I was Idle and Cool Chapter 29: On the road

Eldest son, Gu Juefei.

At that moment, Gu Yijian couldn't tell how he felt.

Anyone who recognizes the origin of the manuscript in his hand will speak the same as Lu Jiuling. He has actually heard a lot, a lot.

Even...

In the past six years, I have heard it all the time.

The fingers holding the handkerchief slowly tightened.

Only Lu Jiuling, who was standing in front of him, did not observe this detail.

Gu Yijian's face didn't show any more clues, and he only replied respectfully: "Lord Hui Lu, there is no news about my brother returning to the mansion. At present, there is only a handwritten letter from the abbot Jueyuan. When it is said that it is time, my brother has left Xuecuiding and descended from the back mountain."

As soon as Lu Jiuling heard this, she immediately became happy: "Since we're down the mountain, isn't it fast? From outside the Jingcheng Mountain to the inner city, it will take less than an hour if the speed is fast."

"May..."

Gu Yijian has the charm of a famous and noble son.

At this moment, he should have been very happy, but he couldn't laugh, his voice was mixed with a bit of bitterness, and he said with a bit of stagnation: "But there is still a piece of snow on the mountain, and it has not been cleaned up. ."

“…”

At that moment, the smile on Lu Jiuling's face froze.

Lu Jinxi, who had been listening beside them, was also stunned for a moment, but in the blink of an eye, it turned into a cola: This young master Gu is really unexpected.

After everyone knew his words "when the snow melts, go down the mountain", they eagerly hoped that the snow on the mountain would melt away as soon as possible.

But now the top of Xuecui is still covered with a piece of snow, but Gu Juefei went down the mountain.

Is it possible that the "snow" in my heart has melted?

Lu Jinxi originally thought so, and said this to Ye Shi, but after hearing what Gu Yijian said, she had an inexplicable urge to dismiss this idea.

She really has no personal contact with this legendary and legendary eldest son of the Gu family. All inferences based on rumors are bound to be inaccurate.

Everything is shrouded in fog, how can it be possible to see clearly?

But...

Looking away from Gu Yijian's fingers holding the handkerchief, Lu Jinxi was still so calm, but he felt a little more clear in his heart.

She didn't speak.

After a long while, Lu Jiuling shook her head and could only comfort: "It's a good thing to go down the mountain first. Your brother is also very filial, so there's no reason not to come. Just relax."

"I wish you auspicious words."

Gu Yijian thanked Lu Jiuling, but without much confidence on his face, he bowed again and said, "This matter has been reported to my father just now, and now all the adults in the front hall are here. Yijian has to go back to the house to exchange Only when you are on your body can you dare to visit. In this way, I don't dare to disturb the boss."

"See you in the lobby later."

Lu Jiuling couldn't say anything more, she just nodded, and Gu Yijian saluted him and watched him walk away on the corridor with that group of servants.

Seeing that there was no shadow, he let out a long sigh: "Let's take this kid first, I've watched him grow up. He has always been the best temperament, why did he suddenly fall out..."

Let go first is Gu Juefei's word.

Lu Jiuling and Gu Taishi have a good relationship, and they are used to addressing Gu Juefei with formal words.

Lu Jinxi also heard it, and always felt a little subtle about the word "best temperament".

She became curious in her heart: "My father and Mrs. Gu are on good terms, how come I don't know the reason for this matter of Young Master Gu?"

"One is the old fox in the courtroom, and the other, although young, is not much better than his father in Taoism. When things start to happen, clouds and mountains are covered in fog. Except for themselves, anyone in the capital who knows the inside story is afraid that all Can't count on one hand."

Lu Jiuling walked forward, shaking her head.

He had temporarily forgotten about finding his son-in-law.

Lu Jinxi also breathed a sigh of relief, but he did not understand the high evaluation of what he said: "But Young Master Gu, although he was very powerful, was only a slugger, and he just entered the Hanlin The academy should be the editor. He is as powerful as you say?"

