Out of Jiangyue Tower that night, Gu Qinghuan walked to Yuqiongju alone, he had no intention of staying, just because he took a second look, and saw He Shi'an buying drunk in the wine shop, his face was withered, and his spirit was depressed, he remembered what He Luoke told him about Mrs. He Shao'an's serious illness, and he was a little worried about He Shi'an, so he entered the wine shop, wanting to comfort He Shi'an.

In fact, when he came up with this idea, he felt ridiculous, obviously he couldn't comfort himself, and he wanted to bring some comfort to others?

But after all, he has already stepped into the wine shop, how can there be any reason to turn back? Gu Qinghuan walked straight over, sat down at He Shi'an's wine table, and pressed his hand to pour wine: "Why are you buying drunk here?"

When He Shi'an was drunk and dizzy, he heard a close sound in the noise of people, and saw a hand covering the back of his hand, he was a little surprised for a moment, raised his head, and saw that the person who came was Gu Qinghuan, he was even more surprised, and hurriedly withdrew his hand to give a salute: "I've seen ...... adult."

Gu Qinghuan waved his hand and stopped: "Why be polite in private? In this wine shop, you and I are just boring drinkers. ”

He Shi'an reluctantly smiled and signaled, still restrained, he didn't know that Gu Qinghuan was weak and couldn't drink, so he took a cup and poured him a glass, "This is Yuqiong's middle wine, please have a taste." ”

Gu Qinghuan hesitated, but still took the wine glass, and drank the aromatic sweetness together with He Shi'an.

Gu Qinghuan looked at him sadly, and asked with concern: "I heard Sister Ling say the day before yesterday that Mrs. Zun is sick, I don't know if she will get better?"

Obviously, he asked about He Shi'an's heart, only to see He Shi'an's eyes suddenly red, as if he could no longer hide it, his sadness was overflowing, and he said frankly: "She is completely ill...... There is no way back...... Everyone, including herself...... I'm afraid her deadline is already in sight......"

Thinking that the beautiful woman was about to pass away, not to mention that the virtuous young Mrs. He Shao also had the grace to heal herself, Gu Qinghuan also felt heartache, and he didn't know what to say to comfort him for a while, but he felt that before the catastrophe of life and death, any words of comfort were pale and weak, and he said after a long time: "If there is something I can help, you can just open your mouth, and you don't have to worry about the affairs of the official office, you can go back to the office whenever you want." You ought to be by her side and take care of her all this time, and not to drink and get drunk here, for she will not want you to be decadent......"

He Shi'an opened his mouth and whimpered in his throat before he made a sound, "But, I can't do anything...... You know what it feels like? I watched her suffer from her illness, but she couldn't do anything but be completely powerless...... I went to all the medical centers, I begged all the famous doctors, I went through all her medical books, I worshipped all the Bodhisattvas...... But I couldn't save her, I could only watch her get sicker and sicker, watch her suffer, I couldn't do anything, how I wanted to save her...... How I want to share her pain...... But I can't do anything...... I knew she was leaving me, leaving ...... forever."

Gu Qinghuan watched him show his true feelings and become more and more angry, reached out and patted him on the shoulder, and said softly: "Don't do this...... Birth, old age, sickness and death, mortals are powerless......"

He Shi'an sobbed on the desk for a while, covered his face with his wide sleeves, supported his forehead and choked, and unconsciously complained to Gu Qinghuan: "You also know...... In the past, I was really bad, I didn't learn anything, I didn't do my job, I was a mess every day, just an annoying scoundrel...... Even marrying her was forced by her father...... But after marrying her, everything is different...... She changed all my ...... She's the nicest person I've ever met in my little life...... She is not only my wife, but also my dear friend, my bosom friend, she is so kind, so generous, she knows that I will not love her, but she still serves my parents and does her duty as a wife...... She knew that I was unpreferable, but she still tolerated me, and encouraged me not to feel inferior because of this, but to treat myself as a normal person...... She knew I liked someone else and helped me look around for them...... Everyone else pointed fingers at me, despised me behind my back, and when she arranged me, she was the only one who treated me as a normal person, and even when my father forced me to have sex with her, she stood by my side, defended me, and was willing to be my nominal wife......"

