I Married Female Lead's Crush Chapter 31

Su Qing didn't know how far she had run, she only stopped when she saw that no one had chased after her. Su Qing bent down and tried to steady her breathing. She's not familiar with the path in the palace and it's already dark now, if she runs around randomly, she probably runs into Su Yingruo again. After thinking about it for a moment, she picked up her steps and walked forward. After finding a more hidden place, she sat down and looked at the blood-stained dagger that was still in her hand. Su Qing held the dagger high in the air, turned her wrist and looked at the dagger carefully. Her tender white fingers trembled, as she lightly touched the bloodstain like a dragonfly skimming the water. Her movement at that time was very light and fast, but somehow Su Qing felt there was a thin flash of lightning that swam all over her body, released all the pain in the bottom of her heart, and…..a bit of pleasure feeling. The kind of feeling she had never experienced before.

Since she married into Gu Mansion, for the past month, she has been living in fear everyday, fearing that Gu Zifu would be like the rumors. If one day he's in a bad mood and makes her into a human skin fan. But to her surprise, that person except… likes to play around and often plays tricks on her, he seemed to have no other excessive behavior. Perhaps due to the bad ending of the original body in the book that has led Su Qing to have some strong preconceived ideas, thinking that as long as she compromise when necessary, tolerate a little bit, everything will pass smoothly. In her previous life, her parents restricted her activities too much, which caused her to be almost isolated from the outside world and really couldn't understand people's feelings. Just like a moment ago, if she wasn't a bit extra careful, she would already suffer  under Su Yingruo's hand, but having a first time, it would be a second time. If she continues to give in like this, even if she knew the contents of the book, she's afraid that her ending would not be much different from the original body.

Yes, she knew exactly what situation she was in. At this era of power authority, without identity and status she is nobody. She should learn to change herself now, try to be stronger, and learn to protect herself. Even if it wasn't for herself, it was for her only relative in this world. She could tell Su Shisheng really wanted to protect this sister, the same to her, she also doesn't want to lose this younger brother.

Become a little stronger, work a little harder, a little, just a little…..

"Um, it does look good."

Su Qing lost in thought and was startled by a sudden sound causing the dagger to drop to the ground. When she looked up and who it was, her eyes flashed with happiness. In the dim darkness, like the starlight shining, in the trembling voice, she called him with a trace of joy that she didn't even notice.

"Seventh Lord."

Gu Zifu only lightly said "um" and squatted down, picked up the dagger and weighted it in the palm of his hand, "Heavy, it's a bit difficult to kill, but it's enough to hurt people."

From his words, Su Qing knew he had seen what just happened earlier, pulling the corner of her dress with her fingers and her plain face blushed slightly because of uneasiness, "Seventh Lord, I, I have never thought of killing anyone."

"Really never thought of?"

"Absolutely not!" Su Qing suddenly raised her voice.

When she had finished speaking, and realized what she had just done, secretly annoyed by this.

Gu Zifu stared at her with a smile for a long while, slightly chucked with amusement, reversed his wrist, and the dagger flew out directly nailed on the trunk, "Why do you need such embarrassing plaything for? Go back I will have Si Ting make you a new one."

"No, that won't do." Su Qing was anxious, picked up her dress and went under the tree, stood on tiptoe and tried to reach for it.

This dagger was given to her by Su Shisheng.

However, the original body is too petite, no matter how hard she tried to jump, her fingertips could only barely touch the dagger.

"Seventh Lord, you are so bad!" Su Qing turned to look at him as she bit her lip and said angrily. 

Gu Zifu stood there with one of his hands propped under his chin leisurely watching the little girl jumping up and down, "Well, don't they say if the man is not bad, women don't like—- Qing Qing jumps higher."

She doesn't believe it!

Su Qing jumped a few more times, not only she couldn't reach it, she has made herself exhausted. She glanced at the corner of her eyes and happened to see Gu Zifu looking over at her direction with a mocking smile on his face, making her face heat up.

Putting down her dress, Su Qing walked to him as she pulled the corner of his sleeve and said with the bottom of her eyes slightly wet, "Seventh Lord, can you help me, okay?"

She swears, this is definitely the last time she begs him.

