novelaction Chapter 277 The greatest favor you can give a woman is to marry him?
Chapter 277 The greatest favor you can give a woman is to marry him?
"This……"
The guard who came out hesitated for a moment. Su Rou could actually understand that. After all, they were really afraid that the Gong family badge in their hands was real, which meant they had really offended someone from the Gong family.
"You are so arrogant, but you are really pretending." The servant's voice came from upstairs.
Su Rou raised her head and looked upwards, and happened to see Lord Jiang, who looked listless, standing on the stairs, staring at her intently.
Su Rou, however, acted as if she was not afraid of any shadow. "So what's the matter?"
The servant snorted coldly, "Sir, the woman next to her came here with this badge and said she was working for the Gong family."
Lord Jiang glanced at Meng indifferently.
Su Rou protected Meng behind her.
"What are you looking at?"
Lord Jiang said calmly, "I recognize almost everyone in the Gong family. Who are you? That waist badge is real, but even if the Gong family wanted to bring a woman here to avoid alerting the enemy, it wouldn't be someone like you."
Mr. Jiang's tone seemed to be full of sarcasm towards the Meng family.
Can't the woman be a hidden master with good skills?
Su Rou said, "Isn't it enough if the waist badge is real? This gentleman looks so weak and unable to take care of himself. Could he have killed the people of the Gong family to steal the waist badge?"
Su Rou's words revealed what the servant and Lord Jiang were worried about.
The two people upstairs fell silent for a moment.
In fact, Meng was also trying to protect her. Su Rou knew this. Just like the madam said, she knew how she was beaten by the guard beside the Ninth Princess.
If she hadn't met Meng and been sent to Hongluan Tower, she might not have survived last winter.
But in the final analysis, Meng was just relying on the badge she was wearing to disguise her identity.
If someone else saw this, they would definitely be able to see the clue at a glance.
Lord Jiang asked, "Who are you commanded by?"
Meng was stunned for a moment, and Su Rou answered first, "The young general of the Gong family, Gong Yu."
Lord Jiang frowned slightly, as if dissatisfied with Su Rou's quick response.
"How do you know? Are you acquainted with this gentleman?"
Lord Jiang's question was intended to probe into the relationship between her and the Meng family.
Su Rou said, "I met this gentleman once before, and he had some impression of me."
This explanation should be enough to get away with it, right?
Su Rou wasn't quite sure either.
Lord Jiang raised his hand and said, "Don't make things difficult for the girls of Hongluan Tower, and don't make things difficult for this lord. Return the badge."
Su Rou's originally tense heart suddenly relaxed. It seemed that Lord Jiang believed it.
The servant seemed to have something to say, but swallowed it back in the end.
When returning the badge to Meng, the servant's expression became much more submissive.
If you cheat people outside using Gong Yu's name, he shouldn't come to you.
Lord Jiang's eyes fell on Su Rou. "Miss, you just saved me. I will naturally give you an explanation for this matter. The next time the madam brings people to my mansion, you can come with her."
Su Rou was stunned: "?"
Isn't he repaying kindness with enmity?
Which of the girls the madam sent to him ever came back safe and sound?!
Su Rou frowned, "What?"
"I have always been grateful for your kindness. You came to my house. Although your background is not good, I can still give you the status of a concubine."
Su Rou: “???”
She looked at Lord Jiang's expression as if she wanted to see from his face whether he really wanted to attack her secretly, and not just her body!
For a man, the greatest favor he can give to a woman is to marry her?
what?
Su Rou was so shocked that she couldn't speak for a long time.
The servant was also stunned when he saw this. "Sir, this girl is of humble origin and her background is unknown. You want her to marry into the mansion and become a concubine? I think Miss Qiao would not want this either."
Sister Qiao, who had been standing by without saying a word, lowered her eyes.
Sister Qiao said softly, "I'm just a dancer, so how could I have any objections... But Ah Rou's status is indeed as lowly as the county magistrate said, and she is not worthy of you. Please think twice."
