There was a noise at the door, everyone looked up together, and Pei Ji'an followed suit. When his eyes came into contact with the figure in the corridor, his heart suddenly shook violently.
A strong, overbearing current churned in his mind, clamoring to wake something up. But there seemed to be a stronger seal suppressing it, even though the stormy waves in his mind were surging, Pei Ji'an still couldn't think of anything.
All he knew was that he was the eldest son of the Pei family. He was seventeen this year and had just been reborn. Not long ago, he pierced Li Chaoge's chest with a sword, and his own heart was broken by Li Chaoge. He fell on the cold floor tiles of Daye Hall, and through his blood-red eyes, he saw her standing on a high platform, holding a sword, and slowly falling down.
When the day is mourning, I will die with you. The two of them slaughtered for eight years, failed to live together, and finally died together.
After Pei Ji'an was reborn, it took him a long time to get away from the strong emotions of his previous life. Because his abnormality was too obvious, his family members thought he was ill, and they tossed and tossed around for a long time. Today, Pei Ji'an finally calmed down and decided to start a new life of his own.
A new life without Li Chaoge.
The first step of a new life is naturally to protect his family, prevent the tragedy of his previous life, and make up for his and Li Changle's regrets. Pei Ji'an had already seen his parents, brothers and sisters during his illness, but when he got up today, he suddenly remembered that he had never seen Gu Mingke. Pei Ji'an has always been very sorry for this talented cousin who died young. Now that he is reborn before Gu Mingke passed away, of course he has to take a look.
So, regardless of the dissuasion of his servants, Pei Ji'an changed his cloak and came to the west courtyard to meet his cousin Gu's family. In the previous life, Gu Mingke died too early. Pei Ji'an's only impression of Gu Mingke was that he was weak, not good at speech, and passively avoided the world.
Today, however, Pei Ji'an looked up unexpectedly, as if he had been violently shocked. This is his cousin? Pei Ji'an faintly felt that something was wrong, but all the memories of his past and present life reminded him that yes, this was his cousin, Gu Mingke.
Qin Ke stood on the corridor, calmly looking at the incarnation of Tanlang Xingjun in the world. The shadow of Tanlang can still be seen from the facial features, but the memory has been sealed, and the mana has been greatly suppressed, so there is no doubt that he is a pure mortal.
When he was in the Heavenly Court, Qin Ke was the Heavenly Venerable, and Tanlang was the Star Lord. No matter in terms of status, power and responsibility, the two of them had no intersection. But Tanlang is one of the twenty-eight star kings after all, and Qin Ke knows this person more or less. So Qin Ke really doesn't understand why a dignified star king can be so useless
Forced to die together by a woman, Kai Tianting had to violate the rules and reset the world, allowing them to be reborn with their memories. After being reborn, Li Chaoge adjusted his mentality in just one night, and the next day he ran into the black forest alive and well. As for Tanlang, not only did he need an extra person to help him, but even he was five days slower than Li Chaoge in adjusting his mentality.
Qin Ke really doesn't want to admit that this is Xikui Tianzun's next candidate, and he will be ranked among the four in the future, sitting with him.
Qin Ke looked at Pei Ji'an and didn't speak for a long time, so long that the servants on both sides felt uneasy. Jiao Wei was very anxious, lowered his voice, and reminded quietly: "Mr. Lang, Mr. Pei Dalang came to see you when he just recovered from a serious illness. First, please invite Mr. Dalang to sit inside."
Qin Ke has been in charge of the prison for many years, and has long separated emotion from reason, and will never let his personal emotions affect his official duties. In fact, he has no personal emotions either. The cultivation of greedy wolves is the decision of heaven. Even if Qin Ke is dissatisfied with Pei Ji'an, he will not bring it into the mission and affect Pei Ji'an's calamity.
Qin Ke looked away lightly, turned around, and said, "Please come in."
After his cousin looked away, Pei Ji'an breathed a sigh of relief for some reason, as if he had passed a dangerous and harsh test. After he had this idea, he even startled himself. How could he have such a ridiculous idea
The person in front of him was not an emperor, a queen, or even an official. Gu Mingke was just a commoner all his life. Although he finished writing the history of the Sui Dynasty, he was still unknown. To put it harshly, Gu Mingke's character is a bit too cowardly in Pei Ji'an's opinion.
Pei Ji'an has sympathy for this cousin, but it is more of a pity for a talented person from a superior. How could he feel awe of Gu Mingke? Pei Ji'an wondered secretly, he thought that he had just been reborn and his mentality was not yet stable, so the wind and rain came and went. Pei Ji'an wondered for a while, then let it go, and didn't take it to heart.
Pei Ji'an and Qin Ke sat in the room. Jiao Wei poured tea for the two gentlemen, and stepped back lightly. Pei Ji'an glanced down, didn't mean to drink tea, but continued to talk to Gu Mingke: "Cousin, I heard from my aunt that you have been sick these days and haven't eaten well. Are you feeling better today? Have you called the doctor yet?" ? If not, I will send someone to the imperial medical office and ask the medical envoy to come over."
