Chapter 279: 157 Scapegoat (Second Update) _3
Gu Jiao was speechless. Was this like blaming the earth for not having gravity when you couldn’t poop?
When she called her over to pay respects to Yao Family, why didn’t she come along then?
Also, would Miss Ling be kind enough to call her?
Gu Jiao was too lazy to argue with her. She really didn’t care about what others thought of her. She picked up her little carry bag and said, “I’ll leave first.”
There were still three sick people at home, so Yao Family couldn’t keep her too long.
After she left, Yao Family turned to look at Gu Jinyu with a very serious expression, “How can you blame your sister for what happened today? What did she do wrong?”
Gu Jinyu was stunned. “I … I didn’t …”
Yao Family sternly said, “Your sister, she hasn’t used a single copper coin from the Marquis Residence, she hasn’t eaten a bite from there, there’s no reason for her to recognize any relative of the Marquis Residence. Miss Ling called out to her. She obviously could refuse!”
Yao Family had never spoken to Gu Jinyu in such a severe tone. In Gu Jinyu’s eyes, Yao Family was gentle and understanding, even somewhat weak.
But now, Yao Family slowly started to get tougher.
Yao Family said, “From now on, I don’t want to hear such words again. I won’t allow you to defame your sister.”
Being slandered by others didn’t feel as heartrending to Gu Jinyu as this sentence did.
Apart from her younger brother, wasn’t her mother the one who cherished her the most?
But now, the person her mother cherished the most…was her sister.
“Do you think it was really her who did it?” After Gu Jinyu left, Yao Family asked the housekeeper.
The housekeeper had thoroughly investigated and found that Miss Ling had fled in panic, which was evidently a guilty conscience.
But the housekeeper didn’t say this and simply sighed, “Ah, how dare I speculate recklessly? Even if it was second miss, she must have done it unintentionally, she is trying to please the Crown Prince after all.”
All of a sudden, Yao Family seemed a bit disappointed in her daughter.
Little Void had finally noticed that his hair had been shaved bald.
His hair that had been growing for the last half a year… was on the verge of being long enough to be tied up…and now it was all gone!
He had become a little baldy again!
He hugged his little bald head, sitting on the threshold and crying bitterly, “My hair is gone —— bad brother-in-law owes me hair —— bad brother-in-law! Bad brother-in-law! Bad brother-in-law! I want my hair back ——”
Xiao Liulang said seriously, “You asked me to shave it.”
Little Void cried while stamping his legs, “I didn’t! I didn’t! You’re talking nonsense!”
He had been delirious with fever that night and couldn’t remember a thing. Therefore, he firmly believed that he would never abandon his beloved hair. It must be the bad brother-in-law who was jealous of him, and shaved his hair off when he had the fever!
Xiao Liulang shrugged, “You can ask Jiaojiao if you don’t believe me.”
Gu Jiao returned home.
The big one and the little one were waiting for her at the door.
Xiao Liulang leaned helplessly against the doorframe, and Little Void sat pitifully on the threshold.
Gu Jiao could sense a storm brewing.
“What… what happened?” She asked.
“Jiaojiao.” Little Void looked at her with immense hurt, “Bad brother-in-law said… said that I was delirious the other night… asked to have my own hair shaved… and you also agreed… you handed the razor to him…”
He looked so distraught, his face seemed to say —— Jiaojiao, how could you just stand by and watch others destroy my beloved hair, even hand over the razor, are you still the Jiaojiao who loves me the most?
Gu Jiao took a deep breath, stroked his pitiful baldy head, turned to Xiao Liulang and said, “This is where you are wrong. If you shaved it, fine, but why did you lay the blame on the child?”
Xiao Liulang was stunned at the spot, “…?!”