Chapter 719 - 555: A Wise Father

Chapter 719: Chapter 555: A Wise Father

Mr. Gu ignored Mrs. Lv’s words, turned around and softly asked Gu Chengyu: "Xiao Bao! Tell your father, why exactly did your second uncle come back this time?"

Gu Chengyu was shocked, still somewhat bewildered. What did his father mean?

Could it be that he’s seen through Gu Changbai’s oddities? That couldn’t be, right?

"Father..."

Mr. Gu suddenly interrupted Gu Chengyu, ran to the window to look into the courtyard, saw that there was no commotion over there, then turned around.

Mrs. Lv was also startled by Mr. Gu’s secretive actions, "Old man, what are you doing? You’re acting like a thief in your own home."

Mrs. Lv complained, but her voice wasn’t loud.

Mr. Gu sat on the kang with a thud, "Could it be that your second uncle truly came back just to see us? Why does it seem unlikely to me?"

Actually, Mr. Gu just had a feeling! When Gu Changbai spoke of himself, he had many evasive words.

Besides, Mr. Gu saw Xiao Bao’s attitude towards Gu Changbai wasn’t right, not particularly enthusiastic.

Mr. Gu naturally understood what kind of person Xiao Bao was. He never looked down on poor relatives in the family, if there weren’t any special reasons, he would never look down on Gu Changbai just because he was poor.

"Father! You’ve guessed it right!" Gu Chengyu gave Mr. Gu a thumbs up, to have guessed that, truly the older the wiser.

Mr. Gu immediately tensed up, "What is going on here exactly? Your second uncle was doing well in the south, why did he come to the Capital? He doesn’t have money to spare, if he didn’t meet you, wouldn’t he starve to death?"

This was one of the things Mr. Gu was suspicious about, although Gu Changbai said he came to the Capital to find his eldest granddaughter, why bring the whole family? Is living in the Capital free of charge?

Or did they know Xiao Bao was in the Capital? But how could that be?

Anyway, he couldn’t make sense of it, yet there were many suspicious points in Gu Changbai’s earlier words. If asked what was off, he truly couldn’t list them.

Gu Chengyu found his own father rather wise, not lacking in intelligence!

"This matter is rather long to explain..." Gu Chengyu was about to start, to clarify everything with Mr. Gu, but Mr. Gu interrupted him.

"Then make it short!"

For a moment, Gu Chengyu was speechless.

...

"So, according to you, meeting you in the Capital was already plotted by your second brother?" Mr. Gu asked after pondering for a while.

"Although I haven’t found concrete evidence yet, various signs indicate he’s here for me in the Capital."

Gu Chengyu nodded slightly, in contrast to his father’s unsurprised demeanor, his mother seemed quite astonished.

"What? Are you saying he brought the family to the Capital just to plot against you? But didn’t he say he came to find his eldest granddaughter?"

Mrs. Lv was somewhat baffled, although Gu Changbai’s reason was a bit far-fetched, it wasn’t entirely impossible.

The reason for Mrs. Lv’s doubts was that Gu Chengyu hadn’t told his parents that Hua Lian was actually Gu Changbai’s eldest granddaughter.

Actually, this matter was quite awkward to explain, after all, he had visited a brothel, and still had to tell his parents. Though he did nothing indecent, he couldn’t help but feel guilty.

"Indeed, finding the granddaughter is true, but his granddaughter had previous connections with me. This matter is rather long to explain..."

Then, amidst his parents’ looks of disbelief, Gu Chengyu awkwardly recounted his acquaintance with Hua Lian.

Upon hearing this, Mr. Gu and his family felt stunned.

"Are you saying that the girl Hua Lian is your second brother’s long-lost eldest granddaughter and she was sold to a brothel? And you saved her?"

Mr. Gu grabbed his tobacco pipe in amazement, this was too much of a coincidence, could it be a setup?

"Xiao Bao, then?" Mrs. Lv didn’t care about these, she just wanted to know if Xiao Bao and Hua Lian were truly innocent.

A young gentleman plays around outside, going to a brothel, if he truly called a girl, it wasn’t rare.

Besides, their Xiao Bao was good-looking, weren’t those girls taking advantage?

But Hua Lian was a Gu Family member, still Xiao Bao’s niece, if spread around, would it be used against them?

When about to speak, she suddenly didn’t know how to ask, her son had grown, she felt awkward asking this.

Gu Chengyu saw Mrs. Lv’s expression and immediately understood her worries.

"Ahem! Don’t worry, Hua Lian and I are innocent, she has been sent elsewhere by me, planning to find a distant place for her to marry in the future. But then things changed, so I had someone keep her secure."

After speaking, Mr. Gu scrutinized him carefully, then nodded.

He trusts Xiao Bao, Xiao Bao wouldn’t lie, and Mrs. Lv trusted her own son even more than Mr. Gu.

If Xiao Bao says there’s nothing, then there’s nothing. Plus, speaking of Hua Lian, Xiao Bao’s eyes were pure, he had no evasion whatsoever. She knows her son best, she sees Xiao Bao hasn’t been near women yet.

"Is what you said about Xiao Yao being kidnapped true?" Since it was confirmed, Mr. Gu directly skipped to another key issue.

"Eight or nine times out of ten it’s accurate, anyhow Xiao Yao’s not dead, this is something Gu Wanfang knows too."

Gu Chengyu was actually very sure of this point, Xiao Yao must be in the hands of those people.

"So in other words, someone took Xiao Yao, made the second brother’s family come to the Capital under the pretense of finding his eldest granddaughter to approach you. It seems the people behind have known the relationship between Hua Lian and the second brother, thus kidnapped Xiao Yao to threaten him, wanting him to move into your mansion, right?"

Gu Chengyu nodded, "About moving into the mansion, I’ve always felt that’s his plan."

Currently, Gu Changbai hasn’t revealed any other intentions, except showing desire to move into his mansion.

His father understood him well, a single statement made him comprehend.

"Who exactly are these people, why are they trying to approach you? What can the second brother do? He’s neither a scholar nor a court official, just to move into the mansion? This is too weird."

In Mr. Gu’s eyes, their Xiao Bao was still a minor official, the people behind the second brother seemed like dignitaries, but what could dignitaries plot against Xiao Bao?

"Possibly approaching me, moving into my residence is only the first step." Gu Chengyu had previously analyzed, the only conclusion he could think of.

"Father! In the Capital, some aristocratic families and nobles might place insiders in other officials’ residences for convenience, this isn’t uncommon."

What Gu Chengyu said wasn’t false, once there’s any disturbance in the Capital, those aristocratic families and nobles can immediately know, this is the advantage of having insiders.

Even if the host family guards against them, there will be some traces exposed. These people usually follow these traces to deduce what they want to know.

Mrs. Lv felt these two were speaking somewhat complicatedly.

She used to work as a maid in Jiang Mansion, serving the old lady, any major business of the host family was avoided by maids like her, how would she know the intricacies within?