The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife - Chapter 161-2

It was just that the other party obviously had more than these tricks up his sleeves. Seeing a vast net cast from the roof, Gu Jiao quickly pulled out the dagger at her waist to split the net.

But at the same moment, a hook shot from nowhere, clasping her back basket and stealing it away with a whiz!

“Little medicine chest!”

Gu Jiao’s eyes grew ice-cold as she looked up at the roof.

There, she saw a man wearing black clothes and a black mask holding her back basket and looking at her condescendingly.

He sneered contemptuously and disappeared on the other side of the roof.

Gu Jiao strode to catch up.

She seemed to have returned to those days in her previous life, where she was still in the organization and killing people for missions, as blood was boiling all over her body.

She could tell that the other party’s skills were not simple. The other person tried to plot against her several times, but she escaped it every time.

Finally, Gu Jiao chased the other party to a seemingly deserted courtyard.

The man was hiding inside.

As Gu Jiao crossed the threshold, a row of sharp arrows fired at her.

But she even dodged a bullet in her previous life, so this speed couldn’t topple her at all.

The seemingly fast arrows were moving in slow motion in Gu Jiao’s eyes, and she easily avoided them all.

A cold snort sounded from the yard, and then a voice spoke, “I didn’t expect that you’d be able to chase me till here; you really do have some ability.”

The voice, which was coming from behind the mask, should be slightly different from how it originally sounded.

Listening to his tone, Gu Jiao felt as though the other party had come specifically for her.

Gu Jiao walked into the yard and saw the person on the porch steps. She asked, “Who are you?”

The man in black sneered, “I should ask you that. Who are you?”

Gu Jiao: “You dare to rob me but don’t know who I am?”

The man in black replied, “I heard that you’re a village girl from a small county town. You grew up in the village since childhood, was mentally challenged, and only recovered a year ago. But I don’t think your abilities are something a village girl can possess at all.”

Gu Jiao, without any guilty conscience, said, “So what? Am I in your way?”

The man walked slowly down the steps; his mask covered his whole face securely, revealing only a pair of incomparably sinister eyes.

He stared at Gu Jiao coldly and questioned, “Where is the real Young Miss Gu?”

Apparently, he wasn’t someone sent by people opposing their medical hall, but someone connected to her.

Gu Jiao looked calmly at her back basket in his hands and said, “Give it back to me.”

The man took a step forward and said disdainfully, “If you tell me where you have taken the real Young Miss Gu, I will consider returning your things to you.”

Gu Jiao frowned irritably, “Stop talking rubbish. Just fight if you want a fight, don’t be so long-winded like a sissy.”

The man had marched unhindered over the capital for many years. He was notorious, fierce and domineering. For the first time, he was insulted as a sissy, turning his face black all over!

Gu Jiao really didn’t have that much time to talk nonsense with him. She still had to go home and cook their meal.

Gu Jiao raised her hand and launched an attack at the other party.

However, the man’s bodily movements and techniques were stranger than Gu Jiao imagined. After several exchanges, Gu Jiao failed to take advantage of him.

But the man obviously couldn’t easily deal with Gu Jiao either.

He frowned.

Once he took action, three moves would be enough to defeat the enemy.

But this girl had survived more than ten of his moves.

In the middle of their fight, hoofbeats of a horse sounded from the alley, followed by Gu Changqing’s fierce voice, “Who’s there?”

The man’s body froze all of a sudden.

Gu Jiao took advantage of this reaction to land a knifehand strike on him and recapture her back basket. Then, she raised her other hand, and a dagger came out of her cuffs. Grasping the dagger, she swung out with great strength!

The man dodged it, but his left arm was scratched and a hidden weapon fell off before he could shoot it.

He looked back at the direction of the gate, gritted his teeth and left through the back entrance.

“It’s you?”

As soon as the man left, Gu Changqing entered the courtyard. He was surprised to see Gu Jiao. “Were you fighting with someone else just now?”

Gu Jiao shook her back basket and said, “Someone tried to rob me.”

“Who was it?” Gu Changqing asked.

Gu Jiao shook her head, “I didn’t see his face, he’s wearing a mask.”

Gu Changqing looked around and found the hidden weapon on the ground. He picked it up and frowned, “Is it him?”

Gu Jiao uttered an ‘oh’ and asked, “Do you know him?”

Gu Changqing answered, “Fei Shuang, the number one thief in the capital. This frost darts, only he possesses this kind of hidden weapon.”

Fei Shuang was a real headache for the government. The central judicial office, the capital yamen, as well as the Ministry of Justice had all suffered his treacherous acts. Many confidential files had been stolen by him. He was listed as the number one thief in the wanted list of the imperial court.

Unfortunately, he was elusive and had never been caught until now.

No one had even seen his true face.

Gu Changqing asked, “Why did he rob you?”

Did Fei Shuang no longer want to keep his face? He even resorted to robbing a little girl?

Gu Jiao remembered her conversation with the other party earlier and said, “He seems to know me.”

“Fei Shuang… knows you?” Gu Changqing was bewildered.

……

At night, it snowed harder and harder.

The Marquis Ding’an Estate was enveloped in a sea of snow.

Gu Chenglin was barely able to walk nowadays, but he still couldn’t walk too far. He was still in a wheelchair most of the time. He asked his servant boy to push the wheelchair out of his room and go to his second brother’s side.

Marquis Estate’s children all had their own courtyards, as did Gu Chenglin, but he was used to living with his second brother and wasn’t in a hurry to move out.

“Second brother, second brother!” He swatted open the door.

Gu Chengfeng came from the other side of the corridor, looked at him and asked, “What’s wrong?”

Gu Chenglin said, “Where have you been, second brother? I’ve been looking for you everywhere!”

Gu Chengfeng replied, “What are you looking for me for?”

Gu Chenglin didn’t answer in a hurry, but looked up at him, saying, “Are you uncomfortable somewhere? You look so pale.”

“I just went to the warehouse to find something. It’s freezing there and I’m a little cold.”

“Oh.” Gu Chenglin didn’t doubt him as he said, “Second brother, do you know where my spinning top is? The one that His Majesty gave me when I was five? I can’t find it!”

Gu Chengfeng answered, “Didn’t you put it away in the third cabinet on the right side of the display shelf?”

“Go and find it!” Gu Chenglin ordered the servant boy who was pushing the wheelchair.

The servant boy rushed off, and soon came back with an exquisite spinning top in his hand. “It’s really there!”

Gu Chenglin took the spinning top and stood up in surprise, “Second brother, you’re really awesome. You can remember where all my things are!”

As he said this, he patted his second brother’s arm happily, and he heard a stuffy groan from his second brother.

He froze, asking, “Second brother, what’s wrong with you? Did I hurt you?”

Gu Chengfeng quietly put his hands behind his back, and said in his usual tone, “No, I’m fine. Go and play. I’ll go back to my room first.”

Gu Chenglin: “Oh.”

Second brother was acting weird today!