Gu Chen hardly knew how he got to Sima Jian, and how he walked out of the palace all the way.

He still had some hangover headaches, and was shocked by the cold wind, as if he had been thrown into the icy snow.Under the violent turbulence, he felt like a tattered doll, barely held together by a few strings, keeping it from falling apart.

He couldn't imagine how anxious his mother was at the moment.

According to the memories of previous lives, at this time Xiao Tingshen was being criticized by countless Confucian scholars for harming his brothers and sisters. Although Gu Chen's mother lived in the back house for a long time, she came from a scholarly family, and Gu Chen's maternal grandfather even served in the Imperial Academy. It is impossible for the mother to be ignorant of the unfavorable rumors.

In addition, Gu Chen was already the only son of the Gu family, and was brought up by his mother.He went to the palace to have an audience with a notorious emperor but did not return overnight, and his mother would inevitably wonder if something happened to him.

And the mother's temperament is soft on the outside and strong on the inside, and she is upright. If she knows the real reason why Gu Chen stays in the palace...

It was as if countless knives were stabbed in his body, and Gu Chen's whole body screamed in pain.But right now, he couldn't care about his injury, he could only grit his teeth, remembering that there was a small road on the way back to the house, although it was bumpy, it would speed up a bit.He pulled the rein, turned the horse's head and galloped down the path.

While galloping wildly, he was thinking rapidly in his mind how to explain it to his mother.

Mother is so careful, it is really hard to prevaricate.Once when he was young, he was playing in the yard and accidentally broke one of his mother's favorite bonsai. He tried to cover it up, but his mother saw through the lie he had made up for a long time, and of course he was taught a lesson in the end.

He greeted his mother yesterday to enter the palace to pay her respects, and promised to return as soon as possible.I'm afraid the rest of the excuses will be exposed on the spot. It seems that they can only use government affairs as a shield...

When he was still some distance away from Gu's mansion, Gu Chen saw two people standing at the door.On the left is a slim girl, wearing a light yellow dress, pretty and demure; on the right is a beautiful woman, wearing a dark blue, elegant and dignified.He reined in the reins, rolled off the saddle and got off the horse, ignoring the burning pain somewhere in his body, and walked up to the beautiful woman in three steps at a time, bowed down and kowtowed: "Mother, the son is back."

Gu's mother has two bluish moth eyebrows and a pair of eyes with autumn pupils cut into water. She is no longer young, but when she looks down at people, she looks very delicate, like beautiful flowers shining in water.She didn't speak, and she didn't ask her younger son to get up, she just looked at him quietly, the veil was tightly held in her hand, twisting several folds.

"Mother..." The girl on the side gently tugged at her sleeve, "Aren't you asking Second Brother to come in?"

Mother Gu didn't answer her daughter's words, but said quietly: "You look up."

Gu Chen raised his head.Mother's eyes were a little red, and she knew she had stayed up all night.He felt a little sour in his heart, and said in a hoarse voice, "It's the son who worries the mother."

Mother Gu closed her eyes, her voice trembling: "What did you say before entering the palace last night?"

"My son enters the palace to pay his respects to His Majesty... I will come back as soon as I go."

"And how did I tell you?"

"My mother said that the power in the court is complicated now. The Wang family is quite favored and valued by the emperor, but they have always been at odds with the Gu family. Today's empress dowager...is the daughter of the Wang family again, eldest brother," Gu Chen involuntarily paused, and said Distressed, "...the elder brother died because of a collateral branch of the Wang family, let me be cautious in my words and deeds, please return to the house immediately after the peace. If there is any change, I also need to send a letter to the family..."

"And how did you do it?"

Gu Chen pursed his lips, and said for a moment, "It's my son's fault."

"You enter the palace at three quarters, and return at Chen Shi the next day, but there is not even a message!" Gu's mother was obviously in a hurry, and there was a layer of lustrous light in her eyes.With reddish eyes, she raised her hand high, making a gesture to hit her, "You are really my good son—!"

"Mom!" The little girl exclaimed, grabbed her mother's sleeve, and begged, "Second brother knows he was wrong, please don't hit him..."

