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The little eunuch shuttled among the ministers who had gone to court on lotus steps, hunched over and running back and forth at every step and impatiently.Seeing that the servants had opened the sedan chair curtain, and the person in the crimson robe was entering, the little eunuch hurriedly shouted: "Lord Gu, please wait!"

Gu Ji, who was dressed in crimson purple robes, paused, looked up to see the sweaty little eunuch, and then smiled lightly, his long eyelashes sweeping out a gentle look: "Eunuch Qi, why are you in such a hurry?"

The little eunuch likes Mr. Gu's temperament the most, neither tepid nor impatient, he immediately put on a kind smile and replied: "Looking back at my lord, Your Majesty invites Mr. Gu to the Imperial Garden to have a talk, Your Majesty also said Concubine Shu has been arguing that the playbook of "Hongxiang Keqing" is not enough to read, and she also sent a sentence to the slave, if Master Gu has leisure time, I have to work for you to write a sequel."

After hearing this, Gu Ji did not turn back, bowed to the little eunuch, bowed his body and said in a slightly lowered voice, "Eunuch Qi, Concubine Yi doesn't like to watch crying scenes, but this Hongxiang guest has already It’s a dead person, there are so many dead and alive in the world. You send a message to His Majesty, just say that Mr. Gu’s sedan chair is in a hurry, and if you don’t catch up, I can steal a little leisure time, please thank Eunuch Qi.”

After speaking, Gu Ji bowed again, turned back and got into the sedan chair, regardless of how the eunuch Qi tried to keep him from outside, the Gu family's sedan chair was jolting with a big horse and a golden knife - he didn't care about His Majesty's oral instructions.

In the whole world, Gu Xiang's temper is the most gentle and gentle.In the whole world, only Gu Xiang dared to refuse the emperor's summons so openly.

The soft sedan walked at a leisurely pace, and the people inside the sedan chair lowered their eyes, holding something in their hands without knowing how to think.

That thing is a piece of Qiongju with missing corners. It was originally carved with mandarin ducks intertwining their necks, but for some reason, the head of the duck was missing, and the jade pendant was smashed into a crescent moon. The section is jagged and jagged. Good bloodshot jade color.

Gu Ji lowered his eyes and pondered for a moment, but he was finally overwhelmed by the depression in his heart. He breathed a sigh of relief, put the blood-stained pendant back into his sleeve, and squeezed the cuffs of the purple and white lining. He leaned against the side of the car wall, closed his eyes and regained his composure. .

For nine years, Gu Ji was weak and famous, but what he inherited was the old lady Fu's idea of ​​favoring him and his great kindness.At the beginning of the establishment of the Prime Minister's Mansion, he was once reviled by the officials as a fake way of relying on his face for food. Even if he Gu Ji held the word "No. [-]" in the former emperor Zhu's criticism, he still couldn't get rid of his suspicion of being seductive.

What's more, he compiled one after another of unofficial secrets, straightly telling Gu Xiang's licentiousness and charm of the court, that he is three points lower than his face.

And the beginning of these marketers' messages is because of this blood-stained jade pendant.

In that year, the ancestor and the empress dowager celebrated their [-]th birthday. They wrapped their knees around their knees for their descendants and invited the children of civil and military officials to the banquet. At that time, Gu Ji had spent twenty to eight years, so he entered the palace with his father to celebrate his birthday, and those who were ranked according to their seniority sat down. After the princes.

After the feast, they toured the imperial garden, and the princes brought their courtiers and children into the garden to taste tea, compete in poetry and fight martial arts.

Gu Ji's brilliant literary talents were brought out for advice many times.

Emperor Huanjing was still the third prince at that time, and when he saw that everyone seemed to be embarrassing Gu Ji, he stood up and smoothed things over: "Everyone, don't think about these sour poems any more. If you accumulate food during lunch, why don't you walk around more? How about I move to Qixuan Lake and admire the water by the lake, how about it?"

