The chirping of summer cicadas makes people feel very irritable.
Gao Yanan's mood was calm and sweet.
Facing a big river, she was leaning on a haystack and reading a letter.
"You also know how to say sorry to me?... If sorry is useful, what else do you, a junior official in the Criminal Division, do?"
She whispered so softly, as if she was speaking unhappily to the person who wrote the letter.
But there was no sign of anger between her pretty eyes, especially when she thought of this man's expression when he wrote to her, and when she thought that this man was no longer a member of the town police station of the Criminal Division, she couldn't help but laugh.
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Suddenly a silver-robed scribe "walked" on the river.
The silver-shirted scribe "walked" along the Yingwu River so quickly and quietly that even the guards on the far corner tower didn't notice.
Gao Yanan suddenly discovered the silver-shirted scribe who was riding the waves when he was only fifty or sixty steps away from her.
This is a middle-aged man with a clear face. He is very good-looking, somewhat similar to Gao Yanan's face, and has an innate look of justice and majesty.
There were two thin wooden splinters under his feet, which seemed to be sucked to his feet. After coming from this big river, he didn't even get wet on the uppers of his black cloth boots.
This is a practitioner who is so powerful that one feels inhuman.
However, Gao Yanan was not too surprised when she saw this upright silver-shirted scribe. She just put away the letter in her hand and stood up. The happiness and sweetness on her face disappeared as she stood up.
Hidden, only silent.
The silver-robed scribe walked up to her and looked at her quietly.
"Father." Gao Yanan saluted him calmly.
A faint pain flashed through the eyes of the silver-robed scribe, and he whispered: "Are you unhappy when I come to see you?"
Gao Yanan didn't say anything or cover up, and nodded.
The silver-shirted scribe knows Gao Yanan's temperament best, but he is also the most helpless about this temperament.
"For the safety of you and your mother, that's why I don't let you be by my side." The silver-shirted scribe looked at Gao Yanan for a long time, finally sighed, and asked Gao Yanan to sit down in front of the haystack with him.
Gao Yanan sat down, looked at the river, and said, "I know."
The silver-robed scribe smiled bitterly: "But you still hate me."
"I just don't like it." Gao Yanan shook his head.
The silver-shirted scribe looked at Gao Yanan's eyebrows and saw that she had grown like this. The more he looked at her, the more he fell in love with her. However, thinking that he could not be as close as a normal father and daughter, he felt even more sad: "Then how can I make you like her?
"
Gao Yanan turned his head, looked at him seriously, and said, "This is something you have to consider. With my daughter's intelligence, how can I teach you how to do it?"
"You are speaking out of anger." The silver-shirted scribe said helplessly.
"Then what do you want me to do?" Gao Yanan looked at him and said, "I have almost forgotten your face. You didn't even come back when my mother died of illness. You hope that you can come see me just once and be with me."
After saying a few words, can I be happy and forget everything, with a father who is a complete stranger, like other fathers and daughters?"
The silver-shirted scribe looked at Gao Yanan blankly.
In his eyes, she has always been a little girl, but now, he understands that she has truly grown up. There is indeed nothing he can refute about what she said and her reasons.
The silver-shirted scribe sighed in his heart and said softly: "I know that you have exchanged letters with an academy student named Lin Xi. Do you like him?"
Gao Yanan did not deny it, frowned slightly and said: "Yes."
"You'd better not have too much interaction with him." The silver-shirted scribe also frowned and said solemnly: "He is too sharp and can be easily broken like steel. In the near future, he may be transferred to the dangerous place of Dragon Snake."
land."
Gao Yanan's brows furrowed even more tightly, but his face remained very calm as he said, "Thank you, father, for telling me this, but no one from Qingluan Zhige will be afraid of danger."
"How can one person's human power be able to contend with the many forces in this world?"
The silver-shirted scribe shook his head and said: "Jiang Yanguan had contact with Lin Xi before. Because of you, I also met with him. His most critical comment about Lin Xi was 'I am afraid that everything will not be in his eyes'.
One sentence. I'm afraid that even if Lin Xi can live forever without dying early, he will become a hero like Wen Ren Cang Yue. So he is not a good match. You can still stand up while you are in deep trouble. Otherwise, I'm afraid you will be even more miserable in the future.
.”
Gao Yanan turned his head.
In the past years, she had already learned how to accept or reject some things calmly, so from the moment she saw the silver-shirted scribe today, her attitude has always been very calm. However, when she heard this, a look on her face
But for the first time, he was angry and sarcastic: "Lin Xi is not a good match, so who is? Is it Tuojiang, the eldest grandson of the prince who has been hiding his identity and sent to practice unknown where?
