Chapter 141 (Breaking Up)
"I'm joking," Gu Chaochao said in a silly voice when he saw his expression, "the general treats me so well, how can I only treat you as my concubine, you...you are my favorite in this life, and I cultivated in eight lifetimes. Blessings, I can't find it even with a lantern..."
"Gu Chaochao, don't talk too much, if you don't say that you are ugly today, don't think about passing the test easily." Shen Mu was deep and expressionless.
Gu Chaochao bit his lip in embarrassment, not knowing what answer he wanted.
For a long time, she carefully probed: "Is it the sweetheart?"
"Don't say this kind of falsehood." Shen Mushen still didn't appreciate it.
Gu Chaochao was helpless: "If you don't have a sweetheart, what should it be?"
"Then you have to ask yourself, what do you think of me in order to accept a blind date so calmly?" Shen Mushen became angry when he mentioned this.
The topic went round and round and went back to the original point. Gu Chaochao was exhausted physically and mentally during this period of time. He spent a few days in the field to settle accounts day and night. He came back to give gifts to the prefect before he had time to rest. After spending a long time talking, Just want to fix this asap.
However, Shen Mushen didn't think so, just looked at her indifferently, just as he just said, she must say something ugly.
Gu Chaochao stared at him silently for a long time, and finally sighed with a headache: "What is the relationship between the young and the general, it has always been a matter of the young, so why should the general come to question the young?"
"What are you talking about? What do you mean?" Shen Mushen's eyes were sharp as knives.
Gu Chaochao frowned: "Isn't it? The little one is just an ordinary person, with no fame and no official status, and he can't be his own master. With the status of a general, even if he is playing with the little one's palm, the little one will not be able to be his own boss. I can only cooperate with jokes, I don’t dare to complain, and I don’t dare to offend the general on weekdays, for fear that one day I will make you unhappy, you will shout and kill with your sword like before,”
Gu Chaochao remembered the days when he was worried. , is a moment of weakness, "Now that the little one has everything to his heart, is the general still dissatisfied?"
She was indeed exhausted to the extreme, and she was powerless to speak, but every word was like a thunderbolt, blowing up Shen Mushen's heart into ruins and desolation.
He stared at her face, his hands clenched into fists unconsciously, there were countless questions that he wanted to ask her, but every time the words came to his mouth, he couldn't say anything.
Gu Chaochao looked ugly when he saw him, and he cheered up again: "The little one is tired and confused, so he speaks such nonsense, the general should not be angry, the general thinks what our relationship is, what is our relationship, the young ones listen. Yours."
Her words were sincere, but they fell deeply into Shen Mu's ears, but they echoed those words before, as if to remind him that she must be following him and being good to him now, not because of I love him, but I don't dare to resist because of his status.
The tacit ambiguity that had been tacitly understood for many days was broken in an instant, and the beauty was followed by a mess that could not be concealed even if the peace was retouched. Shen Mushen had never been so embarrassed and ashamed, and for the first time in his life, he had the urge to escape.
The atmosphere in the carriage was suddenly solemn, and Shen Mushen remained silent all the time. After Gu Chaochao calmed down, he became uneasy and scolded himself for being dizzy, but he actually told the truth.
She was about to open her mouth to add a few words when she heard him suddenly say, "Stop." The
carriage stopped suddenly.
Gu Chaochao felt bad: "General..."
"Go down." Shen Mushen said involuntarily.
Gu Chaochao swallowed his saliva: "General, Xiao Zhi is wrong. I hope that the general will have a lot of money, please spare Xiao this time."
Xiao Zhi is wrong.
I also hope that there will be a large number of Generals.
Forgive the little one this time.
She always annoyed him, and then hurriedly begged for mercy after being annoyed. He was tired of hearing these words over and over again.
But when he listened to it again, he was surprised to realize that her attitude towards him had never changed. She was cautious, careful, and had a distinction between high and low, just like the reverence of all ordinary people for officials, but the only thing missing was the tenderness of women towards men.
That's why she always doesn't care, doesn't ask for status, doesn't ask for promises, and doesn't ask for monopoly, just like when she ran away that night.
Compared with her free and easy, he couldn't carry it.
"Get out of the car," he repeated.
Gu Chaochao saw that his expression was different from before, and after hesitating for a while, he gave up the entanglement, turned around and got off the carriage.
After she stood firm, Shen Mushen lifted the side curtain and looked down at her.
"General." Gu Chaochao smiled ingratiatingly.
"It's not that you have to." He said lightly.
Gu Chaochao didn't dare to speak.
"Even if I'm so down today, it's not like nobody wants me," he said suddenly, "Gu Chao, you look down on yourself too much, and you look down on me too much, but if you say something that you have no feelings for me, I won't bother."
