late night song

Chapter 31
One month after the death of Prince Hong and Concubine Xian, the palace, the government and the public were as calm as if nothing had happened. The incriminating edict did not mention a word about the frame-up. Gu Yuchu's doubts became deeper and deeper. Why? It seems that he has grasped the key to reversing the case, but he has always been stagnant. Does Qi frame have other plans?

It was another restless day. Gu Yuchu was sitting on the corridor built across the water in Linyue Pavilion, and kept throwing the dried fruits in the fruit plate into the lake.

"Princess, it's not good!"

Following the sound, Liansheng ran towards her. She was running so fast that when she stopped, she was out of breath and couldn't say a word. Gu Yuxin followed behind her with a look on her face. sad face.

"What's going on in such a hurry?" Gu Yuchu frowned slightly, impatiently.

"I heard from Butler Xu that the Holy One...the Holy One intends to give the prince a...a gift...a marriage, so that Princess Nanxi can marry into the prince's palace as his concubine." Liansheng stammered, covering his stomach that ran into Cha Qi.

"I know." Gu Yuchu's heart sank, but his face remained calm. All the people in Dongqi were well aware of Princess Nanxi's entanglement with King Qin's cousin. Therefore, such news did not count. Fresh.

"Princess, why do you react like this? That Princess Nanxi is not a good person. If she gets married, the palace will be turned upside down by her." Liansheng was worried about Gu Yuchu, but the real master Just like no one is doing anything.

"Otherwise, you said it was just a rumor, but it has not yet become a fact. Do you want me to cry, make trouble, and hang myself with the prince like a ghost? This will only make others laugh."

Gu Yuchu said slowly, but when he looked up and saw Gu Yuxin who was at a loss, he felt even more uncomfortable, so he sighed and continued to give instructions:
"Okay, okay, don't act like a knife from the sky. Go tell the chef that whenever the prince comes back, he will prepare several of the prince's favorite food and drinks for Linyue Pavilion."

"Yes, yes." Although Liansheng didn't know the real reason why his master suddenly became so enlightened, he was still very happy, turned around and ran to the kitchen.

"Slow down..." Before Gu Yuchu could finish speaking, Liansheng had disappeared. It was sunny and rainy this time, which made her really dumbfounded.

Gu Yuchu looked at his sister who was standing in a daze not far away, and waved to her to come and sit down.

Gu Yuxin sat obediently opposite her, and she reached out to hold her sister's hand. Her sister's fingers were slender, and her skin was as smooth as gel, but as cold as jade.

Gu Yuchu didn't speak, just looked at the dreamy beauty in front of him quietly.

Her sister is really beautiful. Needless to say, her facial features are exquisite. She has red lips and white teeth, smiles without saying a word, curved eyebrows and bright eyes. I am afraid that no man in this world can hide or escape. Of course there will be no exception.

Regarding this, she knew clearly in her heart that she was jealous. Even though she hated herself like this, she still couldn't control it at all.

"Sister..." Gu Yuxin was a little flustered and spoke slowly, but she didn't know what to say.

"Huh?" Gu Yuchu came back to his senses and smiled awkwardly.

"Sister...are you really planning to let Gun Nanxi marry into the palace just like that?"

Gu Yuxin hesitated again and again, but finally said it.Qi Jian can tolerate it when she has her sister by her side, but not others.

"What do you think the prince thinks?"

"I don't know." Gu Yuxin's eyes dimmed, and she wasn't even sure about King Qin's thoughts.

"Princess Nanxi's family guards the southwest and has an army of 20. If he can really marry into the palace, he will definitely be more confident in the future."

Gu Yuchu had to admit the fact that there was no harm in Gu Nanxi marrying Qi Ji. If there was any harm, it was just his and Gu Yu's sincerity that was not worth mentioning.

"But..." Of course Gu Yuxin also understood this truth, but she was still unwilling in her heart.

"Yu Xin, you have to understand that if the prince gets what he wants in the future, there will be only one Gunanxi beside him. When the flowers bloom and people come one after another, you will be overwhelmed. And after all, there is only one of him. Are you really willing to do it for me? Will he give up the hope of being alone and spend his life in fear?"

Gu Yuchu opened her eyes to the naked reality that she would face for the rest of her life. She asked her sister the same question, and she also asked herself the same question. She had thought about this question for a long time, but she still had no clear answer.

Gu Yuxin thought about it seriously, then looked into her sister's foggy eyes and said firmly: "If I can stay with him all the time, I will do anything."

