Chapter 11: Peony
Double Ninth Festival is an indescribable festival.
Shaoguang was lying on the rocking chair eating the chrysanthemum cake made by the people in the house, and a trace of nostalgia slipped in his eyes.
When Princess Kaiyuan was born in Chongyang, everyone said that this princess's life was not good. Chongyang ascended to the heights and conceived relatives, and it was unlucky to be born on this day.
Unlucky? At the beginning, Emperor Jian'an already had three sons, and there was no daughter in the harem. I finally got a princess, and I haven't been happy for a few minutes, but I was actually called unlucky? Qi doesn't hit one place, "Nine, Yang also; Double nine, double yang, yang on yang plus yang. How unlucky? The man choked for a while, only to see Emperor Jian'an teasing the little princess who had only been born for a few days and stretched his throat and said, "What's more, isn't it unlucky for me, the ninth of the Ninety-Five?" ”
The man quickly knelt down, cold sweat dripping. How can he speak such a rebellious word?
Not only that, Emperor Jian'an also wrote the name of his first daughter by hand: Kaiyuan.
This is how much a father expects from his daughter.
Shaking his eyes and squinting, with a faint mockery in his eyes, maybe the life of Princess Kaiyuan is really bad, not only did she die of illness, but even her three brothers and her relatives have not survived so far. Fate?
I don't know if anyone remembers now, what color was soaked in the blood of palace bricks ten years ago?
As if to prove the question of her fate, the little princess Kaiyuan did not live past her eight years old, but her father, queen mother, and all those close to her and related people all died on the day she was eight years old.
When she was eight years old, it was the Chung Yeung Festival ten years ago.
Today, it is the Chung Yeung Festival ten years later.
The chrysanthemum cake made by the people of Fuzhong is soft and delicious, and it melts in the mouth. "Lu Su, are Gu's mother's chrysanthemum cakes ready?"
Shake Light stood up from the chaise longue, autumn is here, everything is going to be in the repair period, everything will bloom next summer.
Who was Gu Qingxing back then? The great Confucian, who is famous in the four countries, has disciples all over the world.
Ten years ago, Gu Qingxing, who had already entered the age of too rare, learned that his beloved disciple Kaiyuan had died of illness, and that Emperor Jian'an, whom he had been loyal to, had been killed. The rebellious ministers and thieves ascended to the position of the Ninety-Five, and killed all the people who disobeyed him in the court, leaving only one Gu Qingxing. It's just because there are too many people in the four countries who value Gu Qingxing, and he doesn't dare to do it. How could Gu Qingxing submit to an emperor who was clearly inappropriate and disobedient? Feeling the death of Emperor Jian'an and Li Kaiyuan, there were many changes overnight, Gu Qingxing got sick, and his old body and bones did not survive, and a generation of Confucians left with hatred.
Ten years later, the Gu Mansion, which was once a city, is now full of people and extremely desolate.
In the past ten years, I have admired Gu Qingxing's literary talents, and I am grateful to Gu Qingxing.
But no one dared to worship blatantly, just because Gu Qingxing, who had been in the past, was bent on opposing the current emperor.
Oh, the corporal of the world? Silence the taunt.
Shaoguang stepped down from the carriage and looked at the half-hung plaque with complicated eyes. She was sent to Jingshan ten years ago to escape, and now that the tide is gone, she doesn't know what she should do for these people. The only thing that can be done is to come and worship at this Double Ninth Festival.
When she was taught by Mr. Gu Qingxing, she was still young. If it weren't for Mr. Gu, who hid from the world and crossed the sea, skillfully cooperated with her mother, and sent her from the capital to Jingshan, how could she survive to this day?
However, Mr. Gu, the current emperor will not let anyone go.
You see, my brother, who grew up beside him, is not dead.
Shaking Light stepped forward and pushed the door open with all his might, and a cloud of dust drifted down from the air. The scholars in the world dare to know poetry on the top of the Juxian Tower, but they dare not set foot in the mansion of this once world-famous Confucian! But she dared!
She is already alone in this capital, what can she be afraid of?
It's just that the scene that catches the eye makes the shaking light a little incredible.
The outside of the door is mottled, but the inside of the door is as clean as ever. At that moment, she seemed to see the old lady Gu Qingxing who was holding a book and pretending to be angry towards her.
The grass and trees here have not changed much compared to ten years ago.
What's going on?
Shaoguang walked in, she remembered that there was a peony flower in Mr. Gu's mansion, and when the flower bloomed, the snow-white petals were a little red spotted, and it was famous in the capital. There is only such a plant in the world, and it is said that the former emperor once begged for a long time, and Mr. Gu never gave up. She suddenly wanted to see how the peony was doing at the moment.
She remembered that ten years ago, when the flowers bloomed in May every year, Mr. Gu would ask his disciples to come to his house to enjoy the flowers and compose poems.
Princess Kaiyuan participated twice, and each time she came out on top, which made Mr. Gu laugh.
