Value peace

Chapter 213 Spring Birth and Autumn Killing ([-])

Tears glistened in Gu Xiyan's smiling eyes.

Like a picture, it was frozen in Qi Maosheng's heart.

As long as his mind is free, he will think of that picture, and whenever he thinks of that picture, he will feel flustered.

As if to prove something, Qi Maosheng insisted on celebrating Gu Xiyan's birthday, and even made a big fuss. He not only invited his family members, but even invited some high-ranking officials' families in Yandi to sing operas and eat Flowing seats...

Gu Xiyan disagreed: "There are elders in the family, and it's not my birthday...too extravagant and wasteful!"

Qi Maosheng was very stubborn, and even said coldly: "Whoever feels uncomfortable, let me swallow!"

Does this count as 300 taels of silver here?
Gu Xiyan sighed secretly, and finally agreed to Qi Maosheng.

So when she appeared thin and frail in front of everyone, Liang Zhangzhu, who was among the female relatives, was shocked.

His face is pale, his bones are thin, his original touching curves are all gone, he seems to be suffering from some serious illness, maybe his life is not long... so he wants to feast heavily.

Liang Zhangzhu was not the only one who had such an idea after seeing Gu Xiyan.

So a few days after Gu Xiyan's birthday, Qi Bing invited Qi Maosheng to Sixi Alley for a drink, just as Gu Xiyan had a cough, Qi Maosheng hesitated.

Gu Xiyan knew that it was Qi Bing who invited him to drink, and advised him: "You stay at home every day, go out for a walk!"

Qi Maosheng thought for a while, but in the end he still didn't go.

A few days later, Gu Xiyan's illness recovered quickly, and Qi Xiao came to invite him out for a drink, so Qi Maosheng left the house with Qi Xiao in peace.

Qi Xiao wanted to drag Qi Maosheng to Qi Bing's outer room in Sixi Hutong, but Qi Maosheng didn't want to go: "I went, what's the matter? Maybe we need to recognize her!"

Seeing that Qi Maosheng's attitude was firm, Qi Xiao changed to a restaurant not far from Qi's mansion.

When Qi Bing came, he brought a few followers with him.Among them was a girl.At the age of fourteen or five, with a medium build, fair skin, magnificent facial features, long curves, and a sweet smile, in the eyes of others, she looks like another Gu Xiyan.

During the banquet, Qi Bing arranged for the girl to pour a glass of wine for Qi Maosheng, and then asked an elderly nun to lead the girl away.

Qi Maosheng's originally cold expression suddenly became gentle.

He remembered that time when he drank flower wine in Dianchuntang, Gu Xiyan yelled afterward, "You might as well strangle me to death with a rope", if Xiyan knew that the fourth uncle asked him to come today Which one, I'm afraid there will be endless trouble again!
Seeing this, Qi Bing and Qi Xiao both heaved a sigh of relief, and Qi Bing introduced the girl: "This is your aunt's niece, named Yinghong, and my father has also won the Juren, today I know you are here, so I specially let her out I'll show you."

Qi Maosheng knew in his heart that this so-called aunt was probably the outhouse of Fourth Uncle's Sixi Hutong!
He kept his composure and said with a joke: "Didn't the fourth uncle have the heart to look forward to Shu, and wants to keep both of them in the house, and ask my nephew to come forward and say a few words for you!"

Qi Bing's face turned blue: "What nonsense are you talking about. I have nothing to say to your fourth aunt."

Qi Maosheng smiled, didn't say much, just offered a cup of wine.

Halfway through drinking, when Qi Bing's face was flushed, he finally opened his mouth: "I know you like someone like your niece and daughter-in-law, and you found it after searching for a long time. Why don't you take the house... Treat it as me and you four?" Auntie's little thought."

Qi Maosheng drank the wine in the glass with a smile, and said: "I drank too much, let's go back first!" As he said, he ignored Qi Bing's yelling behind him, and left the restaurant without looking back.

Qi Xiao rushed out, and found a secluded alley with him to the Duke of Yan's mansion.

"Fourth uncle is kind, don't get me wrong...children are a big deal."

Qi Maosheng walked forward silently, and Qi Xiao followed him like a shadow.

The two walked to the gate of Duke Yan's mansion.

The plaque with the four characters "Yan Guogong's Mansion" is shining brightly under the light of the red lanterns.

Qi Maosheng stood at the entrance of the alley, looking at the plaque across the street, and said in a deep voice, "Fansheng, do you feel like you've been here?"

"What?" Qi Xiao asked puzzled.

"Does that Yinghong look a lot like Xiyan?"

Qi Xiao was silent for a while, then said: "Except for the eyes, it looks like everything."

Qi Maosheng did not speak for a long time.

"The first time I saw Yinghong, I thought in my heart, this little girl is not bad, but she is too plump..." Qi Maosheng's voice contained a kind of grief that made Qi Xiao feel very strange.

Qi Xiao looked at Qi Maosheng in surprise.

Qi Maosheng's usually bright eyes flashed with rare confusion: "When I saw Xiyan for the first time, I thought in my heart, this girl is so young, but...curvy...beautiful..."

"Second brother..." Qi Xiao finally understood something.

Qi Maosheng punched the wall next to him with a crackling sound, a hole was pierced in the wall, which was especially loud and piercing in the silent night.

The soldiers patrolling beside the Duke's Mansion surrounded him and shouted, "Who is it?"

The faint moonlight reflected the dazzling white light on the snow, reflecting Qi Maosheng's bleak and sad face.

He looked at his bleeding fist: "Fansheng, I can't help it... I can't help it... If Xiyan can't give birth, I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do..."

