Gao Chi of the Ming River

When Zhu Gaochi walked into Fanghuayuan slowly, his face turned pale, he took a breath, looked at the quiet and permeating Fanghuayuan, wondering, why is it so quiet?

At this time, although it was past noon, Zhu Gaochi knew that the rules of the mother and concubine were the strictest, even when there was nothing to do, there would always be someone standing in the courtyard waiting to be summoned.

But at this time... the front yard was empty.

Ma Sanbao supported Zhu Gaochi, and whispered worriedly, "Your Majesty...how about the slave go over and have a look first?"

Zhu Gaochi came back to his senses, looked at Ma Sanbao, and slowly shook his head.

Signaling Ma Sanbao to let go of himself, Zhu Gaochi took two steps forward, thought for a while, and then said slowly in a low voice, "You go back first. Just let the servants below wait for me here."

Ma Sanbao was stunned for a moment, then shook his head resolutely, "My lord, this servant is fine now, so don't worry about me, I'm waiting here." After a pause, he hesitated and said, "My lord, how about I accompany you in?" ? Your injury..."

Zhu Gaochi frowned slightly, looked at Ma Sanbao with a worried face, and sighed, "My injury is already healed! Sanbao, don't you want to nag like a woman?"

He already has a long-winded father who always stares at him to eat no matter how busy or tired he is...

Ma Sanbao smiled awkwardly, bowed respectfully, "The slave is waiting here."

Zhu Gaochi nodded slowly, turned around and walked slowly into Fanghuayuan.

He might be able to guess why the Youth Academy was so quiet.

The deceased mother's old friend... must be the most important person in the mother's heart, so Zhu Gaochi didn't want Sanbao or other people behind him to follow him in. At this time, there must not be many people around the mother's concubine, right?

Walk slowly into the backyard.

Then I saw the concubine mother in gray clothes with only a silver hairpin on her head, her hands hanging down and clasped, standing in the courtyard, gazing at the blue sky.

His expression was dull and calm.

His eyes were still dead, without any fluctuations.

Zhu Gaochi's heart trembled slightly.

He stopped and stared at the concubine mother who was not far away, unable and unable to take another step forward.

"It's like... the feeling that half of your life has been dug out alive..."

Zhu Gaochi stared at his mother and concubine, and such a sentence flashed in his mind.

Suddenly he remembered yesterday, what his father said suddenly and lightly.

"That's what your concubine mother said when she came to beg me... At that time, I thought it was exaggerated and boring..."

"But... now I understand that feeling somewhat."

……

I don't know how long I stood there, and I don't know how long it has passed.

Zhu Gaochi looked at his mother and concubine quietly, because he didn't know what to say, maybe because he knew in his heart that it was useless to say anything at this time, so...he came.But he could only stand on the side at a loss, could only stand on the side, looking at his mother and concubine quietly and worriedly.

Or maybe... because I understand that feeling in my heart...

Wei Wei squeezed her fingers tightly, her heart was sore, very sour...

"Chi'er?" The soft and erratic voice was slightly surprised.Then she returned to look at him calmly.

Zhu Gaochi came back to his senses, quickly showed a simple smile, stepped forward slowly, and saluted respectfully, "Chi'er pays homage to mother and concubine."

Xu stared at him for a while, then lowered her eyes slightly, and said lightly, "But your father wanted you to come?"

Zhu Gaochi was taken aback for a moment, then slowly straightened up, looking at his concubine mother, who stared at him indifferently with an indifference never seen before.

Zhu Gaochi remembered what his father said yesterday, and couldn't help but still smile naively, but his heart was extremely bitter.

"Your mother and concubine came to beg me, maybe because I heard what I said to your second uncle. I told your second uncle that I specifically asked your grandfather to ask your mother and concubine to be my princess..."

"what?"

"It's strange? At that time, the most influential person in the army was only your grandfather Xu Da... If I don't ask, then your other uncles will go too..."

"So, concubine mother..."

"I refused. It also implied that if she refuses to marry, what will happen? The Xu family will be charged with the crime of disobedience, and her lover will also be implicated..."

"..."

"Chi'er, to this day, I don't think it was wrong for me to do so."

……

"Mother Concubine..." Under Xu's indifferent gaze, Zhu Gaochi's innocent smile could no longer be maintained, and he could only give a wry smile.

