Chapter 16: Warmth and Warmth

Gu Tingcheng and Liu Rushuang left the palace, and Gu Tingcheng couldn't help but look at those Imperial Forest Soldiers, but they didn't have that familiar figure.

Liu Rushuang saw that Gu Tingcheng and Lu Zuo Zhaoyi had a very happy conversation, and when they left, Lu Zuo Zhaoyi's face was cloudy.

On the way, she asked closely what she wanted to talk about with Lu Zuo Zhaoyi, and she needed to separate her mother.

"It's just to talk about the boudoir between Lu Zuo Zhaoyi and my mother when she was young, I'm afraid that someone is here, and my mother is uncomfortable." Gu Tingcheng said lightly.

"What about the divorce? ......" Liu Rushuang's eyes were sharp.

Gu Qingcheng lowered his eyebrows, his face was a little aggrieved, and he said lightly: "Niangniang said, wait for the ancestor's eightieth birthday, that is, after three months. ”

Liu Rushuang thought at the moment that when her birthday came, she announced that Gu Qingcheng would retire, and her daughter Chu Yao would marry the king of Nan'an.

It must be like this, at that time, Lu Zuo Zhaoyi was already about to take back Yujue and retire from his family.

So, I was overjoyed.

Back at the Gu Mansion, Gu Chuyao was already waiting at the gate of the mansion, and when she saw them coming back, she couldn't wait to pull Liu Rushuang aside.

"Mother, how's it going?" The tone was anxious.

"Don't worry," Liu Rushuang patted her daughter's hand, "The ancestor will be 80th birthday, and everything will be settled." ”

"The birthday of the ancestor, you still have to wait for the moon?" Gu Chuyao pouted.

"My daughter has been waiting for more than ten years, do you still care about the moon?" Liu Rushuang said patiently, "Since Lu Zuo Zhaoyi has already spoken like this, we can only wait patiently, right?" ”

"Okay, that daughter has to practice dancing more diligently during this time, and when the ancestor celebrates his 80th birthday, she will dance for the ancestor." Gu Chuyao was reluctant to be embarrassed, and then had a reverie on his face, "At that time, the dance will be amazing, and I am not afraid that the king of Nan'an will not fall for me." ”

"My Chu Yao's dancing skills are among the best in Pingcheng, except for Princess Shanggu and Li Shuang'er, the sister of the hussar general Li Jun, who else can compete with my daughter?" Liu Rushuang said proudly.

"That's true, mother, my daughter may not be able to win against Princess Shanggu, but my dancing skills will definitely be able to compare with Li Shuang'er.

She is a general's daughter, and she usually dances knives and guns, and I have practiced with her in the dance workshop, and she is really not as good as her daughter. Gu Chuyao said confidently.

Twisting her waist again, she struck a few bewitching poses to show her mother.

"Okay, my good daughter, you just practice hard, strive for an amazing dance, and everyone will see you!"

Liu Rushuang looked at her daughter's graceful figure, and smiled happily.

Gu Tingcheng returned to the West Chamber, and Yun Jin and Zhiruo greeted him. Zhiruo first asked softly: "Miss, did Madame really take Madam to the palace to withdraw from her relatives today?" ”

"Hmm." Gu Tingcheng nodded lightly.

Zhiruo looks simple and kind, but she is used by Gu Chuyao and them.

How should I subdue these two girls?

"Madame must have bad intentions and want the eldest lady to replace her and be the princess of Nan'an, right?" Yun Jin brought tea to Gu Tingcheng.

"It seems like this." Gu Qingcheng said softly, "You guys are busy, I want to sit in the small courtyard." ”

The two girls looked at their young lady with sympathy.

Gu Qingcheng opened the small door and walked to the small courtyard, under the begonia plant, there was a swing, she sat on it, swinging.

Watching begonia flowers, no matter how distressed you are, you will feel comfortable. What's more, she didn't feel sorry today, thinking about Lu Zuo Zhaoyi being frightened by herself at that time, and she couldn't help but giggle.

Suddenly, she saw a figure in the next room to her room, looking at her through the window.

Looking at the dark places under the sun, you can't see clearly all of a sudden.

