Chapter 22: Just the Beginning
Now that the two women have their own benefits, who is in the prime minister's mansion who has a higher status in Gu Hao's heart, and he still doesn't know, so Xiao Yi took advantage of Gu Muyan's absence, hugged Gu Xiyue lightly and said: "As long as you live a chic and comfortable life, why do you care about the attitude of others?" ”
Just when Xiao Yi and Gu Xiyue were very close, they happened to walk there and saw the extremely ambiguous figures of the two.
"Since the two of you are so affectionate, then I might as well help you." Gu Muyan said secretly in his heart.
Then, Gu Muyan asked the maids around him to go down and led the flow of people from the Hundred Flowers Festival.
Seeing that everyone was walking in the direction of this small garden, Concubine Shu naturally took the hands of the palace people and came over.
However, when Concubine Shu saw that the person in the small pavilion was really her own royal son Xiao Yi, although Concubine Shu endured a breath in her heart, fortunately she did not send it out, but the gossip of those people around her also made Concubine Shu's face covered with a layer of haze.
"Isn't that the Fourth Prince? Actually had a tryst with a woman here? From time to time, there were discussions around the small garden, which fell into the ears of Xiao Yi and others.
Gu Xiyue in the pavilion hid her face and fled, but she didn't regret it in her heart, but Xiao Yi was the opposite, her face was somewhat similar to Concubine Shu.
"Damn it!" Xiao Yi's fists were clenched tightly under his sleeves, looking around, looking at the disdain on the faces of the people around him, his heart was full of chagrin, but he did not suspect that it was Gu Xiyue who was calculating, but thought about the people in the palace, who would be so suspicious.
When everyone saw that Concubine Shu was also present, they dispersed with some unfinished thoughts.
Gu Muyan on the side looked at everything in front of him, and the hatred in his heart was not erased much, this was not enough, compared to the blood feud in his previous life, this was just a drop in the bucket.
After the others dispersed, Concubine Shu slapped Xiao Yi's face and said, "Why are you so confused! What kind of woman do you want? Something happened at a time like this! ”
"I'm sorry, Princess." Xiao Yi lowered his head and said with great apologies.
"Don't go back and think about how to deal with the aftermath of this matter!" Concubine Shu looked at Xiao Yi coldly and walked away.
Suddenly, Xiao Yi was the only one left here.
"Lord, now there is talk everywhere in the palace about your closeness to the concubine of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and the woman did not deny it." The secret guards beside Xiao Yat told Xiao Yat the news he had just gathered.
"It's funny, it actually blinded me." Xiao Yi stood up, clenched his fists, thinking about Gu Xiyue's appearance, coupled with what his secret guard said, he reacted at once.
"This prime minister's house, check it carefully!" Xiao Yi left a sentence and walked to Concubine Shu's bedroom, and the Hundred Flowers Festival ended.
After returning to the Prime Minister's Mansion, when Gu Hao came back, he didn't say a word, and rushed directly to Gu Xiyue's Star Picking Pavilion.
"Rebel!" Gu Hao slapped Gu Xiyue directly with an extremely heavy face, glaring at Gu Xiyue with trembling fingers and yelling.
In an instant, blood came out from the corners of Gu Xiyue's mouth, and her face was swollen.
"Xiangye! What are you doing! It's our month! Aunt Li hurriedly ran to Gu Xiyue's side, carefully checked Gu Xiyue's injuries, and then looked at Gu Hao with teary eyes and cried.
"Hmph, the good daughter you taught! Why don't you ask him what he did today? Gu Hao's angry eyes were about to pop out, and he looked at Aunt Li and shouted.
"What can Yue'er do?" It was the first time for Aunt Li to see Gu Hao so angry, and she slowly calmed down, and the injustice in her heart was much better, seeing Gu Xiyue bowing her head and saying nothing, Gu Hao sat aside and turned around not to look at their mother and daughter, and the doubts in Aunt Li's heart became even greater.
So Aunt Li looked sideways at Gu Xiyue, and seeing Gu Xiyue's eyes evading, Aunt Li instantly understood, it must be Yue'er who did something wrong, otherwise Gu Hao would not have been so angry.
"Isn't it the Hundred Flowers Festival today? Did you get into an argument with someone when you participated in the competition? Aunt Li asked Gu Xiyue.
"Auntie, after today's Hundred Flowers Festival competition, I went around to take a look, but I almost fell off the pond, when I had palpitations, the four princes appeared, helped me to the pavilion to rest, and then I don't know how, we were surrounded by people pointing and pointing, aunt! You have to trust me! Gu Xiyue burst into tears, so she knelt beside Aunt Li and cried.
And Aunt Li seemed to have grasped the key point at once, and immediately asked: "Are you alone in the palace, and there is no one by your side?" Immediately knelt down and climbed a few steps forward, and arrived at Gu Hao's side: "Xiangye, you also know Yue'er's temperament!" How could he do such an unreasonable thing, not to mention that Yue'er was not alone by her side! ”
Hearing this, Gu Hao's face finally changed a little, indeed, the relationship in this palace is complicated, Gu Xiyue was indeed extremely well-behaved in the Prime Minister's Mansion in the past, and never let people worry too much, plus there was no one around to follow, which made Gu Hao suspect that this incident was the result of someone's ulterior motives.
