Chapter 243: Thoughtful
Zhu Gaoxu looked at the smile on Yao Ji's face, and then looked thoughtful. He seemed to be thinking about the meaning of her smile.
In Yao Ji's eyes, Zhu Gaoxu is such a person, always thinking about something. He seldom asks people directly, usually thinking about it for a while, or not saying it at all.
At this time, Yao Ji wanted to tell him why she was laughing. Her lips opened slightly, but she found it difficult to explain, so she sighed softly.
Yao Ji has found since she was a child that people think like this: What benefits can I get from you, I helped you, will you be grateful, will you repay this favor?
Perhaps because of those encounters, she was very sensitive to such thoughts.
So when she heard what Zhu Gaoxu said, she laughed out loud somehow...... What Zhu Gaoxu said is: This way you can be happy, and this is always a good thing for you.
Yao Ji finally spoke: "I have received the prince's wishes." ”
"Hmm......" Zhu Gaoxu responded, still with that thoughtful expression.
Yao Ji smiled bitterly and muttered: "I suddenly reunited with my father today, I thought he would ask me something, just like whether my adoptive parents were good to me, whether the prince was good to me, what grievances I have suffered over the years, and so on...... Who knows he didn't ask anything. ”
Zhu Gaoxu said: "You have said too many things at once, and you have said all the things of more than ten years. In this way, before Yao Fengji goes to Yuezhou to take up his post, I asked Wang Gui to arrange for your father and daughter to meet again. ”
He paused and said, "Don't meet in the Han Palace, there are many people in the palace, and I don't want others to know about your relationship for the time being." ”
Yao Ji nodded lightly.
At this time, Zhu Gaoxu pressed his hands on his knees, and the person stood up and said, "Then I'll go first." ”
Yao Ji also got up and said softly: "The concubine will send the prince." ”
"Stay, Yao Ji doesn't have to be polite." Zhu Gaoxu strode out of the door. He doesn't walk in a hurry, but he also walks fast with long legs.
…… The sound of drums on the tower of the city came from afar, and the time had come. However, when Zhu Gaoxu returned to the palace, the sun had just set, and the sunset was still hanging on the clouds on the horizon.
He walked into the threshold of the dormitory and reached out to help Guo Wei, who was half-squatting in front of him, up. He only glanced at it, and then couldn't help but look her up and down, always feeling that Guo Wei was a little strange today.
Zhu Gaoxu soon found out that it was because her clothes were different from usual.
Guo Weiping likes to wear loose and flowing long dresses, and the materials are mostly light-colored, which looks bright and refined; Today, she is wearing a white skirt with red thread and lace, and the top is tied in the skirt and cut to a good fit.
"Lord Wang, what's wrong?" Guo Wei's face was a little red, but she asked first. Her face was small, her eyes were large, and she seemed to feel uncomfortable in her flickering eyes.
"Nothing." Zhu Gaoxu shook his head, walked to the chair and sat down, and looked at Guo Wei again.
He suddenly remembered...... Yao Ji loves to wear skirts in the palace, and they are cut to fit closely! That kind of clothes can show Yao Ji's full chest and flexible waist line very attractively. But Guo Wei is a little younger and not as well developed as Yao Ji, so she looks a little thin at this time.
There is also a jade bracelet worn by Guo Wei on her wrist, which doesn't seem to be her style, she usually loves to wear carved gold bracelets, and she wears a pair...... And Du Qianrui seems to often wear jade bracelets, for no other reason, because Du Qianrui happens to have a jade bracelet given by Zhu Gaoxu.
"Wei'er, you don't have to learn from anyone." Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but say.
Guo Wei whispered: "Doesn't the prince like me wearing this clothes?" ”
Zhu Gaoxu shook his head, stretched out his hand, and when Guo Wei got closer, he held her little hand, and said kindly: "Guo Wei is already very beautiful, I like everything I wear...... I took Yao Ji out today, really just for business. ”
Guo Wei's face suddenly turned red, and she pursed her lips and said, "I want to wear close-fitting ones myself, but no one said that she is only allowed to wear a skirt!" ”
"That's just as well." Zhu Gaoxu smiled bitterly.
He grabbed Guo Wei's little hand and played with the jade bracelet on her wrist, which looked like it should be Hetian jade...... Because there was no jadeite jewelry at this time.
Zhu Gaoxu said casually: "If Wei'er likes jade, I will give you a jade one in the future, which is more suitable for bracelets." ”
Guo Wei didn't seem to care about what jade was, she was a little distracted. After a while, she hesitantly grabbed Zhu Gaoxu's big hand and gently put it on her waist.
Zhu Gaoxu was sitting, and when he looked up, he saw that her little face with delicate facial features had turned red, and suddenly it was like she was drunk. She pinned her face to the side, too ashamed to look at Zhu Gaoxu, but she was still very active.
Zhu Gaoxu was afraid that she would feel rejected, so he cooperated with her, followed her graceful waist, and gently stroked it down with his fingers.
