Chapter 232 — A Visit
Purple Streets of Chang'an · Page 4 of 4
Gu Yu feared that if he entered the palace and ran into Princess Jingyi, she would cling to him and weep without end, and that his aunt would end up scolding him too.
After thinking it over, he went to the Yan'an Marquis's residence.
Wang Yu was just then talking with his father over the wedding invitation the Song family had sent, and when he heard Gu Yu had come, he hurriedly ushered him into the study.
Gu Yu caught sight of the invitation at a glance and said, "So you know about this too?"
Wang Yu nodded, poured Gu Yu a cup of tea himself, and said with a smile, "From your tone, you also only learned of it when the invitation arrived." Then he grumbled, "Yantang really is too much—even for a wedding, he couldn't give us a word in advance. There's no time left for me to prepare a proper gift; I'm afraid I'll have to make do with a larger sum of money instead."
Gu Yu gave a cold laugh. "Hold off on the money for now. Let me ask Cousin Tianci about it first."
Wang Yu probed without betraying a thing: "What, Yantang doesn't know yet?"
How could Cousin Tianci not know?
He simply did not know that the Dou family's fourth young lady was this sort of person.
"I went to find Cousin Tianci, but he had been summoned into the palace," Gu Yu said vaguely. "I haven't seen him yet."
Wang Yu nodded with a smile.
But in his heart he understood.
This marriage was likely the Duke of Yingguo's idea; Song Yan probably knew nothing about it at all.
He had not expected the rift between father and son to be so wide.
It was just as well he had not married his sister into the Song family—otherwise she would have been devoured down to the bone.
He smiled and said, "My sister is to be married on the fourth of the ninth month. You and Yantang must come and drink a cup of wedding wine then!"
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Sisters, brothers—I finished writing at four in the morning, and then the power went out, and my wireless card ran short of data...~~~~(_
ps: I'm mooching off the network at little Zhizhi's school, and it's finally posted.
And here I thank little Zhizhi's teacher, Sister Yin.
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