Chapter 6 Heartless man (1)
Mo Xiang quickly picked up and looked at the white-faced Nie Wushuang muttered comfort “Furen, maybe not…”
“It"s all right. I"ll see it.” Nie Wushuang forced to smile, lifted the skirt and went outside.
In the parlour, she saw her husband, really saw that who had "busy with a myriad of state affairs every day" (8) fujun was holding a beautiful woman in his arms, saying something.
“Xianggong, this is…” Her heart was like falling into a glacier, and she barely smiled, but her eyes could not help staring at his slender hand holding the beauty.
Gu Qinghong turned his head, still smiling like the dawn, and his voice was as tender as ever: “Furen, this is Shen Rumei. She was the daughter of my former father"s colleagues. She was implicated in the case and accidentally occur to the brothel, so…”
“Furen, please take Rumei in. Rumei doesn"t want to be in the brothel. Although Rumei insists on living as a performer not selling myself, that place is filthy. If Rumei is willing to be a cow and a horse (9) for furen or will pay back the great kindness in the afterlife.
Shen Rumei cried like pear blossoms in the rain, kneeling to her but still clinging to Gu Qinghong"s side. While Gu Qinghong was comforting her. Unknowingly, she thought she was a wicked wife who did not support a loving couple.
Nie Wushuang looked at her coldly, and Shen Rumei cried for a while. Seeing her silent, she felt embarra.s.sed and sorrowful then cried harder.
“Rumei, get up first. Lai Ren, bring Shen guniang down to rest.” Gu Qinghong lifted her up, Shen Rumei leaned on him, grasped his hand tightly, and looked at him piteously with beautiful eyes.
“Go ahead, I"ll see you later.” Gu Qinghong laughed tenderly, Shen Rumei looked at him shyly before she went down.
The parlour was quiet again. Nie Wushuang looked at the handsome man in front of her as if he was a stranger.
Gu Qinghong did not look at her eyes and said faintly: “Whether you are willing or not, I will marry her next month, Gu"s clan must have descendants."
After he said, then left
"Wait." Nie Wushuang stopped him. From beginning to end, the play started fast, end finished faster, so fast that she didn"t even have the time to be shocked.
"What is another matter?" Gu Qinghong turned around indifferently. There was no temperature in his beautiful black glaze eyes, but his face was still polite and graceful, which made her heart breaking.
"Xianggong, you didn"t swear that you and I will love until the hair grows white, one pair one lifetime…" Suddenly she could not speak.
The oath was still in her ears, she remembered, but he did not seem to remember.
Gu Qinghong was silent for a moment, then he smiled lightly, his eyebrows were vivid, and his handsome voice said softly as before, "Do you still believe in these pleasing words?" He turned and walked away, leaving her alone.
"Do you still believe that words?" His words without kindness still in her ears, Nie Wushuang wanted to laugh, and finally, she could not help covering her face and sobbing.
That night, for the first time in three years, he did not rest in her room but went to another woman"s room. She cried all night, looking at the dark night, the first time she felt that the night was long and boundless.
After a night, all the people in the prime minister"s fu knew that His Excellency had a new lover, the wind changed slightly. All the people looked at her with strange eyes, and the former reverence was invisible.
(8)日理万机 (rì lǐ wàn jī) means dealing with a host of problems every day.
(9) 做牛做马 (zuò niú zuò mǎ) work as a cow like a horse means be a slave for somebody.
姑娘 (gū niang) Miss/girl