Song

Extremely, immediately flew over in three or two steps.

With long ink-colored hair fluttering and picturesque eyebrows, she flew down from the air in a white shirt.If this was the scene when he saw Shen Li for the first time, Gu Xi would never doubt that what he saw was a fairy.

"You can play the piano?" Shen Liqi asked.I've never seen Gu Xi playing.Then she teased again, "Beauty, play a song for me."

I don't know where he saw the scene, but he blurted it out like that.

Gu Xi was helpless, but smiled and stretched out his index finger to knock on his forehead, "Who did you learn from! Just like that disciple!"

Shen Li covered his forehead and chuckled.

"I haven't played it for a long time, but I'm unfamiliar with it. Go chase your little fish, I'll play it for you..."

Gu Xi sat cross-legged and put the piano on his lap.The sound of the piano poured out from the fingertips, and the purple robe glowed with brilliance under the bright moonlight.Shen Li looked at him from afar, feeling that he was more eye-catching than that bright star.

……

"Yesterday I heard the sound of the piano coming from your yard. You played it, right?" During dinner in the morning, Grandma Gu was full of joy and joy.

Gu Xi smiled and didn't answer, but just put a piece of vegetable in his mouth.Playing crazy with Shen Li yesterday, I played all the tunes I knew to suit the occasion one by one.

"So, you've already forgotten Rou'er, have you?"

The smile on Gu Xi's face suddenly froze, grandma is...

"This is really great," the old lady threw down the bowl happily, and simply ordered the second lady who sat up and said nothing, "Xiu Lian, tell me to go down and ask the matchmaker Zhang in Dongtou to bring some portraits of the girl's house tomorrow." ,I……"

"Grandma, grandson has no such intentions, and grandson has no intention of getting married for the time being." Gu Xi put down his chopsticks and interrupted, "Grandma, Er Niang is slow to use, Xi'er is ready to eat."

Seeing that the young master didn't want to stay longer, Xiao Liu'er said to Gu Xi cleverly, "Master, the carriage has been prepared for you."

Gu Xi clasped his hands behind his back and didn't look at the old lady Gu who was standing there blankly. He just turned around and said to Xiao Liu'er, "Let's go. Go to the shop and have a look."

Seeing that Gu Xi's carriage had gone far away, the old lady Gu began to cry, "Oh, Xiulian, you said that child Xi'er...he...is he trying to piss me off? What do you think? Let's do it, we're almost thirty, and we don't see a wife yet. Is this to make us... make our family an end?"

The second lady quickly persuaded: "Mother, I won't. Xi'er has a sense of propriety, maybe... Maybe it's our Xi'er who has high vision and didn't like the girl."

If Mrs. Gu hadn't mentioned Rou'er intentionally, Gu Xi probably wouldn't have remembered it.

Gu Xi's mother-in-law had a younger sister who gave birth to a daughter named Rou'er.

Rou'er is quite a few years younger than Gu Xi, and she always likes to move a bench and drag her chin while listening to Gu Xi's music, and she always likes to keep boasting: "Brother Xi's music is really good!" or "Brother Xi's piano is the best."...

Gu Xi once had a fiancée who looked dignified and elegant, and she was extremely beautiful, but in the end she couldn't even accommodate a child, and she almost made a big mistake.Fortunately, the maid saw her poisoning Rou'er's food...

Gu Xi didn't know that women are sometimes fascinated by emotions, and they will do things of jealousy for the word "love".

From then on, he made up his mind not to touch the piano again, and Rou'er was quickly taken out of the house, and never set foot here again.

Have a girl you like?Grandma also really likes to joke, he even has scruples about women, how can he find a girl he likes?

Shen Li is a man, yesterday was just a whim, what does it have to do with letting go of the old thoughts in his heart?

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Chapter 12

There were still some things to do in the store, but in order to go back earlier and see Shen Li, Gu Xi still left early.Xiao Liu'er didn't follow, and he left him in the shop, in order to wait for the samples made by the master to be brought back for him to see that night.

This room, Gu Xi just came out of the back door, when he was passing by the back alley he often walked, he bumped into Daoist Zhang who came to the house last time.

