Chapter 496 The story of a talented scholar and a beautiful woman is too cliché
While Tong Huaqiong and Lian Hengruo were discussing business and marriage, Gu Ruinian was not idle either. He was staring at Jufulai.
He hung around the door of the Lian family for many days, risking being chased away by the doorman, but he never ran into Lian Hengruo again.
He couldn't believe his luck was so bad.
When he couldn't sleep because he missed Lian Hengruo so much, he finally saw Lian Hengruo's carriage driving into Jufulai.
God will not let him down.
Gu Ruinian lowered his head and looked at the unfinished book in his hand, about a talented man and a beautiful woman who broke away from their family backgrounds and were together, and smiled.
Inspired by Tong Pandyi's divorce storybook in the teahouse next door, he also planned to write a story about how he and Miss Lian Er met by chance and eventually got married, and let the storyteller perform it.
Such stories have been popular from ancient times to the present, especially the people reflected in his storybook are well-known in Pingchuan County. Who doesn't like to listen to gossip these days? Moreover, the characters corresponding to the gossip can also spark a big discussion among everyone. This story will definitely be more explosive than Tong Pandyi's divorce story.
He was confident that his words could reach Miss Lian Er's ears.
He had only written half of his storybook and showed it to the storyteller, but the storyteller threw it back into his arms and said that the story was too old-fashioned.
"Master Gu, have you ever heard stories about talented scholars and beautiful women in the teahouses in Pingchuan County?"
Gu Ruinian thought about it and indeed didn’t.
That's just right, his pen just fills the gap.
The storyteller said, "You are young and ignorant. Our late queen once held a banquet in the palace. A scholar from a poor family coveted the daughter of a duke, so he wrote a story exactly like yours and asked the storyteller to perform it. The queen commented that it was a cunning and cunning man's fantasy about a girl, saying that it was impossible for a pure and innocent girl to get engaged to a man for life with a handkerchief and a poem. It was too stupid to think that girls in the boudoir were stupid. From then on, all major teahouses did not welcome such stories. They were too rustic, too vulgar, and too calculated."
Gu Ruinian's face turned pale.
The storyteller was filled with disdain, as if he didn't know that this cunning boy was using the story to covet Miss Lian Er.
Nothing that happens in the city escapes the storyteller's ears. The storyteller saw clearly how Gu Ruinian met Miss Lian Er.
There is no other way. To find inspiration for composing stories, you have to be at the forefront of the news and grasp the hot news that no one in the city knows about.
The storyteller thought that Gu Ruinian really lived up to the late queen's description of him as a cunning villain.
Gu Ruinian took his eyes off the notebook and continued to stare at Jufulai.
He touched the handkerchief in his pocket.
He washed the handkerchief that Miss Lian Er gave him to wipe the mud and put it in his pocket, planning to return it to Miss Lian Er when he met her.
Never found the opportunity.
The opportunity is here today.
Tong Huaqiong saw Lian Hengruo out the door.
Lian Hengruo's carriage passed by the depression that he and Gu Ruinian encountered last time. The water in the depression had long been evaporated by the scorching sun.
Lian Hengruo saw Gu Ruinian as soon as he walked out of Jufulai's door, and he felt nauseous.
"Miss, that guy dares to covet you. He is just a toad wanting to eat swan flesh." Lian Hengruo's maid Ruhua cursed, wishing she could rush down from the carriage and tear his face apart.
Lian Heng smiled faintly.
"Second miss."
Tong Huaqiong watched from afar at the entrance of Jufulai. She still underestimated Gu Ruinian's ruthlessness. He directly stopped Lian Hengruo's carriage.
Lian Heng wanted to see what Gu Ruinian was up to, so he stopped the carriage and lifted the curtain.
Ruhua asked, "Who are you? What's the matter?"
Lian Hengruo was stunned when he saw Ruhua. Even the second lady's maid was so beautiful. Isn't she the matchmaker who folded the quilts and made the bed in Cui Yingying?
