Be in low spirits

Ye Fan smiled. It would be impossible for Mr. Gu to get into this opera house without some connections.

Guxiang Apartment is in an alley, and you have to walk a distance to the road. It is difficult to drive in, so you can only get off at the side of the road. Ye Fan helped her take out the piano, thinking of sending it back together. She grabbed the piano and said politely: "Thank you for taking me back today." After saying that, she was about to leave, but Ye Fan stopped her and asked: "Can I come to see you in the future?"

"Sure, I'm always at the opera house." Then he walked into the alley and disappeared at the stairs of the apartment.

Ye Fan looked at her disappearing figure with a sense of loss. After getting in the car, he said to the driver, "Let's go back home."

"Young Master, General Yang wants to see you." The driver looked at him in the rearview mirror.

"Yeah." He nodded and asked the driver to take him back to Yang's house.

General Yang looked at the letter sent by Gu Lang and couldn't help but sigh: "Young people are really formidable."

Ye Fan knocked on the door and came in. Old Yang handed him the letter and said, "Take a look. Old Master Gu is coming."

"The person playing the cello in the opera house is his daughter. It is normal for him to come to Jingxi to see his daughter." In the current situation, the Gu family in Anjiang has money, and the Yang family in Jingxi has soldiers. The president also hopes for the two families to unite.

"After Gu Zhiqiu's wife died, he seldom went out and rarely mentioned his daughter. Coming to Jingxi to see his daughter was secondary. Meeting the president was probably his main purpose." Old Yang was leaning on a crutch, looking out the window. It was dark at this time.

"So what?" Ye Fan just thought that the Gu family was here to do business and couldn't make any splash.

"If the Li family, the Pei family, and the Su family form an alliance with them first, then the status of my Jingxi troops will be in jeopardy." After years of fighting in the past few years, the Jingxi troops have not yet recovered. In addition, those troops are hereditary family systems and have been eyeing the Jingxi team covetously.

"The president has always hoped that we can break up these teams. Haha, it's not that easy." Old Yang returned to his seat and Ye Fan poured him tea.

"If the old general doesn't mind, why not let me get a feel for the Gu family?" Ye Fan volunteered, mainly because he wanted to know what kind of capabilities the Gu family had.

"Xingzhi, you understand my mind the best, so you will be the one to receive us." After drinking the tea and explaining the task clearly, Mr. Yang went back to his room to rest.

Ye Fan looked at the letter in his hand. It was written by Gu Lang to his uncle, the Secretary General of the Presidential Palace. It seemed that the Gu family was very powerful. Even though they were in Anjiang, they knew everything about the people and things in Jingxi.

When Yang Lin returned to Yang's house, he was just coming out of the study and met him in the hall. Yang Lin stopped him and said, "Xingzhi, it's great, come drink with me."

"The old general has assigned me a task." He raised the letter in his hand and prepared to go back to his third uncle to find out.

"Don't be in a hurry. Come and tell me about the cello girl we sent today." He pulled her to the wine cellar and opened a bottle of red wine.

"You may not know, that is the daughter of Anjiang Gu Zhiqiu." He picked up the red wine glass, raised it and took a sip.

"Gu Zhiqiu? What an ancient name. He hasn't left Anjiang for a long time, right? Why did he send his daughter to Jingxi?" Yang Lin had seen this Gu Zhiqiu when he was a child. He was handsome and had the bearing of a scholar. At that time, he was holding hands with his wife. They were very affectionate and loving, and it was hard not to notice them at the dance party.

"Because of this daughter, he is coming to Jingxi. The old man asked me to entertain her with my third uncle." He put down the wine glass and thought of Gu Jinluo's back disappearing at the stairs.

"Can I come with you?" The Gu family was a family that the Nationalist government attached great importance to, because the taxes they paid to the government every year could almost support most of the army's expenses.

"Go discuss it with the old man."

"You didn't know from the beginning that the girl was Gu Zhiqiu's daughter, so you approached her on purpose, right?"

"Anyone who can play the cello these days must have a remarkable family background. Regardless of whether they are from a family of their own, it is hard not to attract attention."

"I thought so. You usually only go to Paramount to see Jingwan. Since you took the initiative to ask to send this lady, it must be useful to you." Yang Lin teased him.

"Don't talk nonsense." He suddenly felt unhappy. There was no way to compare these two people.

