Through the book: The villain’s son’s stand-in

After Luo Niao Niao finished speaking, he turned around to tease Gu Cheng.

Gu Cheng sat among the four people so that others could keep an eye on him.

He calmly took a piece of pastry and stuffed it into his mouth. When the adults spoke, he would chew the food in his mouth and listen with his ears raised.

Soon, the table was filled with more than thirty dishes of various kinds, enough to make up one-third of the table for a Manchu-Han banquet.

But there are only five of them, and one of them is only three years old...

"Eat, you're welcome. These are the dishes that Old Man Yan recently restored. You guys are just in time." Qian Jiayuan greeted.

Lu Li took a piece of tender red meat and tasted it carefully, then praised: "Mr. Yan is indeed an expert in food evaluation. He is so talented even in studying dishes."

Mr. Bai and Luo Niaoniao tasted a piece one after another, and both were full of praise.

"Of course. In order for him to work as a cook in my manor, I spent almost half of Gem Island's star coins. Can't it be delicious?"

Qian Jiayuan also took a piece himself. When he tasted the delicacy in his mouth, he couldn't help but think of the small coins he had lost.

Suddenly his grief and anger turned into appetite, and he ate it wholeheartedly.

"A waste of natural resources!" Mr. Bai shook his head and chewed slowly with the thought of drinking tea.

Adults eat much slower, especially when talking while eating. For an hour and a half, several people have not stopped talking.

Gu Cheng had already stopped his chopsticks and was drinking juice aside.

"Hmm~" He yawned slightly and rubbed his eyes with his fingers, trying to hold himself back from falling asleep.

But all the adults present were paying attention to him, and their voices gradually decreased, and finally the whole place was silent.

Lu Li: "Chengcheng, can grandma take you to bed?"

Gu Cheng couldn't hold it any longer, so he forced his eyelids to look at the person.

As soon as he saw someone he knew, he stretched out his hand for a hug.

Lu Li held his butt, patted his back gently, winked at the others, and walked straight to the guest bedroom.

"Have a good sleep, and grandma will continue to play with you when you wake up." Lu Li covered him with a thin blanket and said warmly in his ear.

"Yeah." Gu Cheng was really sleepy, and his eyelids closed completely without moving a few times.

Lu Li looked at his peaceful sleeping face quietly, her eyes filled with tenderness.

*

In the small private room, several people let go of their voices and communicated freely.

"Lao Bai, what do you think of Gu Cheng?" Qian Jiayuan no longer smiled playfully, and his eyes were filled with light.

"He is a good young man." He took a sip of tea and put down the cup. "He has a good memory and is smart. More importantly, he can hide his clumsiness."

"Zangzhuo?" Luo, with a lace hairpin on his curly long hair, asked doubtfully: "Chengcheng is still so young, what can Zangzhuo hide? Can he still see that we are testing him? ?”

"Yes, he saw it." Lu Li stepped in sideways, closed the door and replied.

"Did you all see it?" Luo Niao Niao glanced at everyone's expressions and asked uncertainly.

"Well, Sister Luo, you are the only one who has been deceived by his appearance!" Qian Jiayuan teased.

"you!"

Just when Luo Niao Niao was about to have a seizure, Lu Li immediately held her shoulders and carefully comforted her: "We have to discuss business now, and we will talk about other things later."

"Okay." Luo Niao glanced at Qian Jiayuan, sat up straight, and listened seriously to Mr. Bai's speech.

"He just sees it, so he is improving every game. From this, he wants to prove to us his learning ability."

"You can tell from the types of books he reads that he accepts everyone and is willing to learn anything."

"And his greed for money is his weakness, which shows that as long as we can bring him enough benefits, he will always support our faction."

The more the old man spoke, the more impassioned he became. His appearance of winning a battle thousands of miles away was exactly the same as that of a great talent from ancient times.

Just sitting there is incredibly convincing.

But no matter how you listen, it doesn't sound like you are talking about Gu Cheng...

Anyway, several people present had their brows furrowed after hearing this.

"You are right, I am talking about Gu Pan." Mr. Bai said.

The other two people did not refute, as if they acquiesced to his words.

But Lu Li's face was full of confusion and horror.

Does Gu Pan have such intelligence? Why didn't she know?

"... In short, Gu Pan has indeed changed. She is no longer satisfied with this little profit in her hands. What she wants is the entire heritage of our ancient literature school." Mr. Bai concluded.

"Old man, is this a bit alarmist? Gu Pan doesn't look like this kind of person." Lu Li said.

"Then how do you explain that Gu Cheng deliberately admitted defeat today even though he was very confident? Can a three-year-old child be so smart?"

Lu Li was a little unsure and shook her head.

Bai Yuqing: "So, other than his mother's deliberate training and arrangement, is there any other explanation for all this?"

Everyone recalled Gu Cheng's various behaviors today, which were well-behaved and decent.

I did everything I should do, and didn't do anything I shouldn't.

Even in the process of interacting with adults like them, they didn't feel bored at all...

hiss~

After thinking deeply, several people suddenly felt their scalps numb.

Everything today is like a large-scale interpretation. Gu Cheng and they are all manipulated chess pieces, and the manipulator uses Gu Cheng to achieve the purpose of controlling them.

It can't be said to be unwise.

Mr. Bai: "However, we also want to thank her."

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"If you think about the students we accept now, the older ones are here more or less for profit."

"They know that as long as we old guys die, they will have a good choice whether they use this political legacy to surrender to the new faction or to pave the way for themselves."

"The younger ones are all selected and trained from the orphanage and our own grandchildren, but our group has encountered some kind of curse. There is no one who can carry our banner and move forward."

"Until I saw Gu Cheng, this child who was deliberately cultivated, I had a hunch that he would become our hope!"