After raising the emperor, he always wanted to marry me

The epidemic in central Beijing has not yet cleared up. Although the palace is strictly guarded, there are still people infected with the disease after all.

In just seven or eight days, more than a dozen people fell ill, and two young maids who entered the palace not long ago also died of illness.

The death of the two little palace maids was like a thunderbolt falling into the sea, shaking the sky and thunderbolt, making the already popular rumors of disasters in the palace even more agitated.

Gu Xiu was personally involved in it, although King Gu Hong never said it clearly, but he seemed to have acquiesced in the attitude of the whole palace towards the disaster star.

Master Daoyuan took advantage of the situation to speak to the emperor again, saying that he had a way to pinpoint the catastrophe in the palace, and he only needed the king to order it to try.

That day, the cold wind suddenly picked up, and the sky was covered with dark clouds.

Regardless of his elder sister's obstruction, Gu Xiu kneeled abruptly outside the Anhua Hall in the palace, vowing to pray for disaster relief for the palace and even the entire city of Bianjing.

This kneeling lasted for three days and three nights.

In the past three days and three nights, Gu Jin and Gu You took turns to persuade him countless times, but no matter it was raining cats and dogs or the autumn wind was cold, Gu Xiu always knelt in front of An Hua Hall and refused to get up.

As a result, the cold eyes and rumors spread in the palace became more and more evil. Some said that Gu Xiu was the reincarnation of Sirius, and that's why he affected the entire Yun family, and some said that Gu Xiu was a monster. Waiting for God's punishment.

For the past three days, that Master Daoyuan took his five-sided gossip mirror up and down in the palace to take photos of every corner of the palace, and very rudely asked Qin Tianjian to follow him. The fifth-rank court ordered an official to serve as a follower to an unknown Taoist priest.

When Gu Xiu knelt in front of the gate of Anhua Hall, Han Mochu never came to see him for the first time.

It wasn't until the morning of the fourth day that Gu Xiu, whose knees were numb, saw Han Mochu again. He and Gu Xiu brought a cloak, and at the same time brought the king Gu Hong's order, asking Gu Xiu to go to Chongning Palace immediately to answer.

Gu Xiu knew that he had already overcome the grievance Han Mochu said.

In the past three days, even though Han Mochu hadn't paid a single glance to Gu Xiu, for some reason, Gu Xiu only felt that his heart was calm and there was nothing to worry about.

Walking outside Chongning Palace, Han Mochu patted Gu Xiu's shoulder with a smile: "Your Highness, you go in, I'm waiting for you here."

Inside the Chongning Palace, after the Long Shu case, King Gu Hong was sitting sideways with his arms around Mr. Nanxi who was dressed in a fine attire.Standing beside him was the old eunuch Cui Shang, and the narrow face with a knife, looking at the very unremarkable Master Daoyuan.

Gu Jin, Gu You, and Gu Yan stood on the left side of the palace hall.On the right side is the third prince Gu Shen who is sitting on the wheelbarrow, and Prince Rui Gu Zhi who is newly married and has just rushed back to the palace from the palace outside the palace.

Gu Xiu was wearing a round-neck jacket that had been soaked by the rain and then dried by the cold wind, and a cloak that was obviously new and didn't fit well, making him look thin and lonely.When saluting with Gu Hong, Gu Xiu could clearly see the red eye circles of the eldest sister. If it wasn't for the king Gu Hong, Gu Jin would definitely hold him in his arms and rub him firmly.

Seeing that Gu Xiu arrived, Gu Hong hugged the little prince in his arms and glanced at the Taoist priest beside him: "Master Daoyuan, I have summoned all these princes and princesses here today according to what you said. But the disasters that have been spreading wildly in the palace these days The theory of the stars, do you have a clue?"

Master Daoyuan shook his whisk, raised his palm with one hand, stood in front of the king and said, "Return to Your Majesty, Pindao has indeed found a nobleman with an unfavorable star in the palace. That nobleman is now in this hall."

"In that case, then please tell the priest who is that person?" Gu Hong said.

"Your Majesty, if Pindao bluntly says who is the disaster star, there will be doubts. Therefore, Pindao can only use astronomical instructions to announce the truth, and I would like to invite Your Highness to be a witness together with Your Majesty."

"Going around with so much nonsense, I haven't said anything for so long. The Taoist priest thinks that His Majesty's court affairs are not busy enough, do you want to hear you playing tricks here?" Mr. Nan Xi yawned in Gu Hong's arms, a pair of phoenix The eyes were narrow, and the expression on his face was already extremely impatient.

"Young Master Nan Xi, please stay calm and don't be impatient. I am going to invite God now."

A group of nimble little eunuchs moved in and out under the command of Master Daoyuan.

Soon, the scene in Chongning Palace was set up.

