Lu Yuanzhi thought about it and asked again, "Then what did Your Majesty say?"

Lu Yuancheng replied proudly: "Your Majesty is naturally right! He also asked Gu Qingxuan what his plans would be in the future, and he said that he planned to move his family outside Nancheng as soon as the funeral was over, and from then on he would live the days of cultivating the countryside and raising his children, and he also planned to keep his wife's tomb outside Nancheng all the time...... Forget it, why are you talking about this, anyway, there is nothing for him to do, father, what matters now is the position of the head of the household, who should do it in the best interest of the Lu family, this is what we have to consider......"

Gu Qingxuan and his eldest son and eldest daughter guarded the spirit in the mourning hall for three days, and spent three nights in front of Shen Lanxi's coffin, but these three nights were not silent. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The night shift was deeper, and there was no one else in the mourning hall, and the three of them talked a lot, thought a lot, solved a lot of puzzles, and unsolved a lot of puzzles.

Since then, the three of them have spent many such nights, until the Gu family is truly over.

The funeral is over, the funeral is finished, the Gu family sends off the guests, and their family does not seem to have improved at all in the past month, and they barely finish the form and end all the trivial matters, and they finally send away the father and daughter of the Jiang family.

Whether it is true or not, there are already many people who comfort them, Jiang Hechuan will not be verbose, and Gu Qingxuan, who has been worried about being physically and mentally injured at this time, before leaving.

After Gu Qingxuan sent him out, he clasped his palms together and saluted, and said indifferently: "Now that I have resigned, I don't bother you to worry about me, and we will be two ...... in the future There is no need to go back and forth, and when you are down, you are just an idler in Jiangyuelou. ”

"This ......" Jiang Xiange was uneven first, and wanted to say something, but was stopped by Jiang Hechuan.

Jiang Hechuan returned the salute and said, "That's good, Brother Gu, you can do it yourself." ”

Their father and daughter got into the carriage, Jiang Xiange saw that Jiang Hechuan's face was solemn, and he didn't want him to be sad, so he was relieved: "Father, daughter thinks, Uncle Gu didn't mean that...... He was at his most depressed at this time, and his mind was frustrated, maybe he was just unintentional......"

Jiang Hechuan looked up at his daughter, and suddenly laughed heartily: "Haha, I'm an idiot woman...... Don't you understand that he really has what he says?" He lifted the curtain of the car and looked back, Gu Qingxuan and his eldest son and eldest daughter were still standing in front of the Gu family's mansion, there were no guests in front of the door, and the three of them were no longer depressed.

He and Gu Qingxuan looked at each other from a distance, and everything was clear.

On the same day, the Gu family dismissed all the servants and closed the door of the house, leaving only Tang Bo and Fusu among the subordinates, and did not carry more gold and silver utensils, the family wore cloth clothes and simple things, and moved to the farm outside the southern city, saying that it was a farm, in fact, there were only a few thatched houses and tile houses, which were only a few miles away from Shen Lanxi's new tomb, far away from the inner city of Chang'an, and almost did not hear the morning bell and dusk drums.

The living conditions of the farm are naturally not the same as before, and the Gu family aims to meditate and cultivate themselves, ploughing in the fields, lining the river and yarn, eating and drinking simply, and everything is self-inflicted.

In his spare time at night, Gu Qingfeng either went outside to practice or ran into the city to meet his master Hong Luotian, while the other three Gu took turns playing chess in the study.

In the first few months, people in the city often passed by here "accidentally", either on the grounds of hunting or for the purpose of collecting rent, they always came to the Gu family farm to see, or saw Gu Qingxuan's face withered and sighed between the ridges, or saw that the Gu family sisters and brothers were not suitable for the hard life of pastoral farming, and later saw that the Gu family had adapted to the pastoral life, but Gu Qingxuan's health was always not good, less than half a hundred but as thin as the old man in the field, Gu Qingning often ran to the city later, often went to Tongyuan Hall to grab medicine for his father, and the silver was not enough to pawn some gold and silver.

