I Married Female Lead's Crush Chapter 47

Wei Zhang was playing with the hairpin. When he heard her asking, slightly narrowed his brows and asked with a faint smile, "What? Ruo'er hoping him comes?"

It was just a simple question but somewhat giving people a shiver feeling.

The hall became unusually quiet. 

Su Yingruo was thinking of the Seventh Lord, and blurted it out in front of Wen Zhang, without thinking much of it. But she knew that she still has to depend on him in the future, so she tried to calm down her upset, and quickly put an innocent smile on her face and said in a cute delicate voice, "What is the older cousin thinking about? The reason Ruo'er asked because the other day I heard the elder royal brother mentioned that he wanted to invite the Seventh Lord to this banquet. Furthermore, it's not like the older cousin didn't know that the troops at the border are under the Seventh Lord's controls. Elder royal brother has always wanted to pull him to his side. If the Seventh Lord enters the palace this time, maybe it could help improve their relationship. Thus, older cousin, you can't wrongly excuse me."

Wei Zhang turned around, raised his eyes to look at her. The corner of his mouth formed a smile, but not like a smile, "Ruo'er, you better put away this little thought. Don't forget what you promised before. I will not say anything to auntie, but it's hard to predict the crown prince's mind."

After finished saying, he didn't care to look at Su Yingruo gloomy face, swept his sleeve, and left the hall. At the outside door, he turned to look at the maids and said, "Serving the Princess well."

Su Yingruo stared at Wen Zhang's figure in resentment, crumbled the dress in her hands and threw it down on the ground.

Seeing that she's in a bad mood, the head of maid servants quickly dismissed the other maids and took the fan on the table to fan the cool breeze for her and carefully said, "Princess don't be upset. Since old time marriage is always decided by the parents but forgiving this slave servant for being bold. I felt the crown prince probably has already agreed to this."

Su Yingruo's delicate white hand caressed her own cheek, her eyes gleamed slightly, and said, "It's okay. Regarding this matter I already have a plan in my mind."

The older cousin is well  versed in both civil and military affairs, courageous, and ambitious, receiving a lot praised from many ministers. The crown prince will put him into a good use after he ascends the throne. As for her marriage, she's afraid that she will be sent out as a bargaining chip.

But, what she Su Yingruo wants, even if it's ruined, she will definitely not allow it to be half tainted by others.

Bai Sao glanced at the expression on her face, knowing that it's better for her not to say more, and quietly retreated. 

The master's business, the slave-servant has no right to say.

—————-

Seeing that the day of the palace banquet is getting closer, the palace has frequently sent more people to the Gu Courtyard. Even the eldest of the Prime Minister would have to run here every two or three days. But as soon as Gu Zifu saw his face, he was scolded badly by him before he could say anything.

Truth be told, in the entire capital city no one is more bold than him.

"Seventh Lord, you're my ancestor! My only ancestor, can you please say a word, you are going or not? If you're not going, can you just say it directly, stop beating around the bush. Can't you see how tired I am these days because of you, don't you feel bad for me?!!"

Gu Zifu flicked his finger, and the stuffed tiger on the table tumbled backward. 

"No."

Chi Rui was completely speechless. He paced around the round the room anxiously. After a while, he finally stopped and slapped the table. He probably used too much strength, his fingers didn't stop shaking after a while, but the man didn't even spare him a glance. 

Knowing that Gu Zifu won't change his mind, he started to let out the fire in his chest, "Do you want to go or not?!!" 

Gu Zifu casually responded "en", and continued to play with his tiger.

Chi Rui almost exploded from anger.

What did he do in his last life to know such a shameless person? It simply has broken many years of his mind cultivation.

Just like last time, in the middle of the night, when he was sleeping peacefully hugging his wife in his arms, a loud "bang" of door kicking came out of nowhere. Before he was able to see clearly who it was, he was lifted up to the roof by his collar.

He didn't know what kind of wrong medicine the Seventh Lord took, and started throwing out a bunch of questions at him.

Not to mention the man didn't listen to his persuasion, but instead made him stay with him on the rooftop the whole night. As a result, he catches a cold and had to take medicine for several days. 

