"August is over, and your birthday is coming, right? What do you want?

"I want you to stay away from me and stop bothering me. ”

"That's good!" he sank his face and stepped back, away from her, "I wish you a happy birthday in advance." ”

She turned around directly, her back to Zhongli who was about to leave, stubborn and proud, "Thank you!"

He paused, smiled at the corner of his mouth, threw himself forward, hugged her from behind, and rubbed his attachment.

"What are you doing?" she was at a loss.

He said straight: "I gave you what I wanted, and the next thing is to satisfy you." ”

She was so ashamed of his words that she was so ashamed that she was really convinced, she had always thought that her shamelessness had reached the extreme, who would have thought that Zhongli would always be better than her.

Gu Qingning pushed him away, not changing his annoyed expression, "I really don't know why those two dead boys called you over, it's obviously angry with me!"

Gu Qinghuan and Gu Qingfeng, who were hiding behind the bushes not far away, peeping here, only felt a chill down their spines.

Zhongli's complexion remained unchanged, and he shook his fan and said, "You went home today before the official office was disbanded! They said that this was more unusual than the sun coming out of the north, thinking that you were stimulated, and I just wanted to come to your house for tea, so they dragged me over." ”

Gu Qingning sat on the edge of the fence, the whole person shrunk to the bench, leaned back against the wooden post, and hugged his knees with his arms, "Inexplicable, what stimulation can I receive? It's just that I'm really idle today......"

"Then you really don't care about the new waiter who parachuted above you at all? It's called Liu Yingxu, right? Qinghuan told me, saying that you are happy in vain, and the bamboo basket is empty...... Why else would you be upset about?" he shrugged and stood beside her, leaning against a pillar with her.

Gu Qingning closed his eyelids, which seemed to be very heavy, reached out and held one of his hands, forcefully, and also lowered his tone: "Zhongli, as soon as this birthday passes, I will be twenty-five years old......"

Zhongli didn't expect her to be older, and he was sad about it, he squatted down, held her hand with both hands, looked up at her and said, "Yes, I should have gotten married a long time ago, what's wrong? Have you thought about it? I'm always ready." ”

Gu Qingning looked at him, feeling that he didn't have the strength to deal with his banter, he withdrew his hand in frustration, hugged himself again, and lay his face on his knees, "You don't understand at all...... I'm not bothered that I'm not married, I just don't think I'm doing what I should be doing at this age...... Other women, at my age, were already married, and their children were on their knees, and I ...... I gave up on those, and I should have gotten more of the others, but now I don't have ......"

"Come on. Zhongli seemed to be very impatient with her self-sighing and self-complaining, and said directly: "Have you gotten less? A woman, in two years, has gone from a dispensable little counselor to a six-pin-lang man, not to mention that she has robbed a man's official position, but also said that she has robbed a woman's dream lover, you are still not satisfied? What else do you want?"

I thought she would argue with herself, but who thought that she buried her head, and said by the way: "Maybe, I'm too eager for quick success, I'm too dissatisfied, too fantasizing, how can I expect everything to be so smooth and so simple?"

He rolled his eyes, pursed the corners of his lips and said, "You women are just unreliable." ”

"What did you say?"

He stood up and said: "That's what it was! As soon as it came to those days of the month, there were all kinds of hypocrisy and all kinds of nonsense! As soon as that day passed, you rushed forward like being poured chicken blood, killing all directions, and ...... without mercy."

Gu Qingning was stimulated by his explicit words, annoyed and angry, jumped up and waved at him, but because she got up too violently, she stood on the wooden bench again, and as soon as she stood up, her back hit her trunk, her body was weightless, and she fell forward.

Fortunately, Zhongli, who was standing opposite her, caught her, she threw herself on him, he hugged her, and he didn't fall backwards, and he still stood firm.

She didn't touch the ground with her feet, her hands on his shoulders, and her legs subconsciously wrapped around his waist in a panic.

At this time, bearing all her weight, holding her whole person, infinitely closer, he realized that Gu Qingning was actually quite light, warm, and soft......

After a moment of stunned, he looked up at her, and the two of them spun together, watching her scattered hair flying, and there was a hint of panic in the silence of her eyes, and he smiled, "Lovely woman, ......"

He didn't let her go, he turned her against the pillar, spread some of the load-bearing, one hand still held her waist, the other hand touched the back of her head, pulled down, let her hang her face, he raised his face to meet it......

He kissed her, up and down, tacit harmony, blending and lingering.

Her sanity gradually recovered, but her lust and love did not go, making her confused and selfless......

"No!"

When the familiar pleasures surrounded her, her heart and her body finally remembered the past, those images of madness out of control, the pain after sinking, the indelible sin......

