Chapter 41: Demons Can Grind (2)
"Isn't that the prime minister's carriage, and who is the woman in it?"
"yes, how can there be a woman's voice?"
"It can't be the Oiran of the Beauty Place, the tassel girl, right?"
“......”
Everyone watched and whispered, and when Gu Qing heard it, the voice was particularly piercing. After a while, the coachman sent someone to remove the broken carriage and came to Gu Qing's side to pray, she stood silently and quietly on the other side of the road.
Wei Cai glanced at her with contempt, and the carriage of the Prime Minister's Mansion slowly moved, and when she walked in front of her, the curtain was closed, and a chuckle from the carriage stinged her ears.
What kind of soul-stirring laughter should a beautiful woman have? Just a little smell will make you sleepless all night, and you will always be lovesick.
Gu Qing never felt that Tassel was a merry woman in the hook bar, even though she had a great reputation in the Beauty Workshop. Everyone has an innate temperament, take the tassel as an example, in her bones, it is not the frivolity and casualness of the Golan woman, but the casualness and dignity of the rich and noble, this feeling is exactly the same as the feeling that Liu Piaopiao gives her.
The woman in the beauty workshop has a poor background. Gu Qing thought so, maybe she was also a wealthy family, but she was once defeated and hid in the hook fence in order to make a living.
The carriage had already driven a long way, Ah Huan and the coachman had returned to Gu's mansion, Gu Qing thought about it, didn't speak for a long time, and walked towards Liufu.
Although Liu Piaopiao's condition has not yet recovered, her body is recovering well and her complexion is ruddy. Seeing Gu Qinghou rushing to entertain her, thinking that Second Master Liu hadn't come to bother her recently, she was in a good mood.
"I heard, Qing'er, the night you went back to the house, something happened, but what was the injury?" Liu Piaopiao asked, there was only Xiao Yuan by her side, a caring maid, and the others, under the orders of the second master Liu, would not obey her anything, so they couldn't arrange for anyone to go to the Gu Mansion to inquire.
"It's just that I met some thugs, but fortunately, there was no danger. She replied.
Liu Piaopiao was relieved, and the guards who came back told Master Liu everything they witnessed that night, and she only knew it when she heard others talk about it.
Looking at the huge Liu Mansion, there are more than 100 people in the mansion, all of whom listen to the orders of the second master Liu, and even the willow leaves have no majesty in the mansion.
The eldest man is critically ill, and now he only has one breath left, and he is tormented by illness all day long. He also wanted to get rid as soon as possible, but he was unwilling to let his baby daughter marry Old Man Du by the second brother of the beast.
That's why I hung my breath and refused to swallow it for a long time.
"Piao Piao, can you take me to meet your father?" Gu Qing was very curious, how capable a man who could be in charge of the many family properties in Liufu alone was.
Liu Piaopiao's face was embarrassed, her eyes were full of unbearability, and she seemed to have some crystal, "I went to see my father yesterday, and he ...... I was sick and emaciated, I couldn't move, and the appearance of lying in bed made me feel so sad. I mentioned you to him and he was very relieved and told me to take care of myself, and the rest...... Didn't say. If you want to visit him, just go, and you don't have to see him. ”
"Good. ”
Xiao Yuan took out a thicker piece of clothing from the closet and changed it for Piao Piao, Gu Qing's mind moved, and he muttered: "Xiao Yuan, go and help me do something......
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Before entering the house, I smelled the slightest smell of herbs, and the sound of a heart-rending cough, and the people under the maid brought basins and water, trotted back and forth, and the old man coughed up blood again.
The red blood was extremely glaring on the handkerchief.
The old man raised his arm with difficulty, and the maid interpreted the meaning, supported the old man's back, and called a few people to drag him up, put the pillow behind his head, and lean him against the head of the bed.
“...... Piao Piao ......" called out forcefully, and his eyes were no longer energetic.
When the maid heard his call, she knew that his time was short, and she wanted to see her daughter, so she hurriedly prepared to run to invite the little lady.
It happened that Gu Qing and Liu Piaopiao had just entered the courtyard, and the maid hurriedly informed the situation in the house when she saw this, Liu Piaopiao was shocked, and rushed into the house without saying a word.
After seeing Liu Piaopiao, the old man's eyes lit up slightly, and he kept calling in his mouth: "Piao Piao......"
The scene of an old man who is dying and reluctant to give up his children, and whose pain cannot be described, can be moved by anyone.
Liu Piaopiao sat on the edge of the bed, held the old man's hand tightly, and sobbed silently.
Gu Qing stood quietly aside, and the old man noticed her and pointed, babbling out of his mouth and not knowing what to say. And Gu Qing understood, she stepped forward and gently patted the old man's back, comforting: "I am the third daughter of Gu Lin of Gu Mansion, named Gu Qing. In terms of seniority, I have to call you uncle. Piao Piao is my friend and relative, no one can bully her, uncle and aunt can rest assured. ”
Then she leaned over and leaned close to his ear and said, "She won't marry Old Man Du, I have my own way." ”
Bedridden to this day, this is the only thing that makes him cry with joy.
Gu Qing's words were like his life-saving grass, which brought him back to life in one fell swoop.
