Rong Shu had already guessed that Guo Jiuniang would not agree to let Lu Yi go with Gu Changjin.

It's not because Luyi is Chunyuelou's top courtesan, but because she won't let Chunyuelou get involved in these court disputes. Otherwise, if you accidentally offend a powerful person, you will not even be able to do business.

Unbeknownst to Guo Jiuniang, it was Lord Gu who became the crown prince of the East Palace two years later. Although Hui Changjin is not the kind of person who waits for public retribution, it would be good to help him at this time.

Although Guo Jiuniang is the madam of Chunyue Tower, she never controls the will of the girls under her. If Lu Yi wants to go, Guo Jiuniang won't stop her.

So Rong Shu and Gu Changjin separated into two groups, one went to see Guo Jiuniang and the other went to see Lu Yi.

To Rong Shu's expectation, Lu Yi was startled for a moment when she mentioned Liao Rao, and then agreed without any hesitation.

Liao Rao is in the Governor's Mansion at the moment.

After getting on the carriage, Lu Yi slowly shook the banana fan in his hand and said, "Master Gu, can you tell me why I have to make this trip? Is it possible that you really believe what is said outside that Governor Liao is infatuated with your family?" "

After speaking, she smiled, with a hint of ridicule in her charming eyebrows.

Gu Changjin said: "Miss Lu Yi has a voice that is very similar to Mrs. Liao."

Lu Yi paused in shaking the fan, and his eyes froze. Gu Changjin was completely shocked by these words.

Scenes of getting along with Liao Rao suddenly flashed through his mind.

He never put on airs like a governor in front of her. But he always likes to make her angry and listen to her scold him.

Only when she was angry would she call him by his name and call him a "bastard".

Not only did he not get angry after hearing this, but he also wanted her to scold her. He would also ask her with a smile: "Are you still angry? Can you stop being angry?"

When he said that, his eyes were so tender that he could easily make people laugh. Get lost in it.

Lu Yi lowered her eyelashes and smiled suddenly.

No wonder he never touches her. It turns out that what he likes is just her voice. He wants to hear what he wants to hear through her voice.

It was not he who promoted her as the number one oiran of the Wu family's Brick Bridge, but it was precisely because of him that the high-ranking officials and dignitaries would not have any idea of ​​​​her.

Lu Yi sighed softly and said quietly: "It seems that the slave family has a really good voice. After all, what does Mr. Gu want the slave family to do?"

The carriage arrived at the Governor's Mansion. Liu Yuanren was already at the Chuihua Gate and saw Gu Changjin. The group of people nodded briefly and led Lu Yi into a courtyard in the middle.

Lu Yi changed into a set of plain clothes and followed a maid with delicate features into the main room.

Rong Shu looked around. This should be the main courtyard of the Governor's Mansion. It was surrounded by camphor trees. The autumn night was quiet and fragrant.

In the shadow of the dancing trees, two bamboo chairs were placed side by side. It had probably been a long time since anyone had sat on them, and a thin layer of dust had covered them.

Gu Changjin used his sleeves to brush away the dust that had fallen on the bamboo chairs, separated the two chairs at arm's length, and said to Rong Shu: "Sit down and wait, it will take some time for the medicine to take effect."

Rong Shu lifted up her skirt. He sat down on one of the bamboo chairs, looked up at Gu Changjin, and said, "Is that medicine really useful?"

When Gu Changjin left Chunyue Tower just now, he specifically asked Guo Jiuniang for a packet of medicinal powder.

At that time, Guo Jiuniang looked a little strange.

Gu Changjin nodded and explained: "Taking Yangjinhua mixed with Chunfeng Powder can relieve pain. At the same time, it can also cause hallucinations. The more you long for something in your heart, the more it will appear."

Rong Shu He raised his eyebrows and said, "Can you really see what you want to see the most?"

"Yes." Gu Changjin did not sit down on another bamboo chair, but leaned slightly against the tree trunk, looked at her with lowered eyes and said, "This medicine I've tried it, and it's true that I met the person I wanted to see the most at that time."

The man's voice paused, and then he continued, "It's my relative in Fuyu Mountain."

This prescription was worked out by the old lady herself.

A fire in Fuyu Mountain destroyed everything he once owned, and he fell ill from then on. When he was dying, the old doctor asked him to take this medicine and say goodbye to his parents and the others.

"They want you to live well." The old doctor's wise and old eyes were full of love. "After His Highness said goodbye to them, he forgot the past and lived well."

Gu Changjin did survive.

But he never forgot the past and always remembered everything about Fuyu Mountain.

The man's voice was so calm, but his words cut through his past.

His relationship with his adoptive parents and family has always been good.

Rong Shu raised his face to look at him. Only then did he realize that his expression was very poor.

The moonlight was gentle, falling from the treetops in strands. Half of his face was covered in light gauze, and his clear face was so white that it was almost transparent.

Is this an old wound that has not healed, or is it a new wound?

