Chapter 109: Hand in Hand
Shen Bai looked up at Gu Hengzhou, and smiled toothily brighter than today's sun.
She just bumped her head over, the tip of her nose hit Gu Hengzhou's chest, and the whole thing was red, inexplicably as if she had been bullied a lot, there was a pitiful taste, but her eyes were shining.
Gu Hengzhou suddenly felt that he was hit with joy, and forgot to let go of his hand.
The two of them just hugged each other for a while, Gu Hengxiu coughed lightly, and said softly, "Young Master Shen, please stay away from my eldest brother." ”
This was said as if Shen Bai was deliberately throwing a hug into Gu Hengzhou.
Shen Bai didn't look at him, and felt that Gu Hengzhou let go, so he stood up straight and helped him straighten his clothes, although there were no creases on it.
Gu Hengzhou wore an indigo embroidered willow dress today, low-key and luxurious, he practiced martial arts all the year round, he was not afraid of the cold, he did not wear a cloak, the whole person was less arrogant and more handsome and introverted, and obviously did not intend to steal the limelight with these children of the family.
Look, the person you like is so atmospheric.
Shen Bai was secretly happy in his heart, Gu Hengxiu took in her expression beside him, only felt that she was even more obsessed with the dusty women in Lanyue Pavilion, and couldn't help reminding: "Young Master Shen, this is the palace, you still have to pay attention to your words and deeds." ”
What's wrong with Master? I didn't kiss or hug, I didn't even hug me just now, why didn't I pay attention to my words and deeds?
Shen Bai rolled his eyes and looked at Gu Hengxiu, he had been looking forward to this opportunity today for a long time, wearing an ice blue silver silk embroidered white orchid brocade robe, his body was not as good as Gu Hengzhou, he was afraid of being compared to Gu Hengzhou, he didn't wear a cloak, and tried to stand next to Gu Hengzhou with his back straight, at first glance, the two of them had their own strengths, no matter up or down, but after a closer look, he could find that his lips were a little white from cold.
To die is to save face and suffer sin.
Shen Bai said in his heart, wrapped his cloak tightly, and didn't bother with Gu Hengxiu, just standing next to Gu Hengzhou and separating Gu Hengxiu a little.
Gu Hengxiu wanted to say something more, but Gu Hengzhou said in a deep voice: "Let's go, don't miss the hour." ”
Gu Hengxiu was able to participate in the Winter Laurel Festival only after Gu Hengzhou's light was stained, Gu Hengzhou had spoken, and he couldn't refuse, so he could only swallow the words that came to his mouth and move forward.
Out of the Zhaoyi Gate, there is a long mountain road with thousands of steps.
The mountain road is not wide, only allowing two people to walk side by side, and the palace people did not have time to clear the snow from the steps, and the vegetation on both sides of the road was also covered with snow.
Shen Bai seized Gu Hengxiu's position and walked up side by side with Gu Hengzhou, Gu Hengxiu could only follow behind with Li Shan.
The snow is several inches deep, and it almost covers the upper of the shoe when you step on it, but fortunately, Shen Bai is wearing deerskin boots today, which will not enter the water, and his feet will not be cold.
The mountain road zigzagged all the way to the depths of the dense forest, the branches on both sides were covered with snow, and the surroundings were quiet and silent, and Shen Bai left Gu Hengxiu behind as he walked, and his eyes couldn't help but fall on Gu Hengzhou.
She wears a lot, after walking for so long, her body is already a little hot, and her hands are too warm, Gu Hengzhou is wearing so little, I don't know if it will be cold.
It's just that the sleeve robe is wide, completely blocking Gu Hengzhou's hand, and he can't see anything.
Shen Bai was itching, and secretly reached out to grab Gu Hengzhou's sleeve.
However, as soon as his fingertips touched the cold sleeve, Gu Hengzhou's cold voice sounded: "What are you doing?" ”
Shen Bai simply didn't hide it, grabbed Gu Hengzhou's hand and wrote in his palm: Brother Gu, I'm afraid of falling.
