Chapter 143: Confirm the promise

Author: Emei Swordsman

Seeing Ruyi in Gu Yunji's hand, everyone's faces showed surprise, and Cheng Yan was even more unresponsive.

"……As one wishes?"

After seeing the objects raised by Gu Yunji, Gu Mingan suddenly became bright in his scattered eyes, as if a fish on the verge of thirst was given life-saving water. He was sweating profusely and finally recovered from despair.

"How could it be with you? Gu Yunji! You stole it!"

However, the initial fear faded away, Gu Mingan quickly forgot how he was just now. A sense of anger arose in his heart. He wanted to bite him back on the spot without changing his mind, but his mind was not very clear, and he was confused when he spoke, but he didn't realize how ill-informed the logic was.

Gu Yunji was almost angry and laughed: "Gu Ming'an, is it good to reason? I stole Ruyi in advance, and then pretended to behave early in the morning. I watched you frame Cheng Yan dirty his reputation and make things bigger little by little, just to take out the things at this moment to highlight that you are the biggest idiot in the world?"

Hearing the low laughter of the maids and servants around him, Gu Mingan finally realized how ridiculous he said. His face suddenly turned red and white, white and red, with an extremely wonderful expression.

He was too lazy to pay attention to Gu Ming'an. After showing Ruyi clearly in front of everyone, Gu Yunji carefully put it back into the brocade box, then held it in front of Gu Zhengde with both hands, and said respectfully: "Please check if this is the agarwood inlaid jade Ruyi given by the emperor."

After looking at Gu Yunji deeply, Gu Zhengde reached out and picked up Ruyi: "The hand is smooth and warm, and there are small characters engraved on the bottom... Well, it is indeed a gift from the emperor. How could the thing be there with you?"

Gu Yunji looked as usual and said calmly: "Reply to grandfather's words, Gu Mingan secretly put Ruyi in his room last night while Cheng Yan was away, and I happened to see it. Although I didn't understand his intention, I also knew that this thing is expensive, so I thought of putting it away first and handing it over to my fourth uncle early this morning, but it was not enough."

There was nothing that happened to be seen. It was clearly that Gu Yunji saw Gu Mingan's behavior in the past few days and was worried that he would be unfavorable to Cheng Yan, so he always stared at his every move. In order to prevent the attack, Gu Yunji secretly took out the thing from Cheng Yan's room, and no one told him during this period.

Yesterday, Gu Kaiqi agreed to persuade Gu Zhengde to recruit Cheng Yan. Gu Yunji did not want anything wrong in the process. He originally planned to delay for two days before telling Gu Kaiqi to handle the matter so that the impact could be minimized.

Who would have thought that Gu Mingan could not hold back so much. He just hid something last night and attacked Cheng Yan early this morning. Before Gu Yunji could not expect that, he learned that this Ruyi was a gift from the emperor. There was no way, so he had to go with the flow and let them search Cheng Yan's house and take out the things after the search was fruitless.

Although this had some impact on Cheng Yan's reputation, Gu Ming'an was even more difficult. He said with confidence that Cheng Yan stole things. Not only did he not find any dirty things, but Gu Yunji also exposed his intention to frame Cheng Yan in public. At present, this dramatic reversal fell loudly on his face like two slaps.

Gu Mingan was angry and hurriedly retorted: "Gu Yunji, you are talking nonsense! I, I didn't secretly put Ruyi in Cheng Yan's house. It was obvious that you stole the things in advance and took them out by yourself when you found that you couldn't hide them. It was you who framed me!"

"Oh? Is that right?" Gu Yunji glanced at him coldly, "If you hadn't framed Cheng Yan on purpose, why would you be sure that he had stole things and had to search his house? Even if you, such a person with such a good face, heard me say that if the search was fruitless and had to apologize to Cheng Yan in public, you didn't even hesitate and agreed immediately?"

Gu Mingan choked for a moment, and he felt a little confident when he spoke: "...I, I was misled. I had a marriage with Cheng Yan before, but now I have lost my things. Isn't it normal to think of him at the first time? I just happened to suspect him."

"There were more than a dozen people present yesterday. My cousin Ming'an just suspected that Cheng Yan was, and then he just happened to suspect that he had hidden the things in the room. He just happened to suspect that Ruyi was in the secret box at the head of the bed. He suspected that it was so accurate. My cousin Ming'an's 'just' was really good--"

Gu Yunji looked at him with a sarcastic look and smiled: "After that being said, even I knew that the Gu family's bed had a secret lattice that could accommodate a box. The secret lattice was so secret that he usually didn't realize it. Cheng Yan's observation ability was so keen. Did he understand the layout of the Gu family's utensils so quickly?"

Cheng Yan, beside him, chuckled softly and continued at the right time: "That's not the case. Cheng Yan is stupid. Since he moved in, he has only known how to sleep and rest. He has never learned that the bedding design of the mansion is so clever. In terms of his familiarity with these things, he is naturally not as good as that of Mr. Gu who has lived in the mansion for more than 20 years."

Seeing that Gu Ming'an's face had turned from red to green, he was speechless when asked, Gu Yunji felt relieved and he added casually: "If you really want to calculate it, cousin Ming'an, your plan is quite meticulous, but unfortunately he was a little careless. When you ran to Cheng Yan's room last night, you didn't find me standing in the corridor in the distance. Can you see your movements clearly?"

"My cousin Ming'an, you must be careful in this year's provincial examination, and you must not be so careless-"

"Gu Yunji!" Gu Mingan's expression could no longer be tense, and his whole body was trembling with anger, his eyes seemed to be about to spit out of fire, "You little illegitimate son from the countryside, dare..."

The word "如子" was exclaimed, and Gu Zhengde next to him suddenly looked dark, and the momentum around him instantly sank.

"Gu Mingan, you are presumptuous! Even now, I still don't admit my mistake!"

Seeing that Gu Mingan actually dared to trample on Gu Yunji's concubine's son in front of Gu Zhengde, Gu Kaiqi was shocked and angry, and immediately kicked him to the bend of his knee, forcing him to kneel down.

Gu Mingan groaned and angrily glanced at Gu Yunji and Cheng Yan. After all, he lowered his head unwillingly and said in a muffled voice: "Gu Mingan knows his mistake, please punish him for his grandfather."

Looking at Gu Mingan's reluctant look, Gu Zhengde's face became gloomy little by little, and he said coldly: "Since you know your mistake, then go to the ancestral hall, kneel down and copy the family precepts. You can't get up without my permission!"

"Slow down." Gu Yunji felt something was wrong, so he stepped forward and stopped everyone, turned to look at Gu Zhengde, "Grandfather, we agreed before that if nothing was found from Cheng Yan's room, Gu Ming'an would have to apologize to him in public and paste the apology letter on the outer wall of the school for three days."

“——Now, is it time for him to fulfill his promise?”
Chapter completed!