The days when I skipped school and opened a restaurant in ancient times

In the palace, Gu Yunlan looked at the two people sitting below.

Like an old mother, Lu Yunnan took good care of his worried younger brother.

Gu Chao also looked dependent, and Gu Yunlan looked a little depressed.

"Two big men, what are they talking about?" Gu Yunlan began to beat the mandarin ducks, and ordered Gu Chao: "Gu Chao, don't be a manly man like a boneless limp, sit up straight."

Gu Chao didn't even raise his eyes, he took Gu Yunlan's words as wind on his ears, and he was going to rely on Lu Yunnan.

Lu Yunnan wanted to move, so as not to get involved in the flames of war between the two brothers.But Gu Chao didn't give him a chance, as long as Lu Yunnan moved, Gu Chao would stare at him with hurt eyes.

In the end Lu Yunnan still surrendered, so be it.

"It's something to do, why didn't I see you open your mouth after sitting for a long time." Gu Yunlan was dissatisfied with Gu Chao's disobedience before, and his words were very hurtful, "We haven't seen each other for a few days, let it be fine if your bones are soft, why are you still dumb?"

Gu Chao didn't care about his brother's words, and said, "Brother Lu's matter is related to the Queen Mother."

"How do you know?" Gu Yunlan asked seriously. The Imperial City Secretary has found out something recently, but it has not been confirmed yet.But the general direction is indeed pointing to Queen Mother Shen.

Gu Chao wanted to speak, but the threat from the Queen Mother Shen when he was a child popped up in his mind.

Even though he has grown up now, his elder brother is no longer a prince without real power, but the king of a country.

But the deep-rooted thoughts and fears from childhood to adulthood cannot be easily changed or disappeared.

Empress Dowager Shen's madness made Gu Chao fearful.

The corner of the clothes was pulled slightly, Gu Chao looked over, it was Lu Yunnan.

He was looking at himself intently, and whispered, "Don't be afraid."

Gu Yunlan also sensed that something was wrong with Gu Chao, and realized that he might want to tell the truth about why he assassinated Queen Mother Shen back then.Gu Yunlan didn't bother, and gave enough time for Gu Chao to prepare mentally.

After waiting for a while, Gu Chao finally spoke.

He told the two people he cared about most about the memory that had tortured him so far.

When Lu Yunnan heard that when he fell into the water, Gu Chao was held by Queen Mother Shen and watched from behind.Lu Yunnan couldn't imagine how much Gu Chao would blame himself.

And Gu Yunlan finally knew why she was such a cute, cute, and even naughty brother before.Why did the personality become so big after living in the Queen Mother for a few days.

I also understood why, when he was young, he would go crazy and wanted to kill the queen mother in front of the first emperor.

But after listening to what Gu Chao said, Gu Yunlan fell silent.

Gu Chao said that his father had never visited him before.And Empress Dowager Shen also threatened several times that if the young Gu Chao dared to reveal anything to her, she would try to kill herself.

After the young Gu Chao had seen the methods of Queen Mother Shen, he didn't think that Queen Mother Shen was just scaring her.But Gu Yunlan thought of something.

When he first came to the throne, he asked the Imperial City Secretary to thoroughly investigate Gu Chao's past.But I couldn't find anything, not a single clue.Gu Yunlan knew in her heart that she couldn't find out because someone with more power controlled the clues.

But the only one who has more power than the emperor in Da Zhou is the Empress Dowager Shen.There is also the empress dowager who takes care of her life and doesn't care about world affairs.

But Gu Yunlan ignored another person - the former emperor who had passed away.

If the first emperor had cleaned up everything before his death, Gu Yunlan would not be able to find anything even if he searched the sky.

If it was really the work of the former emperor, Gu Yunlan looked at Gu Chao, and many things were slowly connected together.

The previous clues were broken in the Imperial City Division. Someone erased all the traces recorded by the Imperial City Division in those years, so he couldn't find anything during the years when Gu Chao lived under the Empress Dowager.

