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

The news that Lu Yunnan was fined to kneel spread to the Chi Xing Hall.

The willful church does not look at family background, but only at talent and learning.There happened to be a few willful students in the dining hall, and they recognized Lu Yunnan as the younger brother of the same class.After returning to the Zhixing Hall, several people were a little hesitant.After struggling again and again, I still talked about it with him one after another.

"Yunyun, your eighth brother was punished to kneel by a prince, and he is in the food hall."

Hearing the words one after another, there are question marks all over his head, lord?What prince?When did his cute and cute Xiaoba offend which prince?I have never heard of any princes coming to the Imperial College.

But the classmate would definitely not use this kind of thing to deceive him, after hastily nodding to several people, they rushed to the palm food hall one after another.

The news that the youngest of Lu Xiangfu was punished to kneel in the food hall, followed the people who ate in the hall to leave, and flew out as if with wings.The Guozijian knows everything about one or the other, and there are many interested people who come to watch.Xu Shuyu, Xu Shuyuan and Chi Muhan stood beside Lu Yunnan like fighters.

Whoever stretched his neck a little longer, all three of them could lower their faces to stare at that person and ask him to retract his stretched neck.

Chi Muhan was fine, although his face was very serious, the broken eyebrow above the brow bone also added a bit of fierceness to him.But it doesn't scare you if you don't look at him.Xu Shuyu was different, he was like an energetic fighting cock, jumping up and down around Lu Yunnan, wishing to peck the eyeballs of those who came to watch blind one by one.While covering for Lu Yunnan, Xu Shuyuan also had to look at some Shuyu, lest he really go up and scratch her.

Lu Yunnan was surrounded by Chi Muhan, Zhuzhi and the others, so people outside couldn't see him, and he couldn't see people outside clearly.It wasn't until Xu Shuyuan came over one after another and pulled Xu Shuyu out of the way that Lu Yunnan could clearly see through the way that there were many people watching the excitement in the dining room.

Reading is really boring, and I want to join in all the excitement.

Seeing his younger brother really kneeling on the ground one after another, he rushed forward and knelt down on one knee to look at Lu Yunnan, and asked eagerly: "Do you know what's going on? I heard that some prince punished you ? How did you offend the prince?"

Lu Yunnan pursed his lips, and organized his words, "Sixth brother, you might not believe it. The prince who punished me is called Gu Chao, because I threw lacquer and ink on his cloud brocade robe in calligraphy class yesterday."

Lu Yunnan sighed again while speaking, and said helplessly: "It can't be washed off."

At this time, I began to doubt whether I had auditory hallucinations or could not understand Da Zhou's words, "You said Gu Chao punished you? He made you kneel?"

One after another, they knew about Gu Chao's return. Lu Yu told him about it two days before the start of the Imperial College, and wanted him to choose a time to talk to Lu Yunnan.

Although she promised well in succession, she really didn't want to have any involvement with her younger brother and Gu Chao in her heart.

He still remembers that his little brother's life was hanging by a thread, and after he was finally rescued, he wanted to find his little friend.He even begged his eldest brother to write several letters of greetings for him, but all of them failed, making his younger brother sad for a long time.

You don't say anything when you leave, and you don't say anything when you come back.Seeing that the younger brother had forgotten Gu Chao as a person over time, it didn't make sense for him to run up to tear the younger brother's scars and tell him that the bastard Gu Chao had returned to him.

Although Lu Yunnan was still young at that time, he could forget a lot in ten years.But he will never forget, and he will never forget how sad his brother was when he hugged him and cried.

But what I didn't expect one after another was that this stinky and shameless Gu Chao also came to the Imperial College to study?Then why didn't Zhizhi mention that Gu Chao was also in the Imperial College with him last night?

The more I thought about it, the more angry I became, and the more I thought about it, the more depressed I became, "I know, why didn't you say that Brother Six was there yesterday?"

Lu Yunnan opened his mouth, he wanted to say that he didn't say it on purpose but just forgot.But successively he didn't care whether Lu Yunnan told him about it, what he cared about was that Gu Chao made his little brother so embarrassing in public.

Seeing Yue Yue holding his breath, Lu Yunnan could guess what Yue Yue wanted to do.The moment Lu Yunnan got up one after another, Lu Yunnan rushed forward, tightly hugged Li Lie's leg, and lowered his voice, "Sixth brother, don't let this go! Gu Chao used to be a prince and now he is a prince." , you can't treat him like a Ji retreat, put a sack on him and beat him!"

