Traitor Concubine Growth Manual

Chapter 53

It was already night when Gu Qi returned to Yong'an Palace, it was getting late, but Chu Yan was waiting for him to eat in the main hall.

He didn't have much appetite, so in the afternoon, Wanxi asked Wanxi to bring a bowl of sesame paste from the imperial dining room to the study. It was too sweet, and now his stomach was still a little greasy.

But seeing that Chu Yan hadn't eaten so late, she just waited for him, so she sat down and said to start, but didn't pick up any food with her chopsticks.

Chu Yan first picked up a piece of fish for him, and seeing that he frowned slightly and didn't move his chopsticks, she asked, "Your Highness, don't you want to eat?"

Gu Qi shook his head, "I don't have much appetite."

Chu Yan looked up at his expression, didn't say anything, just picked up her own bowl to fill some lotus root soup, and then handed it to him, "This one is lighter."

Gu Qi took it, took a sip and put it down.

Chu Yan stared at him stubbornly, "If you don't eat anything, what should you do if you are hungry at night? If you eat at that time, you might not be able to sleep."

Gu Qi looked at her slightly serious expression, picked up the bowl and drank all the soup, then looked up at her, "If you have anything to say, just say it."

Chu Yan was taken aback for a moment, thinking that this guy was getting smarter, so she put down her chopsticks and looked at him seriously, "I've heard all about it today, His Highness rewards meritorious officials, rewards meritorious deeds, rewards the three armies, and there is no one in the hall I have objections. It's just that Chu Yan wants to ask His Highness, do you plan to..."

She paused before asking, "How do you plan to deal with Duke Ding?"

Gu Qi's eyes sank, he took a sip from his teacup, and looked at her unhurriedly, "You are in the harem, don't ask about political affairs, I think you should understand this truth."

Chu Yan was silent, and then said, "I thought what I asked was not about political matters, but... family matters."

The last two words sound firm and powerful.

What a family thing.

Gu Qi glanced at her, "I thought you once said that once you enter Yong'an Palace, you will no longer be the daughter of the Zhao family, but my princess."

His tone was a little cold, obviously offended by her family matter.

Chu Yan lowered her eyelids, staring at a small piece of pattern on the tablecloth, "His Royal Highness's family affairs...isn't it my family affairs?"

This sentence made Gu Qi startled, but she didn't allow him to speak, and continued, "Ding Guogong is your grandfather and my grandfather. He is still sick in bed, and if you want to punish him sternly and selflessly for delaying the military If you make a mistake, how will the people of the world think of you?"

She finally raised her head and said softly to him, "I am worried about His Highness, not the Zhao family and grandfather."

These words melted Gu Qi's indifference just now.

She made sense in every sentence, although she was not as indifferent to the Zhao family as she described, but she was indeed thinking of him.

Let me ask you, now that the war in Western Xinjiang has subsided, the Xuan Dynasty has won a complete victory, and the people are joyously singing drums and drums, who would care about an old man who was bedridden for delaying the military situation?

And at this time, if he insisted on stepping up to punish Duke Ding, the people in the world would think that he was cold-blooded and ruthless, but he insisted on holding on to the past, and the person he had to deal with was his own grandfather.

The ancestral motto of the Gu family is to rule the world with filial piety, if Gu Qi wants to use this matter to deal with Ding Guogong, even if he is loyal to the country, he is still unfilial to his grandfather.

He stood up and walked out, leaving only one sentence, "Don't worry, I care about myself."

He didn't want to discuss political affairs with her in Yong'an Palace, even if she was worried about him, he didn't want to mention a few words.

He has long been concerned about Zhao Wu's affairs, and everything is going according to plan. He doesn't want to be that weak and incompetent prince in Chu Yan's eyes, and even needs her to remind her of these things.

Chu Yan saw his uneasiness and displeasure, and secretly sighed, well, this dinner is considered an unhappy breakup.

She just wanted to ask the crown prince how he wanted to deal with Ding Guogong for her aunt, and she didn't want her aunt to be sad. Unexpectedly, the crown prince really showed the power of the king to the fullest, and he didn't want to discuss political affairs with her.