After calming down, Chu Rui took a sip of tea and looked at the man's expression, and was about to speak. The man sitting opposite to him suddenly put down the stuffed tiger, got up and walked out.

Chi Rui asked in puzzed, "Where are you going?"

The sunshine outside sprinkled warmly on the people. In a little while, it's time for lunch.

Gu Zifu paused his step, and said with a sneered, "Eat."

After that, he pushed the door open and went out. 

Chi Rui hurriedly caught up, and shouted, "Seventh Lord….."

Unfortunately, the man in front of him ignored him and leisurely walked out of the Gu Courtyard. 

The mess that was created by last time's fight is still there. Si Ting thought about it, and finally decided to tear down the entire wall; planning to build a small pond at the original spot and push the back wall a little further along the small lake.

Si Ting has found craftsmen from outside, and now he's working hard under the scorching sun with them.

Chu Rui stared at them for a while, frowning, and muttering to himself, "Strange, why does the Seventh Lord go out to eat?"

Su Qing has spent her beautiful days at Shi Fang restaurant happily. Nobody has bothered in recent days,having delicious food and drink waiting for her to enjoy. If she's borded, she can go shopping on the street whenever she wants.

Su Qing sat by the window, holding the picture book in her hand. The breeze blew her hair, exposing the white small forehead. She smiled softly when she saw the interesting part. Her eyes were softly squeezed like autumn water. People cannot help but want to be close to her. 

When Chuntao came in with a plate of pastry, she walked in carefully, for fear of disturbing her. But when she turned around to close the door, Su Qing had closed the book, her eyes blinked as she walked over, sniffing her nose exaggeratedly.

"It's so fragrant. The baking skills of the chef in our restaurant are becoming more and more skillful." 

Chuntao couldn't hold her laughter when she heard that. She put the pastry on the table and said, "Your Highness's mouth also became skillful. You haven't eaten it yet, but  have already praised them."

Today pastry is chestnut cake. Chuntao had especially asked the chief to add extra sugar in it.

Su Qing took a small bite, the taste is very sweet and soft. It would be nice if Shuangqiao also knew how to make it.

Thinking of this, her eyes were a little dull.

She refused to think about the Gu Courtyard anymore, but somehow what Gu Zifu said to her on that day with a gentle smile, it came to her mind from time to time.

No way, how could she think of him?

The man grabbed her neck that night, the murderous air, still frightened her until these days. 

Thinking of unpleasant things, even the pastry didn't taste so good anymore.

While her mind was wandering, a clamored sound came from downstairs, pulling her thoughts back.

The two in the room looked at each other in wonder. In the end, Chuntao opened her mouth first, "Your Highness, rest assured, this slave servant will go take a look."

She only took a few steps outside of the room, and saw a waiter running upstairs in panic. Before Chuntao could ask what was happening, the person already ran past her into the room, panting heavily and said, "Miss, Seventh Lord, Seventh Lord is here…."

Seventh Lord?!

Su Qing was taken aback.

Why did the Seventh come here?

At that moment, Chuntao walked in and whispered to her, "Your Highness, this slave servant also went to check it. It's really the Seventh Lord. There are also a few people lying on the ground….."

Upon hearing that, Su Qing got up in panic, accidentally her elbow hit the corner of the table, but she had no time to worry about the pain and hurriedly asked, "What happened? Where is steward Zhuo?"

"…..at that time this little one was busy at the back. By the time I came out I saw several people were already lying on the ground, and a handsome man was standing in the middle. I heard everyone called him, Seventh Lord. This little one didn't know what caused the fight, but steward Zhuo was afraid of having bigger trouble, so had this little one come and ask Miss to think of a way …." The waiter said anxiously.

"Bang—-" There was another loud noise coming from downstairs.  

Su Qing bit her lower lip tightly, hesitating whether to downstairs or not.

She's also afraid of the Seventh Lord. But if letting him throwing and smashing the stuff, those are her money.

It was like a desperate curse, the successive crackling fatal sound went off one after another.

Su Qing became anxious. Clenched her fist, took a deep breath, and lifted her skirt and stomped downstairs.

"Hey, Your Highness……" Chuntao rushed to catch up with her.

There is saying that you can be a big lord, but the Seventh Lord is your ancestor. 

