Chang Ji was puzzled and couldn't figure out what Rong Shu was going to say to his master when it was dark. After all, this woman, who is apparently the master's wife, needs to be given the respect she deserves.

Then he raised the corner of his mouth and said with a smile: "Okay, Madam, please come with me."

This corner of the Gu Mansion is not really big. Both Liu Miao Hall and Song Si Yuan occupy a very small area.

The study is in the middle of the two courtyards, not far from Songsi Courtyard. Go east from the verandah, go out of the Moon Cave Gate, and you can reach it just by turning two corners. It is only a short walk for a cup of tea or two.

When they arrived at the door of the study, Gu Changjin had already come out wearing an official uniform.

He was taller than the men in the north. The green official uniform he wore made him look even more noble and dignified. Even the egret in the patch seemed to be more energetic than the others.

Gu Changjin probably didn't expect Rong Shu to come. When he saw her standing in the corridor, he asked: "What do you want from me, madam?"

Rong Shu gathered the collar of her cloak and replied to him in a warm voice: "I will return to Ning tomorrow, sir. Do you want to go back to the Hou Mansion with me?"

Gu Changjin lowered his eyes and looked at her.

Compared with yesterday, her complexion was obviously much better.

Her peach cheeks are flushed, and her cherry lips are tinged with red, making her skin look even more snowy and frosty. She is bright and beautiful, and her beautiful peach blossom eyes are full of spring even if she is not smiling. Only her temperament is gentle and generous, and the impetuous spring mood turns into spring water-like tenderness, not frivolous, but more elegant but not enchanting.

Before dawn, it was the coldest time of the day. Her hair was lifted by the wind, revealing her smooth forehead. A pair of clear eyes under her forehead were looking at him quietly.

Gu Changjin said: "When does Madam want to set off tomorrow?"

"We will set off at chen o'clock. If your husband is busy with official duties, you can leave after lunch at the Marquis Mansion."

"I'll let you arrange it." Gu Changjin nodded. After a pause, he added: "I will probably be busy until late at night today. I will go to the study to rest after my shift ends. You don't have to wait for me."

Rong Shu said "Okay" gently, with no hint of annoyance in his tone. After saying that, he turned slightly sideways, lowered his eyebrows, and his dense eyelashes hung motionless like a fan.

Gu Changjin looked at her again, nodded briefly, and walked quickly past her, crossed the verandah, and headed for the door.

As soon as the three living people left, the verandah instantly became deserted.

Ying Que stepped forward to straighten Rong Shu's cloak and said, "Young girl has a good temper. If you want to let the servant talk about it, you should also talk about your uncle."

Ying Que and Ying Yue have always seen how much their own girl likes her uncle.

At first, the Marquis did not agree with the girl marrying into the Gu family. It was his wife who argued hard and decided to let the girl marry someone she liked. The Marquis couldn't defeat his wife, so he settled on the marriage smoothly.

Yingque originally thought that if the girl was well-born, had a good temperament, and was a noble daughter of the Marquis's family, so she was devalued and married into the Gu family, Gu Changjin, the number one scholar, would definitely be moved and like her when he saw her.

But two days after the girl got married, they finally saw clearly that the uncle didn't care about the girl at all. Even the matter of returning home and returning to peace has to be told by the girl in person.

After receiving Gu Changjin's accurate words, Rong Shu felt relieved.

Gu Changjin is the future Crown Prince. She can't offend him, but she doesn't want to tangle with him anymore. She will leave here sooner or later.

But now is not a good opportunity to reconcile with him.

As the eldest daughter of the Hou family, they divorced just after getting married, and the entire Cheng'an Hou family would probably become a joke in Beijing.

Rong Juan will marry into the Jiang family next spring, and now the Rong family is looking forward to using Rong Juan's marriage to establish relations with the Jiang family. If something goes wrong with Rong Juan's marriage because of her divorce, with her grandmother's temperament, there will definitely be unrest in the family.

By then, Aniang's life in the Hou Mansion would become even more difficult.

