Gu Qingfeng entered the inner palace with the Ninth Prince. Although he often entered the palace to patrol, it was the first time he sneaked into the inner hall of Kunhua Palace like this, and he was naturally unwilling, but the little prince wanted to surprise the queen mother on a whim, so he came without a call, and he had to drag him. Gu Qingfeng regretted it extremely much, he shouldn't have taught him light skills these days, no, he shouldn't have dealt with this person in the first place.

He was pushed in front by the Ninth Prince, known as 'Pathfinder', and in horror, he moved in step by step along the wall of the inner temple, like a thief who broke into the palace to steal, and he felt that he was really blind in the uniform of the deputy governor of the Imperial Forest Army.

He was already in the hall, and at the opposite corner was the warm pavilion where the queen mother took a nap on weekdays, and you could see that the door of the warm pavilion had opened a crack. After moving for a while, Gu Qingfeng noticed that the people behind him did not follow, and when he looked back, he only saw a head sticking out inside by the door of the palace, and the person was still hiding outside, Gu Qingfeng was very depressed, and glared at Chen Jingyan, and the kid only replied to him with a grimace.

Gu Qingfeng was ready to withdraw, and he had already made up his mind that after he went out, he would beat Chen Jingyan in a sack. When he was turning around, he suddenly heard some very strange sounds in the warm pavilion, he couldn't help but glance back at the crack in the door, only to see the veil swaying in the wind, faintly, shadow pupils, he still saw something that should not be seen, and finally understood what it was......

Gu Qingfeng was so frightened that he almost lost his voice, his steps were disordered, his face was red to his neck, and at the fastest speed in his life, he changed his shape and shadow, and 'escaped' out of the inner hall.

After going out and running for a while, he stopped to catch his breath and gradually calmed down. Chen Jingyan also caught up, he still looked naughty and proud, patted Gu Qingfeng's back, and said with a smile: "Haha, you are too timid, right?

"I see...... I...... I saw the Queen Mother's ......" Gu Qingfeng was incoherent and couldn't say a complete word, and after regaining his senses, he forcibly suppressed his frightened mood, "The Queen Mother almost saw me, don't I run away? It's all your fault! Why didn't you go in? Did you deliberately trick me? Want me to be killed by the Queen Mother?"

Chen Jingyan stuck out his tongue and said scoundrelly: "I'm just teasing you, who let you play tricks on me." Don't worry, with me, the queen mother will never do anything to you. The queen mother loves me the most, and the imperial brother, as long as I say that you are my friend, even if you break into the Mingtang Golden Palace, they will not punish you!"

There will be no men with stripes in the Golden Palace of Mingtang!

Gu Qingfeng roared in his heart, glared at him hatefully, shook his head and left, "Who is your friend? I don't know you, don't bother me anymore!"

It is estimated that Gu Qingfeng dared to shake his face with Chen Jingyan like this, Chen Jingyan still ate this set, and caught up with a dead face: "I don't! This king wants you to follow and serve! Go! Since the queen mother is here, you accompany me to see the queen mother." I'll let the queen mother reward you with treasures!"

When Gu Qingfeng heard this, he immediately turned around and said to him: "Don't go!"

Chen Jingyan wondered, "Why?"

Gu Qingfeng was like a fish in his throat, and he couldn't say a word, so he just grabbed his arm and dragged him away.

Turning his head, he saw something terrifying—a masked face.

That sudden glance was really terrifying, and it made him so frightened that his face turned white for a while.

At first glance, it was indeed scary, but when he came back to his senses and looked closely, he found that it was just a palace maid wearing a mask, and the mask was not much scary, and the eyes under the mask were very moving, and he looked at them inadvertently, and the fear and panic in his heart were suddenly magically smoothed, and he suddenly had a feeling of peace of mind that had been lost for a long time.

"The slave has seen the prince, is the prince here to greet the queen mother?" she bowed and saluted, and when she spoke, she bowed to Gu Qingfeng by the way, and Gu Qingfeng returned the salute slowly.

Chen Jingyan came to Kunhua Palace to see her a few times, and knew that she was the aunt beside the queen mother, and now she no longer feels scared, and she also feels that she is kind, but this time after all, she sneaked in, and she was caught, so it was inevitable that she was weak-hearted, and smiled awkwardly: "Yes." ”

Aunt Yan said: "If the Queen Mother knew that the prince was coming, she would be very happy. It's just that she is still taking a lunch break at this time, and she is about to wake up, if the prince is not in a hurry, let the slave maid go to inform the queen mother first, wait for the queen mother to change her clothes and clean her face, and then it is not too late to see the prince. ”

Chen Jingyan nodded with a smile and said briskly: "Okay, Aunt Yan, go quickly." We will wait in the outer hall and not disturb the queen mother. ”

When Aunt Yan heard this, she didn't leave immediately, but bowed, looked at Gu Qingfeng, and said to Chen Jingyan: "Please forgive me, the queen mother's palace ministers are not allowed to enter, so please wait outside the palace." ”

Chen Jingyan was a little unhappy, Gu Qingfeng shook his head at him, signaling him not to be willful, Chen Jingyan agreed, and entered the outer hall by himself, Gu Qingfeng stood in the hall, standing guard in the posture of the Imperial Forest Army, serious and meticulous.

