Following that, after listening to the report from the person who had brought her, the mistress inside the room started talking to Gu Nuan through the bamboo curtain, saying, "You think you can take your brother back with you? Do you believe you have the ability to cure his illness? If you could, your family wouldn’t be desperate, ready to carry him home and wait for him to die, right?"
"I will earn a lot, a lot of money, and cure Gu Sheng’s illness—"
"You?" The woman’s voice was sharp as if she had heard the biggest joke in the world, her laugh as piercing as a needle and exceedingly grating.
Gu Nuan clenched her little fists tightly but did not move.
"How much money can you earn? Do you know how much money is needed to cure your brother’s illness?"
"I will earn a lot, a lot—"
"Stop joking! You can earn a lot of money? No matter how much you earn, you’ll never make as much as I do. As for why, you absolutely wouldn’t understand if I told you now. When you’re older, one day you’ll understand. The saying goes, ’Dragons beget dragons, and phoenixes beget phoenixes; the offspring of a mouse will always be a mouse,’ and in the same way, a beggar’s child is always a beggar."
"You’re wrong! One day, I will earn more money than you!"
A cold fierce light shone from Gu Nuan’s eyes, and her voice was forceful, resounding with certainty, completely at odds with her small body and young age. It made the maidservant standing beside her involuntarily let out a gasp of surprise.
It was this look that indisputably enraged the sitting woman in the room.
"Fine. You say you will earn a lot of money, more than I do. I’ll record every penny I spend on your brother. When the day comes that you can repay me this massive sum with interest, then come and negotiate with me."
"Yes, usury—since you say you can earn a lot of money, usury should seem like nothing to you."
This was clearly an adult bullying a child.
What all the adults present didn’t expect was for the small, dirty-faced girl to assert, "Fine! Just make sure you keep a clear account, I won’t owe you a penny, but don’t even think about getting one more cent from me!"
The assertive tone shocked everyone.
No one knew how such a small body could produce such a terrifyingly powerful voice, and moreover, the girl had no idea whom she was confronting.
A loud slap of a hand hitting the table came from the room.
Obviously, the mistress was thoroughly provoked and yelled, "Get her out of here! Don’t let me see her again!"
Gu Nuan scoffed, "What’s the matter, you bring up a wager yourself and you don’t have the guts to bet?"
"I don’t dare to bet? You say I don’t dare to bet? You little brat still wet behind the ears!" The person in the room was just a whisker away from losing their cool, rushing out and slapping Gu Nuan to teach her a lesson.
But in the end, Gu Nuan was not easily extinguished. As the person’s temper surged and they nearly lost their sanity, they thought of something and calmly sat back down, surveying Gu Nuan’s small face coldly through the bamboo curtain, "I almost fell for your little trick, didn’t I?" ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵※𝖿𝗂𝗋𝖾※𝙣𝙚𝙩
Gu Nuan didn’t speak, her little mouth pursed tightly.
"No matter. I’ll take your bet. But I warn you, don’t play tricks in front of me. With your abilities, in forty or fifty years, even when I’m dead, you still won’t be able to win."
Having said that, the woman made her decision.
Two servants immediately came forward and dragged Gu Nuan away, then quickly took her away in a carriage.