Zhao Chengyou had a gloomy face all the way back.
Even when he returned to Sheng's house, his face was still very ugly. Sheng Ze was waiting for him outside with a lantern. When he saw him coming down, he greeted him with a smile, "The young master is back."
Originally wanted to say a few more words to the same person, but he was stunned when he saw Zhao Chengyou's dark face.
The words that hadn't been spit out were also stuck in the throat, and after a while, he said anxiously: "What's wrong with you? Did something happen?"
Seeing his expression, Zhao Chengyou also realized that something was wrong with him. He knew that he shouldn't be like this. Gu Wuyou was a chess piece to him. How could he be confused by a chess piece
But sometimes emotions are like that.
The more you don’t want to show it, the more you don’t want to think about it, the more you can’t control it.
As long as he thought about what Gu Wuyou said, he felt angry, especially when he thought of the look on her face when she asked him if he liked her, it made him feel extremely embarrassed.
Is there anything in this world that is more irritating to be avoided and hated by those who loved you deeply in the past? As if knowing that he liked her would make her annoyed and think he was a trouble.
Behavior is almost dominated by emotions.
For the first time, he couldn't control his emotions like this, and he even wished to go back to that time, grab her by the throat and make her shut up, so as not to let him hear the words that made him angry and unwilling.
"Little Master?"
Seeing that he hadn't spoken yet, Sheng Ze was even more worried. Just as he was about to order someone to pass the doctor, he heard Zhao Chengyou say, "I'm fine."
Zhao Chengyou didn't want to say more, and after he finished speaking, he continued to walk to the house. It was also at this time that he realized that he had been holding the brocade box in his hand. Because of too much force, the finger pads were pressed red. Almost bruised.
The veins on the forehead jumped.
He commanded in a cold voice: "Let me deal with this thing!"
As long as he thought that he was so stupid that he didn't sleep all day and night to do such a thing, he felt that he was stupid.
Sheng Ze was obviously surprised, but he didn't dare to say much when looking at his expression. He just answered yes and reached out to take the brocade box, but found that the other end of the brocade box was still being held tightly.
"Little Master?"
When Zhao Chengyou heard the voice, the expression on his face became more and more embarrassed. He gritted his teeth and looked at the brocade box in silence for a while. In the end, he was still exhausted. He closed his eyes for a moment and said, "Forget it, I handle it yourself."
Done.
He withdrew his hand, held the brocade box in the palm of his hand, and continued to walk inside.
Sheng Ze didn't dare to say more, and followed him, carefully holding the lamp.
After walking for a while and a gust of cold wind blowing, Zhao Chengyou's mood finally returned to normal. Although the deepness in his eyes was still there, his voice had returned to the gentleness of the past. He didn't look at anyone and asked, "I can come home today. people?"
Seeing him asking, Sheng Ze hurriedly replied: "The young master of the Yin family and the young master of the Xu family have been here. If you are not here, I will come back to you tomorrow. There are a few others who have given you gifts, and I have registered them all. already."
Zhao Chengyou nodded and said nothing.
"And..." Sheng Ze glanced at him, and his voice suddenly became hesitant.
"what?"
"Langya has written a letter..." Sheng Ze looked at Zhao Chengyou's expression and whispered, "The Marquis of Yongan will come to the capital soon."
The steps under his feet suddenly stopped. In this dark night, Zhao Chengyou looked at the unclear road ahead, and his face that had just returned to normal suddenly turned black as ink.
After Gu Wuyou returned home, he asked Bai Lu to deliver the almond tofu to his father first, and then he went back to Zhaixing Building alone, planning to change his clothes before going to celebrate the new year with his father and the others.
Hong Shuang brought the wash water for her. The little girl was a little unhappy because she couldn't go out together today. She pouted and said, "Has the lady hated me? What's the matter now, you will discuss with Bai Lu before going out Don't take me either."
When Gu Wuyou heard this, he was a little amused.
She didn't say a word, just handed over a box of candied fruits that had been prepared for people earlier, and she said, "If I hate you, will I bring you something to eat? Take it and eat it. "Fumanzhai's candied fruit, isn't it your favorite?"
Although Hong Shuang is about the same size as Bai Lu, her personality is very different.
Bai Lu is stable and reliable, and she is introverted in her work. She usually does everything in the yard. Hong Shuang can talk in a pleasing manner.
These two maids have followed her since childhood. Gu Wuyou doesn't make any difference to them. It's just about the general, the less people know about it, the better... Fortunately, Hongshuang is also a child, and she's still arguing with jealousy. Small temper, this will take the favorite candied fruit and be happy again.
