April 15, Kyoto Mochizuki Restaurant.

Gu Jinglan packed up early in the morning and rushed over, pushing open the door of the private room, Shen Han, the head of the household, was already waiting there, dressed in green clothes, holding a wine hold, so chic and calm.

-- When he took the letter of resignation from his husband's family and left, he did not return to the family that calculated him, but took two servants to buy a house and lived alone, and in twenty years, step by step, he went from a small seven-grade master in the household department to a sixth-grade member of the second grade.

Now he is only in his early forties, just the age of a man's prime, his face is elegant and handsome, although he is no longer as beautiful as he used to be, but he is more mature and stable - at that time, the light faded and the edge of his body was revealed, and now Shen Han is more like a pebble by the mountain spring that has been polished by the water flow for many years, the brilliance is restrained, and the warmth is like jade.

Seeing Gu Jinglan push the door in, Shen Han looked back at him and said, "Lu Zhuangyuan is here?" ”

He stood up, poured wine into the wine glass opposite, handed it to Gu Jinglan, and toasted him first: "I said bluntly in the imperial study, this official already knows, and I want to thank Lu Zhuangyuan." ”

"I don't deserve my lord's thanks." Gu Jinglan drank a cup of glass, and said with an iceberg face: "Jia Lan just told the truth, thanks to His Majesty's trust, he made this happen." ”

Shen Han looked at him expressionlessly, and saw him drain the wine to the end with a glass, remembering the rumor that Lu San didn't like words...... Only then did he smile and said that Lu San really didn't make a face for himself.

Although this character is difficult to mix in officialdom...... However, it was right for his appetite.

"It's not for nothing to invite the champion to come today." Shen Han smiled and shook his head, "Lu Zhuangyuan is the celebrity in front of His Majesty, although the matter has been decided, there are still variables...... In the future, it is inevitable to ask the champion to go around more in front of His Majesty. ”

Shen Han directly said his request straight to the point, and saw Gu Jinglan stunned in place, and only after a while did he see him react, but instead of prevaricating or saying some ambiguous words to him, he stood up extremely solemnly and made a literati salute with him: "My lord's words are serious, if you can do your best, Jia Lan will not hesitate to speak." ”

Don't hesitate...... Hearing that Lu San couldn't spit out three words when he opened his mouth, Shen Han smiled softly in his heart, it seemed that this kid really gave him a very heavy promise.

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Shen Han made a decision almost instantly, he killed a glass of wine, and said casually: "This official heard that Lu Zhuangyuan originally wanted to come to the household department?" ”

"That's true." This can be regarded as a small wish of the original body, Gu Jinglan thought.

"I don't know what the champion wants to do when he comes to the household?" Shen Han chuckled.

Gu Jinglan was stunned for a moment, then left her chair, walked to Shen Han and stood still, restrained her expression, lowered her hand and solemnly saluted: "- Come to learn the foundation of Lord Shangshu's life." ”

"Haha! The foundation of Ansheng's life! Well answered! Shen Han turned his head and looked at him sharply: "Do you know what is the foundation of this official's life?!" ”

Gu Jinglan was silent, and looked at him with a slight smile, with a calm and unchanged expression.

The sixteen-year-old boy has a beautiful complexion, eyebrows and eyes, but his face is expressionless, his expression is cold, and when he looks at people quietly, he is like a goddess above the nine heavens, which is out of reach, and the corner of his mouth is slightly hooked, which is a special color that amazes the world.

Shen Han almost felt the suppressed sorrow in his heart surging up layer by layer, and the powerless sadness and anger, and even the resentment all surged up, recalling the unbearable memories of his youth.

-- Resentment was too strange to him, and the cynical hatred was so strong that he frowned fiercely, and he remembered that when he was young, he also complained strongly about the injustices of the world.

It's just that he is calm and calm enough now that he won't do this kind of unnecessary complaining and forcing anymore.

The Lu family's little champion had this color when he was sixteen - this was almost the most he had seen in nearly forty years, and it was not difficult to guess the true identity of the other party.

When he was young, he was also outstanding, and because of this, he caused trouble, and was calculated to marry a □□.

No matter how talented they are later, it seems that as long as they are born as a brother, it is a fault.

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"If Lu Zhuangyuan is not afraid of gossip, if he is free in the future, he will come to this official mansion to walk a few more." Shen Han said lightly, suppressing the memories surging in his heart, he looked at Gu Jinglan's gaze that was tolerant, and there was a kind of compassion that saw through the world.