Gu Xi cupped his hands as a greeting, and turned around to leave.

"Young Master, please stop." Daoist Zhang blocked Gu Xi's way, looked at his face carefully from left to right, and said, "Looking at the expression on the young master's face, the young master must have encountered some unusual things recently, right?"

Gu Xi deliberately avoided answering, and asked instead: "This unusual thing, the Taoist priest means..."

"Ghost!" Daoist said firmly.

If it is a ghost, then there is only the water ghost in the lake——Shen Li.Naturally, Gu Xi didn't want his comrade-in-law to bring up the matter of Shen Li, so he just smiled and cupped his hands, and walked towards home.

The Taoist priest didn't step forward to stop him, but turned around, looked at Gu Xi's back and said: "From ancient times to the present, it is an eternal truth that human beings and ghosts have different paths. The old ancestor said so, then there is his reason. Judging from the young master's expression, it's not too late for young master Gu to cut off contact with this ghost now. But if the young master is obsessed with obsession, it will be dangerous..."

Cut off contact?Is this the same as not seeing Shen Li anymore?Shen Li's crooked eyebrows appeared in front of Gu Xi's eyes, with a slight dimple in the corner of his mouth, and he looked up at him innocently: "Mr. Gu..."

"Young Master Gu, you should think about it clearly. After all, the Gu Mansion depends on you to support yourself. If you have anything to do, Mrs. Gu, Master Gu, Second Madam Gu, and some of the servants of the Gu Mansion...do you have any help?" Thought about them?"

Even though Gu Xi left resolutely, her heart was already in a mess.In other words, it was more like he didn't dare to face it and ran away.

"What is Xi'erchu looking at by the door?" Erniang brought a tray over, and the hot soup on it seemed to be steaming.

Also in a daze, Gu Xi never noticed that Erniang went up to the small building.Er Niang's sudden opening really shocked Gu Xi.

Gu Xi thought for a while, and found an excuse to evade the past: "Last year, I asked Xiao Liuer to plant a flower seedling in the corner of the wall. I don't know if it has survived. After such a long time, I suddenly remembered it, so I came to see it. It probably didn't survive. .”

"If Xi'er likes it, Erniang will ask someone to plant some for you in the yard tomorrow. Come on, Erniang specially made soup for you, drink it before going to sleep. Xiaoliu'er said that you are not in good spirits today, just look at it like this, It really is."

"Don't listen to Xiao Liu'er's nonsense, he is afraid that the world will not be chaotic." Gu Xi suppressed his emotions and let Er Niang into the house.

Erniang put the soup on the table, turned around and said: "The princess is going to get married today, and the emperor appointed us Jinxiu Manor to make a wedding dress for the princess. Your father said he would take you into the palace. I Tell him that you are not well, and he asked me to ask your opinion."

Gu Xi also glanced at the unpacked osmanthus tea on the table, and wondered if Erniang had seen it, but seeing that Erniang didn't mention it, he was lucky.

"I'm fine, Erniang. It's business. You and your father said that I will go with him tomorrow."

When Gu Xi said this, he also thought about what Zhang Daoist said in the afternoon, and he also deliberately wanted to avoid Shen Li.

When Er Niang went out, she closed the door casually, and when she heard the door "creak" being closed from the outside to the inside, Gu Xi looked back at the sweet-scented osmanthus tea on the table.Forget it, if it's broken, it's broken, if it's for the Gu family, a ghost I just met, how can I be reluctant to give up.

Thinking of this, Gu Xi suddenly heard Erniang screaming.Gu Xi hurriedly opened the door, turned on the lamp and went downstairs, what he saw was Erniang's Luo skirt was printed with bright red blood, which was very scary in this dark night.

And standing in front of her was the one who made him feel uneasy——Shen Li.

"Young Master Gu, I didn't..." Shen Li said aggrievedly, his almond eyes were crying, and he looked very pitiful.However, he is a ghost, so the so-called "humans and ghosts have different paths", so he should not have anything to do with him.

