The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 626 Secrets (Part 1)

At this time, Gu Jiao and Mu Qingchen had already boarded the carriage to leave, and they didn't know what happened to the Duke.

The young man called Mr. Shao also left the Duke's Mansion with them, and before leaving, he taunted Mu Qingchen, but he couldn't catch Mu Qingchen's handle, and finally rode away.

"Do you have any grudges?" Gu Jiao asked.

"Family conflicts." Mu Qingchen said lightly.

He did not explain the specific contradiction.

Gu Jiao didn't bother to dig into the root of the problem, and she wasn't really interested in his affairs.

"One thousand taels?" Mu Qingchen looked at Gu Jiao lightly.

Gu Jiao waved her hand: "It's fine if you don't want to give it up. Let's go to school together. I just think it's doing you a favor."

"Heh." Mu Qingchen laughed angrily, "Who did you learn the ability to open your eyes and talk nonsense?"

"Then who did you learn from?" Gu Jiao asked back.

In terms of the way of opening your eyes and talking nonsense, you are not bad.

Mu Qingchen looked away resolutely and did not go into this topic any further.

Gu Jiao said, "Can I go to the clinic?"

Mu Qingchen glanced at her and said, "It's over, there's no need to pretend to be a doctor anymore."

Gu Jiao: Do ​​you believe me when I say I am a real doctor?

"Speaking of which, you acted pretty just now." If it wasn't for her miraculous speech therapy, Mu Qingchen would have almost believed it, "Don't do that next time, I won't be able to protect you if you show up."

Gu Jiao: "Oh. Can I go to the doctor's office then? I want to buy some medicine."

Mu Qingchen looked at her: "Are you sick?"

"My brother." Gu Jiao said.

The matter of Gu Yan asking for sick leave is not a secret, although it has not been made public, but it is not difficult for Mu Qingchen to find out if he wants to investigate.

Mu Qingchen didn't know what to think of, so he didn't say anything, and asked the coachman to drive the carriage to a medical clinic.

"I'll wait for you in the carriage." Mu Qingchen said.

"Yes." Gu Jiao did not refuse.

The medical center that Mu Qingchen found for Gu Jiao would not be too bad. There are many patients and doctors, and there are all kinds of rare medicinal materials. If she really came to buy herbal medicines, she probably wouldn't return empty-handed.

It's a pity that she came to ask the operating room.

"Do you have these things here?" Gu Jiao handed out the blueprint of the operating room.

The doctor in the medical center shook his head again and again: "I've never seen it before."

Gu Jiao put away the drawings and got on the carriage.

"Is there no medicinal material you want?" Mu Qingchen looked at Gu Jiao who returned empty-handed and asked.

"En." Gu Jiao responded lightly.

"There are two medical clinics ahead." Mu Qingchen said.

"Thank you." Gu Jiao said.

This sentence is the most sincere sentence Mu Qingchen has heard so far, even though there are only two words.

Mu Qingchen ordered the driver to go to the two medical clinics, but to their disappointment, they had not seen the operating room on the drawing either.

So is the operating room not built or popular among the people?

Mu Qingchen said: "What kind of medicine do you want to buy? Tell me the name of the medicine, and I will ask you later."

"No need." Gu Jiao said, she had to inquire about this kind of thing by herself, she was not used to letting her secrets be in the hands of a strange classmate.

Seeing that Gu Jiao refused to speak, Mu Qingchen didn't force her.

Soon, the two left the inner city.

"Where do you live?" Mu Qingchen asked.

"Just take me back to the academy." Gu Jiao said.

Mu Qingchen took a deep look at Gu Jiao, and it seemed that it was not difficult to feel her caution and vigilance, but he still didn't say anything, sent Gu Jiao back to the academy and left.

At this time, the academy had already finished a whole day of classes, but Gu Xiaoshun was persistently waiting for Gu Jiao at the door of Mingxin Hall with his book bag in his arms.

"Xiao Shun." Gu Jiao walked over.

"Sister!" Gu Xiaoshun's eyes lit up, and he ran over with his book bag in his arms, "They just said that you were taken away by an officer, what happened?"

"It's nothing, go to the inner city to treat a person."

Hearing this, Gu Xiaoshun's heart was finally relieved all afternoon, and he said in a low voice, "It's treating people, I was worried that you went there secretly... then something was discovered."

Gu Jiao bent her lips.

"Who are you treating?" Gu Xiaoshun asked.