It just so happened that Gu Wuyou was about to wash up and clean up, and this would make people call Momma Meng over.
When Mommy Meng came over, Gu Wuyou had already re-dressed and sat outside. Hong Shuang was sent by her to the small kitchen to spread a message, asking people to make some supper for the servants who were still on duty tonight, so that they would not be hungry at night. .
Before Bai Lu came back, she was alone in the room.
After Momma Meng came in, she wanted to kowtow to someone, but before she could leave, Gu Wuyou raised her hand to help her, "Didn't I tell Momma long ago that you don't need to be so polite when there's no one there on weekdays." Pointing to the soft couch beside him, the colleague smiled and said, "Mommy, sit down, I came to you so late, and I have something I want to ask you."
"How can this work?"
Mommy Meng is a stubborn person. Even though she has been a big girl since she was a child, she still remembers her identity and never dared to take a step. No matter what Gu Wuyou said, she would not sit beside her. Taking a step back, she moved a round stool over, but only sat halfway.
Gu Wuyou looked helpless, but he knew her temperament, so he handed over a cup of tea, and then asked, "Do you still remember my childhood?"
When Momma Meng heard this, she laughed, "Of course you remember, before you were five years old, the old slave watched you grow up, no matter how big or small, the old slave remembers..." Xu Shi remembered the past, she was in the candle The brows under the fire became much softer again, and he looked at Gu Wuyou and said softly, "You will be a small one at that time, like the boy under the Guanyin Master, especially good-looking."
"Then mammy, can you remember the seventh son of the Li family?" Gu Wuyou waited for her to remember the past before asking, "Have I met him when I was a child?"
"Li Qigong?" Momma Meng was taken aback for a moment, she seemed to be a little unfamiliar with this name, and she smiled after a moment's reaction, "You mean the child named Ah Li?"
"Ali?"
This time, Gu Wuyou was stunned, what is this name? She knew that the general was ranked seventh, and the word was heavy, but she didn't know Ahri's name.
Mommy Meng asked, "Is that the seventh young master from the Duke's Palace of Wei?"
When Gu Wuyou nodded, he smiled and said, "That's it, Ah Li was the name he was called when he was a child, it was said that when Mrs. Wei Guogong gave birth to him, he dreamed of a civet cat, and he was also thin when he was born. It's like a cat, so I simply adopted such a nickname to keep it."
Seeing that Gu Wuyou was listening with gusto, Momma Meng simply said a few more words, "The lady of Wei Guogong has a good relationship with our young lady, and when the young lady married in the capital, she was not familiar with those people, but I met this man in a temple once. A lady, the two have been in contact with each other several times, but they have become more and more compatible, and later they have been called sisters."
"... Later, Mrs. Wei Guogong gave birth to a son, and our young lady just happened to be pregnant. The two of them laughed and said that if the young lady's child was a daughter, they would give you a baby kiss."
"pity-"
Thinking of what happened later, Mommy Meng lowered her voice and sighed softly: "Our lady went early, and the lady of Wei Guogong followed a few years ago."
Afraid of causing Gu Wuyou's sadness, Mama Meng didn't dare to say any more, she wiped her reddish eyes and said with a smile, "You and that young master Li Qigong have met a few times when you were young, but that would be your time. It's normal to not remember well when you're young."
He asked her again, with a puzzled tone, "Why did Miss suddenly mention this today?"
Gu Wuyou really didn't expect that she and Li Qinyuan would have such a fate. She stayed there for a moment, and then came back to her senses and replied, "It's nothing, I just remembered something."
Mommy Meng had to say more. Bai Lu came back. She invited Gu Wuyou to Anbian and said, "The county master, Grandpa Guo and the others have already arrived. Would you like to come here or rest for a while?"
"Let's go now." Gu Wuyou stood up, and when she saw Mummy Meng following her, she instructed, "It's late at night, Mummy, take a rest earlier."
Mommy Meng replied with a smile, "Yes."
Bai Lu helped Gu Wuyou out. Seeing her still a little stunned, she knew that she should have inquired about the things she wanted to know, but this expression looked a little strange, so she couldn't help asking her, "Mother Meng said what?"
The bright moon outside is still clear.
The red lanterns on both sides swayed gently, Gu Wuyou slowly walked on the ground with some thin snow in his cloak, listening to the sound of "squeaky", after a while, he chuckled: "I just feel that this world Fate, sometimes it's really wonderful."
She didn't even think about it.
She and the general actually have such a fate.
If A-Niang was still there, if Madam Shen was still there, and if she had never been to Langya, would she and Li Qinyuan have known each other long ago? They will grow up together, they will go to school together, and the general will not become what he was later on.
