Chapter 52: midnight and
Although the Liang family was the first-ranked wife of the imperial court, it was not appropriate to rashly ask to see a prince who was in the process of cultivation.
Fortunately, her mind was moving quickly, so Qiuyue took a tonic she simmered for Gu Yuqi.
When they arrived at the entrance of the Zen courtyard of King Fu Qingxiu, Mr. Liang handed in the post according to the rules, and it didn't take long. Some guards came to spread the word, saying that His Royal Highness King Fu was allowed to see him.
Liang tidyed up his clothes and walked in with the guard.
She was taken to a Zen room. As soon as you enter the door, there is an elegant sandalwood fragrance coming from the shop, which is refreshing, and it seems to make people calm down all of a sudden. There is a pair of characters hanging on the wall in the middle, with a big Zen character written on it. The font is handsome and elegant.
Beneath the word Zen is a square table and a round stool, with a simple shape that blends in with the house, and a clean white porcelain vase is placed on the table.
"Madam, please rest for a while, the lord will come right away." The guard brought a cup of fragrant tea and then withdrew.
After a while, Mrs Liang heard light footsteps coming from the door. She hurriedly stood up, the door was pushed open from the outside, and a man in white came in. His figure was a little thin, and the white clothes were plain and unadorned, except that a blue silk sash was tied around his waist, and the lower end of the silk sash had two knots, which hung down naturally. His black hair was neatly bundled behind his head, pinned with a green hosta, his face was covered with a layer of white gauze, and only a pair of eyes were exposed. Those eyes are black and white, clear and serene, not stained with dust.
"I've seen Mrs. Dingyuan Hou." The man who came in saw Liang Shi was a little dazed, and said first. His voice was clear and gentle, like a clear spring passing through a stone, and it sounded very comfortable. "Next is the person Madam is looking for."
Instead of calling himself the king, he used the following, which makes people sound very kind.
Only then did Liang's come back to his senses. He hurriedly bowed his knees and saluted, "The minister's wife, Mrs. Liang of Dingyuan Hou's mansion, has seen His Royal Highness Fu Wang. Your Highness is blessed and safe."
"You don't need to be polite, Madam." Yun Ling smiled faintly, "This is the place for Buddhist cultivation, so keep everything simple. Madam, please take a seat."
Only then did Mrs Liang straighten her waist, "I heard that Your Highness is here, and the court lady specially sent some supplements." After she finished speaking, she asked Qiuyue to bring the things over, "It's just some household stuff, but it made His Highness laugh."
"You're welcome, Madam." Fu Wang Yunling motioned for Mrs. Liang to put things down, "Madam is here. But I have something to ask." His black and white eyes looked at Mrs. Liang, and Mrs. Liang felt that although this person was extremely polite , but has a pair of eyes that can read people's hearts. I didn't expect that Fu Wang Yunling, who has been cultivating all the time, would be such a transparent person, and he didn't say anything.
"The minister's wife came here to meet His Highness King Fu. The second is to ask His Royal Highness An." Mr. Liang saw that Yunling was straight to the point, so he no longer flickered.
"My seventh younger brother accidentally fell into the secret path of this mountain temple last night and suffered some injuries. Fortunately, my health has always been bad, so there is an imperial doctor accompanying the mountain temple, and the imperial doctor has already seen the seventh brother. , they are all skin injuries, and they only need to rest for a while to recover. It makes my wife think about it." Fortune Wang Yunling said with a smile.
Liang wanted to carefully observe the expression on his face, but he had no choice but to wear a veil. No matter how he looked, Liang could only see his eyes...
But now it doesn't look like he's angry at all. If His Royal Highness Prince An had said something to him, he probably wouldn't be too fond of him. Mr. Liang thought about it.
"Could the courtier go and see His Royal Highness Prince An?" Mr. Liang asked tentatively again.
"Seventh brother is still sleeping peacefully while taking the medicine, I'm afraid the timing is a little inappropriate." Yun Ling politely rejected Liang's request. "However, I can convey the matter of the lady's visit here. I also thank the lady for the seventh brother."
What does it mean? Was it because he was angry or did he really fall asleep?
Liang Shi couldn't make up his mind for a while. She could only stand up, "Since this is the case, then the court lady will not disturb His Highness's cleaning and retire first."
"Okay. Come, send off your wife." Yun Ling also got up and said.
