The flames in the stove danced, and Gu Huai's face flickered.

Some things are always hard to say... Especially if you know the ending.

It's easy to say comforting words now, but wait until the day it actually happens... Every word spoken today will turn into a knife that pierces someone's heart.

Things in the world are really always full of irony and mockery.

The kitchen is very small, after all, this half-shop and half-house residence is not big, and a figure appeared by the kitchen door, with very light steps: "Gu Gongzi? ”

Gu Huai retracted his thoughts and looked over, and said with a smile: "Miss Ziqing? ”

One is the owner of the shop, the other is the shopkeeper, but neither of them likes to call each other that, but prefers the name when they meet for the first time... It's a really interesting thing.

After finishing the work of the shop in front of him, Li Ziqing, who had been wandering in the patio for a long time, carefully hid his hands behind him, and his leaning out body changed into a beautiful silhouette in the sunset: "Childe is busy?" ”

"It's not busy, after all, the small workshop was built, and now there is no need to make perfume in the kitchen... What's wrong? ”

Li Ziqing's face was as red as the sunset: "I just think that Gongzi is a little worried about coming back this time... I thought I'd come over and have a look. ”

On the second day after returning to Beiping, Gu Huai naturally met Li Ziqing when he went to the palace, and the two exchanged pleasantries for a while, but Gu Huai didn't expect Li Ziqing to observe so carefully, he touched his face, and his emotions were expressive... Is it so obvious?

He shook his head: "It's not a matter of mind, it's just that things that have been prepared for a long time suddenly come one after another, and I'm just a little nervous." ”

"The last time I saw Childe like this, it seems to be in the kitchen."

That night of boiling chicken soup? Gu Huai was stunned, and suddenly smiled: "It's not too much." ”

It was the same that time, after burying some surprises in Pu Hong's house, he was also waiting for something in such a panic.

What should I do if I can't blow it up? What should I do if someone is killed? What should I do if I find him in the end? Did you miss something?

Will the course of the Battle of Jingjing change? Will the flapping wings of my little butterfly change history? Can Zhu Di still become the Yongle Emperor? Will the Ming Dynasty continue to develop according to its original trajectory?

The unknown is the most terrifying, especially when this unknown is created by oneself.

Li Ziqing moved a small bench and sat at the door, the skirt covered with a green shirt stretched out a very attractive arc, like a ripe peach, she pulled her hair: "If the son doesn't mind... Tell me about it. ”

Gu Huai was silent for a moment: "If, I said if." ”

He raised his eyes: "If you are not sure if something is right, should you continue to do it?" Or to put it another way, can you get the right result in the wrong way? ”

In the face of the torrent of history, the power of one person is too limited... Who should be the emperor between Zhu Di and Zhu Yunwen, should he firmly believe that Zhu Di will be stronger than Zhu Yunwen because of the history books of his previous life, Gu Huai didn't dare to think deeply about these things, and he didn't dare to ask himself in the real sense.

Who can be sure that what they are doing is necessarily right? A big war is about to start, how many people will die in the world? I am not a virgin, but I think of how many people will be displaced and how many able-bodied men will die on the battlefield when the war sweeps from Beiping to the world.

Just because of a throne?

If it was said that at the beginning, he chose to rely on Zhu Di for the sake of power and wanted to take a ride on the battle of Jingyan and became famous, but Gu Huai, who fell deeper and deeper in this matter, now looks at the world more with the universal values of later generations.

He can do some dirty work, study the prototype of the grenade in later generations, make Zhu Di's army invincible on the battlefield, and make the success of the Battle of Jingyan much more likely, but he can actually do something else, Zhen Ru's letter made him see another hope.

A kind of hope to cut off the road of the feudal dynasty.

It was only at this moment that he found himself a little lost because of a small textile machine, the tide of the times was advancing, he could have chosen to use the knowledge of his later generations to do something more beneficial to the process of China, but now he is here to help Zhu Di fight for the throne, watching many people who originally did not have to die die on the battlefield?

The belief that had been as precarious as a candle in the wind was now even more bleak.

