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He also got up and ran to Gu Xi's bookshelf, looking for a book for recreation.

Huang Zisheng's posture of looking for books was a little scary, and the bookshelves were tossed into a mess.Gu Xi simply ignored him, and someone would clean up the mess.

Huang Zisheng searched for a while, but there was little movement.Gu Xi thought that he had found the book he wanted, but he didn't expect that he took a comic book that the two of them read when they were young and smiled: "You still have this one."

"what book?"

Huang Zisheng threw the book towards Gu Xi, "I remember that because of this book, my father beat me, saying that I lost my mind because of this book."

Gu Xi took the book, flipped through a few pages, it was a thin little book, the cover was curled, and the inside pages were also yellow.He was not like that at that time, most of the time he was a little rebellious when he was studying.The more you are asked to do this, the more you want to do that.His father asked him to recite "The Analects of Confucius", so he and Huang Zisheng secretly went to buy the comic book.

As he grows older, he doesn't like to read such books anymore.I am afraid that Shen Li, who is illiterate but loves to watch operas, should be more interested in this.

Thinking of Shen Li, the panicked expression on Shen Li's face after being kissed the night before immediately came into Gu Xi's mind.

I'm afraid I was frightened, the road ahead is long...

Huang Zisheng searched for a long time, but he couldn't find any suitable book, so he just lay down on the bed, looking like he was about to fall asleep.

Gu Xi recruited a servant and brought him a quilt.

"I told you to go to another hospital to sleep, but I want to sleep here."

Huang Zisheng yawned, and squeezed him with a smile: "I'm not afraid that you will be lonely and cold. After all, you are almost thirty, and you don't even have a warm quilt. It's not easy to think about you. I'm with you companion."

Gu Xi was too lazy to argue with him, he just went back and confessed his mistake to his wife, as for getting angry with her?

Gu Xi took an account book and pretended to read it for a long time. Finally, when there was a snoring sound from Huang Zisheng's place, he carefully closed the account book.He took the little book that Huang Zisheng was looking for before and burned it on the tomb of Shen Li's clothes.

Yesterday Gu Xi didn't return all night, Shen Li sat in front of the small building all night, he thought that Gu Xi was angry because of his sudden departure.Today, seeing the light leaking from the window of the small building, and seeing the blue leather album suddenly appearing in his hand, he knew that it was given to him by Gu Xi.

"Sister..." Shen Li looked at Liu Zhu who had been standing beside him and said, "I want to meet him."

Liu Zhu shook the round fan in her hand, looking at Shen Li's incomprehensible look, she was also angrily, "Hey, don't look at me with such pitiful eyes. If the previous thing happened again, I would die I don't care about you. Earlier you said that it was the last time to save him, if I hadn't sent someone to save you, by now, I'm afraid you would have been out of your wits by now. Where is there any trace of you in the Three Realms?"

"Sister, I understand all this...but if he thinks the same way, I want to try..." Thinking of this, Shen Li's lips felt hot.Gu Xi's temperature seemed to be still there.

Seeing Shen Li's bewildered appearance, Liu Zhu was helpless.No matter what method is used, this fool still can't forget Gu Xi.

"Fool...let me tell you what's good about you..."

"Then let's not talk about it," Shen Li looked at the Dragon Palace Princess who had been with him for more than 100 years, "No matter what the result is in the future, I will admit it."

"I'm afraid you owed Gu Xi a large debt in your previous life, so you are here to pay the debt in this life." Liu Zhu shook her head.

"Perhaps." Shen Li smiled wryly, slowly climbed up from the bottom of the lake to the shore, and walked to the grave that Gu Xi had erected for him.

Ever since Gu Xi was born, Shen Li has been a ghost in this water.The first time I saw Gu Xi, he was still a child.He took a cuju and ran to the lake alone and asked himself: "Brother, do you want to play? I see how lonely my brother is in the lake alone. Let me play with you, okay?"

He has been in the water for more than 100 years, and he has never seen a child who is not afraid of him, saying that he is lonely and wants to play with him.He watched Gu's mother leave Gu Xi; watched the second wife of the Gu family push Gu Xi into the lake... He was afraid that these pains would hinder Gu Xi's growth, so he asked Liu Zhu to erase Gu Xi's memory.

