Traitor Concubine Growth Manual

Chapter 44

After eating, his anger subsided, Gu Qi went to the study room and shut himself in to read a book.

After a while, someone knocked on the door outside, Gu Qi instinctively felt that it was not Wanxi, so he shouted to come in, and sure enough, he saw Chu Yan walking in with a cup of ginseng tea.

He frowned habitually again, "I'm still alive and kicking around all day after my knee is injured, do you want to be hurt forever?"

Chu Yan walked up to him with a smile, and put the ginseng tea on the table, "This way is not a problem."

"From now on, just let Chen Xiang do these things." He simply gave an order, insisting that she take good care of her knees, "I just hope that you won't suffer from serious illnesses and minor injuries, lest people outside think that I am not married to the Crown Princess , but only medicine jars."

Chu Yan laughed, walked to him and pulled a strand of hair on his shoulder, twisted it with her fingers, and said in a low voice, "How can I come to see you in the study if I don't use such trivial things as serving tea and water?" Woolen cloth?"

After working on it for a long time, it turned out that it was still caused by longing.

Gu Qi's heart softened, and he patted down her hands, not big or small, not letting her play with her hair, and only looked at her angrily, while sighing, "You don't look like a princess at all."

Chu Yan looked down at him and smiled slightly, "Why should I be a princess in front of His Royal Highness? I'm just a little girl."

A little girl who needs to be held in the palm of your hand and pampered.

Gu Qi was speechless for a while, and Chu Yan was not embarrassed, she went straight to the bookshelf, "Your Highness is busy with you, I can take a look at it as I like, and I won't disturb you."

The study suddenly fell silent, she picked out a few books at random, and sat on the chair by the window to read them.

The sky outside was almost dark, and the jumping lights in the study dimly enveloped the two of them, sometimes shaking slightly with the slight cracking sound of the lanterns, and even the shadows on the ground became charming and gentle.

Gu Qi was originally reading a book on agriculture, but as he read it, he couldn't help but turn his eyes to Chu Yan.

She has always been a serious person, once she reads a book, her expression is focused and selfless.

He sighed and said it wouldn't affect him, but it was already hard for him to concentrate as long as she was sitting there.

Reading was inefficient, so he simply closed the book, stood up and walked to her side, while she buried her head in the book, ignoring the surrounding scenes for a moment.

Until his deep and sweet voice suddenly came from the top of his head, "I miss you when I don't see you, and I still remain the same when I see you. We meet each other frequently, so why don't we stay together forever?"

Chu Yan was startled suddenly, and raised her head to look at Gu Qi, but his eyes stayed on her fingertips, obviously reading the words and sentences in the book.

The remaining cold is gone, after the rain has passed, and after the Qingming Festival.The flower diameter gathers more red, and the wind marsh lingers on new wrinkles.The milk swallows wear the courtyard, and the flying catkins stick to the sleeves.It is still late at the right time, and it tastes delicious, really as strong as wine.The frequency shift brings the eyes, and the sky is only boring and thin.Think about it when you don't see it, and still remain the same when you see it. Seeing each other frequently, why do you seem to stay together forever?The sky is not old, people are not married, and this hatred will be distributed to the willow in front of the court.

This is Li Zhiyi's "Xie Chi Chun", a poem that Chu Yan didn't like very much in the past.

She has always liked Tang poetry more than Song Ci, and always felt that Tang Poetry, which is full of heroic spirit or fresh and tranquil, has a little more depth than Song Ci. A melodious sound.

It's just that today, these two sentences that seemed a little hypocritical to her in the past, read out of Gu Qi's mouth, but it seems to have something else.

His voice is sweet and low-mellow, without too much emotion, but it has a special meaning.

And the next second, Chu Yan met his gaze, only seeing a pair of gentle and clear eyes like a clear spring.

Suddenly my heart skipped a beat.

She felt guilty that she shouldn't have, because the Zhao Chuyan he saw was not the real her.Her hypocrisy and all the things that make him fall in love are actually just romances that she carefully weaves.

Now seeing such undisguised eyes, as a hunter, Chu Yan actually felt sympathy for the prey. She was aware that this was not scientific, so she turned her eyes away and did not look at him again.

"Your Highness likes Song Ci?" She asked softly.

Gu Qi simply sat on the chair next to her, picked up the cup of tea she had drunk, and took a sip very naturally, as if there was nothing wrong with doing so.

After tasting the tea, he said leisurely, "I can't say whether I like it or not. It's just that there will always be some resonance when I encounter poems that suit my mood. But at that time, it's mostly a sense of sympathy, not just appreciation of poems."

Chu Yan was taken aback for a moment, and then her eyes lit up.

This saying is really new.

It turns out that there is still such an attitude towards poetry, which is not appreciation or liking, but simply because it can affect the mood, so it is used to chew and relish.

From a certain point of view, Chu Yan felt that Gu Qi did not seem like a person of this era.

