The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 437

Xiao Liulang's heart seemed to be rubbed severely by someone, and he looked at her with a complicated expression in disbelief.

Why?

Why are you so nice to him?

He is not worth it.

Gu Jiao continued to cut wood, and said: "I have boiled the hot water, you go to wash and sleep, I will finish it soon."

As soon as she finished speaking, she put down the saw and said, "I'll fetch water."

Xiao Liulang grabbed her arm and looked at her with deep eyes: "Jiaojiao."

"Um?"

"Don't be so nice to me."

I will be reluctant to let go.

In case one day you regret it, maybe I will do whatever it takes to keep you by my side.

I'm not a nice guy, not as harmless as you can see.

Gu Jiao met his complicated eyes and said frankly: "You are also very good to me."

Xiao Liulang's heart was suddenly in a mess.

He took a deep breath, slowly raised his hand, and gently touched her cheek with his fingertips: "Silly girl, you will regret it."

Gu Jiao seriously thought about this possibility, and then she shook her head firmly: "I won't... The worst thing is to divorce you."

Xiao Liulang: "..."

— was not comforted.

Xiao Liulang looked at her fixedly, and suddenly smiled.

Gu Jiao had a strange look on her face: "What are you laughing at?"

He replied truthfully: "Laugh at you."

He originally wanted to feel sad, but he was obviously infected by the desolate emotion in his heart, but when the girl interrupted him, he couldn't feel depressed anymore.

Xiao Liulang couldn't help laughing, and pinched her little face: "You say you, how can you spoil the atmosphere like this?"

Gu Jiao didn't understand what kind of atmosphere she had ruined at all, and looked at him inexplicably.

Xiao Liulang was amused by her small appearance, put one hand on the back of her neck, turned his head slightly, and fell towards her.

Is this... going to kiss her?

Gu Jiao rolled her eyeballs and closed them for a second.

However, after waiting for a long time, she didn't wait for his kiss. Instead, she heard a muffled low laugh in her ear.

Gu Jiao opened her eyes, turned her head to look, and saw someone holding a piece of sawdust with her fingertips, straightened up, and looked at her holding back a smile: "You have this on your head."

Gu Jiao's face darkened: "Oh."

Xiao Liulang understood what she wanted, and he thought about it too. Thinking that he was full of her in his dreams at night, he wished he could put her under him regardless and treat her like he did in his dreams.

But he can't do that.

She had just learned about his life experience, and she hadn't really felt sorry for it yet, and she didn't understand what it meant to be the son of a slave girl.

He'll give her time, regret it or not.

But he won't give it for long.

...

In the next few days, Xiao Liulang stayed in Bishui Hutong to recover from his injuries, and Gu Jiao began to investigate the mastermind behind the scenes.

On the fourth day, Yuan Tang went to the clinic.

Gu Jiao thought that he was here to take medicine for Liu Yisheng. Liu Yisheng's sutured severed finger had been removed, and the intervention effect was good, but continued medication was needed, and then rehabilitation began depending on the situation.

"Twelve taels." Gu Jiao said.

Yuantang was shocked: "You, your medicine is so expensive! How can my cousin value it?"

Gu Jiao said flatly, "You are here to buy it, not your cousin."

Yuan Tang asked, "What do you mean?"

Gu Jiao said: "People are different, prices are different."

Yuan Tang: "...you are a profiteer."

Yuan Tang resigned himself to paying twelve taels.

Gu Jiao collected the money, and seeing that he didn't leave, she looked at him strangely: "What? Is there something else? If you want to sell me news, I advise you to give up."

The corners of Yuantang's smug lips collapsed in a second: "Are you a worm in my highness' stomach? Why do you know what my highness is doing?"

Heh, Feishuang played with the rest.

Gu Jiao sat back on the chair and concentrated on sorting out today's medical records.

Forget it, he was just teasing her, wanting to get back the place where the ten taels of silver was, but it wasn't that if he couldn't get the silver, he wouldn't talk about it.

Yuan Tang opened the folding fan and said slowly, "I heard that your husband has disappeared, do you know who did it?"

"Who?" Gu Jiao asked.

Yuan Tang curled his lips into a smile: "Prince Ning."

Gu Jiao was not very surprised to hear this answer, she put a medical record back on the shelf, looked up at Yuan Tang: "Are you sure?"

Yuan Tang clicked his tongue and raised three fingers: "My Highness swears to the sky as the future prince of the Chen Kingdom, there is absolutely no mistake, and there is absolutely no fraud! But—"

He put down his swearing hand and patted his palm with a folding fan, "Isn't King Ning a member of Queen Mother Zhuang's lineage? Why did he arrest your husband? Is he taking revenge on you for killing so many masters? Although those The master came for me, but you helped me, so he has a grudge?"

It was not this matter that King Ning held grudges, but that she found Princess Ning afterwards.

But even so, he just burned her workshop.

Then she empties his coffers.

To be honest, Gu Jiao didn't think Ning Wang would move Xiao Liulang for a treasury.

Gu Jiao thought of the guilty look of the Crown Princess.

She has something to do with it.

Could it be—

Is it because she has already guessed Xiao Liulang's real identity? And also told King Ning?

Just because King Ning won't touch Xiao Liulang doesn't mean that King Ning won't touch Xiao Heng.

