Chapter 571: Intentional (1)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Lu Shi and the others’ hearts sank. If there were really remnants of the Yu family in the secret room, the Embroidered Uniform Guards would definitely seal the residence, but they couldn’t stop the few of them from leaving. At least they could go and get reinforcements.
Everyone was tense. The small garden was as quiet as the calm before a storm.
Success! Gu Xiao was secretly delighted, but she frowned and reprimanded righteously, “Big Brother, how can you take in the Yu Family? You’re causing trouble for the family!”
“Hey, don’t tell me you’ve been caught with something shameful?”
With that, Gu Xiao shook his head disapprovingly, his eyes flashing with a dark light.
Once Gu Yuan committed a crime, he would naturally be deposed from his official position. Then, the family would have to reconsider splitting up the family. After all, they couldn’t possibly give all the assets of the eldest branch to a girl like Gu Yanfei.
The clan would never agree.
As long as they separated from the family again, his father, as the legitimate son, could get most of the family business and this residence. Their family could move back here.
The house they were living in now was small and old, without even a racecourse. The garden wasn’t even half the size of this small garden. He even had to live in the same courtyard as his concubine brother.
In less than a month, Gu Xiao experienced what it felt like to live a day like a year.
He really missed this place too much. He was born and raised here. In the past, he had only gone out to play for four or five days at most. He had never “left home” for so long like this!
After today, this mansion will return to their second branch.
Just thinking about it made Gu Xiao’s blood boil and his heart beat faster.
He Lie’s rough fingers rubbed the sheath a few times, as if he was weighing and thinking about something. He said to Gu Yuan indifferently, “Battalion Commander Gu, I’m afraid you can’t leave this place for the time being… and your family too.”
“Don’t worry, my people won’t be rude to Second Lady Gu.”
As he spoke, a cold glint flashed in He Lie’s eyes. These words were polite and also a warning. He was warning Gu Yuan that if he did anything he shouldn’t, the Embroidered Uniform Guards wouldn’t show mercy.
Several Embroidered Uniform Guards around him pulled out the long saber in their hands an inch in a show of force. The cold embroidered saber shone with a dazzling cold light under the sun.
Gu Yuan said calmly, “Commander He, are you treating me as a human?”
“He Lie, who are you scaring!” Lu Shi said angrily and stood beside Gu Yuan protectively.
Fan Beiran and the others also had burning eyes. They stood with their heads raised, forming a confrontation with the Embroidered Uniform Guards.
Sparks flashed where the eyes of the two sides met, and an invisible bowstring seemed to be suddenly pulled taut in the air.
A series of hurried footsteps came from the direction of the secret room, getting closer.
Ni Zongqi walked up quickly with the oil lamp. The first thing he said was, “Commander, there’s no one below…”
“How is that possible?” Gu Xiao interrupted the other party.
Before he could finish speaking, another Embroidered Uniform Guard came out of the dark secret room with a black cat. The cat waved its limbs in the air and bared its fangs.
Ni Zongqi glanced at Gu Xiao expressionlessly before continuing, “There’s only one cat below.”
As he spoke, he saw the black cat that had been grabbed by the back of its neck baring its teeth and shouting non-stop, trying to intimidate the surrounding humans.
Everyone looked at the cat with strange expressions.
The angry black cat scratched and roared. Finally, it broke free from the human’s demonic claws and let out a cry. It ran away as if it was flying and disappeared into the flowers and trees in the blink of an eye.
It was obvious that the sound of something falling in the secret room just now was caused by this cat. Ni Zongqi said that it was also this cat?!
There was a strange silence around the rockery.
“Pfft!” Fan Beiran was the first to laugh. He said coldly, “What a fierce kitten!”
“It’s indeed fierce! Look at how frightened it is.” Young Master Fei Liu sighed.
The two of them echoed each other and even deliberately glanced sideways at the Embroidered Uniform Guards.
Gu Xiao’s eyes widened, and his mind buzzed. There was only one thought left: Howls this possible?!
He instinctively looked at Gu Yuan and saw that Gu Yuan raised his eyebrows in surprise.
“Heh.” Gu Yuan sneered softly and looked into Gu Xiao’s eyes. He keenly captured the other party’s panic and helplessness for a moment.
He thought that Gu Xiao and the others had already arranged everything. It seemed like that wasn’t the case..