This kind of life has lasted for more than half a year, and in the past half year, the eyes and ears in Chang'an City have stopped paying attention to the Gu family. They have disappeared from the sight of the big guys.

The relationship between the Lu family and the Jinxuan palace has become closer and closer, one is in charge of the government for the prime minister, and the other is in charge of the military affairs of the imperial city for the emperor's uncle.

And the new emperor is getting weaker and weaker, relying on Lu Yuanzhi for everything, neglecting state affairs, and indulging in wine, dancing and music.

Lu Yuanzhi had already left his old allies outside the southern city behind, and he gave the position of the head of the household department to his brother-in-law Huang Zhengting, this Huang Zhengting is the brother of Mrs. Huang of Xiangguo Zheng's room, Lu Yuanze's uncle, he doesn't need to mention more, the important thing is the position of the household servant, Lu Yuanzhi arranged it for his second son Lu Yuancheng, which made Lu Yuanze feel uneasy.

It turned out that the two brothers of the Lu family were only one year apart, and Lu Yuanze became famous at the age of eighteen, and with the help of his father and Gu Qingning, he rose all the way, and within six years, he was promoted to the squire of the fourth grade of the Ministry of Industry. And Lu Yuancheng has few knowledge and does not learn articles, and the fame of scientific research is naturally not expected, and he is a concubine who is not favored by his father, who thinks that he is cunning by nature and knows how to speculate best, but he mixed up with the substitute sponsor under Lu Yuanzhi, and helped Lu Yuanzhi do a few big things and remove a few petty officials, he saw the stitches and picked up the needle from a young age, and within three years, he was mixed from the substitute deacon of the first criminal department to the fifth grade of the criminal department, and now he has crossed the level and the department, and has become a four-grade household servant on an equal footing with Lu Yuanze.

Lu Yuanze was afraid that his father's mind would become heavier and treat his concubine and threaten him, so he felt a deep crisis, and Mrs. Huang also began to feel uneasy, and had been urging Lu Yuanzhi to establish a son as soon as possible, but Lu Yuanzhi's attitude was vague and swayed from side to side, with the intention of deliberately letting the brothers compete to promote their progress.

The two have an enterprising heart, but the brother's heart has long been at odds, and they often compete secretly and hate each other.

In a flash, it was the golden autumn of September, the sky was already slightly cool, and on the third day of September, Gu Qingning's birthday, as soon as her birthday passed, she would be twenty-four years old. Generally, women of this age think that they are mothers, and she is still married, so the Gu family is naturally anxious. Gu Qingxuan decided to go back to the city to hold a birthday banquet for her, and she could also clean up the deserted mansion, and even more so that she was looking for a matchmaker to kiss her, and only used her own medical treatment as the reason to return to the city.

The Gu family returned to the inner city of Chang'an silently, and Gu Qingning's birthday banquet was just a small banquet for the family, without publicity. The father and daughter of the Jiang family were uninvited, and seats had already been prepared for them during the banquet.

Gu Qingfeng was most worried about his sister's marriage, thinking that Hong Luotian must know many handsome and heroic people if he was well-informed, and wanted him to pay attention to Gu Qingning, so he went to him during the day and said that he wanted to invite him to a banquet, but Hong Luotian refused: "Don't go!"

Gu Qingfeng asked suspiciously, "Why?"

Hong Luotian touched his beard, didn't look at his apprentice, and replied directly: "I just don't like to look at the other three in your family, your father, your brothers and sisters, I don't like it!"

Gu Qingfeng knew that the master was bold by nature, and there was no malice in speaking so bluntly, so he continued with a hippie smile: "My sister is becoming more and more like my mother, don't you think master?

Hong Luotian continued to turn his head and muttered: "you kid, where is it like? I haven't even inherited one-tenth of your mother's beauty!"

"But......" Gu Qingfeng was helpless, and ran after the master all over the yard: "Master, you can help and find me a good brother-in-law......

