Chapter 22: Chinese New Year's Eve Banquet
"The prince is drunk." Gu Jinzhi's words were spit out gently, but he didn't think that Nalan Ci was not only not angry, but also laughed.
Su Jiu stood far away, not understanding what Nalan Ci was laughing at at all, but seeing Nalan Ci so happy, Su Jiu was a little emotional. Nalan Ci has been working hard for his ambitions all year round, and many times he seems to have lived not like himself, but now he is a little happy for him when he finally opens his heart to others.
"If you get drunk before the wine is brewed, then you really say that everyone is drunk if the wine is not drunk." Nalan Ci said this for a long time, Gu Jinzhi looked up at Nalan Ci, Nalan Ci's chin was angular, so it looked very good.
"This king is not in a hurry for you to return to me now, and think about it, this king is serious." Nalan Ci's voice was very soft, and it sounded very comfortable.
Seeing that Nalan Ci let go of Gu Jinzhi who was in his arms, and walked towards Su Jiu, Gu Jinzhi turned his head to look at Nalan Ci's back, thinking of his serious words just now, but now he can't tell the truth from the false.
He is a high-ranking prince, and looking for himself to enter the mansion is just a substitute for others, but Gu Jinzhi has never known that he and the original son of the Taishi have the same name, and there is nothing else, why did Nalan Ci keep himself. Also, what he likes about himself, does he like himself, or is he someone else who was originally a stand-in?
Time passed slowly, the scattered plums in the sky gradually decreased, and the wind blew on people's skin at night, causing a chill. Gu Jinzhi sat under the plum tree and shivered, Nalan Ci stepped forward from the side, put his cloak on Gu Jinzhi's shoulders, helped him get into the carriage, and rushed back to the mansion.
This night, Nalan Cilaipi stayed in Gu Jin's room, on the bed, Nalan Ci was in order, not as frizzy as he was drunk that night, today he just hugged Gu Jinzhi tightly in his arms.
I thought that Nalan Ci would only stay for such a day, but he thought that he had not left for nearly a month when he stayed overnight like this.
The war on the frontier was finally calmed down, and the army returned to the court, and it was already the twenty-seventh month of the month in Beijing. Nalanyong returned triumphantly for the Qing army, and set up a banquet for three days and three nights, and Nalanyong, who was happier than the victorious general, was drunk all the time, and was drunk and unconscious on Chinese New Year's Eve.
The queen of the middle palace only wanted to obtain the sacred heart, completely ignoring the night banquet promised by Nalan Yong, and the ministers reported the matter to Nalan Ci, who couldn't do it, so he could only go to the Tai Hospital in person, and pulled up Huanqiu and a few doctors with better medical skills, and forcibly went to Nalan Yong Palace to relieve his hangover.
However, after the wine was relieved, he could only last for half an hour, and Nalan Yong walked through the motions on the night banquet, and was helped out of the banquet early. Nalan Ci went out of the palace and returned to the house to pick up Lin Baiqiu and Gu Jinzhi, so when he entered the palace again for the banquet, he missed Nalan Yong.
In fact, Nalan Ci stayed with Gu Jinzhi all night, also for tonight's night banquet in the palace, on top of today's banquet, Gu Yan sat at the front, and Nalan Ci sat directly opposite. Nalan Ci was afraid that Gu Jinzhi would be careless, so Gu Yan would see the clues, so he went to his room to ask him every day.
However, Gu Jinzhi is Gu Jinzhi, even if he looks like the son of the Taishi in words and attitude, but in terms of expression and temperament, he is still too bad, and in the end, he can't, Nalan Ci told Gu Jinzhi to speak less for seconds.
As soon as he entered the main hall, Gu Yan's heart was concerned about his son, and it was not until he saw that the people around Nalan Ci were intact that Gu Yan's heart was placed.
According to what Nalan Ci said, Gu Jinzhi was taken by him, and after saluting in front of Gu Yan, Gu Jinzhi entered the banquet with Nalan Ci, Nalan Ci sat next to Gu Jinzhi, and Gu Jinzhi's other side was Lin Baiqiu, this way of sitting made the people present sigh, of course, including Prime Minister Lin Cheng's anger.
Even if Gu Yan returned to Beijing, Nalan Ci wanted to give him face, but after all, Lin Baiqiu was a princess Rong, didn't Nalan Ci give himself face at all?
Lin Baiqiu's face was not good at all, but she didn't have any choice, after all, if she married her husband, Lin Baiqiu had to pretend to be generous outside.
"Jinzhi, last time I was separated for more than two years, although my father was not in Beijing, but I always remember you with your mother, in the palace of Prince Rong, everything is good?"
Gu Jinzhi raised his eyes to look at Gu Yan, didn't open his mouth but nodded, although Gu Yan sensed that something was wrong, but he couldn't say what went wrong, and thought that his son had changed his mind and didn't like words, so he didn't ask any more questions.
Because there was no Nalan Yong's presence, everyone also toasted around Nalan Ci and Gu Yan, and before it was late at night, everyone dispersed early. When Nalan Ci and his party returned home, at the gate of the palace, the carriage was stopped.