"Give it to a prince." Gu Jiao went into the classroom and packed her book bag.

"I'll get it!" Gu Xiaoshun hugged Gu Jiao's bookbag without saying a word, "What's wrong with him? Has it been cured?"

While talking, the siblings left Tianqiong Academy and walked towards their own residence.

After returning home, Mrs. Nan also asked the reason why the two returned home late.

Gu Xiaoshun and You Rong said: "My sister went to the inner city to treat people! She is still a prince!"

The pride of "my sister is so good, my sister is a cow" is written all over his face.

Master Nan and Master Lu looked at Gu Jiao in surprise.

They knew Yan Guo well, so they naturally understood that it was impossible for a new student to be qualified to treat the Duke.

Seemingly seeing their doubts, Gu Jiao said calmly: "My tablemate seems to be a child of an aristocratic family, and has a close relationship with the Duke's mansion. I heard him accidentally mentioning the Duke's illness, so I proposed Go to see the Duke of the country. My tablemate is nice, so he took me there."

Tianqiong Academy is known as the Royal Academy, so naturally there are many princes from aristocratic families who come to study. Compared with the identity of this aristocratic son, Mrs. Nan is more curious about the Duke of the State.

"Which country's lord?" Mrs. Nan asked.

"An Guogong." Gu Jiao remembered that the plaque said Anguo Gong's Mansion.

"It's him?" Mrs. Nan was surprised.

"Does Mrs. Nan know him?" Gu Jiao asked.

Nan Shiniang smiled: "I don't know him well, I just heard about him. This Duke was a man of the hour when he was young. He was handsome and talented. I don't know how many daughters in Shengdu lost their hearts."

Master Lu suddenly had a dark face.

Is it okay for the wife to praise another man in front of him?

"What happened to him?" Mrs. Nan has been away from Yan Country for too long, and she doesn't know the situation in Shengdu in recent years.

Gu Jiao said: "He was poisoned and fell off his horse three years ago, becoming a vegetable."

"Vegetable?" Nan Shiniang was at a loss.

"Just unconscious." Gu Jiao explained.

Master Nan said: "You mean the living dead?"

It turns out that the vegetative people are called the living dead here, Gu Jiao murmured: "That's right."

Nan Shiniang sighed regretfully: "Why did this happen? Duke An is really ill-fated."

Gu Xiaoshun was puzzled and said: "He is the Duke of Yan, and he has a lot of fate?"

Nan Shiniang sighed again: "This is what you don't know. This An Guogong lost his mother when he was young, his wife when he was young, and his daughter after that... he is like a lonely family."

Gu Xiaoshun was speechless: "It's so miserable."

It is inevitable that people will gossip at home, and when the chat got to this point, Mrs. Nan simply told the deeds of the Duke of the State to the children.

Now this An Guogong is the eldest son of the old Duke. His wife left early and did not leave him a younger brother or sister. After the old Duke remarried, his wife gave birth to a son. one girl.

Grandpa Guo is generous, he treats his younger siblings very kindly, and they get along well with each other.

After the old Duke passed away, as the eldest son, he inherited the position of Duke An.

Gu Jiao snorted: "So the second lady I met at the mansion is his sister-in-law?"

Nan Shiniang nodded: "That's right, he only married one wife in his life and never took concubines."

Gu Jiao rubbed her chin. In ancient times, there were very few men who were so dedicated: "Then his wife..."

"Oh." Mentioning this, Nan Shiniang did not know how many times she sighed tonight.

Master Lu's face turned dark.

how?

Sighing for a man?

I don't want to lose face!

Nan Shiniang usually ignores her husband, and said regretfully: "This is what we can only talk about behind closed doors, and we dare not mention his wife outside."

"Why?" Gu Jiao asked.

Nan Shiniang hesitated for a moment, and said, "His wife is from the Xuanyuan family."

Gu Jiao looked at the red-tasseled spear hanging in her room: "Is it Xuanyuan Li's Xuanyuan family?"

Nan Shiniang said: "That's right, the Xuanyuan family was the number one family of military generals in the Yan Kingdom back then. They were known to have millions of soldiers, and their achievements were as high as the master's. The children of the Xuanyuan family were all brave and good at fighting. It's a pity that the Xuanyuan family Embarked on a road of rebellion. Since ancient times, rebellion has never had a good end, and the Xuanyuan family is no exception. The imperial army and the Xuanyuan army fought to the death. Liujia still went into battle in armor, and eventually died in the battle, and the fetus in the womb was not saved, leaving only a two-year-old daughter."