"Come here, come here..." When Gu Xi said this, he almost roared out. He lowered his head, as if he didn't hear what Shen Li said.He usually likes to be quiet, and the servants in the yard, the servants were originally arranged to be few, and now they look even worse by comparison.

The sound of footsteps came from far away, and Gu Xi stopped shouting.

"Young master Gu, you have to trust me. I didn't do it, I didn't hurt her." Shen Li squatted down, stood beside Gu Xi, holding his arm anxiously, defending himself.

Gu Xi turned a deaf ear, held up Erniang's head, with an anxious expression on his face, "Erniang, are you alright?"

"Xi'er... Erniang... Erniang may not be able to keep the child in Erniang's womb. Maybe... this is fate!" Erniang covered her stomach with both hands, with an expression of unbearable pain on her face, "Erniang, don't you?" I will talk... Don't worry..." Mrs. Gu grabbed Gu Xi's sleeve, her tone was a little soft, and her complexion became paler.

Seeing Erniang's body covered in blood like this, Gu Xi also panicked, he didn't expect Shen Li to cause such a big disaster.In addition, Er Niang is still so reasonable, Gu Xi feels more guilty.

"Let's go, I don't want to see you anymore." When Gu Xi raised his head again, what Shen Li saw was his red eyes, and he kept pushing himself away.

"Young Master Gu...I..." Shen Li looked at Gu Xi in fear, and the cuffs in his hands were even pulled out of shape.

Seeing Gu Xi looking at him with disbelief, Shen Li seemed very at a loss, he could only grab the sleeves and hold them in his hands to relieve the panic in his heart.

"Go quickly!"

Shen Li has never seen Gu Xi so angry, or so fierce to him.He was very afraid of seeing Gu Xi's appearance now.Tears rolled down from the eyes, but the person in front of him still looked furious.

"Master Gu..."

"Go! I let you go!"

The voice was almost shouted at him, Shen Li gritted his teeth and walked towards the lake step by step.When the tears mixed with the lake water, there were more and more people in the yard.Gu Xi's voice was very clear in the noisy voice: "Go and call the doctor."

After the doctor came to see her, Erniang's mood was stabilized, but fortunately, the child in her womb was finally saved.Gu Xi withdrew from Erniang's room and walked to his yard.

This child was beyond everyone's expectations. Seeing Erniang's current appearance, the grandmother who had always prevented Erniang from having children finally softened her heart.

When passing by that lake, Gu Xi also saw Shen Li who was looking forward to Ai Ai, but after all, he didn't step forward to say a word, and walked by as if he didn't see anything.

"Master Gu..."

Gu Xi didn't stop, and Shen Li followed the person in front step by step, "Mr. Gu..." Gu Xi's door was finally closed in front of his eyes without mercy.

"Go away, I won't tolerate those harmful things here." Gu Xi closed the door, leaned against the door, his heart beating in his chest.

He knew that this door could not shut Shen Li, if Shen Li really wanted to break in, with his mere mortal strength, he would definitely be unable to stop it.

But Shen Li, as he expected, stood at the door and tried his best to defend: "Young Master Gu, listen to me...you listen to me, Young Master Gu...it's not me, it's really not me..."

Gu Xi naturally knew Shen Li's character, he did this selfishly to accuse Shen Li'an, no matter from which point of view, getting too close to Shen Li was not a good thing.It's better to stop thinking about it as soon as possible...

"From now on, you don't need to look for me anymore..." Gu Xi looked at the room, it was pitch black, and he couldn't distinguish clearly, just like his chaotic heart.

"Master Gu..."

After a long time, Gu Xi's legs were a little stiff, and there was no sound outside the door. Gu Xi finally opened the door...

Standing on the small building, watching the white shadow slowly sinking into the water in the desolate moonlight...

Daoist Zhang's words resounded in his ears in the morning.

"Have you ever thought about them?" The sentence was like a huge shackle, tied to Gu Xi's body, making him unable to breathe.It would be unrighteous for Gu Xi to abandon Shen Li, but it would be unfilial and unkind if he abandoned the entire Gu family.