Furthermore, Gu Changjin still didn't know that his sweetheart had been sent to Suzhou.

When Ming'er saw A Niang and found out where his sweetheart was, she would pick up the girl, beard and tail, and send her back to Chang Jin alive.

Later, he would plead guilty and divorce with Gu Changjin in person. This would be considered as a way to make up for the situation, and he would probably not hold such grudge against her and the Rong family in the future.

It will take half a year to talk about these things at least. If we wait a little longer, Gu Changjin will not go back to live in Songsiyuan.

"Girl, aren't you angry?" Yingque puffed up her cheeks and asked when Rong Shu remained silent.

Rong Shu smiled and said: "What are you so angry about? Go to the small kitchen and see if my sweet-scented osmanthus cake is steamed?"

Yingque's mind was racing. When she heard this, her attention was really diverted, "Ah" He said: "It should be steamed. I will go and take a look now. The girl will go back to the house and wait. Don't blow the wind here." After saying that, he quickly walked to the small kitchen, and after a while, no one was there.

Yingyue shook her head and sighed, "The girl loves to spoil Yingque. This girl is getting more and more frizzy."

Rong Shu smiled and didn't respond.

In his previous life, Gu Changjin actually accompanied her back home, but he set the time and the carriage he took. This time, Rong Shu wanted to make arrangements by himself, so he came over to ask.

As long as she opens her mouth, Gu Changjin will let her make arrangements.

He was not used to worrying about such trivial matters.

After Rong Shu had breakfast, he went to Liumiao Hall to pay his respects to Mrs. Xu, and accompanied her over a cup of tea before leaving. Before going out, Mrs. Xu once again mentioned that there was no need for Rong Shu to come to say hello.

"The smell of medicine in my room is overwhelming, and I like tranquility. From now on, you don't have to come to me early in the morning to say hello. I just tend to lean on the couch for a while to rest my mind."

Mrs. Xu indeed likes tranquility, and her body and bones are not as well. Weak indeed.

Rong Shu had been married to Gu Changjin for three years, but she had never been seen outside Liu Miao Hall. She spent most of the day lying on the couch, and occasionally she would sit under the plane tree in the courtyard on a sunny day.

In her previous life, Mrs. Xu had mentioned several times that she wanted to avoid Rong Shu's morning and dusk sleep. At first, out of respect for his mother-in-law, Rong Shu respectfully came to Liumiao Hall every morning and evening to pay his respects.

It wasn't until later that Mrs. Xu fell seriously ill and coldly told her not to come back on the bed that Rong Shu knew that Mrs. Xu really didn't like her coming to Liumiao Hall.

Since Gu Changjin's biological mother was Empress Qi in the palace, Rong Shu still couldn't figure out whether Mrs. Xu was Gu Changjin's adoptive mother or a close relative.

After the incident at the Cheng'an Marquis Mansion, she had never seen Mrs. Xu, and she didn't know where she went afterwards.

However, in those three years, Gu Changjin always treated the Xu family with respect and concern. After Gu Changjin became the crown prince, he should have properly arranged the Xu family's whereabouts.

However, Rong Shu didn't care much about matters related to Gu Changjin. When the two of them get along and separate in the future, then ashes will return to ashes, dust will return to dust, and each will go his own way.

By then, he and Xu will be just strangers.

Now that she was very polite, since Mrs. Xu mentioned it, she naturally followed Mrs. Xu's words and said hello respectfully.

Aunt An personally escorted Rong Shu out of Liu Miao Hall. As she walked, she said with a kind smile: "Madam said that she loves Jing so that you don't have to come to greet her. In fact, she just doesn't want a young and beautiful girl like Madam to accompany her in Liu Miao." It's just a waste of time in Miaotang. The lady has already asked the old slave to prepare the gift for the young lady tomorrow. After giving the instructions no less than four or five times, the old slave will have the gift list delivered to the young lady in Songsi Courtyard. Take a look."

The words were very beautiful, and everything in the words was Xu's love for Rong Shu.

How could Rong Shu believe it?

