Chapter 1: Stand up, I'll help you

Author: Naughty Gu Gu

Chapter 1: Stand up, I'll help you

In March, although the snow has melted, there is still a biting chill at night.

It was already midnight, and the huge Yong'an Marquis Mansion was silent. The maids and servants who were watching the night were afraid of waking up the sleeping master, so they did not dare to make any noise. Even yawning only dared to secretly.

The swaying candlelight shines in the lanterns hanging under the eaves, but it is so weak that it can only illuminate the small part of the land.

In Furong Courtyard, Madam Xu just walked out of the house and was about to retreat, her eyes flew across the yard, and her raised feet stopped again.

The cousin who was picked up from Jiangzhou was as young as the age of the hairpin, as fresh as a flower stained with rain and dew.

The deeper and heavier the wet clothes were pressed against her body, and the graceful figure of her daughter showed.

I followed the old lady. The noble ladies of all sizes in Beijing had seen it, but I couldn't help but exclaim.

This body and appearance are no less than the princesses in the palace.

The old prince in Prince Gong's mansion only took a look at him by accident and fell in love with him. On the next day, someone brought the betrothal gift and said he wanted to take it home as a concubine.

If she was the granddaughter of the old lady's relative, she would probably find a way to keep the person if she gave up her face. It's a pity that her biological mother was just accompanying the house.

The old lady didn't like girls born with illegitimate children, so she would not stand up for her granddaughter, who was born with illegitimate children. After receiving the betrothal gift, she returned to the old prince and said that she would send the person to the mansion in two days.

Without an unpopular cousin, he got the old prince's in-laws. The old lady made a lot of money in this transaction.

Both mansions have what they want, but they don’t know how they laugh in private, so they just feel sorry for their cousin.

When she was young, she lost her father and mother and was taken back to her home. She thought she could live a peaceful life, but she didn't expect that she would be sent to an old prince who was enough to be her grandfather as a concubine.

The cold wind blew by, and seeing the beautiful flowers coming down to the branches, Madam Xu could not put her heart down.

She looked around and saw that no one was approaching softly. She sighed, "The old lady has already fallen asleep, so she should go back."

Not to mention the old lady, even the maids and servants in the mansion have almost all sleep. They just pity her and are still kneeling here.

"Although the old prince has a rift with His Majesty, his seniority is all there. How dare the old lady offend him?"

Although the Gu family is a family of two marquises, the marquis was mediocre and could not win the holy heart after half of his life, and the marquis's mansion gradually declined.

If the eldest young master had not enlisted in the army early and made great achievements, Kyoto would have long had no foothold in the Marquis' Mansion.

At present, the one who dares to offend the old prince in this mansion can no longer find a second one except the eldest son Gu Tingshu, who was conferred the title of Zhenbeihou.

"If a girl doesn't want to marry, go find someone who can make the decision for you. Why not be destroyed by the cold wind?"

After the old lady finished speaking, she sighed again, and without waiting for Shen Qiuqiu to look up, she quietly retreated again.

After kneeling for a few hours, a burst of heart-wrenching pain came from my legs. The sweat from my body wet my clothes. When the cold wind blew, it turned out to be cool and heart-wrenching.

Seeing another bright light burning under the eaves, knowing that the old lady would not be soft-hearted, Shen Qiuqiu sat on the ground and was stunned for a long time before slowly getting up.

The dim candlelight reflected her thin body, and her three-step swaying look seemed to fall over in the next moment.

But even if a weak girl encounters unwilling things, she will feel a little resilience in her heart. Although the beautiful flowers are weak, they will slowly come out of Furong Courtyard with the wall.

After dragging his heavy body through the corridor, Chen Qiuqiu could no longer support him before returning to his yard. When his body became soft, he slowly slid on the ground against the pillar.

Looking at the quiet yard, she felt sad.

I have never left the yard at night, but I didn't know that in the late night, I couldn't even find a maid or servant.

