novelraw Chapter 312 Entering the Palace
Chapter 312 Entering the Palace
Gu Huaizhi's expression remained unchanged and he didn't speak. He just touched his head.
Gu Jingyun sniffed and asked angrily, "When will you send me away?"
Gu Huai paused.
"today?"
"Um."
Gu Jingyun said nothing.
The atmosphere was solemn and everyone felt heavy.
After a while, Gu Jingyun let go of Gu Huaizhi, jumped down, ran towards Gu's mother, took her hand into the house, and closed the door.
"Jingyun." Mother Gu heard what he said and knew the choice he made, so she held him in her arms: "Mom is in the capital. If you miss us, come back and take a look."
Gu Jingyun clenched his hands tightly into small fists and tried his best not to cry. His throat felt like it was blocked by a ball of cotton wool, and he couldn't make any sound. It was stuffy and swollen.
"Mom, please don't cry." Gu Jingyun twisted his sleeves to wipe his mother's tears, twitching the corners of his mouth, trying to squeeze out a smile, but the tears he had held back for a long time also squeezed out, "You are right, I will return to my mother. , one more person who loves me. From now on, I will be a noble little prince, and I will take you into the palace to enjoy your happiness."
Gu's mother wanted to say something, but Gu Jingyun stopped her: "Master said that the grace of childbirth is greater than human beings, the grace of nurturing is greater than heaven, and filial piety comes first. Without my mother's grace of childbirth, I would not have come to this world. Without your upbringing I will not grow up smoothly. I have two mothers, and I will honor each of them with all my heart."
"Don't worry, I will live a good life, and my eldest brother will protect me." Gu Jingyun cried too much, and his eyes were so red and swollen that it hurt, "You have to wait for me until I take you and your third sister into the palace. "
"Okay, Mom is waiting for you." Gu's mother forced out a smile, with loving eyes: "Mom hasn't read much, and doesn't understand any big principles. She knows whoever treats us well, and we will repay him tenfold or a hundredfold. You must know that your late mother is kind and your son is filial, and if your own mother treats you badly, don’t wrong yourself.”
Gu Jingyun nodded vigorously and said coquettishly, "I want to eat the noodles made by my mother."
"Mom, make it for you." Mother Gu wiped her tears, opened the door, and asked Su Wan who was standing at the door, "Where is the kitchen?"
"I'll take you there." Su Wan glanced at Gu Jingyun, who had his back to the door, pursed his lips, and led Gu's mother to the kitchen.
Gu Huaizhi wanted to go in and have a few words with Gu Jingyun, but Gu Jingyun was as fierce as a cat with fried fur: "Don't come in, I don't want to talk to you now."
"..." Gu Huaizhi had no choice but to glance at Gu Baozhu, who was lying on the door frame.
The next moment, a hand pulled Gu Baozhu into the house, and with a bang, the door was slammed shut.
"..."
Gu Huaizhi stared at the closed door for a long time, then went to the study.
Mo Yuan told him everything that happened in the Gu Mansion: "The Queen Mother's dead soldiers were killed, and one of them was released into the palace to report the news. Cao Guangyi was ordered by the Queen Mother to search the Gu Mansion on the charge of treason."
Gu Huaizhi sat in the Grand Master's chair, picked up a pen and wrote a letter and handed it to Mo Yuan: "Give this to Censor Meng and refer to Cao Guangyi and the Queen Mother."
"Morning morning?"
"Please read this book when you send Jingyun into the palace, so that they have no time to distract and stop them." Gu Huaizhi leaned back, resting his fingers on the armrest, and his eyes fell on the peach blossom tree in the yard, which was full of green leaves. The fruit: "The things have been moved out and buried?"
"It's buried."
Gu Huaizhi nodded, gave a few more instructions, and waved Mo Yuan away.
