the next day.
Gu Wuji rested at home and did not go to court.
Just after breakfast, someone came to report, "Master Guo, the king led the Changning County Lord to come here to apologize."
After listening, he didn't say anything. He poured himself a cup of tea as usual, leaned back on the chair, drank it slowly, and turned to ask Chang Shan, "How is Manman?"
"I sent someone to ask in the morning, it's not a big deal, I just feel bored and keep making noises and want to go to the academy." Chang Shan replied with a smile, and then instructed the servant outside, "Take the Daiwang and Changning County together. Lord, please go to the flower hall and say that the grandfather of the country has something to do, so please wait for some delicious tea."
After Gu Wuji heard it, he laughed and said, "You are now my master."
Chang Shan smiled and said nothing.
The servant outside didn't know what to do, so he kept his head down and waited for orders. When Gu Wuji said, "Okay, let's talk about it", he responded and left.
After the people left, Gu Wuji still didn't leave, drinking tea, gossiping with people, and asking about Gu Jiufei's situation.
Chang Shan replied with a smile: "Ninth Young Master's muscles and bones are good, but it may be difficult for him to practice solidly at his age, so his subordinates plan to teach him boxing techniques to strengthen his body."
Gu Wuji has no opinion on this.
His son has a quiet temperament, and he doesn't look like him. He was a solid boy when he was young. There are so many soldiers in his family on weekdays.
"Li Censhen's son is not bad." Gu Wuji, who was drinking tea, suddenly said this, and then smiled, "It's more promising than that kid from the Fu family."
"They're all children, you always have a stubborn face on weekdays, which junior is not afraid of you?" Chang Shan laughed at him, and gave him another cup of tea before saying: "But this son of Wei Guogong is indeed very promising. ."
"There are so many children from aristocratic families in Beijing, and this young master Li Qigong invited his master to learn martial arts when he could walk, and he was a man from the military camp. In such a situation yesterday, if he hadn't stepped in to help, I'm afraid he might not have been able to. Subduing that crazy horse."
"pity--"
He changed his words and seemed to sigh, "Since he beat his mother, this child will not be the same."
Gu Wuji felt that the child was filial, so he frowned and retorted: "Li Censhen, that stuffy gourd knows how to fight every day, and he doesn't go home all year round. It's not easy for this child to go astray."
Chang Shan rarely sees him complimenting a person so much. He is still a junior, and he can't help but wonder: "You really value him."
Gu Wuji didn't value it at all, but when he looked at Li Qinyuan, he couldn't help but think of his former self, recited his achievements yesterday, and said, "If you can help me in the future, just help me, after all, I still owe it. It's a favor to him."
"Yes."
Chang Shan said jokingly: "If you like it, you might as well recruit a horse for our county master."
As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Wuji, who has always been fond of his daughter, sank his face and cursed angrily: "You old man is getting more and more out of his mouth now!" He likes that kid from the Li family. , recruiting county horses for her daughter is another matter.
Can this be the same
Gee.
Chang Shan seemed to have known such a result for a long time, didn't say anything, just smiled: "Don't always look down on these children, the county master will be sixteen after the new year, and he is going to marry. "
"If you want me to say, the kid in the Jing family is actually a good one. He has a good temperament and is good at reading."
Gu Wuji frowned, still looking unhappy, if he just regarded them as juniors, it would be fine, but if he regarded these juniors as his future son-in-law, none of them would please him.
I couldn't drink the tea in my hand anymore, so I said lightly, "Let's talk about this later."
The acting king Xiao Beiqin had been sitting in the flower hall for almost two quarters of an hour. The longer the time passed, the more uneasy he became. He was a timid and fearful man. Although his surname was Xiao, he didn't even dare to take an official position.
Every day, I am not playing with birds at home, or I am drinking tea and painting, and I am more careful than anyone else.
In order to be afraid of the careless person on the dragon chair, for so many years, he didn't even dare to ask for his son, and Xiao Yi was the only daughter in the family.
Originally thought that if he was so careful, he would definitely not be in trouble, but who would have thought that his sensible and obedient daughter would do such a thing? !
Murdering people in the academy was the daughter of Duke Dingguo!
When he found out about this yesterday, he almost fainted on the spot. He originally wanted to bring someone over to plead guilty last night, but he remembered that it was too late, so it would be inappropriate to come to the door, so he had to stay up all night until this morning.
At dawn today, he hurriedly brought Xiao Yi over to plead guilty.