Lian Ben was still angry, listening to Lu Yunnan's words, looking at the pendant on his lap, he couldn't laugh or cry, "I know what you're talking about? Is your sixth brother this kind of person?"

Lu Yunnan asked subconsciously: "Isn't it?"

The smiling faces collapsed in an instant, and he said solemnly: "Of course not! We scholars would not do such a thing!"

Lu Yunnan blinked, but did not dismantle his own brother's platform, "Brother, you are right."

Squat down again one after another, looked at my little brother, and patted his head, "Zhizhi, you may have forgotten it yourself. You just looked the same as ten years ago. In order to prevent Sixth Brother from going to Gu Chao's Trouble, what you say is pretty much the same." After pinching Lu Yunnan's face one after another, he assured him: "Brother Six listens to you, don't look for him."

Lu Yunnan was stunned, what did he say ten years ago?It's been so long, he can't remember!

After kneeling for an hour, Lu Yunnan got up, just as the afternoon class was about to start.

One after another, they also knelt with Lu Yunnan in the food hall and returned to the whimsical hall one after another.

I don't know if Fang Xuelu didn't record that Lu Yunnan escaped from school all morning or if Zhou Jiancheng showed mercy and saw that he was punished by the prince to kneel down, he couldn't bear to be punished any more, so he turned a blind eye and let the matter pass.

Anyway, the whole afternoon, until the sound of the school drum, no one came to ask Lu Yunnan to go to the Shengjian Hall to receive his punishment.

And Gu Chao's seat was empty all afternoon.

King Jin's Mansion.

Gu Chao received a letter from the housekeeper, saying that the Empress Dowager sent someone to deliver things to the mansion, asking him to return home in time.

The thing sent from the palace was a pair of scrolls, and Gu Chao took the scrolls to the study.Counting the days, it is almost the anniversary of the death of the eleventh brother whom he has never met.

At this time in previous years, the palace would send some things to the palace.

Even if Gu Chao doesn't open the scroll, he still knows what is drawn on the scroll.

It must be the portrait of the person who took care of him by his side in the past.

Xi Xin, a young servant who has been serving behind him since the palace, is well versed in Gu Chao's habits, and habitually asked, "My lord, is this painting going to be sent to the secret room to hang up?"

Gu Chao didn't answer, got up directly, and led Xi Xin to the secret room.

King Jin Gu Chao is the only one whose fief is outside and whose palace is in the capital city of Ningjing.This is the privilege given to his younger brother by Emperor Yongxi Gu Yunlan.

King Jin's mansion was originally Gu Yunlan's mansion, and he gave it to Gu Chao after it was renovated.What Gu Yunlan didn't know was that when Gu Chao knew that the house was given to him, he also found someone to secretly start work on the house.

It turned out that a secret passage in the palace was added, and a secret room was added at the same time.

This secret room does not have any decorations, all sides are covered with smooth polished bluestone panels, and several copper candlesticks are nailed to the walls.

There are torture instruments on the east and west walls, all of which are whips.

The east ones are made of various leathers, and the west ones are made of various metals.On the south side, there is a whole wall of portraits, including men, women and children.

There is a Buddha statue on the north side, with only the head of the Buddha, occupying the entire wall. The table in front is filled with all kinds of large and small porcelain medicine bottles and some utensils for cleaning wounds.The Buddha statue is carved from a combination of sandalwood. The Buddha's head has kind eyebrows and kind eyes, with round lines and a beautiful face, more like Guanyin.The Buddha opened his eyes with a smile on his mouth, and looked at the whole secret room compassionately.

After entering the secret room, the servant respectfully opened the scroll and let Gu Chao have a look.After looking over it and kissing it, it can be hung on the wall.

Asarum only unfolded it a little, and saw the cinnabar mole between the eyebrows of the person in the painting.He suddenly thought that the only person who could have this cinnabar mole was the young master of Lu Xiangfu.

Gu Chao saw the little servant staring at the scroll with a terrified expression, so he glanced at the scroll.When he saw the cinnabar mole, he quickly snatched the scroll from the servant's hand.

Gu Chao's hands were trembling, he already had the answer in his heart, but he still held on to a glimmer of fantasy.Fantasizing that the person in the painting is not the person in his mind.

And when the whole painting was unfolded, Lu Zhi's handsome face also appeared on the silk cloth.

