Chapter Thirty-Eight: A Step Forward
Gu Mo sat alone in the Shuiyun Pavilion of the palace, and there was no palace maid and eunuch around. The layout in the Shuiyun Pavilion www.biquge.info Shuiyun Pavilion is all low tables, there are no chairs here, and thick satin cushions are placed on the floor for people to sit. Gu Mo sat on the cushion with his legs crossed, bowed his head slightly, his right hand was on the table, his palm was facing up, and his index knuckles tapped lightly on the delicate pear blossom wood low table with a slight sound.
Today happened to be Lou Lanzhen's busyness, so he couldn't take a break to look for him when he learned that Gu Mo was here for a while. At this point, he sent someone to take Gu Mo to Shuiyun Pavilion to sit down first.
Gu Mo sat down for nearly an hour.
But he didn't think it would take a long time to wait for Loulan. Because even though he had typed countless drafts in his heart, Gu Mo still hadn't thought about how to tell Lou Lanzhen for a while.
While pondering, there was a sound of light but steady footsteps behind Gu Mo. When he looked up again, Lou Lanzhen had already sat down in the seat opposite him.
Gu Mo's eyes swept around, but Lou Lanzhen saw through his thoughts, and said with a smile: "There is no one else here, no need to be polite." ”
Loulan's face was really not very good, there was no blood and she was sickly pale, perhaps because of overwork. Gu Mo had never seen him like this.
Lou Lanzhen picked up the cup on the table and took a sip, Gu Mo frowned and said, "The tea is cold, go and call someone to change the pot and drink it again." ”
Who knew that Lou Lanzhen smiled and shook his head: "This kind of tea is also very delicious to drink cold - everything in this Shuiyun Pavilion is made after the customs of a country called Goryeo, and so is this tea." This is called honey grapefruit tea, which tastes better when it is cool. ”
Gu Mo nodded as if he understood.
He had only heard of it but did not understand it, and in the future, Gu's jewelry might be able to go to that land for development.
Lou Lanzhen put down the cup and changed the subject: "Is there anything you want me to help with?" ”
Gu Mo pursed his lips, feeling guilty for a while. Loulan is really like this, and she has never even frowned at Gu Mo's needs.
Gu Mo hesitated, hesitated again and again without speaking.
Loulan really wanted to laugh: "What's the matter?
Gu Mo looked at Lou Lanzhen and said, "Do you remember the last time the palace was drafted, I beg you not to let my sister Gu Huan enter the palace." ”
Lou Lanzhen rolled her eyes, nodded and said lightly: "Well, I remember, you said that your sister didn't want to enter the palace." ”
Gu Mo hesitated for another moment, and sighed softly: "Hey." It's still this matter, and I'm going to trouble you again. ”
Loulan Zhenyi raised her eyebrows and smiled: "What's the matter, you spoke so politely today?"
"Now, I want to beg you again...... Let my sister enter the palace. ”
As soon as these words came out, Lou Lan really understood why Gu Mo was spitting out, and in the blink of an eye, Lou Lanzhen squinted her eyes and looked at Gu Mo strangely, as if she was smiling: "Gu Mo, are you playing with me?"
Gu Mo understood Lou Lan's true mood very well, and whispered: "My sister has been too bumpy since she was a child, although my relationship with her is very weak, and I can hardly feel the cohesion of blood, but I am indeed the person who can understand her the most in the Gu Mansion. ”
Loulan Zhen was a little unintelligible about the meaning of Gu Mo's words, and said bluntly: "As long as you give me a suitable reason, I will help you." ”
Gu Mo thought for a while, his eyes looked in a certain direction, and he spoke calmly.
Lou Lanzhen fell into deep thought after hearing this, and after a while, he only said one sentence faintly: "Gu Mo, you have really changed now, you have become very kind, and you never worried about other people's affairs before." ”
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Three days later, the yamen's case against Dongxue was still under investigation, but the imperial book suddenly came to the palace.
Knowing that the palace had come to the king's edict, the whole family of the Gu Mansion did not dare to slack off for a moment, and all went to the front yard to receive the decree.
The lord and lady were at the front, the juniors were at the back in turn, and then the whole family knelt down respectfully.
The old man raised his eyes and looked at the Gu family, and then read to the imperial book in his hand in a feminine voice: "Fengtian carrier, the edict of the king said--Establish the fifth lady of the Gu Mansion Gu Huan as Huan Zhaoyi, enter the palace in three days, and receive the order-"
As soon as the long tail note of the old man's procrastination fell, everyone was stunned, including Gu Huan himself.
The old man coughed dissatisfied, and repeated: "Order-"
Gu Wanyan knelt in front of Gu Huan, and when she saw that Gu Huan had lost her manners, she turned her head slightly and whispered, "Gu Huan, go and receive the order!"
Gu Huan was stunned for a long time before he came back to his senses, and woke up from a dream: "Oh!"
Then she slowly stood up, walked to the front step by step, hunched over and stretched out her hands to solemnly receive the order.
And when he had received the decree, the men from the palace departed.
Gu Huan held the edict for a long time and didn't speak, and no one knew what she felt in her heart, whether she was happy or worried.
The old man slowly stood up, his eyes were heavy, and he seemed to want to say something, but he opened his mouth and closed it.
In the end, he only spit out a few words at Gu Huan's back: "Hurry up and pack up and enter the palace." ”
Gu Zhang stood next to Gu Mo, looking puzzled and puzzled, he raised his steps as if he wanted to walk towards Gu Huan, but was stopped by Gu Mo.
