Hedong County has always been prosperous, especially the capital is a military location, and the county guards of successive dynasties will circulate goods and trade with Chang'an, so that Hedong County has maintained prosperity in the peaceful years. Gu Chong has been in Hedong for many years, originally started as a Wenchen, and then inherited his father's legacy, threw his pen from Rong, served as a military attaché, and then promoted all the way, to today's General Long Xiang, the Gu family is also a prominent family.

Riding the Gu family's carriage, Hua Xun and Gu Shangru went out shopping together. Hua Xun was silent all the way, rarely spoke, and sometimes ignored Gu Shangru's several calls in a trance. Gu Shangru saw that her mind was not here, and she was not reluctant, looking out through the small window, the street was very lively. Steamed buns, flowers, sugar gourds, straw sandals, pastries...... The shouting was very lively, he glanced at Hua Xun's distracted face, and suddenly shouted to stop the coachman, and bent down and walked out in a daze when Hua Xun returned to his senses, and jumped out of the carriage.

Hua Xun didn't know what was going on, so she heard Gu Shangru stop the carriage and then got out. Hua Xun thought about it and went out, and saw Gu Shangru standing next to the carriage, looking at her with a smile, and said to her: "Cousin, I know that this Yonghezhai pastry is delicious, I'll buy it for you." ”

"Brother Shangru, I want to go with you." It would be a little lonely to leave her alone in the carriage, and she naturally couldn't stay still. Carrying the corner of his skirt and stepping on the prepared small stool, Hua Xun raised his face and said, "Since Brother Shangru brought Wentang out to play, he naturally wanted to take Wentang with him." ”

"Okay." Gu Shangru laughed, stretched out his hand and made a gesture, "Cousin, please first." ”

Waiting for Hua Xun to leave, Gu Shangru gave a look to the guards who followed him. Following Hua Xun's side thoughtfully blocking the crowd for her, Gu Shangru talked to her while talking: "Yonghezhai's sweet candy is very delicious, when I was a child, my grandfather let us go to school, and I often asked my subordinates to secretly buy sweet candy for me, haha, at that time, I had to eat a piece of sweet candy every day to be happy." ”

"It turns out that when Brother Shangru goes to school, he will also ask his subordinates to steal food." Hua Xun felt interesting, not scared of the crowd at all, chatted with Gu Shangru about some interesting things, and his mood slowly relaxed.

"Of course." Civilians didn't dare to approach the crowd when they saw that they were dressed very carefully, but Gu Shangru still looked around vigilantly, "When I was bored in school, I not only asked people to steal food, but also gathered my classmates to fight crickets. ”

"So have you been beaten? I heard that my grandfather was very strict, and you are such a plaything that you are discouraged, but I am afraid that there will be no good fruit to eat. ”

"Hey, I also thought that my grandfather found out that I would be punished by the board, but I didn't expect that my grandfather not only didn't blame me, but also fought with me." Gu Shangru shook his head with a smile, and said in a relaxed tone, "Grandfather said that if I win him, he will not only not punish me, but will also promise me not to let me go to school." ”

Hua Xun was stunned, but she didn't expect Gu Chong to be so fond of Gu Shangru. "And then?"

"Later, I lost," Gu Shangru saw that there was a long queue at the door of Yonghezhai not far away, and there was already a long queue in front of the door, "Then I won't play crickets anymore and work hard." If I had been playing with crickets, I guess I would have become a gentleman now, and Zhengtian would know that he would not be doing his job properly. ”

Hua inquired: "Brother Shangru, such an elegant and polite person, used to have a time when he was frivolous and young. ”

When he arrived at the door while talking, Gu Shangru pursed his lips and smiled, and said to her: "I'll sell you pastries, you are waiting for me here." With that, he turned around and went to the shop.

Hua Xun watched Gu Shangru walk to the front of the line, talked gently with the people at the front of the line, and gave a few pieces of broken silver to compensate, and then went to order something with Xiao Er first. Standing in place bored, Hua Xun scanned the surroundings, and inadvertently seemed to catch a glimpse of a familiar figure, with a white skirt, waist-length hair, and hosta hairpin, hidden in the crowd, and quickly disappeared into the crowd when she found it.

It's Hanado! Hua Xun was overjoyed, and chased into the crowd without thinking.

The crowd was crowded, there were piles of excitement, the white dress in front of it flickered, obviously disappeared every time it was about to catch up, Hua Xun hurriedly pushed away the crowd, and trotted in the direction where the white dress disappeared. Closer, Hua Xun looked at the back and almost certainly Hua Du, she couldn't catch up with Hua Du, and urgently shouted Hua Du: "Explanation!" Commentary! Flower Explanation! ”

finally chased a street, but in the blink of an eye, Huadu, who was still not far in front, disappeared in a flash. Hua Xun turned around, but couldn't find Hua Du's figure. She froze in place, suddenly feeling a little sour and aggrieved. She bit her lip and looked blankly at the faces of everyone around her, trying to find out the traces of Huadu again, but she couldn't find it.

