Shaoyao stood at the gate of the courtyard holding the medicine mortar, pounding the medicine mortar from time to time, stretching her neck to look towards the Moon Gate.
Gu Yanxi came over and whispered, "She's going to be away from home for three days, you go with her."
"Of course I will follow you, Brother Yan, what about you?" Shaoyao swore that she really had no other intentions. She just asked casually. After asking, she felt that she was going to be beaten, so she instinctively took several steps back.
Gu Yanxi had no time to pay attention to her. He frowned slightly and looked at the Sixth Prince who came out of the house and stood in the corridor. He walked up to him and said, "The Third Prince may have got some information. He wants to muddy the water. I need to make some arrangements. The Emperor cannot know about this for the time being."
The Sixth Prince pursed his lips. If his father knew about this now, none of them, the brothers, would be in trouble. If his father knew that he was hiding in the Hua family, which had just been sentenced to confiscation of property and exile last year, his father would definitely be even more unhappy. He could not harm Sister Hua.
"What should I do?"
"Hide well and don't leave the house."
The Sixth Prince looked at the sun hanging high in the sky and felt a surge of sorrow in his heart. He was clearly the victim, but what he was thinking about was not how to seek justice for himself, but how to hide himself. How pitiful.
"Brother Yan Xi, I don't want to go back to that cold place. Can you help me?"
"Like it here?"
"yes."
Gu Yanxi looked at him quietly for a long while with an inexplicable expression. The Sixth Prince didn't know what he saw, but there was a hint of satisfaction in his expression. "I will make your wish come true. Before that, hide well."
The Sixth Prince did not expect that Brother Yan Xi would really agree to him. He immediately turned around and went into the house, closing the door tightly.
He started to remember things early and had a very good memory. When he was very young, he had heard palace servants say more than once how his father treated the crown prince differently. The crown prince was someone who could gain the emperor's trust more than his own sons. He could enter and leave the palace freely and was the only one who could enter and leave the imperial study freely. He even secretly suspected the identity of Yan Xi's brother, which was extremely rebellious.
But then everything changed overnight. The prince suddenly disappeared, and he never showed up again at the sacrifices to heaven or ancestors. At that time, he wondered if his father didn't like him anymore, or if he had done something wrong and was driven out of the capital by his father. It was not until nearly five years later that he reappeared, and he looked a bit like what he remembered. It seemed like he had grown from a child into an adult, and his father loved him as much as he did back then. He was a little envious at that time.
Later, his mother became seriously ill. Before she died, she told him that if one day he had to make a life or death decision, he should follow the prince's lead. He did not understand what his mother meant by those words, but he kept them in his heart.
After his mother passed away, the Empress Dowager took him in to live with her for a few days. During that time, he slept restlessly, but he wanted to sleep all the time. Sometimes he fell asleep while talking. The Empress Dowager felt sorry for him, so she let him sleep wherever he fell asleep and tried to make him sleep as much as possible.
One day, while half asleep and half awake, he heard the voices of his father and the prince. He wanted to get up to pay their respects, but in a daze he saw the prince pulling his face and revealing another face. There was a scar on his face that made him look a little fierce, so he remembered it very clearly. He didn't know if it was a secret, and subconsciously fell asleep again.
That's why he recognized her at a glance today, and knew that he was saved. The Hua family couldn't protect him, but Brother Yan Xi could, so he didn't have to think about how to leave the Hua family to avoid being ungrateful.
Isn't it just staying indoors? He can do it!
Outside the house, Gu Yanxi stood still. Shaoyao, who had just finished playing, came over and asked slyly, "Brother Yan, what are you planning on doing to Xiaoliu?"
"Xiao Liu?"
"Isn't that right? Then call him Ajian?"
No, that's right, that's how you called him before. Not long after he was born, Gu Yanxi's heart was suddenly filled with sadness.