Hey, it's not that she doesn't care about the Zhao family and doesn't help her aunt. It's just that she is in the harem and can't help herself. She can't control or ask about such things.

Chen Xiang was waiting on the side, seeing the prince walked out of the hall with a cold face, she turned her head to look at Chu Yan, but saw that the other party picked up the chopsticks and started eating on her own.

It was a little funny in my heart, the prince was angry, and as a princess, she didn't chase after him immediately to explain, but instead ate here happily, should she say that this nobleman has a good attitude, or is he stupid?

Or maybe she cared too much about the safety of the Zhao family, and she might just be putting on an air of indifference, but she was really angry with the prince, so she might be very upset.

Chen Xiang lowered her head, a smile slowly appeared on the corner of her lips.

This princess looks very smart on weekdays, and she is more than calm in doing things. Who would have thought that she would lose her sense of proportion when she ran into the Zhao family's affairs.

After entering the Yong'an Palace, he will be a member of His Royal Highness, so what does the Zhao family do?If His Highness the Crown Prince spoils you, even if the Zhao family is gone, it will not affect you; if His Highness the Crown Prince annoys you, no matter how beautiful the Zhao family is, they can still be dragged down.

Once the prince left, there was no need for Chen Xiang to stay here, anyway, Chu Yan had Hanzhi and Dong Yi to take care of her, and she was only responsible for taking care of the prince's daily life.

Immediately, she followed the prince and walked out of the door. Seeing that the other party walked towards the study without looking back, she paused and walked slowly towards the door.

"His Royal Highness is not satisfied with the food today, I will go to Shang Shi Bureau to have a few words with Aunt Jin." She said plainly to the eunuch on duty, "If His Royal Highness finds me later, or Eunuch Wan finds me, You just do what I say."

She walked towards the distance, looked around at a fork in the palace road, and found no one, so she quickly walked into one of the roads and shuttled back and forth in the corridor.

That is the direction of Shouyan Palace.

Queen's place.

At this moment, the night in the capital has just fallen.

This place has always been a prosperous place. During the day, because of the majestic and magnificent buildings—especially the resplendent imperial palace, it looks a little solemn and solemn.

But at night, the night market was set up, the lights of the wine shops and music shops were lit, and the singing on the Mo River was sung in the carved beams and painted boats, and the capital city changed its appearance.

This was the most prosperous time of the Xuan Dynasty. The rule of three consecutive generations of Mingjun made the country more prosperous and prosperous today. The people live and work in peace and contentment, and their lives are rich and colorful.

Zhuo Ding'an was walking on the edge of the Mo River, surrounded by bustling crowds and dense stalls, he suddenly felt a little dazed.

After taking off his daytime military uniform, he was only wearing a thin white coat—it’s ridiculous to say that people who were stained with blood on the battlefield have always loved this pure and flawless color, and even Yayu laughed and teased him, He said it seemed that this way he could conceal the hostility of the great general, and he looked much more gentle in white clothes.

He looked down at his clothes and smiled helplessly.

Before he went to Xijiang, he actually liked to wear white clothes. At that time, he didn't have any blood on his hands, and when he was young and frivolous, he talked thousands of times on paper, so he thought that all wars were nothing to worry about.

But after he actually went to Xijiang, he realized that no matter how many military skills you think you have mastered, the moment you kill the enemy with blood on your hands, you still feel panic in your heart.

Today's white clothes have not changed in color, but the people who wear them have changed too much.

What is eternal in this world?

The voice of the singing girl came from the painted boat on the river:

The east wind drizzles, and there is light thunder outside Furong Pond.The golden toad gnaws the lock and burns incense, and the jade tiger draws the silk and draws the well back.Jia's peeping curtain Han Yu is few, and Concubine Mi stays as a pillow for Wei Wangcai.

Chunxin does not spend a lot of time fighting for hair, every inch of lovesickness and an inch of gray.

An inch of lovesickness and an inch of gray... He chewed this poem, feeling at a loss.

He thought that he would never return to this place in his life, this bustling and lively place, this place where his great sorrow and joy were buried.

