Fast forward

Two years.

The room was dim, and only one layer of wax remained on the candlestick.A little bit of light can't illuminate this huge house, and only some outlines can be vaguely seen.The tall young man held a skirt in one hand and a small lotus-shaped paper lantern in the other, and stepped over the threshold. The candlelight in the lantern barely allowed him to see the things in the room clearly.The furnishings in the room were extremely simple, with a table, a chair, a bed and a cabinet. At this time, a person was lying sideways facing the bed, wrapped in a thick quilt to form a human shape.

The young man walked over, patted the quilt, and asked softly: "Chengjian, today's Lantern Festival, dad asked you if you want to go to the Lantern Festival?"

Yang Chengjian, who was wrapped in the quilt, slowly stuck his head out of the quilt, revealing a thin face.There are black and blue eye circles under his eyes, and his round face is now sunken with two cheeks and pale lips.Seeing the person coming, his dark gaze remained unchanged, and he said hoarsely, "Xiao Yan, will he go?"

Naturally, Lu Wuyan knew who he was referring to, a hint of anger appeared on her cold expression, and she said coldly, "I'm not the roundworm in his stomach, how do I know?"

Yang Chengjian opened his mouth, and after a while, he said in a low voice, "Xiaoyan, I'm sorry."

Lu Wuyan snorted and didn't answer, but asked again: "Father asked if you will go to the Lantern Festival? You have made some achievements as a city official in the past two years, and the common people naturally respect you."

Yang Chengjian didn't seem to care about this, he just took out an IOU from under his pillow, looked at it a few times, stroked the handwriting on the paper, smiled wryly, and said, "It doesn't matter if this city official is inappropriate."

Words such as "be a cow and a horse" and "repay" were vaguely written on the IOU, and it was signed by the second youngest of the Gu family, Gu Xiujue.Seeing Lu Wuyan, her heart was also bitter.That person begged Gu Xiujue to bring someone to save them, but he lost his life.Because of this, Gu Xiujue hated the two of them, and ordered Chengjian to sign a "deed of sale", so that he would have to follow Gu Xiujue's lead for the rest of his life.

However, for some reason, there was a vague feeling between the two of them.Lu Wuyan was framed by Gu Xiujue and had a relationship with Yang Chengjian, so she had to remarry.At that time, he was vaguely aware of the relationship between the two.But maybe it was Luohua's intention to be ruthless, but Gu Xiujue still treated Chengjian very badly.He, Lu Wuyan, didn't care much about love at first, and by marrying Chengjian, he could be regarded as finding support for the rest of his life.Even if Cheng Jian doesn't love him, Lu Wuyan still regards him as her husband.So seeing Chengjian being so decadent, he was naturally dissatisfied with Gu Xiujue's behavior.

However, how could Yangzi and Yangzi have a result?What's more, one party is very ruthless!Lu Wuyan couldn't help but sighed, and said, "Chengjian, I heard that he is going to marry a wife after the Lantern Festival, and his wife is still the one two years ago, you..."

Yang Chengjian was stunned for a moment, then turned his gaze to the bed curtain, and after a while, said: "That's fine..."

At the beginning, I had some affection for Mr. Gu, but after his death, I didn't know when I bet this feeling on Gu Xiujue.Maybe it was when he secretly assisted him in managing government affairs while ordering him, or maybe it was when he sent someone to deliver medicine while beating and scolding himself...

I don't know where the love started, but I have always been deeply in love.

Yang Chengjian lay quietly on the bed alone, gently folded the yellowed note and placed it on his chest.

"Master, does the dress fit you well?"

Always in Tsing Yi, Gu Xiujue was not used to wearing bright red clothes for the first time.He nodded, smoothed the wrinkles of the groom's clothes from sitting down, and stood up, only to see his mother walking outside his room alone on crutches.

Gu Xiujue stepped forward to help, and said gently: "Mother, where are you going? Where is the servant girl?"

Gu's eyes were a little dull, and she turned her head to look at him slowly, suddenly her eyes lit up, she threw away her crutches, reached out and hugged him, and said happily: "Jing'er, you are finally back! Mother misses you so much !"

Gu Xiujue's eyes flickered slightly, and then he coaxed: "Well, I'm back, the second brother is getting married, I have to come back and see what I say."

"That's right, your second brother is finally willing to get married, and it's been more than two years, such a good girl, how dare you!" Gu Shi nodded repeatedly, completely unaware that she was hugging her second son.

The elder brother passed away, but the father became ill and passed away soon after, and the mother also became like this, unable to recognize people, and always regarded him as the elder brother.Gu Xiujue gently patted the back of his mother's wrinkled hands, coaxed him back into the room, and replaced all the maids who left the old lady's room without authorization.

After finishing these, Gu Xiujue went back to the accounting room and continued to check the accounts. At this moment, his mind was able to calm down.But without writing a few words, he caught a glimpse of a piece of paper pressed under the inkstone, a large piece of the paper was stained black with ink, and only Luowei's name could be seen: Yang Chengjian.

Gu Xiujue's hand holding the pen tightened slightly, then put it down, pulled out the paper, and identified it for a while, it seemed that it was a letter written to him by Yang Chengjian after he helped the Gu family fend off the court's troubles.The letter was full of useless nonsense, Gu Xiujue frowned, crumpled it up and threw it into the wastebasket beside him.

It's just that I didn't read the account book anymore, Gu Xiujue got up, pushed open the window, and looked at the peach tree outside the window.It's the Lantern Festival, and pink flowers are blooming on the peach trees.It was planted outside his room on a whim when the eldest brother was 20 years old, saying that he wanted to bring him some good luck.

The human face does not know where to go, Peach Blossom still laughs spring breeze.

"That's good..." Gu Xiujue didn't know what to think, exhaled a breath of cold air, and said softly.

The author has something to say: Fanwai is hypocritical.