Qingchuan bit her lips forcefully, watching Concubine Liang silently. Concubine Liang smiled, approached her, and whispered: "You are a wise man, you know what to do, right? Come on, go back to the palace."
After speaking, he took the maid and left.
Qingchuan didn't want to make herself cry in front of everyone, and hurriedly raised her face to look to the sky, but tears continued to flow from her eyes. She was already moved by the eighth elder brother. She didn't want to deceive herself anymore, but Gu Xiaochun was kind to her again. She couldn't hurt their family. Is this destiny? God always gave her a taste of sweetness just now, and then slapped her fiercely, telling her to suffer honestly and not to have a trace of delusion...
Qingchuan was a little confused, got up and walked toward the backyard with her head down. Just after passing the gate, she suddenly bumped into someone. She subconsciously said "I'm sorry", but when she was about to leave, the person grabbed her. Qingchuan looked back a little dullly on the arm of Qingchuan, only to realize that it was actually the fourth eldest brother.
Si elder brother grabbed her arm and asked in a low voice: "Turning around to Xinzheku, why bother?"
Qingchuan smiled faintly, "It's fine to have a clear conscience, it's the same everywhere."
"Haha... It's a clear conscience," he sneered, turned to her and stared at her and asked: "Your clear conscience is to torture yourself, by the way... Do you hurt the person who loves you?"
Qingchuan only felt tired, lowered his eyelids, and asked him indifferently: "Is there anything wrong with Brother Si? If there are no slaves, I will leave first."
Brother Si grabbed her arm and refused to let go, saying word by word: "If you are with me, I won't let you suffer like this."
"Let her go!" Suddenly someone at the courtyard gate said coldly. Qingchuan turned his head and saw eighth elder brother standing gently leaning against the courtyard gate. Although the corner of his mouth was smiling, his eyes were very cold. . For some reason, Qingchuan suddenly felt a soreness in her eyes. She hurriedly lowered her head in a concealed manner, gritted her teeth and made up her mind. Then she held the fourth elder brother's hand with her backhand, raised her head and said to the eighth elder brother: "Ba elder brother. , Now that you have seen it, I can't hide it from you anymore..."
Si elder brother stiffened slightly and stood silent.
Eighth elder brother fixedly looked at Qingchuan for a long time, and then asked, "You still want to be with him?"
Qingchuan took a deep breath and replied against his will: "Thank you for being kind to me during this time. I am very grateful and I have always wanted to force myself to accept you, but... But I can't control myself..."
"Enough!" Eighth-age suddenly broke her words and just stared at her and asked: "Qingchuan, tell me, what happened? Did the fourth-brother force you?"
Qingchuan looked up at Si elder brother who had been silent, shook his head, and replied: "Si elder brother did not force me, everything is my willingness."
Eighth Brother looked at Qingchuan quietly, and suddenly smiled softly, "Qingchuan, I've been wrong all the time."
After speaking, he turned and left. Qingchuan stood there watching his back disappear to the door, the tears in his eyes suddenly blurred his eyes. Brother Si on the side glanced at her and cried, "Qingchuan..."
Qingchuan wiped away tears and said, "I'm sorry, those words just now..."
"I would rather believe those words just now to be true." Si elder brother said.
Qingchuan turned to look at him and said, "I have already gone to Xinzheku. I am afraid it will be difficult to get close to the emperor in the future. You don't have to waste your thoughts on me."
Si elder brother smiled bitterly and asked, "Even the Buddha said that the sea of suffering is boundless, and when you turn your head back is the shore, you won't believe it again?"
Qingchuan lowered his eyes and replied faintly: "I used to believe it and hurt myself very deeply. Now I have no strength to believe it anymore. The slave and maid retired." After saying that, he bent his knees towards the fourth elder brother. , Retired.
Si elder brother stood alone for a long time, until the colic in his heart passed, he slowly turned and left.
Back in the Yongwang Mansion, Jin Zhi was shocked when he saw his face so gray and defeated, he hurriedly helped him sit on the chair, and asked anxiously: "Si Ye, what's the matter with you? What happened?"
Si elder brother shook his head slightly and said, "I'm fine. It's just that I'm a little tired from busy sacrificing the sky these days. Go down. I'll just take a break by myself."
Jin Zhi didn't dare to disobey his words, so he retired worriedly. When he went out, he winked at the little servant who served the fourth elder brother, called him aside, and asked the fourth elder brother carefully what he had been there today. Place, who have I met.
The young man thought for a while, and told the story that the fourth elder brother had been to Xinzheku to see Qingchuan. Jin Zhi was so angry that he was distressed, and bitterly twisted the veil in his hand for a long time, only then slowed down his voice and asked the young man to say: "Don't talk to the fourth master about me asking you something. I will be clever in the future. Point, if you have anything to do with the fourth master, send me a letter quickly."
Xiao Ying nodded, and Jin Zhi went back to the inner courtyard. He sat down and thought for a while. She always felt that the fourth eldest brother and Qingchuan were entangled like this is not the way. I know I won't let her go. She thought about it for many days, and one day, taking advantage of Si elder brother not being in the house, she sent someone to invite thirteen elder brother.
