The dry flat tea leaves slowly stretch out in the gurgling boiling water, the green buds float up and down in the water, fresh and active, the tea fragrance is already overflowing, echoing with the warm sun in the afternoon, making people lazy.

Su Li poured out the first tea, re-boiled it, and then divided it into small cups for the next person to serve to everyone.

This tea set is very exquisite, when it is cool, it is pure ink color, after pouring hot tea, it gradually changes color, and a landscape painting is quickly smudged on the cup, which echoes with the curling heat in the cup, making people forget the troubles, as if they are in the landscape and pastoral in this painting.

Chu Lingxi had never seen such a tea set, and felt very novel, and liked the pot of good tea boiled by Su Li very much, smelled and smelled, and after taking a sip, he felt that the fragrance of tea had been soaked all over his body from the tip of his tongue, and every pore was stretched.

"Ah Li's tea art is really a must!"

Chu Lingxi praised from the bottom of his heart, drank all the tea in his hand, and Su Li asked his subordinates to add him another cup.

"It's good if the prince likes it."

In fact, except for him and Gu Yuanfeng, there was no one else who tasted tea, but in this situation, the atmosphere was just right, and no one destroyed the tranquility because of what Gu Ji said before.

Lu Zhan was at an age when he couldn't sit still, but at this time, he was also obediently sitting beside Yue Yan and taking a sip of tea, and after drinking it, he praised it crisply: "It's delicious!" ”

His voice was crisp, with the softness of a child, I don't know if it was because of some alienation recently, Su Li always felt that he seemed to be more mature than before.

Gu Ji and Lu Ji were both too rigid and strong, and they were particularly stubborn in some aspects, and Su Li didn't know if it was a good thing for Lu Zhan to be raised by the two of them.

Su Li thought about it, Gu Yuanfeng had put down the teacup, and took out a beautifully bound book from his sleeve pocket, the book cover was dark blue all around, and there was a large blank space in the middle, on which was painted a branch of cold plum, the plum blossom was red and gorgeous, only one was about to open but not opened, and the others were bright red flower bones.

The person holding the pen has excellent workmanship, and at first glance, it seems that there are snowflakes falling, and the cold fragrance hits people.

"...... this?"

Su Li asked in surprise, and reached out to take the book and read it.

Gu Yuanfeng added a cup of tea, and the corners of his lips hooked into a relieved smile: "It's a gift I gave to Ah Li and Hou Ye." ”

He also brought Chu Huai'an with him, clearly knowing what Su Li conveyed and giving them a wedding gift.

"This book has long been out of print, and it is hard to find a thousand dollars, but Mr. has copied it by hand?"

His right hand was injured, and although he later switched to writing with his left hand, he was not as accustomed to it as his right hand, and he had never been able to tolerate the slightest flaw, and I don't know how much effort he spent copying this book.

Su Li was very distressed just thinking about this, but Gu Yuanfeng didn't care very much: "Ah Li doesn't lack anything now, and this is the only thing I can get my hands on." ”

This is the only one who can get his hands on it??

In the past, he was confident and determined, a calligraphy and painting was worth thousands of taels, and now he is a Taifu, and the things that come from his hands are no longer available to others, and it seems that it is worthless when he arrives at Su Li.

"Mr.'s grace, toothless and unforgettable, as I just said, Ah Li can't afford it!"

Su Li said excitedly that Gu Yuanfeng was different to her, she respected him and respected him, and she would remember his teachings in this life, use the principles she learned from him to walk in the world, and strive to be honest and upright.

Gu Yuanfeng knew that she had always respected her teacher, but that was it.

There was a moment of gloom in his eyes, and then he returned to normal: "It's just to give you this book, don't be so excited." ”

“…… Mr. Xie! ”

Su Li didn't shirk again, she deliberately distanced herself from Gu Yuanfeng when she first returned to Beijing, but now she can't hurt his heart too politely.

After Gu Yuanfeng gave the gift, Zhao Hanzhuo also took out something from his sleeve pocket, which was wrapped in a white cloth, and when he opened it, he saw that it was a cute pig's head shaped long-life lock.

