Chapter 55: The cold of early spring
The horse was like a black ghost, carrying two women galloping fast on the streets of the capital. Liang Huaiyu's cheeks were blown by the night wind, but she didn't feel the slightest coldness. Instead, her heart was bulging. An emotion that had been suppressed for many years was completely released in the battle just now, making her whole person and every pore reveal a sense of relaxation.
Unfortunately, after she got married, she neglected to practice. It was only by accompanying her daughter to practice martial arts in the past few years that she picked up her marksmanship and practiced it well. If she had devoted more of her mind to this aspect, Gu Huaizhong would definitely not be her opponent tonight.
Thinking of this, Liang Huaiyu felt extremely proud and proud, even though she hadn't won the battle just now. People who practice martial arts tend to have a bit of a competitive spirit. Although Liang Huaiyu has been a wife for so long, it is no exception. Perhaps the blood of the Liang Family God of War was flowing in her body, and she felt that she shouldn't be trapped in the world in the back house.
Although the daughter's words sounded outrageous, it was shocking. But now that I think about it, it is also extremely proud and hearty.
If you are ruthless, I will leave! This sentence is easy to say. But how many women in this world are able to do it casually?
The world is unfair, the shackles placed on women are one after another, but there is much forgiveness for men. Why is this?
"Nang, do you regret it?" Liang Huaiyu asked in a low voice to her daughter who was sitting in front of him.
"Mother, do you regret it?" Gu Yuqi smiled sweetly, looked back at her mother, and asked back.
"Never." Liang Huaiyu laughed heartily, feeling that her state of mind had never been so open and refreshing! The hearty battle just now made her feel like she was about to fly.
Although she didn't win against Gu Huaizhong, she also forced him to have no way out! When the head of the military generals of the dynasty, she was forced to such a point by a little girl who was nestled in the deep house compound with no access to the door. In Liang Huaiyu's view, she has already won! And she got out of the confinement that she never thought of getting out of before. After this time, she can't look back anymore, she understands that the halo and titles of Yipin's life, Mrs. Houfu, daughter of aristocratic family will completely leave her tonight and will be stripped away by her.
But what this stripping brings is not pain, but relief!
From tonight, she is just Liang Huaiyu, the mother of Gu Yuqi and the daughter of General Liang, the Great Qi God of War.
If my father was alive, he would not be ashamed of what he did tonight, but would be proud of her, that is what a father should do, not like Gu Huaizhong, when something happened, no matter the reason, He directly pushed his own daughter out, and wanted her to marry into the royal family as an excuse to pave the way for him.
"As long as the mother is happy, the daughter is happy!" Gu Yuqi said softly, she accelerated the horse's speed and made the horse run faster.
Gu Yuqi's words penetrated into Liang Huaiyu's heart like a spring breeze and drizzle, "It's just that our road may be difficult to walk in the future." Liang Huaiyu sighed deeply. She was happy, but she couldn't help worrying about her daughter's future.
"That mother said what kind of road is not difficult to walk?" Gu Yuqi knew Liang Huaiyu's worries and smiled, "If I were still Miss Houfu, I would get married in two years, but what kind of person will I marry in the future? What? Even if you get married, will you have a peaceful life? In life, there are unsatisfactory things everywhere. If you marry a husband and a husband, the life of the husband and the son will be peaceful, but how does the mother know that such a life is the real daughter of the daughter? What do you want?"
"What kind of life do you want to live?" Liang Huaiyu asked involuntarily.
"I'm free, I'm no longer bound by others, it's better to have a man who loves me wholeheartedly, and I don't want to force it." Gu Yuqi thought about it and said slowly, "This kind of life is enough, although it's just an illusion."
In her previous life, she was too demanding, always demanding feelings that she could not hope for, and she was dead on the top of her head, so she fell deeper and deeper, and the deeper she was, the more unwilling she was. understand myself. After all, didn't she still breathe a sigh of relief even when the fire was finally set?
She extravagantly hoped to leave an indelible impression on that person's heart in the end. Everyone is dead, and the impression is useless! It's all I can't understand, I can't figure it out!
What separates her and Yun Ke is not a mountain, but a gap created by thousands of years!
She has her thoughts, her obsessions, and Yun Ke is a real man of this era. To him, women are just embellishments in life, and her behavior has long exceeded the cognition of women in this era. , even if she tried her best to restrain herself, she could not help but do what she wanted and was criticized. In Yun Ke's eyes, she was not a good woman, not a woman worthy of his trust and love.
It's a pity that in the last life, I didn't want to understand this at all, so I ended up in such a tragic end.
Humans are such strange animals. When you are deeply caught in it, it seems like a gauze is covered in front of your eyes, and you can't see the way forward clearly, but when you jump out and look back, you will feel that you were walking. It's a detour, and there was originally an avenue to go behind, but it was ignored.
