Chapter 4: Surrender of the army, Part 4 of 7
Su Yu turned around preparing to leave the room, while doing so he directly bumped into Gu Yun who had just entered. Looking at the full moon suspended high in the horizon outside, he ill-humoredly commented: “It’s very late in the evening. What are you doing here?”
Gu Yun did not even spare him a glance. She headed straight towards Su Ren.
Su Ren looked up and saw Gu Yun. Incredibly he put down the chess piece in his hand and got up to greet her. Su Yu gawked, immediately afterwards his face blackened. How come meeting him second brother did not attach so much importance, yet welcoming her with such a smiling face!
“Sister-in-law, today you have time to come over?”
“Sister-in-law?” His mood already upset, upon hearing Su Ren’s words, Su Yu promptly exploded, “Second brother, have you gone crazy?! When did this woman become our sister-in-law? I do not approve!”
Su Ren smiled, solemnly he replied: “She is big brother’s woman, of course, she’s our sister-in-law.” The main thing is, Bing Lian has chosen her, reckoning that even if big brother himself will not approve that would be futile as well, let alone he?
“No way!” Su Yu naturally is not aware of the reason, with disdain he scoffed, “at best she can only be considered a concubine, nothing more!”
“If you two want to discuss such a boring topic, I have no interest in listening. I only came to request two different things. Thirty wooden stakes, fifteen, at least thirty feet long, thorny vines.” After blurting out the two sentences to them, Gu Yun just stood there coolly. She did not lose her temper at all. Her face completely deadpan. To deal with a person like Su Ren, ignoring him is the best way, because he will not on your account become angry, or even a few provoking words would not stimulate any tad reaction from him.
Su Ren nodded and smiled: “No problem, tomorrow at 5 o’clock in the morning, certainly they’ll be delivered.”
Su Ren did not talk further, but Su Yu unable to curb his curiosity asked: “What will you do with these things?” He could still understand the wooden stakes, but what are the thorny vines for?
Gu Yun slowly turned around her body, suddenly she raised her face, plastered on it was a brilliant smile, a pity that the words spat out of her mouth were ice-cold and heartless, “This has nothing to do with you!”
Her water-chestnut lips slightly curved, two tiny dimples suspended on the sides of her mouth, her round eyes bent like the crescent moon, her smile – truly lovely. This sudden awesome smile put Su Yu into a light trance, but Gu Yun’s cold words and sarcastic comments like cold water poured on him immediately sobered him up.
Damn it, that he actually thought she’s lovely, he should have known in his bones this woman is a nasty shrew!
“Qing Mo, don’t you get too complacent!” Perhaps loathing himself for putting down his guard a moment ago, to put up his defenses once more, Su Yu’s retort was increasingly getting virulent, “Ten days more. At the appointed time, I’ll make you suffer a crushing defeat. I’m telling you, the battlefield is always just a man’s world! A woman ought to obediently stay at home. Do laundry, cooking, milk a baby.”
The tip of Gu Yun’s brow lightly fluttered. Sneering in her mind, he thought such a verbal blow could humiliate her? She is very curious. Su Ling is unfeeling and calm, restrained Su Ren is crafty inside, why is rude and impetuous Su Yu this simple?! But having said that, among these three brothers, Su Yu is in comparison the charming one.
She initially thought he’d leave seeing him so vexed. Gu Yun unable to bear her ire, slumped on a wooden chair beside the low, small table, gently shaking her head, giving him a pitying look, she sighed: “Self-confidence is a good thing, but blind confidence is very lamentable. I feel sorry for your ignorance.”
“You! You bitch!” Su Ren nearly laughed out loud. Su Yu was fuming mad, steam was coming out of his ears!
Gu Yun had wanted at first to rebut his words, but the corner of her eyes unexpectedly swept into a dossier on the table, inadvertently reading a few lines. Gu Yun’s heart started racing. This autopsy report’s usage of terminologies and its style of exposition, are a carbon copy of Qing’s!