Shen Li didn't do anything wrong, the fault lies with Gu Xi, between Gu Fu and Shen Li, he finally abandoned Shen Li.

Chapter 13

It will take three to five days to go from Nanqiao Town to the Imperial City.The princess's wedding is imminent, and the journey is in a hurry.At this moment, Master Gu is leaning on the carriage and taking a nap.Gu Xi didn't feel sleepy at all, his mind was full of Shen Li's aggrieved face.

When he was upset, Gu Xi opened the curtain and looked at the scenery outside, but was spotted by Xiao Liu'er on the horse, and Xiao Liu'er's face immediately approached, "Master, I just arrived at the gate of the city. It's evening now, are you hungry?"

"Not hungry." Gu Xi glanced at the twilight, and there were some passers-by on both sides of the road.There are also some vendors hawking along the street, which seem to be the same as when they first came to the imperial city.

"Xiao Liuer, let's see if there is an inn." Master Gu sat up straight and straightened his robe, "We'll just stay outside for the night today, and we'll go to the palace tomorrow morning after we've finished tidying up."

"Okay, master." Xiao Liu'er took the order and was about to ride a horse to the front.But he didn't want to be drunk by the young master.

"Xiao Liuer, lead everyone to the Ruyi Inn where we stayed last time, it's also close to our shop." Gu Xi ordered.

"But, master, this Ruyi Inn..." Xiao Liu'er hesitated, this time the young master was ill for several days at the Ruyi Inn for no reason.Now I have to live in this inn again...

Seeing Xiao Liu'er's concerns, Gu Xi said again: "The last time we lived was pretty good, it's okay, let's go."

"Alright, young master." Xiao Liu'er agreed, shouted "Drive..." and rode on the horse, and ran to the front.

"Xiao Liu'er just wanted to say what happened to the Ruyi Inn?" Father Gu asked.

"People in this imperial city say that Ruyi Inn is haunted by ghosts. Oh, it's just that everyone has ghosts in their hearts..."

Gu Xi felt a little pain in his heart, just like Shen Li, although he was a ghost, he was not like Gu Xi, who could find various reasons to blame others.Besides, if what Shen Li said is true, and Erniang is not the one he pushed, then what is the understanding of what Erniang said before?Gu Xi didn't dare to think about it.

Gu Xi got off the horse, let Xiao Liu'er register at the shopkeeper, and followed Xiao Er up to the second floor.

In recent days, Gu Xi has not slept well.Xu felt somewhat ashamed towards Shen Li, but any disturbance would always wake him up.

It was just now that they were dazed and a little sleepy, but there was a bickering sound from the next room.Gu Xi turned over while lying in the room, and was really annoyed, so he knocked on the door of the next room.

The man who opened the door was a man with the appearance of a scholar. Gu Xi could see that the man restrained his anger before he cupped his hands with him, "I don't know why the young master is visiting late at night, what's the matter?"

"I'm taking the liberty to disturb you. I don't think it's strange, my lord. But..." The quarrel between the two made me drowsy.Gu Xi wanted to say this, but he just took a pleasing glance into the room, and then looked at the very familiar young man in black in the back room.

Gu Xi didn't remember where he saw that person, but that person smiled at him as if he knew him well: "I saw this young master again."

Although Gu Xi said he didn't remember, he still cupped his hands with the man, which aroused the scholar's astonishment, "Can you see him?"

"Why can't I see it? You must have seen that water ghost, sir?" The man in black smiled and stood up from the table, and just like that, he floated from the room to the side of the scholar, with a sinister smile on his face. , "Yuesheng, you don't know something. A few months ago, one night, when you were burning money papers in front of the inn, I met this young master."

After the man said this, Gu Xi also remembered it.But how did this ghost meet Shen Li?

The scholar called "Yue Sheng" invited Gu Xi into the house and poured him a glass of water. When seeing the man in black, Yue Sheng gave him a hard look.

Instead of being angry, the man smiled, and cupped his hands to Gu Xi: "I'm under Yan Si.".As he spoke, he glanced at Gu Xi's waist, "Master Gu's purse is quite special, I think the water ghost would be willing to do it for Brother Gu!"

