Chapter 1602: Chapter 1232: Little Servant, You’re Really a Trouble-Maker!

After murmuring these words, Gu Changsheng looked up again, only to find that Yue Xilou had already run off without a trace!

She glanced at the direction Borjigin Nian had left, then looked at the corridor ahead, and decisively concluded that it was better for a normal person like herself to take the conventional path!

Vaulting over walls and sneaking through flower bushes—that’s outright disrespectful to the master of the City Lord’s Mansion, Shi Wujue!

Gu Changsheng believed that she still had some awareness of being a guest!

She’d better walk back!

With a sigh, Gu Changsheng chose to head toward the outer building of the City Lord’s Mansion.

However, she’d hardly started walking when she saw a little bald head sulking in the corridor!

As soon as Gu Changsheng saw this little bald head, she immediately put aside the matter of Borjigin Nian!

Even Yue Xilou couldn’t sway Borjigin Nian’s choice; Gu Changsheng certainly wouldn’t presume she could make him reconsider!

Wisdom lies in self-awareness, and Gu Changsheng realized she couldn’t make that foolish mistake!

Why worry?

The bridge will straighten out when it reaches the end; deal with things as they come!

Isn’t there still a long way to go before marrying under the witness of Longevity Heaven? It’s still early! Even if your eyebrows catch fire, you can still douse them with water—getting anxious now is useless!

With this thought, Gu Changsheng’s mood brightened up, and she walked toward the little bald head sitting in the corridor...

"Hey, son, what’s happened? Why do you look as wilted as a frostbitten eggplant?" Gu Changsheng raised her hand and playfully patted her son’s bald little head, asking with a gleeful smile, "Come on, tell me what happened to make you so upset, so I can get a good laugh out of it!"

"Mother! Don’t touch my head! It won’t grow tall! If it doesn’t grow tall, I won’t be able to marry a pretty wife!" The little boy protested immediately, twisting his neck to free his head from his mother’s playful grasp.

"Alright, alright! I won’t touch, I won’t touch! For the sake of your pretty wife, I’ll refrain!" Gu Changsheng felt a bit helpless about her son’s constant concern over getting a wife, so she raised her hands in surrender, turned, and sat down next to him, tilted her head, glanced at her son, and asked with a smile, "Tell me, why are you so glum? Your mouth’s almost long enough to clip a mule!"

"No way!" The little boy protested at once, raising his hand to touch his mouth before angrily glaring at his mother. He looked down, pouted, and muttered, "I just ran into my Peacock Lion Tiger, and since I still haven’t gotten over being tied up, so..."

"So you poisoned him? Turned him into a toad with poison?" Gu Changsheng widened her eyes upon hearing this, and asked.

Upon hearing his mother’s words, the little boy also widened his eyes and pouted, "No, I didn’t! I’m not that malicious! I was just really upset when I was tied up like a little dumpling and said something in anger! I didn’t really want to turn Peacock Master into a toad!"

"Hmm, hmm, hmm!" Gu Changsheng nodded repeatedly and said, "I also think my little boy has a heart of gold! So, why are you still sulking here?"

"Because I didn’t poison Peacock Lion Tiger into a toad; I just... just..." The little boy twisted the corner of his clothes with his tiny hands, hesitating.

The innocent look in his big watery eyes showed as he glanced at Gu Changsheng, accompanied by a trace of cautiousness.

Seeing her son in this state, Gu Changsheng’s heart suddenly gave rise to a sense of foreboding, her brows furrowed, and she asked sternly, "So what did you do? Huh? What did you do to your Peacock Master?"

"I... I... I just used the Truth Gu on my Peacock Lion Tiger..." Under his mother’s pressing inquiry, the little boy finally blinked his anxious eyes and innocently revealed the truth!

And Gu Changsheng, upon hearing this about the Truth Gu, gasped sharply and pointed at her little boy, momentarily at a loss for words!

The Truth Gu, as the name suggests, is an insect that forces people to speak the truth. It’s commonly used by Southern Border women to ascertain their husband’s sincerity.

And for her little boy, the Palace Master of the Three Palaces Peak of Southern Border, who had inherited the bloodline carrying Gu Breath, insects like the Truth Gu were as common as grabbing a sackful!

But that’s not the main point!

The point is this little rascal actually put this kind of Gu on his own Flower Peacock at this moment!

This is really...

"You little troublemaker! You really cause a lot of trouble, don’t you!" Finally, after holding it in for so long, Gu Changsheng pointed at his own son and spat out these words.