After drinking a bottle of red wine, he sent Yang Lin back to his room to sleep. He also returned to Li's house, sat in his room, found the vinyl record, and played the song he heard today. However, his mood was completely different from that in the opera house. He only felt that the sound of the phonograph was noisy and vague.

After a while, he turned off the phonograph again. Lying on the bed, he thought about Gu Jinluo, who was wearing a black cheongsam today. Maybe it was really like what Yang Lin said, that he could use her, so he paid attention to her.

When Gu Jinluo returned to the apartment, Liu Ma had already cleaned the living room, kitchen, and bathroom. She specifically instructed them not to move things in the room as she would clean up herself.

After tidying up the room, I sat on the windowsill and looked at the night view of Beijing West, holding the red wine that Aunt Liu brought. Aunt Liu knocked on the door and said at the door: "Miss, Master Lang called and said they will arrive in three days."

"Is my dad coming too?" She shook the wine in the glass, and the liquid inside spun with the night, bringing with it a starlight.

"The master is coming too. They live in Lin'an Mansion." Aunt Liu told her everything she heard on the phone today.

After hearing what Liu Ma said, she felt disappointed, "How could you come to see me?"

Liu Ma was the wet nurse who raised her, so she naturally knew about her relationship with Master Gu. She didn't say much and wanted to go back, but then she heard the sound of a goblet breaking.

"Oh, miss, don't move, let me clean it up." She ran to the living room to get a broom. Gu Jinluo looked at the blood on her hands with an indifferent expression.

Aunt Liu cleaned up the glass on the floor, brought her a medicine box to disinfect it, put on a Band-Aid, and said distressedly, "Miss, you use this hand to play the violin. What will happen if you get hurt like this?"

"After you're done packing, go back to sleep." She didn't feel any pain, but she was just thinking of her mother.

In the morning, she asked for leave from the director of the opera house and went back to her room to sleep. Liu Ma knocked on the door and called her to have breakfast, but she refused to get up and continued to lie in bed.

The hawking sounds from downstairs gave her a headache, so she sat up and put on her makeup, thinking of going to the photo studio to take a picture.

After washing up, I went to the living room to have breakfast. After breakfast, I went out shopping. After all, Jingxi is the capital, and it is much more prosperous than Anjiang.

Many of the shopping malls here have shares owned by the Gu family, and their layout is very similar to that of Anjiang. She walked skillfully to the teahouse on the second floor, took out the round fan from her bag, ordered a table of tea and snacks, and watched the opera downstairs.

While the Empty City Strategy was being sung downstairs, she was on the stage, eating melon seeds and cheering, not looking like a lady from a noble family at all.

Su Mufeng stood opposite her on the third floor, chuckled twice, and said to the people behind him: "Go, tie up the girl watching the show on the second floor and bring her to my room. This young master will enjoy her tonight."

The person behind him looked at the girl on the second floor who was wearing a gray cheongsam and a half ponytail, nodded, and retreated from behind him.

Ye Fan and Yang Lin also noticed these people. Seeing his wretched appearance, they guessed which girl was going to be in trouble again. With a glance, the two nodded in understanding and followed the guards who received the order.

Seeing the two men go upstairs and stare at Gu Jinluo on the tea table, Ye Fan was shocked. Yang Lin, on the other hand, looked proud and said, "Hero saving the beauty, Su Mufeng is quite good at creating opportunities for you. I leave it to you." As he said that, he threw him a coquettish look.

Seeing that the two men were about to attack, Ye Fan wanted to rush forward, but Yang Lin stopped him and said, "Wait a minute, it's not the right time yet."

The two guards walked to the tea table, crossed their arms over their chests, and said aggressively to Gu Jinluo who was drinking tea: "Hey, my young master wants to see you."

She calmly put down the bowl, fanned herself, and asked, "Does your young master know who I am?"

"No matter who you are, my young master wants to see you." The guard was about to attack, but Ye Fan rushed forward and blocked his dirty hands. He raised his hand and flipped the man to the ground. Another one came up to help. He kicked the man against the wall and scolded them: "Tell your little General Su, if you have any unhappiness, come to the Ye family to find me!"

Yang Lin hid behind a pillar and complained disdainfully: "Tsk tsk, he really got me."

The two guards crawled away obediently. He sat opposite Gu Jinluo and asked, "Miss Gu, are you frightened?"

"Why is Lieutenant Colonel Ye here?" She felt that his appearance might not be simple.