The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 653: Jiaojiao makes a move (two more)

The weather changed as soon as it said it, and before Gu Jiaoren left the academy, the rain poured down.

Mu Qingchen accompanied her to hide from the rain in the gatehouse for a while, but no one said a word.

Gu Jiao has always talked less, and Mu Qingchen actually doesn't talk much, but he can't explain why, he is still willing to speak in front of Gu Jiao.

But Xu Shi recalled the sad past. After he finished talking about his childhood playmates, he didn't say another word until Gu Jiao left.

When Gu Jiao returned home, night had completely fallen, and the aroma of delicious food wafted from the kitchen.

Mrs. Nan made scallion pancakes, which filled the yard with crispy fragrance.

Gu Xiaoshun had already told Mrs. Nan, Master Lu and Mr. Meng about the wonderful process of the kick-off match vividly. Different from watching the training on weekdays, the atmosphere on the field is indescribable.

"In short, in short, it is very powerful! My sister is very good!"

The family members were very happy, Mrs. Nan cooked a big table of delicious food, no one ate it first, they were all waiting for Gu Jiao to come back.

As soon as Gu Jiao entered the room, she saw her family sitting in the main room waiting for her. She looked at the people and the food on the table. She didn't say that she didn't have to wait for me in the future, but said, "Next time I'll come back earlier."

Nan Shiniang smiled: "It's okay, it rained heavily just now, didn't you get drenched?"

Gu Jiao shook her head: "No, I hid from the rain in the academy for a while."

Master Nan said softly, "Go wash your hands and eat."

"Water is coming, water is coming!" Gu Xiaoshun trotted into the house carrying a basin of water.

Gu Jiao washed her hands: "I'll go and see Ah Yan first."

Master Nan smiled: "Okay."

Gu Yan was exhausted from watching the game all day, and fell asleep after returning home. Gu Jiao touched his forehead, and took his pulse. After confirming that there was nothing serious, he got up and went out.

In the main room, Mrs. Nan said to Gu Jiao: "I pickled some radishes, and next time you enter the inner city, bring them to Liulang and Jing Kong. They are filled with vegetable oil, so Jing Kong can also eat them."

Gu Jiao said: "Thank you Mrs. Nan."

After eating, Gu Jiao washed up and went back to the house to rest.

At the end of the day, not to mention that Gu Yan was exhausted, she was also a little tired, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

This night, she fell asleep again.

But it is neither a deep house compound nor a noisy street, but on the back of a mountain.

She saw the young Duke again.

In fact, there is only one back,

But she just recognized him.

He was not alone, he was holding a little girl in plain clothes by his hand.

In the little girl's hand, she was holding a maroon foal.

In front of the two of them were more than a dozen stacked tombs, each with a tablet without words.

The sky was gray and the wind was howling all around.

The young Grand Duke said, "Yinyin, come and kowtow to your grandfather and uncles. They hugged you when you were born, and your uncle gave you your name. They love you very much."

"Why is there no name on the tablet?" The little girl pointed to the wordless tablet on the grave and asked.

The young Duke said, "Because I can't write my name."

The little girl asked, "Why? Did they lose their names?"

The young grandpa said in a daze: "Yes, their names are lost, can you find the names of grandpa and uncles when Yinyin grows up?"

The little girl said: "Okay, when I get it back, I will engrave the names of my grandfather and uncles on the tablet!"

The young Duke looked into the distance: "Yes, it is engraved on the stele, and one day the world will know that the one buried here is Xuanyuan Erlang who guarded Dayan River and Mountain."

...

Gu Jiao woke up in the middle of the night and the dream faded again, but this time she remembered a little more than last time, besides the Duke, there were more than a dozen graves with unwritten steles.

Gu Jiao was puzzled.

The tomb appeared strangely, and so did the Duke of the State. He had just seen him during the day and dreamed of him at night.

Could it be that she misses someone who is good-looking when she sees him?

Gu Jiao scratched her eyebrows: "Am I... cuckolding my husband?"

...

The Duke's Mansion is brightly lit, and the servants are busy.

The second wife was sweating profusely from inside and out.

"Miss Mu, have you boiled all the medicine?"

