Gu Nian didn't take what happened on the day of the banquet in the Great Prince's Mansion, whether it was Mrs. Pingyang Hou or Xiao Xu's family, they were just tongues, not to mention that they didn't take advantage of it.

Xiao Xu was driven out of the house by Mrs. Jiang like that, and probably she was not so easy to enter the door of the high-ranking family in the capital next.

However, just because you don't take it to heart doesn't mean that other people don't take it to heart.

The Pingyang Hou Mansion ushered in a distinguished guest that people could not avoid.

Meng Fan, the prince of Pingyang, looked at the man in a prince's suit in front of him, his hand holding the teacup tightened, calmed himself down, and asked, "I don't know what the prince has to do here." ”

Obviously, Meng Fan was older than the man in front of him, but he felt the sense of oppression from the man in front of him.

The man who sat casually in the chair said, "I heard that Ling Tang is very interested in Mrs. An Yuanhou?" I wonder if she also wants to follow suit and go to your family temple to eat a long fast? ”

How did Mother provoke this Demon King? Pingyang Hou Shizi only felt that his head suddenly throbbed.

"If your mansion doesn't have a family temple, there are still many locations in the family temple of Marquis Anyuan's Mansion in Jinling, so you can let Lingtang go and be the companion of Mrs. Marquis Anyuan."

As he spoke, a smile appeared on his face, but in the eyes of Hou Shizi of Pingyang, he was as cold and terrifying as Shura.

The momentum rushed to his face, full of blood and killing intent, which made Pingyang Hou Shizi, who had experienced a lot of things, shudder.

He took a deep breath and asked, "What does the prince want?" ”

In the past, Xiao Yue was the representative of the Living Hades, and in normal times, no one welcomed him to the door.

Once he comes to the door, it's killing.

This time, he went to the door of the Pingyang Marquis Mansion without a holiday, and did not go to the Pingyang Marquis, but went directly to the Shizi's study.

The entire Pingyang Marquis Mansion shook, and I don't know what this living Hades is doing. Could it be that he came to talk to the prince about the relationship between the two corners?

I'm afraid that Meng Fan will provoke him, so he will suffer.

Mrs. Pingyang Hou didn't pay attention to the little thing in the Great Prince's Mansion that day, in her opinion, it was just a greeting to her in-laws.

Mrs. Pingyang, who was staying in the main courtyard, almost couldn't breathe when she heard Xiao Yue come to the door, and there was surprise in her eyes, could it be that the King of Jin came for the princess of Jin?

But she didn't say anything that day, let alone say anything wrong.

She wanted to go out to have a look, but was stopped by her close grandmother and Meng Ru.

Mrs. Pingyang Hou was so anxious that she finally heard that Xiao Yue was gone, and hurriedly rushed from the main courtyard to Meng Fan's study.

Xiao Yue left, and the low pressure in the entire Hou Mansion finally dissipated, but Meng Fan's face was pale, he clenched his fists, and felt that there was still a sharp killing intent in his neck.

He still didn't dare to move for a long time after Xiao Yue left, he was afraid that if he moved, the residual killing intent would cut his throat. Let him bleed to death.

This made Meng Fan, who had always regarded himself very highly, feel afraid, and it was also the first time he felt that Xiao Yue was not a person who was spoiled by the first emperor, nor was he as simple as the living Hades in other people's mouths.

After a long time, it wasn't until Mrs. Pingyang Hou rushed in, and her screams made Meng Fan move impatiently.

He ignored the screams of Mrs. Pingyang Hou, and instead ordered the subordinates who had been trembling on the side, "You clean up here, I'll go out for a while." ”

He walked out with his feet up, took two steps, and asked, "I'll go to the study to talk to my father." ”

The people on the side were also scared half to death, and when Meng Fan left, he called someone to come in and clean up the house that had been ravaged by a storm and put on new furniture.

Seeing that Meng Fan ignored him, Mrs. Pingyang Hou followed behind him, "What is King Jin doing here?" He came to the door like this to kill him, did he let him do this?

This is the foot of the Son of Heaven, and there is no royal law, let's go to sue the official. ”

Meng Fan saw that she was anxious, she didn't know what to say, and felt that some joints in her body began to hurt, just now Xiao Yue not only smashed the house, but also hit the joints on his body a few times, he didn't feel anything at the time, but now he began to feel a faint pain.