?I heard my mother say before that the Holy One has always had the idea of betrothing me to him."
The silver-shirted scribe also controlled his emotions and said seriously and softly: "I know the prince very well. To be fair, he is indeed much more suitable than Lin Xi."
"Also, if I marry him, I am afraid that the current Holy Emperor will be more at ease with you as the chief minister, father!" Gao Yanan turned her head, her face turned pale, and she said angrily: "These... are all
Your ideas, you think these are right and good for us, but have you ever considered our ideas, have you ever thought about what we want, what we like?”
The silver-robed scribe paused.
Gao Yanan's angry voice then sounded: "We can all understand that there are many people who want to assassinate you or your relatives. It is indeed safer for us if you let no one know about our existence, but you know that every day
Not being able to see you, worrying about being far away every day...is it more painful than sharing life and death? Do you know that your mother would rather stay with you in the capital, even if you are assassinated in the end? This is always better than a cold death of old age and illness...if she doesn't
It may be much better and happier if she cares about you, but she cares about you, Mr. Shofu! Others say that there are many forces in this world that cannot be countered by one person. I have no objection at all, but you say such things
, but it’s just too ridiculous.”
Gao Yanan's voice was lower, but colder: "The key is whether you are willing to do it and whether you are willing to think about how to make me happy."
The silver-robed scribe opened his mouth, and Gao Yanan glanced at him, but his words were stuck in his throat and he could only smile bitterly.
With the emperor on one side and his daughter on the other, this choice will not be easy no matter what.
The silver-shirted scribe thought a lot at this moment, and suddenly had many unspeakable feelings. Perhaps every man will have many inexplicable changes in his mood after becoming a father. Thinking of that person he has always cared about, but he has already
The woman he would never see again, and seeing the green and stubborn daughter in front of him, his mood was as moist as the misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River, but the expression on his eyebrows and the corners of his mouth became solemn and determined.
"Okay, I respect your decision." He looked at Gao Yanan seriously and sincerely promised: "I will work hard to do it."
Gao Yanan turned her head again, as if she had not expected that he would give such an answer. However, seeing his affirmative look and his nodding again, her nose suddenly felt a little sour.
"Okay." She was a little hesitant, but she knew that people should know how to love rather than hate. She also understood that her parents' love for her was sincere, so despite some hesitation, she still reached out her hand and held out her hand.
My little finger reached out to the hand of the silver-robed scribe, "Let's pull the hook."
The silver-robed scribe was inexplicably surprised. He was stunned for a moment before he came to his senses and stretched out his hand.
"She has grown up after all." He sighed in his heart, and when he touched his daughter's finger, the world in his heart suddenly gained many new colors, and everything in his eyes seemed to become more vivid.
The river in front of him became quiet, and then froze in this drunken summer afternoon. As it rose higher, a beautiful ice flower formed in front of him and Gao Yanan.
…
It’s time for a girl to get married.
The marriage age of Yunqin women is not very old, and most of them have already discussed marriage when they are fifteen or sixteen years old, and have made a lifelong commitment.
In this hot summer day, Gao Yanan is not the only female student at Qingluan College who talks about life-long events.
Qin Xiyue also happened to be discussing marriage with an old housekeeper at home.
It is often said that every first-rank general, minister, and doorman has the prestige of a seventh-rank official. The Qin family has been officials for six generations from the previous dynasty to Yun Qin. The old butlers of the official family naturally carry a different kind of dignity.
Even though this old housekeeper with white beard and hair and wearing a gauze hat was very respectful in front of Qin Xiyue, his tone was also indescribably serious and cold: "Miss... you make such a decision, I will never accept it."
Will agree."
Qin Xiyue looked at him and said, "I will not change my decision."
The old housekeeper frowned: "I will convey what you mean... But both the Xu family and the Zhou family are much more powerful than our Qin family. The two young masters will definitely have great achievements in the future. Is it possible that the young lady has
Is there anyone else you like? If there is, I can tell the master, and maybe he will weigh in."
Qin Xiyue shook her head, with a faint cold light shining on her beautiful and delicate face, "It's not because of this, it's because I don't want to rely on men to live... I am a practitioner, and I can be an official or a general."
The old housekeeper nodded and sighed, "Miss, you can think so, but others may not think so. The Zhou family is okay, the Xu family...if you have someone you like in the future, I'm afraid you will take your anger out on him."
"That will happen in the future." Qin Xiyue sneered. Thinking of Xu Zhenyan and Lin Xi, she couldn't help but lightly shook her head, thinking that Xu Zhenyan might have already hated Lin Xi.