The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 419 Confession (two more)

It was dark.

Sandingjia, who had been busy all night in the cabinet, finally finished the official duties at hand.

The three of them came out of the cabinet, and King An got into his carriage and returned to the mansion.

The carriage of the Imperial Academy stopped outside the cabinet, intending to take Ning Zhiyuan and Xiao Liulang home one by one.

Ning Zhiyuan was exhausted, he really wanted to take the carriage of the Imperial Academy to go home, but his horse was still parked in the Imperial Academy, if he didn't ride his horse back tonight, he would not be able to come to the Imperial Academy for duty tomorrow morning.

It was too far to walk and too expensive to hire a carriage.

Ning Zhiyuan sighed helplessly: "Forget it, I'd better go back to the Imperial Academy first, I will ride my horse back."

Xiao Liulang looked at him: "Don't drive the horse tired."

Ning Zhiyuan waved his hand: "It's okay, it's not too far away."

The carriage headed towards the Hanlin Academy.

"That's right." Ning Zhiyuan said again, "Do you think Yuan Shoufu thinks highly of you?"

"Is there?" Xiao Liulang said.

Ning Zhiyuan said firmly: "Of course! Yuan Shoufu said three sentences to me today, and five sentences to King An, and they didn't say as much to you alone!"

Xiao Liulang didn't pay attention to these.

Ning Zhiyuan continued: "Besides, I found that he always looks at you."

Xiao Liulang gave him an inexplicable look: "Did you do a good job today?"

Ning Zhiyuan sighed again: "You and Prince An have finished everything, to be honest, I really didn't do much."

Today, Yuan Shoufu asked them to go to the cabinet mainly to help sort out some memorials about the laws of the Zhao Kingdom. The Zhao Kingdom was founded two hundred years ago. Suitable.

Almost every emperor of Zhao Kingdom will rearrange and revise the laws.

Naturally, the emperor would not personally revise them one by one. After the cabinet drafted it, it was sent to the emperor for review.

But before the cabinet is drafted, it needs to listen to the people's voice and the people's aspirations, and the people's voice and the people's aspirations must be reported one by one by the local officials. What the three of them did today is to sort out the contents of these reports one by one into a standardized memorial.

Ning Zhiyuan entered the cabinet for the first time, not only nervous, but also a bit unfamiliar, not as calm and experienced as Xiao Liulang and Prince An.

In fact, Xiao Liulang and Prince An were also coming back to the cabinet to help for the first time, but they were of extraordinary backgrounds, had a lot of experience, knew how to deal with cabinet officials, and could hold their own.

Ning Zhiyuan winked and said, "Hey? You said... Yuan Shoufu has taken a fancy to you? He wants you to be his grandson-in-law?"

Xiao Liulang said calmly: "Don't talk nonsense."

Ning Zhiyuan said: "I'm not talking nonsense! Didn't it be rumored earlier that Yuan Shoufu's granddaughter was going to get married to King An? Somehow it didn't happen later, and King An was engaged to the daughter of the Marquis of Ding'an. I'll take a closer look tonight. After observing, Yuan Shoufu didn't look right at King An! He must have been angry with King An and abandoned him from beginning to end, betraying his granddaughter!"

Xiao Liulang has always been uninterested in the affairs of outsiders, he said lightly, "I'm married."

Ning Zhiyuan said: "I know you are married, but does Yuan Shoufu know? Didn't the Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment come to you last time and want to betroth his daughter to you?"

Xiao Liulang glanced at him: "You've been really busy recently."

Gossip everywhere!

Xiao Liulang didn't take Ning Zhiyuan's words to heart, because no matter whether Yuan Shoufu really cared about him or not, it was definitely not to betroth his granddaughter to him.

——Yuan Shoufu and Laohou Ye are already discussing marriage in secret.

...

It was already midnight when Xiao Liulang returned to Bishui Hutong. He unexpectedly found a person standing at the door, wearing a light-colored gown, looking lonely under the cool moonlight.

It was only when Xiao Liulang approached that he realized that he was Liu Yisheng who had met once.

Liu Yisheng is an orphan of the Liu family, he is like a rat crossing the street that everyone shouts and beats in the capital, but at the same time he is also Gu Jiao's patient.

