late night song

Chapter 261 Did you miss it?
Early morning on New Year's Eve.

Gu Yuchu left the guest room with red eyes, thinking that she would leave for Yunjing today. Juan Niang persuaded her to leave tomorrow. She originally wanted to refuse, but Meng Gu personally invited her kindly. She took her friend's face into consideration and stayed.

There were many people in the Meng Mansion, and there were six large tables for the New Year's Eve dinner alone. Gu Yuchu was in a daze, not knowing how she was spending her time in the festive and bustling house. She had nowhere to vent her sorrow. With the congratulations at the banquet, I couldn't help but drink a few more drinks.

Finally, the New Year's Eve dinner was over, and Meng Gu handed out red envelopes. The maids and servants dispersed gratefully, leaving only the three of them chatting around the stove.

"This is my wedding gift to him. Princess, please help me bring it to you." Meng Gu pushed an exquisite wooden box in front of Gu Yuchu who was in a daze.

Juan Niang secretly stepped on the men around her who didn't open the pot, but Meng Gu remained unmoved and continued to ask: "This is a big help, the princess is willing to help."

Gu Yuchu smiled and opened the box without caring about politeness. Seeing that there was only a mediocre bundle of hay inside, he smiled bitterly and said, "What a good thing, worthy of Boss Meng using such an exquisite box."

"This is a rare thing. It's called Wangyou Grass. It only grows in the desperate situation of Penglai Island. It's extremely difficult to pick. Even if you pick it, it's extremely difficult to preserve it. It rains all year round on Penglai Island, and there are only a few sunny days. There is no pattern. This herb must be exploded and dried in time after being picked, otherwise it will have no effect. Don’t underestimate it, just three coins of powder can help you sleep all night. Some people can’t sleep for many days at night, and they are very miserable. He asked me to pay a lot of money to find a few branches for him, and I had a hard time getting them."

"The newlyweds are here, and everything around them is just clouds and smoke of the past. Why can't I sleep at night and just deceive myself and others?" Gu Yuchu said angrily, feeling unhappy.

"I can't control that much. I am entrusted by others to be loyal to others. Since he is getting married, I won't accept any money from him. Please help the princess to bring this sentence to me. I am very grateful." Meng Gu said. It was none of his business, but he still said all the good things he could for Ling Buhuo.

"According to me, you two just have your own knots in your mind, and it's okay to resolve them. No one will have an easy time in this life if you don't understand each other." Juan Niang said impartially and fairly.

"My knot has been resolved a long time ago, it's just that he doesn't believe it." Gu Yuchu replied in a low voice with gloomy eyes.

"Men can be very arrogant sometimes. Only when you give him something that he has never given to anyone else, even just a word, will he feel that he is not that other person." Meng Gu toasted her and stood up for her from a man's perspective. analyzed.

"Ha, he's not a fool." Gu Yuchu didn't take it seriously and sneered.

"Oh, how do you know he's not a fool?" Meng Gu raised his eyebrows and drank to himself, as if he had a lot of insight.

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On the first day of the new year, Gu Yuchu said goodbye. She did not plan to return to Yuquan Palace but went straight to Yunjing. After all, nothing was as important as Ling Buhuo at the moment.Juan Niang had expected that she would be like this, and thoughtfully prepared furs, dry food and horses for her.

"If the fog in your heart clears, then don't let yourself regret it."

Gu Yuchu hurried to Yunjing. Along the way, the words Juan Niang said to her before leaving kept lingering in her heart. She silently said in her heart that she hoped everything would be in time. If it was really too late, she would have to behave decently. Confess your feelings and wave goodbye.

But Gu Yuchu, who had narrowly escaped death several times, was not so lucky this time. She could have arrived in Yunjing three days earlier, but a sudden blizzard on the way delayed her trip. She traveled day and night, changed three horses, and finally Arriving in Yunjing early in the morning on the wedding day.

The market was not open yet, and the entire Yunjing seemed empty.

She found an inn, washed herself up carefully, put on a red dress she bought occasionally on the road, let down her hair, inserted a few lucky glass hairpins that meant everything went well, and painted her lips with Yuandai.