"I'm afraid it's just a lot more powerful than I know."

Lu Jiuling has been immersed in the Huanhai Sea, and the years are actually not short. Some things will feel a little vague.

He laughed: "Being at this age as a father, you can count the famous people you know in Shilin in the south of the Yangtze River with two hands, and the lower ones in the three religions and nine streams are ignorant. He has been an official for more than thirty years, but he is still only a minister of rituals, and he is barely familiar with the emperor's side."

Actually, that's not bad.

After all, Lu Jiuling was just a scholar who had no power, and the Ministry of Rites was not the most powerful among the six departments.

A literati, an official here, is already very prominent.

"But this Young Master Gu was only twenty-three years old six years ago..."

Lu Jiuling shook her head, her voice already filled with a hint of sigh.

"Jiangnan Shilin, when he traveled to study, he had already made half of his friends, and he was completely convinced."

"That's 'talent'."

"Because of reading ten thousand volumes of books, daring to travel ten thousand miles, three religions and nine streams, and suffering people's livelihood, he also heard and witnessed."

"Guo Jinling once offered advice and suggestions for the river fortifications, and solved the flood on the river that year."

"After passing through Cangzhou, I passed by a nest of corrupt officials due to fate, and the money stolen has filled most of the national treasury."

"I even went all the way to the northwest, went to the border, saw the Tianshan Mountains, and even had contacts with various tribes in the Western Regions..."

"This is 'Benevolence'."

When Lu Jinxi heard this, she already had a faint feeling of numbness in her scalp.

Lu Jiuling's words were not over yet.

"Not to mention, when the current emperor Longqian's mansion, he had a companionship with him."

"At that time, his talent was already outstanding. Although the emperor was several years older than him, he regarded him as both a teacher and a friend. Even after he ascended the throne, his attitude towards him did not change much."

"With someone else, who can always have such a humble attitude?"

"This is the true 'gentleman' who upholds the Tao."

Talent, benevolent, and gentleman.

It's really flawless and flawless...

At that moment, Lu Jinxi was almost convinced by Lu Jiuling's praise.

But in her mind, Princess Yongning's words popped out at an appropriate time——

"Gu Juefei is indeed unscrupulous, and his temperament is treacherous and unpredictable. But he doesn't necessarily have a heartless heart against his father. Besides, the current game of chess in the capital is just on point, how could he be willing to do so? Not coming back?"

Unscrupulous, treacherous and unpredictable.

The evaluation given by Princess Yongning, compared with the evaluation of Lu Jiuling's "talent", "benevolent" and "gentleman", one is really in the sky, unattainable; the other is in the abyss, I am afraid to think carefully.

Lu Jinxi felt that it was extremely strange. The tingling feeling in her scalp not only didn't go down, but it came up again.

For a while, I didn't know how to answer Lu Jiuling's words.

Fortunately, Lu Jiuling just sighed a little.

"He is only twenty-three years old, and he has already done things that he couldn't do in his sixtieth year as a father. How could he be in the pool? Abbot Jueyuan's handwriting said that the eldest son descended from the back mountain. Think, those people who went today, I'm afraid they will all be empty..."

Those who went.

Lu Jinxi was also walking under the corridor, and couldn't help but looked in the direction of the Jokhang Temple, which was far, far away...

In the Taishi's mansion, the branches are dyed bright green, and the new swallows peck at the spring mud.

But across this landscape of Jiangnan gardens, there is a clear blue sky above your head, and the closer you get to that mountain, the cleaner you are, and you can't even see the white clouds.

Today is not a day for incense, but the front of the Jokhang Temple seems to be more lively than ever.

The abbot Jueyuan stood on the steps, looking at the lively crowd below, he couldn't hold back for a while, he shook his head and laughed: "Ren is you, Gu Juefei, who is shrewd and extremely smart, and encountered such a big battle. , in the end, there is only one life left!"

