The evening breeze blew, making the door of Xikufang creak.

The rough sound seemed extremely harsh on this quiet night.

Mrs. Gu outside the Xigu Room did not leave. She had a tense face and stared at the swaying warehouse gate with a gloomy look. Her mood could not calm down for a long time.

Suspicion, anger, and irritability, are more of a headache.

If the Duke of England agreed to the conditions she offered today, she would not be able to take out the jade pendant, would the Duke of England think she was deliberately playing tricks on them?!

Just thinking about it, Mrs. Gu felt her chest feel stuffy, as if she was stuffed with something, and she was holding her breath.

But she had no other choice now, so she could only coax Gu Yanfei in a good voice.

Over the years, Mrs. Gu has become accustomed to the days when the Gu family is in charge. This feeling of being out of control makes her feel uncomfortable and her face is even heavier.

"Return to Cihetang."

She uttered four words coldly and sat on her shoulder and was carried back to Cihetang. She was silent all the way and was restless.

That night, Mrs. Gu tossed and turned in the bed, almost sleeping all night.

In the next three days, she was in a bad mood and kept sending people to pay attention to Gu Yanfei's side.

He watched Gu Yanfei spend a day tidying up all the things in the Xikuan, and built a small kitchen in Yuhengyuan. What's more, he went over to the mansion's supervisor and went directly to find someone to come to Yuhengyuan for repairs. He built a small door in the backyard, connecting directly to the racecourse northeast of the Hou Mansion.

Mrs. Gu's patience, which was challenging all kinds of behaviors, made her unable to bear it, but she could only endure it again.

The people in this marquis' mansion are accustomed to seeing the wind direction. Seeing that Gu Yanfei is now acting flamboyant, she only thought that she is now favored by Mrs. Gu, so she began to flatter her, and even the meals sent to Yuhengyuan became much more abundant.

Mrs. Gu had no intention of caring about errands. She thought about the jade pendant every day, but she had no idea what to do... Until the tenth day of November, early in the morning, an old lady came to report: "Mrs., the British lady is here!"

Mrs. Gu was shocked, and she didn't expect that the British Duke of England would visit without a lawsuit.

Mrs. Gu did not think about it carefully and ordered Madam Li to say, "You go and welcome it yourself."

Madam Li quickly agreed.

As a result, Madam Li hurried away and came back in a hurry, and replied panting: "Madam, the British Duke's wife brought a matchmaker... and said she was here to make a small decision for the third girl."

What?! Mrs. Gu's hand shook, and the string of Buddhist beads almost slipped off.

She originally thought that the British Duke of England came for the jade pendant, but who would have thought that this would happen!

Mrs. Gu's hand tightly clenched the string of Buddhist beads in her hand, and the air that was holding in her heart almost condensed into a ball.

Obviously, the Duke of England is trying to make things bigger!

This time I'm afraid I can't do it anymore.

As Mrs. Gu was worried, the British Duke's Mansion was very strong this time, and the matchmaker invited was Mrs. Yongnian Bozi. Not only that, they came today, and carried more than a dozen boxes of small dedication rituals and threw money along the way. Along the way, they came to the gate of the Hou's Mansion while watching the people in the capital, surrounding the Hou's Mansion three floors inside and three floors outside.

Because the British Duke's Mansion has a big battle, one passes to ten, ten passes to hundreds, and a hundred passes to thousands... In less than a long time, almost the entire capital knew about this.

The entire capital talks about it:

"Look at this situation, the Duke of England attaches great importance to this marriage."

"I ran to take a closer look when the convoy of the British Duke's Mansion passed by. Each box of small prescriptions was heavy, and the shoulder pole was bent."

"I picked up twenty copper coins all the way from the Duke of England to here today, which was enough for me to drink a pot of good wine."

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The lobby of a restaurant was full of seats and was bustling with noise. The drinkers were drinking while talking and talking.

These conversations below are also clearly transmitted to a elegant seat on the second floor.

King Kang, who was sitting against the window, had a majestic flame burning in his eyes. He held a white porcelain wine glass tightly with his right hand, almost crushing the wine glass.

With a "click", the wine pot at his hand was knocked down by his elbow, and the wine flowed out of the wine pot and poured onto the table.

The eunuch dressed as a servant quickly stepped forward, cleaned the table clean with his hands and feet, and replaced it with a new wine pot.

In the elegant seat, the atmosphere is depressing and the needle can be heard.

A 28-year-old gentleman sat opposite Chu You. The man was wearing a straight indigo and straight hair with a silver crown. He had a calm and restrained temperament. He was Chu You's cousin Yuan Zhe.

Yuan Zhe held the wine glass, his eyes flashed slightly, and he recalled the scenes of the convoy of the British Duke's mansion passing through the streets just now.

He sipped two sips of wine, looked at Chu You's indignant expression, and suddenly understood something in his heart and sighed quietly.

"Your Highness, is this 'Gu girl' the one you like?" Yuan Zhe asked straight into his mind.

The interests of the Yuan family and the interests of King Kang were naturally together, so when facing King Kang, Yuan Zhe did not go around in circles and spoke out bluntly.

Chu You nodded silently, suddenly raised his head and drank the wine in the glass. His whole body was so tense that it seemed to be a full bow, as if it would break at any time.

At this moment, his heart changed from initial anger to panic, as if something was about to be poached.

What if Gu and Fang families really sign their wedding letters in person today, then, will he still have a chance?!

It is conceivable that once things develop into this place, the Queen Mother will not agree to his marriage with Lao!

Chu You's eyes were surging, and he squeezed the empty wine glass in his hand tighter, hoping to rush to Dingyuan Marquis' Mansion now.

However, Chu You still restrained his inner impulse.

He had already gone to Gu's family to mention a kiss. Last time Mrs. Gu did not agree to him. He knew that Mrs. Gu valued and felt sorry for Mrs. Gu, and did not want Mrs. Gong to marry casually. And he could not make any promises to the Gu family...

This is not the fault of the Gu family. It is just the blame for the Fang family's aggressiveness and for the failure to convince the empress dowager.

Chu You picked up the wine pot, poured another glass of wine for himself, and then drank it all in one go.

The cold wine flows into the abdomen from the throat and burns between the stomach and intestines.

Chu You calmed down a little, turned his deep eyes to Yuan Zhe, and slowly and firmly said his decision that had been considered for several days: "Cousin, I want Chu Yi to enter the court."

As soon as this sentence was said, even Yuan Zhe, who had always been happy and angry, changed his face slightly and raised his eyebrows in confusion: "Your Highness?"

Chu You pursed his thin lips, his eyes became darker and darker.

When the late emperor was alive, when he first proposed to depose the crown prince Chu Qi, half of the court officials strongly opposed it on the grounds that "the crown prince must be abolished for no reason" and the "primary son system". Most of these pedantic people were civil officials from poor families and planned to take the imperial examination.

Because of the constraints of these poor and powerful ministers, the late emperor spent more than ten years in the court to implement the "nine-ranking Zhongzheng system" and gradually strengthened the power of aristocratic families in the court, in order to accumulate power for him and wait for the opportunity.
Chapter completed!