The world is harsh, the world is difficult, you and I are the same kind, why not help you on a journey?

"This official has nothing to teach you, you are the top talent, and even if I was a jinshi back then, I was only the second class." Shen Han said: "I was born in a family of merchants, and the only thing that can be called talent is ...... He only has the talent to make money with money. ”

"The so-called ability to live in peace...... Shen Han stood up, stood with his hands in his hands, and said with a sneer: "The reason why I, Shen Han, have a straight waist in the court, and no one dares to give me any beak in the court, is only to double the silver money in the treasury out of thin air within ten years." ”

Although his words were light and light, Gu Jinglan heard his extremely strong self-confidence from them.

Gu Jinglan thought, no wonder he was the person the original owner admired the most, in this world where he was so harsh on his brother, Shen Han had come to this point by himself, which was indeed admirable.

His heart is truly strong and fearless - if God does not give me, then I will take it myself!

Shen Han looked back at Gu Jinglan's still expressionless face, sighed, and admonished him: "There is only one thing, I hope you will pay more attention to it - since you have reached the age of sixteen, you still have to pay more attention to your own marriage." ”

-- Don't be like me back then, seeing the wrong person, believing the wrong person, and being despised by others.

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Halfway through the conversation here, Gu Jinglan's little servant who was guarding the door suddenly knocked on the door, and the knocks sounded one after another, very urgently.

"Come in." Shen Han said.

As soon as the little servant entered the door, he knelt in front of Gu Jinglan, and said with an anxious face: "Third, third master! Mrs. Tai fell and now she can't hold on...... You—Go back and see! ”

Gu Jinglan's face immediately changed, and she hurriedly said goodbye to Shen Han, and hurried back.

In the private room, Shen Han was stunned for a while, and after coming back to his senses, he played with the wine glass in his hand and laughed lightly: "In this way, there is no need to worry about it in a short time." ”

If the old lady of the Lu family really dies, Gu Jinglan, as a descendant of the Lu family, is bound to keep filial piety for three years...... This marriage, within three years, is indeed not to worry about.

He turned the white porcelain wine glass in his hand, looked at the empty private room where he was alone, shook his head and sighed, and poured himself a glass of wine a little lonely.

…… It seems that in the future, there is finally no shortage of people to drink with him.

The smile was so light that it was fleeting, revealing a strong, lonely and gloomy taste.

Shen Han poured himself a drink, holding a cup and watching the crowd of people under the window, pedestrians coming and going, suddenly, his eyes stopped - he saw that in the crowd, there was a person in the dark clothes and deer boots, always standing still, looking at him with his head raised and fixed.

Shen Han sneered and closed the window facing the street directly.

- Twenty years later, the man is still so self-righteous.

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Mrs. Lu died, and the whole house was in a state of silence, and the five people who were officials in the court from the Duke of Guo and the children of the Lu family all handed over the excerpts of Ding Wei, and Emperor Yinyuan looked at the Ding Wei excerpts handed over by Gu Jinglan, thinking that it was obviously his own son, but now he had to keep filial piety for others...... He was inexplicably very congested.

The original owner had no special feelings for this old lady - it should be said that the original owner had no special feelings for the people in this Lu Mansion.

In the final analysis, the people in this mansion regard the original owner as an outsider, and it is no wonder that he has developed a cold-hearted and cold-faced appearance. Gu Jinglan guarded the filial piety for the original owner, but if you want to say how much sadness, it is not.

As for Lu Yuanshao - what kind of life has this kid lived in the Lu Mansion in the past eight years? No one from top to bottom asked until Gu Jinglan appeared.

If he takes these people in Lu Mansion to heart, then there will be ghosts.

Gu Jinglan set up a wooden frame in her yard, boiled wine and tea, and handed a cup to Lu Yuanshao: "Since I am worried at home, I will teach you to read well in the past three years, you don't want to let me down." ”

Lu Yuanshao secretly looked at his smooth movements, and only felt that the temperament of the two concubines in the big house and the second room was a scum in front of the uncle-what is that word called? Pleasing to the eye, yes, pleasing to the eye!

Lu Yuanshao nodded vigorously, thinking that in the next three years, Uncle Xiao would not have to go out early and return late, and he could stay with him every day, and he was happy in his heart, and he was not so resentful of Mrs. Lu anymore.

