Tears quietly wet the letterhead.

Lu Ran never imagined that Xu Chaozong would choose to die in the end.

Gu Yuan didn't know how to comfort him for a while, so he had to pat him on the shoulder and said softly, "Mourn." ”

Lu Ran smiled bitterly: "When I was a child, I felt that everything outside had nothing to do with me, and all I saw every day were those familiar faces. When I grew up, I suddenly realized that some people eventually see each other and lose one side. ”

Gu Yuan nodded: "So you don't want to miss my sister again." ”

Lu Ran looked puzzled, "The surname is Gu, what do you mean?" What does it mean for me to miss my thoughts again? ”

Gu Yuan pursed his lips and smiled: "I don't mean anything else, I just want you to treat her well." ”

Lu Ran smiled: "It should be so." ”

At the time of the lantern, Gu Yuan saw a girl in a crimson palace dress in the carriage out of the city.

"How? Is it good-looking? Shen Zhixi's voice was dyed with a gentle smile.

Gu Yuan laughed: "If you want to compare West Lake to Xizi, it is always appropriate to wear light makeup and heavy makeup." ”

Shen Zhixi smiled: "I knew you would say that, I have been wearing plain clothes for several days, and I should always change my style." ”

"So why does Your Highness love white clothes so much?" Gu Yuan asked with a smile.

Shen Zhixi smiled lightly: "The white is pure and flawless, and it suits me quite well." ”

"Your Highness looks good in whatever dress she wears."

Shen Zhixi covered her lips and snickered: "Just your poor mouth." By the way, this is not the way to Nanyuan, we are on the wrong track. ”

Gu Yuan glanced at her with a smile: "Your Highness, this path is right. ”

"Unless you're not going to Nanyuan."

"It's really not going to Nanyuan, this is the way to Shanglin Yuan." Gu Yuan explained.

Shen Zhixi then reacted to what he was going to do: "Let's go out for a walk, is it necessary to make a noise?" ”

Gu Yuan smiled: "It's necessary, it's necessary." ”

Shen Zhixi raised her eyes and looked at him puzzled.

Gu Yuan added incense to the incense burner on the desk and said, "Your Highness, you were assassinated just a few days ago, so it's better to be careful now." ”

Shen Zhixi thought about it, but this was the case, so she relaxed: "It's really a little fox." ”

Gu Yuan smiled lightly, this title is really good.

"His Royal Highness's nickname for calling ministers is so good, why don't Your Highness call it again?" Gu Yuan smiled like a pet.

"It's not a good shape." Shen Zhixi said unceremoniously, "Shameless." ”

Gu Yuan said softly: "The minister is only shameless in front of His Highness. ”

"Shameless!"

"Sooner or later, this face of mine will belong to His Highness, His Highness wants it, and the ministers should offer it."

Shen Zhixi: "......"

The two of them went out of the city from Xizhimen, and it didn't take long for them to get out of the carriage, and the two of them shared a horse and walked slowly on the ancient road at sunset.

"There's no need to be so cautious, right?" Shen Zhixi glanced at him lightly, "Everyone knows that we are going to Nanyuan. ”

Gu Yuan smiled, "In order to hide people's eyes." ”

Shen Zhixi couldn't help but wonder: "It's still our little fox who is thoughtful." ”

He and she walked through the bright fireflies like a galaxy, as if they had traveled through the long river of time, and glimpsed the glimmer of light on each other's bodies.

The evening breeze suddenly blows a pool of spring water.

Shanglin Garden was turned into a royal garden during the Qianying Dynasty, but after the fall of the Houying Dynasty, it became a borderless land.

During the Zhenyuan period, King Qin Jian liked to travel in the mountains and rivers, and felt that it was a pity that this land was barren, so he bought Shanglin Garden and its nearby farmland and rebuilt this imperial garden.

After the death of King Qin Jian, Shanglin Yuan rewarded Shen Chengyi, the son of King Qin, and Xiao Shizi was Gu Yuan's friend, so he invited him over if he had nothing to do.

"Feel free, Shen Chengyi is not here today, I invite His Highness to admire the moon, there are hot springs nearby, if Your Highness wants to bathe, you might as well give it a try." Gu Yuan smiled and led her to the hot spring.