Thinking of what Xiao Yue said, Meng Fan smiled bitterly, and he said to Mrs. Pingyang Hou, "Mother, you should stay at home in the future." ”

Save yourself from getting into trouble.

Mrs. Pingyang Hou stood in place, stunned for a while, and waited until Meng Fan walked away before she reacted, she was grounded?

This unfilial and disobedient child.

Meng Fan went to the study to see Pingyang Hou, Pingyang Hou was resting in the study, because no one had said anything about Xiao Yue's door, so it wasn't until he met Meng Fan that Pingyang Hou knew that a demon king had come to the door.

After Meng Fan said that Xiao Yue came to the door, he said bluntly, "Father, let people go down, I have something to tell you." ”

Pingyang Hou frowned, let people retreat according to his words, and then said in surprise, "What's wrong?" ”

Meng Fan took a deep breath again, slowly told what Mrs. Pingyang Hou did in the eldest prince, and then said with a wry smile, "My son was beaten by him just now." ”

Pingyang Hou looked at Meng Fan sympathetically, Meng Fan could only accept his father's sympathetic gaze, he knew that as long as Xiao Yue didn't beat him to death, even if he sued the emperor, it would be over.

A beating is nothing, but what Xiao Yue said made him horrified!

After Pingyang Hou sympathized with Meng Fan, he shook his head and said, "I didn't expect that King Jin was also a child lover, and for the little grievance that Princess Jin suffered, he ran to the door, it's really ......."

Seeing Pingyang Hou's sarcastic appearance, Meng Fan lowered his eyes, not to mention that his father didn't understand, even he didn't understand what kind of person King Jin was.

He also respects his wife very much, but his wife was asked to marry him after kneeling at the door of Marquis Anyuan for three days, so he naturally loves it.

However, even if he loves her, he will not hold her in his heart, at least, he is more enthusiastic about power in addition to his wife.

Otherwise, he is a dignified son, why did he start to boil his qualifications from the county order? In addition to these, he will also enjoy the indispensable treats of a man.

He accepted the room given by his wife, and he also accepted concubines in office, and the maids in the family sometimes found it interesting and appreciative when they were ambiguous and provocative.

Let him be like King Jin, he probably can't do it.

After satirizing Xiao Yue, Pingyang Hou said in hindsight, "Are you injured?" ”

Meng Fan shook his head and said, "It's bearable." "It's just a pain in the joint from time to time.

He moved his knee and said, "Father, I want to ask you one thing, where is the fourth prince now?" ”

Pingyang Hou, who originally had a smile on his face, instantly sank his face, his expression became solemn, he looked his son up and down, looked at him and said, "What are you asking for?" Aren't the Four Princes in Huangjue Temple? ”

Meng Fan's eyes looked at Pingyang Hou fixedly, his reaction was naturally to see it in his eyes, his whole heart suddenly became half cold, his hairs stood up, and a layer of sweat crawled on his back, he said with difficulty,

"What is going on with the four princes, my father should be clear, father, you should be cautious."

Pingyang Hou said with a cold face, "For my father, I have my own measure, you haven't told me yet, why are you asking this dignifiedly?" ”

"It was King Jin who asked his son."

Before the words fell, Pingyang Hou suddenly stood up from his chair and said in surprise, "He ......"

Probably thinking that he was too out of shape, he slowly sat back in his chair.

He was really surprised, in the matter of the four princes, he thought he was extremely careful, except for two henchmen, even his successor Meng Fan never said it.

It would be great if his bet could succeed, even if it couldn't be successful, Meng Fan married the granddaughter of the eldest princess of the country, and had a relationship with the Jin Palace, and Meng Fan's vein could always be preserved.

It's just that how did King Jin find out?

Thinking of this, a layer of sweat also crawled on Pingyang Hou's back, and his face became more and more solemn.

He learned from his son to take a deep breath and said to him, "I will talk to you in detail about the matter of the fourth prince in the future, you still have to find an opportunity to explain it to King Jin, so that he doesn't leak this matter." ”

He gritted his teeth and said, "No matter what, you must shut him up." ”

"Didn't your wife grow up with Princess Jin? Let her make a post and invite Princess Jin to come over and have fun. He suggested.

