Gu Qing was stunned and speechless.

"You...... You've lived here too, right?"

A gentle question, just her bold conjecture. He also said that his parents died too early, and where could a lonely child go?

Liancheng's eyes moved slightly, and he didn't object, but replied with a smile: "Yes." ”

Gu Qing's eyes projected over, with a slight and shallow pity and distress, he was such an arrogant and conceited person, he never thought of having such an unspeakable past experience.

People are forced to become stronger, and no one knows what he was thinking when he rebelled, his own suffering, or his innocent parents who died.

couldn't stand Gu Qing's eyes, so Liancheng had to look around.

A little boy in front of him suddenly fell, Liancheng ran forward to help him up, patted the dirt off his legs, and asked in a concerned voice, "Where did you fall?"

At this time, he seems to be a different person, as kind as the big brother next door.

Immediately, a woman ran over, picked up the child, and said something of thanks. The child's cheek rubbed against the ground, and the skin was broken. Liancheng said casually: "The child is injured, take him to get some medicine." ”

The woman looked at Liancheng dressed as a nobleman, and thought of herself, and couldn't help but say: "We are all poor and poor, and food and clothing are all problems, how can we have money to get medicine for our children? ”

Liancheng immediately repented of what he had just said.

Gu Qing smiled and took out a hairpin from the bun, handed it to the woman, and said, "Auntie, you take the hairpin and take it away, exchange it for some silver taels, and give medicine to the child." The face is important, but don't leave a scar. ”

"This ......" The woman only felt that the hairpin in her hand weighed as much as a thousand catties, and she hesitated for a long time and said, "Girl, I understand your kindness." The hairpin is so valuable, we ...... Can't afford it. ”

Gu Qing glanced at the scorching sun on the horizon, pointed to the top of his head and said, "The weather is very hot, can my aunt let us go to your house to escape the heat?"

"This ...... Isn't that okay?" The woman hesitated.

Lian Cheng also echoed and rubbed his head: "Why do I feel dizzy?"

"It can't be heat stroke, right?" Gu Qing shouted deliberately.

When the woman heard this, she hurriedly shouted at them to go to her house, and under Gu Qing's repeated persuasion, she was willing to accept the hairpin.

The hairpin is made of white jade, and it should be able to exchange it for a few taels of silver when it is taken to the pawnshop, at least the food and clothing in the last few days can be solved.

They came to a small thatched hut with a shaky door that seemed to fall down at the slightest touch, and after looking around, the house was surrounded by walls. It was dark inside, with only one window casting light.

The woman poured two cups of water, and it was better to say that it was a cup than a bowl, and yes, they poor people were not so particular.

"Auntie, why are you alone?, what about your husband?" Gu Qing asked.

"He, for the livelihood of his family, carries sedan chairs for others in the city, and only comes back once in a few days. ”

The child ran to the bed to play with the slingshot, there were no extra stools at home, and the only two stools were given to Gu Qing and them to sit on.

In such a defeated environment, Gu Qing sighed secretly, seeing that Liancheng was also dull, and he didn't know what to say.

Gu Qing's mind flashed into his mind, and an idea emerged, which meant that he asked the woman a question: "Auntie, do you have any opinion on the current emperor?"

As soon as the emperor said the word, the woman's face changed slightly, "The emperor is the pride of the sky, how can we, ordinary people, comment at will?"

Gu Qing smiled: "Don't worry, auntie, since this question is asked by me, you just need to answer it." One, we don't have bad intentions, we just want to understand it purely. Two...... Actually, we are people from the palace, are ...... The emperor asked us to visit secretly and find out the people's feelings. ”

She noticed the torch-like gaze on her side, although it was a little uncomfortable, but it did not affect the calculation in her heart at all.

The woman was skeptical: "Are you really from the palace?"

"Yes, as if it were fake. If the eldest lady doesn't believe it, you can go to the palace with us, but let's confirm our identity in front of the emperor?" Gu Qing said naughtily.

The woman waved her hand again and again: "No, no, no, no." I believe you are. "She has only stayed in a small slum all her life, and has never even been to the most prosperous place in the capital, where does she have the courage to go to the palace?

"Auntie, you haven't answered my question just now?"

"Oh, what do you mean about the Emperor? Well, I think about it, the boss will give us some scraps of silver in the slums every month, although it is not much, and we can barely live a good life for a few days. Hey, you said that our emperor rebelled and robbed the imperial power back then, but he has the ability to govern our country in an orderly manner. Take the things around him as an example, after the new emperor ascended the throne, he increased the number of guards in the capital, and his appearance was much better, and the gangsters and thieves were greatly reduced. ”

Hearing the satisfactory answer, Gu Qing looked at Liancheng proudly, and saw that the corners of his mouth seemed to have an imperceptible smile.

I guess I'm stupid.

