Chapter 201.2: Witness
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Xiao Liulang keenly captured her message. He took off his cloak and intended to hand it to Gu Jiao.
However, Gu Jiao looked at the medicine bags in her hands respectively. The implication was very obvious—— both of her hands were occupied.
There were people around looking at them.
Xiao Liulang's eyes trembled slightly, but he still put his cloak on her body, his white and slender fingertips gently tying the silk ribbon.
"Liulang, did your wife come to pick you up again?" An Imperial Academy student who befriended Feng Lin and got to know Xiao Liulang teased while passing by.
"En." Xiao Liulang responded vaguely.
Gu Jiao looked at him with bright eyes.
I'm your wife? Right? Right? Right?—— was written all over Gu Jiao’s face.
Xiao Liulang coughed lightly and looked away, "Let’s go home."
Gu Jiao: "Oh."
Gu Jiao followed him and walked forward slowly.
Suddenly, a pile of snow fell from the big tree.
Xiao Liulang pulled her toward him with one hand and lifted his other arm over her head as snow crashed down and doused his sleeves.
She stood still in his arms, looking up at him with her big eyes candidly and obediently.
This appearance was so deceptive that even Xiao Liulang, who got along with her day and night, couldn’t resist it at once and his chest suddenly started beating wildly.
She was so well-behaved in his arms it was kind of unbearable.
Xiao Liulang's breathing was in a mess, and he turned his face away.
Gu Jiao put her little head against his chest and said, "Your heart beats so fast."
Xiao Liulang jerked back, "It doesn’t!"
Gu Jiao looked at his reddened ears, "It obviously does."
Xiao Liulang firmly said, "I said it doesn’t, so it doesn’t!"
After saying so, he fled, but he was too nervous and went the wrong direction, slamming into the tree.
Gu Jiao：“…”
Gu Jiao couldn’t help laughing!
After the metropolitan exam, the atmosphere at home relaxed a lot. The elderly lady went out to play cards as usual, and she didn't forget to take her "spouse" with her. If she lost, he was her spouse, if she won, he was on his own.
Gu Yan and Gu Xiaoshun went to the Lu Family to learn craftsmanship every day after school, and they also had their dinner there.
To be honest, their master’s wife’s cooking skills were not that good; it was comparable to that of Xiao Liulang, but their master said it was delicious, so they had to bite the bullet and eat.
Little Jing Kong had been playing with his good friend every day after school since making his first good friend in the Imperial Academy, and today was no exception.
Gu Jiao thought that Little Jing Kong lacked communication with his peers more than studying, so he supported his after school activities.
Today, however, there was an extra person in their little group—— Qin Chuyu.
Little Jing Kong looked puzzled, "Why is he here?"
Xu Zhouzhou whispered, "Alas, my dad told me to take him with me. I'm also quite worried."
Xu Zhouzhou and Qin Chuyu didn’t actually know each other. Qin Chuyu and Little Jing Kong were in the same class while he was in the normal class. Since he was introduced to him by his father, he couldn’t help but obey.
Little Jing Kong didn’t like Qin Chuyu. First, Qin Chuyu was temperamental and unreasonable. Second, as long as he was with Qin Chuyu, those people couldn’t hear him at all. Little Jing Kong didn’t know what kind of emotion this was yet, but he instinctively couldn’t get used to it.
Xu Zhouzhou had no particular emotions towards Qin Chuyu.
But he could detect that his friend didn’t welcome Qin Chuyu’s presence here.
Feeling that he had done something wrong, he said in a low voice, "I'm sorry, I won't take him with me next time."
"It doesn't matter, I can play with him for your sake." Little Jing Kong was a generous child. As long as you didn’t rob JiaoJiao from him, everything else was easy to discuss.
"What are you playing?" Qin Chuyu asked.
Xu Zhouzhou replied, "We are building a house."
Qin Chuyu said haughtily, "What’s so good about building such a small house? If you’re going to build something, build the palace instead!"
"What’s the palace?" Little Jing Kong was a good boy who asked if he didn’t understand something.
"The palace is where my father... Uh, it's where the Emperor lives!" Qin Chuyu almost let the cat out of the bag and broke out in a cold sweat guiltily.
Fortunately, neither child noticed his slip of the tongue.
Little Jing Kong asked again, "What is Emperor?"
He grew up in a Buddhist temple and never had any contact with such information. As for his current home, his family never mentioned the Emperor either.
Xu Zhouzhou was born in an official family and still had this knowledge. He explained to his friend, "It's the master of the State of Zhao, the most powerful person in the whole country!"
"Oh." Little Jing Kong vaguely understood, and he didn’t really want to understand. He was only interested in building their small house, "I have never seen the palace, so I don't know how to build it."
Xu Zhouzhou spread his hands, "Neither have I."
They hadn’t even seen the palace, these two were indeed country bumpkins!
After all, Qin Chuyu remembered the instructions of his father and couldn’t reveal his identity as a prince.
However, he secretly jotted it down in his mind that during the next every-tenth-day holiday, he would ask his sister-in-law, the Crown Princess, for a favor, and bring both his little friends into the palace to have fun.
……
The next day, His Majesty personally summoned Marquis Gu to verify the matter of bellows.
Imperial Concubine Shu was also present.
The smile on Imperial Concubine Shu's face never disappeared.
His Majesty was still very cautious and asked one more question, "I heard that there is another daughter in Assistant Minister Gu's family."
Gu Jinyu's background was mentioned to His Majesty by Imperial Concubine Shu. Before that, His Majesty had promised Imperial Concubine Shu to confer her the title of County Princess, and he didn't go back on his word just because she wasn't born to Marquis Ding’an Estate.
Anyhow, it was just a County Princess in name without a fiefdom, so it didn’t matter.
But the matter of the bellows was of great importance.
Marquis Gu cupped his hands in obeisance and said, "Answering His Majesty, my eldest daughter grew up in the countryside and hasn’t received any education."
The meaning of this sentence was obvious. How could one create such an extraordinary invention if they were illiterate?
Marquis Gu didn’t look like he was lying. Besides, His Majesty didn’t think it necessary for him to lie. Who would give the credit of his own biological daughter to his adopted daughter?
His Majesty drew up an imperial decree conferring Gu Jinyu the title of Commandery Princess Hui.
This was the first Commandery Princess in this dynasty who wasn’t from the imperial family.
Generally speaking, only the Di daughter of a prince was entitled to the title of Commandery Princess. A Commandery Princess from a Qinwang’s(Prince of the First Rank) family was of the second rank while a Commandery Princess from the Crown Prince's family was of the first rank.
Gu Jinyu was the first Commandery Princess of non-imperial origin in this dynasty. Her rank was slightly lower than that of an imperial princess, but it was only by half a rank, and she still enjoyed the right to have a fiefdom with a population of 500.
Although this fiefdom didn’t have much wealth, the significance it represented was too great.
From today, she was truly recognized by the imperial family.
One couldn’t say that her identity wasn’t enough to match a prince.
Of course, the Emperor didn't forget the carpenter who made the bellows and the old blacksmith who was the very first to popularize the piston bellows among the common folk for free.
He decided to summon the two men to the capital to grant them rewards.
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