Gu Chao looked at the person in the painting, his eyes were tearing apart, his eyes gradually turned scarlet, and his whole body was tainted with murderous aura.

Manic, restless, bloodthirsty.

He kept repeating in his mouth, "I'm going to kill her...I'm going to kill her...Kill her..."

The tyranny in his heart has risen, and Gu Chao can hardly restrain his emotions at this time.He wanted to kill everyone who was close to him, and he wanted to kill the person who had been following him, haunting him.Just kill her and he will be free.

Xi Xin knew that Gu Chao had been stimulated and fell ill at this time.

"My lord, I'm offended."

Xi Xin took a long whip from the wall, and lashed towards Gu Chao vigorously.The sound of the long whip piercing through the air made Gu Chao regain his sanity.When the whip was about to fall on him, Gu Chao grabbed it with his bare hands.

Then he let go of the whip, and said coldly: "The iron whip pierces the spine."

Upon hearing this, Xi Xin immediately turned around and walked towards the west wall.

Gu Chao was facing the Buddha statue, he glanced at the futon on the ground, took a step back, and knelt on the stone slab.He loosened his belt, exposing his upper body. His broad back was already covered with whip marks of different shades.

"My lord, it has begun."

As soon as Xi Xin finished speaking, the iron whip fell fiercely on Gu Chao's broad back, scars were still visible on the back, the flesh was pulled open by the iron spikes protruding from the iron whip, and blood beads gushed out.

"Quiet focus."

"Stop being impatient."

"No violence."

"Don't act recklessly."

Asarum said a word, it was a whip.

Gu Chao clenched his teeth and said nothing.Thick cold sweat broke out on his forehead due to the severe pain, his body muscles were tense, blood beads wrapped in sweat beads slowly fell along the winding lines of his back like mountains, and disappeared in the robe around his waist.

"The Vajra Prajna Paramita Sutra, memorize."

Gu Chao recited the Buddhist scriptures word by word, and the boy whipped him every hundred words, his voice became softer and softer.

The wound made by the iron thorn was getting deeper and deeper. The book boy tried his best to avoid the wounded area and hit the intact area.In the end, it was found that there was no way to avoid it, and the strength of the strike was involuntarily lighter.

Gu Chao sensed it keenly, and he stopped chanting, "Asarum, don't do useless things, this is the last time."

Before the sound of chanting, Gu Chao said, "One more whip."

Hearing Gu Chao's weak voice, Xi Xin shivered a bit, lowered her head and said respectfully: "Xia Xin understands."

When he whipped again, Xi Xin's strength was the same as at the beginning.

Five thousand words of scriptures, the recitation time is neither too long nor too short.But because of the whipping, this time was prolonged a lot.The bloody smell permeating in the secret room became more and more intense, and Gu Chao's voice of reciting scriptures finally stopped.Looking at the bloody back, Xi Xin whipped the last whip and asked, "Did you know your mistake today?"

Gu Chao's eyes were slack and his face turned pale.He opened his mouth, his lips were trembling slightly, he managed to squeeze out a few words from his throat, "I know my mistake."

After all, Gu Chao's tense body suddenly relaxed, and he changed from kneeling to sitting slumped on the ground.

There was no emotion in his hoarse voice, as if language was only used to give orders to him, "Heal."

Asarum quickly put down the iron whip in his hand, rushed over to check for the pulse, then found the needed medicine bottle from the table, and began to clean Gu Chao's wound and apply medicine.

During the whole treatment process, Gu Chao did not make a sound.The unbearable pain of scraping bones and gouging flesh seems to be nothing to him.As if he couldn't feel the pain, his expression was numb, and his eyes looked blankly at nothingness.

But Xi Xin could see from Gu Chao's tense muscles again that he was in pain, very painful.

The medicine in the secret room is made from natural materials and earth treasures, which can not only stop bleeding instantly, but also remove putrefaction and regenerate muscle.If it is maintained carefully, it will not even leave any scars.

Gu Chao felt the burning pain in his back, and after confirming that Asarum had been given the medicine, he knelt up straight again, and said in a hoarse voice, "Burning incense."

Xi Xin obeyed the order and got up, ran to the desk with her head down, took out two sticks of incense and lit them.

This is benzoin made from the gum from the benzoin tree. It is said in Persia that burning this incense can enlighten the gods and avoid evil.

