A gleam flashed across Xiao Shoufu's eyes.

Originally, he just said it casually in order to deal with the eldest prince, but when the word "Kang Wang" came out, his heart lit up, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was a brilliant idea.

Wang Kangyin and others also had brilliant eyes, and they also thought that the proposal of Shoufu was very clever, it was a stroke of genius.

If King Kang could marry the concubine of the Yue Kingdom, wouldn't it be like a tiger with wings added?

Chu You, who had been watching the good show for a long time, suddenly sank, never expecting that the fire would burn on him inexplicably.

"The first assistant's words are wrong." Chu You immediately jumped out of the queue, and retorted in a deep voice, "The queen mother has already granted the marriage to the king, and there are only a few days before the king's wedding."

"Kang Kang..." Xiao Shoufu turned his head to meet Chu You's gloomy eyes with sharp eyes, and wanted to persuade Chu You and analyze his interests with him, but it was early morning, so it was obviously not the time.

Chu You said coldly in a forceful tone: "Don't mention this again, Chief Assistant."

Several veins popped out of the corners of his eyes, and he was dissatisfied with Xiao Shoufu for the first time.

He also has a lot to say, so he can only press first.

When the dark tide was raging, the emperor's calm and indifferent voice suddenly sounded in front of him: "Shoufu, brother of the Seventh Emperor, if there is nothing wrong, let's retreat today."

There was no joy or anger in the emperor's tone, the tea lid in his hand closed on the tea cup, making a crisp sound of "snap", which made the hearts of the courtiers below thump, and they became more and more uncertain about the emperor's intentions.

The great eunuch Zhao Rang looked around the crowd slowly and shouted: "Retire!"

His slightly shrill voice resounded through the Golden Throne Hall.

All civil and military officials returned to their respective positions, and all bowed and bowed to send the emperor off respectfully. Chu Yi also left the Golden Luan Hall with the emperor.

The respectful voices of the officials in the rear were uniform and loud like thunder.

At this time, it is only Sishi, the sun is high in the blue sky, and the temperature is neither too hot nor too cold. It is a good weather for walking.

The father and son did not sit in a sedan chair or chariot, but strolled side by side to the South Study Room located in the southwest corner of Qianqing Palace.

As soon as he sat down, a small servant came to report: "Your Majesty, Marquis Ji'an is asking to see you."

The emperor raised his eyebrows slightly, and said lightly, "I don't see you."

Previously, Duke Wei impeached Marquis of Ji'an for colluding with bandits and asked himself to suppress the bandits. The emperor agreed and ordered Marquis of Ji'an, Xu Yan, not to leave Beijing until the case became clear.

Xu Yan refused to admit it, so he entered the palace to defend himself that day, and even bit Wei Guogong back, saying that Wei Guogong took revenge because of his family affairs with his wife, and pleaded guilty to the emperor to show that he was not strict with his family. , inside and out, it is said that Mrs. Wei Wan can't tolerate people.

After the emperor listened, he sent Xu Yan back.

In just a few days, Xu Yan became more and more anxious from being calm at the beginning, almost going into the palace every day, but the emperor never summoned him again.

"No! No!" The multicolored parrot on the gold-plated bird stand saw the emperor and his son coming back, and started talking in a good mood, which made the emperor couldn't help stretching out his fingers to tease his little boy.

The little maid quietly retreated.

"My cousin is really an old fox." The emperor sighed casually.

The cousin he mentioned was Wei Shen, the Duke of Wei.

After a pause, the emperor frowned slightly, stroked his beard, and said disgustedly: "This Xu Yan is really not a thing!"

"In the future, An Le's son-in-law must be found carefully."

The emperor also had a daughter, so he felt empathy for Wei Guogong's anger. He thought in his heart: In An Le's marriage in the future, he, the father, must guard her well and make sure the son-in-law is sure. .

"It's not a thing!" cried the parrot again, making the Emperor laugh out loud.

The emperor grabbed bird food and fed it to his parrot.

Just as the little servant left, Jin An, the Chief Eunuch of the Rites Supervisor, also arrived at the South Study Room.

Seeing the emperor teasing the parrot with great interest, Jin An knew in his heart that it should be the eldest prince who summoned him, bowing his head and waiting for instructions.

Chu Yi gently blew the foam on the tea soup, and said lightly: "Xiao Shoufu proposed that King Kang marry Emperor Ji of Yue Kingdom...you go and tell the Queen Mother about this."

