The sky was clear and the air was gentle.
There are many carriages and horses heading towards Dongshan.
Every year, the royal hunt is held in Dongshan. Except for the nobles of the Tian family, all officials above the fourth rank in Beijing can bring their family members to participate. When they return, they will camp at Dongshan for one night.
Gu Wuyou hadn't participated in a royal hunt for a few years. She used to rush back to Langya after the New Year, almost every time she staggered from the hunt. The maids below were afraid that she would be uncomfortable living outside, and the brocade felt soft on the quilt. Pillow, down to the handkerchief for grooming and the washbasin, almost all of them were brought to her.
If it weren't for the inconvenience and fear of attracting attention from others, I'm afraid even the bed would have to be moved by Gu Wuyou.
But even if it was only these, there was still an extra carriage coming out. Fortunately, the Gu family was so powerful that the people accompanying them didn't dare to say anything when they saw it.
Gu Wuyou and Gu Yu sat in the carriage together. Except for Gu Yu who didn't come, all the juniors of their family came. Gu Rong and Gu Jiufei rode their horses outside.
Rather than sitting in a carriage to eat tea and eat melon seeds, they would rather go horseback riding like their brothers and sisters, but there are so many people traveling today that Gu Wuji refused to say anything, so the sisters had to be obedient. inside.
Fortunately, I played out of the city.
The curtains on both sides were also lifted for them, so that they would not be bored in the carriage.
Bai Lu sat on the knees and made tea. The two sisters leaned on the carriage and looked at the scenery outside. Gu Yu held a sugar snowball in her hand. Besides eating a few mouthfuls at Gu Wuyou, she also loved it. After serving this sweet and sour thing, I specially made a lot of preparations in the small kitchen when I went out this time.
"I heard that Marquis of Yong'an and Zhao Chengyou will also go this time?" Gu Yu said casually while chewing a sugar snowball.
"Um."
Gu Wuyou's answer was a little careless. She didn't care about Zhao Chengyou and his son. The marriage left and right, and Dad had already made it clear. No matter how the Zhao family turned the sky, it wouldn't hinder her. What she cares more about is...
Putting his head on the edge of the open window, a pair of clear Xing'er eyes looked out without blinking, as if they were walking around in the crowd.
"What are you looking at?"
Gu Yu followed her gaze and glanced outside, but there were crowds of carriages and crowds. Seeing Gu Wuyou's frowning brows, she also understood in her heart. She clapped the icing on her hands and said to the other person in a speechless manner, "Okay, the Duke of Wei's mansion is behind us, you can't see it like this."
Done.
After a pause, she pressed her voice again and asked, "However, Li Qinyuan will really come?" She hadn't seen Li Qinyuan on the hunting grounds for many years.
Gu Wuyou's eyes were still on the outside, he nodded when he heard the words, and said without hesitation, "He said he will come, and he will definitely come."
"You believe him." Gu Yu curled her lips, but didn't say anything. Seeing that she was still looking out, she pulled her arm again, "Okay, don't look, it won't take long, wait over there, Look it up however you want..."
Thinking that this is not quite right, he changed his words and said, "Don't always stare at others, you won't be able to see any clues."
"However, why did he think of going into business?" Gu Yu heard her brother mention it earlier, and she was quite surprised. Not to mention the hard work of doing business, he had to hang out with those low-level people every day, running around the country.
Let's not say whether Li Qinyuan can endure this hardship, but will his uncle be happy when he finds out in the future
Who would be willing to marry their daughter to a businessman
Even if Li Qinyuan takes the imperial examinations or does other things, his eldest uncle may not agree, but it should be better than running a business. The most unwilling thing for her mother these years is that her brother had such good grades, but he just left. A way of doing business, this is not, every time I say "pro", it is not good enough.
Gu Wuyou couldn't see Li Qinyuan, so he simply sat back obediently. Out of the corner of the eye, he caught a glimpse of Gu Yu looking at her. How could he not know what she was thinking
She smiled, her eyebrows and eyes were crescent-shaped, and she took an orange from the fruit plate and slowly peeled it off, "I asked Dad what he meant, and Dad said that being a human being is not respected because of what he lives in. position, but what he did."
Handing half of the peeled oranges to her, he took the other half and ate slowly, "I'm not afraid that daddy thinks it's not good to do business, I'm just afraid that he..."