"Mother, I didn’t do it on purpose! I didn’t know the Peacock, Lion, and Tiger was in such a bad mood; I didn’t know he was so upset now. I just wanted to tease him a bit, get some secrets from his mouth, and then mock him for fun later..." Little Bun, seeing his mother upset, quickly tugged at her sleeve, looking pitiful.

"Using such a crude thing on elders, servant, did your mother teach you the way of respecting teachers just for you to use it like this? Didn’t your mother warn you that people fear Gu, avoiding them like snakes and scorpions? Unless absolutely necessary, you must not use Gu techniques on people. What have you done? Used Gu on your own master?"

Gu Changsheng’s bright face was full of seriousness, and her words were stern yet inwardly weak.

Under his mother’s reprimand, Little Bun’s little head lowered more and more, his chubby face full of guilty expressions for doing wrong, not daring to look up at his mother!

"Then you used the Truth Gu on your own master. What exactly did your Peacock Master say honestly? Come, son, quickly tell mother!"

However, when Little Bun was regretting what to say to earn his mother’s forgiveness, Gu Changsheng changed the subject, picked Little Bun up onto her lap, and asked this question with an uninterested expression...

"Huh?" 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

Little Bun was stunned by his mother’s sudden change, evidently not keeping up with her pace.

"Smack!" A little hand immediately slapped down on Little Bun’s bald head. Gu Changsheng stared at her bewildered son, blinking her bright phoenix eyes, eagerly urging him, "Hurry and tell! Don’t you know curiosity killed the cat? What truth did your Peacock Master say?"

"Um... well... Mother, revealing other people’s secrets is wrong!" Little Bun hesitated upon seeing his mother like this.

"It’s even more wrong to probe others’ secrets!" replied Gu Changsheng without a moment’s hesitation.

"So, a child shouldn’t make the same mistake twice!" Little Bun shook his head, looking righteous and ready to amend his wrongs!

"Son! Let’s make a deal, your mother won’t mind you disrespecting your teacher and misusing the Gu technique, if you tell me what your Peacock Master said, how about it?" Gu Changsheng offered to her son with a coaxing face, finally extending a hand for a high-five, "Mother promises, what you tell me won’t be shared with others!"

"Smack!"

The next moment, a crisp high-five sound rang out.

"Deal!" Little Bun grinned like a little fox, retrieved his little paw, and beckoned his mother closer, "Mother, come listen, Peacock Master said, being abandoned still feels consistently awful, blah blah blah..."

Gu Changsheng with ears perked, clearly heard her son recount the heartfelt words he obtained from Yue Xilou, and a grin grew larger and larger on her face until Little Bun relayed the whole thing; she slapped her leg and snorted coldly, "Huh, I’m indeed insightful, didn’t misjudge! That Flower Peacock secretly has bad intentions for our Nian!"

"Mother, what bad intentions?" Upon hearing this, Little Bun asked in confusion.

"Shoo, shoo! Grown-up matters, kids shouldn’t meddle!" Upon hearing her son’s question, Gu Changsheng waved her hand dismissively.

"Mother, you’re burning the bridge after crossing it!" pouted Little Bun, accusing her.

"Your mother can abandon you after using you too, want to try it, you little troublemaker?" Gu Changsheng threatened with a sideways glance at her son.

"Mother! How can you do this, we sealed the deal with a high-five, you promised not to pursue my disrespectful use of the Insect!" Little Bun exclaimed, bouncing off her lap and cautiously backing away.

"Mother said not pursuing your disrespectful use of Gu Insects, but didn’t say not to pursue your loose lips and indiscretion!" Gu Changsheng snorted, stared at her son seriously, and said, "What has mother told you? Hm? Don’t gossip about others idly; reflect on your own faults regularly! What are you doing? A man acting like a gossipy woman, stirring up rumors here!"

"Mother! You’re the one who made me tell! How can you be like this..."

"Mother asks you to do something, you do it? Then mother now asks you to run a hundred laps around the martial arts training ground; if you don’t finish, you won’t get to sleep tonight! The path to the martial arts training ground is over there, go on, I won’t send you off!" Gu Changsheng patted her unwrinkled garment, stood up confidently, casually said, and kindly pointed the direction of the martial arts training ground for her son...

"Mother..." Seeing this, Little Bun’s chubby face drooped down, glanced at his mother, then at the direction of the martial arts training ground...