Gu Zifu stood straight downstairs, and one of his legs pressed hard on the person who was lying on the floor, with a crash and that person hit several tables before flow out.

"Ai ya, flow out….."

Everyone: "……."

Su Qing looked at the messy scene downstairs. The broken tables and chairs on the floor and there weren't many diners left in the building. Steward Zhuo stood there with a distressed expression and heart full of anger. 

Su Qing stomped off the stairs, under everyone's gazes, pulled Gu Zifu's sleeves and dragged him upstairs with her as soon as possible.

Her money!!

Gu Zifu looked at the little girl in front of him, the corner of his mouth curled up, with a faint smile in the bottom of his eyes, his mood felt somewhat better and obediently followed her lead. 

Su Qing pulled the person into the room, and turned around to close the door. She didn't even let Chuntao in.

"Seventh Lord, you compensate me!!"

Gu Zifu lowered his eyes and looked at the white tender little hand before him. His eyes slowly moved up and landed on the little girl's red face, could not help but rub it gently.

He really wanted to pinch it. 

Hw advanced two steps, Su Qing panicked and hurriedly backed away. But Gu Zifu was faster than her, and in a flash he pulled the person into his arms, turned around and let her sit on the table. His cold fingers pinched lightly pinched her face, and said with an inexplicably sound of being wrong. 

"Qing Qing, they are the ones who bullied me first."

Su Qing's eyes widened looking at him in disbelief. 

"You, you…." Su Qing stumbled for words, and accidentally bit the tip of her tongue. The little face was pulled into a ball, covered her mouth, and her watery eyes staring at him angrily.

As expected, nothing good came out when met with the Seventh Lord!

The snowy cheeks turned slightly pink, soft and tender. Gu Zifu couldn't help but stay there a little longer, until the little girl reacted and struggled, he then withdrew his hand  reluctantly.

He then also sat on the table. 

Seeing the chestnut cake on the table, he twisted a small piece and put it into his mouth. He frowned and said with disgust, "How do you like such a gross thing?"

"……." Why is this person having so many bad habits.

Su Qing turned her face away, ignored him.

After a long awkward silence, realizing that she had been sitting on the table, Su Qing felt a little embarrassed and wanted to jump off the table, but the corner of her clothes was suddenly pulled by someone. She looked up and saw the man smiled with glistening eyes looking at her. 

"The day after tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet and also the day the crown prince will ascend the throne. Do you want to go to the palace together to meet with brother-in-law?"

"Who are you….." Su Qing paused and stared at him in surprise. Her voice trembled slightly, "Seventh Lord said……"

She really misses Su Shisheng.

When Chi Rui came to Gu Courtyard last time, she heard a little bit about this. At that time, she secretly thought that it would be great if the Seventh Lord agreed to go and let her go with him. But a lot of things happened later, and she didn't think about it since then, and now this person……"

Yet, when she thought about Gu Zifu's fierce face on that night, she suddenly felt scared, but if she missed this opportunity, she didn't know when would be her next chance.

Thinking of Su Shisheng, she gritted her teeth and pressed down the fear in her heart, nodded and asked in a low voice, "Seventh what you said is real?"

"Fake."

Su Qing looked at the teasing smile of that man, her heart was filled with grievances, but forced herself to hold back the tears at the corner of her eyes. She closed her eyes, and when she looked up again, she said with a firm tone. 

"Seventh Lord, you have to keep the words you said."

Gu Zifu stared at her face for a while, feeling a little disappointed. 

This time the little girl didn't cry, it was boring.

Gu Zifu remained expressionless, and didn't answer her. 

Su Qing was worried that Gu Zifu was really joking, she gathered her courage and pulled his sleeve lightly, and said in a soft voice full of grievance with a misty-eyes, "You have to keep your words……"

Seeing that the little girl is really going to cry, Gu Zifu's heart felt somewhat unhappy.

He tilted his head, flicked her forehead very hard, and said fiercely, "No crying. If you cry again, I won't take you to the palace."

"You hit me again?"

Gu Zifu lowered his head, looking at his own fingers, the corners of his mouth twitched, and sighed helplessly. Then raised his hand gently rubbing between her brows, "Not hitting. Let me knead your forehead for you, okay?"