He sighed softly, his voice lowered a little, "It's hard work."
If it is possible, she naturally does not want the general to suffer such hardships.
For her, it doesn't matter whether Li Qinyuan is successful or not. Even if he is really just an ordinary person, with no official position and no title, he is fine. She just wants him to be safe.
But she also knew very well—
Neither the later generals nor the current Li Qinyuan would be willing to be just an ordinary person.
He is an eagle, who should soar in the broad sky.
She couldn't just keep him by her side for her own sake.
To love someone, you shouldn't keep him trapped, but encourage him to try anything he wants to do, whether it's successful or not.
In fact, Gu Yu couldn't understand Gu Wuyou's love for Li Qinyuan, but she also saw the tenderness on Gu Wuyou's still somewhat immature face. It was an expression only when Li Qinyuan was mentioned. That was the source of all her hope, her morning, her fascination.
She didn't know why, but her heart suddenly vibrated violently.
Some of the words that I wanted to say in my heart could not be spit out.
The wind from the outside hit the carriage through the window edge. For the first time in her life, Gu Yu seriously thought about the matter between this man and woman. If a man and a woman get married, it is not for the benefit of the two families or for any other reason, but just because they like it. Just because the two sides have each other in their hearts, this kind of love is actually quite good.
When the carriage arrives at Dongshan.
The next people went to camp first to set up things. Bai Lu was afraid that they would damage Gu Wuyou’s things, so he followed, so only the two sisters Gu Wuyou and Gu Yu were left. They planned to find a place to rest first, and they hadn’t left a few days. When I took a step, I heard a crisp female voice not far away, like a little magpie who didn't know its troubles, shouting to her as she ran: "Cousin!"
Gu Wuyou followed the sound and saw a young girl in a bright yellow beard dress running towards her.
"Changping?" Gu Wuyou saw her, and her eyes also lit up. She didn't expect Changping to come this time. Seeing her running over like a gust of wind, she hurriedly stretched out her hand to help her, "Why still As before, you are not afraid of falling."
Although she looks only sixteen now, she still has a soul in her heart. Seeing her like this, she can't help but be a little worried.
Xiao Wuxia was not afraid at all, but laughed at her, "Cousin, why did you talk about me? You used to be more aggressive than me, why didn't you run around with me?" Greeted her, but in a lighter tone, "Miss Gu Qi."
Gu Yu is no more intimate with her than Gu Wuyou.
In particular, she had a good relationship with Xiao Yi in the past, and she was a member of Xiao Yi's faction, but this Princess Changping disliked Xiao Yi the most in her life. Although the two never had any conflicts, their relationship has always been lukewarm. .
He would hear people calling her, so he just bowed his head and saluted her, shouting, "Princess Changping."
Xiao Wuxia nodded and said nothing, smiled at her and turned his face, as if he had changed his face, the previous Jingui was completely gone, he leaned over and hugged Gu Wuyou's arm affectionately, pouting his lips and starting to scold. Apologizing for her guilt, "Cousin is really boring. After returning to Beijing for so long, I don't know how to come to see me in the palace. I'm dying of boredom."
"I was still thinking, if you don't come to hunt this time, I'll sneak to Gu's house to play with you later."
She is the direct descendant of the princess, a compatriot with the Crown Prince Xiao Jingxing, and the only princess in Da Zhou. She was used to being held since she was a child, but she did not develop a arrogant temperament, and looked very cute and cute.
Maybe it was because she didn't have any sisters, she liked to play with Gu Wuyou since she was a child. Before Gu Wuyou went to Langya, she was carried into the palace after a break. The two sisters were not very different in age, they were both the same. Eat and sleep together.
Later, Gu Wuyou went to Langya, and the letters between the two never stopped.
So Xiao Wuxia was very unhappy that Gu Wuyou had not come to the palace to see her after being back for so long this time.
Gu Wuyou was also a little embarrassed to hear this. She had been caring about the General's affairs all this time, and indeed ignored Changping, and sincerely apologized to her, "I've been too busy these days, I have been going to school years ago, and I don't have time to enter the palace..." As for the New Year's festival, there are many affairs in the palace, so it is not easy for her to enter the palace at will.
Seeing her still not very happy.
Gu Wuyou reached out and tugged at her sleeve, and said in a soft voice, "Okay, I was wrong."
