Chapter 17: The Lantern Festival

Gu Qingzhang looked at Gu Zhao and knew that he still didn't believe it.

His feelings for this younger brother are very complicated, on the one hand, he is jealous that the other party has Lin Chonghan's five years, and he also hates him for not cherishing the other party's five years; On the other hand, they are indeed brothers.

"Yu Qing's life experience, I have already flown the pigeon to go to Jiangnan, find someone to find out," he stood up, his tall body cast a shadow in front of Gu Zhao, "The girl who saved you is not called Yu Qing." ”

He continued: "Although the girl is a fisherman's daughter, she is the only daughter in the family, after she was killed by Yu Qing, her parents turned white overnight, but the power behind Yu Qing is unfathomable, they are just ordinary people, how can they find the murderer?" ”

"Gu Zhao, although I haven't seen Yu Qing, since she is a fisherwoman, how can she have such appearance and insight to be able to entrap youβ€”not to mention that later, she dares to confuse the bloodline of the Hou Mansion."

Gu Qingzhang paused for a moment after speaking, and then said: "I told you this in the hope that you will be able to distinguish between right and wrong in the future and not be led by the nose again." ”

Gu Zhao seemed to have been punched hard, his brain was buzzing, and many complicated pictures poured out, so that until Gu Qingzhang left, he was still in place and couldn't return to his senses.

*

Since Chinese New Year's Eve, Lin Chonghan has not been able to see Gu Qingzhang again, only on the first day of junior high school, he quietly sent someone to deliver a red envelope. She opened it and saw that it contained a copper coin.

Lin Chonghan picked up the copper coin, looked at it carefully in the warm sunshine, and rubbed it in his hand for a moment before pursing his lips and smiling.

Chunri pretended to be sour next to him and said: "How old are you, and you give the young lady New Year's money, but it's really a deep love...... "She has no face and no skin to tease her, Lin Chonghan ignored her.

Although there is still a line between them that is difficult to cross, at this moment, she will still be pleasantly surprised by this minutiae.

The master and servant have nothing to do indoors in the afternoon, and if they don't be lazy during the New Year, it can't be said. Spring sat on the pedal and counted the silver, she was a close-fitting big girl, and she didn't have to say anything about the month.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ There should be ten taels. She weighed the money.

Lin Chonghan leaned on the soft pillow, there was the New Year's money on the table, she passed the time with the book, looked at the spring days and counted energetically, and asked lazily: "What about saving a dowry for yourself?" ”

"Girl!" The faceless maid was now blushing again, and looked at her with disgust.

"Don't blame me for being nosy," Lin Chonghan stretched out his jade hand and nodded at her, "You are also old, if I force you to keep you, don't you want you to complain about me?" ”

"I have a pair of gold bracelets on my dressing table, which is the perfect place to fill the dowry. You take it away and make it my New Year's gift. ”

Spring was ashamed, annoyed and moved, lying on the couch with red eyes, and said in a muffled voice that he would never get married.

That's the angry talk.

*

The New Year passes very quickly, and it must be that the time for fun and laziness always goes faster. The vendors on the street, even if they are reluctant, still have to set up their stalls and start preparing for the Shangyuan Festival.

Counting the days, the Shangyuan Festival is coming, and all kinds of lanterns can already be seen on the roadside.

This year is the Year of the Rabbit, Lin Chonghan took a sedan chair to buy the most popular dim sum in the capital, she lifted the sedan curtain, and she could see many novel rabbit ornaments.

The sedan chair turned, and the surroundings gradually became quiet, Lin Chonghan looked at the familiar and unfamiliar scenes around him, and suddenly realized that the road he was walking passed through the Gu Mansion.

When she was about to lower the curtain, she saw an old man at the door of Gu Fujiao, who was dressed like an ordinary peasant woman, clasping his hands together and talking to the porter with a humble expression.

Recently, it was a festive season, Lin Chonghan put down the curtain and guessed that it should be relatives from the countryside of Gufu who came to fight the autumn wind. It's just that...... How come she has never seen this relative?

The carriage staggered through the street in front of Gu's mansion and came all the way to its destination.

Lin Chonghan successfully got the snacks and hurried back to the carriage. Today is the fifteenth, and the emperor will invite the favored courtiers and clans to the palace for a happy gathering, and the Lin family is also among them.

