“Good, good, good.”
The old gentleman smiled broadly as he stroked his beard. Although Gu Yi’s intelligence was a bit poor, it was good to see that the boy had a solid heart and would be no worse for Yue’er in the future.
“You also know how to play chess?”
“A little.”
“Come, sit down and play a game with me.”
Song Wangyue gave way to Gu Yi and went to the kitchen. Thinking that Gu Yi should also be here today, she had the kitchen prepare the ingredients for making jelly early in the morning.
She had come to the kitchen so often over the past few days that the cooks were used to it and were not as frightened as when she first came.
Inside the house, Gu Yi was about to win when she suddenly smelt the scent of jelly, and her hand that had fallen changed direction unnoticed and landed on another position.
“Have you thought about it?”
The old gentleman asked, stroking his beard, he had played chess with Song Wangyue in the past few days, with some wins and some losses, once he asked, he surprisingly learned from Gu Yi, he had long wanted to see Gu Yi’s chess skills, just now those pieces landed in a tricky position, forcing him not to dare to land easily, but this move was out of his expectation, that’s why he asked this.
“Fallen pieces have no regrets.”
The old gentleman nodded, picked up his own piece and dropped it. The defeat he had just suffered was instantly reversed, and Gu Yi slapped himself on the head, “remorseful”, and looked at it for a while before taking a step. The old gentleman’s hand was hesitant in holding the piece, and he thought about it for a long time before making a move. Gu Yi quickly made another move, and only then did the old gentleman see that he had set up a game again, and admired it.
While watching the chess board, he said, “You are so young, but you have such an attainment in chess, it is really rare, if you look at the world, only back then Qin ……”
The words did not finish, paused, raised his eyes to see Gu Yi a pair of go clear eyes looking at him, for some reason, heart unexpectedly rose a sense of familiarity, froze.
“What does maternal great-grandfather want to say?”
Only then did the old gentleman return to his senses, dispelling the abnormal thoughts in his head, for a moment just now, he actually felt that Gu Yi looked a bit like the King of Qin back then, but how was that possible? But how could that be possible? King Qin was a beautiful man, and Princess Qin was also a beautiful woman who was famous in the capital back then.
“It’s nothing, just pretend you didn’t hear what grandfather said just now.”
“Oh.”
The old gentleman returned his gaze to the chessboard and after a long moment of serious contemplation, he dropped a piece.
The two men played this game for an hour, ending in a draw.
The old gentleman became even more fond of Gu Yi, and if he were not a bit too old to hold on, he would have liked to drag him to play another game.
When Song Wangyue came in with jelly, Gu Yi’s eyes lit up and the old gentleman could see clearly and shook his head with a smile.
Gu Yi got up and took it, bringing it to the old man, “Grandfather, you can try it.”
The old gentleman had never liked snacks and waved his hand, “You can eat it.”
Gu Yi literally took all the jelly to the small table next to where he was sitting and gobbled it up.
The old gentleman smiled again and shook his head, “Let Yue’er lead you to meet your grandmother later.”
“Okay.”
Gu Yi responded vaguely and asked, “Where is Grandfather, do we still have to pay our respects?”
The old man’s mood suddenly soured at the mention of Mr. Big, “Don’t bother with him.”
……
“Well? Did Big Auntie remember anything?”
Gu Yi asked in a whisper as she walked to the main courtyard.
Song Wan Yue shook her head, her eyebrows slightly knitted, full of expectation that her mother would remember something when she returned to her familiar house, but three or four days had passed and they had wandered all over the house, but her mother still hadn’t thought of anything.
Moreover, there had been no extra movement in Huo’s courtyard in the past few days, so I’m afraid the two of them had guessed that Xu hadn’t fully recovered her memory, which was why they were so calm.
“Otherwise, you’d better try applying needles for your aunt again.”
“There’s no need for that.”
Dr. Yao said that the blockage in Xu’s brain had been cleared and there was no point in applying the needles again.
“What then?”
Song Wangyue pursed her lips and glanced towards Huo’s courtyard, since the inside of the house wouldn’t work, she would take Xu outside the house for a spin.
The two of them went into the main courtyard.
In the past few days, Meng had also learned from Xu about Song Wangyue’s betrothal to Gu Yi.
At first she was strongly opposed to it, because she had no one to back them up, so Yue had no choice but to marry Gu Yi; now that she had her, she could afford to pay whatever amount of silver the Gu family wanted.
“Grandmother.”
Gu Yi bowed and called out to the person in a regular manner, although he was young, he had a unique aura about him that was hard to ignore.
Meng had met Gu Yi twice, once when she had met Xu and once when Song Wangyue had brought him in for the first time to give her a needle, and when Song Wangyue had led Gu Yi into the room and saluted her. On both occasions she had not looked at him carefully, but today was the first time she had really looked at him.
Although his face was not ugly, it was still a bit unattractive, except for his beautiful eyes, which were not tainted with the dirt of this world, but were clear and bright, adding a lot to his colour.
“Sit down.”
Gu Yi sat down in a disciplined manner, his body straight, without the casualness of facing the old gentleman.
He knew Meng was sizing him up.
Song Wangyue sat next to him, “Grandmother, I would like to enquire about something with you.”
Only then did Meng withdraw her sizing up gaze, “You speak.”
Gu Yi secretly let out a sigh of relief.
“Do you know where Huo lived before she married into the Xu family, I thought of taking my mother around somewhere, maybe she’ll remember something.”
Meng shook her head, “Grandmother doesn’t know.”
Although she and Mr. Big had been matched by their parents, they had been in harmony since their marriage, and it had never occurred to her that Mr. Big had an outside wife.
Sister Wu thought of the Wen mother and daughter who had been kicked out and said, “It could be where the Wen mother and daughter are living now.”
The people looked at her.
Sister Wu continued, “Wen has been living in the Xu residence for so many years and has not purchased a mansion outside, Huo probably wouldn’t have expected Miss Sun to return alive, so she must not have done so either, the only possibility is that Wen’s mother and daughter have gone back to live in their former mansion.”
“It’s possible. Sister Wu, quickly have someone check where the mother and daughter live?”
Sister Wu answered and went out, only to return a long time later, shaking her head at the people in the house.
Song Wangyue thought of Sun Jin, who must know where Wen’s mother and daughter had gone, and got up, “Grandmother, mother, let’s go out of the house for a stroll.”
When Meng was about to say something, Xu came forward to help her, “Mother, Yue’er has her own way.”