Perhaps it was because he couldn't control his heart to see Gu Xi, and finally appeared in front of that person again.

A few months ago, the look of fear that the man saw himself for the first time was still clearly imprinted in his mind.After he is ripe, he will give himself wine, he will care about himself, and teach himself to write...

Time has made Gu Xi mature, but he is as gentle as ever.

Thinking of this, as soon as Shen Li raised his head, he saw the purple in the night in front of the tomb.

"Cough cough..."

"The longer I live, the smaller I am, and I can choke on a drink of water."

A cool hand behind him gently patted his back, Gu Xi smiled, the ghost he was waiting for finally came.

Gu Xi complied, and leaned against the standing tombstone, "Have you got the book yet?"

"En." Shen Li lifted the corner of his clothes and sat down beside Gu Xi.

Gu Xi stared at the picturesque face with great interest, "Reading this book is more enjoyable than not going to the theater. I will take you to the theater next time."

Shen Li didn't even look at him, just turned over the book in his hand, and said calmly: "No."

Gu Xi bumped into a wall, touched his nose uncomfortably, and asked again: "Why don't you go to the garden to have a look?"

"I can't go out." Shen Li sighed, "Turn back and let people see, there will be trouble again."

"Still angry about Er Niang's matter?" Gu Xi pulled Shen Li's wrist on his knee and covered it with his hand, "Don't be angry, I told you that no matter what you say in the future, I will believe you. "

"It's not because of Erniang's matter." Shen Li turned his head to look at him, he no longer has the ability to stay too far away from the lake.He rescued Gu Xi twice before and after, and new injuries were added before the old injuries healed. He really didn't have enough vitality.

Seeing Shen Li's mournful expression, Gu Xi felt distressed, pulled Shen Li into his arms, wrapped his arms around his waist, and stroked the hair on top of his head with his chin.

"Just stay by my side." Gu Xi whispered in Shen Li's ear, "In the future, I won't let anyone bully you again."

Shen Li put his arms around Gu Xi's waist, closed his eyes, "I know I'm stupid, and I've never seen anything in the world. Before I was alive, Nanqiao Town was my whole life. After I died, what happened around this lake The thing is all I have seen and heard. You are a businessman, you can write, you can draw, you can go everywhere, and you can see the beauty of the world. But I am just a ghost, and I can't help you with anything... There is something between us An insurmountable gap. However, I will try my best to love you. Even if in the future..." In the future, if you want to marry someone else, I won't have any complaints.Shen Li wanted to say this, but before the words reached his lips, he choked up.For Gu Xi, getting married is human nature.

In the future, Gu Xi will not only marry a wife, but will also have a large group of children, and will be busy with the family business, so how can he have half of Shen Li in his heart?

"There are so many reasons to say something stupid. It doesn't matter if you are a human or a ghost, I like you just because you are you." Gu Xi slightly pushed Shen Li away, and wiped the corners of his eyes. tears.

As for the matter of marrying a wife, how could Gu Xi not understand Shen Li's concerns, after all, he is not young anymore, and his grandmother always urges him to get married.Shen Li was afraid that if he married someone else, he would forget him.

But now that Erniang is pregnant, grandma's attention is shifted from Gu Xi to Erniang's side.Although at first grandma didn't agree with Erniang pregnant with the Gu family's heir, but when she really had one, she couldn't bear it anymore.

Having this child is a good thing for Gu Xi.This means that in the future, the burden of the Gu family will not only be carried by him alone, but also by other younger brothers and sisters.As for the marriage, wait until the younger brothers and sisters are born, and then find some other excuses to shirk.

"Go back, it's cold." Shen Li broke free from Gu Xi's embrace, rubbed the corners of his eyes, "I just recovered from my illness, and I caught a cold again."

"Then I'll come to you tomorrow." Gu Xi pulled Shen Li's hand, reluctantly.

"it is good."

Gu Xi pulled Shen Li from the forest to the lake, Gu Xi planned to send Shen Li off, and then went back to the small building.

When Yiyi was saying goodbye, singing gradually came from the lake. Gu Xi and Shen Li followed the prestige, and under the dark sky, a small boat came slowly over the low-hanging willow branches by the lake.

