Chapter 528 I Will Marry You
Gu Ruinian opened his eyes and glanced quickly at Wu Na.
Why is he so confused?
He's not stupid, he's just unlucky.
He almost succeeded.
Wu Na's words brought Gu Ruinian back to the day of the incident. Under the threat of Lian's family, he was forced to admit that he had an affair with Xu Zaohua.
The only thing that made him feel a little relieved was that he put the blame for the second young master being knocked unconscious by the vase on Xu Zaohua.
Without waiting for Gu Ruinian's answer, Wu Na asked, "Is Xu Zaohua so good? I'm not as good as a widow like her?"
Wu Na leaned over and stared at Gu Ruinian.
If Gu Ruinian had fallen in love with Miss Lian Er, she wouldn't have felt so bad, but Gu Ruinian fell in love with Xu Zaohua, a widow.
Gu Ruinian clearly knew what she was thinking and did not reject her.
She almost had a falling out with her father because Gu Ruinian was unwilling to marry into another county.
How could he do this to her?
She has been angry and annoyed these days.
Gu Ruinian suddenly realized that Wu Na was not here to laugh at her, but to ask for an explanation.
But what qualifications does she have?
The next second Gu Ruinian thought of taking advantage of this, so he sighed and said, "Many things are not what you think. I wanted to study but my family had no money, and Xu Zaohua said that if I helped her manage the shop, she could support my studies, and I fell for her trick..."
"I do not know what to do."
Wu Na shouted at the top of her lungs: "I've already told you that my father can support your education."
Gu Ruinian let out a sad laugh and said, "Your father will not marry you to me."
Wu Na asked angrily: "Then Xu Zaohua can marry you?"
Gu Ruinian said: "How could I possibly like her, a widow? I just used her to study. I told you that I was fooled by her. She and I are innocent. I don't care what outsiders think of me. I didn't expect that you didn't believe me..."
Wu Na felt slightly comforted after hearing this.
She said, how could Brother Ruinian fall in love with a fickle widow.
Wu Na hid the pride in her eyes, lowered her head and saw Gu Ruinian staring at her. Her face flushed and she said, "I don't disbelieve you."
Then he asked, "Brother Ruinian, people say that you and Xu Zaohua...are in love since you were in Qinghe Bay."
Gu Ruinian said, "Do you believe the outsiders or me? I went to the south when I was very young and only came back after the Spring Festival this year. If Xu Zaohua hadn't taken the initiative to find me and asked me to help her with the store's accounts, I would have forgotten about her."
"Xu Zaohua and I are innocent. Think about it, if I really had an affair with her, would the Zheng family let me get out alive?"
Wu Na was almost convinced by Gu Ruinian.
Gu Ruinian thought disdainfully that it would not take any effort at all to conquer Wu Na.
"But why did Xu Zaohua want to harm you?" Wu Na still didn't understand.
Gu Ruinian closed his eyes and then opened them again, hesitating to speak. As if he had made up his mind, he said softly, "I'll tell you the truth. I was implicated by my cousin."
Seeing Wu Na's confused expression, Gu Ruinian gritted his teeth and said, "My cousin is the third son of Widow Tong, and he is the top candidate this year. Xu Zaohua has liked him since she was a child, and they once talked about getting married, but my aunt didn't like Xu Zaohua and refused to let her in. Xu Zaohua openly asked me to help her with the accounts, but secretly wanted me to pass on the message to my cousin. Later, things developed like this, and I suspect this was all my aunt's conspiracy. My cousin is now engaged to the daughter of the Lu family, a royal merchant in the city. She is afraid that the past between her son and Xu Zaohua will be exposed, and the Lu family will regret the engagement after knowing it."
Wu Na hated Tong Huaqiong so much that she was furious.
She knew Tong Huaqiong's methods. She supported Tong Pandi and divorced him, which made her brother a laughing stock in Heilongtan. Her bad reputation was also caused by him. The calmness of Wu Ji's business was also her handiwork...
Wu Na had no doubt that Tong Huaqiong had attacked Gu Ruinian.
Anyway, she already knew that Widow Tong and Gu Ruinian's family didn't get along.
"This widow Tong is so vicious." Wu Na gritted her teeth.
Gu Ruinian said, "Let her be proud first. I will definitely seek justice for myself later. But this incident turned out to be a blessing in disguise for me."
Wu Na looked at Gu Ruinian's legs. She heard from her father that Gu Ruinian's legs were disabled. How could this be a blessing in disguise?
Gu Ruinian continued to talk nonsense, "The Zheng family also knew that my aunt was the mastermind behind the scenes, so not only did the Zheng family not blame me, they also let me go. For a wealthy family like the Zheng family with two sons, it is impossible to treat everyone equally. When the eldest son of the Zheng family was alive, he was in poor health, so Mr. Zheng loved him very much. After his death, he left behind a posthumous son, and the Zheng family gave most of the resources to Xu Zaohua, which dissatisfied the second son of the Zheng family. Xu Zaohua's reputation was ruined this time, and he was sent to the ancestral temple by the Zheng family. The second son of the Zheng family found me and said that I indirectly helped him get rid of his opponent, and he was grateful to me. In addition, I wrote two articles for him, so he and I became friends. The second son of the Zheng family told me that if I needed help with anything, I should pass the message to him. I really need the help of the Zheng family now, but my legs and feet are inconvenient now, and I don’t trust anyone else..."
Wu Na was not very smart to begin with, and she did not doubt Gu Ruinian's flaws at all, so she said, "Brother Ruinian, I can help you pass on the message."
Gu Ruinian was extremely excited. He didn't expect Wu Na to be so stupid that she volunteered without him even asking.
Gu Ruinian pondered and said, "How can you do this? If your father finds out, he will be furious with you."
Wu Na said, "Don't worry about this. Leave it to me. You decide how to pass the message."
Gu Ruinian asked Wu Na to bring paper and pen. He wrote a note and handed it to Wu Na, asking Wu Na to go to the corner gate of Zheng's house to find a doorman named Tian, who would hand the note to the second son of Zheng.
Wu Na is illiterate, so Gu Ruinian is not worried that she can understand the words on the note.
"Brother Ruinian, my father wants to marry me to another county, but I don't want to go. What do you think?" Wu Na put the note in her sleeves and looked at Gu Ruinian with a smile.
Gu Ruinian cursed inwardly, thinking that Wu Na was making a request to him.
Gu Ruinian gritted his teeth and said, "If you don't mind my legs, I'm willing to marry you."
Wu Na smiled.
"Brother Ruinian, please get your leg back to normal, Wu Ji needs you. My father said that Wu Ji is my dowry, and I don't want Wu Ji's business to fail under your father's rule."
Her brother was not interested in doing business, so he could go back and become a village head like his father. If she married Gu Ruinian, she planned to take Wu Ji as a dowry. Her parents loved her and would not refuse. Then she and Gu Ruinian would do business in Pingchuan while Ruinian went to school.
As for the other members of the Gu family, they can just go wherever they want.
Wu Na was very efficient and came back in just an hour.
She came back and told Gu Ruinian, and she handed the note to the doorman as Gu Ruinian requested.
Gu Ruinian looked at Wu Na and felt that compared with Lian Hengruo and Lu Zhaozhao, Wu Na was not even worthy of carrying their shoes.
He didn't want to marry Wu Na even if his legs were broken.
But now the only one he can hold on to is Wu Na, and he might as well marry her since her dowry comes from Wu Ji.
As for whether Wu Ren agreed or not, Gu Ruinian was not worried at all.
Just hold Wu Na in check.