After raising the emperor, he always wanted to marry me

The palace road that Han Mochu and Gu Xiu walked led to the imperial garden.In the afternoon of dog days, there were not too many palace people walking in the imperial garden.Only those delicate summer flowers are blooming gorgeously under the scorching sun in midsummer.

Gu Xiu was born in the wild land in the far north, and as far as he could see, there was a boundless desert where not a single blade of grass grew.Those emerald colors in the royal garden!Wanting to flow, Gu Xiu could hardly name the colorful flowers, plants and trees.A erudite like Han Mochu not only knows each other, but also can tell allusions one by one.

After listening to it all the way, Gu Xiu always felt that there were some similarities between these allusions.For example, in every legend and allusion, such delicate flowers as hibiscus, hibiscus, rose, and brocade flowers are all transformed by fairies.Those charming and charming female fairies are all people who have gone through hundreds of calamities and found people who treat each other sincerely, and they will stay together for the last life.

The 12-year-old Gu Xiu still can't quite understand the feelings of those girls suffering from infatuation.All he wanted was to find a cool and shady place, fight against Han Mochu, and loosen his muscles and bones.

"Your Highness, you don't seem to like listening to the story of the flower god?" Han Mochu laughed softly.

Gu Xiu nodded and said, "I really don't like it."

"Your Highness doesn't like it, and you have been listening for so long?"

The upright Gu Xiu raised his head solemnly and asked, "Otherwise?"

Han Mochu smiled suddenly, took Gu Xiu's wrist and led him through a path, to the shaded place in the royal garden.

Just after turning a corner covered by a rockery, I heard the sound of dogs barking in the distance, and the sound was getting closer and closer.Gu Xiu and the others hadn't heard the source of the sound clearly, when suddenly a black and strong vicious dog jumped out from the front.

The vicious dog bared its horrific fangs, its eyes were scarlet, and its dark purple tongue flowed out of its mouth, with fishy mucus hanging on it, and it rushed towards Gu Xiu unsuspectingly.

Without any hesitation, Han Mochu stopped Gu Xiu behind with one hand, and kicked the vicious dog's soft belly with one foot.The vicious dog flew into the air in an instant, fell to the ground two feet away, struggled twice and then stopped moving.

"Don't! Don't! Don't! That's His Majesty's General Perak!" Not far away, several young eunuchs rushed over panting, surrounded by an old eunuch.

The old eunuch at the head was still holding the rein that the vicious dog had broken free just now, while running, he yelled at Han Mochu.

It's a pity that Han Mochu's kick was too fast and too hard. By the time the old eunuch ran to him, the vicious dog had already broken down, with a clearly visible dent in its abdomen.

The old eunuch knelt on the ground clutching the reins, crying repeatedly: "General, general, why did you just go there?"

"Your Highness, are you alright?" Han Mochu reached out and touched the top of Gu Xiu's hair: "I will take you elsewhere."

"Ah."

Gu Xiu followed Han Mochu and turned around to leave, but behind him he heard the old eunuch's mournful cry: "General Perak, who killed His Majesty, do you want to leave for nothing?"

Han Mochu stood still and turned around, and said coldly: "This vicious dog wants to attack the prince, do you want to save its life?"

The old eunuch rubbed his weeping eyes, and finally saw the two people in front of him clearly.

One is a fourth-rank young master who has been unveiled and entered the palace, and the other is a prince who has no sacred heart.

These two people are rootless and baseless in the palace, like duckweeds, and immediately become more reluctant: "Master Han hurts the dog to protect the master, so the old slave naturally dare not say more. But it is clearly His Highness the Seventh Prince who teased him. Before, you caused this General Thunderbolt to go mad and attack people, and you indiscriminately hurt its life, this old slave will never let you get away easily."

Standing beside Han Mochu, Gu Xiu frowned, staring sharply at the old eunuch who turned right and wrong: "Say it again."

"Your Highness the Seventh Prince doesn't need to stare at the old slave like this. You just stepped forward to tease me and untied the rein in the old slave's hand. That's why General Thunderbolt chased and bit you. Everyone around me saw it." Several young eunuchs Immediately echoed, repeatedly saying yes.

Gu Xiu's complexion was frighteningly gloomy, and the old eunuch was so stared at, so he turned his gaze to Han Mochu again, and said with an innocent face: "Master Han, His Highness Seventh Highness is known to be stubborn and cooperating with the palace. How can you help the tyrant if you want to control him?"