After taking a shower and washing up, Gu Huaizhi put on a crown and hat with a gold thread edge, put on a red official robe embroidered with cranes, and a jade belt around his waist, and went to the front hall.
Su Wan stood at the door of the front hall and saw Gu Huaizhi strolling over from a distance. The sun shone on him, bright as the sun and the moon in his arms, solemn as the wind under the pine, graceful and refreshing.
This was the first time she saw him wearing official robes, and a strange emotion welled up in her heart.
"What are you thinking about?" Gu Huaizhi stood in front of her and waved his hand in front of her eyes.
"Nothing." Su Wan stared at his official robe: "After breakfast, will you personally escort Jing Yun into the palace?"
"Um."
"Shall I go with you?"
"No need." Gu Huaizhi whispered: "You will take your mother and third sister back to the house later. Someone will come to the door."
"Okay." Su Wan also wanted to know what Gu's house had become.
"That house can no longer be inhabited. If someone gives it to you, just take it." Gu Huaizhi warned.
"Okay." Su Wan didn't ask anything else and entered the room with him: "Eat breakfast first, it will get cold later."
Gu Huaizhi nodded.
The other three members of the Gu family have already taken their seats at the table.
Today was Gu Jingyun's last breakfast at Gu's house. It was very rich, but no one had an appetite.
Only Gu Jingyun was holding a big bowl, eating noodles with a slurping sound, his cheeks bulging, taking a few sips of soup, and finished a bowl of simple chicken soup with scallion noodles in two or five times.
As if he wasn't full yet, he scooped up another bowl of mushroom and shredded chicken porridge cooked by Su Wan, and ate it with corn and date cake.
Until his stomach was so full that he could no longer hold a mouthful of food. He wiped his mouth with a handkerchief and looked at the other people who didn't use their chopsticks: "Aren't you going to eat? They are all delicious. My mother and sister-in-law haven't eaten for a long time. Cooked.”
"Eat, let's eat." Mother Gu took a mouthful of porridge and ate it. It tasted like chewing wax.
Su Wan only ate one piece of pastry and couldn't eat any more.
Gu Baozhu ate the meat buns in silence, her round eyes filled with tears, and she looked at Gu Jingyun pitifully. She knew clearly in her heart that she would be separated from her second brother in the future.
The two of them used to like to fight and quarrel, but at this moment, she was very reluctant to let go.
The second brother said that after he got acquainted with him and encircled his own territory, he would ask her to be his companion.
No matter how stupid she is, she knows that girls cannot serve as reading companions for boys. Those who can enter the palace as reading companions are all high-ranking officials in their families, and the eldest brother is just a minor official.
Knowing that it was a lie, Gu Baozhu deceived herself and still had a glimmer of hope.
Gu Baozhu choked up, put down the meat bun, and took out a small sachet from her sleeve. She put it in Gu Jingyun's hand and whispered, "This is the sachet I learned to make from Xiu Niang. I'll give it to you first."
Gu Jingyun looked at the mess of threads on it and couldn't tell what the embroidery pattern looked like. He put it in his arms and said, "It's my thing. You can choose whatever you want."
Gu Baozhu shook her head, she didn't want anything.
Gu Jingyun tugged on her pigtail: "Don't cry, little crybaby."
Gu Baozhu's eyes sparkled with tears and she pursed her lips: "You are about to leave, and you still bully me."
Seeing her like this, Gu Jingyun wanted to round and flatten her face. Finally, when Gu Huaizhi put down his chopsticks, he pinched the soft flesh of her cheeks with both hands: "You look easy to bully."
Gu Baozhu didn't resist like before, she chased Gu Jingyun and fought back, sitting there softly and letting him bully him.
Gu Jingyun felt sad, they would still be his relatives, it seemed like nothing had changed, but in fact everything had changed, and he would never be able to go back to the past.
The next eight years of his life are like the dividing line between yin and yang.
Gu Huaizhi put on a mask and took Gu Jingyun into the palace.