Gu Yuchu looked at himself in the mirror, with a smile on his face, but he was also worried.This was the most elaborate outfit she could do. Although the red dress she wore was not one ten thousandth as good as a formal wedding dress, her intentions were already clear at a glance.

What she didn't expect was that when she pushed the door open, there were already two guards at the door of the inn room. They showed their tokens and told her that they were sent by King Jingchuan to pick her up and go to Shan Mansion to welcome her. of.

Gu Yuchu was sitting on the arranged carriage. She couldn't tell what she was feeling. It seemed that the snow on all the roof tiles in Yunjing was completely pressing on her heart, making every breath she took was cold.

She fell into endless contemplation until a few bells outside the car pulled her back.She opened the curtain and took a look, and found that this was not the direction of the main Taihua Road, but the Jingran Temple in the suburbs of Beijing. It was only then that she realized something was wrong, and then she quickly broke out of the carriage and forced the carriage to stop.

"Who asked you to do this?" she asked murderously, wanting to kill immediately.

"The prince said that since the princess was unintentional, he would give him peace." The guard replied calmly.

Gu Yuchu's hand holding the sword trembled, and the thousand pounds of snow in her heart instantly solidified into ice and was shattered into pieces by the blow. She no longer dug into the matter, but immediately cut off the reins of the horse with an arrow and left.

The Taihua Road was bustling with people, red silk hanging high, the Jingchuan Prince's palace welcoming the bride, the Shan family's cavalry clearing the way, and the golden red sandalwood sedan chair being pulled by war horses. Getting married was like sending out troops. This was unprecedented, but Shan, the first female general of Beiling, Mingxi deserves to be so unique.

The wedding car moved slowly, with the complicated blessings of a hundred sons on the car roof, the lifelike carvings of Yaochi Wonderland, and the jingling of golden bells with octagonal pomegranate flowers, which moved the mood of the crowd watching.

Ling Buhuo sat high on the horse, wearing a wedding dress with golden embroidery. Although the background was ink, the joy of the golden embroidery lingered around the whole body. It was dignified and luxurious. This was the wedding dress worthy of the prince of Bei Ling.

Gu Yuchu came in a hurry, but he also missed the grand parade to welcome the bride.Taihua Road was crowded with people and it was impossible to pass by horseback. She had no choice but to jump off the horse and use her own body to squeeze towards the gate of Jingchuan Prince's Mansion.

But there were really too many people. It took a long time to reach a distance of tens of meters. She was so anxious that she was about to cry. Just when she was about to rush out of the crowd, two strong men appeared out of nowhere. She didn't move. The voice tightly clasped her arms, and just when she was about to resist, a cry of "Newcomer Luo Jiao" hit her already fragile heart hard.

She clenched her fists and struggled repeatedly. When she raised her head, she accidentally bumped into Ling Buhuo's eyes.

Her eyes were red, speechless, and she was still struggling to break away from the hold, but Ling Buhuo's determined and cold eyes made her give up resistance completely.

At that moment, she suddenly realized that no one in this world would always wait for you.

But what she didn't know was that the man in front of her who had given up on her had been waiting for three whole days and three nights in her wing of the Jingchuan Palace. The moment the candle burned out, all his sincerity towards her was exhausted.

Ling Buhuo gently tightened the reins, jumped off the festively decorated horse, turned around and walked to the wedding car, and without hesitation picked up the bride who was being helped out by Xi Niang. Up to this point, he had never looked at that person in the crowd again. .

The golden phoenix crown on Shan Mingxi's head holds beads hanging on her fair cheeks, overlapping with the begonia flower pearl earrings on the tips of her ears. Coupled with the ink-colored wedding dress embroidered with gold, she is even more envied by the world.

However, what is even more impressive is that she is the only heroine among the eight beauties of Lingshui who can wield a long sword to conquer mountains and rivers. She has a distinguished family background, numerous military exploits, extraordinary intelligence, and a smooth life, just mention any of them. It is what most ordinary people want in their lives, and beauty is only her least worth mentioning asset.