Gu Hengzhou lifted his eyes to look at her, his eyes were not much warmer than the snow on the ground, and asked lightly: "You can fall on this kind of road, and you have returned everything you learned in the martial arts class to Master?" ”
It doesn't matter what you learn yet, the important thing is whether you let me lead it, Brother Gu.
Shen Bai stretched out his hand in front of Gu Hengzhou and spread it out confidently.
Her hands were white and tender, because of the hot blood wandering away, her skin became pink and beautiful, Gu Hengzhou stared at her hand for a while, and finally wrapped that hand into his palm with a tense face.
He is not cold at all, his hands are very warm, but his palms are wide, completely wrapping Shen Bai's hands in them, and he is full of security.
The corners of Shen Bai's lips rose wildly, as if a big pie had fallen from the sky and smashed her head.
Brother Gu really wouldn't refuse.
The two held hands and walked up the mountain, Gu Hengzhou was in good physical condition, although his steps were not big, he was not affected by the snow at all, his speed was very fast, and he climbed halfway up the mountain in one breath and breathed smoothly as if he was walking on flat ground.
Shen Bai was a little breathless, but he always kept pace with Gu Hengzhou, Gu Hengzhou was a little surprised, but he didn't expect Shen Bai's physical fitness to be good.
Halfway up the mountain, a big four-corner pavilion was built for people to rest, and a lot of plum blossoms were planted around, all of them were in full bloom at this time, and the branches were piled with snow, and there were bright red flowers hidden in the snow, which was very beautiful.
Shen Bai patronized Silly Le to see the flowers, and when he got closer, he found that there were still people in the pavilion.
Today, the young masters and young ladies of the family with heads and faces in Beijing are all gathered in Mingzhao Mountain, and there is only one mountain road to go up the mountain, and everyone has to walk up the mountain by themselves.
Jiang Qinse and Jiang Yinglou are brother and sister, they did not avoid suspicion, they went up the mountain together, Jiang Qinse was more delicate in the end, the two of them had been resting in the pavilion halfway up the mountain, and the accompanying maid also prepared carbon fire and snacks.
The two occupied a corner of the pavilion, Wu Shouxin then went up the mountain, it was not easy to approach rashly, and stood in the other corner of the pavilion with a small servant, talking with Jiang Yinglou.
Seeing Gu Hengzhou and Shen Bai, Wu Shouxin's eyes lit up, and he immediately raised his voice and called: "Brother Gu, Brother Bai, you are here!" ”
Gu Hengzhou bowed his head, he had no intention of going into the pavilion to rest, Wu Shouxin also rested for a while, and immediately walked out of the pavilion and walked with the two, and unexpectedly found that Gu Hengzhou was holding Shen Bai's hand.
Gu Hengzhou's clothes were wide, and Shen Bai was wearing a cloak, the two of them looked as usual, it was actually difficult to find if they didn't look carefully, but Wu Shouxin could see it at a glance.
With a slight stab in his heart, Wu Shouxin walked to the other side of Shen Bai, stretched out his hand towards Shen Bai and said, "The snow is very thick, the mountain road is very slippery, Brother Bai can pull me if he is afraid of falling." ”
Shen Bai was surprised, he didn't expect Wu Shouxin to say such a thing to himself, and before he could react, his wrist tightened, and the whole person was pulled into Gu Hengzhou's arms, his waist was clamped, and Gu Hengzhou's cold voice sounded above his head: "No, with me, I won't let her fall." ”
Gu Hengzhou's tone was calm but his attitude was very tough, Wu Shouxin's eyes flashed with surprise, and he couldn't help asking: "Didn't His Royal Highness the Prince of the World have a lot of prejudices against Brother Bai before?" How to ...... today"
Before Wu Shouxin finished speaking, Gu Hengzhou frowned and asked, "Who told you that I have prejudices against her?" ”
“……”
Wu Shouxin was dumbfounded, it is true that no one has said such a thing clearly.
