After Li Hu escaped, Xiao Huaishuo only sent a naval army to pursue him along the way. The army was stationed to rest, but it was not in a hurry. Xiao Huaishuo even had the energy to personally inquire about the disposition of the prisoners.

Ruyi vaguely felt that Xiao Huaishuo might have other plans for whether he should kill Li Hu as much as possible.

She inevitably had doubts in her heart, and she was anxious to go to Jiankang to meet Xu Yi, so she was a little impatient in the past two days.

Gu Jinglou was able to calm down, and after being stationed in the evening of this day, he took a fishing basket and went out of the camp, intending to go fishing.

Ruyi came back from the camp and bumped into him stealing, and couldn't help but get angry. Gu Jinglou carried the sword and carried the basket, seeing that Ruyi was annoyed, he couldn't help but stand still and look at each other, the posture of a silent swordsman, and the appearance of Yushu in the wind. After about three snaps of his fingers, he suddenly picked up the fish basket and turned around and ran.

Ruyi, "You stop me!" ”

Gu Jinglou didn't forget to mock while running, "The fool just stops!" ”

Wishful:......

The vegetation in Mengxia in the south of the Yangtze River is luxuriant, which is convenient for him to perform light skills and jump. In the blink of an eye, he disappeared into the depths of the grass and trees, leaving only a string of arrogant laughter echoing among the trees.

Ruyi was originally just irritable, but this time it was simply hurt by his angry brain - since she started to lead the troops, Gu Jinglou seemed to have eaten her temperament, and his attitude towards her became more and more indulgent and casual. Good state shepherd, like a little rascal who has finally been managed.

Ruyi faced him, only to feel that he was getting easier and easier to blow up.

He ordered Zhao Dayan to return to the camp first, and he spurred his horse and chased him in the direction of Gu Jinglou's escape.

When she chased after her angrily, Gu Jinglou was already sitting on the bare rock by the stream, and he fished triumphantly.

Ruyi turned over and dismounted, and saw that the fish hook in the water moved slightly, and it was clear that there was really a fish on the hook, so he hit it with a stone.

The fish fled in fright, and Gu Jinglou hurriedly put away the rod, but it was still too late. Reluctantly, he turned back to Ruyi and complained, "You woman, why are you so stingy!" ”

Wishful:......

At this moment, she was angry, but she was able to calm down. With a blink of his eyes, he said calmly, "The one who flirts first is cheap." ”

Gu Jinglou choked, reluctantly retracted the hook, re-hung the bait, and said, "Isn't it just to come out and catch a fish?" I'm just a guest to help you carry out assassinations. He didn't bring troops, and his words didn't carry weight. Is it a big sin to come out and catch a fish and relax after the big war? ”

Ruyi said, "Are you whining?" ”

Gu Jinglou hung up the bait, threw the fishing rod into the water again, squinted his eyes and smiled lightly. He was born with some evil spirit, and there was a kind of unruly meaning in this smile, "I said this three days ago, yes." At this time...... he turned his head to look at Ruyi, "At this time, it's just to sit and watch life, and I miss the ease of being at ease." ”

Ruyi couldn't help but be touched, and was speechless for a while.

Gu Jinglou watched intently floating in the water, but his mouth didn't stop, "Zhao Dayan didn't come with you?" ”

Ruyi said, "I asked him to go back first." ”

Gu Jinglou nodded and said, "I think it's also - I didn't let him explain to King Linchuan for you by the way, why did you leave the camp alone?" ”

The irritability in Ruyi's heart rose again, and she just kept silent.

Gu Jinglou said, "Do you know what a meat bun is to beat a dog?" ”

Ruyi still didn't speak-Zhao Dayan was suffering from not having the opportunity to surrender to Xiao Huaishuo, which everyone knew. She herself was not surprised, she didn't even feel betrayed - after all, she was a woman, and she would not have had a chance to take power unless it happened. The glory and wealth she promised to Zhao Dayan will eventually be paid by Xiao Huaishuo.