Gu Mo didn't say anything, just frowned slightly and shook his head slightly at Gu Zhang.
The people in the front yard gradually dispersed, but Gu Huan still stood there, motionless.
No one saw this teenage girl, smiling bitterly and weeping silently. Tears dripped down her young and immature cheeks onto the golden imperial book, symbolizing the noble bright yellow satin that immediately blurred a large and wet slicing slices. =================
"You damn girl! Get out of here!"
Liu Fengxian got up from the chair, looked at Su Qiu, who was crying and her eyes were swollen from crying in front of her, with a disgusted expression, and wanted to get her out as she spoke.
Su Qiu didn't give up, stubbornly biting the words in her mouth: "Big lady, people are doing it, the sky is watching, why do you still want to kill Dongxue, why?"
Liu Fengxian was tired to the extreme, she looked anxiously at the half-open door, fortunately there was no one.
"Don't you spew blood, okay!I'm not interested in killing her, don't attack me if you have a grudge!" Su Qiu shook his head in disbelief and leaned sideways in front of Liu Fengxian. When she thought of what Dongxue looked like when she died, she couldn't help but have tears in her eyes: "Big lady, you do this...... There will be retribution!"
Liu Fengxian viciously pushed Su Qiu away, pointed at her and said sharply: "Su Qiu, I think you are pitiful, I see that you need this monthly money in the Gu Mansion, so you can continue to work by my side, don't you know what to do!"
Su Qiu wiped her tears, looking like she was breaking the jar: "But you killed Dongxue!"
Liu Fengxian said: "Don't talk nonsense here! You are framed!"
Su Qiu sneered: "Big lady, do you also know how to write the word framed?"
Liu Fengxian was stunned for a moment, as if she had been caught, and the whole person became nervous: "Su Qiu..... You, you don't want to be lifeless!"
Su Qiu said: "Since you are ruthless, I am unrighteous!"
Liu Fengxian was so anxious that she was about to jump to her feet: "You girl...... I didn't kill your sister!"
Su Qiu obviously didn't believe it. She bit her lip and shook her head silently as she stepped back, until a pair of hands behind her back touched the door panel, and Su Qiu turned around and pulled the door open and ran away.
Liu Fengxian stomped her feet on the spot: "This little slut!" =================
Gu Wanyan was asked by the government to make a record again. There is really no clue about this case, because there are too few clues, and Gu Wanyan can't help them anything.
When she walked out of the yamen, she unexpectedly found Gu Mo waiting for her at the door.
She was surprised for a moment, then calmed down again, walked over, and asked Gu Mo, "Why are you here?"
Gu Mo's eyes looked away: "Passing by." ”
Gu Wanyan chuckled in her heart and was slightly disappointed, and then said, "Let's go." ”
Gu Mo nodded, and the two walked side by side, looking back at the mansion on foot.
Shuttling through the lively bazaar, Gu Mo asked Gu Wanyan: "Who do you think the murderer will be?"
Gu Wanyan thought for a while walking, and then rolled her eyes and said: "I've thought about this question, first, it may be Liu Fengxian, because last time we helped Liu Fengxian commit perjury together, there was this Dongxue, I guess there must be some unknown secrets between them......; Now, however, there seem to be signs that it may be Gu Huan. ”
Gu Mo nodded thoughtfully after hearing this, and then said lightly: "It's Gu Huan." ”
-- It's Gu Huan.
It's like saying "It's really nice today."
Gu Wanyan didn't digest this sentence all of a sudden, and couldn't help but slow down, frowning more and more: "What did you say?"
Gu Mo turned around, pulled her to his side, and did not respond to her words: "Gu Huan is about to enter the palace, she hopes that you can accompany her into the palace." ”
Gu Wanyan didn't dare to lag behind Gu Mo anymore, and her eyes widened in surprise: "Me?"
Gu Mo didn't look at her and nodded: "Hmm." ”
The more the question in Gu Wanyan's heart became more and more intense, she turned her head to look at Gu Mo: "Can you tell me what all this is going on?"
Gu Mo said lightly: "Later, I will tell you everything." ”
Gu Wanyan knew that Gu Mo didn't want to say it, no matter how hard you forced him, he wouldn't say it. But looking at the situation in front of him, Gu Mo seemed to have planned all the arrangements, Gu Wanyan faintly felt that Gu Mo should be believed, so she decided to wait and see this time.
When the two of them were about to walk to Gu's mansion, Gu Mo suddenly remembered something, his face changed, and he stopped: "By the way, I remember that there is still something to do, you can go back first." ”
Gu Wanyan also stopped, turned to look at him sideways, and couldn't help but ask more: "What's the matter?"
Gu Mo didn't answer: "You go back first." ”
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went back to the palace to find Lou Lanzhen, and before Gu Mo left, Lou Lanzhen told him something.
Lou Lanzhen said that he went to Hongyue Tower alone a few days ago and wanted to order Qingkui to sing, but was told that Qingkui was being confined and seemed to have committed suicide.
Loulan really asked the bustard what was going on, the people of Hongyue Building, you look at me, I look at you, their faces were embarrassed, and they didn't say anything.
When Gu Mo heard this, his face immediately became unnatural.
He may know two or three points about the reason.
Out of a man's sense of responsibility, Gu Mo felt that he should go and see, if Qing Kui had an accident because of him...... In short, Gu Mo came to the Red Moon Tower.