Chapter Twenty-Four: Tight-lipped as a bottle
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When the chief steward arrived, Gu Jiaming also appeared in time, Liu Zhuxue almost forgot to pounce, and the position of Dai Guozi was also appropriate. didn't wait for the chief steward to see clearly, in addition to his eldest lady, there were two other men. As if they had never appeared, the three disappeared from everyone's sight.
It wasn't until some distance away that the rumbling sound from under his feet gradually subsided. Liu Zhuxue couldn't help but ask: "My family won't all collapse, right?" ”
"At most, the ground in the backyard has collapsed, and I think those who rushed over were young and strong, and they would be fine." Gu Changming knew that Liu Zhuxue didn't want to hurt innocent people.
"Who's the guy who almost dropped his eyeballs at us?" Dai Guozi hummed beside him angrily, Liu Zhuxue didn't want to hug him when she came out, why did Gu Changming come out, and her whole person went up.
"That's the chief steward of my house, and the key to the little door is in his hands. We can not let him see it, Gu Gongzi has a hundred ways to stun him. Liu Zhuxue thought for a while and said, "Is it for coral?" ”
"Well, we were able to find the secret room so smoothly and take you away, if you don't show up again, someone will definitely suspect your maid. Your maid is quite honest, I'm afraid that Ling Zun will punish her. Now that the Grand Steward sees us, he will no longer doubt anything else. Gu Changming took them all the way, and the shops on both sides of Kaifeng Mansion were still open for business at this time, and the lights on the street were bright, but he had a feeling that he didn't know where to go.
"Are you still going to the Pufa Temple?" Dai Guozi asked in a loud voice, have you thought about where to go, you can't run all the way, and no one is chasing after you.
Since it is confirmed that this matter is related to the palace, Gu Changming's mind is the same as Liu Zhuxue, and he can't involve innocent people, even if they are disciples of Buddhism.
"There's a place to go." Gu Changming turned around and headed in the direction of the east of the city.
Liu Zhuxue paused for a moment: "The iron chain on my feet is gone." ”
"The locks over there are all open, and I can't tie you up anymore." Dai Guozi wanted to remind her when she came out with the chain, wasn't the situation chaotic and didn't care about it at that time.
"I'm so stupid that I can't even figure out the simplest." Liu Zhuxue lowered her head and smiled bitterly, "When my father came back, he saw that I not only ran away, but also destroyed half of my home, and I don't know what to be angry about." ”
Dai Guozi just wanted to say that it was better to be angry, after all, he was Liu Zhuxue's father, and it was estimated that she would be uncomfortable if she didn't get angry when she heard this, so it would be better to say less.
After Gu Changming went around, he took them to the backyard of another mansion, and his feet were determined not to go in immediately.
"Are we used to going to the backyard, tell me which adult's house in Kaifeng Mansion is this?" Dai Guozi came to Kaifeng for a few days, and it can be regarded as an eye-opener, knowing that this is not an ordinary dwelling.
"This, isn't this Gu Gongzi's mansion, the premise criminal officer Gu Wuduo's mansion?" Liu Zhuxue also saw the clue at this time, and Gu Changming brought the person to his home after thinking about it.
Dai Guozi touched his chin and found a problem, daring to love the bigger the official position, the more simple he lived. That Hu Wenxi is just a prisoner of Guozijian, and he can still maintain an outer room in the other courtyard. When I arrived at Liu Zhuxue's house, except for the secret room, it was obviously much more restrained. And Gu Changming's home is quite big, but it is simple enough.
"My father doesn't like to see colorful things, and he didn't allow me to use them since I was a child, saying that it was easy to lose my mind and I couldn't concentrate on studying and practicing martial arts." Gu Changming was used to this, and he didn't think there was anything bad. Anyway, after my mother passed away, there were two men in the family, and I didn't even enter the door.
The more Dai Guozi looked at it, the more he made a smack, and suddenly said: "I have heard adults say before that officials who seem too simple are either good people who are dedicated to the people and society, or great evildoers want to hide the truth. ”
Liu Zhuxue really wanted to use the Melting Snow Sword to give Dai Guozi a head-on sword, and her fingers habitually touched the hilt of the sword, only to find that the Melting Snow Sword was left at home and not brought out.
Dai Guozi lifted up his clothes and pulled out the snow-melting sword hidden under his coat from behind his back: "I said what was behind my back along the way, I almost forgot this." "You know, although the Snow Melting Sword is lightweight, it is also a hard weapon, if it weren't for the nerve collapse too tight, how could I have carried it for so long without remembering it.
Liu Zhuxue's fingers trembled when she took the Snow Melting Sword, as if she was holding all of her: "I didn't expect you to help me bring the Snow Melting out." ”
"If I hadn't seen it in your house, I wouldn't have been sure you'd come home, thinking you had been kidnapped halfway through." Dai Guozi actually felt sorry for Liu Zhuxue, a good young lady, how could she have a home and couldn't go back, and she almost became a stupid girl when she was tossed by her father.
It was already late at night, Gu Changming didn't wake up the other people in the house, and took them to the study in the dark, there was a place to rest in the study, so he could sleep for one night before making other plans.
Gu Dai and the two gave up the only soft couch to Liu Zhuxue, anyway, there were blankets on the ground, and the old men didn't pay so much attention to it, so they could sleep with a roll.