Gu Yuchu's eyebrows flashed, and a wry smile appeared at the corner of her mouth. She envied her sister's determination and persistence. If she had thought so clearly earlier, she might not be as stuck as she is now.

"Forget it, you can go back and rest first. I have my own plan."

The next hour, under Liansheng's encouragement, Gu Yuchu put on a coral-colored skirt. She looked in the mirror and suddenly felt uncomfortable. This dress was a bit too much.

But Liansheng kept saying yes, and promised that the prince would definitely like it. Finally, he forced her to do a Lingxu bun with many hairpins, but this time she resisted Liansheng's coercion and inducement. He took off the complicated decorations on his head, inserted only the plain hairpin, and nodded his red lips.

She didn't know when Qi Jian would return home, so Gu Yuchu had been waiting in the front yard of the study early. She was bored for a while, playing with the flowers and plants in the yard, but accidentally broke a few blooming roses, so she had to hide them secretly.

"Although this rose is an eyesore for you, it will not lead to death." Qi Jian stood behind her at some point and joked with a smile.

Gu Yuchu turned around awkwardly and smiled flatteringly.

As soon as Qi Jian saw her, he knew that she had been carefully dressed. He was just surprised that the color looked good on her, but he just felt that something was wrong.

"What are you..." He looked up and down at the woman in front of him, and for a moment he couldn't find the right adjective to praise her.

"So ugly?" Gu Yuchu curled his lips, feeling even more embarrassed.

"Ahem, okay, okay. It would be better if you were more... delicate."

This mindless conversation made the atmosphere very subtle. Gu Yuchu unconsciously stretched out his sleeves and looked down at the dress that Liansheng said Qi Zhan would like. He couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

"You specially waited for me here, but what's the matter?" Qi Jian noticed the woman's embarrassment and quickly changed the subject.

"I have prepared wine and food in Linyue Pavilion. I wonder if the prince has had dinner." Gu Yu first saw that the time was right, so he welcomed King Qin to his Linyue Pavilion.

Qi Jian did not answer, but he smiled happily. This was the first time she had actively invited him since she entered the palace, even though he knew in his heart that this woman might have heard about Emperor Ming's proposed marriage and had ulterior motives.

Then, he took her hand and without hesitation dragged her to the Hongmen Banquet she had prepared in advance.

In Linyue Pavilion, Liansheng had already laid out the food and wine, but Qi Zhen was not in a hurry to eat. Instead, he pretended to let Gu Yuchu help him wash up, undress, and change into regular clothes.

Gu Yuchu didn't want to offend him, so she obeyed and obeyed her instructions one by one. When the man saw that she was so well-behaved, all the unhappiness he had with Emperor Ming over the marriage in the palace immediately disappeared.

He didn't want to marry Gun Nanxi, and he didn't care about King Nanchang's 20 troops, but Emperor Ming threatened him with the lives of Gu Yuchu and Gu Yuxin and asked him to think carefully.

Gu Yuchu tied the belt of Qi Zhan's uniform, and the man immediately pulled her into his arms. Seeing how cute she looked in panic, he didn't hesitate and kissed her until she almost lost her breath. Willing to give up only in the past.

The woman's reddish cheeks seemed to match the coral skirt a lot, but she still quickly changed into a cyan coat before taking her seat.

Qi Jian saw her sneaking around and fussing around with a smile on her lips.

"I would like to propose a toast to you, Your Majesty." Gu Yuchu pretended to be polite as if he were inviting someone to a banquet.

Qi frame stared at him, said nothing, raised his glass and drank it all in one gulp.

"Your Majesty, these are your favorite dishes. Liansheng ordered the chef to prepare them early in the morning." The woman further flattered her, half of the fox's tail was already exposed.

"It was Liansheng's order, or it was your idea." Qi Jian couldn't see her pretending to him the most, and his tone became a little unhappy.

"It's me, it's me." She had been in and out of Qidu for many banquets, and her ability to adapt to the wind had really improved a lot. She nodded quickly to express her goodwill.

"Then don't call me Prince again!" Qi Jian frowned and confessed that when they got along, he had long wanted to express his feelings to her.

"Your Majesty?" Gu Yuchu asked with a guilty conscience, his brows sinking.

"Just like when I was little." Qi Lian restrained his smile and said formally calmly.

"'Fake' brother?" Gu Yuchu said with a trace of helplessness on his lips, hesitatingly calling out the name he hadn't called for a long time.