Because his surname is Gu, he has hatred that he cannot take revenge, because his surname is Gu, Shaoyao destroyed everything, because his surname is Gu, the one inside was injured and had to rely on others to survive, because his surname is Gu, all the helplessness seems to be related to them.
Also because his last name is Gu, his true appearance appears unfamiliar to others.
Just because his surname is Gu and he is a member of the royal family.
"Brother Yan..." Shaoyao was a little flustered. Why did Brother Yan look so sad? "I was wrong, Brother Yan, I was wrong. I won't call him Xiaoliu anymore..."
"He is Xiaoliu, you called him right."
Shaoyao tapped her head with the pestle and suddenly ran to her pharmacy, "I'm going to take my medicine."
Gu Yanxi watched her run into the house and did not stop her. Whether she wanted to recall the past or forget it completely, he would not stop her.
"Mr. Lu?"
Gu Yanxi turned around and watched Hua Zhi step over the threshold and walk slowly towards him in the sunshine, step by step, approaching him and walking into his heart.
This man was never afraid of her, as if she could not smell the indelible smell of blood on him, as if she could not feel his brutality. She only remembered his kindness and the good things he had done for her, and then repaid him many times over.
Hua Zhi narrowed her eyes slightly, "Come in and have a cup of tea."
Gu Yanxi had no resistance at all. He thought, let alone drinking tea, he would even go to drink poison.
The tea set was not put back after it was brought out. Hua Zhi washed her hands and sat down in front of the tea table.
As the tea went down his throat, Gu Yanxi felt as if she was finally no longer so cold that her heart seemed to have frozen. Looking through the curling mist, Hua Zhi's face was a little blurry, but her expression was the calmness she always showed to others.
"Azhi, have you ever encountered anything that made you lose your composure?"
"Of course I do." Hua Zhi seemed not to notice that he had changed his address and refilled the tea and pushed it over.
"Things or people?"
“Both.”
She was not born with the mentality of remaining unmoved no matter how hard the wind and rain blow outside. She had also been heartbroken and cried in her quilt. She had also shaved her head bald due to excessive stress and caused a lot of hair loss. She wore a wig for a year. She still had to look at the planning proposal even when she was tired and vomited. She had to go to bid with a private doctor while on a saline drip when she had gastric bleeding. Then she had to watch her so-called family members trying to kill her for their own interests.
She paid the price of her life to become the Hua Zhi she is today. How could Mr. Lu in front of her know the pain she went through walking through the thorns along the way
“No matter how difficult things are, they are not worth mentioning once they are over. Everything will pass. No one can outlast time. It’s just a matter of time.”
Gu Yanxi leaned forward slightly, "No matter how tragic the process is?"
"What else can we do?" Hua Zhi looked at him, crying blood with every word, but she was ruthless, "Shaoyao's face has become like this, even if you kill a lot of people, her face can't be restored. There is no justice, no right and wrong to argue, this is the result, you can only accept it, Shaoyao can only bear it."
"Even if the person who caused this consequence is still living a comfortable life?"
“Is the person you are thinking about really living a comfortable life?”
Gu Yanxi was stunned. Not being able to kill Gu Yeyan for revenge for his mother and Shaoyao was an unsolvable knot in his heart. He watched him hold the position of wife vacant for that woman, watched the two of them love each other and give birth to children, watched him invite all the famous doctors in the world for his sick son, and even went to him to beg Shaoyao to come to his house.
He looks at these year after year, month after month, so how can he know whether he is really well-beinged
"A blunt knife is not sharp enough, but you can't deny that it is still a knife." Hua Zhi picked up the teacup and drank it all in one gulp, like drinking wine.
PS: It's no exaggeration. This chapter took more than three hours to write and almost three hours to edit. It's all about Gu Yanxi. Every word is not redundant. Don't the girls feel confused? Since Gu Yanxi is the prince, why doesn't even Hua Yizheng know him? It's explained in this chapter. Girls, please read carefully. I hope Kong Kong's good attitude can make the girls willing to pay for the guaranteed monthly ticket. A new month, start to struggle.