The original intention was to discuss business, but when Xiao Yu’s cousin arrived and tried to talk business with him, he just ignored her. Worse, he seed to insinuate falling in love at first sight... though he didn’t actually say it. If this gets out and others find out, it could ruin Xiao Yu’s cousin’s reputation.
Bam! Bam! Bam!
Qi Kangping heard the commotion and hurried upstairs to check, knocking on the door and asking, "Sister Le, Xiao Yu, what’s going on? Did sothing happen?"
"Rest assured, Cousin Ping, nothing happened. There’s just a dog that’s being too audacious, and I’m cutting him down," said Gu Jinli, showing no rcy as she insulted Young Master Dou by calling him a dog.
Young Master Dou was extrely aggrieved, his face turning green with anger. However, he didn’t dare to retaliate.
He was sowhat apprehensive, knowing this was Qin San Lang’s woman, so he didn’t dare to go too far. That’s why he only brought Dou Zhi and Nanny Tang with him. They couldn’t fight, and he only knew so escape tactics, definitely no match for Gu Jinli, leaving him with no choice but to endure it.
"Xiao Ji, open the door," Gu Jinli instructed Xiao Ji.
"Okay." Xiao Ji ran to open the door and hastily shut it again once Qi Kangping entered.
The matter here should be resolved behind closed doors, keeping it from outsiders.
Qi Kangping looked at the dilapidated elegant room and the three main servants of the Dou family, puzzled, and asked, "What on earth happened? You guys started fighting?"
Then he turned to Gu Jinli and Qi Kangle, asking, "Are you two alright?"
Young Master Dou almost shouted out that of course they were alright, it was he who was in trouble, being beaten and nearly losing his life under the knife. How could Qi Kangping not see this?!
Young Master Dou grabbed onto Dou Zhi’s hand, trying to stand up, but with a crack, Gu Jinli’s long knife cleaved another chair beside him. Staring at him, she coldly said, "Get back down!"
The matter isn’t over yet, and you dream of getting up, you drear?
Young Master Dou, who had just half risen, lay back down again.
Seeing this, Qi Kangping felt reassured, realizing that Xiao Yu had the upper hand, and it was Young Master Dou who was being bullied. As long as Xiao Yu and Sister Le weren’t at a disadvantage, it was fine.
After getting married, Qi Kangping was constantly taught by Mo Qinzi and had learned to be protective, knowing to stand by his own people when things went wrong, so he didn’t speak up for Young Master Dou.
Young Master Dou felt utterly humiliated, yet constrained by the large knife in Gu Jinli’s hand, he could only plead, "Miss Gu, I was wrong, I was just joking, please put away the knife so we can talk properly, alright?"
"Joking?" Gu Jinli laughed, "Cutting you with the knife is just my way of joking too. What, can’t you take a joke?"
Young Master Dou was almost choked to death by this comnt... He suddenly felt great sympathy for Qin San Lang. How could Qin San Lang take a liking to such a shrew? There are so many gentle and beautiful won in the world, marrying any one of them would be better than Gu Jinli.
Young Master Dou knew this matter couldn’t be brushed under the rug today. If he didn’t give Gu Jinli an explanation, this tigress might actually cut him down.
So, after so thought, he told Nanny Tang and Dou Zhi, "You two go out first."
Go out?
Dou Zhi and Nanny Tang were shocked, "Young Master, we can’t leave."
We can at least block the blade for you while we’re here. If we leave and you get hacked to death, then what?
Young Master Dou said, "Don’t worry, Miss Gu isn’t a bandit. She won’t actually kill , at most just cut a couple of tis, nothing fatal. Go on, go on, that’s an order!"
Dou Zhi and Nanny Tang hesitated for a mont, looked at Gu Jinli, Qi Kangle, and Qi Kangming, and then got up and left.
Before leaving, Nanny Tang pleaded with Gu Jinli, "Miss Gu, my young master has this temper, please don’t take it seriously, I beg you... don’t strike any vital areas, just an arm will do."
The young master can’t die.
Young Master Dou’s face was burning with embarrassnt as he urged Nanny Tang, "Hurry on, only when I finish speaking with Miss Gu can I get up. The longer you delay, the longer I stay down."
Any more of this, and he’d truly be no better than a dog.
Nanny Tang hesitated, then mumbled agreent as Dou Zhi supported her out.
Once they left, Young Master Dou focused on Gu Jinli and said a single word to her.
This word was the na of the Young Marquis Qin. If the Young Marquis Qin was Qin San Lang, and if he truly liked Gu Jinli, he would have told her his real na.
Gu Jinli froze upon hearing it... Young Master Dou indeed suspected Qin San Lang’s identity; he ca for Qin San Lang today.
But her expression did not change at all as she looked at Young Master Dou and said, "What nonsense are you spouting? I can’t understand you. Hurry up and tell how you want to resolve this. Don’t think you can just walk away from it."
Qi Kangping and Qi Kangle did not know Qin San Lang’s real na, so hearing the word Young Master Dou said, they were clueless.
With a good-natured temperant, Qi Kangping stepped up to diate, "Young Master Dou, you were in the wrong today. However, Xiao Yu’s cousin is not unreasonable. Apologize, offer compensation, and this matter can be put to rest, no need to complicate it."
No need to complicate it, they wouldn’t understand it anyway.
Gu Jinli nodded, "Cousin Ping is right, apologize quickly and pay up, then this matter can be considered settled."
Young Master Dou’s mouth twitched. The woman’s surna Gu sure loves money!
But what could he do but accept his fate? He nodded in agreent, "Alright, I’ll pay. Miss Gu, what do you think is appropriate? Na your price."
Gu Jinli didn’t bother being polite, directly stating, "Ten thousand taels."
The Dou family is wealthy, and the Dou family’s every auction of ham is a lavish display of money, spending freely, never blinking an eye.
Once, when he took a liking to a certain wild fruit from the mountains, he gave the Granny selling the wild fruits a hundred-tael silver note, buying up all her wild fruits.
That granny was so overwheld she fainted on the spot and had to be rushed to Xuanhu Fang for treatnt.
From that, he earned himself the nickna "money-spender".
If she didn’t rip him off big-ti, it wouldn’t do justice to his "good na".
Moreover, Brother Qin needed money, and this extorted silver could be saved for his future use.
Young Master Dou nearly choked, barely able to catch his breath. Ten thousand taels, she sure dared to ask!
Yet with Gu Jinli’s blade still in front of him, Young Master Dou dared not refuse. Swallowing his anger, he handed ten silver notes to Gu Jinli, "Here you go."
Xiao Ji’s eyes sparkled at the sight of the silver notes, happily stepping forward to take them. After counting to confirm the amount, he handed the notes to Gu Jinli, "Young Master, ten thousand taels, exactly right."
Gu Jinli nodded, "Hmm, let Erqing keep it."
"Okay." Xiao Ji handed the silver notes to Erqing.
Once Erqing received the silver notes, Gu Jinli sheathed the long knife with a swishing sound, efficiently putting it away, "You can get up now."
Then she said to Qi Kangping, "Cousin Ping, everything is settled here. You can go out first."
Qi Kangping nodded, advising Young Master Dou, "Young Master Dou, Xiao Yu’s cousin has a bad temper. Watch your words. If you anger her again, I won’t be able to save you."
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