Chapter 0265 - The Taste of Home
I haven't seen you for a month, and Lord Yan seems to be a little different from before, and she actually jokes!
Hearing that Lord Yan, who had always been unsmiling, was also joking, Dongfang Luo and the Eight Great Elders looked at each other in a daze, and then laughed out loud in hindsight.
After everyone laughed and talked at the city gate, Gu Youlan handed over the fire dragon horse to Chunri, took Yun Feiyan's arm and walked slowly in Luoxia City accompanied by everyone.
The prosperity along the way made Gu Youlan can't help but be happy, and the friendly smiling faces of the people and the strong expectations in their eyes made her feel happy to return home.
The dolls who followed everyone all the way shouted loudly: "The empress is back, our empress is back......"
Listening to the chaotic shouts of the dolls behind her, Gu Youlan did not feel noisy for the first time, but suddenly had a feeling of homesickness.
This is probably the feeling of "home", with relatives, neighbors, and familiar tastes.
After walking for about a quarter of an hour, everyone came to the residence of the Empress Dowager.
This mansion is not located on the busiest central street in Luoxia City, but against the backdrop of a new Shijin courtyard under the Xiling Mountains.
There is a crooked river at the entrance of the courtyard, surrounded by green bamboo, the breeze blows, the green bamboo swaying, making a rustling sound, like a wind chime blowing through the ear, especially beautiful.
The water of the river is turbulent but not urgent, the blue waves are rippling, and the red koi in the river sometimes converge, sometimes disperse, and from time to time jump out of the water, causing ripples.
The scenery at the entrance of the mansion gave Gu Youlan a sense of time and space, as if she had suddenly come to Suzhou in the 21st century in her previous life.
The same red walls and green tiles, the same pavilions and pavilions, the same green bamboos, the same clear water and clear waves.
"Lan'er, do you like this mansion?" Yun Feiyan looked at Gu Youlan's somewhat shocked expression, and asked softly.
"Like, it's exactly the same as the scene in my dreams, auntie, thank you!" Gu Youlan leaned her head on Yun Feiyan's shoulder, and big tears flowed out uncontrollably.
"Silly boy, if you like it, what are you crying about? Aunt and your master are afraid that you don't like it! Yun Feiyan patted Gu Youlan's delicate little face, and let out a long breath, as if he had let go of the burden in his heart.
"Lan'er, why are you so easily satisfied, just by looking at the scenery at this door, you like it? There's a lot of scenery inside, let's go, let's go in and have a look! ”
Dongfang Luo straightened up, waved his big hand, and the eight elders and disciples who followed closely behind him took the lead in walking towards the gate.
The three-meter-high red lacquer door, with a creak, was pushed open by Chunda and several other male disciples, and a rich peach blossom fragrance accompanied by a faint mist rushed towards him.
"Lan'er, the payment of this mansion, the master is keeping it for you, Lord Bai Ze said, your handwriting is good, you still have to leave it to your own name!" Dongfang Luo said loudly while leading the way in front.
Gu Youlan greeted the rich fragrance of flowers and walked into the mansion.
It's so big, this is Gu Youlan's first feeling, the courtyard of the ten entrances, from low to high all the way to the halfway point of the mountain range, like layers of barriers across the mountain range.
The highest pavilion is actually as high as a ten-story building, and down in turn is a covered bridge, a pavilion, a floor or a covered bridge, and then a pavilion.
In the center of the house is a huge rockery, on which there is a five-meter-high waterwheel, and the water on the waterwheel is continuous, and the water sprayed down forms a small waterfall, but this waterfall is also more than three meters high.
No wonder as soon as she entered the gate, Gu Youlan felt a thick mist on her face, and her feelings were all formed by this waterwheel.
The whole courtyard is surrounded by peach trees covered with peach blossoms, which decorate the mansion in a rich fragrance, just like a paradise, which is pleasing to the eye.
Looking at the peach blossoms in the courtyard and the towering mountainside pavilion, Gu Youlan suddenly thought of the Peach Blossom Fountain of the Wei and Jin Dynasty poet Tao Yuanming, although the scenery of this mansion is thousands of miles away from the paradise recorded in the Peach Blossom Fountain, but she has this feeling.
"Master, how was this pavilion built? Why does it seem to be in mid-air? ”
"Hahaha!" Dongfang Luo smiled a little proudly: "The building of this pavilion is modeled after the structure of Blackwood Villa, and it belongs to a progressive structure!" ”
"Do you see the covered bridge halfway up the mountain?" Dongfang Luo said as he pointed to the winding plank road in the mountains.
Gu Youlan looked up: "See, that's a covered bridge?" How does it look like a plank road? ”
"Hahaha...... Old woman, what do I say, I said that Lan'er would definitely think it was a plank road! Dongfang Luo laughed while winking at Yun Feiyan.
