A night of heavy snowfall, the world is covered in snow. The warm sun is sunny, thousands of trees and thousands of trees are cold and plum blossoms in the snow, plum blossoms are bent on the branches, and the garden is red.

Several young maids dressed in bright clothes and delicate pearl hairpins shuttled through the plum forest, or carefully climbed the plum branches, or carefully collected the first snow that fell on the plum petals.

"Master Hou boiled tea and got water."

"Master Hou likes plum blossoms the most."

The girl holding the plum branch is really more fancy than the fancy person.

Gu Mingnuan was lying on the kang near the window, and his expression indifferently stopped the angry nurse Jiang Mama, who was flushed with anger, "Now that I am about to die, I can't care whether the Hou Ye takes a concubine or remarries." ”

"Madame—"

Mama Jiang helped Gu Mingnuan up, and said resentfully: "Why don't you call Linglong and them back to continue to serve you, so as to save this group of shallow-eyed little hooves from being naughty and making you angry." ”

The sunlight sprinkled on her cheeks, like a halo, even if she was sick and thin, it was still difficult to describe the quiet aura emanating from her bones, Gu Mingnuan saw through life and death, and her elegance was more calm than before.

"Master Hou is handsome, elegant and dusty, and people are indispensable to remember."

Gu Mingnuan smiled nonchalantly, and got up with Mama Jiang's hand, "Linglong, they have a good home and the affection of our master and servant, after I leave, the nurse should also enjoy the blessings of her children and grandchildren." ”

Mama Jiang's eyes were slightly red, and she whimpered: "It's all caused by the Yin family, if she was willing to raise the fetus with peace of mind, Mrs. would not be born weak, and she has never given birth to a child after ten years of marriage with the Hou Ye——"

"My father can't forget his love until he dies, and she is married to the regent."

Gu Mingnuan burned incense with his hands, slowly knelt in front of the Buddha statue, slightly narrowed his eyelids, and his bony white fingers turned the Buddha beads familiarly, "A flashy dream of love and hate based on the country, I am just an insignificant passerby." ”

The light figure in front of her seemed to disappear at any time, leaving no trace in this world, and Mama Jiang's heart tightened:

"How can you be a passerby? It's not you, the Queen Mother can't move the regent Xiao Yue at all, and the revenge of the eldest lady who died in Outer Mongolia is also your revenge, and the Queen Mother made a decree to crown Xiao Bao'er as the princess of Shouyang and pro-Outer Mongolia, and the eldest lady will be grateful to you if she has a spirit in the sky. ”

Back then, the regent princess Yin Ru forced Gu Mingxin to replace Xiao Bao'er in Outer Mongolia, the regent power leaned towards the government and the opposition, and the power was huge, Gu Mingnuan could only watch her sister Gu Mingxin marry far away, and finally died in a foreign land.

If it weren't for the news of Gu Mingxin's death to be transmitted back to the imperial capital, Gu Mingnuan, who had never cared about the dispute between Yin Ru and the Queen Mother, would not secretly conspire with the Queen Mother to force away the amazing and brilliant Xiao Yang and break one of the regent's arms.

In the end, the regent died in the Empress Dowager's Cining Palace.

Yin Ru has no support, and her son is not recognized by the Xiao family and the regent's subordinates, so why can't he take care of Xiao Baoer when he is anxious?

"Sister, I, Xiao Bao'er, are her biological daughters, they are all destined to die early, and she has always loved Xiao Bao'er who was born to the regent the most. Comparatively speaking, I was the most comfortable. The nurse doesn't have to be wronged for me, Hou Ye is a humble gentleman, gentle and polite, and I never worry that he had an affair with Miss Guo when I was alive. ”

After ten years of marriage, she knows Ning Hou very well, and she is confident that Ning Hou never expected her to die early and marry Miss Guo, who was a childhood sweetheart.

When he first met, he was as warm as jade, and he broke the chess game that Gu Mingnuan had been thinking about for a long time, and his beautiful eyebrows and eyes blurred with a gentleness comparable to the warm sun, instantly eliminating the loneliness she pressed in her heart.

She wants to occupy that warmth!

Biological mother Yin Ru gave birth to her early and went with her lover, her father Gu Cheng left her sister to travel the world with her, rarely returned home, her sister still got a little pity from her father, and she-father always resented himself for not keeping Yin Ru.

Grandmother was bent on fighting with the long house, and did everything possible to let her father remarry a concubine and continue the incense, never caring about her.

Gu Mingnuan grew up in Fugui Township, but he lacked people to accompany and spoil him.

Knowing that the man had not yet been married, she cheekily begged her grandmother for the only time in her life - to take the initiative to sign a marriage contract.

After getting married, she knew that his gentleness was not just for her, he already had a childhood sweetheart by his side, Senior Sister Guo.

After ten years of marriage, their husband and wife are as close as guests, and they raise their eyebrows.

Even if she couldn't give birth to children, he never snubbed her, they were the happiest couple in the imperial capital.

He strokes the harp, and she will play to help her.

He paints, she grinds for it.

On the chessboard, they are high and low to each other.

In the study, they each held the scroll in their hands and fought for red faces, and when they looked at each other without giving in, they laughed out loud at the same time, and reconciled as before.

In the past ten years, Gu Mingnuan has studied piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, wine and tea, read a wide range of books, and thanks to her very generous dowry, the dowry steward is loyal and capable, and he inherited the title of Marquis Ning, even if he does not follow the official economy, their husband and wife still live comfortably.

In the next Flower Dynasty Festival, she couldn't wait, and she promised to accompany him to Jiangzhou to paint landscape beauties.