"What's the explanation?" Gu Xi asked, pointing to the purse at his waist.It's just a purse, is there something special about it?

"What? You don't know the mystery in this purse, sir?" Yan Si looked at Gu Xi's puzzled face opposite him, and probably understood it in his heart.

"Since Mr. Gu doesn't know, it's because the water ghost is unwilling to tell you. Since he doesn't want to say it, others shouldn't talk too much. But Mr. Gu, there is a sentence that I don't know if I should say it or not."

"Young Master Yan, it's okay to say."

Yan Si poured another cup of tea for Gu Xi, "Young Master Gu, don't disappoint that water ghost's sincerity."

Chapter 14

"Fool, are you waiting for your Gu Lang again?"

Liu Zhu saw Shen Li sitting on the bank, holding her chin and watching the bright moon hanging high, so she followed his example and sat beside him.

Shen Li was a little angry, picked up a small stone on the ground and threw it into the lake, "He is not my Gu Lang, he is Gu Xi, the son of the Gu family. And I am just a ghost who has died in this lake for more than 200 years. !"

Shen Li was only angry because Gu Xi didn't believe him, and even Gu Xi's miscarriage was blamed on him.

Liu Zhu turned to look at him, "You're being stupid again, if you didn't expect something from him, why did you treat him so well?"

Yes, if he didn't have expectations, why would he be so distressed?He, Shen Li, didn't know how stupid he was to do this, but when he thought of Gu Xi's face, he couldn't help but want to get close to him.

And in Gu Xi's mind, where is Shen Li?

Shen Li was very upset, and threw a stone into the lake, with a "plop", it caused a big ripple.

Do the math, Mr. Gu has been away for four days...

Seeing that Shen Li was silent, Liu Zhu picked up a wild flower and picked off the petals one by one. In the end, only one bare root was left, and she casually threw it into the lake.

Also feeling bored, Liu Zhu stood up, patted the ashes on the hem of her skirt, turned around and said to the preoccupied Shen Li, "I'm going to stay in the lake first."

Shen Li didn't answer, still thinking about his thoughts, there was another "plop", another stone was thrown into the lake.Not far away, a watchman passed by and crossed the bridge, and the sound of clappers also fell all the way.

Shen Li looked back at the small building in the dark behind him, thinking that maybe that person was trying to escape from him, and couldn't help feeling a chill in his heart.

At this moment, an unexplained pain swept across Shen Li's body.Shen Li curled up, bit his lip, and soon showed that ghostly face again.

"elder sister……"

Most of Liu Zhu's body was submerged in the lake, seeing Shen Li lying on the bank in pain, Liu Zhu was very distressed, and hurriedly jumped out of the lake.

The last time Gu Xi was in trouble at the Ruyi Inn and was almost killed by the hanged ghost, Shen Li also looked like this.Shouldn't...

"Master Gu...he must be in some danger again...I'm going to save him..." Shen Li gritted his teeth and stood up from the ground.

Liuzhu resented: "You said what you did to save him, wouldn't it be better to die, this way you can fulfill your wish, and become a ghost with you."

Shen Li looked at each other, "Sister Liu Zhu, you know... how can I be willing to let him be a ghost?"

"Forget it..." The golden light flashed in Liuzhu's hand, and a piece of gold-like object appeared, and he handed it to Shen Li with trembling hands.In her heart, she still didn't want Shen Li to reach out to pick it up, seeing Shen Li's current appearance... If he used the technique she gave him, he might not be able to come back...

"With your current mana, I'm afraid you won't be able to sustain the imperial city. This is my dragon scale. I have cast spells on it, and it can be used by you. But, you are a ghost after all. How much will you use then? It will bite you back a bit. Have you thought about it?"

"Yeah." Shen Li nodded heavily, "Even if it knocks me out of my wits, I will save him."

Unable to see how he was troubled by love, Liu Zhu sighed, "Why are you so infatuated?"

