety. You are anxious, anxious."
She said seriously, "Has your brother not found out why Old Man Fan targeted us?"
He Jinglan forgot to be angry as she thought about it, and nodded, "Indeed."
"You are a farm girl from the northwest. You can neither hinder him nor offend him."
"It's even more impossible for Anqing to be a Hu merchant."
"As for Jiang Mingyuan, it is possible that Old Man Fan could win him over and use him for his own purposes in the future."
Gu Xixi smiled, "You are right, I did offend him."
He Jinglan was startled and said unhappily, "There is no possibility for the three of you for now, so it can only be because of the girl you picked up?"
"You're almost being targeted by that old guy, and you're still smiling!"
Gu Xixi said slowly, "If you listen to me tell you the reason, you will do the same as me."
He Jinglan put on an attitude of listening attentively and listened to everything Gu Xixi said.
A cup of tea passed.
Bang!
He Jinglan slammed the table, furious, "Asshole! Bastard!"
"The corrupt officials are in cahoots with the bullies, they deserve to be cut into pieces!!"
Now, it was Gu Xixi's turn to persuade He Jinglan to calm down.
He Jinglan said, "A girl actually encountered such a thing and dared to go to the capital to redress her parents' injustice. How much courage did she have!"
She turned to Gu Xixi, "Where is she now?"
Gu Xixi said, "Lv Jing left after arriving in the capital."
"Old Man Fan's men failed to stop us on the first day we entered the city. I'm afraid it won't be that easy to find us now."
He Jinglan nodded, "After all, the Fan family's instructions are that there should be a group of young people, two men and two women, in a carriage, including a Hu man, a scholar, and two beautiful girls."
"They have no portraits, only the characteristics described above."
"So it is indeed safer for both of you, Miss Lu, to live separately from you."
The population of the capital city is as numerous as the grains of sand in the Yellow River.
Even if Gu Xixi, An Qinghe and Jiang Mingyuan showed up together, no one could be sure that they were the people that Lord Fan was looking for.
He Jinglan pondered, "According to what you said, the bully is just a commoner from Nanyi County, and has no achievements. What about his parents? Who are the people in his family? Did Miss Lu tell me?"
Gu Xixi recalled, "Lü Jing said that his family had a large number of servants and maids, and they were not like ordinary wealthy country gentry."
"Besides, he is only 22 years old and has parents, but he can make all the decisions on his own."
"Even when he went out with his parents, he never rode in the same sedan chair. Many people saw him yelling at his parents, but the old couple just lowered their heads and let him be disrespectful and unfilial."
"Lü Jing said that people there privately said that the old couple of the Fan family raised their son to be a father."
Having said this, the two of them looked at each other at the same time.
He Jinglan asked, "You also found something wrong?"
Gu Xixi nodded.
He Jinglan said, "Since the old man surnamed Fan could personally send someone to solve the problem, maybe Fan Dongping is not just an ordinary distant relative of the Fan family."
"Well, it's worth digging deeper!" She nodded, revealing a determined smile, "I think someone must be most interested in this news!"
"Let's go tell him now."
Gu Xixi was startled, she stood up and bent over, "I'm not going! If you want to go, go by yourself! I want to get off the car!"
He Jinglan glanced sideways, "What are you thinking about? Aren't you going to the Regent's Palace?"
"Mu Qixiu is handling official business at this time. If it is not official business, even my brother can't find him."
Gu Xixi sat back exhausted.
He Jinglan pondered, "Why do I feel like you seem a little disappointed?"
Gu Xixi flatly denied it, "I didn't."
"I have made up my mind to cling to your He family. But..."
She looked at He Jinglan seriously, "You also said that the Fan family is not a good family. Will this make things difficult for your brother?"
He Jinglan also became serious, "No, it may be a confidential matter. I only know that the good days of the Fan family will not last long."
"There is also Mu Qixiu. I know! I know you don't want to hear about him, and you don't care about him."
Gu Xixi broke out in a cold sweat. She was really doing it on purpose!
He Jinglan smiled slyly, "I just gossiped with you. The Regent and Lord Fan are at odds, and everyone in the court knows about it. At first, the Fan family wanted to make peace and ease the relationship. Thinking that the Regent was lonely, they sent twelve extremely beautiful kabuki girls and two beautiful concubines."
"Guess what happened?"
Gu Xixi said without hesitation, "What else can I do? You wrote in your letter that all visitors will be turned away."
He Jinglan smiled and shook her finger, "No, no, no, he did not let these people into the mansion, but he did not let them leave either."
"The palace guards took these people to the largest brothel in Pingkangfang overnight."
Gu Xixi stared in astonishment, "Brothel?"
He Jinglan described vividly, "Pingkangfang was at its busiest at that time of night, with dignitaries coming in and out."
"The guards loudly announced the origins of these women outside the brothel, and said that if the Fan family did not come to take them away, they would have to sell them to the brothel for a penny at dawn."
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