Gu Zifu looked at her red face, his fingers began to itch again. He then shook his head, "Not okay, I'm not feeling well today, I want to go back to rest."

This person! Obviously he was the one who threw the dagger there!

Su Qing's slightly bulging chest heaved up and down, and her hands that held his sleeve unconsciously tightened, apparently really angry this time.

Gu Zifu felt it's interesting to watch her.

Before adopting Da Bai, he remembered the first time he made the fan from human's skin and bone. At that time, he escaped from the Gu Mansion after being chased and trying to kill him by the Old Madam's people. He had picked up a little white rabbit on the road. The rabbit has white snowy fur and red eyes. When he held it, it felt like holding a furry soft ball, very comfortable, which made him like it very much. At that time, he was still young and his ability was limited. It was hard to bring a rabbit with him while running away, but he did not abandon that rabbit. At that time, everyone was disgusted with him, talked about him behind his back, but only the white rabbit was willing to be close to him. It would drill into his arms when it was cold at night, and came to find him whenever it was hungry. But its problem was it liked to bite people, bit on his fingers several times.

"Seventh Lord." Su Qing pulled his sleeve again, slightly bit her lip and said in a gentle voice, "That dagger was given to me by Su Shisheng. It's very important to me. Seventh Lord, can you help me take it down? When I go back, I will learn to make pastry from Shuangqiao and make it for you."

"You?" Gu Zifu lowered his head and asked in great disdain.

Su Qing's complexion slightly blushed and her eyes moved swiftly, but she still nodded hesitantly.

"Don't, I still want to live a few more years." After that, Gu Zifu gave a heavy flick on her forehead, strode forward and pulled out the dagger from the tree. He threw it back next to her feet and walked back along the original path.

Su Qing rushed to pick up the dagger and followed him. She asked in a low voice, "Seventh Lord, how is the Seventh Royal Sister?"

"Thew in the water."

"Threw….threw in the water?"

Deep inside her heart, she felt that after she has been with the Seventh Lord for a long time, her ability to handle the news has become much stronger.

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Night falls, Ling Jiu Palace seemed to be unusually bustling tonight. The palace maids carrying clothes and hot water go in and out. The medicine herd that was prescribed by the Imperial Physician just finished boiling and was brought over, but before that palace maid could say a word, Su Yingruo raised her hand and knocked it over. everyone in the hall knelt down in an instant.

Wei Zhang heard that Su Yingruo  fell into water and hurried over from the study. When he saw the broken pieces on the floor, he waved his hand and the maids, "You all go out first."

"Yes, the heir."

Be able to serve at the Ling Jiu Palace, one must know how to read the situation. After closing the door on the way out, and ordering a few words to the guards outside, making sure no one came to disturb the people inside. 

Wei Zhang walked over to sit on the bed, and with a look full of tenderness staring at Su Yingruo's beautiful face. As he's going to raise his hand to arrange her disarray hair, Su Yingruo quickly turned away and buried her head between her knees and curled herself up tightly into a ball.

But then she raised her hand and pinned the black hair behind her ear. In the process, it seems that he accidentally brushed across the back of Weizhang's hand and looked at him with red eyes, "Elder cousin Wei, I'm sorry…..my mood is not really good…."

"No problem, Ruoer's happiness is the most important thing." Wei Zhang smiled as he picked up her coat from the side and put it on her, comforting her, "It's just that Ruo'er shouldn't lose your temper like this. What if you harm your body, it's not worth it. Ne good, listen to elder cousin, obediently drink medicine later."

"Elder cousin Wei….."

Su Yingruo opened her mouth, as her eyelashes trembled slightly, and a drop of crystal tears fell along her cheeks. A weeping of beauty, like pears blossom bathed in the rain, purly uncontaminated, very beautiful worth of admiration. 

"I really like him. I really want to be good to him, but ….but no matter how hard I try I have never been able to get into his eyes. Elder Cousin Wei, Ruo'er's heart hurts….really hurts…."

You really like him, and when will you know how much I care about you.

Wei Zhang sighed in his heart, and raised his hand to wipe the teardrops in the corner of her eyes. Her delicate skin has made his heart tremble, trying to cover his emotions and asked, "Does Ruo'er really like the Seventh Lord?"