He didn't expect to see anyone when he arrived. It was like sitting on pins and needles. Xiao Beiqin couldn't sit still. He wanted to ask the little servant, but when he saw his eyebrows and eyes, he couldn't spit out the words in his mouth, so he could only stand up and stay in the room. Pacing a pace, his eyes swept to Xiao Yi who was sitting on the side, and he was so angry that he gritted his teeth and scolded: "You still have the heart to drink tea?!"
Xiao Yi stopped drinking tea.
After a while, she didn't say anything, and put the tea cup in her hand on the high case.
But Xiao Beiqin's anger was obviously not over yet, he seemed to be hiding his anger and had nowhere to vent it, so he could only turn his anger towards Xiao Yi, and scolded in his voice: "Please excuse me later, Duke Ding will let you do it. Whatever, do whatever you want! Even if you are asked to kowtow to the Lord of Leping County, you will bear it for me!"
Say more.
He got angrier, "How did I teach you before? You dare to do such a thing, do you think your life is too long? Or do you think our family is having a good time?!"
Xiao Yi didn't speak, but the hand that was flat on his knee clenched involuntarily.
Her fingernails were originally long, and now they are almost embedded in the flesh, but she can no longer feel the pain... How can physical pain be compared to psychological pain? From yesterday evening to the present, everything around her seemed to be turned upside down.
Her father who loved her since childhood complained about her, and those aunties who used to fear her were even more sarcastic, and even the servants in the family privately said that she was not. want to laugh.
But the pain in her face kept her from laughing.
Last night, for the first time, her good father slapped her three times in front of a group of aunts and servants. This was the first time she was beaten.
She can even recall the emotions of that time, sadness, disappointment, disbelief.
She originally thought that even if such a thing happened, her father who had loved her since childhood would be on her side. He might be disappointed, angry, and hate that iron was not steel, but he would take her to solve this problem together.
No.
Her father just looked at her with an expression of disappointment and disgust, an expression she had never seen before.
At that time, Xiao Yi knew that the father-daughter relationship in this world is not the same as Gu Wuyou and her father. Not everyone will do something wrong and someone will take care of her aftermath.
She has never been alone.
Disappointed.
When Xiao Yi heard these words now, she didn't feel anything at all. She pursed her red lips and sat upright on the chair, using all her strength to maintain her remaining dignity.
"Are you deaf or dumb? Didn't you hear me?" Xiao Beiqin loved this daughter so much before, but now he hates her so much. He wanted to say a few more words, but there was a sound of footsteps outside.
Looking back, before seeing anyone, I heard a group of servants and maids respectfully say goodbye, "Master Guo."
His heart froze, where is there any resentment facing Xiao Yishi? Busy restraining his emotions, he went forward.
Gu Wuji came in wearing an ordinary family uniform, with a solemn expression.
Xiao Beiqin was always very afraid of this Duke Dingguo, but now it is even more so, that a prince actually bowed his hand to a prince and shouted tremblingly, "Brother Ruohua."
To put it in the past, Gu Wuji would not accept this etiquette, and he would be too lazy to take care of it.
But today-
He seemed to have deliberately delayed a beat, and frowned after the salute, "Your Highness, what are you doing? Aren't you slaughtering a small minister like this?" With that said, there was no shattering on his face. the meaning of.
How could Xiao Beiqin not know, but how dare he say anything
With a shy face, he said with a smile: "I came to the door today to apologize, and this ceremony is worth it..." After speaking, he turned his face to Xiao Yi, and scolded in a low voice: "You bastard, are you still here?"
Gu Wuji did not speak.
When Xiao Yi got up and came over to greet him, Yu Guang glanced at the slap print on his face before frowning.
The father and daughter are the father and daughter in front of Dai Wangfu to discuss the serious master. The slap print on Xiao Yi's face can only be done by Xiao Beiqin. Although he hates Xiao Yi's actions in his heart, he also despises what a father does.
"Get up."
He retracted his gaze, dropped this sentence lightly, and took his seat.
"Brother Ruohua." Xiao Beiqin deliberately used a similar title, and laughed: "I brought this bastard here today to make amends for you and Leping. I didn't expect this unfilial daughter to do such a thing!"
"How do you want to deal with it, even if you say it, I will never be the slightest biased."
Seemingly worried that his attitude was not good, Xiao Beiqin directly pulled Xiao Yi and pressed him to the ground, "You bastard, after doing such a thing, you still have the face to stand? Kowtow to me and apologize!"
Xiao Yi was dragged to a staggering degree, and his knees were almost smashed to the ground.
She was in excruciating pain, but she clenched her teeth without letting out a whimper of pain, and her back was straight, like a section of green bamboo that wouldn't bend.