Gu Jinglou said, "You know that Zhao Dayan is secretly sending autumn waves to His Second Highness." You picked him up with one hand, so you weren't annoyed at all? ”

Ruyi said, "...... I was going to introduce him to him. ”

Gu Jinglou couldn't help but be a little annoyed when he thought of the incident the day before, and sighed, "You are really boring." ”

Ruyi couldn't help but mock, "Could it be that you're very interesting?" ”

Gu Jing's floor did not change color, and said, "I'm not bored either." The two of them sat and stood together, fished and watched, and no one made a sound for a while.

After a while, Gu Jinglou finally said, "Have I sued you?" When I went to Jiangbei that year, the main purpose was not to find out the news, but to find my biological mother. He said, "She's a Hu person." ”

Ruyi was preoccupied and asked casually, "Found her?" ”

"Found it." Gu Jinglou said, "She recognized me as soon as she saw me—" He laughed at himself, "If she hadn't said it, I wouldn't have known that I was so similar to my father." ”

Ruyi thought to himself that this was too modest - Gu Jinglou's all-round style, if he said that he was Gu Huai's son, no one would not believe it.

Gu Jinglou said, "She was expelled a long time ago, and my father arranged for my nanny to take care of me, but the nanny was bought off by the Xiao family." ”

Ruyi thought for a while before remembering that Gu Jinglou's mother-in-law and Gu Huai's wife were the daughters of the former dynasty clan and also surnamed Xiao.

Gu Jinglou said, "When I was young, people around me said that I was not born by my father. My father's personality is not to mention that you also know, he has always been very casual about housework. He'd probably heard the rumor, but he hadn't taken it to heart. ”

"At that time, I had five older brothers, each of whom was more glamorous than me, and each of them loved my mother more than my father. When Xiao killed me and was broken by Daddy, they pounced on Daddy's leg and pleaded, saying, Do you want to make five sons have no mother for one son? They can't stand not having a mother, but they think that I should take it for granted that my father doesn't love my mother, and I deserve to die, isn't it bad? ”

Ruyi paused and did not speak.

Gu Jinglou said, "But this sentence touched Daddy, and Daddy approved it." Gu Jinglou said, "At that time, I thought, maybe I really wasn't born to Daddy, and he also felt that I was inferior to his other children." ”

Almost immediately, this sentence awakened Ruyi's childhood memories - "I am inferior to my sisters." When she was young, she also wondered countless times why, why she would never get her father's appreciation, and she would never get a just counterinsurgency. She squatted behind the garden pavilion and teased the stray black cat, and the palace maids on the other side of the pavilion gossiped in pieces, "Princess Wuyang is a wild species. ”

"Then I found my birth mother and asked her for confirmation. It turned out to be a little disappointing - I was indeed my father's own. But because I am a concubine and my biological mother is a bearded girl, I am naturally inferior to his sisters-in-law. ”

Gu Jinglou suddenly laughed, "You often have this kind of doubt, right?" The temper of the emperor, I don't believe he can treat you equally. He said, "We're a lot alike." ”

"But I'm not like you." He said again.

It's him who says it's like, and it's him who says it's different, this person simply doesn't match his words.

But Ruyi did understand - about what they were like and how they were different.

"I can't approve of what you're doing, and I guess it's hard for you to approve of me." Gu Jinglou said, "I thought about it carefully, and I felt that the two of us were indeed not suitable. So you forgot what I said to you before. ”

Wishful:...... What does the bastard say as if she was abandoned from the beginning!

"Could it be that we still have an agreement?"

"Ah, bait, bait!" Gu Jinglou suddenly pulled the fishing rod and shouted.

This time Ruyi didn't bother him, and let him carry the fish up along the way.

But he pinched the fish, unhooked the hook, and smiled, "It's so fat." But he did not put it in the basket, but threw it back into the river.

Ruyi said, "Don't you keep it for food?" ”

Gu Jinglou smiled, "This fish can't be eaten." He hung up the bait and said to himself, "If you eat hair and nails from the belly of the fish, it will be disgusting." ”

Ruyi's mind was suddenly a corpse on the battlefield. Shilipo is in the upper reaches of the river, and it is the countless corpses upstream that nourish the fish in the river that are far fatter and more prosperous than in previous years.