The boatman is a man, singing with a thick voice, which swells in this graceful water vapor, which has an ethereal meaning.In the middle of the boat sat a young man in red, wearing a crown, patting the planks of the boat and beating time.

Perhaps seeing Gu Xi's yard lighting the lights, the boat stopped by the river bank, and the singing stopped abruptly.

The man in red got up from the boat and made a bow, "May I ask how far you are from Beiqiao Town?"

It was dark, and Gu Xi couldn't see clearly the appearance of the person opposite, but he vaguely felt that this person's voice was quite familiar, "It's not far, just walk another mile."

"Thank you, my lord." The man in red meaningfully cupped his hands with Shen Li beside Gu Xi, "Farewell!"

The young man who punted the boat propped up the long pole, and the boat gradually moved away from the lake shore in the water.The voice of the red-clothed boy with the crown came faintly: "The peach is so young, its flowers are scorching. When the son returns home, he is suitable for his family."

Chapter 26

When Shen Li went back to the lake, he saw the water demon in the lake carrying all kinds of food and stumbling under the water.With such a posture, it is obvious that there are guests coming.

Shen Li thought to himself, no one has been in this lake for many years, and I don't know which important figure is here, so I trouble the water monsters in this lake to move out.

A clam spirit accidentally bumped into Shen Li, Shen Li hurriedly stabilized her body, and asked curiously: "This...why is the lake so lively today?"

"It's not that the nephew of the Heavenly Monarch and the third prince of the North Sea Dragon Palace are here. The Dragon Princess asked us to prepare some food for them." After finishing speaking, the clam spirit hurriedly said, "I don't want to tell you, we're still waiting there." Take my drink."

Shen Li walked carefully along the way, for fear of accidentally touching something in the goblin's hand.Seeing Shen Li coming, Liu Zhu asked him angrily: "Have you seen your Mr. Gu?"

"En." Shen Li nodded a little embarrassedly, seeing it.

"This is the little water ghost you mentioned, sister? Why is it different from the last time I saw it?"

Hearing the sound, Shen Li turned his head to look at the person who spoke and was also surprised.Isn't this the young man in red who asked the way just now?

"Scared?" The young master teased him with a smile.

"Of course it's different," Liu Zhu said with a white look at the man in red, "When I asked you to save him last time, his vitality was seriously injured, and his soul was almost incomplete."

"No wonder!" The man in red suddenly realized, and then looked at a young man in a moon-white gown behind him and said, "So there is such a strange thing about being a ghost. No wonder when I saw you on the mountain, it was so different from now."

The man behind him didn't say anything, just looked at him dotingly and smiled.

"Sir Long?" Shen Li heard that the person in front of him was Jinluan who had saved him in the imperial city, and immediately knelt down, and said gratefully, "Shen Li has not had the chance to thank the immortal, if there is no immortal Save me, Shen Li won't have the chance to appear here today."

"You're welcome." Jinluan waved the folding fan and took a step back, "Get up quickly, don't kneel to me, there are not so many rules."

Shen Li obeyed, stood up and stood aside.

Saying so, a little demon came over and said to Liuzhu: "Sister, the little ones you have prepared are ready, do you want to invite the two immortals to sit?"

"it is good."

Liuzhu led Jinluan and Chongzhi to sit down, Jinluan greeted Shen Li and said, "Why don't you come over? Sit together!"

Shen Li saw that the stranger was a bit cautious, so he wanted to refuse, but seeing that everyone was so polite, he sat down in the vacant seat next to Liu Zhu, "Well, I will accompany you to drink some wine."

I don't know which fairy made some tricks, the jug moved by itself, and poured a glass for everyone present.

"Did you bring what you asked?" Liu Zhu put the round fan in her hand on the stone table, and turned to Jin Luan.

"Of course I brought it." Jinluan took out a porcelain bottle with blue flowers on a white background from his sleeve pocket and handed it to Shen Li, jokingly said, "Let your lover take it, and your yin-qi won't be able to hurt him." .”

Shen Li didn't know that there was such a treasure in the heavens, such an unassuming fairy could remember to bring him the elixir, and at the same time prevent the cold energy of him as a ghost from hurting Gu Xi.

