Gu Yunqiu woke up, but not completely.

He opened his eyes and looked around in confusion, and was surprised to see a room full of carved beams and brilliant gold.

The furnishings in the house are familiar to him and unfamiliar to him:

He lay on the Luohan bed in Zhang Huali grid, with a gold wire tent on the bed, and a bronze lamp with a bird's head on the left side of the tent, followed by an ebony cabinet; On the right side, the washstand, the wood, and the bronze mirror are shiny.

Behind the painting screen in the distance is the main hall, the hall hangs a plaque of "Ningxin Hall", the plaque descends to the east and west columns, and there are two rows of pine treasure shelves, there are no strange stones on the shelf, but are full of all kinds of exquisite clay figures.

The spring breeze rolls up the curtains by the window, and the peach willows and green grass outside the house are shady.

The silver-armored guards who guarded him were gone, the kneeless snow was gone, and even the cold-faced madman who killed people on sight was gone.

There is no blood-stained cold light sword here, no miscellaneous servants who died tragically in front of his eyes, only the sweet and fragrant Qi Nan agarwood in the room.

Smelling the familiar fragrance, Gu Yunqiu rubbed his eyes, and slowly raised his hand to touch his neck:

There was not a single scar on the smooth skin, not even a single wrinkle, and the gaping gaps in blood were gone, but the dull pain of the flesh tearing remained on the back of the neck.

Gu Yunqiu stood up blankly, but was surprised to see the five small nests on the back of his hand.

He widened his eyes and rolled his hands, lifted the quilt, and saw a pair of small short legs.

Gu Yunqiu was stunned for a moment, hurriedly jumped off the ground, ignored the faint pain coming from the fart, and stepped forward to the high stool in front of the washer-

In the clean and bright bronze jian, an eight-year-old child's pink and fair face is reflected:

The nose is high, the nose is sharp, the lips are like red lotus, the eyes are like willow leaves, the slender neck is wrapped in a goose-yellow brocade bedclothes, and the staggered neckline is embroidered with two mighty little tigers, and the unicorn is also secretly tattooed around it.

Gu Yunqiu stared at the mirror in disbelief and didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

This—this is ......

At this time, there was a noise outside the house, and the hurried footsteps were mixed with a woman's voice: "Doctor, please take a look at this child again, now the high fever has subsided, and the medicine is taken according to your prescription, but it has been three days, but I have never woken up." ”

…… Mother?

Gu Yunqiu turned his head, and it happened that several people outside the house also came in front and back.

The first woman was in her early thirties, wearing a plain long skirt, her long hair was casually tied at the back of her head, and although there was no gold, silver and jade on her body, there was a royal yellow peony on her sideburns.

Seeing him lying in front of the mirror, the woman was stunned for a moment, "This child! ”

Without waiting for Gu Yunqiu to react, she walked behind him and half-squatted, and a beautiful face appeared above his head: "What is stinky and beautiful?" ”

Gu Yunqiu looked at the bronze mirror, the woman in the mirror had a sharp and pretty melon seed face, long and narrow phoenix eyes, eyebrows like distant mountains, full lips and bows, and a pear vortex when she smiled, which made people feel close.

This is his mother, the current Princess Ning.

However, on closer inspection, they are not at all like them, with the corners of their eyes and eyebrows, heaven and earth...... None of them are similar.

Gu Yunqiu settled down, lowered his head and hid the emotions in his eyes.

Seeing that he was silent, Princess Ning smiled and rubbed his head, reached out to pick him up and put him back on the bed, and thoughtfully put a soft cushion under him.

After Gu Yunqiu sat down, Princess Ning beckoned and asked the doctor who was standing in the distance to come over.

The doctor stepped forward and respectfully called "Xiao Shizi" before taking the pulse pillow and asking Gu Yunqiu to put his wrist on it.

Looking at the old doctor's urn cutting his pulse, Gu Yunqiu finally remembered where he was, and what year and day was this-

In the eighth year of Chenghe, on April 11, he learned to make a Kong Ming lantern.

As a result, after the lamp rose into the air, it was uncontrollable, and was blown by the wind and fell into his father's study, and the flying sparks lit the rice paper on the case, and instantly burned the entire bookcase into a fiery red.

