Rong Shu returned to Songsiyuan and went to Dongcijian to see Zhang's mother.

The Gu family is poor, and the house they rented on Wutong Lane only has room for two young people to enter. Apart from Liumiao Hall and Songsi Courtyard, as well as the back room at the front gate, there is only a dark and cramped back room dedicated to the people below. Servants live.

Chang Ji and Heng Ping lived in the back room. Rong Shu couldn't bear to let Zhang and the three of them squeeze into the back room with the servants of the Gu family, so he simply freed up the East Room in Song Si Yuan for the three of them.

Mother Zhang is Rong Shu's nanny, so she naturally followed Rong Shu when he got married. It was just that I had caught a cold the day before yesterday, and I was afraid that others would comment and that my illness would be passed on to Rong Shu, so I hid in Dongci Room to recuperate.

Rong Shu entered the East Room and said, "Mother Zhang, I'm here to see you."

Mother Zhang had just taken the decoction and was lying on the bed with her eyes closed. When she heard Rong Shu's voice, she struggled to get out of bed and said: " Why is the girl here?"

Rong Shu helped her back and said with a smile, "Mom is just lying down, why do you need to do this false courtesy with me?"

Mother Zhang covered her mouth with a handkerchief and coughed, "Girl, you should stay away from me. "Old slave, the cold is coming fiercely, but I don't want to make you sick too."

"Mom, don't worry, I won't be sick, and you will be fine soon."

She came back from Liumiao Hall in Song Si Yuan. At that time, I also came to see Zhang’s mother. I remember that although Mrs. Zhang’s cold came quickly, it also went away quickly. After a few days of nursing, she was completely healed.

Zhang's mother looked sideways at Rong Shu and saw that her face was pale. She thought she was tired from consummating the marriage yesterday, so she said with pity: "My daughter's family all have this experience. She just needs to get used to it. Let Ying Ying get used to it later." Yue and Yingque will stew you some blood-enhancing soup. Once you get back, you'll be full of energy within two days."

Rong Shu knew that Zhang's mother had misunderstood, but he didn't explain much and agreed without changing his expression. .

Back in the main room, Yingque asked her in a low voice: "Girl, Mother Zhang has asked me to make soup. Do you want me to go to the small kitchen to prepare it right now?"

"No need."

Rong Shu sat in front of the mirror and slowly opened her hair. .

Not only did she and Gu Changjin not consummate their marriage on their wedding night, he also never touched her in the next three years.

She has been childless for three years, and her mother-in-law, Mrs. Xu, has never urged her. It seems that Mrs. Xu has long known that Gu Changjin has no intention of her.

Looking at the bright yet pale face in the bronze mirror, she thought for a moment and then ordered: "Don't tell Mother Zhang that the second master and I have not consummated our marriage, and you are not allowed to tell my mother on the day you return home. "

As she was speaking, her eyes suddenly focused and she looked at one part of the bronze mirror for a moment.

"Go and get that lamp." Rong Shu put down his half-undressed hair and tapped the length of the corner with his fingers like peeling onions.

Yingyue looked along and saw that the table was empty except for a lamp. The waxing moon lantern is no stranger to me. It was the star-picking lantern that the Star-Zhaing Tower used for the first prize during the Mid-Autumn Festival last year.

The girl treasured this lamp very much. When she was in the boudoir, she often played with it in her hand. She loved it like a treasure, and she never forgot to bring it with her when she got married.

Yingyue took the lantern and was about to get the tinder to light it when she heard Rong Shu say: "No need to light the fire."

The star lantern in the Star Reaching Tower was so ingenious that it was a lantern within a lantern.

There is also a round center lantern inside the glazed palace lantern. If you put the fire into the center of the round lantern, the eight-sided glazed lantern on the outer layer will light up with bright stars. Holding such a lantern at night is like holding the stars in the sky in your hands. inside.

It's still clear sky and daylight now, so the lights really shouldn't be turned on. Just as Yingyue was thinking this, she suddenly heard a loud "bang" sound, and the star-picking lantern was thrown to the ground by Rong Shu in the blink of an eye.

She was dumbfounded, "Girl?"

Rong Shu slowly raised his eyes and saw Yingque and Yingyue looking dumbfounded. He smiled and said, "Don't panic, I just don't like this lamp anymore, so I threw it down." It's clean, let someone come in and clean it up."

The two maids were probably puzzled by Rong Shu throwing down the lamp. They felt that something was different about their girl, but they couldn't tell what was different. .