Gu Hengzhou's eyes were sharp and waiting for an answer, Wu Shouxin shook his head, and said apologetically: "That should be that I misunderstood Your Highness, and please don't blame Your Highness." ”
Gu Hengzhou's nose overflowed with a "hmm".
Walking forward with Shen Bai, Shen Bai was so happy that he poked his head out of Gu Hengzhou's arms and gave Wu Shouxin a thumbs up.
Brother Wu, you did a great job today, Brother Gu has no prejudice against me, he likes me!
Shen Bai shouted in his heart, Wu Shouxin didn't know why she gave her a thumbs up to herself, it wasn't enough to see her smile brightly, so he still followed Gu Hengzhou's pace and asked Shen Bai: "I heard that Your Majesty has given the Second Young Master Shen a name, Brother Bai should be very happy." ”
What's there to be happy about? It's not my son.
Shen Bai slandered, Gu Hengzhou's eyebrows did not move, and reminded Wu Shouxin: "She has a wounded tongue and can't speak." ”
These words sounded plain and uninteresting, but Wu Shouxin heard three points of reproach, he quietly raised his eyes to look at Gu Hengzhou's face, but he only saw a coldness, and he couldn't see anything else.
His Royal Highness the Prince shouldn't have meant that, but I thought about it too much.
Wu Shouxin comforted himself and said in a low voice: "What Your Highness said is that I was negligent. ”
Gu Hengzhou's attitude didn't seem like he could chat, Wu Shouxin could only shut up, and the atmosphere was a little subtlely embarrassing.
After a stick of incense, the three of them took the lead in arriving at Lanli Palace.
Lanli Palace is built on the mountain, covers a wide area, almost one-third of the size of the palace, when the summer is hot, the nobles in the palace will come here to escape the heat.
The palace people prepared for the Winter Gui Festival early, as soon as the three arrived, they were immediately introduced by the palace people, and sat and rested in a large hall, the charcoal fire had already been lit in the hall, and the house was warm like the spring of March, and the palace people sent good hot tea just after sitting down.
Shen Bai was a little thirsty, and immediately opened the lid, the tea was still very hot, she pouted and blew vigorously, looking like a hamster hiding a lot of food.
Wu Shouxin's attention has always been on her, and he couldn't help but laugh when he saw this, Gu Hengzhou looked at Shen Bai coldly: "Drink tea, drink tea, don't pretend to be weird." ”
Where is the master pretending to be weird?
Shen Bai turned his head and looked at Gu Hengzhou blankly, Gu Hengzhou sat straight and didn't look at her.
Shh
Shen Bai snorted in his heart, restrained his expression, waited for the tea to cool down a little more, and drank a large cup in one go.
After drinking, he felt a little hot, and Shen Bai took off his cloak.
Wu Shouxin had just taken a sip of tea, put down the teacup and saw a big red and green thing in front of him, and the tea that he hadn't had time to swallow immediately squirted out, choking and coughing, and the palace people who were waiting next to him immediately stepped forward and handed him a silk handkerchief to wipe his face.
Wu Shouxin calmed down, looked at Shen Bai and asked, "Brother Bai, are your clothes all in this style?" ”
Shen Bai nodded as a matter of course, spread out his hands and turned around, raised his eyebrows at Wu Shouxin, and asked silently: Aren't the master's clothes good-looking?
Although Wu Shou felt that Shen Bai was very cute, he couldn't praise her for being so good-looking at this time, and said euphemistically: "I think Brother Bai, you have handsome facial features and elegant temperament, and it is better to wear plain clothes with a more transcendent appearance." ”
Knowing that Shen Bai is very narcissistic, Wu Shouxin also specially picked gorgeous and beautiful words.
Shen Bai looked at Gu Hengzhou again, Gu Hengzhou glanced at her, nodded seriously, and said, "It's good." ”
Wu Shouxin: "......"
