It was noon when we arrived in Jinyang.
It is now late February, and the sunlight has gradually become warmer, feeling very warm and comfortable when it shines on our bodies. However, on such a nice day and at such a time, there are not many pedestrians on Jinyang Street.
"They say Jinyang is a small capital, but it doesn't look like one now." The car curtains were opened, and Shaoyao muttered while chewing beef jerky, looking around. She no longer needed to wear a veil, and the scars on her face had become lighter and were no longer very obvious at a glance.
"It was probably similar in the past, but it's not the same now. If Jinyang is not careful... it will be ruined."
Shaoyao looked outside calmly, "Destruction followed by reconstruction may not be a bad thing."
But how to solve this problem? We can't let everyone lose everything. Once a person is tempted to gamble, he will use even the money for saving his life to gamble, and will sell his wife and children to gamble. Even if his family is broken up, he cannot control himself.
Don’t they regret it? Of course they regret it when they are sober, but when the gambling addiction comes, they even forget who they are, so how can they remember the regret at that moment
Poverty is not scary, and hardship can be endured, but spiritual destruction is the real destruction.
"No way." Shaoyao looked frightened. "Brother Yan wants to take care of this too? What's the point of having six ministries? What's the point of having such a huge government office in Jinyang?"
"It's much easier to give up than to build. The people who should be in charge may not necessarily do so, just like the Seven Susi now. To be honest, many things were not theirs, but in the end, they became theirs."
Hua Zhi held her chin up and looked at the people passing by outside. She was listless and yawning. If she hadn't been sure that there was no Fu Shou cream in Daqing, she would have suspected that someone had made this thing. "But there are so many people in Jinyang. They are just pawns of someone with ulterior motives. They are so innocent."
Shaoyao leaned against Huazhi, "So it's better to be heartless. But it's probably difficult for Brother Yan to change. When he was seventeen, he decided to help the emperor defend the country and share his worries. Do you think he is stupid?"
"He just lacks love, so he gives his heart to someone who treats him well."
"Lack of love?" Shaoyao rolled over with laughter, "Yes, yes, lack of love, Huahua, you described it so accurately."
Isn't it just lack of love? Hua Zhi rubbed Shaoyao's head. If he had never had it, it would be fine. Anyway, he didn't know what it felt like. But he had so much, and lost it all overnight. The emperor's concern was a ray of light in his dark life. Only by holding on to that light could he climb out of the abyss. That's why he was so grateful and made himself strong and shouldered those responsibilities that did not belong to him alone.
But people always change, even if they are sincere at the beginning, they will change due to external factors.
The carriage turned into an alley, which did not look like the deep alleys of a noble courtyard, but rather resembled the southern part of the capital city.
After turning two alleys, the carriage stopped for a moment. Soon the corner door opened and the carriage drove straight in. After stopping again, before Hua Zhi could make any move, the curtain was quickly pulled open.
Hua Zhi tilted her head, her face full of pride after doing something bad and scaring people.
Gu Yanxi closed her eyes, clenched her fists and then unclenched them, and directly carried the person down without even glancing at Shaoyao.
Shaoyao, who was waiting for his brother's reaction after seeing his face, opened his eyes wide, but when he saw his appearance at this moment, he really couldn't muster the heart to make trouble. Touching his face angrily, Shaoyao decided to temporarily forgive his blind brother, no, brother who forgot his sister for the sake of a beautiful woman!
Gu Yanxi carried the man directly into the house, not the main room or the side hall, but his room.
He forgot all about etiquette and considerations, he just wanted to hug this person who seemed to have fallen from the sky, to prove that it was not an illusion caused by his missing her too much.
It was a bit painful to be hugged like that, but Hua Zhi seemed not to feel it and used all her strength to hug him back.
After leaning against each other for a while, Gu Yanxi seemed to have finally recovered. He kissed Ah Zhi's forehead and asked softly, "Why did you come so suddenly?"
"I came as soon as I thought of it." Hua Zhi blinked innocently, "Are you more surprised or happy?"
"Happy." Gu Yanxi grabbed her hand and covered it with her chest, "Listen, I'm so happy that I'm about to jump out."
"Shock also has this effect."
"There's nothing to shock me except your safety." Thinking about what happened in the capital, Gu Yanxi finally recovered from her rare loss of composure. "I know you always think things through, but next time don't pay the price of getting hurt, even if the effect is a little worse."
"Only a little bit." Hua Zhi pinched her little finger and indicated a little bit, "I will never hurt myself even if I live a lifetime. I can't be so cruel as to bleed myself. Don't worry, it's just a little bit of blood."
Gu Yanxi wanted to say more, but when he thought that it was someone from his Gu family who forced Azhi to do this, he felt that whatever he said would be redundant. It would be better to hang him up and beat him up when he returned to the capital to vent his anger. At least he would bleed more than Azhi.
Putting this matter aside, Gu Yanxi remembered the difference between men and women and pulled the person out of the house.
Shaoyao was squatting in the corridor outside. When she saw the two people come out, she snorted heavily and turned her head to the side for emphasis. Her emotion was very appropriate.
Hua Zhi suppressed her smile and glanced at Yan Xi. She wouldn't help him to coax her anyway.
Gu Yanxi looked at the face that looked very similar to the one in her memory. She wanted to say that it was beautiful, but what she said ended up being, "You look more and more like mother."
Yes, he looks more and more like his mother, the former Princess Ling. Although he is not her biological mother, he looks more like her than her biological mother.
Shaoyao turned her head back, dazed, and tears started to flow as she blinked her eyes.
Gu Yanxi walked over and pulled the person to his feet. "Why are you crying when I told you that you look like your mother? How can you look like anyone else?"
Shaoyao pushed him away awkwardly, walked to Huazhi, hugged her and cried silently.
Hua Zhi held her and looked up, "I'm a little hungry."
Gu Yanxi glanced at Shaoyao and left.
Hua Zhi pulled the person into the side hall and sat down on a wide chair with the person she couldn't even push away. "Why are you crying? Isn't this something worth being happy about?"
"That's Auntie."
Hua Zhi was stunned, "You remember?"
"I remember a little bit. I obviously took the medicine." Shaoyao rubbed Huahua's shoulder and acted coquettishly. "I liked Auntie when I was a child. She was so beautiful when she smiled, like a fairy. She treated me better than my own mother. She would do a hairpin for me, teach me to read, and told the servants that I was a lady of the palace, not a concubine's lady. She never let me call her mother, but let me call her Auntie like ordinary people. She really loved me as her own daughter. I also said that I wanted to be a female general, so that I could protect her, but I didn't become a female general, and she is gone too."