A lamp was thrown down in Songsiyuan, but within a short time, the incident was reported to Liumiao Hall.

"I heard that when the maid down there was cleaning the house, she accidentally knocked over a few desks, and then she broke the lamp."

A lamp broke, but it was just a big deal. Xu Fu nodded nonchalantly and asked. Next thing comes.

"After Yan'er left Liumiao Hall, he went straight out of the mansion? Didn't he go back to Songsi Courtyard again?"

"Yes, the old slave sent the young master out of the mansion in person, probably to the Ministry of Punishment. Chang Ji and Hengping said that the young master During this period, I have been busy with the case of the mother and daughter in Changping Prefecture, and she has never relaxed even after they got married."

Aunt An took a bowl and boiled the soup like thick ink, and fed Mrs. Xu one spoonful at a time. He continued: "Third Miss, this old slave is feeling uneasy. That child of the Rong family has a pretty face. If you let the young master marry her, you won't be afraid that the young master's heart will be stolen by her in the future."

The entrance of the decoction Astringent and bitter, Xu Fu slowly frowned. After the bowl of soup had reached the bottom, and after eating the candied fruit handed over by Nanny An, he said slowly and calmly: "Yan'er was raised by me personally. What is he like?" I know his temper best. His heart can't be warmed even by Wen Xi, let alone the people around him. Besides, Rong is so beautiful, but his temper is too cautious, and Yan'er has always disliked this. Girl."

Speaking of which, this was not the first time Xu Fu saw Rong Shu.

When Rong Shu was eleven years old, the two of them met once in Yangzhou. But she was wearing a curtain hat at that time, and the little girl didn't see her face at all.

Although the little girl was young at that time, she was already tall and graceful, with bright eyes, white teeth, soft jade and soft flowers. Now seven years have passed, and Rong Shu is indeed as beautiful as she thought.

It is said that there are three beauties in Beijing. One is the third daughter of the British Duke, the current eldest princess Song Yingzhen, the other is Mu Nijing, the eldest daughter of the General Protector's Palace, and the third is the second daughter of the concubine of the Marquis of Chengan, Rong Shu, who has the same father. Mother's sister Rong Juan.

These three people are indeed beautiful and charming. But if we just talk about appearance, Rong Shu is actually better than them.

Ordinary people who have such a beautiful wife will probably fall into the land of gentleness and feel that the good night is too short every day. But Gu Changjin was born with a cold and stoic heart, and never approached women.

Last night, he would rather drink with the rough guys in the outer hall than enter the bridal chamber. He was probably still resisting the marriage in his heart.

After hearing what Xu Fu said, Aunt An calmed down a little and said, "Will the old slave still arrange for Rong to take the medicine?"

Xu Fu squinted his eyes, remembering Rong Shu's bloodless face just now, and shook his head. He said: "Let's keep it. She will return to the Marquis Mansion in two days. If she takes the medicine, she will be ill for at least a few days. We will wait until the day she and Yan'er consummate their marriage. If they don't consummate their marriage, there is no need for her to take the medicine. , to avoid any complications." After saying that, he leaned on the pillow and closed his eyes.

Aunt An originally had something to say, but when she saw that her face looked tired, her cheeks were thin and sallow, and she no longer looked dignified and beautiful like before, her heart throbbed, so she simply shut up, quietly put down the bed curtain, and held an empty bowl. Out of the house.

A few sycamore trees outside the door were blown by the wind, and the clouds were rolling in thicker and thicker. There was light thunder and it looked like it was going to rain heavily.

The full moon closed the partially opened windows in the house to prevent the heavy rain outside from disturbing the girl's sleep.

The girl just had only a small bowl of minced meat porridge and then rested. She could not hide her tiredness on her face. She must have been very tired.

The marriage was not consummated yesterday, and today she looks sick again. Yingyue was in a mess, feeling distressed and at a loss. But she was just a maid, so it was useless to worry.

With a soft sigh, Yingyue walked out of the house with gentle steps, and the door closed with a creak.

Rong Shu lay on the bed, slowly opened his eyes, and stared at the curtain embroidered with pomegranate blossoms on the top of the bed, lost in thought.

This is the bed that the Rong family gave her when she got married. It used 40-year-old huanghuali wood shipped from the south of the Yangtze River, and hired the most skilled carpenter from Beijing. It took more than half a year to carve out twelve auspicious animals and thirty-six kinds of auspicious clouds in ancient times. Make such a bed.