There are two rooms in the west wing with the same layout, and there is also a small door to enter and exit the courtyard.

She was startled, restrained her smile, and looked at it closely, only to realize that the person was Gu Yuqing.

Gu Yuqing looked at Gu Qingcheng, who was more delicate than the begonia flowers, and smiled, it was so moving.

was in a daze, and when he saw that Gu Qingcheng had also noticed him, he opened the small door with a red face and walked out.

Gu Yuqing does not have the shadow of her parents, she is handsome, knowledgeable and knowledgeable, and she is a pure-hearted person at first glance.

On weekdays, he is dressed in plain brocade, and he looks like a humble gentleman.

Gu Tingcheng returned to this home, that is, he has been taking care of him, and he is the only person who has a good impression of Gu Tingcheng in this family.

Gu Qingcheng stopped shaking, but he was still sitting, raising his head slightly, looking at Gu Yuqing, who was red-faced.

"Big brother, why are you here?"

"Allure, as soon as you came back last night, something like that happened." Gu Yuqing's face was pale, "I'm the eldest brother, I can take care of you." I'll live next door to you in the future, so that no one dares to bully you in the middle of the night. ”

Gu Qingcheng's heart was hot again, and he smiled sincerely at Gu Yuqing.

"Thank you, big brother." Gu Tingcheng Road.

And then I was a little embarrassed:

"The eldest brother originally lived in a good house, but now the eldest brother has moved to the west chamber where the guest lives, and the eldest brother has been wronged."

Gu Yuqing's heart couldn't help but flutter again, he was only two years older than Allure, and he had not yet reached the crown, which was the year when love first opened.

I rarely contact women, even my sister, who is red-faced.

However, he immediately warned himself that it was his sister, and he must not be careful.

Gu Yuqing ordered someone to bring refreshments, and they sat in the gazebo to admire the begonia flowers and eat refreshments.

"Allure, did you really go to quit your family?" Gu Yuqing asked worriedly, with a hint of puzzlement and dissatisfaction: "What is my mother, why don't you go and quit your family." So what do you do next? ”

Gu Qingcheng was speechless for a while, silently eating snacks. She can't be so quick to say that Liu Rushuang is not.

Yun Jin, who was straightforward and fast-talking beside him, couldn't help it, and muttered in a low voice:

"Young Master, can't you see it yet? Mrs. just asked the second lady to take the initiative to withdraw from her family, so as to give way to the eldest lady. ”

"Yunjin." Gu Qingcheng drank softly, and then looked at Zhiruo who seemed to be cleaning up the garden, but paid attention to their conversation. Said helplessly: "Royal marriage, how can we climb casually." ”

"Mother is too bullying." Gu Yuqing held the teacup tightly.

"Big brother, you moved to the West Chamber, does Madame agree?" To this day, Gu Tingcheng refuses to call Liu Rushuang his mother.

"I told my father early in the morning, and he said you were frightened last night. It's good that I can come and accompany you. Gu Yuqing's face was pleasant, "So, before you come back, I'll move over and give you a surprise." ”

"I didn't expect that Allure still has a big brother who loves him." Gu Qingcheng smiled happily, took a quick pastry and put it in Gu Yuqing's mouth, "Thank you, big brother." ”

Gu Yuqing was almost stunned again.

"The eldest brother is a man, and it is right to protect the younger sister." Gu Yuqing spoke proudly.

"Thank you, big brother." Gu Qingcheng nodded lightly.

Gu Yuqing said again:

"Great Wei Shangwu, proud of his martial arts, my father has always felt that he did not learn martial arts when he was a teenager, so he could not gallop on the battlefield and make meritorious contributions in war.

Therefore, the eldest brother not only went to Guozi Taixue to study, but also went to Shangwutang to practice martial arts, and the children of the officials and nobles of the Great Wei Dynasty all went to Shangwutang to practice martial arts.

The eldest brother is a good martial artist, and the eldest brother can protect Allure in the future. ”

"Really?" Gu Qingcheng lightly hammered Gu Yuqing's chest.

Nodding again, he praised:

"Well, it's quite sturdy, but I didn't expect the eldest brother to look polite and humble, but he is a martial arts practitioner.