Su Rou's eyes darkened. She actually guessed a possibility. Perhaps Lord Jiang was poisoned because of Sister Qiao...
But she has no evidence yet, so she hasn't asked Sister Qiao yet.
Sister Qiao was willing to speak up for him. If it was really Sister Qiao who poisoned him, then Sister Qiao was not such a bad person.
She could guess a little about the twists and turns in this matter when she helped Sister Qiao meet the young man from the outskirts of the city that day.
When the servant heard Sister Qiao speak, he seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw and quickly agreed, "This is indeed a bit inappropriate. After all, this woman is from Hongluan Tower and has a low status. If she were really allowed into the mansion, it would probably cause a lot of trouble. Besides, with your status and position, how could you be interested in such a woman? She is not even worth a hair of Miss Qiao."
After saying that, the servant standing beside her raised his head and glanced at Lord Jiang.
Su Rou was a little unhappy. Was this man afraid that she would really marry Lord Jiang and become his concubine, and then dominate him in the future?
"I saw that you and she were on good terms, so I thought that you two could marry in together so you could have companionship. I asked her to marry in, but it was also for your sake."
As Lord Jiang spoke, he reached out and touched Sister Qiao's cheek.
But Sister Qiao dodged and avoided his outstretched hand.
Lord Jiang's hand paused in mid-air, and his expression seemed to darken.
Su Rou curled the corners of her mouth. Then she should thank him?
Su Rou said, "Sir, saving you is the duty of every citizen of Jingzhou. Don't worry about it! If you really want to repay me, be nice to the sisters in Hongluan Tower."
She can marry whomever she wants, but she certainly can't be forced to marry whomever she wants.
The servant turned his head and looked at her again, seeming a little dissatisfied. "What do you mean? Being able to marry the master is the blessing you have cultivated for eight lifetimes!"
Su Rou found him incomprehensible. He was the one who didn't want her to get married just now, and now he was the one who thought she was unlucky.
What does he want to do?
She has to kneel down and refuse Lord Jiang's kindness?
Su Rou said, "Then marry me, and I'll give it to you."
She waved her hand, made a gesture of invitation, and "invited" Meng in.
She just wants to live a peaceful life and these things have nothing to do with her.
Lord Jiang looked at Su Rou and said, "Then let's do as Miss Su wishes."
Su Rou could sense something was wrong with the tone of Lord Jiang's words.
It seems that Sister Qiao didn't react to this, which made him very unhappy.
He used himself as a tool to test Sister Qiao...
Su Rou brought Meng into the room and ignored the people outside the door.
Mrs. Meng said, "This Hongluan Tower is very famous in Jingzhou. The madam here takes in all kinds of homeless girls. That's why I dared to send you here so openly. Now that you have recovered well, I am relieved."
"Creaky--" Su Rou opened the window and the fresh air outside filled her lungs.
"Have you ever thought about contacting my father and the others during your time in Jingzhou?"
Meng shook her head. "No... After leaving the General's Mansion, I didn't hear anything about it again. Then I found you in the river."
Su Rou said, "Lord Jiang might have been one of Gong Yuanzhi's subordinates. When you talk to them, be careful not to reveal your true identity."
Meng also felt a lingering fear, "That's right... If it weren't for you just now, I really wouldn't have been able to react."
Su Rou sighed, "Where do you live now? Is it far away? Is your man... still good to you?"
These were the questions Su Rou wanted to ask just now.
Meng lowered her head, shook her head, and did not answer her question.
This shaking head...
What does it mean?
"Arou, I'm doing okay now. If you want to go back to the general, I'll find a way to get you out of Hongluan Tower."
Su Rou stared at Meng Shi, "No need, the Northern Kingdom is gone now, there's no point for me to go back, I'd rather stay here and be at my ease."
Meng said, "But if you stay here, you will sooner or later be treated as the lowest dancer and zither girl. You just saw it..."