Substitute thought

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Fuyou froze for a moment, as if he didn't understand what Qin Gou said.

Qin Gou knew that he would not agree. Those words were originally just to coax him to shut up.

Seeing that Fuyou was stunned, he smiled, hugged him and fell on the bed: "Sleep, little squirrel."

Early the next morning, Qin Gou sent someone to make up for the missing jewels, and specially gave him a box of hairpins and some dresses worn by the little girl.

Fuyou threw all his things outside the door, and Qin Gou had someone pick them up again, and put them in his room as they were.

In the end, Fuyou locked all the things in the box before finishing.

Qin Gou didn't care, and smiled at him, asking if he really didn't want to give it a try?

In the early morning of this day, Qin Gou was approving the memorial in front of the case in the main hall, while Fu You sat beside him and read a book.

Not a word.

Suddenly, there was a sound of communication outside the door.

"Your Majesty, the eldest son of the Yan family is seeking an audience outside the hall with the heads of several aristocratic families."

Fuyou raised his head subconsciously, and then looked at Qin Gou.

Of course they all knew why Yan Zhi came here.

Qin Gou didn't look up.He just said in a cold voice: "No, drive the others away, then invite Mr. Yan to the side hall, keep him for tea and snacks, give him a few boxes of gold and silver, and then send someone to escort him back to show his favor."

After he finished speaking, he suddenly thought of something, raised his head, and held Fuyou's hand.

Fuyou blinked and looked at him puzzled.

Qin Gou patted his hand: "Don't worry, it's just a show."

Fuyou nodded blankly, still thinking about pleading with Qin Gou: "...um."

Why should I tell him?Didn't you say it before?Qin hook does anything.

Outside the door, Yan Zhi had made up his mind to come, and of course he would not be driven away easily.

A group of people knelt down in front of the gate of Yangju Hall, begging His Majesty to take back their orders.

The aristocratic family thinks they are pure and clear, disobeying the emperor's order is a last resort, and it is their mission to persuasion with death.

But in Qin Gou's eyes, that's not the case.

Qin Gou could only feel that the aristocratic family was threatening him.

Outside the door, the voice of "Please Your Majesty take back the order" shook the sky, but Qin Gou stood still and continued to read the memorial.

"Find two people, carry Mr. Yan up, and carry him to the side hall. Others don't want to leave, so they light a stick of incense at the door, and then light again after burning, let them kneel down, kneeling full of three sticks of incense. Three sticks of incense After the incense, if you don’t leave, you will kneel for nine sticks of incense. If they love to kneel, let them kneel forever.”

After the order was issued, the people outside the door began to panic.They didn't dare to fight against the emperor's people in front of the emperor, so they could only shout loudly: "Please take back your orders! Your Majesty, please take back your orders!"

Weeping blood.

Fu You couldn't sit still anymore, turned to look at Qin Gou, just about to speak, Qin Gou said coldly, "You must not intercede for them."

Fuyou could only swallow the words back.

After a while, the voice outside did not become quieter, but became more intense.

Fu You was terrified when he heard this: "Qin Gou, they..."

He suddenly thought of something, stood up and ran out.

He pushed open the door of the hall, and there was a crowd of crying and screaming outside the door. He lowered his head, walked against the wall, walked through the corridor like a thief, and ran back to the side hall.

Fuyou went back to the room and dragged out the locked box.

He hesitated, and finally opened the box.

Qin Gou can keep his word.

Not long after, a figure in a cloak ran back to the main hall against the wall again.

There were still endless disputes outside the hall, the shouts of the aristocratic family were louder and louder, Fuyou staggered accidentally, and a golden hairpin fell out of the cloak with a crisp clang.

Fuyou paused, and hurriedly turned back to pick it up, but when he looked up, he met Yan Zhi who was kneeling upright.

Startled, he hastily pulled down his hood, then turned and ran back to the main hall.

After closing the door, Fuyou stood in the hall.

Qin Gou knew what he was going to do, his face was gloomy, and he deliberately didn't look at him.

Fuyou pursed the corners of his lips, and spoke in a low voice: "Qin Gou, Yan Zhi is indeed my very good friend. We have known each other since we were young. My family background is not good, and I was always excluded in the academy. He helped I am many, and I have always regarded him as an older brother."