The atmosphere at that time was very embarrassing, everyone's eyes fell on the silver lock, Su Li thought that this person had rarely made friends with people before, maybe he didn't understand the world, and kindly reminded: "Lord Zhao, do you know that longevity locks are generally given to children?" ”

"yes, I know."

"Then you are ......"

"I'll always need it in the future."

“……”

You have a good point, and you can't even refute it.

Su Li was speechless, Chu Huai'an crossed Su Li and took the longevity lock, his mood was a little better, and he couldn't help asking: "What if it's a dragon and phoenix fetus?" ”

After asking, he found that there was something wrong with the lock in his hand, and after groping for a moment and pressing on the lock, there was a click, and the long-lived lock separated into two halves, the middle was empty, containing a pea-sized transparent amber, and inside the amber was a beautifully shaped red bean.

Su Li: "......"

Are you so meticulous in deciding cases? Not to mention the dragon and phoenix fetuses now, even the triplets are enough!

Chu Huai'an, who had been holding his breath for the past few days, couldn't even pick out the thorn when he saw this ingenious lock at this time, he was stunned for a while, restored the lock, and smiled at Zhao Hanzhuo: "Thank you!" ”

He is still happy, and when he and Su Li are together, they will have their own children.

They will have children and grandchildren around their knees, and they will grow old.

That's good.

Chu Huai'an rubbed the lock, his face was cold, but the bottom of his eyes had melted like ice and snow, melting into the bright and warm spring light.

Gu Yuanfeng and Zhao Hanzhuo both gave gifts, Chu Lingxi naturally came prepared, he took out a slender ink-colored jade pillar three inches long and one finger thick from his arms, and the jade pillar was engraved with a living four-clawed dragon, which was a token of the prince at a glance.

"This thing is my personal token, if you annoy Ah Li at any time, you can take this thing to my fiefdom, all inns and restaurants can eat and stay for free, and of course, you can freely enter and exit my Huaiyang Palace."

Chu Lingxi said gently, this gift was so valuable that Su Li was a little embarrassed, and just about to refuse, he heard Chu Lingxi sigh: "With this thing, no matter what happens in the future, Ah Li, you are not nowhere to go......"

No matter what happens, it's not like she's going nowhere.

It's easy to think of her sudden absence six years ago.

If she had this thing at that time, she would definitely not have gone to the border with her sword, would not have known Lu Ji, and would not have suffered so much.

Chu Huai'an's eyes just had a little warmth because of this sentence, but he still took the jade pillar for Su Li.

The jade pillar started, but it was obviously warm and cold, but it burned Chu Huai's head with a pain, and he said in a deep voice: "With me here, she won't have nowhere to go." ”

The events of that year are irreparable, and he will not let such things happen again in the future.

Yue Yan only knew that Su Li invited Gu Yuanfeng and them to drink tea today, and he didn't know what else he meant, seeing that they had all given gifts at this time, he naturally understood it, and was even more shocked when he was seen by Su Li in the jewelry shop before: "Ah Li, you and Hou Ye ......"

"Well, as my sister saw." Su Li generously grabbed Chu Huai'an's hand and showed them: "We have made a private decision for life." ”

The woman's hands are slender and soft, and a little cool, which is completely different from the man's.

Ten fingers interlocked, Chu Huai'an rushed through the numb current, and his face, which had been tense, cracked uncontrollably and became smiling.

In order not to look like the second fool in the village, Chu Huaian cleared his throat and explained seriously: "It's not a private life, I've already met my parents." ”

After speaking, he grabbed Su Li more tightly, and he thought in his heart that he wanted to give Su Li the most beautiful and grand wedding, and at this time, Su Li admitted his relationship with him in front of these people, but it made him feel extremely excited and satisfied.

She will be his wife, and it doesn't need to be known to everyone, it is enough for a few people to know.

Knowing that Su Li would not act impulsively, and knowing that Lu Ji had cut off all possibilities with Su Li, Yue Yan still subconsciously turned his head and glanced at Lu Ji.

Lu Ji sat next to him, his face softened by the cold grinding of the years, and he was not too surprised by Su Li and Chu Huai'an's official announcement, and said softly: "Now I am also Ah Li's brother, although the Hou Ye and Ah Li are in love, the wedding gift is still indispensable." ”

Naturally, it can't be less, but it's not your turn to discuss!