But when she was admiring the person in front of her from a high-end literary perspective, she was caught off guard by Gu Qi who raised her chin.

The person in front of him smiled slightly, his eyes were filled with the warmth of a spring breeze, his lips opened and closed, and he once again uttered charming words to her, "I miss you again when I see you, and I still feel the same after seeing you. Why don't you see each other so often?" Stay safe."

Every word, light and soft, such direct gaze and heat made Chu Yan's face flushed inch by inch, and finally even the roots of her ears became hot.

What is he doing?
What idol drama are you acting in?

embarrassed!Coward!Hypocritical!affectation!
She searched for words in her mind that could describe the brain-dead drama, but her heart beat faster and faster.

This feeling is a bit strange, like a dick's counterattack, she is the one who is the goddess, and he is the one who wants him to bow down under the pomegranate skirt, why is he suffering from a different position now?
But suddenly, Gu Qi smiled lightly, while stroking her hot red cheeks, showing narrow eyes, "Sure enough, she is cuter when she is blushing, but if she is too serious, she will be too rigid and serious."

Chu Yan's face darkened, "Your Highness is teasing me?"

"Is there?" He raised his eyebrows innocently, as if surprised, "Is this a tease?"

"Forget it!" She nodded with certainty.

"I thought it was just the joy of the boudoir, the soft words between husband and wife." He sat upright, with a meticulous appearance as if he was talking about government affairs, "However, what the concubine said is what it is, I am teasing you Of course not, then you..."

He pretended to ask for a moment, then looked at her sincerely, "Then I will admit to punishing me however you want."

Chu Yan was embarrassed.

Boudoir Pleasures...

Then how do you want to punish me, I will admit it...

Tiger oil?Whip? S that M?

A series of messy thoughts came to her mind, she pointed at Gu Qi with a red face, "Your Highness, you are too dishonest!"

Gu Qi raised his eyes and looked back at her in a leisurely manner, "I'm just admitting a mistake, how can I be unreasonable? Or...Actually, Aifei is counting on me to be unprincipled?"

Chu Yan: "Obviously you misled me!!!"

Gu Qi: "It's clear that you think too much."

Chu Yan: "...."

Seeing that she was really embarrassed, Gu Qi smiled and changed the subject, "When did you fall in love with reading?"

"I can't remember clearly, but I was probably born with a culture and loves to read." Chu Yan was flirting.

Gu Qi smiled again, and stretched out his fingers to shave her face, "I can't tell it's quite thick here."

"Praise Your Highness more." Chu Yan asked him with the same expression as usual, "When did Your Highness fall in love with reading?"

"Falling in love?" He laughed for a moment at her words, "Before I understood the joy of reading, it had become a major task in my life. When I was awake every day, besides eating and going to the toilet, I always had to be with you. When dealing with words, writing and writing, watching and watching, it becomes a habit."

Chu Yan naturally understood what he meant.

Born in an emperor's family and a prince, he had to deal with books since he was a child, and the boring thing about this kind of dealing is that, no matter what you like to read or not, as long as the tutors think it is good for you, you can read it. Had to chew them all.

Coupled with Zhao Ronghua's strictness towards him, one can imagine what Gu Qi's childhood was like.

Thinking of Zhao Ronghua, she suddenly froze for a moment, then suddenly raised her head to look at him, "Your Highness... went to Yuanxi Palace today?"

Gu Qi was silent for a moment, then nodded without denying it.

Then Chu Yan suddenly understood where his bad mood came from.

He managed to go to Yuanxi Palace once, but saw his mother looking at him with such hostile eyes, accusing and resenting him, accusing him of unnecessary crimes, but not leaving him any arguments Opportunity.

Chu Yan knew her aunt well, so she naturally knew what it would be like for her aunt to lose her mind. Her unscrupulous words would attack people indiscriminately like knives.

It was just unexpected that Chu Yan thought that Gu Qi had already despaired of this mother, or lost the last bit of affection, but since his aunt can still touch his mood and bring such a big influence on him, I'm afraid he didn't. On the surface it seems so indifferent.

Chu Yan felt that it was necessary to do something, for the sake of her aunt, and also for the sake of His Highness the Crown Prince who concealed his fragility like a hedgehog.

She took Gu Qi's hand, "Your Highness, how did you get to where you are today?"

With searching eyes and cautious tone, Gu Qi knew her intention at a glance - she wanted to ask about his past, his childhood.

He smiled, turned his head to look at the misty night outside the window, and didn't care much about whether what he said would make her feel like a poor person.

"How did you get to where you are today? It's just such a person who slowly explored and got to where you are today."

"Maybe for you, Mrs. Zhao is a very good aunt, and even treats you like your biological mother, but for me, she is not like a mother, but more like a concubine who put me in her name. She has never had a mother for me. The kindness and gentleness of the people, only the strict requirements day after day."

"Don't look at me like that, I know you'll say she's doing it for my own good, but I never think that a mother's way of treating her child well can be so cruel that she doesn't care about his life, just like training an obedient hound. Don't take it to extremes."