His Royal Highness, do you really have no prejudice against Brother Bai? You still think it's good for him to wear clothes like this?
The corner of Wu Shouxin's eyes twitched, and then he saw Shen Bai sitting back in his place proudly, putting on a posture of "the most handsome master in the world".
Wu Shouxin lingered on the edge of laughter and sympathy for a moment, and then heard a sneer.
Jiang Yinglou and Jiang Qinse walked into the main hall together, followed by a Gu Hengxiu.
When the three of them saw Shen Bai dressed like this, a sentence appeared in their minds at the same time: What kind of thing is this?
The sneer was made by Jiang Yinglou, he wore a dark embroidered blue feather brocade robe today, his body was long, heroic, and he was very young and vigorous.
On the night of Emperor Hengde's birthday banquet, he was kicked by Shen Bai, and he never had a chance to retaliate back, holding a grudge, seeing Shen Bai at this time, the knife swished to Shen Bai's body, but Shen Bai was rough and thick-skinned, and he turned a blind eye.
Because of this laughter, Gu Hengzhou raised his eyes and glanced at Jiang Yinglou, Jiang Yinglou didn't want to make trouble here, the Donggui Festival will last for three days, and there is a chance to be ashamed.
Under the guidance of the palace people, Jiang Yinglou took Jiang Qinse to his seat and sat down.
Emperor Hengde has the meaning of taking the opportunity to be a matchmaker, and the male and female dependents did not set up a separate rest, but each brought a maid and a small maid, and the female dependents could live together with the veil.
It was very warm in the room, and Jiang Qinse walked to his seat and took off his cloak and handed it to the maid, revealing the bright red riding costume inside.
The riding costume is tailor-made, with the arrow sleeves fitting, revealing a snow-white wrist, ten slender fingers, slender and good-looking. The one-finger-wide belt binds the waist that is not full of grips, and there are two strings of silver bells around the waist, which jingle very pleasantly when walking.
Miss Jiang has always been plain and elegant, and she has never worn such a bright color, which instantly amazes the people in the room, especially today's heroic posture and the gentle and quiet of the usual day form a strong contrast, although there is a veil to cover it, it is still eye-catching.
Shen Bai raised his eyebrows, looking at Jiang Qinse and couldn't take his eyes off it.
Miss Jiang in a riding costume is really good-looking.
The palace people served tea, Jiang Yinglou blew it cold first and then handed it to Jiang Qinse, noticing that Shen Bai had been staring at Jiang Qinse, his eyebrows were slightly furrowed, and he still couldn't hold back after enduring it for a while, he glared at Shen Bai with three points of anger and asked, "The surname is Shen, what do you see?" ”
Shen Bai smiled and looked away.
Everyone has a love for beauty, can't she look at the beauty?
Wu Shouxin also looked at Jiang Qinse twice, but he didn't see it for so long as Shen Bai, and when he heard Jiang Yinglou's tone was not good, he immediately said for Shen Bai: "Young Master Shen is inconvenient to speak, Brother Jiang don't be so angry." ”
On the night of Emperor Hengde's birthday banquet, Wu Shouxin protected Shen Bai, and today he spoke for Shen Bai, Jiang Yinglou immediately turned the spearhead to Wu Shouxin: "I'm talking to Shen Bai, what is Young Master Wu doing when he interjects?" Don't you have a very bad relationship with him in Tai Academy on weekdays, what kind of righteousness are you pretending to be at this time? ”
Everyone in Tai Academy knew that Shen Bai and Wu Shouxin had a bad relationship, but they didn't know about the reconciliation between the two, Wu Shouxin said with a solemn face: "Brother Bai and I have already released our previous suspicions, I was rebellious and ignorant in Tai Academy before, so I will always have conflicts with him, and please don't mention these things in the future." ”
Jiang Yinglou sneered: "Don't mention it? Shen Bai doesn't seem to have much contact with you recently, and suddenly let go of his suspicions, isn't it because of some rumors that Young Master Wu has any thoughts about him? ”
Jiang Yinglou clearly referred to Shen Bai's liking of men, Wu Shouxin's face suddenly changed, and he was about to refute, Gu Hengzhou said coldly: "Whether others want to be incompatible or release their suspicions is someone else's freedom, and they are not criminals who have violated the royal law, do you have to tell Young Master Jiang one, two, three, four?" ”
Gu Hengzhou has always cared about these things in the Tai Academy, but at this time, he came forward to speak for Wu Shouxin and Shen Bai, Jiang Yinglou was a little surprised, and looked at him and Shen Bai meaningfully.