She controlled herself, and for a moment, desperately broke free, and pushed Zhongli away, causing the corner of his lip to be bitten and the person almost fell.

She fell to the ground, the corners of her mouth smelled of blood, she held her head in horror, and shook her head vigorously: "No! No! It's useless! I still can't forget it! I can't help it...... There is no way to ......"

Zhongli stood in front of her, wiped the blood from the corners of his lips, looked at her calmly, and in the blink of an eye, there was water in his eyes, he smiled helplessly, and squatted down with her, stroking her back: "Don't be afraid, it's all over, it's over." It's okay Qingning, you don't have to accept anyone, it's good, don't think about it anymore, it was before and not now...... All that you have done and said, and what you have suffered, has passed away......"

She gradually calmed down, lifted her face buried in her lap, her face was already full of tears, her eyes were full of fear, and she grabbed one of his hands, like grasping the last straw: "Zhongli, am I crazy? If this continues, I will really go crazy sooner or later......"

"No, you won't. He was sure.

He grabbed her arm and pulled her up, but she was weak and unable to support herself, so he picked her up sideways and sent her to the bedroom.

……

Gu Qingfeng and Gu Qinghuan watched all this stupidly, at this time, the two of them were stunned, Gu Qingfeng was the worst, he was really frightened by Gu Qingning, seeing Zhongli and Gu Qingning enter the room and close the door, he became conscious, grabbed Gu Qinghuan's arm, and asked in panic: "What's wrong with my sister?

Gu Qinghuan was also at a loss, but after all, he knew more about the inside story, so he could probably guess that Gu Qingning's abnormality was probably related to Lu Yuanze's death.

But he couldn't express his conjecture, so he could only shake his head stiffly.

Both of them froze in place for a long time, looking at the closed door of Gu Qingning's bedroom together, and after a long, long time, Gu Qingfeng finally spoke up again and asked, "Sister and Brother Zhongli, will they be together?"

Gu Qinghuan shook his head again.

……

It's August, autumn is coming, and the night is long......

In the middle of the night, suddenly a gust of rain drifted with the cool breeze, not big, but fine, dense, like a needle, like powder, from the open window into the house, and the coolness rose with gusts.

The most difficult thing is when the summer and cold come, the most difficult thing is the long and late night, the countless nightmares, and the most difficult to escape is the crazy infatuation and deep guilt in the bottom of my heart......

This was the first night that it was difficult to sleep peacefully, and she was disturbed by the cold in her shallow sleep, shivered, and curled up sideways, "Zi Chu...... I ...... cold."

Zhongli, who was lying beside her, pulled the quilt for her, and went to close the window, and when the room was closed and impermeable, the incense in the hollow incense burner became smelly.

This is a kind of fragrant smell similar to the orchid, circling and spreading in the room, climbing up the veil curtain, seeping into the snort and the pores of the brocade quilt, as the warmth in the room rises, it becomes deeper and deeper, more and more intoxicating.

As he walked past the incense burner in the center of the room, he stopped, opened the golden lid and sniffed at the burnt spice, a smell he was familiar with, for he had always been faintly smelling it on her, and had not thought it was the spice of her lavender.

He frowned slightly, turned the inner wall of the lid of the incense burner, sealed the holes, and re-covered the stove, and the fragrance was isolated and sealed.

He returned to the couch, and saw that she was half-asleep and half-awake and stretched out her hand a little helplessly, and touched something, so he passed his hand over, and interlocked her fingers, and she finally settled down and stopped her uneasy searching.

However, when the day was about to dawn, he suddenly woke up, his eyes stared, as if someone had choked his neck, and his palm was thrown out as soon as his hand wrestled.

He hadn't slept, and Kazui lay beside her, carefully guarding and watching her, just like the other nights they had spent together.

only to find out that no one really can make her feel safe, and he can't save her......

Gu Qingning exhaled vigorously, cold sweat appeared on his forehead, and he retracted into his arms, still palpitating: "Zichu, I had that dream again...... I was dressed in white, standing in a pool of blood, with a knife, and facing whom...... I saw, I saw Lu Yuanze standing behind me, and he was going to strangle me......"

He wiped her sweat with his sleeve, then let go of her, got up and went to bed, and straightened her clothes on his back, "It's time for you to get up and go to the court, I'm leaving." ”

"Zi Chu ......" She was slightly distracted, and looked at the light of the sky that came in after the door veil, the residual lights in the house were not finished, and it was dawn outside the house, "Okay." ”

He walked out, stopped when he passed by the incense burner, opened the lid of the stove, took out a handkerchief and wrapped some residual incense, turned back to her and said, "This smells very good, I'll take it back and try it." ”

Anyway, he has always been so out of tune, and she didn't care much about it, or to hide her embarrassment, she just said: "Okay, this is the green incense that Fusu mixed for me, which has a calming effect, if you like it, I will ask her to match it for you." ”

He smiled, didn't say anything else, then opened the door and left, just happened to meet Fusu, who was holding a basin of water and waiting for Gu Qingning to freshen up, under the dimly lit corridor.