"I don't mean to be against you. After you replace him, you can appoint other nobles as queens, or you can appoint other people. I won't say anything."

Qin Gou clenched the pen in his hand, and repeated his words: "You won't say anything? You want me to make someone else a queen, and then you won't say anything?"

"Yeah." Fuyou nodded, lowered his eyes, and said softly, "I won't be as stupid as I was with Yan Fuyun last time... I know I was wrong, and I won't interfere with your decision again. of."

Qin Gou didn't answer, only heard a plop, Fuyou bent his knees, and knelt down directly to Qin Gou.

He raised his head and looked at Qin Gou with clear black and white eyes: "Qin Gou, just treat it as my selfishness, I beg you, I have never asked you for anything in the past three years, can you choose someone else?"

Fuyou put his hands on the ground and unconsciously clenched into fists.

He bent down and kowtowed to Qin Gou.

He was right. In the past three years, he had never begged Qin Gou for anything, nor had he knelt down or kowtowed to him.

Because he has always believed that people who like each other should be equal.

When he smiled and said this to Qin Gou, Qin Gou asked him back, "Even if one of them is the emperor?"

And Fuyou put his hands together, leaning against him, without changing the smile on his face, nodded: "Even if one of them is the emperor."

Now he knelt down to Qin Gou, letting go of his youthful fantasies about Qin Gou or love.

He no longer likes Qin Gou, and completely adapts himself to the cage of the monarch and his subjects, like the heads of noble families who have to kneel in front of Qin Gou.

The "Please take back your Majesty" that came from the door behind him was also his idea: "Please take back your Majesty."

With a soft click, Qin Gou broke the pen in his hand.

Is Fuyou also threatening him?

Qin Gou wanted to say something, but in the end he just threw the broken pen on the ground.

Hearing that he hadn't answered for a long time, Fu You probably already knew the answer in his heart, but he still fell on the ground, wanting to fight for Yan Zhi again.

His forehead rested on the ground, his shoulders trembled slightly: "Please take it back, Your Majesty."

Qin Gou got up, walked in front of him, and looked down at him.

Fuyou curled up like a shivering little animal in the snow.

Qin Gou bent down, trying to pick him up from the ground.

Fuyou avoided his touch, and knelt down on the ground again: "Please, it's just a different candidate, it doesn't matter at all..."

Qin Gou firmly held his shoulders and made him look at him: "As long as Yan Zhi is replaced, anyone can be replaced?"

Fuyou nodded: "It's all fine."

"It's alright to switch back to Yan Fuyun? After switching to him, he'll be in front of you all day long, punishing you to stand and kneel every day, is that okay?"

Fuyou thought for a while: "... yes."

Anyway, he will go out to collect poetry in the future.

Qin Gou paused for a moment, and Fuyou thought he was thinking about it, so he waited quietly, blinking his eyes.

Not long after, Qin Gou pressed his shoulders, trying to pull him up from the ground.

Fuyou asked: "Is it possible?"

He raised his head, the hood slipped off his head, an unworn hairpin fell to the ground again, and a strand of hair hung down.

Qin Gou raised his eyebrows, noncommittal, lifted his cloak and took a look.

Under the cloak is a skirt.

Fuyou has a small frame, so it's not too strange to wear such clothes.

Only himself, with red eyes, about to cry.

"I beg you……"

Qin Gou just picked up his legs, picked him up, and brought him back to the room.

He kicked the inner door behind him, blocking all the cries from outside.

Qin Gou put him on the couch: "It's very noisy outside, come inside and stay for a while."

Fuyou knew that there was no hope, so he lowered his eyes and did not speak.

Qin Gou propped his hands beside him, looked down at him, stretched out his hand again, and touched the corner of Fuyou's eye with his finger.

is dry.

It's a good thing he didn't cry, if he did cry for Yan Zhi, Qin Gou didn't know what he could do.

Qin Gou looked at his aggrieved appearance, and smiled: "Are you that sad? Haven't you and him not seen for three or four years? We haven't seen each other for three or four years, the relationship should have faded by now."