However, it was difficult to agree with everyone, some nodded in agreement, some shook their heads in veto, and even the prince who lost in the poem fight proudly retorted: "Third Brother, please don't interrupt me for questioning, is it possible that Brother Gu can't afford to lose this one? What we compete in poetry is Yaxing, not the two or three sour words of love and nonsense from the third brother."

The third prince was also very generous, and when he heard the words, he turned the finger on himself, and said, "Sixth brother, if you don't like my brother's sour poems, then I have to ask for advice. Let's make a comment, and the two of us will compare it." How about a comparison?"

The sixth prince was aggressive, so naturally he had nothing to say: "It's easy to talk about, but I don't know what to give as a question and what to give as a reward?"

The third prince smiled and took off the bloodshot mandarin duck pendant on his waist, and said: "This is a bloodshot jade pendant from the Western Regions. It was carved with a mandarin duck neck by the Zhao family's golden knife. It was a gift from my father, and I am using it today to beg my sixth brother." Smile, let's take this thing as a question, whoever wins will get it?"

The sixth prince still did not forget to bring Gu Ji with him, and suggested: "Brother Gu also competes with us, let's compete?"

How can there be no reason for the prince to speak?

It's been a long time, and I can't remember exactly what poems Gu Ji himself made at that time, but it is the last poem written by Emperor Huanjing, which Gu Ji never forgets.

Peiming Yubijie, Qi Youlan contends for fragrance; light and tender, sentimental and vulgar, negative and elegant.

The sad morning light is easy to replace, and it moves people to grow and work hard; the unity has been done for a hundred years, why is there no sorrow!

The sixth prince ridiculed him that this song "Mandarin Duck Pei" didn't even have the word "Mandarin Duck".

The third prince, however, smiled at Gu Ji, who came out on top, and said, "Of course it's a treasure for a beautiful lady. Pei Mingyu is for cleanliness, and Qi Youlan is for competition."

Gu Ji didn't make fun of this sentence, his face turned red, and he was laughed at by everyone.

For this act of "composing poems and giving gifts", Prime Minister Gu has been stigmatized for nine years.But in the end, the king is the guide for the ministers, and the surrounding scenery is the prime minister, so he dare not slack off in the slightest.

That night.Prime Minister's Mansion.

Early autumn is cool at dusk, and the leaves of the sycamore trees are falling.

In the courtyard of Tongxiang Pavilion, only two lanterns were lit, and the general saw Gu Jiqingzhai's figure.

The servants have already retreated, and the autumn wind is blowing, only the leaves are rustling.

"It seems that the stars are not from last night, for whom is the wind and night standing?" A figure jumped from the outer wall and walked steadily.

Gu Ji turned around, with a three-point smile on his face, and called, "Brother Qi."

The man approached, and the warm color of the lantern hit his face, and he saw a handsome appearance with eyebrows drawn into his temples.It's just that he came here in a hurry, and he was a little more sleepy and tired.This person looked at Gu Ji carefully for two or three times, and suddenly stretched out his hand to embrace Gu Ji, hugged him tightly, and whispered softly: "Yunji..."

Wen Runru Gu Xiang, since he was no match for this man's reckless behavior, he was hugged tightly for a long time, but he felt terribly embarrassed, after waiting for a long time without seeing him let go, he had no choice but to use three points of force to push him away, looking around in embarrassment Ask him: "Did Brother Qi meet His Majesty when he came to Beijing?"

Qi Fu frowned when he heard the words, and let go of his strength as if reluctant to give up, and replied with resentment: "The dog emperor is so cute, I came here to see you."

"Going back to Beijing privately?" Gu Ji stepped back half a step almost invisible, creating a distance between the two of them.

Qi Fu said: "That's not true. I handed over a letter and entered the palace, saying that I will enter Beijing tomorrow. I was a little early, so I will come to see you."

Hearing this, Gu Ji laughed and said: "Then I am honored to have the wall of the prime minister's mansion, and General Qi made a special trip to climb it. It's a sin, a sin, but I don't even have time to prepare water and wine. Please forgive me, Brother Qi. Wait for a while, and I will order the servants."

