Early the next morning, Guo Ying and his party of 33 people set off to return to Chang'an.

In addition to the ten guards around him, twenty Zhao family disciples, and his sister Guo Wan, there was one more person on the way back to the city, the crown prince.

He was originally going to participate in this year's Autumn Festival, but he didn't know the dignitaries and nobles, and he had no way out, so he thought that the chances of being a scholar and the first were slim, so he had the intention of finding another way.

After hearing that Guo Ying was going to serve as a military officer in Western Xinjiang, he took the initiative to ask Ying, saying that he wanted to follow Guo Ying to the frontier, and also chanted the poems of Yang Jiong, one of the four masters of the early Tang Dynasty - rather than a centurion, better than a scholar.

Since Tianbao, it has become a fashion for literati and Hanshi to enter the shogunate of the feudal town, although Guo Ying did not serve as an envoy to the festival, an observer, or a defense envoy, but in the end, the identity is there, and the crown prince expects that if the Son of Heaven really seals Guo Ying, the official position will not be under the six grades.

No matter how low it is, it means treating the nobles lightly.

More than 100 nobles in Chang'an City will inevitably be injured.

Seeing his resolute attitude, Guo Ying readily agreed, firstly, the crown prince and the Guo family have a little kinship that cannot be beaten, and secondly, this person does have some talent, and it is probably enough to be a dog-headed military advisor.

……

Back in Chang'an, Guo Ying sent Guo Wan home as soon as possible, and then went to Shengyefang Gusi Lane, where there was his crush, Huo Xiaoyu.

Huo Xiaoyu's surname is Li, and she is the daughter of Li Hui, the king of Huo, and is said to be a royal family member and a noble family, but because her mother Zheng Jingzhi was born in Kabuki, her status in the palace is not high.

After Li Hui's death, his sons divided the property of the palace and sent Zheng Jing's mother and daughter to live outside, Huo Xiaoyu also changed her surname at that time for her mother's surname Zheng, and moved to Gusi Lane with her mother, and the neighbors didn't know that she was the princess.

By the time Huo Xiaoyu was sixteen years old, she was already as bright and lovely as her mother back then, proficient in poetry and writing, good at singing and dancing, and the gold and silver that Zheng brought out from Huo Wang's Mansion had already been sold out.

In order to make ends meet, Huo Xiaoyu had to inherit her mother's old skills and become a courtesan.

However, she is a Qing person, and she only sells her art and does not sell herself.

Despite this, her talent and appearance still attracted the elegant and elegant guests in Beijing, and she gradually became famous until she was later crowned Jinghua.

Then the plot became very cliché, and she met a scholar who had been abandoned from the beginning...... Hurt by love, getting thinner and thinner.

If it weren't for Guo Ying, the first affectionate person in Chang'an and the first flower messenger in the Tang Dynasty, who was always explained, I am afraid that she would have died.

After all, love is the most hurtful!

Ask what the world is like, and teach people to live and die.

Shengye Fang is on the edge of the East Market, and it is also a place where dignitaries and nobles gather, and there are several palaces next to it, but the ancient temple lane where Zheng's mother and daughter live is clean, with a unique courtyard and a pleasant environment, which is suitable for recuperation.

When Guo Ying walked into the courtyard gate, Huo Xiaoyu was sitting under the eaves of the porch basking in the sun, dressed in white, with a sara covering her face, and she couldn't see her face clearly, but she didn't have a poignant taste, like a lotus blooming under the moonlight.

"Why are you here again?"

Hearing the footsteps, Huo Xiaoyu frowned, snorted lightly, and then shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Why are you doing this, you know that I will not be emotional again in this life......

Her voice is tactful and soft, as melodious as the cry of a yellow warbler, but unfortunately her tone is full of helplessness, and it seems that there is a sorrow that cannot be dissolved, which makes people can't help but pity and makes people's hearts ache.

It's just that Guo Ying didn't feel it, walked straight forward and sat down opposite her.

He smiled and said: "Haven't you heard this sentence Yu Niang, there is a beautiful woman, she will never forget it, she will not see it for a day, and she will think about it like crazy."

In the past two years, I have not been embellished every month, I come to the door every three days, and I visit every five days, don't you still understand my mind? ”

Huo Xiaoyu looked at him in a daze, sighed with a complicated expression, lowered his eyes and whispered, "You know?" Don't know what? I am no longer perfect, how dare I ask Lang Jun to favor ......"

"I don't care!"

Guo Ying's eyes were scorching, staring at Huo Xiaoyu, to be honest, even he couldn't tell what magic the woman in front of him was, which made him reluctant to give up and couldn't stop.

Maybe it's the amazement of the first glimpse when I saw her, or maybe it's the charm of being hurt by love and pitying for her, in short, Guo Ying's love for her is deep-rooted.

