Eldest son, Gu Juefei.

At that moment, Gu Yijian couldn't tell how he felt in his heart.

Anyone who recognizes the origin of the handwritten note in his hand will speak the same as Lu Jiuling. He has actually heard a lot, a lot.

even…

In the past six years, I have heard it all the time.

The fingers holding the handkerchief gradually tightened.

Only Lu Jiuling, who was standing in front of him, did not observe this detail.

Gu Yijian's face didn't show any more clues, and he just replied respectfully: "Lord Hui Lu, there is no news about my brother returning to the mansion for now. At present, there is only a hand letter from the abbot Jueyuan, which is said to be the time. At that time, my brother had already left Xuecuiding and descended from the back mountain."

When Lu Jiuling heard this, she immediately became happy: "Since we're down the mountain, isn't it fast? From outside the Jingcheng Mountain to the inner city, it won't take an hour if the speed is fast."

"Can…"

Gu Yijian had the spirit of a famous and noble son on his body.

At this moment, he should have been very happy, but he couldn't laugh. There was a bit of bitterness in his voice, and he said with a bit of sluggishness: "But there is still a piece of snow on the mountain, which has not been cleaned up."

"…"

At that moment, the smile on Lu Jiuling's face froze.

Standing beside them, Lu Jinxi, who had been listening all the time, was also stunned for a moment, but in the blink of an eye, it turned into a cola: This Young Master Gu is really unexpected.

After everyone knew his sentence, "When the snow melts, go down the mountain", and eagerly hope that the snow on the mountain will be cleaned up sooner.

But now the top of Xuecui was still covered with a piece of snow, but Gu Juefei went down the mountain.

Could it be that the "snow" in my heart has melted?

Lu Jinxi originally thought so, and said it to Ye Shi before, but after hearing Gu Yijian's words, he had an inexplicable urge to dismiss this idea.

She really has no personal contact with this legendary and legendary eldest son of the Gu family, and everything inferred from rumors is bound to be inaccurate.

Everything is shrouded in a fog, how can it be seen clearly?

But what...

Looking away from Gu Yijian's fingers holding the handbook, Lu Jinxi was still so calm, but he felt a little more clear in his heart.

She didn't speak.

After a long while, Lu Jiuling shook her head and could only comfort: "It's a good thing to go down the mountain first. Your brother is also very filial, so there's no reason not to come. Just relax."

"I wish you auspicious words."

Gu Yijian thanked Lu Jiuling, but without much confidence on his face, he bowed again and said, "This matter has been reported to my father just now, and now all the adults in the front hall are here. Yijian has to go back to the room and change into a suit. I dare to go to see you. In this way, I don’t dare to disturb the boss.”

"See you in the front hall later."

Lu Jiuling couldn't say anything more, just nodded and let Gu Yijian saluted him, and watched him take the group of servants and walk away on the corridor.

Seeing that there was no shadow, he let out a long sigh: "Let's take this child first, I've watched him grow up. He has always been the best temperament, why did he suddenly fall out..."

Let the first, but Gu Juefei's word.

Lu Jiuling and Gu Taishi are on good terms, and they are used to addressing Gu Juefei with formal words.

Lu Jinxi also heard it, and always felt a little subtle about the word "best temperament".

She became curious in her heart: "Father has a good relationship with Mrs. Gu, how come you don't know the reason for this matter of Young Master Gu?"

"One is the old fox in the courtroom, and the other, although young, is not much better than his father. When things start to happen, clouds and mountains are covered in fog. Except for themselves, the people in the capital who know the inside story, I'm afraid they won't be able to count them. Come with one hand."

Lu Jiuling walked forward, shaking her head.

He had temporarily forgotten about finding his son-in-law.

Lu Jinxi also breathed a sigh of relief, but he didn't understand the high evaluation of what he said: "But Young Master Gu, although he was powerful, was only a novice, and he just entered the Hanlin Academy as a cultivator. Ed. He, is he as powerful as you say?"