When she was a child, Gu Yuxin would always call frame "brother frame" in a sweet voice. She found it funny. Brother is brother, does it have to be true? !Therefore, she would always naughtily call Qi Jian a 'fake' brother. Fast forward 12 years and things have changed a lot.

"Yeah." Qi Zhen seemed to be very satisfied. He drank another glass of wine before he could fully taste the taste of the wine. Then he raised his eyebrows and directly broke through Gu Yuchu's secret thoughts and asked: "Tell me about the marriage. What do you think?"

"How do you know that I know?" The woman lowered her head slightly and smiled bitterly.

"I'm actually more willing to believe that you just invited me to have dinner with you today just because you missed me." The man smiled lightly, then returned to his usual coldness, and asked again seriously, "This matter, What on earth were you thinking?"

"I feel very good."

Gu Yuchu was not prepared for Qi Zhen's straight-to-the-point statement, and expressed his opinion without thinking. However, in his heart, he disliked Gun Nanxi's stalking and wished he could teach her a lesson until she couldn't climb into the sedan chair. However, Looking up, she saw Qi Jian's expression changing instantly. She coughed twice, corrected her attitude a bit, and continued:

"The prince commands the Qi army of 40 troops and the city guard army of 20 troops. If he marries Princess Nanxi again, then the [-] troops of the King of Nanchang will naturally be under his control. In this way, the chance of winning will increase by a few percent."

"Princess is really considerate and considers everything for me." Qi Jian resisted this answer, but couldn't find anything wrong with it. He couldn't hold it back for a while and started to sarcastically, as if he didn't appreciate it at all.

"That's natural." Gu Yuchu heard his displeasure, but had no choice but to go along with what he meant.

"What else?" Qi Jian continued to ask unwillingly.

"Also, there is Princess Nanxi. She is of noble birth and stunningly beautiful. She is a perfect match for you."

Except for the calculation of the overall situation, Gu Yuchu warned herself not to have any other unnecessary attitudes. When faced with questions other than answers, she could only compliment like an outsider, but her voice was very low, as if it were under the night sky. The slight ripples of the lake water are cold to the bottom of my heart.

"Then I have to go through with this marriage?"

Qi Jian asked in a cold tone, shaking away the grievances and losses in his heart with one sentence.

He originally thought that Emperor Ming's proposed marriage would make Gu Yuchu feel the crisis, change his cold temper, and start to take the initiative to get close to him.

When he first returned to the palace, her various behaviors unknowingly magnified his expectations infinitely. However, the greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment.

Faced with such a question, Gu Yuchu did not answer. She lowered her eyebrows and tried her best to hide her sadness.

"Very good! Then the princess will wait for the newcomers to come in!"

Qi Jian didn't want to bring bad emotions back to the house, but this woman didn't take him to heart so much that the suppressed fire in his heart ignited, and then he slapped the table angrily, stood up, and turned around.

Gu Yuchu understood that he was really angry, but she hadn't said what she wanted to say yet. She couldn't let him leave like this.

So, at the moment when Qi Zhen turned around, she grabbed the man's sleeve and summoned up the courage to whisper, "Are you going to leave if you don't want to eat more?"

Qi Jian turned around and looked at her steadily, his eyes full of anger. At this moment, he was very angry, and he just wanted her to know clearly.

Gu Yuchu didn't dodge, and faced him directly with a cold eyebrow, trying his best to smile, as if to please him or to comfort himself.

"You brought it on yourself!"

Gritting his teeth, the man instantly picked her up, walked through the corridor, and went straight to the bedroom. Seeing this scene, Liansheng quickly turned away with a blushing face and quietly closed the door of the west pavilion.

Gu Yuchu had no time to react and was extremely panicked. Before she could figure out how to break free, she was thrown onto the bed by Qi Jian. In an instant, she felt that all her bones were about to break.

However, this was just the beginning. The furious Qi frame took off his shirt and then pressed on.

He began to kiss the woman under him crazily. Even if she didn't care about his sincerity, even if she cruelly pushed herself to others, he still had to let her know that whether she wanted to or not, she could only stay with him in this life. around.

The man's hands roamed Gu Yuchu's body, and he manically pulled off the belt around her waist, without any regard for the resistance and struggle of the woman beneath him.

"This is the punishment you want!" He roared hoarsely and handed down his sentence.

Guilt and shame were mixed together. Gu Yuchu couldn't hold it back after all. She cried. Tears flowed down her cheeks to her neck and to Qi Jian's lips. However, the salty bitterness did not wake him up. After all, he was waiting. This moment is really too long.

