The sun was setting outside, and the sky was darkening.

Some people came in, some people went out, and some people lit lanterns for her.

As night falls, the temperature drops, and even the cicadas are quiet, no longer chirping, and the summer nights are exceptionally quiet.

"Amber, take this astragalus ......"

Chu Qianchen wanted to instruct Amber to cut the astragalus, but before he finished speaking, he found that it was a man's hand that took the astragalus.

Chu Qianchen blinked, and finally got out of his state of preoccupation.

"Lord Wang?"

She only now found out that Amber was no longer in the pharmacy and was replaced by Gu Jue, and she didn't even know when her assistant had become Gu Jue.

"Bell! Clang! ”

In the distance, there was the sound of the second watch.

Chu Qianchen blinked again, and subconsciously turned his head to look at the pot leak, only to be convinced that it was now the second watch.

Chu Qianchen frowned, and educated seriously: "Lord Wang, you are disobedient and stay up late!" ”

She set a timetable for Gu Jue, he should lie down and rest before midnight every day, and he had to sleep for four hours every day before he was allowed to get up, and it was best to take a nap in the afternoon.

But the prince is always disobedient! This made Chu Qianchen a little distressed.

Gu Jue stretched out a slender index finger and tapped her forehead, and directly returned her words to her: "Disobedient, stay up late again." ”

Of course, he was referring to Chu Qianchen who was still busy working here.

Chu Qianchen: "......"

In her previous life, since the death of the prince, she has been used to the days of being her own masters, and she is really not used to it for a while. But......

"Sleep." Gu Jue said as she pinched her cuffs, she was like a marionette, obediently put down the things in her hand, and followed him to the direction of the inner room.

It's a good day to have someone in charge! Chu Qianchen smiled slightly, and his heart was sweet, and he responded: "Okay." ”

That's good. Gu Jue also smiled, and said, "Would you like to get a few medicine cabinets?" ”

Chu Qianchen's eyes lit up, "Okay!" ”

This one is louder and more pleasant than the last "good" deserved.

That's great.

In the previous life, when the prince saw her studying medicine, he also specially found someone to make a special medicine cabinet for her, or the drawings she drew herself, and the prince helped her improve it.

The prince is going to give her a medicine cabinet again!

Chu Qianchen's eyebrows, eyes and lips were bent with a smile, and his steps were fluttering.

Gu Jue raised his eyebrows, a smile flashed in his eyes, and his pupils flashed with a warm glow in the orange light.

The girl was there alone again, and seemed carefree.

As long as she didn't stretch out her paws, no one could tell that the kitten's soft pads had sharp claws hidden in them.

The kitten was very sleepy, and after lying down, her delicate body gradually curled up in a ball, and after a while, her breathing became even.

For Gu Jue, the steady breathing sound of the person next to him was like the best lullaby, he listened to her breathing, and soon fell asleep.

The night breeze outside the window blows through the courtyard, the cool air is dyed with a faint fragrance of lotus and hibiscus, the moon shadow is cold, and the flowers and trees are whispering.

The nights are long and short.

In the next few days, Chu Qianchen was very busy, busy with pharmaceuticals every day, busy with everything, she didn't dare to stay up late anymore, and went to bed before midnight every day.

The prince said that he should lead by example.

The prince has what he says, of course she wants to listen.

One day in the middle, Chu Qianhuang came to the palace again, but Chu Qianchen was busy with medicine and didn't have time to pay attention to her, and when she made a small bottle of pills, it was also the eve of Gu Jue's departure.

In the past few days, the emperor is still "bedridden", and all the government affairs have been handed over to the crown prince Gu Nanjin to deal with.

Gu Nanjin was so busy that he couldn't wait to give birth to three heads and six arms, but even so, he still took time to come to King Chen's Mansion every day to try to persuade Gu Jue, however, let him work hard until he left, Gu Jue didn't let go of the third princess to accompany him.

On the seventh day of the eighth lunar month, Chu Qianchen sent Gu Jue and Wuhe Jialou to the outskirts of Beijing, out of the south city gate, and sent them three more miles before he reluctantly stopped the carriage.

Chu Qianchen poked his head out of the window of the carriage and watched the group of carriages and horses gradually moving away, the convoy of the Nanhao people and the Northern Qi people was mixed together, like water and oil mixed together, how to look at it and how it was uncoordinated.

Chu Qianchen's gaze only looked at the back of the frost-colored cloak.

Suddenly, Gu Jue in front looked back and saw at a glance that the carriage was parked there alone.

