Chapter 4 He still wants to see Lin Chonghan
"I heard that you have two opinions, so I came to resolve it."
Gu Zhao woke up from his dream again in a cold sweat. He turned his head and looked at the sleeping Yu Qing. He didn't understand why he still dreamed about the scene when Lin Chonghan left.
After Lin Chonghan left, although he felt guilty, Gu Zhao felt more relieved. Ten years ago, after he was rescued by Yu Qing, he had a secret love for her, but it was not good because of the disparity in family backgrounds.
Talk to your parents.
Even if she was given the status of equal wife, Gu Zhao still felt that she had been wronged.
He looked at the person beside him tenderly and decided to tell his parents tomorrow that he would make her his wife.
"What on earth do you want to do?"
Gu Shizhong looked at his second son tiredly and asked: "You forced Chonghan away, and now no one in the family is stopping you from making her your equal wife, but you want to make her your first wife?"
"Gu Zhao, I think you want my Gu family to become the laughing stock of the entire capital." He closed his eyes, his old face full of wrinkles, "If your eldest brother is still here, I will never care about you."
Gu Zhao's eldest brother disappeared while joining the army five years ago, and his whereabouts are still unknown. The Gu family's parents had high hopes for their eldest son, so they didn't care much about Gu Zhao. They still had to leave the future of the Gu family to him.
Mentioning the missing eldest brother, Gu Zhao reluctantly clenched his fists: "I only know my eldest brother in my father's heart, and I don't care. But Qing'er and I have been in love for ten years, and she even saved my life. I don't want to wrong her!
"
He said firmly, but Gu Shizhong knew his second son well enough to know that he lacked training, so his mind was unstable and he could easily waver in his actions, so he told him categorically——
"If you dare to marry her as my wife, I will ask the clan leader to open an ancestral hall and expel you."
Being flatly rejected by his father, Gu Zhao went out a little dejected to drink to drown his sorrows.
When he was a little drunk, he suddenly heard the conversation in the box next door.
"Hey, have you heard? That girl from the Lin family has reconciled and divorced from the Gu family."
"Hey, who doesn't know about this? The whole capital is in an uproar."
"I heard that this daughter of the Lin family has not given birth for five years. She was originally at fault, but unexpectedly last night, His Majesty issued a decree to make her Princess Yongle, and also granted her permission to enter the palace at any time and always accompany the Queen Mother.
around."
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, with this imperial edict, the direction of the whole capital has changed... I don't know how many people are now eager to marry Princess Yongle..."
Gu Zhao walked out of the tavern in a daze, with mixed feelings in his heart. On the day Lin Chonghan left, a comparison of the dowries before and after made him understand that Lin Chonghan had indeed helped the Gu family a lot in these years. And now the comments of others and the canonization of the Holy Emperor, it is even more
He suddenly realized that Lin Chonghan's marriage to him was truly a marriage.
Drunk, he drove all his servants out and fell asleep alone. In his dream, he saw Lin Chonghan again. There was a scene where she was wearing a fox fur coat and commanding the servants to work gracefully; there was also a scene where she was red.
Look at the scene and tell yourself that you want to make peace with it.
But more importantly, it was her determination and heartfelt joy when she left the Gu family.
*
When Gu Zhao woke up from his dream the next day, he could only touch the pillow that had been wet with tears for some time. He really owed her a lot these years.
After a hangover, Gu Zhao had a splitting headache. He struggled to get up and found that he had unknowingly arrived at the house where they had lived before He Li.
He looked around and felt that the room was really empty and deserted. Gu Zhao got up and put on his clothes, and was about to leave when he suddenly found a book on the desk.
He took a closer look and found that it was "The Romance of the West Chamber" that Lin Chonghan had always loved to read. Gu Zhao was startled, then picked up the book and flipped through it. Unexpectedly, a letter fell to the ground from the book.
Gu Zhao picked up the letter and found that the letter had turned yellow, obviously because of its age. There was a poem mentioned on it, which was "The Hairpin-Headed Phoenix" by Tang Wan:
The world is thin and human beings are evil. Flowers fall easily when the rain comes at dusk. The wind dries at dawn and the traces of tears are left. I want to write down my thoughts and speak alone. Difficult, difficult, difficult! People are different, today is not yesterday, and the sick soul is always like a rope on a swing.
The sound is cold, the night is dark. Afraid of being asked, I swallow my tears and pretend to be happy. Hide, hide, hide!
The poignant love story of Tang Wan and Lu You is often sung by the world, and Gu Zhao naturally knows it too. Now that he is holding the thin piece of letter paper, he feels that it is as heavy as a stone, so heavy that it is difficult for him to breathe.
It turned out that Lin Chonghan once loved him so much, but in the end, she only waited for five years of deception and betrayal.
*
On the night when Lin Chonghan and Li returned home, the palace knew the news. The emperor was silent for a long time after hearing it. He sighed and asked Ji Xiang, the eunuch beside him: "Ji Xiang, I always feel that the marriage that year was my fault.
make a mistake."
Ji Xiang looked at his face and spoke carefully: "Your Majesty, I can't blame you. After all, at that time, the Lin family girl really wanted to marry the Gu family, but it was not the second son of the Gu family, but the eldest son of the Gu family..."
The emperor said "Yes" and said: "Since Gu Qingzhang's body has not been found, it means there is still hope. We will increase our manpower to look for him."
He put down his imperial pen, looked at the message that was handed over, and sighed.
"According to my decree, Lin Chonghan, the legitimate daughter of the Lin family, is of careful nature, diligent and submissive, yonghe is pure, and has a gentle nature. From now on, she can be canonized as Princess Yongle."
Not long after Lin Chonghan arrived home, the imperial edict arrived.
Her father, Lin Guangqing, felt so sorry for his daughter that he had the courtyard cleaned out, saying bluntly, "My daughter is not afraid even if she grows old and dies at home."
Lin Chonghan stayed at home for a few days. Although he still felt a little depressed, his mood was generally improving. Lin Shijing even came to her courtyard from time to time to bring her some fashionable gadgets to relieve her boredom.
On this day, Lin Guangqing and Lin Shijing, father and son, were bored in the backyard, trying to set up a new swing for Lin Chonghan. Suddenly a boy ran over and said, "Master, Master, the second son of the Gu family is here, waiting at the gate.
"
Lin Shijing was not in good health, so he was braiding ropes. He didn't even raise his head when he heard the words: "beat him out with sticks."
"You must have suffered a lot," Lin Guangqing dug a hole, "I want to soften my mind and bring Chonghan back. You tell him that since they have reconciled, the princess will never go back."
Not long after, the boy came back and said: "The Erlang of the Gu family said that he was not asking the princess to change her mind, but that the princess had a book and forgot to take it."
"There's so much nonsense, just help Chonghan bring it in."
"He said..." The young man was hesitant in his words, "He said he would personally give it to the princess."
Lin Shijing sneered, and just as he was about to tell him to get lost, he heard Lin Chonghan's voice coming from behind him——
"Father, second brother, let him come in."
Chapter completed!