He had been watching Mrs. Liang, Mrs. Dingyuan Hou, leave the meditation room, and then he walked out slowly.
Yun Ling walked to a room in the backyard and pushed the door in.
The room was filled with a strong smell of medicine. Yun Ling grew up taking medicine since he was a child, so he didn't dislike the smell. He walked straight to the bed, stood still, looked at the comatose man on the bed, and sighed slightly.
When will he wake up.
When he sent someone to rescue Yun Ke from the secret passage last night, Yun Ke had already passed out. There were some strips of cloth wrapped around his waist, but those strips had long been stained with blood.
The accompanying imperial doctor was frightened by what Yun Ke looked like at the time, and half of his soul flew away.
If he were to be rescued an hour later, the blood on his body would be drained. The wound on the lower back was extremely deep.
Fortunately, Yun Ke ordered several acupoints on his own to stop the bleeding, and someone used a piece of cloth to tie the wound tightly to stop the bleeding, otherwise Yun Ke wouldn't be able to last that long.
Yun Ling had already sent someone to deliver a letter back to Beijing overnight. He only said that Yun Ke fell into the secret way of Huguo Temple, but did not mention how he fell.
First, he didn't know what happened and couldn't talk nonsense. Second, he also knew that Yun Ke would not have fallen by himself, because the cloth belt wrapped around his waist was obviously not torn from his clothes. The material looks like a woman's skirt. When it comes to the woman's reputation, he can't talk nonsense. Everything is still waiting for Yun Ke to wake up by himself, and let him tangle himself.
However, the woman who came to report the letter last night had a beautiful face and an elegant manner of speaking. At first glance, she was well trained, and she looked like she was dressed like a maid from a big family. Probably someone in their family lost the secret way with Yun Ke, Yun Ke sent people out to report the letter, but he didn't have the strength to go out.
Just now when Mr. Liang asked to see His Royal Highness Prince An, Yun Ling figured out something by himself.
The one who fell into the secret passage together with Yun Ke should be the young lady from the Dingyuan Marquis's residence. This lady is here to find out...
Although he has been cultivating and recuperating in the mountain temple, it is not that he is completely oblivious to things outside the window. There will be someone who will hear everything that happens outside into his ears.
Could it be that the young lady of Mrs. Dingyuan Hou's family was the one who shined at the Winter Hunting Festival a few years ago? what do you say that is? correct. It's Gu Yuqi. Yun Ling thought about it.
He clearly remembered that there were rumors at the time that Yun Ke took the family out of the hunting jungle in person, but Yun Ke unexpectedly married the young lady of the Murong family as his wife. This matter has been rumored for a long time.
Yun Ling took a deep look at Yun Ke's unconscious face. If it was the Miss Gu Yuqi from the Dingyuan Hou family who fell into the pit with Yun Ke last night, the two of them really had a fate...
Liang has been restless since his return.
She really couldn't guess what Yun Ling meant. Looking at his calm and clear appearance, it was as if it wasn't his younger brother who was fished out of the secret path last night... But he didn't let himself see Yun Ke, because Yun Ke was really asleep, Or they were already discussing countermeasures and how to punish Gu Yuqi before they disappeared on purpose.
Chun Xing, who went to deliver the letter, hadn't come back yet, and Mrs. Liang didn't dare to visit Gu Yuqi, for fear that her nervousness would infect her daughter, who hadn't slept well last night.
Liang Shi waited until the evening, but Gu Huaizhong was waiting.
He obviously came with Chun Xing. He was so dusty that he didn't even bother to wash up, so he went straight into the room and asked, "Where's that girl Gu Yuqi?"
His face was obviously not good, and the blackness became an iron lump.
"It's in my room." Liang Shi secretly frowned.
"That girl is so courageous! Even the royal family and nobles dare to fight!" Gu Huaizhong said a little angrily, "It's all your fault! It's fine to teach your daughter embroidery and calligraphy, and what kind of martial arts! Look at her troubles! "
Liang's heart sank, only to feel a chill rise from the depths of her heart, and her face fell, "Master Hou, I didn't come to you to scold my daughter and me! I'm trying to find a way. How to fix it!"
"Remedy?" Gu Huaizhong was in a hurry and rushed another way. Naturally, he didn't have a good face for Mrs. Liang. Hearing Mrs. Liang's words, he smiled sarcastically, "How do you say the remedy? A girl went to beat up the prince of the dynasty! How do you ask me to make amends for her?"