After about half an hour, Aunt Yan came out of the outer hall, it should be that after serving the Queen Mother, she had already let the Ninth Prince meet with the Queen Mother.

Gu Qingfeng straightened his back, stared ahead, and let the cool breeze blow motionless.

She stood at the door of the temple and watched him for a moment, then walked towards him.

"Tired?"

A hoarse, gentle voice sounded in his ears, and he had already noticed that she was coming towards him, but he did not expect her to ask him this question.

Forgetting his manners for a moment, he stopped tense, turned his head slowly, looked at the white-masked face, shook his head blankly, and smiled brightly—he hadn't smiled like this in a long time.

"Not tired. I didn't do anything, I practiced martial arts, trained, patrolled, and walked darts on weekdays...... It's a hundred times more tired than that, and it's nothing. ”

"You've done so much, your parents must be very distressed at a young age, right?" she started talking to him, but stopped looking at him.

Gu Qingfeng paused, a trace of sadness flashed in his eyes, but he quickly regained his clarity, and almost blurted out the sadness that his mother had passed away for a few years, but he still didn't say it, but patted his chest, and said with a broad smile: "I'm not young, I'm twenty-two! I've all been married! Of course, I have to do more!"

The corners of his mouth that were not covered by the mask were hooked into a smile, "You've all been married?

reminded him of the sadness for the second time, and he finally couldn't hide it anymore, and there was some sadness in his smile: "She's fine, but she's no longer alive." If she were still alive, my mother would have loved this daughter-in-law, of course...... If my mother were still alive......"

She was speechless for a moment, then turned to look ahead and sighed softly, "If you take care of yourself, they will be happy wherever they are......"

Gu Qingfeng felt warm in his heart, just like a child who listened to the instructions of an adult, and nodded obediently: "Hmm." ”

After a moment of silence, he plucked up the courage to ask, "Who are you?" I think you are very special......

She froze for a moment, and shook her head with a smile: "It's nothing special, it's just a nosy ugly palace person in the deep palace." ”

"No, you're a good guy. You must be beautiful. He said sincerely.

She looked at him again, said no more, and walked away without a word.

After walking a few steps, I heard him call her: "Aunt Yan......"

She turned back and looked at him with only the eyes under the mask.

He said, "Thank you, Aunt Yan, I feel very happy to talk to you, thank you ......"

He said with a smile, repeated it a few more times, and suddenly lowered his head after speaking, and the smile on his face disappeared.

Aunt Yan didn't leave and asked him, "What's wrong?"

He raised his head, smiled reluctantly, and said: "It's nothing, it's just that when I said 'thank you', I suddenly realized that since I was a child, I haven't said a word of thanks to my mother, no matter how much she loves me, I feel a little self-blame, and now I regret it......"

From a distance, he couldn't even see his eyes under Aunt Yan's mask a little clearly, he didn't know her emotions, and only listened to her hoarse voice a little intermittently: "Don't regret it...... She doesn't want your thanks, as long as you are doing well...... Take care of yourself, the road ahead is unknown, and be kind to yourself. ”

Gu Qingfeng watched her back go away, then turned around, resumed a serious posture with a tense body, looked ahead, and suddenly turned red in the cold wind......

……

Since entering Kunhua Palace on this day, Gu Qingfeng has felt strange in his heart, and there are heavy things pressing, but when he thinks of some moments and some words, he feels very warm and relaxed, such a complex mood has been haunting his heart, but it is not as painful as what his family made him suffer before, just unforgettable, inexplicable confusion and sadness.

In the past few days, in addition to patrolling and handling the affairs of the Royal Forest Army as usual, he stayed in his sister's mansion, did not go out much, and did not accompany Chen Jingyan to mess around, making Chen Jingyan mistakenly think that he was still angry with himself, so he tried every means to find him to coax him.

However, Chen Jingyan went to Gu Qingning's Shilang Mansion, not only for this purpose, but also to help Su.

He already dared to talk to Fusu, and often went to her for the reason of changing the wound dressing, pestering her to talk, but Fusu couldn't speak, and didn't want to pay attention to him, only gave him white eyes, he still knew the difficulty and did not retreat, and stalked Fusu to death. Gu Qingfeng was watching the play on the sidelines, happy to see him being rejected by Fusu, and then he knew that he was not the only one in this world who dared to show his face to the Ninth Prince.

Before that, he hadn't paid much attention to Fusu, and he didn't dare to recruit her, now that he thinks about it, he thinks that Fusu is really mysterious and powerful, in his impression, she has always acted cheerfully, loves and hates clearly, and if she doesn't give anyone a good face, she won't give anyone a good face, no matter who the other party is, including himself, he hasn't seen her smile at himself once for so long......

