After the last class in the morning, Gu Jiao went to find Gu Xiaoshun for dinner.
Mu Qingchen thought about it and stopped her: "Are you really short of money?"
Gu Jiao looked at him.
He opened his mouth and said, "I do have an errand, and it's a bit hard. If you want, I'll take you there after school."
"Okay." Gu Jiao responded.
Mu Qingchen frowned and looked at her: "You don't even ask what the errand is?"
Gu Jiao said without hesitation, "What kind of inhuman errand can a young master like you have access to?"
Mu Qingchen was speechless.
After school, Gu Jiao talked to Gu Xiaoshun and asked him to go home first and go out to do some errands by himself.
"Sister, do you want me to go with you?" Gu Xiaoshun asked in a low voice.
"No need." Gu Jiao said.
She can work alone.
Gu Xiaoshun always listened to her words, and scratched his head when he heard it: "Oh, then I'll go first, and you will come back earlier."
After sending Gu Xiaoshun away, Gu Jiao turned right a dozen steps and got into Mu Qingchen's carriage, and sat down on the side seat.
Mu Qingchen probably explained where he was going, and the driver drove the carriage up without saying a word.
It was still early and the inside of the carriage was sultry, so Gu Jiao pushed the window slightly open.
The bright sky light came in, and everything inside the car was clearly visible.
Mu Qingchen turned her eyes and caught a glimpse of the ice-blue hairband on top of her head.
This kind of ice blue silk material is very precious and cannot be bought in the outer city.
"See what I'm doing?" Gu Jiao noticed his scrutiny.
"The hairband is good." Mu Qingchen looked back.
Gu Jiao raised her hand and touched the hair band Xiao Heng gave her, and shook her head in her heart: "Well, I think it's good too!"
Mu Qingchen couldn't help but glanced at her again, there was an indescribable joy in her eyes, whether it was because of this hair band that she obviously didn't buy herself, or because of the next thing she was going to make money for, it was unknown.
"You can be considered famous now, and there will be many people who want to get to know you one after another. Don't get too close to anyone."
"Oh." Gu Jiao responded.
Gu Jiao thought that he would take herself into the inner city to work, but the carriage swerved and went to the other direction of the outer city.
After walking ten miles to the east, the carriage came to a magnificent mansion. There were several guards guarding the entrance of the mansion. The coachman showed his token and the guards came over.
Mu Qingchen opened the curtain and said to the guard, "It's me."
The guard hurriedly cupped his hands and let the carriage go.
After the carriage entered the mansion, it walked along the path for a while, and finally stopped outside a meadow.
"Sir, here we are," said the coachman.
Mu Qingchen got off the carriage.
Gu Jiao jumped down immediately.
"Wow."
After seeing the scene in front of her, Gu Jiao couldn't help but let out a sigh of admiration.
Is this really inside the mansion
What a big pasture!
To the east of the pasture was an orchard, to the south was a forest, and to the west was the side they came from.
The lotus leaves in the lotus pond are as green as jade, and the small white and pink lotuses show sharp corners.
The view is so beautiful.
"Where is this?" Gu Jiao asked.
"Jun Yanshan's mansion." Mu Qingchen said.
"Jun Yanshan?" Gu Jiao had never heard of it.
However, Mu Qingchen didn't explain much. At this moment, a maid with clear eyebrows walked over with small steps and greeted Mu Qingchen with a smile: "Young Master Qingchen!"
Mu Qingchen nodded slightly: "Is your little master here?"
"Yes." The maid said with a smile, "I'll bring Young Master Qingchen over, this is—"
Her eyes fell on Gu Jiao.
Gu Jiao, like Mu Qingchen, wore the uniform of Tianqiong Academy.
It just looks a little young, and the birthmark on the left face makes people want to ignore it.
Mu Qingchen introduced calmly, "My classmate's surname is Xiao."
"Young Master Xiao." The maid greeted politely.
Gu Jiao nodded.
"The two of you, please." The maid didn't ask Mu Qingchen what to do with her classmates, and took the two to the orchard on the other side of the pasture.
Along the way, I met many servants, all of whom knew Mu Qingchen.