"I'm afraid it's just a lot more powerful than I know."

Lu Jiuling has been immersed in the Huanhai Sea, and the years are actually not short. Some things will feel a little vague.

He laughed: "Being at this age as a father, you can count the famous people you know in the Shilin in Jiangnan with two hands, and the lower ones in the three religions and nine streams don't know anything, except for important political and academic matters. Bypass. I've been an official for more than thirty years, and so far I'm just a minister of rituals, barely getting familiar with the emperor's side."

Actually, that's pretty good.

After all, Lu Jiuling was just a scholar born with little power, and the Ministry of Rites was not the most powerful among the six departments.

A literati, an official here, is actually already very prominent.

"But this Young Master Gu was only twenty-three years old six years ago..."

Lu Jiuling shook her head, and there was already a hint of sigh in her voice.

"Jiangnan Shilin, when he was studying abroad, he had already made half of his friends, and he was completely convinced."

"It's 'talent'."

"Because of reading ten thousand volumes of books, daring to travel ten thousand miles, three religions and nine streams, and suffering people's livelihood, he also heard and witnessed."

"Guo Jinling once gave advice and suggestions for the river fortifications, and solved the flooding on the river that year."

"After passing through Cangzhou, I passed a nest of corrupt officials due to fate, and the money stolen has filled most of the treasury."

"I even went all the way to the northwest, went to the border, saw the Tianshan Mountains, and even had contacts with the tribes in the Western Regions..."

"This is the 'Benevolence'."

Hearing this, Lu Jinxi already had a faint feeling of numbness in her scalp.

Lu Jiuling's words were not over yet.

"Not to mention, when the Emperor Longqian's mansion is now, he has a companionship with him."

"At that time, his talent was outstanding. Although the emperor was several years older than him, he regarded him as both a teacher and a friend. Even after he ascended the throne, his attitude towards him did not change much."

"With someone else, who can always have such an attitude of neither humble nor arrogant?"

"This is the real 'gentleman' who upholds the Tao."

Talent, benevolence, and gentleman.

It's really flawless and flawless...

At that moment, Lu Jinxi was almost convinced by Lu Jiuling's praise.

But in her mind, the words of Princess Yongning popped out at an appropriate time—

"Gu Juefei is indeed unscrupulous, and his temperament is treacherous and unpredictable. But he doesn't necessarily have to be heartless when facing his father. Besides, the game of chess in the capital is just on point, how could he not come back? "

Unscrupulous, treacherous temperament, cunning and unpredictable.

The evaluation given by Princess Yongning, compared with the evaluation of Lu Jiuling's "talent", "benevolent" and "gentleman", is really in the sky, unattainable; the other is in the abyss, I am afraid to think carefully.

Lu Jinxi only felt that it was extremely strange, the feeling of numbness in the scalp, not only did it go down, but it came up again.

For a while, he didn't know how to answer Lu Jiuling's words.

Fortunately, Lu Jiuling only sighed a little.

"He is only twenty-three years old, and he has already done things that he couldn't do in his sixtieth year as a father. How can it be in the pool? Abbot Jueyuan's handwriting said that the eldest son descended from the back mountain. Think about it, today Those who went, I'm afraid they will all be empty..."

those who went.

Lu Jinxi was also walking under the corridor, and couldn't help but look in the direction of the Jokhang Temple, which is far, far away...

In the Taishi's mansion, the branches are dyed bright green, and the new swallows peck the spring mud.

But across this landscape of Jiangnan Gardens, there is a clear blue sky above your head, and the closer you get to that mountain, the cleaner you are, and you can't even see the white clouds.

Today is not the day for incense, but in front of the mountain gate of the Jokhang Temple, it seems to be more lively than before.

Abbot Jueyuan stood on the steps and looked at the lively crowd below from a distance, he couldn't hold back for a while, he shook his head and laughed: "Ren is you, Gu Juefei, who is very shrewd and extremely smart, when you encounter such a big battle, in the end, Only the fate of walking behind the mountain!"