On the official road, people came and went, and the river flowed endlessly, but this carriage stood motionless, as if its time had stood still.

At this distance, he could no longer see her face clearly, but in his heart he could clearly draw every subtle expression of her.

He knew that she would wait for him in the palace.

Thinking about it, Gu Jue had an indescribable subtle feeling in his heart.

Since he went to the north at the age of fifteen, he has not been in the capital for many years, either in the south or in the north, but he has never been like this at this moment, how to say, suddenly he didn't want to leave.

A sentence popped up in his head: There is more love for children and less for the wind and clouds.

Thoughts were only fleeting.

He quickly withdrew his gaze and continued to ride his horse.

You go early to get back early, don't you?

At this moment, he was better off than Wu believed that he would be.

When the time comes, he can take the little girl to Jiangnan, to the north, and to the northwest......

The horses' hooves rumbled, the sand and dust rolled on the official road, and after a while, the figure of the group disappeared at the end of the official road.

Chu Qianchen still didn't move, holding the window with both hands, poking his head out, and staring blankly ahead.

Seeing that her princess was about to become a wangfu stone, Amber cleared her throat, thinking about comforting Chu Qianchen, for example, it was much safer for the prince to go out of Beijing this time than the last time he accompanied Qin Shizi to the northwest secretly.

Before the words came out, Chu Qianchen had already lowered the curtain by himself and said, "Go back." ”

She returned to the palace with a dazed expression.

Gu Jue was not there, and King Chen's Mansion seemed bigger and emptier.

Chu Qianchen was dazed, either studying the use of mulberry white leather thread every day, or petting her cat, and she was not interested in other things.

After a few days, she cheered up again, thinking that she hadn't been to Mu Guogong's mansion for several days, so she asked her to prepare a car and go out.

A few days ago, she was busy making medicine for Gu Jue, and she didn't go out, so she only asked Amber to greet Shen a few times, and sent some Rongyang pills she made to see if she was in good spirits.

Chu Qianchen hadn't come for a few days, and when the Shen family heard that she was coming, they were very excited.

"Sister Chen'er is here, I'll ......"

The Shen clan had long forgotten that there was another person in this room, and couldn't wait to get up, wanting to go to greet Chu Qianchen in person.

"Big sister!" Shen Yun hurriedly grabbed the eldest sister with a complicated expression, "You finish talking about things first." ”

Shen Yun went back to her parents' house today, originally because she was angry with the messy things in the county king's mansion, so she came to complain to the Duchess of Mu Guo, and then she knew that there was such a big incident in the eldest sister's family, so she hurriedly ran to the Shen family's courtyard.

No, Shen was only halfway through what he said, and the main lord came.

Shen thought about it, and wanted to quickly explain the causes and consequences of how Chu Qianchen and Chu Qianhuang were transferred by Chu Lingxiao.

Shen Yun's eyes widened wider and wider, and there were emotions such as righteous indignation, shock, distress, and hatred.

Before she could clean up her mood, she heard Dongmei's salute outside: "Second aunt, fourth young master." ”

The door curtain was raised from the outside, and Dongmei personally brought Chu Qianchen and Chu Yunmu sisters and brothers in.

Chu Yunmu heard that she was coming, so she hurried over to pick her up.

Chu Qianchen wore a green lotus-colored embroidered butterfly play hosta skirt today, with a green silk combed in a peach bun, and no more than five pieces of jewelry including jade pendants on his body, dressed elegantly.

As soon as she came in, it was like a spring breeze with a rain of flowers, which made people feel bright.

This was the first time Shen Wan had looked at Chu Qianchen squarely.

Because of the bad things in the county king's mansion, Shen Yun has always disliked the children of the concubine, so the previous few meetings were indifferent to Chu Qianchen, almost perfunctory, no matter how the Shen family praised Chu Qianchen in the past, she felt that Chu Qianchen had ulterior motives to please the Shen family.

For Chu Qianchen, she had a physiological instinctive disgust until now.

It was as if the veil had finally been lifted from her eyes, and her eyes became clear.

She looked at Chu Qianchen in a daze, and her eyes even forgot to blink.

The girl in front of her had a pair of beautiful phoenix eyes, a slender and slender body, and was as tall as the Shen family, and gradually began to have a girl's delicate curves.

Her eyes are clear and clear, her bearing is elegant, and she is calm, and her steps naturally exude a noble and radiant atmosphere.

In an instant, the figure in front of him overlapped with the appearance of the eldest sister when she was young and young in her memory......

In Shen Yun's heart, it was like a stone stirring up a thousand waves.

