Rebirth after waste

Chapter 140

The first time Ah Huan and Cui Shuo met was in the Imperial Garden, Gu Yunxian led Ah Huan out to build a snowman for fun.

It snowed heavily the night before, and the imperial garden was covered with a thick layer of white snow.Ah Huan was wrapped in a small fox fur cloak, his small body was like a snowball, but he still held a few snow balls in his hand, and put them on the snowman.

Gu Yunxian stood aside and looked at him with a smile, laughing at him from time to time for details such as the snowman's head being too big, hands too short, and eyes asymmetrical.Ah Huan became furious and threw a snowball over while she was not paying attention.

Gu Yunxian's skirt was hit and immediately got wet.She squinted at him for a moment, then suddenly she also rolled a snowball and threw it at him.

Ah Huan stood there dumbfounded, almost unable to react from being hit by his mother's snowball...

"You you you..." He stammered, "You bully me!"

"Obviously you hit me first!" Gu Yunxian retorted, "I'm reciprocating courtesy!"

"Reciprocity? What do you mean?" In this situation, Ah Huan did not forget to ask for advice humbly.

Gu Yunxian was taken aback for a moment, then chuckled lightly.Just as he was about to explain to his son how to reciprocate, he was hit on the shoulder by a snowball he suddenly threw...

"You, cheating!" Gu Yunxian gritted his teeth, "Stop!"

So a harmonious mother and child making snowmen turned into a snowball fight, and later even the palace people beside them were implicated.A Ci was finally out of anger after being hit in the face three times in a row, and resolutely joined the battle, and the scene became even more chaotic...

"Ah, my lord, your robe..." The eunuch's high-pitched voice woke Gu Yunxian up from the frolicking.Looking up, he saw Cui Shuo standing not far in front of him, and the hem of his purple official robe, the remaining snow was clearly visible.

The eunuch called out, only to realize that the empress and the fifth prince were standing opposite him, and hurriedly knelt down to salute.Cui Shuo took a look at Gu Yunxian, followed by saluting, "I see the empress, and the fifth prince."

"Yes." Gu Yunxian put away his smile and said politely, "Just now I was playing with the children, I don't want to disturb the adults, forgive me."

"Your Majesty is serious." Cui Shuo said, "It's because I didn't realize that Your Majesty and His Highness were nearby, so I bumped into Feng Jia."

Gu Yunxian smiled lightly, and changed the subject, "Why did your lord come here?" As a foreign minister, it was always strange to suddenly appear in the harem.

"Your Majesty summoned my ministers to accompany you to the Dazheng Palace, passing by here." Cui Shuo said politely.

Gu Yunxian understood.This road is indeed the only way from the former dynasty to the Taisho Palace.

"Mother, this is..." Ah Huan asked crisply.After Gu Yunxian's repeated teachings, he already knew that in the palace, he should call her "Mother Empress" and His Majesty "Father Emperor".

"This is Master Cui Shuo." Gu Yunxian said, "You don't know him now, but when the spring of next year comes, you will spend more time together."

"Master Cui?" Ah Huan thought for a while, then laughed happily, "Oh, you are the gentleman that the queen mother said is going to teach Ah Huan to study?"

Gu Yunxian was taken aback.

The fact that Cui Shuo might want to be his husband was only mentioned once in front of Ah Huan, but he didn't expect him to remember it.

"Yes." Cui Shuo looked at Ah Huan, and after a while, he smiled slightly, his brows and eyes filled with warmth, "Next year, His Royal Highness will teach you to study."

Gu Yunxian had never seen such a warm expression on Cui Shuo's face since he knew him.Whether facing her or others, he was always restrained and forbearing, but at this moment he looked at Ah Huan with pity.

Gu Yunxian looked at him, and suddenly felt that he was not looking at Ah Huan, but...

Without warning, she took Ah Huan's hand and took a step back, "Since my lord still wants to see His Majesty, I won't delay you. My lord, please go ahead."

Cui Shuo was taken aback for a moment, then he came to his senses, and nodded slightly at Gu Yunxian, "I will take my leave."

Seeing the figures of Cui Shuo and the officials getting farther and farther away, Ah Huan turned his head and said to Gu Yun enviously: "Mum, don't you like this Master Cui?"

"En?" Gu Yunxian opened his eyes wide, "Why do you say that?"

"You seem to be avoiding him." Ah Huan pouted, "Actually, I quite like him. He is as good-looking as the father..."

Gu Yunxian ignored the nonsense behind his son, just thinking about his previous sentence.

Is she acting so obvious?
Did he notice it too?
He noticed that she was avoiding him.

The New Year's Eve banquet for the tenth year of Yongjia was held in Qing'an Hall as usual.

This was Gu Yunxian's first time attending the New Year's Eve banquet after returning home, so it was extraordinarily grand.Together with the emperor, she held a high position, accepting the toasts from the officials, with just the right smile on her lips.

When he put down his wine glass, he happened to see Cui Shuo in the crowd looking pale and preoccupied.

She frowned slightly.

What's up with him?
"Rujing, you don't look very good. Is there something wrong?" Xu Qinghua, the left minister sitting at the top, asked Gu Yunxian's confusion.

Cui Shuo replied slowly after a while, "It's nothing."

