National Beauty

The Shouwang’s Mansion hosted a full moon banquet for Xiaojun. It was still sunny in the afternoon. Soon after the feast, the sky above my head suddenly became overcast. At dusk, there was snow floating. At first it was just small pieces of snowflakes, and then it became bigger a little bit. Soon, The place is covered with a thin layer of white. A carriage left from the gate of the palace, rounded a few bends, and headed towards the Palace of the Weiguo.

Guo Boyan opened the cotton curtain, and a few pieces of snow were blown by the wind and fell on his face, quickly turning into a few coolness. Guo Boyan touched his face, stunned for a moment at the thickly cocooned fingertips, then lowered the curtains to cover up that gloomy face like the sky.

The carriage stopped in front of the Guogong Mansion.

Guo Boyan jumped out of the car and glanced over the Shouwang Mansion in the distance before striding into his mansion. First go to greet Mrs. Rui, come back and change into a homely robe, hold Brother Mao and listen to his wife Lin talking about the full moon banquet of the little princess, and watch the wife smile proudly when she mentions her daughter's ingenious reply to Princess Rui.

There was heavy snow outside and the warmth inside. This is his home, the comfort and wealth he exchanged for his half-length military horse.

Guo Boyan forbids anyone to ruin this family, including his eldest son, the proudest and most respected son.

After dinner, Guo Boyan asked Lin to go to bed first. He took two things and went to find the eldest son alone.

In the winter moon season, after a short dusk, there is a long dark night. It is still early, and Guo Xiao can't sleep, leaning on the bedside to read history books. Hearing his father's arrival, Guo Xiao immediately put down his book, quickly straightened out his clothes and went to the hall to meet him. Guo Boyan had already come in, with a thin layer of snow falling on his hair and shoulders, he flicked it casually, looked at the eldest son and asked: "Isn't asleep yet?"

The father and son looked at each other, as if everyone knew what the other was thinking, and it seemed that they couldn't see through each other.

"I just finished eating, and I'm going to read a book for two quarters of an hour before taking a break." Guo Xiao said truthfully, telling Ashun to prepare tea.

"Serve wine." Guo Boyan stopped Ashundao.

A Shun was surprised and looked at his master subconsciously. Guo Xiao nodded and asked his father to sit on the second warm couch, but Guo Boyan moved to the main seat of the main room and drank outside. When he entered the house, the curtain of the main room was picked up and placed on the door panel. Ashun did not dare to let it down. The cold winter night rushed to blow in, dispelling the original warmth in a flash.

Guo Boyan sat toward the door, thoughtful.

Guo Xiao looked at his father and also looked out the door. Under the eaves of the corridor, the cold wind danced wildly with snowflakes, hitting directionlessly, chaotically, but there was nowhere to hide under the dim light. Snow fell into the door, and a layer gradually piled up. A Shun came in with the just-warmed wine, and instantly left two footprints on the thin layer of snow.

"Go and guard in the courtyard, and no one is allowed to come within three feet of the upper room." Guo Boyan said indifferently.

"Yes." Ashun nodded, and walked out solemnly, and stopped just three feet away from the door, with his back facing this side.

Guo Boyan turned sideways, lifted the wine bottle, and poured the two wine bottles on the table nine minutes full. Putting down the hip flask, Guo Boyan picked up a bottle and looked at the eldest son opposite and said: "This bottle, to our ancestors and ancestors of the Guo family, without them being blessed in heaven, we would not have the wealth and glory of our father and son now."

Guo Xiao touched the wine bottle with his father, and said sternly: "What my father said is."

The father and son sprinkled wine on the ground together.

Guo Boyan put down the bottle, Guo Xiao got up and refilled it respectfully.

Guo Boyan raised the wine bottle, looked up at his son, and said with a smile: "This bottle respects you for the father, and celebrates that my son will not die in catastrophe. There will be good luck."

"Thank you, father." Guo Xiao held up the wine bottle with both hands, leaning forward.

