Chapter 368: The Silence Before the Storm
"Do I need to ask you if I want to know what he wants to do? However, this kid's wings were stiff, and he didn't come to see the master for the first time when he returned to Beijing, so he had to kneel on the washboard for three days! Lan Lingyun scolded with a smile.
"He didn't come, I'm afraid it's because of the frost!" Huang Fuqin answered.
As soon as Huang Fuqin's words came out, the garden was quiet.
For more than a year, Huang Fuqin knew about Lan Jueshuang and Gu Qing, and she had some sympathy for Lan Jueshuang.
Although Lan Jueshuang has a noble status, she has heavier responsibilities, and compared to her, Huang Fuqin's life is much simpler.
Huang Fuqin realized that he had said the wrong thing, so he hurriedly shut up and looked at Lan Lingyun pleadingly.
"He once said that he wouldn't show up when Frost didn't need him, and I'm afraid he was keeping his promise!" Lan Lingyun added.
And this sentence just fell on the ears of Lan Jueshuang, who came to find Mrs. Lan, and she instantly stopped around the corner, her eyes wet.
After staying for a while, I went back to my room.
Everyone was avoiding the topic of Gu Qing, so they didn't talk about this topic anymore, but talked about other things.
At noon on the second day, Lan Lingyun rode her wolf to the National Teacher's Mansion.
"Master, why are you here in person? It is unfilial piety to be a disciple who should go to see you! Gu Qing welcomed people into the house and personally served tea and poured water.
After waving off a group of subordinates, he apologized.
"It's been almost two years since I left, and I thought you didn't plan to think that you were going to be a teacher, and I didn't go to the Blue Garden when I returned to Beijing, and I had to come to find you in person for the teacher!" Lan Lingyun scolded.
In order to repay the master's kindness, the apprentice brought back a lot of food and game from outside, as well as a lot of precious medicinal materials, and let people send them to the Blue Garden later, which is considered a disciple's filial piety to the master!" A dull pain flashed in Gu Qing's eyes.
"That's it, but where have you been away from Beijing all these days, and what have you brought back?" Lan Lingyun didn't scold him anymore.
"For the first two or three months, I spent the first two or three months in the surrounding city to see people, and then I went to a deep mountain to collect medicine, and was accidentally bitten by a poisonous snake, and then I was rescued by a group of golden monkeys, where the vegetation was lush and there were many precious medicinal herbs. There are a lot of fat hares and pheasants in the mountain, and there are a lot of seafood, and the disciples have made a lot of bacon there, and the master must love to eat it! Gu Qing chuckled in response.
"You are having a good time, why did you suddenly come back as an official?" Lan Lingyun asked again.
"I used to be young and afraid of constraints, but now I go out to experience two years of training, and some ideas that I didn't want to have changed with it, it's time to do something for the country." Gu Qing did not say the real reason.
"Well, Shuang'er will get married in two days, why don't you fight for it? Although the girl didn't say anything, she has always had you in her heart, don't you express it? Lan Lingyun looked at him suspiciously.
"The third lady of the Lan family and the second son of the Xi Mansion have already made a marriage more than a year ago, haven't they?" Gu Qing looked at her and replied.
"Maybe you have a shallow fate with her after all, you don't want to see her for the last time, I'm afraid that she will already be your brother and sister when you see her again!" Lan Lingyun sighed and replied.
Gu Qing didn't reply again, the two chatted about business matters again, and finally Lan Lingyun went back to Blue Garden by himself.
deliberately went to Lan Jueshuang's room to take a look at her, and went back to his room without saying a word, hugging Huangfu Xuanyu, who was reading a book at the window.
"What's wrong?" Huangfu Xuanyu felt her strangeness.
"It's just a pity that Gu Qing and Shuang'er are obviously in love, obviously now Gu Qing has everything, but they still keep their promises and make both of them so painful!" Lan Lingyun replied a little sullenly.
"Everyone has their own fate, maybe there will be a surprise in two days!" Huangfu Xuanyu did not say it explicitly.
Lan Lingyun and they all thought that Xi Linyu didn't know about Gu Qing and Lan Jueshuang, they only thought that Gu Qing and him had a previous relationship, and only he knew that Xi Linyu knew everything.
Now that Gu Qing has become his brother-in-law, and the person Lan Jueshuang loves is Gu Qing, with Xi Linyu's temperament, he should have prevented this family affair, but in fact, he did not stop it.
