The rain was pouring down, and the black iron armor quietly surrounded the imperial city.

In the palatial dormitory, the Son of Heaven wearing a bright yellow dragon robe was tied with his hands behind his back, and he fell to the ground in embarrassment. The woman kneeling beside him was half-slippery, revealing her fragrant shoulders. The woman leaned on the Son of Heaven, her long eyelashes were half drooping, with a few tears, biting her lip with her teeth, and she looked extremely pitiful.

The soldiers around him were as immobile as a mountain, their faces were solemn, and they didn't seem to see this picture at all.

"Master."

When the iron-clad and silver-armored man saw that the door was pushed open, he hurriedly rushed over and knelt down on one knee. The person who entered the door did not take off his cloak, bringing a chill to the room, and the Son of Heaven couldn't help but tremble slightly when he saw the comer, but the woman shrunk her shoulders because of the cold, and raised her tearful eyes to look at the comer. Leng Buding met a pair of dark eyes.

Glancing casually at the two kneeling people on the ground, the man walked over slowly. The Son of Heaven glared at him and shouted angrily: "You are a rebellion! ”

"Who is the rebel?" The man asked casually, and his eyes fell on him without the slightest emotion, "After being an emperor for a few days, it's time to wake up from your dreams." Looking at the woman on the side, he had a faint sneer, "I thought your vision was not bad, but now it seems that the new queen is not very good." ”

Hearing this, the woman's face turned pale instantly.

"Where is she?" The man asked nonchalantly.

"..... master," the soldier suddenly knelt down and said in a low voice, "We have gone to look for it, Gu Hou....Miss Gu, there is no help." ”

"......." The man was silent for a moment, then suddenly smiled, "Huh." He looked at the person who slowly entered the door behind him, smiled and asked, "If I want you to change your life against the sky and save her back to heaven, can you do it?" ”

"Father owes you a life, and I should naturally repay it." The man replied respectfully, "It's just that changing one's life is against the principles of heaven, and if you want to save someone, you need to kill someone first." ”

The man smiled slightly, his eyes fell on the person who was kneeling on the ground behind him, and he didn't care: "Here, isn't it." ”

……..

"Mr. Qiao, how is my young lady?"

"Miss Gu's body is weak and difficult to heal, and now it's a windy and snowy day, it's just a cold wind, wait to grab two pairs of medicines, and recuperate for a few days."

When Mu Lan sent Mr. Qiao away and came back, Mo Zhu was coming out of the back room. She closed the door, looked back at the room uneasily, and whispered, "Why did it fall down again?" Hasn't the girl been getting better for a long time? ”

"I don't know." Mu Lan shook her head, and her eyes turned red, "I used to accompany the girl to walk in the courtyard, but after taking the medicine, the girl said that she wanted to eat candied fruit, so I rushed back to get it." In the blink of an eye, as soon as I came out, I saw the girl fall to the ground......" she choked up as she spoke, "I'm so afraid—"

"Don't talk nonsense!" Mo Zhu glared at her, reached out and grabbed her hand, and said in a soothing voice, "The girl has a kind temperament, she must be a blessed person, don't worry, she will be able to play with us again in a few days." ”

Mulan was younger, and being so appeased eased her emotions. She raised her eyes and secretly glanced at the inner room, and said in a low voice, "Mozhu, it's not this that I'm afraid of. The girl has lived in the temple for eleven years, and now Yangzhou has almost forgotten that the girl is Miss Gu Jiayan, and all I hear is the name of the second lady. ”

"Does the girl want to live in the temple for the rest of her life? A few days ago, I heard from them that the old lady had the heart to take the girl and her wife back on her 60th birthday, but now..... I feel sorry for the girl and her wife! Muran bit her lip and was indignant.

"Shhhh Mo Zhu shook her head and said, she glanced outside, and advised, "The girl's business, you still have to tell the lady first, you can take care of it." ”

Mu Lan nodded, watched Mo Zhu go out, thought about it and turned her head to clean up the prescription on the table.

Outside the door was quiet again, and Gu Mingxiu in the room slowly opened his eyes. She turned her head to stare at the objects in the room, her beautiful eyes faint, a little mocking and fleeting. She raised her little white hand and placed it in the air to look at it carefully. Gu Mingxiu bent his lips and raised a cold and resolute smile.

Scenes of past memories reappeared in her mind, and the voices and smiles of the people she loved and hated appeared clearly in front of her eyes. Now that she wakes up and goes back to before it all began, those love and hate seem to be just a nightmare for her. Gu Mingxiu sat up quietly, lifted the quilt and walked to the window, pushed open the wooden window to look at the small scene of the courtyard.