In fact, he should thank the first emperor. If it wasn't for his edict, how could he have gone to the western border in a daze, and how could he have gradually become numb during those days of intoxication and dreams, and then killed the enemy on the battlefield At that time, I became no longer afraid of blood on my hands?

In the first few years when he first arrived in Xijiang, he drank heavily and lived a life of drunken dreams.

The innocent tragic death of his mother and the blankness of the loss of his love directly overwhelmed him. He felt that he had lost everything. If he hadn't disdained those cowards who committed suicide because of a little setback since he was a child, he was afraid that he would become the one he hated the most. Such a person, maybe he will go on the road of no return, and it will be over once and for all.

So every time he went to the battlefield, he had a fearless mentality, and he died as soon as he died. This was considered a worthy death, not a coward who committed suicide.

It's a pity that God seemed to favor him so much, so many brushes with death failed to take him away, but instead gave him outstanding military exploits and ugly scars.

and after?
Then one day, when he came back from the battlefield with the bravery and fearlessness that he would perish together, he even fell off his horse.

A woman rushed out of his general's mansion, hugging him in such a panic, and regardless of the blood stains on his clothes, she just kept asking him, "Are you okay? Can you hold on?" ?”

Then he turned around and shouted in a panic, "Come on! Come on! Where's the doctor? Go to the doctor!"

It was a marriage bestowed by the former emperor. Her name was Lu Yayu, and she lived up to her name, elegant and gentle, with a temperament like jade.

He never touched her, and hardly spoke to her. From the day she entered the mansion, he told her that he was half dead, and even if he was alive, his heart was dead.And this is a marriage bestowed by the emperor, none of them can refuse, and he is destined to fail her.

But he also said to her freely, "If you are willing to live here as a well-clothed general's wife, then you can live here. You have the right to control everything in the mansion. And if one day you find your sweetheart, If you don’t want to live here anymore, just tell me and leave with everything you need.”

In the past three years, she and him have always respected each other as guests, and in the eyes of outsiders, they are harmonious and happy.

He never took more than half a step, and she was always gentle and beautiful, like a real general's wife.

That day when he fell off the horse, the wounds all over his body were bleeding, but he seemed to feel no pain, and suddenly smiled and said to her, "So you also have such a side."

No longer gentle, no longer quiet, no longer always noble and elegant, but blood-stained and disfigured, calling for a doctor to rescue her.

From that day on, the relationship between the two had a new turning point.

Lu Yayu is the daughter of a small official and a small family. To marry into the General's Mansion was a dream come true for her magistrate father. Because of her marriage, her father got a lot of benefits, and his official career has been prosperous ever since.

She told Zhuo Ding'an that she could only be a general's wife in name only for the rest of her life, because if she reconciled with him, or if he divorced her, then it is estimated that her complacent father would be killed by a group of people who know current affairs immediately. The officials of the government were stepped down, and there was no future for them.

Afterwards, Zhuo Ding'an finally calmed down slowly, and walked out of those drunken and dreamy days.

He and Lu Yayu have more interactions, occasionally reading and writing together, and occasionally walking and chatting together, like old friends for many years, getting closer and closer.

But they all know that if there is no passion at the beginning, this kind of relationship is not love.

That's right, without love, what's wrong with living together peacefully and intimately all the time?
If one day, she fell in love with someone, he would smile and bless them, just like blessing an old friend.

That's great.

Zhuo Ding'an has never let go of some things in his heart, but he knows that the world is always unsatisfactory, if he can't let go, let it stay there, life will always go on.

He treats Yayu so frankly, and Yayu fully understands him, such a couple naturally have feelings, but this relationship is more like a family relationship from the beginning.

The past flashed in his mind like a flash, and he felt like he had a long dream, so that when he looked up and saw the woman who was looking at him fixedly in front of him, he still thought it was a dream.

He laughed out loud, "This is too real."

But unexpectedly, this dream has not dissipated. He just looked at that person like this, but he felt something was wrong.

If this is a dream, why does she age?

A woman in her thirties, although her eyebrows and eyes are beautiful, are not as green as before... And the way she looks at him is definitely not what he has seen before, with resentment, hatred, and tears, with pain.

He actually met Gu Huanyang here!

(End of this chapter)