Meng Fan knew that this matter must not be known to outsiders, and because of the incident of the embankment in the south of the Yangtze River, his image in the emperor's heart was already unsafe.

He pursed his lips and said, "When the Jiangnan embankment burst was the first thing to do, King Jin was already ...... in the face of Shu'er."

Pingyang Hou glanced at him, paused, and looked out the window intently.

When Meng Fan left from Pingyang Hou's study, the sky was suddenly gloomy, and his mood was the same as this gray sky.

As soon as he got out of the study, a big maid from Mrs. Pingyang Hou came over and invited him to the main courtyard.

He was afraid that Mrs. Pingyang Hou would do something more, so he turned around and went to the main courtyard.

Along the way, the big girl seemed to tease him, but Meng Fan was not in the mood to appreciate it.

He saw Mrs. Pingyang Hou crying with tears streaming down his face, and he just smiled bitterly in his heart.

……

When Xiao Yue returned home, it was already raining outside, and when he got home, Gu Nian was playing with Astragalus and Qingye girls.

Gu Nian hasn't done this for a long time, but this morning I saw that the veil hanging under Xiao Yueyu's pendant was old, and she still played it before.

Although she often helped Xiao Yue make underwear, shoes or something, but later with Xu'er, more attention was put on Xu'er.

Looking at it, it's a little guilty.

So, after she dealt with the matter, she asked the astragalus to find the materials to come out, thinking of playing a few more, and by the way, embroidering a few more purses, and putting them there, which could be used by Xiao Yue.

She looked at the yarn in her hand slowly, feeling that her already not very high level had dropped again, and she was worried about whether to use it for Xiao Yue.

Suddenly, a hand reached out from the side and took the veil from her hand.

Gu Nian raised her head, it was Xiao Yue who came back, she coughed, and said, "It's not good-looking, or ......."

Xiao Yue didn't seem to hear what she said, but directly stuffed the yarn into her arms, as if it was too late, she was going to snatch it back.

Gu Nian was pleased by his appearance, asked Astragalus to collect the things, served tea again, and asked, "You took Xu'er out, why did you come back alone?" ”

Xiao Yue said with a smile, "Just now I went to Pingyang Hou Mansion to talk to Meng Fan about life, and put Xu'er at my grandmother's place." ”

Talking about life? He actually went to Meng Fan to talk about life?

She looked at Xiao Yue suspiciously, and said, "You...... Didn't do anything, did you? ”

After he went to the battlefield, he was now gentle to her alone, and he returned to his former appearance in front of outsiders.

Xiao Yue didn't speak, but looked at the rope she had beaten before, untied the jade pendant around her waist, took off the old one, and replaced it with a new one.

He slowly returned, "What can I do?" It's just a gesture with him and a talk to him. ”

Gu Nian looked at him with suspicion, 'Compare' or something, it has too many meanings.

"I don't beat women, since his wife bullied you, I can only bully her son to pay off the debt, and the mother and son repay the debt, which is very fair." Xiao Yue slowly and methodically got the jade pendant right, held it up, looked at it at the light, and then nodded.

Gu Nian didn't expect him to take that matter to heart, and she didn't think that Mrs. Pingyang Hou bullied her that day, besides, Zhou Yuyan was angry with Mrs. Pingyang Hou at that time.

Xiao Yue glanced at her and said casually, "Whoever dares to bully you, I will make him look good." ”

On the second day after changing the luozi, when Gu Shi'an came over, he pulled Gu Nian's sleeve and said, "Your luozi is playing well, when will you make one for your father?" ”

Gu Shi'an's face was grieved, as if Gu Nian had done something heinous.

It's like an abandoned puppy, pitiful.

Look at the jade pendant hanging on his waist, bare, only a red rope hanging, and the sachet is also dusty, she embroidered it when she was in the Qi State Mansion in the past.

"Dad, why did you suddenly think of my call?" Gu Nian stiffened and asked slowly.

"When I went down to court today, Xiao Yue's stinky boy, he clearly changed a bright veil around his waist, and when he came out with me, he deliberately straightened his waist.

