"How do I know why she always targets me? It must be because she doesn't like me, or because she's jealous that I'm younger and prettier than her. Jealousy is at work." She couldn't help quoting A Tuo Jiang Hua's words.
"Are you overthinking it?" Seeing her aggrieved look, Gu Linchao raised his hand and touched her head, and said warmly.
"That's not it." Wen Rongjun wrinkled his nose and leaned against his chest, "If you don't believe me, you can ask Si Yi or Jiang Hua, they are all present."
"I don't believe what you say, but I just can't figure out why the Queen Mother is targeting you." Gu Linchao said, thinking of something, and looked at her with a smile, "After all, you are so obedient, so...quiet."
In the latter sentence, he unconsciously used what she often said.
Hearing his joking tone, Wen Yunlong widened his eyes in surprise, "My lord, you know how to joke?"
Gu Linchao coughed lightly, looked away uncomfortably, and held her hand, "Let's go."
"Why go?" Wen Rongrong was puzzled.
"Let's go to the queen mother's courtyard together." Gu Linchao said softly.
Hearing this, Wen Rongrong felt sweetness in his heart, Gu Linchao actually wanted to take her to meet the queen mother, although she didn't want to see the face of the queen mother at all, but Gu Linchao wanted her to go with her.
Does it mean that Gu Linchao also wanted to avoid suspicion
The two walked out of the house holding hands, passing Xiao Yan and others sitting under the tree, and then went straight out.
Xiao Yan, Atuo Jianghua, Si Yi, and Lu Qiao who were eating melons: "..."
The quartet of eating melons were dumbfounded.
"This is a pure place of Buddhism, isn't it too bold?" After a while, Xiao Yan came to his senses and said with a look of jealousy.
Atuo Jianghua also nodded, but she looked envious, "That's right, Buddhism is pure, and I don't know how to restrain myself."
The two suddenly felt a little sympathetic to each other.
One is that the marriage has not yet been settled, and the other is equivalent to entering the limbo.
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When Queen Mother Guo heard that Gu Linchao had come to Huangming Temple, she was a little surprised at first, but when she thought of Wen Yunong here, she suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.
Could it be that Gu Linchao came to Huangming Temple for Wen Rongrong
She was unwilling to accept this fact in her heart.
Thinking of Abbot Xuanqing, she also felt that when Gu Linchao came here, he must have come to visit Abbot Xuanqing, after all Abbot Xuanqing was his art teacher.
Thinking of this, she felt relieved again.
Because of the assassination last night, she didn't sleep well all night, and her complexion was inevitably pale and haggard.
In order to make herself look better, she specially applied some rouge on her face, and carefully applied lipstick on her lips.
Looking at her beautiful self in the mirror, she was finally satisfied.
He asked someone to collect the things, and sat upright, waiting for Gu Linchao to come over.
Not long after, the servant's voice sounded outside.
"My queen, the regent has arrived."
Empress Dowager Guo couldn't hide her joy, but when she saw Wen Yanjun who came in behind Gu Linchao, her complexion froze, and even the fine rouge couldn't cover up the grayness on her face.
"The queen mother asked me to come here, why?" Gu Linchao asked directly after entering.
Queen Mother Guo came back to her senses and took the teacup aside to conceal her strangeness.
"Actually, nothing happened. It's just that Ai's family was assassinated last night. They haven't found any trace of the assassin until now. They felt a little uneasy, so they asked the regent to discuss a solution."
Gu Linchao's voice was cold and alienated, "I heard that the emperor has assigned Si Luo to be responsible for the safety of the queen mother this time. If something like that happens, Si Luo will investigate thoroughly. I don't want to go overboard."
Queen Mother Guo clenched the cup in her hand, her knuckles turned white due to too much force.
Wen Yunjun, who had been silent since entering, shifted his gaze from her rouged face to her pale fingers, feeling even more weird in his heart.
When she and the wives of various prefectures came to visit her in the morning, she didn't have any makeup on her face, why did she suddenly start to apply it now
Also, why did she have to ask Gu Linchao to find a solution when she was assassinated
As Gu Linchao said, his own department will be responsible for a thorough investigation.
Wen Rongyong gave her a strange look, his heart moved, he suddenly took a step forward, took Gu Linchao's arm, and said coquettishly: "My lord, Si Luo said that there is a very good restaurant in the small town at the foot of the mountain. Let me go, I have eaten vegetarian food in the temple these days, and I have no taste in my mouth."
When she said this, although she was facing Gu Linchao, she was watching Queen Mother Guo's reaction out of the corner of her eye.
Sure enough, after she took Gu Linchao's arm and finished saying this, Queen Mother Guo's complexion became extremely ugly, and there was a cold light in those eyes, which shot straight at her, as if she was about to execute her in a hurry.
Seeing this, she felt like a mirror in her heart.
No wonder Queen Mother Guo has always looked at her disliked and targeted her everywhere, so that's what happened.
She sneered in her heart, flinched suddenly, slipped into Gu Linchao's arms, and then stammered, "Queen...you, why are you looking at me like that?"
Gu Linchao was not aware that she would sneak in suddenly, he was stunned for a while, and finally reached out to wrap his arms around her shoulders, at this moment, hearing what she said, he looked at Queen Mother Guo with some surprise.
Empress Dowager Guo didn't expect Wen Rongjun to say that suddenly, she didn't have time to control the expression on her face for a while, and she forgot to restrain herself with killing intent in her eyes, so she was bumped into by Gu Linchao.
Gu Linchao narrowed his eyes, and his voice was cold and without warmth, "What dissatisfaction does the queen mother have with her wife?"
"Yes, what dissatisfaction does the Empress Dowager have with the minister's wife? The look in your eyes just now was so scary." Wen Yunong made up the knife at the side.
Cold sweat rolled down the Queen Mother Guo's forehead, and she was so angry that she was going to explode when she heard what Wen Rongyong said, but Gu Linchao was here, so she couldn't make trouble.
Faced with Gu Linchao's questioning, her sweat was heavy on her shirt, and after a long while, she clutched her handkerchief and said with a stiff mouth: "How dare the Ai family be dissatisfied with the Princess Regent? The Prince Regent is too worried." Xiang Wenjun complained slightly, "You are really squeamish, Aijia is in this position, sometimes it is inevitable that he will be stricter, but it is not aimed at you, so don't think too much about it."
"My wife is squeamish, let me take care of myself, and don't bother the queen mother to worry about it," Gu Linchao said coldly, without giving any face, "whether the queen mother intends to or not, I don't want it to happen again." After finishing speaking, he embraced Wen He immediately turned around and walked away.
Queen Mother Guo stared wide-eyed, watching the two go out.
It wasn't until the two of them went out that she slumped on the chair as if all her strength had been sucked out.
But when she thought of what Gu Linchao said just now, she felt as uncomfortable as a needle prick in her heart.
In particular, the scene of Wen Rongyong unscrupulously getting close to Gu Linchao in front of her stimulated her almost to the point of losing her mind.
"Snapped!"
She flicked down the teacup in her hand.
Wen, Nong, Nong!