"Don't be ashamed!" Liang Huaiyu was startled, obviously not expecting that her fourteen-year-old daughter would suddenly say such a deviant remark, and her face became red.
"Mother, aren't you always worried that your daughter won't get married?" Gu Yuqi laughed and said jokingly.
"Bah! My daughter is so good, it's more than enough to be a queen!" Liang Huaiyu laughed at Gu Yuqi's words, spat her and said.
Even the violent beating of King An, the beating of the biological father, and the burning of the Dingyuan Marquis mansion were all done. What is the deviant speech? Besides, what her daughter said was right. Isn't she worried that her daughter will not be able to marry in the future?
Forget it, she will recognize if she can't get married, as long as Gu Yuqi lives happily.
"But we made such a big fuss tonight, I'm afraid that person will not give up in the future." Thinking of this, Liang Huaiyu couldn't help sighing and said, "Our mothers are afraid that we will hide our names and live in hiding in the future."
"Don't worry about these girls." Gu Yuqi said with a relaxed smile. She has been planning for four years, do you really think that she will not do anything other than study and practice martial arts in the past four years? "Let's go to Kuizhou!"
"Okay!" Contrary to Gu Yuqi's expectations, this time Liang Huaiyu readily agreed.
Liang Huaiyu thought, anyway, it's already so big, so go to the border when you go to the border. What my daughter said is also true. Kuizhou is the place where the three countries meet, and there are many people with different eyes, so it is a good hiding place.
It's just that she didn't expect her daughter to have even bought a house there...
The mother and daughter came under the city wall of the North Gate, stopped their horses, looked around, and saw a woman's figure flashing out of the darkness, waving to them, "Miss, Miss! "It's about acres to plan.
"It's Chun Xing." Gu Yuqi pointed at the figure and smiled.
Chun Xing is a very clever person. After she brought everyone to the north gate, she didn't just stand in front of the city gate and wait, but let everyone hide in a corner, and she ran over to wait for Liang Huaiyu and Gu Yuqi.
God knows how anxious she is waiting here, for fear that the two of them will not be able to get out of the Hou Mansion. She thought, if she couldn't wait for them after two more incense sticks, then she would go back to Hou Mansion to inquire about the news. Unexpectedly, she heard the sound of horses' hooves so quickly, and the eldest and young ladies all escaped.
"Well done!" Knowing Chun Xing's arrangement, Gu Yuqi couldn't help giving Chun Xing a thumbs up.
When Liang Huaiyu and Gu Yuqi came, Chun Xing hurriedly called out the others.
Liang Huaiyu took a look at the number of people, and there was not a lot of them. Only then did the eldest princess Yupei call to open the city gate.
After the group went out of the city, Liang Huaiyu handed the jade pendant to the sergeant guarding the city, "Go and return this jade pendant to Her Royal Highness the eldest princess." After she finished speaking, she stuffed a little silver for him, and then got on the horse. , chasing after Gu Yuqi.
Liang Huaiyu looked back at the city wall that was hidden in the darkness and gradually drifting away, and let out a long sigh. A few years ago, she also brought these people to the capital from Jiangnan with hope. She still took these people and left here again, and the five flavors were so complicated that it was difficult to express in words.
Liang Huaiyu and her party did not dare to stay overnight to drive on the road. Fortunately, the ten guards she brought out were all experienced people, and they were the ones who opened the way in front, and the night's journey was not difficult.
They are all orphans on the border. They have been taken into the military camp by General Liang since they were young and trained in order to protect Liang Huaiyu in the future. Although Liang Huaiyu has the heart to let them go for so many years, they are grateful for the two generals. The life-saving grace was actually the same as Chun Xing and the others. Even if they were getting older, they would not leave Liang Huaiyu and go back to start a family.
Liang Huaiyu's departure from Hou's Mansion was not a bad thing for them. Almost everyone felt that such a ruined place was not as comfortable as an old Jiangnan residence. Besides, the capital was undoubtedly a huge cage for them. In order not to embarrass Liang Huaiyu, he was always restraining his behavior, and he didn't even dare to laugh out loud in the Hou Mansion. The past few years have been very frustrating.
As Liang Huaiyu left the capital tonight, everyone's face was actually relaxed.
Liang Huaiyu and his party hurried non-stop, and Gu Huaizhong also ran to the north gate shortly after Liang Huaiyu left the city gate.
A dignified Marquis of Dingyuan, his face was black and blue because of his own daughter's anger. Without a horse, he could only run over on foot. Although he was a soldier, he had suffered all kinds of hardships, but after all, he had been pampered in the capital for so many years. Now, this run, he felt like his heart was about to pop out of his mouth.
He just kept supporting him in one breath, he had to chase those two women back!
When he reached the city gate, the sergeant guarding the city stopped him.