"Chi'er...let's sit with my mother and concubine for a while." Xu Shi said lightly, walked to the side of the stone chair and sat down, patted the stone chair beside him, motioned Zhu Gaochi to sit down.

Zhu Gaochi was slightly taken aback, then walked over slowly.

After sitting down, Mrs. Xu still looked up at the blue sky, and said in an indifferent voice, "Today's sky is very blue. Many years ago, it was also such a day."

Zhu Gaochi listened quietly.

After Xu finished speaking, she fell silent.

"You know everything?" Xu asked in a low voice.

"Yeah. My son... knows everything."

After a while, Xu's suppressed voice slowly said, "I hate your father."

Zhu Gaochi slowly lowered his eyes.

"I have always hated it. But... I am also grateful to your father. Over the years, he has kept his promise, protected the Xu family, protected...my important person, always has been. And... You and Gao Xu, Gao Sui." Xu's suppressed voice was a little hoarse, one sentence after another, slowly speaking.

"But... do you know? Chi'er... When you were born, when I looked at you in the middle of the night, I wanted to strangle you..." Xu said softly.

Zhu Gaochi was startled, his eyes raised slightly, and then slowly closed.

"Later, when you grew up and could call me mother... I had already forgotten... the feeling of hating your father..." Xu suddenly laughed.With a tinge of desolation in his smile, he murmured, "But... now I remember everything again. That kind of hatred, that kind of pain..."

"It's just...hate, that's all. What can I do?" Xu said to herself, "That's all I can do...it's the only way..."

Zhu Gaochi clenched his hands into fists, feeling sore in his heart.

The courtyard was quiet again.

At this moment, Mrs. Xu said in a low voice, "Chi'er... don't you want to say something?"

"Son... I don't know what to say." Zhu Gaochi was stunned for a while, then slowly opened his mouth and whispered, then raised his head and stared at Xu, and said very seriously, "If mother and concubine want to hate father, go Hate it. Because... Father Wang was so hateful back then!"

Xu was startled, staring at Zhu Gaochi, "Chi'er, but isn't your father the king you like the most?"

Zhu Gaochi smiled, the smile is very gentle, but also very helpless and bitter, yes, his favorite favorite...

Perhaps, the concubine's liking is a son's admiration for his father?

But...his favorite is not just like this...

Hey, but no matter what you like, such a father is...

"Mother and concubine... my son also doubts my own vision. Why do you like such an annoying father and king so much?" Zhu Gaochi scratched his head pretending to be bitter and said in distress.

Mrs. Xu looked at Zhu Gaochi very seriously for a while, and then slowly smiled.

Zhu Gaochi was taken aback.Mother concubine?

The sky is still blue, the white clouds are still long, the sun is very bright, jumping on the ground.

In the warm afternoon with the breeze blowing, Mrs. Xu slowly raised her hand and gently touched Zhu Gaochi's cheek.

Zhu Gaochi was dumbfounded.

Xu smiled slowly.

"Chi'er, you... that's how it is..."

Concubine Mu's words were very gentle, with a kind of pampering and helplessness in Concubine Mu's words, but at this time, Concubine Mu's smile was so soft and warm.

He...has never seen a smile like that of the mother concubine.

But at this moment, a sudden and hasty voice sounded, "To the princess, to the prince, the envoy from the capital is here!"

Zhu Gaochi was startled, then frowned slightly, got up, and was about to say something, when he thought of his concubine mother, he turned his head to look at his concubine mother, only to see her concubine's smile slowly disappearing, the expression on her face gradually changed. The calm, bit by bit indifference.

"Understood! Go down!" Xu said indifferently and seriously.

*************

At this time, Nanjing, Xu Mansion.

Xu Zengshou was furious, he slammed the table, and said angrily in a low voice, "Brother should know! We are in the same breath as Yanwang Mansion in Beiping. If something happens to Yanwang Mansion in Beiping, Big Brother thinks our Xu Mansion will be much better." ? And the third sister! Even if the elder brother doesn’t think about King Yan, he still has to think about the third younger sister. Is it possible that the elder brother—”

"Enough! Shut up!" Xu Huizu said coldly.

Xu Zengshou stared angrily.

"You think I don't know who encouraged father to marry third sister to King Yan back then?"

Xu Zengshou was stunned.

Xu Huizu stared at Xu Zengshou, and sneered abruptly, "You say I don't consider Sanmei? Who is the person who pushed Sanmei to the Yan Palace?!"