He raised his head and touched Fuyou's forehead with his cheek: "Besides, he came into the palace to enjoy the blessings. He is in the royal family. When the Yan family falls, he can still save his life. Why are you feeling sorry for him? ?”

Fu You said solemnly: "He is a child of an aristocratic family, he has his own pride, he will not want to enter the palace, he would rather die with the family."

But Qin Gou asked him back: "Then why are you willing to stay here? Are you not proud?"

Fu You was stunned for a moment: "I..."

Qin Gou lowered his head, looked at him and smiled, and said to himself, "Because you like me."

He hugged Fuyou, adjusted his position with him, sat on the couch by himself, and asked Fuyou to sit against him.

Fuyou hid to the side for a while, and softly resisted: "It's daytime now."

"En." Qin Gou held him down, and let out a muffled groan from his throat, "So you should keep your voice down so that people outside won't hear you."

There was a lot of noise outside the door, as if some patriarch had fainted while kneeling on his knees, people outside shouted the name of that person, "please doctor", and "please your Majesty please forgive me".

messed up.

To Qin Gou, the cry of the aristocratic family was like the cry of a dead person from hell. Of course, Qin Gou ignored it. He even pinched Fuyou: "Little Yellow Bird, don't be distracted."

Fuyou looked at him, as if crying, his eyes were moist, like a deer in the forest in the morning.

Qin Gou's breathing stagnated, and he touched the corner of Fuyou's eye: "Why are you crying? Did it hurt you?"

Fuyou's tears couldn't be exhausted, Qin Gou looked at him, and at the last moment, he blurted out: "Don't worry."

Hearing these words, Fuyou seemed to have heard some kind of pardon, he held Qin Gou's skirt tightly with both hands, and when he raised his head, even his eyes lit up.

In fact, after Qin Gou said that, he came to his senses and regretted it.

The matter had already been spread, and it was impossible for him to change the candidate because of Fuyou's plea.

But Fuyou looked very happy.Qin Gou thought, forget it, let him be happy for a few days first, and coax him after a few days.

Qin Gou rubbed the corner of his eyes with his thumb, and said confidently: "Only I made you cry, so you like me the most."

He always has his own logic.

Fuyou didn't care what he was talking about, but he knew that although Qin Gou was not a normal person, referring to his logical thinking and handling methods, he was a man who kept his word.

He said "Don't worry", in Fuyou's view, it should mean that he has compromised and will change people.

Fuyou breathed a sigh of relief.

He's not too stupid, he'll figure it out.It's just that the price paid is a bit high, and I almost put myself in it.

But in the end it turned out to be good.

He looked at Qin Gou: "Do you want to make an order now? It just so happens that Yan Zhi...several aristocratic families are outside, change someone else."

Qin Gou's expression was indifferent: "Let's talk about it."

Fu You paused for a moment, and finally he could only nod his head: "Yeah." He said worriedly: "Don't forget, you promised to change."

Qin Gou responded casually, then hugged him: "Stop talking about Yan Zhi."

"Yes."

Several aristocratic families quarreled outside the Yangju Hall for a long time, until the evening, when they were exhausted, they were sent back by Qin Gou's men.

Feeling guilty, Fuyou wrapped his cloak again, ran out secretly, and said a word to Yan Zhi: "Don't worry, brother, I begged His Majesty."

After saying this, before Yan Zhi could answer, Fu You hurried back.

He took Qin Gou's "Don't worry" as a life-saving straw.

Qin Gou didn't take this sentence to heart at all, what he remembered more was the sentence "let's talk".

Say it again, say it again.Slowly, the dowry from the palace was delivered to the Yan family, and it was time to approach the grand ceremony.

Fuyou was a little uneasy, but he didn't dare to talk to Qin Gou rashly.

He hesitated for two or three days, afraid that Qin Gou had forgotten.

In the main hall, Qin Gou made a memorial as usual, enjoying Fuyou's careful peeking.

He had already forgotten what he had said to Fuyou, he just felt that Fuyou was stupid.

He put down the bamboo slips, Fuyou hastily turned his gaze back to cover up.

Qin Gou asked, "What are you looking at?"