Xiao Wuxia wasn't really mad at her, after being coaxed for a while, he opened his eyebrows again, still smiling and said, "Then you have to accompany me today, you have to ride with me, hunt with me, and at night, you have to stay with me. And sleep with me."
"I have a lot to tell you."
After thinking for a while, he glanced at Gu Yu again and asked her, "Miss Gu Qi wants to play with us?"
She doesn't actually have anything to do with Gu Yu. At most, she doesn't like how she and Xiao Yi were together before, and she feels that she has bullied her cousin, so she is not pleasing to the eye. Now that their sisters are reconciled, she naturally does not like her. It doesn't matter to give Gu Yu this face.
Gu Yu smiled and shook his head, "No need, I made an appointment with Lu Yan and the others before, and I will play with them later."
She was still not used to getting along with Xiao Wuxia, just when she heard more and more voices talking behind her, she turned her head to look, saw a few familiar figures, and smiled: "You guys play, I'll go find them. ."
Gu Wuyou also knew that Gu Yu was being cautious here, so he didn't say anything.
After she left, he took Xiao Wuxia's arm and asked her, "Is Auntie here this time?"
She misses her a bit.
"No."
Xiao Wuxia led her to the resting place, and said to her as he walked, "My mother has been suffering from headaches again recently, and I can't stand the wind. This time, only me, the prince and the second brother came with the father."
Gu Wuyou frowned, unable to hide his anxiety in his words, "Why does it hurt again? If the doctor in the palace is not good, then go to the folks to see, I can't let my aunt hurt like this all the time."
"found."
Xiao Wuxia also sighed, her excited voice also became low, with a small head drooping, she said in a sullen voice, "I don't know how many people I have been looking for, but those people said that my mother is an old disease, only It can be alleviated, but not cured.”
Gu Wuyou didn't know what to say.
There are some things that no matter what status you are in, no matter how much wealth you have, there is no cure for them, such as aunt's headache, and second sister's illness.
Xiao Wuxia saw her brows and eyes drooping slightly, her expression depressed, afraid that she would be sad and quickly changed the topic, "By the way, when the time comes, the queen mother asked me to tell you that when the spring is hot, it will be opened in the palace. Flower feast, let you go."
Gu Wuyou really recovered.
But listening to the meaning of these words, some took her as the protagonist, and couldn't help but say: "Why?"
Xiao Wuxia never pays attention to these things. She thinks these things are too annoying. Usually, if there is no way, she will hide if she can, but it is about her cousin. Eyes said to her, "The mother said that since you have decided to stay in the capital, you can no longer hide from people like before, and you still have to walk around for some relationships."
She pouted, "I think it's annoying, what's the point of leaving? Those people are flattering on the surface, but they don't know what to do in private, so it's annoying to watch... However, since the mother said it, my cousin is still Come on, I'll be with you anyway!"
Gu Wuyou heard this, but his heart warmed.
Auntie has been in love with her since she was a child, and she always thinks about her no matter what time it is, with a smile on her face and a particularly soft voice, "Okay, when the spring starts, when my aunt's headache eases, I will go to the palace to see her. "
"Okay~"
Xiao Wuxia was like a little child, and when he heard this, he immediately laughed, "Then you have to stay with me in the palace for a few more days, I tell you, I have two peacocks now, just In the yard, I take things to tease them every day, and when you come, I will let them open their screens for you to see."
Gu Wuyou frowned and replied with a smile, "Okay."
The two sisters hadn't seen each other for a long time, and they had endless things to say, and Xiao Yi was mentioned later.
Xiao Wuxia didn't like Xiao Yi when she was a child. In the past, her mother always used Xiao Yi to teach her, and she was very unconvinced. She always felt that this person was very good at disguising, and sure enough... This person is really not a good thing. Angrily: "I'll just say she's a black-hearted person. She can do such a thing. Fortunately, you're fine, otherwise I'll definitely settle the account with her."
She was angry and anxious when she learned about the outside world from her mother.
If it wasn't for her mother's headache, and her father's unwillingness to dispose of the Daiwang's mansion now, she would definitely have to go out of the palace to find Xiao Yi to make trouble, "but she's finished now."
Gu Wuyou wondered, "What do you mean?"
