Forced to marry, I picked up a young powerful official

Chapter 214 Keeping a Woman Outside

"Shh! Keep your voice down. Can't you see Daddy is over there too?"

Zhang Qiongsi waited until Gu Yichuan finished talking to his father and the two separated before he took Hongdou and quietly followed.

When they walked out onto the street, Gu Yichuan no longer had any of his colleagues from the yamen by his side. Zhang Qiongsi was about to step forward when he discovered something was wrong.

"Hey, this doesn't seem to be his way back home?"

She looked at Hongdou for confirmation.

Hongdou nodded, "It's true, isn't it? Could it be that Gu Zhouzun has something else to do?"

Zhang Qiongsi hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, "Never mind, let's just follow them first."

The house Shen Nankui bought was in Deshui Lane in the north of the city. Zhang Qiongsi followed him and couldn't help but wonder, "This area is full of residential houses. Could it be that Gu Zhouzun came here to visit a friend?"

The master and servant followed all the way and indeed saw Gu Yichuan enter one of the houses.

Hongdou sighed, "Alas, no chance again, girl, why didn't you go over there when you were on the road just now?"

Zhang Qiongsi blushed and rarely refuted.

It's the first time she does something like this, so she needs courage, okay?

"Wait a little longer, what if Gu Zhouzun comes out soon?"

But the two of them waited until it was almost dark and still didn't see Gu Yichuan come out of the house, so they could only return home in disappointment.

After returning home, Zhang Qiongsi was always depressed.

She couldn't figure out who was in that house that could have kept Gu Yichuan there for so long?

Seeing that she was in a bad mood, Hongdou said, "Girl, don't be upset. I will go with you tomorrow."

"Going to what?"

Zhang Qiongsi was a little discouraged.

She didn't see Gu Yichuan for two days.

The Zhang family is a well-known family in Yongzhou City. As the daughter of a Tongzhi, how could she keep doing things in such a sneaky way?

Hongdou asked tentatively, "Then you're not going?"

Zhang Qiongsi turned his head to look at her, and suddenly smiled maliciously, "I have to take my identity into consideration, but it doesn't affect you, Hongdou, you will continue to watch tomorrow."

"what?"

Hongdou was stunned and said, "But how can I talk to Gu Zhouzun?"

"You don't need to talk to him. Just find out where he often goes after leaving the government office. I will create opportunities for him."

Zhang Qiongsi held Hongdou's hand and said respectfully, "Hongdou, your daughter's lifelong happiness depends on you."

Hongdou felt the burden on her shoulders was heavy and nodded solemnly, "Don't worry, young lady!"

Three days passed.

That evening, Zhang Qiongsi was waiting for good news from Hongdou at home, but saw her coming back with a depressed look on her face.

"Girl, I don't think something is right."

"What's wrong? Why do you say that?"

Hongdou sighed and told her what she had seen in the past two days.

It turned out that Gu Yichuang never lived in the prefectural mansion at all, except for occasionally meeting some visitors there during the day. After leaving the yamen, the place he went to every day was the house in Deshui Lane.

Zhang Qiongsi saw that Hongdou still looked like she wanted to say something after she finished speaking, so she hurriedly asked, "What else do you know? Why don't you tell me everything? Do you still need to be so hesitant in front of your daughter?"

Hongdou looked embarrassed, and after a while she said, "Miss, do you know who lives in the house in Deshui Lane?"

Zhang Qiong's heart sank, but she didn't dare to guess.

"who?"

"It's a woman!"

Zhang Qiongsi's face turned pale, "Woman..."

Gu Yichuan didn't live in the huge prefectural mansion, but went to the house outside every day, and there was a woman living there, so it was not difficult to guess the relationship between them...

She was a little bit incredulous, "Could it be that you made a mistake?"

"impossible!"

Hongdou's face was puffed up, "I saw it with my own eyes, Gu Zhouzun and a young woman came out of that house hand in hand, and that woman was holding a baby in her arms. Oh, and Gu Zhouzun held the baby too, and he was smiling happily!"

"You said he was smiling happily?"

Zhang Qiongsi's heart sank gradually. She could not imagine how such a cold and aloof person, who looked like a banished immortal, would smile.

Hongdou became more and more indignant as she spoke, "Humph! Girl, we were all deceived by him!"

"He looks like a decent and respectable man, but he has a mistress outside and they have a child before he gets married. How can this be possible?"

Zhang Qiongsi sat down dejectedly, "You mean, that woman is his mistress?"

"if not?"

Hongdou argued, "If they were a legitimate family, why didn't they take them to the prefectural government to settle down? It's obvious that they are a shameful person, and we don't know where they came from! This Guzhou Zun is the same. He has not married yet, but he has already had a child with his concubine. I don't think his character is very good!"

She began to persuade him earnestly.

"Girl, in my opinion, you should just forget about it with him. This Gu Zhouzun did such a thing, he can't be called a good match. Why should we suffer such injustice?"

After hearing this, Zhang Qiongsi was confused.

Who would have thought that a man as elegant and graceful as Gu Yichuan would not be immune to this worldly desire?

If he really has a mistress before getting married, how is he different from those stinky men?

If this is true, then she must be blind.

I misjudged him.

Seeing that her daughter was in a daze and didn't say anything, Hongdou pushed her anxiously.

"Girl, don't be silly. Madam always says that men who keep mistresses are not good people. Have you forgotten?"

"I didn't forget."

Zhang Qiongsi shook his head. "The woman in Deshui Lane has given birth to a child for him. If they love each other, even if he can't make her his principal wife, he should bring her and her child into the mansion and take good care of them instead of letting them wander around without even a name."

"Doing things like this is neither responsible nor righteous. If Gu Zhouzun is really this kind of person, I would not bother to marry him."

Hongdou smiled and nodded, "That's right!"

"However," Zhang Qiongsi paused, "I have to go and see for myself whether it is right or wrong before I can give up."

She also wanted to know what kind of person was the woman who could make Gu Yichuan give up his reputation and take her as his concubine?

……

Two days passed.

Zhang Qiongsi was reading in the room when Hongdou suddenly came in to report the news.

"Miss, Zhang Fulai has news. He said that the woman from Deshui Lane went out today. She went to Yanxia Pavilion."

"Yanxia Pavilion? Why do I seem to have heard mother mention this name before?"

Hongdou nodded, "Yes, this is the cosmetics shop that Madam often goes to. It is newly opened in the city this year. The rouge from this shop has been selling very well in the city in recent months. The peach mist that you use most often is the one that Madam bought for you from Yanxia Pavilion."

Zhang Qiongsi snorted coldly, "Doesn't she have a baby who is still in her cradle? It's hard for her to take care of the child, but she's thinking about dressing herself up and seducing men so soon?"