"The princess?"
Bai Lu's voice came from her side, with a tone of doubt, probably wondering what she was thinking.
Gu Wuyou smiled and shook his head, "It's okay, let's go."
Although she was sorry, she did not feel sorry.
People will go through many things in life, and they will go through many roads. Some of these roads may be smooth sailing, and there will be no detours from the beginning to the end, but some will have many forks when you walk... You can't be sure of each one. The road is good.
But as long as you can go out in the end and go right, it's fine.
Although it is a pity that she did not know the general at the beginning and grew up with him, she is very fortunate to have met him and knew him in such dark years, and she is also very fortunate that God can give her a chance to start all over again. Let her be fortunate enough to meet the general so early.
The beautiful scenery she experienced on the wrong road is also worthy of her recollection for the rest of her life.
Shou Sui didn't go to my grandmother's side. When my grandmother was old, she looked very energetic on weekdays, but she couldn't bear the trouble. So I had already sent a message earlier, asking them to go back to Shou Sui, and the two families went back to their own yard.
Gu Wuyou led Bai Lu to the big room.
The maids and wives gathered around a lot, and some people built a few snow dolls from the old snow and put them in the yard. Fu Jiang, dressed in a red dress, was leading a few maids, and asked them to arrange dinner for the night. Used fruits and pastries.
"This pastry is too greasy, sticky to the teeth, change a hawthorn cake, I really like this plate of plum blossom cake, put it there."
"Master likes to drink and sell camellia tea. Later, you will instruct the kitchen to simmer with a small stove and cook two bowls of almond tea. Manman and Jiufei like to drink it."
…
Haven't walked in yet.
Gu Wuyou heard about Fu Jiang's busy schedule. She didn't know if it was the same before. In the past, she never celebrated New Years with her father and the others. In the yard, at most, I can talk to my third brother.
There is some ironing in my heart, and some gratitude.
A maid saw her hurriedly come over to greet her, followed by a silence from the inside, and then Fu Jiang knocked the curtains and came out, she seemed a little happy, but also a little helpless, she froze there, not knowing what to say what.
It was Gu Wuyou who smiled and invited An first, "Mrs. Fu."
"Hey."
Fu Jiang responded with a smile, and then spoke in a more usual way, "It's cold outside, come in quickly."
Gu Wuyou nodded, and Bai Lu took off her cloak for her, then handed the stove in her hand to the waiting maid, glanced at the room, and asked, "Where's Daddy and Jiufei?"
"It's in the study," Fu Jiang said with a smile. "In the spring, Jiufei is going to go to school in Luming, and the master is asking Jiufei." She counted the time, "It's been a while since I went in. Let someone call them out, just now the master said that you didn't come back and refused to set off fireworks."
"Said it was going to wait until you came."
Gu Wuyou smiled, "Let me go." After speaking, she walked to the study by herself. Before she got close, she heard a calm young voice from the study. Seeing the figures of Jiufei and Daddy, one of them was standing and the other was sitting.
She didn't even go in directly.
Instead, she waited for Jiufei to answer the question, and waited for Daddy to speak, then she stepped forward and knocked on the door lightly. When Daddy's voice came from inside, she opened the door with a smile, and said to the two of them, "Daddy, Jiufei, it's time to go to the New Year's Eve."
Gu Wuji raised his head when he heard her voice.
Under the warm candlelight, the face that has been some years old is still handsome, and he said with a smile: "Manman is here."
He stood up and walked towards Gu Wuyou. When passing Gu Jiufei, he didn't look like before, but patted him on the shoulder, "I learned well in my homework, but I can't let it go. These days are at home. Be prepared."
"Yes."
"Let's go." After Gu Wuji finished speaking, he walked towards Gu Wuji. Facing his daughter, his expression softened a lot. He touched her head and asked softly, "Are the fireworks at the East City Gate good-looking?"
"nice."
Gu Wuyou bent her eyes and smiled. When she went out with her father, she glanced behind her and realized that Gu Jiufei was still following them silently as before, so she stopped and waved at the person. "Jiufei, hurry up."
The lanterns flickered under the corridor.
Gu Jiufei paused for a moment. He raised his eyes and looked forward. The girl in red in the red cloak bent his eyes and smiled at him, but the man beside him didn't say anything. He pursed his lips lightly. Heart beating a little faster.
then.
The steps under his feet followed the heartbeat, brisk, joyful, with a rare excitement, and walked forward.
The original scene one after the other turned into three people walking on the corridor together.
Fu Jiang was stunned when she saw them coming like this, but when she realized it, she laughed, greeted him, and said softly, "Come on, it just happened that everything was almost ready, so I asked people to move the chairs and tables. The east window has a good view, so you don’t have to go out to watch the fireworks later.”
