A Contractual Marriage with the Best Leading Actor - Chapter 236

Extra 2 – Gold and Jade Alliance (1)

Ban Yuren seemed to keep this matter of his toothache in mind and brought an imperial doctor back three days later. The imperial doctor gave a few prescriptions that were boiled into medicine, which was bitter.

Because of the toothache, he could not eat candied fruit to temper the flavor. Naturally, he could only suffer like that.

Ban Yuren sat on the chair to watch him.

Looking at his bitter frown.

After watching for a while, the man would lean over and lean back to reach out his hand to smooth the creases between his eyebrows.

‘Ban Yuren couldn’t coax people.’

This thought suddenly popped into A-Yu’s mind.

But Ban Yuren, who couldn’t coax people, would clumsily come to soothe his bitterness.

A-Yu couldn’t help but think, ‘Is it me who is overthinking?’

‘Is it because I’m being petty and judging a noble person as a villain?’

‘Is cheap brother-in-law very good?’

A-Yu got along with him for a few days until he saw the familiar jade plate with A-Yu’s name engraved on it.

“Shouldn’t this object be at the Fa Yuan Temple?” A-Yu turned pale on the spot.

Ban Yuren, however, was very calm and did not show any shame or embarrassment after being exposed.

He nodded and said confidently, “It’s here with me.”

“Brother-in-law, didn’t you see the letter I wrote? This is reserved for Huizhen to use as a chessboard!” A-Yu couldn’t hold back and asked, “Where is the purse I wrote in the letter? There is also a box of books……”

Ban Yuren then nodded his head once more confidently. “All of them are here with me.”

He said softly, “I was running an errand that day and accidentally got the letter wet. After thinking about it, there was no basis for it, so I retrieved the things first and put them all in my place.”

A-Yu looked at him blankly.

He felt this person seemed to have no ground rules for what was morally right or wrong.

He would take what he liked, not blushing in the slightest, but also slowly and methodically looking like a gentleman in general.

A-Yu felt he could not see through him and figure out whether he was treating himself well or badly.

He said in a low voice, “Since the letter is wet, give the things to me first. In the future, I will return to Fa Yuan Temple to give them…….”

Ban Yuren looked at him without moving.

A-Yu opened his mouth and couldn’t help but say something else.

Ban Yuren softly said, “A-Yu, the things are already in my possession, so they are mine.” He said, “I like these things.”

A-Yu only felt he could not speak clearly with this person.

Ban Yuren was just like a gentleman in his skin, but he was more of a bandit in his bones.

A-Yu furiously glared at him and walked away.

The next day, when he went to see the Chief of the Imperial Court of Judicial Review to inquire about the progress, he did not talk to Ban Yuren and wanted to go alone.

However, when he got to the door, he was stopped.

He took out silver to the gatekeeper, but they did not budge.

Not long after, Ban Yuren came.

He said, “A-Yu, have you forgotten? You can’t leave an opening for that criminal to get his hands on you.”

A-Yu had to obediently get into his carriage and went to Luoyang with him.

When he returned, the moon was already over the top. A-Yu jumped off the carriage and walked towards his small courtyard without looking back.

Ban Yuren was a few steps behind. He slowly stepped down from the carriage and said to the subordinate beside him, “He didn’t talk to me the whole way.”

The subordinate looked up in shock, wanting to speak, but hesitated. Perhaps because he had never heard Ban Yuren say such a thing, he did not know how to answer for a moment.

Ban Yuren said, “He’s angry.”

The subordinate did not know how to answer.

Fortunately, Ban Yuren also did not intend to ask him to answer. After saying this, he took a big step and walked away, and only then did he let his heart breathe a sigh of relief.

Ban Yuren still went all the way into the courtyard where A-Yu lived.

He stood outside the door, with his figure reflected on it, slender and sullen. He said, “A-Yu’s things are all good.”

A-Yu felt even more exasperated after hearing it.

This man followed him here just to say such a sentence? To find an excuse for his bandit behavior?

A-Yu went straight to sleep and rolled over in exasperation.

Ban Yuren said, “I never got anything nice.”

A-Yu paused.

Rolling his body back over again.

He looked again at the figure of Ban Yuren on that door.

He remembered that when he returned home long ago, he had heard A-jie say that Ban Yuren’s mother died early, and his father married a second wife. The second wife’s reputation for being virtuous was out there, but it was a pity that she seemed sterile and couldn’t give birth to any more children.

Although everyone said the Ban family’s second mistress was good, A-Yu couldn’t help but think.

‘Are they all treating Ban Yuren badly? That’s why Ban Yuren would say such a thing.’

A-Yu sighed softly.

He got many good things…… Then, sharing a little bit with Ban Yuren would be no harm. That was still his brother-in-law.

A day passed.

Ban Yuren went out to do business. When he was about to get on the carriage, his movements lurched, and his subordinates heard him say, “He’s paying attention to me again.”

A-Yu was good with him for a few days and called him “brother-in-law” while secretly observing whether he was looking for his elder sister.

When he left the Imperial Court of Judicial Review that day, Ban Yuren temporarily got an order from the top. They changed the carriage route and passed by the Ban family’s residence.

A-Yu asked, “Won’t you go in and say a few words before leaving?”

Ban Yuren did not even turn his head to look at him, saying, “No need.” But when he said that, he suddenly turned his eyes to A-Yu again and asked, “What does A-Yu think?”

A-Yu’s mind had already been made up now that he was not close to his family.

What Ban Yuren said was true.

At that time, Ban Yuren seemed to have decided that A-Yu wanted him to enter the door.

Ban Yuren then dispatched someone. “Go knock on the door.”

After the door of the Ban family was knocked open, the people inside welcomed them reverently and respectfully.

Master Ban was not at home, and in a short while, the one who came out was the second mistress.

The second mistress had never seen A-Yu but only heard that he was a member of the Marquis’ family, so she shed two tears, grabbed his hand, and said, “A-Yu’s life is hard……”

Ban Yuren stood in front of the pot of daffodils in the hall.

He suddenly turned his head and glanced at the second mistress’s hand.

The second mistress shivered and let go of A-Yu’s hand.

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