"Open the city gate!" Hou Gu of Dingyuan gasped for a long time before calming his heartbeat and roared.
"Where's the drunk!" The sergeant who was guarding the city smelled the alcohol emanating from him, frowned and scolded, "It's late at night, I want to go out of the city, please come early tomorrow!"
"Open the city gate for Ben Hou!" Gu Huaizhong was really angry, Liang Huaiyu and Gu Yuqi had already made him angry, and he ran over out of breath, even a small guard sergeant dared to disobey him the meaning of.
"Ha, when you say you open the door, you'll open the door? Well, I'll open the door for you as long as you take the token or hand me over!" The sergeant said with a disdainful smile, "Returning the prince? If you are the prince, I will be the prince!"
The sergeant saw that although Gu Huaizhong was well dressed, his hair was messy, his face was flushed, and he smelled of alcohol. There was no trace of the nobleness and gentleness of a Marquis, so he thought he was just a drunk and a drunkard talking nonsense. Nonsense, just vexatious.
Gu Huaizhong was annoyed and pulled the sergeant over, "I'll open the door for your grandfather!" he roared.
"Aiyo, I've seen one who is so obsessed, but I've never seen you so stupid! What's the matter? I'm not pretending to be a marquis, I'm pretending to be my grandfather? Tell you, Xiaoye, I have never seen my grandfather! His old man is already dead. The sergeant who guarded the city was also furious, and said sarcastically, "Hurry up and let go! Sir, I don't want to care about you because of your drunkenness, or else I'll catch you in jail and eat a meal, you Be honest!"
"Mom (harmony)! You are courting death, right? Open the door!" Gu Huai threw the sergeant out in a fit of rage. He was so strong that the sergeant was really thrown aside by him and fell heavily to the ground.
"Who is courting death! I think it is you who are courting death!" The sergeant was also furious, and greeted the tower, "Brothers! Someone is courting death, come and help him!"
There were a few soldiers who were guarding the city on the tower, and they were all confused. When the sergeant called them, they all came to their senses. They went down the tower, took out their sabers, and surrounded Gu Huaizhong.
"Boss, what's the matter?" Someone asked the sergeant, and someone went over to help the sergeant up.
The sergeant patted the dirt on his body and snorted coldly, "Get this ignorant drunk man up for Lao Tzu!"
"Look who dares to move!" Gu Huaizhong was about to explode with anger! He shouted, "This Marquis is the Marquis of Dingyuan!"
"Your grandfather's Marquis Dingyuan!" The sergeant immediately scolded him back, "I'm still the Jade Emperor! Don't talk nonsense with me! Arrest him!"
Gu Huaizhong touched his waist, originally wanting to show the golden seal of Marquis Dingyuan, but when he touched it, the waist was empty. He just remembered that after returning to the mansion, he changed his clothes, and the golden seal was left in the study by him.
I go! Watching the passage of time, the longer it passed, the harder it would be for him to catch up with Liang Huaiyu and Gu Yuqi! Gu Huaizhong cursed his mother in the bottom of his heart and cursed the world upside down.
"This Marquis is really the Marquis of Dingyuan!" Gu Huaizhong was blown away by the wind, and his mind seemed to clear up a little. He said that it was not difficult to defeat the soldiers around him, but as long as he made a move, there would be More soldiers are coming, what year and month is he going to fight! So he slowed his voice and said, "It's really urgent to go out of the city, so please take it easy."
"Oh, this is not my grandfather?" The sergeant was also a talker, seeing Gu Huaizhong's voice slowed down, only when he saw that he had a lot of people, he knew he was afraid, so he smiled and said, "You said you are the Marquis of Dingyuan. , you are the Marquis of Dingyuan? You don't look at you like that! I even said that I am the Jade Emperor!"
After he finished speaking, the soldiers surrounding Gu Huaizhong also burst into laughter.
Gu Huaizhong suddenly had a feeling that when a scholar met a soldier, he couldn't make sense.
"Open the door! There will be a heavy thank you from the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion tomorrow." He gritted his teeth and endured his anger.
"Then there's no need. You don't have the token and the hand symbol, and the city gate can't be opened. But I also have a big thank you!" The sergeant said slyly, "Come here, arrest him, and lock him up overnight! Trespass the city. The door! Abstaining this army master! You have turned the sky! Dingyuan Hou? I bah!"
"Yes!" The soldiers laughed and tightened the circle around Gu Huaizhong.
Gu Huaizhong took a look, fight, you can't go back if you don't fight! So he made the first move to be stronger. He had been on the battlefield, and his shots were clean and tidy, and he would knock down the soldiers who came around. The sergeant saw that the situation was not good, and quickly called someone!
Before he turned around, his neck was tight, and Gu Huaizhong carried him back again. This time, instead of throwing him out, Gu Huaizhong pulled out his saber and put it on his neck, "Open the city gate! Give me a horse!"