It's too much of a resemblance.

It's so similar.

Shen Yun muttered to herself in her heart, her eyes were sour, and there was an almost heart-rending pain, feeling sorry for her sister and her niece.

How can people's hearts be vicious to such a point, they all say that they can cross the same boat for a hundred years, and sleep together for a thousand years, Chu Lingxiao and the eldest sister have been husband and wife for more than ten years!

Shen Wan clutched the handkerchief in his hand tightly, and his eyes were dark and dark.

"Sister!"

At this time, Gu Zhiyan's soft and crisp voice broke the sour, sad and slightly depressed atmosphere in the room.

She stood up from Shen Yun's side by herself, and happily trotted towards Chu Qianchen, her usually dull eyes lit up again.

Gu Zhiyan pounced on Chu Qianchen's body, and the bear hugged her slender waist, which made Shen Yun a little unbearable to look at directly.

In addition, Shen Yun inevitably felt a little embarrassed in his heart. Qi Niang liked Chu Qianchen very much from the first time she saw her in the Hou Mansion, could it be that this is the fate between their cousins?!

Chu Qianchen shouted "Qi Niang", rubbed the top of Gu Zhiyan's soft hair, and took her hand and walked to Shen together.

Chu Yunmu, who was following behind Chu Qianchen, was a little envious, he also wanted to go over and hold Chu Qianchen's other hand, and he desperately suppressed it.

He's five years old, not a kid anymore!

He put his hands behind his back, looking like a little adult.

"Mother." Chu Qianchen first bowed his knees to the Shen family.

Even if she hasn't taken Shen's pulse yet, she can see from her complexion that she is in good shape these days and her body is better.

"Sister Chen." Shen took one of Chu Qianchen's hands, smiled happily, and wanted to reintroduce Chu Qianchen to Shen Yun, "I've seen your aunt ...... soon."

The Shen family originally wanted Chu Qianchen to call Shen Yun's aunt, but halfway through the words, he thought that King Jingjun was King Chen's cousin, and the conversation stopped abruptly.

There was something strange about her expression.

Chu Qianchen could also see what Shen was thinking, and shouted at Shen Wan with a smile: "Auntie." ”

"Sister Chen'er is so good!" Shen Yun smiled.

No matter how disgusted she is for Chu Lingxiao and Aunt Jiang in her heart now, she will not show it at this time, it will ruin the atmosphere, and she will not want to stab the sore spot in the eldest sister's heart again.

Shen Yun pulled out a bracelet inlaid with eight treasures of gold and mutton fat and white jade from his hand, personally put it on Chu Qianchen's wrist, and said with a smile: "This is a meeting gift from your aunt." ”

Shen Yun didn't mention the past, but only thought that today was the first time he saw Chu Qianchen.

"Thank you, auntie." Chu Qianchen accepted it generously.

Shen kept staring at Chu Qianchen with burning eyes, reluctant to look away.

She knew that Gu Jue was going to escort Nan Hao's envoy out of Beijing, because she didn't want to cause trouble for Chu Qianchen, so she had been enduring it for the past few days. After all, Chu Qianchen is already a married girl, and whether she can live well in the future depends on her husband's family.

King Chen had a good impression of Chu Qianchen, and the Shen family really didn't want to displease King Chen because of these pickled things in the Hou Mansion.

Gu Zhiyan saw that Shen Yun gave the bracelet to Chu Qianchen, and also took off his own bracelet.

"Greetings." She also wanted to put her gold bracelet on Chu Qianchen's hand, but she was young and the bracelet was small, so she couldn't wear Chu Qianchen's hand at all.

Chu Yun was happy, his eyes rolled, and he took off a piece of jade jade pendant on his waist and stuffed it to Chu Qianchen regardless of it, "Meet the gift." ”

As soon as Gu Zhiyan was in a hurry, he took off his gold collar, and he had to ask Chu Qianchen to sit down and put on the gold collar for her.

Chu Qianchen's heart was warm, and the two little guys were "joining in the fun", and when Duchess Mu Guo heard the news, she saw this warm scene.

Shen Yun smiled and said to Duchess Mu Guo: "Mother, we are giving Sister Chen'er a meeting gift, do you want to make up for it too?" ”

Duchess Mu Guo was eager to give Chu Qianchen some more good things, so she said yes again and again, and told the eldest maid to get her jewelry box.

Everyone sat down around Duchess Mu Guo, and after greeting each other, Duchess Mu Guo asked cautiously, "Sister Chen, can you stay more time today?" ”

"It's good if my grandmother has something to say, the prince is not here, and I have nothing to do." Chu Qianchen said with a smile, she has been idle in a panic these days.