For a long time, the court's planning and the layout of old cases have kept him from taking into account his own emotions and desires. He longs for such desperate impulses, but is used to the sense of security of strategizing and controlling the overall situation. Therefore, even if it is completely under his control at the moment, He also did not allow Gu Yuchu to dodge or flinch outside of the plan.

Slowly, the woman beneath him became quiet, like stagnant water.

Qi Lian was aware of her abnormality, but still did not stop to take a look at her expression. On the contrary, he was very satisfied with such compliance. Then, he couldn't wait to tear open her underwear, revealing her plain bellyband and The thin but smooth left shoulder was clearly exposed.

"Is this how you treat Yu Xin?" Gu Yuchu spoke with tears in her eyes, gritted her teeth, and spoke with untimely despair. The cold wind in her heart blew away the clouds and mist in the warm tent, and a condensed spring rain stopped abruptly.

Qi Jian's body and heart were frozen at the same time. He didn't expect to reveal the secret that had been entangled in his heart for a long time and he hesitated to confess in this way.

He looked at the woman with messy hair and deep pool eyes in his arms, and didn't know how to answer.Slowly, after regaining his sense, he loosened his hands wrapped around the woman's body, stood up silently, sat on the edge of the bed, and fell into deep thought.

"That year was the anniversary of the death of my mother-in-law, but he held a banquet to celebrate the new princess. I was so drunk that I became unconscious... It was my fault. I allowed myself to be immersed in the past and refused to wake up. At that time, my heart was always Stay with me, I know I have made her suffer."

"Then the prince doesn't intend to take responsibility?" Gu Yuchu still lay like that, staring blankly at the honeysuckle flower embroidered on the top of the bed curtain, and poured it thoroughly with a basin of ice water.

"The King of Han is dignified in appearance, upright and frank. He is a good man worthy of trust."

"You clearly know what she is thinking!"

Gu Yuchu's voice suddenly became sharp, and the anger in her heart could no longer be controlled. She felt sorry for her sister, did not understand the man's idea of ​​benefiting from the overall situation, and despised such self-righteous self-comfort.

"Then do you know what I'm thinking? Will you hold me responsible?" Qi Jian turned to look at the furious woman lying behind him, with a humble attitude that seemed to have nothing to do with the decisive, calm and decisive Pingqi Army coach. .

Gu Yuchu's eyelashes fluttered. This was the first time she had seen a man so rude, but what should she say?What responsibility does he have to bear?

What she hates most is the humbleness and blind obedience of women under the Three Cardinal Guidelines and Five Permanent Rules, so she sticks to her duties as a subordinate, fearing that every step beyond her capabilities will force her into the quagmire of sacrifice.

But in fact, the more cautious she is, the less able she is to control her infinite desire for an equal response in this relationship, but it is by no means such a promise of compensation.

Qi Zhen saw that her eyes were misty and her expressions of weakness and hints seemed more like a struggle than joy, so he turned his head and stopped looking at her.

"What do you want me to do?"

His tone became indifferent, as if he was a stranger who had just had an out-of-body experience.He couldn't see her being so indecisive, nor could he tolerate himself being so deeply involved in emotions that he couldn't extricate himself.

"It's just this once, if you don't say it, you won't be allowed to mention it again in the future!"

"I want you……"

Gu Yuchu sat up with difficulty, leaned on the soft pillow, looked at Qi Jian's cold side face, and felt pain and sorrow in his heart, as if his heart was bound and tightened by thorns, like wet silk covering his mouth and nose layer by layer. For this reason, she resented her father for the first time, why he gave birth to her a moment earlier, why he left her, and why he left her with such a heavy burden.

But as long as she is still alive, her closed eyes must be opened. She has no better choice.

"I want you to marry Yu Xin on the same day as Gun Nan Xi, and Yu Xin's position will not be below Gun Nan Xi's."

"Are you going to give way to someone else?"

Qi Jian's eyes swept across her sharply again, and Gu Yuchu felt that there were knives in those eyes, and it only took a second to see her bloody and bloody.

"If it's possible." She breathed in the cold air in the curtains and spoke very clearly.

"Don't even think about it. You don't need to choose my wife!" Qi Jian stood up suddenly, and in a rage, he tore off the curtains in front of the bed and slammed the door.

Gu Yuchu was left alone to hug his disheveled self and lick his broken heart.

(End of this chapter)