The pomegranate blossoms on the curtain were also embroidered by her stitch by stitch. Most of the patterns embroidered by the young lady next to her were pictures of mandarin ducks playing in the water and lotus flowers. But she knew that Gu Changjin had a good nature and was afraid that he would think the patterns she embroidered were too... Too frivolous, so I secretly replaced it with pomegranate blossoms.

Now that I think about it, it has become a joke.

He never had her in his heart, so how could he care whether the pattern she embroidered was a mandarin duck playing in the water or a pomegranate blossom?

When he woke up in this bed this morning, Rong Shu couldn't tell at first whether the extra memories in his mind were covering bananas in search of deer or a dream about yellow rice.

It wasn't until he entered Liumiao Hall, met Mr. Xu, met Aunt An, and heard the same words as in his previous life that he slowly came back to his senses.

She really went back to the day she married Gu Changjin three years ago.

The memories of those three years were not dreams, but the past that she had actually experienced. She had already let go of Gu Changjin in the Four Seasons Garden, so when she looked at him again now, her heart felt calm.

Rong Shu closed his eyes and relaxed, feeling a huge sense of fatigue coming over him like sea water.

The rain gurgled outside the window, and it actually started to rain. Accompanied by the patter of rain, she returned to a rainy night in a daze.

It was the seventh day of July in the twenty-third year of Jiayou's reign, and it was the festival when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl reunited.

Gu Changjin was admitted to the palace that day.

At that time, the Marquis of Cheng'an's Mansion was in trouble, and He's Mansion was imprisoned in Dali Temple Prison. Rong Shu was running around about the Rong family, unaware that Gu Changjin had returned to Beijing from Qingzhou and transformed into the son of Queen Qi and the crown prince of Dayin.

Rong Shu went back to Gu Mansion to see him that night.

The young Crown Prince stood in the corridor, as if he knew why she came here, and said to her calmly: "Rong Shu, the evidence of the Rong family and the Shen family collaborating with the enemy is conclusive. My father has been given a lenient sentence when he was sentenced to exile."

Rong Shu took a step forward, shook his head and said anxiously: "It is impossible for the Shen family to collaborate with the enemy. My mother said that as long as my uncle can be found, the charges of the Shen family and the Rong family can be cleared. Gu Changjin, for the sake of you and me, we will get married. In terms of love for three years, can you send someone to Yangzhou to find my uncle?"

Rong Shu didn't want to ask him.

But the trees fell and the hozens scattered, and the drums were broken and thousands of people beat them.

In just one month, the Marquis of Cheng'an's mansion was found guilty and confiscated. She had no way to seek help and saw all the warmth and coldness of human beings. Coming to seek help from Gu Changjin was just a desperate move.

Although she knew that he was a selfless person and would never show favoritism due to personal feelings.

Sure enough, Gu Changjin looked at her for a moment, as if he was too lazy to talk to her anymore, and only ordered: "Hengping, Chang Ji, send your wife to another courtyard. No one can let her out without my order."

The Gu family has always been poor . , Gu Changjin, a member of the Pimen family, how could he come to another courtyard?

Rong Shu understood clearly that this other courtyard was just a cage arranged for her by the nobles in the palace. If something like that happened to the Marquis of Cheng'an Mansion, how could they let the daughter of a criminal minister occupy the position of the Crown Princess?

Besides, Gu Changjin didn't like her at all.

She separated him from his beloved for three years, and he probably hated her in his heart. Imprisoning her in another courtyard can be regarded as out of sight.

Rong Shu smiled, and when Gu Changjin passed by her with lowered eyes, she raised her hand and grabbed his sleeve, and asked softly: "Gu Changjin, don't you have anything else to say to me?"

Gu Changjin He paused and looked down at her white-clenched fingertips. After a while, he opened his lips and said, "Don't think about going to Yangzhou to find your uncle. The evidence that the Rong family is collaborating with the enemy is your uncle Shen Zhi himself." It was sent to Beijing by someone, and your father already confessed his crime yesterday. "

It was actually her uncle who personally sent the evidence?

Rong Shu felt that the string in his head that was struggling to support broke with a clang.

Just then, there was a thunder in the distance, strong winds sprang up, and not long after, raindrops fell from the sky, drizzling ice coldly on her body.

Gu Changjin glanced at her briefly and turned to leave. As soon as he walked out of the door, a palace maid came over to hold an umbrella for him.

He was surrounded by people and got into the carriage, never looking back.