Even if she wears a veil on her face now, it still makes his heart sway, and his soul is haunted.

"I care!"

Huo Xiaoyu suddenly raised his voice, raised his head to look at him, his eyes were shining, he bit his lip and said: "Guo Lang, you are a general, with a bright future, and I am just a singer, and I am abandoned by others, if I follow you, what will you say in the world......

"Oh, world, what do you have to do with me!" Guo Ying sneered: "Besides, don't those sour scribes like to chew their tongues behind their backs?" What's all the fuss about? ”

Saying that, he reached out and grabbed Huo Xiaoyu's slender hand, held it in the palm of his hand, and said softly: "Yu Niang, don't be presumptuous, Li Yi can do something to find a new love for the future, which can only show that he has no eyes."

I, Guo Ying, although I dare not call myself a hero, am not a greedy and vain person like him, and I can't do anything that I can't abandon from the beginning. ”

Hearing this, Huo Xiaoyu's delicate body suddenly stiffened for a moment, and then she slowly withdrew the hand that was grabbed by Guo Ying, and said in a low voice: "The concubine's thin willow posture is really not worthy of Lang Jun's love...... I also hope that Lang Jun will not be entangled anymore, if it affects Lang Jun's career and future because of me, then the concubine will be guilty! ”

It's a pity that the more she struggles, the tighter Guo Ying grabs, and she doesn't give her a chance to escape.

In the end, he simply stood up, half-bent down, spread his arms, hugged the delicate Huo Xiaoyu into his arms, and smelled the faint fragrance in her hair.

Seeing that he was about to leave Beijing, Guo Ying couldn't care about any etiquette and shame.

Huo Xiaoyu struggled, couldn't resist, tears fell, and Guo Ying was tightly pressed against his broad chest, and couldn't help crying: "Lang Jun, let me go......"

Guo Ying didn't answer, but hugged her tighter, eager to rub her into her bones.

After a long time, he reached out and untied the veil that Huo Xiaoyu had on his face.

Under the veil, there is a stunning face that is enough to turn all beings upside down, without powder, the color is like the morning sun reflecting the snow, the eyebrows are slender, the nose and cherry mouth are beautiful, and a pair of wonderful eyes are like stars twinkling.

It's just that her lips are almost bloodless, which makes her originally alluring face a little sickly, just like the sick Shih Tzu.

"Come back to Guo's Mansion with me."

Guo Ying stared obsessively at the pretty face that was close at hand, and muttered: "In a few days, I will go out of Beijing to the western Xinjiang, and I don't feel at ease if you stay in Shengyefang." ”

Huo Xiaoyu's delicate body trembled slightly, and she shook her head gently.

She knew that Guo Ying liked her, and she also had a good impression of Guo Ying, but the identities of the two of them were very different, and the door was not right, and she asked herself that she had lost herself to Li Yi, and Guo Ying was eight years old, so what kind of face did she have to enter Guo's mansion?

"Guo Langxiu wants to say this again, the concubine is just a singer, if Lang Jun really accepts me as a concubine, I am afraid that it will humiliate the court, and Lao Lingjun will be unhappy."

After speaking, she stroked the broken hair on her sideburns and pursed the corners of her lips, revealing a resolute expression.

"What kind of concubine, I will marry you." Guo Ying frowned and interrupted her domineeringly.

Huo Xiaoyu was stunned.

As a wife, this is something she never thought of, even Li Yi is a county master, and he is unwilling to marry her, let alone Guo Ying, the son-in-law of the world's first general.

However, after sobering up, her first reaction was not flattered or ecstatic, but fiercely persuasive: "Guo Lang, you are a person who does great things, and you want to marry the daughter of a wealthy family as a helping arm, how can you regard marriage as child's play......"

"And what do you want me to do?" Guo Yingdao.

Hearing this, Huo Xiaoyu frowned slightly, wanted to cry, and said: "I grew up in Gusi Lane since I was a child, but I am afraid that I will go to Guo Mansion and live in it. ”

Guo Ying suddenly fell silent, he was also afraid that Huo Xiaoyu would be unhappy when he went to Guo Mansion, and even more afraid that he would be wronged in Guo Mansion, so he sighed faintly after a long time: "Since this is the case, then that's it." ”

"Yu Niang, you take care of yourself, and the next time I return to Beijing, I will definitely give you an explanation."

As he spoke, he flicked his sleeves lightly and turned to leave, leaving Huo Xiaoyu with a lonely back.

"Lang Jun...... Slow down ......"

Looking at the broad and upright back, Huo Xiaoyu suddenly felt a strong sense of sadness and powerlessness in her heart, she pinched her palm with her fingernails, and the severe pain made her come back to her senses.

And her dead heart seems to have come back to life.