Chapter 58
Dealing With Marquis Gu’s Manor
“You should not be here . ”
Gu JiuGe sat on the boat . Everything in the cabin was very familiar . Even the scent of the makeup closely resembled the scent of willow catkins .
This was the stuff that Yao Yue liked to use . Upon smelling the catkins, people would end up thinking of her .
“I know . ”
The pipa in her lap suddenly felt much heavier, causing Yao Yue to hold it tighter . Her slender fingers were exerting so much force on the wood that they were turning white .
Her breathing showed that she both understood and was confused .
“Second young sir, do you still remember that time from two years ago?”
She suddenly began to smile, thinking back to how sorry she looked back when she first arrived in the capital . It really was funny .
“At that time, I had just become of age, and you were just a youth . In a small establishment of pleasure on the edge of West Lake, some brothel-keeper fooled me into playing the pipa on stage, but in secret, she sold my innocence . After playing one song, that person wanted to drag me out, but it was fortunate that you saw the injustice and saved me; otherwise, right now…”
She paused for a moment, her smile a little melancholic, “Otherwise, right now, I might be about as clear as the mud beneath the lotus flowers . ”
Gu JiuGe’s heart was a little moved . Thinking back to how daring he had been when he was a youth, he also began to smile .
He felt that he was still too young at that time, but he had never regretted saving Yao Yue because she was always proper and understood propriety . She had never put him in a bad position .
Aside from today .
“Right now, you are not mud . Rather, you are a lotus flower that is unblemished by mud . You don’t seem like such an impatient person . What exactly happened?”
Blaming herself, Yao Yue shook her head, “I am precisely such an impatient person . Second young sir, you are overestimating me too greatly . Even if I am not mud, I cannot become a lotus flower because I have selfish motives . ”
Her selfish motives were undoubtedly related to that song about longing .
Gu JiuGe had always understood her feelings, “I understand . Right now, it’s not just my father, brothers, and little sister on that boat . There are also the eldest prince, the second prince, Princess DanYang, and a number of children from noble families . You making an appearance at such a time is truly something that should not have been done . ”
“Indeed, I should not have . ”
Yao Yue took a deep breath . Her shoulder blades, like the pipa in her lap, were so thin that feelings of pity were aroused .
“After I arrived here, I knew that I had done something wrong that should not have been done, but I no longer have any room to turn back . There was someone who specifically came to tell me that you are currently discussing marriage and might marry Princess DanYang . When that time comes, a girl of low standing like me would find it hard to even see you once more . That’s why I became panicked . I completely forgot all about the reasoning and clear-headedness that you taught me!”
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She finally lowered the pipa in her lap . Doubling over, she covered her face and began to weep in sorrow .
It was only now that she finally understood .
Even if Gu JiuGe married Princess DanYang, she would still have chances to go and see him .
But now that she had come here, she had ruined his reputation . In the future, would she truly no longer be able to see him?
Upon thinking of this, she was choked with sobs .
Gu JiuGe had always been one to cherish women . Seeing a beauty weep before him, his heart could not endure, and he ended up putting his hand on her back .
He gently patted her on the back a couple times, his palms brushing against her shoulder blades . Her thin figure was quite pitiful .
Alright, it’s fine . Father did not get mad . It was Yu Fu who dispelled the embarrassing scene . ”
“Young miss Yu Fu?”
Yao Yue looked up slightly with her teary eyes . Looking at Gu JiuGe with a slightly dumbfounded expression, she could not hide her joy .
“I thought that you had come to blame me and chase me away . I thought that you had come to tell me that you no longer wanted to see me…”
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Gu JiuGe helplessly shook his head and pulled her into his embrace with one hand .
“Alright, don’t cry . First, tell me, who was it that told you that I would be marrying Princess DanYang?”
…
“You said that someone deliberately told Yao Yue that you would be getting married and told her to make an appearance at West Lake?”
After returning to the manor at night, Gu JiuGe told Gu ShuBai about what Yao Yue had told him . This gave the two brothers something to discuss .
“Yes, she said that it was a foreign merchant who looked wealthy and respectable that told her this, and he said it with absolute certainty . In her panic, she took it as the truth and did not even get a clear answer for the client’s name . ”
“Huh, it’s another foreign merchant . ”
Gu ShuBai’s brow slightly twitched, as he looked at him with a smile, “Don’t you think that this phrase sounds familiar?”
When Gu JiuGe had brought Yu Fu out to see the sights on the river, there had been a drunk guy who had tried to stir up trouble ended up . Upon questioning, he turned out to be an outsider .
He had come to the capital to sell silk . He knew that aside from the imperial family, the ones in the capital who must not be offended were the members of Marquis Gu’s Manor .
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But he only caused a commotion because he did not realize that it was Gu JiuGe’s group, resulting in Yu Fu falling into the water .
After the drunk guy sobered up and found out that the one that he had offended was a son of Marquis Gu’s Manor, he looked as if he was about to wet himself out of fear . He did not appear to be lying .
As for the person who had told Yao Yue about this, it also happened to be an outsider merchant .
When the two coincidences were added together, they no longer appeared to be anything as simple as coincidences .
“Eldest brother, you mean to say that someone is using outsider merchants to deal with our Marquis Gu’s Manor? Those people don’t understand matters in the capital . Even if we catch them, we aren’t able to glean anything from them . As for the person behind the scenes, they’re making use of them . Previously, they nearly hurt Yu Fu . This time, it was clear that they wanted to anger father and make Marquis Gu’s Manor the butt of all jokes!”
Gu JiuGe thought carefully about the motives behind this and found it hard to decipher .
“Right now, we don’t have any evidence . It’s enough that we know . We absolutely must not disclose it . Whether it be Miss Yao Yue or any other girl, you need to go and see them to ensure that this sort of thing does not happen again . Fortunately, Yu Fu was sharp today; otherwise, you would have been unable to escape from that disaster . ”
Gu ShuBai patted him on the shoulder, advising him to look out for himself .
“Yu Fu met Yao Yue last time and seemed to have a pretty good impression of her . This girl has a kind heart and will never look down on someone because of their standing . I heard that she even scolded third brother, causing him to become dejected for quite some time . ”
Gu ShuBai’s brow raised slightly, “When did this happen?”
“It was around the dragon boat festival . It was for the sake of an actor named Yu Guan . ”
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