If she was asked to leave alone now, she would probably not be able to hold on to Qingzhu Xiaozhu.

After thinking about the days after entering the Marquis' Mansion, water mist appeared in her eyes again.

If she thinks she is annoying, why should she call someone to Jiangzhou to pick her up for nothing? Although her parents died early, there are still many relatives.

For a few words of praise, she was taken to the mansion, but she ignored her. Now she still wants to marry her to an old prince who is over 50 years old.

All of her doing was to deceive her parents and her deceased relatives were far away in Jiangzhou.

She was sent to the royal palace two days later. When the clan relatives heard the news, they were helpless at that time.

The chill kept drilling into his body, his head was confused, and it seemed that it was no longer his own.

Chen Qiuqiu couldn't think, and just sighed that he might as well die like this, but he would be clean after death.

When I leaned against the pillar, I was about to fall asleep, I suddenly heard a steady sound of footsteps.

She slowly turned her head and saw the man slowly coming out of the shadow through the mottled light and shadow.

The man was wearing a black cloak and a long sword around his waist. He seemed to have just returned from the Heavenly Prison, and his evil spirits were not yet faded.

When Chen Qiuqiu saw him, he remembered that when he first met, the young man was standing in a pool of blood with a spear in his hand, and his whole body was filled with bandits who had been killed by him.

Although she knew that those people deserved it, the young man's red-eyed and evil spirits were still deeply imprinted in her mind.

Because of that glance, she had countless nightmares when she was a child, and when she thinks about it now, she still can't help but feel trembling.

As the man slowly approached, the strong smell of blood stained on the cloak was overwhelming, pushing her out of breath.

The old madam's words suddenly sounded in his ears, and Chen Qiuqiu seemed to have lost his mind and reached out to hold the raised cloak.

The golden eagle embroidered on the cloak seemed to come alive, and was about to pounce on her with its teeth and claws.

Chen Qiuqiu became more and more frightened, but he did not dare to loosen his hand, but just trembled and tightened it.

The force that involves the cloak is too light. If it weren't for keenness, I'd probably skipped it.

Gu Tingshu stopped, lowered his head, and his eyes fell on his hands holding the corner of his clothes.

The slender and slender five fingers, I don’t know if it was because the night was too cold or too hard, was so pale that I couldn’t see a trace of blood.

Chen Qiuqiu was not sure if he would offend a prince with a concubine, but he did not take back his cloak, and she felt two hope in her heart.

Holding the cloak tightened her hands tightened little by little, she mustered up the courage to look up, but hit the man's black pupils.

The man's eyes were too cold, and he shuttled into his bones along the air. Chen Qiuqiu shivered, his mouth opened, and as soon as he said it, he was blown away by the wind.

"Tomorrow morning, I will follow the prince to Yuntaishan to serve incense for the Queen Mother."

Maybe she was muttering for too long, and the man had exhausted his patience and suddenly spoke.

Although Yuntai Mountain is only half a day away from Kyoto, it takes two more days to serve incense for the Queen Mother. This trip took three days to pass.

If she doesn't say it now, she will never have the chance to speak again.

Chen Qiuqiu took a breath of cold air, intending to slow down his mind, but he didn't expect that his body would tremble even harder.

Her eyes turned red, tears rolling in her eyes, but she stubbornly refused to fall.

"Cousin, help me..."

Her soft crying voice was trembling, and she could understand her grievances and helplessness without discernment.

"Cousin, help me..."

She repeated this sentence, but the sound was not loud, but it was enough to break the cold wind and get into her ears.

Looking at her swollen eyes, Gu Tingshu's hand hidden under the cloak was placed on the hilt of the sword, pushing his knuckles out half an inch, and slowly retracting them back.

He repeated this action until the person who was almost crawling on the ground was deflated and was about to lie on the ground, then he spoke:

"Chen Qi, stand up!"

"Stand up and I'll help you!"

(End of this chapter)
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