"Lord, don't see the dog again today, I don't know what year and day, the minister's wife waited outside the palace gate for a long time, and asked the prince to miss her son in her mother, and asked the prince to let them meet."
thought that everything would pass smoothly, but he never thought that Gu Yan would stop the carriage, Nalan Ci looked at Gu Jinzhi, Gu Jinzhi's hand had been clutching the corners of his clothes, and the corners of his clothes were already wrinkled at this time.
Nalan Ci was also a little worried, but he couldn't escape when he should have come, Nalan Ci shook Gu Jinzhi's hand, pushed the car door and led him out.
At this time, under the carriage, Gu Yan and his wife stood side by side, and when they saw Nalan resigning, both of them saluted respectfully. When Mrs. Taishi looked up at Gu Jin, Gu Jinzhi was shocked by Mrs. Taishi's feeling for herself.
For some reason, Gu Jinzhi only felt that seeing this face that was seven points similar to himself, there seemed to be something in his heart that had been involved in him, and there was an emotion as if it was about to explode.
The word "mother......" suddenly spit out from Gu Jinzhi's mouth, Nalan Ci was startled, but Mrs. Taishi burst into tears when she heard it.
Mrs. Taishi opened her arms, and Gu Jinzhi got off the horse and hugged her. The warmth in Mrs. Taishi's arms made Gu Jinzhi sink a little, Gu Jinzhi had never felt such warmth, if it weren't for Nalan Ci's heavy cough in the end, Gu Jinzhi didn't know how long he would sink.
Mrs. Taishi's eyes were full of tears, Gu Jinzhi didn't know why she saw her like that, her eyes were also red, the mother and son didn't say anything, they just looked at it for a while, Gu Yan didn't dare to delay, so he let Gu Jin get into the carriage.
Seeing Nalan Ci's carriage away from the palace gate, Gu Yan helped his wife:
"Madame, do you see the clues?" Mrs. Taishi wiped away her tears, nodded but shook her head.
"Madame, why is that?"
"Master, Jin Zhi was brought up by me since he was a child, and he will stick to me every day, he has never called me mother, you also know this, but this child is exactly the same as Jin Zhichang, and it feels like I was born. You say, will he be? ”
"No, don't think about it, madam, 'he' doesn't exist anymore." Gu Yan stopped his wife's words, he really didn't want to continue listening, because the matter had been decided and resolved twenty years ago, and it was unintentional to say more now.
"Let's go, madam, I'm afraid that when I return to Beijing, I have to check carefully, what happened to Jinzhi in the palace, and where he has gone now."
On the way back to the palace, Nalan Ci held Gu Jinzhi's hand tightly, and Gu Jinzhi bowed his head and remained silent because of his mistake just now, as if he was waiting for Nalan Ci to reprimand him, but because Lin Baiqiu was present, Nalan Ci didn't say anything, just held Gu Jinzhi's hand more and more hard.
Gu Jinzhi didn't dare to speak when he was in pain, Lin Baiqiu looked at the strangeness of the two, and also sensed that something was wrong. Gu Jinzhi was pampered and raised by the Taishi couple since he was a child, and he had a very good relationship with his parents.
On the day Gu Jinzhi got married, on the way out of the Taishi Mansion, the Taishi and his wife watched him enter the palace, and then the two supported each other and walked back, which Lin Baiqiu saw in person. What's more, when Nalan Ci went south, it was clear that Rusu had solved Gu Jinzhi with his own hands, and now this Gu Jinzhi was too suspicious.
In addition, Gu Jinzhi does not seem to have any father-son affection for Gu Yan today, Lin Baiqiu also wondered if Gu Jinzhi had lost his memory, but through his own observation, Gu Jinzhi's various behaviors did not look like the children of the official family at all. Today's events seemed to make Lin Baiqiu's suspicions even more affirmative, the person in front of him must not be the son of the Taishi.
Because it was already late at night, the coachman seemed to be afraid that it would be too late to go back, so he sped up the speed of catching the car, and the time of a pillar of incense had already arrived at the palace, Nalan didn't say a word and led Gu Jin to get out of the car and go straight to Jinlan Pavilion, and Lin Baiqiu got out of the car unhurriedly, and was accompanied back to his courtyard by Rusu.
Nalan walked a little fast, Gu Jinzhi slowly couldn't keep up with his footsteps, and accidentally twisted his foot in a hurry.
"Sizzle......"
Gu Jinzhi stopped in pain, and Nalan Ci was thinking about the meeting with Mrs. Taishi just now, so he didn't notice that Gu Jinzhi was injured at all.
Seeing that he stopped, Nalan Ci turned his head and grabbed Gu Jinzhi's shoulders:
"How many times has this king told you not to talk to Mrs. Taishi, why didn't you remember what this king said, when Jinzhi used to think of Mrs. Taishi, he would call her mother, and never called her mother...... If Gu Yan's old fox finds out that you are not his son, then everything carefully planned by the king will be in vain! ”
Gu Jinzhi wanted to explain, but the pain from his ankle made him unable to support his body, Gu Jinzhi struggled away from Nalan Ci's hand that was holding his shoulders, sat on the ground, opened his clothes and took off his shoes and socks, at this time the ankle was already red, and it was also swollen.
Nalan Ci looked down, and when he saw Gu Jinzhi's injured foot, he obediently forgot what had just happened:
"When did you get hurt, you didn't say a word, this big night, I just drank in the palace, I'm afraid that Huanqiu and the imperial doctors won't be able to catch up now."