Gu Xiu couldn't bear it any longer, grabbed the old eunuch by the collar, and almost lifted the old eunuch from the ground.Han Mochu raised his hand and pressed the back of Gu Xiu's hand with bruised veins due to exertion: "Your Highness, let him go, his status is not worthy of you."

According to Gu Xiu's words, he slowly let go of the old eunuch.

The old eunuch's body softened, and he simply paralyzed himself on the ground: "My lord, you said that I, the old servant, am the steward of the imperial dog department, so how can I encounter such a thing? This General Thunderbolt is His Majesty's beloved dog. You kicked to death, the Seventh Highness just wanted to kill the old slave, the old slave has served in the palace for 30 years, and no master has ever been so unreasonable. Right now, His Majesty’s pet dog is dead, you say, you let How does the old slave deal with business?"

"How do you deal with it? This dog looks like a mad dog right now. You can tell that this dog has mad dog disease after a little inspection. As the supervisor of the dog department, can't you see that this is a sick dog?" Han Mochu raised the corners of his mouth, his face He picked up a calm smile: "Or do you mean that you deliberately let the dog commit murder and frame others. This is to evade the fact that you didn't take good care of it and the dog got sick?"

"This..." The old eunuch on the ground was stunned for a moment, raised his hand to beckon the young eunuch beside him to mix him up, straightened his body and said, "Even if this is a sick dog, His Highness the Seventh Prince teased the sick dog before it went mad, so How many pairs of eyes have seen it. Do you still want to deny it? I will see His Majesty later, so please explain to Your Majesty."

Before Han Mochu could answer, a clear and bright young voice came from not far away: "What a bold slave, who blatantly turns black and white like this, do you think everyone in this palace is blind?"

Following the sound, I saw a young man wearing a scarlet round collar and a red gold gauze crown walking slowly from not far away with a beautifully carved short bow on his back.

Some of the little eunuchs who followed were carrying quiver bags, and some were carrying newly caught hares, and it looked like they had just returned from the hunting ground in the palace.

The old eunuch also followed the sound and turned his head, immediately trembling with fright, knelt down and kowtowed: "See His Royal Highness Fourth Prince."

From the words of the old eunuch, Han Mochu learned the identity of the boy in front of him.

It was the fourth son of Emperor Yongxi, Gu Yan.

Gu Yan's biological mother, the Han family, was the concubine Han Guifei who was in charge of the palace affairs, and her uncle Han Ming was the first-rank chief assistant minister who was well-received by everyone in the dynasty.

Regardless of the former court or the harem, the prince's status is very important, and he is unparalleled in the limelight.

"Heh, you know how to salute now? Didn't you just feel confident?" Gu Yan glanced at the old eunuch: "When I came from Changle Gate, I saw you chasing that vicious dog. Where was the Seventh Prince at that time? Is it true that when the place is remote, no one will see it?"

"Return...Return to Your Highness...Old slave..." The old eunuch lowered his body in a panic, defending incoherently.

Gu Yan was not interested in listening to the old slave's justification, so he interrupted him coldly: "What are you still arguing for? Take that dead dog to receive the punishment, and be more careful in the future."

The old lady listened, and quickly thanked En and resigned. The group dragged the dead dog and ran away without a trace.

After the old eunuch left, Gu Yan looked at Gu Xiu again, and asked, "Seventh brother, are you injured?"

"No." Gu Xiu replied.

With a smile on his face, Gu Yan bowed his head towards Han Mochu in greeting: "The palace is a naughty slave, young master Han has entered the palace not long ago, you are laughing at me."

"It's alright, thank you Fourth Highness today." Han Mochu returned the salute, and looked at Gu Yan carefully with every word.

Gu Yan is two years older than Gu Xiu, and he is calm and calm when he raises his hands and feet, and he can tell that he is a nobleman at a glance.

It can be seen that his biological mother's family has carefully cultivated it for more than ten years.

"Today's matter is nothing to me." Gu Yan waved his hand, raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "I have always heard that Master Han is a rare talent in the world. Now you are teaching my seventh brother. I usually like to read some classics. I don't know what will happen in the future If you have any questions, can you ask Master Han to answer them?"

