Tao Xinhe looked at Gu Ningxi who was walking towards her step by step, and for a while couldn't decide whether to stand up or sit upright.

She is familiar with Gu Ningxi, who is dressed in the official attire of the fifth grade. She used to help him put on his official robes and hats. The scene where the couple took the opportunity to tease seems like yesterday.

However, the person who came here at this time was so thin that he couldn't bear his clothes, his shoulder bones were protruding, and his face was indeed as haggard and pitiful as Gu Runing said, and it was three points worse than what she saw six days ago. Tao Xinhe couldn't help but look up and down. The corners of her lips were pursed even tighter, and she didn't immediately refute or respond to Gu Ningxi's words.

"He Niang, you're here." Gu Ningxi stood three steps away from her, feeling a little homely and timid, looked at her firmly and accurately, and greeted her.

Tao Xinhe nodded her head lightly, and before she could answer, she felt a numbness on her elbow when someone touched her. At the same time, Second Aunt Gu at the foot of the bed also reminded her, "Mother, mother still has something to say to you."

In her hand was the inch-sized paper that Mrs. Gu tried her best to give her. Tao Xinhe turned around to take it, and saw that besides the crooked "Forgive me" and "Langxi", there were two more words on it.

She tried her best to identify, Mo Qiqi brought tea to Gu Ningxi, Gu Sanshu and the others, then moved closer to Tao Xinhe, and looked at her head to head.

"Grandmother wrote, marry him." After a few breaths, Mo Qiqi straightened up, looked at Tao Xinhe seriously, pointed at the two **** of charcoal marks, and relayed for Madam Gu.

On the other side, after receiving Tao Xinhe's nod in response, Gu Ningxi's voice visibly jumped a little, and she stood in place and told Mrs. Gu: "Grandmother, the third uncle's family has come to visit you." She turned sideways, revealing the third uncle Gu behind her. Show it to Mrs. Gu.

At this moment, Third Uncle Gu had just coughed twice, and Aunt Gu who was next to him pinched the inside of his arm severely. He was about to let go of his voice and cry out to his mother how he missed him, in order to wait for an opportunity to get some final benefits, so he listened to a little The familiar girl with yellow hair, Duanzi, said "marry him", which surprised him so much that his eyes widened half a circle.

Who will marry whom?

Mo Qiqi turned her head and glanced at Gu Ningxi, Mrs. Gu was using her mourning before her death to fight for Dow's remarriage for him, and the elder's kindness moved her as a bystander.

Gu Ningxi, who was dressed in an official uniform, still made her daze for a moment, after all, Gu Ningxi was dressed like this when he first met her elder brother in the Gongyuan taking the exam, and took root in Mo Qiqi's heart with his bright and focused eyes.

It's just that today is not what it used to be. Mo Qiqi is no longer the little girl who is indulging in her own fantasy. She understands very well that Gu Ningxi is not her beloved. He has no intention of spending the rest of his life as a brother and sister. It was the fate of her unexpected joy.

Then, at this moment, Mo Qiqi should use the tone of a happy girl beating the side drums, and say the following to her benefactor and benefactor Tao Xinhe in the previous life:

"Sister-in-law, grandma hopes that you can reconcile with Brother Xiyi and become a couple again." After that, she swung between Tao Xinhe and Gu Ningxi with sparkling eyes, as if she wanted to get an accurate interpretation of whoever they were. praise.

Ever since Mo Qiqi said the word "marry him", Tao Xinhe fell into shock and embarrassment. Mrs. Gu was very dissatisfied with her grandson-in-law before, and she told her father that she would find another one for Gu Ningxi on the night of the divorce. Spouse, how could there be such an entrustment before dying? It's unreasonable, it doesn't conform to Tao Xinhe's cognition.

Her cheeks blushed uncontrollably, and it felt like everyone in the room was waiting for her reaction with bated breath. She became the focus of all eyes, and the most urgent and fiery one was at the back of her head, coming from the hairs on her back. The judgment must have come from Gu Ningxi.

She didn't dare to look at Gu Ningxi from the corner of her eye, so she could only concentrate on looking at Mrs. Gu, and happened to meet the old man's expectant eyes.

Mrs. Gu quite agreed with Mo Qiqi's explanation, she didn't even bother to look at her youngest son who had finally arrived, she waited impatiently for Tao Xinhe's answer, she stretched out her hand and waved it with difficulty, wanting to hold Tao Xinhe's hand.

As if riding on the back of a tiger, not knowing how to end, at this moment, Tao Xinhe's toes turned up and flattened in the shoes and socks, as if laughing at the master who took care of the important things, but panicked in front of the ex-mother-in-law who didn't like her originally. hands and feet.

The mind drifted away inexplicably, and the stagnant atmosphere in front of and behind him made Tao Xinhe think inappropriately, was it the same scene when Gu Ningxi was entrusted to Mo Qiqi by Mo Qi at the end of his life? Is his embarrassment just like his own now?

Gu Ningxi almost thought that her voice was heard by God, and she used her grandmother's hand to tell He Niang to win some vague hopes for him.

The stiff back of the beautiful woman was a silent refusal, reminding him of the conversation he had with the emperor in the palace this morning.

At that time, after the emperor ordered a reward to appease Prime Minister Gu's widow, he suddenly came to him and asked: "Yesterday, you said that you have a special liking for Tao Chang's daughter of the Ministry of Industry, your divorced wife, right?"

Gu Ningxi was bowing to express her gratitude, with her arms folded in a straight bow, it was not surprising to hear that, if the emperor is interested in something, who in the world can hide it?

Without raising his head, he blushed Nuonuo: "I'm terrified."

The emperor didn't care at all, and with a wave of his hand, he was about to issue a decree to grant the marriage, fulfilling the little wish of his beloved minister.

