Koyuki

the next day.

At dawn, Gu Jinting walked out of the room wearing light clothes.Walking to the hall, Gu Chengliang was already sitting in the main seat drinking tea.

"Jinting, it's so early. Don't you want to sleep a little longer?" Seeing Gu Jinting approaching, Gu Chengliang put down the teacup in his hand and asked.

"No, I haven't been to Qianze Mountain for a long time. There may be a delay on the way." Gu Jinting said.

"There's nothing to worry about, Second Uncle sends more people to follow you." Gu Chengliang said and shouted, "Come celebrate!"

"Hey, master!" Lai Qing trotted in, entered the hall and bowed to Gu Jinting first, then stopped beside Gu Chengliang.

"You take some people to follow Jin Ting to visit elder brother's grave." Gu Chengliang instructed.

"Alright, I'll do it now, little one." Lai Qingying said.

After instructing his servant, Gu Chengliang continued apologetically, "Second Uncle originally wanted to go with you, but the bank paid the bill today, and Second Uncle really couldn't leave."

"Nephew understands that it is already difficult for the second uncle to run the Gu family's business. Besides, I am not a child anymore, so I can go out by myself." Gu Jinting said with an understanding expression.

"Oh, Jinting has really grown up." Gu Chengliang sighed, but he didn't say much, but continued: "You go, Second Uncle won't delay you anymore."

"Well. Second uncle, I'll go first." Gu Jinting bid farewell to Gu Chengliang respectfully and politely, and after turning around, the corners of his mouth that were slightly raised before suddenly sank.

Gu Chengliang watched Gu Jinting leave, and the unknown smile on the corner of his mouth did not disappear until he could no longer see Gu Jinting's back, Gu Chengliang sat back on the mahogany chair, and he picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea quietly.

"My nephew is good at everything, but he has been away from home for too long, and he doesn't know how things change.

"After so long, this Qianze Mountain is no longer the Qianze Mountain that you can play around at will."

Qianze Mountain. Gu's Tomb

The garden 20 miles away from the main peak of Qianze Mountain is the cemetery of the Gu family.The descendants of the Gu family all returned here in the end.

Except for the Gu family, no outsiders can come in here, and after greeting the tomb guards, Gu Jinting asked the young man to guard outside the cemetery, and walked in by himself.

The tombstones are not randomly arranged in a random order, they are all particular about the young and the humble, and the big family of the Gu family also has their fixed burial place.This is not the first time for Gu Jinting to come here. When he was young, he and his father visited the graves of their ancestors on Qingming Day.

Although a long time has passed, and the memory of childhood is not so clear and clear, Gu Jinting also vaguely remembers where their branch should be buried in this land.

There are some discrepancies with childhood memories, but Gu Jinting found his father's grave without wasting too much time.

The Gu family has an ancestral precept that if a man in the clan dies after a hundred years, he must be buried with his wife.Gu Jinting's aunt died early, and she had entered Gu's tomb before.

Gu Jinting looked at the tombstone where the two were buried together, clasped his hands together and bowed.

"My son is unfilial and late." Gu Jinting said, but there was no expression of pain and regret on his face.

He left home in the early years and Uncle Gu still looks like the mud can't support the wall.As for his father, Gu Jinting's impression of him can only be said to be more realistic than the characters in the storybook. If it is said that there is too much affection between the two, I am afraid that there are not many people in the Gu family who are like that. I really believe it.

He bent down and cleaned up the dead branches and weeds around the tombstone, "I knew you would die on a woman's belly sooner or later." Gu Jinting didn't save face for his father.

He doesn't need to save face, if his father really wanted face, why would he let his aunt go to a nunnery?

"You wrote to me half a year ago, probably knowing that you don't have much time, and you want to ask me to inherit the family business." Gu Jinting smiled, "But you may be disappointed, and I think the second uncle took the Gu family's money away. It’s done well, so I won’t get involved.”

"It's true. You don't care about the Gu family yourself. Of course I have to learn from you. Probably this is because the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked."

"I came here today just to tell you. I will only stay for half a month. I still like the weather in country Y. I don't think my family will treat you badly, so you don't have to watch anyone's dreams. Look."

"Thinking about what I said, you may not be very willing to see me again. My son will go to see his aunt first." After speaking, Gu Jinting bowed again, and left without looking back.

Seeing Gu Jinting's figure, Laiqing rushed up to greet him, "Master, where are you going next? Is it to Aunt Ruan?"