If the two of them don't have any plans, Huangfu Xuanyu doesn't believe it.
But he didn't guess what the two were planning for a while, and he didn't dare to assert it, but everything would definitely be known on the day Xi Linyu got married.
"What Gu Qing meant in his words would not stop this marriage!" Lan Lingyun sighed.
"Don't think about it, the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge!" Huangfu Xuanyu soothed.
"Well, sleepy!" Lan Lingyun yawned.
"I'll take you to a nap!" Huangfu Xuanyu picked up the person horizontally and walked towards the bed.
Huangfu Xuanyu slept for half an hour and got up, and when he came out of the room, he happened to meet Gu Qing's housekeeper who came to give gifts, and then he knew that Gu Qing had sent a lot of game, bacon and precious medicinal materials.
Lan Lingyun is a greedy master, and Huangfu Xuanyu picked a few kinds of bacon and sent them to the kitchen, so that people could eat them for dinner.
Stewed bamboo shoots with wild boar, stewed matsutake mushroom with preserved pheasant, stir-fried preserved hare, roasted preserved quail and so on.
Those precious medicinal materials Huangfu Xuanyu also looked at them, they were all hundreds of years old ginseng, angelica, Ganoderma lucidum, a few strains were thousand-year-old ginseng, Ganoderma lucidum, and a lot of blood bird's nest.
Mrs. Lan and the others didn't respond when they knew what Gu Qing sent, so they didn't know about it.
Lan Jueshuang also knew about it, but he couldn't even see his people, let alone the things he sent, so he shouldn't know if he knew.
It's just that Lan Jueshuang still can't stop the sadness in her heart, and she always hides in the room alone and is sad.
Lan Jueshuang knew that Gu Qing was now in a high position, with his back to King Xi's mansion, so it was even more impossible to rob Xi Linyu of his marriage.
But in her heart, she hoped that he would rob her relatives, and when the news that Gu Qing was the righteous son of Xi Wangfu was made public, it was equivalent to cutting off the last bit of thought in Lan Jueshuang's heart.
Lan Jueshuang knew that she would never be able to escape her responsibility, but she couldn't do those things against her heart's will, so she had a plan.
Everything seems to be calm, but it is eerily quiet, like the quiet before a storm, which makes people always feel uneasy, anxious, and unbearable.
Half a month ago, Xi Wangfu had already sent a dowry gift, and he circled the imperial city three times, which was extremely glorious, but Lan Jueshuang didn't feel a trace of happiness.
Looking at the gold, silver and jade, she gritted her teeth several times before she resisted the idea of sweeping things out of the house.
The phoenix crown was also sent at the same time as the appointment.
On the day of the wedding.
Lan Jueshuang had already gotten up early to freshen up, put on a red phoenix crown and xia veil, and put on a red hijab in front of Mrs. Lan after painting the bridal makeup.
Mrs. Lan wanted to find a trace of emotion on her daughter's face, but she didn't, she was as lonely and aloof as ever, as if she was not the one who married today.
Mrs. Lan cried, this is different from the scene she imagined to marry her daughter, at least her daughter should be reluctant to hug her and cry a few times before she gets married, right?
But now the daughter doesn't cry, make trouble, or laugh, just like a doll, without sorrow or joy, and her heart is like ashes.
"Shuang'er, it's different when you get married than when you're at home, although Yu'er doesn't live with her in-laws, but you also have to bother to take care of his body, you don't have to play tricks, you must get along with him well, giving birth to a child as soon as possible is the right way, understand?" Madame Lan choked up and instructed.
Lan Jueshuang just nodded, not making a sound.
This move made Mrs. Lan even more sad, and her tears kept hitting the ground as if she didn't want money.
Lan Jueshuang looked at Mrs. Lan's feet and the floor was wet, her heart crossed strangely, and she wanted to appease Mrs. Lan for a word or two, but she opened her mouth and couldn't make a sound.
In the end, he had to resign himself to lowering his head and opening his eyes.
The sound of suona gongs and drums outside the mansion had already sounded happily, and Mrs. Lan knew that it was her uncle coming.
"Shuang'er, Yu'er is here!" Lady Blue said.
Lan Jueling bent over and sent Lan Jueshuang out of the door on his back.
What the Lan family didn't expect was that there were not only Xi Linyu but also Gu Qing in the team to welcome relatives.