But just as Ruan Huai turned around to ask him, through the screen of the building railing, there was an abrupt and piercing sound from the box next door.

Gu Yutang furrowed his eyebrows, and his first reaction was to get up and quickly step over and pull Ruan Huai into his arms.

He lowered his head and just wanted to ask if Ruan Huai was frightened, when he heard a familiar voice coming from the box next door.

"Shurong, calm down!"

Gu Yutang pressed Ruan Huai's little hand and asked her to silence her.

Because he heard the voice of his father Gu Hou, and the Shurong in his mouth was the current queen Yi Shurong, and also his father's sister, Gu Yutang's aunt.

He didn't know why his father and aunt met at the inn in the middle of the night, and, listening to his father's tone, the two were in the middle of an argument.

"Okay, if you want this palace to calm down, then you should tell this palace! Is that true or false?! ”

"Can you be quieter?"

"Are you afraid of the East Window incident now?" The queen laughed softly sarcastically, and her originally gentle and dignified voice became more and more harsh: "Brother, this palace will tell you the truth, if Gu Yutang is really a bastard born to that cheap woman, this palace will never give up!" ”

With a thud, the door was pushed open and someone left.

It didn't take long for the attic to fall silent again.

Gu Yutang's face was flat, and his expression did not change, just staring at a touch of light on the plank road in the distance until he couldn't gather his focus.

It seemed that he had thought about something, but before he could think deeply, he suddenly felt his ears being touched by soft fingers.

Gu Yutang lowered her eyes and saw Ruan Huai, who was standing on the side of her arms, with two little hands struggling to reach his ear, gently covering his ears, and then, she raised her head slightly and said to him, "Can I protect the little marquis?" ”

Gu Yutang looked at her and asked very lightly: "How to protect it?" ”

"If someone wants to harm the little marquis, I will beat him." Ruan Huai swore without any momentum.

Gu Yutang was silent for a while, and then said incomprehensibly: "What if you can't beat it." ”

Ruan Huai seemed to be distressed, and he couldn't think of a good answer after thinking about it for a long time.

But Gu Yutang didn't insist on listening, he just took down her two little hands that were covering his ears, and then looked at her and said, "Ruan Huai, happy birthday, do you want to go home with this king?" ”

Ruan Huai was a little stunned, as if he had to spend a lot of energy thinking about the meaning of this sentence.

She was afraid that he would wait too long, so she asked absentmindedly while thinking, "Yes...... Is the little marquis his own home? ”

He saw Gu Yutang nodding, and then she herself slowly responded "Okay".

On the way back to the private house, Ruan Huai kept thinking about Gu Yutang's sentence "Do you want to go home with this king", she imagined many kinds of Gu Yutang's intentions to take her back at this time, and also made herself ready for all the mental construction.

But after going back, Gu Yutang didn't do anything to her, just brought her into his library.

"......" Ruan Huai stood in front of the table and slowly looked around the library, raised his hand to pick up the scarf of his chin, and asked a little blankly: "Little Hou Ye, what are we going to do?" ”

"Isn't the academy about to take a holiday? Naturally, I told you to read a book. ”

Ruan Huai looked at him with mixed feelings, "What about the little marquis?" ”

"Today is your birthday, and this king will be reluctant to accompany you for a while."

Ruan Huai drooped his ears like a rabbit, "Then I thank the little marquis." ”

Gu Yutang didn't want to mention to Ruan Huai the words that the queen said that he would hear next door to the pavilion, and Ruan Huai naturally wouldn't take the initiative to mention it if he was bored.