Hui Ding was standing beside the abbot Jueyuan, who had just sent Gu Juefei down the mountain.

Looking down at the moment, there is also a cold sweat on my head.

In front of the mountain gate, there are big cars and small cars, BMW cars.

The people who came were men and women, some with prominent status, and some with shabby clothes. More than half of them were servants who ran errands outside the various sects and mansions, and some were servants, and the other half were literati and officials in uniform.

Of course, there are also a few strategists full of bad water.

The Jokhang Temple is famous. Since the founding emperor, he has come here to worship once a year.

Therefore, many princes of Emperor Qing'an's dynasty often came to visit.

Hui Ding's brain is not bad, and he recognizes a few people.

The old man who just got off the carriage is Kang Zhixue who is next to the eldest prince Xiao Dan;

The hook nose listening to the people around him is Liu Shigong raised by the fourth prince Xiao Hong;

Even the fifth prince, Xiao Shi, who has a bigger fart, has sent Xian Yujin, who has a mustache, and is now looking into the mountain gate...

In the crowd, he even caught a glimpse of Wei Er, the second son of Wei who was dressed in fancy clothes, the famous one in the capital who couldn't support a wall of mud.

……

Anyone really got involved.

It is not convenient for the masters of each family to make it obvious, so they all sent people here.

Some are for the old friendship, some are for establishing a new relationship, and some are just for the purpose of snooping on the news and seeing what's going on.

Hui Ding looked at it, and couldn't help feeling pity in her heart.

The scene I saw in the Xuecuiding wooden house that day is still lingering: the understatement of the uncle Juefei, and the prayers that were thrown into the stove and burnt cleanly ...

Everyone regards Uncle Juefei as a friend, but Uncle Juefei doesn't seem to regard anyone as a friend.

Maybe...

It's been on this mountain for a long time, and it's weak?

But Jue Fei's great uncle treats them very well.

Teach them to read and write, tell them about the beauty of the world's famous mountains and rivers, and even analyze the difficult Buddhist principles in the Buddhist scriptures for them, and walk in the room with a transcendent and obscure sense of Zen...

He's a man who can't be disgusted at all.

Hui Ding remembered the past few years, and felt a little reluctant in his heart: no one will teach them in the future, no one will talk about those strange mountains and beautiful waters, and no one will go to the altar to discuss Zen with everyone...

He couldn't help but look at Abbot Jueyuan: "Abbot, will the uncle Juefei come back?"

"Back?"

Abbot Jueyuan was stunned for a moment. He turned to look at Hui Ding, and remembered a bad game of chess he played on his last day. He couldn't help but sighed and said, "I only hope he doesn't come back again. It's a good day!"

Hui Ding was stunned for a moment.

The abbot felt far away, but he didn't say much, didn't look down, just turned around and walked towards his meditation room, and ordered again: "At this moment, you feel that you should be far away if you are not a master and uncle, go down to know Let's talk to these people and tell them not to wait and leave sooner."

"Yes."

Hui Ding bowed and made a bow, watching Abbot Jueyuan go, he followed the mountain road and went down the mountain to tell the group of people below the news that Gu Juefei had left.

On the mountain of Jokhang Temple, except for the snow-green top, there is hardly any remnant snow to be seen.

The new buds in the woods have come out.

Because it is dedicated to the royal family, the back mountain is forbidden, and almost no one walks around, so it looks a little quiet and quiet, with some slippery moss. A mountain stream comes out of the mountains, and there is a gurgling sound in the flow.

Gu Juefei was only wearing a simple and light green robe, with the half-moon-shaped crouching crane jade pendant hanging on his waist as usual, and he walked down the long road all alone.

At the end of the mountain road, Emperor Qing'an Xiao Che had been waiting for a long time with a group of guards.

The moment he saw others, he immediately laughed loudly, turned over and dismounted, threw the whip into the hands of the people around him, and swaggered up to meet him.