"Thank you, grandma." She smiled and thanked her, then asked Aunt An to stay and said, "I can just go back by myself. Mother is a very rare person here. Nanny, please go back and take care of mother."

Aunt An said "Hey" He made a sound, took two more steps forward, and then stopped. Watching Rong Shu and the others go away, the attentive and kind smile on his face gradually turned cold.

Rong Shu was in a particularly good mood all day because he would be able to go back to see his mother tomorrow, so he asked Ying Yue to turn off the lights early at night.

The waxing moon extinguished all the lights in the room, leaving only two small candles beside the bed, which I couldn't blow.

"Girl, why don't you leave a light for me? Last night, I probably saw all the lights in the house go out, so I went to the study to rest."

Rong Shu had already fallen asleep and was holding a small pillow sewn into a crescent shape . Lying down, when he heard these words, he knew what Yingyue meant. He hurriedly opened the curtain and said,

"There is no need to leave a light, and you don't need to guard him outside the moon cave door. Gu Changjin will not come here to sleep. You have to get up early tomorrow. You and Yingque should settle down as soon as possible. You don't have to keep watch for me at night."

Yingyue reluctantly agreed. Before blowing out the last lamp, she couldn't help but glance at the bed.

I saw my girl wearing a moon-white undergarment, with a layer of water in her eyes due to sleepiness, and her little face like a jade hibiscus was particularly beautiful and charming by the weak candlelight.

I couldn't help but exclaimed in my heart: If my girl has such a good color, then Lao Shizi, the champion, is really blind!

Early the next morning, Rong Shu had a hasty breakfast, put on a light cyan cloak and left Songsi Courtyard, heading for the gate.

When she returned home this time, she made up her mind to stay in the Hou Mansion for three to five days. Zhang's mother was still not feeling well, so Rong Shu asked Ying Yue to stay in Dongci Room to take care of her, and only took Ying Que with her. Return to the Hou Mansion.

There was a canopy carriage inlaid with gold and jade parked outside the door, and Yingque was lighting up the homecoming ceremony that she was taking to the Hou Mansion. When she saw Rong Shu coming out, she hurriedly walked up to him and whispered: "Just now, your servant came out to take stock of things, Chang Ji." He also followed and stuffed the slave with a painting by Mr. Chunshan and a string of Buddhist beads from Daci'en Temple, saying it was a special gift from my uncle for the Marquis and the old lady. "

The Marquis of Cheng'an loves elegance, especially those from the Jiande period. Landscape paintings by the great talent Mr. Chunshan. Mr. Chunshan's whereabouts are elusive, and no new paintings have been published in the past ten or twenty years. It is not easy for Gu Changjin to get such a painting, which shows that he has put a lot of thought into it.

Yingque's pretty face couldn't hide her joy, she covered her mouth and said with a smile: "Look, slave, my uncle still values ​​the girl in his heart."

Rong Shu was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered that he also had such an experience in his previous life.

At that time, she was as happy as a bird, thinking that Gu Changjin was specially spending time for her.

"Where are the paintings and Buddhist beads?"

Yingque pointed to the car and said, "I was afraid that these two things would be lost in the limo, so I put them in a small cage and put them in the carriage. I thought that when I arrived, Then move the ceremonial car back to the mansion and have it taken to He'an Hall." He'an Hall is the courtyard where Rong Shu's grandmother, Mrs. Rong, lives.

Rong Shu nodded: "You don't have to move into the Marquis Mansion for a while, just leave it in the carriage. When you come back in a few days, you can take it to the study and return it to the second master."

Yingque's eyes widened, and he wanted to ask. Why, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Gu Changjin heading towards the door, and he quickly shut up.

Rong Shu himself saw Gu Changjin, blessed him, called him "Mr." and said, "I'll take this carriage back to the Marquis' Mansion today, okay?"

In the thin light of day, the girl combed her comb. Wearing a high bun, a peach pleated skirt with gold embroidery and weeping branches all over the floor, and a lotus-colored blouse tied into a light cyan belt, she looked slim and slim, like a dewy flower blooming in the early morning. Delicate flowers picked by others.