Gu Chen knelt straight on the ground, still pursing his lips tightly, showing no intention of dodging.His eyebrows and eyes are very similar to that of Gu's mother. Now he is kneeling there, and Gu's mother looks at him, as if seeing him lying in front of the couch begging her to tell a story when he was a child.The slap stopped in the air, and he couldn't say anything.

After a long time, Mother Gu let out a long sigh and put down her hands: "Forget it, get up, go in first."

Gu Chen and his younger sister supported their mother, one left and one right, and entered the gate of Gu's mansion.

The Gu family has been military generals for generations, so the style of the courtyard is also very simple, only some flowers and plants are planted, and because of the cold weather, it is still a bit withered and sparse.

Through the courtyard is the main hall.As soon as the door opened, Gu Chen saw a table full of dishes, most of which were his favorites, but they were already cold.He was slightly taken aback, and the younger sister curled her lips: "Second brother, you are stationed abroad all year round, and you can't go home once a year. You finally came back yesterday, so mother asked someone to do this."

Gu Chen's Adam's apple rolled and he was speechless.

He saw a lotus leaf biscuit on the side, and remembered that he liked to eat this dim sum when he was young, but only a dim sum shop in Shenjing Dongfang sold it, and he had to queue up early in the morning to buy it.Once he overslept, and when he ran to the dim sum shop, it was sold out, and he cried a lot when he returned home.Mother Gu held him in her arms, reassuring him repeatedly that he would be able to eat this snack the next day.

Unexpectedly, the next day he actually ate lotus leaf biscuits, but it was Gu's mother who went to the dim sum shop and begged repeatedly before finally learning it.

Seeing him in a daze, the little girl continued: "I planned to have a small gathering after you came back from the palace, but you never came back, and Mother made me feel hot three or four times... You don't know how worried Mother is, she is always afraid of you... I'm afraid you will be like big brother..."

The little girl choked, and Gu Chen felt a sudden pain in his heart.His elder brother, Gu Heng, who is four years older than him, has practiced martial arts since he was a child, and is proficient in bow and horse.When Gu Chen was 14 years old, his elder brother led an army to go deep into the enemy's rear as bait, intending to wipe out the enemy army.As a result, the rescue general Wang Yongke led the troops at that time, and the rescue came late. Gu Heng fought hard and died, and even the body was not found intact.

This matter became a dull pain in the hearts of the entire Gu family.Especially Gu Chen, who had a deep relationship with Gu Heng, when he just learned of Gu Heng's death, Gu Chen couldn't believe it for a while, and couldn't sleep for three consecutive days and three nights.As soon as I closed my eyes, my eyes were full of the smiling face of my eldest brother when he was leaving.

"I heard that southern Hubei is rich in luminous pearls. When my brother comes back, I will bring you a luminous pearl as big as a fist, and hang it in the house to play!"

There was a moment of silence in the room.After a while, the mother said: "Okay, Chen'er has come back safely?" She wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, and waved the servants to come in, "Remove these dishes first, and go to Qianhelou to buy them." Chen'er likes to eat."

The servants came in one file at a time, and removed all the cold dishes from the table after a while.The mother took two steps slowly and sat down on the head, the younger sister Gu Lian stood beside her, and Gu Chen stood in front of her.She held Gu Chen's hand, patted it lightly, and said, "There are only the three of us here now. Tell me, what happened when you entered the palace this time?"

Gu Chen froze for a moment, uncontrollably thinking of the many bruises on his body, and Xiao Ting's deep, dark eyes with no clear meaning.Humiliation and unwillingness surged up from the bottom of his heart again, and there was a sharp pain somewhere behind him... How should he tell his mother that her youngest son became the emperor's favorite overnight?

It cannot be said that mother must not find out.

"It's nothing." Gu Chen's voice was astringent, and it was quite difficult to utter these words, "I just... the emperor asked me to talk about some things."

Gu's mother looked at his face carefully: "Is that true? Wasn't it embarrassing by the Queen Mother? Or did you run into a dispute or friction with the Wang family?"

"What did the mother say?" Gu Chen smiled lightly, "My son will remember his mother's teachings and be cautious in his words and deeds. What's more, the son has never met the Wang family, and the queen mother has not summoned him."