The Crown Princess used to be Xiao Heng's fiancée, and the two grew up as childhood sweethearts. If King Ning misunderstood that the Crown Princess still had Xiao Heng in his heart, with his perverted degree, he would probably kill Xiao Heng.

and many more.

Killed Xiao Heng?

Something flashed through Gu Jiao's mind, but she didn't catch it too quickly.

"Doctor Gu, what are you thinking?" Yuan Tang interrupted Gu Jiao's thoughts.

"I'm thinking."

"Oh! It's burning, it's burning!" A little drug boy exclaimed in the lobby.

Gu Jiao stood up, and Yuan Tang was close to the door, so he immediately opened the door of the consulting room and walked out.

It was a medicine boy who accidentally dropped the fire pocket into the medicinal wine, and the whole wine jar caught fire.

Seeing this, Yuan Tang hurried over, picked up the burning wine jar and took it to the open space in the backyard.

Seeing this scene, Gu Jiao had a flash of inspiration in her mind, and she finally caught what she hadn't caught just now.

yes.

fire.

The fire four years ago!

Could it be that the fire was not set by Princess Xinyang? But King Ning did it?

It's just that Xiao Liulang misunderstood him for some reason?

If it was really him who did it, it would be a big deal.

He took Xiao Liulang away this time not just to give her a blow, but to really want Xiao Liulang's life.

Originally, she planned to cut this pot of golden leeks slowly, but he dared to touch her husband-in-law!

Gu Jiao has no evidence for what happened four years ago, but it doesn't matter, even if the old debt from four years ago is not counted, just this time, he is unforgivably guilty.

In the afternoon, Gu Jiao went to the palace.

King Ning is a prince who is highly regarded by the emperor. He is now working in the official office. He is occasionally summoned by the emperor to the Imperial Study or Huaqing Palace. Recently, because of looking for Xiao Liulang, the emperor summoned him and the prince almost every day to ask The progress of the two things.

Although Gu Jiao is not in the palace, she has close contacts with Renshou Palace, and she has heard some of it from Eunuch Qin.

Gu Jiao came to the palace and asked the guards on duty: "Has His Royal Highness King Ning entered the palace?"

The guards recognized her and knew that she was a celebrity in front of the Empress Dowager Zhuang and His Majesty, so they were happy to betray her, and it was no secret: "I have entered the palace."

Gu Jiao asked again: "Did you go to the Imperial Study or the Huaqing Palace?"

The guard said: "He went in the direction of Huaqing Palace."

"Thank you." Gu Jiao thanked her, then turned and came to Huaqing Palace.

Gu Jiao hadn't been able to enter Huaqing Palace as quickly as she did in Renshou Palace, and she still needed to pass it on, but after a while, Eunuch Wei walked over quickly and invited Gu Jiao in.

Eunuch Wei said: "Why is Miss Gu here? Did she come to ask about Master Xiao?"

Xiao Liulang had found the news that Gu Jiao only told his aunt, not the emperor, so Eunuch Wei didn't know about it.

Gu Jiao hummed: "That's right, I'm here to ask for news."

Eunuch Wei said: "It just so happens that His Royal Highness King Ning is also here, you can ask him if he has found any clues."

Clues are impossible, and everyone is at home.

Gu Jiao went to meet the emperor and King Ning symbolically, and asked about the progress of the case.

As expected, no progress was made.

The emperor was very anxious: "I haven't heard from you for so long, maybe he..."

Gu Jiao stared at King Ning's face, his face was full of worry, without any gloating.

Too.

If you don't hide it deeply, you won't be able to hang out with the princess for so long without anyone discovering it.

The emperor closed his eyes in pain: "Send more people, no matter what, if you live, you must see people, if you die, you must see corpses!"

King Ning bowed his hands and bowed: "Yes! My servant obeys!"

The emperor sighed: "I will also send a few more people to you. You have to work harder these few days... I hope to find Xiao Liulang as soon as possible."

"My son, I'll go find it now!" King Ning said, and bowed out of the imperial study.

Gu Jiao thought for a while and said, "His Royal Highness Ning, do you mind if I go out of the palace with you?"

King Ning was stunned for a moment, then nodded instantly: "Of course I don't mind, Doctor Gu, please."

"Your Majesty, I'm leaving." Gu Jiao said goodbye to the emperor.

The emperor was worried about Xiao Liulang's safety at the moment, so he didn't leave Gu Jiao to eat in Huaqing Palace.

Gu Jiao and Ning Wang left the palace.

Along the way, the two chatted for a few words, and there was no sign of discord between them.

Before getting into the carriage, King Ning smiled and said, "Doctor Gu, if we can always be in harmony like this, I can pretend that nothing happened in the past."

Gu Jiao didn't answer his words, but asked: "I didn't come in a carriage today, can you give me a ride?"

"Of course." King Ning gestured generously, signaling Gu Jiao to get in the car.

Gu Jiao got into the carriage, and King Ning also got on.

He kept a polite and polite distance from Gu Jiao.

Gu Jiao said seriously: "I have something to say to King Ning alone."

King Ning took a deep look at her, smiled knowingly, and ordered: "You all stop first, and you are not allowed to follow."

The Praetorian stopped.

The carriage went for a while.

King Ning said: "Can you speak now?"

Say you uncle!

Gu Jiao stood up abruptly, and put King Ning in a sack!