Chapter 15: Thousand Years of Ice Crystal

Gu Duhu laughed and coaxed, "Okay, be obedient, stay at home well. Listen to your mother's words, I will come to welcome you as soon as possible."

Dongfang Xia Lan said: "You swear!"

Gu Du smiled and said, "Okay, I swear."

Dongfang Xia Lan said angrily: "Be serious! Swear well!"

Gu Du had no choice but to let go of her and took a step back, turned around and looked at the door, knelt on the ground and said, "The Emperor is the proof and the thick soil is the basis. I, Gu Du, swore to the heaven that I will come to pick up Dongfang Xia Lan to get married as soon as possible. If I delay, I will die under the thousands of blades."

Dongfang Xia Lan pulled him up, threw him into his arms and said softly: "If you want to come earlier, I will miss you."

Gu Du kissed her forehead and agreed with a smile: "Don't worry, you have to be good, don't run around. I don't know what will happen in the Ling Kingdom. You must not sneak to find me. If I move the camp, you will be in danger. You must wait for me to pick you up. Do you hear that?"

Dongfang Xia Lan pouted and said, "Don't worry, I can't run away. I only found out yesterday that my mother was a natural soul master. When she raised her hand, I was completely out of control, otherwise I wouldn't be locked in the room."

Gu Du asked in surprise: "Is your mother a great soul master? Or is it born?"

Dongfang Xia Lan replied: "My father said, I don't know what nature means, anyway, my mother can control me."

Gu Du frowned. Jin Lan had no parents and had a background, so he didn't feel any pressure when he married Jin Lan. This time, Dongfang Xia Lan not only had parents, but also a wealthy family, and her parents were both capable people. Gu Du felt inexplicably nervous.

Dongfang Xia Lan raised her head and looked at him and asked, "What are you thinking?"

Gu Du replied: "I didn't think about anything. You are obedient. It's the same thing that your mother can control you. Don't think about sneaking away. Do you hear it?"

Dongfang Xia Lan said angrily: "Don't talk to me like coaxing a child. Also, don't hide it from me or lie to me. You said, what were you thinking just now? You looked like you were going to be surrounded by the enemy."

Gu Du laughed silently and replied, "It's not that serious. I'm just thinking that you are both the young master of Jueling Sect and the princess of Zeguo. And I am a widower, which is too high."

Dongfang Xia Lan shouted: "What's this? You are still the uncle of Zeguo!"

Gu Du frowned and said, "How can you not shout? No one compares your voice to you. He also says that he is not a child and gets angry at all."

Dongfang Xia Lan pouted, Gu Du stroked her face and asked, "You have to have not eaten all day, right? Are you hungry?"

"Yeah." Dongfang Xialan nodded.

Gu Du opened the door and found that the disciples guarding the door were gone. In amazement, a female disciple came over with a plate of food and said with a smile: "Son-in-law, let's have dinner with the junior sister."

On the other side, Dongfang Xinghao asked his wife: "What about this son-in-law?"

The lady smiled and replied, "Not to mention anything else, it is rare for such a brave man to coax women so well."

Dongfang Xinghao said with a little complaint: "You shouldn't listen to them. You are an elder, what kind of ethics does it have to listen to the window...?"

The lady scolded: "Stop talking nonsense. I am just such a daughter, so of course I have to be careful!"

Dongfang Xinghao smiled but said nothing. The lady looked at him and said, "I checked the jewelry today. I originally wanted to prepare a dowry for Lan'er, but I didn't want to see this one."

The lady raised a pair of earrings, which were a pair of crystal clear beads, the size of broad beans and the shape of water droplets.

Dongfang Xinghao asked, "What's wrong with this one? It's too simple and not suitable for Lan'er to do a dowry?"

The lady looked at him and said, "This is what you brought back to me from the Ice Field. That year, you went out for a trip. When you came back, you gave me this pair of earrings, saying that it was the thousand-year-old ice crystals of the Ice Field, which would not melt even if they were placed in the fire."

Dongfang Xinghao thought about it for a moment and said, "Yes, I remember it, you also liked it very much at that time."

The lady said: "I asked Lan'er last night that Jin Lan is one year younger than Gu Du and nine years older than Lan'er. As for the day, you happened to be in the Ice Field the year before Jin Lan was born, right?"

Dongfang Xinghao changed his face and asked a little angrily: "What does this mean by Madam?"

The lady said with a smile: "The three sons all look like me, but the only daughter looks like you. Why do you think that Jin Lan looks exactly the same as my Lan'er? Even the temperament is very similar, and the name contains the word Lan. Isn't that coincidental?"

Dongfang Xinghao shouted with a beard and glared: "How can Madam doubt me?"

The lady smiled and said, "Why are you so impatient? I just said it casually, but there are often things in our sect that sisters like a man at the same time. You say this is very strange. Is it because the sisters understand it, so they all think the same person is good?"

Dongfang Xinghao's face was gloomy and he stood up to leave. His wife said again: "Lan is the fog in the mountains. You named Lan'er Xia Lan because the morning fog in early summer in Mount Danyuan is very beautiful. You say it is like a dream."

"Unreasonable!" Dongfang Xinghao said a word and left without looking back.

Gu Du coaxed Dongfang Xia Lan and took two thousand disciples to leave Danyuan Mountain and return to Huxiao Mountain.

Chu Qin returned to the imperial city and truthfully reported the story of Gu Du during this trip to the high priest Zhong Qi. After hearing this, Zhong Qi was silent for a while before asking, "Didn't you hold back?"

Chu Qin replied: "I did think of keeping my hands at first, but I didn't keep my hands in the end."

Zhong Qi sighed: "I didn't expect his entry so quickly."

Chu Qin was silent, Zhong Qi said, "I will report to the emperor about this matter, you two will go back and rest."

When he returned to his residence, Shangguan He asked Chu Qin: "How is it? Is it Gu Du? Did you kill him?"

Chu Qin shook her head, sighed, and replied, "I can't kill him anymore. If he hadn't remembered the love of the past, I wouldn't have come back."

Shangguan He was shocked and quickly grabbed him and asked, "Are you hurt?"

Chu Qin hugged her and said, "No, I hurt him. He doesn't need a sword or a soul attendant...ah..."

Shangguan He hugged him tightly and cried, "Can you stop beating? Isn't it okay to live a good life?"

"Shh..." Chu Qin pointed her lips with her fingers and said softly: "This kind of thing cannot be said anymore. As a minister, only the emperor's order is obedient. You must not be afraid of fighting, nor do you have any other intentions."

Shangguan He raised his face and looked at him in surprise. Chu Qin whispered softly: "The involvement between our two families is too big. You can't retreat. It's not that you can't just fight if you don't want to fight."

Shangguan He sat on his shoulder and cried quietly. Chu Qin was right. He had parents above and beautiful children below. Their families almost took charge of the government affairs. The fate of the former high priest was shared by everyone, and they really had no choice but to retreat.
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