Xiao Jingkong had an encounter with Ming'er, the son of Prince Yu, the envoy of Liang State, and it was Liu Yisheng who bravely sent the two children back to the hospital.

Prince Yu gave him a lot of money to thank him, and he accepted it.

But when Xiao Liulang also went to reward him, he refused.

He said: "Dr. Gu treated me, either he charged less or not. I owe Dr. Gu a favor, so I can't accept your thank you gift."

These words made Xiao Liulang deeply impressed Liu Yisheng.

"What are you doing here?" Xiao Liulang stepped forward and asked.

Liu Yisheng saw Xiao Liulang as early as he walked into the alley. It's not that he didn't think about avoiding him, but he stayed in the end.

He opened his mouth: "I..."

His sleeves were not long, Xiao Liulang glanced over and noticed his hands wrapped in gauze, and there seemed to be faint blood oozing out of the gauze.

Xiao Liulang said: "It's so late, if you want to heal your wounds, you can go to Miaoshoutang, there is a doctor on duty overnight."

Liu Yisheng didn't come to treat injuries.

It's just that it is also difficult for him to explain to Xiao Liulang what he is here for.

He didn't want Xiao Liulang to misunderstand.

Just as he was struggling with how to speak, another carriage stopped at the other end of the alley.

Gu Jiao got off the carriage and walked towards her home.

She saw two handsome men standing at the door, confronting each other in a strange atmosphere, and was amazed for a moment.

This picture is a bit too seductive.

Xiao Liulang looked at her steadfastly, with some inquisitiveness. At this moment, he thought she had rested early, but unexpectedly she just came back.

And her clothes... It's obviously not the one she wears when she goes out in the morning, nor is it any one at home.

Liu Yisheng's eyes were no less probing than Xiao Liulang's. Gu Jiao was in a coma when she was taken away, but now she seems to have recovered?

Really like what Yuan Tang said, that master had no ill intentions towards Gu Jiao, probably someone Gu Jiao knew?

"Sir." Gu Jiao called Xiao Liulang, "It's so late, what are you two doing here?"

"Ask him." The person whose identity was announced finally felt better, and said to Liu Yisheng, "Go in and sit down."

But Liu Yisheng said: "No, I just ask Dr. Gu to look at the injury, and I will leave in a while."

Xiao Liulang no longer insisted, he turned and entered the yard, and lit all the lanterns in the yard.

Gu Jiao's eyes fell on his right hand: "Your hand..."

Liu Yisheng looked at his right hand wrapped in gauze: "I'm fine."

Gu Jiao asked, "Stitched?"

Liu Yisheng looked at her suspiciously: "You sewed it up, don't you remember?"

Gu Jiao was thoughtful: "...I seem to have a little impression."

Liu Yisheng pursed his lips: "You... do you often do this? I mean, lose consciousness."

Gu Jiao shook her head: "Not often, tonight is a special occasion."

Liu Yisheng opened his mouth, but stopped talking.

He didn't ask in the end.

He said, "I have sent your medicine box and pannier to the hospital."

When the master took her away, he only took her away, not the things on the ground. He went to the medical clinic first to inquire about her news and where she lived, and handed over the back basket and the small medicine box to the second owner along the way.

Gu Jiao bent her lips: "Thank you."

Gu Jiao checked his injury. She was worried that she would not be able to suture well in that situation. It turned out that her muscle memory was too strong, and the operation was perfect.

Gu Jiao explained some precautions and asked him to come to the clinic tomorrow to change the medicine.

Liu Yisheng suddenly took a deep look at her, and asked, "What about you? Are you really okay? That expert..."

"He..." Gu Jiao thought for a while and said, "He's my husband's friend."

The identities of Long Yi and Xiao Liulang cannot be revealed, so let's just call them friends.

Liu Yisheng was completely relieved: "Then I will take my leave."

Liu Yisheng walked out of Bishui Alley and came to Xuanwu Street, where an inconspicuous carriage was parked.

Several dark guards were ambushing around the carriage.

Yuan Tang was sitting on the carriage.

After dealing with the group of hidden guards just now, Yuan Tang immediately went back to the palace and called Chen Guo's masters.

It's just that he didn't know if the other party was scared by Gu Jiao and the masked expert, so he didn't do anything to him that night.

Liu Yisheng got into the carriage.

Yuan Tang raised his eyebrows and said, "How is it? Is that girl okay?"