If you want to know, I am afraid that only Gu Chao or the Queen Mother will say it.

If it was really their father's doing.Then he admired the incomparable father, in order to be stable.In the year when their mother and concubine passed away, they gave up the young Gu Chao.

He was even more afraid of finding out by himself, so he was sent out in those years.It was just to keep myself from meeting and contacting Gu Chao often, so that he could not know what happened to Gu Chao at the Empress Dowager Shen's place.

But the emperor himself knew everything, but chose to turn a blind eye.In those years, he had never visited Gu Chao.

Let Gu Chao be tortured in pain.

After Gu Yunlan realized this, she felt extremely painful.

He is much older than Gu Chao, he knows how much his father loves his mother and concubine.Even if he is not the first child of the father, let alone the prince.But his father loved him the most. After Gu Chao was born, everyone held Gu Chao in their palms.His father's love for Gu Chao in those years cannot be faked.

It is really hard for Gu Yunlan to imagine that his father, who loves Gu Chao so much, would watch Gu Chao being abused by Queen Mother Shen.

At first, I was still wondering whether the former emperor's love for him was also a lie.But Gu Yunlan found that she couldn't say that the late emperor didn't love her, and the late emperor had done a lot for him.Even in the end, let him stay away from Ningjing City and choose to sacrifice Gu Chao, but also let him live smoothly and worry-free.

"I'm sorry, Chao Chao." Gu Yunlan was very guilty, he found out too late.I really thought that Gu Chao had a good life before.

Even when I came back later, every time I saw my younger brother, I never thought about finding out why my younger brother's temperament changed drastically in just a short period of time.

Gu Chao didn't blame Gu Yunlan, the only thing he wanted was to make Empress Dowager Shen stop haunting him.

Let him have no peace.

Gu Yunlan knew what Gu Chao was thinking, and had a countermeasure in mind.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, it is not impossible to completely eradicate the Queen Mother's party.

That day, Gu Chao and Lu Yunnan stayed in the palace for a long time before leaving.

-

Lu Yu was still confined in the mansion, but he knew the rumors Xuan Yao spread outside.Zhu Lin secretly told him that he hoped that Lu Yu would bear it a little longer, now that the wind direction has changed, it won't be long before His Majesty will lift the restraint.

Lu Yu didn't have too much emotion about this.

No one is sure what Lu Yu's attitude towards Xuan Yao is.

Xuan Yao wanted to see Lu Yu, but was afraid to see Lu Yu.It's just that every night, in the dead of night, he avoids the nursing home and slips into Lu's residence.Sitting on the roof of Lu Yu's house, he didn't leave until it was light.

The matter was not completely resolved until late autumn, but the Lorgar Kingdom sent envoys.

He said he was going to bring the prince back to Lorgar, and he would be imprisoned for several years after he was brought back, which was an explanation to Da Zhou.

On the day before leaving, Xuan Yao entered the Lu residence late at night.This was the first time he stood at Lu Yu's door in this period of time, "I'm going back, I'm sorry for causing you so much."

Lu Yu was inside the house, holding a book in his hand, studying by candlelight.

He knew that Xuan Yao would come every day, and he also knew that he was outside the door now.

Do you hate Xuan Yao?

hatred.

Lu Yu knew that even if it wasn't Xuan Yao, it would be someone else.But Lu Yu hated it, he didn't kill Xuan Yao, it was because he was thinking about the overall situation, and he couldn't ruin the friendship between the two countries because of himself.

"I'm going back to the Lorgar country this time, I'm afraid it will be more or less auspicious. My elder brother did not hesitate to sacrifice himself, but also to make my father think that I am unrestrained and useless. Now that I have made such a big mess, he will definitely not let it go." After such a good opportunity, get rid of me completely." Xuan Yao begged, "Can I...can I see you again?"

Lu Yu didn't make a sound, just concentrated on reading, as if he didn't hear the voice outside the door.

After Xuan Yao stayed for a while, he also knew that Lu Yu would not come out to see him. Although he didn't want to, he could only leave.