Xu Zengshou's expression changed.

"Second brother, you only think about your glory and wealth. When did you consider our Xu family, and when did you consider Sanmei!?"

"Aren't you the one who forced the third sister's favorite to leave Nanjing?" Xu Zengshou took a deep breath and slowly raised his head.

Xu Huizu snorted coldly, "That was after the imperial decree was issued! If the man is not forced away, will the third sister marry? At that time, our entire Xu family will have to bear the crime of resisting the decree and disrespect?!"

Xu Zengshou slowly lowered his head.His fingers clenched into fists.

"In these years, I also know what you have done... You secretly helped that person, and even tipped off the third sister, telling about that person's situation...Second brother! Since the third sister is married, you should break It's her idea, but you still think about it for her, hmph! All you want is to let Sanmei say something nice to you, so that King Yan can do you some favors!"

Xu Zengshou's fingers slowly sank into his palm, and his eyes couldn't help but close tightly.

"If the King of Yan didn't have the desire to usurp the throne, I would turn a blind eye to these things, but now, since the King of Yan is unfaithful and unrighteous! Then I can no longer tolerate these things! "

"Big brother..."

"Okay! Don't say any more! If you say something for King Yan again, get the hell out of Xu's residence immediately! There is no one like you in our Xu family!"

Xu Zengshou was silent for a long while before speaking hoarsely, "Brother, I just want to say one thing..."

"What else do you want to say?"

"I never thought of relying on my third sister's promotion to make a fortune... I have never done anything to feel sorry for my third sister..."

"Hmph! Does it make sense to say this now? That person is dead!"

Xu Zengshou was stunned for a while, and then he smiled bitterly.

That's right, is there... meaning?

Back then, back then... He really never imagined what would happen later.

It's just... will anyone believe it?

Maybe, even he doesn't believe it himself?

**************

Fang Xiaoru slammed the door with a slam, glaring at Zhang Shi who was drinking tea leisurely.

"Are you still in the mood for tea?!"

Zhang Shi was taken aback, then smiled, "Brother Fang, why are you so angry?"

"Song Jianyou Shi Paohui has left Nanjing for Beiping!"

"Yes!"

"They are not going to accept the Eagle Army, they are going to die!" Fang Xiaoru said angrily.

Zhang Shi was startled, and then his expression became silent.

After a while, he said in a low voice, "Didn't Brother Fang say that those who achieve great things always bleed a little?"

"That's meaningful bloodshed!" Fang Xiaoru sneered, "Although Song Jianyou Shi Paohui is not a talented man, he is not a piece of trash! Huang Zicheng really knows how to choose people, and he chose the two of them. Enrage King Yan! Take the opportunity to start a war?"

Zhang Shi was stunned.After finally recovering, he exclaimed, "Brother Fang is really amazing!"

"Hmph! Only a nerd like you can't see such an obvious situation!" Fang Xiaoru mocked unceremoniously, and then said solemnly, "You should find a way to bring your daughter back! The battle is imminent! "

With a bitter and helpless smile on Zhang Shi's face, he murmured, "Didn't Brother Fang say that I never gave birth to this daughter?"

Fang Xiaoru frowned, "You left your daughter in Nanjing, I'm afraid you will become the opponent's pawn in the future!"

"It's also very likely that it's a dark chess piece of ours." Zhang Shi was silent for a while, then murmured in a low voice.

Fang Xiaoru was stunned, "Are you really planning to lose your daughter?"

Hearing this, Zhang Shi trembled violently, and then fell silent.

***************

When Zhu Gaochi was about to leave Fanghuayuan and go to Songzhuyuan, Xu suddenly called Zhu Gaochi.

Zhu Gaochi turned his head.

Xu stared at Zhu Gaochi, and slowly said in a low voice, "Chi'er, promise mother and concubine one thing..."

Zhu Gaochi smiled gently, "What orders does the concubine mother have? My son must obey."

"Promise mother and concubine...don't marry someone you don't like, and don't marry someone who doesn't like you." Xu said very seriously.Staring at Zhu Gaochi closely, with some complicated thoughts.

Zhu Gaochi was dumbfounded.

After a long while, he nodded slowly, showing a naive smile, "My son knows. My son must remember the mother's order."

Watching Zhu Gaochi go away, Xu murmured, "Chi'er...Mother Concubine...It's also for your own good..."