Chapter 5: A Blessing in Disguise
In the twilight of spring, the peach and willow in the garden are green, and the good trees are in the shade. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 It was already time for info and Cheng Yan to finish their lunch, Gu Hanqing threw the last splash of fish food into the pond and stood by the lotus pond with his hands in his hands.
The breeze was blowing, and the floating light of the koi in the water competing for food was reflected on his unfazed pupils, and he quietly watched the vigorous leap in front of him, and the corners of his mouth gradually raised a beautiful arc.
"Young Master Cousin, I've finally found you. ”
Suddenly, a woman's voice came from far behind, Gu Hanqing retracted his gaze and turned his face slightly, only to see that Lan Xin, the personal maid beside Cheng Xiuning, had already walked towards him quickly.
"Are you...?"
"The slave's name is Lan Xin, and she is serving beside Miss Cheng Er. ”
"Miss Lan Xin is looking for me?"
"That's right, our second lady and the young master have not seen each other for a long time, and this time I heard that the young master was back, I was very happy, so I would like to invite you to listen to the Snow Pavilion. ”
Lan Xin said softly, her eyes glancing at Gu Hanqing from time to time.
"Second Miss....."
Gu Hanqing's eyes fluttered, but he didn't directly agree. Although he and Cheng Xiuning were also childhood friends, what left an impression in his mind at the moment was not these playmates who were playing and chasing him.
In other words, what he wanted to see now was someone else.
"Young Master Cousin, it turns out that you are here, let me find it. ”
Just as Gu Hanqing was thinking about how to speak, he saw another figure hurriedly running not far away, and when he got closer, he saw that it was also a young woman dressed as a maidservant.
The maid ran forward with great interest, and after seeing Lan Xin on the side, she immediately showed a look of surprise, "Lan Xin, why are you here?"
"It turned out to be a color screen," Lan Xin glanced at her and said in an unhappy tone, "I came to ask the young master to go to relate to the old days on the order of our second young lady, if you have anything to do, let's talk about it another day." ”
"Yo, the second lady is really fast," Caiping Yin and Yang sneered angrily, "It's really not a coincidence, I also came to invite the young master to go to the Moon Pavilion on the order of the eldest lady." ”
"That's really sorry Miss, everything pays attention to the first come, the first come, it seems that today you can only bother with the color screen and return empty-handed. ”
"What comes first and then comes? The eldest sister is respected, the young and the old are orderly, presumably the second lady won't even understand such a simple truth, right?"
"Since you said that the young and the old are orderly, shouldn't the elder sister let the younger sister even more? ”
………
Gu Hanqing had no intention of accepting the invitation, but now looking at the sour confrontation between the two women in front of him, he couldn't help but be speechless, and he just wanted to escape from here as soon as possible. So he took the opportunity to cough pretendedly, which made Lan Xin and Caiping, who were in a stalemate, shut their mouths together.
After all, even the two maids are still like this, and the suspicion between the two masters is only better, so why should he go to this troubled water.
"I bother you two to go back and tell me, the kindness of the two young ladies is understood, there is really no need to hurt the harmony for such a trivial matter. It's been a long time coming, and I'm a little tired from traveling and traveling, so I'm going to apologize another day. ”
Although Gu Hanqing said with a pleasant face, there was a clear implication in his tone that could not be resisted.
Lan Xin and Caiping wanted to say something more, but because there was a competitor next to them, they were speechless for a while, and could only watch Gu Hanqing's back fade away, and finally they could only stare at each other fiercely in disgust, each going back to their own homes, and each looking for their own masters to receive punishment.
After passing away the sudden "trouble", Gu Hanqing secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and between the flow of his eyes, he seemed to find something.
Beneath your feet is a winding stone road that stretches to a secluded spot in the backyard of Chengfu. He likes to be quiet, and in the days when he lived in Chengfu as a child, he always liked to walk here alone like a little adult.
Following this stone path, Gu Hanqing unconsciously walked outside a dilapidated courtyard. The door of the courtyard was hidden, and in the center of the courtyard was a loquat tree with a crooked neck, and the leaves on the ground were scattered, as if no one had been here for a long time.
He crossed the threshold and found that the door of the room was locked, and it seemed to be an abandoned utility room, and looking at everything around him, he felt a sense of revisiting the old place.
"By the way, that's ......"