The altar offering table, incense candles, fine fruits, yellow paper prayer flags, and god tablets are arranged separately, and a basin of clear water is placed in the middle of the altar.Looking at the posture of the altar, it seems to invite the Jade Emperor, but in fact, the only thing that is really useful is the basin of clear water.

Sure enough, that Master Daoyuan walked around the room a few times with his sword in his hand, chanted a few dharma names of immortals and real people, then took out a blank yellow paper from his sleeve robe, shook it out and let everyone in the room repeat it. Looking at the yellow paper, it was indeed blank: "Your Majesty, the true face of the disaster star is on this yellow paper, and I will wait for you to do something immediately to make the disaster star appear."

Gu Hong nodded and acquiesced to Master Daoyuan's next move.

I saw the old Taoist spread the yellow paper in the copper basin, took out a small porcelain bottle from his sleeve, and poured two drops of unknown liquid into the basin floating on the water surface. The old Taoist slowly lifted the yellow paper from the water basin.

Everyone held their breath and stared at the picture slowly appearing on the yellow paper, first the eyebrows and eyes, then the outline of the face, and finally the crown on the head.

The eyebrows and eyes of Hua Hua, which were wet by the water, were not very clear, and it could be seen that it was a man.It's just that the crown on the top of the figure's head slowly showed a few traces, like a crown worn by a king.

"Daoyuan! You are so courageous, what do you mean by this painting! Does it mean that His Majesty is the disaster in this palace?" Nan Xi in Gu Hong's arms did not wait for the king to speak, and preemptively struck.

The worldly expert was also startled when he saw this, kneeled down as soon as his legs went limp, and begged for mercy: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, forgive me, this is not painted by Pindao, this is not what Pindao painted."

Everyone at the scene heard the flaws in the old Taoist's words, but it was still Nan Xi who spoke first, and said in a playful tone: "Oh, so that's the case, the Taoist priest, who did you originally want to draw?" ?”

"Pindao originally wanted to draw the Seventh Prince, I don't know why..." Master Dao Nang Konyuan blurted out a sentence, and his whole body became stiff in an instant, the blood all over his body was cold, and he even forgot to kowtow to plead for mercy.

"Oh! I understand! You want to label my seventh brother a disaster star, don't you!" Gu You also reacted, went up and grabbed the old Taoist by the collar, raised his head and said to his father: "Father, this monster has admitted! The rumors in the womb these days are all spread by him!"

"You'er, step back, I heard you all." Gu Hong let go of Nan Xi from his arms, walked up to Master Daoyuan, stepped on Master Daoyuan's stomach, and asked with a sullen face, "Say it." , who made you enter the palace to make a fuss?"

Daoyuan clutched his stomach, subconsciously raised his head and glanced at Prince Rui Gu Zhi who was standing beside him with sweaty palms.No one noticed that glance at first, but now Gu Zhi is too guilty. He rushed over to Daoyuan and slapped Daoyuan fiercely as soon as he met Daoyuan's eyes: "What do you think this king is doing? Is it Did the king ask you to come?"

Daoyuan clutched his cheeks and kowtowed repeatedly: "His Royal Highness, Your Highness Prince Rui, spare me, you didn't ask me to come, it wasn't you."

"Isn't it? It will be clear after the investigation in the criminal room of the Inner Palace." Gu Hong glanced at Daoyuan who was shaking in a ball on the ground, and then at Gu Zhi with a pale face, and he had already guessed in his heart.

"Shi'er, there is chaos outside the uterus these days, so don't go out, go to the forbidden palace to rest your mind."

The word Forbidden Palace made Gu Zhi tremble all over, and immediately knelt down on his knees, reached out and grabbed the hem of the king's clothes: "Father, Father, my son knows his mistake, and his son knows his mistake."

"Did you know it? The value is innocent. What's wrong with this recognition?" Gu Hong's voice suddenly became extremely gentle, but for some reason, people's hairs stood on end when they heard it: "Come here, take the two of them together." Take them all."

Han Mochu stood in the yard, vaguely listening to the movement in the house, and not long after, he saw two people being dragged out of the house, shaking his head and watching the two figures spread out tragically being dragged down.

Gu Hong rubbed his swollen forehead, looked at everyone in the hall: "Forget it, you all go down."

Gu Hong turned around to leave, but suddenly heard a muffled sound behind him. When he turned around to check, he saw his youngest son Gu Xiu fell to the ground unconscious.

Gu Jin screamed, hugged Gu Xiu's body, reached out to touch Gu Xiu's forehead, and murmured, "Why is it so hot?"

Gu Hong stood where he was, frowned and looked at the young son lying on the ground and asked softly, "What's the matter?"