"This….." Su Yingruo looked at him as she wanted to say something but paused it, her cheeks blushed, revealing a young maiden shyness, she then nodded lightly. 

Wei Zhang's fists in his sleeves were clenched tightly, but his face still remained as normal and continued, "You and I have been close since childhood. As long as you like it, Elder cousin will help you get it. But the Seventh Lord's temperament is really strange, even if Su Qing is no longer the Seventh Madam, I am afraid that the Seventh Lord will not….."

Even though he didn't say the rest of the words, Su Yingruo understood his meaning.

Her fingertips trembled slightly, lowering her head to conceal the joy in her eyes well and said with worry, "This….is not good. After all, the little tenth's marriage was written clearly in the imperial edict by the Imperial Father. Even the Crown Prince Brother also knew about this. Elder Cousin Wei, don't do stupid things!"

"How could that be?" Wei Zhang rubbed her head gently and said with a tender smile, "The reason I came back is to help His Highness the Crown Prince, Ruo'er don't need to worry, I know what I'm doing. Now what you need to do is to take care of your body, tomorrow Elder Cousin will come to see you again."

"En, Ruo'er thanks Elder Cousin first."

Weizhang got up and went out of the room with a stern cold face and the eyes were full of murderous intentions. He called the senior palace maid who was waiting outside and asked, "Where are the two palace maids who were with the princess when she fell into the water today?"

"Response to the heir, they are working in the back."

"They both failed to protect the princess and have offended the Seventh Lord, such a disposition is not suitable to stay in the palace. I'll leave it to you to decide this matter." Wei Zhang commanded expressionlessly. 

The senior palace maid smiled with hidden meaning, "The heir rest assured, this slave will "safely" let them out of the palace."

After hearing this, Wei Zhang nodded and left the Ling Jiu Palace with his bodyguards."

That senior palace maid is called Bai Shao. At first she worked at Consort Duan's palace, but in recent years she has transferred to serve Su Yingruo. As soon as Wei Zhang left, she immediately relayed all the conversation she had with him to Su Yingruo.

She knew exactly who her real master was.

Su Yingruo laughed softly, her fingers twisting her black hair that fell on her chest and said with a seductive smile, "As expected, my Elder Cousin still likes me."

Bai Shao said with some hesitation, "But the Crown Prince has the intention to draw the Seventh Lord to his side, if we plot something…."

"No worry. Elder Cousin Wei is not an impulsive person." Su Yingruo waved her hand and smiled softly, "You go bring out the green dress, and order the Imperial Kitchen make some of Elder Cousin's favorite food, tomorrow I will go visit him at King of Guang'an Mansion."

Bai Shao was a bit hesitant, but in the end she got up and went to prepare the things she just instructed for tomorrow. 

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Maybe Gu Zifu's killing spree in the main hall has scared quite a number of people. In the past few days, Su Shizhuo has successfully eliminated many of the court officials that go against him, and almost half of the people in the palace have been changed into his own confidants, making a lot of things go smoother than before.

Su Qing spent several days staying in the palace in peace, occasionally taking a walk in the Imperial Garden in her free time, or when Gu Zifu was away, she went to the Buddha Hall to visit Su Shisheng. The brother and sister spent time together and got along with each other very well.

It's even better if there is no the Seventh Lord making trouble out of nothing.

At first, Gu Zifu still had some patience to accompany those fleas to play, but did not know who was in the study yesterday said something made him unhappy. He lifted his feet and directly kicked that person out of the way, vomited blood and passed out on the spot. It's said that the person is still unconscious until now. In the end, Prime Minister Chi personally came out to plead for mercy, so that the Seventh Lord left that minister with half of his life.

After lunch, Prime Minister Chi came to Jian Zhi Palace, asking the Seventh Lord to leave the palace with him and go to the Prime Minister's Mansion to finish the remaining "Chunfeng Qiuyue".

Su Qing didn't want to stay in the palace for too long. When she heard his invitation, she casted a glance at the person next to her. 

Gu Zifu also cast a sidelong glance back at her, and nodded reluctantly. 