Ling Buhuo's eyes were full of his bride. Indeed, a beautiful girl like Shan Mingxi and him were a match made in heaven.

It turned out that the wedding clothes of the Beiling royal family were like this. Gu Yuchu lowered his head and glanced at his red clothes, laughing at why he was always so self-righteous.

Ling Buhuo carried Shan Mingxi out of the wedding car, and without hesitation stepped over the saddle, which symbolized the couple's life of peace. The two people's tall noses lightly brushed against each other. They were really a pair that made people jealous to the point of madness.

Immediately afterwards, he put Shan Mingxi down, hugged him tenderly, held the bows in his hands and shot at the lintel together. The three arrows, which symbolized that the husband and wife were united in spirit and the white heads were inseparable, were shot straight into the plaque of Prince Jingchuan's palace. The beams and pillars of the sky also shot into Gu Yuchu's heart.

From then on, the Jingchuan Palace had a mistress, but that person could never be her.Until this moment, Gu Yuchu couldn't bear it anymore, turned around and used all his strength to escape in a hurry.

She was originally a deserter in this relationship. Now that she was pardoned, the irony is that she will always be trapped in the dangerous building built by her own hands, with no hope and no hope.

She walked down the street alone, the joyful gongs and drums playing behind her spreading like barbs in her heart, dripping with blood. The whole city of Yunjing was boiling for this golden match in the Jingchuan Palace, and Xiang Taihua People were rushing forward on the road, but she was the only one who walked against the current.

"Sir, our shop has some good new wine, why don't you come in and try it." A young man dressed as a waiter shyly blocked her way. Gu Yuchu walked around him numbly, obviously not listening to what he said.

"Sister, our wine is really good. Today is my third day on the job. If I can't attract any new customers, the boss will probably ask me to pack up and leave."

Hearing the name of sister, the woman instinctively looked up at him, and then suggested absentmindedly: "Jingchuan Prince's Palace is such a lively place and there are many people there. You can try it."

"No matter how busy it is, it has nothing to do with me. If I go, the boss will think I'm lazy. Sister, it seems like I have nowhere to go. Why don't you stop and sit for a while. I'll pour you some water for free."

The young man said seriously that this was the only customer who was willing to stop and look at him in the whole morning. Even if he couldn't do business, he was grateful in his heart.

Gu Yuchu smiled lightly. Everyone could see that she had nowhere to go. Was she in such a mess?
Forget it, she nodded, followed the young man into the restaurant, and handed the shopkeeper a gold ingot. She asked for a private room away from Taihua Road, and a few jars of fine wine to get drunk quickly.

Just like that, Gu Yuchu locked himself up and drank himself cup after cup.But her drinking capacity followed that of her mother, and the more she drank, the more sober she became.She cried silently. After many days of exhaustion and the catalysis of alcohol, she fell into a deep sleep when the first jar of wine was empty, stealing a brief moment of forgetfulness.

When she woke up with a frown on her face, the lanterns were already hanging high outside the window, and they were colorful.

She forgot that today was the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival. Such a beautiful day belonged to him and everyone, but it had nothing to do with her.

She kicked the crooked wine jar beside her and found that there was not much left, but her worries were tens of millions heavier.

The boy who welcomed him into the building knocked lightly on the door and brought in a bowl of glutinous rice dumplings.

"Sister, these are the glutinous rice balls given to you by the boss. I secretly added a few more."

"Thank you." Gu Yuchu said with a faint smile, then threw out a silver coin and said, "Bring me some more wine."

"Sister, drinking is harmful to your health." The young boy tried to dissuade her, but at this moment the boss suddenly appeared, chased away the troublesome boy, and responded immediately to deal with it.

Gu Yuchu was too lazy to care about the businessman's plans. He stared at the bowl of glutinous rice balls on the seat and was stunned. A spring night was worth a thousand dollars. At this moment, they were really husband and wife, flying together.

Thinking of this, her tears of dissatisfaction welled up again. If she had known she would end up like this today, she should have said everything she wanted to say, or at least it would be natural to cry.

"I heard that General Lingyu has been engaged to His Highness the Crown Prince for a long time. Why did he marry Prince Jingchuan again?"

