Ling Xiao held the jade token in his hand, and left the palace as happily as a fool.
But Wei Xun was not so happy.
He had noticed that Manxing was interested in Ling Qingwan, so he made an engagement with Ling Qingwan in advance, also to prevent Manxing from having any plans for her.
Unexpectedly, this Manxing would actually take advantage of him and step on him, trying to steal his woman.
Regardless of whether Wei Xun could swallow this anger or not, the mere fact that he had to compete with him for Ling Qingwan was enough to make Wei Xun angry.
Ling Qingwan was not an object, so there was no need to fight for her. Besides, she was already his, and everyone in Da Yue knew about this.
Wei Xun was getting angry when Ling Xiao passed by the Grand Secretary's mansion with the jade token in his pocket.
When Ling Qingwan came a few days ago, Liao Shi had already been upset enough. When the guard at the gate reported that Ling Xiao was coming, Liao Shi naturally did not welcome him. She immediately asked the guard to reject him on the grounds that there were only women in the family and it was not convenient to see a man outside.
Ling Xiao had no choice but to leave.
As a result, after walking down one street, his eyes suddenly turned and he came up with an idea.
Didn’t Wei Xun also act as Ling Qingwan’s thief for so long before? He could also follow her example and go to the Grand Secretary’s residence to see Gu Zhi!
The more Ling Xiao thought about it, the more he felt that this method was feasible, so he happily transferred back.
Although the walls of the Grand Secretary's Mansion were not low, Ling Xiao had learned martial arts, so it was not difficult for him to climb over the wall. Soon, Ling Xiao entered the Grand Secretary's Mansion.
But it was his first time to visit the Grand Secretary's Mansion, and he had no idea where Gu Zhi lived. By chance, Ling Xiao saw a waiter passing by, and immediately dragged him to a corner.
The man was so scared that he was shaking, thinking that there was a thief in the house. But after answering Ling Xiao's question, he was knocked unconscious by Ling Xiao.
After walking a few steps, Ling Xiao felt something was not right and threw a silver ingot on the waiter. Then he found an abandoned wooden sign, wrote the words "hush money" on the mud, and put it aside.
After doing all this, Ling Xiao went to Gu Zhi's residence with confidence.
At that time, Gu Zhi was painting a bunch of black orchids outside the house.
"ah!"
The little maidservant suddenly screamed, which scared Gu Zhi.
His hand trembled, and Gu Zhi looked at the extra ink mark on the paper, feeling a little annoyed.
"I… I didn't mean to do that."
Seeing that Gu Zhi's painting was destroyed, Ling Xiao was extremely panicked.
Gu Zhi turned around when he heard Ling Xiao's voice. When he saw the person's face clearly, Gu Zhi was extremely surprised.
"I wanted to come in through the main gate, but Madam Gu didn't allow me to. So I had to climb over the wall." Ling Xiao explained hastily, fearing that Gu Zhi would misunderstand. "Don't worry, I have no bad intentions. I'm here to give you something."
Ling Xiao was nervous and didn't know how to speak.
As he spoke, he took out a jade token from his chest pocket and handed it to Gu Zhi.
"With this, you don't have to go to that palace banquet." Ling Xiao smiled and told Gu Zhi the good news. "I just went to the palace. The Seventh Prince gave it to me. I didn't steal it from the palace."
"Puchi." Gu Zhi covered his mouth and laughed out loud.
"Why do you think I would think you stole the jade plaque?"
"I... because I climbed over the wall to come to you today, which is not very glorious." Ling Xiao felt a little embarrassed.
In the end, I am just too thin-skinned, Ling Xiao thought. In this respect, I am indeed not as good as Wei Xun.
Wei Xun, who was far away in the palace, sneezed.
Gu Zhi looked at Ling Xiao's naive appearance and couldn't help but feel a little moved.
He is not quite the same as what is said outside.
Everyone said that Ling Xiao had fought on the battlefield with the great generals at a young age, and that he was an invincible young general. Therefore, Gu Zhi looked at him with admiration.
After all, Ling Xiao also made great contributions to the defense of Dai Yue.
But the Ling Xiao in front of him was both honest and simple, and became much more lively in Gu Zhi's eyes.
Thinking that she was engaged to Ling Xiao, Gu Zhi became shy and her face immediately turned red to her neck.
“You’re so pretty.”
Gu Zhi was naturally pretty, and with the two blushes on her cheeks, she looked even more charming and endearing.
When Gu Zhi heard Ling Xiao praising her so frankly, she just calmed down but then became shy again.
On the other side, the waiter woke up and when he thought that a thief had come to the house, he immediately got up and ran hurriedly to tell Liao.
As for the silver ingot next to him, the clerk was still half asleep, having just woken up. All he remembered was that Ling Xiao came in and questioned him about Gu Zhi's residence, and knocked him unconscious. He didn't know anything else.
Liao was not so clumsy.
Just as Ling Xiao asked for a meeting but was rejected by her, someone climbed over the wall and asked the waiter Gu Zhi where he lived. Liao could easily guess who had knocked the waiter unconscious.
So, Liao took a group of servants and went to Gu Zhina in a threatening manner.
"Oh no! Oh no!"
Ling Qingwan was talking to Gu Zhi when a maid came in, looking anxious.
"The eldest lady brought a lot of people with her. She looked very angry. I'm afraid she is here to cause trouble for the young general and the young lady." The maid told the two.
Gu Zhi's heart was lifted.
"It's okay." Ling Xiao said to Gu Zhi. "I'm here."
After hearing this, Gu Zhi's heart started beating like a deer.
Immediately afterwards, Liao entered the yard.
"I heard from the servants that a thief broke into the mansion. I was worried that the child might be in danger, so I came to check. I didn't expect that the thief was actually Young Master Ling." Liao sneered, her words full of sarcasm.
"What thief or not? I'm here to look for Miss Gu. I didn't steal anything from your house." Ling Xiao was a little unhappy.
At first, Liao thought that he could understand that there was a thief in the house, but in the end everyone knew it was him and kept calling him a flying thief.
"Young Master Ling refused to go through the main gate and insisted on climbing over the wall to come in. Is this the rule taught in your general's mansion?" Liao's disdain was evident in her words.
She seemed to have forgotten how attentive she was when she heard Ling Xiao was coming to the Grand Secretary's residence to propose marriage. She wanted to immediately stuff Gu Xin into the General's residence.
"I asked, but you didn't agree. Then I can only climb over the wall to get in." Ling Xiao didn't care.
"You are a man and Zhi'er is a girl. It is immoral for a man and a woman to be in the same room. You even climbed over the wall to see her. Could it be that Master Ling has been on the battlefield for too long and has become thick-skinned? But you, as a man, don't care, but Zhi'er, as a little girl, I'm afraid she has to care about her face."
Liao refused to give in, as if she had to convict Ling Xiao today.
"Zhi'er is my wife-to-be, so we are not alone." Ling Xiao said to Liao. "Besides, we didn't do anything, we just talked for a few words."
"Who knows if you have done anything?" Liao gave Gu Zhi a cold look.
Liao had always looked down upon Gu Zhi, the daughter born to her concubine.
The hateful thing is that the person she looks down upon is actually better than her own daughter.