"Have you stewed the porridge for the second master?"

"Give me the paper money, and I'll burn it myself!"

The Duke was ill and had a high fever, and the entire Duke's mansion fell on their backs. Even though Mu Ruxin healed the Duke, the second wife secretly burned some paper money for the ancestors, asking them to keep the eldest brother safe and sound. thing.

Second Master Jing was like a frightened quail standing at the door of the eldest brother, neither entering nor leaving.

Speaking of it, the eldest brother will have to blame him if he gets sick.

On the way back home, he met Hua Kui parading the streets, so he just... looked a few more times, delayed the time to return home, and finally caught up with a heavy rain.

The carriage was drenched, and he and his eldest brother were drowned.

His martial arts body can endure it, but the eldest brother will suffer.

The second lady came back after burning the paper money, and gave her husband a hard look: "It's all your fault!"

Second Master Jing said awkwardly: "Blame me, blame me, it's really my fault."

He really didn't expect it to rain, if he had known earlier, let alone the oiran parading in the street, he would not even watch the oiran taking a bath!

The second lady was annoyed at him, but she couldn't help but feel sorry for him, and said bitterly: "The porridge is ready, you go and eat some before coming back."

Second Master Jing sighed: "I can't eat any more, I'll stay here and watch, and I'll leave when elder brother is fine."

The second lady said: "It's useless for you to guard, and you can't help Miss Mu."

Second Master Jing thought for a while: "Then... I'll kowtow to my ancestors."

He turned away.

The second lady looked at his back and shook her head helplessly.

Inside the house, Mu Ruxin was treating the Duke.

When she was treating patients, she didn't like to have outsiders watching. Apart from her, there was only one personal maid she brought from Chen Guo in the room.

The servant girl knows a little about medicine, so she usually helps her and acts as a drug boy.

"Three-edged needle." Sitting on the edge of the bed, Mu Ruxin stretched out her hand to the servant girl.

The maid handed over a brand new three-edged needle.

Grandpa Guo's high fever persisted, and Mu Ruxin used a three-edged needle to prick Grandpa Zhong's Dazhui acupoint and let out a few drops of blood.

After the release, she treated the Duke's wound and turned him over to lie flat.

"Go and rush the medicine."

"I just urged it, and they said it's coming soon."

Mu Ruxin didn't say anything more.

Woke her up in the middle of the night and trapped her to death.

Just when she was about to ask the servant girl to pour her a cup of strong tea to refresh herself, she heard a faint voice.

She frowned, and looked at the Duke who was in a coma and seemed to be talking in his sleep.

She bent down and listened carefully to what the Duke had said.

"Miss, is the Duke talking?"

"Hush."

Mu Ruxin made a silent gesture.

She listened for a while, sat up straight, and said to the servant girl: "He seems to be calling a name, Yinyin."

Mu Ruxin hesitated for a moment, took the pulse again for the Duke, and took the temperature of his palm by the way.

As soon as she put her finger over, she was grabbed reflexively by the Duke.

"Miss!" The servant girl was taken aback.

The Duke called that name: "Yinyin... Yinyin..."

"The medicine is ready..." The second lady came over with the medicine in person, just opened the door and entered the room when she saw her elder brother grabbing Mu Ruxin, she paused.

"Second Madam." Mu Ruxin greeted calmly, and then she pulled her hand out.

In fact, to be more accurate, it was more like the Duke of the State took the initiative to let go of her hand.

He seemed to know he was wrong.

But the second lady couldn't see these subtle movements.

The second lady was stunned for a while before she came forward with a medicine bowl: "How is the condition of the Duke...?"

"I've already administered the acupuncture for the Duke, so let's wait and see." Mu Ruxin said.

"Ah." The second lady pursed her lips, and couldn't help looking at the Duke's hand.

Mu Ruxin explained: "I was just checking the pulse of the Duke."

The servant girl hurriedly explained to Mu Ruxin: "It was my lady who was arrested by the Duke! The Lord has been holding my lady's hand and shouting... Yinyin! Who is Yinyin? Don't mistake my lady for what……"

"Shut up!" Mu Ruxin said coldly.

The maid shut her mouth.