Qi Maosheng like this was something Qi Xiao had never seen before.

The Qi Maosheng he knew was sad but also high-spirited, even if he was confused but also determined...

Instead of standing precariously in the night alley like now.

"Second brother!" Qi Xiao stepped forward to support Qi Maosheng, and there were already soldiers on the opposite street coming towards him like a tide.

Qi Xiao hurriedly gestured to the entourage behind him, and someone stepped forward and walked out of the alley to negotiate with the soldiers.

"We are the personal bodyguards of the Duke!"

"Bring the badge!"

Not far away, the voice was clearly audible.

But Qi Maosheng and Qi Xiao stood in a secluded alley, as silent as another world.

Qi Maosheng leaned on Qi Xiao's body as if all the strength in his body had been exhausted.

"I was in danger in Shengjing, and I still wondered whether she would marry someone wrong; I was supervising the battle in Hongtai, but I only wanted to see her once; I knew that..."

Knowing how important that private seal is, he left it in Xiyan's hands... Even at such a time when his mind was torn apart, Qi Maosheng was unwilling to say these words, and he didn't want Qi Xiao to know where the private seal was ... If one day, Xiyan really has no heirs, and she walks ahead of her again, with this private seal, she can choose one to inherit the title... There should be no problem with food and clothing...

These thoughts flashed by, but my heart was so painful that I couldn't speak.

At that point, with a lonely Xi Yan, with such a strange temper, who would tolerate her and spoil her...

Qi Maosheng clutched his chest, the pain made him bend down: "I know that I can't do anything, but I don't distinguish between public and private... I keep one eye closed and let her use flying pigeons to send messages..."

Looking at Qi Maosheng's painful expression, Qi Xiao didn't know how to answer.

He cleared his throat, and comforted Qi Maosheng weakly: "Second brother, it's getting late, you'd better go home quickly! Sister-in-law is still waiting for you!"

Qi Maosheng looked up at the gate of Duke Yan's mansion, and said sadly: "Fansheng, I want to go back, but I'm afraid to go back. When she thought about it, she cried bitterly, but she forced a smile in front of me, thinking I didn't know...but There is nothing I can do about this matter... She is not feeling well, and I feel bad... I went to the Guangming Temple yesterday and lit an ever-burning lamp for her, praying to the God of Heaven to bless her as happy as before... ..."

"How about taking someone in the room!" Qi Xiao thought for a long time before saying, "You don't need to keep it in the room, just take it in. If you give birth to a child, you can give it to your sister-in-law to raise, it's the same."

Qi Maosheng's eyes lit up, but quickly turned off: "Your sister-in-law will not agree."

"Why?" Qi Xiao asked puzzled, "Second brother likes her so much, it's not that he wants to take a concubine, he just takes a house... and it doesn't damage her status at all, why doesn't she agree?"

A bitter smile appeared on the corner of Qi Maosheng's mouth: "If all she wants is status, then there's nothing wrong with it. But the problem is, she doesn't care about that at all..." He thought of Gu Xiyan after he went to the spring hall that time. I was hysterical, "I felt like I had taken a heart-breaking pill. I was afraid that she would be a little bit unsatisfactory, so I looked after her everywhere... Mrs. Wei gave me a bonsai made of jade and peach, saying that my father went to Shengjing in person when he was alive. The Qixia Monastery was consecrated by a Taoist nun... I think, when the spring of next year comes and the war is almost over, I will also go to the Qixia Temple in Shengjing..."

"No, absolutely not!" Qi Xiao looked stunned, "Second brother, do you know what you are talking about... The son of a daughter, don't sit in the hall. Don't look at how respectful Xizhao is to us now, that is Because we are still needed, if you go to Shengjing, you will never return..."

Qi Maosheng's bewildered eyes gradually brightened, and he slowly stood up straight: "Go secretly, nothing will happen...don't go, I won't give up...if I haven't..." At this point, the corners of Qi Maosheng's eyes It was crystal clear, "It's not too late to think of a way..."

He stood silently in the shadow under the wall, as silent as a statue.

* * * * * *
Amidst the rustling of snow, it soon came to the twelfth lunar month again.

Gu Xiyan spent most of her time embroidering lotuses for Qi Maosheng, and occasionally went to the glass shed to look at the green radishes that had grown.

Qi Maosheng was not used to such quietness, and often called Cui Shi to play cards with Gu Xiyan.

Gu Xiyan always smiled and obeyed, but there was no joy in her eyes.

Gradually, Qi Maosheng stayed in Qinyuan longer and longer. Duanniang reminded Gu Xiyan several times. Sometimes Gu Xiyan remained silent, and sometimes raised her head and said softly: "Don't disturb me, I want to embroider Maosheng. The most beautiful purse!"

One day, Duanniang finally couldn't bear it, and grabbed Gu Xiyan's embroidery frame: "What's wrong with you?"

Gu Xiyan looked at Duanniang's finger that was cut by silk thread because Duanniang took the embroidery frame, and said with a smile: "I thought Maosheng and I would have a lifetime together, so we were always lazy... Now, I just want to embroider a purse for him. Speaking of which, Maosheng married me, but he didn't enjoy it for a day, and he was always quarreled by me..."

Duanniang looked at the plum blossoms with dense stitches and fragrant petals in her hands, and then thought of the unfinished meaning in Gu Xiyan's words, she finally couldn't help but shed tears.

"Didn't the Lord say that you will find a way? You are still young, maybe you will have it in a few years..."

Gu Xiyan looked at the white snow outside the window and remained silent.

If it weren't for Li Chaoyang, I might still have confidence... He used to be the emperor, and he couldn't do things with the power of the whole country, so why can I do it...

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