Chapter 15

Following Gu Xi's aura, Shen Li endured the pain in his body and found the Ruyi Inn again.What he saw when he entered the room was the last time the hanged ghost in black was strangling Gu Xi's neck, and Gu Xi's face was flushed, and his eyes had turned upwards.

Seeing this, Shen Li fought with the hanged ghost relentlessly.With the beaded dragon scales, even the hanged ghost who has been dead for many years is no match for him.

Qin Yuesheng pushed open the door, saw Shen Li pinching Yan Si's neck with one hand, and about to slap his Tianling Gai with the other, and knelt down on the ground crying, "Please be merciful, my lord, don't hurt him."

The strength in Shen Li's hands was also much weaker, looking at Qin Yuesheng's sobbing face, he couldn't let go after all.But he still said forcefully: "He is going to kill Mr. Gu, how can I spare him."

Yan Si remained silent, Qin Yuesheng leaned down in front of him and said, "If you let him go, I will promise you on his behalf that you will never hurt Young Master Gu. If he breaks this oath, then I will pay Young Master Gu with my life." Yes, how are you?"

"Why should I trust you?"

"Based on the weight I have in his heart, he loves me!" Qin Yuesheng said with a bit of confidence in his words.

Yan Si wanted to sarcastically sarcastically at Qin Yuesheng, but seeing that he was pleading so hard for her sake, he looked so pitiful, so he just opened his mouth and stopped looking at him, "Joke, when did I say that?" talk!"

Shen Li lowered his hands, how could he not see that Qin Yuesheng was a real person?How could he not see Qin Yuesheng's deep affection for Yan Si?

He is also a living person, but it is a pity that he is not Gu Xi, after all, he is also different from Gu Xi...

In a blink of an eye, Shen Li took a deep look at Gu Xi, "Are you okay?" In front of him, although he was only a few steps away from Gu Xi, it seemed as if they were separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, so far away that they couldn't be reached.

Shen Li smiled wryly, looked at Gu Xi rubbing his sore neck, his face flushed, and he didn't even want to say a word to him. "Oh, it turns out that I'm being too sentimental again, so I'm leaving!" Shen Li smiled sadly, turned around and floated towards the window.

"Hey..." Gu Xi said.

In the end, did Shen Li turn his head hopefully...

Gu Xi pondered for a while, but didn't know what to say to him.Looking at the ghost with black hair covering his face, he didn't say a word after all.

He is a ghost, people and ghosts have different paths... Gu Xi sighed in his heart, but he turned his head away after all, and stopped looking at him.

Shen Li gritted his teeth, he really didn't want to see himself, heh...

Even if there are thousands of bone-eating pains on the body, they are not as good as the pain in the heart.What Sister Liu Zhu said was so true, if she didn't have delusions in her heart, she wouldn't be hurt, she wouldn't feel the pain...

Seeing his figure getting thinner, Shen Li turned around and sank into the night.

Yan Si just used Gu Xi to test Shen Li's sincerity, which was also agreed by Gu Xi.But for such a result, Gu Xi was clearly looking forward to it, but for some reason, his heart was heavier than before.Gu Xi looked around, after the fight between Shen Li and Yan Si, the room was already in chaos.

"Yan Si, I will depend on you for everything from now on, okay? Please don't scare me." Qin Yuesheng hugged Yan Si's body in his arms, fearing that he would never wake up again.

Yan Si suddenly opened his eyes, looked at the people in front of him and said: "Is this true? Yue Sheng must remember what you said today."

"Yan Si, you lied to me again!" Qin Yuesheng became furious and wanted to pat Yan Si, but was afraid of hurting him.A hand frozen in mid-air, neither hitting nor closing.

Gu Xi seemed to understand something, sat on the bed and stared blankly at the person and ghost hugging each other and asked, "Can a man be with a man?"

"Why not?" Yan Si sat up straight and covered his heart, just now he was really hurt, "He doesn't even mind that you are a human being, why do you mind that he is a ghost? Besides, he does everything for you. So far, do you still mind his identity?"

"No, you misunderstood, I don't have that kind of affection for him..."