"Let's go first, let's go first, but after waiting for you for six years, I'm finally willing to go down the mountain!"

Gu Juefei also saw him from a distance.

Having avoided the front mountain, he didn't even think about hiding with the back mountain.

The bottom of my eye is actually not a little surprised.

At this moment, Gu Juefei really doesn't want to take care of anyone, and even the emperor's face doesn't want to be sold.

But he is the seamless Gu Juefei.

Isn't all this what he expected?

He smiled helplessly and bowed to salute.

"What a salute!"

Xiao Che is dressed in dark purple robes, with extraordinary extravagance, long eyebrows and bright eyes. At the age of thirty-five or six, when he is the strongest man, he has an extraordinary heroism.

He frowned and pulled Gu Juefei: "I haven't seen you for six years, and you've become estranged from me."

"Your Majesty, the etiquette of monarchs and ministers cannot be abolished."

Actually, Gu Juefei is just pretending.

When he was too lazy to take care of him, everyone was the same in front of him, but when he said it, it was another sincerity and sincerity.

Xiao Che is still the emperor after all.

Gu Juefei's attitude towards him, as always, is neither humble nor arrogant, and the feeling of being so close to him makes him feel at ease and comfortable.

"That's all. I sent someone to look into your news a few days ago, so I guessed your character. Today, you must leave the back mountain where there are few people banned. I went around in a circle early in the morning and brought people here. I blocked you, and drove away a few who also came to block you.”

Xiao Che couldn't help shaking his head.

"The DPRK and China are now a mess. Can you rush back to congratulate the old lady?"

"...not in a hurry."

Gu Juefei's eyes were light and calm, and he didn't seem to be moved at all. Even this sentence seemed a bit perfunctory.

Xiao Che knew how he had a falling out with Taishi Gu, and also knew his attitude, which was really excusable, and even more aware that he might be here with him, showing a bit of his true temperament .

Sighing for a moment, Xiao Che waved his hand and instructed the guard next to him to bring the horse up, and said, "If you are not in a hurry, let's run the horse and go for a ride."

A burly bodyguard brought the horse over.

Gu Juefei took the reins, recognized him, and said with a smile: "Lord Zhong, it's been a long time. Is there any problem with this horse today?"

Zhong Su couldn't help laughing.

Back then, the emperor and Gu Juefei rode on horseback, but Gu Juefei's horse was so disrespectful that it almost turned over halfway. It was he who took the shot, and at the risk of being almost trampled to death by a horse, he rescued Gu Juefei abruptly.

I haven't seen each other for six years now. As soon as we meet, he brings up this issue, which shows that he hasn't forgotten at all.

On the basis of his heart, he is a bodyguard, and it is his share to do that thing back then. But Gu Jue didn't forget it, but they really remembered this sentiment.

Who doesn't like others to remember their kindness and ability?

That incident was famous in the entire guard camp.

I mention it once, and he has the face once again.

Zhong Su only felt that six years later, after talking to the eldest son of Gu, it was still like a spring breeze, as if the pores all over his body were opening, and he was very comfortable.

Even a man as shy and loyal as he was, he couldn't help but feel a bit arrogant at the moment, he just patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, the eldest son, if this beast doesn't have eyes and temper, the lower officials will also be given to you. Hold on."

"Haha, Zhong Su has already made a package, so don't hesitate, get on the horse now!"

The other Xiao Che had turned on his horse and took the whip. Hearing Gu Juefei's seemingly polite, but actually a bit fearful words, he couldn't help laughing.

Gu Juefei smiled, only thanked Zhong Su, and then turned over and said, "Where does the emperor want to go?"

"On the mountain."

With a flick of the whip, Xiao Che pointed to the long road up the other mountain in front, and Xiao Che set the direction, called out "Go", and immediately ran away.

Gu Juefei naturally followed.