Fuyou thought for a while, and said honestly: "Have you forgotten? What you promised me." Indeed, you forgot.

Qin Gou paused: "I have my own arrangements, don't worry."

"En." Fuyou reluctantly agreed, but he also said the same thing last time.

Until the night before the enthronement ceremony and the emperor's wedding, Fuyou still didn't see what Qin Gou had planned.

That night, Fuyou couldn't help but ask him again: "Qin Gou, you promised me."

"Well, I know." Qin Gou lay down beside him, closed his eyes, and was about to fall asleep.

Fuyou pushed him, and wanted to talk again, but he grabbed his arm and put him down.

"sleep."

"But……"

"Don't be noisy." Qin Gou was impatient.

The next morning, when the sky was getting dark, Qin Gou got up, and Fu You noticed that he had woken up, so he hurriedly sat up in a daze.

"Qin Gou, you promised me."

Qin Gou still said the same thing: "Well, I know, when I come back from the enthronement ceremony, I have arrangements, and you will be satisfied."

Fuyou still wanted to talk, but he pressed his head: "You don't need to wake up so early, sleep a little longer, you have something to do at night."

"I……"

"sleep."

Qin Gou pinched his chin forcefully, licked his lower lip, then took out a white pill, and handed it to his lips.

"Qin Gou, are you lying to me?"

Seeing that he didn't want to take it, Qin Gou stuffed the pill in directly, and even lifted his chin to let him swallow it.

The medicine gradually took effect, Qin Gou put him back on the bed and covered him with a quilt: "Don't mess around, I'll come back to you at night."

Fuyou tried hard to open his eyes, but he could only vaguely see the back of Qin Gou putting on his dress and leaving.After all, he was no match for the medicine, closed his eyes, and fell into a deep sleep.

He was cheated again.

Fuyou thought, Qin Gou was right, he was really stupid.

Fuyou dreamed that he got Qin Gou's "Don't worry", and ran happily to tell Yan Zhi.

So stupid, so stupid, how could he believe Qin Gou's words?

Fuyou cried in his dream with tears streaming down his face, and when he struggled to wake up, it was already broad daylight.

The medicine Qin Gou gave him hadn't worn off yet, and he had no strength in his body, so he managed to stand up, put on his clothes, and wanted to go outside to have a look.

The serving eunuch quickly came up to support him: "My lord?"

Fuyou waved his hand at him, struggled to get out, and then was stopped by Cui Zhi.

"Young Master Fu, Your Majesty asked the old slave to stay here. When the Young Master wakes up, give him something. Young Master, let's take a look first."

Fuyou couldn't break free, so he could only be pushed to sit on the couch, the little eunuch covered him with clothes, Cui Zhi asked a dozen guards to carry several big boxes up.

Cui Zhi opened the box like offering a treasure: "My lord, take a look, do you still like it?"

Dazzling and rare.

Fuyou looked at these boxes of things, but felt sad from them.

He wanted to cry, but seeing Cui Zhi's expectant expression, as if he should be happy, so he smiled again with the corners of his mouth pulled.

But he smiled uglier than crying.

This is what Qin Gou said, "Don't worry."

He didn't want to change at the beginning, and he promised him that it was just a momentary distraction when he was infatuated, and what he arranged later was just something he thought could coax the little squirrel well.

He thought these things were enough.

Fuyou didn't know where the strength came from, stood up with his hands on his hands, strode forward, grabbed a handful of gold and silver, and threw the things on the ground.

Trapped, for three years, he was trapped by this kind of thing.

Cui Zhi hurriedly held him down: "Master Fu, what's the matter? What's the matter?"

Fuyou cried and laughed, but at the end he only said: "Can you take someone out with you, I want to sleep alone for a while."

"This……"

Cui Zhi was obviously worried, but when he was hesitating, Fu You didn't look too good.

"Please, I just want to be alone..."

"Okay, okay." Cui Zhi quickly agreed, urging everyone to go out, and before leaving, he also instructed, "Young master Fu, call me if you have anything."

Fuyou nodded.

After Cui Zhi also left, Fu You wiped his face, gathered his clothes, pushed open the window, climbed out from the window, and slipped away from the back hall.