Han Mochu looked at him, and he could hear the meaning of winning people's hearts in Gu Yan's words. The 14-year-old boy had such a scheming, so he had to teach others to look at him differently: "Thank you for your love, but I was born in a reckless world, and I am not good at miscellaneous knowledge. , you are already surrounded by a cloud of virtuous and talented people, if the minister differs from what your own young master said, wouldn't it be a mistake for your disciples."

"Master Han, you are too serious. I just said something casually. You don't have to take it too seriously. If there is something that my master around me can't answer in the future, I will ask you for advice. Right now, I have to pay my respects to my concubine, I will not disturb you and the seventh brother to visit the garden."

While speaking, Gu Yan walked away.

After the quarrel just now, Gu Xiu seemed not in the mood to challenge Han Mochu.

Although Gu Xiu didn't like to joke by nature, but after all, he was a young man and the city was not deep, so he could tell whether he liked Han Mo or not at first sight.

Han Mochu didn't ask any more questions, but just took Gu Xiuyuan back to Guiyun Palace.

When the two went back, Princess Qingzhao had already left, and there was only a stupid Baode who was guarding the door. Seeing the two coming back, he handed over a cold towel to wipe off his sweat.

The two stopped in front of the door for a while, and then returned to the main room where they were teaching.

The chaotic main room was also tidied up so that the windows were bright and clean, the walls of books were neatly piled up beside the walls, and the messy and scattered little things were also put away one by one and put in a box, including pens, inks, papers and inkstones, cushions and futons. They were all replaced with new ones, and a furnace of mugwort incense, which can prevent mosquitoes, was burned. The ink aroma in the house was mixed with mugwort incense, exuding a strange and charming smell.

Gu Xiu sat on the futon sullenly, without saying a word, so that the little eunuch Baode was extra careful when he came to serve tea.

Han Mochu sat aside, took a sip of tea to relieve the thirst of returning from Midsummer, and asked aloud, "Your Highness, why are you bored?"

Gu Xiu didn't answer directly, but instead asked Han Mochu: "Master Han, what exactly is your plan for entering the palace?"

"The minister said that day that he wanted to become an official and plan for a future."

"Then why don't you follow the fourth prince? Instead of guarding me?" Gu Xiu stared ahead, his words were calm without any emotion.

"Your Highness, why did you say that?"

"As you have seen today, I am able to bully even a servant in this palace at will. My grandfather's family bears the responsibility and is spurned by the world, and it is very likely that I will not be able to hold my head up in this life. I am already in the palace. I can't protect myself, so why bother you? Fourth brother is more like a prince than me. He has prestige in this palace and someone supports him. If you follow him, you will have a better future than following me." Gu Xiu seemed to be After finishing what he wanted to say, the whole room fell into a long silence.

It was a hot day in June, but the atmosphere in the house was like winter.

"So your Highness thinks this way?" Han Mochu's voice was very deep, completely different from the calm and gentle tone of the past: "Your Highness, do you still remember what you said when you high-fived the oath with your minister that day?"

Gu Xiu was stunned for a moment, but he still opened his mouth and replied: "Together advance and retreat together, never doubt."

"Since Your Highness remembers, please stretch out your left hand, Your Highness." Han Mochu's tone was terribly serious, and his perennially smiling face became stiff like never before.

"What did you say?" Gu Xiu raised his head, turned around and looked at Han Mochu in disbelief.

"As the prince's junior teacher, if the prince makes mistakes, I have the right to punish and correct them." Han Mochu held the mahogany ruler, his expression did not ease in any way.

Gu Xiu met his eyes, slowly stretched out his left hand towards the person, and said in a serious voice: "Master Han, tell me, where did I go wrong?"

Han Mochu grabbed Gu Xiu's fingertips and flattened the palm of Gu Xiu's left hand. The mahogany ruler cut through the wind and landed on the palm, making a terrifying muffled sound.

Gu Xiu's whole body trembled accordingly. In the past, Gu Xiu had been in close contact with this ruler, but it was nothing compared to this one.

"Your Majesty's mistake is to belittle oneself." Every word Han Mochu said resounded loudly: "A prince is a prince. Even if you live in poverty and have no one to rely on, you should not belittle yourself. The atmosphere in the palace has always been like this. Everyone knows how to step down. Could it be that His Highness is really lowly if someone steps on him? His Highness himself looks down on himself, so why should others give His Highness good looks?"