"My daughter?" Mrs. Liang couldn't hold back the anger in her heart any longer. She thought that in the past few years, Gu Huaizhong would be able to teach Gu Yuqi martial arts and have more contact with their mother and daughter. She should have accepted her daughter from the bottom of her heart. Although she lost her original love for Gu Huaizhong, but after all, he is Gu Yuqi's father, and her daughter has always been by her side. Without fatherly love, she would also feel very guilty.
When something like this happened, she naturally wanted to notify Gu Huaizhong at the first time. She thought about finding a way with two people, which was better than jumping around alone.
But she never expected that Gu Huaizhong rushed over and said something like this.
"Isn't she your daughter?" Liang Shi asked angrily.
"What if it's my daughter?" Gu Huaizhong was also full of anger. A few years ago, he deliberately wanted his daughter to marry into the royal family. At first, this daughter was also a good candidate. His Royal Highness was also very fond of him. He thought that his daughter could marry into the Prince's Mansion when she was older and become a concubine of the Prince's side, which would have a bright future. But then his reputation was ruined by King An. Fortunately, it was destroyed in the hands of King An. He thought about whether it would be better to give King An a side concubine when his daughter grew up in a few years.
It's good now, she is so skilled that she dares to beat His Royal Highness Prince An.
He had just gone to the backyard to find His Royal Highness King Fu, asking to see King An, but was stopped by King Fu. Thinking of coming to Prince An, His Royal Highness is already burning with anger, and maybe he is thinking about how to punish them in the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion.
"Don't you understand the etiquette at all? If you weren't really in a hurry, how could you hit His Royal Highness Prince An?" Mr. Liang said angrily. "As a father, you don't know how to appease your daughter when something goes wrong, and you teach me a lesson first if you cover up your face? What happens next? Do you want to tie your daughter to apologize to King An?" Shicha was dumbfounded.
"Is it possible that she still has to make offerings to her! She dares to beat An Wang today, will she be beaten in the Golden Palace tomorrow?" Gu Huaizhong was even more angry at what Liang said, "How about tying her to apologize to King An? As long as Without being implicated in the Hou Mansion, His Royal Highness An Wang deserved her a small life, but he was so daring enough to beat the royal family, do you know that this is a serious crime that implicates the nine clans! You are usually stable and you are a young lady from a big family, but you see Look at the daughter you taught, but she beats people at every turn. What's the difference between this and a wild woman in the countryside! You're just thinking about Gu Yuqi, and there are Siyang and Siyu in the house, why don't you think about them?"
Liang shi looked at Gu Huaizhong in disbelief. Although the man in front of him was still handsome, he was already disgusting in her opinion.
Liang Shi actually looked at it and laughed. Her eyes were full of anger, but the corners of her mouth were hooked up strangely. Her current expression shocked Gu Huaizhong.
"It's good that you don't think about others. In your heart, Gu Siyang and Gu Siyu are always important, right? Only they are your sons and daughters. What are I and Anan?" said.
At this time, the door was slammed open from the outside. Gu Siyang and Gu Siyu were pulled by Gu Yuqi and stood outside the door at a loss. Liang Shi and Gu Huaizhong looked out together. Gu Huaizhong saw Gu Yuqi and dared to put his brother and sister Bringing it together, I almost lost my breath.
"You bastard! How dare you come?!" He pointed at Gu Yuqi and roared, and then began to feel in the house, "Don't hurry up and be bound! Come with me to apologize to His Royal Highness Prince An! If you have the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion, don't implicate your younger siblings!"
Gu Yuqi's heart was as cold as Liang's.
After she learned that Gu Huaizhong was here, she deliberately called Gu Siyang and Gu Siyu. Because she wanted to see who in this family was on her side before the disaster.
They had already heard the conversation between Liang's and Gu Huaizhong clearly outside the door. Gu Yuqi's heart was full of chills, and Gu Siyang was not feeling well. His small face collapsed tightly, but he took the initiative to hold Gu Yuqi. Gu Siyu's hand, and Gu Siyu had been frightened for a long time. He was held by Gu Yuqi and didn't know what to do. Tears were already rolling in his eyes.
"Father." Gu Yuqi resisted the pain in her feet and stepped into the meditation room. She said quietly, "I caused the disaster, and I will not harm the Hou Mansion."