"I ...... To survive to this day, it is ...... Just don't let that ...... If the beast succeeds, he harms ...... Hurt me...... This is just for ...... In order to ......"
"Big brother woke up?"
A sentence came out of nowhere, and the people in the house looked at the source of the sound, and I don't know when, Second Master Liu came here quietly, no one reported it, and no one squeaked.
The words that the old man was about to say were choked in his throat, and when he saw the person who came, his eyes widened, and his fingers trembled and wanted to raise it and point at him. That's it, the second brother who he thought he could entrust the family business with all his might, but in the end he bit him back, which made him so miserable.
Second Master Liu approached him step by step, his face was full of hypocritical smiles, and after looking around the room, he stopped his gaze on Gu Qing's face. He wasn't sure what she had heard, if it hadn't been for an informant to report it, he wouldn't have known that the eldest brother, who was already paralyzed on the bed, was so scheming to do this behind his back.
However, judging from the look on the old man's face, it seemed that he had come at a good time and interrupted all this.
The sudden arrival of Second Master Liu surprised them.
"The eldest brother seems to be in good spirits, did you see Piao Piao? Don't worry, there are things that make the eldest brother even happier, in less than ten days, Piao Piao will marry a wife, and then he will also be happy for the eldest brother and rush to the sick, okay?" Liu Er said very slowly, just to let the old man hear every word clearly, and then looked at his depressed expression and snickered in his heart.
"You dare to ......" The old man was powerless, so he could only shout helplessly in his heart.
"Do you think I dare? I think how majestic my eldest brother was back then, and when he was planning my Liu family's industry, he called for a majestic glow, which made me so envious. ”
Between the lines, what is revealed is not his envy, but his unwillingness.
Although Gu Qing was silent, he did not escape the luck of being named.
Second Master Liu was pacing back and forth in the house, but in fact, he secretly looked at Gu Qing, and remembered the delaying tactic she used that day, and couldn't help but chuckle, heh, just a Nizi, not enough to fight against him. After he has taken care of the housework, it is not too late to clean her up.
"Yo, isn't this Miss Gu San? What, isn't Gu Mansion fun? Or is our Liu Mansion too luxurious, so that Miss San lingers and doesn't want to go back to her own home?" His words were not sharp, but he mocked Gu Qing.
Gu Qing's eyes looked out of the door of the house, and Xiao Yuan hadn't come back yet, which meant that the things she had explained hadn't been done yet, so this was not the time to confront the second master head-on.
I had to smile helplessly, and followed his words: "Liufu is indeed luxurious, and it is very eye-opening for the little woman." ”
"That's right, it's all up to my big brother to run it well. When the second master came to the bed, Gu Qing could only take a step back and silently look at everything in front of him.
The second old man put one hand on the shoulder of the eldest old man, and the eldest old man resisted very much, but he was powerless to resist, so he had to stare angrily.
"Ah, why is there a dirty thing in the back of the eldest brother's head? Come, the second brother will wipe it for you. ”
Before the second master finished speaking, he approached the back of his head and wiped it casually, and said softly, "How is it, big brother?"
What he asked was, can you still live a comfortable life today?
The eldest lord knew that his resistance had no effect, so he closed his eyes in despair, regardless of it, and let him arrange all this.
"Aren't you going to give me the ledger?"
The second master finally said this, he waited so long just for a few thin account books, just because there were detailed accounting contents, daily income and expenditure details.
Although he is the second master of the house, he has a harmonious relationship with his eldest brother on the surface and is in charge of all the business in the capital. Only he knew that he was just a waste who worked under someone else's hands and asked for money to survive! The accounts were all handled by the eldest brother alone, and he had never even seen a shadow of the account books. He only knew that the Liu family was very rich, and his own family was very rich, but he didn't know how much it was.
originally thought that when he persevered until the day his eldest brother died, he would have the opportunity to truly become the boss of Liufu and the master of Liufu.
It backfired, and by chance, he learned that his dearest eldest brother was going to pass on the family business to a Liu Piaopiao, who had nothing to do, and he didn't think about passing it on to himself!
He couldn't bear it anymore, so he simply didn't do anything, poisoned his brothers, and said that gambling would marry Liu Piaopiao to the Du family in the south of the city.
All of this is to blame on his good big brother!
He was still whispering something in the back of his head that made the old man angry, and here, Xiao Yuan had already sneaked into the house, and after nodding lightly to Gu Qing, he stood obediently behind Liu Piaopiao, as if he had been in the house all along.
"Ahem. Gu Qing cleared her throat and smiled slightly, breaking the dull atmosphere in the room, and then arousing the anger of the second master Liu, she answered the question just now, and said: "I seem to have heard the second master ask me just now, are you envious of the luxury of the Liufu? ”
"Huh?" The second old man didn't know what he meant, frowned, and waited for her next words.
Gu Qing said slowly: "I envy Master Liu for his ability, just by making wine, he can revitalize the lintel of Liufu, which is impressive." The reason why Liufu can gain a foothold in the capital, not to mention the luxury of the mansion, even the reputation of Liufu is the world that the old man single-handedly beats, admire and admire. ”