With the eldest brother here, Allure is not afraid of being bullied. ”

"Of course, the eldest brother is extraordinary, and he is also well-known in Shangwutang, ordinary men, a few of them were beaten down by the eldest brother in a few strokes." Gu Yuqing said with exaggeration.

"Really? Big brother is so powerful? Gu Qingcheng said with a smile, she saw that the eldest brother was not without exaggeration.

"Of course!" Gu Yuqing happily handed her a piece of wisteria cake.

"Big brother, what kind of place is Zhuangyuanfang, Linglong Pavilion and Heaven and Earth?" Gu Tingcheng thought of Lu Zuo Zhaoyi and asked her to go there to see and understand.

"Zhuangyuanfang is the best jewelry shop in Pingcheng, and the jewelry craftsmanship there is no worse than that of the Imperial Palace Shangfu Bureau."

"And Linglong Pavilion is even more powerful, not only the most famous embroidery workshop in Pingcheng, where clothes, shoes, socks and hats, rouge gouache and even antique novelty and strange things can be described as everything, the embroidery of the proprietress Xue Wuniang is also recognized as a first-class good in Pingcheng.

The noble ladies and wives in the city all went to the Zhuangyuan Fang and Linglong Pavilion to order jewelry and dresses and novelties. ”

Gu Yuqing introduced.

Gu Qingcheng bowed silently, no wonder Lu Zuo Zhaoyi asked her to go there to see.

Gu Yuqing took a sip of tea and said:

"Heaven and earth is the best teahouse, restaurant, singing and dancing entertainment place in Pingcheng, not only the most famous chefs, but also the best and most beautiful jokes, operas, songs, dances, and casinos auction.

The rich and powerful nobles in Pingcheng will go there to eat, listen to operas, taste tea, have fun, and auction rare treasures. ”

"Oh, that's right." Gu Tingcheng nodded slightly.

"Another day, Big Brother will take you?" Gu Yuqing's face was looking forward to it.

Gu Tingcheng nodded noncommittally: "I'm just asking, don't worry, I'll talk about it when my eldest brother is free." ”

"Come, big brother will take you to the garden for a walk." Gu Yuqing smiled.

So Gu Tingcheng and Gu Yuqing walked around the garden.

Looking at the huge Gu Mansion, carved beams and paintings everywhere, when she first came back, the eldest brother only told her a rough idea of the mansion.

Now that she has returned, she should take a good look at the Gu Mansion, the place where her mother once lived, and the property of her grandfather.

Gu Yuqing took Gu Qingcheng to walk through the southeast, northwest, and southeast of Gu's mansion.

Gufu carved beams and painted buildings, pavilions and pavilions, water pavilions and lotus ponds, winding paths and secluded.

What Gu Tingcheng admires the most is the crescent bridge carved from golden silk nan wood on the lotus pond, which is more exquisite and brilliant in the light and shadow.

It really deserves to be the mansion of the once rich party.

At this moment, Gu Tingcheng knew how rich his grandfather was back then.

And all this was taken by Liang Bo's father as his own.

What means did Gu Zhongnian use back then?

It is said that my mother was as beautiful as a flower back then, and she encountered robbers on the way to Jialan Temple to enter incense.

Gu Zhongnian, who had no martial arts, disregarded his own safety and heroically saved the United States, and the so-called hero was of course seriously injured.

It was precisely because of his serious injury that he won the favor of Wang Bijun, and since then he has become the son-in-law of Wang Xiaolian, a wealthy man in the world.

Gu Chuyao practiced hard in the garden, and disdained Gu Qingcheng's visit to the Gu Mansion.

Gu Xinyao and Gu Leyao were enjoying the fish in the koi fish pond, Gu Qingcheng nodded to them, approached and asked Gu Leyao who came to care:

"What's wrong with the fourth sister's injury, but it's better?"

Even though they were hateful that night, they had already punished them.

After all, their mother was not killed by them, and there is still a little blood relationship between her and them.

"Second sister, I'm getting better." Gu Leyao said softly, lacking in qi and looking pained, and raised her eyes to look at Gu Xinyao's face when she answered.

Since she was injured, she seems to have changed as a different person, becoming weak, well-behaved and sensible.

"Cat crying mouse, fake mercy!"

