Chapter 10
It took twenty-three minutes and fifty-six seconds from the main entrance to the main house, and Ji Ruan took the time deliberately.
Dazzled by the sights along the way, he obviously came to eat, but somehow he held hands with Gu Xiuyi and strolled around the park, sighing tiredly and hungry.
Seeing Ji Ruan’s appearance, Gu Xiuyi was at a loss for words for a while, and finally sighed: “Forget it, let’s go directly by car when we get back.”
Ji Ruan raised his head abruptly: “Can I still take a car?”
“There is an open-air garage from the side door, go in the back The highway can directly drive to the expressway.” Gu Xiuyi calmly narrated.
“Then why go through the main entrance!” Ji Ruan couldn’t hold back anymore, his face was wrinkled: “I thought your Gu family specially built the house as a maze to prevent thieves!” Gu Xiuyi couldn’t help but pat
Ji Ruan on the back: “Go more There’s nothing wrong with walking, you lack exercise, and Aunt Zhao said you haven’t been out of the house once in half a month?”
“I…” Ji Ruan choked up, unexpectedly, this person turned the finger on him.
Of course he wouldn’t admit that he was lazy because he didn’t go out.
“I, I, I am sick!” Ji Ruan emphasized: “It’s very sick! It’s so hot outside that I will get sick again and again. And why should I go out, should I go to your company to check on the guard? –cough, cough…”
Said He still clutched his chest and coughed, looking like Lin Daiyu who was so angry that he was weak, as if no matter how angry he was, he would dare to take out the handkerchief and cough up blood.
Gu Xiuyi has nothing to do, imitating Aunt Zhao’s way to pat Ji Ruan on the back, but still not let go: “You can check the post, Xiaoya and the others also said that they miss you, you can make an appointment whenever you want.” “Oh,” Ji
Ruan With a sneer: “Who’s inspection is by appointment only? Just wait, I will make a surprise attack.”
Gu Xiuyi smiled tautly, and thoughtfully said: “Well, there is no rush, we will talk about it when the illness recovers, and don’t repeat it again.
” I found Ji Ruan so funny.
“Gu Xiuyi, you!…” Ji Ruan was really about to be choked to the point of vomiting blood.
I’ve never noticed that this person is so eccentric!
“–Xiuyi, you’re back.” A female voice interrupted the bickering between the two.
Ji Ruan looked over, she was a middle-aged woman in a purple cheongsam, she was well maintained, her temperament was a typical gentle and good wife, trotting over from the corridor in the distance, the tenderness in her eyes was exaggerated.
“Xiuyi, you’re finally back. You don’t even know that your father misses you!”
The woman’s eyes were red with eagerness, as if Gu Xiuyi wasn’t at work, and had gone to the frontier for decades to fight before returning home.
There was a boy about twenty years old standing behind her. The two of them looked alike, and their expressions were almost identical
. Aunt, it’s been a long time.”
Then he grabbed Ji Ruan’s shoulder and introduced: “Fang Lan, my stepmother, you can call her Aunt Fang. Gu Chuli, my younger brother.”
Ji Ruan smiled gracefully: “Hello, My name is Ji Ruan.”
The plain reaction of the two did not dispel Fang Lan’s enthusiasm, she looked at Ji Ruan with a smile on her face, and said “Hey” quite lovingly: “Little Ruan, you are so pretty.”
“Oh, by the way, Xiaoli, where’s your brother, why didn’t you come out?” Fang Lan suddenly asked Gu Chuli as she spoke, “It’s the first time Xiuyi brought his lover home, why didn’t he come out to greet him!” Gu Chuli showed a smile on his face
. Embarrassed: “Mom, it’s not that you don’t know my brother’s temper. He’s staying with Dad right now.” “
This kid!” Fang Lan looked at Gu Xiuyi with a smile: “Oh, Xiuyi, look, I’m really sorry. I will definitely teach Qiming a lesson later.”
