Splendid Pastoral

Chapter 219

Xu is the end of the new year is approaching. Although the weather is severe today, there are still many pedestrians walking in a hurry on the street. Zhao Min opened the curtain of the carriage, and felt a cold wind blowing in. She couldn't help being chilled all over. Trembling, quickly put down the curtain.

"Why did you suddenly remember to pray for blessings?" Gu Lingqing held Zhao Min's hand tightly in her own, and felt that her hand was a little cold, so she gently rubbed it for her to keep warm.

In the past, Gu Lingqing only said that she was going to accompany Zhao Min to Puji Temple, but she didn't ask her why. Now that there was no one around, and she was very quiet, Gu Lingqing remembered and asked.

Zhao Min had nothing to hide, so he uttered all the thoughts in his heart: "I don't know why, I'm always flustered recently, and I always feel that I have a bad premonition, so I want to go to Puji Temple to pray .”

After finishing speaking, Zhao Min smiled and shook his head again: "It's just for peace of mind."

"Did you sleep well recently?" Gu Lingqing blamed herself a little. She has been busy with her own affairs for the past few days, but she has neglected Zhao Min.

"It's okay, it's been much better these days." Zhao Min didn't want Gu Lingqing to worry about him, so naturally he wouldn't tell him the truth.

The two have been together for so long, Gu Lingqing is naturally very clear about Zhao Min's every frown and smile. Looking at her now, she can tell that she is comforting herself, but Gu Lingqing didn't expose her on the spot, just nodded lightly , secretly decided in his heart, after praying for blessings and going back, he must take good care of her.

When the carriage reached the halfway up the mountain, the way up was relatively narrow, and it was impossible to go up any further, so everyone got out of the carriage and walked up all the way.

Unexpectedly, when they were about to reach Puji Temple, there was heavy snow in the sky again, and the group had to speed up their pace.

When he arrived at Puji Temple, Zhao Min found that there were not many pilgrims who came to offer incense, perhaps because the weather was cold and the mountain road was difficult to walk, except for Zhao Min and others, there were only a few people who came to this temple to offer incense .

Gu Lingqing usually didn't like to walk around in the imperial city, and had never been to Puji Temple before. Therefore, the abbot didn't know everyone, and he only regarded it as a son of a high-ranking official who came to pray for blessings, and he didn't attract the attention of the people in the temple.

Zhao Min came to the lobby of this temple, took incense, and worshiped devoutly in front of the Buddha three times, wishing that he and Gu Lingqing would be healthy and everything would go well.

After kneeling in front of the Buddha for a long time, Zhao Mincai stood up and put the incense in the ashes on the side. Seeing this, Madam Gu quickly took out some money from her lapel and put it in the merit box next to her. .

After finishing all this, at noon, everyone saw that the snow had not stopped, and it was not a good decision to go down the mountain at this time, so Zhao Min proposed to stay in this temple for lunch.

The monk entertained everyone well, led them to the room, and brought them the vegetarian food from Puji Temple.

Xu Shi had been driving all morning and was really hungry. Zhao Min actually thought that the vegetarian food in this temple was also very delicious, very delicious.

This morning, Gu Qi stayed in the study, and no one was allowed to come in without his order.

I saw Gu Qi who was in the study at the moment, sitting at the desk holding a book, but stayed on this page for as long as an hour.

Thinking of the letter he received yesterday and the information he intercepted, Gu Qi was in a state of confusion, closed the book with a "snap", threw it on the table, and walked around the room.

Going to the window, Gu Qi opened the window. As soon as he opened the window, a gust of cold wind rushed straight to the front. Looking at the snowy scene outside, Gu Qi seemed to be a little bit awake by the cold wind, and his face was very gloomy. , immediately took the cloak and rushed out the door.

"My lord, it's snowing so hard, where are you going?" The servant outside the door saw him rushing from the house, and asked hastily.

Gu Qi was not in a good mood to explain to him: "Hurry up and prepare the carriage! Hurry up!"

Seeing Gu Qi's anxious expression, the young man didn't dare to delay for a moment, he stumbled and ran out to prepare the carriage.

Gu Qi, who was sitting in the carriage, kept urging the groom to hurry up, and he arrived at the palace of Xian Wang in a short time.

The guard guarding outside the door quickly saluted Gu Qi after seeing him coming: "See Your Highness King Qi."

Gu Qi didn't care about etiquette at all now, and asked anxiously, "Where's your prince?"

"My lord went to Puji Temple with Miss Zhao today." The guard replied honestly. "

"When did you leave?" Gu Qi's tone couldn't help but feel anxious.

The guard thought about it carefully, and said, "It's been two or three hours since we set off."

Gu Qi screamed in his heart that it was not good, turned around and rushed out. Seeing that the carriage in front of him was so cumbersome, Gu Qi quickly unloaded the carriage, got on his horse, and galloped away.

After Zhao Min and the others had lunch, seeing that the snow was getting lighter, Zhao Min proposed to go down the mountain quickly, lest the snow fall again later.

Gu Lingqing had no objection to this, and the group quickly packed up their things and prepared to go down the mountain.

"I'm sorry, if it wasn't for my whim, I wouldn't have walked this way in this day." Zhao Min's face was full of guilt.

The process of everyone going down the mountain was very slow, because it was snowing all the time, so we had to be careful everywhere, otherwise we would fall down.

Gu Lingqing held Zhao Min's hand tightly and let the two of them support each other. After hearing what Zhao Min said, she immediately chuckled: "Fool, what are you talking about?"

Everyone walked slowly and cautiously down the mountain, but when they reached the halfway up the mountain, they found that the carriage and groom who had parked here earlier had disappeared, and the surrounding area was very quiet.

Gu Lingqing noticed something strange, and protected Zhao Min behind her.

Zhao Min didn't ask anything, but stretched his hand into his sleeve, and clenched the dagger in his sleeve.

"This forest is too quiet, there must be a demon if something goes wrong." Gu Lingqing warned everyone.

The four stood back to back, all of them fell into a state of alert, the others were fine, but Qin Lan, who had never seen such a scene before, felt scared and trembled a little.

Gu Lingqing closed her eyes, feeling the movement and breath around her.

Gale on a tree in the distance, seeing that Gu Lingqing had noticed, lifted up the black cloth placed under his chin, made a gesture, and then jumped off.

In an instant, there were some rustling sounds in the woods that were still very quiet just now.

When Gu Lingqing opened his eyes, looking at the man in black who had already surrounded the four of him, he couldn't help frowning a little, his eyes full of solemnity.

(End of this chapter)