SWNOVELXO 51: Safely Leaving
When Gu Yu said she could come to the Yang family to find him in the future, Bai Linyue immediately agreed.
Although Bai Linyue wanted to be like her cousin Bai Qian, she didn’t have the same courage.
Moreover, Bai Qian’s father was a prime minister, a significant figure in the court. Despite showing great affection for his daughter normally, he had still sent her to the palace because of power and influence. How much more so for Bai Linyue?
Children of noble families rarely had the freedom to choose their own marriages.
This time, Bai Linyue had come to her uncle’s place to avoid an arranged marriage, which was already pushing her family’s tolerance to the limit.
If she were to abduct someone in public, her family would definitely not let her off lightly once they found out.
So after letting Gu Yu leave, Bai Linyue gazed at his retreating figure, unable to look away for a long time, her heart confused and on the verge of tears.
Bai Linyue nearly resembled a waiting-for-husband stone, causing Uncle Zhong beside her to cover his face, thinking that when they returned, he must find a way to prevent the young miss from going astray…
Like two flowers blooming separately, let’s switch to the other scene.
Regardless of how resentful Bai Linyue’s side was, after Gu Yu quickly escaped from her vicinity, he resisted the urge to stop and catch his breath. Only after he finally reached the ox cart and sat down did his body relax.
If Bai Linyue hadn’t agreed just now, Gu Yu had planned to put her and Uncle Zhong into his spatial storage once they took him away, in a place where no one would see.
Fortunately, Bai Linyue’s shamelessness hadn’t reached its limit yet. Though reluctant, she had still let Gu Yu go.
Therefore, Gu Yu decided that after returning home, he would stay by his little wife’s side and not leave.
Also, because of witnessing the forced abduction incident today, Gu Yu felt anxious, fearing that Gu Mengyao might be harassed by some young master if he wasn’t by her side.
Of course, with Gu Mengyao’s strength… it was quite possible that any young master attempting to harass her would end up being beaten half to death instead.
The ox cart swayed its way back to the village. This time, Gu Yu jumped directly off the cart, feeling no discomfort in his body, which made him marvel. He thought he should become even more intimate with Gu Mengyao.
If nothing else, just the increase in Gu Mengyao’s favorability toward him could upgrade the spatial storage, along with improvements to Gu Yu’s body.
When Gu Mengyao’s favorability toward Gu Yu reached its peak, perhaps the spatial storage would also undergo special changes!
When Gu Yu used to read novels before, he had been very envious of those protagonists who could plant and harvest in their spatial storage. For Gu Yu, who had a collector’s habit, it was something he greatly coveted.
He had a dream of becoming a landlord…
But even if he couldn’t plant crops, it didn’t matter. After all, this spatial storage was practically a free gift, and its functionality was quite complete.
At least in the future, when facing enemies pursuing him, he could hide in the spatial storage if there were many people, or directly put them into the spatial storage if there were few.
It would absolutely be a powerful tool for both one-on-one and group battles!
Thinking about how he would dominate with his spatial storage in the future, after returning home, Gu Yu suddenly saw Gu Mengyao and Gu Qingheng squatting on the ground in the courtyard, not knowing what they were doing.
Out of curiosity, Gu Yu walked quickly forward. When he reached behind the two, he discovered that the siblings were burying traps.
Those sharpened bamboo stakes had been buried in a complete circle around the courtyard. Gu Mengyao had even buried iron clamps in several places where someone might easily step. Just looking at the blood-stained appearance of these traps, Gu Yu could imagine the feeling of having one’s foot caught—it would be particularly intense.
After Li had come to make a scene this morning, though Gu Yu had driven her away, there had been many onlookers among the villagers, some of whom certainly harbored ill intentions.
Seeing that the Gu family had no adults and had earned a large sum of silver from selling the wild boar, many people had ulterior motives.
After all, going to the mountains to hunt wild boars could be dangerous, and even after catching one, it still had to be taken to town to sell… Coming directly to the Gu family to take the silver would be much easier.
People die for wealth, birds die for food.
However, these people hadn’t considered that Gu Mengyao, with just one arm injured, had taken down a large, well-fed wild boar. She wasn’t someone who could be easily provoked.
It was precisely to prevent such incidents that while Gu Yu was in town, the siblings had buried various traps in the courtyard, to avoid someone sneaking in at night to do evil deeds.