Now standing at the intersection of the street, there was no one around just now, and a few hawkers passed by in a blink of an eye. Gu Chaochao wanted to explain, but Yu Guang suddenly became nervous after noticing someone around him. Hearing this, he just hurriedly said: "General, calm down, we'll go back and talk about anything else."
"No need," Shen Mushen saw that she only cared about her identity until now, a trace of disappointment flashed in her eyes, and she closed her eyes after putting down the car curtain, "From today onwards, you and I have nothing to do with each other. There 's no need to come."
Gu Chaochao was stunned, and when he regained his senses, the carriage had already left.
The carriage continued to move forward, Shen Mu's face was cold, his hands were tightly clenched, and the whole person was trapped in low air pressure.
The guard who was sitting outside the carriage with the driver hesitated for a moment, but in the end he couldn't help but say, "General, do you really want to keep Young Master Gu?"
Shen Mu was silent.
"...It takes nearly two quarters of an hour to take a carriage from our house. If I walk back, I'm afraid I will be more tired. Master Gu is more squeamish than a girl all day long, and he must not be able to endure this kind of hardship." He vaguely guessed that the two had a conflict, but he still dared to speak out on his friendship with Gu Chaochao.
Unfortunately, after he finished speaking, there was no response from the people in the carriage. The guards had used up all their courage, and could only whisper to the coachman to walk slowly.
After walking for a quarter of an hour, the person in the car suddenly said, "Go back."
"Yes!" The guard hurriedly called the driver to turn around, and the carriage turned back at twice the speed.
However, when they returned to their original places, the people who were supposed to be standing here were nowhere to be seen.
"...Is it already gone?" The guard was not sure.
A trace of irony flashed in Shen Mu's deep eyes: "Why would she stand there and wait, let's go, she's very popular in Mining City City, I'm afraid she's already gone back in someone's car."
"...Yes." The guard I responded, and took another look at the sparsely populated streets. I thought that this place was different from the capital. The more the capital was on New Year's Day, the more lively it was. On the contrary, in such a small place, every household closed their doors to prepare for the festival, and had no interest in going out. .
... Is Master Gu sure you can get on a carriage on a street with no people?
The answer is no.
A quarter of an hour ago, Gu Chaochao stood alone on the street, recalling Shen Mushen's words over and over again in his mind, with a thousand indescribable feelings in his heart. Because she had been persecuted by him all the time, she said those words out of anger. Her original intention was to accuse the two of them of being in an unbalanced relationship, but now that she thinks about it, she thinks that she will make him misunderstand that she is with him, just because of his identity. Press people.
For a proud person like Shen Mushen, this kind of remark is more uncomfortable than stabbing him twice, and it is no wonder that he will say things that are irrelevant from now on.
Go apologize to him and explain that she didn't mean it that way. Gu Chaochao sighed, and after looking around, he chose a relatively short path to walk.
When she went to the prefect's house in a carriage before, she only thought that it would take a long time to arrive, but now she measured the next step with her feet, but found out how far the road was, and just now, in order to wait for Shen Mushen, she specially told her carriage to leave first. There was no one on the street, and she couldn't even hitch a ride.
When walking down the first street, she was still absent-mindedly thinking about Shen Mushen, how to explain to him and how to please him. By the time she walked down the second street, she had thought about nothing, and was full of thoughts about why she hadn't gotten home yet.
By the time she reached the third street, she was completely numb, and there was a trace of anger in her numbness, especially when she accidentally stepped on a small frozen puddle when crossing the bridge, and fell directly on all fours. It was furious.
By the time she got home, it was nearly an hour later. Chanjuan had been waiting at the gate, and when she saw her coming back, she rushed over: "Master! Why did you come back... What happened to you? Did you encounter a robbery?!"
No wonder Chanjuan was surprised, it was Gu Chaochao Embarrassed enough, not only was the body covered with mud and water marks, but the jade crown on the top of his head was also scattered, and his face was even more resentful.
"...What happened? Why did you come back alone, didn't you mean to be with General Shen? Why did General Shen return a long time ago, but you are alone?" Chanjuan asked repeatedly.
Gu Chaochao was so tired that he didn't want to say a word. Hearing that, he just looked at her sadly: "Chanjuan..."
"The servant is here." Chanjuan quickly took her hand.
Gu Chaochao shook his head weakly: "Don't ask anything, prepare water, I want to bathe and sleep."
"Okay, my servant will go to prepare." After speaking, Chanjuan turned her head and ran. The two maids did it, and they turned around and came back to support Gu Chaochao.
