Chapter 122: Heartbeat?
Gu Banqin turned his gaze and nodded: "I heard it, the emperor can rest assured." There are still two months, and when the people in my palace are arranged, I will start to rectify the harem and keep the emperor's birthday, and the harem will be calm. ”
After getting Gu Banqin's assurance, Helian Hongyi turned his head, and the melancholy on his side face made Gu Banqin feel a little complicated, Gu Banqin had the heart to say a few words to him and explain:
"I've heard that the emperor has five brothers, right? What is the emperor's ranking? ”
After Gu Banqin entered the palace, no one had been serious about her, and she knew a rough idea of the prince of the Qi family, Helian Hongyi was silent for a moment, Gu Banqin thought that Helian Hongyi would not answer her question, but Helian Hongyi spoke again.
"Second in line. One elder brother and three younger brothers. ”
Gu Banqin wanted to ask Helian Hongyi who was the Helian Hongyin who always came out to make soy sauce before, but looking at Helian Hongyi's gloomy side face, Gu Banqin still decided not to ask this.
Helian Hongyin may be an actual person, or maybe it is just a person imagined by Helian Hongyi himself.
Gu Banqin once tried to ask Helian Hongyi what had happened, but Helian Hongyi obviously resisted.
Therefore, when she asked Helian Hongyi who Helian Hongyin was, his reaction would be so big, he didn't want to mention it at all, and recently he deliberately overdrafted his mental power to suppress multiple personalities, he asked Gu Banqin to stabilize the harem, but what Gu Banqin didn't tell him was that it might be Helian Hongyi himself who couldn't stabilize it first.
"And how do you get along?" Gu Banqin put her palms under her cheeks, and her whole body turned to Helian Hongyi, observing him carefully.
Helian Hongyi, as just now, was silent for a long time before he slowly spoke:
"The relationship is not like ordinary brothers, I didn't grow up with them, I and the first emperor grew up in the border barracks, they lived in their own family until they were twelve years old, and they went to the barracks after the age of twelve."
Gu Banqin immediately understood the subtext in Helian Hongyi's words, 'It's not like an ordinary brother', that is the meaning of a bad relationship.
Originally, Helian Hongyi was brought up by Helian Bai, and there was an estrangement with other brothers, and although the other brothers grew up in a comfortable environment, they rarely saw Helian Bai, and they must have opinions about Helian Hongyi, the person who snatched their father, and the two did not like each other, how good could the relationship be.
Gu Banqin suppressed the curiosity in her heart, and understood that some questions had been asked to the edge of Helian Hongyi's bottom line, if she was entangled, she might directly break through Helian Hongyi's bottom line and arouse his anger.
Gu Banqin always understood the truth that the rice should be eaten one bite at a time, and he no longer pressed it, and kept a safe distance from Helian Hongyi for the time being.
Obediently changed the subject.
Gu Banqin smiled, "Then the emperor has been in the military camp outside the Guanwai and hasn't lived in his own family?" ”
Helian Hongyi shook his head: "No, I will go back for two or three months a year, I think that although the climate there is cold, it is more suitable for living than Jiankang, where in winter, the house is burned with earth dragons, which is much more comfortable than Jiankang's wet climate." ”
Gu Banqin could understand the meaning of Helian Hongyi's words.
"If the emperor is free, take me to my house to have a look."
The ghost sent the gods, Gu Banqin actually said such a sentence to Helian Hongyi, as soon as the words fell, even she herself was frightened by herself, she didn't expect that she would make such a request for closeness with Helian Hongyi.
Helian Hongyi turned his head to look at her, and seemed to notice the difference between Gu Banqin today, but he didn't say much, hooked his lips slightly, and smiled at Gu Banqin:
"Okay, I have a chance to take you to see it."
It was such an ordinary sentence, but it made Gu Banqin's cheeks red and her ears ringing for no reason.
That feeling was ashamed and ashamed, but I couldn't help but feel it in my heart...... Stealing?
After Helian Hongyi and Gu Banqin said that, their tone paused, and they seemed to be a little strange how they could say that sentence in passing, turned his gaze, and continued to fall on the grape trellis, but his gaze was much more attentive.
Gu Banqin also retracted her gaze, continued to pick up the sugar box, and stuffed a candy into her mouth, obviously, both of them were embarrassed by the previous supernatural question and answer, that feeling was too intimate.
Wang Shun's father-in-law came over at the right time to pass the word:
"Your Majesty, Liu Youcheng and Lord Tong are asking to see you outside the Taihe Palace."
Helian Hongyi got up from the rocking chair, lowered his head and tidied up his clothes, then turned his head to look at Gu Banqin, who also got up, and said:
"Well, I've got something to do, I'll come back in the evening."
Gu Banqin nodded again and again, but she didn't know what to say, she looked down and saw the sugar box in her hand, and then handed it to Helian Hongyi: "Yes, the concubine is waiting for the emperor." This one...... Does the emperor want to take it to Liu Youcheng and them to taste? ”
Helian Hongyi's gaze looked at the sugar box for a long time before reaching out to take it and turning to leave Lihua Palace.
