My younger sister insisted on marrying me and made me the Marquis' wife.

Chapter 151 Blue Sleeves Add Fragrance
Qin Yuan stretched out two slender jade-white and tender fingers and gently picked up the white letter from the table. He smiled and said, "Since the Marquis has helped me, how about I write this letter?"

Gu Jinghui looked at Qin Yuan's delicate fingers and said in a hoarse voice, "Call me husband."

Qin Yuan readily agreed: "Husband."

“Well,” Gu Jinghui smiled, his narrow and sharp eyes slightly curved, his face, which had become thinner due to fatigue, looked even sharper, and his words were soft and hesitant between his lips and tongue: “Yuan’er, you and I are husband and wife.”

"Well," Qin Yuan inexplicably didn't dare to look at him, lowered her eyes, and pretended to agree nonchalantly: "Yes, husband and wife are one."

Seeing this kind of mood, his heart couldn't help but beat faster. Gu Jinghui felt a little thirsty for some reason. He picked up the teacup and took a few sips before saying, "Yuan'er..."

Qin Yuan turned around and was about to call someone.

Gu Jinghui hurriedly held her hand and asked, "What are you doing?"

"I, I, I want Cui Ming to come in and grind the ink for me."

His hands were so hot that they made her whole body feel hot.

“No need,” Gu Jinghui’s eyes were filled with affection, “I’ll grind it for you.”

Qin Yuan: “…”

Before she could think of a suitable excuse, Gu Jinghui had already stood up and walked to the table, opened the inkstone, lifted up his wide sleeves, and began to grind the ink seriously. He tilted his head and smiled at her, "Come here quickly, your husband will personally serve you the ink and brush."

What a beautiful lady.

Qin Yuan had no choice but to walk to the desk, unfold the paper, pick up the pen, and gently dip it in ink. Before she put pen to paper, Gu Jinghui had already diligently pressed the weight on the corner of the paper.

Qin Yuan: “…”

But I had no choice but to keep writing.

For some reason, with Gu Jinghui beside her, she couldn't concentrate at all.

Qin Yuan consoled himself by thinking that diligence leads to success while laziness leads to failure. Perhaps it was because he hadn't written a memorial for a long time, so it was understandable that he was a little slow.

Cui Ming and Hong Ye stood outside for nearly an hour before they heard someone calling from inside.

As Hongye approached the desk, she saw that the ink in the inkstone was so full that it was about to overflow.

"This is……"

Hongye exclaimed, "How many words does Madam want to write?"

Gu Jinghui clenched his right hand into a fist and put it against the corner of his lips to cover up his cough. His wide sleeves hung down, covering half of the inkstone.

Cui Ming glanced at the ink block beside the inkstone. It was a good piece of flower ink, but only half of it was left after being worn away. The room was filled with the scent of ink and flowers.

It really hurts.

Qin Yuan frowned slightly, and finally said: "This ink...you should put it in a good place and cover it with the cover. The Duan inkstone can store ink for a long time without drying up, so it can still be used in the future."

She was just distracted, and Gu Jinghui complained that the ink was too thick, then too thin, and added water, then ground it again, thus wasting most of her favorite ink block.

Lord Gu's hospitality is too expensive, she...she really shouldn't be misled by his beauty.

In his previous life, Lin Ziqi would never do this. He would only send someone to tell her to go to the study and write, and occasionally give her a few words of praise.

She knew in her heart that Lin Ziqi was afraid of her.

Qin Yuan threw the pen into the pool of pens and told Cui Ming to clean it up. From the corner of her eye, she saw Gu Jinghui shyly picking up the wide sleeve of his robe. One corner of the sleeve was stained with a large blob of ink, and the perfectly good clothes were ruined.

The corners of Qin Yuan's eyes began to twitch. Lord Gu was indeed too expensive.

“Yuan’er, your writing is so good…” Gu Jinghui was totally unaware and came closer, reading and praising.