The thirteenth elder brother asked, "What's the matter with Sisao? Looking for me in such a hurry."
Before Jin Zhi could even speak, he wiped away his tears, and handed a bloody veil in his hand to the thirteenth elder brother, and said, "This is what your fourth elder brother coughed yesterday..."
The thirteenth elder brother was shocked when he saw the blood on the veil, and asked anxiously: "How could this be?"
Jin Zhi cried and said: "He has been having nightmares since he came back from the palace, and he kept calling Qingchuan's name in his mouth. After waking up, he worked desperately. Listen, you say, what should I do if this continues?"
"It's Qingchuan again..." Thirteen princes said cruelly. He had used means to separate the two Xibing and Qingchuan when the eighth prince left Beijing to inspect the river. Some days ago, he heard about Qingchuan. He was sent to Xinzheku for stealing Xibi’s jewels. He only thought that Xixi had deliberately framed Qingchuan, thinking that since Qingchuan had already entered Xinzheku, he had achieved his goal, so he didn’t. Pay more attention, who knows that Qingchuan has entered the Xinzheku but still entangles the fourth brother.
Jin Zhi glanced at the thirteenth elder brother secretly, and when he saw that his face was very gloomy, he said angrily: "I don't know what kind of poison this woman has put on him? Turned the good men into this." He said, he said aloud. Burst into tears.
The thirteenth elder brother quickly recovered his thoughts and comforted her: "Sister-in-law, don't be sad, I will slowly persuade him from the fourth brother. As for the Qingchuan... The wicked have their own wickedness, and the laws of nature are cycled. of."
Jin Zhi nodded and looked at the thirteenth elder brother and begged: "Thirteenth brother, you have to persuade your fourth elder brother. He was fascinated by Qingchuan. As long as I talk about him, he will treat him as I am. The mind is narrow and intolerant, for fear that I will kill the foxes."
The thirteenth elder brother nodded and said: "Sister-in-law, I know how to do it, don't worry."
The two said a few more words, and the thirteen eldest brother resigned Jinzhi. As soon as I returned to the palace, I sent someone to investigate Qingchuan’s situation in Xinzheku. In the evening, I got a reply. The little eunuch said that the eighth elder brother was protecting Qingchuan and not asking her to do work. Mentioned a strange thing he saw at the door of Xinzheku today.
The little eunuch said: "Thirteenth Lord, in the last few days, a poor boy who claimed to be Qingchuan’s family wanted to visit Qingchuan in the palace, but he didn’t have the money to honor the guard guarding the gate. Those people depended on food on weekdays. For this, seeing that he didn't have a penny, not only refused to ask him to go in and meet people, he didn't even bring him a message."
The thirteenth elder brother heard a move in his heart, and said: "Is that right? The Lord will also go and see the excitement tomorrow."
On the second day, Brother Thirteen changed into an ordinary attire and asked someone to drive the car and parked outside the door of Xinzheku, while he hid in the car and waited. When it was almost noon, he saw a man who was a little desolate. The young man came and begged the guard at the door: "Military Lord, let me go in. I haven't been to see Qingchuan for so long, she must be anxious. I will take down your filial piety, and we will be together next time. Can it be done?""
Several guards glanced at each other, pushed the young man aside, and laughed: "Then I will see you next time, hahaha..."
The thirteenth elder brother smiled softly, and whispered to the old Zhao who drove the car: "Let's go, pass by him."
Besides, the young man who was pushed and smashed by the Guards, he was no one else, but Gu Xiaochun, who suddenly caught fire in his home. A fire that fell from the sky not only burned the shop, but Gu's mother was also dying of smoke from her lungs. Gu Xiaochun didn't even have the money to get his mother to get medicine, so how could he have the money to honor the guards
Seeing that these guards were unreasonable, Gu Xiaochun was about to argue with them again, but suddenly a person jumped from a passing carriage next to him, pulled him into the car without any explanation, and told the carriageman: " Zhao, hurry up."
Gu Xiaochun was taken aback, looked at the man alertly, and asked, "Who are you and what are you going to do?"
The man looked at Gu Xiaochun with a smile, and asked, "Who do you think I look like?"
Gu Xiaochun looked at him, and saw that the clothes and materials he was wearing were all very expensive, so he replied, "You must be a noble person."
The man laughed when he heard it, and said, "A month ago, I didn't have the same money as you, but it's different now. I want to take you to make a fortune. I don't know if you want to?"
Gu Xiaochun looked at him suspiciously and asked, "How to get rich?"
The man laughed without answering, but instead asked him: "Do you know how many nobles are in the palace? How much clothes do they need to wear and how much food do they eat every day?"
Gu Xiaochun shook his head.
The man continued: "The emperor, concubine, elder brother, Gege, plus the old concubines, it is estimated that there are about a hundred people, but there are thousands of tribute to them, many things they only use once. Wear it once and throw it away, most of them are burned through the Xinzheku. You say how wasteful it is."
Gu Xiaochun asked subconsciously: "You mean..."