Show off! ”

Gu Shi'an looked at Gu Nian sadly.

Gu Nian only felt that his face twitched, and he took out a purse and a string from the basket on the side that had been prepared a long time ago, and handed it to Gu Shi'an.

She felt that she was really too wise and powerful, and Weng and her son-in-law usually tried their best to win her attention.

Therefore, when she did it, she had already calculated Gu Shi'an's share.

Gu Shi'an hurriedly put on the new one, and he was reluctant to throw away the old one, he looked at the new purse and wind, straightened his waist, and wanted to go out with his hands behind his back, as if he remembered something, and said, "Do you know how to make rouge?" ”

Gu Nian originally wanted to laugh at his coquettish appearance, but suddenly heard him ask like this, and froze for a moment.

Of course she knows how to make rouge, when she was tinkering with astragalus herbs, she made rouge, but what she didn't understand was that her father didn't even have a waiting maid by his side, so what did he ask for?

Still, she said honestly, "Yes." My daughter made it herself. ”

Gu Shi'an said 'um', and then said casually, "Then give me two or three boxes." ”

Gu Nian's heart became more and more curious, but his face did not show it.

She didn't ask anything, but asked Astragalus to get a few boxes of tops and give them to Gu Shi'an.

The weather is getting warmer and warmer, and at this time in the past, Gu Shi'an would often come over and take Xu'er out for a hike or something, saying that he would take him to see more of the scenery outside.

But this spring, he rarely came, and after he came, he was in a hurry.

Gu Nian thought that he was busy, but from time to time he asked people to go to the Su Palace, so as to save the rough men in the palace from making a mess of the palace.

The weather is getting hotter, the eldest princess of the protectorate has lived in the Jin Palace, An Yuanhou came to pick up a few times, and said to let her go home, although there is Zhou Yuyan in the house, but Zhou Yuyan is a daughter who is away from home after all, and it is inconvenient to come forward with many things.

And Zhou Yuxuan has been doing things for the emperor all these years, running around outside, and rarely at home.

Therefore, the mansion especially needs the eldest princess to protect the country at home.

Before returning home, the eldest princess of the protectorate discussed with Gu Nian, and while the weather was not very hot, she would go to Izumo Temple, put incense, and scatter her heart.

For her proposal, Gu Nian naturally agreed, the women of the back house, except for going to various families for banquets, it is difficult to have the opportunity to go out, let alone the age of the eldest princess of the country.

She naturally hopes that the eldest princess of the country can be happy, let alone such a trivial matter as incense.

In the evening, Xiao Yue came back, she turned around and went to the study, lay on his desk, and said that she was going to incense the next day.

"You and Cousin Xuan have worked together for many years......"

Originally, Xiao Yue was listening to her while reading the official document in his hand, and when he heard Zhou Yuxuan's name, he suddenly raised his eyes from the official document, raised his eyebrows, and asked, "How did ......you think of him?"

Gu Nian laughed and said angrily, "That's my cousin, speaking of which, when you men talk together, have you ever heard him mention what kind of girl he likes?" ”

Xiao Yue's face stiffened, and his gaze at her was also a little unkind, "What do you want to do?" ”

Gu Nian straightened his waist and said casually, "It's nothing, it's just that for so many years, Cousin Xuan has been running around, and there is no one around to take care of him, ask." ”

She also said that Mrs. Pingyang Hou reminded her that Mrs. An Yuanhou had been in Jinling for ten years, and there were still two or three years before she came back.

Xiao Yue put down the official document in his hand, put it aside, and then swept her up and down with his hand, "You want to tell him a matchmaker?" ”

"Can't you?" Gu Nian frowned.

"Nope." Xiao Yue said firmly.

Gu Nian bent down again and leaned on the table to look at him, "Why?" ”

"No why." Xiao Yue said slowly.

What type of girl does Zhou Yuxuan like? Isn't that what she's like?

Are you kidding? Matchmaker for him? What if he abducted her?

Even if she can't run away, when the time comes, she will be dangling in front of her, and Zhou Yuxuan will look down on others even more, isn't this delaying others?

He finally persuaded the emperor to let Zhou Yuxuan continue to run around outside, observing the people's feelings everywhere.

said that I dear, what should I do if I stay in the capital when the time comes?