Duchess Mu Guo observed Chu Qianchen's face while pondering: "Your uncles, aunts, and cousins, they all want to see you. ”

As she spoke, Duchess Mu became more and more cautious, for fear that Chu Qianchen would not agree.

There is no rumor about Chu Qianchen and Chu Qianhuang being transferred for the time being, but the Shen family almost knows about it except for a few who are very young.

However, this incident happened too suddenly, and Duchess Mu Guo also came back to her senses to find that she had not officially introduced Chu Qianchen to her family.

Originally, she thought that when Shen's body healed, they would go to King Chen's Mansion together to talk to Chu Qianchen about it, but when Chu Qianchen came today, she couldn't wait.

Chu Qianchen: "......"

Chu Qianchen's eyelashes fluttered slightly, neither good nor bad.

Duchess Mu Guo felt that there was a drama in this matter, so she persuaded: "Sister Chen, I know that you don't want outsiders to know about this matter for the time being, so don't worry, today is just a family member, and it is your uncle...... I promise, I won't let outsiders know. ”

The princes of Mu Guogong also wanted to see Chu Qianchen for a long time, but they never had the opportunity, and it was inconvenient to visit King Chen's Mansion rashly.

The family education in the Mu Guo Mansion is very strict, and since the Duchess Mu Guo said so, Chu Qianchen still believes it.

But......

Chu Qianchen's eyes were deep and quiet, and he reminded rationally: "The person I married is King Chen. ”

Once he knows that the granddaughter of Mu Guogong Mansion is the princess of Chen, he will definitely be dissatisfied and jealous of Mu Guogong's Mansion, then in the future, the career of several uncles and even cousins will be bumpy.

Chu Qianchen just said such a sentence, Shen Yun was confused, but she was as spicy as the Duchess of Mu Guo, and she understood it when she heard it.

Duchess Mu couldn't help but hear the heart-wrenching sigh of the eldest daughter in her ears:

"Mother, it's not easy for Sister Chen'er to be this child."

"She simply has a seven-trick heart, and she thinks about everything...... The only one who doesn't think about it is herself. ”

Duchess Mu Guo's heart was cramping again.

The eldest daughter is right, Sister Chen'er's child is really distressing.

She thought about the Shen family, but she forgot that the Shen family was her foreign family, they were all her elders, and they should have supported her as a junior.

Duchess Mu Guo took Chu Qianchen's hand, patted it, and said, "It's not for you to worry about as a child!" ”

Shen also looked at Chu Qianchen expectantly.

Facing the loving and gentle eyes of Duchess Mu and Shen, Chu Qianchen was dumbfounded and finally nodded.

Seeing this, Duchess Mu Guo was overjoyed, her eyes narrowed with a smile, wrinkles squeezed out of the corners of her eyes, and she said in a loud voice: "Good boy! What a good boy! ”

Shen and Shen Yun exchanged a look, and the sisters were also smiling, probably only Chu Yunmu and Gu Zhiyan couldn't figure out what was going on, and the cousins and brothers looked at each other.

Immediately afterwards, Duchess Mu asked people to call back several sons who were on errands, as if they were afraid that Chu Qianchen would regret it.

The Shen family is a century-old family, however, the lineage of the Mu Guogong Mansion is not prosperous, and Shen Zhi's generation only has two sons-in-law, a concubine, and two sisters, Shen Zhi and Shen Yun.

Duchess Mu Guo knows how to take proportions, so she doesn't plan to notify those side branches of the Shen family, and plans to wait for the Chu family to officially open the ancestral hall in the future.

Duchess Mu Guo was in a good mood, just do what she said, and shouted everyone to go to the main hall of the inner courtyard together.

Chu Qianchen was still a little confused.

So fast?

She had never dealt with Duchess Mu Guo in her previous life, and everything she knew about her came from the mouths of others, saying that she was born in a hairpin family, that she was graceful and generous, and that she was powerful and changeable......

But now, Chu Qianchen felt that there seemed to be some differences between Duchess Mu and what she knew.

This grandmother of hers is really ...... Resolute.

Shen had been paying attention to Chu Qianchen, seeing what she was thinking, and said with a smile: "Your grandmother is anxious, and she has always done whatever comes to mind. ”

As daughters, Shen and Shen Yun know their mother's temperament, and Shen Yun also jokingly talked about the interesting story of the Duchess Mu Guo picking her daughter-in-law back then: "Your grandmother, when you go to Prince Li's Mansion to participate in a flower-viewing banquet, you will choose your two uncles." ”

Duchess Mu Guo joked half seriously, half jokingly: "There are hundreds of women in a family, and there are good girls here, so naturally they have to act quickly." ”

She said that these were actually just to make Chu Qianchen happy.