"What about the maid who accompanied Yue'er to the palace that day?" Gu Hao's face was slightly better and asked Gu Xiyue.
"Back to my father's words, it's Na'er," Gu Xiyue replied with a sob.
"Bring him in!" After Gu Hao finished speaking, he sat on the chair and waited for the next person to bring him over.
After some interrogation, everyone learned that Na'er had been taken away for some reason.
"Alright, my father knows about it." Gu Hao sighed and looked at Gu Xiyue and said, "Get up, how about this Hundred Flowers Festival?" ”
With Aunt Li's support, Gu Xiyue finally stood up, limped to the chair below and replied: "Father Xie, this time Sister won the first place in the Hundred Flowers Festival!" Didn't the father know? ”
This rhetorical question made Gu Hao's brows furrow again, and he looked at Gu Muyan's eyes a little weird and said, "How did Yan'er get this title this time?" ”
Seeing that Gu Hao's first reaction was not to be happy for himself, but to ask Gu Muyan with some suspicion how he got this first prize, Gu Muyan's heart replied with a very cold heart: "My daughter has been practicing calligraphy hard these days, and the strength of her wrist is much greater than before, and this pen is naturally stronger and more powerful, plus what everyone said in this Hundred Flowers Festival is extremely gentle, so Yan'er was ingenious and wrote a poem about the border pass, which won the first prize, and in a few days, the talented girl Miss Su will also come to the house to find a word again!" ”
Gu Hao, who had been frowning all the time, had a much better face when he heard Gu Muyan mention Su Ziran, and his tone was much soothed than Fang Cai: "In this case, it is good to entertain Miss Su, don't be rude, if you have the opportunity in the future, you can also teach your sister how to write, and you can also let your sister be more successful next time." ”
After saying that, Gu Hao left, and just when Gu Muyan was about to leave, Aunt Li suddenly knelt on the ground and said to Gu Muyan: "If the eldest lady doesn't like the slave maid, although she beats and scolds the slave maid, but Yue'er is your sister after all, how can places like the palace let Yue'er be alone?" ”
Hearing this, Gu Muyan turned his head in surprise, looked at Aunt Li kneeling on the ground, and said, "Aunt Li, it's better not to use these thoughts on Miss Ben." ”
Everyone thought that the matter was over here, but they didn't want to involve the eldest lady, and this matter was very likely to be done by the eldest lady, which made the next person look at Gu Muyan a little weird.
In the past few days, because of Gu Xiyue's affairs, even Gu Muyan has been extremely low-key in doing things, and after the message was almost gone, Gu Muyan finally went to the appointment.
This agreement was originally taken by Sheng Zhoujin after the end of the Hundred Flowers Festival, but the things at home dragged down, and it was not until the third day that she found an opportunity to go out to the Xiangfu again.
Although Li Zhonghe lived in the Prime Minister's Mansion at the beginning, this was not a good place to settle down after all, so Cheng Qi arranged a house next to Beijing and let Li Zhonghe move out.
Therefore, the place where Gu Muyan and Li Zhonghe met was not in Taifu's Mansion, but in an extremely secluded alley in the midst of trouble.
When he first entered the alley, Gu Muyan noticed that something was wrong, the alley was too quiet, as if the people who walked by here were all uninhabited.
And this conjecture turned out to be correct. All the houses here are under the name of Chengqi, so naturally no one lives in them, so it is much cleaner.
Without hesitation, he pushed open the vermilion door mentioned in the letter, and a smell of medicine came to his face, and then the medicinal herbs that were drying all over the courtyard were directly reflected in Gu Muyan's eyes.
"This is Li Zhonghe, that's right! It is the same habit as in the previous life, and he treats medicine as his life. Gu Muyan looked at the familiar medicinal herbs in front of him, and chuckled with relief at the corner of his mouth.
Cheng Qi and Li Zhonghe, who came out of the hut, happened to see Gu Muyan's smile, and they were stunned for a while, and when they reacted, they coughed embarrassedly with hot ears.
"Big brother." Gu Muyan walked forward quickly, said to Cheng Qi Fu Fu, and then Fu to Li Zhonghe, who was beside Cheng Qi, also slightly blessed his body.
"This is Gu Muyan who I told you that I have something to look for you, this is Li Zhonghe." After Cheng Qi introduced, the three of them went to the main hall to discuss things.
After sitting down, Cheng Qi said to Li Zhonghe: "I heard that Brother Li's medical skills are extremely high, can you do your friends a favor?" ”
"Although the benefactor says, he will never give up in the future!" Saying that, Li Zhonghe knelt down, but fortunately, Cheng Qi was quick and directly helped Li Zhonghe up.
"It's just a passing by, it's nothing." Cheng Qi immediately waved his hand, but he was a little embarrassed in his heart, it was Gu Muyan who really saved people behind this, but Li Zhonghe thanked him.