Chapter 13 Helplessness, things are always fickle
On the night of entering the palace, it was another round of bright moons, white and flawless. The family of the Gu Mansion www.biquge.info Bi Fun Pavilion sat in three carriages and entered the palace in this way.
Lou Lanzhen set up a banquet in the Beiyu Garden, and in addition to him and Concubine Rong, the most favored concubine in the palace, there was only the Gu family, which seemed to be a family banquet.
was led to the North Imperial Garden by an old eunuch, and the old lady saw that the king and Concubine Rong were waiting here, and was about to go forward and bow down, but was stopped by Lou Lanzhen.
Loulan Zhen smiled and said, "No courtesy, let's take a seat." β
The lord and the lady still led Gu Ran and them to salute solemnly: "The grass people visit the king, meet the mother, and the king and the mother live a long and healthy life." β
Concubine Rong's voice was very clear, ringing like a silver bell: "What the king said is that there is no need to be polite tonight, so sit down quickly." The old lady replied yes, and after Loulan Zhen and Concubine Rong sat down, they dared to find a suitable place to sit down.
When Gu Mo sat down, he raised his eyes and looked at Lou Lanzhen, only to see that he was also looking at him with a light smile, and he didn't have a casual appearance of interacting with Gu Mo in private on weekdays.
This Lou Lan is really not serious, but he is just a well-spoken and thoughtful son, but if he is serious, anyone can understand his majesty from his solemnity - a frown will be the collapse of ten thousand mountains.
Lou Lanzhen gestured to the palace maids who were waiting for the banquet on the side, and the palace maids poured wine for every wine glass on the table.
Loulan Zhen raised her glass and looked at the master: "This time, your Gu Mansion can be regarded as a great help when the country is in trouble, and the deity represents the victims in the disaster area, thank you!"
The old man hurriedly raised his wine glass and returned the salute: "The king is serious! The king treats my Gu Mansion well, the country is in trouble, the King is in trouble, my Gu Mansion must contribute!"
The King smiled with satisfaction, raised his glass, and said to everyone, "Cheers!"
In the same way, the mouths of the king and the concubine Rong were touched by the rim of the glass, and the others dared to put the wine in their mouths, which was etiquette.
Gu Wanyan drank less, and the wine in this palace was a good treasure, and she couldn't get used to it, so she couldn't help but purse her mouth after taking a sip, wanting to shed tears.
Gu Mo sat next to her, squinted at her, and whispered, "If you don't know how to drink, don't drink it, it's too drunk to save it." β
The provincial drunk - shameful.
Gu Wanyan sighed, then put down the wine glass embarrassedly, and the palace maid on either side gave herself vegetables, and then listened to the conversation between the king and the old lady.
At this time, the king happened to move the topic to her. King Zun looked at the old man with a smile and asked, "Which one is the second wife of the Gu Mansion?"
Lou Lanzhen had only seen the old man and lady of the Gu Mansion, and secondly, he knew Gu Mo, so he didn't know any of the rest of the Gu Mansion.
When the old man heard this, he looked at Gu Wanyan: "This is the second daughter-in-law of the house." The king turned his gaze to her, and his eyes looked at her for a while, which made Gu Wanyan nervous: "The deeds of the second wife of the Gu Mansion in the disaster area, the deity has heard of it. It is really rare for a woman to have the world in her heart. β
Gu Wanyan has heard a lot of praise recently, but in the face of such praise from the king of this country and the king of Loulan Kingdom, she is still flattered: "His Royal Highness has won the award, and the people have not done anything." β
Gu Mo on the side was eating vegetables with an expressionless face, but the green tendons on his head had already jumped and jumped.
"The second son of the Gu Mansion, it's really blessed!" King Zun laughed and turned his eyes to look at Gu Mo, "If you have a wife like this, what more can you ask for a husband." β
The expressions on Gu Mo and Gu Wan's faces were stiff, and neither of them looked at each other. Gu Mo said slowly: "His Royal Highness King Xie Zun." β
The old lady sat on the seat, also with a satisfied smile. The atmosphere of this dinner was always harmonious, and the tension of the Gu people gradually disappeared after the whole meal, and the more they chatted, the more relaxed they became. Coupled with Concubine Rong's eloquence, the dinner ended happily.
When the group returned home, it was not early, and Gu Mo couldn't leave the house at this time in front of the old lady, so he could only go back to the room with Gu Wanyan first.