Hua Xun stood lost for a long time, until Gu Shangru and someone caught up. Seeing Gu Shangru holding two oiled paper bags in his hands, and nervously asking her why she ran away, Hua Xun choked up a little sadly. She shook her head in frustration and sighed, "I just thought I had seen my old friend...... Maybe I'm getting distracted. There's no way she's going to be here. ”

"The deceased?" Gu Shangru looked around, and found no suspicious person, so he stopped taking it seriously, and said with a smile, "If my cousin misses her old friend, she can write a letter another day or send someone to pick her up for a reunion, why bother so much?" Come, try this red bean cake while it's hot, and this sweet candy. ”

Now that Huadu is gone, she shouldn't be thinking about her all the time, otherwise it will make people laugh. Hua Xun put aside his messy thoughts, took the candy handed by Gu Shangru in surprise, pinched a small piece and put it in his mouth, felt a sweet taste, and immediately smiled: "It's delicious!" Brother Shangru, do you give me all of this? ”

"It's all for you." Gu Shangru gave her two packs of dim sum.

Hua Xun looked at Gu Shangru's eyes and whispered, "Thank you." ”

"I heard that eating something sweet can make the girls happy, I see that you don't seem to be in a very happy mood when you come to Gu's house, eat more sweet, it's sweet to the heart, you can be happier." Gu Shangru walked back slowly with Hua Xun with his hands behind his back, "My cousin is so beautiful, she should smile more, don't be like the gentleman in the school, with a bitter face every day." ”

"Brother Shangru is really likable."

"My cousin's quirky appearance when she was a child was also very likable......"

"Then I'm not likable now?"

"If you keep a bitter face, it won't be likable......"

The two of them gradually walked back, and the crowd quickly blocked them. In the corner, Hua Du, who was dressed in white, held a bamboo umbrella, looked at Hua Xun's back from a distance, his eyes were full of sadness, he lowered his eyes, endured the burning pain brought to her by the scorching sun, and slowly walked in another direction, completely disappearing......

After talking with Gu Shangru and returning to Gu's mansion, Gu Chong was sitting in the main hall, as if waiting for the two of them to come back, and when he saw Hua Xun, he didn't ask where the two of them went to have fun, so he said directly: "Girl, when will you leave for Chang'an?" ”

Listening to this, I felt that Gu Chong was dissatisfied with Hua Xun and was ready to drive people away.

Gu Shangru on the side couldn't interject because of the rules, so he just kept staring at Hua Xun, as if he was a little worried, and his brows were slightly raised.

Hua Xun stepped forward and saluted and said respectfully, "What does the grandfather command?" But it doesn't hurt to say that. ”

Gu Chong had a calm face, glanced left and right, and didn't say what he wanted to do, but stood up and asked Hua, "You two come with me." ”

He and Gu Shangru glanced at each other, and the two said, "Yes." Follow Gu Chong through the back hall, past the garden, and into Gu Chong's study. Gu Chong instructed Gu Shangru to close the door, the room was dark, Gu Shangru lit a lamp and placed it on Gu Chong's desk. I saw Gu Chong take out a letter from his sleeve, throw it on the case, and say to the two with a solemn expression: "King Ning suddenly fell ill, and the officials of the court and the central government moved around frequently within a few days, and His Majesty seemed to have a lot of criticism for the prince. ”

Raising his head and looking at Hua Xun, Gu Chong pondered for a long time and said, "Ask Tang, let me ask you, before you came, what was the change in the Hua Mansion?" You have to explain truthfully, this is a matter of life and death for you and me, and you can't hide it. ”

Hua Xun was startled when she heard it at first glance, Gu Chong actually told her about the turmoil in the DPRK and China, and she didn't know what her intentions were. But she didn't feel a little excited, after all, this was the first time she had come into contact with the art of power schemes, and it was the first time she had come into contact with important national affairs, if she could, maybe she could let Gu Chong take her to the core and know more information.

"If you want to say that Huafu is changing, I really don't know." Hua Xun sighed, "I have fallen out of favor with my father, and my father only believes in Hua Yan alone, not to mention that my father has never told me about the affairs of the DPRK and China." At least when I left, Hanafu was as calm as ever. Thinking of this, she couldn't help but feel sad.

Gu Chong touched his beard, frowned, and thought about it again and again: "Do you know what your mother's death is all about?" ”

When it came to this, Hua Xun's eyes quickly turned red. She gritted her teeth and grieved: "Mother's death will never be so simple. Hua Yan is just a child, how can such a big strategy be designed so much, step by step, first lead us to the mountains to be killed, and then his mother killed his mother in the flower mansion. If it weren't for the words that saved me, I'm afraid that I would have returned to Huangquan with my mother. She suddenly knelt on the ground, burst into tears, and looked directly at Gu Chongdao, "Grandfather-granddaughter, please avenge your mother, you can't teach your mother to die unjustly!" The mother often misses her grandfather before her death, and she licks the calf humanely, and the blood of her grandfather and mother is thicker than water, if her grandfather can avenge her mother, her granddaughter will have no regrets even if she dies! ”

The tears that flowed between the words were touching.

Gu Chong's stiff face twitched, and Jingguang's eyes were a little gloomy. His hand stroking his beard stopped, looked at Hua Xun, shook his head and said, "You said revenge, who are you looking for?" Is it the yellow-mouthed boy Yan, or your father? The deceased is gone, how can I put the three hundred members of my Gu family to death because of the revenge of the deceased? ”

"Grandfather...... If the ancestor does not do anything, I am afraid that one day the three hundred members of the Gu family will really be buried for the ancestor! Hua Xun clenched his fists, his eyes were red, he refused to give in, and sneered.

Those eyes were glowing red, and there was even a terrifying murderous intent hidden!