Gu's mother looked at him carefully again, and confirmed that his expression was not fake, then she nodded and exhaled slowly: "That's very good."

As she said that, she looked at Gu Chen's clothes with a slight smile: "I remember you like sky blue the most, when did you buy it?"

Gu Chen said: "This is a gift from Your Majesty." He didn't understand why Xiao Tingshen gave him a set of sky blue, maybe it was a coincidence - "A little maid accidentally spilled some wine on me, and Your Majesty asked me to change it." Get a suit of clothes."

Mother Gu nodded with a smile: "It suits you very well, it looks good."

She took Gu Chen's hand and said some homework, and after a while, a servant's voice came from outside the door: "Madam, the dishes are ready, do you want to serve them now?"

"Let's serve vegetables." Mother Gu said.She smiled at Gu Chen, "You just came back from the palace, so you must not have had breakfast. Don't you like the Poria Cake in Qianhelou the most? Lian'er should come too. Your second brother just came back, so you don't have to go back room to eat."

Gu Lian stuck out her tongue: "Mother prefers the second brother."

"Unconscionable girl," Gu's mother smiled and pulled her, "Your second brother only comes back once a year, and you have to fight with him? On weekdays, what do you want to eat, mother didn't make it?"

The three of them walked to the table, and Mother Gu sat at the head first.A maid opened the door and came in, directing the others to start serving dishes.Gu Chen pulled out the chair and sat down, but frowned slightly because he touched the sore spot behind him.

Xiao Tingshen is really...

Gu Chen gritted his teeth, raised his eyes, and suddenly found his mother's eyes on his face.

"Chen'er, you lied, didn't you?"

……what! ?

The chill instantly crawled all over his body, and Gu Chen froze.He opened his mouth slightly, and felt that his voice seemed to be frozen together: "What did mother say?"

"You were hurt!" Mother Gu's face was frosty, angry and distressed at the same time, "You were wronged in the palace, didn't you? Was beaten? Received the imperial scepter? Or..." The more she spoke, the more complex her face became. Bai, "...someone is making things difficult for you, isn't it?"

"Mother, what are you talking about?" Gu Lian was puzzled, "Isn't the second brother all right?"

"There are many kinds of punishments in the palace, and you won't see anything on the surface at all!" Gu's mother clenched her handkerchief tightly, carefully scrutinized Gu Chen's face, her voice was already a little angry, "If he was not injured, why did he sit down? That look? Hurry up and ask Dr. Zhao Boyong to come over!"

Gu Chen's heart jumped violently: "Mother!"

Zhao Boyong was originally a military doctor with the army, and he followed his father all the time in his early years, and his medical skills were very superb.Later, he was seriously injured on the battlefield and fell ill. It would be inconvenient for him to continue to serve in the army, so his father let him live in the mansion. Therefore, this Dr. Zhao can be said to have watched Gu Chen grow up.

The last trace of blood faded from Gu Chen's lips, and there was only one thought in his head - absolutely, absolutely not let his mother invite Zhao Boyong over!Otherwise, once you find out, everything will be over!

"Mother, it's really nothing!" Gu Chen's mind was spinning fast, "I just... that horse is a new saddle, and it's not easy to use it—"

"You still want to hide it from me!?" Gu's mother became more and more convinced that her youngest son must have suffered some kind of grievance, so she held back because she was afraid that the family would be worried.How much grievance must it take to make this little son cover up like this?The more she thought about it, the more distressed she became, and she repeatedly urged Gu Lian: "Go and call Dr. Zhao!"

Gu Lian also realized the problem at this time, she quickly responded, turned around and walked out, but was grabbed by Gu Chen: "Don't go, sister——I'm really fine!"

"Chen'er!" Mother Gu put down the chopsticks in her hand with a snap, and called Gu Chen's name sharply.She is from a family background, and her actions are gentle and gentle on weekdays. She has never thrown chopsticks before, so it can be seen that she is really angry.Then, she turned to Gu Lian who was stunned, and said angrily: "Your brother can't carry it clearly, so can you? Now! Go and call Dr. Zhao over!"

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