He looked at Gu Nian with unkind eyes, thinking that Xu'er was now five years old...... She should find something to do.

Gu Nian was furious by his eyes, and suddenly sneered without admitting defeat, "Do you think you are not allowed to do it?" ”

Stand up, twist yourself and leave.

Before he reached the door, he was dragged by a pair of hands, and then with a 'snap', he was pressed against the door panel......

Before dawn the next day, Gu Nian was woken up, her side was empty, she moved, her legs were the same as noodles, she didn't know how to get from the study to the inner room.

Thinking that she was going to Izumo Temple to incense today, she got up and asked the astragalus to come in and wait, and asked the astragalus to prepare a medicinal bath, if she didn't soak it, how would she go to Izumo Temple then?

When you go to Izumo Temple, you have to go to the tablet of the lord of Jingning to put incense, and then add sesame oil money to the everlasting lamp of the lord of Jingning.

The eldest princess of the protectorate looked at the tablet of the county lord of Jingning blankly, her eyes were red, and she tried her best to hold back her tears.

Gu Nian hugged her and comforted her silently, the pain of the white-haired person sending the black-haired person was something that outsiders could not understand.

Out of the main hall dedicated to the tablet, Gu Nian sent the eldest princess of the protectorate to the Zen temple where she was resting, and took the astragalus and aoba to prepare to visit Izumo Temple.

They walked slowly, looking around, and came to an upward step, and were about to step up the steps, when suddenly a person came to meet them.

Jing Hai cloth skirt, with a scar on her face, Gu Nian looked at it and felt a little familiar, she stopped and said tentatively, "Aunt Ji? ”

The oncoming person also stopped.

Gu Nian stepped forward and said, "Why are you here?" ”

Although Izumoji is on the outskirts of Beijing, and her dowry Zhuangzi is also on the outskirts of Beijing, it is not in the same direction.

Gu Nian didn't expect to meet her here.

Aunt Ji's eyes flickered slightly, and she calmly stepped forward and saluted, "Say hello to the princess." ”

Gu Nian looked at her for a moment, took another half step forward, and said, "What are you doing here?" ”

Aunt Ji said, "Folk women often come here to help. ”

She spoke calmly and quietly, without a trace of panic or stumbling, which was different from the poor people she usually saw, and also different from the noble and cold women in the capital.

She has a calm and calm temperament.

When she was in Zhuangzi, Gu Nian felt that she was different from ordinary people when she first saw her.

Today, Gu Nian is more and more aware of her difference.

After all, not everyone can speak so smoothly and calmly in the face of superiors and on such occasions.

Gu Nian paused for a moment, and then said, "Auntie is warm-hearted, then you can go and get busy." ”

Aunt Ji bent down and thanked her, and waited for her to go far before continuing to walk on the other side.

After Gu Nian went up the steps, he slowly stopped, looked back at the direction where Aunt Ji disappeared, and said to Astragalus,

"Go and ask the novices of Izumo Temple to see if it's true."

Astragalus nodded.

In fact, after returning from Zhuangzi, she had talked to Xiao Yue about Aunt Ji, and Xiao Yue also checked Aunt Ji's life, and it was indeed as she said, she was trapped there more than ten years ago, and there was no problem with her identity at all.

However, what has always haunted Gu Nian is Gu Shi'an's sentence 'Who are you.' ’

Later, she asked Gu Shi'an tentatively, but he diverted the topic.

Gu Nian stood there and pondered for a while, before she continued to walk forward, walked a few steps, and stopped, she suddenly remembered that she had just smelled a familiar fragrance before she tentatively called 'Aunt Ji'.

That fragrance was clearly a kind of incense in the boxes she gave to Gu Shi'an......

Aunt Ji went out of the corner, turned around and went to the main hall dedicated to the tablet, stood at the door, and did not go in, but stood at the door with a sad expression for a while, then turned around and left.

Gu Nian had something in his heart, so he was not in the mood to look at the scenery, so he turned around and prepared to go back to the Zen courtyard prepared in the temple to rest.

As she passed by, she suddenly stopped, and under the thick pillars in front of her, a man and a woman were standing, arguing about something.