Jin An responded respectfully: "Don't worry, Your Highness, this matter will be handled properly by the servant."

After Li Han, the eunuch in charge of the internal official supervisor, was raped, Chu Yi ordered the internal official prison to be split into twelve prisons in the inner court. In less than a month, the entire inner court was reorganized and looked awe-inspiring. Barrels are indestructible.

What Chu Yi wants Queen Mother Yuan to know, only Queen Mother Yuan can know.

The inner court had already changed before Queen Mother Yuan knew about it.

After Jin An left the South Study Room, he immediately recruited two servants and gave them some instructions.

The two ceremonial supervisors and the servants only agreed, and then returned to Shou'an Palace.

Because the Empress Dowager Yuan was placed under house arrest, all the people in the Shouan Palace were forbidden to enter and leave, and they were trapped in the Shouan Palace. The palace people are also quite familiar with each other.

These two people are also clever, taking advantage of the next time the palace servants from Shou'an Palace come to bribe, they will reveal the matter without any trace.

That afternoon, King Kang Chuyou brought Gu Yunwei to Shouan Palace.

The mother and son have not seen each other for more than 20 days since the banquet. Chu You wanted to have a good talk with Queen Mother Yuan about the relationship between mother and child, but the first sentence that Queen Mother Yuan said was:

"Ayou, you are too impulsive. For you, marrying the Yue Kingdom will bring you a lot of benefits and no harm!"

The Empress Dowager Yuan was patient, and persuaded her son in a good voice: "Ayou, you listened to the empress mother's persuasion. It was also because Emperor Guanglie of the previous dynasty married the queen of Xirong that he had the help of Xirong to turn the tide. As early as a hundred years ago, the dynasties were exhausted. If it is a big event, there will be sacrifices!"

"Besides, if you don't marry the Emperor Ji of the Yue Kingdom, Chu Yi will marry her. Do you want to watch Chu Yi occupy the throne in the future?"

Empress Dowager Yuan didn't give Chu You a chance to speak at all. After talking eloquently, she turned her sharp and forceful eyes to Gu Yunxie who had a stiff face, and said lightly: "Xiao'er, are you Good girl, you only have Ah You in your heart, and you are willing to make some sacrifices for him, right?"

"..." Gu Yunxie pursed her cherry lips, and took a deep look at Empress Dowager Yuan.

How could she fail to understand what Empress Dowager Yuan meant, that Emperor Guanglie originally had the Shi family as his original concubine, but in order to help Emperor Guanglie gain the support of the Xirong people, she did not hesitate to abdicate to make a virtuous person and demote herself as a concubine.

Gu Yunxiu walked away without saying a word.

Her displeasure was palpable.

Early this morning, King Kang personally came to Luwei Alley to look for her, and said he wanted to take her into the palace, so she followed him.

Although the queen mother is a bit snobbish, she is Kang Wang's mother after all. The most difficult thing is Kang Wang's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

For Kang Wang's love for her, she specially prepared a double-sided embroidered screen and snacks that she personally embroidered when entering the palace this time, in order to make the Queen Mother happy.

She was sincere, but she didn't expect that the Queen Mother would throw a bucket of ice water on her face as soon as they met.

Gu Yunxiu didn't want to say hurtful words, and felt that she and Queen Mother Yuan were not speculative, so she left Shou'an Palace without looking back.

"My son!"

Chu You couldn't care about Empress Dowager Yuan anymore, and hurriedly chased her out, only to hear Empress Dowager Yuan's slightly distraught voice coming from behind, calling "Ayou" repeatedly.

But Chu You acted as if he hadn't heard of it, and only focused on chasing Gu Yunxie who was ahead.

Gu Yunxie walked faster and faster, and when she walked out of Shou'an Palace, she started to jog with her skirt in her hand, just wanting to leave this palace with deep gates as soon as possible.

The sound of Chuyou's footsteps from behind was getting closer and closer. Accompanied by his anxious shouts, Gu Yunxuan never stopped walking, and beads of sweat had already formed on the corners of his forehead.

There was a bit of embarrassment on that beautiful little face.

I trotted from the inner court to the outer court. After passing through the Zhaode Gate, the tall Meridian Gate tower appeared in front of me.

Seven or eight feet away, a familiar tall and straight figure came into her eyes. The young man was tall and slender, and he was dressed in a crimson official robe. He was talking to a young man in his twenties who was wearing a blue python suit. People speak and laugh at Yan Yan, which is very familiar.