Gu Xinyao glared at Gu Qingcheng fiercely and squeezed a sentence from between her teeth.

Then he helped Gu Leyao to leave the koi fish pond, glanced at Gu Qingcheng, tilted his head and scolded Gu Leyao:

"What second sister, is she our second sister? You remember, my father only has three daughters, and that vicious woman of unknown origin is not our second sister! ”

"Sister, just say a few words." Gu Leyao said softly.

Her injuries are rare to be a little better, she came out of the garden to breathe, and when she met Gu Qingcheng, she was able to endure all the hatred.

"Gu Qingcheng, you wait and see, see when, I will also stick a knife in you!"

Gu Xinyao saw Gu Leyao enduring the pain on her face, and scolded Gu Qingcheng fiercely.

"Xin Yao, what nonsense are you talking about? Be careful that I tell my father, you have no good fruit to eat. Gu Yuqing stood in front of Gu Xinyao.

"Big brother? Just turn your elbow out. Seeing lust and righteousness, I was so fascinated by that bad woman that I didn't even know who your own sister was! Gu Xinyao pushed Gu Yuqing away fiercely, pulled Gu Leyao and left.

"Oops!" Gu Leyao snorted, and said softly and weakly, "Sister, you pull slowly, I hurt." ”

Gu Xinyao slowed down at this time, didn't pull her sister, and carefully supported her, but said angrily in her mouth: "Look at it, that slut killed you!" ”

"Sister, no matter whose fault it is, don't blame the second sister." Gu Leyao said softly while following Gu Xinyao: "It's all our fault, it's our own doing." ”

"Allure, don't you mind." Gu Yuqing was a little embarrassed, "Xin Yao is in a bad mood because Le Yao is injured. ”

Gu Qingcheng was not interested, and smiled indifferently: "How can I be as knowledgeable as my sisters." ”

At dinner in the evening, Gu Zhongnian asked Gu Tingcheng to go to see Lu Zuo Zhaoyi, what was the result.

"Father, Lu Zuo Zhaoyi doesn't look down on the daughter of the Sipin Shangshu Lang at all, of course he wants to quit his family." Gu Qingcheng said listlessly.

Gu Zhongnian sighed slightly, as expected.

Gu Tingcheng glanced at Gu Chuyao and Liu Rushuang.

Liu's mother and daughter are of course gloating.

Gu Tingcheng said leisurely:

"In fact, marrying into the royal family, once you enter the palace gate, it is as deep as the sea, whether it is a blessing or a curse or an unknown number.

Don't talk about me, I also advise other sisters, don't think about marrying any prince and grandson, you will only suffer from the idleness of those nobles. ”

"Idle?" Gu Zhongnian put down his chopsticks, glared at Gu Qingcheng fiercely, and reprimanded: "Confused! Darn! In order to marry into the royal family, I don't know how many people can't wait to sell their own mothers and kill their own fathers! Now I just want you to be submissive to your mother, and you actually say that you are idle? Sure enough, it's something that can't hold up the wall! ”

The corners of Liu Rushuang and her daughters showed smug smiles.

After a while, Gu Zhongnian calmed down and gasped, looked at Gu Qingcheng and said, "Okay, since Lu Zuo Zhaoyi wants to withdraw from you, I don't think you have the life to be a princess." Relying on your glorious lintel, it is even more difficult to count on! ”

Zhuan Yi said to Liu Rushuang: "If Chu Yao can make up for it, no matter how much manpower and financial resources are spent, it will be a matter of Yucheng." My colleagues secretly call me the old man of Nan'an. ”

"Yes, sir." Liu Rushuang said softly.

Several young ladies looked at Gu Qingcheng with ill intentions, just waiting to see how miserable she was.

Sitting in front of the window at night, looking at the starry moon outside the window, her thoughts returned to the mountain outside Wangjia Village in Taiyuan that could see a few miles away from the village.

The Butterfly Valley in the back mountain stream is where they really live.

When Steward Li and the others went to pick her up, of course, the carriage only stopped at the foot of the mountain, and they climbed up the thatched hut on the mountain to find the second lady of the Gu Mansion.

