Chapter 33: Doing the Right Business
And it's not difficult to know who that person is. Gu Xiaonuan doesn't have any enemies here, the only one who offended Concubine An a few days ago, Concubine An is so grudgeful, naturally she won't let herself go so easily.
And only Concubine An knew about himself and Pei An leaving the palace, so the person who came to assassinate him must be someone from Concubine An's side and someone from the Marquis of Lin's mansion. It's just that that person obviously didn't just want to teach himself a lesson, it was clearly his own life, it seemed that he had to get his hands on the queen's throne, and the queen's throne was really hot.
Gu Xiaonuan felt that he was really lonely, he was isolated here, everyone was a foreigner, and he was sandwiched here by a Qidu person, and he became a thorn in the eye of everyone, and almost most of them wanted to get rid of it.
It's okay if your thoughts are different from the people here, it's okay if you're lonely and lonely from the people here, and you have to suffer from many crises, Gu Xiaonuan really feels that it's very difficult to live here.
But it's not hard for her to sit still, sit here and wait for death, that's not her style. Now that she is here, in this time and space, whether it is a day or two, she has to live every day well.
Thinking of these, Gu Xiaonuan felt that he couldn't eat, drink and have fun every day, and it was time for him to do something serious.
This princess from Qidu, the queen who left the country, always seems to be able to do a lot of amazing things after that serious illness.
For example, this morning, she suddenly appeared in front of the Liwang chamber, saying that she was looking for something to leave the king, and she was very surprised to leave the king, after all, the queen has been cold to herself these days, as if she has been avoiding herself, and it is rare that she will take the initiative to find herself, so she put down the book in her hand and busily greeted her, "Ayao, what are you looking for me?" ”
Gu Xiaonuan saluted the king and said, "Eh...... That, Ah Yao was idle and bored in the palace all day, and wanted to come to ask the king for approval to allow Ah Yao to go to the palace library to pick up a few books and read ....... ”
Li Wang looked at Gu Xiaonuan with a slight surprise, and his expression was a little surprised. He really couldn't guess the mind of the person in front of him, if he remembered correctly, this princess Yao's own queen had never liked to read, and she didn't like it since she was a child. Not only do I not like to read, but I also don't like female celebrities, etc., I only like to play with bows and arrows, and I don't like martial arts or literature.
But now she stood in front of her and said that she was going to the library to pick up a few books to read, and suddenly remembered the poem she had written that night when she stood in front of the window and faced the bright moon.
Gu Xiaonuan also noticed the slight change in Liwang's expression, afraid that he would be suspicious, and said with a smile, "In the past, my father forced me to learn, and I didn't want to learn, but a few days ago, Ayao read a few poetry books, and I thought it was very interesting, and I also knew the fun in this book, so I came to ask the king to allow Ayao to go to the library to pick up books, if it is inconvenient, ......." ”
Before Gu Xiaonuan finished speaking, Li Wang had already looked at him and smiled slightly, "Convenient, how can it be inconvenient, go, what book does Ayao want to pick, this king will accompany you." ”
After that, he pulled Gu Xiaonuan and went to the library building, and in an instant, watching him holding his hand, Gu Xiaonuan suddenly thought in a trance, if Gong Yuyao could still feel all this, she should be happy.
I suddenly felt a little funny, Gong Yuyao's three years of affection failed to exchange for a trace of his sincerity, but this Gu Xiaonuan, who didn't have half of his love, got his heart so easily.
Do you say, is he really in love or because he never got it? Does everything that has not yet been obtained seem so precious? And getting it seems so insignificant?
But no matter whether he is really attracted to himself or not, he will never be tempted by him, from the moment he knew that he used Gong Yuyao to help him return to the country, and then he wanted to use her to calculate Qi Du again. Gong Yuyao's three years of affection can't cover his heart, in fact, he doesn't love anyone like this, he only loves himself, and his interests come first in any situation.
Seeing that Gu Xiaonuan hadn't left for a long time, Liwang looked back at her, "Ah Yao, what's wrong?" ”
Gu Xiaonuan didn't want to leave the king to follow, because if the things she wanted to see were seen by the king, it would arouse the king's suspicions.
smiled Gu Xiaonuan and said, "That, Ah Yao can go by himself, the king is busy with official business, and Ah Yao really doesn't dare to delay the king."
Li Wang naturally saw that Gu Xiaonuan didn't want to follow him, so he didn't follow anymore. He smiled faintly, revealing a hint of disappointment in his smile, and he let go of Gu Xiaonuan's hand.
Distance, a distance that cannot be approached, as if there is always something between two people every time they deliberately approach.
Liwang can no longer feel Gong Yuyao's enthusiasm for the overflow, that enthusiasm is hot, emanating from her smiling eyes, from the corners of her mouth, from her whole body, that kind of hot enthusiasm has been surrounding Liwang for three years, making him fearless.
But at this moment, facing Gong Yuyao, who seemed to be as light as water for all this, he felt a trace of panic.
It was as if he had become accustomed to being surrounded by that kind of enthusiasm, but one day he could no longer feel it, just like being thrown into the cold winter in the warm current, and that kind of awareness made him feel uncomfortable and tremble all over.
Looking at Gong Yuyao, who didn't like to be dressed in red for some time, and watching her back disappear into his eyes, Li Wang seemed to see another person in an illusion for a moment.
Gu Xiaonuan wasn't really bored and wanted to read a book, but she felt that it was not difficult for her to waste her time like this. You have to understand the cultural background, political and military situation of this era.
The identity of the princess actually feels quite embarrassing, since ancient times, most princesses have two fates, the first is to be married off as a relative object for the diplomatic relations between the two countries, and never come back, that is, for a lifetime. If you don't go to your relatives, you will stay in your country, or you will be married to a certain family as the object of the minister, and you will never be able to count yourself, and you will simply be a victim of political struggle.
And Gu Xiaonuan knows the fate of this princess Yao, she knows that there is a war between leaving the country and Qidu, after all, this is a long-planned battle between the king, once the two countries go to war, as the princess of Qidu and the queen of Liwang, once she leaves the country and is defeated as the king, she will no longer have a way to live, and she will not have the possibility of living anymore if she is defeated in Qidu.
It's just that it's Gong Yuyao's fate, she doesn't want to have such a fate, she has a fate that she can't call the shots, and she can only listen to other people's arrangements.
She wants to fight for herself, she doesn't want to be swept into the whirlpool of this flood, she doesn't want to be ferried, she wants to hold her fate in her own hands.
Although this body is from this era, her mind and soul are from the 21st century, a soul living in an era of freedom and equality, no matter how it is tempered, it has been tempered by nine years of compulsory education, and she can't do it if she wants to adapt to life here.