Chapter 15: Extremely Arrogant

The news Er’ya brought made Gu Wanning silent.

This was bad news.

Xu Weibei was audacious, he hit someone in court.

And the person he hit was his brother-in-law, Gu Wanning’s own brother, Gu Anqi.

This was also good news.

Xu Weibei even hit Gu Anqi, so can they get a divorce?

“What did the Emperor say?”

“This servant heard that the Emperor scolded the Marquis severely, the Emperor is wise!” Er’ya looked grateful and tearful as if she had met a wise ruler.

Gu Wanning closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, she was clear-headed.

Xu Weibei did it on purpose.

He was too powerful, he deliberately made a mistake for the Emperor, so that the Emperor could suppress him and punish him.

On the other hand, he also showed that he was not getting along with his father-in-law, maybe he could get a divorce from her smoothly.

Poisonous husband!

But this divorce probably won’t be enough, he has to keep causing trouble.

“How did you know about this?”

Although court should have been dismissed by now, how did the news get to the Marquis’s mansion so quickly, and to your ears?

Gu Wanning didn’t know if she was being paranoid, but she felt like the news was spreading a little too fast?

“Oh, I really don’t have a brain.” Er’ya slapped her head, “It was someone from our mansion who told me.”

It turned out that after Gu Anqi was beaten, he went home first after court was dismissed.

After returning home, he sent someone to tell Gu Wanning about it.

“Master said to let you be prepared.”

“What should I prepare for?” Gu Wanning laughed, “We can’t get involved in this, let them be.”

Why pretend to care now?

It’s clear that neither her family nor Xu Weibei cares about her.

“What if the Marquis comes back and targets you?” Er’ya was worried.

“Targets me? He made the first move, my brother was wronged, does he still have the face to go home and continue to make a fuss? Besides, even if he targets me, can he hit me?”

“Why not?”

There are so many men who hit women.

“He won’t.” Gu Wanning said.

Although she hasn’t interacted with Xu Weibei much, she can tell that he is full of pride.

Her “provocation” before was also to see where this man’s red line was.

But even when she was so angry that he was jumping up and down, Xu Weibei didn’t show any signs of violence.

This man, he disdains fighting with women.

But this doesn’t mean he is merciful.

On the contrary, he is hard-hearted and doesn’t consider women’s feelings at all.

He does things with the goal of achieving his goals.

He is working towards a divorce.

But why did he choose to attack his own brother?

Logically, a father-in-law in a high position would be very helpful to him, wouldn’t he?

Even if he wanted to avoid suspicion and prevent the Emperor from being suspicious, he didn’t have to be so ruthless.

“I wonder how Master is doing now,” Er’ya paced back and forth in the room, “Madam, should we go back and have a look?”

“The mansion didn’t come to pick me up, and the Marquis didn’t allow me to go back to my family’s house, how can I go back?” Gu Wanning said calmly.

She felt that the previous owner’s resentment was still lingering in her consciousness.

—It’s true, the Gu family’s different treatment of their twin daughters, who wouldn’t go crazy?

In this era, there are some taboos about twins.

But it’s only for identical twins, only for two identical men from a noble family who have the right to inherit.

She and Gu Wanqing look completely different, why did they send her to the farm?

Was it because she affected her father and brother’s careers?

The Gu family’s explanation was that her deceased grandmother had a dream and told her to go to the farm to accompany her.

Heh, when people talk about ghosts, they sound more real than ghosts.

“Oh, is the Marquis crazy?” Er’ya couldn’t help but curse.

She had a very good impression of Gu Anqi, he was the most upright and gentle young man she had ever seen.

If Er’ya had a template for the kind of man she liked, Gu Anqi would be the absolute top choice.

When the Gu family came to deliver the letter just now, she repeatedly asked, she heard that Gu Anqi was knocked unconscious by Xu Weibei with a punch to the face, Er’ya couldn’t wait to hit him back.

“Let them be.” Gu Wanning stood up, her face calm, “I’ll go and spray some water on the corn.”

She doesn’t owe money, but she doesn’t have much either.

Focus on your career, make money.

More people means more mistakes, more money means less.

When Xu Weibei returned to the mansion, he drank two large cups of cold tea before he could calm down the heat in his heart.

“Gao Lan, tell Gu Wanning about today’s events.”

He was waiting for Gu Wanning to come to him and make a fuss, the bigger the fuss, the better.

Grandmother was always trying to bring them together, so he wanted to make their relationship irreparable.

He had hated Old Gu for a long time, and it was good to be able to vent his anger today.

And it was a two-for-one deal, it also shook this marriage.

There was one thing that Gu Wanning was wrong about Xu Weibei.

—Today, it wasn’t Xu Weibei who provoked him first.

Although he did want to give the Emperor a handle, he hadn’t figured out how to do it yet.

Unexpectedly, Gu Anqi brought up the old matter again, he talked about reform again, and wrote a long memorial.

As he read about cutting military spending, Xu Weibei saw the comrades who had left with him three years ago but didn’t come back.

So Xu Weibei couldn’t hold back, he directly hit the man, and then launched into a tirade.

He clearly stated that he opposed this bullshit reform.

That wasn’t all, the Emperor reprimanded him, had someone take Gu Anqi away, and find a doctor to treat him.

Gu Yuan Shi didn’t seem to worry about his son at all, he directly stood up and suggested that the Emperor continue the court session, then he took out a memorial he had prepared—

To impeach Xu Weibei.

Yes, even if Xu Weibei hadn’t hit anyone today, Gu Yuan Shi was going to impeach him.

Gu Yuan Shi fabricated charges, from Xu Weibei’s excessive spending on grain and supplies, to his condoning his subordinates’ harassment of the people, to his misconduct, bringing women into the army, he compiled ten charges, big and small.

Then Xu Weibei, without hesitation, refuted all his accusations.

The Emperor said some conciliatory words, then he ordered Xu Weibei to go home and reflect for a month for hitting someone in court.

Xu Weibei went back to “reflect.”

Gao Lan was very embarrassed, “Marquis, do you really have to tell Madam?”

Why did he feel a little guilty?

The Gu family was being unreasonable, the Marquis, well, he was a little too much, anyway, no one considered Madam’s predicament in the middle.

“Go tell her!”

Gu Wanning’s temper, she would definitely make a fuss when she knew.

The bigger the fuss, the better, it would help with the divorce, and completely cut ties with the Gu family.

Xu Weibei wasn’t angry now, on the contrary, he was very calm.

He could see that the Gu family father and son were determined to carry out this reform.

Then he would also resolutely oppose it, he couldn’t collude with them, he didn’t want to be infamous for generations to come.

Gao Lan agreed meekly and went, then he quickly came back.

“What was her reaction?” Xu Weibei asked.

She should be making a big fuss, right?