"You dead old man, you're always playing tricks!" Yun Feiyan glared at Dongfang Luo, and then said to Gu Youlan: "Lan'er, don't listen to your master's nonsense here, the covered bridge halfway up the mountain is a plank road, but those pavilions are not set up in mid-air!" ”
"Huh?" Hearing Yun Feiyan's explanation, Gu Youlan's eyes couldn't help but widen: "Could it be that my eyes are hallucinating?" ”
"Hahaha!" Looking at Gu Youlan's dumbfounded expression, Fei Fei, who was following behind her, seemed to see the clue: "Sister, I know what's going on!" ”
"What's going on?" Gu Youlan turned her head to look at Philip, and in the afterglow, she saw Yan, who was pursing her lips, looking like she was smiling or not.
"Yan, do you know what's going on?" Gu Youlan stiffened her little face and said loudly angrily: "Okay, you all see the clues, but I am the only one who doesn't see it!" ”
"Sister, why are you the only one who doesn't see it?" Philip swayed her fox face and squeezed her eyebrows, as if to say, it's because you're stupid.
Gritting her teeth and rolling her eyes, Gu Youlan planned to ask her aunt, only her aunt would not laugh at her: "Auntie, you tell Lan'er, why does this pavilion seem to be in mid-air, but in fact it is not in mid-air?" ”
Patting Gu Youlan's little hand, Yun Feiyan patiently explained to her: "Lan'er, this is your master's proud work, this pavilion seems to be in mid-air, but it is actually an illusion, using the refraction of sunlight and the contrast of the landform!" ”
"Oh......" Hearing Yun Feiyan's explanation, Gu Youlan immediately understood, this is the imitation of the 'mirage' that people in the previous life often said, using the principle of light and water refraction.
But in addition to the water in the waterwheel, there is no water in this house that can refract the water of such a large mansion? And why is it just the attic that is refracted, why is the peach tree that fills the house not refracted?
Is it because of the topography? When she had a question in her heart, Gu Youlan didn't ask immediately, not because she didn't want to know, but because she was afraid that Philip would laugh at her stupidity again.
With a long sigh, Gu Youlan suddenly lost interest, gently grabbed Yun Feiyan's arm, and slowly walked towards the nearest pavilion.
Bypassing the rockery and the huge waterwheel, and crossing the first covered bridge, you will come to the living room of the first entrance.
The living room is very large, with 300 square meters, and is divided into two smaller living rooms, the living room is full of quaint furniture, all of which are fine sandalwood, and the huge floor-to-ceiling windows are made of bamboo, and the white window screen floats in the wind, adding a sense of simplicity and elegance.
Holding Yun Feiyan's hand, Gu Youlan sat lazily on the bench: "Auntie, I like it here, thank you and my master, I really like it!" ”
Yun Feiyan smiled, she could feel that Gu Youlan liked it from the bottom of her heart, and that was enough, and it was not in vain that she and Dongfang Luo had carefully designed it in the past month.
"Lan'er, this will be our home in the future, and your master and I will stay here with you!"
"Well, auntie, I'm glad that we finally have our own home!" Gu Youlan's eyes turned red as she spoke.
This is the past life and this life, she felt the taste of home for the first time, this is something she never thought, although the Dongfang Mansion in the capital is also her home, but there are people there, and there are other families around the Wang family from time to time, she has always felt that it is like a temporary foothold, more like a hotel in the previous life where she wandered between countries.
As Gu Youlan sat down, Dongfang Luo explained to the eight elders, and the elders each led their disciples to get busy, and in the living room of Nuoda, only Gu Youlan, Dongfang Luo and his wife and Yan and Philip were left.
Although the eight elders and the disciples also wanted to talk to Gu Youlan, they also had their own things to do, and everyone also knew that the master and the old lady had something to say.
After all, there is still a long way to go, and there is still a lot of time to talk.
"Lan'er, we've all heard about your affairs in Duanmu Country, what are your plans next?" Yun Feiyan held Gu Youlan's hand, and his voice was soft.
Gu Youlan was about to speak back, bursts of spiritual power fluctuations came one after another, and without thinking about it, she knew that it was Bai Ze and they were back.
After a while, Bai Ze, Bai Twilight, Worry-free and Jin Luan were displayed in front of several people one by one.
"The master is back!" Bai Dui's eyes were full of excitement, and Wu Wu and Jin Luan also bent down with Bai Dusk half-bowing, and the three of them were like talking about cross talk, up and down, which made Gu Youlan subconsciously a little stunned.
What's wrong with Bai Hui? Is your brain stupid?
I haven't seen him for a month, has he been replaced by someone else? In the past, he was unfathomable and unsmiling, but today he actually learned from the shopkeeper to give himself a thousand?
And why did Carefree and Jin Luan learn from him? What kind of tricks are these three people doing?
"Bai Twilight, are you alright?"
"It's okay, the king is happy to see that the master is back!" While Bai Yu was talking, he took out the white jade bone fan again and shook it leisurely.
Seeing Bai Yu shake the fan, Gu Youlan finally let out a breath and put the worry back into her stomach.
She suddenly felt that she hadn't seen her for a month, and everyone had changed a lot, did she miss something? Or did something happen that she didn't expect?