Seeing Gu Wanyan and Gu Mo walking side by side in front, Gu Huan whispered disdainfully behind him: "Hmph, what's the big deal? Isn't it just to go to a disaster relief, Miss Ben can do the same!"
Gu Chang heard this, he only knocked Gu Huan's head, and said coldly: "Forget it, if you go to that place, I'm afraid you won't be able to stand it for a moment and shout to come back." Or don't talk much, the provincial father and mother will trouble you again. β
Gu Huan pursed his lips, glanced at Gu Wanyan's back again, and then turned around and went back to the room.
Gu Mo entered the room with his front foot, Gu Wanyan also stepped in with his back foot, and closed the door with his backhand by the way.
The two were alone in the room, and the atmosphere suddenly dropped to zero.
Gu Mo was poured a lot of wine by Lou Lanzhen for many reasons at Fang Cai's dinner, and when he returned to the house, the wine slowly came up, he only felt a little dizzy, and sat down as soon as he entered the room.
He closed his eyes and rubbed his temples, Gu Wanyan walked over and poured him tea, and wanted to leave, but was suddenly stopped by Gu Mo at this moment.
"Wait. β
Gu Wanyan turned around and looked at Gu Mo with a puzzled expression.
Gu Mo slowly opened his eyes and asked her, "I treat you like this, don't you complain?"
Gu Wanyan listened, and after being stunned, she actually smiled. What is it to be snubbed like being killed by this? Gu Mo didn't know what she had experienced, but he didn't understand her thoughts.
She shook her head: "You treat me like this, there must be your reasons, I don't complain." β
Gu Mo suddenly fell silent, he raised his head slightly, and his eyes shot straight at her without evasion, as if he wanted to see her through.
"I'll ask you again. After a while, Gu Mo said coldly, "Why do you want to marry me?"
Gu Wanyan was confused, her voice was flat, but it was sincere: "Because Madame wants me to do this, because Madame wants me to accompany her in the Gu family forever." β
Gu Mo raised his eyebrows: "That's what she told you?"
Gu Wanyan nodded.
"It's stupid. Gu Mo suddenly smiled. Gu Wanyan rarely saw Gu Mo smiling, and she was secretly shocked in her heart, wondering what she meant by the smile.
"What does the second son think? Can I have any purpose?" Gu Wanyan spread his hands and said helplessly, "My life was picked up by my wife, and it is only natural that I dedicate all my life to the Gu family - everyone has a conscience, and so do I." β
Gu Mo rubbed his temples with his hand again, as if by the intention of wine, he suddenly whispered: "I believe you." β
These three words were soft and soft, and they pierced into Gu Wanyan's heart. I don't know why, it's just three simple words, from Gu Mo's mouth, and with this tone, it made her face heat up inexplicably.
She was speechless for a while, her heart was entangled, she wanted to leave or stay, but Gu Mo's drunkenness probably came up - he fell asleep.
After being silent for a long time, Gu Wanyan slowly raised her eyes to look over, only to find that Gu Mo had fallen asleep with his head hooked, and he slowly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
She recalled that the king had saluted him many glasses of wine, and he had also reciprocated many cups of wine according to etiquette, presumably because he had been drunk.
Sitting and sleeping is not always a solution, right?she pursed her lips thinking about it, and gently lifted her sleeves while walking towards Gu Mo in small steps, and struggled to lift him up from behind Gu Mo, and dragged Gu Mo from the chair to the bed.
Looking at Gu Mo lying on the bed, Gu Wanyan thought, this seemed to be the first time she had approached Gu Mo at such a close distance. In addition to the smell of wine, Gu Mo's body also had a faint fragrance that could not be covered. Like the scent of grass in the morning, and like the smell of being sunburned.
Wait, the words "green grass in the morning", "warm sunshine", I'm afraid they don't quite match him as a cold person.
Of course, Gu Wanyan didn't know that this was not the first time she had come into contact with Gu Mo so closely. When she came back from the disaster area a few days ago, when she was in a coma with a high fever, it was Gu Mo who picked her up and got her out of the carriage, but she didn't know it.
When Gu Mo woke up in the morning, he found himself lying on the bed, his clothes untaken off, but covered with a thin quilt.
He sat up with his head propped up, and when he turned his head, he saw Gu Wanyan sleeping on the table.
