Chapter 8: Suspicion
Looking at Qi Tianyu's gaze, Yi Qiwanxi's eyes were a little confused, and she didn't know why Qi Tianyu asked like this. He didn't ask himself, how did he mention it to him?
And Qi Tianyu didn't seem to be waiting for an answer, he looked back at Gu Yi, and there was a light smile on his indifferent face: "Fortunately." After a pause, he said, "Wanxi and I are buying the things we need for marriage, if you want, you can join us." β
"Married?" Gu Yi raised half of his eyebrows, but he didn't feel shocked, but his tone was a little questioning, "You guys? β
Qi Tianyu's heart was a little unhappy, but he didn't show it, and the light smile that was not easy to make disappeared in an instant.
Gu Yi looked at Yi Qi Wanxi beside Qi Tianyu and asked, "Wanxi, why did you marry him?"
He was waiting for her answer, but she just looked at him and didn't say a word.
Qi Tianyu glanced at Gu Yi, turned around and left, and said coldly: "Go back."
Yi Qi stood in place in a daze, and after a few seconds, he came back to his senses and turned to chase Qi Tianyu: "Tianyu."
As soon as the voice fell, his arm was tightly grasped, and a gentle voice came from behind him, with a faint sadness in his tone: "Wanxi."
Yi Qi Wanxi looked at Qi Tianyu's figure quickly moving away, couldn't help frowning, shook off Gu Yi suddenly, ran forward, ran two steps, turned back again, glanced at Gu Yi who was frowning, opened his mouth to say something, was silent for a moment but only said: "I'm sorry." After finishing speaking, he turned around and quickly chased after Qi Tianyu.
Gu Yi stood in place, looking at Yi Qi's figure running away, his eyes darkened a little.
On the side of the road, Ji Lian saw Qi Tianyu come out with a gloomy face, and he was puzzled, but he didn't dare to ask. Qi Tianyu got into the car, his hands clasped on his chest, his brows were still furrowed, but his eyes showed complicated emotions.
After thinking for a moment, Ji Lian spoke: "Young master......"
"Wait for her." Qi Tianyu said, and took out a delicate pocket watch from his pocket to look at the time.
"Yes." Ji Lian said, looked out the car window, and saw Yi Qiwan running over in a panic, looking nervous, her hair was slightly messy, and she completely lost all the dignity of the eldest lady on weekdays. Ji Lian was shocked, but said to Qi Tianyu casually, "Young Master, it's the third young lady." β
Qi Tianyu put away his pocket watch and glanced at Yi Qi Wanxi outside the car window, with a trace of pity in his heart, but his face was still indifferent. Ask yourself in your heart: Am I too much for her?
After sending Yi Qi Wanxi back to Yi Qi Mansion, Qi Tianyu went home.
In the car, there were only Qi Tianyu and Ji Lian. Ji Lian didn't look at Qi Tianyu either, and asked Qi Tianyu as if he was talking to himself, "Young Master, what's wrong?"
"Not really." A simple answer, with a cold tone.
Ji Lian's tone was a little anxious: "You look like this, how can you be okay?" After a pause, he half-jokingly said again, "Could it be that the third lady bought too many things and spent too much money on you and you were unhappy?" β
Qi Tianyu glanced at him and said, "It's all a family, who would affect the mood because of that little money."
The corners of Ji Lian's mouth rose slightly, and his tone became cheerful: "That's the young master, you don't like what the third lady bought?" Seeing that Qi Tianyu didn't answer, he said to himself again, "Also, the third lady bought all the things from her daughter's family, how could our young master like it." And ......"
Ji Lian wanted to continue, but was interrupted by Qi Tianyu: "I just met her friend."
When Ji Lian heard this, he raised his eyebrows lightly and said with a smile: "The third lady had a lot of friends before she went to the UK, so it's normal to meet her."
Yi Qi Wanxi is the daughter of the Yi Qi family, and she has a wide social circle, Qi Tianyu naturally knows it, but ......
"It was her friend when she was in England." Qi Tianyu said, his expression slowly becoming solemn.