It's Gu Yuan and Fan Beiran!

Gu Yunxuan couldn't help walking slowly, staring blankly at the two people in front of him.

Gu Yuan turned his back to Gu Yunxie, didn't notice her at all, and casually threw an oiled paper bag to Fan Beiran, "Salt and pepper peanuts, pad your stomach first."

Fan Beiran cheerfully took out a salt-and-pepper peanut from the oil-paper bag, threw it into his mouth, and began to bite it.

"From Lanshan Pavilion?" Fan Beiran tasted it in one bite.

Fan Beiran's tongue is always sharp, and Gu Yuan was not surprised. He nodded with a smile and asked, "Ah Ran, who did you find for the Duobao Pavilion, Arhat Bed, and Canopy Bed of your fifth sister? Are you going to Yangzhou to buy the wood?" ?”

"You guy, I knew you were going to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, no wonder you came here to stop me." Given the friendship between the two, Fan Beiran spoke very casually, and threw a salt-and-pepper peanut into his mouth, "Look at that You still know how to be filial to my young master, I will go back and ask my mother for you."

Gu Yuan climbed up the pole, and said again: "Why don't you help me ask my aunt, the jewelry on the list is made by that silver shop."

Fan Beiran readily made a "no problem" gesture.

Not far away, Gu Yunwei watched the two bite their lower lip, and was about to quicken their pace when they felt a tightening of their right arm. Chu You, who was behind, finally caught up with her and grabbed her slender arm with one hand.

"Xiao'er!" Chu You looked at her affectionate eyes, so hot and focused, "Listen to me, this is only the mother's opinion, I will not marry anyone else."

"You know, I only have you in my heart."

He explained anxiously and sincerely, holding Gu Yunxie's right arm tightly with one hand, restraining her like iron clamps.

"Let me go!" Gu Yunxie said in a low voice, trying to break free from Chu You, and couldn't help but glanced in the direction of Gu Yuan and Fan Beiran, just in time to meet Gu Yuan's deep phoenix eyes.

Gu Yuan only glanced at Gu Yunxie and Chu You indifferently, then withdrew his gaze, pointed in a direction to Fan Beiran, and signaled them to talk in another place.

Gu Yunxie's face was burning hot, thinking: Gu Yuan must know...

Gu Yuan was on duty in Luan Yiwei, and walked beside the eldest prince all day long. Of course, the matter of the early court could not be hidden from his eyes and ears. He must have also known about King Kang's marriage with Emperor Ji of Yue Kingdom.

Gu Yuan must be watching her joke.

For a moment, Gu Yunmai was so ashamed that she wanted to dig a hole to get in, burning from her face to the roots of her ears.

Gu Yunxie became angry from embarrassment, almost bit her lower lip to bleed, her heart became ruthless, her eyes were reddish, she gritted her teeth and said: "My lord, let go."

"We still...forget it."

She said the last sentence with great difficulty.

Even at this moment, Gu Yunxie still believed in Kang Wang's heart for her.

But he is far from her after all, he has his great ambitions, and in the eyes of the Queen Mother and others, she is just an existence that hinders King Kang's future.

It is Kang Wang who can refuse once for her, can he refuse twice, three times... countless times in the future that can be foreseen in the future?

"..." Chu You looked at Gu Yunxie in disbelief as if he had been stabbed, but instead of letting go, he gripped her right arm even tighter.

Scary blood flashed in his eyes, and he declared domineeringly: "I won't let go of you!"

The next sentence became tender again, "Xiao'er, didn't you tell me? Hold your hand and grow old together."

"We've been through so much together... until we're here today, how can you just give up on me like that?"

These words of Chu You also stung Gu Yunxie, her eye sockets were filled with crystal clear tears, and her eyelashes were trembling with tears.

She was also reluctant, making such a decision was like tearing out a piece of flesh and blood from her heart.

"Xi'er..." Chu You felt very distressed when he saw her charming appearance.

He wanted to pull her into his arms and express his feelings to her, but Gu Yunxie pushed her away cruelly.

"The Queen Mother is for your own good." Gu Yunxie said in a hoarse voice, trying not to let the tears flow from her eyes.

Gu Yunxiu took off the Nine Dragons carved jadeite bracelet on his left wrist, and firmly stuffed it into Chu You's hand.

"I'll give you this back..."

This is their promise.

Gu Yunxie's behavior of wanting to break away from him immediately completely angered Chu You.

