Kill Gu Jin’an?
Lord Lai shook his head, "Chengxian, calm down, you can’t just kill a top scorer. Ruin him, take away his family’s livelihood, make him live worse than a dog, that’s more satisfying than killing him."
Gu Chengxian disagreed, he was insanely jealous of Gu Jin’an, crying, "Grandpa Lai, it’s Gu Jin’an who stole my luck, that’s why I couldn’t take the county examination, his county top scorer position should be mine, only one person from the Old Gu Family in this generation will be a county top scorer, and that’s , it’s !"
Lord Lai frowned deeply, "Chengxian, why would you think that way? There’s no such ridiculous thing as stealing luck in this world. Rest well, Doctor Dai said as long as you use your dicine properly, you can recover."
Gu Chengxian’s venereal disease hadn’t erupted yet; they had used dicinal baths for several days, so the chances of recovery were great.
But Gu Chengxian couldn’t listen, he kept crying and shouting, enraging Lord Lai who scolded him until Gu Chengxian quieted down.
Lord Lai was exhausted, initially planning to visit Gu Youlu, but gave up, going back to the front yard after checking on Gu Chengxian, intending to go ho.
The servant handed him a prescription, saying, "My lord, Ms. Zhang from the Old Gu Family asked to get ten doses of dicine and buy a ginseng root back, but she didn’t give any money."
Gu Youfu was severely injured, and the doctor prescribed good dicine, with each dose costing ten taels of silver, ten doses would be one hundred taels of silver, and with the ginseng root, it couldn’t be bought without two hundred taels of silver.
Lord Lai was furious upon hearing it, inwardly cursed: a bunch of leeches! His Lai Family was almost sucked dry by them.
Lai Zhuang saw Lord Lai’s ugly expression, scolded the servant in a low voice: "Are you stupid? You can’t handle such a small matter without bothering the lord? Go and get three doses of dicine, buy so ginseng whiskers for Elder Gu."
They needed Elder Gu to act as their pawn to seize Dashan’s family’s livelihood, couldn’t fall out with the Old Gu Family yet.
The servant bowed his head and admitted fault, "It’s my foolishness, I’ll go get the dicine right away."
As long as Housekeeper Lai agreed, the dicine money would co from the residence, otherwise, he wouldn’t fetch the dicine, caring for the Old Gu Family was costly.
Lord Lai was too angry to speak anymore, rode the mule cart back to the residence.
Shortly after returning to the residence, Zhu Wu hurried to see Lord Lai, handing him a letter, "My lord, this was sent by Zhu Ba, saying you must personally look at it, and there’s a mystery within."
Lord Lai perked up upon hearing this, received the letter, opened it, finding a letter within a letter.
The first letter was written by Zhu Ba, the second one was surprisingly written by Old Master Zhan San.
Old Master Zhan San? Could it be Old Master Zhan San from Jinning Prefecture of Jiangnan? That’s a well-known Madman of Great Chu.
Lord Lai was both surprised and delighted, hurriedly opened Old Master Zhan San’s letter, it ntioned three things.
First, the Lai Family and Old Gu Family had already been targeted by an unknown group, warning Lord Lai to be careful.
Second, he asked Lord Lai for help, wanting to visit the Old Gu Family to see Elder Gu, and request two marriage proposals. Zhan Er and Zhan San fancy Gu Jinxiu and Gu Jinli, seeking to marry them.
Third, he promised that if Lord Lai agreed to help, the Zhan Family would assist Lord Lai in the officialdom, and find husbands for Gu Ya and Little Sister Gu among the noble families.
Lord Lai was astonished, didn’t expect the noble Zhan Family to fancy Gu Jinxiu and Gu Jinli, this was the noble Zhan Family, how could they fancy those two village girls?
Lord Lai was quite displeased, why were Gu Ya and Little Sister not favored by the Zhan Family?
But the conditions offered by the Zhan Family were tempting, and the Zhan Family was a noble family, even though Lord Lai had climbed up through his deceased original wife’s family’s connections, he had no network within the noble families.
Noble families, at so point, they were as noble as the Imperial Family.
Lord Lai was tempted, hurriedly opened Zhu Ba’s letter, it explained how the Zhan Family’s Shadow Guards found him and asked to deliver the ssage, and how the Zhan Family’s Shadow Guards helped them deal with the group watching the Old Gu Family and Lai Family.
Though Lord Lai was a fifth-rank official, and his family was wealthy since childhood, compared to the true noble families, the Lai Family was lacking in all aspects, he needed the Zhan Family’s help to deal with the group watching his family.
After reading the letters, Lord Lai instructed Zhu Wu, "Do as the letters say, use the thod of replacing servants, substitute Old Master Zhan San and his nephew into the residence on Moxiang Street, wait until Old Master Zhan San leaves, then substitute the original servants back."
He angrily continued, "I suspected sothing was off for a while, why does it seem like everything we do has been known beforehand? Turns out soone is watching us. That Gu Dashan is not to be underestimated, if we don’t eliminate him now, how can Youwen have good days in the future?"
"Go quickly and deal with it." Lord Lai urged.
"Yes." Zhu Wu accepted the order and left.
Zhu Wu and Zhu Ba had secret communication thods; he quickly contacted Zhu Ba, asked Zhu Ba to notify Old Master Zhan San imdiately, to disguise themselves tomorrow when the Lai Family’s mule cart went to the residence to pick up the Old Gu Family people to report to the governnt office.
Zhu Ba quickly contacted Old Master Zhan San and his nephew, instructing them to prepare, once they were disguised, lead them through a secret passage into the Vice Magistrate’s residence.
The next day, at dawn, they disguised themselves as two servants beside Lord Lai, followed Lord Lai onto the mule cart, entered the residence on Moxiang Street, directly went to the inner courtyard where Elder Gu and Granny Gu lived.
Once inside, imdiately shut the door.
Elder Gu had originally gotten up early, planning to file a complaint against Gu Dashan, but didn’t expect Lord Lai to bring guests.
Old Master Zhan San had investigated the Old Gu Family, looked down upon them, upon reaching the Old Gu Family, directly pulled out a thousand taels of silver, handed it to Elder Gu, said, "I’m Zhan, here to request two marriage proposals from Elder Gu, as long as Elder agrees, our Zhan Family will give you another thousand taels and won’t mistreat you in the future."
Elder Gu was completely at a loss.
Little Sister Gu and Gu Rong were inside serving Granny Gu, Little Sister Gu heard this and her eyes turned green, rushed out to say to Elder Gu, "Father, what are you hesitating for, agree quickly."
Zhan San heard this and frowned, wanting to see which shrew was making a fuss, turned his gaze towards Little Sister Gu.
This one glance was incredible, Little Sister Gu almost fainted... Such a noble and handso young man was here to propose marriage? Why would her father hesitate? Agree quickly, she was waiting to get married!
Zhan San was brought by Old Master Zhan San, was initially disgusted by the Old Gu Family, upon seeing Little Sister Gu’s appearance, his brow furrowed deeply.
But he’s fond of fun, frequenting brothels and painted boats, enjoyed watching girls admire him, thus he smiled at Little Sister Gu.
With this smile, Little Sister Gu truly couldn’t withstand it, directly fell backward.
Gu Rong hurriedly held her from behind, her eyes turned, landing on Zhan San... This young master carried noble aura, pulling out a thousand taels of silver right at the start, clearly he must be a noble young master, and wasn’t that exactly the type Gu Rong wanted to marry?
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