After entering the orchard, Gu Jiao heard a few anxious girls' voices.
"The princess! Don't climb trees!"
"Master, come down quickly!"
"The county master! We won't be able to explain to the master like this!"
Gu Jiao was thinking about who the county owner was, and whether it was a girl about the same age as Su Xue, when she saw a little girl carved in pink and jade on a peach tree.
The little girl climbed on the tall branch, and the people below did not dare to climb because the branch was very thin, and they had to crush the branch when they went up.
"Little princess."
Mu Qingchen spoke softly.
The little girl looked towards this side, her big eyes lit up: "Mu Qingchen!"
Well, she actually called by her first name.
Mu Qingchen walked over, and the little girl opened her arms and jumped down without hesitation.
The maids screamed in horror.
Mu Qingchen easily caught her and put her on the ground.
The little princess raised his head and asked very seriously, "Why haven't you come to see me for so long? Are you trying to be lazy and not teach me?"
The voice was chirping.
Mu Qingchen smiled softly and said, "I've been too busy these days, and I came here as soon as I was done."
The little princess nodded: "Well, I heard that you went to the juju competition, did you win?"
Mu Qingchen replied seriously: "Thanks to the county master's blessing, I won two games."
"Then you're not bad." The little princess said, turning her head and seeing Gu Jiao walking towards her, "Huh? Who are you?"
Mu Qingchen introduced: "He is the master I chose for the county master, and his riding skills are very good."
The little princess tilted her head to look at Gu Jiao, then turned to ask Mu Qingchen, "Is it better than yours?"
Mu Qingchen smiled and nodded: "Well, it's even better than mine. The king of wild horses in our academy has been tamed by him, and he's also in the juju competition this time."
Mu Qingchen is a gentleman who is unsmiling, and when he smiles, his warm and jade-like appearance is particularly heart-warming.
The eyes of the maids stared straight.
Young Master Qingchen can only show such a gentle side to the little princess, it's so charming!
The little county master held his arms in his arms, and said ghostly, "Actually, you didn't want to teach me, so you found someone to come here, right?"
Mu Qingchen plucked off a leaf on her head without changing her face: "Little princess may wish to try."
The little princess looked at Gu Jiao again, looked at Gu Jiao up and down, and was probably a little curious about the things on her face: "Why do you have flowers on your face?"
She is obviously smaller than Xiao Qingkong, but she doesn't say folded words.
"Draw it?" Gu Jiao said.
The little county lord said solemnly: "Go back and draw one for me."
The maids pursed their lips and snickered.
The errand that Mu Qingchen introduced to Gu Jiao was to teach the little county master to ride horses. Mu Qingchen himself was not good at teaching children. It was yesterday that he saw Gu Jiao and Su Xue's roommate's brother getting along well in the stands, and felt that Gu Jiao had a relationship with the child. talent for communication.
"That's it?" Gu Jiao said.
Mu Qingchen said: "The little princess has asthma, you know medical skills, there is no one more suitable than you."
"Oh." Gu Jiao understood, "I still come every day—"
Mu Qingchen shook her head: "No, it's fine to come once every three or five days. You can decide how long you need to practice each time according to the physical condition of the little princess. Fifty-two in January."
Gu Jiao was very satisfied with the work intensity and remuneration.
Because it was the first day, Mu Qingchen was also worried about whether Gu Jiao could handle the job, so he stayed with Gu Jiao.
The two first went to the stable to accompany the small county master to select horses.
Small county owners have their own dedicated stables.
The stables were filled with docile ponies. The little princess asked Gu Jiao to choose, and Gu Jiao chose a white one: "You are wearing a white fairy dress today, which is just right."
I don't know if the word "fairy" pleases the little princess, the little princess raised her chin: "Yes, I think so too!"
The servants of the stable brought the special saddle of the little county lord, Gu Jiao fixed the saddle and carried the little county lord up.
Before the little princess's butt could sit firmly, she kept throwing herself at Gu Jiao: "Wait, wait, wait! I'm afraid!"
Gu Jiao snorted and said, "What's there to be afraid of? It's very docile, as long as you hold on to the reins, it won't fall off."