There was still a thin mist in the mountains. When the wind was wrapped in the wind, it wetted his robes, and also wet the eyebrows of his knife cut ink painting.

Mercedes all the way, no one speaks.

Only the horses hooves, splashing slightly damp dust, all the way to the heels.

It wasn't until he was halfway up the mountain that Xiao Che felt slightly tired, stopped his horse, took his horse whip, and pointed at the bottom of the cliff: "Climb high and look far. Six years, you see how this imperial capital is ?"

This is a mountain next to the Jokhang Temple, which is higher and steeper.

At this height, the entire Jokhang Temple can already be overlooked, and the entire Imperial Capital can be overlooked from a distance.

The city walls are high, houses and shops are lined up.

The outer city with clear layers, the inner city, and the Forbidden Palace surrounded by the middle, at a glance, there is a contemptuous majesty in the atmosphere of fireworks.

Just looking at it like this can give birth to the pride above the stratus.

Gu Juefei stopped behind Xiao Che and said, "The prosperity is better than the past, and the people are all happy. The emperor must have worked hard for the past six years, and it has been very effective."

"Hahaha..."

Xiao Che couldn't help but burst into laughter, but there was a sigh in his voice.

"You know exactly how I got on the throne back then. How could I dare to slack off? I'm too tired to think of this emperor."

Isn't it tiring to be an emperor, but not to be a minister?

What's the use of breaking in front of him?

I'm so tired, just get out of here.

Gu Juefei smiled slightly, but there was a wise understanding and compassion in his eyes: "I am tired of you, the emperor, but the people of the world benefit. As for those things in the past, they have already passed, so why worry about it?"

In the palace change thirteen years ago, the Gu family was an important force.

As the head of the Gu family, Gu Juefei is very clear.

At that time, Emperor Shunxuan was seriously ill, and his storage position was undetermined.

The queen was born in the Wei family, but she is now Taifu Wei's younger sister, Wei Qiang. The seventh prince under his knees is only five years old, but because his body is too weak, he has always been in danger of dying, so he only has a baby name.

Also, Xiao Qi, the fourth prince from the Emperor Chen's concubine, was always loved by the late emperor.

Xiao Che is the first emperor's third prince, and his biological mother is the unpopular Duan Concubine Ji's. She has a mild personality and is not very outgoing.

If it weren't for that palace change, no one could believe that he was the one who finally ascended the throne.

It is said that:

Emperor Shunxuan was seriously ill, and the fourth prince Xiao Qi learned that he had made a widow, asking the seventh prince to succeed him. Wei Wei, even the seven-year-old prince who was only five years old was not spared.

Fortunately, Taishi Gu arrived in time, and Princess Yongning brought troops in, so the fourth prince finally failed.

Only at that time, the seventh prince who was supposed to inherit the throne was helpless, the queen even committed suicide, and the fourth prince was also guilty of treason, so he definitely could not inherit the great treasure.

As a result, Gu Taishi took the lead and supported Xiao Che, the third prince who was not outstanding at the time, and stabilized the court.

So far, thirteen years have passed.

The fourth prince died of illness in prison long ago, and those who participated in the palace change in the past have also turned into dust in the midst of various changes.

Those who are brooding, have no chance to speak again; those who benefit from them are naturally tight-lipped.

As for what I didn't know before, there will never be a day when I know it.

In the world, the truth doesn't really matter that much.

Gu Juefei was silent for a long time and did not speak.

Xiao Che also stood for a long time, his eyes slowly retracted from the high wall of the prosperous imperial capital, and fell to the front of the Jokhang Temple.

Those people got the news that Gu Juefei had left, and most of them have dispersed, but there are still a few unwilling, suspicious, wandering around the mountain gate.

"Now in the capital, everyone is looking forward to your return. The court and the opposition, and even more because of the establishment of the reserve, are fighting with each other and become a mess. Even the old ministries under Xue Kuang's hands are also due to the differences between the imperial court and the Western Regions. The matter of ethnic negotiation is tossing up and down through conflicts with the civil servants..."