"This incident almost implicated the Duke's mansion. The Lord of the Kingdom of Yan forced the Duke to hand over the remnant of the Xuanyuan family, that is, the two-year-old daughter. The Duke spent a lot of effort and even resigned from his official position to do so. The daughter's life was saved. The children of the Xuanyuan family were not so lucky, but all the males surnamed Xuanyuan were killed, and the youngest was just a baby in the swaddle; Le Nu."

Gu Jiao said: "Emperor Yan is a tyrant."

Nan Shiniang smiled bitterly: "Not everyone is determined to be a benevolent monarch like His Majesty Zhaoguo."

Gu Jiao frowned, and asked: "Nan Shiniang just said that the Duke lost his daughter, but didn't the child be saved?"

Nan Shiniang smiled and shook her head: "The monarch hates Xuanyuan deeply, how could he really let his grandson go? After An Guogong resigned from his official position, he handed over the Duke's mansion to the second room to take care of it, and he took his daughter and left the capital to find a She lived in seclusion in a paradise. However, within a few years, the child still went. It was very sudden, like a sudden death. At that time, many people speculated that she was assassinated by the monarch, but all those who said so were killed by the monarch. Take it away, and no one will dare to talk about it after that.”

Gu Jiao had an epiphany: "So that's how it is."

Nan Seniang said: "This is an old story more than ten years ago. Now who in Yan Kingdom remembers Xuanyuan's family? Maybe they remember it too, but they don't dare to mention it anymore. The monarch hates Xuanyuan Li, even Xuanyuan Li's god The soldiers were treated as a pile of scrap metal by the monarch and thrown to the Chen people."

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After dinner, Master Lu went to clean up the bowls and chopsticks. Mrs. Nan was still a little worried when she thought about the daytime affairs: "Jiaojiao, Duke Anguo's mansion has many eyes and ears, it's better for you to visit less often, so as not to expose your identity."

"Okay." Gu Jiao agreed.

Thinking of something, Mrs. Nan continued to remind: "There is also your deskmate, since he can have contacts with Duke Ango's mansion, he must not be an ordinary person, just make proper friends, don't go too deep."

Shengdu is deep in water, and Master Nan is mainly worried that a good seed like Gu Jiao will be accidentally spotted by others and get involved in the right and wrong of Shengdu.

Gu Jiao understood that Mrs. Nan was doing it for her own good, so she nodded: "Don't worry, Mrs. Nan, I will change seats tomorrow and won't sit with him anymore."

She and Mu Qingchen will not have any more interactions.

Early the next morning, Gu Jiao went to the classroom. She came early and there were not many people in the classroom.

She saw Zhong Ding at a glance, hesitated between Mu Qingchen and Zhong Ding, and walked over with her book bag.

Zhong Ding was taken aback: "What are you doing?"

Gu Jiao said, "Sit with you today."

Zhong Ding thought for a while: "Are you afraid that those people will beat you up? In fact, that's fine too. People like Mr. Qingchen are not something we can make friends with, and they will make people jealous."

Gu Jiao said nothing: "Let me copy your homework."

She forgot to do her homework yesterday, and she only remembered when she saw Zhong Ding reviewing her homework.

Zhong Ding generously gave Gu Jiao his homework.

Mu Qingchen came to class again today, which simply broke the record of Mu Qingchen coming to the academy.

He doesn't come once in half a year, and he won't come twice in a row in his life.

As soon as he entered the classroom, he saw Gu Jiao sitting beside Zhong Ding.

He didn't say anything, and sat down in the last row yesterday with a blank expression.

The Chinese-character face who was chasing Gu Jiao yesterday was the first among the six to enter the classroom. When he saw that the seat next to Mu Qingchen was empty, he grabbed his book bag and rushed over!

"Light, light, light dust son!"

Snapped!

Mu Qingchen put her book bag on the low stool next to her.

There is no place to sit with the square face.

Gu Jiao practiced the red-tasseled spear until midnight last night, she didn't sleep well, she dozed off all morning.

"Which student can explain this sentence?" During the lecture, the master looked at the students and asked.

"Master." Mu Qingchen stood up and said, "Xiao Liulang will."

A chicken pecking rice almost pecked Gu Jiao who was on the table: "...!!"