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Float on the waves in a small boat, enjoy the golden river surface under the warm sun, enjoy the hustle and bustle of the morning market, and be alone in a corner of the world...

Everything would be fine, as long as there is no monkey around to constantly emphasize his own existence.If possible, Hua Qianyu would really like to hold Gu Junze's hair in a bun, lift him up, and kick him into the lake.

"Mingxi, look there are fish here!" Gu Junze knelt on the boat board, pointed to the lake, with a childish smile on his face, and said to An Mingxi.

Hua Qianyu lowered her eyes, looked at him condescendingly, and cursed in her heart: Isn't this nonsense?There are no fish in the river, but are there birds?

An Mingxi poked his head over, but because the lake surface was dazzling, he didn't take a closer look, and only responded: "En."

Seeing that An Mingxi seemed not interested in this, Gu Junze got up and changed the subject: "Where is Mingxi going after?" It was also the topic he was most concerned about.

"All the way south."

The boat was about to pass through the arch bridge, even though the bottom of the arch bridge was high enough, An Mingxi couldn't help but bend over and lower his head.

"Mingxi's hometown is Lingnan?"

"Just...playing."

"Can Jun Ze accompany you?"

"No."

"Is Jiangnan not good?"

"it is good."

"Can't you stay?"

"No."

"Can you tell Junze where Mingxi's house is?"

"Neither can."

Gu Junze was discouraged: "Then how should I find you?"

After hesitating, An Mingxi still said: "I will write to you when I get home."

After getting out of the bottom of the bridge, the field of vision opened up a lot, and the not-so-hot sun covered his face again, making his face hot.

"Mingxi..." Gu Junze, who was deeply moved by the unexpected answer, was about to hug An Mingxi, but he didn't want to bump into Hua Qianyu's arms.

"Brother doesn't like you, so please don't overstep the rules." Hua Qianyu, who had his back to An Mingxi, sounded gentle, but his eyes were like cold pools.

Gu Junze was stared down by him, so he couldn't help swallowing, thinking that he couldn't lose his posture, he straightened his body, raised his voice and said, "Mingxi doesn't like you either!"

Hearing this, Hua Qianyu's expression darkened even more.

Gu Junze pursed his lips, and murmured to himself in a low voice: "I'm not like some people who are shy and timid, who only dare to move behind their backs..."

An Mingxi, who smelled the strong smell of fire|powder between the two, stood between them, then turned his head, and raised his voice, "Boater, go ashore."

"Eh!"

The boatman responded, and the boat turned around.

An Mingxi turned his back and sighed: "If you want to quarrel, then go back."

Hua Qianyu bowed his head, but saw An Mingxi spread his palms and pointed his four fingers at him.He tentatively put his hand on An Mingxi's, and saw that An Mingxi not only did not reject it, but even gathered his four fingers together, holding his four fingers in his palm.Immediately, his heart was full of joy, his smile was far better than that of the warm sun, and he responded with a brisk voice: "Okay."

Le Yang, who was on the side, looked at the hands of the two, and couldn't help blushing. He was sure that the two had already hit it off, and the smile on his son's face made him sigh helplessly.

Alas, his bright young master has become so childish.

……

The narrow road with only two carriages is paved with complete or damaged blue bricks. The moss between the bricks and the wall forms a line, and the weeds are lush between the stone crevices. vitality.Stone roads, water wall gates, round arch bridges, stilted buildings... The scenery full of Jiangnan characteristics is full of poetry. It is no wonder that poets call Jiangnan good.

After the time has passed, there are fewer and fewer pedestrians.

An Mingxi looked at the thick white clouds above his head, and said to himself: "Is it going to rain?"

Gu Junze said: "No, the cloud will dissipate after a while."

Suddenly, there was a discussion between the two behind them. Because of the mention of the word "Shi Jun", both An Mingxi and Hua Qianyu paid attention to it.

"Zhang Shijun is really a good official. A while ago, my ox was taken away by the neighbor Wang Gouzi. He insisted that it belonged to his family-who didn't know that his old scalper had been slaughtered and sold a while ago? Fortunately, Shijun helped I'm coming back, and I beat Zhu Gou several times, now Zhu Gou won't dare to steal from me."

Another person said: "Also, there is a bandit den ten miles away from the north gate, which caused great misery to our common people. It was Zhang Shijun who came forward and arrested them all, leaving no one behind."

——Gu Junze rolled his eyes over and over while listening, and intentionally put on a nauseous look.

"This city wall was rebuilt by Zhang Shijun, and we ordinary people can feel more at ease living in the city!"

"Yes! It is a great blessing for us in Suzhou to have such a parent officer!"

After finishing speaking, the two looked at each other and smiled. After laughing, one of them patted the other's shoulder and said, "Go in for a drink?" He pointed his thumb at the restaurant behind him.

The other party responded with a smile: "Go drink!"

Hua Qianyu turned around and stared at the backs of the two as they entered the building.

"What's wrong?" An Mingxi asked.

He turned his head and said to An Mingxi, "It's nothing, it's just...it feels a little weird." But he couldn't tell what was weird.

Gu Junze raised his voice: "Of course it's strange! How can this dog official be as good as they say? Are people in the city so deceived?"

"Oh? You understand?"

After being accosted by Hua Qianyu, Gu Junze was not willing to speak, and only said: "Why do you want to tell you?"

An Mingxi then said: "Then, tell me."