It is indeed Chongming Temple. Her father, Gu Qingyuan, is now an official in the court, but in the past, he was just a poor scholar with no power and no power. Mother An was born in Jiangmen, because she was secretly injured and fell into the river halfway, she was rescued by Gu Qingyuan, and after the injury was healed, she promised to marry Gu Qingyuan.

It seems to be a drama in the script, but it is not like it at all. In order to marry Gu Qingyuan, An Li insisted on pushing a good family affair arranged by his family, and even did not hesitate to break with his family. His father entered the court as an official and lacked prestige. The mother resolutely changed into men's clothes and followed his father from north to south so that he could deter his subordinates and take care of his father at the same time.

The father's career gradually stabilized, but the mother fell ill due to travel, but she was pregnant with a child at that time. That is Gu Mingxiu, although the mother and daughter are safe, but unfortunately Gu Mingxiu's body followed her mother, she was weak and sick, she was tortured a lot when she was young, and she almost died several times.

The following year, the mother's health improved, and she became pregnant with her sister Gu Liyi, and she was born a healthy baby. At the same time, Gu Mingxiu's body became weaker and weaker, and there were faint signs of dying. Grandmother found someone to take a hexagram, saying that the Gu family's feng shui was not good, and it was not suitable for Gu Mingxiu's cultivation, so it was recommended to temporarily raise it before the age of fourteen.

The mother was reluctant to send Gu Mingxiu to Zhuangzi, or leave her alone. She inquired left and right, and heard that there was a hidden divine doctor living in Chongming Temple, so she decided to take Gu Mingxiu to Chongming Temple for a period of time, and then return to the Gu family after Gu Mingxiu recovered after he was fourteen years old.

This stay is a full eleven years.

The sound of Miao Lan and Mo Zhu's conversation also came into his ears word for word. Gu Mingxiu didn't feel that those were really just a dream, the past grievances were deep in her mind, and she let everything start again if she didn't stop today. Everything, she has to do it all over again. Those unforgettable hatreds, she will personally ask those white-eyed wolves to get back one by one.

Gu Mingxiu's eyes were like soaked in frost and snow, she stared at the void and sneered: "Gu Changge, I'm back." ”

"Let's see who killed the deer .......this time."

The breeze swayed gently, and when the snow was first cool, the snow in the courtyard showed a slight sign of melting. Mu Lan and a few little maids were playing with the snow in the courtyard, laughing very happily. Mo Zhu's personality was a little more stable, sitting under the porch embroidering a purse, looking up at a few of them from time to time, and laughing.

Gu Mingxiu shrank in the fox velvet cloak and quietly raised his eyes to stare at the woman in front of him.

The woman was dressed in an ordinary embroidered coat and was quite smartly dressed. The long hair was combed back and pulled up slightly, just a single wooden hairpin. She was refilling, her eyelids were half-drooping, and she was faintly peaceful.

This is her mother's mother, Anli.

Withdrawing his gaze from the courtyard, An Li smiled and said, "These little girls are not afraid of getting sick. ”

"I was sick for a few days, and they were bored with me for a few days. It's a pretty sunny day, so it's okay. Gu Mingxiu looked at the scene outside, with a faint smile on his face, but there was a little melancholy in his eyes.

Mo Zhu and Mu Lan have always been the two most intimate maids around her. Mo Zhu is calm, Mu Lan is clever, and they are both very intelligent people. The two of them accompanied her in Chongming Temple, then to Gufu, and accompanied her into the palace. The palace is extremely dangerous, she plans for that person, and naturally becomes a thorn in the side of others.

At that time, she was in danger, and it was Mu Lan who died for her, and in the end, she couldn't even collect the body for Mu Lan, and she had to laugh and deal with the murderer. Before she was imprisoned, she asked Mozhu to save Gu Liyi, but Gu Liyi was arrested, and Mozhu was unlucky.

They followed her, but they did not enjoy a single day of happiness. Since returning to the Gu Mansion, she had never seen Mulan Mozhu smile like this today.