Seeing her like this, Xiao Beiqin was angry and hated. He really didn't understand how this obedient daughter had become so rebellious now? It's all over to this joint, and he has to be hard on him!
Just wanted to say a few more words.
Gu Wuji frowned and said, "Okay."
He didn't have a good temperament, and he didn't come here today to see the father and daughter quarreling, "If the lord wants to teach his daughter, he should go home and teach him a lesson." Seeing Xiao Beiqin's embarrassment, he looked at Xiao Yi again, his tone was very Light, with a light expression, "Get up."
"Thank you so much..." Xiao Yi opened her mouth, she didn't sleep all night, her voice was already hoarse, and when she noticed the gaze falling on her body, she showed a self-deprecating smile and changed her voice: "Thank you, Duke Dingguo."
She stood up on her hands, her knees still hurting.
But she didn't shout, just looked at Gu Wuji and said, "I will go to the royal temple to clean up for a year to atone for my own sins."
This was a decision she made last night, and she never told anyone.
Gu Wuji was obviously a little surprised, he held the hand of the tea cup for a while, raised his eyes and glanced at the girl in front of him, seeing that her expression was flat, and her dignified and self-controlled temperament was still there, but she seemed to be a lot colder than before.
"Have you made up your mind?"
Anyone who is sent to the royal temple for cleaning has committed a serious crime, such as those nobles in the palace, who cannot be put to death, they will be sent to the temple... Although it is only a year, it is almost ruining a woman's reputation. most of the time.
"Yeah." Xiao Yi nodded, his expression and voice were still the same as before.
Gu Wuji didn't look at her again, took a sip of tea, and said, "Then it's as the county master wishes."
Xiao Beiqin didn't seem to have thought that Xiao Yi would do this. After a moment of stunned, he heard Gu Wuji's sentence and couldn't help but interject: "Brother Ruohua, look at this, do you just..."
Before he could finish his words, Xiao Yi by his side seemed to have had enough of his face, and regardless of what he was still talking about, he opened his mouth and said, "Master Guo, I want to see the Princess Leping."
She still had something to say to Gu Wuyou.
Gu Wuji didn't agree immediately, but looked at her for a long time before summoning a maid, "Let her go."
The maid responded.
Xiao Yi saluted Gu Wuji again, and then Li ignored her father and followed the maid out the door. After walking far, she could still hear her father whispering: "Brother Ruohua, my daughter If you are not satisfied, just deal with it.”
"But she did this, I didn't know anything about it, don't misunderstand me..."
Xiao Yi looked at the bright sky outside, the sun was shining brightly, and suddenly it was very funny. Since she was sensible, after knowing her father's situation, she kept telling herself that she must strive, work hard, and let her father raise his head in the capital.
She did too.
After so many years, who in the capital saw her and didn't praise her
But she lived her life by restraining herself like this, and she never dared to let go one day. Her father, for fear that she would implicate him, left her completely, wishing that there would be no such thing as her daughter.
Really, funny.
Xiao Yi's eyes were sore and her knees were still aching, but she just walked forward with her back straight, as if she was afraid that others would look down on her. When she was about to turn into the trail, she raised her hand to wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes.
What she didn't want to cry was the wind and sand that caught her eye.
When Gu Wuyou heard that Xiao Yi was coming, he was not too surprised.
She leaned on the beautiful couch covered with white fox fur, and the incense burner with tangled peony and green leaves on the tall table by her side was curling up a few scents, which was a touch of incense from Persia, which her third brother sent last night. It was sent to her.
Holding a free book in his hand, Gu Wuyou leaned on the lead pillow, didn't get up, and was still sitting in a very relaxed posture.
Before she could speak, Hong Shuang couldn't help but gritted her silver teeth and scolded, "Does she still have the face?" After speaking, she said to the maid who was talking outside: "Get out! It's ruining the master's mood."
The maid looked at Gu Wuyou hesitantly.
Gu Wuyou turned a page of the book, and said without raising his head, "Please come in."
"Miss..." Hong Shuang frowned, looking unhappy.
"After all, we have to meet once." Gu Wuyou smiled, closed the book in his hand and put it aside, and said to the girl who came to send her a message, "Go ahead."
The little girl hurriedly went out, and after a while, she led Xiao Yi in.
Seeing Xiao Yi coming in, Gu Wuyou didn't leave, and sat on the soft couch as usual. She was at home today and dressed very casually, but it was hard to hide her beautiful face, and it was really suitable for heavy makeup.
"Go and pour tea." Gu Wuyou ordered.