"Friends from the UK?" Ji Lian was stunned, swallowed his saliva, was silent for a few seconds, and said with a smile, "Haha, it's really ......" said, lowering his volume, "Coincidence." β
"Gu Yi." Qi Tianyu leaned his head back on the seat, closed his eyes, thinking about something, and his tone was cold.
"Gu Yi?" There are some familiar surnames, Ji Lian quickly searched in his mind, and after a long time, he suddenly said, "The son of Gu Liguo seems to be called Gu Yi?" β
"Yes." Qi Tianyu closed his eyes lightly, his brows furrowed slightly, and he could see his displeasure.
"But didn't the Gu family move to England thirteen years ago?" Ji Lian thought about it carefully, but he couldn't figure it out, "It's back again?" No way? β
Thirteen years ago, the Gu family was also quite prominent in Shanghai. However, the so-called prosperity must decline, Gu Liguo was wanted for his involvement in a case of killing a Japanese officer in the concession, but by the time the wanted warrant was issued, the Gu family had disappeared from Shanghai without a trace.
"Guli will not dare to come back." Qi Tianyu said, opening his eyes, "But his son was only eight years old at that time, and his son dared to come back." β
"But what did his son do when he came back? Won't it be because of ......" Saying that, Ji Lian remembered something, hesitated for a moment, but still asked softly, "Third Miss, right?" "I haven't met Gu Yi for more than ten years, but Yi Qi Wanxi ran into it as soon as she came back, it was too coincidental, such a coincidence, I can't help but think: This is deliberately arranged by man.
"He was Wanxi's friend when he was in England." Qi Tianyu's tone became a little colder, "He asked Wanxi why she married me." β
"What?" Ji Lian only felt funny, "Third Miss and Young Master, you are in love, you were engaged five years ago, and everyone in Shanghai knows that Third Miss is the young master's fiancΓ©e." The guy surnamed Gu is a fool, right? β
"But Wanxi didn't say anything." Qi Tianyu took a deep breath, spit out slowly, and said, "I'm tired." β
Ji Lian glanced back at Qi Tianyu and saw that he closed his eyes, although he felt angry, he didn't say anything anymore.
Qi Tianyu closed his eyes, but he didn't sleep. Gu Yi's face and what Gu Yi said always appeared in his mind.
He was a friend of her when she was in England.
He asked her why she was marrying him.
What is the relationship between him and Wanxi, and why did he ask like that. Why didn't Wanxi say anything.
Or, five years later, has she changed?
Yi Qi Wanxi came home, and as soon as she put her things in the house, a maidservant came to pass the word, saying, "Third Miss, Madame asked you to come over."
Yi Qi stood up gracefully, thought for a moment, and said, "Okay."
Yi Qi Wanxi followed the maidservant to the back garden, and saw the Wang family sitting in the pavilion embroidering from a distance, so she stepped forward and saluted: "Mother."
Wang didn't look at her either, only embroidered his own things: "Where did you go?"
"Went out and bought something." Yi Qi Wanxi didn't dare to say that she went to Qi Mansion to sleep, she was afraid that the Wang family would keep asking until she said the reason.
"What did you buy?"
"I bought some fabrics and jewelry."
"Fabrics and jewelry?" Wang glanced at her with his spare eyes and asked, "You're quite laid-back." β
Yi Qi lowered her head and did not speak. She could feel Wang's faint anger, although she didn't know why, but it must have something to do with herself.
"I sent you to England because I wanted you to study hard." Wang said, finishing the paper with a needle and thread, "But what about you, what did you learn and come back?" β
Yi Qi Wanxi frowned slightly, and raised her eyes slightly to look at the Wang family. Wang cut the thread, put the needle and thread and cloth on the round table in front of him, slowly got up, took off the thimble on his finger, put it on the table next to him with his left hand, looked at Yi Qi Wanxi, whose hair was a little messy, and said, "Look at your current appearance, how can you look like a young lady?"
Yi Qi looked up at Wang, but did not speak.
"You are a daughter's family, and your daughter's family must know how to be reserved. You are the daughter of Yiqi Mansion, not a Qinglou woman. Wang said, sat down, and said, "You are shameless, I still want it, and the Yiqi family still wants it!"
Yi Qi Wanxi's mind was full of money, raised her eyes to look at Wang, and met her hateful gaze, but she felt very aggrieved and confused: "Mother, what did I do?"