The second lady looked at the Duke, then at Mu Ruxin, and said in disbelief: "Duke really... just called you Yinyin?"

Mu Ruxin frowned and nodded.

From her point of view, it was true, there were only her and the servant girl in the room, and the Duke only grabbed her and called Yinyin.

"Pharmaceuticals, put them here first, I'll go out for a while."

After the second lady finished speaking, she carried her skirt and quickly went to the small ancestral hall of the Duke's mansion.

Second Master Jing was kneeling on the ground and kowtowing reverently to the ancestors.

"Don't knock it, don't knock it! I have something to do with you!" The second lady dragged the second master Jing out.

"What's the matter?" Second Master Jing looked at her in bewilderment.

The second lady said with bright eyes: "Brother has spoken."

Second Master Jing was very calm: "Didn't I tell you earlier that elder brother can call Yinyin?"

The second lady said: "It's not this. The eldest brother just grabbed Miss Mu's hand and called Yinyin, and he took Miss Mu as Yinyin!"

Second Master Jing waved his hand: "How is it possible? How many years has Yinyin been gone?"

"Of course I know that Yinyin is gone, but didn't the elder brother break this place?" The second lady pointed to her brain, "Maybe he doesn't remember at all."

Second Master Jing shook his head resolutely: "No, brother won't forget."

The second lady said: "Okay, okay, just remember as the eldest brother. Let me ask you, is it because the eldest brother got better after Miss Mu came to our house? Is it because Miss Mu saw the eldest brother that day, and the eldest brother called Yinyin at night?"

Second Master Jing kept thinking back: "It's... like... yes."

"Brother just grabbed her and shouted Yinyin again!" The second lady emphasized this matter again.

"What do you want to say?" Second Master Jing asked.

The second lady smiled mysteriously: "I want to say, elder brother wants a daughter, Miss Mu is about the same age as Yinyin, if elder brother really likes her, it's all right to recognize her as his daughter."

"This..." Second Master Jing hesitated.

The second lady said: "Let Miss Mu call daddy, maybe I can wake up elder brother."

Second Master Jing frowned: "Wait, don't you believe in the idea of ​​talking to elder brother? Mu Qingchen's classmate suggested it, and you threw him out as a quack doctor."

The second lady said angrily, "Can't I believe it now?"

Second Master Jing raised his eyebrows: "Oh."

Then his five hundred taels of consultation fee was not in vain.

It is good that the second wife respects the Duke of the State. She married into the Duke of the State, and she has not suffered any anger or crimes. If anything happens to her natal family, she does not need to speak up personally, and the elder brother will take the initiative to let the second master Take money to supplement her natal family.

She really hoped that her elder brother would wake up.

"But the girl might not be happy." Second Master Jing said.

The second lady smiled and said, "I'll go check on her first."

Soon, the second wife went to the Duke's room, called Mu Ruxin to the courtyard, and explained Yinyin's identity to her in a low voice: "She is my elder brother's daughter."

Mu Ruxin nodded: "I see."

The second lady smiled and said: "You are about the same age as my elder brother's daughter. You are by my elder brother's side these days, which must have reminded my elder brother of his daughter."

"The status of the daughter of the Duke's Mansion is precious, and Ruxin dare not compare it with her." No matter how arrogant Mu Ruxin is, she will never compare her status to the daughter of the Shangguo family.

"Haven't you asked Miss Mu about her order?" the second lady said.

Mu Ruxin said in a low mood: "My parents left early, it was my master who raised me."

"It's really a hard life." The second lady held her hand and patted it lightly, "If Yinyin is alive, she will be about the same age as you."

...

After the second lady left, the servant girl asked Mu Ruxin, "Miss, what does the second lady mean? Why are you talking so many weird words to you all of a sudden?"

Mu Ruxin looked at the hand that was just grabbed by the Duke, and said calmly: "Who knows?"

The next day, a gossip spread like wildfire in the Duke's Mansion.

A few maidservants gathered in the garden to clean the garden.

Maid A said: "Have you heard? The Duke is going to recognize Miss Mu as a righteous daughter!"

Maid B said: "Who did you listen to?"

Maid A: "Don't worry about what I heard, just tell me whether you believe it or not!"