Chu You's eyes were covered with cobweb-like blood, and his heart hurt like a thousand arrows piercing his heart. Without looking at it, he threw the jade bracelet in his hand heavily, with a bit of venting emotion.

The bracelet flashed across the air like a shooting star, and flew in the direction of Gu Yuan ahead.

Fan Beiran and Gu Yuan were walking forward when they suddenly heard a sound of breaking through the air behind them, and turned their heads subconsciously, and saw a jade bracelet that was about to hit Gu Yuan's head, but it was half a foot away...

"Gu..."

Fan Beiran's complexion changed, and he wanted to push Gu Yuan, but just as his hand touched Gu Yuan's shoulder, he saw the jade bracelet that flew towards him stopped in mid-air, shining brightly in the sun.

Huh? ! Fan Beiran was dumbfounded, and almost thought he was hallucinating, so he blinked.

The emerald green jade bracelet paused for two breaths in mid-air, and then fell vertically to the ground.

"boom!"

The jade bracelet shattered into three pieces.

Fan Beiran put his hand on Gu Yuan's left shoulder just like that, dumbfounded, looked at the broken bracelet on the ground for a while, and then looked at Gu Yuan's side face for a while, couldn't help asking: "Did you see it just now?"

Isn't he dazzled? It's not like he's daydreaming, is he?

Gu Yuan was stunned for a moment, but soon came back to his senses, the corners of his lips curled up happily, and he nodded and said, "I see."

"No wonder my sister said that I have bad luck." It is true.

Fan Beiran's right hand suddenly touched the back of Gu Yuan's head, and then he was sure that there was nothing on his head except the silver hairpin that tied his hair.

"Ah."

Gu Yuan chuckled suddenly, turned his head to look in the direction of Zhaode Gate, and said in a strange tone: "Sure enough."

Fan Beiran followed his gaze and looked at Gu Yunxie and Chu You. The two were still pushing and shoving each other excitedly, one grabbed and the other hid.

Fan Beiran shook his head, and repeated with deep conviction: "Sure enough!"

No wonder Gu Yuan is so unlucky, can he not be unlucky to meet these two people? !

"Ah Yuan, let's go, I don't want to get my head smashed." Fan Beiran pulled Gu Yuan away, and the two walked towards the Meridian Gate.

After walking out of the palace through the east side door of the Meridian Gate, Fan Beiran suddenly stopped, pursed his thin lips, and looked a bit out of his mind.

"Aran?" Seeing him standing stupidly, Gu Yuan called out.

Fan Beiran walked to Gu Yuan's side in three steps at a time, then turned his head and pointed in the direction of the palace gate, and said in a low voice, "Just now... was this your sister's method?"

Fan Beiran had already heard of the name of the second girl of the Gu family, and it was like thunder, but today he saw it with his own eyes.

"That's it!" Gu Yuan raised his chin proudly and said flauntingly, "You haven't seen my sister yet, have you? She is cute and cute."

Fan Beiran took the reins from the servant, got on the horse, hesitated for a moment, and then said to Gu Yuan who also got on the horse: "A Yuan, I want to ask your sister for a favor."

"Help?" Gu Yuan rode his horse to Fan Beiran's side and raised his eyebrows.

Fan Beiran looked left and right, and signaled Gu Yuan and him to walk forward with his eyes.

It wasn't until there was no one around that Fan Beiran said again: "It's my fifth sister. As you know, my fifth sister was engaged to be married half a year ago."

Gu Yuan nodded.

He remembered that the fifth girl of the Fan family was betrothed to the fourth son of Uncle Zhongqin's mansion.

Fan Beiran considered his words for a while, and then continued: "It's fine for Fifth Sister to have a temper, she's gentle and cute, but why..."

Having said that, Fan Beiran pursed his thin lips, with a bit of embarrassment on his face.

After hesitating for a while, he finally continued in one breath: "Recently, for some reason, my fifth younger sister suddenly fell in love with a poor scholar from who knows where.

"She didn't sleep all day and all night, and she insisted on seeing that poor scholar, and her heart ached if she didn't let her see her. There was nothing she could do at home, so they fed her soothing decoction, and finally fell asleep, only to wake up suddenly in the middle of the night That's right, the one who painted eyebrows and eyes in front of the dressing table shocked the maid on duty for the night."

"She also said that she is not married to Uncle Zhongqin's house anymore, and she is going to retire, crying and making noise at home."

"The family really has nothing to do with her, so they can only lock her up and try to persuade her slowly... But this girl actually started a hunger strike."