"En." Gu Jinting replied, although Gu Chengliang asked Gu Jinting to bring more people, but he had been abroad for a long time, and he was not used to the big fanfare, so in the end he only brought three people to celebrate.

"Jingxin Temple is not far from here, so don't follow me, go home and tell my second uncle that I may have to go back later." Gu Jinting sent off.

"This is impossible, the mountain road is difficult, how can you do it alone, young master?" Lai Qing said, and he winked at the thinner of the two young men, "How about this, Lai Fu and I will go back, let Lai Fu Happy to follow you."

"Heh, your name is quite happy." Hearing these names, Gu Jinting laughed, "It will be done."

"The little ones will leave first." Lai Qing and Lai Fu bowed and left.

"Leixi, let's go with Grandpa."

I don't know what the ancestors of the Gu family thought, maybe it was to find a place for the widows of the Gu family to find a place to go, so they built a nunnery next to the tomb of the Gu family.

But after so many years, few people actually came to this nunnery.

"This benefactor, you..." The aunt who heard the knock on the door and opened the door looked at Gu Jinting who had a strange face in front of her in a daze.

"Hello, I'm here to find Aunt Ruan who came here two years ago." Gu Jinting said with clasped hands.

"This..." My aunt was a little embarrassed. Although she came to find someone, she had never seen this young man before. If...

"Master, this is the young master of our Gu family. The young master used to be abroad a lot. Now that I'm back, I'll come and see Aunt Ruan." Laixi said.

"Oh, it was Young Master Gu." My sister-in-law recognized Laixi who came with Gu Jinting. Every winter, the Gu family would send people to bring quilts and New Year gifts. servant.

"Please come in quickly." Knowing that this is the young master of the Gu family, the sister-in-law took Gu Jinting to Aunt Ruan's residence.

Although Jingxin Nunnery is on the mountain, it is not simple, but quiet and clean.The sister-in-law brought Gu Jinting to the meditation room, and only knocked on the door, "Shanhui has a visitor." Shanhui is Aunt Ruan's Taoist name in Jingxin Nunnery.

After the aunt finished speaking, she signaled Gu Jinting to wait for a while, and she put her palms together again, recited a Buddhist name, and left.

"Who is it?" Aunt Ruan's soft voice came from the inner room, she was stunned when she opened the door and saw the person in front of her.

"Jinting?" Aunt Ruan trembled. She couldn't believe that the son she had been thinking about day and night had suddenly appeared in front of her. Aunt Ruan raised her hand to touch Gu Jinting's cheek, proving that what was in front of her was not hallucinations.

"Auntie." Gu Jinting shouted, he bent slightly so that Auntie Ruan could touch him better.I haven't seen him for many years, and his aunt's appearance has not changed. She is still the same as before he left home, but no matter how good Jingxin Nunnery is, it is inevitable that Aunt Ruan of the Gu family will lose some weight after being here for two years.

It was a warm touch, and Aunt Ruan's eye circles turned red all of a sudden, "It's good to be back, it's good to be back."

"Laixi, I have something to say to the young master, you stand guard at the door." After calming down, Aunt Ruan said to Laixi.

"Yes."

"How is your health? Will the cough and heartache happen again?" After entering the Zen room and closing the door, Aunt Ruan asked worriedly while pulling Gu Jinting to sit on the stool.In the past few years, Gu Jinting has sent back many letters, but Aunt Ruan is still afraid that he will report good news but not bad news.

"I haven't committed any crimes. The Taoist priest is quite right. I can't bear the blessings of the Gu family." Gu Jinting said with a smile, "I'll be alive and kicking if I don't leave home."

"Don't talk nonsense, there is nothing you can't afford to say when you were young." Aunt Ruan looked at Gu Jinting disapprovingly. Naturally, as a mother, she didn't want her child to be contaminated with unlucky things.

"How are you doing abroad?" Aunt Ruan looked at Gu Jinting and asked, her eyes were very focused, as if she wanted to see enough of Gu Jinting that she hadn't seen before today.

"Very good." Gu Jinting comforted him with a smile, "Didn't I say that in the previous letter, the atmosphere of foreign schools is very relaxed, and I have made many friends."

"Outside is no better than home. Auntie is incompetent and has no way to accompany you." Aunt Ruan sighed as she recalled the sad things again.

"I feel relieved that my aunt is doing well at home. I think my aunt must be the same as my son, and my aunt can rest assured that my son is doing well abroad."

"Then how are you doing? You have been away from home since you were a child and have no relatives or reasons. Tell your aunt how are you doing?"

