Chapter 10
When he got up the next day, Jin Shu looked at the young lady sitting in front of the mirror, her small face full of confusion and depression.

Jin Shu combed Qiao Yuan's hair with both hands flexibly, and put a jade-white hairpin on it. A snow lotus bloomed quietly on the head of the hairpin, and there was also a pendant like a lotus seed, which made Qiao Yuan look great. More elegant and elegant.

Even so, Qiao Yuan's mood has not been distracted at all, and he is still depressed.

Seeing this, Jin Shu suggested: "Miss, today Yunjing Pavilion invited a famous actress who has become popular recently to perform your favorite script."

After Qiao Yuan heard this, the sad look on his face was instantly replaced by joy, "I must go to cheer on this, Xiaoyu, go to Yunjing Pavilion and ask the shopkeeper to reserve the private room I often go to."

After Xiaoyu agreed, she went out. In the front yard, she accidentally bumped into Qi Wei, and Xiaoyu hurriedly saluted and apologized.

Qi Wei recognized that she was the new maid from Qiao Yuan's yard, and was about to go out, so she stopped her and asked, "Where are you going in such a hurry, don't you have eyes when you walk?"

Xiaoyu knelt on the ground, her tone was a little flustered: "Madam sent me to Yunjing Pavilion to book a private room, so I walked in a hurry, Miss, please don't blame me."

Qi Wei thought for a while, then said, "Yunjing Pavilion?"

The maid next to her introduced Qi Wei with a wink.

"Yunjing Pavilion is the largest teahouse in Beijing. Recently, a new famous actress is singing there. I heard that one is hard to find."

"Then you book two private rooms, if you want to be next to each other, don't tell your wife, do you understand?" Qi Wei said viciously.

Xiaoyu responded with a slight trembling. Qi Wei was satisfied with this and turned around and left.

Xiaoyu got up and went to the side door. After leaving the Houfu Gate, she came to a small stall. The stallholder was the neighbor who grew up with Xiaoyu.

Xiaoyu handed over a letter and a silver hairpin, "Brother Hong, please help me deliver the letter to Tanhualang Gu's Mansion on Chengbei West Street."

Qiao Yuan asked the housekeeper to prepare the carriage, and took the brocade book out with great interest.

When the carriage passed by the Zhou family's old shop, Qiao Yuan ordered Jin Shu to ask the store to deliver two sweet-scented osmanthus cakes to the elegant room of Yunjing Pavilion.

There was a long queue in front of Zhou's old shop, and the smell of sweet-scented osmanthus cake made Qiao Yuan's stomach full of greed.

Not long after, there was a knock on the door of the elegant room. Jin Shu opened the door and saw Gu Zhong standing in front of the door carrying four oil paper bags.

Qiao Yuan's face was filled with astonishment, and she didn't even think about Zhonghui being at the door.

Gu Zhong bowed his hands to Qiao Yuan as a salute, and said: "Just now at the old shop of the Zhou family, I heard that Madam ordered two osmanthus cakes to Yunjing Pavilion. I happened to be here too, so I helped Madam come here , I hope Madam will not blame Gu for being abrupt."

Hearing this, Qiao Yuan said, "I'd like to see Mr. Gu go over, but the private room is full of female relatives, so it's inconvenient to invite Mr. Gu in."

Jin Shu took the oil paper bag and was about to close the door.

Hearing this, Gu Chongji said in a loud voice: "Madam, do you still remember that you fell into the water in Suzhou when you were five years old?"

Qiao Yuan looked at him in surprise. Except for her mother, few people in Shangjing knew about this matter.

Could it be that he and I are old acquaintances in Suzhou?
She was trying hard to search for memories about Gu Zhong. If there was no mistake, she should have only met Gu Zhong two or three times.

The dream reappeared in Qiao Yuan's mind, and she said calmly: "Young Master Gu must have admitted the wrong person."

Beauty like a flower across the clouds

Gu Zhong stared blankly at her alienated expression: "Madam, do you really not remember me?"