Seeing that the situation was not right, Gu Ningxi hurriedly stopped her and said a lot of things, meaning that now it was just his wishful thinking, and there were many cruxes between the two of them. He should fight for it through experience, and he couldn't force an innocent woman, otherwise he would become a resentful spouse, and he would be right. The emperor's kindness and disappointment and so on.

Probably because Gu Ningxi spoke in a hurry, or because he rejected the emperor's enthusiasm for being a matchmaker yesterday and today. In short, the emperor walked away from his seat and ordered Gu Ningxi to be more careful in answering the questions before the imperial court. In Gu Ningxi's feelings, his grandfather reprimanded him for betraying his master. His servant is so lofty.

At that time, Gu Ningxi felt very uncomfortable in her heart. It was already impossible to be a court official. Was he regarded by the emperor as a general servant who would come and go?

He didn't know who he could tell his confusion to, until he came back to his mansion and met Tao Xinhe unexpectedly.

How much Gu Ningxi wished to be able to talk to his wife without any taboos, as in the old days when the phoenix and the phoenix were singing together.

For example, he didn't know that he, who had always set the example of a loyal and loyal minister, and who wanted to be the grandson of his grandfather Zai Youling, who had always built himself on talent and merit, now switched to completely obeying the emperor's orders, how to take care of himself when he was young His upbringing and the special encounter with the emperor?

Regarding himself, he has only heard isolated and withdrawn comments, can he cultivate into those unfathomable old foxes who are in high positions today?

If not, will he be stuck in the middle of the two ways of being an official, be abandoned on both sides, and slowly degenerate into a useless person beyond recognition?

Being near the emperor is like accompanying a fierce tiger. If you are not careful, you may fall into the dust from under the nine heavens in an instant, and no one will sympathize with you. How do you grasp the proportion?

Gu Ningxi hopes that he can be close to the emperor instead of a courtier, and be favored but not become a traitor. This long road of exploration, he is extremely eager to have someone who understands him and walks with him in the future. Under the sky, there is no Tao Xinhe none other than.

Therefore, he clearly knew that Tao Xinhe had just given him the problem of drawing small portraits a few days ago, and he had no intention of getting back together, but he was inexplicably waiting for the one-in-a-kind miracle, and everything in his body was silently calling "Han Niang" "Two words.

"Hmph, mother-in-law, but my brother has no wife, why don't you miss him?" It was such a bitter female voice that broke the silence, coming from Third Aunt Gu.

Third Aunt Gu probably won't see her beloved only son in this life, and she doesn't have any nostalgia for the world. Naturally, she can't be bothered to deal with Mrs. Gu, the eldest house Gu Ningxi and others. , I was reluctant to step into the door, I didn't expect to see a good show as soon as I came, my heart was sour, I just wanted to destroy it.

Only then did Mrs. Gu turn her head and look at the youngest son and his wife, the corners of her lips were trembling, and she wanted to write something, but her hands were so trembling that she couldn't hold the charcoal pencil specially prepared for her.

Only an insider can understand the complex feeling of being forced to agree to something that a dying person uses their eyes. Tao Xinhe just felt that if she told the truth, if Mrs. Gu was disappointed because of this and died in the next moment, then she would bear the guilt of a lifetime , There is no more sunshine in my heart.

The old man diverted his attention, Tao Xinhe was finally able to catch his breath, and quickly backed away from the head of the bed, out of the reach of Mrs. Gu.

The vacated position was filled by Gu Sanshu and Gu Sanshu, and Gu Sanshu finally cried out: "My mother, how much you have suffered, your child is not filial, and cannot serve you in the mansion left by your father My son, there is nothing I can do! Someone turned his blade inward and ruined his father's family fortune alive!"

He almost scolded Gu Ningxi by name.

Tao Xinhe hated him for confounding right and wrong, obviously it was because they taught their daughter-in-law incompetently and were not strict in controlling her daughter-in-law that Mrs. Gu was poisoned and dying.

If Gu Ningxi hadn't bravely rushed into the old Gu's mansion, I'm afraid that Mrs. Gu would die wronged in the deep inner courtyard. The third room came out to say that she died of illness, and no one knew the truth, thus covering up their crime of murdering the elders.

The hands hanging on both sides of her body clenched into fists, Tao Xinhe scanned the room:

Second Aunt Gu looked at her uncle with a dissatisfied expression, but she couldn't say "you you". She was suppressed for half her life, and she couldn't refute clearly for a while.

Ever since Mo Qiqi knew who it was, she just stared angrily at her father who ruined her innocence, as if she was waiting to fight him alone. She clearly didn't understand Gu Sanshu's accusations, because His expression didn't change.

Pursing her lips, swallowing twice, Tao Xinhe was going to refute the broken Gu Sanshu with a few words from the standpoint of an outsider, so as not to be suffocated to death.

At this moment, her little pink fist was wrapped by someone's big hand, as if holding a fragile treasure, it was as cautious and meticulous as if it were aloof.

It's all because the other party's body temperature and breath are too familiar, Tao Xinhe didn't take precautions immediately, she didn't even need to look, she knew from every pore that it was Gu Ningxi who was approaching her.

"He Niang, are you angry? Are you complaining about me?"

Gu Ningxi's soft sigh rang in her ears, but the effect was like thunder.

Tao Xinhe immediately shook off his hand, with such strength that her arcing palm touched Gu Ningxi's chest: "Don't be too sentimental!"

At that moment, the heart of the man touched by the palm was beating violently, and it was transmitted along the blood to Tao Xinhe's heart, causing her heart to lose control and start beating wildly. I don't know if it was shyness or anger, or some other indistinguishable emotion. .