He was frightened and led a few small servants to put out the fire, but they didn't find water everywhere, Gu Yunqiu rummaged through the cabinets, and accidentally found several heavy jars at the bottom of the cabinet.

At that time, he didn't know that this was his father's treasured wine, and when he opened the mud and saw that it was clear and transparent, he thought it was water, and without thinking too much, he ordered the little servants to splash it all over-

With a whoosh, the flames did not go out and jumped higher, and the entire study was set on fire, and finally a pair of embroidered hundred sons that King Ning was going to offer to the Queen Mother was burned into charcoal.

King Ning was furious and imprisoned Gu Yunqiu in the ancestral hall and used family law to beat him five times.

In fact, five strokes are not much, except for the first one, which is heavier, and the next few boards Ning Wang has collected his strength.

But-Gu Yunqiu had never been beaten, and after coming out of the ancestral hall, he fell ill, unconscious, had a high fever overnight, lingered on the sickbed for three or five days, and almost died.

"Don't worry, princess, according to the pulse, Xiao Shizi is fine, but the wind evil enters the body and needs to recuperate, I will reorganize the prescription and take a few more patches of medicine to recuperate, and I will be fine."

Listening to what the old doctor said, Gu Yunqiu was even more sure:

He was born again.

Reborn back in the spring and April of the year he was eight years old.

"Then ......," Princess Ning was still not at ease, "why did she fall into a coma for so many days?" ”

The old doctor stroked his beard, "The little prince is expensive, and it is common to be afraid of being frightened." ”

Princess Ning thoughtfully, nodded, thanked the doctor, and then let the grandmother next to her take the reward and send the doctor out.

After everyone left, she turned around and scratched the tip of Gu Yunqiu's nose, "Silly child, are you still afraid of your father?" You have been in a daze for the past few days, he is so anxious that he has been on leave to accompany you for a few days, and this morning he personally lined up to buy cakes for you. ”

“…… Cake? ”

"Tao Kee, your favorite."

Tao Kee is the most famous sweet cake shop in Beijing, no matter the variety of his dim sum, everything insists on being made and sold on the same day, and the variety is rich, the taste is special, every day before dawn, the shop is not open, and the store will be crowded with people.

Originally, King Ning could also arrange for his subordinates to run for him, but he never saw his son wake up, and he was anxious, so he simply took a trip, maybe the child would wake up when he came back, and buy some sweet cakes just to eat.

Xu was born in the Mid-Autumn Festival, Gu Yunqiu has loved to eat osmanthus cake since he was a child, and especially loves Tao Ji, which is filled with soft sand with fresh and tender ice powder.

Seeing that Gu Yunqiu was still stunned, Princess Ning simply took away the cushion behind him and helped him lie down, "If you are tired, sleep more, don't worry, your father will not be angry with you anymore, if he comes back and scolds you, my mother will help you scold you back!" ”

Gu Yunqiu blinked.

Princess Ning grimaced, "Qiuqiu is not afraid." ”

Suddenly called a nickname, Gu Yunqiu's heart was mixed for a while, and in the end he could only relax and lie down, slowly closing his eyes-

In his previous life, Gu Yunqiu was a gentleman.

He doesn't like to read, he doesn't know how to read and ink, and the six arts of a gentleman are useless.

The son-in-law of other people's sons should go to school at the age of five and get up in the morning to study, but Gu Yunqiu is sleepy and can't get up in the morning, King Ning has no choice but to invite a gentleman to his home and teach him to read in the afternoon.

Even so, Gu Yunqiu was still absent on the fifth day and the third day, either going to the street to watch a play, climbing a rockery, putting paper kites, and fighting crickets.

When he was eight years old, he couldn't memorize a thousand words, and he asked someone to help him on horseback and drummer in archery.

Once he entered the palace, he either broke the emperor's precious inkstone or drowned the lychees transplanted in the palace, broke the large coral in the palace of the concubine, and let go of the parakeet that the queen mother had carefully raised for three years......

As a result, when he grew up, Gu Yunqiu became the first gentleman in Beijing:

The imperial examination has been tried repeatedly, and the autumn hunt has yielded nothing, except for being born with a good-looking skin and white snow, and a face like a peach blossom, there is nothing desirable on the body-

Cheng Ri only knows how to throw pots, play cards and drink, even if he doesn't lose a hammer pill, he can tell at a glance whether the ice crack piano is fake by shaking the folding fan......