Gu Xiuyi said nothing: “Of course you educate your child yourself, so you don’t need to tell me.” “
Oh yes, you’re right.”
The smile on her face seemed to never be put down. There are circles of fine lines at the corners of the eyes, an image of a stepmother who is a little fudao.
Ji Ruan felt that the mother and son were a little exaggerated, wouldn’t it be tiring to smile all the time…
Gu Xiuyi didn’t seem to intend to talk to them anymore, and nodded slightly: “I’ll take Ji Ruan to see grandpa first.”
” Hey Xiuyi–!”
Fang Lan blurted out, and when Gu Xiuyi turned around, she shook hands and laughed again: “Well, I’m in such a hurry to see grandpa, why don’t you drink some water first, you haven’t had any water since you entered the door.”
” Yes, yes, yes,” Gu Chuli echoed: “Brother, I’ll get you some water!”
“No need.” Gu Xiuyi said calmly.
“But-” Fang Lan wanted to say something else.
Gu Xiuyi’s face turned completely cold, his dark pupils had no warmth, and he said one word at a time,
“No need.”
The two of them immediately fell silent.
When Gu Xiuyi took Ji Ruan into his arms and disappeared at the corner of the corridor, the stiff smile on Fang Lan’s face instantly collapsed, and she stared at the dark corridor.
She was originally a face with the corners of her lips down.
“Mom, did you really let him go upstairs like this?” Gu Chuli whispered in Fang Lan’s ear, “Is what he is holding in his hand…”
Fang Lan gave him a fierce look.
The second half of Gu Chuli’s words got stuck in his throat.
“Otherwise?” Fang Lan said solemnly: “He is married and everyone knows about it. What can we do?” “
But grandpa is not dead yet! Is he so impatient?”
“Shut up!” Fang Lan scolded, and then sneered: “How long can the old man live? The man whose body is half buried in the ground… Anyway, sooner or later it will be Gu Xiuyi’s… I hope he dies early, and you can come out early…”
” But even if grandpa is dead, there is still Gu Xiuyi!”
Fang Lan poked her son’s head hard:
“No matter how bad you are, you are the second young master of the Gu family. Gu Xiuyi can suppress you forever? He can make you live forever?! Even if he wanted to, your father would not agree…” Ji Ruan was carried upstairs by Gu Xiuyi,
holding
back There are question marks in my stomach.
“What do you want to ask?”
Gu Xiuyi didn’t look at him, but seemed to have read his thoughts.
Ji Ruan didn’t hide it either, looking up at Gu Xiuyi: “Why does Gu Chuli call you big brother? Don’t you have an older brother?” Gu Xiuyi carefully led
Ji Ruan up the stairs, and said calmly: “Fang Qiming is Fang Lanhe Born by your ex-husband, it doesn’t count as taking care of your family.”
Ji Ruan nodded thoughtfully: “But it’s rare to hear about you having a younger brother outside?”
Gu Xiuyi looked at Ji Ruan: “Because he is my father. She had an affair with Fang Lan in marriage, this matter is disgraceful, grandpa suppressed the news and dealt with it coldly.”
“Ah, so…”
Ji Ruan was startled, no wonder the mother and son acted like two quails in front of Gu Xiuyi like.
Although there are a lot of dirty things in this kind of rich big family, but it is this kind of family that values ​​face the most, so that Gu Chuli clearly has the blood of the Gu family on his body, and he can’t help being shady when he lives to be twenty years old. Hideously half-hidden.
Gu Xiuyi waited for a while, but before Ji Ruan could speak again, he raised his eyebrows: “Stop asking?”
Those seemingly chaotic disputes in this kind of family, to put it bluntly, are the struggle for power and family property, and the current topic has touched Gu Xiuyi’s family has a bad inside story, Ji Ruan is not going to let himself know too much.
He shook his head: “I’m not curious anymore.”