Hui Ding was standing beside the Abbot Jueyuan, who had just sent Gu Juefei down the mountain.

Looking down at this moment, there is also a cold sweat on his head.

In front of the mountain gate, there are big cars and small cars, BMW cars.

The people who came were men and women, some with prominent identities, and some with shabby clothes. More than half of them were servants who ran errands outside the various sects and mansions, and some were servants, and the other half were literati and officials in uniform.

Of course, there are also several counselors who are full of bad water.

The Jokhang Temple is famous. Since the founding emperor, he has come here to worship once a year.

Therefore, many princes of Emperor Qing'an's dynasty often came to pay their respects.

Hui Ding's brain is not bad, and he recognizes a few people.

The old man who just got off the carriage was Kang Zhixue, who was next to the eldest prince Xiao Dan;

The hooked nose who was listening to the people around him was Liu Shigong, who was raised by the fourth prince Xiao Hong;

Even the fifth prince, Xiao Shi, who was a little bit bigger, sent Xian Yujin, who had a mustache, and was now looking into the mountain gate...

He even caught a glimpse of Wei Er, the second son of Wei in a fancy dress, in the crowd, the famous one in the capital who couldn't support a wall of mud.

…

Anyone really got involved.

The righteous masters of each family were inconvenient to do it clearly, so they all sent people here.

Some are for the old friendship, some are to establish a new relationship and win over, and some are purely to snoop on the news and see what is going on.

Looking at it, Hui Ding couldn't help feeling pity in her heart.

The scene I saw in the Xueduiding wooden house that day is still lingering: the understatement of the uncle Juefei, and the prayers that were thrown into the stove and burnt cleanly...

Everyone regards Uncle Juefei as a friend, but Uncle Juefei doesn't seem to regard anyone as a friend.

Maybe…

It's been on this mountain for a long time, and it's weak?

But Jue Fei, the uncle, treated them very well.

Teach them to read and write, talk about the beauty and beauty of famous mountains and rivers in the world, and even analyze the difficult Buddhist principles in the Buddhist scriptures for them, and walk in the room, all with a transcendent and obscure sense of Zen...

This is a person who can't live without the slightest disgust.

Hui Ding remembered what happened in the past few years, and felt a little reluctant in his heart: in the future, no one will teach them, no one will talk about those strange mountains and beautiful waters, and no one will go to the altar to discuss Zen with everyone...

He couldn't help but look at Abbot Jueyuan: "Abbot, will the uncle Juefei come back?"

"return?"

Abbot Jueyuan was stunned for a moment, turned to look at Hui Ding, remembered a bad game of chess he played on the last day, he couldn't help but sighed and said, "I only hope that he will not come back one day. That's good!"

Hui Ding was stunned for a moment.

The abbot Jueyuan didn't say more, didn't look down, just turned around and walked towards the direction of his meditation room, and instructed: "At this moment, you should be far away if you are not the master and uncle, go down and inform these people. Say it, tell them not to wait, and leave early."

"Yes."

Hui Ding bowed his head and bowed his head, watching Abbot Jueyuan go, he followed the mountain road and went down the mountain to tell the group of people below the news that Gu Juefei had left.

On the mountain of Jokhang Temple, except for the snow-green top, there is hardly any remnant snow to be seen.

The new shoots in the forest have already sprung out.

Because it is dedicated to the royal family, there is a ban on the back mountain, and almost no one walks around, so it looks a little quiet and quiet, with some slippery moss distributed. A mountain stream comes out of the mountains, and there is a gurgling sound in the flow.

Gu Juefei only wore a simple and plain green robe, and the crescent-shaped crouching crane jade pendant hung on his waist as usual. He walked down the long road all alone.

At the end of the mountain road, Emperor Qing'an Xiao Che brought a group of guards and had been waiting for a long time.