However, at that time, he was already accompanied by Miss Guo, and the person who joined the painting would also be Miss Guo who had been waiting for him for ten years.

Gu Mingnuan felt that his body was getting lighter and lighter, and his soul seemed to slowly rise and ascend to heaven.

The future has long been settled, and she has no regrets when she looks back on this life.

After many years of worshipping the Buddha, she did not seek this life, but the next life.

"Shun Ying—"

The handsome and elegant man with a face like jade hurriedly ran in, knocking down the table before he knew it, panicked as if he was about to lose his most precious treasure.

"The believer Gu Mingnuan, who believes in Buddhism all her life, gives grace to the Buddha, and molds a golden body for the Buddha, she dare not say that her merit is high, only sincerity is desirable, and her father and mother in the next life are not like Gu Cheng Yinru with the penance of this life——"

After a slight pause, Gu Mingnuan knew that Ninghou was close at hand, and closed his eyes: "Don't be Ninghou Li Yu's wife." ”

"No, Shunying, don't—" The man burst into tears and whimpered.

Gu Mingnuan looked back and smiled, quiet and tranquil: "I have never failed you in this life, and you have never failed me, I only hope that in the next life, I will never continue the previous edge, and I will always be a stranger, even if I see each other, I will pass by." Her eyes were getting darker and darker, her body was fluttering, and she came to the end of her life.

Ninghou Li Yu caught Gu Mingnuan's body that fell backwards, wrapped the two of them in a big fashion draped over his body, and the person in his arms closed his quiet eyes as if he was asleep.

His forehead was against her sideburns, tears wet his clothes, his arms tightened and tightened, eager to melt her into his bones and blood, muttering to himself: "No, I don't allow!" ”

******

The red morning sun rose, the city of Liangzhou in Chu State was bathed in the morning light, smelling the roosters, and the people got up early to work.

A small room could only fit a shelf bed that had been used for many years, a square table with vermilion paint, and two chairs.

The old shelf bed creaked, and the girl of thirteen or fourteen got up from the bed and looked around sleepily.

Through the morning light that sprinkled in, her eyes slowly cleared, touched the soft coarse cloth quilt, and said to herself: "I am no longer born in the splendid pile, and Gu Mingnuan who grew up in Zhong Mingding's Gu family." ”

Habitually, she turned out the only luxury object from under the pillow, a hand mirror inlaid with broken jade, and she gently touched the figure in the mirror.

The delicate skin of the once deceived frost and snow became slightly yellow and rough, and the people in the mirror had yellow green silk hanging from the ends of their heads, and they curled up a strand of hair and sniffed lightly, but they could only smell the inferior soaphorn smell.

The faded ** pants were loose, and she felt for the small collarbone that was exposed, and a light red birthmark in the shape of a Teng cloud was located in the middle of the collarbone - exactly the same as before.

Long curved eyebrows, bright and quiet eyes, straight nose, full lips, upturned corners of the mouth, and small dimples when she laughed, are ninety percent similar to when she was young.

Her father is no longer Gu Cheng, who is known as the God of Wealth, but Gu Yan, a captain under the command of Liu Lei, the general of Zhengxi.

After General Liu Lei was transferred back to Jinling by Emperor Chu, her father, who was dependent on her, offended the new eunuch and was suspended from his post for reflection.

Her father, who was said to be extremely brave, was not angry with the eunuchs of the prison army, so he hung up his official seal.

What makes her the most rare is not the poor life she has never had, but a noisy voice from outside the window, "Gu Mingnuan, you come out!" ”

Putting on a faded pink jacket, Gu Mingnuan pushed open the window, poked his head out, and saw the chubby round-faced woman blocking the door, "Chen-home-aunt-me-"

"Stop, Gu girl, I'm still very tired after listening to you. I'll just ask you, when will your father pay for the wine? ”

The white fat woman waved her hand impatiently, and she had to stammer: "I and I are also in charge of a small business, all living on the wine, after all, your father has been a school captain, and there are more than a dozen acres of fertile land at home, although he is now down, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, it is better than us." ”

The corner of Gu Mingnuan's eyes swept over the figure hiding in the wing, "Ming-Tian." ”

There is always a way to raise money for alcohol, but what should she do if she stutters in front of people?

Stuttering is also good, and the fat white woman got the letter, and was too lazy to grind with the little stammer, and threatened to go back to the tavern to continue doing business if she didn't pay back the money tomorrow.

Back to the age of fourteen, it was also Emperor Chu who ruled the world, from the rich and extravagant imperial capital Jinling to the remote Liangzhou, Gu Mingnuan was not unwilling to fall from the clouds at all, let alone go to Jinling to find the Gu family.

After rinsing his face, Gu Mingnuan assisted the only old servant, Mama Wang, to make breakfast, and knocked on Gu Yan's door, "Dad-eat-eat." ”

Gu Yan said sullenly, "I'm asleep." ”

The door of the Gu family's courtyard was pushed open again, and this time a man about forty years old came in, wearing a brocade embroidered copper coin pattern robe.

He had a big belly and a rich figure, and after seeing Gu Mingnuan with his huge jade wrenching fingers, his fleshy jaw trembled slightly, his flexible eyes turned three times, and the flesh on his face trembled three times with a smile, "Brother Gu Xian, I'm here to pick you up and go to my house to live and discuss marriage." ”

Gu Mingnuan bowed his knees and tried to ignore the strong and choking smell of the person who came.

"Wait for Brother Gu Xian to marry my precious sister, Gu niece-" He smiled and said closely: "Uncle will find you a good family, eat and drink without worry, and wear gold and silver." ”