Shocked by the meaning hidden in his indifferent words, Chu Yan couldn't help but ask him, "Reckless? Aunt... what did she do to you?"

"What's the matter? I'm afraid it's a long story." Gu Qi didn't look back, but still looked out of the window, and said calmly, "When I was four years old, the princes and grandchildren in the palace all started to learn how to ride horses, but I lacked balance when I was a child. It is easy to fall if I walk faster, let alone riding a horse? The bloody horse my father gave me is bigger than other children's pony, so it is naturally more difficult to ride. Therefore, in the first few days, I was in the paddock My grades are very poor, if I don’t have someone to lead the horse for me, I will definitely fall over and over again, almost falling off the horse several times.”

Chu Yan listened intently, "Then... what happened next?"

"Later? Later, my mother came to Taifu and asked me about my horse riding in the paddock. It turned out that I was the slowest and worst learner of all the children, and she lost her temper at that time. In the afternoon, she finally didn't I was asked to read books in the house all afternoon, but she took me to the paddock personally, and asked the eunuch in the stable to lead a horse for me to ride, and she watched from a distance outside the paddock."

"The eunuch in the stable?" Chu Yan finally heard something was wrong, "Isn't Your Highness not good at riding a horse? The eunuch in the stable..."

It was leading the horse, not teaching people how to ride a horse, that is to say, the aunt asked the eunuch to lead the horse out, and then forced the prince who couldn't ride a horse to learn by himself?
Chu Yan's face turned pale, not to mention people who can't ride horses, in modern society, so many people who are good at riding don't have accidents because of horses?
Aunt, she really...Chu Yan really didn't know what to say, and the horror in her heart was really a bit overwhelming.

Gu Qi still continued calmly, "I was very scared, and kept begging my mother not to let the eunuch let go of the rein, but my mother just looked at me from a distance, didn't care what I was yelling, and then told the eunuch to let go .”

"I yelled a lot. Although the eunuch was also worried, he didn't dare to disobey his master's words, so he let go, and gave him a whip according to my mother's instructions. I sat on the horse and swayed, my body was unstable, and the more I cried, the more I cried. , Then the horse..." At this point, he paused, as if something was blocked in his throat, and it was very difficult for him to find the courage to continue, "Later, the horse was startled by my crying. I realized that I ran faster and faster, but my center of gravity was unstable and I fell off the horse and was injured."

Chu Yan pulled the armrest of the chair tightly, and her body froze.

"Falling from a horse..." She repeated these two words in a daze, looking at Gu Qi's back, "...is it serious?"

Gu Qi looked back at her, and said lightly, "The leg bone was injured, and I was lying on the bed for nearly two months before I could barely get out of bed and walk around. During the two months, I drank medicine every day, but my mother insisted As a prince, I have to understand the principle of eating bitterness in order to be a master from an early age, so even after drinking the medicine, I was not allowed to eat sugar, and after I stopped taking the medicine for a long time, I was anorexic."

He suddenly laughed lowly, as if thinking of something funny, "It's just that in the end I didn't dare to tell my father that my mother forced me to learn horses, because I knew that if my father found out about this, he would be furious." I blamed my mother, so everyone in the palace thought that I was unwilling to be left behind, disregarding my own safety, and insisted on riding a horse bravely, so I was injured. It’s just ridiculous to say that, since then, I have hated horses to the extreme, and never I don’t want to ride a horse, and I have never participated in hunting activities in the palace.”

He was obviously smiling, but his eyes were silent, no smile could be seen.

Chu Yan's heart suddenly twitched for a moment, she didn't know whether it was because of the child in this story who was persecuted by her mother so frightened but turned to protect her mother, or because she felt sorry for the prince who opened up the scars of his childhood with an indifferent attitude.

How much impact should that incident have had on him? The Taizu of the Xuan Dynasty conquered the world on horseback, so the princes and grandchildren have always been proud of being good at riding, but he never wanted to touch a horse again...

She used to only know that the mother and son had been angry with each other for so many years because of some misunderstanding, but she didn't know that there was such a story hidden behind what she didn't understand.

If the prince walked through such helplessness and despair in his childhood, then Zhao Ronghua would probably never be able to get his son's forgiveness in his entire life.

Many seemingly insignificant small wounds gathered in a person's childhood will become scars for a lifetime.

She stood up, not knowing what to say, she could only put her hands around his waist, put her face on his heart, and listened to his slightly dull heartbeat.

"That's all in the past, Your Highness."

Like a sigh, but also like comfort.

Gu Qi was speechless for a moment, and lowered his head to look at her black hair, slightly absent-minded.

And at such a quiet moment of embracing each other, there was an untimely knock on the door, and Wanxi said helplessly outside, "Your Highness, Princess Qingyang has come to the palace and said that she has something to see His Highness."

Both were startled.

Qingyang?

What is she here for?
(End of this chapter)