After speaking, as before, he went to ask Gu Wuji what he meant, "Do you think this is good?"
Gu Wuji nodded, "Just do what you want."
Fu Jiang smiled and agreed.
There is still more than half an hour before the New Year. Afraid that the new year will be boring, Fu Jiang also prepared a lot of things, such as leaf cards, horse hangings, and Go.
Although it's a joke.
Gu Wuji also gave up a lot of chess pieces, but Gu Wuji still lost very badly. She didn't care about looking for foreign aid at all, just like when she played leaf cards before, she would just pull Gu Jiufei to help her. .
Gu Jiufei glanced at Gu Wuji, saw that he was smiling and did not speak, so he followed Gu Wuji's intention to help her play chess.
Gu Jiufei's hand in a chess game that had already been defeated, but saved some of the situation. Gu Wuji originally watched them as if they were watching a child play, but when he saw the form of the chess game, he was a little surprised. After playing chess, he became a lot more serious.
One of the two held the white piece and the other held the black piece, and the seemingly peaceful chess game seemed to have blood lights and sword shadows.
Gu Wuyou originally watched patiently, but later, the more confused she became, she simply fell asleep with the pillow. When she was woken up again, the chess game was over. She blinked her confused eyes. The voice was a little hoarse, "Who, who won?"
Gu Jiufei looked at her, her thin lips slightly opened: "Father."
"Ah..." Gu Wuyou seemed a little disappointed when she heard this, she thought Jiu Fei could win.
Gu Wuji wanted to laugh when he saw her like this, he reached out and patted Gu Wuji's brain, smiling very heartily, "Your father is so many years older than you, but..." He turned his eyes to Gu Jiufei and smiled too Said: "You played well, but you were still young and lacked some experience, so you were a little impatient later."
Gu Jiufei rarely blushed.
After all, he is still young, no matter how smart and calm he is, he will inevitably show timidity when encountering experienced people, but he doesn't think there is any shame in this, he knows what is wrong, and then he can correct it. After hearing this, he bowed his head and said, "Thank you father for teaching me."
There were a few more firecrackers outside, followed by the voices of maids and old women, happily saying, "The new year is here."
When Gu Wuyou heard this, she leaned out half of her body. The outside was golden light and the night was like day. She had a bright smile on her face. Before the fireworks scattered all over the sky, she silently made a wish in her heart: One year, the family is in good health, and the general is getting better and better.
Just made a wish.
There is a red envelope in front of him.
Gu Wuji saw her turn his head, raised his hand and touched her head, his voice was gentle and full of love, "In the new year, Man Man should also be happy." He never asked for anything else, only his own daughter Can be happy.
"Daddy..." Gu Wuyou's eyes were a little red.
Gu Wuji smiled and touched her head again, and then handed another red envelope to Gu Jiufei.
Gu Jiufei was a little stunned when he saw this red envelope. Before, his father never gave him a red envelope face to face. Play chess together.
Gu Wuji seems to be a little accustomed to it.
He can express his love for his daughter unreservedly, pamper her and pamper her, but for various reasons, he always loses some closeness to his son, even if it eases a little now, But those words were not so easy to say.
In the end, I could only spit out a few words, "Happy New Year."
With a hoarse voice, Gu Jiufei took the red envelope and said, "...Thank you, father."
His slender fingers held the red envelope tightly, as if he was a little unsure. He held it so hard that even his fingers turned white.
He was calm since he was a child, rarely revealed his emotions, but also thought through. He might have cried for those missing emotions when he was very young, but he didn't care when he grew up... He once told himself Promise, in this life, as long as I take good care of my mother.
People who don't love him, he won't take a second look.
But it turned out that he was still greedy, greedy for how Gu Wuyou rushed out to save him with a stick in the alley that day, greedy Gu Wuyou said "he's my brother" in front of everyone. The situation is also greedy... This father's love for licking the calf.
He doesn't want much.
As long as the other party has him in his heart, and only the other party cares about him, even if there is only one point, it is enough for him.
When Fu Jiang came in, she saw her taciturn son holding a red envelope in his hand. Because he lowered his head, she couldn't see the expression on his face, but she could guess what he was thinking... Her eyes were a little hot, and she forced the tears back.
Wait until you've calmed down before walking over.
She also held two red envelopes in her hand, gave them to Gu Wuyou and Gu Jiufei, said a few words of blessing, looked at Gu Wuyou, whose eyes were getting more and more confused, smiled and said with concern: "Man Man is also sleepy. Now, why don't I have someone carry the sedan chair over?"
