The Prime Minister’s Darling-Chapter 517 - 260 Ingenious Plan (First Change)_2

Chapter 517: 260 Ingenious Plan (First Change)_2

Chapter 517: 260 Ingenious Plan (First Change)_2

“Do you know who he is?” the young man asked Gu Jiao this time.

“Liu Yisheng.” Gu Jiao continued to pet the cat.

The young man curled his lips into a smile, pointing at Liu Yisheng with his folding fan, “He’s my cousin.”

“Eh?” Gu Jiao blinked.

This young man was none other than the Sixth Imperial Son of Chen Country, the one who just pretended to be sick in the Imperial Palace.

Gu Jiao originally planned to sneak into the Palace herself, but Liu Yisheng told her she wouldn’t be able to. However, he said he could pass in her message.

Not long after, this man claiming to be the Sixth Imperial Son of Chen Country appeared, coming to Liu Yisheng with a captured white cat.

Gu Jiao glanced at Liu Yisheng: “A person from Chen Country, huh?”

Err, was it really okay to tell her such a significant matter?

Gu Jiao’s reaction was even more composed than the Sixth Imperial Son had anticipated, but recalling that she wasn’t too shocked when he revealed his identity, he felt relieved.

Just a calm young girl.

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Gu Jiao kept on petting the cat.

“Shouldn’t you leave?” Liu Yisheng spoke to the Sixth Imperial Son.

The Sixth Imperial Son, laughing, replied, “You reached out to me for once, and I shouldn’t come and spend some time? I was beginning to think you’d never contact me in this lifetime.”

With that, he turned to Gu Jiao, not hiding his relationship with Liu Yisheng in the slightest, “I came to Zhan Country as a hostage, trying to convince him to return home with me. Since he refuses to listen to me, perhaps you could persuade him for me.”

Gu Jiao: I really didn’t want to know all of this…

“Anu, see out the guest!” Liu Yisheng issued an order to his visitor without lifting his eyes.

Anu set down the half-woven basket and rose to the side of the Sixth Imperial Son, gave her respects, and gestured for him to exit.

The Sixth Imperial Son, who was actually being sent away from such a shabby place: “…”

The Sixth Imperial Son slapping the rattan chair helplessly, sighed, and left.

The white cat was too adorable, plump with a soft, shiny coat, Gu Jiao was very satisfied pampering it.

The white cat was also pleased with the pampering, lying on Gu Jiao’s lap, belly exposed to her.

Liu Yisheng, for his part, didn’t order Gu Jiao away. He played with the hemp twine a bit longer, then suddenly said, “My mother was from Chen Country.”

“Eh?” Gu Jiao paused in petting the cat, turning to look at him.

Liu Yisheng lowered his head to fiddle with the hemp twine, his hands long and attractive, but weathered by life with blisters and cuts: “She and Yuan Tang’s mother were sisters.”

Ah, turns out the Chen Country Imperial Son’s name was Yuan Tang.

Gu Jiao finally understood. Two sisters, one entering the palace as a wife, the other going to a rival country to become a spy, the family that produced these sisters must not be simple.

“Does the Emperor know?” Gu Jiao asked.

Liu Yisheng shook his head: “I don’t know if he knows.”

When the Liu family was condemned, Liu Yisheng was too young. No one told him what had come of the Liu family, and he just watched as their assets were seized, their members decapitated or exiled, until only he, a small child, along with an old and not so upright maidservant were left.

Anu was picked up along the way.

Liu Yisheng thought for a moment and then added: “He probably doesn’t know, but it doesn’t matter now, I’m already a homeless, lost dog.”

“Why don’t you leave?” Gu Jiao asked.

Liu Yisheng mocked himself: “Where would I go? Chen Country? In Zhan Country, I’m a homeless dog, it would be the same in Chen Country.”

Half of his blood was from Zhan Country, and in the eyes of Chen Country, he was tainted.

Gu Jiao didn’t try to persuade him further.

Everyone has their own life, and their own choices. Gu Jiao put the white cat down, stood up, and bid goodbye: “I am leaving.”

Liu Yisheng looked at the bewildered cat on the ground and asked her: “Aren’t you taking the cat with you?”

“You keep it,” Gu Jiao said, and before he could respond that he couldn’t afford to keep a cat, she placed a money pouch on the table, “For its food expenses.”

With that, she walked out of the courtyard.

Liu Yisheng didn’t understand why, after petting the cat for so long, clearly really liking it, she wanted to leave it with him. In such a large medical hall, couldn’t she manage to keep one cat?

Of course, though he was confused in his heart, he wouldn’t go find Gu Jiao to ask about this. He hadn’t even asked why Gu Jiao had gone to the Imperial Palace to catch a cat in the first place, so how could he ask this?

Some people, even when they weren’t close, could still trust each other.

After being pet all afternoon, the white cat, suddenly alone, pounced onto Liu Yisheng’s leg, seeking a pet.

Liu Yisheng didn’t have the time to pet a cat. He ignored it and continued playing with the hemp twine.

“Do you know the consequences if this cat was not caught in time?”

It was Yuan Tang’s voice.

Turning around, Liu Yisheng saw Yuan Tang walking out from inside the house, seeming to have entered from the back door.