Xiao Wuxia looked around and secretly told her, "The Concubine Zhou from the Daiwang Mansion is pregnant, and my uncle has a child. He intends to raise Concubine Zhou as the concubine, and the royal father has agreed."
In the past, Xiao Yi controlled the residence of the Daiwang Mansion, and Xiao Beiqin has always loved his daughter, so the people below naturally couldn't cause any trouble, but now Xiao Yi was sent to the temple, and such a scandal broke out, I'm afraid that in the future It's hard to find a good family to marry...
She is useless to Xiao Beiqin, and even if she returns from the temple in the future, I am afraid that Daiwangfu will not have her place.
Gu Wuyou didn't know what to say about this, but she didn't hate Xiao Yi that much, but this path was chosen by Xiao Yi herself, so she could only bear the good and bad karma alone.
Xiao Wuxia's thoughts spread very much. It's probably been too long since he saw Gu Wuyou. He wanted to tell her everything, and he was talking about Xiao Yi, so he would talk about other things, "Brother Prince is going to get married soon. Now, the second brother is about to get engaged."
"They are all opening a hospital and building a mansion outside. I want it too, so it will be much easier for us to meet."
"But the queen mother said that I was still young and wouldn't let me out." After speaking, she drooped her head and looked dejected.
Seeing her like this, Gu Wuyou couldn't help but want to laugh. The two of them were already sitting in the resting place, and the palace servants were sent away when they served tea. Without outsiders, she naturally had no worries, and said with a smile, "Wait for you. Can't you come out and live after you get married?"
It's easy for the little girl to be shy when it comes to this topic.
Even if Xiao Wuxia is usually bold, she is still full of longing and yearning for marriage. She leaned on the chair, her elbows on the tea table, and looked at Gu Wuyou. He said awkwardly, "Cousin, what do you think of that Lord Shen?"
"It's Li Qinyuan's uncle, Lord Shen Shao Shen."
"My father asked me what I meant before, but I don't know what kind of person he is. I only know..." She lowered her eyelashes, her white fingers tangled her hair, as if embarrassed, and said shyly: " He was very handsome."
When she was a child, she heard a few allusions.
It is said that the top three of the imperial examinations are generally the champions, but they are not good-looking. It is estimated that they are quite old, but the Tanhua Lang is different. Every Tan Hua Lang is the best looking. So she thought at that moment, if she wants to get married, she must marry the best-looking Tanhua Lang, not the champion.
In the seventeenth year of Qingxi, Shen Shao won the first prize in the imperial examination. She was still young at that time, and sneaked into the Qionglin Banquet with the prince's brother.
It happened that Shen Shao was surrounded by people in his champion robe. The red clothes were like blood, and the lights were like daylight, which made his face look more like a flawless piece of white jade.
She was insane at the time.
However, it didn't take long for her to be obsessed with Shen Shao. Her obsession with Shen Shao was more like seeing something she liked. When she saw it, she couldn't put it down. Keep by your side.
But after a long time, I got tired of seeing it or couldn't find it, and I slowly forgot it.
When she heard her father mention it a few days ago, she shook her head for a while, and almost didn't realize who Shen Shao was.
It was only later that she remembered that Shen Shao was the man who stood under the lights at the Qionglin banquet, the champion who broke her inherent thinking, and she thought, it would be good to marry such a person, at least he looks very good to her liking.
She likes pretty people and things the most.
Gu Wuyou heard her talk about Shen Shao, but she didn't have much doubts. After all, they were married in the previous life, but she didn't know much about Shen Shao, and she didn't have much contact with him. He opened his mouth to answer, and there was a sound of footsteps outside.
It sounded like more than one person, mixed with laughter, and the curtain was picked up.
Walking in the front is a young man in purple, with a white jade crown, who looks to be in his early twenties, tall and tall, with warm and generous eyes, as if he was born with a touch of compassion and pity. He is turning his head and talking to the person behind him.
The young man behind him was dressed in a moon-white brocade robe, his hair was tied high, and only a purse with a light green embroidered pine flower was tied around his waist.
Seemingly aware that someone was looking at him, he raised his eyes and looked over, and when he saw the girl wearing a cape and wearing a fiery red riding suit, he was stunned for a moment, and then his eyebrows were raised.
It was here.
No wonder he searched outside for a long time and couldn't find it.