Liu Yisheng said: "It's okay."

Yuan Tang leaned lazily on the cushion behind him: "I said she'll be fine, that master was very careful when he rescued her, just like the way I look at my cousin every time."

Liu Yisheng really wanted to kick this shameless guy off the carriage.

Yuan Tang patted his palm with the folding fan: "But then again, who is that expert? When did such a powerful person come to Zhao Kingdom?"

Liu Yisheng said in a cold voice: "Instead of caring about this, you should think about your own situation. Being chased and killed, and hurting others."

This other person Liu Yisheng was not referring to himself, but Gu Jiao.

Yuan Tang said: "I know, I caused my cousin to break his finger, I will investigate the matter thoroughly, and I will definitely find out that bastard! Chop off his finger to avenge my cousin! Does it hurt? , Come on, I'll give my cousin Huhu!"

As he said that, he really grabbed Liu Yisheng's right hand and wanted to blow him.

Liu Yisheng was so shocked by him that he decisively opened a distance of half a carriage away from him!

Gu Jiao is a character who reports good news but not bad news, no, she doesn't even report happy news, she is not good at talking about her daily life and experiences with others.

Perhaps because of the influence of her childhood, no one would listen to her when she said it. Gradually, she stopped talking, as if this could create an established illusion—you don’t know about me, it’s not because you don’t care about me, It's because I refuse to say.

This temperament has not changed when I grow up.

At the beginning, Xiao Liulang dug and dug for Concubine Jing's affairs, and all kinds of pig teammates took turns to lose horses.

Xiao Liulang would never ask Liu Yisheng, after all, Liu Yisheng was just one of her patients, and it seemed petty to care about a patient.

Xiao Liulang went to the stove to boil water, it was for Gu Jiao, the movement was a bit loud.

Gu Jiao followed in, sat down on the small bench beside him, and turned to look at him: "You seem unhappy."

Xiao Liulang: "I haven't."

Gu Jiao: "Are you jealous?"

Xiao Liulang: "I'm not so narrow-minded."

Gu Jiao: "Oh."

Xiao Liulang: "Who looks better, me or him?"

Gu Jiao: "..."

After taking a bath, Gu Jiao went to the backyard to pour water, but Xiao Liulang was still awake.

He was standing in the yard, bright and shining with moonlight and stars, as handsome as jade, as if he was waiting for her.

"Why aren't you sleeping?" Gu Jiao put down the tub, turned around and asked.

Xiao Liulang came over, raised his hand, and his warm palm fell on top of her head.

Gu Jiao was slightly taken aback: "Why..."

"I don't know." He put down his hand, "I just want to touch your head suddenly."

It seems that you need it, but you can't tell why you need it.

Gu Jiao blinked and stared at him for a long time. Then, she shook her little head and stretched it out: "Then, touch it again."

Like a good boy waiting to be petted.

Xiao Liulang laughed softly: "Okay."

...

The next day was originally the day when Gu Jiao promised to go to the chamber of commerce party with her second boss, but because of this sudden change, Gu Jiao had to make sure of one thing first.

Gu Jiao asked the second boss's house to go there first, and she would rush over after she finished dealing with it later.

"Okay, remember to arrive before dinner."

After the second master finished speaking, he got into the carriage and went to Sihai Villa in the eastern suburbs of the capital.

Gu Jiao went to Prince Rui's Mansion.

King Rui went to deal with official business, only Princess Rui was at the mansion.

Hearing that Gu Jiao was coming, Princess Rui was so excited that she grabbed her skirt and went to meet her.

She didn't have to worry that Gu Jiao would be stimulated, so she ran... Uh no, she walked very fast.

She came to the gate of the palace, and said with a smile: "You are finally here! The prince said that when you sent me back to the mansion last time, he invited you to come and accompany me more, but I have waited for so long, but I haven't seen you coming! Today What wind brought you here?"

Gu Jiao's gaze passed Princess Rui, and landed on the corridor not far away, where there were two hidden guards.

She had never seen Princess Rui beside Princess Rui before.

Gu Jiao asked: "Are those two people sent by King Ning to protect you?"

Princess Rui talked to her about everything, and she also told Gu Jiao about the matter that King Ning sent someone to protect her.

"Did you see it?" Princess Rui looked back and said in surprise, "They are hidden guards, they just visited me once when they came to the mansion, after that I was completely unaware of their existence."