His hands and feet still had no strength, and he walked unsteadily, stumbling, as if he was about to fall to the ground in the next moment.

As the sun rises in the east, Fuyou is stopped by the guards outside. Looking from a distance, he can only vaguely see the emperor in black dress holding Zhengui, climbing up to the high place step by step.

Fu You couldn't see the courtiers standing below clearly, so he asked the guards: "Excuse me, your Majesty's new queen is..."

The guard was originally unwilling to answer his question, but if he didn't answer, Fuyou would rush in.

The guard drew out his long knife: "Who else is there besides the eldest son of the Yan family? I don't know which palace you are from. Don't be stupid here. If you are stupid again, you will be killed!"

It should have been expected to be like this, but Fuyou still froze for a moment.

He lowered his head, looked at his toes, came back to his senses, and hurriedly thanked the guards: "I see, thank you." At this moment, Qin Gou seemed to sense that he was coming, and turned his head slightly, throwing his hand at him. Come for a glimpse.

But Fuyou lowered his head and didn't see it, so he turned around and ran away.

Qin Gou lied to him.

In other words, Qin Gou didn't promise him anything from the beginning.

The phrase "Don't worry" meant from the beginning that Qin Gou would not agree to his request, but he would make up for it.

As for Qin Gou's compensation, he could figure out with his heels that it was gold, silver, and jewelry.

Qin Gou didn't promise him anything, but he himself would have made a mistake and hurt Yan Zhi.

He was wrong, terribly wrong, wrong from the beginning, wrong three years ago.

Fu You was very bored, he didn't want to go back to the Yangju Hall, he had to see those boxes of broken things when he went back, he was alone, bumping around like a lost little squirrel.

Before I knew it, I came to a dilapidated palace.

An old woman in plain clothes squatted under the eaves, picking out stones from the rice urn.

Fuyou stood in front of the door, the old woman raised her head, saw him, and smiled with the corners of her lips: "Idiot."

Fuyou didn't speak, just walked in.

This old woman is the Empress Dowager Liu, who has ruled the government for many years.

She used to like to say that Fuyou was an idiot, every time she saw him, she would say it once.

Fuyou knelt down beside her and helped her pick up stones: "I have nowhere to go."

Empress Dowager Liu was embarrassed to scold him when she saw his distraught appearance: "Little idiot, what's wrong?"

Fuyou shook his head, but didn't speak.

After a while, Empress Dowager Liu asked again: "Fuyou, do you know why I always scold you?"

Fuyou shook his head again, Empress Dowager Liu said: "You are the stupidest one in the palace. Others stay in the palace for the sake of power and family, what about you? You stay in the palace because you like it? For love?"

"You're not an idiot, who is an idiot? I can't wake you up even if I scold you. Every time I see you, I wish I could just drive you out."

Fu You lowered his head: "...I already knew I was wrong. If only my family could wake me up by scolding me like this three years ago."

When Empress Dowager Liu heard this, she stopped talking.

She knew that Fuyou's family was gone, and there was only one uncle, and that uncle was unreliable, otherwise Fuyou, who was only 15 years old, would not have been promoted three years ago as a poetry collector.

When he knew that Fuyou was going to stay in the palace, he was still overjoyed, and urged Fuyou to serve him carefully.

Fuyou fiddled with the rice grains, almost buried his head in the rice urn, and said sullenly: "I'm not a son of a family, I haven't met many people, and I don't have a good father and elder brother, and many people treat me badly." Good. Among so many people, I always thought that Qin Gou was the best for me."

"But that's just what I thought. Qin Gou is the worst person in the world. I was deceived by him, and I even killed my friend. I was wrong, and I already knew I was wrong."

Anyone who has been treated well will not think Qin Gou is good.

Only a fool who has never been treated preferentially would think that Qin Gou is the best person.Qin Gou just gave him a cold and spicy candy, and he ran with it for three years regardless of anything.

Empress Dowager Liu grabbed him by the collar and pulled him out of the rice urn: "Don't put your tears in other people's winter grain."

"I'm sorry." Fuyou raised his head, his face was full of tears, "I'm an idiot, the most idiot in the world, how could I think Qin Gou is a good person? He's not a good person, he's a lunatic..."