Rong Shu subconsciously came up with this idea, but she didn't ask the question, her eyes stopped on his face for a moment and then looked away.

When she died in her previous life, she also had hallucinations.

She saw Gu Changjin.

The hallucination only appeared for a moment, and soon her vision was swallowed up by darkness, and she could not see anything.

In that hallucination, she vaguely heard him calling: "Rong Zhaozhao, swallow it."

What did she just swallow?

It's really strange, even if her obsession before she died, it should be to hear him say "I'm sorry".

"Mrs. Liao will appear in Governor Liao's hallucination, right?" Rong Shu asked curiously: "What will he say to Mrs. Liao?"

"The person who was accompanying Miss Lu Yi just now was the maid who served Mrs. Liao. She I will teach Miss Lu Yi how to talk." Gu Changjin said patiently, "But whether this method will work depends on God's will. If not, Mrs. Liao is still awake. It worked."

Rong Shu said thoughtfully: "Governor Liao cares about his wife very much. Even so, why would he go to Wu's Zhuanqiao to have fun? Even if the rumors about him and Sister Lu Yi spread, he is not afraid. After Mrs. Liao found out, she would only stay further away from him?"

"Maybe it's because he knows they can never go back to the past." Gu Changjin said lightly: "They have parted ways since Liao Rao cooperated with Water Dragon King. "

This is really embarrassing.

Rong Shu raised his eyes and glanced at the jade disk-like moon above his head.

Today is the Moon Mother's Day, a day that should be full of reunions.

"Supreme and far away, the bright moon..."

The little lady's voice was low, like a whisper.

Gu Changjin was slightly startled. The next line of the poem was -

a couple who are close relatives and distant relatives.

He followed her gaze and looked at the softly glowing moon in the sky.

Today is August 15th.

On August 15th, the 19th year of Jiayou's reign, he met her at the Zhaixing Tower.

On August 15th of Jiayou's 20th year, he married her.

And now, on August 15th, the twenty-first year of Jiayou's reign, he and she were in Yangzhou, thousands of miles away from Beijing, in the shadow of the camphor tree, lamenting the stories of others.

What about next year?

What will happen to them on August 15 next year? Will she leave Shangjing and go to Datong?

Gu Changjin's black eyelashes slowly lowered, and his eyes fell on her face soaked in the moonlight.

"Rong Shu."

"My current situation does not allow me to like someone, but I am afraid that when I can like someone, that person is no longer where they are. I am afraid that I will not be able to find you, so that I said those words to you in a hurry."

He looked at her with a bit of persistence and a bit of tenderness in his eyes.

"Those words, those words I said to you in the wine cellar, if you don't like them, you will forget them. But those words all come from my sincerity."

Rong Shu was startled.

She looked into his eyes and felt that his gaze at this moment was somewhat familiar.

In a dream, Gu Yunzhi looked at her like this.

He looked at her with a bit of persistence and a bit of tenderness, and said to her: "Soon, soon I will be able to like you openly and openly."

There was silence in the yard for a moment.

The silence was broken by the sound of a "squeak" opening the door. Lu Yi came out with red eyes. Behind her was Mrs. Liao's maid, who looked sad.

Gu Changjin glanced at Rong Shu and said, "I'll go in and see Governor Liao."

Rong Shu saw Lu Yi's expression and knew that something was wrong with Liao Rao. After saying hello, he quickly walked forward and held Lu Yi's arm firmly.

Lu Yi said softly: "I can't ask anything. He only asked me again and again, if he remembers the place where I first met him." Did

she still need to ask about the place where she first met him? It's in Chunyue Tower. She was singing a song on the stage, and he led a group of military generals in. Then he stopped and listened quietly to the song she sang amidst the noise in the room.

Only Lu Yi knew that what Liao Rao asked was clearly the place where he and Fan Jinshu first met.

"No, when he closed his eyes, he whispered, Fan Jinshu, do you really think I married you because the old minister asked me to marry you?" A bitter smile gradually appeared on Lu Yi's charming face, " Do you know why I slashed him in anger? Because when he was teaching me how to dance, he called someone else's name. I thought he was calling someone else's name, but I didn't think it was Jin. "Shu is Mrs. Liao's maiden name."

"Before I went in, I was still thinking that he might recognize me as Lu Yi, not Mrs. Liao,"

Lu Yi said in a disappointed tone.

After returning that day, she complained of illness and lay down for two days. On the third day, he smiled again and became the most famous oiran of Wu's Brick Bridge.

On this day, Liao Rao, the governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang who had been in a coma for two days, passed away completely.

On August 20, Liang Xiao returned triumphantly from Sifang Island.

On August 22, Mrs. Liao, who had been hidden by Liu Yuan in the Supervisory Army Mansion, finally woke up.

Rong Shu didn't know whether Gu Changjin got the news he wanted through Liao Rao's last two sentences.

After sending Lu Yi back to Chunyue Tower, she returned to Ciying Lane.