Now that it has been corrected, Chu Huai'an immediately took out the attitude of the main room: "I will discuss the marriage with Ah Li, and the number of etiquette that should be there will be no less!" ”

Lu Ji wanted to say something, but Su Li said softly: "How can I keep filial piety for a period of time after my brother's marriage with Miss Gu, it doesn't hurt for me to wait any longer." ”

She used the same excuse as she had prevaricated Chu Liu before, if it had been in the past, Lu Ji should still be able to detect that something was wrong, but when Su Li mentioned Gu Li, he couldn't think of anything else for a while.

Seeing that the atmosphere was a little stagnant, Yue Yan hurriedly opened his mouth to divert the topic: "I came in a hurry today, I didn't prepare any gifts, I'll give you when Ah Li and Hou Ye get married." ”

"Okay."

Su Li responded, and there was no mess next.

A group of people sat and drank tea, and then had lunch, and then left slowly.

Chu Lingxi and Gu Yuanfeng walked last, and Su Li and Chu Huai'an sent them to the gate together.

"If the two of you can come together, it can be regarded as providence, so let's support each other to live a good life in the future." Chu Lingxi said that the regrets in his heart could not be made up, and now that he could see Chu Huaian and Su Li finally become married, he was happy for them.

Although he and Gu Yuanfeng are several years apart, now standing together, they are more like Su Li's maiden parents.

At this time, Chu Huai'an didn't keep his face tight, he knew that Gu Yuanfeng had a different status in Su Li's heart, so it was rare to bow his head honestly and stand with an expression of obediently listening to the reprimand.

However, Gu Yuanfeng didn't say anything more, only said: "The matter of marriage, such as people drinking water and knowing it, as long as Ah Li is happy, no matter what happens in the future and what choice she makes, I will support it." ”

These words did not require Chu Huai'an to be very good to Su Li, but he invisibly supported Su Li, if she felt wronged in the future, if she wanted to reconcile and leave, Hufu or something, he would definitely support her!

Chu Huai'an struggled to control his expression, and Su Li solemnly saluted Gu Yuanfeng: "Sir, don't worry, Ah Li will be happy." ”

She spoke so firmly and comfortingly that she couldn't see what she was carrying on her shoulders.

Gu Yuanfeng was really deceived, nodded with relief, and said: "Gu Jiong said that the elder of Lizhou may have sneaked into the palace, but he hasn't been caught yet, and I don't know what will happen, so it's better to be more careful when Ah Li enters the palace in the future." ”

Gu Yuanfeng's reminder reminded Su Li of the palace maid who was waiting for the palace maid when she sent Su Wanyue away that day.

The palace maid was a little fierce, and her temperament also made Su Li feel a little strange, and when she was interrupted by other things, she forgot to tell Chu Lingzhao, whether it was right or wrong, she still had to ask someone to send a letter to Gu Zhi for a while.

"I know, Mr. and Lord should also pay attention."

"Good!"

Gu Yuanfeng and Chu Lingxi left side by side, until they turned the alley and disappeared, and Su Li stood at the gate and watched for a long time.

In this life, I don't know when I will see them again.

"What are you thinking?"

Chu Huai'an asked softly, Su Li shook her head, turned around and walked back: "Tomorrow is the Qingming Festival, I want to go to Longxi County to pay tribute to the second sister." ”

"I'll go with you."

"Okay."

The subordinates had prepared the things for the sacrifice early, and Su Li and Chu Huai'an went to find Zhang Wu, who had already carved the wood carving and covered it with a white cloth.

The wood carving is almost as high as Su Li, using the best agarwood, not deliberately smoked, with a light wood fragrance, taking off the white cloth, the lifelike wood carving makes Su Li's heart beat a beat.

Zhang Wu was modest, his wood carving skills were very good, and even the details of his hair and the folds of his clothes were very well done.

Su Li's eyes instantly heated, and she unconsciously raised her hand to caress the face of the wood carving, and the tentacles were cold, reminding her that this was just a lifeless wood carving.