After finishing speaking, he turned and wanted to leave, but Qi Fu stretched out his hand and pulled his sleeve. Gu Ji turned around suspiciously, under the moonlit lamp, the man's face flickered on and off, he opened his mouth several times to speak, but he was speechless.

"I..." Qi Fu is not a eloquent person, but he has never been so anxious. He hurried back to the capital, but when he saw him, he couldn't speak a single truth. What's the matter?

Gu Ji knew that there were some words that should not be stated clearly, so he closed his eyes with long eyelashes, and gently broke free from his hand with ingenuity, and when he raised his eyes again, he still had that soft smile: "Brother Qi, wait a moment, some You prepared the pear blossom brew eight years ago, aren't you just waiting for today's opening?"

After all, Qi Fu couldn't say anything else, and smiled with the corners of his mouth squeezed, which was considered as his consent.

Tongxiang Pavilion lit the lamps and held a banquet, and the servants of the Prime Minister's Mansion came and went. After a while, even the women in the high gate of the Prime Minister's Mansion were alarmed.

Qi Fu was talking to Gu Ji about the battle of the Southern Manzi, but he heard a coquettish smile and said in a soft voice: "Husband, I don't know that General Qi is visiting, so I have to come to ask for a glass of water while the moon is shining today." Drink and eat."

Hearing this, Gu Jiwen's expression of talking and laughing faded away, and he asked the woman who entered the room: "It's even more serious, madam, why do you need to make another trip, you came here by yourself before I called someone to summon you. "

Qi Fu is very generous: "Brother Yu went south with his master eight years ago, but he just missed Yunji's big happy event. Today, seeing the princess, it really is a pair of people!"

Gu Ji didn't want to see his daughter-in-law. Qi Fu saw it, but he didn't say much. Instead, he punished himself with three glasses of water and wine, as compensation for not drinking the wedding wine given by the princess to marry the Prime Minister.

The Princess Shun Shun accepted Qi Fu's three glasses of wine, and said with a coquettish smile, "How about I follow my husband and call General Qi 'Big Brother'? The generals come and go, and there are many things."

Qi Fu glanced at Gu Ji with a smile, and then said: "It's natural, brothers and sisters don't have to be alienated from brother Yu, they are all on our own."

Princess Dingbei is the fourth daughter of King Dingbei, the only jewel in the palm of King Dingbei's life. She was spoiled by lawlessness when she was a child. After being given to this soft and soft Prime Minister Gu, she is naturally a party in this square inch of the Prime Minister's Mansion. The princess is dominant, and Gu Ji, the master, has to watch his face from time to time.

It's just that the king of Dingbei has already been riding a crane, and the three sons under his knees have died stupidly. This branch has long since disappeared, so Gu Ji abides by the ethics of those monarchs and ministers, dare not disobey the imperial decree, and respects this domineering woman. It is placed in the Xiangfu like a Bodhisattva for offering.It's been eight years, and he has never taken a concubine again. Xiangye's reputation of "fear of internal affairs" has long been spread far and wide.

And the truth is only known to everyone here.

The three of them were pushing cups and changing glasses for more than half, when suddenly there were voices from outside.The emaciated Eunuch Qi from the early court rushed into Xiao Sui again and said urgently: "Hurry up! Prime Minister! The emperor's chariot has entered the entrance of Chongxi Street, hurry up and pick him up!"

The princess got up in a hurry, and said anxiously: "What! Why are you here at this time? Then, Brother Qi, do you want to avoid it?"

Gu Xiang was very indifferent. After hearing the words, he put down the wine cup, and said slowly: "No need, just come and meet with me. I am drinking with Brother Qi, and I am afraid that someone who is interested has already seen it."

Qi Fu also meant the same thing. Even though he was a general entering the capital, he handed over the documents and made a report, so there is no need to be too nervous.