PDLP Chapter 147 You wish!
Chapter 147 You wish!
After a long time, Qiu Chengde finally found his voice and suspected that he had heard it wrong.
"What did you say?"
"Propose marriage?"
Who to propose to?
Could it be Qiu Ning?
Outside the house, Qiu Ning was about to step onto the stairs when he suddenly stopped and was almost hit on the back by Yueya behind him.
As luck would have it, she just happened to hear what Gu Li said. She was proposing marriage to the Xiangfu?
Driven by curiosity, Qiu Ning could not move an inch and stood there, wanting to hear what would happen next.
At this time, Gu Li in the room was heard saying, "Before my grandfather died, he wrote a suicide note with his own hand and ordered someone to pass it on to a deputy general in the army. However, the deputy general was ambushed by the enemy during the retreat and was seriously injured. It was not until recently that he regained his memory and remembered this incident.
Fortunately, he kept his grandfather's suicide note."
As Gu Li spoke, he took out an envelope that looked quite old from his sleeve and handed it to Qiu Chengde.
Qiu Chengde solemnly took the envelope, opened it carefully, and looked at it. It was indeed a letter from Gu's grandfather. He had seen letters from Gu's grandfather in his father's study before, so he recognized his handwriting.
The suicide note clearly explained the origin of this verbal marriage, and hoped that if the descendants of the two families were indeed a boy and a girl and they were both interested in each other, they could get married.
But if the offspring of the two families do not like each other, then there is no need to force it, everything depends on fate.
At the end of the letter, the handwriting had gradually become distorted and sloppy. One can imagine the conditions under which Gu's grandfather wrote this will.
Even Qiu Chengde couldn't help feeling heavy in his heart when he finished reading the letter.
If he had been optimistic before, thinking that Gu Li might not know or understand this matter, then Qiu Ning would have more choices in her life.
But now it seems that this marriage obviously inherited the last wishes of the two old people. They were still thinking about each other at the last moment of their lives and wanted to make the two families closer in this way.
As children, how could we bear to let the wishes of our elders on both sides go unfulfilled?
Qiu Chengde folded the letter, stuffed it carefully into the envelope, and returned it to Gu Li. He sighed and said:
"Since this is the last wish of our elders, then this matter is..."
"Wait a minute!"
Before Qiu Chengde could finish his sigh, he was interrupted by Qiu Ning who suddenly appeared at the door.
Then, everyone saw Qiu Ning rushing in with her skirt lifted up, looking anxious. She first glanced at Gu Li, then quickly lowered her head.
"Father, Mother, Brother, can you allow me to have a few words with Uncle Gu alone?"
When Qiu Chengde heard Qiu Ning's name, he almost spit out the hot tea he had just taken.
"You are so disrespectful! Why are you calling someone General Gu?"
According to seniority, the two are clearly peers and are about to become husband and wife.
How can you call someone uncle to his face? Wouldn't that mess up the hierarchy?
Qiu Ning opened his mouth but said nothing.
In fact, she also felt quite embarrassed in this situation. Just now, when she heard her father was about to agree to the other party, she ran out without thinking, and didn't care about so many things.
On the contrary, Gu Li was not annoyed by Qiu Ning's address. Instead, she looked indulgent and persuaded Qiu Chengde:
"Uncle, don't be nervous. Aning didn't know the relationship between our two families before, so it's understandable that she called me the wrong name. As long as she wants, it's fine for her to call me Uncle Gu in the future."
Everyone in the Qiu family: ...
What's going on? I was inexplicably stuffed with dog food.
Zhang was the first to react. She pretended to glare at Qiu Ning and said lovingly, "Hey, kid, since you've known Master Gu for a long time, why didn't you tell me earlier?
Forget it, you young people have your own ideas, and we can't control them. It just so happens that I also want to go to the kitchen to see how the meal is prepared. Master, don't you want to go to the study? Let's go together. "
After Zhang finished speaking, she pulled Qiu Chengde's sleeve, ready to leave space for the two young people.
Qiu Shaoheng was still there, but was quickly grabbed by Zhang and taken away from the scene.
On this side, after Zhang and others left, Qiu Ning immediately looked towards Gu Li, her almond-shaped eyes filled with anger.
"You knew this a long time ago, right?"
Gu Li touched his nose with a guilty conscience and answered evasively, "I don't know what you are talking about."
Qiu Ning was angry, she put her hands on her hips, her eyebrows were twisted, and her pretty little face turned a little pink because of anger.
"You...you have no moral integrity. If everyone knew that Lord Gu, who has always been upright and impartial, actually deceived a little girl like me, how would they feel?"
"Do you know that this is a blatant deception? It's a deception!"
Seeing that the little woman in front of him was about to lose her temper, Gu Li did not dare to say anything else, so he explained:
"If I had told you directly at Prince Yong's Mansion that our two families had an engagement, what would you have thought?"
"I……"
Qiu Ning was speechless for a moment.
Yes, the first time they met was when they were investigating the Guo family’s iron mine in the Xuanwu Mountains, and neither of them asked about the other’s identity.
The second time they met was at Prince Yong's Mansion. She even suspected that he and Princess Yong were having an affair. So she looked at him with tinted glasses.
"But...but even so, why didn't you say it later?"
"You didn't ask later." Gu Li spread his hands, looking quite helpless.
"But it's not too late now. Your father and brother have already returned to Beijing. Why don't we settle the matter as soon as possible? Then..."
"You think beautiful!"
Before Gu Li could finish her sentence, Qiu Ning glared at her and then ran away angrily.
Gu Li: ...
He was a little confused and couldn't understand why the little girl ran away in anger. Did he say something wrong?
With this question in mind, Gu Li looked at Leng Qi and asked him, "Is she angry with me?"
Leng Qi stood aside holding a sword with a stern look on his face, and tilted his head as a matter of course: "What else?"
Gu Li frowned, and for a long time she couldn't figure out what went wrong. She simply stopped worrying about it and said:
"Since the little girl is angry, it must be because I did something excessive to anger her. In that case, starting tomorrow, I will visit the Prime Minister's Residence every day. I must earn the little girl's forgiveness.
There’s an old saying that goes, “Where there is sincerity, there is success.” I believe as long as I keep working hard, she will definitely accept me.
Leng Qi looked at his general speechlessly. He was indeed good at leading troops in battle, but when it came to matters of the heart, he was like a fool.
However, our general will be 25 years old after the Chinese New Year, and he has never been in a relationship with a girl. It is normal that he doesn't know how to make a girl happy.
Thinking of this, Leng Qi couldn't help but feel some sympathy for Gu Li, so he suggested:
"Ahem, sir, I think Miss Qiu Ning might be concerned that you knew her identity before, concealed the engagement from her, and even took advantage of her."
Gu Li glared at Leng Qi and asked, "How did I take advantage of her..."