But Su Li was reluctant to let go, she looked at the outline of the wood carving inch by inch, and suddenly saw a dark red blood color in the corner of the left eye of the wood carving, the trace should have been cleaned, very light, if it wasn't for Su Li to see it so carefully, she couldn't see it at all.

"There was blood here before?"

Su Li asked, Zhang Wu was surprised, he didn't expect Su Li to look at it so carefully, and then replied a little crampedly: "Yes...... I accidentally injured my hand when I carved here. ”

All the places are perfect, but this flaw is always impossible not to mind.

Su Li remembered the previous dream, and then looked at the eyes of this wood carving, and didn't know how to think about it in her heart: "Those who do wood carving pay attention to calmness, not impetuous and rushed, how can they suddenly miss it?" But someone interfered with you at that time? ”

Because the flaw was discovered, Zhang Wu was embarrassed, and when Su Li asked him like this, he couldn't wait to find a hole to get into, and after a while, he had to blush and confess: "The portrait has been engraved in my heart in the past few days, and there are even dreams of the woman in the painting, but I have seen it once in a dream from a long distance, and I ...... the night before I carved my eyes I had a nightmare. ”

"What did you dream about?"

"I dreamed that someone gouged out her eyes."

Someone gouged out her eyes?

These words are really heartbreaking for Su Li.

Su Li dreamed that Su Zhaoyue's eyes were gouged out, which can also be explained as the influence of the incident in Lizhou, she thought too much, Zhang Wu, an amnesiac person, dreamed of it, but for no reason.

I'm afraid it's not a dream, but a part of the memory he's missing! He had indeed witnessed someone gouging out Su Zhaoyue's eyes!

Who is he?

On the second day of the Qingming Festival, the spring light that had been sunny for half a month hid, and there was a continuous drizzle in the sky, Su Li did not go to Longxi County to incense, but only knelt in the ancestral hall to burn paper for Su Zhaoyue, Su Liang and Su Jue moved out before Su Wanyue was buried, and the huge ancestral hall was empty, only for Su Zhaoyue's tablet.

Yue Yan was taken out of the palace by Chu Huai'an yesterday and stayed in the mansion to treat Zhang Wu's illness, so that he could recover his memory as soon as possible.

Second sister, I will definitely find the murderer who gouged out your eyes, this revenge will not be avenged, I have no face to go to your grave and kowtow to you for incense.

Su Wanyue is dead, she caused you to marry Zhang Ling by mistake, and now she has suffered a lot, if you meet her on the Huangquan Road, you don't have to be afraid of her, you will go to hell, and I should accompany her.

Green Sleeves is loyal to you, and now in the Zhang family, there is a place to live with Wen Ling, I told Wen Ling before, if you meet a suitable good person, you will promise a good family affair for Green Sleeves, if she marries, I will prepare a rich dowry for her.

I'm going to Hudi soon, I don't know if I'll be able to come back alive, and if I die unfortunately, I might be able to catch up with you and be reborn as sisters together.

No one came to disturb, Su Li thought a lot alone, and burned a full brazier of paper money ashes.

Eight days later, Zhang Wu regained his memory and told a very bizarre story.

His original surname was Su, his name was Hengxiu, he was the eldest young master of the Su family in Lizhou, he took his servants to Xunzhou to do business last year, and was accidentally kidnapped.

They waited in Xunzhou for a day, waiting for a middle-aged woman, An Jue called the woman 'Aunt Qing', Aunt Qing was wearing a hat, Su Hengxiu had never seen her true face, but the first time they met, he heard Aunt Qing snort coldly at him.

There was obvious hostility in the voice, and he didn't know where that hostility was coming from.

Aunt Qing came here for An Jue, and it seems that she had long expected that An Jue would come to this point and change her face for An Jue, so that he could hide from others, what those people wanted was Su Hengxiu's face.

However, An Jue did not agree, he quarreled with Aunt Qing, and he disagreed with the face swap between words, it seems that the body function will continue to decline after the face swap, and he needs to be replaced by other people's organs from time to time to continue his life.

An Jue doesn't want to live like this.