"You don't know that King Jingchuan and General Lingyu were childhood sweethearts. In order to marry General Lingyu, he did not hesitate to hand over all military power to His Highness the Crown Prince, just to ask the Crown Prince to break off the engagement and fulfill the marriage."

"I didn't expect that King Jingchuan doesn't love the country and loves beauty."

"Shan Mingxi is really beautiful. There is no exaggeration in the world of beauty. If I were King Jingchuan, I would choose her too."

The drinkers in the next room were talking about the happy news that she least wanted to mention. Gu Yuchu's heart felt like a knife, and the bitterness in her mouth turned bitter. Why did the man's heart change so quickly, so fast that she didn't even know it? When I opened my eyes, the dream was shattered.

The conversation next door became more and more lively, and she even speculated about the lingering sadness in the bridal chamber. She really was not in the mood to listen anymore, so she picked up the wine bag given by the boss and rushed into the crowded lantern party.

Young lovers carrying lanterns passed by her. This lone woman was holding a wine bag and smelled of alcohol. People looked at her sideways.

Gu Yuchu couldn't care about this. Shu Yuan once told her that the Water Lantern Festival in Qidu was specially organized for her by Ling Buhuo. However, within a few years, she followed him back to her hometown, but he became a stranger to others.

The mellow aroma of the wine is mixed with the woman's thoughts, and this hangover has no end.

Stumbling, she unknowingly reached the Yangchun Pavilion behind the Yuelao Temple in the south of the city. The weather in Yunjing in the first month was extremely cold. Although there were no lotus flowers at all, the ten-mile lotus pond that had been deliberately broken through the ice was full of twinkling flowers. Swaying lanterns.

The colors of the lanterns are printed on the blue waves and floating broken ice. The dream and artistic conception are not inferior to the lotus scenery. Coupled with the spring colors in the hearts of the boys and girls around, this winter has unknowingly changed its color.

But such beauty was so dazzling that Gu Yuchu, who was already drunk, was unable to dodge. He just sat alone on a few lonely stones in the shallow water of the lake, looking coldly at the people coming and going on the Jiuqu Bridge who were laughing and talking. Past.

I don’t know how long it has been, but the Lantern Festival performance at the Yangchun Pavilion in the middle of the lake has ended. The performers are sitting on the awning boats one after another, and the painted boats in the distance are slowly returning. Even though there is no curfew today, the time has come and there is a home. Everyone knows where they are.

Gu Yuchu shook the bottomed wine bag, hummed, and threw it into the lake. Then, using the strength of the wine, he flew up and touched the tops of the awning boats that were approaching the shore one after another, and flew down like a crane to the Yangchun Pavilion in the center of the lake. superior.

When the actors saw such a dashing woman, they all stuck their heads out to take a peek at the wonderful scene.

The Yangchun Pavilion was empty of people. Even though there were lanterns surrounding the surrounding lake and freehand curtains hanging from the corridor on all sides, it was still as lonely as an island.

Gu Yuchu took off her fur cloak, and her red dress looked even more hazy under the goose-yellow lantern. She looked around, the lanterns on the lake gradually dimmed, and the broken ice surface was just like her broken mind.So she drew out her sword and danced against the cold wind.

She had danced this sword dance for Qi Lian, but never for him.The funny thing is that she did it today, but he has no expectations for her anymore.

Counting down the things she had never done for him, it was not just this one dance. This may be the reason why Ling Buhuo was extremely disappointed with himself.

Gu Yuchu burst into tears as she swung her sword to cut away the endless regrets and melancholy. The chaotic consciousness made the waves under her feet make the sword dance appear more elegant and graceful.

The actors got excited, stopped the awning boat, and silently sang the melody for her. In this way, the lonely beauty of the cold winter night was also made more real by the heavy snowfall.

After turning around for an unknown number of times, the woman on the pavilion exhausted all her strength and the warmth in her heart before she fell drunk.

Dimly, she seemed to see a ship approaching her. The tall figure under the fur cloak in the wind and snow was the person she had no time to hug. She prayed silently, hoping that she would never wake up from this dream again.

(End of this chapter)