"Grandmother said yes." Chu Qianchen nodded matter-of-fact and couldn't help but smile.

Talking and laughing, everyone is a little less rusty and a little more close.

Duchess Mu told herself in her heart not to worry, this person's feelings should also be cultivated slowly.

After a while, Mrs. Mu Guogong came with her concubine and the girls below.

Chu Qianchen had visited the Guogong Mansion three times before, only the first time was more formal, and the Duchess of Mu Guo asked her eldest granddaughter Shen Congzhen to take Chu Qianchen to the garden for a walk, and most of the Shen family had never seen her.

The main hall became lively because of their arrival.

Everyone's eyes couldn't help but glance at Chu Qianchen and looked at her, with curiosity and sighs in their eyes.

In particular, Shen Congzhen's expression was the most complicated.

Last time, when Chu Qianchen came to the Guogong Mansion, Shen Congzhen was just curious about what the future Princess Chen would be, and how could he have thought that the next time they met, Chu Qianchen would have another identity in addition to Princess Chen, she was the biological daughter of the eldest aunt.

Although she had known the news from her grandmother for several days, until this moment, looking at Chu Qianchen sitting next to the Shen family, Shen Congzhen still felt that there was no sense of reality.

Although the little girl looked serious, after all, she was only in her cardamom years, so she couldn't help but look at Chu Qianchen twice.

Chu Qianchen smiled kindly at her, his smile was bright, and Shen Congzhen felt that he was once again dazzled by this colorful smile.

Mrs. Shizi and the others actually had something to say, but they were afraid of the Shen family and the Duchess of Mu Guo, but no one dared to chase Chu Qianchen and ask more, for fear that any comforting words would stab people again.

After two more teas, Mu Guogong and other men of the Shen family also rushed back one after another.

The main hall was packed.

Shen moved from Allah and led Chu Qianchen to confess his relatives one by one.

"Maternal grandfather, maternal grandmother."

Chu Qianchen knelt on the futon and kowtowed to the second elder of the Shen family, and gave tea again.

The second elder of the Shen family smiled so hard that his eyes narrowed, and he said goodbye again and again, and took out the meeting gift that had been prepared a long time ago.

The two boxes of heavy jewelry, this is not only a meeting gift, but also a dowry for Chu Qianchen. No matter what happens to the Chu family, this is their granddaughter, they always have to get justice for her, and they always have to give her the best!

Next, Chu Qianchen kowtowed to Shen and gave tea again, and sincerely called: "Mother." ”

Shen's mood was like a flood bursting the embankment, almost out of control, and his eyes were moist again.

She took the tea, and personally helped Chu Qianchen up, and when she looked at her daughter, who was as tall as her, she gradually calmed down again, like a boulder in her heart falling to the ground.

Before, Chu Qianchen insisted on not letting the Chu family open an ancestral hall first, and the Shen family understood her scruples and relied on her, but deep in her heart, she always felt that this was unrealistic.

These days, she has been working very hard to maintain her body, because she doesn't want Chu Qianchen to worry about her as a mother after she gets married, she knows that she is very uneasy in her heart, always has nightmares, and often wakes up in the middle of the night, for fear that when she wakes up, her daughter will be gone, and her daughter will not recognize her.

Until now, Shen's heart is finally down-to-earth and relieved.

The ancestors of the Shen family should have seen that this is her Shen Zhi's daughter, and she also has half of the Shen family's blood in her body.

Shen Congzhen led Chu Qianchen to the prince of Mu Guogong again, and introduced: "Cousin Chen, this is my father, you should call him uncle." ”

Next, Chu Qianchen didn't kneel anymore, only called his eldest uncle, gave tea again, and went to the second uncle's side.

It took half an hour just to recognize relatives.

Chu Qianchen remembered everyone, and got a lot of meeting gifts, as for the meeting gifts she wanted to give to her cousins and cousins, she could only owe them for the time being.

The Shen family is a scholarly family, Chu Qianchen pondered about sending the four treasures of the study to his cousins, and giving jewelry to his cousins, just right, the last time she went to Duobao Zhai with the prince, she ordered some small jewelry and cute gold and silver bills, originally wanted to coax Gu Zhiyan and Chu Yunmu.

This is just the right time, and it can come in handy.