Yes, he didn't have that kind of affection for Shen Li.To him, Shen Li was just a brat begging for a drink from him, wringing his sleeves shyly; if he ruined his own painting, he would pay for one, the painting was so ugly, he dared to paint I gave him a few jars of good wine myself, and the little devil gave him a little straw rabbit with a dog's tail. Even if it was broken so much, the one given to Gu Xi was still so ugly; Put the hand-embroidered purse into your own baggage...

When teaching him to write, he was like a puppet, his hands were stiff and he didn't dare to move; he would pick up a koi and tell himself solemnly that it was conjured from this purse.Gu Xi turned the corner of his mouth away, thinking: At that time, I was also stunned, and I actually believed him...

Like that apprentice, he would also say to himself: beauty, play a song for the master...

He is not as tall as himself, and he can only look at his face if he looks up.She always likes to lick the pear dimple at the corner of her mouth, and call herself shallowly: Mr. Gu...

……

Yes, he doesn't have that kind of affection for Shen Li, Gu Xi comforted himself.

Chapter 16

Gu Xi rubbed his sore forehead and sat in the carriage.The chaotic mind, coupled with the bumpy road, made the chest even more congested.

Opening the curtain, there was a small stall on the side of the road that caught Gu Xi's attention.The stall was set up by an old man, surrounded by a group of children, admiring the wood carvings in the hands of the old man.Gu Xi also looked at the old man's hand, it was a koi carp that had already shown its embryonic form.

The old man said with a smile to the child: "If you like it, then go back and get the silver to exchange..."

As the carriage drifted away, Gu Xi gradually couldn't hear what the old man said, only the thick blunt sound of the wheels rolling over the road and the noisy sound of horseshoes.

Gu Xi unconsciously put his hand on the purse at his waist, and the outline of the koi has already been deeply imprinted in his heart.Shen Li didn't talk about the mystery of the purse, neither did Yan Si, since he is an ordinary person, it is undoubtedly impossible to understand.

In his mind, that day and night when Shen Li stood in the lake in plain clothes, the soft moonlight seemed to cover him with a layer of white gauze.Looking back suddenly, a fairy-like face appeared.

"Mr. Gu came to ask me to drink, why didn't you pour the wine?" Shen Li passed the wine glass to Gu Xi's eyes with that delicate wrist like white jade, looking at him with shining eyes.

Just thinking about this, Gu Xi suddenly felt a throbbing in his heart.Not knowing where the courage came from, he stopped the team, pulled Xiao Liu'er off the horse, pulled the rein to turn around, and hurried to the place behind him.Xiao Liu'er was so anxious that he shouted behind Gu Xi: "Master, where are you going? Master..."

"You guys go first and wait for me at the gate of the palace." Gu Xi replied without looking back.

"What a coincidence, I just bought it for a child. Here, it's right there." The old man pointed forward, and sure enough, a child walked forward slowly with his head down.

"Child, uncle will trade the fish in your hand with you for some money, okay?"

"Not good! Yun'er likes it too, but I don't want to give it to you." The child named "Yun'er" put the wood carving behind him, fearing that it would be snatched away by Gu Xi.

Gu Xi was also impatient for a while, so he quickly took out an ingot of gold from his purse and handed it to the child, "Then I'll take this ingot of gold to buy the koi in your hand! How about it?"

"How is it?" In my impression, Gu Xi had never begged anyone like this before.

The child looked at him hesitantly, and he looked back burningly.Just like this stalemate, a woman suddenly came behind him.

"Good, good, good, of course!" The woman snatched the gold from Gu Xi's hand from the side, as if she was afraid that he would regret it, and hurriedly handed the koi in the child's hand to Gu Xi. "Here you go, son!"

"Mother, but Yun'er likes it, and doesn't want to..."

The child tried to save her, but was interrupted by his mother, "Silly child, if you like it, mother will buy it for you."

When Gu Xi rushed to the gate of the palace, Gu's father sat in the carriage with an unfriendly expression, and a group of Gu family's old masters also surrounded Gu's father.Gu Xi felt a "thud" in his heart, and thought to himself: No, my father is going to ask the teacher to ask for a crime.

