The gentleman hides the front [Comprehensive]

Chapter 8.The guest house is green and willow-colored.

Seeing that Gong Jiu was still in a daze, Ye Qiege stretched out his hand and shook it in front of his eyes.The little girl's exquisite lips raised a playful arc, as if holding back a smile, she said to Gong Jiu: "Hey, Ah Jiu, there is no need to do this, right? This is the first time you lose?"

Thinking of the first time I lost to my fellow brother, I seemed to be in a daze like Ah Jiu for a long time. A smile flashed across Ye Qiege's eyes, but he thoughtfully didn't speak any more, just waiting for Gong Jiu to Turning the corner by herself—of course Ye Qige would not have imagined that what Gong Jiu was looking for in her was the shadow of her own mother, so she only regarded Gong Jiu's absent-mindedness as the restlessness after the first failure.

Gong Jiu blinked quickly, calming down his momentarily chaotic thoughts.Reaching out to take the ointment handed over by Ye Qiege, he pretended to show his teeth and covered his waist, and said in a muffled voice, "Ah Ye has such heavy hands."

That appearance just confirmed Ye Qige's guess, making Ye Qige bite his lip and chuckle.

Although this battle came out of nowhere, both Ye Qiege and Gong Jiu satisified their curiosity very well, so it was considered a good time.Because both of them had to travel, they only said goodbye briefly, and the two who met at sea parted ways.Before leaving, the two agreed to have a drink together when they met again.

Jiang Hu, for Ye Qiege, is to have a lot of good wine and a lot of friends.This is the charm of this land of disputes, and only the words and deeds are upright, happy and free, can you live up to the gentleman's style of hiding the sword.

So it's great to meet friends like Gong Jiu during this trip.After fastening the epee behind him, Ye Qiege looked at the back of Gong Jiu, turned around and started his journey with a smile.

With this happy mood, Ye Qiege walked out of the pier and walked towards the nearest market.This time for Lu Yao, she was not short of money, but she had to prepare more things.

Gong Jiu, on the other hand, boarded a gorgeous carriage with a low-key color but couldn't hide it.

A wrist that was as white as porcelain opened the curtain of the carriage, and four girls with stunning faces, who were exactly the same, quickly stepped out of it.Ordinary men also need to use a horse stool to get in and out of the carriage, but the four girls just jumped down deftly, like a civet landing on the ground, without making any extra noise.

After saluting neatly to Gong Jiu, the leader of the four girls let out a shallow exclamation: "My lord, are you injured?"

Several other people also raised their watery eyes and looked at Gong Jiu with concern.And Gong Jiu gently stretched out a finger, pressed it against the lips of the first girl who spoke, and said briefly: "No problem."

He is now in the period of changing his voice, and he can always talk as little as possible when dealing with these unimportant people.And that young girl blushed suddenly, and said in a low voice: "Master, do you need a servant to give you medicine?"

Gong Jiu glanced at the girl with a half-smile, but raised her chin frivolously, and said, "Come on."

As he spoke, he let go of the hand holding the girl's chin, and walked into the carriage.When the girl climbed into the carriage with a blushing face, Gong Jiu had already taken off her outer shirt, and with her upper body naked, applied the ointment poured from the white bottle Ye Qiege gave him to the scar on her waist superior.

The internal force catalyzed the medicine's properties, coupled with Gong Jiu's own special constitution, the horrible purple congestion quickly dissipated, leaving only a light pink.

The girl who came up with winks prepared hot water and cloth towels for Gong Jiu to clean his hands. Gong Jiu washed off the remaining medicine on his hands and asked casually: "How is the house?"

Hearing Gong Jiu's question, the girl restrained the spring on her face, and said respectfully: "Young Master, the fake princes of Prince Taiping have been ill in bed, and the emperor sent two imperial doctors, but they didn't find any clues. The Lord came to look for you three times, but was stopped by the servants. That... sent a letter asking about your recent situation, and the servants had to report it."

Afraid of Gong Jiu's displeasure, the girl glanced at him cautiously after speaking, then quickly lowered her head.

Over there, Gong Jiu put on the thick fur again, nodded without showing any expression, and said: "If Yuping is always so obedient, let her grow up safely, and find a good family to marry in the future."

He casually leaned on the soft bed, speaking words that determined a person's fate, but with an indifference that had nothing to do with him.The suddenly cold tone made the girl who was packing the things tremble slightly, but she bowed her head in response, not daring to say more.

Gong Jiu nodded in satisfaction, and continued: "To Ruo that person." Gong Jiu pondered for a while, and said: "It's okay to tell him, you tell him again, in a few months, I will go to him for a while." trip."

The girl raised her head in astonishment, but touched the expression of the young man in white fox fur with his long eyebrows raised slightly.Immediately, she complied obediently, then stepped out of the carriage lightly, and went to do what Young Master Ninth ordered.

In the carriage with no one else around, Gong Jiu was playing with the porcelain vase in his hand, a rare joy and tenderness flashed in his eyes.

As the heir son of Prince Taiping, the world thought he was born in Prince Taiping's residence.But in fact, he heard from his mother that he was born by the beautiful West Lake.

If possible, he might grow up like every ordinary child. This was actually his mother's long-cherished wish, but in the end it became a luxury.