"Okay. I'm fine. Besides, I was not young when I left home. And even if it's really bad after so many years, it's better now." Gu Jinting wiped the tears from the corners of Aunt Ruan's eyes, "My son is here this time. After watching Auntie, I didn't come to make Auntie sad."

Hearing Gu Jinting's words, Aunt Ruan nodded and wiped away the tears on her face, "...Okay, Auntie will stop crying." Although there is still sadness in her heart, she will not show it in front of her son again.

"Have you visited your father?" Aunt Ruan asked.

"Hmm." Gu Jinting responded, and when he mentioned his father, Gu Jinting's expression obviously faded a little.

Aunt Ruan naturally knew the reason for Gu Jinting's change, but she didn't say anything good for her husband who died early. If Aunt Ruan still had feelings for him, she wouldn't live here alone even if she had only one point. nunnery.

"Before your father died, his body and spirit were not as good as before. Because of this, he put down all the family affairs and left them to your second uncle to take care of them." Aunt Ruan said.

"My second uncle used to do business with my father." Gu Jinting nodded.

"I heard from a servant of the Gu family that Aunt Xiao of the second room is pregnant." Aunt Ruan said, remembering what Gu Jinting said before, can't afford the blessing?Her son is the only son of the eldest family of the Gu family, so how could she not afford the blessings of the Gu family?

Although Aunt Ruan said that she would not fight or grab, as long as her son wanted to, she would not let go of Gu Jinting.

"Yeah, I saw Aunt Xiao after I got home yesterday." Gu Jinting said, "Second Uncle must be very happy to have a child in his later years."

"Of course I am happy to have a child in my later years. You don't know what your second uncle was like before. He tried all kinds of methods to get pregnant." Aunt Ruan said and looked at Gu Jinting, "What about you? Your father is as old as you At that time, he married Fang Shi back home."

Fang is Da Fang's original partner.

"I..." Mentioning this matter, Gu Jinting's expression suddenly became a little dark, he turned his head away from Aunt Ruan, and waited...

"...Wait a little longer." Gu Jinting said in silence for a moment, he may never marry a wife and have children in this life, but he really has no way to say these words in front of his aunt, so he can only delay.

Fortunately, my aunt didn't get too entangled in the matter of marriage. She continued: "It's okay to start a business first and then start a family. Gu's family is big and you can do whatever you want. If you don't understand anything about family affairs in the future, you can Go ask your eldest sister, although Tingwan is in Rongcheng, your blood is thicker than water after all."

"Okay. But Auntie, my son has been idle for so many years, so I will only stay here for half a month when I come back this time. I have made an appointment with my classmates to go on a study trip together." Knowing that Auntie Ruan's words are all about her own future plans , but Gu Jinting thought that the mud would not be able to support the wall, so he didn't plan to dip into the deep water of the Gu family.

"It's good for you to have your own ideas." Aunt Ruan heard from her son's words that he had no intention of the Gu family's big family property. Aunt Ruan, who only hoped that her son could live his life smoothly, did not force it. She believed that Gu Jinting would do it no matter what. She had a good time, but she still didn't forget to tell her, "Be careful when you go out."

"My son knows."

"It's getting late, let's go back after eating here." Aunt Ruan said.

"Okay, my son hasn't had a vegetarian meal yet."

"It's not as delicious as you think, I'm afraid you'll hate it when you see it later."

"how come."

It was already afternoon when we came out of the Jingxin Nunnery, and it was still the time when it was warm and cold, and the sun was already high in the morning when it was still cold.

Although the terrain of Qianze Mountain is not rugged, it is the highest mountain in Yuzhou. The front mountain is steep and the back mountain is stable. There are two roads for going up and down.

Walking down the mountain with Laixi, when they were halfway up the mountain, a gunshot suddenly sounded in the forest in the mountain.

Laixi was startled by the gunshot and almost fell to the ground. Gu Jinting stretched out a hand to hold Laixi and looked around vigilantly.

"It's not in vain for me to sit on the tree and wait for the rabbit, it can be regarded as waiting." The man's bold and unrestrained voice sounded, and a group of people came out of the forest.

The people in front of them were wearing strong clothes with pimples pinned to their waists, and their faces were fierce and slovenly.

Gu Jinting stared at the person in front of him, carefully calculating how he could get out, but it was estimated to be very difficult, they were afraid they might encounter bandits.

"Huh?" The leading man spat out the straw in his mouth. He looked at Gu Jinting carefully. After watching for a while, the man narrowed his eyes and turned his head to the

A group of brothers behind him asked, "Is this the little fat sheep you mentioned?"