Gu Xiu bit his lower lip, a thin layer of sweat had already formed on his forehead, the sudden sharp pain could not be digested in his palm, when the second stroke fell, Gu Xiu instinctively shrank his palm back, but was helplessly caught by Han Mochu's fingers He could only let the ruler hit the already red and swollen palm again, and the pain was multiplied.

"Your Highness's second mistake is due to suspicion." Han Mochu pressed Gu Xiu's fingertips so that people could not dodge: "The fourth prince just said a word to my minister. Your Highness can forget all the things you said the day before yesterday, and talk to your minister." Feeling jealous and rejecting ministers thousands of miles away. How can you achieve great things in the future if you are so narrow-minded?"

The third stroke of the ruler quickly came down, overlapping the first red mark, the fragile epidermis on the palm was torn, and several blood spots the size of needlepoints appeared.

Gu Xiu held his left shoulder tightly, the cold sweat on his forehead had gathered into sweat beads and slid down the side of his face.

"Your Highness's three mistakes are for breaking the oath." Han Mochu's anger remained undiminished, and he did not intend to slow down his strength at all: "Since the oath is made, it must be kept forever. If you say something today and push the minister to another place, you are breaking your own words and breaking your promise!"

Because of the extreme pain, Gu Xiu instinctively wanted to withdraw his left hand, but Han Mochu held his left hand too tightly, and Gu Xiu could only watch helplessly as the fourth ruler hit his palm.

This was the first time that Gu Xiu felt afraid of this ruler.

"Your Highness made four mistakes because you never corrected them after repeated admonitions." Han Mochu continued in a deep voice, "Your Highness shot rashly today and almost hurt the internal officials. He doesn't think carefully about things and only knows how to be brave and ruthless. How is this different from a countryman? ?”

For the fifth ruler, Han Mochu fell particularly hard, causing Gu Xiu to cry out urgently, and his heartbeat accelerated accordingly.

"Your Highness's five faults are for not distinguishing between good and evil. Although your ancestor's family was convicted, you are free from injustice. Others are a little jealous, but you talk about it every day, reminding yourself to remind others of yours every day. My grandfather and biological mother are the ones to be punished, if the two of them know about it, they must be very disappointed in His Highness!" After Han Mochu finished speaking, he slapped the ruler on the ground, and let go of Gu Xiu's left hand: "Since Your Highness doesn't trust you anymore, I also feel that I can't teach His Highness, so I will ask His Majesty to resign tomorrow, and I beg Your Majesty to ask someone else to be wise."

The room fell silent again, Han Mochu turned his back to Gu Xiu and closed his eyes to rest his mind. After an unknown amount of time, he suddenly felt someone tugging at the hem of his clothes.

Han Mochu subconsciously turned around to check, and saw Gu Xiuxiu sitting behind him dragging his injured left hand, and pulling his sleeve robe with his right hand.His face was pale, and there were still beads of sweat on his face.

Those cold and arrogant eyes became crystal clear.

"Master." Gu Xiu's voice was very low, but he seemed to muster up his courage: "Will you not ask for your resignation?"

Gu Xiu's rare youthful spirit made Han Mochu's heart suddenly warm, and the anger just disappeared.

"Your Highness, did you know your mistake?" Han Mochu turned around completely, with a serious face, picked up the ruler from the ground, when the shadow of the ruler passed Gu Xiu's eyes, Gu Xiu's left hand was immediately behind his back.

"Yeah." Gu Xiu folded his hands behind his back, lowered his head, his voice was so low that he could barely hear him, he never let go of Han Mochu's right hand.

Han Mochu finally raised the corners of his lips again, stretched out his hand to caress Gu Xiu's forehead, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Did Your Highness really realize his mistake, or did it hurt?"

"I don't hurt." Gu Xiu squeezed his swollen left hand in front of Han Mochu to show that what he said was true.

"If that's the case, then please Your Highness copy the three essays that Chen Qi made a mistake, and copy each of them fifty times. Before the copying is finished, I will instruct Baode not to pass on the meal."

Gu Xiu was slightly stunned, and sat in front of the small square table where he practiced calligraphy without saying a word.Although copying books on an empty stomach is hard work, at least Han Mo will not ask him to leave the palace after punishing him for copying books.

That day, no matter how long Gu Xiu copied the book, Han Mochu stayed with him for as long.

Gu Xiu copied it fifty times, and Han Mochu copied it a hundred times.