Saying that, Fan Beiran sighed deeply and rubbed the center of his brows.

If it weren't for the friendship between Gu Yuan and Gu Yuan who went to the house together, he wouldn't dare to mention this kind of thing casually.

Originally, the family thought it was because the little girl was uneasy before she got married, so she got angry, thinking that if she was allowed to calm down for a few days, no matter how soft and hard the family tried to reason with her, it would always make sense.

In the end, after a few days, the little girl couldn't listen to the persuasion, she couldn't make sense, she didn't eat or drink, she couldn't sleep, she got up in the middle of the night last night to embroider some wedding dress, saying that Xue Lang would come soon marry her.

"My mother said that my fifth younger sister must have been possessed by an evil spirit, and she even specially invited someone to the mansion to perform religious rituals, but it didn't help at all."

"I also think Fifth Sister is bewitched!"

Fan Beiran tightened his grip on the reins worryingly, drove the horse and walked slowly side by side with Gu Yuan, and said seriously: "A Yuan, you have seen such a well-behaved fifth sister of my family."

Gu Yuan had indeed seen it.

Miss Fan Wu used to run behind Fan Beiran's ass when she was a child, and went out to play with them. When they went to the horse race, she also went; when they went to the cockfight, she also watched;

It wasn't until the little girl was seven or eight years old that she was detained by Mrs. Fan, and she was no longer allowed to go out of the house to play with boys like them.

Fan Beiran grabbed Gu Yuan's wrist, and said eagerly: "Ah Yuan, if she is so hungry and refuses to eat, I'm really afraid that something will happen to her from starvation..."

"There's something really wrong about her like that."

"You beg your sister to show my fifth sister?"

Fan Beiran's helplessness when he said the last sentence was still in his ears, and when Gu Yuan returned home and relayed the words of his friend to Gu Yanfei, there was a bit of sympathetic embarrassment in his expression.

After talking about Miss Fan Wu, Gu Yuan said again: "Sister, if you don't want to, I'll go back to that boy Fan Beiran."

Hearing the name "Fan Beiran" again, Gu Yanfei was a little dazed.

She knew Fan Beiran.

In the last life, the eldest brother suffered serious injuries to his legs and was treated as an abandoned child by the second room. It was Fan Beiran and the others who did their best to help the eldest brother, invited doctors all over the capital, and specially invited a military doctor who was good at treating trauma, but the eldest brother's legs Still lame.

When the elder brother died, Fan Beiran and the other big men cried uncontrollably, and it was they who helped her bury the elder brother.

Gu Yanfei lowered his eyelashes to cover up his emotions, and said nonchalantly, "Okay, big brother, when are we going to Fan's house?"

Seeing his younger sister answering, Gu Yuan said: "You don't need to make a special trip, Fan Beiran said, he will find a way to get him here." He took the tea from Gu Yanfei and sat down beside him, "I Let Wutong pass a message to him."

Gu Yuan ordered Juan Bi to go to the outer courtyard to find Wutong, and he stayed in Yuhengyuan to eat some sugar water snacks with Gu Yanfei.

Fan's family is not far from Gu's house, only three or four blocks away, after a while, the brothers and sisters of Fan's family arrived.

One of the brothers and sisters was wearing apricot red and the other was wearing peach red. Both of them were brightly dressed, which made the room seem a lot brighter.

When she met Fan Beiran, Gu Yanfei was actually no stranger. She had met Fan Beiran in her previous life, and now she saw him again, she smiled at him kindly, and then her eyes fell on the fifth girl of the Fan family.

Fan Mushuang was wearing a pink skirt embroidered with folded branches and peony flowers, and a pair of red silk hairpins inlaid with rubies were stuck in her flat buns. She had a small round face, almond eyes and peach cheeks, and a small mouth. She had exquisite and delicate features and a cute appearance. Look Harmless to humans and animals.

However, her face was a little haggard, her fair cheeks were slightly sunken, her pupils were blurred, and her eye sockets were also covered with black shadows. It was obvious that she hadn't slept well in the past few days.

Gu Yanfei was looking at Fan Mushuang, and Fan Beiran's siblings were also looking at her.

Fan Mushuang stared blankly at Gu Yanfei with clear black and white almond eyes, and the first words he spoke were shocking words: "My second brother said, can you help me elope with Xue Lang?"

She curved her lips and smiled, the corners of her lips were raised high, like a moon like a hook, with a strange longing.

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