(Chapter 116) Wanhua River Lantern Afterimage (10)
Peony is dead.
As early as when I rushed to the Gongqin Guogong Mansion day and night to deliver medicine to Gu Yuancheng, she died.
Self-cutting meridians, leaving no room for error.
The cold moonlight shone down from the silent night, blurring the dim color in front of him, and the surrounding vegetation was so quiet that even the cicadas could not be heard.
I stood under the cold moon, silent, although it was pitch black in front of me, but I couldn't help but think of the silent tombstone in the mottled shadows of the trees, and my heart rippled and suddenly dispersed.
"Sister Shaohong said, when you come to see her, I'll tell you a word." Jingyang was dressed in plain clothes, kneeling in front of Shaohong's tomb, his voice was already hoarse, but Shaohong's words, he still told me word by word, "No matter how deep the obsession is, it is just an empty dream after all, if you can get to the root of it, you can break it." ”
Slightly stunned, I imagined the names carved on the tombstone one by one, and my eyes shimmered.
"Also," Jingyang choked up somehow, "don't hurt, don't read." ”
With a long sigh, I walked up to Jingyang's side, and gently placed a hand on his shoulder, "There are many beautiful things in the world that can be easily lost, but they may not be able to be regained. ”
"Jingyang, those four words, she didn't say them to me."
I went back with Chen Yi, and when I left, I heard Jingyang's cries of collapse.
"My lord, what do you do when you're sad?" When Chen Yi sent me to the door of the wing, he suddenly asked me this sentence.
"Drink a bar." I thought about it, "Or find a place to be alone." ”
Chen Yi glanced up at me, then didn't speak again, and turned to look for the guards he had transferred.
I looked at his back with a strange look on my face and went back to the house.
When Gu Yuancheng came to me on the second day, he deliberately didn't mention anything about Shaohong, and I didn't chase him to ask him.
After chatting with him in the room, Gu Yuancheng looked at my expression and seemed to understand something, and he said in a low voice, "I didn't mean to hide it from you, but you were unconscious at the time......
"I know." I smiled at him, "Peony is just a stranger to you, after all. ”
Gu Yuancheng always felt that this sentence was very strange, but he didn't delve into it, because he had something more important to say than Shaohong.
"The weather is just right today, I have ordered someone to prepare a carriage, let's go to the temple to burn incense, shall we?"
Hearing Gu Yuancheng mention this, I almost forgot, last time because I fell into the water, this incense burning matter was put on hold, but I didn't expect him to keep it in mind.
"Well, I'm bored in the house anyway." I readily agreed.
When Gu Yuancheng saw that I agreed, he ordered the maid to come in and dress up for me, and when the makeup was finished, he helped me to the gate of the Guogong Mansion.
Guogong Mansion is a first-class wealthy family, and we should have come out in a sedan chair, but because I insisted on walking, Gu Yuancheng couldn't help but agree, but he also had one condition, that is, I had to be willing to wear women's clothes and perform a lady's show.
I think this deal is unfair, but there is a good saying, "People are under the roof, they have to bow their heads", and I can only reluctantly agree. But there is one thing I have emphasized to him, that is, although there are many women who love me, I don't know their way at all, if he really wants me to look like a delicate and soft boudoir daughter, it is better to find an experienced old woman to teach me.
Gu Yuancheng didn't look for any old grandmother, he taught me personally, although it didn't work, but I listened to him talk about the essentials of those movements every day, and sometimes I even touched him to do those individual twisting and weird movements, which added a lot of fun to my life of recuperation.
"Cheng'er." As he walked around the corner, he suddenly ran into a middle-aged man in brocade clothes, but the man frowned when he saw Gu Yuancheng for the first time.
Listening to someone's strong voice, coupled with his attitude towards Gu Yuancheng, I have guessed his identity, but now in this situation, I think I should disappear quickly, otherwise I will be affected.
Sure enough, I was still hesitating how to slip away, and the man had already pointed the finger at me, "This is the woman you brought back?" ”
"Gu Yuancheng, what should I say now?" I approached him and whispered.
Gu Yuancheng studied the appearance of me, and said secretly, "Whatever you want." ”
I pushed him away and gave him another word: "Get out." ”
Gu Xingde saw that I didn't have the demeanor that a good woman should have, but I was so beautiful, and he thought that I was the pink rouge that Gu Yuancheng brought back from those unclean places, and the disgust on his face was even worse.
He couldn't get used to this kind of misbehaving woman, but now that such a woman was still entangled with his son, how could he not be angry?
"Where are you going?" Gu Xingde endured the anger in his heart and asked Gu Yuancheng.
"Temple." Gu Yuancheng's answer was very simple.
"Temple?" Gu Xingde raised his hand and pointed at me, "With this fireworks woman?" "New
Fireworks Woman?