The soft couch is behind the bookshelf, and it can still be blocked, otherwise Liu Zhuxue will definitely not be able to sleep under the gaze of the two.
"Gu Gongzi, Guozi, I want to talk, have you slept?" Liu Zhuxue turned over a few times and asked cautiously.
"Don't call Gu Gongzi in the future, it seems too polite. You see how nice it sounds when you call me fruit. Dai Guozi felt that Liu Zhuxue's name for the two was too different, because he was afraid that others would not know that he was Gu Changming's follower.
"So, how do you shout?" Liu Zhuxue shouted that the fruit is long and the fruit is short, but it is very smooth, let her shout Changming? I definitely can't shout, and when I think about it in my head, I feel a chill in my back.
"Call Brother Gu, the fruit is still the fruit, it is indeed smooth." Gu Changming put a pair of long legs on the ground at will, after all, it was his own home, and he felt at ease.
Liu Zhuxue pondered for a moment, and this seemed to be acceptable: "Okay, Brother Gu, fruit, can I start talking?" ”
Dai Guozi originally wanted to ask you whether you said it or not. Fortunately, the other party is Liu Zhuxue, and he is still very patient.
Almost at the same time, Gu Dai and the two said in unison: "Say it, listen to it." ”
Liu Zhuxue was silent again, and there was a full time of incense: "The family affair that my father promised me is Rong Xu, the ninth prince of this dynasty." ”
What the hell is Dai Guozi thinking about the Nine Emperors? The emperor's ninth son? Your father really didn't treat you badly, you married the ninth princess, why do you have to run away from home and be locked up in a small black house when you go back!
"Didn't the Nine Emperor Princes die violently a few years ago?" Gu Changming was actually so shocked that he was almost speechless, he sat up from the ground and looked at the bookshelf in front of Liu Zhuxue.
Dai Guozi on the other side was also frightened by his words, and jumped up on the spot: "Is my ear hallucinating, the conversation between the two of you is too weird." ”
"No, Gu Gong...... What the eldest brother said was that the Nine Emperor Princes, Rong Xu, did die violently a year ago. At that time, all the imperial doctors who failed to treat him were ordered to be executed by the angry emperor. The Nine Emperor Sons are the only half-brother of the Holy Mother today, that is, the youngest son of the Queen Mother. Liu Zhuxue continued to decide to speak, and there were no other concerns, "The Queen Mother was also seriously ill because of this incident, and now she has not recovered." ”
"What is a disease of sudden death? There must be a source, a cause. "After all, Dai Guozi has been catching fast for many years, and the question is still very bloody.
"The news in the palace is strictly blocked, except for those few doctors who have lost their heads, I am afraid that only the emperor and the queen mother know this secret." Liu Zhuxue once asked her father how the Nine Emperor Princes would die all of a sudden when they were young and healthy next year, and they died of illness. My father didn't have any other answer than to scold her so that she didn't ask much.
"This is a bit strange, it is normal for my son and brother to die of illness, and it is normal for people to feel uncomfortable, so it is indescribable, there must be something invisible in it." Dai Guozi listened to Liu Zhuxue's shortness of breath, as if he was choked twice, and he didn't cry, "You go on, your father pointed you out to the Nine Emperors, and then what?" ”
If it wasn't pitch black in the study, Gu Changming wanted to give Dai Guozi a slap in the eye, what was the point of betrothing to a dead man. It's not a normal marriage, it's a secret marriage. No wonder Liu Zhuxue wants to run away from home and run as far away as possible.
"Since the death of the Nine Emperor Princes, the Queen Mother has been unable to sleep all night, and she has taken many medicines and still does not get better. Then on the night of the first seven days of the Nine Emperor Princes, the Queen Mother dreamed that Rong Xu's eyes were bleeding and crying, saying that she had not yet married her relatives and died of illness. After the Queen Mother woke up, she asked for the birthday of the daughter who had never been out of the cabinet in the family of the officials of the DPRK and China, and my father handed over my birthday as well. Liu Zhuxue heard a strange sound in her ears, and finally realized that it was her teeth chattering.
The temperature in the study was suitable, not cold at all, but the cold air all over the body wrapped Liu Zhuxue in it from all directions, sucking her body temperature, sucking away her family affection, and sucking away more things that even she couldn't tell.
"It wasn't until my father told me that I knew that among the six carefully selected birthday characters, the Queen Mother chose me. It is said that I and the Nine Emperor Princes are very compatible in all aspects. If the two get married, not only will the queen mother's body heal, but the Nine Emperor Princes will also live comfortably in the underworld, and be reborn in a rich and noble family. The corners of Liu Zhuxue's mouth curved upward, "Doesn't it sound funny, but these are what my father said, and they can't be more serious." ”
"It's hard for you to keep your mouth shut." Gu Changming only said this, and handed over the rest of the tasks to Dai Guozi.
In the next half an hour, I listened to Dai Guozi lying flat and scolding, he scolded all the way from the Nine Emperor Princes and the Queen Mother to Liu Zhiyuan. During this period, there is not a single sentence that is repeated, and there are various rhythms of intonation and frustration.
So, Dai Guozi's scolding echoed in the study, while the other two people listened quietly. In such an passionate scolding, Liu Zhuxue's breathing calmed down and sank into a comfortable sleep.
This is the deepest night that Liu Zhuxue slept on since running away from home.