Why does this tone sound like a romantic debt has come to your door?

Qiao Yuan frowned slightly, and glanced at Hongyu.

Hongyu understood and opened the door, ready to send Gu Zhong away.

Seeing that she really forgot and was about to send him away, Gu Chong was a little sad and hurriedly said: "Yuan Yuan, I'm Brother Gu. When you were still in Suzhou, I lived next door to your house."

Qiao Yuan looked at his face carefully, feeling vaguely familiar, and then remembered.

His father was sent to Suzhou to serve as an official, and Qiao Yuan was born at this time. He did not return to Beijing until he was six years old.

Next door to their house was the Gu Mansion, and Qiao Yuan remembered that there was a little brother in the Gu Mansion who would play with her.

When she was five years old, she sneaked out for fun and accidentally fell into a lake, but was rescued by Gu Zhong.

When he returned to Shangjing, Qiao Yuan cried for a long time when he knew that he would not be able to play with him in the future. Mother Qiao often teased her about it.

After not seeing her for so many years, her face was blurred. Now that she was standing in front of her, Qiao Yuan slowly turned her face to face.

He was really the neighbor brother who played with her.

It makes sense for Gu Zhong to get close to her intentionally or unintentionally.

Reunited with her childhood friend, Qiao Yuan was a little happy: "Brother Gu, it's really you."

Gu Zhong was also very happy to see her remembering.

He took out a small wooden box from his sleeve.

The wooden box was opened and pushed in front of Qiao Yuan. Inside lay a huge pearl, which was strung with a red string with a certain age and decorated with tassels underneath. It looked like an object for children to play with.

Qiao Yuan looked at the box doubtfully, then looked at Gu Zhong: "This is..."

Gu Zhong said with some regret: "You have been arguing for me for this pearl before you left. I didn't know you were no longer in Suzhou until I put it on. I was very regretful when I was a child, and I have been thinking about it until now. If A Yuan doesn't dislike it If so, accept it and keep your childhood friendship."

Qiao Yuan looked at the pearl, hesitated, and motioned to Hongyu to take it away and put it away.

"It's hard for you to remember the nonsense jokes of your childhood, which have been preserved to this day."

Qi Wei, who was in the private room next door, listened to the conversation completely.

When I first came up, I ran into Gu Zhong, she said what a coincidence, it turned out to be a private meeting with Qiao Yuan!

Qi Wei didn't even finish the play, and hurried back home with the maid again.

She wants to tell her mother about this.

"It's just that I'm a married woman now, and I still hope Mr. Gu would call me Madam. If someone listens to me, it will ruin your reputation. I can't entertain you today. I will post a post to visit Mrs. Gu some other day."

Hearing this, Gu Zhong hesitated to speak, with an unconcealable loneliness on his face.

"Since that's the case, it's Gu who is being abrupt."

After watching Gu Zhong leave, Jin Shu closed the door behind him.

After the drama ended, Qiao Yuan went home and became entangled in the pearls in the wooden box on the carriage.

One by one in the dream, why is the development completely different from what it is now, in the dream there has never been such an encounter like today, and in the dream I have never recognized Gu Zhong as my childhood playmate.

Ever since that dream, Qiao Yuan rarely went to the places she loved to go.

Even the banquet held by the aristocratic family, as long as there is care, she will turn it down.

The chance encounter with Gu Zhong seemed to have something pulling behind her. Qiao Yuan felt as if there was some answer that was about to come out, but just when she reached out to grab it, it disappeared.

Qiao Yuan couldn't think of an explanation, so she threw it away.

Soon after, Qiao Yuan's carriage entered the house, and a lightly dressed man also entered the house, but he turned and walked towards Qi Cun's study.

Qi Cun was approving official duties and listening to the man's report. When he mentioned that Gu Zhong was Qiao Yuan's childhood playmate, the hand holding the pen tightened and the pen pole split into two.

He pulled out a drawing from the side and gave it to the man, and said a few words.

(End of this chapter)

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