The mountain stream behind the mountain, there is a clear stream, not far from the stream, there are several wooden houses built in a scattered manner, where the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, the butterflies are flocking, but it is beautiful, the master named it the butterfly valley.

The entrance outside the Butterfly Valley has already been arranged by Grandpa Tie with the Five Elements Bagua Array, and idlers can't enter the Butterfly Valley at all.

The Butterfly Valley is full of clouds and smoke, butterflies are flying during the day, and the nurse is curling smoke in the kitchen. In the summer evenings of Butterfly Valley, the stars and moon are particularly bright, sprinkled on the clear streams, riversides, mountains, and wooden houses, and are suddenly plated with a layer of extremely beautiful silver halo.

The nurse sewed clothes and shoes under the moon, Gu Qingcheng studied medicine with the master most of the time, occasionally practiced dancing with Aunt Shangguan and Aunt Qin, and stroked the piano, and at night she would stay next to the master and Grandpa Tie and watch them play on the chessboard.

Their home is warm and peaceful, and Gu Tingcheng thinks about the nurse and the master.

Thinking of the nurse's call: Allure, eat; Allure, what several masters taught today, have you all understood it?

Thinking of the master's earnest teaching: All great doctors must be calm, have no desires, no desires, compassion, and if there is a sickness to ask for help, do not ask whether they are rich or poor, just like the thoughts of their loved ones......

And Grandpa Tie would always hide some wild fruits and hand them to her unexpectedly when she was tirelessly reading.

He whispered, for fear that the master would hear:

"Little Allure, rest, if you read a book for so long, your eyes will not be able to stand it, and your eyes will be very bad if you see it badly.

Even if Old Monster Murong can be cured, it will be damaged.

Leave your mean master alone, eat a fruit, play with butterflies, and work hard. ”

Whenever this happens, the master will scold Grandpa Tie: "Iron Spearhead, look at you, you have spoiled the city again!" In tonight's game, I'll punish you and let me two sons! ”

“…… No! Grandpa Tie's face was innocent and indignant: "Old monster Murong, why do you live more and more and go back, a dignified and powerful man, you actually play a trick, wait for someone to treat you one day!" ”

Aunt Shangguan Feixue and Aunt Qin Panruo would be secretly having fun on the side.

The master played against Grandpa Tie, occasionally fighting with red faces, and every time they had a dispute, in the end, they let Gu Qingcheng make a decision.

Gu Tingcheng saw that Grandpa Tie was impetuous, so it was convenient for him to play the qin by the stream not far away, so Grandpa Tie's mood slowly calmed down......

Before the age of five, there were only masters, nurses, Grandpa Tie, Aunt Shangguan and Aunt Qin.

Later, the master took her to Penglai small fishing village, and the chess addict Feng Qingyuan met a master who was of equal strength, regarded him as a confidant, and followed them back to Butterfly Valley, so he played with the master every night.

Before, the master and Grandpa Tie played against each other under the pine tree every night, but when Grandpa Feng came, Grandpa Tie could only watch the game like himself most of the time.

As Grandpa Tie said, he found someone to govern the master, and Grandpa Feng's chess skills wandered among people and gods, and the master almost lost every time.

That's the case, and the master is also indomitable to fight with Grandpa Feng, after all, it is difficult to find a bosom friend in the world.

And her good friend from the next village, what's going on now? Grandpa Hua's leg is sick, is he walking neatly now?

When she left Butterfly Valley, she knew that her nurse and her masters were in front of the thatched hut on the hill, watching her car leave from a distance.

The spring breeze blows the green branches and grass leaves and dyes the wheels and horses' hooves, provoking the butterflies in the Butterfly Valley to chase endlessly, reluctantly.

Butterfly Valley is her home, this Gu Mansion with carved beams and paintings, there is no human taste at all.

The commanding and domineering Lu Zuo Zhaoyi, the palace, made her even more discouraged.

When will I be able to avenge my mother and grandfather, and then leave this ghost place?

Gu Tingcheng suddenly felt more people leaving their hometowns.

His eyes couldn't help but ripple.

Gu Zhongnian came back every day with a straight face and few words to Gu Tingcheng, as if Gu Tingcheng owed him a debt.

From the lady to the girl, they all spoke coldly to her.