Rebirth after waste

Chapter 4

After such a toss, it was dusk outside, and when Gu Yunxian finally walked back to Jingsheng Pavilion alone, it was already dark.Her confidant maid Ah Ci was already in a hurry, she stood at the door and kept looking around, seeing her return from a distance, she couldn't help but look overjoyed: "Miss is back! I'm so anxious to death servant!"

She entered the room wearily, asked her to pour herself a cup of tea, drank it slowly, and then breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, today is safe and sound."

"What exactly is the lady going to do?"

"Don't ask me any more." Gu Yunxian smiled, "If I don't expect it, someone will come to me soon."

This was really fast, and after only half an hour, Lu Chuan came over in person with the two little yellow gates.

When he saluted Gu Yunxian, she turned sideways to avoid it: "Now my status is not worthy of an adult's gift."

Lu Chuan laughed and said, "Young lady, I'm joking. I'm here to deliver a message for His Majesty."

Gu Yunxian knelt down, Lu Chuan said: "Your Majesty said, he knows that you have been wronged in today's matter, if you have any request, you may wish to ask, he will do his best to meet it."

Gu Yunxian raised his head suddenly, as if he couldn't believe it: "Really?"

Lu Chuan's smile remained unchanged: "You are not joking." But there was a hint of vigilance in his heart.

Gu Yunxian lowered his head and remained silent for a long time. When he spoke again, his tone was choked with sobs: "My lord, please tell Your Majesty that this concubine begs His Majesty's permission to let this concubine serve the Empress Dowager in Changle Palace as a concubine. Take my guilt."

Lu Chuan was slightly surprised, and immediately reacted: "The queen mother has already said that she does not want to see you again, my lady, and your majesty dare not disobey the queen mother's order."

"My lord misunderstood." Gu Yunxian shook his head, "Of course I know that the Queen Mother no longer wants to see me, and I don't dare to offend her old man anymore. I just want to go to Changle Palace to cook medicine and cook some food for the Queen Mother , and copy Buddhist scriptures to pray for her, there is nothing else to ask for. Your Majesty does not need to let the Queen Mother know that I did these things, as long as I can hide in the dark and do my part for the Queen Mother, I will be satisfied."

Lu Chuan was really surprised this time.Didn't this hitter rely on the queen mother's idea of ​​making a comeback?Really just want to do a filial piety?

He couldn't help looking at her expression, but saw tears in her eyes, and a slight frown between her brows. Her whole body no longer had the unrelenting hostility of the past, but was soft and demure.Thinking about her maintenance of Xing Rouhua in the afternoon, I suddenly feel that I haven't seen her for more than two months. This cruel empress has really changed, she is no different from when she entered the East Palace at the beginning of the year.

Seeing that he was silent, Gu Yunxian seemed to be afraid that he would not agree, and said again: "Your Excellency must also know that before I served Your Majesty, I served the Empress Dowager in Changle Palace for two years, and I knew everything about her food and daily life. Familiar. Let me serve her old man, and there will be no trouble! Please also ask your majesty to kowtow to His Majesty on your behalf!"

Lu Chuan naturally knew this.Gu Yunxian is the empress dowager's distant niece. When she was 13 years old, she went to the palace with her family to pay homage to the empress dowager who was still an empress at the time, but she accidentally fell in love with the empress. She fell in love with her so much that she stayed in the palace. At the age of 15, the Queen decided to marry the Crown Prince as the Crown Princess and became her most beloved daughter-in-law until three months ago.

Letting her serve the Empress Dowager must be good for the Empress Dowager's condition, but...

Seeing that Gu Yunxian was still staring at him eagerly, he smiled slightly: "This is a big matter, I don't dare to specialize, so I have to ask His Majesty for instructions."

Gu Yunxian nodded, with a sincere expression on his face: "Naturally, I hope that your lord can say a few more good things for me when I ask His Majesty for instructions."

"I understand." Lu Chuan said, "Besides this, does the lady have any other requirements?"

Gu Yunxian shook his head: "Not anymore."

"there is none left?"

"I only have one wish now. It would be best for His Majesty to agree. If not, I can only pray for the Empress Dowager here in Jingsheng Pavilion. As for other things, they are not important."

Lu Chuan saw her dull face, she didn't seem to be pretending at all, and finally couldn't bear it anymore, and said: "Forgive me for offending, I think my lady seems to be..."

"Ok?"

"It seems to have changed a lot."

Gu Yunxian was stunned for a moment, and then smiled self-deprecatingly: "When I wake up from the dream, I will realize how wrong I was. Now I just hope that I will not let down the person who cares about me the most in this world, and that I can do more things for her." It is good."

Until Lu Chuan returned to Dazheng Palace to answer the emperor, he couldn't forget the sadness and regret in Gu Yunxian's eyes when he said the last sentence.He has worked in the palace for many years, and he feels that his ability to read people is not weak. If he said that the various behaviors of this deposed empress today are all fake, he would not believe it anyway.

The emperor raised his head from the memorial and pondered for a moment: "Is that what she said?"

"Yes." Lu Chuan said, "Lady Gu only hopes to go to Changle Palace to serve the Empress Dowager, and she also said that she doesn't need the Empress Dowager to know it's her, just give her a chance to be silently filial."

