42. Sprout
Chapter 42: Sprouting
Gu Yanzhi, who was seriously ill and resigned, was in a 'miracle' health on the fifth day after becoming the head of the harem, and he was reinstated.
Many ministers privately commented that he was 'nourished' by the Dog Emperor.
Poor Xi Xiaoyu, not only was she molested by people for 'seven times a night', but her dream was ruthlessly shattered by Gu Yanzhi.
Her original wishful thinking was extremely loud, she wanted to weaken Gu Yanzhi's power under the banner of not being able to interfere in politics in the harem, so as to take the opportunity to cultivate her own connections, but the bamboo basket was empty, and she lost herself and lost her soldiers.
Her backyard is now his world, and even the government and the opposition are under his control, Chen Taishi is dead, the trees are falling and scattered, and the rest of the party under its banner should be depreciated and killed, but the government and the opposition have not messed up the discipline because of this, Gu Yanzhi has long been prepared, and many pro-Gu parties have been able to carry out, and I don't know if he calculated the right time and deliberately chose to purge the tumor of the foreign relatives party at this time, which coincided with the triennial imperial examination.
In this way, a large number of officials lost in the imperial court were filled.
One-fifth of the military power in Taishi Chen's hands also fell into the hands of Gu Yanzhi, plus the original two-fifths of the military power in his hands, the power of the soldiers and horses was in his hands.
One party dominates, Gu Yanzhi can now be said to be a real power leaning towards the government and the opposition, the throne is just an ornament for him, if he wants to sit in that position, every minute, there is no need to rebel like Taishi Chen.
Two-fifths of the military power is in the hands of Fu Weiren's own father, General Fu, and almost half of his troops are at the border passes, which is difficult to mobilize.
Analyzing the situation clearly, Xi Xiaoyu was one head and two big, she began to wonder if she was blinded by hatred and eager to take revenge, but she limited the Xi family's country to an unrighteous place.
It's not right, if Gu Yanzhi doesn't help her kill Taishi Chen, her Xi family's country will not be guaranteed.
So is Gu Yanzhi good or bad?
Will he hurt her? It stands to reason that he is the person she is destined to do, so he shouldn't do anything to her, but the beauty national teacher told her not to trust him too much
The β‘β‘ of the old witch Queen Mother and the traitor Chen Taishi then announced to the world that she naturally couldn't escape death, Xi Xiaoyu tried her best to find out from the old witch that her biological mother was an ordinary palace maid, and after giving birth to Xi Xiaoyu, she was killed by the old witch, and her body was hidden under the dry well.
At the beginning, Emperor Liang Xuan was drunk and pampered her mother, but he forgot about it afterwards, but the old witch found out that her mother was pregnant with him.
Pity her mother, until she died, the only man in her life did not know about her existence.
Xi Xiaoyu heard that her mother loved camellias during her lifetime, so she fished her mother's bones from the dry well and buried them on a mountain full of camellias.
After a night of summer rain, early autumn quietly came, the soil was soaked in rainwater, and the soft soil layer was covered with yellow leaves all over the ground, and it creaked when stepped on.
Xi Xiaoyu, who looked solemn and melancholy, stopped in front of a lonely grave, and it was her mother's bones buried under the small mound.
I don't know how long she stood for a long time, she heard the movement, but saw a person holding a green bamboo umbrella on the muddy mountain road, stepping on the ripples formed by the rain, walking slowly.
There was a light rain on the mountain, as if there was nothing in the world, and the person who stepped on the leaves, he held a plain green bamboo umbrella, and his white fingers held the handle of the umbrella steadily, and every step he took was like walking on her heart.
She stared at him, her thin and clean green shirt soaked by the rain, and her little face was pale.
With an extra umbrella overhead, he was close at hand, and she asked, "Why are you here?" β
He twisted his eyebrows slightly, staring at her who was damp, silent, Xi Xiaoyu thought he was angry at what he had sneaked out of, she carefully observed his eyes, and said, "I miss my mother so much, I will sneak out of the palace to see her, don't punish me, okay?" β
Gu Yanzhi took off his robe with a cold face and draped it on her, then pressed her hand pulse, dried her wet clothes with internal force, and then ignored her objections, stopped her waist and hugged her, and only when the stuffiness in her chest dissipated a little before she opened her lips coldly:
"Hold me tight."
Xi Xiaoyu, who knew that she was at a loss, didn't dare to refuse anymore, her arms obediently wrapped around his neck, and buried her face in his warm chest, the smell of his body was clean and quiet, lingering in her nose, it was amazing, it actually made her sad feelings just now gradually improve.
Gu Yanzhi carried her down the mountain, and the two of them didn't speak along the way, only the sound of ticking rain and his reassuring heartbeat were quiet in the world.
When she was almost at the palace, his low voice came from above her ears, and he seemed to be suppressing something.
"Next time you come out, remember to play an umbrella, and bring me."
Hearing this, Xi Xiaoyu's heart was suddenly tightened by an invisible thread.
When he returned to the palace, it was already dark, and seeing that he was about to go to her bedroom, Xi Xiaoyu hurriedly jumped out of his arms, she stopped him, for fear that he would take another step forward, and smiled:
"You go and get busy with you, I won't send you, my concubines are still waiting in bed for bed."
Gu Yanzhi, who was pushed away, lowered his eyelids, it was too dark, Xi Xiaoyu couldn't see the expression on his face clearly, but he also knew that he was angry, she was at a loss for a while, and after a long confrontation, he spoke.