After he left, Gu Banqin exhaled a big breath and glanced at Jia Jinlu and Zhang Yuzhu who were standing guard under the corridor, Gu Banqin stretched out his hand and flicked his forehead twice, secretly admonishing himself.
Gu Banqin, what are you doing?
Helian Hongyi is the emperor, not an object that can be moved, even if he is tempted by Jia Jinlu and Zhang Yuzhu, he can't be tempted by Helian Hongyi!
Fortunately, she lost her mind a little just now, and she didn't really plant a love for Helian Hongyi.
Gu Banqin's psychology is very clear, Helian Hongyi is not a good object of entrustment, he is loyal to state affairs, even if he advocates the abolition of the old scholar system, but this cannot become, he chose Gu Banqin as his lifelong partner, he also knows that Gu Banqin is a good subordinate, but there is still a long way to go from standing beside him.
Gu Banqin is by no means a person who drills the horns of the bull, after figuring out this, he is no longer entangled, and calls Liu Wu to come over to the imperial dining room to spread the word and prepare for the imperial dinner in the evening.
Who knows, Helian Hongyi didn't come to Lihua Palace for dinner at night, so he asked Wang Shun's father-in-law to come over and inform him, saying that he was dining with Liu Youcheng and them in the Taihe Palace, Gu Banqin didn't wait for him, and after eating dinner, he felt a little sleepy, so after washing, he took a book and sat on the bed to read.
"Don't move, keep sleeping."
Gu Banqin: ......
Where is there sleepiness, slowly aroused enthusiasm, in the dark night sprinkled with moonlight, feeling the dearest and alien.
The two only buried their heads in their work, and there was no communication, and afterwards Gu Banqin was very tired, so he fell asleep.
When she woke up the next day, Helian Hongyi had already gone to the court, Gu Banqin sat up and stretched her waist, and looked around, if it weren't for the vacant seat next to her, she would have suspected that last night's heat was a dream.
Liu Wu led the new palace maids Rencao, Chunyan and Peony in, and the four of them saluted Gu Banqin together.
Ninguchi is a black and strong girl, seventeen years old, with a round face, quite tall, and the bird set off by the other three girls is like a human, and her expression is still a little stiff.
She came out of the Gong room, thinking that she would brush the toilet for a lifetime when she entered the palace, but who would have thought that there was green smoke on the ancestral tomb, and she was actually selected by Concubine Xian to be a close palace maid.
Shinobu looked at this beautiful concubine who came out of the painting, and a few days ago, she couldn't help but kneel down and kowtow to Gu Banqin, and it was only a little better in the past two days.
Chunyan and Peony are both delicate girls, Chunyan can settle accounts, can play a good abacus with a crackling hand, sixteen years old, and is particularly sensitive to numbers.
Peony is nineteen years old, the oldest of all the palace maids in Lihua Palace, and she has not been in the palace for a long time, and she entered the palace with the last wave of show girls.
However, the show girl entered the harem, and she entered the Shang Pharmacy, because of her background, what she has been doing is the work of pounding medicine, when Gu Banqin was choosing people, the Shang Pharmacy also had several other medical women for her to choose, but Gu Banqin was attracted by the action of careful study of the peony after carefully distinguishing the medicinal materials, and found that she was more meticulous than other medical women.
"Get up, let's not kneel around in our Lihua Palace, don't be polite."
Gu Banqin lifted the quilt from the bed and got out of bed, Liu Wu immediately stepped forward and put a satin bright cloak on her, Gu Banqin sat on the swing next to the bed, and said to them: "There are no special rules in Lihua Palace, as long as you do what I tell you to do, and then be loyal." ”
In addition to the catkins, the other three knelt down again to receive Gu Banqin's instructions, Gu Banqin looked at them helplessly, thinking that it was not possible to complete them in a day or two to make them as casual as catkins, and the three of them said to Gu Banqin in unison:
"Please rest assured, the slaves and maids are born as people of Lihua Palace, and dead as ghosts of Lihua Palace, in this life and this life, but they are sent by Niangniang."
Gu Banqin raised his hand: "Okay, okay, let's all get up, you can ask Liu Wu about the affairs of Lihua Palace later, our palace is now the target of everyone in the harem, you must be cautious whether you act or speak." ”
"Although my position has come up, everyone knows that I am a person with no background, and there are many people in the palace who disobey me, you can be cautious, and you can avoid a lot of trouble for Lihua Palace."
"Of course, if someone deliberately bullies you, you don't have to be too weak, in the final analysis, dogs can be beaten, but there must be a defensible reason to beat dogs, so that the dog owner can't trouble you, understand?"
The three girls had never heard such an argument in the palace, and they didn't know how to react for a while, and while looking at each other, Peony was the first to express their opinions:
"What Niangniang means is that we don't deliberately cause trouble."
Shinobu shook her hand again and again, and spoke in a rough throat: "Don't worry, Niangniang, the slaves will never deliberately cause trouble." ”