Jing Lan also sent someone out to invite a doctor and a martial artist. The doctor came to the door once every three days, and it was said that he was for the seventh young master, and the martial artist came to the door every afternoon to teach Lu Yuanshao to practice martial arts.

Lu Yuanshao lived a day when his uncle personally taught him to read for two hours in the morning, a martial artist taught him martial arts for two hours in the afternoon, and another hour in the evening when his uncle read some books to him.

Time passed quickly, three months passed in a blink of an eye, and after this period of hard study, Lu Yuanshao recognized all the basic words early, and he was already able to read some books by himself.

What he liked the most was when his uncle read to him - the young man's voice was clear and there was a hint of hoarseness, which was particularly good, and the allusions in those books were read out by such a voice, and he understood it thoroughly after listening to it.

Lu Yuanshao attributed this to the fact that his uncle studied for him, and he didn't want to take credit at all. It's just that when he can read by himself, Uncle lets him read by himself, although he can't hear Uncle's voice, but it is not bad to be able to read books quietly for an hour with Uncle Xiao.

Sometimes when he raised his head, he could directly see the uncle's focused side face, the lines from the forehead to the bridge of the nose were delicate and perfect, the tails of the eyes were gently hooked, the long eyelashes were thick and curled, casting a small shadow under the eyes, and the lips under the bridge of the nose were red, as if dyed with the finest rouge.

- He knew that as long as he stood up and walked behind his uncle, he would see a faint red mole on his slightly hanging neck.

The red mole would glow faintly and greet him.

Lu Yuanshao was a little dissatisfied with being with his uncle at three hours in the morning and evening, so he went to Gu Jinglan and told him that he didn't want to practice martial arts.

Gu Jinglan was reading a book, and when he heard this, he rolled up the book and gave him a look at it, and his tone was light: "What nonsense are you talking about." ”

He looked at the book calmly, ignoring a certain little rabbit cub: "Since the martial artist said that you are extremely talented in martial arts, then you will give me a good study." ”

"--Join the battlefield in the future, maybe you can earn a knighthood yourself." He said casually, since this kid is the protagonist of this world, there will definitely be many opportunities in the future, and he has to help him lay a solid foundation.

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Gu Jinglan has to go to the house of Shen Han, the head of the household department, on the fifteenth day of every month, both of them have a tacit understanding of his hidden identity, Shen Han is teaching him very hard, and Gu Jinglan is naturally studying very hard - when he is an actor, he needs to keep learning, each character will have a different identity, and only by deeply experiencing their lives can we truly understand the joys and sorrows in the characters' hearts.

There is an opportunity to learn, and he never lets it go.

There were rumors from the outside world, and he sneered and didn't bother to pay attention to it.

Those unbearable foul language intensified, and Gu Jinglan knew who was behind it...... He couldn't help but think of what Shen Han said to him in the Moon Tower: "The reason why I, Shen Han, have a straight waist in the court, and no one dares to give me the slightest beak in the court, is only to double the silver money in the treasury out of thin air within ten years." ”

In the face of real strength, these rumors are vulnerable.

In the distant south of the Yangtze River, the people sent by Gu Jinglan finally got the portrait of Lan Guiren in the hometown of Lan Guiren in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, in the hands of a painter who had seen Lan Guiren back then.

The portrait scroll was carefully protected, and it was sent to the capital overnight. Gu Jinglan opened the scroll and looked at the smiling, innocent and carefree girl in the portrait, and suddenly, great sadness welled up in her heart.

The sorrow of the original body surged out from the bottom of his heart, like a tide in the moonlight, slapping his heart and making him empathize.

The eyebrows and eyes similar to those in the painting made him sure that Lan Guiren was his biological mother.

- The concubine who was supposed to be the first emperor, but in the end gave birth to his biological mother with the current saint.

He suddenly desperately wanted to know the truth of the past.

The time finally came to the eighth day of the seventh month, Gu Jinglan changed into ordinary clothes and went to the stone forest on the outskirts of Beijing.

Su Jinhui, dressed in the clothes of a maid, sneaked out of the palace and waited for him there on time.

Hearing footsteps behind her, she turned and looked at her titular cousin, who was stunningly handsome, despite his simple clothes and expressionless face.

After a long time, Su Jinhui sighed: "Come with me to worship your real mother." ”