The little princess hung on Gu Jiao's body, her two small arms tightly wrapped around her neck, not daring to look back: "I, I, I, I'm just afraid!"
She can't live or die.
Mu Qingchen was not surprised. He taught the little county master several times, but he couldn't finish on a horse every time.
Gu Jiao paused and asked the little princess who was shaking into a sieve in her arms: "If you're afraid, why do you want to learn? Children don't need to ride horses."
The chief of the small county said sternly: "I just want to learn!"
Gu Jiao looked at Mu Qingchen, Mu Qingchen raised her eyebrows helplessly, indicating that he had nothing to do.
Gu Jiao thought for a moment, then said, "Then you watch me ride first?"
"Okay." The little princess got off Gu Jiao's body.
Gu Jiao asked the servants of the stable for an adult horse. She rode it around the pasture for a lap, neither fast nor slow, and would not scare the children.
Sure enough, her valiant appearance on horseback made the little princess feel ready to move.
Mu Qingchen gave the servant a wink.
The servant brought the white foal over.
Mu Qingchen hugged the little county lord: "Little county lord, try it."
"No, no, no!" The little princess plunged into Mu Qingchen's arms.
Gu Jiao rode the horse over, grabbed it directly, and caught the little thing onto the horse.
"oops-"
The little county lord lay on the saddle and fluttered for a while!
The wind was howling, making her cheeks bulge.
All the children in the family are made, including Gu Xiaobao, who is a few months old. Gu Jiao lacks the experience of getting along with Jiao Di Di's little girl. In the end, she successfully made the little princess cry.
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After coming out of the pasture, Gu Jiao got into Mu Qingchen's carriage.
The little princess cried out of breath, and Mu Qingchen went to coax her.
About a quarter of an hour later, Mu Qingchen returned to the carriage.
Gu Jiao wondered if she failed the interview, and did not expect the little girl to cry so easily.
"It's a waste of your kindness, next time..."
"The little princess asked when will you come next time?"
Gu Jiao was taken aback.
Mu Qingchen glanced at her: "Don't want to come?"
Gu Jiao said, "No, it's just weird, she's crying like that, why do you want me to come?"
Mu Qingchen lightly pulled the corner of her lips: "The little princess said that only you dare to catch her on a horse, and no one else dares. Following others, she will never learn to ride a horse in her whole life. If she follows you, maybe she can."
Well, still a stubborn little crying bag.
Gu Jiao tilted her head to look at Mu Qingchen.
Gu Jiao looked at Mu Qingchen inexplicably: "What's wrong?"
Gu Jiao asked, "Who is the little princess?"
Mu Qingchen said: "Her father Yanshan Jun and An Guogong are close friends. In the early years, he lived in An Guogong's village and taught me to play chess, and he also taught Yinyin to play chess."
"Yinyin?" Gu Jiao's expression paused, "Your childhood friend?"
"En." Mu Qingchen nodded.
This was the first time that Mu Qingchen mentioned the name of that childhood playmate.
Gu Jiao inexplicably felt that the name was a little familiar, as if she had heard it somewhere.
"Jun Yanshan is not at the mansion recently, he is away." Mu Qingchen said, as if to explain why he hadn't brought her to see Jun Yanshan.
Gu Jiao snorted.
She doesn't care about that.
She was thinking of that name.
sound.
When I heard it, it was a little bit lingering in my head.
The carriage left the mansion.
"Master, where are we going now? Are we going back to the academy?" the coachman asked.
Mu Qingchen looked at Gu Jiao.
Gu Jiao said, "Go back to the academy."
This is still refusing to tell him the address.
Mu Qingchen didn't say anything.
The carriage went all the way back to Tianqiong Academy. When they came, they came at the gate of Nannei City, and they had to pass there when they went back.
It was hot and Gu Jiao kept the window open.
When approaching the gate of the city, suddenly a mighty group of men and horses came from the official road, led by several officials riding horses, and behind them followed by a group of ragged clothes tied with their hands by ropes. Strong man.
Gu Jiao has never been curious about the government, she just glanced at it casually, but she would have seen a familiar figure.
She pushed the half-open window to the maximum!
(End of this chapter)