"Father, the seventh brother has a fever." Gu Jin hugged Gu Xiu's shoulders, and his voice trembled when he answered: "Seventh brother, a silly boy, believed in the rumors in the palace and thought he was a disaster. Kneeling in front of the palace would last three days and three nights, insisting on praying and atonement for the palace servants who died in the epidemic. The autumn rain is cold, how can the emperor tell him to bear it?"

"Father, my elder sister and I have tried to persuade many times, but there are too many rumors in the palace. The seventh brother is afraid that he will offend the gods, so he doesn't even dare to enter the gate of Anhua Palace, so he only dares to kneel outside the palace." Gu You also said. Sniffing at the side, he stretched out his hand to grab the corner of Gu Hong's clothes: "Father, the seventh brother has been back to the palace for so long, and has been living in peace, how could he be a disaster?"

Gu Hong looked at Gu Xiu who was unconscious in Gu Jin's arms, reached out and touched Gu You's forehead, and sighed, "Yes, why is your seventh brother a disaster?"

"Cui Shang, go teach the imperial physician." Gu Hong frowned and looked around the room: "Where is Young Master Han?"

"The minister is here." Hearing the summons, Han Mochu turned and entered the room.

"Take the Seventh Prince and come in with me, and the rest of you will retreat."

Han Mochu picked up Gu Xiu from Gu Jin's arms as he said, and walked straight to the king's bedroom.

Nan Xi has always been very good at observing words and expressions, knowing that the king does not need him by his side at this moment.So he also retreated with the others.

Gu Hong's bedroom is very large, and all the furnishings are incomparably luxurious, each of which is worth ten thousand gold.Just one dragon couch is almost as big as half the room where Gu Xiu and Han Mochu usually live.

Han Mochu lightly placed Gu Xiu on the huge dragon couch, and the sleeping Gu Xiu curled up like a wounded wild wolf cub.

Immediately afterwards, the imperial physician came to the scene, checked the pulse, changed clothes, and prescribed prescriptions. Gu Xiu never woke up.

When changing clothes, Gu Hong saw that Gu Xiu's knees were black and purple because of kneeling for a long time. Many places had been torn, and mottled blood clots had formed.The little eunuch took the medicine powder and just touched the broken skin, Gu Xiu struggled and cried out in pain in a daze.

"Can't you lighten up your hands and feet?" Gu Hong looked at Gu Xiu who was always sleeping on the bed. The young man's face was frighteningly pale, which made the blush on his cheeks more conspicuous due to the high fever.

The little eunuch immediately knelt down to plead guilty, and his movements were more cautious.

"It hurts... Mother... I hurt..." Gu Xiu struggled in his sleep, and grabbed the hem of Gu Hong's clothes next to the bed, as if grabbing a life-saving straw, frowning, raving again and again: "I It hurts...I'm not a disaster star..."

Because of this child's withdrawn and unfriendly temperament, as well as her biological mother Yunyao, Gu Hong usually treats this child either harshly or indifferently.

But when this child is really wronged so far in front of his eyes, as his biological father who is connected by blood, it is impossible to say that he does not feel distressed.

Gu Hong frowned and looked at his sleepy son on the couch, and asked in a cold voice: "Han Mochu, as a young teacher, the prince's behavior hurts himself, why didn't you stop him?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, there were many rumors in the palace in the past, and His Highness could only bear with it when he was repeatedly ridiculed by others. Later, the rumors intensified, and His Highness himself believed it to be true. In addition, His Highness is pure and kind, and he only thought that he was the disaster star in the rumors. He believes that all the diseases in and out of the palace are caused by him. I have tried to dissuade you, but the rumors have gone too far. Your Highness is so determined, and I really can't stop you." Han Mochu lifted his robe and knelt down, bowing to the king Gu Hong: "Your Majesty , the minister is guilty. But what really caused His Highness to suffer so much was the uncontrolled rumors in the palace."

Gu Hong fell silent, watching Gu Xiu on the bed lost in endless thought.

When rumors spread in the palace, he once thought that if Gu Xiu's child was really a disaster, he would have a reason to send this child back to Northern Xinjiang, and he would never have to face it again.

Therefore, he did not have any restrictions on those rumors.

Now, the child became so ill, and the culprit turned out to be him.Looking at Gu Xiu who had a high fever on the sick bed, the last words he said to him in Meng's Buddhist Hall began to reappear in his ears: treat this child well, this is your only chance in this life to pay for your sins.

Since Gu Xiu returned to the palace, he has actually been afraid to face Gu Xiu properly.Most of the time, he didn't even dare to look directly into Gu Xiu's cold eyes. After staring into those eyes for a long time, he would think of his mother, the kindness and love many, many years ago, and the indescribable helplessness.

But he and Gu Xiu are father and son after all, close relatives after all, and have an inseparable blood relationship after all.