The maid is the young lady's ally, so if you can capture the maid, you will get twice the result with half the effort.
While Gu Ruinian was daydreaming, he was interrupted by Ruhua: "How dare you stop my young lady's carriage in broad daylight? I'll have someone break your legs."
Gu Ruinian glanced at Ruhua. What a hot girl.
Same as Cui Yingying.
He glanced past Ruhua to Lian Hengruo, raised the handkerchief in his hand, his heart beating faster, and said, "Second Miss, my name is Gu Ruinian. Thank you for lending me the handkerchief to wipe the dirt last time."
Gu Ruinian deliberately spoke very loudly, hoping that people would hear that he and Lian Hengruo had an unusual relationship.
This move really attracted a lot of spectators.
Gu Ruinian was delighted and continued to shout into the carriage: "I came here specially to return it today."
Lian Hengruo had a confused look on his face, as if he had no idea who the person in front of him was.
I don't even remember the handkerchief in his hand.
too disgusting!
Gu Ruinian wanted to spread rumors about her just by holding a handkerchief.
Not to mention a handkerchief, even her bellyband and bitter tea leaves cannot be controlled by her.
Lian Hengruo glanced at Gu Ruinian and lowered the carriage curtain. Ruhua said, "What kind of dirty handkerchief that a stinky man has touched dares to dance in front of the young lady?"
Tong Huaqiong took in this scene and laughed so hard that she wanted to fall down.
Did Gu Ruinian watch too many ancient puppet shows in later generations and think that he could hold a woman's innocence by holding a handkerchief?
Does he know the rules of this world? Even though it is not friendly to women, you can't control a woman with just a handkerchief or a bellyband.
If a woman loses her innocence, she will be forced to marry the perpetrator; if a woman's arm is touched, her arm will be chopped off... These things only appear in dramas and are rarely seen in real life.
On the contrary, women who had been assaulted would go to court to appeal for justice, and widows, divorced women, and divorced women were allowed to remarry.
Given the prevailing atmosphere, it was no different from a dream for Gu Ruinian to dream of becoming the son-in-law of the Lian family with just a handkerchief.
If a handkerchief could force a relationship, how could Lian Hengruo casually throw the handkerchief to him to wipe the dirt.
Tong Huaqiong really wanted to rush over to see Gu Ruinian's expression, it must be very exciting.
The carriage disappeared around the corner of the street before Gu Ruinian came to his senses.
He was a little shocked for a moment, and couldn't believe that Lian Hengruo didn't care about the handkerchief at all. He saw the strangeness in his eyes, and when he saw the handkerchief in his hand, it was as if he saw something disgusting and dirty.
That’s not the case. Miss Lian was not like this when we first met.
Miss Lian Er's eyes hurt him, and he didn't know what the problem was.
Maybe Miss Lian Er didn't recognize him.
Maybe the second young lady even recognized him, but pretended not to know him in front of the maid.
There is another possibility that Miss Lian Er knew about the Wu family and knew that he was in Wu Ji, so she started to dislike him as well.
Otherwise, when he took the initiative to mention that he was Gu Ruinian, Miss Lian Er's eyes would immediately reveal disgust.
Miss Lian Er almost arranged a marriage with him, so how could she not remember his name, Gu Ruinian.
Maybe Miss Lian Er knew that he was Gu Ruinian from the beginning. She went to Jufulai from time to time, and it was inevitable that she would mention him in front of Tong Da Jiao Gu Taohua. Tong Da Jiao Gu Taohua would definitely not say anything good about him.
Gu Ruinian was extremely flustered and felt resentful towards Wu Ji and Tong Huaqiong.
"Is this the Rui Nian of Uncle Arita's family?"
While Gu Ruinian was reviewing the whole incident, he did not notice a carriage stopped in front of him until the woman's voice woke him up.