The moment he saw others, he immediately laughed loudly, turned over and dismounted, threw the whip into the hands of the people beside him, and swaggered up to meet him.

"Let's go first, let's go first, but after waiting for you for six years, I'm finally willing to go down the mountain!"

Gu Juefei also saw him from a distance.

After avoiding the front mountain, he never thought of hiding with the back mountain.

There was no surprise at all.

At this moment, Gu Juefei really didn't want to take care of anyone, and even the emperor's face didn't want to be sold.

But he is the flawless Gu Juefei.

Isn't all this what he expected?

He smiled helplessly and bowed to salute.

"What a gift!"

Xiao Che is dressed in dark purple robes, with extraordinary extravagance, long eyebrows and bright eyes. At the age of thirty-five or six, when the man is the strongest, he has an extraordinary heroism.

He frowned and grabbed Gu Juefei: "I haven't seen you for six years, and you've become estranged from me."

"Your Majesty, the etiquette of monarchs and ministers cannot be abolished."

In fact, Gu Juefei was just pretending.

When he was too lazy to take care of him, everyone was the same in front of him, but when he said it, it was another sincerity.

Xiao Che is still the emperor after all.

Gu Juefei's attitude towards him, as always, is neither humble nor arrogant, and still feels like this, which makes him feel at ease and comfortable.

"That's all. I sent someone a few days ago to find out about you, so I guessed your character. Today, I have to leave the back mountain where there are few people banned. I circled around early in the morning and brought people to block you. Even drove away a few who came to block you."

Xiao Che couldn't help shaking his head.

"The DPRK is now a mess. Can you rush back to congratulate the old lady?"

"...not in a hurry."

Gu Juefei's eyes were light and calm, and he didn't seem to be moved at all. Even this sentence seemed a bit perfunctory.

Xiao Che knew how he had a falling out with Gu Taishi, and also knew that his attitude was really excusable, and even more aware that he might be here with him, and he could show a bit of his true temperament.

He only sighed for a while, Xiao Che waved his hand, and ordered the guard next to him to bring the horse up, and said, "If you're not in a hurry, let's run the horse and go for a ride."

A burly guard brought the horse over.

Gu Juefei took the reins, recognized him, and said with a smile: "Lord Zhong, it's been a long time. There's nothing wrong with this horse today, right?"

Zhong Su couldn't help but laughed.

Back then, the emperor and Gu Juefei rode on horseback, but Gu Juefei's horse was so disrespectful that it almost turned over halfway. It was he who took the shot, and at the risk of being almost trampled to death by a horse, he rescued Gu Juefei abruptly.

Now that I haven't seen each other for six years, as soon as we meet, he brings up this issue, which shows that he hasn't forgotten at all.

In all honesty, he was a bodyguard, and it was his share to do that thing back then. But Gu Jue didn't forget it, but they really remembered this sentiment.

Who doesn't like others to remember their kindness and ability?

That incident back then was famous in the entire guard camp.

Mention it once, and he has the face once again.

Zhong Su only felt that six years later, after talking to the eldest son of Gu, it was still like a spring breeze, as if the pores all over his body were opening, and he was very comfortable.

Even a man like him, who is shy and loyal, can't help but feel a little bit of pride at this moment, just patted his chest and said: "Don't worry, eldest son, if this beast doesn't have eyes and temperament, the lower official will hold you back. ."

"Haha, Zhong Su has already made a package, so don't hesitate, get on the horse now!"

That Xiao Che had already turned on his horse and took the whip. Hearing Gu Juefei's seemingly polite, but actually a bit fearful words, he couldn't help laughing.

Gu Juefei smiled, and only thanked Zhong Su, and then turned on his horse: "Where does the emperor want to go?"

"On the mountain."

Flicking the whip to point to the long road going up the other mountain in front, Xiao Che set the direction, called out "Go", and immediately rode away.

Gu Juefei followed suit.

