Chapter Forty-Four: Do You Believe in Fate?
The artificial lake in the southern suburbs of Princess Mansion is a thousand acres of water with sparkling blue waves. The spring breeze blows and turns into thousands of jumping and rolling waves.
A few small boats floated around on the lake, and birds flew low over the water, leaving behind a few crisp calls. The temperature in early spring was still slightly chilly, and the water in the early morning was covered with white mist and smoke.
In a pavilion by the lake, a handsome and elegant man in white looked at the clear water of the lake, lost in thought. After a long time, he took out a hole flute from his arms, and a flute music played leisurely from it, melodious and melodious, and the vocal music was mixed with lingering notes.
affection.
"Pah, pah, pah!"
There was a burst of applause from behind, and then a clear voice sounded.
"A tender song, played so tactfully, does the consort have something on his mind?"
The man playing Xiao was none other than Guo Nuan. At this moment, he didn't expect someone to come quietly behind him.
"Oh, it turns out it's Shengping. Why did you come to the lakeside early in the morning? Was it for a walk?"
Shengping, dressed in a green smoke skirt, stepped up the steps of the pavilion slowly and slowly approached Guo Nuan, with a beautiful smile on her pretty face.
"Well, I woke up early in the morning. I saw that the weather outside was sunny and I felt relaxed and happy, so I went out to relax alone. Unexpectedly, I met the Prince Consort."
Shengping and Guo Nuan stood side by side, looking at the lake scenery together.
"Well, sister Ruoshui came to see me yesterday."
Shengping stared ahead quietly, while Guo Nuan seemed to have made no movement and remained silent, as if he was worried about something. Shengping couldn't help but be the first to break the silent atmosphere.
"Well, she came to see you, probably about Kang Wan." Guo Nuan put the purple bamboo flute away in the sleeves of her gown and responded calmly.
Shengping tilted his head and looked at the purple bamboo flute that originally belonged to her. Seeing Guo Nuan put it away carefully, he couldn't help but smile sweetly.
"That night a few days ago, you stayed out all night, and your schoolboys Ah Fu, Luo Yuan, and Park Shangxuan were all anxious." Shengping did not mention anything about Kang Wan, and ignored her lightly.
Guo Nuan turned his face and looked at Shengping. The beautiful woman next to him was standing in front of the railing of the pavilion. She just looked ahead quietly and did not look back. The breeze gently blew through the woman's long jade-like temples on the side of her face, making her look charming.
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"Well, I heard from Ah Fu that throughout the night, you sent a large number of servants to look for me outside."
Guo Nuan could see that not only Ah Fu and the others, but also Sheng Ping were also concerned about his safety.
She pulled back her hair that was slightly tousled by the wind, lowered her head, and blush appeared on both sides of her cheeks. She showed a faint hint of shyness. Shengping nodded and smiled, revealing her scallop-like white teeth:
"After all...how can a wife and concubine have nothing to worry about?"
"That night, I stayed out with a woman all night long. Can you trust me and her innocence?" Guo Nuan hesitated for a moment and asked Shengping.
Shengping slowly raised his head, and looked at Guo Nuan quietly with his clear eyes. The two of them were silent for a while, and a pair of talented people and beautiful ladies stood quietly in the spring scenery of the lake.
"Kang Wan... Well, I met her once in the palace many years ago. She has an aloof temperament and a cool temperament. If it were a man, most of them would be deeply infatuated with her unique temperament. But... I believe you are innocent.
, I believe in my husband’s character.”
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Three days have passed since that night, and time has passed quickly. That night, when a large number of officials were chasing them, Guo Nuan and Kang Wan were fleeing through a dense forest path. Unexpectedly, Guo Nuan sprained his foot at the critical moment.
Originally, Guo Nuan had given up on escaping and planned to let Kang Wan escape first. However, he was knocked unconscious by Kang Wan without warning. When Guo Nuan woke up, he found himself lying on the couch in the princess's mansion.
Everything developed so fast that Guo Nuan had no time to react. Kang Wan's appearance that night seemed like a dream.
One moment they were strangers passing each other in a hurry on the bustling street, and the next moment they met by chance. Is this fate, or is it God's will? Kang Wan, such a strange woman, with her clear eyes and gentle voice,
And aloof temper'
I heard that the concierge guarding the gate of the princess's mansion said that early the next morning after Guo Nuan went out all night, the servant was awakened by a knock on the door. When the servant opened the door and took a look, he was suddenly surprised to see that his consort was being held by a masked woman.
He stood quietly at the door.
Guo Nuan could imagine that he must have looked very embarrassed when he fainted while sleeping. He forgot to mention that he had a habit of drooling while sleeping.
Moreover, as a big man, he was being held by a petite woman. However, he also knew that for a woman like Kang Wan who was extremely skilled in martial arts, her petite body and strength were completely inversely proportional. She could hold a heavy object weighing more than one hundred kilograms
, it is still more than enough to walk from the eastern suburbs of Waiguocheng to the western suburbs of Princess Shengping Mansion.
However, Kang Wan preferred not to escape first, and took the risk of returning to the western suburbs from the eastern suburbs for more than 20 miles, and finally sent Guo Nuan safely back to the princess mansion. Guo Nuan was deeply moved in her heart, so much so that even though it was short
After spending a whole night together, her beautiful image could not be left in my mind.
At the end, Kang Wan handed the heavy body of Guo Nuan to the male servant who barely caught it. She asked the servant to pass the sentence to Guo Nuan:
"Well, just say thank you for the white jade pendant given to me on the streets of Chang'an City that day. I have always worn it with me."
When the servant handed this inexplicable sentence to Guo Nuan, Guo Nuan stood quietly in the corner for a long time without speaking.
"Ah Fu, do you think fate really exists?" At a certain moment of the day, Guo Nuan was cooking in the kitchen, Ah Fu was helping his young master beside him, and suddenly Guo Nuan said something out of nowhere.
"Uh, Ah Fu doesn't quite understand this." Ah Fu was stunned for a moment, then scratched the back of his head and smiled silly.
In fact, Guo Nuan just asked casually, and he didn't expect to get a clear answer from Ah Fu, a little boy who had just budded into adolescence.
Two months ago, Ah Fu accompanied Guo Nuan while shopping on the streets of Chang'an. Under the overpass, he met a woman who had sold her body to bury her father. The woman was wearing a shady hat. At that time, Guo Nuan had an argument with a butcher selling meat.
There was a quarrel.
In the face of injustice, when Guo Nuan had no cash, he would rather give away the family heirloom jade pendant to help the woman. It was an unintentional act, but he did not expect to meet that woman, Kang Wan, again in the future.
After careful consideration, the corpse Kang Wan placed on the street that day was definitely not that of her father. Her father was An Lushan, who died in the war three years ago.
The day after returning home, Guo Nuan found Zhang Hu. With Zhang Hu working in the Official Records Department of the Ministry of Personnel, Guo Nuan easily obtained information about An Lushan, other relatives, and generals.
of details.
Kang Wan, whose surname was Kang, actually followed the ancestral surname of her father, An Lushan. An Lushan's mother was originally a witch from a Hu tribe. Later, she violated the clan rules that witches were not allowed to marry, and secretly married a member of the Kang Kingdom in the Western Regions.
When a businessman gets married, as the name suggests, the people of Kang country all have the surname Kang.
Chapter completed!