Gu Hong stretched out his hand to touch Gu Xiu's forehead. Gu Xiu, who was sleeping, seemed to feel the temperature of Gu Hong's palm, and subconsciously pressed it against it.This was the two years since their father and son reunited, and it was the first time he had really touched Gu Xiu's body as a father.

Gu Hong looked at Gu Xiu's sleeping face seriously, only then did he realize that Gu Xiu was a well-born child, with slightly raised eyebrows on his forehead touched by his palm, exactly the same as his father.

"This child has suffered a lot of grievances in the past, right?" Gu Hong stroked Gu Xiu's hair and said softly.

"Return to Your Majesty, the wind direction in the palace follows His Majesty, how your Majesty treats His Majesty, the whole palace will treat His Majesty." Han Mochu knelt behind Gu Hong, and said frankly: "When Your Majesty first entered the palace, His Majesty was frightened by something. He fell asleep and didn't even dare to sleep on the couch. Before the minister entered the palace, His Highness only dared to sleep on the ground with a thin blanket. His Highness also said that he had never slept on a couch since he was a child, and he was used to it now."

Han Mochu's words made Gu Hong's hair tense and his eyes astringent.

Gu Xiu was born in Beihuang, and he has not stayed by his side for a day since he was born. He is very clear about the situation in the northern wilderness.How could he expect that a child who grew up in such a place would know how to make love at his knees as soon as he came back like a child who grew up in the palace?

"Your Majesty, in fact, as long as you treat Your Highness with a little kindness, His Highness's life will be much easier." Han Mochu shook his head sadly: "Although Your Highness, the Princess, regards Your Highness as a brother, the only family affection in the world is the love of parents, which is irreplaceable." of."

"Parental affection?" Gu Hong turned around and looked at Han Mochu behind him: "Do you know what parental affection is?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, I lost both my parents since I was a child, and I was brought up by Mr. Yi alone. It is precisely because I didn't understand the relationship between parents since I was a child that I know that this relationship is really irreplaceable."

"Master Han's words are really good." Gu Hong raised the corner of his mouth and showed an incomprehensible smile: "Gu Xiu is lucky to have such a dedicated young master like you."

"Your Majesty, I came from the Jianghu. I don't want to spend my whole life in Baiming Mountain, and I don't want to gather party and friends to intrigue. That's why I choose to be attached to His Royal Highness Seventh in this palace, so that I can keep my life as a pure man until my death." Minister." Han Mochu spoke earnestly, bowed his body forward, and prostrated himself at the king's feet.

"In that case, I will hand over this child to you, and hope that you will support him in the future, so that his future life will be safe and smooth."

What Gu Hong said was a complete nonsense. Whether Gu Xiu's life will be safe and smooth in the future will mostly depend on Gu Hong's attitude.

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, I must obey the emperor's orders and do my best."

"Right now, it's getting late, you can take this child back to sleep. Take care of his illness and don't let him make any mistakes. If there is any shortage of expenses in Guiyun Palace from now on, just go to the Secretary of the Inner Palace to ask for it." , no one will dare to reject you."

"Yes, I obey the order."

Han Mochu carried Gu Xiu up from the dragon bed according to his words, and when he walked to the gate of Chongning Palace, he changed his arms to his back.

"Hiss, when did Your Highness get so heavy? I can't hold him anymore." Han Mochu dragged Gu Xiu's knees, and turned Gu Xiu, who had his eyes closed, on his back.

"How can I say it is lighter than the iron general's strength?" Gu Xiu, who was still in a coma just now, opened his eyes at some point, put his head on Han Mochu's shoulder, and looked at the man in front of him with a calm expression. palace road.

"Your Highness, you only need to draw the bow in one go. Does Your Highness know how far Chongning Palace is from Guiyun Palace? Your Majesty doesn't even know how to take a sedan chair with you."

"I don't know." Gu Xiu closed his eyes halfway, and the corners of his mouth curled up in an almost imperceptible arc: "I don't need to walk around by myself."

"Your Highness, when did you learn to make sarcastic remarks? I don't remember that I taught you this."

"It's natural to hear and see."

"Then Your Highness just learned from my minister with that lovely and pitiful look." Han Mochu raised his brow lightly and said.

"That's not true, I thought of it myself." Gu Xiu climbed his body on Han Mochu's back again, sighed and said, "Fortunately, Master hugged him quickly, otherwise I would really fall asleep on that soft bed again. gone."

"Sigh, your Highness's mother-in-law calls made my heart ache." Han Mochu carried Gu Xiu on his back, and quietly quickened his pace.

Gu Xiu leaned on Han Mochu's shoulder, narrowed his eyes completely relaxed: "Master, is this cloak yours?"

"How does Your Highness know? You never cared about these details in the past."

"It smells like paper and ink."

The taste of paper and ink is the taste of Han Mochu.