Hearing this, the expression on the man's face darkened instantly. Maybe the result he expected was not the same, but now An Ruowan's words could not be clearer, and he couldn't come back to his senses for a while.
An Ruowan didn't stay here anymore and just walked out quietly.
The last time I came here, I was worried that the man would go back on his word, so I left in a hurry. I didn't even have time to take a good look here. Now I have time. After all, I am afraid that the man will not be found for a while.
In the inn, seeing An Ruowan walking out, Gu Beichen was hesitating whether to step forward and take a look. Even with just one glance, he should be able to recognize whether that person was...
But when he walked over, he discovered that the man and An Ruowan had disappeared long ago.
The scene in front of him made him stand there, with a hint of melancholy on his face.
When Qingfeng brought breakfast, Gu Beichen suddenly raised his head and looked in front of him.
Faced with Gu Beichen's sudden and strange behavior, Qingfeng's face was full of confusion. Before he could speak, Gu Beichen's voice came from above his head.
"I heard from the princess that you were the one who was sparring with others that day?"
Upon hearing this, Qingfeng quickly knelt down to Gu Beichen, "Please punish me, Your Majesty, I am not a slave..."
Before he could finish speaking, Gu Beichen stopped him and said, "I have no other intention. I just want to ask you, do you still remember who the person you fought against that day was."
Hearing this, Qingfeng frowned unconsciously, as if he didn't expect Gu Beichen to ask about this matter.
"I don't know him. The man is covered with dirty hair, and I am not his opponent, so I didn't pay attention to his appearance."
As he finished speaking, Qingfeng felt a little guilty, otherwise he would be able to answer Gu Beichen's question now.
Gu Beichen did not dispel the doubts in his heart, but he had no intention of continuing to waste time with Qingfeng, so he waved his hand and asked him to leave first.
After Qingfeng's figure exited, Gu Beichen sat down at the table. His fingertips unconsciously tapped on the table, and his thoughts drifted back to many years ago.
At that time, the emperor's brother was not the emperor of Da Qi Kingdom, and he was also the prince under the knee of the late emperor. However, the late emperor's health was not very good at that time, and several princes were competing overtly and covertly.
He was the only one who had an ambitious brother above him, and he was willing to give his full support, so the brother had no grudges against him.
In Gu Beichen's heart, he naturally felt differently about this royal brother than others.
Even the relationship between the two brothers is vaguely enviable by other brothers.
That day when Brother Huang came back from playing in casual clothes, Gu Beichen vaguely felt that something was wrong. However, seeing that he was not injured, Gu Beichen didn't think much about it.
It wasn't until that day that Gu Beichen entered the imperial brother's study without knocking, and found him sitting motionless in front of the desk, looking at the portrait on the table seriously, without even noticing that he had entered.
"Brother Royal?"
Gu Beichen shouted subconsciously, and saw the emperor's brother raise his hand to put away the papers on the table with a panic look on his face. Then he covered his lips and coughed twice before looking in front of him.
"Beichen, when did you come here?"
Seeing that the emperor's brother had a strange expression on his face, Gu Beichen raised his smile slightly, and then used his eyes to indicate to the emperor that he had seen what had just happened.
"Brother, what are you looking at? You are so serious that you didn't even notice that I came in."
Hearing the teasing tone in Gu Beichen's words, the imperial brother's face became even more flustered, but he quickly adjusted the look in his eyes.
"It's nothing. It's you. Why did you expect to come here now? But something is wrong."
How could Gu Beichen not hear that the emperor brother was not willing to continue talking about this matter, so he did not continue to pursue the matter.
But the painting on the desk made Gu Beichen remember it.
One time when the emperor's brother was not in the study, Gu Beichen quietly took out the painting. When he looked at it, he frowned because the painting was a woman.
At this moment, the emperor's brother walked in from outside the house. Seeing what Gu Beichen was holding, he quickly closed the study door.
"How did you get in?"
This was one of the few times that Gu Beichen heard the angry voice from the imperial brother's mouth.
After regaining consciousness, Gu Beichen quickly put away the portrait in his hand, and then looked at the imperial brother in front of him, "Is this the reason why you have been absent-minded recently? How can you do this to the emperor's wife?"
That's right, the emperor's brother had already married a wife at that time, otherwise Gu Beichen wouldn't be so surprised.
The imperial brother quickly stopped Gu Beichen who was about to leave, and pulled him to sit down aside, "Listen to me, this matter is not what you think."
Normally, the two of them would not start talking about this kind of thing, so in this situation, Gu Beichen hesitated and did not leave. He also wanted to know what happened in the middle.
As the emperor brother finished speaking, Gu Beichen realized that it was this woman who saved him when he went out and met an assassin and was in danger.
It was also from that time that the emperor's brother began to miss her, but he never saw her again, so he could ease his lovesickness on paper.
When he finished saying this, Gu Beichen still didn't think he did the right thing.
"But the emperor's sister-in-law..."
Before Gu Beichen could finish his words, the emperor's brother showed a hint of impatience on his face, but he continued to speak.
"I've never done anything to feel sorry for her."
This is true, he just secretly looks at other women's portraits at home on weekdays.
Gu Beichen was unwilling to accept this matter from the bottom of his heart, but the emperor's words meant this, and he was not willing to cause any unpleasantness between him and the emperor because of a woman.
In this way, Gu Beichen promised not to mention this matter to anyone, and the imperial brother also promised him that he would never do anything out of line.
Then when the late emperor passed away, all the emperor's energy was focused on the matter at hand, and that woman was also forgotten by him.
When the emperor finally took the supreme position, Gu Beichen thought that the matter would just go away. Unexpectedly, by an accident that day, he actually learned that the emperor was looking for the whereabouts of that woman all over the world.
Gu Beichen knew that this was wrong, and he knew that this situation would only get worse in the future, so he specially ordered his men to investigate together.
Fortunately, it was his people who found the woman first in the end, and only then did Gu Beichen learn another shocking truth.
That is, the woman is already married, but someone wants to take her away.