Inside the carriage, Su Qing lifted the curtain and saw the carriage turned around the corner. After thinking about it for a moment, she asked, "Can the Seventh Lord drink wine?" She has been in the Gu Courtyard for this long, but she has never seen him drink wine, normally only like to drink tea.

Gu Zifu didn't even open his eyes, making it clear that he didn't want to talk to her.

Su Qing also realized that her question was a bit stupid. Rubbing the corner of her dress until her fingertips turned slightly red, then turned around to look at the outside and stop caring about the trivial matter just now. 

Maybe one day when she gets a chance to leave the Gu Courtyard, she can find a place to set up a stall and live a peaceful life.

When they arrived at the door of the Prime Minister's Mansion, there were already people waiting there, including the Eldest son of the Prime Minister Chi, Chi Rui. The Prime Minister Chi married only one woman as his wife in his entire life. When Su Qing first heard about this, she was also surprised. It's very rare in ancient times for the husband to marry only one wife and has no concubine. The couple have one son and one daughter. The eldest son lives in the capital and works in court. As for the daughter, after marriage she moved to live with her husband's family in Jiangnan. 

Chi Rui walked to the carriage and greeted the Prime Minister Chi before helping him out the carriage. After giving a few instructions to his subordinates, he then came over to give a salute to Gu Zifu and smiled, "Seventh Lord, long time no see."

"I don't know you." Gu Zifu gave a cold response, didn't even look at him and walked directly into the house. 

Chi Rui shook his head helplessly, "Seventh Lord stays the same. After many years, he hasn't changed at all."

Su Qing looked a little confused when she heard this. The first was eunuch Changsheng, then Prime Minister Chi, and now the eldest son of the Prime Minister Chi. Could it be…. The Seventh lord reaches the point where all the young and the old eat together?

"Seventh Madam." A nice voice passed to her ears.

Su Qing looked at him and asked, "Why don't you call me Her Highness the Tenth Princess like others?" After she married into the Gu Family, except Si Ting and Shuangqiao, not many addressed her "Seventh Madam."

Chi Rui has a good temperament, just smiled lightly and said, "Here is the Prime Minister Mansion, so there are only the Seventh Lord and Seventh Madam. As Her Highness is only for the master of the palace, we can't afford to serve."

This person……

Chi Rui continues, "There are a lot of people outside, Madam should go in first." He then made a "please" hand gesture to Su Qing.

Su Qing no longer talked, nodded her head and followed him into the residence.

The Prime Minister and others are inside the study. After Chi Rui made arrangements for Su Qing, he also rushed over to join them. Presumably there must be something important to discuss about.

The maid showed Su Qing around the Prime Minister's Mansion, and talked with her from time to time. The small path was planted with unknown flowers on both sides. Now the flowers bloom brilliantly, red and green colored looking very lovely. The peach petals fell from the wind and sprinkled on the blue-stone path, the air was floated with flower fragrance.

Su Qing's eyes brighten with joy. As she's going to reach out her hand to touch it, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in the back of her hand. She looked down and saw a small stone falling to the ground.

Immediately a little boy jumped out from the side, and shouted at her with a fierce look, "These flowers are planted by my mother, you are not allowed to touch it!"

"Seventh Madam, this is the Young Master of our Prime Minister's Mansion. He's usually naughty like this." The maid whispered next to her ear.

Su Qing nodded.

The little boy looked about five or six years old, wearing crescent-color satin clothes looking very noble and black gold embroidered boots. This boy has good facial features, but now stands there looking at her with an unhappy face.

"Jiu'er, don't be rude to the guest."

When the boy heard the sound, he hummed at Su Qing, and quickly ran to the woman who was walking toward their direction, pouting his mouth and started to complain, "Mother, she wanted to pick your flower, she's wrong."

Ye Yuyi handed the child in her arms to the momo behind her, then bent over lightly patted the boy's head and said with a smile, "You little naughty, she's the guest and you the host. It's inappropriate for a host to be rude to the guest."

Chi Jiu flattened his mouth, looked at her for a long time then nodded reluctantly, "Okay, whatever mother says is right."