She thought about it distractedly, and the sadness in her eyes also made An Li see it. An Li looked at the daughter holding the fox velvet cloak in front of her, thinking that she was sad that she couldn't play like an ordinary child, so she couldn't help but touch her cheek lovingly: "Xiu'er, when you get better, you can also play happily." ”

"It's okay." Gu Mingxiu was taken aback, and immediately wiped away the sadness in her eyes, she smiled slightly, "Xiu'er is content to be by her mother's side." Just watching Mu Lan and them playing, I can't help but think about Yiyi, we haven't seen each other for a long time, and I don't know if she's happy now. ”

An Li's eyes darkened: "Yes....we haven't been home for a long time." ”

Family? It wasn't home, it was a nest of snakes and rats. Gu Mingxiu smiled lightly, raised his hand to cover the back of An Li's hand, and said with a smile: "Mother, grandmother's birthday is coming, what are we going to give this year?" ”

"If you don't say it, I'll forget about it." An Li was slightly stunned, smiled and touched her head, "What good idea does Xiu'er have?" ”

"I heard that Master Hui'an recently returned to Chongming Temple, and the master is famous, why don't you go and ask him to pray for his grandmother?"

An Li thought about it, and the old lady really believed in Buddhism, so she agreed to Gu Mingxiu's idea. The maids who were fighting outside had dispersed, An Li ordered someone to go down and drink some ginger soup, and talked to Gu Mingxiu for a while, seeing that she looked a little tired, she left the courtyard and told people to have a good rest.

Mo Zhu opened the curtain, thinking to see if the house was enough to avoid the cold, Gu Mingxiu had to be careful of recurrence. However, she came in softly, only to see Gu Mingxiu, who was supposed to be lying down, standing at the window in a trance. She hurriedly stepped forward and put the cloak on Gu Mingxiu's body, and reproached, "Why doesn't the girl wear the cloak?" It's easy to get cold when it's cold. ”

"What time is it?" Gu Mingxiu asked her.

"Not for a moment." Mozhu Road.

Gu Mingxiu lowered his eyes and smiled lightly: "Prepare some food, let's go to the Bamboo Blue Pavilion." ”

The Bamboo Blue Pavilion is a small pavilion in Chongming Temple, located between the avenue and the temple, and there are wing rooms inside. Gu Mingxiu likes to go here on weekdays, just because the bamboo forest behind the bamboo pavilion is quite beautiful. Mu Lan looked left and right, and couldn't find anything interesting about the bamboo for a long time.

Gu Mingxiu sat quietly in the wing room alone, she held a white child in her left hand and a black child in her right hand, and the game was quite leisurely. Mu Lan pulled Mo Zhu in surprise and asked her quietly, "When will the girl play chess?" ”

They have been following Gu Mingxiu, and it is true that they have never seen her learn chess, nor have they ever seen her touch chess. Now seeing Gu Mingxiu falling slowly, playing left and right, and the chess pieces are also quite messy, Mo Zhu shook his head hesitantly: "About... It's just the girl playing, and I don't know chess, so I can't understand what the girl is doing. ”

"Also, it's too boring for a girl to just read a book all day long." Miao Lan nodded, and looked at Gu Mingxiu with some self-reproach, "Let's find some chess books to show the girl when we go back, we haven't paid attention either, I don't know when the girl became interested in these." ”

"The girl is the daughter of the Gu family, so naturally she has to learn something." Mo Zhu paused and shook his head secretly. Now who in Yangzhou doesn't know that Gu Changge, the second lady of Gu Mansion, is both talented and beautiful, and the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are all unique in Yangzhou, and in a few years in the future, she must be a stunning beauty who moves the world, and who can remember that Gu Mingxiu is the daughter of Gu Mansion?

No matter what the two maids were thinking, Gu Mingxiu was still playing chess. She played extremely slowly, thinking about a few points with each move, and the games on the chessboard became more and more chaotic, and she couldn't see the rules at all. When she finished her last child, there was a faint noise outside the window.

Gu Mingxiu hooked the corners of his lips almost inaudibly: Look, someone has entered the game.

Mo Zhu hurried out the door, and after another moment, he hurried in. She whispered to Gu Mingxiu: "It's the pedestrian carriage passing by that that is broken, and I don't know which lady it is." ”

"It's cold, please come in and rest." Gu Mingxiu said casually, "It's not too late to wait for the carriage to be repaired and then to go." ”

"Yes." Mo Zhu received the order and immediately retreated.

Gu Mingxiu stared at the tea cup on the table quietly, unable to see the sinking of his eyes. Mo Zhu soon returned, followed by a maid. Slowly, the exquisitely dressed official lady entered the door with the maid.

Gu Mingxiu looked at the green clothes and smiled slightly. While she was looking at the other party, the woman was also looking at Gu Mingxiu. Seeing Gu Mingxiu smiling faintly at her and then looking down at the table, the arrogance between the woman's eyebrows and eyes was not half digested: "I'll leave when the carriage is repaired, and I'm bothering the girl at the moment." ”

Her gaze changed slightly as she landed on the table chess game.