"I'll come and see you." Gu Jiao continued what she had just said.

"Come into the mansion and sit down!" Princess Rui took Gu Jiao's hand and brought her into the mansion.

King Rui was not a very favored prince, and the mansion he was allocated was not satisfactory, not even half of King Ning's mansion, and he saw few servants along the way.

Princess Rui didn't seem to care about this, she happily invited Gu Jiao into her yard.

There are already a lot of baby clothes in her house, some made by herself in her spare time, and some sent by her mother's family.

"My younger sister came to stay for a few days, she was too noisy, so I let her go." Princess Rui and Gu Jiao sat down on the chairs, and called a maid to serve tea for Gu Jiao, while she herself drank warm water.

Princess Rui's younger sister is Du Xiaoyun, the number one fan of the Crown Princess, and Gu Jiao has been pinned down by Du Xiaoyun several times.

Speaking of noisy...

Gu Jiao glanced at Princess Rui, don't you two have the same quarrel?

"Try this." Princess Rui pushed a plate of sweet-scented osmanthus cakes on the table in front of Gu Jiao, "You don't know how miserable I was in the last two months, I even learned how to make dim sum!"

Gu Jiao took a sip, and it was surprisingly good.

"Is it delicious?" Princess Rui asked.

"Delicious." Gu Jiao said.

Princess Rui's eyes smiled into two crescent moons.

Gu Jiao came here today mainly to confirm a few things with her: "Who did you tell about the private meeting between the Crown Princess and someone behind the rockery, and the suspicion that Yuan Tang is that man?"

Princess Rui said bluntly: "I've only talked to you, King Rui, and elder brother! Um... my sister-in-law is in the carriage, maybe... I heard something too, why do you suddenly ask this?"

Gu Jiao said: "Yuan Tang was assassinated."

"What? He... was assassinated? How could this happen? Who wants to kill him?" Princess Rui's expression became serious.

After a while, she suddenly slapped the table, "I see! It's Wen Linlang! She must be worried that the matter would be revealed and she would be hurt, so she just came here and killed Yuantang!"

Gu Jiao: ...Your prejudice against the princess is not so deep.

It has to be said that Princess Rui's conjecture gave Gu Jiao another way of thinking - from the point of view of motive, the princess is suspected.

Looking back carefully at the conversation between the two, the man was the one who took the initiative to approach the princess, and the princess slapped him, which is enough to show that the man probably offended her verbally.

Whether the Crown Princess became angry because of her anger, or never suffered any future troubles, she might indeed kill Yuantang.

However, Gu Jiao felt that the man was also very suspicious.

After all, making Yuan Tang a scapegoat is not something that anyone can think of, nor can it be established under any conditions.

It's useless to kill someone casually.

But it would be different if it was Yuan Tang.

No matter in terms of status, appearance or talent, Yuantang is worthy of him. Ask a passer-by to say that this is the man the princess met privately. Is it convincing?

What's more, Yuan Tang was "concluded" by Princess Rui.

Gu Jiao quickly thought of another thing. She was also present when the other party assassinated Yuan Tang, and she also killed so many assassins. How would the other party view her relationship with Yuan Tang?

Could the other party have already guessed that she knew about Yuantang being wronged as a rockery man?

If it were her, she would be able to guess it anyway.

After all, Princess Rui "recognized" Yuan Tang and went to the hospital to look for her. Given the relationship between Princess Rui and her, it is impossible not to tell her the gossip that Yuan Tang is an adulterer.

And she was with Yuan Tang that night, so it's hard to doubt whether she went to Yuan Tang to verify the truth.

"Miss Gu, what's wrong with you? Did I say something wrong?" Seeing Gu Jiao's sudden silence, Princess Rui couldn't help feeling uneasy.

In fact, there is nothing too unpleasant about her temperament, but she is always against Wen Linlang. There are too many people who like Wen Linlang, so it is inevitable that they will not get along with her.

"You don't like Wen Linlang too, do you?" She asked weakly.

Gu Jiao shook her head: "I like you."

Princess Rui suddenly became happy. She held Gu Jiao's hand and said affectionately, "I like you too!"

As soon as he walked to the door, he heard King Rui's confession: "..."

Suddenly I feel a little green on the top of my head,,,