However, everyone in Beijing still says: There is no better child than Gu Yunqiu.

Gu Yunqiu was able to live so chic and wanton in his previous life, not for anything else, just because his father was His Majesty's own brother, and his mother was the youngest daughter of Dingguo.

The throne of King Dajin Ning is special, and it is said that the Jin Dynasty coincided with the troubled times before the founding of the country, and the Emperor Taizu fought in the Six Kingdoms and died nine times in his life.

The two are both bosom friends and brothers in life and death, after Taizu ascended the throne, he wanted to worship that Gu Gongzi as the prime minister, but unfortunately he became ill and resigned due to illness.

Tai Zu couldn't, so he set up this idle Ning throne to protect the wealth and glory of the Gu family in the future.

However, within a few years after the founding of the country, Gu Gongzi was seriously ill and died, and he had no son and half a daughter behind him.

Therefore, there were many royal sons among the Ning kings in the past dynasties.

The Duke of Dingguo was brave, but Xirong was outside Jiayu Pass, keeping the Central Plains safe for several years. After he was killed in battle, his son led the troops to continue to guard the northwest and was awarded the title of General of the Second Rank Zhenguo.

And the daughter of the Xu family was appointed to marry by the emperor in her early years, and now she is the concubine of the sixth palace.

In short, Gu Yunqiu has an emperor's uncle, an aunt and a concubine, and an uncle who is a general with hundreds of thousands of heavy soldiers......

The lintel is prominent and he is a relative of the emperor, so he is naturally full of confidence.

Moreover, the princess has been weak since she was a child and has a thin heir, so it is easy to conceive Gu Yunqiu, and on the day of childbirth, there are frequent situations:

First of all, the sky was very different, but the August 15th Reunion Festival was cloudy and rainy, and then the moat suddenly poured out for unknown reasons, causing the gate of the capital to be closed early.

King Ning and his wife were trapped outside the city, and they had no choice but to temporarily take refuge in the Baoguo Temple.

Baoguo Temple is a national temple, the abbot Master Yuankong opened a convenient method, let the monks transcribe the monk's house, and ran all over the nearby villages, wear out the skin of the mouth to invite a midwife who is willing to go out on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival rainstorm.

The conditions in the temple are limited and the manpower is insufficient, so Princess Ning died nine times before she gave birth to Yunqiu. With such an experience, King Ning and his wife naturally doted on this child-

If you don't like to write, you can not write, and if you don't want to ride a horse, you can not ride.

No matter what trouble you cause outside, as long as you don't violate your principles, you can be treated as a housekeeper.

No matter how dissatisfied others are, they can only sigh that Gu Yunqiu has a good baby and has this natural rich life.

And Gu Yunqiu also lived so absurdly and casually for twenty years, until-

The Mid-Autumn Festival of the twentieth year.

On August 15 of that year, the Ningwang Mansion was lit up, not only to celebrate the full moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival, but also to congratulate the prince and crown of the King of Ning, and the guests were all the ministers of the family and the relatives of the emperor.

But not long after the banquet began, King Ning and his wife treated an old woman in rough clothes as a guest.

The old woman was originally from the capital and came from afar in Shu.

His son served in the army in Sichuan and Shaanxi a few years ago, and after taking care of her, he was recently transferred back because of his meritorious service in quelling the chaos.

After Mama sat down, Princess Ning pulled Gu Yunqiu over and whispered to him, telling him that this was the midwife of the year.

Gu Yunqiu immediately stepped forward, and after bowing down, she called her mother-in-law obediently, which made the old lady's heart flutter. But when she mentioned that rainy night, she said something surprisingly, saying that she still remembered the three moles on the sole of Xiao Shizi's right foot.

As soon as these words came out, the lively banquet gradually fell silent.

King Ning's hand holding the wine glass trembled slightly, and Princess Ning also stood up from her seat in a gaffe.

Gu Yunqiu's smile froze even more on his face, and his blood faded.

Everyone knows: Gu Yunqiu, the son of King Ning, has white skin that is better than snow and white as clotted fat, not to mention a mole, he doesn't even have a patch on his body.

However, there was an orphan who was born on the same day as him in Baoguo Temple, and there was a mole on the soles of his feet.