Chui Xue felt sorry for Gu Qiang too and said in a low voice, “Right. Our lady has suffered so much, but Ye was still curious about the reason why you didn’t greet her today. She wouldn’t die even if you didn’t greet her!”
“How did you reply to her?” Gu Qiang put aside the money given by her brother and asked casually.
“We said you were not well and couldn’t go to greet her. Though her servant didn’t believe, she said nothing.” Ting Feng answered.
She was indeed a smart girl. Gu Qiang thought more and more highly of her.
Thanks to the excuse Ting Feng gave to Ye, no one came to bother Gu Qiang the whole day.
At dead of night, moonlight beamed through the window. Gu Qiang’s bed was surrounded by moonlight. The silver light flew slowly like water.
Gu Qiang turned over, but she couldn’t fall asleep. Then she got up, sat on a chair before the window, and opened her diary. She was clear that there would be noth
Gu Qiang hadn’t thought about how to let Shen Qianshan know it. It was rash to visit him now.Gu Qiang was clear that the man in front of her was not the one she knew at the age of fifteen. That one treated Gu Qiang nicely and always helped her when the crunch came.“I want to know what happened in the 7th year of Jianyuan?” Gu Qiang asked cautiously. It went without saying how important it was, but she was not sure if Shen Qianshan would tell her.As it turned out, Shen Qianshan sat there, propping his head against his hand and staring into space silently as if he didn’t hear what she said.Gu Qiang became anxious. If he told her whatever he knew, she might help him survive. But it was up to him, so Gu Qiang was anxious.After a long silence, Gu Qiang felt it would get light soon. However, Shen Qianshan just turned around slowly, looked at her calmly, and said, “I can’t remember.”Gu Qiang stood up and sa
Therefore, Gu Qiang told Shen Qianshan, “I haven’t got it sorted. After I sort it out, I will come to see you again. I still need to be taken here by Jin Ye, right?”Shen Qianshan nodded. Jin Ye walked over and said, “Your Highness, news comes from the palace that Empress Dowager is infected with the plague.”Jin Ye came over to take Gu Qiang back originally, but unexpectedly he brought such terrible news. She turned around to look at Shen Qianshan and kept silent.Empress dowager was Shen Qianshan’s mother. Gu Qiang knew he must feel terrible, but she couldn’t do anything.Shen Qianshan bit his lips and told Jin Ye, “Got it. I will go to the palace right now to see my mother.”“I’m afraid you can’t. The person from the palace wrote in the letter that Empress Dowager was quarantined.”What? She is Empress Dowager. How could she be quarantined?Shen Qianshan rose instantly and told Jin Ye, “Sen
Empress Su’s eyes lit up. She looked up at Ye, smiled at her, and said quietly, “Madam, you’re so considerate. I remember it.”Ye smiled and said, “This is what we should be as an official family. Your Highness, if something else needs to be done, we will do it together. It is related to the masses. Gu Family will take the lead.”Empress Su nodded and said, “Great. Great. By the way, I heard that Gu Family has a lady called Gu Qiang. Is she here?”They only know Gu Qiang. Ye felt angry at first. But then she realized that Gu Qiang came here with nothing, so she turned around instantly and pointed at Gu Qiang. All eyes were on her.Gu Qiang came to her senses and saw Ye waving at her and signaling her to go over.Gu Qiang had no choice but to walk slowly to Empress and give a salute.“Is this Miss Gu? Very pretty.” Empress said and then looked at Gu Qiang with sparkling eyes.It was only a poli
The fifteen-year-old Gu Qiang sat in the yard of the Gu Family and looked at Ye and Gu Zhihua cleaning their houses, which were close together. Ye told her to come here on purpose. She didn’t know why in the beginning, but now she did.Ye asked servants to carry out an emerald screen. It was very heavy and featured by a design of a beauty playing the zither. So beautiful.The design was engraved so well that one couldn’t take his or her eyes away from it. Besides, the screen looked familiar to Gu Qiang.It looked familiar of course. Gu Qiang recalled immediately where she saw it before. It was left behind by her deceased mother and used to be placed in her mother’s room. Why did Ye carry it out?Gu Qiang stood up instantly, rushed to Ye, pointed at the screen, and said, “Why is it here?”Ye was stunned. The screen was given to Gu Qiang’s mother by Prime Minister Gu. It was said that he was obsessed with her mother and
Gu Qiang sat before the desk at dusk, took out her diary, and recorded the disaster seriously.“Her Highness required donations. Ye wanted to donate the screen left behind by my mother, but I didn’t agree.”After Gu Qiang knew the other one was herself, she talked in a different way. She talked casually and tried to make herself clear so that the other one could understand her meaning.Soon some words appeared in the diary: Tomorrow, officials working on disaster relief will be investigated. Some of them will be searched and their property will be confiscated.It seemed that just because of this, she could communicate with Empress Gu Qiang. It was a big deal. But it was not extremely important. She only hoped that the Gu Family wouldn’t get involved.“I need a chance to stand out in the disaster.” Gu Qiang wrote briefly. Because she was facing herself, she might as well talk frankly. No one else understood her better t
Since Gu Qiang came round last time, she seemed to be different completely. She often went out. Her life was quite different, too. It seemed that she was scheming something important. It was her privacy, but Ting Feng was worried about her.“Stay here. Ye and Gu Zhihua may come here to find faults with us anytime. If you are here, I will be not worried.” Gu Qiang said slowly.Ting Feng was much more mature than Chui Xue, so Gu Qiang trusted more in her.Gu Qiang went out and walked on the street. There were many pedestrians. But different from before, they looked listless, walked in a hurry, and looked around with cold eyes.Because disaster victims had flooded into the capital, many people here were refugees. Perhaps some of them even suffered from the plague.Empress Dowager wasn’t spared in the heavily guarded palace. Civilians in the capital were not protected at all. How could they not be jittery?Gu
When the man rushed to Gu Qiang, Shen Qianshan emerged and dragged her behind him. And Shen Qianshan was greeted with a faint fragrance of pear blossom, which was the same as that of Gu Qiang.Seeing Shen Qianshan come to help her, those men knew this woman couldn’t be offended and thus returned to the alley immediately. Gu Qiang felt relieved.Gu Qiang didn’t care why Shen Qianshan appeared. Anyway, he would appear to save her whenever she was in danger. Sometimes, she was afraid that she would be attached to him and thus took what he did for granted.Shen Qianshan turned around, looked up and down at her, and asked, “Are you hurt?”Gu Qiang shook her head and answered, “No.”Then Shen Qianshan held Gu Qiang’s hand and walked forward. She felt uncomfortable. Were they so close? Why did he hold her hand?“I just heard you came here to help refugees, right? Do you have a solution?” Shen Qianshan said coldly
Then servants rushed to the main hall and carried Liu Shichu away. Shen Qianshan squinted and knew Liu Shichu was feigning illness. Liu Shichu didn’t know how to deal with Shen Qianshan’s threat, so he pretended to be ill to avoid being interrogated.Gu Qiang stood still. It was beyond her expectation. But if Liu Shichu left, it had to be put off and nothing could be changed.Shen Qianshan sighed heavily and leaned against the chair with a complicated expression. It seemed that he could do nothing about Liu Shichu’s trick.Gu Qiang put her cup on the table, stood up, and said to Shen Qianshan, “Your Highness, shall we go now?”Shen Qianshan never thought Gu Qiang didn’t care about what was going on at all. Now that nothing could be done to turn the tables, they had to accept it.Then Gu Qiang rose and walked out. Though Shen Qianshan was reluctant, he had no choice but to walk out with her.It was noon. Wh