"Again, did you let your husband-in-law come here at Taishang Laojun's place again? I'm not afraid that the old man will be red-eyed and go back to Tianjun to sue you." Liu Zhu gouged him out and squeezed him with a smile. .

"I'm not afraid even if I sue, Chongzhi is Tianjun's nephew, how can Laojun get him? Haha."

"Bah, shameless!" Liu Zhu crossed her arms and spat on her younger brother mercilessly.

"What do you want to do with your face, but you can't eat it as a meal."

The two laughed for a while, Liuzhu suddenly thought of something, some words were stuck in her throat, but she couldn't say them.After hesitating for a while, he kicked the mud under his feet with the sole of his shoe, and pretended to ask casually, "I didn't see the immortal when I went back to the Heavenly Palace. Later, I heard people say that I went to the human world to experience calamity. I don't know if it is true or not."

Jinluan knew that the "Shangxian" in Liuzhu's mouth was the Baiyu Shangxian she couldn't ask for. At first, he wanted to hide it from her, but he didn't want her to mention it himself, so he had no choice but to answer: "Really, there is Mengyao is with you. This time, when I come down to the realm, I also drop by to see them. You..."

Jinluan wants to ask, do you still miss him?But as soon as he started, he felt that it seemed inappropriate to say so, so he kept silent.

"What's wrong with me?" Liu Zhu smiled, looking at her younger brother, "I've forgotten it a long time ago. If it wasn't mentioned by others, I don't know where I forgot it. Mengyao is just right for him!"

Jinluan knew the pain in Liuzhu's heart. Earlier, Shangxian Yunshang led the heavenly soldiers to attack the demons.Shangxian has only one son like Mengyao, although he has only become a little mountain god after ten thousand years, but she hurt him by mistake, Tianjun always wants to make a warning to others.

Mengyao is his good friend, and Liu Zhu is his biological sister, so neither side can be biased.Jinluan had no choice but to say "Yes."

After eating a meal, Shen Li only remembered the fairy medicine that was placed close to his body.It's a pity that it's already late at night, otherwise he would definitely give it to Gu Xi as soon as possible.

When it was getting dark on Huang Zisheng's second day in Gu's residence, the old steward of the Huang family brought the son here, looking for Huang Zisheng to go back.

"My son is the best for daddy, daddy didn't love you for nothing." Huang Zisheng hugged the child in his arms and kissed him.

The child was poked by Huang Zisheng's beard and "giggled" and laughed, "Daddy, itch...Mu'er itch...you just let Mu'er go..."

Seeing the little guy begging for mercy, Huang Zisheng didn't bother him anymore, "Mu'er, your mother isn't here?"

"No, I said I missed my father, so my mother asked the steward to bring me here."

Huang Zisheng put the little guy down from his arms with a disappointed look on his face.That's right, how could the madam's anger dissipate so easily.

As if guessing his father's thoughts, the little guy said again: "But mother also misses father very much. Mu'er knows."

Huang Zisheng smiled and scratched Mu'er's nose, "You are smart and know everything!" Then he said to Gu Xi who was reading a book, "Then I will leave. You..."

Gu Xi looked up from the book and looked back at him.

Huang Zisheng put Mu'er down, patted his head and said, "Mu'er go to the front hall and wait, Daddy and Uncle Gu still have something to say."

"Okay, Daddy." Mu'er agreed, and walked out in a bouncing manner.

After confirming that Mu'er's footsteps were coming down the small building, Huang Zisheng rarely spoke to Gu Xi in a serious manner: "Originally, I didn't want to care about this matter. But we have known each other for so many years, even if we are not real brothers, we are better than real brothers." , I won’t go around in circles. Brother Gu, but...is it the same as that Zhang Si?” Huang Zisheng didn’t know how to say this, even though Zhang Si pioneered this “good man style” in Nanqiao Town, after all, it spread to It's not very pleasant to go outside.

"Yes." Gu Xi didn't want to hide it from him at first, since Huang Zisheng had already asked this question, there was no need to keep it a secret.

What Huang Zisheng said was right, he and Huang Zisheng had been arguing since they were young, and they did bad things together when they were young.Besides, he, Huang Zisheng, is not a talkative person, he asked this out of concern for himself.

