Chapter 52

TRANSLATED BY MYPEN_22

Gao Changgeng suddenly had the feeling that they were both let down by the same person.

"Have a seat." Gao Changgeng gestured with his chin to the chair next to him.

Xiao Bailian shivered as he held the back of the chair and sat down.

"Let's have a drink?"

"I don't know how to drink." Xiao Bailian suddenly held back the words he had just said, "Okay, I'll drink a little with you."

The food and wine soon arrived, and Gao Changgeng poured him a glass of wine and placed it in front of him.

"You're afraid of me?" Gao Changgeng laughed lightly and looked at the man across the table who was fumbling with his wine glass and looking down at the table in a restless manner.

Xiao Bai didn't even know where to put his eyes, he could only look down at the table and confess "Yes, a little."

Gao Changgeng let out another laugh "Why? It's not like I can eat you up? I don't seem to have had any trouble with you either."

"You have an aura about you that I can only look up to and fear." Xiao Bailian stammered out an explanation, "I can't really say. Anyway, anyway, it just feels like you're quite intimidating."

Although Gao Changgeng had asked Xiao Bailian to drink with him, he did not let him drink the wine after he had poured it for him, but took a sip from the glass himself. After a long time, he said, "How did you get married so quickly back then?"

Back then, less than a month after Cha nan decided to be with Gao Changgeng, Xiao Bailian had married herself off in a hurry. It was to be a stepfamily to someone whose son was said to be older than him.

Xiao Bailian whispered, "Back then, Cha nan told me that he was pretending to be with you and that we were secretly working together in private. But I didn't want to do that, so I found someone to marry in order to kill him."

"I thought you were grief-stricken and wanted to start a new relationship to heal your wounds." Gao Changgeng's hand clenched slightly as he held the wine glass, he really didn't expect it, the person he had shared a bed with for three years was the one who had ill intentions towards him from the start, it was really sad and ridiculous and lamentable. He pretended to be inattentive and asked, "Then why did you come back?"

Xiao Bailian continued, "After I married him, he died of an acute illness within two months, and I completed three years of mourning for him. I was a man and couldn't leave any children behind, so his son said I was a freeloader and kicked me out. I really didn't want to come back, but I didn't have any silver on me and I didn't even have a place to live. I had to come back. Here, at least, I had a shelter. When I first came back, I lived in seclusion every day, not daring to let anyone find out because I was afraid that word would get to Cha nan's ears, but in the end, he found out. I, I really didn't mean to intrude on your lives ..."

Before Xiao Bailian set foot in the house, Gao Changgeng hated this kind of appearance of him the most, like a white lotus flower. But at this moment, after hearing his words, there was a different kind of feeling in his heart. He gently sighed "You are also a bitter person."

Xiao Bailian did not know what to say, so he lowered his head and looked at the table without saying anything.

"By the way," Gao Changgeng looked at him after taking a sip of wine, "I remember you worked as a bookkeeper in Hengzhou for a while before, why are you now working as a shopkeeper in that tavern?"

Xiao Bai even explained, "Isn't it all because of you."

"Because of me?" Gao Changgeng pointed his finger at himself.

Xiao Bai nodded, "Your Gao family is a big family in Hengzhou, and many of the businesses in Hengzhou are run by your family. Other businessmen don't dare to offend you, and what happened between us is not a secret in Hengzhou. I don't always go to that tavern, I only go there occasionally to help out."

Gao Changgeng did not expect that he had caused such trouble for Xiao Bailian, and was slightly apologetic, but his mouth was unforgiving "You are so poor, and you still have the heart to make mats for others?"

"Those are all old clothes that I really can't wear." Xiao Bailian looked up at him and then quickly lowered his head, "Yes, let's help if we can, life is not easy, I hope this little thing I do can make them feel a little warm in this bitter cold wind."

He don't know if it was the candlelight or the drunkenness of the wine, but Gao Changgeng suddenly thought that Xiao Bailian was really good looking. In fact, Xiao Bailian was a good-looking man, but he had always regarded him as an enemy and found him unpleasant to look at in every way.

Gao Changgeng took another sip of wine, put his glass down heavily and looked at him like a torch with his eyes asking "It is impossible for me and Cha nan.

Xiao Bailian shook his head decisively and slowly lifted his head again, looking into Gao Changgeng's eyes with the utmost courage "I will not accept him again, he has wronged me once and he can do it again. I came here today to take a look, just to fulfill the friendship we grew up with, from now on his affairs are no longer my business."

"What if he goes back to haunt you? Will you still marry yourself off like you did last time?"

"No," Xiao Bailian said, "I was young and a little impulsive at the time, so I acted that way. If he will pester me again in the future, I intend, intend to go out and see. I've never been to too many places in my life." Xiao Bailian's eyes shone brightly as he said this, changing from his cowering earlier.