She has seen many such scenes in the past year, but at this moment, she suddenly felt a little unbearable, and couldn't help but look away.

Gu Jinglou threw the fish hook into the river again, as if he had forgotten their previous conversation, and turned his head and said, "By the way, I haven't asked you yet, what's the matter with the hurry to catch me back." ”

Ruyi choked and said, "...... It's nothing. ”

"Then come fish with me for a while." Gu Jinglou lazily hugged his head, leaned on the stone behind him, and said, "Even if you go back to the camp, you don't have anything serious to do." ”

Ruyi was a little irritable again, and said, "The battle is not over yet, how can there be nothing to do?" ”

Gu Jinglou squinted his eyes, relaxed and leisurely, "It's already over." The rest is not something that needs to end up on the battlefield. ”

Ruyi said, "What do you say?" ”

Gu Jinglou turned his head to look at her, "Why didn't I find out before, you are so stupid." ”

Wishful:...... Calm down.

Although she was so inched, Gu Jinglou still smiled and said eloquently, "Xu Yi has already hit Jiankang, and the King of Linchuan has killed Li Hu himself to the fullest, throwing away his armor. Even if Li Hu is released back to Jiankang, what can he do? ”

Li Hu's general trend has gone, and he has no power to return to the sky - of course Ruyi knows this.

"The Son of Heaven-" Ruyi paused, and finally didn't come up with a name for the side, "The Son of Heaven is still in Jiankang and can't fall into Li Hu's hands anymore." ”

"So whose hands is it going to be?" Gu Jinglou squinted at her.

Ruyi choked again. She selfishly hoped that Vimo and Erlang could reconcile as brothers, but she was not naïve enough to do so. For Vimo, being rescued by Jiro will only feel that life is worse than death. For Erlang, even if Vimo is on the throne, it is difficult for him to bow to Vimo willingly.

The two brothers have come to this point.

Gu Jinglou said, "Xu Yi is also in Jiankang, at least he won't let Li Hu take the Son of Heaven away." So what if Li Hu returns to Jiankang? ”

“…… He will be emperor. Ruyi said—she wondered if she had said it anyway, "I've seen him," Li Hu's face was still as clear as yesterday, and she said, "He's going to kill Vimo and be emperor." ”

Gu Jinglou narrowed his eyes again, he leaned back, looking at the sky with two twilight stars, "What a coincidence, I've also seen Li Hu." I think so too. He said, "Don't you think that this is the best result for the king of Linchuan?" ”

Ruyi was silent for a long time.

Gu Jinglou said, "This is what the world should be." ”

It was getting dark, insects were chirping in the forest, and fireflies were flying on the water's edge. Gu Jinglou pulled a hat to cover his face, and the fishing rod was placed aside casually.

Ruyi finally stood up, stepped on the pedals and got on the horse.

When the horse neighed, Gu Jinglou suddenly shouted again, "Ruyi-"

Ruyi reined in his horse and turned around.

Gu Jinglou pinched the hat, still lying down leisurely, as if talking to himself, "This world is not so kind and reasonable. It doesn't mean that as long as you are at peace and respectful, others will recognize you and treat you well. You have to hold on to the power and learn to protect yourself. Of course, if you basically have no desires, and you are easily comfortable and satisfied no matter how others manipulate you, then I didn't say it. ”

Ruyi said, "No matter what the world is, people have to keep their hearts." It's not a bad thing to have **, and it is human nature to want to change the previous situation and fill the shortcomings in your heart. But if you disregard heaven and humanity for your own selfish desires, ten thousand people will live and die, and they will eventually be spurned by the world. The person who is spurned by the people of the world but can finally get what he wants, I have read poetry and books all over the world, and I have never seen it. ”

They looked at each other for a moment, then smiled at each other.

They did understand this last piece of mutual advice.

Gu Jinglou covered his face with a hat again, turned around as he wished, and rode away.