Listening to him tell this, Gu Qinghuan was quite shocked in his heart, and then he remembered that He Shi'an was different from ordinary men, and he had mocked him with Gu Qingning before, so he felt more and more that Mrs. He Shao was great and different from ordinary people.

Gu Qinghuan's arms rested on his sobbing shoulders, this action was a little intimate, if it was not inappropriate to treat others, but thinking of He Shi'an's strangeness, he inevitably felt unnatural, and wanted to sit upright, but he caught a glimpse of a few sons at the next table who recognized them and whispered to them, and they didn't need to guess what they were talking about with obscene faces. Gu Qinghuan felt that the roots of his ears were hot, and after thinking about it, he didn't remove his arm, but calmly hugged He Shi'an, sat closer to him, and raised his glass to drink.

The two of them have their own feelings and sorrows, and the things in this cup have become the best sustenance.

It wasn't until someone forcibly snatched the wine glass that the two stopped drinking.

That person was none other than He Luoke, who came out to find He Shi'an and returned home. When she came to this wine shop, she was angry when she saw that He Shi'an was drinking again, and wanted to come and take him home, but she didn't want the person sitting next to him to drink Gu Qinghuan, so she was even more anxious. Because she knew Gu Qinghuan's physical condition, she was afraid that he would be injured.

He Luoke went over and snatched their wine glasses, skillfully picked up the drunken He Shi'an from the wine table and dragged him out of the wine shop, and forcibly stuffed it into the carriage.

Then she didn't leave directly, but turned back into the wine shop, and came to Gu Qinghuan again, without doing anything or saying anything, just looking at him with her waist crossed.

Gu Qinghuan was looking for a cup, wanting to pour wine and drink, not wanting to look up and meet He Luoke's eyes, he suddenly froze, or was frightened, or shocked, half-drunk and half-awake, he finally felt that something was wrong, holding a cup in one hand and a pot in the other, looking left and right, and put it down in a daze, like a child who knew that he had done something wrong, hurriedly corrected it, and lowered his head.

He Luoke was satisfied, sat in front of him and stretched out his hand to pinch his cheeks, forced him to look up at her, and didn't say anything to blame, only asked, "Did you take medicine at night?"

Gu Qinghuan didn't know why, so she felt that she was particularly gentle when she asked this, and nodded obediently: "Eat." ”

He Luoke was still expressionless, "Then take another pill, sister-in-law said that this medicine still has some hangover effect." ”

As she spoke, she let go of her hand, turned to the placket of his clothes, and took out a small gourd-shaped jade bottle from his clothes, which she prepared for him, so that he could carry it with him, and then saw that he really hung it around his neck and carried it closely, and unconsciously smiled, opened the cork, poured out the pill, stuffed it into his mouth with his backhand, and put the vial back into his arms.

Gu Qinghuan swallowed the medicine, shook her senses, and saw her face close at hand, her big eyes were obviously bloodshot, and her eye sockets were a little red and swollen, thinking that she must have cried, and asked, "Are you okay......?"

She shrugged her shoulders and said, "I'm fine." The parents at home broke their liver and sausages, and the elder brother ...... If I don't hold on to this, how can my sister-in-law rest assured......"

She said this with a little trembling at the end of her voice, and she didn't want to show weakness in front of him, so she changed the topic and deliberately reprimanded him strongly: "You are like this, and you still dare to drink? Don't you want to die? Sister-in-law's medicine is to let you live well, not to give you a reluctant life and then continue to self-destruct! Do you understand?"

Gu Qinghuan was stunned and nodded, "You don't have to be so nervous, I'm fine......"

He Luoke slapped his hand and hurriedly said, "Who is nervous about you? I just don't want my sister-in-law's patient to be killed by myself......

He smiled bitterly and laughed at himself: "Don't worry, just a few glasses of wine, I won't die so easily, and besides, life and death are fate, how can mortals avoid it?

He Luoke frowned, his voice sank, looking at him, the light in his eyes flashed, "It's because there are too many people who can't keep it, it's because there are too many powerless, we should work harder to keep what we can keep, to fight for everything we can get......"

……

Whose daughter is married? Greet her on Chang'an Road.