Hongshuang hated Xiao Yi to the point of death, but she wouldn't lose face in front of outsiders, she still went to pour tea no matter how unhappy she was, Gu Wuyou pointed to another seat, "Sit down."
Xiao Yi didn't speak, she sat down, and when the maid served tea, she looked at Gu Wuyou and said, "I'm here today to tell you that I'm going to the temple for cleaning."
Gu Wuyou was picking out the candied fruit with a silver hairpin, when he heard the words, he was stunned.
He seemed a little surprised by Xiao Yi's decision, but in the end he just gave a soft "oh", picked a good candied fruit and put it in his mouth, without expressing any other opinions.
Xiao Yi looked at her appearance and said again, "I don't like you."
As soon as the words fell, the two girls in the room frowned first, but Gu Wuyou did not change, still leaned on the throw pillow and looked at her, raised her arrogant face, and softly said "um", as if she didn't care that she liked to be with her. no.
Look at her like this.
Instead, Xiao Yi laughed first. She seemed to be laughing so recklessly for the first time. She laughed so hard that tears were about to come out. She was like a lunatic... She really lost.
People who have hated for so many years don't care whether she hates them or not.
sneer.
She raised her hand to wipe away the tears from the corner of her eyes, then straightened her back to look at Gu Wuyou, and faced her with the same arrogant attitude, "I'm here to tell you that I don't like you, and I won't do it when I was a child. like."
"It was so before, it is so now, and it will be so in the future."
"But I—" Xiao Yi paused for a while, and his voice dropped, "I really didn't want you to die."
No matter how much she hated Gu Wuyou, she didn't want to put her to death, but there was no need to say these words, it seemed like she was defending herself.
She seemed to be here for this matter, and got up after speaking, without saying goodbye to anyone.
The Changning County Master, who used to pay great attention to the rules in his actions and speeches, seemed to have disappeared, but when he was about to step out of the curtain, Xiao Yi suddenly stopped and looked back at Gu Wuyou, "About the divorce, are you? Didn't you already know I did it?"
Gu Wuyou was stunned.
It's been so long that she almost forgot about it, but she didn't hide it from her, she nodded, "Yeah."
Xiao Yi frowned, "Why didn't you say it?" Naturally, she wouldn't think that Gu Wuyou was for her, a thought seemed to flash in her mind, and before she could speak, she saw Gu Yu hitting the curtain and entering from outside.
She held a pack of oil paper bags and a bunch of candied haws in her hand, followed by a maid behind her, and she took a bunch of them.
Gu Yu didn't seem to expect Xiao Yi to be there, and Gu Yu stopped, and the expression on his face became a little ugly.
Two people who used to talk about everything, but now they are relatively silent when they meet.
Xiao Yi glanced at her, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she didn't say anything... She smiled, and without waiting for Gu Wuyou's answer, she hit the curtain and went out.
After walking far, I could still hear Gu Yu's voice, "Did she come to apologize to you?"
"… Well, that's it."
"She... forget it."
Tears suddenly flowed from the corners of her eyes, but this time Xiao Yi didn't wipe it immediately, but closed her eyes under the clear sky. I don't know how long it took before she walked out of the courtyard.
"Master Changning, this is not the way to the flower hall." The maid was not as fast as her, so she could only remind her from behind.
"I know." Xiao Yi didn't turn his head back, and continued to walk outside the yard. All the way to the outside of the Guogong's mansion, there was a carriage waiting there long ago, and her personal maid Chunxi was waiting for her by the carriage. .
Seeing her coming out, she hurriedly greeted her, "The princess, are you alright?"
Xiao Yi said, "Let's go."
Chunxi hesitated: "The county master, are you really not waiting for the prince? Maybe..." Xiao Yi shook her head with a firm attitude, "Let's go."
"Yes… "
Chunxi had no choice but to help the person onto the carriage, and after sitting firmly, the carriage drove all the way to the royal temple on the outskirts. She poured a cup of tea and said softly, "I saw Miss Gu Qi just now, please touch Has it come to her?"
Xiao Yi held the hand of the tea cup for a while, and said after a while, "En."
"you… "
Before Chunxi could say anything, Xiao Yi closed her eyes. She leaned against the carriage, listening to the bell outside, thinking about the days when she was on this carriage and had a laugh with Gu Yu.
She actually had something to say to Gu Yu.
She wanted to say to her "I'm sorry for disappointing you", and also wanted to say to her, "What I said yesterday was not my original intention, you are very good, in this life, the best person I have ever met is you... "
"You have never forgiven me, it is I who have forgiven you."