Later, Gong Jiu heard his mother tell him apologetically that she had a dystocia when she gave birth to him, and she managed to save her life, but her body was ruined.In order to take his mother to find the elixir, his father ignored him.So he had to use some tricks to drop him and Princess Taiping, the child who died unexpectedly at birth.

At least, King Taiping is the emperor's confidant, and King Taiping's backyard is the simplest. Compared with his father's complicated backyard, Prince Taiping's mansion is indeed much safer.

Whenever his mother talks about these things, Gong Jiu will always take advantage of his mother's guilt and get into her mother's arms to act like a baby.But he is not as simple-minded as his mother. He fully believes that even if the real Prince Taiping did not die, with his father's means, he will let the child "die" and make room for him.

At that time Gong Jiu was still young, and when his mother was in better health, she would come to Taiping Palace to see him in the middle of the night.Although his mother missed his babbling and toddler because of the three years when he was in a coma halfway.But after all the nature of mother and child, no matter how good Princess Taiping treats him, it can't compare to his mother squatting down in front of him and saying softly: "Ah Jiu, come here."

In Gong Jiu's memory, his mother always appeared every few months, and every time she appeared, it was always night.In order to facilitate his mother's "visiting", Gong Jiu insisted on sleeping in a courtyard by herself. For this reason, the motherly and loving Princess Taiping was still sad for a long time. After her daughter was born, her "son" was more than obedient and close to her. The deficiencies were only slightly made up for.

As for Gong Jiu, it's not that he doesn't know how to get close to people, it's just that he left all his clingy skills to his own mother.Although he was grateful to Princess Taiping who took care of him, he didn't put too much emotion into it.

Every time his mother appeared, she would always tell him about her own past, about the school that had been annihilated in history, and only one line of her family survived, about the beautiful mountains and beautiful waters by the West Lake, about the vast sea and sky, and about the hometown where the four seasons are not very clear, Talk about the encounter with his father, talk about... I never regret that I gave birth to him, but I regret not being able to watch him grow up and be alone.

In the third year when Gong Jiu started to learn swords, his mother watched him with a look of relief as he swung his sword to chop off the towering tree that they embraced, and then handed over to him the long sword "Wen Shui" that she had forged that year. he.

Gong Jiu once asked his mother, what is the meaning of the word water?

His mother stroked his head, and told him in a warm voice that the so-called questioning water was the inner strength of her master's school. Unfortunately, the mind and sword moves in her teacher's school have been lost for a long time. The craftsmanship of weapons has been completely handed down.It's just a pity that my son's ambition is not here. This skill will disappear in her generation.

That was the first time Gong Jiu heard his mother say the name of his teacher, and it was also the last time.Only then did Gong Jiu know that the West Lake Hidden Sword, a sect that only left traces in history books, had really existed.

And his mother, after giving him the Wenshui forged by herself, even if his father used up all the life-sustaining medicines in the world, he still didn't delay that winter after all.On the spring day of the new year, Gong Jiu and his mother made an appointment not only to meet at night, but also to fly a kite together. He didn't wait for a smiling mother, but only waited for a woman in a black robe with a hug in her arms. man with a light gold jar.

That man is his father.He arranged some things, and then carried Gong Jiu and the pot out of Taiping Palace.After that, the two went to Hangzhou West Lake together.

Although his mother's last wish came first, the father and son were not willing to scatter his mother's ashes by the West Lake.The two chose a fat willow tree in West Lake, and buried his mother's ashes deeply under it.

After burying the soil, Gong Jiu looked up at the man, but unexpectedly saw the tears on his face.But soon, the man returned to his usual expression, and calmly asked Gong Jiu, "Do you want to go back with me, or stay in Prince Taiping's Mansion?"

The situation at the man's place was unstable before, so his mother would rather travel thousands of miles than leave Gong Jiu in the relatively safe Taiping Palace.And at that time, Gong Jiu was clamoring to go back because she just wanted to spend more time with her mother.Now... what's the point of him going back?

Shaking his head, Gong Jiu chose to continue to be Prince Taiping's heir - he always needs to do something to make himself less sad.

The man didn't stop him, but he walked many places with him during that month, as if he wanted to make up for the family relationship between father and son that he had missed for many years, and it seemed that only by being good to the only child he and his wife could reduce the pain in his heart. Ashamed of his wife.

Gong Jiu didn't explore the reason why his father suddenly changed his temper, but he deeply remembered what a monk he met said.

The monk said that people can be reincarnated, that life is death, and death is life.

Thinking about it later, that monk just wanted to let the father and son who had just lost their wife and mother feel relieved, but in Gong Jiu's little heart, he remembered the saying "people have reincarnation".

Until the day many years later, he met a young boy Yi Chen with the same voice as his mother, carrying on his back the epee that his mother had described that no one had used in the world for a hundred years. girl.The girl recognized her Wenshui at a glance, and like his mother, she was talking about living in West Lake for a long time one day.

At that moment, Gong Jiu felt that he had really waited.

Daughter.

He closed his eyes gently.When I was young, I couldn't protect my mother, and let her be killed by the disease.But it's different now - he is no longer that helpless toddler, this time, no matter what, he will protect her for the rest of her life to be happy and safe.