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"Peace is the most important thing, do not let others worry about it, and agree to all of your matters. You and your aides will need to discuss more on how to govern the river. I am just talking on paper, and I am not able to care about everything."

With that, Gu Pingyan put down his brush and looked at his own calligraphy on the xuan paper. He was quite satisfied with it.

His calligraphy had improved.

Duan Chengrui thought about it carefully, and seemed to think that Gu Tinyan's words made a lot of sense.

"In that case, I'd better pretend not to know."

"There's no need to pretend. As long as you treat them sincerely and use the ways you think they are, this throne will be yours." Gu Danyan patted his chest, his peach blossom eyes shining.

Gu Danyan's hand slapped on his chest as if it was rippling, causing Duan Chengrui to be slightly dazed.

After finishing all these matters, Duan Chengrui continued. "You don't blame me for asking Duan Chengxuan for you earlier?"

"Strange." Gu Danyan lightly bit the pen handle, then as if she had thought of a ghost's instruction, she put it down and continued, "Moreover, I've already had the thought of getting rid of the golden cicada's shell, so I still have to consider whether I should do something for you. On Duan Chenxuan's side, I'll naturally help out with everything I can.

"You're not facing me?" Duan Chengrui's face was slightly bitter and somewhat pitiful.

"Of course not. The situation is changing. The reason I'm doing this is also because I don't want Duan Chengxuan to do any extreme things." Gu Daiyan shook his head helplessly.

She had indeed sided with Duan Chengrui with the incident earlier, but because she wanted to support Duan Chengli, it caused some delay in the matter on Duan Chengxuan's side. Who knew how many lives were lost, so this sort of thing naturally wouldn't happen in the future.

Duan Chengrui had nothing to say to this, in a certain aspect, Gu Tinyan could be considered to have truly taken revenge on him.

As the cool breeze blew, Gu Pingyan noticed Ah Zi's lantern from afar. He waved his hand at Duan Chengrui: "Ah Zi is back. If you have anything else to do, go behind the screen. If you have nothing else to do, leave earlier."

Duan Chengrui nodded and didn't plan on staying any longer. He placed a wooden box by Gu Daiyan's side and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Ah Zi jogged to bring in the piping hot food. She looked at Gu Pingyan helplessly: "No wonder ghost liked to tell you before, even I can't stand it anymore."

"Did I do something else?" Gu Daiyan pointed at himself.

"You usually tell us to eat slowly, but you just eat like a fish out of water. Plus, you always make us take care of our bodies, so sometimes you don't care at all." Ah Zi helplessly took out the three dishes and the soup.

Gu Danyan rubbed his nose guiltily and quickly went to eat.

Halfway through eating, Ah Zi took the box that Duan Chanrui put down and looked at her eagerly. "When did you buy this Linlang Pavilion item?"

"Linlang Pavilion? The one that sells all kinds of junk? " Gu Liuyan raised an eyebrow: "This box is my luggage, I don't remember who gave it to me before."

Ah Zi sighed, "You really don't care. The last time Yu Zhu saw you leaving a lot of good jade and brocade clothes in the house, she told me for two days that you didn't know whether it was good or bad. She felt sorry for those things."

"Then let her take what she wants, but I can't take too much. When the time comes, I will sell it for silver. Otherwise, I really won't have any money left." Gu Liuyan continued to eat.

A'Zi gently opened the box and was stunned.

Inside, there was a thumb-sized piece of ordinary looking jade.

However, Ah Zi had seen quite a few things from the older sisters of the Wind Listening Pavilion. She only smelled a faint fragrance and immediately retreated two steps while clutching her chest. "Such a big piece!"

"What!" Gu Daiyan also stood up. She put down the bowl and chopsticks and took the wooden box over. She was shaking as she said, "I'll be rich after I sell it."

A'Zi rolled his eyes at her. "Such a large piece of spiritual jades. No matter what, it has to be a lot of gold. Before, someone paid ten thousand taels of gold to buy a nail …"

Gu Liuyan sucked in another breath of cold air. After thinking for a while, she closed the wooden box and passed it to Ah Zi: "Find a place for me to set it up, don't touch it."

"Alright." Ah Zi quickly nodded her head and carefully twirled the wooden box around the room.

Gu Liuyan patted her chest, but she soon started to eat without a care in the world. In her heart, she was wondering why Duan Chenrui would suddenly gift her such a precious item, but when she thought about it, since she had helped Duan Chenrui so much, she decided to take it as a matter of course.

After a peaceful night of rest, the matters regarding the Third Prince on the second day had already spread far and wide.

Gu Danyan had seen the steward of the Jing King Manor come early in the morning and had brought her breakfast and medicine. He had even sent word to her not to tire herself out.

"Just follow me today. Otherwise, who knows how many people the Jing King will send after you, bride." Qi Rou took the food box and turned her head to look at her.

Even though she was called the new bride, Gu Danyan did not have any self-awareness. He only thought about the news of her marrying him again as a descendant of the Yun Family.

After all, a group of people preferred gossiping.

Gu Danyan could only follow Qi Rou into the store. She was wearing a veil as she browsed through the account books related to her prescription, occasionally fiddling with the abacus, which was extremely boring. As she yawned lazily, Ah Zi ran over and put a bowl of ginseng soup beside her: "If you don't want to go inside, Second Miss said that Qi Yu is coming over today and wants to see Father."

Upon hearing Qi Yu's name, Gu Pingyan reacted and raised his head to look across from her. That clothing shop had really turned into a rouge shop, and it even had the name Fanghua Pavilion. It was even more luxurious than Qi Rou's shop, so there was no need to mention the price.

"Let me take a look here. Qi Yu hates me." Gu Liuyan fished the soup out and looked at Ah Zi: "Where is the Jade Bead Person?"

"She said that someone important would definitely ask her to go. She has already left." Ah Zi scratched her head.

No matter what Jade Bead did, she was willing to do it, or it had to be done. It was not up to her to gossip, but Ah Zi was a bit uncomfortable, wondering why Gu Danyan wouldn't help Jade Bead, but she still went to the back to lightly count the accounts with the two men.

As for Qi Rou, she also sent off a rich young miss. She leaned on the stage and looked at the door.

After a while, a beautiful lady dressed in rich clothes walked in. Qi Yu had a much more refined temperament than before, but the moment she entered, Qi Yu first saw Gu Danyan. Gu Danyan also pulled back his veil and smiled: "Long time no see."

Qi Yu's expression immediately changed. With a strange tone, she said, "You've gotten the Crown Prince Jing. No wonder you're able to enter the Misty Rain Pavilion today."