After Xuan Yao left, the Great Zhou Dynasty Hall was still noisy and lively.

Those who insisted on fighting still wanted to fight. From their point of view, Xuan Yao's return to the country and saying that he was imprisoned was all an excuse.When I go back, I will still eat the delicious and spicy food, which is no different from letting the tiger go back to the mountain.Those who wanted to calm things down insisted that the punishment of returning to China and being imprisoned was fine.From the beginning to the end, the person involved, Lu Yu, was locked in the mansion and grounded.

In the entire Lu Mansion, no one said a word about how to solve this matter, and no one asked their opinions.

The courtiers quarreled with each other, as if whoever had the loudest voice was right.

Just as they were stalemate, news came from Lorgar Kingdom.

Xuan Yao was deprived of his status as a prince and demoted to a commoner.

It is an extremely serious punishment for the royal family to be deprived of their noble status and become common people.

Now, those who insisted on fighting a war had no way to continue to persist.

A few days after the news came out, Lu Yu was released from the foot restraint.Summoned into the palace by Gu Yunlan, they talked for a long time.

On the second day, Lu Yu, who had half a foot in the cabinet, was released.

Or go to a remote place to be the magistrate.

The Empress Dowager Shen was also very satisfied with this result, not to mention greatly hurting the vitality of the Lu family, and even losing Gu Yunlan's support.

She also fulfilled her promise and released Aunt Yue.

Xu Shuyu went to the palace to thank her for this. Although he promised not to tell the truth about Lu Yu, he was still given medicine by the Queen Mother Shen.

"On the [-]th day of every month, the palace will send someone to send you medicine to suppress toxicity." The Empress Dowager Shen touched the raccoon cat in her arms, and said slowly: "Don't think about it, because of the illusory friendship, you even sacrifice your life."

Xu Shuyu knew what Empress Dowager Shen meant and nodded.

From autumn to winter, the Lu mansion, the focus of the incident, has been calm.

But soon someone noticed something was wrong.

Prime Minister Right was too close to King Jinyang.

In the past few days, in the court hall, there are even officials from the right faction who mention King Jinyang from time to time.To put it bluntly, he can participate in politics, and those who are interested in it can figure out something is wrong after a little thought.

I'm afraid it's because the emperor's punishment of Lu Yu this time has chilled the right minister's heart.

As time passed day by day, everyone saw every move of the Right Prime Minister's Mansion.

And the relationship between Young Master Lu and King Jinyang caused everyone to talk about it.

Nothing else, these two people are in the Guozijian, they are not separated from Mengmeng.

King Jinyang didn't even let others get close to Young Master Lu, not even the twins of the Xu family whom Young Master Lu had befriended.

Protecting people like eyeballs.

The relationship is so close, combined with the actions of the Right Prime Minister's Mansion in the past few days.

The voices about the right minister's mansion wanting to support King Jinyang became louder and louder.

Xu Shuyu didn't know that he was exposed, he approached Lu Yunnan as usual.On the contrary, Xu Shuyuan said that he didn't want to have any contact with Lu Yunnan again, every time Xu Shuyu forced him to appear in front of Lu Yunnan.

Lu Yunnan knew that his elder brother's matter had something to do with Xu Shuyu, but he couldn't tell Xu Shuyu right now.

Put the long line and catch the big fish.

Lu Yunnan thought silently in his heart.

Gu Chao sensed that Lu Yunnan was in a bad mood, so he pulled him behind him to protect him.He didn't want the Xu family brothers to get close to Lu Yunnan, and he didn't want the Xu family brothers to be suspicious.Using the name he didn't like, he directly drove away all the people who approached Lu Yunnan.

save trouble.

Chi Muhan dragged Song Zixiu to complain about Gu Chao for several days.

"Why is this little prince so unreasonable?" Chi Mu stomped his feet coldly, "So is your brother, and he really just followed him. This man has such a strong desire to control, and that fool is not afraid?"