Hong Luotian drew his sword and began to practice his sword, and scolded him back: "What are you looking for? Just worry about you kid! Those three came back to say goodbye to your sister? Nonsense! They are not looking for relatives, I'm afraid they are just looking for trouble!"

Gu Qingfeng was speechless for a moment, thought for a while, then gave up, bought a gift for his sister and went home, and did not reveal any doubts in his heart, only congratulating his sister's birthday with his family.

Sure enough, during the banquet, Gu Qingxuan talked to Jiang Hechuan about going to invite a matchmaker tomorrow, but Gu Qingning refused, she didn't mean it, she said that it was better to wait a little longer, Gu Qingxuan had no choice, so she had to put the matter on hold for the time being.

The banquet in the main hall of the Gu family was in full swing, and a small servant of the Jiang family came to find the head of the family and handed Jiang Hechuan a note.

After the banquet, Jiang Hechuan opened and looked at it three times, and the message was: It has been confirmed that Lu Yuanze will marry the lord of Chengshuo in the middle of next month.

The first night of the revisiting mansion was the night of Gu Qingning's twenty-fourth birthday, she had a nightmare when she closed her eyes, and it was difficult to sleep well. In fact, she didn't know if she was dreaming or waking up, because the dream was so real, but unfortunately it had become a dream tonight.

Gu Qingning didn't tell anyone that when the spring flowers were blooming this year, in Luoyang, she and Shen Lanxi had admired peonies, and before returning to Chang'an, Shen Lanxi also took her to a place.

They walked to the most luxurious and gorgeous private mansion in Luoyang, Shen Lanxi looked at the door of the mansion and said to Gu Qingning: "It's really as if I came here in my previous life...... Qingning, this is your mother's maiden home, your grandmother, and your uncles are all here...... My mother also grew up here...... How's it going? Rich enough?"

Gu Qingning nodded and said, "Indeed, it is even more magnificent than the Chang'an Xiangguo Mansion." Is it true that my mother hasn't come back once in all these years?"

Shen Lanxi shook his head and said, "No." Twenty-three years ago, I insisted on marrying your father, to marry a poor scholar, your maternal grandfather and grandmother decided to object, I knelt in front of this house for three days and could not make them change their minds, and finally I entered the main hall and kowtowed to the elders three times, telling them that I was going to accompany your father to Chang'an to catch the exam, your grandfather was furious and broke off the father-daughter relationship with me, so I left the Shen family and accompanied your father all the way to Chang'an, from the eldest lady of the richest family in Luoyang, to the wife of a scholar, your grandfather and grandmother hated me very much, and the clansmen were not allowed to have a word with me……”

"But five years ago, when the news of my grandfather's death came, my mother, you still cried and fell ill...... What I haven't figured out is that my father was already in a high position at that time, and he wanted to take you back to Luoyang for the funeral, why didn't you want to do it, mother?"

Shen Lanxi recalled: "I have been my father's pearl since I was a child, and I am his proudest daughter, but I have done the most disobedient thing to him, he doesn't believe that I was right to choose your father, even if your father gets ahead many years later, my father still hates us, I know this...... However, I don't come back to mourn because he won't let me come back, when I was about to leave the Shen family, he trained me in the Shen family ancestral hall, and told me, don't come back if you leave, let me never look back, the Shen family and Luoyang will become my past, and the road ahead is my new life, and there is no entangle......ment with the past."

Her eyes turned red as she spoke, "Whether my father believes me or not, I know that he always understands my ......"

In fact, Gu Qingning didn't quite understand what she said, and her personal state of mind at that time was really difficult for anyone to understand, "But what my daughter wonders is, where did her mother get her determination to abandon this glory and elope with her father? At that time, my father had a vague future, why did my mother believe in my father so much? And it has been the same for many years?"

Shen Lanxi only said: "Because I don't just believe in him, but also believe in myself." I will never let him live up to my own expectations, I believe that my husband will achieve great things, and I believe that I will live up to myself. ”

Shen Lanxi didn't step into the door of the Shen family again after all, the mother and daughter continued to walk forward, she held her daughter's hand and said softly, "Let's go home." ”