Suddenly, a strange current of heat slowly flowed through his heartβsomething he had never felt before.
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Gu Huan had a marriage contract with Jun Yifeng, the eldest young master of the Jun Mansion, last year, and now the day when the two get married is approaching step by step, but something big happened to the Jun Mansion.
The lord of Junfu is a veteran who gallops on the battlefield, and he has made great contributions to the country of Loulan during the war. Now the three sons of the Junfu, as the heirs of the famous generals' family, are all given to the public. The eldest prince Jun Yifeng has been appointed by King Zun as the left general of the Imperial Forest Forbidden Army.
But on this day, the old lady got the news - but one night, the monarch's mansion was involved in a serious old case, and the whole mansion suffered a catastrophe. However, Wang Nian gave Loulan the merit in the Junfu, so he spared the death of the Jun family, left his real estate, and only seized the title and cut the seal, so that he was reduced to a commoner.
In this way, the only problem that the Gu Mansion people thought of in their own position was that the marriage contract between the fifth lady and the Jun Mansion had to be dissolved.
Gu Huan has long had a lot of admiration for Jun Yifeng in his heart. As soon as she heard that she was going to dissolve the marriage contract, she began to cry and make a fuss, swearing to die, and even said things like not marrying if she was not a gentleman, so angry that the old man trembled.
The Junfu is now a gate of guilt, and it is even more of a commoner. In terms of identity and status, it is impossible to marry with a big family like Gu Fu, so they can't say anything when they are told that the marriage contract is dissolved.
When General Jun heard about this in the palace, he only held his forehead and waved his hand weakly, and then accepted the fact that the marriage contract was dissolved.
In the Gu Mansion, Gu Huan was already in trouble.
She stood in the front hall, tears in her eyes, yelling incessantly, looking like she would rather die than obey, and Madame saw this and reversed it.
When Gu Yan and Gu Zhang heard this, they hurriedly ran to the front hall to grab Gu Huan, so as not to do anything drastic. When Gu Wanyan rushed over, Gu Huan kept shouting: "I want to see Jun Shao!
The old man, who had been sitting in silence all the time, suddenly slapped the table and stood up, and roared angrily: "Look at you, what do you look like? Will you think about the Gu family? Will you be sensible! A girl's family, for a man, it is really embarrassing! I ...... How could I have given birth to such a daughter?!"
Gu Wanyan was worried that the old man would be angry, so she hurriedly went over to support the old man: "Dad, if you have something to say, don't be angry......"
Madame looked at Gu Huan with a little disdain, and whispered in a weird voice: "You splash girl, if you can be half obedient and sensible like Wanyan, I really don't know how much worry to save your father." β
Gu Wanyan heard it, and she was embarrassed for a while, but she didn't squeak.
Gu Huan also heard it. But these words were simply adding fuel to the fire to Gu Huan, she was stunned for a moment, pointed at Gu Wanyan and looked at the lady and the master: "You all like her, don't you! Gu Mansion has one Gu Wanyan, isn't it! Okay, you all leave me alone, let me die!"
"Nonsense!" the old man was so angry that he was about to roar, he trembled his fingers until he looked at the ring, "It's nonsense!"
Gu Huan didn't think so, straightened his waist, wiped his tears, and was very arrogant: "I can't marry Jun Shao, I'd rather die!"
Madame was stunned, she didn't expect a girl's family to say so many rebellious words one after another.
Gu Zhang, standing beside Gu Huan, also had an iron face, and dragged her fiercely: "Shut up for me!"
The old man stopped talking, sat down slowly with his eyebrows locked, and after a while, he said in a muffled voice: "The draft in October, you go to the palace for me!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone present was stunned.
Gu Huan's biological mother Yu was favored by the lord before her death, although Gu Huan became more and more obedient and domineering the older she grew up, but the lord always thought about her biological mother's sake, and still had a little pity for her.
Now that the lord said that he was going to send her to the palace, it didn't seem to be a joke. Entering the palace as a concubine, it will be spent in the harem for the rest of your life...... So many women are fighting for the favor of a king, everyone understands how bleak this day should be.
It seems that the old man is really angry this time.
Gu Huan was stunned for a long time, her teeth were clenched, and two lines of tears flowed down again, but she no longer stubbornly argued, and turned around and ran back to the room with a cold snort.
Gu Wanyan held the master in one hand, looking at Gu Huan's back, she felt very uncomfortable.