But one night in late April, he saw her crying.

That night, Gu Qingning came back very late at the official office of the Ministry of Industry, Fusu also disappeared in the afternoon, Gu Qingfeng finished dinner alone, wiped the short sword under the promenade in the front yard, and drank to the moon, he had his own thoughts.

When Fusu came back, he saw her, panicked, his face was full of tears, as if he was fleeing from something, and he looked very frightened.

She clung to a burden, and ran to the backyard without a master, and as she passed by him, he called her a few times, as if she didn't hear it. After she ran over, Gu Qingfeng also went to the door to look around for a while to see if there was anything chasing Fu Su, but the door was empty and there was no one.

Gu Qingfeng expected that something big must have happened, otherwise Fusu would not be like this, so he plucked up the courage to go to the backyard to find her, and found that she did not go back to her room, and after looking around, he saw that the door of Gu Qingning's bedroom was open, and he understood.

He walked over with a complicated mood, gently pushed the door, and couldn't see Fusu's figure at the door, I don't know where she was in the unlit room, "Fusu, are you there? Don't be afraid, it's me, I'm in......"

Gu Qingfeng looked for her in the room lightly, until he heard a faint, heartbreaking sobbing sound coming from the corner of the wall behind the curtain beside the bed, he paused, lit a candle, and walked over there with that bit of light.

"Don't be afraid, I don't mean anything, I just want to know what's wrong with you? Who bullied you? You tell me, I'll help you out, the Ninth Prince will also help you, and my sister ......"

He walked in that direction as he spoke, his voice was soft, his footsteps were almost nonexistent, like the candlelight in his hand, and his whole person was gentle and warm.

Gu Qingfeng lifted the curtain and found Fusu who was hugging in the corner, hugging herself and the burden and crying, only to find that she was really slender and weak, and she didn't take up much space in the corner, and her thin shoulders trembled slightly, which was very distressing.

"Fusu, what's wrong with you?"

Gu Qingfeng sat down next to her and placed the small candle in the middle in front of them, illuminating this light.

Fusu didn't answer, she couldn't answer, she just raised her head in tears, looked at him with tearful eyes, and then suddenly hugged him.

Gu Qingfeng was dumbfounded, he froze for a moment, and he was very embarrassed, but how could he bear to push her away, let her hold him, bury him in his arms and cry.

Gradually, he raised his hand and hugged her, making her posture more comfortable, and no longer asking anything, just silently accompanying her, she snuggled in his arms, and cried for a long time, sometimes sobbing, sometimes crying, repeating many times.

As the night wore on, her cries laughed and dissipated imperceptibly, and they all fell asleep.

Nearly five watches, Gu Qingning came back, this night she was in the official office in the first half of the night, and in the second half of the night in the restaurant to comfort the value-added officer, made a lot of trouble, until it was almost the time of the last dynasty, Gu Qingning drove them home, went home by herself, and prepared to freshen up and go to the court.

When she entered the room, she found that the door was open, which was a little strange, and when she went in and lit the lamp, she heard the snoring of people in the quiet, and she followed the sound, and she found two people sleeping in the corner of the wall.

She was really stunned for a while, suspecting that she was too tired and hallucinating, so she went out to wash her face and look at it again to make sure that she was not mistaken.

Gu Qingning stood there and watched them for a while, not intending to wake up the two, turned around and blew out the lights in the room, gently covered the door, and went to her court.

On the way to the court, Gu Qinghuan and Gu Qingxuan stopped Gu Qingning, who seemed to be in a trance because she had something to do in her heart, and told her: "Have you heard? Yesterday, Doctor Hua committed suicide by taking poison at home. ”

Yesterday afternoon, Fusu received Hua Jingting's handwritten letter, went to Washington, and did not see Hua Jingting, but only entered the alchemy pharmacy in Washington according to the handwritten letter, and saw that there were things left for her on the table full of medical books, a burden, and a testament.

In the baggage is the medical work of Hua Shenyi's life, his life's work, passed to Fusu, the last letter is written with his hope for her, and he told her to burn this letter and all the handwritten letters he wrote.

Fusu understood, she didn't dare to look for his traces again, knowing that it was too late.

……

The hundred officials were discussing this matter in the half-light and half-darkness of the sky, and Yang Longxing was the most enthusiastic about this kind of thing—he was only enthusiastic about gossip, not the truth of the facts. He chatted with his colleagues about this, pretending to guess the cause of Dr. Hua's death, and sometimes even sneered mercilessly, spreading some rumors.

He was so 'busy', so naturally he wouldn't notice that his son Yang Rongan didn't come to the court today, and he didn't take leave.

Last night, there were two tragedies related to the Gu family, and the Yang family was another.

Jiang Xiange became the 'real Mrs. Yang' last night and almost lost her life.