Gu Wuyou shook his head: "No, it's not too far from here."
Although she was sleepy, it wasn't that she couldn't walk anymore. She stood up with a smile and said, "Dad, Mrs. Fu, I'll go back first." After that, she got up and walked out.
Gu Jiufei also stood up: "I'll take you there."
Gu Wuji glanced at him in surprise, Gu Wuji didn't speak, nodded with a smile, and the sister and brother walked out together. After they left, Fu Jiang looked at Gu Wuji, who she adored since childhood. Man, even after so many years, her heart still throbs when she sees him.
The candles flickered in the house.
She saw that she was still looking in the direction where Gu Wuyou was leaving, with a vague sense of loss and nostalgia in her eyes, and she knew that he had thought of his deceased wife again. In this regard, Fu Jiang had no extra thoughts in his heart. Qian asked: "Sister Wang's things are also ready. Is the master going now?"
"Um."
Gu Wuji withdrew his gaze, stood up, and when he was about to leave, he stopped and glanced at Fu Jiang, who was looking at him. Bar."
Fu Jiang smiled and replied "yes" and watched Gu Wuji leave.
Qingdai looked at her disapprovingly, and when everyone was sent out, she supported Fu Jiang and whispered, "Why did you take the initiative to bring this up? I think the master is very happy today, you... "
Fu Jiang smiled and said nothing, only said, "Serve me and wash."
"Mrs..."
Qingdai pursed her lips, seeing that she still looked like this, she couldn't help sighing again, "Yes."
She fell in love with Gu Wuji when she was young.
At that time, Gu Wuji hadn't married yet, and he didn't have the calmness later on. He wore a high ponytail all day and rode a fierce horse around the city. They like to follow him.
When he was young, Gu Wuji liked to wear crimson clothes, a golden crown, and a white jade belt around his waist.
Every time he went out, many women would look at him openly and secretly, but she fell in love with him, not because of his face.
But because of a test—
Because she was a woman, everyone else felt that it was disrespectful to win a woman, so they deliberately let her go, only Gu Wuji didn't treat her as a woman, but said to her bluntly, "Since you want to compete, I won't let you go. ."
Then, really didn't let him.
She is from a family of military generals, she is used to being careless, and she is not more careful than other girls. When she found out her affection for Gu Wuji, he had already gone to Langya, and after that... He seemed to have changed a person. He used to be rampant and reckless. The boy suddenly became mature.
Someone told her that he was going to marry a girl from the royal family of Langya.
She secretly rode a horse to Gu's house, and happened to see Gu Wuji returning halfway. He was still riding a fierce horse, but he was not like before, but he was pacing slowly by leaning on the carriage, and he didn't know what to say later. , which made the girl in the carriage laugh out loud.
He leaned over coquettishly.
A beautiful hand stretched out from the carriage, holding a handkerchief embroidered with epiphyllum to wipe the sweat from his forehead.
Fu Jiang never thought that the little bully in Beijing would become so obedient one day. She always thought that Gu Wuji would be so reckless and indulge all his life... Later, he married a girl from the Wang family.
If it wasn't for Miss Wang's poor health, they might have lived like this for the rest of their lives.
She asked for this marriage.
For this, she was scolded by her parents, and even her elder brother who had loved her since childhood disapproved, but she was determined to marry into the Gu family, even though she knew that the road would be bumpy, she still did not turn back.
It was her childhood dream.
At the age when she knew Mu Shaoai, she was the first teenager who made her heart beat.
Fu Jiang knew what others thought of her, but she didn't care, she didn't hate scruples, nor was she jealous of Wang Chengdai, she didn't want much, as long as she could always be by his side.
Like today, the family is happy, he can say "hard work" to her, she is very happy.
In the dark night, Fu Jiang looked at himself in the mirror and smiled, still the same heroic look when he was young: "I seek benevolence and be benevolent, with no complaints and no regrets."
a few days later.
Gu Wuyou leaned on the throw pillow. She was either worshipping her ancestors or visiting relatives these days. She finally got some time off today.
But once busy people are free, some don't know what to do.
Ayu and her aunt went to Liu's house for a kiss. She didn't know where the general was. After thinking about it, she still planned to sit at the second sister's side. Just as she was about to order someone to prepare something for her, she saw Bai Lu walk in. Stepping into the soft-soled shoes and staying at the bed, the same person said, "Just in time, you go find the spices that my grandmother sent me a few days ago, and I'll go see the second sister."
"The county lord,"
Bai Lu came over, but did not respond immediately, but whispered to her: "Li Qigong is here, this will be at the third young master's side."