"You can stay at my residence for the next few days." Gao Changgeng said, "Cha nan will definitely go looking for you."

Xiao Bailian thought about it and agreed, "Then I'll be grateful."

Gao Changgeng looked at him for a moment, raised his cup and drank the wine in it "I suddenly think you are quite good."

"Huh?" Xiao Bailian looked at Gao Changgeng dumbfounded, but Gao Changgeng had drunk too much wine and fell asleep on the table after saying this.

Xiao Bailian stretched out a finger and poked him, but he didn't wake up. He could only pick up Gao Changgeng and tell him to go to bed, what he had just said was because he was drunk, right? Xiao Bailian thought about it for a while and couldn't make sense of it, so he just didn't think about it. Gao Changgeng had said that he should stay, but he had not prepared a room for him. He wanted to go home, but then he thought that Cha nan had already been kicked out of the Gao Mansion, so he had nowhere to go, and if he went to find himself, he would inevitably be pestered again.

In the end, Xiao Bailian cleaned up the leftovers on the table, looked around again and spent the night on the low collar outside.

From the moment Gao Changgeng knew that Cha nan had gone to see Xiao Bailian again, his heart had been aching like a tear. But when he woke up today, his heart was inexplicably relieved. When he went to the outer room, he saw Xiao Bailian curled up like a cat on the low collapsible. He shook his head helplessly and brought a quilt to cover him.

How blind were his eyes at the time, seeing Cha nan and ignoring Xiao Bailian?

In front of the door of the Yan Shi room.

Almost as soon as Yan Shi and Hua Ling had finished freshening up, Qu Liujing squeezed into the room and said mysteriously, "Let me tell you something new."

Without letting him down, Hua Ling asked, "What's new?"

Qu Liujing then told him what he had heard and seen on the roof of Gao Chang Geng's house last night.

Hua Ling's mouth opened as wide as an egg, "The two of them? Can they really be together?"

"I think they're a good match." Qu Liujing rubbed his hands together, "Let's give them a hand?"

"Yes, yes." Hua Ling's eyes instantly became shiny, and when he saw Yan Shi beside him, he tugged on his sleeve and asked, "Brother, what do you think?"

Yan Shi smiled, "If they are both interested, it is reasonable to help."

"What about Cha nan? Is he going to do something else?" Hua Ling asked with some concern.

"Naturally he will." After breakfast, I'll ask Zhao Chunhai to check with the government to see if there is any collusion between Cha Nan and the government." Cha Nan has long had an axe to grind with Gao Chang Geng, and the Gao family's business has always been managed by him, so it would be easy for him to do something about it.

Gao Changgeng was a man of lightning speed, and since he had already made up his mind to sever his ties with Cha Nan, he had to do so cleanly. When he came out of his room in the morning, he asked his housekeeper to inform the merchants that they should come to the Gao residence before 6 o'clock with their books to discuss matters.

Gao Changgeng and Yan Shi stood side by side in the corridor, looking at the snowflakes that suddenly fell from the sky, Gao Changgeng said "Brother Yan Shi, I never thought that we would have this day."

Yan Shi reached out and caught a snowflake "You gave him a chance, didn't you?

Didn't you? There is no need to hurt yourself over such a person. Brother Gao was lucky that he did not marry him before he knew his true nature." The Great Abyss Law states that a man and a man married cannot be separated or repudiated.

"Yes." Gao Changgeng's eyes suddenly caught sight of a few people coming from afar, his gaze lingering on a certain snow-white figure, and he smiled, "I'm sure my eyes won't be so bad next."

Hua Ling stomped over "Brother brother, it's snowing."

Yan Shi put his hands in his heart and covered them "Why didn't you take a soup tart too?"

"It's not cold." Hua Ling smiled and looked at Xiao Bailian who was following him, "When the snow gets heavy, I'll build a snowman with Bailian, if you're free, come too."

Hua Ling seemed to have a special affection for people who had become male wives, this was the case with Shen Shen Bi and also with Xiao Bailian.

Xiao Bailian was slightly embarrassed at first in the Gao Mansion, he was already timid, and he was in such a relationship with Gao Changgeng. But this mood did not last long before it was broken by Hua Ling.

Hua Ling warmly approached him to say some words and wanted to play with him again. It was then that he accompanied him to the garden of the Gao Mansion. It was now winter and there was nothing to see in the garden, so the two of them watched the sparrows in the trees for a while before returning.

When Xiao Bailian saw Gao Changgeng again, he remembered the words he had said before he went to bed, and his face flushed slightly as he greeted everyone and stood aside.

Hua Ling was chattering like a bird about the sparrows he had just seen, and was in the middle of talking when the housekeeper from the Gao Mansion came to report, "Master, the merchants are here."