"Where did you go? Everyone is waiting for you to enter the palace, didn't you see?" Father Gu was furious, and slapped the small table in the carriage.

Gu Xi put the small wooden carving next to his body, but took out a few handkerchiefs from his sleeve pockets, and said without saying a word: "When I passed by the street just now, my child saw the shape of this handkerchief. I would like it, so I went to buy it. It is Gu Xi's fault to delay the trip of my father and the masters."

Gu Xi bowed his hands to the masters, which made the masters look embarrassed, "Young master, you are serious. Every kindness and filial piety come first. It is indeed admirable that you can think of the elders in your family.", "Hello, Master Gu. Good luck!"

After being praised by everyone, Father Gu looked a little better, "Forget it, then let's enter the palace."

It's been a while since I stayed in the palace. In recent days, Gu Xi has always been swayed by some disturbing thoughts, and even the serious business of making a wedding dress for the princess can't be aroused.Just now when he came out of the temple, he heard a childish voice: "Your foot is injured, I've already wrapped it up for you, don't run around, and you will be caught by the bad guys again."

Gu Xi looked along there, and saw a child tie a knot on the rabbit's leg, looking at his masterpiece with satisfaction.

The rabbit arched in the child's arms, which made the child chuckle.

The boy put his hand on the rabbit's head, stroked the fluff on top of its head, and didn't mean to blame him at all: "Don't think you are acting like a baby, I won't blame you for running around.".

The boy looked up and clearly saw Gu Xi who was not far away, and hugged the rabbit in his arms.After all, he is a child of the emperor's family, and he speaks with a bit of dignity when talking to others, "Who are you, and why did you appear in this cold palace?"

Although Gu Xi didn't know his identity, he could still tell from his elegant attire that the prince in front of him was a prince, and he couldn't be wrong to bow down at this time.

"See the prince. The villain is a businessman who was ordered to enter the palace to be in charge of the princess's wedding dress. He just came out of the temple and passed by here. If he offends the prince, he will look at Haihan." Gu Xi lowered his body, bowed his waist, It wasn't until the child said "flat body" that he dared to stand up.

The little prince pampered the rabbit's head, and seeing Gu Xi still standing aside, he wondered, "Why don't you leave?"

"The villain saw that the little prince seemed to have a deep relationship with that rabbit, so he couldn't help but feel a little moved."

"It really means a lot to me. When I saw it for the first time, I just gave it some food, so it stayed with me all the time. It was just a meal, so that later when I was in the most difficult time , it also guards me. Now that I have passed through the most difficult time, naturally I cannot let it go. "

Gu Xi tightly clenched his hands in his sleeves, even animals are like this, but what about humans?

Shen Li knew that he was in danger, and didn't want to slander him, didn't want to reject him, so he came here from Nanqiao Town, just to save himself.

In this way, he is indeed ashamed of that ghost...

"Third Prince...Third Prince, where are you?" Not far away, the court lady searched all the way, maybe she searched for a long time, and she was sweating anxiously.

"You really make it easy for servants to find."

Something stabbed Gu Xi's brain, and something was fleeting.Gu Xi searched his memory for a long time, but he didn't think of anything.Gu Xi didn't even know when the third prince left.

It was Xiao Liu'er who came to call him: "Young master, the master calls you to go."

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Chapter 17

"Young master, don't die..." A very familiar voice yelled in his ears, mixed with a little crying, Gu Xi was a little tired of hearing it, but his eyelids seemed to be heavy, and they couldn't hold them open no matter what .

Someone was holding down his stomach again, making him almost out of breath.The annoying voice said again: "Spit out the water quickly...you can't die!"

Gu Xi couldn't help feeling doubts in his heart, why he was going to die.But after the person's reminder, Gu Xi really felt that there was a feeling of fullness in his chest that he couldn't express.As the pain from the abdominal pressure became higher and higher, Gu Xi finally felt that he was vomiting, but somehow he seemed to have a huge force to push him out, but fell into a place again. , and the eyes gradually became clear.

In front of me is the small courtyard that Gu Xi is very familiar with, but it is different. If it is many years ago, I am afraid it is more