"You're too worried." Gu Yanzhi's eyes were dark and gloomy, like a foggy night, and he said coldly: "I won't touch you." β
Then he flicked his sleeves and walked away.
Xi Xiaoyu was stunned, it turned out that his little caution had nothing to hide in front of him.
So, she's been guarding against him like a wolf, isn't it?
The three-doglegged who had been watching the show came to her.
Xiao Xizi took the lead in mending the knife, "Your Majesty, you seem to be amorous." β
You don't need to say it!
Shen Yan smiled breathlessly: "According to Weichen, the person who really wants to talk to the Prime Minister is Your Majesty, right?" β
Fuck off!
Fu Weiren buried his head and wrote: "Emperor Daliang wants to get involved with the prime minister, but the prime minister refuses to obey, and the dissatisfied lewd prince wants to swallow dung and commit suicide!" β
Swallow your uncle!
The Dog Emperor was furious: "All three of you come here and lick my feet!" β
This year is destined to be eventful, and Xi Xiaoyu's claws of the young talents who tried to reach out to the imperial examination were broken by Gu Yanzhi, breaking her dream of cultivating a pro-imperial party.
Xi Xiaoyu, who was full of grief and indignation, decided to take revenge on Gu Yanzhi to death, and vowed to tear a bloody hole in his unfazed face!
Gu Yanzhi likes tea, there is no doubt about it, his biggest hobby is to fiddle with his messy broken tea sets.
Therefore, she set the tool of the crime as the tea he must drink every day!
Xi Xiaoyu got up early in the morning, took the morning dew, and used it to brew the rare West Lake Longjing tea in the Ming Dynasty, and then accompanied it with sweet, sour, bitter and spicy seasonings
Xi Xiaoyu walked into the imperial study with a smile with her 'secret' tea, and when she thought of Gu Yanzhi's reaction after drinking this cup of tea, she was overjoyed.
Gu Yanzhi was working in front of the bookcase, and he was a little surprised to see her with a smile on her face, those eyes looked at the back of a stack of songs, sparkling, as if they could seep water at any time.
He shifted his gaze downwards to the teacup in her hand, she was a little unusual today.
Xi Xiaoyu put the teacup in front of him and smiled flatteringly: "This is the tea I made for you, Gu Fujun, please smile." In order to fix him, she even called her husband who was awkward.
Well, she is really not normal today, and there must be a demon when things go wrong, but for her sentence, cough, husband, he still picked up the teacup half hesitantly, and took a shallow sip under her extremely excited eyes, and the combination of sweet and sour flavor filled his mouth in an instant
His expression became extremely strange.
Xi Xiaoyu reacted very timely and "considerately": "Hahahaha, you idiot ......"
Plus pounding the table and stomping her feet, no, his face was so funny, and her eyes were dazzled with laughter.
Gu Yanzhi's eyes darkened, and without saying a word, he hooked her neck and pulled it down, and her soft lips pressed against hers, and all the 'good tea' she brewed was in her mouth.
Now Xi Xiaoyu's face has changed to a color palette, well, it's really unpleasant
It lingered in her mouth for a moment, and when he withdrew, he deliberately licked her lips.
"Thank you lady for the tea, I like it very much for my husband." He looked at her bright lips, hooked the corners of his mouth and smiled meaningfully, "It tastes good." β
If he didn't succeed, Xi Xiaoyu, who was light, almost didn't have blood splashed with three feet of white silk.
Later, for three whole days, Xi Xiaoyu didn't talk to Gu Yanzhi, and he always avoided him intentionally or unintentionally, hum, he must have felt that he was left out, and he didn't want to be aggrieved.
However, she bumped into a scene:
Gu Yanzhi was accidentally hit by the little palace maid, the basin in her hand fell to the ground, splashing him with water, the palace maid begged for mercy, not only was he not angry, but gently reminded her to be careful when walking, and kindly helped her pick up the basin that fell on the ground, the little palace maid was grateful and shy, and the spring heart was called a rippling, ah~ The prime minister of Zhilan Yushu was smiling at her~
What, so fierce to her, so gentle to other women!
Originally, this kind of Cheng dΓΉ was nothing, but Xi Xiaoyu was inexplicably unhappy, and the sullen feeling that rose up made her panic, this feeling was too unfamiliar, and it was the first time she was like this.
But hasn't she always liked the beauty of the national teacher? So what is she doing now?
Could it really be that as Wei Ren said, he just longed for him too much? No!
Xi Xiaoyu fled in the wilderness, and met Fu Weiren on the way, she seemed to grasp a life-saving straw, and asked him impatiently:
"Wei Ren, tell me quickly, how can I confirm that I don't like others?"
Fu Weiren was stunned for a moment, then stared at her eyes, and before he finished speaking, the roots of his ears turned red first, "Weichen heard that you only need to look directly into that person's eyes for ten seconds, and you will know if you like him." β
"Thank you, Weiren!" Xi Xiaoyu pulled her legs and ran wildly, she urgently needed to prove that her heart was so messed up not because she liked him.
She grabbed Gu Yanzhi, who was walking forward, under the corridor, panting.
Gu Yanzhi looked back at her, "You"
"Don't talk, don't move!" Xi Xiaoyu interrupted him in a fierce tone, and then she leaned her neck, opened her eyes wide, and looked directly into his eyes very seriously.
The breeze swept in, the leaves of the grass and trees shimmered, and the murmur murmured.
One second, two seconds, three seconds, four, five, six, seven
Before ten seconds, Xi Xiaoyu's face turned red.
"Deceitful ......"