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

Chapter 64: Unable to Suppress

Qin Yuan couldn't help but blush, turned around, hurriedly tied her belt, and asked, "Was it the Marquis practicing martial arts outside just now?"

Gu Jinghui walked closer to her, his whole body steaming, which made her feel hot as well.

Qin Yuan couldn't help but take a half step back, turned his face to the side, frowned and said: "I don't know where Hongye and Cuiming went."

Gu Jinghui stared at her blushing face, and was very satisfied to see her face getting redder and redder. Then he raised his handsome eyebrows and said, “Hongye, find some clothes for me to change into. Cuiming has gone to the kitchen.”

"To the kitchen?"

"Well, let's have breakfast together this morning and not go to the upper room."

Qin Yuan had no choice but to respond.

Gu Jinghui continued, “My injury seems to have healed. It’s too hot, and I just moved my muscles and bones, and I sweated a lot. I have to take a shower before I can change clothes.”

Qin Yuan was stunned for a moment before she understood what he meant.

"Then shall I tell the little girl to get some hot water for the Marquis to take a bath?"

"Well, just put it in the clean room."

Qin Yuan: “…”

Lord Gu's intentions are becoming more and more obvious.

After instructing the maid to go to the kitchen to fetch hot water for the marquis to bathe, Qin Yuan turned around and went to the bathroom to wash.

Gu Jinghui suddenly said, “Madam Zhao fainted last night.”

Qin Yuan: “…Oh…”

Gu Jinghui added: "Fortunately, I listened to you yesterday."

"What?" Qin Yuan became interested and didn't plan to go to the clean room. She took two steps and sat on the stool beside the bed. She asked, "Did you tell the maids to carry her away?"

Gu Jinghui looked down at her pair of white jade feet without stockings and said, “I listened to you last night. Just in case, I went to the upper room through the side door and asked Rong Mama to send someone to take care of Madam Zhao and her son.”

Qin Yuan: “…”

Lord Gu is being too cautious.

But if he didn't do so, he wouldn't be an invincible general.

"Madame Rong used the old lady's sedan chair to carry them to Fengxuan Pavilion. Mother and Madame Rong also went to Fengxuan Pavilion to check on the patient. I also went to invite a doctor, and we were busy for nearly two hours. Mother said that she would not let you go over to pay your respects this morning, and she wanted to have a good rest."

Qin Yuan asked in surprise: "Mother has been guarding for two hours?"

Gu Jinghui said, “It wasn’t that long. After staying for an hour, mother took the two children back to the upper room to rest.”

Qin Yuan nodded.

She realized that not allowing them to pay their respects was simply a way of preventing them from meeting each other.

fair enough.

"I'm just sorry to bother my mother."

Qin Yuan thought for a moment and said, "If something like this happens again in the future, let me take care of it. Mom is old, and it's not good to trouble her all the time."

Gu Jinghui smiled and said, “No wonder mother always misses you. You are so good, you deserve it.”

After a pause, he added: "You don't go either."

Qin Yuan asked: "Who will go then?"

Gu Jinghui squinted his eyes and said teasingly, “Let Sixth Brother’s wife go. She is already good friends with Madam Zhao and is in charge of the household, so it would be more appropriate to let her take charge of this matter.”

Qin Yuan: “…”

Hongye had just come in carrying Lord Gu's clothes and accessories, and just when she heard these words, she burst out laughing.

If we were to talk about the people that Hongye hates the most, Sixth Madam and Lady Zhao would tie for first place.

How could she bear it when she heard the Marquis's arrangement?

Qin Yuan glanced at Hong Ye, who quickly put away her smile and respectfully put down the tray containing clothes and accessories, saying, "Madam, you are awake." "Yes, I called you just now, but no one was here."

Hongye said, "Perhaps the Marquis was practicing martial arts just now, and the maids couldn't help but watch, so they didn't hear the Madam calling for him."