After drinking this bottle, Guo Boyan took the first step to pick up the bottle. After filling the bottle, he did not rush to drink. Instead, he looked down at the bottle and said, "Kneel down."

Without saying anything, Guo Xiao lifted his clothes and knelt in front of his father, kneeling on the pool of wine that worshipped the ancestors and ancestors of the Guo family.

Guo Boyan turned his head and looked at his son calmly: "Do you know why your father told you to kneel?"

Guo Xiao looked down and said: "The son knows that the son is at fault, and how the father punishes him can't be overstated."

The 21-year-old is a general who has been bloodied on the battlefield. He is a real man. Guo Boyan knows very well that he can no longer use his father’s majesty to force his son to do anything. Now they are just men against men, he can only use Reason to persuade the son. Without moving his body, Guo Boyan asked in a deep voice, "Can't let go of that obsession?"

Guo Xiao was silent and acquiesced.

In the expected answer, Guo Boyan's chest rose and fell. After a while, he leaned back on the chair weakly and closed his eyes and said: "You were dying of life that day, and I couldn't sit idly by for my father, so I promised you something against my heart. Now for The father doesn’t regret it, it’s just that the father is not alone. Behind you are your grandmother, your mother’s younger brothers and sisters, and the entire Guogong Mansion. I can’t let the Guo Family Sanfang people be affected by you alone, even if it’s a possibility."

"Son understands." Guo Xiao raised his eyes and looked at the man in the seat calmly: "If the father can acquiesce his son to Jianing, the son will be content, no need for the father to do anything for me." He never thought about it. Desperate to rob her, if the price of getting her is destined to suffer from the Guo family, then he would rather give up.

Guo Boyan guessed that his son had another plan, but he couldn't think of a solution for his son. The son and An An were dead ends. The son had no rightful chance of marrying his daughter. Regardless of the tracing and revenge of the robbed princess Shouwang, after the son robbed An'an, he took a total of three paths. The first way is to hide An'an in the Guogong Mansion, but there are many people in the Guogong Mansion and the news is too easy to expose. On the second way, the son hid An'an outside, but as long as the son went out to see An'an, he would surely be discovered by someone with a heart. On the third way, the son took An Anyuan to Gao Fei incognito, but both of them are good looks, and they will leave clues wherever they go, unless they hide in the mountains and forests overnight and never come out for a lifetime.

In order to be together, Guo Boyan could only think of one way, and that was to arrange his son's suspended animation first. After the son was disfigured and left incognito, he waited for the opportunity to design an accident by himself when King Shou took his daughter out of the house, which caused the illusion that King Shou died in the accident, and eliminated the most powerful person who wanted to find out his daughter’s whereabouts. At the same time, he found the corpse to replace his daughter in suspended animation, and then took her to a remote place.

But such a price is too tragic. Just because of his self-harming appearance, Guo Boyan does not believe that his son is successful and his appearance is ruined. How can his son coax An'an to follow him willingly? Guo Boyan originally married Lin's because he had confidence in himself and believed that he could get Lin's heart, but if he didn't have such a certainty, if they were sure that they could only end up resenting each other and torturing each other, then Guo Boyan would definitely not take action.

Guo Boyan didn't tell the eldest son what he thought of. He only stated the threat of his son's robbing plan to the Guogong Mansion, and then took out two long narrow boxes from his arms and handed one of them to his son.

Guo Xiao took it with both hands and opened the box. Inside was a dagger with a sharp blade.

Guo Boyan stared at the eldest son and said, "Even if you plan carefully, as long as you have the possibility of being caught, it will bring disaster to the Guo family. The only thing the father can promise you is not to interfere with you to **** people, but Before that, you must destroy your appearance and leave the Guo family in feign death. From now on, everything you do has nothing to do with the Guo family."

Guo Xiao looked at the dagger, his breathing gradually heavier, like a trapped beast in a cage, his eyes flushed, fighting against the invisible shackles.