Chang Ji sighed in his heart: This eldest girl from the Rong family is really the most beautiful person he has ever seen. It's a pity that a beautiful girl must have someone who cares about flowers. My master's stone heart, which has been soaked in thousands of years of mysterious ice, really doesn't have the tenderness to pity flowers and cherish jade.

He glanced at Gu Changjin carefully, and saw that his brows and eyes were as still as a mountain. He nodded and walked towards the carriage with a cold and ruthless attitude.

Probably sensing Chang Ji's gaze, Gu Changjin turned his head and glanced at him.

Chang Ji felt a thump in his heart, and hurriedly stepped forward to open the door, put down the pedal diligently, and said to the two of them: "Master, young lady, get in the car quickly."

Rong Shu followed Gu Changjin into the carriage and met him face to face. Sitting.

This carriage was specially built for her by Mrs. Shen when Rong Shu was in the Marquis Mansion. The space inside is huge, more than enough to seat seven or eight people. The bottom of the car was covered with a gold carpet, and a sandalwood table stood in the middle. On it were an auspicious animal incense burner, a set of cloisonné enamel tea sets, and two wenge wood tables at both ends of the table.

The small cage Yingque mentioned was placed under one of the small tables.

Rong Shu's eyes paused for a moment on the small cage and then retracted his eyes. He turned around and opened the car curtain on one side.

The shops in Wutong Lane outside have already opened for business, selling fried pancakes, hot syrup, and sweet rice dumplings with sweet wine. It's a bustling world.

The cool breeze blew in along with the noise, and half of Rong Shu's face hit the light. She looked out the window at the familiar street scene, the corners of her lips raised slightly, and a feeling of joy gradually came to her heart.

Songsiyuan is not her home, and the Gu family is not her destination. She only regards herself as a guest, so she has to be cautious in her actions. After a long time, she will inevitably feel depressed.

Now that she was out of the Gu Mansion and immersed in the bustling fireworks of Wutong Lane, she really felt that she was really alive.

It's so good to be alive.

She was so fascinated by what she was looking at here that she didn't notice Gu Changjin's slightly probing gaze at all.

After three days of marriage, he went out early and came back late every day. The two of them rarely met or spoke much. Gu Changjin originally thought that such a delicate and noble girl like Rong Shu would cause trouble no matter what.

After all, there was a big gap between his Gu family and the Marquis Chengan's mansion. If Rong Shu wanted to make trouble, he would be confident.

But she happened to be very well-behaved, neither noisy nor fussy, and she was respectful but also a little distant.

Yes, alienation.

Gu Changjin could sense her alienation from him.

Due to his childhood experience and two years of experience in the Ministry of Punishment, he can be regarded as a person who is sophisticated in human relations and has a clear understanding of world affairs. An ordinary person cannot hide his thoughts in front of him.

Just like Rong Shu, on the wedding day, the moment Xipa was opened, her clear eyes were filled with admiration for him. But when we met again the next day, the lingering light in her eyes suddenly disappeared, leaving only a formal alienation.

Maybe he gave up because he didn't consummate the marriage and was treated coldly for two days?

Gu Changjin lowered his eyes, very satisfied with the result.

Previously, he would feel irritated just thinking about returning from the government office and having to face a crying and making trouble.

Blind marriage is the easiest way to create a resentful couple, and he has never had the idea of ​​getting married.

When Xu Fu crossed his path to arrange a marriage with the Hou Mansion, he had no right to refuse and could only accept the marriage.

Fortunately, she was able to move forward and retreat appropriately and knew the rules, so it didn't bother him.

If he is lucky enough to survive in the future, and she is willing, he will find her a suitable husband again, and he should be able to compensate for the cold treatment she suffered during this period.

While thinking about it, the carriage had already left Wutong Lane and turned left into Yinhuai Street.

There was a shaking in the carriage, but Gu Changjin suddenly opened his eyelids, his dark eyes stared at Rong Shu for a moment, and said calmly: "I took the wrong road."