There was still a thin mist in the mountains, and when the wind blew his face, it wetted his robes, and also wet the eyebrows of his knife-cut ink painting.

Mercedes-Benz all the way, no one said a word.

Only the hoofs of the horses, splashing slightly wet dust, went all the way to the heights.

It wasn't until he reached the high halfway up the mountain that Xiao Che felt a little tired. He stopped his horse, took his horse whip, and pointed at the bottom of the cliff: "Climb high and look far. It's been six years, what do you think of this imperial capital?"

This is a mountain next to the Jokhang Temple, which is higher and steeper.

At this height, the entire Jokhang Temple can already be overlooked, and the entire Imperial Capital can be overlooked from a distance.

The city walls are tall, houses and shops are lined up.

The outer city with clear layers, the inner city, and the Forbidden Palace surrounded by the middle, at a glance, there is a contemptuous majesty in the fireworks atmosphere.

Just by looking at it like this, you can give birth to the pride above the clouds.

Gu Juefei stopped behind Xiao Che and said, "The prosperity is better than the past, and the people are all happy. The emperor must have worked hard for the past six years, and it has been very effective."

"Hahaha…"

Xiao Che couldn't help but burst out laughing, but there was a sigh in his voice.

"You know exactly how I got on the throne back then, how can I dare to slack off? I'm too tired to think of this emperor."

When the emperor is tired, is the courtier not tired?

What's the use of breaking in front of him?

I'm really tired, just get out of here.

Gu Juefei smiled slightly, but there was a wise understanding and compassion in his eyes: "I am tired of you, the emperor, but it is the people of the world who benefit. As for those things in the past, they have already passed, so why worry about it?"

In the palace change thirteen years ago, the Gu family was an important force.

Gu Juefei, as the head of the Gu family, is very clear.

At that time, Emperor Shunxuan was seriously ill, and the storage position was undecided.

The queen was born in the Wei family, but she is now Taifu Wei's younger sister, Wei Qiang. The seventh prince under his knees is only five years old, but because his body is too weak, he has always been in danger of dying, so he only has a baby name.

In addition, Xiao Qi, the fourth prince from the Emperor Chen's concubine, was always loved by the late emperor.

Xiao Che was the third prince of the previous emperor, and his biological mother was the unpopular Duan Concubine Ji.

Without that palace change, no one could believe that he was the one who finally ascended the throne.

It is said that:

Emperor Shunxuan was seriously ill, and the fourth prince, Xiao Qi, learned that he had set up a widow and wanted the seventh prince to succeed him. Even the five-year-old Seventh Prince was not spared.

Fortunately, Taishi Gu arrived in time, and Princess Yongning brought troops in, so the fourth prince finally failed.

It was only at that time that the seventh prince who was supposed to inherit the throne was hopeless, the queen had committed suicide, and the fourth prince had the crime of treason, so he definitely could not inherit the great treasure.

Therefore, Gu Taishi took the lead and supported Xiao Che, the third prince who was not outstanding at the time, and stabilized the court situation.

Thirteen years have passed so far.

The fourth prince died of illness in prison long ago, and those who participated in the palace changes in the past have also turned into dust in the midst of various changes.

Those who are brooding will not have the opportunity to speak again; those who benefit from them are naturally tight-lipped.

As for what you didn't know before, there will never be a day when you will know.

In the world, the truth doesn't really matter that much.

Gu Juefei was silent for a long time and did not speak again.

Xiao Che also stood for a long time, his eyes slowly retracted from the high wall of the prosperous imperial capital, and fell to the front of the Jokhang Temple.

Those people got the news that Gu Juefei had left, and most of them have dispersed, but there are still a few unwilling, suspicious, wandering around the mountain gate.

"Everyone in the capital is looking forward to your return. The court and the opposition, and even more because of the establishment of the reserve, are fighting with each other and become a mess. Even the old ministries under Xue Kuang's original, because the court and the various ethnic groups in the Western Regions negotiated peace. I have tossed up and down through the conflict with the civil servants..."