Perhaps Pei Ji'an himself didn't realize that he hated Li Chaoge to the bone in his previous life, but unknowingly, he also had many habits like Li Chaoge. For example, do not touch any food of unknown origin.
The Imperial Medical Office rarely accepts outpatient consultations, but the status of the Pei family is different. Even the emperor gives the Pei family full face, let alone the imperial physician. To the Pei family, imperial physicians, whom ordinary people do not look up to, are just commonplace.
Qin Ke shook his head and said, "No need."
He is not sick, it is too troublesome to ask a doctor to come and pretend to be sick.
Pei Ji'an carefully looked at the person opposite. The other person looked composed and calm. Although his face was a little abnormally white, other than that, he didn't look sick. It doesn't look like he is sick.
Pei Ji'an didn't know whether he was relieved or worried. I don't know why, but my cousin seems to be very different today, at least in Pei Ji'an's memory, when he faced Gu Mingke, he never had such a feeling of fear. Moreover, Gu Mingke's looks are too good-looking, even a man like Pei Ji'an finds it pleasing to the eye and thrilling to watch.
A person suddenly came to Pei Ji'an's mind, and he immediately suppressed it, smiled casually, and said to Gu Mingke: "It's good that my cousin is fine. If there is something that my cousin is not used to, don't worry about it, just tell me right away. Cousin is like our brothers in Pei's family, as long as I am here, I will never let my cousin be wronged."
Qin Ke responded, and the two fell into silence again. Qin Tianzun is not a person who can chat with others. For thousands of years, he has been the only judge of others, and no one else has asked him to. If Pei Ji'an wanted to win her over, she couldn't sit still at this moment.
In his previous life, he was busy making friends in Dongdu, so he didn't pay attention to his cousin who lived in Pei's family. Could it be that Gu Mingke also had such a cold and unapproachable personality in his previous life
Pei Ji'an tried hard to recall, but the more he thought about it, the more confused he became. He had an intuition that something was wrong, but when he was about to get close to the answer, a thin layer of fog would bind him and keep him puzzled.
While Pei Ji'an was contemplating, a clear female voice suddenly came from outside: "Gu Mingke, are you awake?"
Pei Ji'an turned around in response, and Qin Ke sat for a long time before finally realizing that "Gu Mingke" was calling him, so he stood up a few beats behind. Yes, he's down to earth, and he's on a mission. Since he has to do it well, he will no longer be Beichen Tianzun, but Gu Mingke.
A woman in red was holding a skirt, walked quickly across the gravel road, and ran into the house. The maids and attendants in the back shouted "Lady be careful", but the girl in red turned a deaf ear to it and ran towards Gu Mingke and Pei Ji'an with all her heart.
Pei Ji'an's eyes suddenly became moist when he saw his young and lively younger sister who was still alive and well. In his previous life, when he heard the news that Chu Yue's car crashed and killed two people, he was stunned for a long time and couldn't believe it. He tried his best to hide the news, but the news of Chu Yue's death still spread back to his hometown. When his mother heard it, she fainted on the spot. After waking up, her spirit became worse and she often beat and cursed into the air.
Pei Ji'an hated Li Chaoge, and hated himself even more. He knew why Li Chaoge killed Chu Yue, and after the affair between him and Li Changle was exposed, he completely angered that lunatic Li Chaoge. Regardless of Li Chaoge launching a coup, not only King Zhao was exiled from Beijing, but Li Changle was also implicated and hanged to death in a Taoist temple. Later Wu Zuo said that Princess Guangning hanged herself, but how could everyone in Luoyang not know that it was Li Chaoge who killed the little princess.
Pei Chuyue is Li Changle's companion, and she grew up together with her very deep feelings. After hearing the news, Pei Chuyue was also greatly stimulated. Regardless of everyone's dissuasion, she took Li Changle's handwritten letter to enter the palace, and wanted to prove to Emperor Wu that Li Changle did not commit suicide, but was killed by Li Chaoge. But her evidence was not handed to Emperor Wu at all. On the way Pei Chuyue entered the palace, he was attacked by thieves and his car was destroyed.
Li Chaoge was the executioner, and Pei Ji'an was also to blame. If it weren't for him, Chu Yue and Chang Le wouldn't have died at all.
However, Pei Chuyue doesn't know anything now. She hasn't left the cabinet yet, and she is still a charming young lady who doesn't know the sufferings of the world. She bounced up and ran to her elder brother, and said coquettishly, "Brother, why didn't you call me when you came to see Gu Mingke?"
Pei Ji'an was immersed in memories, and he came back to his senses when he heard this. He glanced at Gu Mingke, lowered his face, and reprimanded lightly: "Don't be rude. Cousin is your elder brother, how can you call him by his first name?"
"I'm going to call!" Pei Chuyue knew that her elder brother was not willing to kill her at all, so she was quite confident. She leaned against Pei Ji'an, and after she finished speaking, she looked at Gu Mingke intentionally or unintentionally, like a little girl being provocative.
Seeing this, she was very surprised. This is, Gu Mingke? Pei Chuyue vaguely felt that something was wrong, but after thinking about it carefully, she felt that it was true.
