Women Wearing Men: The Growth Path of the Bastards of the Aristocratic Family

Chapter 142
Gu Kaiqi was still weighing the pros and cons, but he saw that Gu Mingan agreed on the spot without thinking, as if he had expected to find Ruyi from Cheng Yan's house. He was so confident that he couldn't help but make Gu Kaiqi feel even more suspicious.

Since the parties concerned felt that there was no problem, Gu Kaiqi couldn't say anything more, and sighed helplessly: "Okay, just follow what you said, Yunji."

"Then let's go there now, and finish the search early, so as not to delay your class." After speaking, Gu Kaiqi was ready to turn around and go to the guest room in the inner courtyard.

"Fourth Uncle, wait a moment." Gu Yunji took a step forward and stopped him, "In case cousin Ming'an regrets denying it when the time comes, I think it's best to invite grandfather over to be a witness. What do you think?"

Gu Kaiqi took a deep breath and frowned slightly: "Yun Ji, don't you trust Fourth Uncle? With me around, isn't it enough to make you feel at ease?"

"It's not that I don't believe in Fourth Uncle, but that I don't believe in Cousin Ming An." Meeting Gu Kaiqi's questioning gaze, Gu Yunji lowered his head slightly, with a neither humble nor overbearing attitude, "Cousin Ming An is eloquent and eloquent. There are very few people who can stand shoulder to shoulder with him, Yunji is afraid that the fourth uncle will not be able to fight against him."

Gu Mingan made so many preparations before this, in order to trample Cheng Yan to death with one foot, if nothing is found in the end, there is no guarantee that he will not go crazy and bite on the spot, in case he is really cheeky and refuses to apologize , Gu Kaiqi has nothing to do with him.

"Gu Yunji! What are you talking about!" Gu Mingan was furious when he heard the words, and immediately wanted to grab Gu Yunji's collar, "Who are you talking about turning black and white into nonsense!"

Gu Yunji grabbed his arm, pushed him back, and said coldly, "It's you, what's wrong?"

"You!" Gu Mingan was pushed back to a stagger by him, he didn't dare to rush forward again, and turned to complain to Gu Kaiqi, "Fourth Uncle, Gu Yunji is so presumptuous, you don't care?"

"Enough! Please calm down!" Gu Kaiqi was so angry that his forehead twitched, he yelled at him unbearably, pinched his brows with a headache and did not speak.

After slowly letting out a breath, Gu Kaiqi calmed down his emotions, turned his head and told the attendant: "Come here, please go and invite the old lady to the guest room in the backyard."

A moment later, outside the guest room where Cheng Yan lived.

After listening to the whole story, Gu Zhengde, the old man of the Gu family, did not change his expression. His quiet eyes swept over everyone present one by one. The aura of a high-ranking person who has been in the officialdom for half his life was unconsciously released. His majesty and fierceness made Gu Yunji's breathing slightly stagnant.

His eyes froze on Gu Yunji, thinking of the matter he proposed to ask Gu Mingan to apologize, Gu Zhengde's eyes dimmed imperceptibly, but he didn't say anything, he calmly closed his eyes, casually raised his hand and pointed towards the guest room. Means: "It's useless to say more before the search results are found, let's start directly."

After receiving a clear order, several capable servants who stood quietly at the side immediately stepped forward, strode across Yan's house, and searched around quickly and neatly.

The cabinet was pulled open savagely, the mattress was thrown on the ground mercilessly, and the clothes, shoes and socks were thrown everywhere. These servants aimed to search for Ruyi, so they didn't care whether Cheng Yan's things were damaged. They moved quickly and violently, throwing The objects in the house were turned upside down, and there was a constant sound of ping-pong, which attracted the passing maidservants and servants to stop, pointing and peeping secretly.

Cheng Yan hung his heart high, hanging empty and empty, his eyes closely followed the movements of the servants, for fear that they would turn out any bad results, and his palms were sweaty from nervousness.

When he was restless, Cheng Yan suddenly felt that the skirt of his clothes was pulled slightly, he turned his head in surprise, and bumped into Gu Yunji's confident eyes.The other party raised his eyebrows slightly, leaned into his ear and whispered: "Don't worry, nothing will happen."

Cheng Yan twitched the corners of his lips to force a smile, but the worry in his heart did not diminish by half.Even if nothing was found in the end, even if he succeeded in proving his innocence, even if Gu Yunji was firmly on his side...but what's the use?The gap between his status and the Gu family's status is here, and the matter has come to this point, it is impossible for him to retreat unscathed.

Gu Mingan on the side was triumphant, standing outside the door tiptoeing to look in, afraid that they would miss it, and commanded: "Be careful, don't miss any corner. Under this table, there is a box over there. , and the back of the door, look for it!"

As he spoke, his eyes flickered, and he reminded him seemingly unintentionally: "...Especially on the bed, if it's hard to say, it's hidden in the dark compartment next to the bed..."

The guards did as they said, and searched every place meticulously, not even a finger-width gap was found.

A quarter of an hour later, after the search was over, the leader of the servants stepped forward and bowed to Gu Zhengde and replied: "Go back to the old lady, I found nothing, and Ruyi is not in Mr. Cheng's room."

For a moment, everyone looked different.

Cheng Yan heaved a sigh of relief, Gu Yunji was not surprised, while Gu Kaiqi relaxed, worry appeared again on his face, Gu Zhengde's eyes moved slightly, his expression only sank slightly, making it impossible to see what was going on in his mind.

Only Gu Ming'an's reaction was the most intense. Hearing this, his eyes widened suddenly, and the complacency on his face instantly collapsed. The calm and calmness he had just now disappeared, and he rudely pushed away the servants who stood in front of him, and broke into the house without hesitation;
"Impossible... This is impossible! How could there be no one? You must have missed it..."

Gu Mingan went straight to the head of the bed, bent down and put his hand into the gap of the bed frame, groped for a while, pulled out a hidden box from inside, opened it and found it was empty.

Gu Mingan looked and looked at the empty box over and over again, his eyes were full of disbelief, his hands trembled violently, and he murmured: "It's gone... Ruyi is gone... It's over, it's really over..."

Gu Kaiqi's face was a little ugly, and he reprimanded: "If you don't have it, you don't have it. Why are you stubborn? Come out soon!"

Facing Gu Kaiqi's reprimand, Gu Ming'an acted like he hadn't heard of it, put the box on the bed, and searched for other places without giving up, but his movements were chaotic, revealing his inner panic.

Compared with Cheng Yan's failure in planting dirty things, Ruyi's disappearance is the real straw that crushes Gu Mingan's death.If the gift from the imperial court is lost, if the higher authorities blame it, the entire Gu family in Songjiang will suffer, and Gu Ming'an is the one who bears the brunt of it.

Unable to search around, Gu Ming'an's face was pale, and a huge chill crept up his back. In an instant, his hands and feet were icy cold, and he collapsed powerlessly on the ground, with despair appearing in his eyes.

At this time, a clear voice sounded and fell into Gu Ming'an's ears, like redemption and reminder: "Cousin Ming'an, are you looking for this?"

Gu Yunji who was outside the door was shrouded in the sunlight, holding a brocade box in his arms at some point, he raised his right hand high, and held something in his hand, which glowed with a warm luster under the sun—it was The imperial gift of agarwood inlaid with jade Ruyi.

(End of this chapter)