At first, Su Qing was going to avoid him, but seeing that he was really just rubbing so she let him be. Her pain was really reduced by a lot after his rubbing.

Su Qing is having a headache now because the person refused to leave.

"That's my bed! You are not allowed to touch it!"

"My pastries are sweet, you don't like it!"

"And that one is also not allowed to touch!"

Gu Zifu sat on the bed, slightly narrowed his eyes, but his face turned very ugly. Suddenly revealing a trace of anger, and said in a cold voice, "Su Qing, what are you being so stingy about?"

He stood up as soon as he finished saying. 

Su Qing was flustered, hurriedly hugged the quilt wanted yo escape, but she grabbed by the collar before she could run away. The quilt was taken away from her, she tried to snatch it back but staggering backwards, "ouch" and fell on the bed.

Gu Zifu leaned down and pinched the little girl's face, the coldness in his eyes  became even more fierce, said, "I haven't seen you for only a few days, your gut has become bolder now?"

Su Qing struggled to break away from his grasp, but he didn't budge at all. She had no choice but tried to kick him instead and said while sobbing, "Yes, I'm brave, my gut is getting bigger….anyway when I am obedient, you like to make fun of me, and if I don't obey, you would frighten me. Gu Zifu, you are an asshole! An ugly and stinky asshole!"

Gu Zifu was furious, holding her wrist and said fiercely, "What asshole, I'm your man!"

"……."

Su Qing stopped crying, looking at him with tears blurring in her eyes, seemingly very pitiful.

Gu Zifu let go of her wrist and turned to sit beside the bed with cross legs. His fox like-eyes slightly frowned, staring at her full of grudges.

"Qing Qing, this day can't be continued."

Su Qing: "….. "

Su Qing wiped her tears and pointed to the door, "Then go back, you go back to your Gu Courtyard."

Gu Zifu's face was sullen, turned dark like a dark cloud at night. He glanced at Su Qing coldly and got up abruptly, frightened Su Qing. Her face turned pale instantly.

But this time, it was rare that Gu Zifu didn't say anything, opened the door and went downstairs.

Until Chuntao came to report that the Seventh Lord had left the restaurant, she collapsed on the bed and let out a long sigh of relief.

"Your Highness….." Chuntao picked up the quilt and set it aside, then wiped away the tears on Su Qing's face.

Su Qing coughed a few times, buried her face in the quilt, sobbing quietly.

The Seventh Lord hasn't paid money yet…….

What she didn't expect was that the Seventh Lord really marked his word this time. In the last two days, she didn't see him come to the restaurant. But on the day of the palace banquet, he sent Shuangqiao to deliver her the attire and jewelry.

The dress is made of good brocade, red and white, embroidered with pink silk thread on the finely divided cherry petals, and a layer of gold silk, as if the cherry blossoms are coated with a layer of gold rims, dazzling under the sun. In addition to that, there is a purple jade hairpin in the box.

The moment Su Qing saw it, she recognized it right away. It's the exact dress at Ming Feizhai that Su Yingruo praised last time.

Unexpectedly, it actually fell into the Seventh Lord's hands. 

A sudden inexplicably complicated feeling occured in her heart.

While her mind was wandering, Shuangqiao suddenly reached out her hands and pulled her to sit down before the mirror with a smile. 

She slightly loosened Su Qing's hair bun, and her long straight hair scattered to the waist. 

"Madam, today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and also the grand day of the crown prince ascending the throne. This palace banquet can't be taken lightly. As for these clothes and hairpins, you don't need to worry. Seventh Lord has a lot of money anyway, you can spend it at ease." She then picked the comb, gently brushing Su Qing's hair, and said, "Chuntao, can you help me take those hairpins over here?"

Chuntao nodded happily, "Okay."

Su Qing sat there obediently and let the two dolled her up. Just a blink of an eye, it's already dark outside.

Shuangqiao has very good skills at doing hair. Considering Su Qing's immature face, she didn't put many hair ornaments and only inserted a purple jade hairpin on her hair bun. Shuangqiao smiled and nodded with satisfaction with her choice. 