She pretended to be anxious and said, "Alas, you don't know. I often follow the emperor's side, and he always talks about the common people in the world with indignation and chagrin, and only hates that he is not the Guanyin Bodhisattva who saves suffering, and he can't let every one of his people live and work in peace and contentment, and he has no worries all year round. ”

"This ...... How could the emperor think like that? Our life is much better than before, and we are already very content. I heard that the emperor is still very young, and you tell him that anyway, the days will be long in the future, and there is no hurry to govern the country and the people. ”

Talking to the woman, I noticed that there was no vulgarity and ignorance like that of a village woman in the countryside, but a smell of the literati's books.

Gu Qing asked her, only to learn that she had been studying in the school for a year when she was a child, and later got married, so she focused on her husband's family and didn't listen to anything else.

At dusk, Gu Qing and Liancheng said goodbye to the woman, took Lao Liu's ox cart next door, and drove slowly outside the palace gate.

Walking on the long official road, Gu Qing happily danced while walking, and hummed a little song, she asked Liancheng triumphantly: "How is it? What am I talking about? Usually, don't just plunge into the folds to understand the people's feelings, the way to do a good job is to visit." You see today, you heard what the eldest lady said, right?

Knowing that she was deliberately asking herself, Lian Cheng glanced at her and pretended not to care: "Actually, I already knew, because my ability is unmatched. ”

Gu Qing couldn't help but roll his eyes, he really got cheap and didn't sell it.

When the official road was about to end, Gu Qing suddenly turned his head and looked at the palace door that was closed Shen Shen and sighed.

"What's wrong?"

"We passed by the Gu Mansion when we came back, didn't you? Why did you send me back every time?" She yelled, blaming her for eating and running with him today, which had been forgotten in the back of her mind. It's over, the palace gate is closed, and if she wants to go out, she will have to wait for tomorrow.

"We are ox carts made together, you didn't pay attention to it, why did you rely on me?" The black pot Liancheng didn't carry it, he put his hands on the back of his head and crossed it, and said lightly: "It's a big deal to live in the palace, and it won't be less for you to eat and drink." ”

Walking by himself, he saw a figure waiting anxiously on the road, ran forward quickly, and when he got closer, he pointed to a fork in front of him and said: "Your Majesty, you are finally back, Su Guifei has been waiting outside the Qiankun Palace since noon and said that she has something to look for you, and when she heard that you were out of the palace, she had to wait outside the palace gate." After several persuasions, the old slave agreed to stay in the rest pavilion at the fork in front of her. ”

As soon as he returned to the palace, he couldn't be idle, and the impatience on Liancheng's face was not concealed at all, and he strode forward, and asked by the way: "Su Guifei, is it the one who lost the fetus that day?"

"Yes, yes, Your Majesty, this time I heard that Concubine Su came to shout again, saying that Concubine Ning gave her the power to get off the horse, she couldn't swallow that breath and wanted to seek justice from you. ”

Gu Qing stretched out her ears, she hadn't seen her second sister in the palace for so long, but when she heard Su Guifei's complaint against her, she was even more dissatisfied while curious. Su Guifei is already pampered and arrogant, this time the fetus must have hit hard, and she wants to trick the second sister in a different way, no, she has to help her family.

"Concubine Su, what kind of injustice did she come to shout?" She asked.

Liancheng suddenly stopped, tsk, almost forgot about her.

"Actually, it's just a little thing...... "Zhao Gonggong was about to tell her, but was stopped by Liancheng: "What do you care about? ”

"Why is it none of my business to sue my second sister? Besides, the palace gate has been closed, how can I go back?"

"I'm asking you to go back to the Phoenix Palace. Deliberately threw out a sentence viciously, Liancheng was a little stunned, yes, it was called the Phoenix Palace, indicating that the people inside were destined to be extraordinary.

He suddenly remembered the song that was rumored a few days ago, what the fortune teller did.

"I shouldn't be there, I'm not going back. "She was as stubborn as a lion cub.

Liancheng thought about it, she was a little lost, she really shouldn't be there.

"Then you're going to wait for me in the imperial study?" He asked, asking for her opinion.

Gu Qing didn't follow and went to the imperial study? She is just a folk girl, and she is still a folk girl to be married, if she is discovered by others, what kind of system will she become?

"Since you don't want to, let's go back to Phoenix Palace. With a light word, Liancheng turned around and was about to leave.

"Do you believe that I climbed over the wall and left the palace tonight?" Gu Qing threatened him, but ...... It doesn't seem to work.

Liancheng thinks it's funny, I'm afraid that the high walls in the palace will take three of her together to reach the top, and she will have to climb over the wall to get out of the palace?

"You go back first, and I'll come looking for you. "For the sake of letting herself listen to so many good things during the day, I can barely bother with her.

Well?

In this way, Gu Qing refused to follow.

She was innocent with him, just because a holy decree came down, she was invited into the palace in front of everyone, and now she can't get rid of it, she doesn't care, she looks at things outside her body very lightly, but it doesn't sound good to say. Especially living in the palace, if the second sister learns about it, it will inevitably make her think more.

"Your Majesty, please tell the people's daughter, what is the purpose of keeping the people's daughter in the palace?"