Finished speaking, he walked to Su Qing, lowered his head, his toes kicked the pebble on the ground far away, and then said with a dull voice, "My mother has me come to apologize to you, so I came over. But you can't pick my flower."

Su Qing felt this little boy was so cute, making her couldn't hold back her laugh. She squatted down and stared at him with a smiley face, "Flowers your mother planted are so beautiful, I can't bear to pick it. I just wanted to touch a little bit, but before I could reach it, you already came. Look, this place is all red." Su Qing stretched out her hand and showed him where he hit her just now.

Chi Yan's face turned red, he immediately turned and ran to hide behind his mother. Only Poked out small his head through her sleeve and stuck out his tongue at Su Qing.

Ye Yuyi is Chi Rui's wife. When she heard that a guest was coming to visit, she came out to take a look. She touched Chi Jiu's head and smiled softly to Di Qing, "This child is very naughty, I hope Seventh Madam doesn't mind."

Su Qing shook her head, "Madam is being too modest. Young Master is very cute."

"Hum, the teacher said the boy is not supposed to be cute!" After saying this, he quickly shrank his head back.

"This child….." Ye Yuyi shook her head helplessly, and had the servants take the children away.

Rumor has it the Prime Minister mutually respects each other and even his eldest son also married only one wife. Now the couple have one son and one daughter. Husband and wife are in great harmony, treating each other with respect.

That's great! Su Qing thought to herself.

Ye Yuyi came from a noble family, her father is also a court official. Her bearing is very elegant and gentle. She took Su Qing to sign seeing in the estate and looked for interesting topics to talk to her. Su Qing looked at her gentle smile on her face, she could tell she's full of happiness.

After walking for a while, she saw Chi Rui walking over from far away with a cloak in his hand. When he reached them, he gently draped it on Ye Yuyi and urged, "The doctor said your body is not in good health and advised you to rest more, why did you come out again?"

Seeing the guest is still here, Ye Yuyi's cheeks were slightly red, feeling a little embarrassed when she heard him say this, "I heard that the guests are here, so I thought of coming out to walk a bit and see the guest. You have me stay inside the room all day, don't you afraid I will get sick."

"What is to be afraid of? If you're sick, I'll take care of you."

Ye Yuyi was annoyed, "You have a smooth tongue, not being decent at all." 

At that moment, Gu Zifu just arrived and happened to hear her. He chuckled, "He's indeed talked a lot like an old lad."

He walked silently and suddenly appeared behind her, making Su Qing startled a bit. She then called softly, "Seventh Lord."

Gu Zifu lazily answered.

Chi Rui wasn't upset with his comment. After he tied the cloak carefully for his wife, he looked at Gu Zifu and teased him, "Seventh Lord, do you know what it means to not eat grapes and say the grapes sour? Truthfully, I'm just two years older than the Seventh Lord. But now, not only are husband and wife in harmony, loving each other deeply, we also have a son and daughter. Seventh Lord, shouldn't it prove something?"

Two years older?

Su Qing wondered, wasn't Seventh Lord thirty? But this Chi Rui obviously…. 

Hi Zifu sneered, "Chi Rui, is your daily life too comfortable?"

"Not as comfortable as the Seventh Lord." Chi Rui replied.

"Yes, it seemed indeed comfortable, and the brain also stopped working, just a few fleas can't be solved, good for nothing." He then turned around and about to leave, but when he saw Su Qing still standing there in a daze, he raised his hand and tapped her head, "If still not going, I'll leave you here."

Su Qing suddenly came back to her mind, glanced at Gu Zifu who had walked a few steps away, she turned to bid farewell to Ye Yuyi and rushed to catch up with him.

After watching the two figures go away, Ye Yuyi gently held her husband's hand and said hesitantly, "Husband, in the future don't say such things in front of the Seventh Lord. In fact, Seventh Lord, he….has been through a lot all these years. Now that It's not easy to be able to be stable for a few years, yet no girl from any family dares to marry him."

"Madam don't need to worry. From what I saw today the Seventh Madam is not bad, only needs to have a bit of temper and strong personality."

Ye Yuyi paused for a moment and then smiled softly, "It turned out the husband likes it like that."

Chi Rui: "…..Madam is overthinking."

Chapter end