Suddenly, a knocking sound came from outside, Si Ting said, "Madam, the carriage is already here."

Today is the day the new emperor ascended the throne, so Su Qing asked steward Zhuo to give the workers at the restaurant a day off, let them go out to enjoy the festivity. Hence, there was no one in the restaurant at this time. 

Su Qing somewhat felt relieved in her heart. 

Gu Zifu was already waiting in the carriage. He lifted the curtain and saw Su Qing's stunning look, he was in a daze for a moment until the person entered the carriage, he seemed to recover his mind. His long legs moved around lazily and became more indecent. 

Su Qing finally noticed that Gu Zifu is wearing dark blak again.

It's not the casual clothes he wears daily, with tight cuffs and a snug fit. The pattern on the top is complicated, embroidering some patterns that she can't call what it is, it should be a formal attire for entering the palace. 

She raised her eyes, and happened to meet with Gu Zifu's gaze staring at her.

The Seventh Lord is indecent again.

She muttered quietly, and lifted the curtain to look at the scenery outside the carriage. 

However, people who practiced martial arts have very sharp ears. Gu Zifu could hear her whispered clearly. As he was going to say a few words to tease her, his gaze fell on the little girl's snowy cheeks that turned slightly red almost hidden in the collar.

The redness was not obvious in the dim light, but his eyes were significantly brighter than usual. It was like the last time when Chi Ruo bought a hairpin for his wife, the woman's face was full of happiness and a little shy. 

Gu Zifu smiled silently, "it looks pretty good."

What?

Su Qing turned to look at him, but saw that Gu Zifu had withdrawn his eyes and  closed his eyes, pretending to sleep.

She's more than happy that he didn't speak, taking this chance to enjoy her time.

The surrounding was quiet as the carriage wobbled along the way. Su Qing was a little sleepy and fell asleep unknowingly, until she heard a thud sound next to her, opened her eyes in confusion and saw Gu Zifu got up, opened the curtain and jumped off the carriage. 

Su Qing took a light breath, put her hair behind her ears, and about to jump off from the carriage like him, but did not expect that the man outside seemed to have known her intention, reaching out and gently holding her out of the carriage. Then steadily put her down.

Su Qing stared at him without blinking. 

After Gu Zifu put the person down, the corner of his eye glanced over, as if looking at something interesting, his thin lips slightly hooked, and eyes smiled mischievously, as he walked toward the two horses. 

The sky was a bit dark, and the distance of the horses were a bit far. It must be a good horse to be able to capture Gu Zifu's interest. 

This time, Chuntao followed her into the palace, making Su Qing feel a lot at ease in her heart.

Many officials passing by seemed to recognize Gu Zifu, but no one dared to step forward to greet him. As soon as they saw him, their complexion changed in an instant, hurriedly bringing their families and walking away.

Gu Zifu saw their reactions, but didn't bother to put it in his eyes. He walked a few rounds around the horse, raised his hand and stroked it a few times, all of sudden, a loud roar came from a distance.

"Crazy dog! Stay away from laozi's horse"

That man quickly strode forwards anxiously, and began to fight with Gu Zifu before he could respond. 

Su Qing didn't need to turn to look, just from listening to the voice, she could already tell who the person was. 

General Wen, Wen Zhen.

"It seems that the old man is still young." The sound came from behind her.

Su Qing and Chuntao turned to look and saw it was Wen Lingzhuo. He smiled brightly at her and said, "Younger cousin, long time no see."

This man is really too friendly. 

Su Qing did not respond to his warm introduction. She looked around and saw the soldiers coming, and said in a low voice, "Many thanks for helping me catch the thief last time."

Wen Lingzhuo chuckled, and said helplessly, "Younger cousin, are you really not considering calling me elder cousin?"

Maybe he can show it off to his old man.

"You're really cold." He said.

The  two men got louder with their movements, even the imperial guards were alerted by this. Su Qing asked worriedly, "Is it really OK to let them fight like this?"

"Don't worry, beating to death is their problem."

Saying that, Wen Lingzhuo glanced around, his mouth curled up and said in a low voice, "It would be better if there were wine here. So disappointed."

——-Go away, she doesn't have such a shameful cousin.

Chapter end