After talking about Gu Chaochi, Muhan was not satisfied, and said together one after another: "It's the same with you, my own brother is being looked at as a prisoner, you didn't do anything, just let the little prince mess around like this? I don't care." It's not scaremongering, whoever approaches Yun Nan now will have to pass through the gates of hell of the little prince."

What can be done one after another?

"Your Majesty and my father can't take care of it, do you think I can take care of it?" Li Lian himself was the first and the second eldest, "I told my father at the beginning, let him talk to His Majesty, take care of my younger brother .In the end, my father said, I found it, and His Majesty can't take care of it. I said that father can take care of it, and my father said that he can't do it either. Whoever wants to take care of it can do it."

He didn't hide it one after another, and he also had a deep resentment about it, "Now Zhizhi doesn't live at home. Yesterday the people from the palace moved all his things away, and today he lives directly in the Jinyang Palace."

Chi Muhan was shocked, "Does King Jinyang know that Lu Zhi's surname is Lu?"

Song Zixiu also couldn't imagine that King Jinyang could do such a thing. He was puzzled and said, "But why did King Jinyang do this? Didn't he punish Yunnan before? Don't you want to see Yunan?"

Sighing one after another, "It's not because of my brother. Gu Chao has played well with my brother since he was a child. There seems to be some misunderstanding between the two of them before. Recently they unraveled and reconciled. Gu Chao felt that the Lu family It’s not safe, and I feel that anyone is going to harm my brother outside. People are bewildered, and it’s what you see.”

"However, it's good for Zhizhi to live in the past recently. The house is lifeless every day, and I want to move out." Looking at Chi Muhan one after another, "Otherwise, I'll move out too, so you can take me in."

Chi Muhan didn't hesitate, and immediately nodded in agreement, "Okay."

Instead, he shook his head with a smile after getting answers one after another, "Now it is said that the Lu family is close to King Jinyang and intends to rebel. You are so close to me at this juncture, aren't you afraid that the Chi family will be drawn into this muddy water?"

Chi Muhan didn't think too much, he only considered that one after another was his confidant.

A good friend comes to live in my home, so I don't think about anything else.

"Then I'll accompany you to live in the mansion, fight and dance swords together every day, and feel free and happy. I don't care about their crap."

One after another, he became very happy, "You said this. You have to testify, Zixiu, so that no one will cheat and deny it."

Song Zixiu smiled and said, "Okay, I'll testify to you. If you want to fulfill your promise, just come to me directly."

-

On the first night when Lu Yunnan lived in Jinyang Palace, Gu Chao didn't fall asleep all night.Lu Yunnan himself slept soundly, the courtyard that Gu Chao prepared for him was very similar to his own courtyard in Lu's residence.

The decorations in the house are also restored one-to-one according to the place where he lived.

After washing up early in the morning, Lu Yunnan took Zhuzhi and Xinglin to the front hall to prepare for dinner.

Gu Chao was already waiting, Lu Yunnan asked in surprise, "Gu Chao, did you become a thief last night?"

"what happened?"

"Your dark circles are so heavy that they will fall to the ground."

Hearing that Gu Chao touched his eyes, he glanced at Asari, who nodded.

"Some insomnia." Gu Chao changed the subject and said, "Did you sleep well last night?"

Gu Chao, who originally wanted to change the subject, never thought that Lu Yunnan could hear his heartfelt voice.

The moment their eyes met, Lu Yunnan heard, 【Close your eyes, open your eyes, your mind is full of images, and you can't fall asleep. 】

Lu Yunnan stayed where he was, thinking about what Gu Chao's voice meant.

Gu Chao waved to Lu Yunnan, "Why are you in a daze? The food is getting cold."

Lu Yunnan absent-mindedly responded, picked up the bowl to eat, his mind was full of Gu Chaogang's aspirations.

After a meal, Lu Yunnan didn't think of an answer, so he simply didn't want to.