Gu Chao's expressionless face showed a hint of sarcasm the moment the incense was lit.

After finishing lighting the incense, Xi Xin tidied up the secret room and retreated respectfully.

After closing the door, he took a deep breath and came out alive this time.

Asarum's surname is Hua, and three generations of his family have been doctors in the palace medical workshop.He was named by his grandfather when he was born.Huaxixin means Asarum, and it is the name of a medicine.

Eleven years ago, his father and grandfather were beaten to death because they stole medicinal materials from the medicine shop and went out of the city. His mother couldn't stand the blow and jumped into the river.

Hua Xixin was five years old.

He was too young, fortunately he was adopted by his father's friend, who was also a doctor in the medicine shop, surnamed Yuan.

There are young apprentices in the pharmacy, as well as children of other doctors.They listened to what adults said unintentionally, and they remembered it in their hearts.It is not a good thing to think that Hua Xixin is the descendant of the shameful thief.Hua Xixin would always return to Doctor Yuan's residence with a bruised nose and a swollen face.

This kind of life lasted until eight years ago, when Dr. Yuan used a method to send him to the side of the little prince. At that time, the little prince was still the twelfth prince.

Dr. Yuan told him that his father and grandfather were wrongly killed.He must stay with the Twelfth Prince and gain the Twelfth Prince's favor.Only in this way can we rely on the imperial power to find out the truth about his father and grandfather, and to clear up their grievances.

Xi Xin stayed with the Twelfth Prince for three days, and after three days, Xi Xin went back and told Dr. Yuan that he would be the Twelfth Prince's personal servant in the future.Dr. Yuan was very happy and told him again that he must be favored and find out the truth of the year.

What Xi Xin didn't say was that on the first day he went, the Twelfth Prince asked him to recite a passage.Because I have memorized prescriptions and formulas since I was a child, Xixin memorized things very quickly.

After reciting the words, the Twelfth Prince led him to a secret room, and the furnishings in that secret room were exactly the same as the current one.

What the prince, who was still the twelve princes, asked him to do was exactly the same as now.

Xi Xin was so scared that she wanted to run away, but thinking of her father and grandfather, she finally suppressed her fear and stayed.

After the whipping on the third day, the little prince said to him, "Go and tell Dr. Yuan that I will accept you."

On the second day after Xi Xin finished speaking, there was only one sentence on the paper of the twelve princes.

"You know what's wrong?"

At the end of the whipping, it was always "Do you know your mistake?" And the Twelfth Prince would bear the pain every time and answer, "My child knows his mistake."

That time, Xi Xin thought that the twelve princes would send him back.Who knows, after the twelve princes came out of the secret room, they didn't say a word.

Since then, Xi Xin has been serving Gu Chao by his side.Gradually, he also knew that Gu Chao had a very serious heart disease.

If he fell ill and didn't suppress it in time, Gu Chao, who was devoured by reason, would not only do things that hurt himself, but also do things that hurt others.And from then on, he took on the role of stopping Gu Chao from getting sick.

This method of whipping was what Gu Chao told him to do.Asarum once thought about using medicine, but ultimately failed.Gu Chao's heart disease is too serious, it doesn't happen overnight.For diagnosis and treatment, the cooperation of the patient himself is needed.

But Gu Chao never cooperated.

Xi Xin thought that today he just saw the portrait of young master Lu, the little prince couldn't restrain his thoughts, and became extremely irritable.Being so cared by the young prince, if young master Lu persuaded him, I wonder if it would work.

Gu Chao knelt on the ground, looking at the Buddha statue with only one head.The Buddha statue has kind eyebrows and kind eyes, and the eyebrows and eyes are somewhat similar to the person he called the queen mother.He smelled the smell of benzoin, and remembered the first time he saw her.The long memory has not been dusted by the passage of time, he even remembers every detail.

That was the first time he was whipped, and it was also the beginning of many desperate situations in the future.It's ridiculous that this is the only way to calm him down quickly.Relying on whipping the body and using pain to gain peace of mind, otherwise it will become an irrational beast.

This is not a palace, this is Pingjing City with his brother and Lu Zhi, he doesn't want to get sick again.

Fifteen years ago, Fengqi Palace, the imperial city of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

There is a child on the covered bridge of the water pavilion, followed by several servants and maidservants, walking in a hurry.He was about to pay his respects to the queen mother who was chanting sutras in the waterside pavilion.