He obviously didn't want to say more, Xu Qinghua was also a knowledgeable person, so he naturally stopped asking.

Seeing Cui Shuo's appearance, Gu Yunxian couldn't help being worried.After seeing him drinking one cup after another, the worry that was originally only three points immediately turned into seven points.

As a result of being restless, when Gong'e poured wine for her, she accidentally spilled the wine on her skirt.

She stood up and confessed, and avoided the table to change clothes.

After changing her skirt in the warm pavilion, she sat there and breathed a sigh of relief.Gong'e looked at her face, and said worriedly: "Your Majesty's face looks a little drunk. Do you want to go out and blow some air to sober up?"

Gu Yunxian touched his cheek, and it really felt hot.She smiled wryly, "It's been too long since I've had a drink, but just a few drinks tonight made me drunk."

A Ci laughed and said, "Don't let His Majesty wait on you for another night like Yongjia four years ago when you got drunk on New Year's Eve."

Gu Yunxian only felt that his hot cheeks were hot again, and couldn't help but glared at A Ci, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

Turning around, she saw that Gong'e was also pursing her lips and grinning. She was a little uncomfortable, so she simply stood up and said, "That's right, I'd better go out and wake up." Seeing that they also stood up, she added, "Ah Ci just follow me."

That Gong'e was originally a servant of the Qing'an Palace, and she probably planned to take this opportunity to show her face in front of the queen, so she offered to let her go to sober up.Who would have thought that the queen accepted her proposal but did not want her company, so she couldn't help showing a disappointed expression.

"Your servant obeys." She said helplessly.

Gu Yunxian nodded, and took Ah Ci out of the Nuan Pavilion together.

The left side of Qing'an Hall is secluded and quiet, so Gu Yunxian naturally walked along the corridor on the left if he wanted to sober up.Just about to go around and go back to the hall, but inadvertently saw a tall and tall figure in the distance.

Wearing a lacquered gauze head, wearing a purple official robe, which is obviously an extremely noble attire, but standing there looks like a slender green bamboo tube, which is the only clear charm in this dirty world.

She stared at the shadow, and finally understood why she was restless tonight.

After hesitating for a moment, she still said to Ah Ci: "You watch here, I will go over and have a few words with Master Cui."

Ah Ci was taken aback, "Miss, is this bad?"

Gu Yunxian smiled faintly, "I just went up to ask, and left after saying a few words. Even if someone saw it, it would be nothing. This is the Qing'an Hall where a Chinese banquet is being held. Is it possible that I will still be here?" What's wrong with the courtiers here?"

Ah Ci thought about it, and thought it was the same.The etiquette of the state dynasty is not as pedantic and strict as the previous dynasty. Women can openly admire the appearance of men, and men can also show love to women in public.In such an atmosphere, when the empress met and said a few words with the courtiers who were about to become princes and tutors, no one would get involved in personal affairs.

What's more, one of these two is the emperor's favorite minister, and the other is the empress with a stable position, neither of them can be hurt by just a few slanderous words.

Thinking of this, she felt relieved and stood there waiting for Gu Yunxian to come back.

Not far from the Qing'an Hall is the Taiye Pond, which is completely frozen at this moment.Cui Shuo stood by the railing alone for a long time, his cheeks were icy cold from the cold wind, but he still didn't want to leave.

He looked through the darkness, trying to see if there was a black-haired and snow-skinned girl in red, stepping on a lotus flower, on the icy lake not far away.

"Master Cui."

A soft voice, like ice cracking and jade shattering, overlapped illusion and reality, making him wake up instantly.

When he turned his head, Gu Yunxian looked at him with a smile.

"Your Excellency seems to be in a bad mood tonight. Have you encountered any troubles?" Gu Yunxian waited for a while, and seeing that Cui Shuo was neither polite nor open, he had to take the initiative to say, "Alcoholism hurts your health, Your Excellency is just sitting at the table." Really drank too much."

She didn't know why she suddenly came up to talk to him.It was probably because Ah Huan's words reminded her a while ago, making her feel that even if she wanted to avoid him, she was too obvious, and maybe she had hurt him inadvertently.Seeing him like this tonight made her even more suspect that her worries had come true.If he really loses control for a moment and does something or says something, the situation of each other will be in danger.

Cui Shuo looked at her calmly for a while, then suddenly chuckled: "Your Majesty really surprised me. I thought that you would never say a word to me again in this lifetime."

"My lord, what do you mean?" His tone made Gu Yunxian feel weird, and the uneasiness in his heart became more and more intense.

Cui Shuo's eyes were indifferent, but Gu Yunxian could see a trace of drunkenness in it.He just drank so much wine, and now his sanity is not very clear, "King Xiang has a dream, but the goddess has no heart. Not only has no heart, but also treats it like a scourge, and avoids it for fear of being too late."

Even if the experiences of the two lifetimes are added together, Gu Yunxian never thought that he would hear such a passage from this man.

Under the melting moonlight, his eyes were helpless and sad, and he just looked at her quietly like that.Gu Yunxian felt that he was different tonight just now, but now that he met his eyes, he finally understood what was different.

Tonight, he was like a prisoner who had finally escaped from the cage, giving up all restraint, and just naturally exposed his inner emotions to her.

(End of this chapter)