Gu Xiuyi stared at him for a while, then looked away: “Yeah.”
Mr. Gu’s room is at the end of the corridor, a spacious and sunny room, but when Ji Ruan entered, The curtains inside were drawn so tight that not a ray of light could come in.
The old man who had been in power for decades in the Gu family was sitting in a wheelchair, silently looking at the window buried by the curtains, with two strong nurses standing beside him.
He turned his head when he heard the sound, all parts of his body seemed to be decayed, and his movements were stiff and lifeless.
Ji Ruan saw a haggard face, and the old man was filled with a dying, corpse-like aura.
“Come?” The voice was hoarse and intermittent.
“Yes,” Gu Xiuyi said with an emotionless smile on his face, “I’ll bring Ji Ruan to see you, we’re married.”
Then Gu Changyun’s muddy eyes slowly turned to Ji Ruan, and he looked at it quietly for a while , raised his finger: “Sit down.”
There was a row of rattan-wood benches in the room, and Gu Xiuyi took Ji Ruan to sit down. There was a purple sand tea set on the wooden table in front of him. Up in mid-air.
One of the nurses pushed Gu Changyun over, and the other bowed to Gu Xiuyi and went to guard the door.
Gu Xiuyi took out the marriage certificate, put it on the wooden table, pressed it with two fingers and pushed it in front of Gu Changyun.
“This is the marriage certificate, please take a look.”
The nurse picked up the two small red books, opened them and handed them to Gu Changyun, who was brushed away by the old man.
“Your name is Ji Ruan?”
Ji Ruan sat next to Gu Xiuyi, and nodded lightly when he heard the words: “Yes, grandpa.”
Gu Changyun raised his head, his eyes were not focused, and he didn’t know where he was looking, “You are so young…”
Ji Ruan couldn’t help Knowing how to answer, subconsciously looked at Gu Xiuyi.
Gu Xiuyi squeezed his palm in relief, and then opened the kraft paper bag that he had always carried with him.
Inside was a document, which Ji Ruan saw clearly after it was placed on the table, it was an equity transfer agreement.
Gu Xiuyi didn’t talk nonsense, and went directly to the topic: “The day my mother died in front of you, you promised and wrote it in your will. When I get married, you will transfer all the remaining shares under your name to me, and my partner and I will Shared possession, do you remember?”
Gu Changyun sat quietly.
Gu Xiuyi spread his hands: “As you can see, I’m married, let’s sign it.”
Seeing that the old man still didn’t move, Gu Xiuyi was not in a hurry, poured a cup of tea and put it in Ji Ruan’s hand: “Be careful it’s hot.”
Ji Ruan took it, Watching nose, nose and nose carefully, holding a small sip to drink.
He knew about the stock rights. Gu Xiuyi didn’t hide it from him. It was clearly stated in the agreement that after marriage, all the shares that Gu Changyun handed over to the two of them would be held by Gu Xiuyi himself. Pay him a huge amount of property from time to time.
After a long silence and confrontation, Gu Changyun slowly said: “You know it’s a will, don’t you even want to wait until I die, son? After I die, it will be yours-” “Grandpa,” Gu Xiuyi interrupted, looking at the old
man There was only cold respect in his eyes: “You will live a long life.”
Gu Changyun paused, and then laughed, his old face couldn’t hold his flesh, and wrinkled together: “Long life? Lock me here and count on me Longevity?”
Gu Xiuyi was very calm: “You are not in good health, you should have been hospitalized, but you want to stay at home… Yes, I understand your thoughts of returning to your roots, and I respect your choice, so I sent a special person Taking care of you.”
“Does taking care mean that even my son can’t come to see me?” “
Of course not,” Gu Xiuyi explained without emotion: “My father has a bad temper, and he tends to quarrel when he talks to you, which makes you angry. It’s not good.”
