Chapter Twenty-Three: The Lord Has Been Waiting for You
Chang Qing shook his head, "Otherwise, these are not in a hurry, the most important thing at the moment is that you have to figure out what King Lanling's intentions are for you before you can formulate a good policy." β
"His intentions for me? Naturally, they blackmailed me for the 100,000 taels! Let me enslave him for nothing! β
He really couldn't think of anything else than that.
With the monthly salary he used as Gao Changgong's staff member for ten years to save up the 100,000 taels, thinking about it, Gao Changgong was insidious and cunning, and deliberately didn't want to pay his monthly salary, so he used the vase to blackmail himself.
Hearing this, Chang Qing waved his hand and said with a determined face: "No, what you said is just a superficial phenomenon. β
"Superficial? You mean, Gao Changgong has other purposes? β
Gu Zimo looked at Chang Qing and rolled his eyes, how did he think that Gao Changgong's purpose was to blackmail him.
"Do you think that the king of Lanling and the villains in the market will generally blackmail you for that money? Use your brain to think about it, Zimo, this matter is not as simple as simply blackmailing your moon, and King Lanling still disdains to do such indiscriminate things. β
"Xiao Qingzi, you don't know, he doesn't give me a discount at all, and he uses my father to coerce me to pay off the 100,000 taels before the Shangyuan Festival, and I've done this far, isn't he enough to do it!"
"This ...... Even if he did this, I still reserve my opinion, perhaps, King Lanling only wanted you to pay attention to him for some special reason, so he deliberately made you pay more attention to him in this way! β
"Poof! Xiaoqingzi, are you funny! You say he did it to get me to focus on him? I'm telling you, it's clear that this is not the case! He didn't even want to talk to me more, and slapped me away many times, if it wasn't for my life, maybe I would have died in his hands, you don't know the situation at all, that's why you have this strange opinion. β
Seeing Gu Zimo trying his best to refute, Chang Qing shook his head, and didn't continue the topic just now, "Is there still no news from Gao Xiaolin?" β
Gu Zimo was a little sluggish when he mentioned Gao Xiaolin, shook his head weakly, and sighed: "No." There was no clue at all, I thought I could open a breakthrough from Gao Changgong, but ...... Gao Changgong and I are incompatible now...... How could you possibly help me find Hyo-rim? β
The month since Gao Xiaolin lost the news was enough for Gu Zimo to calm down his enthusiasm for marrying Gao Xiaolin.
No matter what, for Gu Zimo, the unclear night between him and Gao Changgong could never be regarded as not happening.
In addition, now that he has to bend his knees under Gao Changgong's roof, this makes him know even more that it is no longer possible for him to have a relationship with Gao Xiaolin in the short term.
At that time, Gu Zimo reluctantly returned to the Lanling Mansion under Changqing's reminder.
As soon as he entered the gate, Gao Wen suddenly stepped forward to salute, startling Gu Zimo.
"Mr. Gao, take care of you...... Didn't you go back to your hometown for the holidays? Why are you back after only half a day? β
Gu Zimo clearly remembered that Gao Changgong said that Gao Wen would not come back before the Shangyuan Festival.
It's only been half a day, and Gawain is back......
Could it be that Gao Changgong was coaxing himself before?
Come to think of it, how can it be that the entire palace has returned to their hometowns, so wouldn't it be chaotic that no one in this huge palace takes care of daily chores?
The smile on Gao Wen's face deepened, and he didn't answer Gu Zimo's question, but said to Gu Zimo with a concerned face: "Why is Zimo Gongzi dressed so thinly?" In the next place, I will order someone to boil ginger soup for you to ward off the cold...... It just so happened that I brought some special snacks from home today, and I will bring them to my son later......"
If he was in a good mood, Gu Zimo's eyes naturally lit up when he heard the delicious food.
However, at this time, he was sluggish and had no appetite at all.
Shaking his head, he said listlessly to Gao Wen: "Don't bother, I'm a little tired, I want to go back and rest first." β
When the words fell, he didn't say much to Gao Wen, Gu Zimo turned around and was about to leave.
Gao Wen hurriedly said: "Zimo Gongzi, the prince is ......"
Gao Wen's voice reminded Gu Zimo, Gu Zimo's face sank, and he turned to look at Gao Wen and said: "Manager Gao, please convey it on your behalf, if the prince looks for me, he will say that I have slept peacefully, and I will talk about it tomorrow." β
As soon as Gu Zimo's words fell, he saw Gao Wen looking at the place not far behind him with a very strange expression.
Following Gao Wen's line of sight, Gu Zimo turned around and looked.
Suddenly, the pupils contracted for a whileβ
Gao Changgong was standing at a position that was only a foot away from him at this moment.
The peerless face is still as picturesque as the ink is dazzling.
From the distance between Gao Changgong and himself, didn't he hear the conversation with Gao Wen clearly?
Suddenly thinking of something, Gu Zimo breathed a sigh of relief again, fortunately he didn't complain to Gao Wen and say bad things about Gao Changgong, otherwise, wouldn't he be arrested?
"Zimo Gongzi, the prince is here...... You better go over and greet the prince. β
Seeing Gu Zimo's look of being amazed by Gao Changgong, Gao Wen burst into a smile.