But...he didn't want to tell Huang Zisheng about Shen Li...

Huang Zisheng didn't ask any further questions, but just patted Gu Xi's shoulder reassuringly.

With the medicine in hand, Shen Li came to the small building a long time ago, eager to give the medicine to Gu Xi.He was also afraid of causing bad things, and he didn't dare to reveal his parentage until Huang Zisheng left.

"Coming?" Gu Xi hugged Shen Li into his arms, "Have you been waiting for a long time?"

Gu Xi's breath poured down from Shen Li's neck, causing Shen Li's back to go numb.

But thinking about Huang Zisheng's almost sympathetic look just now when he looked at Gu Xi, Shen Li suddenly felt uncomfortable again.

"It's okay." Shen Li buried his head in Gu Xi's arms, his voice was clearly nasal.

"What's wrong?" Gu Xi supported Shen Li's shoulders and looked down at him.

Tears rolled in Shen Li's eyes, "Gu Xi, I'm sorry, it's my fault... If it wasn't for me... If it wasn't for me, you would be the same as that person..." The more Shen Li said, the more sad he felt, and said In the end, it was clear that he had burst into tears.

"The same thing?" Gu Xi wiped his tears for him, and smiled dotingly, "Fool!"

"Marry a wife and have children!" Shen Li looked at him sobbing.

"It's enough to have you! What a fool!" Gu Xi wrapped Shen Li in his arms distressedly, "Okay, stop crying. Be good..."

"Gu Xi, if you marry a wife in the future, I won't stop..."

"When the time comes, erase my memory again?" Gu Xi curled up his fingers, pretended to tap on Shen Li's forehead, and smiled, "What's been in my head all day long? It's not enough for you to have a headache. What else?" Want to find another one?"

Seeing that the little guy was still crying, Gu Xi knew how much Shen Li had made, so he said again: "The second mother is pregnant now, and I am not the only heir of the Gu family. The matter of passing on the family will let those of me Brothers and sisters who have not yet been born, go. When I find a suitable opportunity, I will tell my grandma that I will not marry a wife."

Shen Li turned his head to look at him with tears in his eyes, "Then... from now on, can I always be with you like this?"

"Well, yes." Gu Xi pretended to be distressed, and lowered his voice as if displeased, "It's you, I am getting old day by day, and when I am a hundred years old, I will already be a bad old man, but you, But still so young and in full bloom."

"When you and I knelt down in front of Mingjun's hall together, Mingjun would definitely ask: Gu Xi, who is kneeling under the hall, is this your grandson next to him..."

Seeing Shen Li lying on one side, laughing through tears, Gu Xi thoughtfully helped him up.

Shen Li seemed to be immersed in Gu Xi's words, and said with joy: "At that time, I will definitely say: Master Mingjun, you have to look carefully, my grandfather is much younger than him."

Gu Xi smiled lightly and did not argue with him.

"Ah, that's right," Shen Li said, taking out the porcelain bottle Jinluan gave him from his bosom, "I almost forgot, I ate this fairy medicine."

Gu Xi pulled out the cork, poured the medicine into his palm, looked at the black pill and asked suspiciously, "What medicine?"

Chapter 27

Originally, Shen Li wanted to go back earlier so that Gu Xi could rest.However, Gu Xi refused to agree, saying that he couldn't fall asleep and had to read for a while before going to sleep, so he asked Shen Li to accompany him.

Shen Li followed his words, took out the picture album that Gu Xi had given him, and flipped through a few pages, but felt that he was not thinking much, so he simply put it down.

An unknown bird hovered on the tree outside the house for a while, and made a "creaking" sound in the yard. Shen Li felt it was novel, and when he walked to the window to look, the bird had long since disappeared.Only the wind blew through the treetops, scattered Shen Li's hair, and shook the shadows of the trees...

It's not as cold as it used to be tonight.

"Is it almost summer?" Shen Li turned his head to ask Gu Xi.

"Well, it's still about half a month." Gu Xi flipped through the pages of the book in his hand and responded casually.

Gu Xi's silhouette fell on the wall, forming a three-dimensional silhouette.