Shen Zhixi couldn't wait to kick him into the hot spring, "You disciple, this palace will turn you into a soup chicken today!" ”

The two fought a water fight for a while, and they were too tired to do so, so they stopped joking when they lay down on the bluestone slab on the shore.

Looking up at the sky, the bamboo forest is full of fireflies, and the night sky is dotted with a little starlight.

The moonlight around you is clear and clear, as if you are in a fairyland on earth.

"You say, if I hadn't been born in the royal family, wouldn't I have lived more comfortably than I do now?" Shen Zhixi muttered.

Gu Yuan smiled: "How can there be so many ifs." ”

"You are telling the truth, but I really yearn for the life of Mr. Tao Yuanming, who lives in seclusion among mountains and rivers and does not ask about the world." Shen Zhixi's face was filled with a quiet smile, "The sunrise and the sunset are resting, there are not so many disturbances, and it is far away from the complexity of the world." ”

"Ah Yuan, do you think, living in seclusion in the mountains, having nothing to do, making wine in pine flowers, and sencha in spring, isn't this kind of life a hundred times better than intrigue in the court?"

Gu Yuan smiled dumbly: "Your Highness, how old are you, and you can see through the red dust?" ”

Shen Zhixi glared at him: "Where did you listen?" ”

Gu Yuan pillowed his arms and said in a low voice for a long time: "Lao Xu sacrificed his life for the country." ”

Shen Zhixi was stunned.

"He used his flesh and blood to hold off the rebellious cavalry." Gu Yuan sighed, "Shi Du said it well during the day, many people always see one side and one side less. ”

"Just like you and me in the past, we obviously regard each other as so important in our hearts, but there is always a veil separating us, and we can't even see each other's sincerity."

Shen Zhixi's eyes were red, and a tear slipped silently.

Gu Yuan raised his hand to gently wipe away her tears, and said softly: "I think, since God has given us the opportunity to live again, can you let me ...... Embrace Your Highness for a moment......"

Shen Zhixi was crying so much, but when she heard his strange request, she couldn't help laughing: "What kind of request are you?" ”

Gu Yuan smiled: "Naturally, it is a reasonable request." ”

Shen Zhixi turned her head to look at him, "Is it reasonable?" ”

"How unreasonable?" Gu Yuan's eyes were full of smiles, "Your Highness said that day, we are husband and wife, husband and wife of two lifetimes. ”

Shen Zhixi smiled lightly, "This palace is the eldest princess, how can you take the initiative to do these things?" ”

The night breeze is shallow, unexpectedly blowing the love of the young man.

The scarlet-clad girl crashed into his hunter's arms like an ignorant deer, and he lost his mind for a moment.

When she came back to her senses, Gu Yuan hugged her tighter.

Since then, every inch of rivers and mountains that the boy has walked has a girl by his side.

It took a long time before Gu Yuan let go of her and said in a low voice: "The Qianmen building is making trouble, Your Highness must have heard about it." ”

Shen Zhixi nodded and said, "If Cui Fangqi really relied on cheating in the scientific examination to get into the Jinshi, is it fair to those poor children who have been studying hard for more than ten years?" ”

"What does Your Highness think?" Gu Yuan asked her rhetorically.

Shen Zhixi faced him and said very seriously: "I plan to leave this matter to you to do, and I will enter the palace early tomorrow morning to persuade Ah Heng." ”

"After all, I am a foreign surname and not a royal family, let me handle this matter, will the emperor rest assured?"

"So you need someone to match the dots." Shen Zhixi said with a smile, "Do you think Ah Heng will rest assured that those big families will investigate this case?" ”

Gu Yuan thought about it, and so did what she said.

With his understanding of Shen Heng, he was more afraid of a group of people who threatened him than a person who threatened him.

With Shen Zhixi matchmaking, Shen Heng really ordered Song Ning, the former secretary of the Criminal Department, to be transferred to Longxi to supervise the division, and let Gu Yuan take over as the secretary of the Criminal Department.

Gu Yuan, who had just recovered from illness, took office, and the yamen of the Criminal Department was brightly lit all night, and the case files were piled up.