Fusu didn't let Gu Qingning tell him her background, so in his opinion, she was just a cold mute girl in the Gu Mansion.

He has come to the Gu Mansion so many times, but he has never seen Fusu give him a good face, and he is used to it.

At this moment, she stopped him, he didn't understand what he meant, she still had a cold face, and pointed to the door he had just opened, and then to the main house with the lights on in front of her.

He understood, Gu Qingxuan, who returned late last night, didn't know that he was coming, let alone that he spent the night with Gu Qingning, Fusu was thinking that it was indeed a little bad for him to go out from the front like this and be seen by Gu Qingxuan or other subordinates.

He smiled and gestured: "Oh, I understand, thank you, Miss Fusu." ”

Fusu's face was as cold as ice, he rolled his eyes at him, raised his hand again, and pointed to the courtyard wall behind him, indicating that he could only go out through the back door of the Gu Mansion.

Zhong Wei comprehended, cheekily made a calm appearance, and walked to the backyard of the Gu Mansion, and he had to hide and hide along the way, for fear of being seen by his subordinates.

After looking at him and walking away, Fusu turned into Gu Qingning's room, Gu Qingning was already aware of the movement outside, and when he saw her coming, he said to her: "Fusu, don't misunderstand, I have nothing to do with him." ”

Fusu glanced at the bed, didn't react, just did his own thing.

Gu Qingning saw that she didn't mind, Fang was relieved, and said that she wanted to bathe first, so Fusu went to bring her hot water again, prepared a bath bucket, and served her to undress and bathe.

When she washed her face, she accidentally pulled the wound on the corner of her lip, and the small crack that had not completely crusted over oozing blood again, and she let out a "hiss" in pain.

Fusu came over with a dry handkerchief, stretched out his hand and pulled Gu Qingning's face, looking at the wound at the corner of her lip, there was a drop of blood like a red bean on her pale lips, she paused, looked at it for a while, and then moved.

Fusu's hand holding up the handkerchief fell in mid-air, and with it, her cold face, which had been floated softly, also fell......

She licked the drop of blood with the tip of her pink tongue, and when she moved away, the tip of her tongue slipped, moistening the corners of Gu Qingning's chapped lips.

Then let go of his hand, walked away, and went to prepare the official uniform and crown, leaving Gu Qingning, who was not an inch, stunned in the warm bath.

……

He went out through the backyard door, but as soon as he was relaxed, he bumped directly into Gu Qinghuan, who was already waiting for him there.

Zhongli was taken aback by him, and only after seeing that it was him did he settle down, and enthusiastically put his hand on his shoulder: "Eh, Qinghuan, why did you come out so early in the morning to be scary? Don't you know that your brother-in-law is timid?"

Gu Qinghuan opened his arm and said, "I really didn't see it, I dared to stay at my house, and I said that I was cowardly, who would believe it?"

Gu Qinghuan had always smiled at him, but now he made a face with him, Zhongli felt that something was wrong with him, so he asked, "What's the matter? I provoked you again? Master Gu, don't knock me into the river again." ”

Gu Qinghuan muttered depressedly: "I, I just think you are like this with my sister...... It's bad...... Although my sister is sometimes ridiculous, her brother is still sober, so don't hurt her......"

"Harm her?" Zhong Li snorted, "Who is harming whom? I am planted in the hands of your Gu family brothers and sisters." ”

Gu Qinghuan looked a little entangled, in fact, he had been entangled all night, and finally asked at this time: "Do you like my sister or not?" Do you want to marry my sister?"

Zhongli was stunned for a moment, then looked up at the sky, and if he was helpless, he replied: "Qinghuan, if I say that I like her very much, but I can't marry her, what will happen?"

Gu Qinghuan's face changed suddenly, as gloomy as the dark sky, he was not angry or frightened, he only said: "The last one liked her very much but couldn't marry her...... It was Lu Yuanze, and then ...... He's dead. ”

Zhongli suddenly felt a chill standing on his back, "I know...... Or did I see it with my own eyes...... But I don't think Qing Ning will ...... me like that."

Before he could finish speaking, Gu Qinghuan directly grabbed his collar and said to him fiercely: "She may not treat you like that, but I will!

Zhongli pushed him away and said annoyedly: "Qinghuan, listen to me, okay? I can't marry her because I have a marriage contract and she knows it, so do you think she will marry me?"