Damn (harmony), you shouldn't talk nonsense with them! Wasting a lot of time.
The sergeant's neck felt a pain, and he felt a stream of heat seeping out, and then he panicked, co-authoring this drunk man is really playing! It's not worth dying at the hands of a drunk man, he hurriedly greeted his brothers lying on the ground, "Go, go, open the door quickly."
Two soldiers were not seriously injured, they got up immediately, and worked together to lift the 100-pound door bolt, and then opened the city gate. They also led a war horse out of the city tower.
Gu Huaizhong snorted coldly, let go of the sergeant, flew on his horse, and ran towards the darkness.
"Boss, are you alright." After Gu Huaizhong left, several soldiers helped the soldier up, "Oh, boss, you're bleeding!"
The sergeant scolded and touched his neck, didn't he! It's all blood!
"Why are you still standing there! Go to report to the officer!" the sergeant scolded.
"But, boss, aren't you an official?" a soldier asked ignorantly.
"Idiot! Go and report it to the governor! Someone broke into the city gate at night, wounded the sergeant, and robbed the horse!" The sergeant scolded the iron and steel, "they won't give me a horse to chase!"
After being yelled at by him, the soldiers came back to their senses. Some people ran to the Wucheng soldiers and horses to report the letter, and some people ran up to the city gate to call for people. For a while, there was a chaotic noise under the north gate, and people turned their heads.
After Gu Huaizhong left the city gate, he ran for a while to the fork, continuing north on one side and facing south on the other. He reined in the reins, stopped the horse, and looked around. When he came out, he was in a hurry. He didn't bring a torch, and he couldn't see the traces on the ground. He just thought that Liang Huaiyu would bring Gu Yuqi back to Jiangnan. Then they must have chosen the road heading south, so he turned around and chased the road heading south.
He never imagined that Gu Yuqi, a wonderful woman, actually bought a house in Kuizhou, and she led Liang Huaiyu to go north.
Not to mention how the two sides hurried on the road, even in the capital, there was a chicken flying and a dog jumping.
The fire that Gu Yuqi set was in the right place! The fire took advantage of the wind, and the piles of forage were blown up by the wind and fell into the yard. It is early spring, and the peach blossoms are in bloom, but the other trees have not yet budded, and it has not rained recently, everywhere. It was all dry, and the sparks ignited the withered grass in the yard, gradually forming a prairie prairie. After Gu Huaizhong left, there was no one in the Hou Mansion who spoke loudly. When they rushed to the backyard, the fire was already very big, and even several nearby yards were on fire. The flames shot into the sky for a while, and the orange flames followed the wind to the height of two floors, covering half of the sky. brightened up.
Dingyuan Hou's mansion put out the fire and saved a pot of porridge. The cries of father and mother were incessant, and Liu Yue was also frightened. How did she experience this? shed tears. On the other hand, Gu Siyang, who came here after hearing the news, showed the courage that did not match his age. At first, he panicked, but he calmed down quickly and instructed the family to put out the fire, and to move things.
The fire in the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion was extinguished until dawn, and half of the Marquis Mansion was torched. Facing the ruins, Liu Yue sat on the ground, wanting to cry without tears. In the bottom of my heart, I hate Liang Huaiyu and Gu Yuqi with gritted teeth! She just wanted to sleep on her skin and addicted to her flesh, because her Mochizuki Residence was only an empty shelf left.
Mochizuki Curie's silver notes and jewelry that she had accumulated for many years were all destroyed in the fire, and her years of hard work disappeared without a trace with the fire.
"Mother." Looking at Liu Yue's pale face, Gu Siyang, whose face was dark and smoked by the smoke, walked over silently and helped Liu Yue up, "Don't be uncomfortable." He comforted her softly.
"Isn't it uncomfortable?" Liu Yue finally came to her senses, she suddenly grabbed her son's arm, just in the place where Gu Siyang was scorched by the flames for fighting the fire, he couldn't help baring his teeth in pain, but he endured it. She didn't cry out, "How can I not feel bad! The money is gone! It's gone!" She screamed, her eyes were red, and her hair was disheveled like a lunatic.
Gu Siyang looked at his mother in surprise, and felt a chill in his heart for no reason.
With such a big incident at home, in the bottom of my mother's heart, can the safety of myself and Gu Siyu not be worth the money? Why didn't she ask herself if she was tired or if she was injured?
Gu Siyang's heart gradually sank. He seemed to see that he and Gu Siyu were rescued after being **** by gangsters in the past. The moment he saw Liang Huaiyu and Gu Yuqi, the eyes and arms of the two of them were the real emotions they showed. of care.
If they were still there, they would definitely ask everyone if they were safe before thinking about other things.
Gu Siyang only felt that his heart was very cold, very cold, and it was actually a bit colder than the early spring morning breeze blowing on him.