The beautiful pastoral field of Jiangmen girl

Chapter 523 Sending Invitations (1)
Zhou Boyan said his farewell, and then left with his own people.Their figures quickly merged into the night and disappeared without a trace.

The man leaned lazily on the door frame of the courtyard door, fiddled with the orchid fingers for a moment, then turned and closed the door, and went back to the house.As he passed the oil lamp that was lighting on the table, he tried to blow it out, but saw paper on the table.He pinched it with two fingers, saw that it was two silver notes of 1000 taels, and sighed, "This guy is always so polite."

He received the bank note, blew out the oil lamp and went inside.In a moment, in the darkness, someone jumped out from the wall of the backyard, and disappeared into the night in a blink of an eye.

This courtyard was rented for a penny.When the time expires, if the owner of the house comes to check, he will definitely find that the contents of the house are intact, except that the lamp oil is less.

Zhou Boyan took people to the post house next to the Yamen.After everyone settled down, he sent someone to call Gu Ruixing over to talk.

Cai Jian hurriedly reported, "My lord, Mr. Gu took the dumb girl he caught and went somewhere, and he didn't take anyone with him."

"what happened?"

Cai Jian didn't dare to hide it, so he told how he caught a dumb girl and how Gu Ruixing abnormally took the dumb girl away.

At this time, someone came to report that Master Gu had returned.

Zhou Boyan asked everyone else to step down, leaving Gu Ruixing to stay alone.

With no outsiders around, Gu Ruixing unceremoniously sat across from Zhou Boyan, snatched Zhou Boyan's tea and drank it.Then he said apologetically, "I neglected my duty tonight and let the female leader nicknamed Second Lord run away. I accept the punishment."

Zhou Boyan, who looked sleepy, left his chair and started to pace the ground, "Tell me about the dumb girl you caught. Where did you take her?"

When it comes to the identity of dumb aunt, Gu Ruixing can hide it from anyone, but he can't hide it from Zhou Boyan.Not to mention personal acquaintances, he found the person when he was on a business, and if he wanted to take the person away, he always had to tell his superiors that he was not.

Dumb girl's name is Shen Yuehua, she is the direct granddaughter of Gu Ruixing's mother's direct second elder brother's family, that is, the direct granddaughter of Shen Wannian, the servant of the servant.

Three years ago, 15-year-old Shen Yuehua was recognized as the number one beauty in Beijing.There are rumors at the moment that the emperor intends to accept her as a concubine.It was also said that there were rumors in the palace that the emperor intended to designate her to a certain prince as his concubine.At that time, only the eldest prince and the second prince were old enough to marry.And the third prince is only a few months older than her, so it is unlikely that he will marry the concubine.

When this kind of unverifiable, half-true rumor spread more and more widely in the backyard of the court ministers, suddenly one day, the Empress Dowager summoned Shen Wannian's wife.The person who was in charge of spreading the word was the celebrity who served the Queen Mother. This celebrity hinted that Shen Wannian's wife wanted to bring Shen Yuehua into the palace.

When the Queen Mother saw Shen Yuehua who had entered the palace with Mrs. Shen, she praised Shen Yuehua for being virtuous, beautiful and dignified.Then, the queen mother changed the topic, and mentioned one or two things about the eldest prince and the second prince in a derogatory and implicit way.

At the same time, the court was discussing the establishment of a prince.

For the courtiers who have been immersed in officialdom for many years, this is a signal.Some people think that Shen Yuehua is undoubtedly the candidate for the crown princess approved by the royal family.Which prince Shen Yuehua bestows the marriage on, that prince will undoubtedly be the new crown prince.Although the third prince was born to Empress Zhong, due to various reasons, Empress Zhong was not favored by the sage, and consequently, the third prince was not favored.The other princes are still young, and their mother and concubine have no influence, so it is unlikely that they will be established as princes.In fact, the candidate for the prince is two first and one first, either the eldest prince or the second prince.

At such a sensitive time, Shen Yuehua fell seriously ill.After resting for more than a month, her condition improved and she was able to get out of bed and walk around.

At the same time, the matter of establishing the crown prince was left alone, and no one mentioned it anymore.The rumors that Shen Yuehua might become the concubine also faded away.

Shen Yuehua recovered, and Mrs. Shen felt that it was the result of the blessing of the Buddha.So, Mrs. Shen took her daughter-in-law, granddaughter and other female relatives to the temple to burn incense and worship Buddha.The accident happened during this trip of burning incense and worshiping Buddha.Shen Yuehua disappeared, and the four servant girls and a mother-in-law who served her were all killed in the guest room where the pilgrims rested.

Shen Wannian and Shen Shizhong were anxious and angry. Although publicizing this matter would bring bad reputation to his granddaughter Shen Yuehua, if he did not publicize it, he would miss the opportunity to rescue his granddaughter.That day, the entire capital was full of officers and soldiers searching for and looking for people, as well as police officers looking for clues.In addition to the own people sent by the Shen family, the family soldiers of the General Gu's mansion, etc., they searched everywhere for Shen Yuehua's whereabouts.It would be an exaggeration to say that in order to find Shen Yuehua, the capital was almost turned upside down.

The strange thing is that after such a toss, I haven't gotten any relevant news, let alone found someone.

Things have changed, and now three years have passed, but the missing Shen Yuehua appeared without warning, in such an inconspicuous place as Kangxi Town, and was rescued by Gu Ruixing who was on business.Gu Ruixing was pleasantly surprised to find Shen Yuehua, but at the same time extremely worried.

Many things can happen in three years, he doesn't know what Shen Yuehua has experienced.But he knew that if Shen Yuehua could return to Beijing, he would never be able to return to his previous life, and he would still face endless rumors.

What Gu Ruixing said when he settled down with Shen Yuehua can be said to be half true and half false.The real part is that he will indeed repair a letter and return to Beijing to report to the Shen family that he is safe.The fake part is that Shen Yuehua will not stay in the ancient mansion temporarily for a few days, but will stay for a month or longer.Because he was not sure whether the Shen family would take this daughter back.

In the big family, although he has never seen the trade-offs made after weighing the pros and cons, he has heard a lot.The Shen family is different from their ancient family.Their ancient family is from the family of military commanders, there are not so many rules, and there are relatively few taboos. They are overbearing, protect their weaknesses and don't put reputation first.But the Shen family is flourishing, its children are either civil servants or literati, the rules are the sky, the reputation is the sky, too much attention, and there are many internal disputes.

So he was very worried, he wasn't sure if such a Shen family would accept Shen Yuehua at this moment.What if the Shen family abandoned Shen Yuehua?What if the Shen family randomly sent Shen Yuehua to a Zhuangzi and left him to fend for himself?
There are many boys in the Gu family, his mother has always loved Shen Yuehua very much.Therefore, before disappearing, Shen Yuehua was a frequent visitor in their ancient mansion.In this way, even though he is a cousin in seniority, he loved Shen Yuehua as his younger sister since he was a child.Because of this, he was worried about Shen Yuehua's future.

Zhou Boyan patted Gu Ruixing on the shoulder, "It's you who are worrying too much. Don't talk about other people, just talk about parents, who doesn't love their children! Children have suffered disasters, and now they can come back alive. The joy of being parents Yu will wholeheartedly protect his children."

Gu Ruixing said with a sad face, "That's because you don't know the Shen family's style. Why don't you want to go back to your mother's house when you are my mother? Isn't it because of the Shen family's disregard of family ties for the sake of rules and reputation." His mother often muttered Well, being able to marry his father is the luckiest thing in my life, and I am so lucky not to have to live by those broken rules.

(End of this chapter)