It's a horrible thing to say.

Xiao Che finally couldn't hold back, and sneered: "They will all kill me!"

After so long, I finally used the word "I".

Gu Juefei's slender fingers lightly tapped the slightly barbed whip, silently, without attracting anyone's attention at all, rather leisurely.

He only said: "The most important thing in the court is the old confused. Six years ago, didn't the emperor already know it very well?"

six years ago.

Overtly and secretly, he began to scold Master Gu again.

Xiao Che heard clearly.

"You are determined to go back, do you still remember what happened back then?"

"The seamless plan almost failed, and I only learned after the fact that there is still an old man in the world, and I wish his son died, and he could be stabbed in the back..."

He has to wonder if he is the head of the Gu family!

Gu Juefei flicked the whip, and didn't want to talk about the past.

"It's not too early. The emperor put aside the political affairs in the court, and he was afraid that he would not be able to deal with it again when he went back. It's better to go back earlier."

"What about you?" Xiao Che asked him.

Gu Juefei looked down the mountain, and turned the horse's head directly, saying: "An old man with cold legs, he asked someone to tell me about it eight hundred times. Today's birthday is for the sake of face, and he has to run for a while. Go to Huishengtang and see what the surname Zhang has, he has been arrogant for more than ten years."

After he finished speaking, he didn't salut any more and went down the mountain after hitting the horse.

Xiao Che knew that he was going to return to Shengtang, and he would meet the stinky ghost hand Zhang and ask Taishi Gu for medicine.

In the end, is the love between father and son gone so easily?

Even if Grand Master Gu gave him three or two knives behind his back, it would not change the fact that he was the son taught by Grand Master Gu himself.

Gu Juefei, who has such a weak underbelly, is also particularly reassuring.

Most of the guards around were newly replaced in the past few years, and they were frightened by Gu Juefei's almost contemptuous rudeness and dared not speak.

Only Xiao Che, looking at the disappearing one person and one horse, only felt that arrogance, as before!

I couldn't help but laughed.

"His true temperament is only revealed to me..."

In the words, there is no meaning to investigate at all.

The road down the mountain is still very long.

Countless people who came to Gu Juefei rushed back to the capital to return to the capital with disheartened faces and dejected faces. Many people who were congratulating Gu Taishi on his longevity listened to this, and secretly became helpless.

The banquet in the front hall has gradually started, and Lu Jiuling and Princess Yongning rarely got together to talk a few words; the back garden has also been set up long ago, divided into two rooms, inside and outside, and the table full of melon and fruit snacks. , The clothes are fragrant and the temples are shadows.

The people sitting outside are ordinary women of foreign orders, and there are some officials from the family who have gathered to talk.

The topic is actually half a sentence inseparable from Gu Juefei.

People are like beautiful jade, Tanhuajidi, elegant gentleman, not to mention his own ability, but also the head of the Gu family, the future head of the family.

The most important thing is that he is not married yet.

Even though Gu Juefei is already twenty-nine years old, under the halo, many people are still looking forward to getting married.

In the past six years, the ladies of the official family in the capital have already changed a lot.

Back then, most of the people who were amazed by the great master Gu were already married for the sake of their mothers. Even if there is any idea in my mind, I have to hold back.

But isn't this newly-replaced one stuck in again?

It can be regarded as a succession.

Lu Jinxi had just parted from Lu Jiuling, and was led by the maid, walking around the outside world, and the chatter passed by her ear.

The interior is still in the front.

The house had already sat in the imperial court's first-class official and several ladies of the country.

Lu Jinxi just walked over, and before she could enter the door, she heard a somewhat elderly voice inside and let out a long sigh.

"The sky is pitiful, and it's another group of girls who don't know how high the sky is."

"Eldest Young Master Gu, there are people who want to take two bites of this hard bone. I'm not afraid of breaking a tooth!"