The husband who forced her to marry her couldn't keep her warm, and she didn't want him to

Gu Jinchu was born on the 16th day of the lunar calendar, and tomorrow is her coming-of-age ceremony, so there is a full moon in the sky tonight.

In the room, only the candle holder on the kang table was still lit, the flickering candlelight made half the room dim.

The quiet moonlight poured in through the open window.

Half bright, half quiet.

Jiang Nansheng stood in the moonlight, only ten steps away from her, enough for her to not be able to see the expression on his face.

Peeping into the boudoir at night, you lecher!

After seeing Jiang Nansheng, these two words flashed through my mind for a moment.

The dignified, self-possessed and gentle Fifth Master of the Jiang family actually did such a shocking thing!

Gu Jinchu raised his finger and pointed at him, "Jiang Nansheng, how dare you!"

"Hey, why is the door to the inner room closed, miss?"

Bai Shao's voice was heard, and her footsteps were getting closer and closer.

Gu Jinchu didn't care about anything else. He ran over, grabbed Jiang Nansheng's hand, pushed him onto the bed, and raised his hand to lower the bed curtain.

After completing the set of movements, her breathing became rapid and panting, her cheeks flushed, and she glared at him.

Jiang Nansheng hadn't seen her so lively and energetic for a long time. With a smile in his eyes, he looked at Gu Jinchu who was so close to him.

In summer, the bed curtains are only let down the innermost layer of gauze, which is thin and transparent.

Seeing the maid about to push the door open, Gu Jinchu turned to look at Jiang Nansheng. He was holding two shoes in one hand. His tall body was like a wall. He frowned and pointed at the embroidered quilt on the bed, whispering, "You, hide inside!"

Bai Shao pushed open the door and muttered as she walked away, "The night wind is not strong, how come it blew the door shut?"

"Hey? Miss, why did you draw the bed curtains? Are you going to take a rest? Didn't you just want to eat something..."

Gu Jinchu glanced uncomfortably behind her, at Jiang Nansheng, who was lying on her bed, covered with her embroidered quilt. Naturally, she did not miss the smile in his eyes.

Doubao had been watching over Gu Jinchu as he slept these days. When he saw him lie down and come in, he called out twice with some dissatisfaction.

Gu Jinchu brought it over and stopped Bai Shao from lifting the bed curtain in time, "Don't come in!"

Bai Shao stood in front of the bed and vaguely saw the young lady's movements. She stood there with the tray in her hand.

The lady is a little strange tonight.

Doubao is the same, being a little irritable for no reason.

Gu Jinchu coughed lightly, "Bai Shao, just put the food on the kang table. You don't need to serve here. Go down."

"Oh." Bai Shao responded and walked to the big kang by the window and put down the tray in her hand.

Seeing the maid walking back, Gu Jinchu instructed her, "It's a bit cold tonight, please close the door to the inner room. There's no need to keep anyone here to serve."

"Yes, ma'am."

The moment Bai Shao closed the door, she saw an exquisite jewelry box on the long table by the window.

She couldn't help but tilt her head and wonder when her master got this.

How come I have never seen her when she serves me every day?

Gu Jinchu could not hear the footsteps, so he lifted the veil, walked out of the bed, looked at Jiang Nansheng and said in a low voice: "Master Jiang, aren't you afraid that I will report to the police?"

Jiang Nansheng's face flashed with discomfort. He put on the teacher's shoes in his hand, as if he didn't see her anger, and said gently: "It's not that you don't want to get married too early."

"..."

Gu Jinchu was speechless, fearing that opening his mouth would attract the guards.

Sitting down on the kang by the window, he looked at the piece of pastry on the plate in the moonlight and frowned slightly.

Jiang Nansheng doesn't like sweet things. The two times he was seen at the Spring Banquet and at the home of the Imperial College chief priest, the servants beside him were holding boxes of Xixiangzhai snacks in their hands.

If he doesn't like to eat it, why buy it?

Thinking of the inexplicable words he said the last two times, I swallowed the snack in my mouth and saw him sitting on the kang beside the small table. I suddenly asked him: "Master Jiang, when was the first time we met?"

Jiang Nansheng poured her a cup of tea, and waited for her to take it before saying, "I only know that you have forgotten, but you have forgotten so thoroughly."

Gu Jinchu closed his eyes, the sweet taste in his mouth diluted by the tea, and looked up at him: "I hope Master Jiang can give me some more hints to solve my doubts."

Jiang Nansheng curled his lips and smiled, but the smile was very light and disappeared in an instant.

"Have you been drinking today?"

Gu Jinchu looked at him in confusion. What did this have to do with whether she had been drinking or not?

Suddenly she thought of the absurd dream she had some time ago after drinking under the moon. Disbelief flashed in her peach blossom eyes and heat surged up from the soles of her feet.

Then I heard him say, "The first time I met you was eight years ago. You went to the outskirts of the city to see my uncle off to Sanjiang City. You took pity on me who was frustrated and even gave me a candied fruit..."

"Ah!" Gu Jinchu pointed at him in surprise. It had been so long that she couldn't remember the exact look of that face. "So that big brother with red eyes from crying was you."

The reason why she remembered it so clearly was because something very bad happened when she returned to Gu's house that day.

She threw all the dried kumquats in the savings box on the ground, stomped them hard until they were crushed, and never ate them again.

It turned out that they had met so long ago.

Why did he cry then?

Jiang Nansheng's earlobes turned red. She caught him losing his composure for the only time.

He spoke again: "The second time I saw you was at the Zheng family's farm in Baodi. The moon that day was as bright as today..." As he said this, he looked at her with accusing eyes.

"Kaiji's cousin was also at the farm that day. The little girl was wearing a red skirt and holding a whip in her hand. She threatened her cousin fiercely that if he didn't give her wine, she would go to her grandmother to complain..."

"As a result, the girl was drunk and said she liked my face. She pressed me and kissed me, asking me to be her husband..."

Hearing this, Gu Jinchu began to feel ashamed. Those words really sounded like what she had said when she was young. She looked at the ground uncomfortably, "Master Jiang, how old was I then..."

Yes, he was just a little older, so he didn’t take it to heart.

At that time, he was the top scorer in the imperial examination. In order to stay away from the glory and atmosphere that he did not like, Kaiji just mentioned it casually and he followed people to Baodi.

Then I realized that my sister's farm was not far from the Zheng family orchard.

If he had not met a little girl in a red cloak in the Huguo Temple on that snowy day and been attracted by her agility, he would not have realized that they had met each other several times before.

Gu Jinchu remembered everything Jiang Nansheng had mentioned, except for the time when he was drunk.

She looked at the open window, thinking that tomorrow would be a good day, and looked at the full moon in the night sky through the gaps between the leaves.

It turns out that they had met more than once in their previous life.

He said that when they met at the Huguo Temple, she fell in love with him at first sight, and he also fell in love with her.

He married her not because of the imperial decree granting marriage.

Gu Jinchu closed his eyes, feeling very uncomfortable...

For her, for him, for their two children.

When she turned her head to look at him again, she met Jiang Nansheng's gaze and said indifferently: "Master Jiang Wu, please go back when you have finished speaking."