"The house in Yoyo Valley has been built, and the floor heating has been installed. When winter comes, when the river freezes, you can play on it. You don't have to rush back to the city, just live in the house. "

Lu Yunnan and Gu Chao talked about the construction progress of his Yoyo Valley.

He has always wanted to open Yoyo Valley, but many matters were not properly handled before.It has been delayed until now, and finally it can be opened at the end of this year.

Gu Chao nodded and said: "You can invite some people to visit the spots first. The hot springs in the valley are also very good. If you want to open it up, many people will like it."

Lu Yunnan smiled and said, "Of course, is there anything in Yoyo Valley?"

"I'll give you Mu Han, Zixiu, Lan..."

Lu Yunnan pursed her lips and lowered her eyes, almost blurting out the nicknames of Xu Shuyu and Xu Shuyuan.

"You know, don't feel sorry for them."

Gu Chao raised his hand to touch Lu Yunnan's temples.

Lu Yunnan felt a little itchy, and looked up at Gu Chao.

[I will always be by your side, protect you, love you...]

Lu Yunnan's eyes widened, his face full of disbelief.

Gu Chao only thought that Lu Yunnan was too sad, so he wanted to get closer to comfort him.

With a "wow", Lu Yunnan suddenly stood up from the chair.

He didn't dare to look into Gu Chao's eyes, raised his hand to prevent Gu Chao from approaching, and said in panic, "I'm fine, I want to be alone..."

After listening to Lu Yunnan's words, Gu Chao stood in place without moving.Thinking about whether he did something wrong just now, perhaps, he shouldn't have touched him.

When Lu Yunnan left the Jinyang Palace, the streets were bustling and noisy, and he was flustered.

Zhu Zhi and Xing Lin followed closely behind, looking at the young master who was staggering in front of him, feeling very worried.

The two whispered to each other, guessing in a low voice, "What's wrong with the young master? Do you miss the young master too much?"

Zhuzhi shook his head, "It doesn't look like it, it seems that the little prince touched his face, and then he became a little abnormal."

Xinglin thought about it carefully, and found that it seemed to be the case, "Why is it abnormal when your face is touched?"

"I don't know, let's just follow behind. Guess what these are for?" Zhuzhi walked faster, catching up with the falling pace.

Xinglin also chased after him, touched his face, and muttered, "I'm just curious..."

In the following days, Lu Yunnan and Gu Chao seemed to be playing a game of chasing each other.

One hides and the other chases.

But Lu Yunnan didn't have any place to hide, and the Lu Mansion couldn't go back, his parents said before that he wanted him to live in the Wang Mansion properly.Tell everyone to see their determination to befriend King Jinyang.

Every time, he would be blocked by Gu Chao at the gate of the courtyard.

Gu Chao didn't say anything when he was blocked by people, and just watched.Since Lu Yunnan heard Gu Chao's inner voice last time, he never dared to look at Gu Chao again, he was afraid that he would hear something that he shouldn't hear again.

He doesn't want to like men like his big brother.

too bitter.

There will be no good results, no happiness, and even less happiness.

Lu Yunnan didn't dare to look at Gu Chao, and Gu Chao didn't dare to go any further.

This delicate balance lasted until the severe winter, and the river in Yoyo Valley finally froze.

The news that the young master of the Lu family invited his friend to visit Yoyo Valley in winter reached Gu Yunlan's ears.

His Majesty the Emperor seemed to want to break the ice with the Lu family, so he opened his mouth to the right minister above the main hall and asked for an invitation letter.

The emperor is going, and those ministers must not be left behind.

This was originally a small gathering, but the number of people in the end was five times more than planned.

On the day of the winter tour, the meal is a buffet.

Everyone can choose what they want to eat, and choose what to eat according to their own preferences.The floor heating in the room was burning, and the wine was warming on the small stove, but it didn't feel cold.

This time was no different than last time, the officials who followed Gu Yunlan, no matter their age or age, were full of talents and learning.

One side of the world, enjoying the scenery and poetry, cooking wine and dialectics.

Lu Yunnan saw the charm of literati's eloquence.