After a quarrel, Aunt Qing didn't insist, and then An Jue told Aunt Qing that he had a corpse in his hand and asked Aunt Qing to see if there were any organs that could be used.

At that time, Su Hengxiu was awake, and he saw Aunt Qing circling the female corpse twice, feeling quite sorry because the female corpse had been dead for a few days, but in the end she did not return empty-handed, she gouged out the eyes of the female corpse.

Su Hengxiu saw that her technique was very skillful, and her hand was up and down, as if her hand was not a person, but an animal.

After Aunt Qing gouged out those eyes, An Jue asked the female corpse to be crushed, leaving only one arm, and all the others were thrown out to feed the dogs.

Aunt Qing carefully packed those eyes, and then asked An Jue for Su Hengxiu.

Aunt Qing stunned Su Hengxiu and took him to a rouge shop called Huifang Pavilion, and when Su Hengxiu woke up, he found himself lying in the incense building of the rouge shop.

Aunt Qing was sitting not far from him, and she took off her hat, revealing a very beautiful face, but he didn't know it, and he didn't know what Aunt Qing was doing when she brought her there.

Then he heard a familiar and cheerful voice: "Big brother! ”

Turning around, he saw his sister-in-law Su Yue, who eagerly told him that Aunt Qing was actually their mother who had been dead for many years.

Su Hengxiu felt that his world had overturned at that moment, his mother had already died, how could he suddenly come back from the dead? And still so young?

Su Yue said that her mother did not die at all, she had been in Lizhou all the time, and helped her cure the ugly birthmark on her face, she was an excellent person, and it was their father who lost her mother back then.

Received too much information in an instant, Su Hengxiu's brain couldn't turn, but Su Yue was still asking him next to him, if her eyes looked good now, he suddenly felt a chill on his back, and realized that the eyes that were plucked out of the female corpse had now been put into Su Yue's eye sockets.

His scalp was numb, and the hairs on his body were about to explode, and he didn't think that Su Yue was his sister, but a monster with other people's organs.

Things were far from stopping there, Su Yue told him that his second brother was not actually killed by the thief, but by this mother who suddenly appeared.

And the reason why he has been able to live until now is because he looks more like his father than his second brother, almost exactly the same as when his father was young, so his mother has been reluctant to do it until now.

Su Hengxiu heard that at that time, he couldn't control his stomach and lay on the ground retching, he was sure that he had encountered a monster, only hatred and no good and evil monsters.

In the end, he was tied hand and foot by Su Yue herself, tied to a stone and threw it into the well behind the incense building.

It is said that this is the way their mother was killed by Shen Jiang back then.

Not long after sinking into the well, Su Hengxiu lost consciousness, he didn't know who rescued him from the well, after waking up, he lost his memory, and by chance was taken to Beijing by the young master of the Zhou family, and then met Su Li.

Maybe it was Su Zhaoyue's undead who was uneasy, and he was destined to meet Su Li and tell Su Li what had happened to her after her death, so that Su Li could avenge her.

Su Li didn't finish listening to what Su Hengxiu said, and she couldn't hear any other sounds in her ears for a long time.

"Did he really throw my second sister's body to feed the dogs?"

Su Li asked word by word, her eyes wide open, like a person about to drown, clutching the last straw.

Su Hengxiu opened his mouth, and when she looked at him like this, he couldn't say that 'yes'.

After being silent for a long time, Su Li also got an answer, her breathing was a little faster, she got up and walked out, and was stopped by Chu Huai'an and hugged tightly.

"Let go of me!"

She said loudly, her voice was crying, and her emotions were almost broken, Chu Huai'an didn't let go, and gently patted her back to comfort: "What are you going to do?" I'll help you! ”

"I'm going to dig up An Jue's bones and chop them up and feed them to the dogs!"

"Good!"

"Catch that elder, I'm going to tear her into pieces with my own hands!"

"Good!"

gritted his teeth and said these two words, but the grief in his heart still could not be diminished.

Why! Why are you so cruel to the second sister?!

It was she who abolished An Jue, why didn't she seek revenge! Why do you want to hurt the second sister!

"What if Your Majesty wants to keep her alive?"

"I'll help you!"