Chapter 21: Who Knows What

Chapter 21

A Ning, from now on other than the things your sister gives you, don't eat anything from anyone else.

Gu Ning couldn't get any words out. He felt like his sister was somehow different than before.

"As for your illness," Gu Ying said with an upturned lip and gentle voice, "Your sister already has a way to cure your illness. Stay in the Mu Feng Lodge for now and wait for your sister's good news."

The distracted look in Gu Ning's eyes focused a little as some light returned to them. "What do you mean?"

Gu Ying paused to think for a moment. Many things couldn't be accomplished all at once, it had to be done slowly. So she lovingly stroked his head and said, "A Ning, just be good and wait. Anyone could harm you, but your sister won't."

After finishing speaking, she exhorted him a couple more times, then went out the manor gate with Cui Ling.

Cui Ling came in through the door and looked at the room in confusion. "Second young miss left?"

Gu Ning's gaze sharpened and he quickly hid himself under the blankets without saying a word.

Cui Ling swayed her willowy waist and walked to the bedside. She glared contemptuously at the young master under the blankets and said sourly, "You're just a lucky young master who was born into the right family. Otherwise, even if you were thrown onto the streets, no one would be willing to touch you."

She remembered her mother's urging for her to get pregnant by this young master as soon as possible. But her mother was really foolish. Gu Ning was just a teenage boy whose legs were crippled. That thing down there was probably useless too. How could he possibly get her pregnant?

If she wanted to climb upwards, she would have to find another way.

Thinking this, she mischievously reached under the blankets and groped the youth's buttocks.

Gu Ning was so frightened that his whole body tensed up.

Cui Ling laughed loudly and gleefully. She picked up the dog feces she had just gathered from outside and dumped it all over him.

"Hurry up and eat it, young master, young lord. This stuff is what you should be eating! Hahaha! And you still think you're the Bao Manor's young lord. You're not even as good as me, a maidservant!"

As she said this, she flipped his blankets open. Her small hands pulled down his pants.

Gu Ning trembled in fright, a cold light flashed in his beautiful eyes.

But Cui Ling didn't care at all. She stared fixedly at his...

She narrowed her eyes. "If you weren't a little cripple, I, Cui Ling, might have been willing to be your woman. What a pity..." You stink right now. I wouldn't be willing to lower myself!"

But what did it amount to in the end?

It resulted in his coldness, his betrayal, his abandonment, his insults and torment...

Whenever Gu Ying thought of this, she felt suffocated.

The carriage stopped not far from the Jiang residence. Large snowflakes fell gently, covering the earth in silvery white.

The dark blue walls and black roof tiles were also covered in a layer of snow, making the winter scene even more frigid. Gu Ying gazed at the Jiang family's old house that she hadn't seen in a long time, dazing for a moment before getting off the carriage.

Today, Elder Lady Gu came to discuss marriage. The entrance to the Jiang residence was crowded with onlooking commoners, leaving barely any space to pass through.

She stood outside the crowds, and immediately saw Jiang Ling'er, who had stolen Jiang Yin's affections in her previous life. She also fell pregnant with Jiang Yin's child, but viciously aborted it to frame her.

Jiang Ling'er stood weakly and delicately at the entrance, like a fragile little white flower. Her eyes were slightly red, as if she had just cried.

The Jiang residence was lively inside, while outside, the crowds gossiped. They all said that after Jiang Yin passed the imperial exam as the second highest scholar, he would soon achieve great success and wealth.

Even Elder Lady Gu of the Dongping Gu Manor personally came to discuss marriage arrangements. They were all extremely envious and jealous.

But Jiang Ling'er put on a pretense of strength on her face. She didn't look happy at all. When no one was paying attention, her eyes that harbored deep feelings kept glancing at Jiang Yin.

In that moment, Gu Ying suddenly felt a chill rush from her feet up to her chest.

In her previous life, she had been the wife. So she had completely failed to realize that although Jiang Ling'er was an adopted daughter of the Jiang family, she grew up together with Jiang Yin and had long harbored deep feelings for him!

As she worked hard to earn money to support Jiang Yin's studies, could Jiang Yin's heart have been untouched by this "good younger sister"?

A cold wind blew at that time, and the snow felt like blades scraping her face. Gu Ying laughed bitterly, laughing at her own foolishness for not realizing Jiang Ling'er's feelings and true face earlier. She had let Jiang Ling'er bully her in the Jiang residence for two whole years.

"Miss, why are your eyes red?" Cui Ling frowned with worry.

She also didn't know if it was just her imagination, but whenever it involved Young Master Jiang, the young miss seemed to easily cry.

Could it be...the young miss still hadn't gotten over Young Master Jiang in her heart, and was reluctant for him to marry the eldest young miss?

That would not be good.