The emperor lowered his eyes, and in his hand was an urgent dispatch concerning the Northwest Ice Disaster, and a small white jade dish next to it was filled with cinnabar.Such a bright red color reminded him of the scene of Gu Yunxian holding a burning red plum in his hand and smiling sweetly while standing among the plum trees in the twelfth lunar month of last year.

"Did you see clearly this afternoon?"

Knowing what His Majesty was asking, Lu Chuan hesitated for a moment, and said cautiously: "At that time, I was far away, and I never saw Bo Mei stretching out her hand to care for your lady." So the fall was not just because she was frightened, but also because water was splashed on the soil at her feet, and a layer of ice formed on the surface, so she slipped and fell."

"Then who do you think will splash the water?" the emperor said casually.

Lu Chuan lowered his head: "I dare not speculate."

"Speak, I allow you to speculate as you please." The emperor said, with a relaxed expression, as if what they were talking about was not the concubine dispute in his harem, but the stories in the scriptures, "These scripts are so boring, I am sleepy after reading them. .”

Lu Chuan looked at himself, a master who always played cards against common sense, feeling a little helpless: "I can only say that the one who invited Xing Rouhua to the plum garden to enjoy the plum blossoms was the beauty Bo, and the one who asked Xing Rouhua to pick the plum blossoms in that place was also the beauty Bo." beauty."

Lu Chuan's meaning was very clear.Although it was Gu's first visit to the plum garden today, she didn't know that Xing Rouhua and Bo Meiren would go to the plum garden today, so she had no reason to do so.And the thin beauty...

He knows that Lu Chuan is a man who has always been upright, but he is not a nosy person. However, the protection of the Gu family is very obvious in his words now.

She was so capable that Lu Chuan also spoke for her?
Smiling, he dipped his purple brush in a brush of cinnabar, and wrote at the end of the memorandum, "I will follow Gao Changshi's instructions for everything, remember to remember", and then put down the pen: "Since she wants to go, let her go." Let her go."

The quilts in Jingsheng Pavilion were dilapidated and thin, and Gu Yunxian had to wrap them tightly and curl up into a small ball to feel a little warmth.Ah Ci knew that she was afraid of the cold, so she would always warm the bed for her before letting her in. After a few times, Gu Yunxian would not allow her to do it again.After the honor was abolished, the servants of Changqiu Palace were convicted and executed, and the only one left by her side was Aci.She is the maidservant she brought from her mother's house, and she couldn't be more faithful.

Maybe in the days to come, this maidservant will be the only one who will depend on her for life, and she has to treat her better.

Turning over, Ah Ci behind her was drowsy, but she couldn't fall asleep.

Before sending Xing Rouhua back to the dormitory during the day, the phrase "how can this floor be so slippery" she said seemingly unintentionally should have caught Lu Chuan's attention.He must have spotted the unusual layer of ice on the ground.

Jing Fushu has always been considerate in doing things, pushing herself is not counted, and she also made sure that Xing Rouhua would fall down in case the water on the ground freezes.

And she took advantage of that.

This is the plan she came up with after thinking hard all day, but the purpose is not to regain the grace, but to go to the Queen Mother's side to perform filial piety and atone for her sins.

If it wasn't for that dream, she would never know that Lu Chuan, who looks smooth and considerate, is actually so loyal and kind, and his loyalty and kindness are the biggest help to the success of her plan.As long as he believed that she was innocent, he would say something for her more or less, and the matter was half done.

She remembered what he said to herself in the dream, which awakened her in the previous life, and also awakened her this time.

She won't waste her mind on people who don't deserve it anymore.In this world, the one she owes the most is the Queen Mother.In the previous life, it was because she was accused of murdering the son of the Xing family that the Queen Mother who was already seriously ill was hit hard and died.On the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, she died in Changle Palace. Two days later, she was given to death by the furious emperor, and she paid for her own life.

She can't kill her twice.She can't bear it.

Gu Yunxian moved to Changle Palace two days later.

She really fulfilled her promise, and she only stayed in the kitchen every day to decoct medicine and cook food for the Queen Mother, and never went to the Changxin Palace where the Queen Mother lived.Because she had served the queen mother before, and the relationship between the two was different from that of master and servant, so she knew many little habits of the queen mother in the past, and knew what to add to the meal to appetize her.She also looked up medical books all night, and discussed with the imperial physician about the preparation of medicinal diet.

Lu Chuan watched all this from the sidelines, and felt that this Mrs. Gu was really different.

Half a month after she moved to Changle Palace, the emperor suddenly stepped into the bedroom where she lived.

When he came in, she was copying the scriptures, with her back to the door, and with the strength of her hands, the writing was in lower case with extremely beautiful hairpin flowers, beautiful and thin.He knew that since she was a child, she had been surrounded by Mrs. Wei's copybooks. When she was 15 years old, the Queen Mother gave her some original Mrs. Wei's handwriting. Her calligraphy skills.But today she was too focused, and she didn't notice that there was already one more person in the hall.

He stood behind her, his eyes stopped on the scriptures for a while, and then turned to her face.

She has lost a lot of weight, her chin is pointed, and a strand of black hair sticks to her ears, like ink stains on white jade, making the snow greasy and moving.Her eyes were dark and quiet, as if there was nothing else in the world to distract her except the scriptures at hand.

He used to like her quiet and focused expression, but unfortunately she became more and more extreme later on, and her eyes were often full of calculation and resentment, no more demure and elegant.

(End of this chapter)