But when she guessed the reason why Gu Wuyou concealed it that day, she suddenly couldn't say these words. It turned out that... it was her who was unbearable.
The wind blew the curtains and brushed the hair beside her ears.
She opened her eyes and looked at the scene outside. She hoped to come back in the future and have the courage to stand in front of Gu Yu and say "sorry" to her.
And this time on the official road.
Another carriage drove towards the Dingguo Gongfu. This was the carriage of the Fu family. In it sat Li Qinyuan, Fu Xian, Jing Yubai and Qi Xu.
Jing Yubai was cooking tea, Qixun took a bag of sweet-scented osmanthus cake and devoured it slowly.
Fu Xian turned his head to look at Li Qinyuan who was teasing the squirrel, hesitant and unhappy, "Qilang, do you really like that little pepper?" It's been a night, but he still doesn't want to believe it.
But some things don't exist unless he doesn't want to believe them.
Qilang specially ran to his house last night, saying that the academy was on holiday, and we went to see Little Pepper together. He was so shocked that his eyes almost popped out. stand alone.
Qilang held a small squirrel and stood by his bed impatiently. When he saw him wake up, he threw his clothes on him.
Get him up quickly.
He was confused all the way, followed Qilang to harass Dabai and Xiaoxu successively, and now that a group of people were sitting on the carriage, he finally woke up.
Li Qinyuan was holding the little squirrel and was feeding it the peeled pine nuts. Hearing this, he said "um" without raising his head.
The little squirrel was probably a little afraid of people, so he shrank in his arms, and when he saw the pine nuts he liked the most, he didn't dare to stretch his claws to get them. Continue to move forward.
It wasn't until he finally touched Li Qinyuan's hand, and seeing that he still didn't respond, he quickly grabbed the handful of pine nuts, lowered his head, and ate it little by little.
Li Qinyuan couldn't help laughing when he saw its charming appearance.
Really like that little girl.
It was the same at the beginning. I approached him little by little. After a long time, I probably figured out what kind of person he was, and I began to test his bottom line little by little.
More and more delicate.
It's just that he especially liked her appearance, and was happy to let her go.
This little squirrel was caught in the back mountain behind the academy after school last night. There are few squirrels in winter. It took him a long time to find such a small squirrel. something for her.
It seems that the relationship is confirmed, and it is good to send something.
But gold and silver jewelry is too tacky.
The food seems to be nothing special.
After thinking about it, the image of eating meat patties with the little girl before appeared in his mind. The little girl had a bulging face, round and bright eyes, and she was very charming, just like the one he met before. Like a squirrel.
"It's really like..."
Li Qinyuan stretched out his hand and carefully touched the squirrel's hair, with a smile on his brows and a bright smile on his face.
He was happy here, but Fu Xian was worried to death. He didn't expect that he would be on guard day and night, and Qilang would still fall into the clutches of Little Pepper, and he would murmur with a bitter face: "Why do you like that little guy? Are you chili?"
He opened his mouth to say something bad about Xiao Chili, but after racking his brains, he couldn't say a word.
Fine.
Now the little pepper has a much better temper, and is a lot gentler, and has helped Qilang several times... He really can't speak ill of her anymore.
But he was still upset.
Not only awkward, but also sour!
He and Qilang have been brothers for more than ten years, and it is not as good as Qilang is to anyone!
Turning his head, he saw the little squirrel in Li Qinyuan's arms. It was so cute and naive. He liked these little animals the most, but Qilang didn't let him touch it. It looked like a baby. Fu Xian couldn't help it. He said sourly: "You haven't given me anything, you've forgotten your friends!"
Li Qinyuan, who had lost sight of his friends, planned to take his words seriously and ignore him.
This was given by him, so you can't take those common names, you have to be special.
Jing Yubai was making tea. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "My eldest brother gave my sister-in-law a Persian cat a while ago."
"Huh?" Li Qinyuan looked up at him, waiting for his next words.
Jing Yubai smiled and brewed four cups of tea, then held a cup of tea, looked at Li Qinyuan and said slowly: "I saw that they directly raised the cat as a son, usually 'son', 'cub', 'Little Treasure' cried."
Li Qinyuan was stunned for a moment, and when he reacted, his face turned red, and it was rare for him to blush in front of his group of brothers.
Li Xiaogongzi wanted to say something, but couldn't say it. When he heard the little squirrel in his arms squeak, he couldn't care less, and he looked down quickly. The paws are begging him for food.
Looking at the eyes that looked like Gu Wuyou, he suddenly muttered in a low voice, "It's not impossible."