Gu Chaochao followed her back to the room expressionlessly. After taking a hot bath, he put on a thin shirt, and then fell directly on the hot bed and fell asleep.
Chanjuan tucked the quilt for her, looking at her thin cheeks, thinking that she must make up for her during the Chinese New Year.
Gu Chaochao slept through the night, and when she opened her eyes, it was already dark, so she quickly sat up in fright: "Chanjuan!"
"The servant is here!" Chanjuan was lying beside the bed dozing off, and she was startled when she heard the movement Jump.
Gu Chaochao hurriedly followed the voice and looked over: "Hurry up, help me up, and I haven't read the ledger..."
"Master," Chanjuan said helplessly, "all the accounts are finished, even the guys have their annual leave, it's okay. It can be done."
Gu Chaochao paused, then remembered that it was indeed the case, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief, and threw himself back on the bed, muttering, "I'm really confused."
Chanjuan smiled and lit a candle, and the room was suddenly much brighter.
Gu Chaochao stretched out, holding the quilt and staring at the candle in a daze.
Seeing this, Chanjuan asked cautiously, "Master, today you..."
"The general kicked me out of the car." Gu Chaochao replied.
Chanjuan had guessed it early in the morning, but when she heard her say it herself, she couldn't help but be angry: "How could he do this?!"
Gu Chaochao twitched the corner of his lips: "I owe it first, don't blame him.
" But it is too much to leave you, you should break up with him in the future." Chanjuan pursed her lips.
Gu Chaochao was stunned for a moment: "How do you know..."
"Guess," Chanjuan looked at her helplessly, "The slave and the young master are facing each other day and night, how can they not notice at all."
Gu Chaochao smiled helplessly and did not explain anything.
"What young master does, and whoever he likes, the slaves and servants will support it, but young master," Chanjuan hesitated, but said, "General Shen has nothing to do, he is arrogant and arrogant, and he has a lame leg. If you can take this opportunity to break Well, let's just break it."
Gu Chaochao blinked his eyes slowly, the eyelashes forming a small fan-like shadow under his eyes.
Seeing her like this, Chanjuan took her hand and said seriously, "Young master, you are already twenty-two after the new year, do you have any plans for the future?"
"What are you planning?" Gu Chaochao looked at her.
Chanjuan was annoyed: "You don't really want to pretend to be a man all your life, right?"
"...Or else?" Gu Chaochao couldn't help laughing and crying, "Do you want to admit your identity, and then tell those clan elders to take away the family property on the grounds that women can't inherit the family property? My everything?"
"It's not like there is no other way." Chanjuan muttered.
Gu Chaochao became interested: "What method?"
"...If you have a boy, as long as you have the surname Gu, you can inherit the family property, and the old men can't say anything, even if they know that they have been fooled, it is too late. Yes." Chanjuan probed.
Gu Chaochao: "..."
"Don't you think this method is good?" Seeing that she didn't respond, Chanjuan was a little anxious for a while, "As long as you give birth to a child, you can restore your identity, and it doesn't matter whether you marry someone or not in the future, You don't have to be afraid anymore."
...I have to admit that this method is both harmful enough and practical enough, if it wasn't for her not being from this world and not being able to give birth to a child belonging to this world, she might have really agreed.
Too bad she can't.
Chanjuan knew Gu Chaochao too well, and as soon as she saw her expression, she guessed that she was going to refuse, and quickly covered her mouth: "Young master, this servant knows that you just quarreled with General Shen today, and you are still in a bad mood, but don't be in a hurry. Is it okay to reject slaves?"
As she spoke, a little tears flashed in her eyes.
Gu Chaochao was stunned, and for a while he really couldn't say anything to refuse.
After Chanjuan finished speaking, she let go of her nervously: "This matter can't be done in a while, the young master can think about it slowly, and the slaves will also choose, if there is no suitable man, I can't make do with it. Yes ."
As soon as Gu Chaochao heard that she was going to choose someone, he quickly persuaded her to calm down, but Chanjuan agreed, but she still did it after she left.
She did it secretly, and the excuse was to choose family members for the mansion. Gu Chaochao didn't care about the affairs of the mansion on weekdays. On the contrary, in the general's mansion separated by a wall, the guards were bored because Young Master Gu had never come, and spent the whole day lying on the wall peeking at the mansion, and they also noticed the matter of Chanjuan's selection of the family members.
"Young Master Gu, it's really strange to have a roommate. The pickers don't pick the strong ones. Instead, they only look at their face and body. It's like looking at a son-in-law. General, should we go and wake up Master Gu? He is careful about this woman, don't wear a green hat and don't even know." The guard asked Shen Mushen seriously.
Shen Mushen's answer was to crush the cup in his hand.