Jiang Xiange got married. On that day, before dawn, she began to put red makeup on the mirror, and the maid brought her phoenix crown and golden hairpin one by one, but she let them go out first and stay alone in the house.

Her long hair hung down her shoulders and was not yet raised, she looked at herself in the mirror, stroked the silk and splendid wedding dress, lost her mind for a long time, and didn't know what she was thinking, just doing the last self-persuasion, and then accepted all this more bravely, everything she chose......

The door was pushed open and shut. She didn't look back, she only smiled, and her eyebrows were filled with the shy joy of an ordinary bride: "Tang Huan, I'm ready, give me a dresser and hair......"

The man walked up to her, stared at the delicate face in the mirror behind her, and said, "But I don't want you to get married." ”

"I'm not going to let you marry someone else. ”

Jiang Xiange heard this unfamiliar voice, looked back in surprise, and saw a girl she didn't know walked in, looking at herself with blazing eyes, looking like a matter of course, with her hands straight behind her back, not very old, but with an irreversible strong aura.

The girl looked at her, curled the corners of her lips and smiled mischievously: "Miss Jiang, the name of the first beauty in Chang'an is really not in vain, such a beauty, how can she cheapen others?"

"Who are you?" Jiang Xiange quickly regained his composure and asked.

She pursed her lips, paced closer to Jiang Xiange, jumped to the ground, and said proudly: "You don't care who I am, as long as you know that I am here to help Gu Qinghuan rob his relatives." ”

"Qinghuan?" Jiang Xiange felt very inexplicable, she believed that Gu Qinghuan would not do such a thing, "How could he let you ......?"

"Cut~ That guy doesn't have the ability to let me help him, he will only cry and buy drunk for you, and the mother-in-law and mother are not ...... at all" The girl took out the thing hidden behind her back, which turned out to be a bundle of hemp rope, and sang to Jiang Xian.

Jiang Xiange was a little panicked, and hurriedly said: "Girl, don't be like this, although I don't know who you are, I can see that you have no bad intentions, you are thinking about Qinghuan...... But you're too reckless like this, Qinghuan won't want to......"

"How do you know he doesn't want to? He's the last person in the world who doesn't want you to marry someone else, okay?" she approached Jiang Xiange, pulling the rope to tie her up.

Jiang Xiange sat down and said to her, "Because I know Qinghuan." ”

This sentence made her stagnate.

He Luoke was stunned for a moment, only to feel that he was chuckling in his heart, and suddenly realized that he was doing a stupid thing.

That's right, what are you doing, who is he, why do you help him do such a big thing?

The woman in front of him knew him, and he couldn't let go of his heart, so what was it to squeeze between them by herself?

Jiang Xiange is such a person who is good at perceiving people's hearts, when she hesitated a little, she saw that something was wrong with her, thought for a while, relaxed, and said softly: "Girl, who are you? Why did you come to prevent me from getting married for Qinghuan?"

He Luoke listened to her soft voice, and looked at her country-like appearance, and for a moment he didn't know what to think in his heart? ”

Jiang Xiange looked at her with interest, and didn't mean to blame her, thought for a while, and said something that made He Luoke's heart tremble: "You must care about Qinghuan very much." ”

As soon as He Luoke heard this, he immediately jumped to his feet: "Who cares about him? It's just that he is kind to my brother, and I almost killed him......"

Jiang Xiange smiled, happy for Gu Qinghuan, she looked directly at He Luoke's clear eyes without shying away, and said, "You should already know the matter between me and Qinghuan, and you also know Qinghuan's affection for me......"

Before she finished speaking, He Luoke hurriedly said: "Yes, I know that he has a deep love for you, but you want to marry someone else, and I can't be angry with him." ”

"Isn't it just angry?" Jiang Xiange suddenly asked, "Aren't you feeling sorry for him?"

He Luoke was speechless.

Jiang Xiange walked up to her, confronted her, looked at her confused and confused look, and said with a smile: "You are really the stupidest girl I have ever seen, stupider than me." ”

He Luoke was not convinced, and glared at her, but the sharp edge was gently melted away by her eyes.