"If you beg her to An An before getting married, if you were in danger at the time, maybe you could keep your name intact, but now she is the princess of longevity, and she has to make this for her father." Guo Boyan stared at his son. Slowly opened the other box and took out a post with the horoscope of the birthday of the eldest son written on it.

"If you are reluctant to look, reluctant to be proud and wealthy, reluctant to ask your grandmother to send a black-haired person in vain, then you will completely die of your heart, and you have decided to get married a year ago, and get married soon." Passing the birth date to the eldest son, Guo Boyan voices Sternly, "You choose one of these two roads tonight. Once you choose, there is no room for turning back."

Guo Xiao raised his head, his eyes turned overwhelming, and he made no secret of a son's resentment towards his father.

Guo Boyan was unmoved, only said: "You can really leave the Guogong Mansion for the sake of safety, don't blame your father for abandoning you for the Guogong Mansion."

Guo Xiao looked fiercely at the father in front of him, his white face was already flushed, and the veins on his forehead were exposed, because the two ways his father gave him were dead ends. He ruined his appearance, and she would never give her heart to an ugly and terrible man. He did not ruin his appearance, and his father was strictly guarded, so he had no chance to make a move.

If he knew this, he shouldn't show it in front of his father on the day he was injured!

The look of the young son was more chilling than the wind and snow outside the door, but Guo Boyan sat in front of his son like a mountain and waited patiently, then watched his son's face gradually turn pale, watched his son slowly put down the dagger, and took it. The birth date. Everything was as he expected, but Guo Boyan could not give birth to any comfort. He only felt that the head of his heart weighed on a mountain, which was extremely heavy.

He picked up two bottles of wine, handed one bottle to his son, and said tiredly: "This third bottle, to my son is about to be overjoyed."

If the son chooses to disfigure the path, what he respects now is the relationship between the two of them for 21 years.

Guo Xiao didn't pick up the bottle of wine, and clenched his birthday character. Guo Xiao smiled bitterly and said, "Father, son, there is one last request."

Guo Boyan stared at his son and said, "You said it."

Guo Xiao let go of the crumpled birth date, his stiff shoulders suddenly relaxed, his eyes lowered, and his voice was vicissitudes of life: "My son can't marry someone who really wants to marry, but he doesn't want to marry anyone casually. My cousin has been obsessed with me for so many years. , I want to ask the emperor to marry me."

Princess Duanhui, niece?

Guo Boyan frowned instinctively. Princess Duanhui was raised by the emperor and concubine Shu to be savage and willful. She is definitely not a good candidate for a daughter-in-law. If she marries, she will cause trouble for her wife. The only thing that suits her son is that Princess Duanhui has a tough temper and can definitely control her son, let alone marry. An An, who went out, was the maid beside him, and his son probably had no chance to steal it.

While hesitating, Guo Boyan thought of the steward’s response, saying that today Princess Duanhui ran to Yihexuan to visit her son. Regardless of the presence of her servants, she threw herself into her son’s arms and cried. The son's heart has been given to An An, and other women must give more if they want to regain it. First of all, they must have the same infatuation.

Guo Boyan vaguely saw a glimmer of hope. His wife is a clever man. With him and his wife supporting him, it is more than enough to deal with a little girl. As long as Princess Duanhui can tell her son to get back, there are some minor problems, and he doesn't mind.

"Duanhui is your cousin, if you marry her, you have to treat her wholeheartedly, otherwise you can't explain to your aunt." Guo Boyan said solemnly.

Guo Xiao let out a sneer and looked up at his father: "Father doesn't believe me? Should I swear again?"

Guo Boyan's face changed drastically. The last time his son vowed to pierce his heart with a thousand arrows, he interrupted the vow halfway through, and finally fulfilled his oath, with an arrow penetrating his chest. This time, Guo Boyan would rather his son continue to lie to him than daring to gamble on his son's life.

With mixed tastes, Guo Boyan lifted up his son, patted his shoulder, and finally shook his head, leaving only a long sigh before leaving.