"You said it lightly! How can you not get involved?" Hearing Gu Yuqi say this, Gu Huaizhong burst into anger, "Everyone knows that you are my Gu Huaizhong's daughter! Gu Yuqi!"
"Does father regret giving birth to his daughter?" Gu Yuqi asked calmly.
"Yeah! I had known that there would be a wicked obstacle like you who would implicate me in the future. I would have you..."
"How about A-Nan?" A sharp voice interrupted Gu Huaizhong's words. Gu Huaizhong looked back, but met Liang's red eyes, "Will A-Nan be strangled early? Gu Huaizhong. Do you still have a conscience? How did you fall in love with me at first, I don't want to mention it anymore, and now I just feel disgusted! Even if you don't put your mind on me, I don't want to care about you anymore. But now something happened to Anan, your body As a father, I don't know how to protect my daughter, I want to get rid of the crime, and I am even willing to push my daughter out! Gu Huaizhong, I was really blind and blind, so I would marry you!" Taking a step, he slapped a palm on the table inside the room.
After a muffled bang, the wooden table was smashed to pieces and fell to the ground with a bang, "Today my relationship with your husband and wife is like this table!" Liang shi looked at Gu Huaizhong and said coldly, "Yipin, I too It's not uncommon! I will follow your wishes today, and I will break up with you. Let's go back to Beijing and go to Jingzhao Yin's place to have a reconciliation! Listen clearly, it is not you who divorce me, but I will divorce you! From now on, You go on your Yangguan Road, and I will take A-Nan to walk our single-plank bridge. Anything that happens to A-Nan in the future has nothing to do with your Dingyuan Hou Mansion!"
"Ha! You've got a temper tantrum. I'm just saying how could one of Gu Yuqi's good daughters beat people now! So it was you who taught me!" Gu Huaizhong was obviously incoherent by Liang's words.
The world has really changed! Liang Shi dared to say that she divorced him!
"Don't talk nonsense with me! Jing Zhaoyin, go or not!" Mr. Liang ignored the cynicism in his arms and glared at him and asked.
"Go and go!" Gu Huaizhong squeezed his chest in one breath, only to feel that his limbs became cold.
"Father and mother, think twice!" Gu Siyang thought about it first. If Gu Huaizhong reconciled with Liang's family, he should be happy, but now he can't be happy. Once they reconcile, Liang's family will take his sister with him. Leaving Houfu...
When he said this, Gu Siyu also cried, and she hugged Gu Yuqi's waist, "Sister, Siyu, don't let my sister go!"
Gu Yuqi's heart is also full of mixed feelings. Although she wants to test Gu Siyang and Gu Siyu out of selfishness, her heart is really uncomfortable now. According to the reason, the current situation is what she is happy to see. As long as Gu Huaizhong and her mother are divorced, then she can take her mother away from Hou's mansion and fly away, but when all this becomes a reality, why is her heart like that? It's awkward.
She silently embraced Gu Siyu's body and gently patted her back.
If it is said that after getting along for so many years, it is naturally impossible to have no relationship with these two younger brothers and sisters. She deliberately approached them and gained their trust and support, how could she have a cold heart.
"You don't need to say more!" Gu Huaizhong raised his hand to stop Gu Siyang's words, and said coldly, "Since this is Miss Liang's decision, this marquis should obey!"
There was an indescribable feeling in his heart, as if someone suddenly grabbed his trachea, unable to breathe.
He was angry at Gu Yuqi, and he was a little more serious, but he was also thinking of the Hou Mansion! Having sacrificed Gu Yuqi, he can keep the Hou Mansion up and down, what's wrong with him as Dingyuan Hou? The Liang family was so decisive against him! This made him feel cold in his heart.
Miss Liang Jia! Liang Huaiyu's eyes looked at Gu Huaizhong with contempt. If it wasn't for the young lady of the Liang family who fell in love with him back then, would he have come this far?
He kept saying that he was afraid that Gu Yuqi would involve the Marquis Mansion. Why didn't he think about it, if it wasn't for her, Miss Liang's family, and the marksmanship that Miss Liang's family taught him, how could a little captain of his school come to the position of the Marquis? superior!
Father! My daughter is really unfilial! To be blind to marry such a man! Liang Huaiyu was completely cold-hearted.