No matter which angle you look at this man, he looks good.Even the dark shadow on the wall, Shen Li also thinks it looks good.

Looking at this person, Shen Li felt a sense of melancholy for a moment, the person who could only be watched from a distance, now sat in front of him.

"Huh?" Perhaps feeling the gaze on him, Gu Xi turned his head and happened to bump into Shen Li who was looking at him.

"What's wrong?" Gu Xi asked amusedly, "What are you looking at me for?"

"I thought you were pretty, so I watched it."

"Oh? Then tell me, what is the best thing about me." Gu Xi put down the book in his hand, leaned against the back of the chair, with a look of great interest.

Shen Li stood by the window with his arms propped up and said with a smile, "Who would ask others like that, it's shameless."

"So you're not ashamed?" Gu Xi walked behind Shen Li and hugged her.He lowered his head and kissed the side of Shen Li's neck, "Then what is this?"

"You...you...you have no face or skin!" Shen Li covered his neck, turned around, and avoided Gu Xi.

Gu Xi curled his lips into a smile, and his heart was full of jokes, "The Shi Dai I bought for Er Niang last time I went out and I haven't given it to her yet, how about I help you draw eyebrows?"

"I'm a man. Is there anyone who can paint a man's eyebrows?" Shen Li sat back on the original stool and asked him with his chin propped up.

"Who said that! The ancients said: 'A lotus is like a face and a willow is like an eyebrow' that describes men!" Gu Xi took out Shi Dai from the box on the side of the bookshelf, and said seriously.

"That's good." Shen Li sat up straight and closed his eyes.

Shi Dai held it with her fingertips, tracing horizontally and picking upwards, the smile on Gu Xi's face became more profound.

"Gu Xi, are you alright?" Shen Li hurriedly asked.

"Hurry up, hurry up, don't worry." Gu Xi drew the last stroke and put Shi Dai on the table, "Just take a look, is it good-looking or not?"

Shen Li stood up abruptly, and quickly walked in front of the bronze mirror.Gu Xi behind him covered his lips for fear of laughing out loud.

Sure enough, not long after, Shen Li's angry voice came: "Well, you Gu Xi, you lied to me!"

"You can't blame me!" Gu Xi smiled unscrupulously, "Speaking of which, I've never painted eyebrows for others, and I'm a handyman. Even if you don't like me to help you paint eyebrows, but if you say yes, next time I won't help you." I will help you draw again. Why waste my heart."

Hearing this, Shen Li became even more angry. The cunning Gu Xi had already said what he said, and he still asked him to say what he said.

"Hmph!" Shen Li angrily sat on the wooden bench next to the bronze mirror, with his back to Gu Xi.Rubbing the brows with his fingers, trying to wipe off the blackness on his face.

"Okay, okay, let me see." Gu Xi picked up Shen Li's face, the eyebrows that were painted badly before, are now even more blurred, turning into a cat face.

I don't know if it's Gu Xi's warm breath spraying on Shen Li's cold face, or Gu Xi's gentleness like the night, this situation makes Shen Li slightly drunk, as if drinking a few pots of wine.

"I..." Shen Li's lips parted slightly, the strings in his mind could no longer be connected, and he didn't know what to say next.

"You're still as good-looking as ever, and you never get tired of looking at it..." Gu Xi's breath was also confused, and what was entangled in his mind was Shen Li's face, which made his heart drunk.

Shen Li murmured, "Really?"

At this moment, Gu Xi's face was close at hand, but he was afraid to look at the person in front of him.

"En." Gu Xi lifted Shen Li's chin, and finally covered his own lips...

……

……

"came back?"

Shen Li thought that Liu Zhu had gone to sleep, how could he know that she was sitting at the stone table in the dark waiting for him.With a flick of a finger, the surrounding night pearls immediately lit up the lake.Recalling what he did just now, Shen Li felt so ashamed.

"Hmm." He replied in a low voice.

"Tsk," Liu Zhu came over, waving a round fan, and said mysteriously, "Look at you, have you been 'eaten' by Mr. Gu?"

"Shen Li couldn't understand what sister was talking about." Shen Li walked towards Liu Zhu.