It's a terrible thing to say.

Xiao Che finally couldn't hold back and sneered: "They will all kill me!"

After so long, I finally used the word "zhen".

Gu Juefei's slender fingers lightly tapped the slightly barbed horse whip, silently, and did not attract the attention of others at all, rather leisurely.

He only said: "The most important thing in the court is the old confused. Six years ago, didn't the emperor already know it very well?"

Six years ago.

Understoodly, I started to scold Master Gu again.

Xiao Che heard clearly.

"You are determined to go back, but do you still remember what happened back then?"

"The flawless plan almost ended in failure, and I only learned after the fact that there is still an old man in the world, and I wish his son died and stabbed him in the back..."

He has to wonder if he is the head of the Gu family!

Gu Juefei flicked the whip, and did not want to talk about the past.

"It's getting late. The emperor left the political affairs in the court and was afraid that he would not be able to deal with it again when he turned around. It's better to go back earlier."

"What about you?" Xiao Che asked him.

Gu Juefei looked down the mountain, turned the horse's head directly, and said, "An old man with cold legs, he asked someone to tell me eight hundred times in secret. Today's birthday is for the sake of face, but also I have to make a trip to Huishengtang to see what the surname Zhang is capable of, and has been arrogant for more than ten years."

After he finished speaking, he didn't salute any more and went down the mountain after hitting the horse.

Xiao Che knew that he was going to return to Shengtang, and he would meet the stinky ghost hand Zhang and ask Taishi Gu for medicine.

Is it so easy to lose the father-son relationship?

Even if Taishi Gu gave him three or two knives behind his back, it would not change the fact that he was the son taught by Taishi Gu himself.

Gu Juefei, who has such a weak underbelly, is particularly reassuring.

Most of the guards around were newly replaced in the past few years, and for a while they were frightened by Gu Juefei's almost contemptuous rudeness and dared not speak.

Only Xiao Che, looking at the disappearing one person and one horse, only felt that arrogance, as before!

I couldn't help but laughed.

"His true temperament is only revealed to me..."

In the words, there is no meaning to investigate at all.

The road down the mountain is still very long.

Innumerable people who came to Gu Juefei rushed back to the capital to return to the capital, but many people who were celebrating Gu Juefei's longevity listened to it, and secretly became helpless.

The banquet in the front hall has gradually opened up. Lu Jiuling and Princess Yongning rarely got together to talk a few words; the back garden has also been set up long ago, divided into two rooms, inside and outside, with melon and fruit snacks. The table is full, the clothes are fragrant and the temples are shadowed, and the conversation is full of words.

The people sitting outside are ordinary foreign women, and there are some officials from the family who have gathered to talk.

The topic is actually half a sentence from Gu Juefei.

He is like a beautiful jade, Tanhuajidi, an elegant gentleman, not to mention his own abilities, but also the direct descendant of the Gu family and the future head of the family.

The most important thing is that she is not married yet.

Even though Gu Juefei is twenty-nine years old, many people are still looking forward to getting married under the aura.

In the past six years, the lady of the official family in the capital has already changed a lot.

The people who were so amazed by Master Gu back then are now mostly married for the sake of their mothers. Even if there is any idea in my mind, I have to hold back.

But the newly-replaced stubble, isn't it trapped again?

It can be regarded as one after another.

As soon as Lu Jinxi and Lu Jiuling parted ways, she was led by the maid and walked around the outside world, and the chatter passed by her ear.

The inner room is still ahead.

The house had already been seated with the imperial court's first-class official and several ladies of the country.

Lu Jinxi just walked over, and before she could enter the door, she heard a somewhat elderly voice inside and sighed deeply.

"The sky is pitiful, and it's another group of girls who don't know how high the sky is."

"Young Master Gu, there are people who want to take two bites of this hard bone. I'm not afraid of breaking a tooth!"