Gu Mingke, who had already turned into Qin Ke at this time, didn't care about Pei Chuyue's gaze, and he never bothered to care about people who had nothing to do with the mission. Pei Chuyue seems to like Gu Mingke, but so what
She likes it, what does it have to do with him. For thousands of years, he has meticulously maintained the laws and regulations of the sky, which has long become a part of the rules of heaven. He is well aware of the laws prohibiting the combination of immortals and mortals, and he has personally tried many trials. How can he know how to break the law and knowingly break the law
Besides, from a utilitarian point of view, love is also a completely useless thing. Ordinary people get married to procreate. Immortals don't die and don't need to reproduce. If so, why waste energy and waste time by love
Pei Chuyue couldn't help but look at Gu Mingke secretly, but Gu Mingke was indifferent. Gu Peishi slowly came up from behind, it was midwinter, she was still holding a round feather fan in her hand, shaking it slowly: "Chu Yue, run slowly, you young people have good legs, and my aunt is old, but Can't keep up."
Gu Pei's voice brought Pei Chuyue back to her senses. Pei Chuyue blinked her eyes, rushed to Gu Pei's side, pouted and said, "Auntie, you are not old. You still want to watch your cousin marry a wife and start a family, how can you do that?" old?"
Pei Chuyue deliberately used an exaggerated tone to cover up her lack of focus just now, but she didn't know that this would only make her more obvious. Gu Pei seemed not to know what Pei Chuyue's little daughter was thinking, and said with a smile, "Okay, I'm not old. I'll grow old after seeing us Chuyue get married and giving birth to several beautiful children."
Pei Chuyue blushed when she was told, she quickly glanced at Gu Mingke, and said coquettishly, "Auntie, what are you talking about! If you do this again, I will ignore you."
Gu Peishi covered her lips with her fan and laughed, the branches of the smile trembled wildly. Pei Ji'an looked at the plump and beautiful aunt, the younger sister who looked like a little girl, and felt infinitely emotional.
It's nice that everyone is there. How could Pei Ji'an be willing to be cruel to Pei Chuyue? When he saw his sister who was intact, it was too late to make up for her, so how could he blame her
After Gu Peishi and Pei Chuyue got bored, they finally remembered that their son was still sick, and asked casually, "Ke'er, are you better?"
When Gu Mingke heard this address, he frowned slightly, but for the sake of the task, he endured it. He nodded lightly, feeling that he was already extremely kind, who in the heaven would dare to call his name like that? But when Gu Pei saw it, he was very displeased.
This son is very similar to the Gu family, with similar facial features, similar temperament, and even a sick body, except that he does not resemble Gu Pei's family at all. Gu Peishi knew that this was her son, and she also wanted to be nice to Gu Mingke, but looking at that cold face, Gu Peishi really couldn't get warm.
Although Gu Mingke was estranged before, he knew to obey her mother anyway. Today is good. Since she entered the door, Gu Mingke has been sitting calmly. Except for the initial greeting, he has never cared about her mother. The son she raises is not as good as her nephews and nieces.
Gu Pei's face couldn't help turning cold. She waved her fan and said casually: "It's just as long as you recover from your illness. Your body is weak and you are bored at home all day. No wonder you are always sick. In my opinion, you should talk to Ji Ji. An and Chuyue learn, go out and make friends more, don't stay at home all day, if you are not sick, you will get sick."
Pei Chuyue's expression became embarrassing, she quickly swept past Gu Mingke, and was about to round things up, when she saw Gu Mingke nodding lightly, and replied, "Okay."
Gu Mingke doesn't care about the estrangement between Gu's mother and son, let alone feel sad because of Gu Pei's indifference. However, Gu Pei's proposal was in line with Gu Mingke's wishes, and he should find time to "cure" slowly.
Gu Mingke's reaction was beyond everyone's expectations, even Gu Peishi opened his eyes in surprise. Pei Chuyue paused for a moment, then quickly said: "Cousin is willing to go out, that's great. Just in time, Princess Guangning is clamoring to go hunting these days. Cousin takes good care of himself. I will go with you in a few days." hunt."
What Pei Chuyue said was completely smooth, everyone present knew that Gu Mingke coughed after walking a few more steps, how could he ride a horse and hunt? Pei Chuyue said this just to make everyone look good.
Gu Mingke nodded again, with him, the matter was settled. In fact, Gu Mingke doesn't want to hunt, and there are few people in the world who can make him feel the urge to do it. But for the sake of the task, he has to force himself to go out to protect Pei Ji'an himself.
Pei Chuyue and the servant girl sang together, laughed and put the topic to rest, Gu Peishi also laughed, and the scene was harmonious. When Pei Ji'an heard about the hunt, he was silent for a while, and asked, "Will the saint and queen go to this hunt?"
"Of course." Pei Chuyue didn't even think about it, and said, "The sage and the queen love Princess Guangning so much, how can they let her go out of the palace alone? This time, they must all go out to the palace together."
Gu Mingke seemed to sense something, and looked back at Pei Ji'an. The fists in Pei Ji'an's sleeves were silently clenched, and after a while, he made up his mind and said, "Okay. Since everyone is here, I'm just looking for a chance to ask the saint to marry me and Guangning."