"Don't understand?" Liu Zhu also moved towards him, poked his forehead with a fan and laughed, "Then you can understand what Mr. Gu said?"

Shen Li lowered his head, not daring to look at her.

"Okay, stop teasing you, go back to the house and rest."

Liu Zhu spoke seriously, Shen Li hadn't taken two steps, but she added another sentence: "Take a good rest, you can continue at night!"

Shen Li stabilized his figure, bit the bullet, and left step by step with a cheeky face.

Gu Xi was woken up by a light knock on the door early in the morning, and just as he was guessing who knocked on the door so early in the morning, Erniang's voice sounded outside the door: "Is Xi'er up yet?"

Such a way of shouting is naturally awakened, but after the incident happened last time, Gu Xi avoided Er Niang intentionally or unintentionally.Of course I don't want to respond to her now.

Xu knew that Gu Xi had woken up, but she didn't want to answer her, so Erniang said to herself: "Today is the Shangsi Festival on the third day of March, remember the second..." The second lady hurriedly changed her words, "Remember what I told you, we have to be connected." Burn incense for three years. Is this the second year?"

Seeing that the room was still silent for a while, the second lady said: "Don't forget." She didn't say anything more.

The third day of March in Nanqiao Town is a day for burning incense and worshiping Buddha to pray for blessings, but there is a rule that one must either not burn incense on this day, or go to the same temple for three consecutive years.

I went to Jingci Temple last year.

Jingci Temple's incense is not the best in Nanqiao Town, but Erniang will drag Gu Xi there every year, regardless of whether he wants to or not.

Gu Xi touched the quilt by his side, put it on the tip of his nose and sniffed, there was still Shen Li's breath on it.Gu Xi turned over, fell asleep where Shen Li slept, covered his head under the quilt, and fell asleep again.

Chapter 28

Jingci Nunnery is built on a mountain, and the hall is built along the mountain. The nunnery is mixed with those lush trees, which looks very quiet.

This place is remote, there is only a wooden house at the foot of the mountain, and an old couple manages a small shop selling incense and candles.Gu Xi bought joss sticks here, climbed up the stone steps from the foot of the mountain, and reached the top of the mountain.

Unlike grandma and Erniang's grand battle, Gu Xi only brought a servant with him, and when he reached the top of the mountain, he simply left the servant behind and asked the servant to pick him up at the foot of the mountain an hour later.

"But son, I don't feel at ease letting you be alone on the mountain." The servant was still struggling needlessly, trying to dispel Gu Xi's thoughts.

Gu Xi was standing in front of the candlestick burning incense at the moment, afraid that the breath he exhaled would extinguish the flames in front of him, but when he saw the green smoke rising from the tip of the incense, he dared to whisper: "What can happen on the mountain? In the nunnery. Go, don't follow me any more."

"Yes." Seeing that Gu Xi had said that, the servant didn't dare to speak out anymore, turned around with his hands folded and left the hall.

"Does the young master seek marriage?"

The one who spoke was an old lady in a cobalt-colored coarse cloth dress. The old lady turned her face to look at him while staring at the burning candle beside him.

Gu Xi was a little uncomfortable being stared at by the aunt, so he quickly looked away.But when he heard the word "marriage", the cat's face that Shen Li made last night flashed in his mind, and a smile suddenly appeared in his heart.

"No." Gu Xi replied truthfully, he just came to pay respects.

Seeing the fire burning on the tip of the incense, Gu Xi held the incense and bowed in all directions, then held the sleeve with one hand and inserted the incense into the incense burner.

"Does the young master have a girl he likes?" the aunt asked again.

Favorite girl?Last night, the scene of Shen Li clinging to his shoulder, biting his chest and calling him "Gu Lang" reappeared again, and Gu Xi suddenly felt a heat in his stomach.It seems that it doesn't matter if it's a girl or not.

But Madam's words are really familiar to Gu Xi, and the old lady in the family is always used to say such things, so it can't make Gu Xi unfamiliar.

"Yes." Gu Xi said with a smile.If he said "no", I'm afraid the next sentence should be "I know a girl who was young..."

Sure enough, the aunt sighed and said: "It seems that I have no destiny with my girl."

Knowing that Gu Xi has someone he likes, the aunt has no intention of chatting with Gu Xi about other things, and kneels down to worship the Buddha statue sternly.