Now, Princess Kaiyuan is gone, and Mr. Gu is not there. Only the pieces in this Gu Mansion are still the same as in the past, but they are a little older than ten years ago.
As the county lord at the beginning, she was taught by Mr. Gu after she was five years old, and the most frequent place to come to his house was the back garden. And the most lively time of the year in Gu Mansion is also in the back garden. The place where she left the most memory here is also in the back garden.
There was the sound of the piano, and the sound of the piano was bursting.
The sound of the piano is low, but with a little cheerfulness.
She could play this tune too, but she rarely played it over the years, and she had never even heard anyone play it over the years.
"Xianle" is said to be Mr. Gu took a nap in the afternoon one day, and was taught by the immortals in his dreams, and Mr. Gu loved this song the most during his lifetime.
Now, one question after another surrounds the shaking light.
She was eager to know how the inside of the Gu Mansion could be so clean and tidy, as if she had been staying here for ten years. She wanted to know who was playing Mr. Gu's favorite song in the Gu Mansion on the day of Chongyang.
What speculation came from the bottom of her heart, and what joy came out of her heart.
In the past ten years, people around her have said that she is bold and spacious, but who knows, the pictures she once saw with her own eyes often appeared in front of her eyes, and a person's head rolled to the ground and fell into her dreams.
"You are?"
Skirt the promenade and turn into the back garden. A thin figure was sitting cross-legged with his back to Shaguang, his gray hair pinned behind his head by a twig, and his clothes shabby. There was a guqin on his lap, and the sound of the piano poured out at this moment.
Shaking Light slowed down her breathing, even after ten years, she still recognized this figure at a glance! She was afraid that the sound of her breathing would break the quiet scene now.
Her eyes were moist, ten years ago, she witnessed the death of people close to her one by one, and she was also sent to Jingshan alone. In ten years, she never had the luxury of expecting to see someone close to her again one day, and even she once thought that this person who was so kind to her was ....... Now this scene, teach her how not to be happy?
She has been taught by Mr. Gu since she entered the Gu Mansion, and it is Mr. Gu who is the most strict to her, and this person is the one who loves her the most. This person is ten years younger than Mr. Gu, and he is also a famous gentleman in Daning. This is his wholeheartedly following Mr. Gu and being his lifelong scholar.
"Gu Bo."
Shake Light called softly, she was afraid of shattering this scene.
The thin figure trembled, and the hand that was stroking the qin stopped. He tilted his head, as if to get a real look at the person who called him behind him.
Only then did Shake Light realize that the old man who had resisted her by his neck and teased her had become a blind man ten years later, and the eyes on his face were tightly closed, as if he was trying to open his eyes and see Shake Light.
"Uncle Gu," Shaoguang walked over to the old man and squatted down and called softly, "I'm back." ”
The sound spread into the air, but the old man's body began to tremble. He trembled and stretched out his hand to touch the shaking face, and said in disbelief, "Girl, are you really back?" ”
"Uncle Gu, it's me, it's me. I went to Jingshan safely. Shake the light and hold the old man's hand, ten years ago, she was able to leave safely, all thanks to the layers of plans of these people.
"It's good that you're still alive, girl, it's good that you're still alive." The old man's words were all excited, if Gu Lao and Miss Gu knew that the girl was still alive, they would definitely be very relieved, "Girl, have you seen the flower behind you?" ”
Unable to figure out how she could shake the light, she turned her head to look.
In the midst of all the silence, there is a flower standing upright in the garden, with a little red spot on the snow-white petals, delicate and colorful. Shake Guang's eyes were full of shock, how could this flower bloom at this time? After the shock, Shake Light handed the old man a puzzled look.
The old man seemed to have felt the confusion of shaking the light, his body was still trembling at the moment, and he pointed to the flower, "It...... Is it open now? ”
"Uncle Gu, it's open."
The old man seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and he said slowly, "After you all left ten years ago, and the next year in June, this flower has not bloomed, and at that time I was still wondering if you left, and this flower will go with you." Who knew that in September of that year, I saw this flower bud. ”
"Then the second and third years, it was opened in September. In the years that followed, I was blind and didn't know if the flowers had bloomed. ”
The old man seemed to be telling his juniors what he had experienced, and he also learned from the old man to sit cross-legged and listen to the old man quietly.
The appearance of this old man in front of her eyes was already a very extravagant thing.
"Girl, let's go." After the old man finished speaking, he suddenly rushed to shake the light, "You go quickly, I have been used to staying alone in this Gu Mansion for ten years, and I am a little uncomfortable with you coming." ”
"Uncle Gu?" Shao Guang was a little puzzled, "Uncle Gu, what are you doing here?" I have no other relatives in this world, only you have one relative, I want to accompany you, I want to know ....... ”
"Girl, don't forget." The old man suddenly said with a straight face, "Now the people sitting on the dragon chair are also your relatives." ”
A white figure was hidden behind the tree, and the shaking light did not notice it at the moment.
I saw Shaoguang sneer, as if he was disdainful, "Relatives? He also deserves it? ”