Sifang Island was completely destroyed, and the remaining pirates fled to islands farther away and took refuge with other pirates.

On August 25, Rong Shu sent the remaining medicine from the City God's Temple back to the hospital, distributed the remaining food to the nearby people, and then returned to Shenyuan from Ciying Lane.

For more than a month before, she and Luo Yan stayed at a women's martial arts gym in the alley.

This martial arts gym is a legendary martial arts gym in Ciying Lane. The owner of the gym, whose surname is Tian, ​​is the inheritor of the Tian family's boxing technique. He only recruits female disciples to pass on the Tian family's boxing technique. All the girls in the martial arts hall are good at fighting. Most of the female disciples who come out from here go to the escort agency or work as escorts for the ladies of the wealthy families.

The letter Rong Shu sent to his mother-in-law was sent to her by Master Tian's apprentice who worked as an escort in the escort agency.

Luoyan grew up in the Mu family. He learned the Mu family's marksmanship and was very interested in Tian's boxing. In his spare time, he often sparred with the master of Tian's gymnasium, and they became familiar with each other after going back and forth.

On the way back to Shen Garden, Luo Yan quietly said to Rong Shu: "The owner of the farm should like to catch people on the road."

Rong Shu was stunned.

The owner of the farm has always been unmarried. Is it just to wait for his adopted uncle?

But Uncle Shiyi is waiting for my mother-in-law.

Secretly, she naturally hopes that her mother-in-law can find a good home after leaving the Hou Mansion, and Uncle Shi Yi is very good.

Only if Uncle Shiyi really didn't wait for his mother-in-law and chose to marry the owner of the restaurant.

No matter how regretful she was, she would not stop them and would only sincerely bless them.

After all, no one in this world has the right to keep others waiting.

In a daze, she remembered what Gu Changjin said to her under the camphor tree on the 15th.

He said that his current situation does not allow him to like someone.

Where is he now? It seems that he is in a very dangerous situation now.

Could it be related to Queen Qi?

When she thought of Queen Qi, she remembered the heartbreaking pain in her previous life.

Whenever she thought of that scene in the past, the pain seemed to remain in her body, and she would still feel pain.

Just thinking about it now, the pain seems to be much lighter.

Together with that, those events in the past life gained a layer of haziness and became like dreams.

But how could it be a dream?

Obviously the things and people she remembered in her mind were the same as reality.

The only difference is that some people's fate has changed.

Such as Xu Li'er, such as Pan Xueliang, such as the tens of thousands of people in Yangzhou Prefecture who should have died this time.

Rong Shu shook his head to dispel the doubts in his mind.

The carriage swayed all the way, and finally arrived at Shen Garden in the afternoon.

Manager Jiang brought a group of old servants of the Shen family back to his ancestral home, leaving only a group of guards to guard the door. After the Yangzhou government lifted the ban, he returned to Shenyuan.

After Tong Rongshu reported the situation at the ancestral house, he smiled and said: "I heard that the girl has done a lot of good things for the people of Yangzhou this time. The ancestors in the ancestral house asked the girl to go back in a few days. , I want to give you a big red envelope."

Rong Shu smiled and said: "Sure, I'll take care of you for a few days, and then I'll go see some ancestors when I'm back in high spirits. By the way, Manager Jiang——"

She raised her finger. Pointing to Sanshengtang, he said, "Why is uncle's room locked? I want to take advantage of these few days of free time to go to the study to continue looking for my grandfather's letters." Upon

hearing this, Manager Jiang lowered his head and took out a large bunch of keys from his waist. Said: "There are a lot of things belonging to the old man in the master's study. I left Shenyuan before. I was afraid that something would go wrong in the study, so I asked someone to lock it. I went to unlock it right away."

Rong Shu was not in a hurry . After going to Sanshengtang and saying goodbye to Steward Jiang, he went to Yilanzhu.

Yilanzhu is full of flowers and plants. If I haven't come back for more than a month, the ground will be full of dead branches and fallen leaves.

Mother Zhang was instructing the maids in Yilanzhu to clean up. Seeing Rong Shu come back, she hurriedly stepped forward and held Rong Shu's hand, looked up and down, and said softly: "The girl has suffered a lot these past months. Well? It looks like it has lost some weight."

Rong Shu has indeed lost a lot of weight. She smiled and said coquettishly: "I don't feel bitter, but I feel hungry. Mom, give me a steamer today. Goat cheese, stew deer breast, make crab stuffed with orange, and simmer a little pear soup.”

Zhang’s mother responded with a smile.

It takes a lot of effort to make these dishes. There are so many dishes to eat before dinner, and now you have to pick out the ingredients.

Zhang's mother looked at the sky and said, "I'm going to the big kitchen now." After saying that, she called two servant girls and hurried out of Yilanzhu.

Rong Shu looked at Zhang's mother's retreating figure, the smile on her lips slightly suppressed.

After entering the dormitory and changing her clothes, she picked up two travel journals and said to Luo Yan, "Let's go to the study."