Hongye was moved by the news and immediately said, "Of course, Madam doesn't like false reputation and never shows off in front of others. A while ago, the young master came to the mansion to worship the young lady as his teacher and learn to write poetry."

Lord Gu looked at Qin Yuan in surprise. He no longer cared to blame Hongye and called her Miss Qin Yuan.

Qin Yuan glared at Hong Ye and said, "You are so quick-witted that you took your cousin's joke seriously. I usually ask you to call me Madam, why are you calling me Miss now?"

Hongye pouted and said nothing.

Lord Gu looked at Hongye deeply, and after a while he said, "The handwriting of this memorial is different from mine. You need to copy another one."

Qin Yuan nodded and said, "Alright, my husband's seals should all be in the study, so I won't keep my husband here."

Gu Jinghui glanced at Qin Yuan and stuffed the letter into his sleeve pocket in disappointment. Qin Yuan said again: "Husband, you should rest early in the outer courtyard and don't study too late. Now everything depends on your life."

Gu Jinghui nodded.

Qin Yuan added: "My husband's clothes are all dirty. Let me get you some clean ones and you can change them after you take a bath."

Gu Jinghui nodded a little more vigorously.

Qin Yuan added, "The Smallpox Goddess is enshrined in the mansion now, so I will ask my husband and my sixth brother to rest in the outer courtyard for the time being."

Gu Jinghui immediately said, “It’s not unfair, Yuan’er. I know you want to be with me all the time, just like me. I also know that things are complicated in the mansion right now. After this period of time, I will definitely accompany you well.”

Hongye couldn't help but smile silently.

Qin Yuan lowered her head, twirled her fingers helplessly, and said, "I know what my husband means."

As he said that, he took Hongye to open the suitcase and get clothes for Gu Jinghui.

She was very careful and meticulous in her work. She put away the jade pendants, purses, and sachets, and placed them neatly on the tray along with her outer garment.

Gu Jinghui watched quietly, his eyes seemed to be glued to her.

Qin Yuan's face became redder and redder, and she asked, "Do you think the Xu family is a little strange?"

Gu Jinghui lowered his eyelashes and responded, "What's so strange about it?"

Qin Yuan said: "There are many strange things."

“Oh?” Gu Jinghui raised his head and eyebrows, as if he was listening attentively.

Qin Yuan said, "Sixth brother said that Sixth brother's wife used money to subsidize the Xu family. This is equivalent to saying in public that Sixth brother's wife is digging into her husband's family to supplement her natal family. Anyone who hears this will have a good argument. However, although the Xu family is angry and wants to fight with Sixth brother, they did not refute much."

Gu Jinghui nodded.

Qin Yuan added, "They came here only to ask for ten thousand taels of silver from the Marquis' Mansion, and they didn't seem to care about Zhen Jie'er's whereabouts. They seemed to be extremely afraid of smallpox, but they kept pestering us and making a fuss. If they were really that afraid, shouldn't they wait until the dust settled before making a fuss?"

Gu Jinghui frowned and said, “What you said is true. Thinking about it carefully, it seems that… the Xu family… I have never been with the Xu family. It was my sixth brother’s biological mother, Madam Wen, who took a fancy to the Xu family. His ancestors also fought with our ancestors for their lives, but they were a little downgraded after their titles were downgraded. My sixth brother often said that the Xu family was a poor family, but I just thought it was because of my sixth brother’s wife, so I didn’t take it seriously.”

After saying that, he thought for a moment and then said, "Although the people who came today are dressed neatly, most of them look like street scoundrels, and they don't seem to have any legitimate business."

Hongye, who had been silent the whole time, couldn't help but interrupt and said, "Your servant, I vaguely heard that there are many men in the Xu family who tempt people to gamble on crickets, take commissions from cockfighting and dogfighting, and...some people in the Xu family make a living by gambling and lending money at high interest rates."

(End of this chapter)