Li Ziqing, who was holding her chin, thought for a while, her beautiful eyebrows wrinkled with a good-looking arc, and a little cinnabar in the center of her eyebrows added a little charm in the sunset, and she hesitated to speak:

"I'd think of some... I just don't know if it's right, Childe doesn't want to laugh. ”

Gu Huai was a little surprised, handed a piece of wood to the stove, and said with a smile: "Let's hear it." ”

"Actually, I also thought about whether the decision to leave the Qinglou was right," Li Ziqing smiled gently, "At that time, everyone was saying that this was not right, the sisters who were good friends on weekdays, the mother in the Qinglou... They talked too much, and I also had some doubts about whether they were really in front of the Qingqi people in the Qinglou, and when they were older, they would save some money and then get out... At that time, even if you can't find a good person, you can rely on your qualifications to stay in the Qinglou, at least you can teach the piano. ”

"Even Fu Yun thinks I'm doing this too hastily... The woman in the Qinglou is more drifting than ordinary women, and if she doesn't leave a good way back for herself, she is afraid that there will be no good end to her rash redemption, and if she doesn't get it right, her life will be more difficult than in the building. ”

She lowered her head slightly: "At that time, I also hesitated, and there were many people who persuaded me, so I delayed, and it wasn't until I sang Childe's words that day, and I saw Childe in Yingshou Temple, I felt that I should have made a decision earlier." ”

"Huh?" Gu Huai, who could hear it, was stunned.

Li Ziqing's face became redder and redder, Daming is not as open as the Tang Dynasty, science makes women more restrained in dress, but the dress of the bandeau shawl of women in the midsummer of the Tang Dynasty is not visible, but after Li Ziqing raised his head, the collarbone under the slender neck is obvious, and it really looks like a graceful swan.

"After leaving the building, I was still not sure if I was doing the right thing, and I didn't know what the outcome would be, so I couldn't go back to the building to teach the piano, so I planned to sell cakes to live my life, and once my mother saw it, and I felt so uncomfortable that I thought I should have done something wrong."

She looked at Gu Huai quietly, as if she had some courage: "But if you don't come out, where will there be these days ahead?" ”

"Even if the decision was wrong at the beginning, and the way to get out of the building was not right, I still got a good result... If I were still a Qingqi person in the Qinglou, I wouldn't have met Childe in that alley, I wouldn't have met Childe selling cakes on a snowy day, and I wouldn't have come to be the shopkeeper for Childe..."

She suddenly became a little flustered: "It doesn't seem to be the same thing... Childe smiled, in fact, I just wanted to thank Childe... Fu Yun is getting married. ”

Gu Huai also looked at her quietly, in the afterglow of the setting sun, in the dim light of the fire.

The sky on the alley was cut into neat squares, and the small courtyard with a patio was slowly swallowed up by the darkness, and a smile suddenly bloomed on Gu Huai's face: "No, it's the same thing." ”

"Huh?"

"It's the same thing... Decisions are always to be made, whether it is right or wrong, having relative freedom is the most important thing," Gu Huai's gaze was too hot, making Li Ziqing lower his head again, "Whether it is the freedom of leaving the Qinglou or the freedom of standing on a high place... In short, there must be something to do with less effort, even if there will be some mistakes in the process, but at least I can be sure that the result should be good. ”

"What is Childe talking about?"

"It's nothing," Gu Huai's smile relieved a lot, and he raised his chin: "What's hidden behind it?" ”

Li Ziqing didn't expect Gu Huai to discover his hand hidden behind his back a long time ago... She blushed and took out a small package: "It's a coat... Fu Yun and I thought about it for a long time, and we didn't know what to send to our son to express our gratitude, so we just... And he made a garment. ”

Gu Huai raised his eyebrows, took the package, and opened it to see that it was a green shirt, which was very similar to what he usually wore, but the stitches were much denser, and it was bright, and he could see a small floral pattern on the neckline, which must have been done with care.

He looked at Li Ziqing's twisted fingers, saw a nervous look on that beautiful face, and smiled warmly:

"Thank you, I love it."