I was stunned for a moment, and then I realized that he was talking about me.
Thinking that he was also a famous family, it was a bit embarrassing to be looked down on like this, so he took the first step and said to Gu Xingde before Gu Yuancheng, "Grandpa Guo misunderstood, I actually have nothing to do with Master Gu Xiang, I am a patient of Prince Mei Yan, I came here with Prince Mei Yan, and today it happened that Prince Mei Yan was not in the house for something, so I begged Lord Gu Xiang to allow me to go out, and went to the nearby mountain temple to ask for a peace sign, Lord Gu Xiang saw that I was blind, and I was very pitiful, so he offered to accompany me, He also prayed for some blessings for his mother. ”
My words obviously made Gu Xingde stunned, but compared to the previous bunch of nonsense, he was even more surprised by the last sentence I said, and it was this sentence that moved him, and his eyes were slightly moist in his arrogant eyes.
"Cheng'er, are you finally willing to take this step?" Gu Xingde approached Gu Yuancheng in a few steps, and the excitement and joy on his face couldn't be concealed at all.
Gu Yuancheng raised his eyes to look at his excited father, and his heart was mixed.
Father is famous Biancheng celebrities, when he was a young man was very talented, he once visited the hermit Qing Ke in the mountains, singing the subtlety of the ancients, worrying about the sorrow of today's people, the Guogong Mansion in his hands, can be described as famous, he is high and rigorous, clean and self-preservation, for his mother, it can be said that he is sincere, only this one.
He is a good father and a good husband, and for His Majesty, he is even more of a good courtier, but the death of the thirteenth uncle is undoubtedly a cliff between them, and it is impossible to erase it in this life and this life.
"Father, it's time for us to go." No matter what Gu Xingde thought in his heart, Gu Yuancheng just said this sentence and pulled me away.
"Isn't it good for a family to be with Lele?" Sitting in the carriage, I saw that Gu Yuancheng had been calm and did not speak, so I first provoked the conversation, "Why do you have to make such a fuss?" ”
I felt Gu Yuancheng glaring at me fiercely, but he didn't say anything.
I sigh, doesn't even such a blunt provocation work?
"Don't be so unhappy, you at least have a good father." I patted him on the shoulder and pretended to be relaxed.
Gu Yuancheng moved, and finally spoke, "Don't you also have a mother who loves you?" ”
"Indeed." I nodded, "My mother is very good to me." ”
"Huh." Gu Yuancheng sneered noncommittally and warned me, "Shen Qingzhi, if you dare to do this again in the future, don't blame me for being ruthless!" ”
I shrank behind me and said innocently, "Only this way can we get out smoothly, he is your father, I can't beat or scold, then I can only make this decision." ”
Gu Yuancheng snorted coldly, not believing my nonsense at all.
"Seriously, although I have tried my best to investigate you, I only know some superficial things, why did you break with your mother in the first place? You are a child of a family, why do you go to the mountains to practice with reclusive celebrities instead of entering the academy? "I'm really curious about these questions, but no matter how much I investigate, I can't find a reason, as if a very thoughtful person has erased that crucial point from history, and wiped it cleanly, without any clues.
"What about you? You have been in the Hou Mansion for so many years, what have you experienced? Gu Yuancheng asked me rhetorically.
I subconsciously clenched the hand in my sleeve, and then released it again.
"I'm just a nobody, how can I show off any experience?" I raised a smile on my face, "You are a real prince of the country. ”
Gu Yuancheng looked at me and smiled, somehow he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, he frowned, and was about to say something, but the carriage just stopped.
"We're here." I got up and jumped out almost the moment the carriage stopped.
To be honest, I was already at the end of my crossbow in the sentence just now, and no matter how Gu Yuancheng counterattacked me next, I had nothing to say to fight back.
"Qingzhi, you wait." When Gu Yuancheng saw that I was running so fast, he immediately chased after me.
"What's wrong?" I stopped.
"You're going in the wrong direction." Gu Yuancheng said helplessly.
...... "Can I say that I am blind and have no sense of direction at all?"
"You follow me." Gu Yuancheng stretched out his hand and wrapped his arms around my waist, and laughed softly, "Don't get separated, there are a lot of people here." ”
"What do you want to do in public? Don't let it go! "My face turned red, especially when I felt that there were a lot of people here.
"Do you really want me to let go?" Gu Yuancheng tightened the hand on my waist meaningfully.
I wanted to say yes, but the arrow in his sleeve was already on my waist, and I could only laugh at his words.
That's what happens under the fence!
"Gu Yuancheng, I'm a poor blind man, are you embarrassed to threaten me like this?" I gritted my teeth.
Gu Yuancheng walked forward with satisfaction, and his tone was very smug, "Of course." ”