Lin Chonghan heard that the Queen Mother had a poor appetite recently, so he specially bought some folk snacks to make her happy.

*

The emperor's Shangyuan Festival banquet is naturally extraordinary, countless palace maids with their heads bowed carefully shuttle between the banquets, obviously there are many people, but they rarely hear the sound of walking, if you stretch out your ears, I am afraid you can only hear the subtle sound of clothes rubbing when walking.

But the center of the banquet is lively, the maiko is charming, and the waist is light enough to be used for palm dance, such a dance is enough to feast people's eyes.

Yuefu sat on the ground and played music, and behind them there was a screen, separating the front court, the harem, men and women, but they could not separate from fighting.

Lin Chonghan offered a snack, but it accidentally bumped into the eyes of the Queen Mother, who was so happy that she specially asked someone to move a stool and let her sit next to her.

"It's still our county lord who has a heart, and as soon as the county lord comes, the queen mother will be happy." The woman who spoke was in her prime, her face was solemn, and there were deep Sichuan lines between her eyebrows, and such a woman was also first-class funny when she spoke flatteringly.

Lin Chonghan had no choice but to smile: "Thank you, Concubine Xian." ”

The word "virtuous" is enough to see the status of this mother.

Concubine Xian was appointed by the Queen Mother as the head of the four concubines, but there is a queen in the harem, Concubine Xian's personality is twisted and eccentric, and there are many enemies.

Lin Chonghan saw that the palace fighting and dispute broke out again, and hurriedly said that he would go out to sober up and quietly and unnoticedly withdraw from this war without gunpowder.

It was a little late at night, but there were guards on duty everywhere in the palace, and she didn't need to worry about safety.

Lin Chonghan admired the scenery along the way, and unconsciously walked a little far, until there was a squeak on her feet, and she suddenly found herself in the largest Liang Lake in the palace.

Lianghu Lake covers a wide area, and there are several connected wooden bridges on it, which are both bridges and corridors, and there is a pavilion not far from it.

I heard that the queen usually likes to come here to play, so the emperor also specially ordered the palace ladies to light candles on the bridge at night for the queen to enjoy the scenery at night.

Lin Chonghan walked carefully on the wooden bridge, every time she walked, she could find a bright palace lamp on the railing, Lin Chonghan walked along the wooden bridge in a novel way, and slowly came to the pavilion in the lake.

"Foam Pavilion."

Lin Chonghan whispered and smiled happily.

"What are you laughing at?"

"I laugh at the emperor's brother......" She suddenly realized that someone was talking, and when she looked up, she found Gu Qingzhang standing in front of her, looking down at her.

Lin Chonghan subconsciously looked around and found that there was no one else, so she relaxed.

"No one, I'll let the next person watch," Gu Qingzhang took the initiative to take two steps back, "Come in and talk?" ”

Lin Chonghan was relieved of his character, so he also entered the pavilion generously, and the two paced slowly together, and finally stopped at a railing.

"I want to reclaim the South."

Gu Qingzhang exploded Lin Chonghan at the beginning, his tone was so flat that he seemed to say, "I want to eat fish tonight", and then in the other party's incredible eyes, he continued to speak-

"One is that I have a blood revenge that has not been avenged, and the other is that I want to marry you, which will definitely require great military merit."

"And right now, there's only one way to recover the south."

Gu Qingzhang is right.

The literati pen in the world is a sword, which can force them to have no way out. But these are just children's affection, far less than the righteousness of the family and the country.

If Gu Qingzhang succeeds in regaining the old mountains and rivers, no matter who he marries at that time, some people will excuse him.

It's just that this road is too difficult, and several generations of monarchs of Daliang have not succeeded, how can he do it?

Just then, he coughed and said, "I want to reclaim the South, but I just want to, not for youβ€”I mean, you don't have too much pressure." ”

Lin Chonghan subconsciously replied: "...... I won't. ”

After speaking, she looked him up and down incredulously as if she knew Gu Qingzhang for the first time. In the past, when they were together, the most they could do was to argue about which prey they had the most, and when did they talk about these things?

β€”β€”Just say it, and say that there is such a possibility of planning and implementation!

Qi Si, who looked numb and violent that day, appeared in Lin Chonghan's mind again, and she truly realized that the past five years have indeed changed Gu Qingzhang a lot.