Gu Hanqing then thought that he had strayed into this courtyard in order to recover the broken kite when he was a child, and it was at that time that he inadvertently glimpsed a petite figure hiding behind this tree and crying secretly, and later he learned that the girl's name was Cheng Jinzhi.
At this moment, the closed door in front of him suddenly made a "bang" sound, Gu Hanqing shook his body, his eyes fell on this room where the door could be dropped, and just a few steps closer, the door made a strange impact sound intermittently.
There was no one around, and the strange sounds of this series of strange noises added a chill to the desolate courtyard, after all, the courtyard had been abandoned for a long time, and there was no sign of anyone else's existence.
However, in fact, there is actually a big living person here, and this person is Cheng Jinzhi who is locked here.
finally seized the opportunity to escape, but because of the coveting "male", she was negligent for a while, except to blame herself for not being clever enough, who else could she blame?
The face that was deliberately dressed up and the new clothes have long since faded. Since the house has been abandoned for a long time, the room is dimly lit, littered with clutter, and the air is filled with musty smell and dust, and it makes people feel uncomfortable when they take an extra breath.
Cheng Jinzhi hugged her injured knee and sighed and sat next to a pile of broken vases, angrily picked up pieces of pieces and threw them at the door, she didn't want to learn to smash the door open, she was just angry that she was useless, she could only be slaughtered like a lamb.
"I'm so hungry, I've had enough of these days, if it weren't for my white horse beloved, I would have escaped from this hellish place and never returned. ”
Cheng Jinzhi looked at the dilapidated ceiling and took a deep breath, but before she could suck it out, she choked and coughed, coughing so much that tears were about to come out.
Gu Hanqing, who was outside the door, heard the movement here, but the doors and windows were covered with thick pulp and paper, and the light was dim, so he couldn't spy on the movement inside, so he stretched out his hand and knocked tentatively.
It's okay if you don't knock, but when you knock, Cheng Jinzhi, who was originally afraid of ashes in the house, bounced up from the ground like a leather band, rushed to the door and shouted: "Yes... Who's who's out there?!"
The woman's voice was clear in her ears, Gu Hanqing's eyebrows trembled, and she pondered for a moment before she spoke, "Does the girl need help?"
"Yes, need, need!" Suddenly a stranger was willing to save her from fire and water, Cheng Jinzhi couldn't help but be excited through the door and "burst into tears", "This benevolent brother, I am really miserable to be trapped here, although I don't know who you are, but you can find me to show that we are destined, please be merciful and let me out, if I am locked up again, I will become a fairy." ”
Gu Hanqing didn't expect that there would be a woman locked up in this desolate and dilapidated place, but listening to this woman's gushing words, he couldn't help but feel a little funny, and the originally weird atmosphere was also eased a lot.
He even had a faint premonition that the people in this room had a sense of déjà vu.
"I don't know... Why is the girl trapped here?"
"Alas, it's a long story for a child to talk about without a mother," Cheng Jinzhi said with a crying voice, "If you want to hear it, if you let me out, I can tell you in detail." ”
The corners of Gu Hanqing's lips lifted slightly, looked at the lock on the door, thought for a moment, and then took out a sharp dagger from his arms.
"Who is this person outside? If it is a subordinate, he must know that I am being locked up here by that pretentious woman, but if it is the master of the house, how can he run to such a bad place?"
Just thinking about it, with the sound of a metal knock, Cheng Jinzhi heard the sound of chains breaking after only two strokes. As if grasping a life-saving straw, she couldn't wait to push open the door, and the fresh air poured into her mouth and nose, making people feel comfortable in an instant.
"Thank you thank you, you are simply my lifesaver......"
Cheng Jinzhi folded her hands and was about to thank her, but the moment her eyes made contact with Gu Hanqing, the whole person immediately froze in place.
"You, you, you... You're not..."
Cheng Jinzhi looked at the warm jade-like face in front of him in a daze, his tongue seemed to be knotted, and he couldn't say a word for a long time.
Although she hasn't seen her for many years, these radiant starry eyes are something she can't forget.
This is clearly the person who drooled at him in the garden and committed nymphomaniac before!
"Oops, it's miserable......" Cheng Jinzhi thought of his current extremely destructive and bad image, his face was distressed, and he hurriedly covered his face with his hands and turned his back.
In contrast, Gu Hanqing seemed much calmer, he smiled happily, and Wen Cun's voice seemed to come from time to the other side.
"Cheng Jinzhi, long time no see. ”