Gao Wen's words made Gu Zimo look away from Gao Changgong, ignoring the somewhat abnormal heartbeat in his heart that was faintly provoked by Gao Changgong, Gu Zimo attributed this inexplicable attraction to Gao Changgong's confusing beauty.
It's really a disaster.
Shaking his head, he waved his hand to Gao Wen and said: "Forget it, Your Highness, he is enjoying the snow, and he needs to be quiet, I went over to disturb it, there are many inappropriate." β
After speaking, for fear that something would happen, Gu Zimo hurriedly detoured to another road, and when he left, he asked Gao Wen: "I suddenly have some internal urgency, so I won't talk to you more, you can serve Your Highness well, I'll go back to the house first......"
Without waiting for Gao Wen to speak, Gu Zimo had already quickened his pace and was ready to slip away.
The reason why he left when he saw Gao Changgong was because of the 100,000 taels of debt.
He was also a little confused and hesitant.
Fang Cai's abnormal heartbeat and throbbing.
and the strange feeling of being attracted by that person's peerless face......
These are all reasons why Gu Zimo must stay away from Gao Changgong.
"Zimo Gongzi, don't be in a hurry to leave, before you finish speaking, Your Highness has been waiting for you here for a long time, and the dining room has prepared dinner, Your Highness has not eaten in order to wait for you to come back."
For fear that Gu Zimo would slip away like this, Gao Wen stepped forward with an arrow step, and he, who knew martial arts, easily overtook Gu Zimo and blocked Gu Zimo's whereabouts.
Gu Zimo's scalp was a little numb, "You said he was there, just to wait for me to eat together?" β
It's all this hour, Gao Changgong hasn't had dinner yet?
"Yes, Prince Zimo, His Highness has been waiting for you to come back."
Hehe......
Gu Zimo's mouth smiled crookedly.
Why didn't he believe it at all?
He Gu Zimo has such a big face?
Let the dignified King of Lanling wait for him to eat?
"Manager Gao, I should have told you that I'm not hungry, and I don't need dinner."
"I heard it here, it's just that you don't need dinner, it's useless to talk to you, you need to explain it to Your Highness in person, otherwise Your Highness, no matter how much you talk about it, it's useless."
Gao Wen bowed to Gu Zimo, for fear that Gu Zimo would object, and pleaded with Gu Zimo with an old tearful look: "Please also ask Zimo Gongzi to read the next handful of old bones, give me a little way to live......"
"Mr. Gao's words are heavy......"
It's just a trivial matter like dinner, why don't you give him a way to live.
Gu Zimo was a little helpless, seeing that Gao Wen was blocking his way like this, he couldn't go to greet Gao Changgong now.
There was no way to avoid it, Gu Zimo had to agree hard, "I promise you." β
Shaking his head, he turned back to the path where Gao Changgong was, Gao Changgong was still in that position, his dark eyes didn't know where to look, and it was unfathomable to make it difficult to peek into the mystery that really contained in his eyes.
walked towards Gao Changgong step by step, but Gu Zimo's heart was up and down.
Gao Chang congratulated that he heard someone approaching, withdrew his gaze from the distance, and glanced back at Gu Zimo.
An extremely cold glance, the bottom of his dark eyes was his usual coldness.
There is no emotion, no fluctuation, like a pool of ice springs, amazing, but with a repulsive indifference.
"See Your Highness."
The most normal salute.
He bowed to Gao Chang as a standard.
didn't look at Gao Changgong's cold face that could freeze the dead at the moment.
It's just purely as Gawain said.
And, Gao Changgong's reaction was as indifferent as ever.
As if he didn't exist, he just glanced at him faintly, then looked away and continued to look in the direction he had been looking at earlier.
Gu Zimo's reaction to Gao Changgong was not surprised.
It's very puzzling, what is the matter with Gawain's strange idea?
He actually swore to himself in an extremely affirmative tone that Gao Changgong was waiting for his meal!
Poof, I'm glad I didn't take it seriously.
Otherwise, wouldn't you be humiliating?
Since Gao Changgong regarded him as air.
Why should he be bored here, he didn't want to entangle with Gao Changgong too much, and he was very satisfied with this result.
A smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he was about to step away.
"One hundred and fifty thousand taels." The cool voice seems to be warmer than the heart that penetrates people's hearts, and people can't help but tremble in their hearts.
Gu Zimo's steps paused, and he raised his face in confusion to look at the peerless face.
Gao Changgong had already withdrawn his gaze from that distance, casually brushing the wind-blown green silk behind his ears, his narrow black eyes narrowed slightly, and the eagle's gaze was firmly locked on Gu Zimo's face.
If Gu Zimo's face could be used as an arrow target, Gu Zimo thought, it must be full of holes.
"What 150,000 taels?"
For some reason, Gu Zimo's heart was only stunned by his eagle eyes.
"Correct."
Gao Changgong rarely said to him that a sentence could be so long, "The Imperial Treasure of the Supreme Emperor that you broke is not worth 100,000 taels, but 150,000 taels." Therefore you owe the king a total of 150,000 taels. β