Gu Xi also put his hands together, closed his eyes, and knelt down on the futon: May the Gu family prosper and prosper; the child in Erniang's womb is safe and healthy; he and Shen Li, so it is good.

When Gu Xi was scratching his head and thinking about what other wishes he had, he heard two women whispering not far away. It was because there were few pilgrims that their voices became clearer in the empty hall:

"Don't look at the size of the nunnery here, it's very helpful to seek marriage."

"how do I say this?"

"The eldest daughter of Wang Mazi's family found her husband's family. His wife told her that the matchmaker came to this nunnery to pay her respects and donated some silver taels before she came to the door."

"In that case, I also want to donate more money."

"Tsk, your daughter is only ten years old, so you are in a hurry to find her husband's family?"

The voice was quiet for a while, and then another woman said: "Why? It's not that my husband is always away from home. He just likes to hang out with those women outside. Then I will ask the Bodhisattva to bless us, so that our one will not stay outside. fool around."

Gu Xi didn't want to listen any longer, and kowtowed towards the Buddha statue.If there is a spirit, let him and Shen Li have a happy ending.

Gu Xi got up, and when he walked to the door of the store, he saw a red merit box and a thin volume on the table by the door.

Gu Xi took out a stack of banknotes from his purse and stuffed them into the box. He raised his hand and wrote on the back of the other person's name: Nanqiao Town, Gu Xi and his family donated.

Putting the notebook back to its original place, Gu Xi inadvertently raised his head and glanced at the nun's yellow clothes behind the table, but was also stunned on the spot.

For a moment, Gu Xi had the illusion that it was like a world away.

Mother reached out and handed him the clay figurine she just bought, "Hey, take it, don't cry anymore."

He hugged his mother's leg, wiped the snot from his face, and stretched out his hand to catch the clay figurine...

In summer afternoons, he and his mother would sleep on the bamboo bed. His mother would hold a book in one hand and fan him with the other, humming a soft tune in her throat.He couldn't sleep, looked up at his mother, the sunlight came in through the pane...

The mother also looked like that that day, her eyebrows were downcast, her face was leisurely and soothing.

"I knew you were pretending to be asleep again! If you don't sleep again, mother will not accompany you." Mother gently tapped his nose with the tip of her fan...

The father burned all the opera books that the mother loved dearly.The flaming flames reflected his father's face red, and he held his mother's hand and looked up at his father.

The mother squatted down, touched the hair on the top of his head, smiled, but tears were shining in her eyes, "Xi'er will grow up in the future, and must find someone who is willing to walk hand in hand with him for the rest of his life. You love each other , even if there are thousands of mountains and rivers, it cannot separate the two of you."

The father angrily pulled the mother aside and shouted: "Enough!".That expression really terrified Gu Xi, "It's fine if you like to watch these messy things! Why are you talking about this with your child?"

……

"Father, where did mother go?"

"Mother..." Father Gu paused and sighed, "Xi'er, don't mention your mother anymore."

It didn't take long to go up the mountain road. Looking at the stone steps down the mountain, I felt so far away.Gu Xi never thought that he could see his mother who had "gone" for many years here, nor did he expect it to be under such a sudden situation.

Mother's name is like a taboo in front of father, grandma never mentions it to father, only occasionally when talking about the incense of the Gu family with Gu Xi, she will mention it by the way.

What kind of situation was it that made the Gu family direct a scene of suspended animation for her?

Heh... Could it really be because of Er Niang?

Gu Xi sneered, but it was true.If she could cause him to fall into the water and wrong Shen Li for pushing him downstairs, she could also force her mother to leave Gu's mansion and escape into the empty door!

What a cruel heart!

"Master, did you finish worshiping so early? I think you have to wait a little longer." Seeing Gu Xi walking down from the height with his hands behind his back, the servant hurriedly greeted him with a smile on his face.

Gu Xi didn't answer, the various faces of the second wife of the Gu family lingered in his mind, and he once treated her as his own mother in vain.

Thinking of this, Gu Xi couldn't help feeling sad.

Chapter 29

When passing by Huang Zisheng's restaurant, Gu Xi brought