Gu Jinghui said, “Okay, okay, since Sixteen is not here, I will tell them to do their work. I don’t usually practice martial arts in the yard, but I have been injured these days and have been lying around for a while, so I just want to stretch my muscles.”

Qin Yuan said, "I didn't say anything. Hongye, call someone in to help me wash up."

Hongye said quickly: "Do you still need to call someone else? I'm used to serving you, and it would be troublesome to change someone else."

Seeing how the master and servant get along, Gu Jinghui knows even more that this girl is favored. She talks in a you-and-me way, but Qin Yuan doesn't mind.

After a while, the maids brought hot water. Gu Jinghui washed briefly and then walked out.

Qin Yuan was already sitting in front of the dressing table, and Cui Ming also came back to help her comb her hair.

Gu Jinghui didn't change his clothes, but just sat on the couch and watched Qin Yuan dress up.

Qin Yuan thought for a moment and said, "Is the Marquis going to the camp tomorrow?"

Gu Jinghui responded.

Qin Yuan said, "My Lord, please take a good rest today. Do you still need to apply medicine on your wound?"

Gu Jinghui said, “It’s much better now. It doesn’t matter whether I go up or not. Doctor Li from Renhe Hall has a very effective ointment. It’s better than the wound medicine used in the army.”

Qin Yuan nodded softly.

Why doesn’t the recipe passed down from her maternal grandfather work?

Lord Gu is a connoisseur of goods.

Gu Jinghui asked again: "What are you going to do today?"

Qin Yuan said, "I need to check the accounts of the needlework room today. The shopkeepers of the dowry shop should also send their account books and news."

Gu Jinghui said with some regret: "We have been married for a few days and have not gone out to play together. Now that it is getting hotter and hotter, we can go boating on the lake together and listen to the music to cool off."

Qin Yuan was a little dazed.

A few days ago, she recalled the time when she was young and went boating on the Qinhuai River with her good friend Dong Xinrui, and watched the lanterns and listened to the music on the painted boats at night. She wrote half a poem, and the second half has not been completed yet.

How come Lord Gu brought it up by chance and used such elegant words, as if he had become a different person.

Qin Yuan smiled and said, "Speaking of which, I remembered a good friend a few days ago. My father reported for mourning and returned to his hometown to observe the mourning period. When he was reinstated, he passed by the Qinhuai River. Our two families returned to Beijing together at that time. She and I had heard that the night view of the Qinhuai River was very beautiful, so we secretly chartered a small boat, hid in it, and watched the lights in the middle of the night."

A hint of smile flashed across Gu Jinghui's eyes, and he asked, "How old were you then?"

Qin Yuan smiled and said, "About seven or eight years old."

Hongye smiled and said, "Miss Dong was discovered by her family that time and was put in solitary confinement for a long time. She was not allowed to go out."

Gu Jinghui’s eyebrows relaxed, his red lips curled up slightly, then he pressed them down again, and then they curled up again, unable to be suppressed.

He simply clenched his right hand into a fist, put it to his lips, and coughed softly a few times to hide his smile, but his narrow eyes narrowed again.

Qin Yuan's hair was done up, with twelve golden hairpins and flower ornaments inserted into it, looking dignified and elegant. She turned her head and said to Gu Jinghui who was looking at her absentmindedly, "My husband went to my mother's house yesterday. What did he ask my father for advice?"

Gu Jinghui blurted out, "How do you know?"

Qin Yuan smiled and said, "Not only do I know that, I also know that my father must have persuaded you to study hard and sent you a book so that you could read it and then go find him."

Gu Jinghui coughed a few times and said, "You are so good at predicting things. I did go to ask my father-in-law for advice. He not only taught me carefully, but also said that I have great potential. If I read more books, I can become a Confucian general like Lu Xun of the Three Kingdoms."

Qin Yuan couldn't help but smile.

Her father's old illness has come back again.

Gu Jinghui continued: “I still…”

Before he could finish his sentence, he heard the maids outside screaming in surprise.

(End of this chapter)