“You…” Gu Changyun opened his eyes slightly, and his facial muscles twitched slightly with anger: “You want to cover the sky with one hand!” “
How could I?” Gu Xiuyi sighed softly, seemingly helpless look.
“That’s how you protected my mother back then. I remember it in my heart. Now I’m just protecting you in the same way.” “
You…you!”
Ji Ruan drank tea quietly, and figured out a rich family from a few words. resentment.
Cheating, the original spouse, the mistress, the illegitimate child, and the patriarch who tortured the original spouse mercilessly.
It turned out that the two guards who were as strong as bodyguards were not only to take care of the old man, but also to prevent other people from coming in.
Ji Ruan vaguely remembered that Song Ling praised Gu Xiuyi’s “filial piety” in front of him. This is really “filial piety”. The people around Gu Xiuyi are indeed the masters who talk about others and talk about others.
Ji Ruan watched this good show with relish, and drank a cup of tea without paying attention.
Gu Xiuyi refilled Ji Ruan’s tea, leaned back on the back of the chair, lightly touched the ring on his ring finger, and said in a gentle tone, “Let’s sign, Grandpa.” The air in the room filled with the fragrance
of tea was cold and thin. On the two ends of each other, one side is getting old and the sun is fading away, while the other side is full of spirits.
It seemed to be a contest without any suspense,
but it was such a simple contest, but because of Gu Changyun’s stubborn resistance, it couldn’t stand for a long time.
After a long while–
“Crackling–“
a string of strange voices pierced the air and entered the ears of everyone present.
Ji Ruan’s stomach was rumbling…
In the silent and tense air, his hunger was particularly loud and pitiful.
Ji Ruan herself was so frightened that she choked on the tea, covered her mouth with a piece of paper, opened her big eyes and looked at Gu Xiuyi and then at the stunned old man.
Gu Xiuyi: “…”
Even the serious nurse standing aside was momentarily confused, looking at Gu Xiuyi with trembling pupils, as if asking what to do.
Time stood still for only a few seconds, and Gu Xiuyi quickly adjusted.
He coughed, put the teacup in Ji Ruan’s hand back on the table without changing his face, and looked at the old man:
“Grandpa, I understand that it will take some time for you to accept the immediate transfer of equity, how about it-“
He got up: “I’ll pick up the documents in half an hour. You’re hungry too. Let’s eat first.”
He pulled Ji Ruan out of the door and told the nurse: “Grandpa is not in good health. You should take good care of him. Don’t let him eat.” He bumped.”
The nurse immediately nodded, “Yes.”
In the corridor, Ji Ruan trotted behind Gu Xiuyi, ignoring him when he called his name, and ignoring him by pulling his sleeves and acting coquettishly.
As Gu Xiuyi was walking, he suddenly turned around as if out of breath, and pointed Ji Ruan with his index finger, hesitant to speak.
Ji Ruan blinked in embarrassment: “I’m hungry…”
He clutched his stomach: “I was already hungry, but you kept pouring me water, then it started to ring…”
Gu Xiuyi glanced at Ji Ruan’s hungry face With a small belly, his lips opened and closed several times, but in the end he couldn’t speak, so he turned around and continued walking.
“I’m arguing…” Gu Xiuyi took a deep breath, and said with a sullen face, “Your stomach groaned, and I almost lost my momentum.”
Ji Ruanfu caught up with him in his heart, and boasted: “You still have no momentum.” Ah, the nurse was so scared to death, your grandfather was so angry that he couldn’t speak!”
Gu Xiuyi’s face softened a little.
Ji Ruan made persistent efforts: “I thought you were so handsome and powerful just now~”
Gu Xiuyi turned his head to look at the sky.
Ji Ruan shook his sleeves: “Really~”
“Shut up!” The corner of Gu Xiuyi’s mouth twitched.
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The author has something to say:
Ruan Ruan: Damn! The old man who coaxes well~
Mr. Gu: Damn, what a kid who knows how to act like a baby…
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