Anyone who is not blind can see what he means.
Gu Hengzhou raised his eyes to look at him, and said in a deep voice: "There are indeed a lot of bad rumors in Beijing recently, but they are all idle chats of ignorant people after tea and dinner, and it is difficult to get into the hall of elegance. ”
Jiang Yinglou was not happy with Shen Bai, and he couldn't get used to seeing Gu Hengzhou always looking high, Emperor Hengde was not here at this time, he only tilted his head and asked Gu Hengzhou when he was still in Tai Academy: "Brother Gu, don't you mean to teach me a lesson for these two jokes?" ”
It's not interesting to have a battle of words here, Gu Hengzhou pursed his lips and didn't say anything, what should be reminded has already been reminded, if something really happened, Jiang Yinglou asked for it.
Gu Hengzhou didn't answer, and Jiang Yinglou didn't have much fun finding it.
He glanced at Shen Bai again, and then withdrew his gaze and lowered his head to drink tea quietly.
The children of other families soon arrived, and after Hanchen left, the people of the Beiling State envoys also left Beijing in a low-key manner.
The envoys of Nanxiang and Yuexi have not left, and they also came to watch the game today, the hall was full, and finally Emperor Hengde arrived with three princes, Zhao Chou was still grounded, and he did not make an exception to go out today.
Gu Tingge was still responsible for the safety of Emperor Hengde together with the commander of the Praetorian Guard.
All the juniors present here did not dare to let go of talking to Emperor Hengde, and there was no common topic, Emperor Hengde only sat in the hall for a while, and then led everyone out of the hall.
There is a big lake behind the palace, it is very comfortable to take a cool bath here in summer, and the lake will be very thick in winter, Emperor Hengde played ice hockey horse racing on the lake with Zhenguo Gong in the Winter Gui Festival when he was young.
Today, the first thing these sons and daughters of these families want to try is to play ice hockey.
The surface of the lake has long been cleaned up by the palace people, and the competition area and viewing area have also been drawn.
Emperor Hengde first went to the viewing area with the people of the envoy group and a group of female dependents to sit down, and the children of these families lined up to go to the palace people to draw lots to decide the order of the game.
Shen Bai knew that Gu Hengzhou didn't plan to compete, so he waved at Gu Hengzhou from a distance and wanted to draw lots, but Gu Hengzhou walked through the crowd and walked in front of her.
Shen Bai stopped and looked at him unexpectedly, Gu Hengzhou looked at her for a while and said, "Pay attention to proportion, don't mess around." With that, he turned and left.
Shen Bai touched his chin and thought, Brother Gu asked her not to mess around and hurt herself, or was she afraid that she would hurt others?
Just thinking about it, Gu Hengxiu, who had already drawn lots, walked up to her with cold eyes, and said in a low voice: "Young Master Shen is so capable, my eldest brother doesn't even care about me, but he still has to tell you a few words, in front of you, his temperament doesn't seem to be indifferent at all." ”
Gu Hengxiu's tone was very yin and yang, but Shen Bai loved to hear this.
Shen Bai smiled, bumped Gu Hengxiu's shoulder and walked forward.
The young master has tried all his blood to warm Brother Gu for the rest of his life, how can he be allowed to be cold?