Chapter 93.1
When Xiao Liulang came back after fetching water, Gu Jiao was sitting in the main room waiting for him.
Gu Jiao said, "Dean Li was here just now."
Xiao Liulang took the bucket of water to the backyard and poured it into the water jar, then said, "En, we met at the village entrance on his way back."
Gu Jiao walked to the back door of the main room, leaned lightly on the door frame and said, "Are you not going to ask what he told me?"
"What did he say?" Xiao Liulang asked casually.
Gu Jiao said lightly, "He said that you were raising a concubine in the capital."
"Cough!" Xiao Liulang almost choked to death!
"Aren’t you?"
"No."
"You’re really not?"
"I don’t have a concubine!"
Not that he hadn’t been to the capital yet, but that he didn’t have a concubine.
Gu Jiao raised her eyebrow and said, "Oh, when ordinary people hear that sentence, their first reaction should be ‘I’ve never been to the capital, how can I raise a concubine there?’ But you only denied the second point, so you have been to the capital before?"
Xiao Liulang calmly said, "What if I had been there?"
Gu Jiao asked, "How did you get the travel permit to the capital?"
It was the capital city of the State of Zhao, where all the most valuable people in the State of Zhao lived. Its defense was very tight, and getting a capital travel permit was simply very difficult for common folks.
Commoners like Xiao Liulang could never get to enter the capital unless he pa.s.sed the provincial exam.
“What about you?" Xiao Liulang didn"t choose to answer Gu Jiao"s question directly. Instead, he turned his head to face her and asked, "What’s with your medicine box?"
Gu Jiao"s pupils shrunk.
Young man.
You’ve learned to gag her with her own secret, huh?
Xiao Liulang walked up to her step by step on crutches and stopped less than half a step in front of her. He said, "Tell me where you got that box, and I"ll tell you... how I got the capital travel permit."
This was the first time that he took the initiative to get so close to Gu Jiao, so close that his breath fell on Gu Jiao"s head.
Only then did Gu Jiao realize that he had not only grown a little taller.
Gu Jiao could also feel the youthful air bursting out of him, fresh and cool, but it was more than that. He was slowly growing up and was about to become a real man.
His breath was cold and dangerous, like a fierce beast finally baring its fangs!
Gu Jiao blinked his eyes, suddenly stretched out her little index finger and poked his little pectoral muscle.
Xiao Liulang：“……”
"Ah—— I didn"t mean to!"
Xue Ningxiang, who just arrived at the front door, covered her face and expressed that she didn"t see anything!
Xiao Liulang and Gu Jiao stood really close to each other. At first glance, one would think that Xiao Liulang pushed Gu Jiao against the wall and was about to do some evil deeds to her.
That felt nice.
Gu Jiao poked him again.
Xiao Liulang：“…!!!”
His chest was covered with the soft touch of her fingertips, so that Xiao Liulang instantly lost the aura of a fierce beast and quickly went back to his room with red ears.
Xue Ningxiang felt stupefied, "Ah... It"s the first time I’ve seen such a Xiao Liulang."
"Is there something?" Gu Jiao came over with relaxed steps and asked.
Xue Ningxiang"s eyes suddenly fell on her face. She was obviously doing something intimate just now and was caught by an outsider. How come it was Xiao Liulang that blushed instead of this girl? Was there something wrong with them?
"Er... That."
However, Xue Ningxiang didn"t forget her purpose for coming. She handed Gu Jiao the metal plate in her hand and said, "Here, I’m giving this back."
"For me?" Gu Jiao took it and found that it was a metal plate made of bronze. There was no word on the metal plate, only a strange symbol.
"En!" Xue Ningxiang nodded, and said shyly, "This was picked up in the place where Xiao Liulang initially fainted. You were focused on picking people up, and didn"t notice this in the gra.s.s. I secretly hid it. I was going to take it to the market to sell it, but my mother-in-law said that it was neither gold nor silver, and I wouldn’t be able to sell it for much money, so I just put it aside. If it weren"t for today..."
Xue Ningxiang awkwardly skipped how she shook the pillow in anger because of Gouwa blindly recognizing a father and merely said, "It suddenly fell out of the pillow, I forgot that I had such a thing."
A year ago, Xiao Liulang pa.s.sed out at the entrance of the village. He was discovered by Xue Ningxiang and Gu Jiao together originally.
Xue Ningxiang went to the village to call people for help, while Gu Jiao directly carried him back home. When Xue Ningxiang took the village people there, Xiao Liulang was already gone, but Xue Ningxiang noticed the metal plate left behind in the gra.s.s.
Xue Ningxiang said, "I"m not sure whether it really belongs to Xiao Liulang though. Why don"t you ask him?"
Gu Jiao suddenly remembered something.
On the first day she came to this world, Xiao Liulang was stealthily rummaging through her room. Could it be that he was actually looking for this thing?
Haha, young man, let"s see who would uncover whose secret first.
Gu Jiao went back to her room with the bronze plate.
She was extremely certain that Xiao Liulang touched her small medicine chest, probably just last night.
Her medicine chest couldn"t be opened by anyone else, but perhaps she was so muddle-headed last night that she seemed to forget to lock it.
Did those strange tonics and birth control products appear after Xiao Liulang touched the medicine chest?
Gu Jiao stared viciously at the small medicine chest and said, "Don"t you dare show me those messy things again, or I"ll set you on fire!"
A gust of cold wind suddenly blew from the outside, and the medicine chest was as quiet as a frightened quail.
……
After breakfast, Gu Jinyu packed her things and prepared to leave. She promised Yao shi that she would offer incense to the couple of the Gu Family’s third branch.
Before leaving, she went to see Yao shi and Marquis Gu, saying, "I should be able to meet my sister when I go to the village, right? I want to see her."
Yao shi didn"t object.
Marquis Gu, however, worried that Gu Jinyu might be bullied by Gu Jiao because Gu Jiao was just too hot-tempered. Especially since the two children already had friction before.
Marquis Gu asked Huang Zhong together with an experienced wet nurse to accompany her.
Gu Yan was so excited all night that he didn"t fall asleep until breakfast. At this moment, he was sleeping on his bed, completely unaware that he had missed the opportunity to go to the countryside.
Gu Jinyu got into the carriage, the servant girls and the wet nurse sat in another carriage, and Huang Zhong led several guards to ride horses and escort the carriages on both sides.