He remembered at this time that before going to Yuezhou, he said that he would do something "else" with Guo Wei when he came back from victory. Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu's big hand was lightly forced, and Guo Wei snorted softly, and there was a soft feeling in her arms, and her body had already thrown herself into Zhu Gaoxu's arms.
Zhu Gaoxu looked at her neckline, the fifteen-year-old snow-white and immature skin was unbearable to blaspheme, he still couldn't help but feel a little guilty in his heart, and said in a low voice: "Wei'er, don't worry, I'll be very light." It's not that I didn't like you before, don't get me wrong. ”
Guo Wei's voice trembled slightly: "The concubine wants to serve the prince and fulfill the princess's duty." ”
……
By the time the sun had gone down, it was getting dark. The yard was littered with fallen leaves, the houses were full of dust, and there was a foul smell. But there was a fire burning in the middle of the hall.
There was a man tied to the pillar, and he was sitting on the ground with his mouth gagged, and he was staring at the fire in front of him.
Yao Fang sat cross-legged in front of the fire, and very frequently lifted the wine jar and poured wine, and the wine was poured too quickly, spilling wine on the collar and placket of his clothes.
"Bang dang!" Yao Fang threw away the wine jar in his hand, got up and opened another jar. At this time, he turned his head to look at the tied man and asked, "Do you want to drink?" ”
The man glared and nodded.
Yao Fang said again: "Don't shout? ”
The Han man nodded again.
So Yao Fang crawled forward, pulled the cloth ball from the man's mouth, put the wine jar up, fed him a big sip, and then brought it back and poured it with his head up.
"Hero, when will you let me go?" The man asked.
Yao Fang raised his head and sneered: "Tonight." ”
"Thank you to the heroes, I went home and burned incense for the heroes every day!" The man was grateful for Dade for a while.
Yao Fang fed the man another big sip, and then plugged his mouth again.
Yao Fang staggered back two steps, sat on the ground, suddenly spilled the wine on the ground, and lay on the ground and howled.
After a long time, he struggled to sit up, looked at the man on the pillar, and laughed "hehe", and his whole body twitched. After a while, he cried with tears on his face, and cried: "Brother, you said that I have grown so big, why have I never lived to understand? ”
The man still stared at the blank eyes, looked at Yao Fang, who was crying and laughing, and shook his head, finally responding.
Maybe Yao Fang didn't need his response at all, and didn't even look at it, Yao Fang seemed to be talking to herself: "I used to understand it, but suddenly I didn't understand it...... Although it is quite tragic to have a broken family since childhood, no one can do anything about natural and man-made disasters......
I thought, someone raised me, there are still good people in the world. No matter what I did, it was to repay the favor, at least I figured it out...... What's more, I'm still very young, I want to be promoted and rich, and marry a good wife and a beautiful concubine, what's wrong with that? ”
His speech gradually became a little blurred, and he suddenly cried again, and said incoherently: "Mother! deceived me for more than ten years, causing our family to be ruined...... But I was as loyal to him as a dog, how many evil things I have done, and how much blood I have stained on my hands! ”
Yao Fang raised her hands, leaned in front of the fire and shook her head, "Why?" Why do people live? What is black and what is white, and what is the right way to do it, can anyone tell me? ”
He went into a drunken madness, laughed bitterly in the dilapidated hall, and fell asleep on the ground somehow.
…… When Yao Fang woke up, she suddenly felt a splitting headache. When he opened his eyes, he saw that the firewood next to him was almost burned out, and there was only a little ember spark left. The man on the pillar next to him drooped his head, his upper body slowly rising and falling rhythmically, and he was snoring.
It was still dark outside, and there was no moon or starlight.
Yao Fang rubbed his temples and struggled to get up, he first went to the door and grabbed two handfuls of chopped firewood and came in, adding firewood to the embers. After a while, Chai He gradually burst into flames, and the hall slowly brightened up.
Yao Fang stepped forward and slapped the man's face twice, and the man opened his eyes and stared at him.
"To drink or not to drink?" Yao Fang lifted the wine jug in his hand and shook it in front of the man's eyes. His voice was a little hoarse, but there was no emotion.
The man nodded.
Yao Fang said again: "Don't shout? ”
The man nodded again.
Seeing this, Yao Fang pulled out the cloth ball in the man's mouth, uncovered the mud seal of the jar of wine in his hand, and began to pour wine into the man continuously. Yao Fang didn't take a sip herself, but took one sip after another and poured a few jars of wine from the tied man, and the dirty clothes on the man's body were all wet.
Plugging the man's mouth again, Yao Fang suddenly said coldly: "Brother, I'm going to send you on your way." There was no food, only wine, sorry. ”
"Woo woo woo ......" the man made a sound and began to struggle. But he had been tied up for days, and he didn't seem to have much strength.
Yao Fang muttered: "It's just right to get drunk, and it's not uncommon for a drunk to drown in a ditch. ”
So he walked out of the hall, brought in a large basin of water, put it in front of the man, and looked at him.
The tied man struggled for a long time, seemed tired, and sat there weakly, looking desperate and dazed.
Yao Fang thought for a while and said, "There will be no copper plates in the sky, no matter what money is not easy to earn." ”