Originally, she stayed in the capital for the sake of Gu Yuqi, but now the Marquis of Dingyuan in front of her was completely ignoring Gu Yuqi's safety. So what's the point of her staying here? She only hated that when she came to the capital, she didn't cut it when she was in the capital, and immediately left with Gu Huaizhong!
"Don't talk nonsense! Come to Jingzhaoyin with me!" Liang Huaiyu raised her hand and grabbed Gu Huaizhong's wrist.
Gu Huaizhong was shocked, and her heart was full of bitterness. In all these years, the first time she took the initiative to touch him was actually pulling him away.
"It's too late, Jing Zhaoyin..." Before Gu Huaizhong finished speaking, he looked at Liang Huaiyu's eyes full of resentment and anger, but he couldn't say anything after that.
In addition to the resentment and anger in her eyes, there was a barrenness... Gu Huaizhong felt that he seemed a little regretful, and he should not have said such decisive words. It's just that it's hard to ride a tiger now, and he has agreed. Wouldn't it be shameful to regret it now!
He had seen her shy eyes when she was a girl, and the eyes that exuded happiness and happiness from the bottom of her heart when she first married him. At that time, she was very close to him, no longer like Jiutian Xuannv. High above, she was like a fairy who fell into the heart of a mortal, but now Liang Huaiyu is like a phoenix in Nirvana, fluttering her wings, he seems to be able to see that he is about to lose the original one. That fairy, not every fairy tale has the best ending, the fairy who descended to earth is finally going to return to heaven...
"Don't be afraid of being late." Mrs. Liang grabbed Gu Huaizhong's wrist with one hand and smiled sarcastically, "Aren't you afraid that Nang will implicate the Hou Mansion? If you reunite a moment earlier, Nang's actions have nothing to do with you. "
"Xiaoyu. I..." Gu Huaizhong was really anxious now, he wanted to explain, but Liang Huaiyu cut him off before he could say, "You don't deserve to call me Xiaoyu."
These words hit Gu Huaizhong's heart like a heavy hammer.
Not worthy... After so many years, she finally said what was in her heart, and that was that he was not worthy...
"If you want to go, just go." Gu Huaizhong sighed and let Liang Huaiyu pull him out of the meditation room.
Gu Yuqi hurriedly followed and grabbed her mother's clothes, "Is your mother really determined?" She asked again worriedly. Although she really wanted to take Liang's family away from the Hou Mansion, but the matter was coming, she was still afraid that Liang's family would regret it in the future.
In fact, she didn't expect things to evolve to this stage... She didn't expect that Gu Huaizhong, who she thought had eased up, would help her speak. .
She had planned for the worst, and following Gu Huaizhong's wishes, she was kidnapped to make amends for Yun Ke.
Anyway, she had already knelt down to Yun Ke countless times in the last life, and it doesn't matter how many times she knelt down in this life.
Yun Ke would not let her go, it would make no difference one day earlier or one day later.
Unexpectedly, her mother tore her face in order to protect herself and Gu Huaizhong. This made Gu Yuqi feel both joy, guilt, and a little bit of fear. She was afraid that Liang's family would regret later... She would blame her... Then she would rather go to give her now. Yun Ke kowtowed more than a dozen times, even if Yun Ke killed her, it didn't matter. She doesn't want her mother to be sad in the future.
That's why she grabbed the hem of Liang's clothes and asked in a low voice.
Liang Huaiyu looked back and gave Gu Yuqi a relieved look, "Don't worry, my mother has already figured it out. You are right, the sea is vast and the sky is wide, where is there no place for us and my mother? What does the mere Houfu count? As long as you are peaceful An'an, my mother is happy."
Gu Yuqi's tears couldn't help falling from those words, "Mother, don't worry, today we leave the Hou Mansion, and I will make my mother's life better in the future! It's a hundred times better than now! "
"Silly girl, what crazy words are you talking about, it's enough for mother to have you." Liang Huaiyu's eyes were also slightly red. After she finished talking to Gu Yuqi, she turned to Gu Huaizhong and said coldly, "Let's go, Lord Hou, wait. What? If you wait for His Royal Highness An to chase after him, don't regret it."
"Let's go!" Gu Huaizhong immediately lifted his hem and walked forward.
After leaving the Hou Mansion after a drama of deep love between mother and daughter, he wanted to see what kind of life this dead girl could make Liang Huaiyu live! A hundred times better? ! What nonsense!