"I can feel that you must like him very much. ”

……

She sat on the wall of the backyard of the Jiang house, I don't know how long she sat there, until the sound of the happy cannon outside, she coldly watched the people in the courtyard hurry and rejoiced, the bride in the flower robe shouted in a loud voice out of the pavilion auspicious time, the neat and lively crowd hugged the phoenix crown and the river string song out of the back house, the joy in the Jiang Yue building has risen, Jiang Hechuan is on the other side of the road, the eyes are full of tears, the face is still a pile of smiles, take Jiang Xiange's hand, personally take her daughter out, send her daughter to get married......

She was in the most inconspicuous place, watching this lively, before they walked out, she could probably judge their identities by virtue of the position of these people, Jiang Hechuan needless to say, the woman who walked out of the boudoir with Jiang Xiangge and was intimate with her should be Gu Qinghuan's eldest sister Gu Qingning, the elder who stood next to Jiang Hechuan with the same friendly and emotional face should be Gu Qinghuan's father Gu Qingxuan, and the young man who smiled brightly behind Gu Qingxuan should be Gu Qinghuan's younger brother Gu Qingfeng.

It's so good, they're all here, and they're all here to send Jiang Xiange to get married.

What about Gu Qinghuan, where would he be at this time?

The people in the Jiang family's house are far away with the bride, flock to the front court, the building is lively, the Yang family to pick up the family team occupies most of the Jiuhui Street, the groom rides a high-headed horse, red brocade robe, high-spirited, all the way flowers suona, all the way red makeup Mingxia......

She stood at the top of the wall and looked out, not knowing where she looked, and after a while, she jumped off the high wall, ran away from the festive crowd, and left alone.

……

He Luoke drove a carriage and drove all the way to the outside of the official office.

Today is not a period of recess, the official office is doing business as usual, and the subordinates in the Shangshu Hall are as busy as ever, and they only noticed after a while that a girl suddenly stood at the door of the hall holding a bundle of hemp rope and looking indifferent and arrogant.

Someone asked strangely, "Girl, who are you, and what are you doing at the ministry?"

Some people also thought it was incredible: "Girl, how did you get in......?

She didn't respond, only asked, "What about Gu Qinghuan?"

The master of Shangshu Hall was anxious, and scolded: "Bold, how can you call Lord Shangshu's name?"

Some people also privately exchanged heads and speculated that this was Gu Qinghuan's amorous debt caused outside......

They didn't have the patience to delay with her and drove her away, but they were pushed far away by her with a few waves of her hands. They didn't expect this girl to be so powerful, and they didn't dare to get close to her.

The master was about to call the guards to come, but at this moment he heard a voice from the public room of the inner office: "Let her in." ”

It was Gu Qinghuan's voice, and at this time, it seemed that he could hear his depression and inadequacy.

They looked at each other, then consciously stopped and dispersed. The master book quoted, "Lord Shangshu is in the public house, girl, please." ”

He Luoke glared at them a few times, and then walked quickly to Gu Qinghuan's public house generously, pushed the door and entered.

Today, Gu Qinghuan rushed to the court as usual, but he didn't say a word in the court, he signed as usual, but after arriving at the official office, he didn't do anything, only locked himself in the public house, and didn't let anyone disturb him.

She came and walked into the place where he had closed himself, and he didn't expect that he would end up with nowhere to hide.

Compared with the busy lobby outside, this Shangshu public room is simply deserted, he is alone, sitting on the wide public desk with his legs crossed, his official uniform is crooked, his face is buried in his knees so that people can't see his expression, a few traces of messy hair are scattered on his forehead, and he flutters slightly with the autumn breeze blowing in from the window.

She pursed her lips and walked up to him, only to find that he was not just in a daze, but looking at the official documents spread out on the case, and he didn't look up when she arrived.

She asked, "Do you have any medicine today?"

He replied: "I don't want to take medicine today......"

She stared at him, was silent for a while, then simply squatted down, resting her chin on the desk with her arm on it, and looked at his face in an extremely uncomfortable position, a face without expression or brilliance.

The blank eyes are like a lost child.

"Then don't eat it. She said, "No medicine today, let's go to the bar." ”

Her smiling face came into view, and he finally became a little angry, and asked, "Where to drink?"

He Luoke replied: "Go to Yang's Mansion and drink happy wine." ”