Gu Junze raised the corner of his mouth, coughed twice pretentiously, and said, "I'll talk about the city wall first—the city wall was supposed to cover the village in the northwest, which is the area where Gu Fang Villa is located, but the dog officer bluntly let it go." Each of our households donates an extra five taels of silver every year to make up for the cost of rebuilding the wall—according to his temperament, if the imperial court did not allocate funds to say that it would be rebuilt, how could he bother to build the wall? The dog officer would also take a lot from the villagers... The villagers didn't want to pay the money, so the dog official deliberately incited the villagers to ask Gu to pay the fee. Although Gu had the money, he was unwilling to let the dog official do what he wanted. Both the mother and the aunt are not easy to be manipulated by others, so they refused. Fei, so that until now, those foolish people still have opinions on Gu."

Gu Junze seemed to be still angry, and made a nauseous expression again, before continuing: "The dog officer holds grudges, and also restricts us from doing business in the city and nearby counties, so my brother can only go to other states to do business. Alas, he I haven't been home for half a year."

"Do you have a brother?" An Mingxi asked.

Gu Junze nodded: "Yes, I still have Sanniang, Siniang and younger sister, but the relationship between mother and aunt is relatively good. When I was young, I only kissed them and my elder brother. After my father died, Sanniang didn't like to show up anymore. And Si Niang took the younger sister back to her natal family to visit relatives, but she has not returned yet."

"Feel sorry."

"Why do you apologize?" Gu Junze thought for a while, "But for my father?"

An Mingxi nodded.

"My father has passed away for four years, and I am used to living without him." Gu Junze curled his lips as usual, but lowered his eyes again.

An Mingxi didn't know how to comfort him, so he raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder awkwardly.

"Mingxi..."

Gu Junze was about to take advantage of the momentum to hug An Mingxi, but Hua Qianyu pushed him away with one hand. Gu Junze grabbed Hua Qianyu's wrist, the two of them looked at each other, and there was a stalemate for a while.

"Go back." An Mingxi sighed.

Next time, don't let them be together.

……

At the foot of Gu's Villa, the line of trucks and horses along the way was nearly half a mile long, causing the villagers to stop and discuss.

Gu Junze jumped out of the carriage, and ran up the steps without waiting for An Mingxi to get off the carriage, shouting while running: "Brother!" He disappeared after a while.

Gu Junze's appearance reminded Le Yang of the young master welcoming the return of the second son.Presumably Young Master and Young Master Gu are also similar people, if it wasn't for the fourth prince, maybe they could be friends.

It was the first time for An Mingxi to see such a huge convoy, so he couldn't help but spend a lot of time observing. He saw people unloading goods from horsebacks or carts, carrying them on their backs, or two people working together to carry the goods up the mountain ...

"Go up." Hua Qianyu turned to An Mingxi and said.

An Mingxi took a step and walked up the steps with him.The servants looked at the two people's attire and knew that they were distinguished, so they deliberately stepped aside to make way for them - Le Yang followed behind them.

After all, they lived here, out of politeness, they walked to the entrance of the lobby, intending to see the owner.Seeing their silhouettes, Gu Junze slapped his forehead and hurriedly called An Mingxi to come in, but Hua Qianyu came in uninvited.

Le Yang waited by the door.

"They are travelers temporarily staying at our house. Big Brother and Sanniang haven't met yet!"

The two bowed at the same time.

The elder brother and Sanniang that Gu Junze was talking about didn't speak, but Sanniang Wang Yan nodded to them anyway.

Even though Gu Mingze, who was sitting on the main seat, had a cold face, Gu Junze's enthusiasm remained undiminished: "Brother, how long will you stay here this time?"

Gu Mingze responded, "It won't be too long."

"Ah... can't you have it for a month?"

"At most half a month."

"Brother...don't you like the villa?"

Gu Mingze was silent.

Gu Junze took a step back in surprise, deliberately exaggerating: "Brother...you!" Suddenly, he threw himself into An Mingxi's arms——

"Mingxi... Brother, he abandoned me..."

Even though he intentionally appeared bleak, his tone still smelled sad.

Hua Qianyu, who never expected that Gu Junze could be such a rascal in front of his elders, missed the opportunity to obstruct, and was about to separate the two of them. An Mingxi, who sensed something was wrong, said in advance: "Then let's go down first." Personally, he still bowed his hands in salute, and then dragged Gu Junze back.

Hua Qianyu didn't want to be rude, and resisted tearing off the dog skin plaster before leaving the elder's sight. However, Gu Junze, who had originally stuffed his face into An Mingxi's chest, turned his face to Hua Qianyu, curled up his mouth and showed a mocking smile. The patient Hua Qianyu immediately pressed his palm on the center of his face, using force with his fingertips, trying to peel him off An Mingxi from the head...

After the three left, Wang Yan also bowed and resigned, so only Gu Mingze, Wang Yudie, Wu Xueman and a few servants remained in the lobby.Wang Yudie was thinking about the fight between the three teenagers, and suddenly burst into laughter, Gu Mingze and Wu Xueman were attracted by her laughter.

"It seems that Jun Ze really likes that Mr. Huang."

"Huang Mingxi" - she remembered this name, Gu Junze mentioned it many times in front of her and Wu Xueman.

Gu Mingze's face darkened for a moment: "What kind of Junze was taught by you?"

Wang Yudie still had a faint smile on her face, and she didn't look displeased by his accusation.She just said: "He likes it, isn't it good?"

"He likes it? If you didn't intentionally mislead, how could he be like this?"

"If we intentionally mislead you, why would you do that?" Wang Yudie asked indifferently.

Gu Mingze slapped the table with his palm, and got up angrily: "Don't graft your quirks onto Junze!"

"Is it a quirk..." She said softly, "If you live according to your ideas, will you be happy?"

"Yes." With a firm voice, Gu Mingze walked away.