"Humph! You ask me what did you do? What have you done, do you not know in your own mind? Wang glanced at her and said coldly, "It's good that I promised you to the Qi family earlier, and Qi Tianyu suppressed you, otherwise I don't know what you will become." β
Wang's tone was not fierce, but his words were ruthless. Every word poked Yi Qi Wanxi's heartache, if it was someone else, Yi Qi Wanxi might not care too much, but the person who said this was her mother, her biological mother. She is Miss Qianjin, a daughter who has been pampered since she was a child, and she is a noble nobleman, but she was compared by her biological mother with the woman of the Qinglou, and was said by her biological mother to be like a Fengyue woman.
Yi Qi was aggrieved with a stomach, but she swallowed it into her stomach. She didn't dare to say anything because she didn't know what to say. She didn't know why her mother was suddenly angry, she didn't know why her mother suddenly said this, she didn't know anything.
"Why don't you keep quiet?" Seeing that she lowered her head and didn't say a word, Wang was furious, raised her hand and slapped Yi Qi Wanxi's face, "Why did I give birth to such a cheap thing as you?!" She thought she would at least explain that even if she admitted her mistake, she wouldn't be so angry.
Seeing this, the maid next to her wanted to step forward to stop her, but seeing that Wang's face was extremely gloomy, she didn't have the courage after all, so she only secretly sweated for Yi Qiwan.
Yi Qi Wanxi was beaten by Wang's slap and was in pain, her fair face was flushed, and tears were rolling in her eyes, but she just gritted her teeth, knelt down with tears, and said softly with tears: "Mother, this is the second time you have beaten your daughter, although your daughter doesn't know what she did to anger her mother, but her mother is so angry, her daughter must have done something wrong." The daughter just wants her mother to be happy, if the daughter makes her mother unhappy, the mother tells the daughter that the daughter will not make a mistake. β
Yi Qi's words made the Wang family feel distressed for a while. But distressed to distressed, Yi Qiwanxi's attitude did not reduce her anger, but made her more and more angry, and suddenly raised her foot and kicked down Yi Qiwanxi who was kneeling in front of her.
Her Wang Linli's daughter Yi Qi Wanxi is a woman who is so strong and has a lot of self-esteem. She said that and slapped her in the face, but Yi Qi Wanxi did not have any rebuttal or dissatisfaction. Why? If it weren't for Yi Qi Wanxi's ghost in her heart, how could she endure it?
The Wang family is also a beautiful girl, clean and self-conscious, and will not tolerate her daughter's self-indulgence. But Yi Qi was very disappointing.
Wang turned his back to Yi Qi Wanxi, and said helplessly: "Forget it, I don't want to care about you." After a pause, he said, "You and Qi Tianyu's matter, you can solve it yourself." The Si family has come to propose, Mancao is a good girl, don't delay your sister. β
When Yi Qi heard this, she wanted to say something, but she opened her mouth but couldn't say anything, and tears fell out of her eyes uncontrollably. Tears remained silently, accompanied by the footsteps of the group gradually moving away.
Yi Qi Wanxi cried and cried, but finally couldn't hold back, covering her mouth with her hand, but she still cried. The voice was soft, but it was a heart-rending pain.
No one came to help Yi Qi Wanxi on the ground, Yi Qi Wanxi knew that they were afraid of offending the Wang family. After all, the current self, who was said by his own mother, is nothing at all.
But why?
Why is my mother like this all of a sudden? My mother doesn't like herself, and Yi Qi Wanxi has always known it. But my mother would never say this about herself, because my mother is not unreasonable.
Did someone say something to my mother?
Who is it? What did you say to your mother? Let her think that she is a shameless woman?
She didn't pull hatred, and no one should have designed her to make her ugly. If someone designed her, there would only be one person. A man who grabbed her handle, someone who always thought she was ugly. And in the whole of Shanghai, there is only one person who thinks like that and has that ability.
The thoughts were cleared up little by little, and the crying gradually became smaller, Yi Qiwan slowly raised her tearful eyes, and the hand covering her mouth slowly put down, and a trace of emotion flashed in her eyes.