Maid B: "I don't believe it!"

Maid B came over and said, "It's absolutely true! I heard it all! Lord Guo took Miss Mu's hand and called his daughter's name!"

The servant girl Ding also came over: "The Duke is awake?"

Maid A: "I will only wake up when Miss Mu is with me."

Maid B: "So, Miss Mu is going to be the daughter of our Duke's Mansion? She is a bit arrogant, I don't like it very much."

Maid A: "Do you need to like it? It's enough for the Duke to like it!"

...

Gu Jiao didn't know anything about what happened in the Duke's Mansion. She trained in the morning and evening these days, and went to school during the day, so she was very busy.

The sun and the moon flew by, and it was the sixth day in the blink of an eye.

The next day was the second round of knockout.

Last time, there was no funding, so they could only live in the academy, so they got up early on the day of the competition and rushed over from the academy.

This time the academy allocated a sum of money, Master Wu booked an inn in the inner city, and they stayed there tonight.

In this way, there is no need to get up before dawn tomorrow morning, wasting energy on the road.

The contestants had to enter the arena in advance, but the audience didn't need it, so Gu Yan and Gu Xiaoshun would still go there tomorrow morning. Dean Cen had a spacious and comfortable carriage and promised to take good care of them.

A group of people marched into the inner city.

Wu Fu Ziding's inn is called Xinyue Inn, which looks like two miles away from Lingbo Academy.

After getting off the carriage, Mu Chuan saw that this was the inn, and immediately said bitterly: "It's far away from Lingbo Academy!"

Master Wu coughed lightly and said, "It's only two miles away, it's not far away! It's just a walk away!"

The main reason is that the money given by the academy is only enough to book this inn. Recently, because of the shooting match, all the nearby inns have raised their prices.

"This inn is so dilapidated." Mu Chuan said with disgust.

The young master of the Mu family said that his mother had never stayed in such a dilapidated inn when he was punished by his mother to experience the hardships of the people.

"Ahem! The outside looks crude, but the inside is good." Wu Fuzi said, stepped across the threshold, and with a bang, the plaque in the lobby fell down.

Master Wu: "..."

"Fourth brother, let's go home." Mu Chuan whispered to Mu Qingchen.

Mu Qingchen glanced at Gu Jiao who had already gone upstairs with her bag, and said calmly, "I want to go back by myself."

After all, he also stepped upstairs.

"Hey! Fourth brother——"

Wu Fuzi booked them an upper room, one room per person, on the second floor, and Wu Fuzi's own room was not as good as theirs.

Gu Jiao's room was between Mu Qingchen and Mu Chuan, and Mu Chuan walked over with a bundle in his arms: "Xiao Liulang, I'll change the room with you."

He wants to be next to his fourth brother.

Gu Jiao has no objection.

Mu Chuan got his wish and lived next door to Mu Qingchen.

When Mu Qingchen came to look for Gu Jiao, what he saw was Mu Chuan's wry face.

Mu Chuan opened his arms with a smile like a flower: "Fourth brother! Surprised or not?"

Mu Qingchen: "..."

Dinner is eaten in the lobby. In order to ensure the personal safety of the bowmen, Master Wu tastes every dish first, and only let Xiao Erduan go out after confirming that it is non-toxic and harmless.

Tomorrow we will enter the arena very early, and after dinner, everyone will go back to their rooms to rest.

Master Wu was on guard in the corridor, not allowing anyone to come out for a walk.

The room was a bit stuffy, so Gu Jiao opened the window to let the wind blow.

Her wing room faces the street, and standing by the window, she can see the night view of half the street.

The prosperity of the night scene in the prosperous capital is not comparable to that of the capital city of Zhao Kingdom.

She quietly looked at the endless stream of people, and suddenly, she saw a familiar figure.

The night is very dark and the distance is very far, but she is sure that she is not mistaken!

She stared at his portrait countless times, picturing his expression in her mind.

it's him.

Nangong Li with a broken arm!

Nangong Li just came out of a shop and stepped into the carriage of Nangong's family.

Gu Jiao narrowed her eyes dangerously, jumped forward, and jumped down from the second floor!