Chapter 64: Marquis
Chapter 64: Marquis
Gu Yan couldn’t stay in the small restaurant for too long because the guards of the Marquis Estate came to pick him up.
Gu Yan said goodbye to Gu Jiao softly, not letting the guards bother Gu Jiao.
Looking at his slowly departing figure and thinking of his modest and courteous manner, Gu Jiao felt a pang in her heart. He had a good appearance, had a good family background, he was also very gentle and very polite. Such a perfect little darling, why was God torturing him?
As soon as the gentle and polite little darling got into the carriage of the Marquis Estate, his smile completely faded, and his pair of eyes were cold, only brimming with hostility, which was totally different from the one in front of Gu Jiao.
The black-clad man, who was beaten by Gu Jiao with a pole, had now returned to Gu Yan’s side with his companion. They tried to reduce their sense of existence, afraid to show their presence for a moment in such an atmosphere.
They could be considered to have seen the shamelessness of their young master first hand, did he still have to continue this act? If he could, try acting like a little darling in front of the Marchioness and the Marquis too!
Let’s forget about the nasty guy who was grumpy all day long, all right???
Strictly speaking, they committed dereliction of duty today, but the young master didn’t even utter a word of punishment. They could tell that he was in a really good mood. In that case, should they tell him the news?
“We’re still not leaving? Is there something going on?” Gu Yan asked in annoyance.
The two exchanged glances, and finally the black-clad man beaten up by a pole opened his mouth, “The Marquis is on his way.”
Gu Yan’s aura suddenly grew colder.
After a while, he held out his hand, “Painting.”
With great tacit understanding, the two people each handed him a pair of antique paintings collected by the Marquis.
Gu Yan grabbed them and tore them up!
On the other side, Gu Jiao also planned to leave.
Today’s meal was delicious. Gu Jiao bought a serving of pork joint stewed with rock sugar and braised pork balls in brown sauce. She also paid an additional fifty wen, asking the shopkeeper to get two pots and put the food in them, so she could bring them back to her family.
But just as she walked out of the small restaurant with the pots in her arms, a fine horse galloped past with the rider waving the whip in his hand, driving away the crowd in the street insolently.
In order to avoid being hit by his whip, an aunt staggered towards Gu Jiao, bumping into her pots.
Gu Jiao’s pots fell to the ground, smashing to pieces with a bang. The soup spilled and the meat and pork balls scattered all over the ground, and was soon trampled by another flustered aunt.
“Aiyo——”
The aunt’s feet slipped and she nearly fell down. Gu Jiao stretched out her hand and pulled her aside.
After realizing what happened, the aunt quickly apologized to Gu Jiao, “Sorry, girl, I… I didn’t mean to…”
When settling disputes, one should not involve third parties. This one couldn’t be blamed on her, the one at fault was the man who was riding the horse in this street.
The man turned a deaf ear to the disturbance caused by himself, and did not even spare Gu Jiao a glance. Gu Jiao’s eyes narrowed. When the man waved the whip again and passed by her, Gu Jiao grabbed his whip.
Then, without giving the other party any room for negotiation, she pulled people down from the horse without a trace of politeness.
The man fell heavily on the ground, and the horse, freed from its load, ran away and disappeared!
The man practiced martial arts, so the fall was nothing serious apart from a slight injury. However, he was furious. Who was so bold as to drag him off his horse in the street?!
The man rushed at Gu Jiao, but Gu Jiao took the whip from his hand and sent him flying away with a strike of the whip.
He crashed into the carriage behind him.
The carriage shook all of a sudden, and the young lady inside the carriage failed to stabilize herself, hitting her head against the wall of the carriage. She let out a painful cry, “Ah——”
At this moment, the carriage was forced to stop, and the man whipped by Gu Jiao got up from the ground in fear, knelt on the side of the carriage, cupped his hands and said, “This subordinate is guilty! Asking Lord Marquis for punishment!”
Gu Jiao frowned strangely, Marquis?