Gu Yuan and Yu Xun, the waiter of the Criminal Department, worked all night, and they couldn't even take care of eating, and finally figured out the ins and outs of the matter.

Originally, before the start of the palace examination, Cui Fangqi's hope of being admitted was very slim, but the strange thing was here, Cui Fangqi, a young man who was idle on weekdays, actually won the Jinshi!

At first, no one paid attention to this matter, and this incident was also a small episode in this year's scientific expedition, but several other official eunuchs thought it was very strange, so they copied Cui Fangqi's scroll and took it out of the Tribute Academy.

After reading the volume, those people couldn't hold their breath, what is this writing?

Soon, this incomprehensible exam paper caused public outrage, and Cui Fangqi's fame spread throughout Sijiu City.

Then there was speculation that Cui Fangqi might use his father's intricate network of relationships in the DPRK to openly cheat, which is why such an outrageous thing happened as beating the examiner.

Yu Xun sighed, finished cleaning up the case file in his hand, and couldn't hide his tiredness no matter what: "My lord, you look first, I haven't slept for three days and three nights, I really can't stay up......"

Before Gu Yuan could reply, Lord Yu, who hadn't closed his eyes for three days and three nights, fell asleep.

Gu Yuan was also very sleepy, and he fell asleep after reading a few case files.

Early the next morning, Gu Yuan woke up leisurely, and Shen Zhixi was actually looking through the case file next to him.

As soon as Gu Yuan sat up, he was taken aback by the firmness, wouldn't the posture when he was sleeping all be seen by Her Royal Highness the eldest princess?

Yu Xun on the side slept like a mountain, Shen Zhixi saw that he was awake, and couldn't help laughing: "Look at you, you're scared, I didn't expect this palace to be here, right?" ”

Gu Yuan yawned, "If I knew that Your Highness was here, I would have been here all the time." ”

Shen Zhixi raised her eyebrows: "What, I'm not welcome?" ”

Gu Yuan smiled: "That's naturally welcome." ”

"That's fine."

Gu Yuan looked at Yu Xun's side, and couldn't help but be a little more worried: "Is there a way to let Lord Yu sleep a little longer?" ”

Shen Zhixi was a little curious: "Why do you care about him so much?" ”

Gu Yuan shook his head: "That's not what you mean, try not to let him know that you have been here, this is good for both of us." ”

Shen Zhixi couldn't help but wonder: "You can rest assured about this, I brought some medicine from Imperial Doctor Xiao and used it on him. ”

Gu Yuan rubbed his sleepy eyes and got up from the Taishi chair: "I knew that I would go back to sleep, and I slept here for a night with back pain...... Your Highness, please take me by the hand and help me up......"

"These clues are crucial to bringing down Cui Xianchun and even Shen Ying, and I plan to use the evidence that has been found out to give him a fatal blow." Shen Zhixi handed over a cup of hot tea and whispered, "The night is long, and there are always people who carry the weight forward." ”

Gu Yuan smiled slightly: "Then I will be the lamp that illuminates His Highness in the dark night." ”

Shen Zhixi smiled: "Then I'll say okay, see you in the evening, Ah Yuan." ”

Gu Yuan said softly, "See you in the evening, Your Highness." ”

Not long after Shen Zhixi left, Yu Xun woke up.

He rubbed his sour temples, and when he saw that Gu Yuan didn't know when he was eating there, he opened his mouth and asked, "Master Gu, you are so calm, but the case has eyebrows?" ”

"Have breakfast first, and then go to the Imperial Prison to interrogate the prisoners." Gu Yuan sandwiched a chopstick dish and ate it with his head down.

Yu Chengxun was a little stunned for a while, hesitated for a moment and then took the rice bowl: "My lord, what is it...... Case? ”

"Eat first, don't talk about business." Gu Yuan took a sip of porridge and signaled Lord Yu not to get too excited.

Gu Yuan knew that according to the laws of Jokhang, those few who took the lead in making trouble would probably be guilty, but he could take this opportunity to give Cui Xianchun a blow to the head.

Yu Chengxun picked up the rice bowl, and always felt that something was wrong.