He had asked his father-in-law Xiaofu, who had served him personally, to report, fearing that his sudden visit would offend his mother.But half a day passed, and no one came back.But the queen mother sent someone to tell the time and place, and let him go.

Gu Chao was young, and it was only the first time for Eunuch Xiaofu to come to Fengwu Palace. He was attracted by the beautiful scenery, and forgot to come back when he was too playful.

The three-year-old child's calf is walking fast, and his appearance is as cute as finely carved jade.The father said that his mother was dead, and he would live with his mother in the future.He had never met his mother before, but his father said that his mother was the same as his mother, so he must obey his mother's words.

Gu Chao's thoughts are all on his mother and his mother. He hasn't seen his mother for several days, and he misses his mother very much.But he wants to be a polite child, and he can't wait until he moves to Fengqi Palace that he can't wait to see his mother who is just like his mother.

The Buddha statues are enshrined in the water pavilion, which seems to be a Buddhist hall.

The leading nun and a group of maidservants stood guard outside, and saw a small figure moving quickly towards the Buddhist hall from a distance.

Just now I received the news that the Twelfth Prince is already heading towards the Buddhist hall, and I saw him now, I didn't expect him to be quite fast as a child.

Gu Chao was out of breath after running all the way, but when he thought about seeing a mother who was just like his mother, he felt that he could run a lot more.

Mammy looked down at the little child, and without saluting, she opened the door and let him in.

Gu Chaobin thought too much, and happily stepped into the door.The servants and servants who came with him were all stopped outside and were not allowed to take a step closer.

There was a faint smell of blood coming from the Buddhist hall, Gu Chao's little man passed over the exquisite screen, and saw a servant who was beaten to the ground, bloody and mutilated, and passed out.

He backed away in fright, stumbled to the door, and knocked on the closed door desperately.

The voice was stained with crying because of fear, but no one answered outside the door.The palace servants who followed Gu Chao were restrained and not allowed to approach, they could only listen to the little prince shouting from across the door.

"Chao'er, don't you really want to see your mother, why do you want to run away now that you see her?"

The voice from behind the screen was very gentle and pleasant, but Gu Chao's mind was full of the beaten servant, and he didn't feel gentle at all.

As soon as the queen's words fell, one of the four servants who had previously executed the sentence in the Buddhist hall had already crossed the screen, lifted Gu Chao up and walked towards the inside.

"It's just a thing that can be mispronounced in the scriptures. If you die, you will die. Chao'er is so afraid of what to do."

When the young Gu Chao heard such words and saw such a scene before his eyes, he felt chills in his heart.

At the same time, it is also confirmed that the queen mother is not the mother.They were not alike at all, and he would never see his mother again.

The servant was about to carry the man out, but Gu Chao happened to raise his head at this moment, with a casual glance, he saw clearly the appearance of the servant who was already alive or dead.He stepped forward suddenly, trying to grab the other party, but was restrained by the prepared servant behind him, unable to move.

Gu Chao was not mistaken, the bruised servant was the father-in-law Xiaofu whom he thought he had forgotten to go back because of his fun.

"Eunuch Fu, what's wrong with you!"

Gu Chao wanted to break free from the shackles, but the servant who controlled him was very strong, and he didn't relax his strength at all because he was the prince.He couldn't break free, so he could only ask loudly, hoping that Eunuch Xiaofu could hear.

But Eunuch Xiaofu could no longer hear him, and the servant who carried him moved very quickly, and he left the Buddhist hall in a short while.

Gu Chao looked at the empress who was kneeling on the futon, as if devoutly paying respects to the Buddha, and wept silently.

"Chao'er, the Buddhist hall is quiet. You are too noisy today, you should be punished."

After the voice fell behind, the person who had been kneeling finally stood up.She took the blood-stained whip from the servant who was holding the whip just now, and the servant who controlled Gu Chao retreated quickly when the whip was raised.After the sound of the whip broke through the air, it fell hard on Gu Chao's young body.

"You know what's wrong?"

The young Gu Chao bit his lip, sweating from the pain, but he didn't let himself cry out.He wants to leave here quickly to check on Eunuch Xiaofu's injuries.

He can't make a sound, can't waste time here.

"The child knows his mistake."

The benzoin had been burned, and it was time to kneel down.The surging and painful memories were interrupted by Gu Chao after an opening. He stood up and left the secret room.

He didn't want anyone to die because of him anymore, and Lu knew that he would definitely protect him.