Inside the carriage, Marquis Gu held her daughter who had hit her head and asked anxiously, “Jinyu, how are you? Is everything alright?”
Gu Jinyu’s forehead was red, but it wasn’t even a minor injury. If Gu Jiao stretched out her hands, one could see that any new injury and old scars on them were much more serious than this. But who let Gu Jinyu grow up pampered?
She hadn’t suffered the least bit of pain, and hadn’t experienced any trouble at all.
Gu Jinyu covered her forehead and looked at Marquis Gu with grievance, her tears swirling in her eyes, “It hurts.”
“Let daddy take a look.” Marquis Gu took Gu Jinyu’s hand away, and when he saw her red forehead, his anger rushed to his heart.
He lifted the window curtain and looked coldly at the guard kneeling on the ground, “What happened?!”
The guard pointed to Gu Jiao and answered, “This subordinate was opening the way ahead. Unexpectedly, she took the whip from this subordinate and pulled this subordinate down from the horse, then hit this subordinate with the whip, causing this subordinate to crash into Lord Marquis’ carriage.”
At the first moment that the people around heard him say Lord Marquis, all of them were terrified that their legs went soft and knelt on the ground. Only Gu Jiao remained standing on her spot stubbornly.
Marquis Gu’s eyes fell coldly on Gu Jiao’s face.
It was a face that people would not want to look at for a second time. She had a chilly appearance, and the blood-red birthmark made her complexion strangely fair, revealing a trace of unruliness.
Her eyes were cold and sharp, and she didn’t evade her eyes at all when she met Marquis Gu’s line of sight.
She was dressed like a villager from the countryside, and was about the same age as Jinyu, but she had such a terrible look in her eyes.
Marquis Gu said in a cold voice, “You are quite daring!”
It was indeed quite daring to beat his guard in the street or not kneel down in his presence!
Gu Jiao didn’t flinch at his yelling, and instead stepped forward with the whip still in her hand.
With a shua, the guard stood up and pulled out the sword on his waist to stop her.
Without even raising her eyelids, Gu Jiao whipped his sword back into its scabbard!
Everyone was shocked!
Marquis Gu was also stunned.
Gu Jiao reached the carriage. The crowd swarmed around them like bees, but her straight face remained unchanged.
She held out her hand toward Marquis Gu.
Marquis Gu frowned, “What do you mean?”
Gu Jiao said faintly, “Fifty wen for the pots, sixty wen for the pork joint stewed with rock sugar, forty wen for the braised pork balls in brown sauce. Also, I’m going to ask the shopkeeper to make another one, so one hundred wen for delaying one’s work, a total of two hundred and fifty wen.”
Marquis Gu：“…”
He felt like he’d been scolded.
Marquis Gu looked at the mess on the ground and then at the guard who caused trouble. The guard bowed his head guiltily, and Marquis Gu understood everything.
Marquis Gu grunted coldly, “My subordinate is wrong, but aren’t you too arrogant, little girl? Aren’t you afraid that this Marquis will punish you for your offense?”
Gu Jiao looked at him and seemed to be seriously thinking about his words. After a moment, she said, “Then, two hundred and forty-nine wen.”
“…” Marquis Gu was simply bewildered. Just what was this all about?
Gu Jinyu recognized Gu Jiao. She pulled Marquis Gu’s sleeve and shook her head slightly at him.
Marquis Gu frowned and said to Gu Jiao, “This Marquis’ daughter interceded for you, so this Marquis will spare you!”
With that, he threw Gu Jiao a silver ingot, put down the curtain and let the coachman drive the carriage away.
Gu Jiao said two hundred and forty-nine wen, so two hundred and forty-nine wen it was. The other party gave too much.
Gu Jiao broke off a small piece of the silver ingot and threw the rest back into the carriage.
The silver ingot hit Marquis Gu’s head precisely, immediately creating a big bump!
Marquis Gu: “!!!”
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Marquis Gu: Didn’t your father teach you not to throw things around?
JiaoJiao: My father’s dead.
Marquis Gu: Achoo!!!