When Zhao Yan raised her head slightly and looked at him with a pair of shining eyes, Gu Xu felt that it was difficult to refuse her request.
"Of course." He pondered for a moment and responded.
Zhao Yan smiled, threw the long sword into the storage magic weapon, stretched out her hand and tugged on his sleeve: "Did you go to the Fire Temple today?"
"That's right."
"Have you seen that old guy named Chong Li?"
"Yeah." Gu Xu nodded.
"What did he say to you? Did he mention me in front of you?"
"He wants me to persuade you to agree to Zhao Yu's marriage proposal."
"It's exactly what I guessed," Zhao Yan sighed. "This old guy keeps talking about pure blood all day long, just like a farmer breeding pigs."
Hearing her metaphor, Gu Xu couldn't help laughing.
"Are you in a hurry to go back to practice now?" Zhao Yan was silent for a moment and then said, "If you are not in a hurry, come have a drink with me."
"You know, I'm not in good health and can't drink."
"Then you drink tea and I drink. After I inherit this country, I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to have the opportunity to indulge."
"Oh well."
In the past, no matter how great the temptation was, Gu Xu would insist on practicing all night every day and would not let up easily.
But today, he has obtained the power of faith that he has accumulated for many years from the altar of the God of Fire.
He doesn't lack real energy now, he only lacks the method to break through the realm.
As for Dharma, it does not rely on hard work behind closed doors, but on letting nature take its own course.
So, after hesitating for a moment, he agreed to Zhao Yan's request.
This young woman will soon become the monarch of this country and shoulder heavy responsibilities. It is conceivable that she must be under tremendous pressure at this moment.
"Qiu Yan, serve tea!"
After hearing Gu Xu's reply, Zhao Yan immediately gave instructions to the maid in the corner.
"Yes, Your Highness."
Qiu Yan got up from the guqin and ran briskly to the table eucalyptus on the other side of the house.
It turns out that the sonorous and powerful frontier fortress music just now was played by this humble little maid.
Afterwards, Zhao Yan led Gu Xu to a bamboo mat by the window, and the two sat side by side on the floor.
Through the windows here, you can have a panoramic view of the garden behind the palace, and you can also see the rising silver-white moon when you raise your head.
The Zhao family seems to like hard liquor.
When the wine pot was served, the smell of wine quickly overwhelmed the aroma of tea and filled the entire room.
Zhao Yan picked up the wine pot, looked at the moonlight shining on the blue bricks through the withered window, and said softly: "The moonlight tonight is so beautiful."
Gu Xu was stunned for a moment.
However, he quickly realized that in this world, there is no such thing as "I love you" as "the moonlight is so beautiful".
Zhao Yan was probably just admiring the scenery outside the window.
"Yeah," he responded.
Zhao Yan chuckled, and in a rather heroic gesture, she poured a large gulp of strong wine into her mouth.
Her fair cheeks quickly turned red, as bright and moving as the sunset on the horizon.
However, Zhao Yan's drinking capacity seems to be far less than that of her father.
After half a bottle of wine, her eyes had lost focus, their vision became blurred, and her body became limp.
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She shook her head slightly for a few times, then tilted it to the side and leaned on Gu Xu's shoulder.
Gu Xu sat quietly, motionless.
He thought that Zhao Yan had encountered too many changes in her life recently, and she really needed to take a good rest.
At this moment, Zhao Yan's beautiful face that looked like a fairy but not a fairy, a monster but not a monster was very close to him, her long and dense eyelashes were trembling slightly, her breath was softly exhaled from her red lips, and her body was filled with fragrance. Attack.
Further down, through her slightly open collar, one can glimpse the majestic snow-capped mountains and the narrow and deep ravines.
Gu Xu immediately moved his eyes to the window, not daring to continue looking.
But the two of them were so close that the soft touch and warm body temperature were continuously transmitted through the silk clothes.
Gu Xu had to admit that getting along with Zhao Yan and getting along with Shi Xiaohan were two completely different feelings.
Shi Xiaohan was petite and slender, with a simple mind like a child. It was difficult for people to have evil thoughts, and they would only want to protect her in the palm of their hands.
Zhao Yan, who has long breasts and thighs and a figure comparable to that of a model, is a seductress who charms all living beings - as long as she is not in a fight, she exudes a strong hormonal aura all the time.
Gu Xu silently recited the "Pure Heart Mantra" twice, trying to keep himself calm, and then began to think about the improvement of the technique, the power of incense, and the scam of ascension...
About an hour later, Zhao Yan finally woke up leisurely.
She first touched her head, straightened her slightly messy hair, and said, "It's so hard."
Then she turned her head and looked at Gu Xu: "You are too thin and it makes my head hurt. I have to find a way to make you gain some weight."
Gu Xu shrugged.
He refrained from saying, your head is too heavy and it makes my shoulders sore.
He pondered for a moment and then said, "Maybe I should go back."
"Going back so early?" Zhao Yandai frowned slightly, "You still have more than half a cup of tea left!"
"I really have to go back," Gu Xu stood up quickly, "I learned a lot in the Fire Temple today. I have to go back and digest it."
"A genius like you still needs to spend time digesting knowledge?" Zhao Yan crossed her arms across her chest and looked at him with squinted eyes, "I thought you could understand it at just one glance."
"Your Highness really overestimates me."
After Gu Xu left these words behind, he hurriedly scurried away from the incense-filled room like a rabbit.
He felt that if he continued to stay here, he would be unable to control himself.
Zhao Yan sat on the mat, looked at his "fleeing" figure, and gently shook her head.
"What a piece of wood," she hummed.
Although Zhao Yan had never had any experience in love, she often visited brothels and dance studios, from which she learned many tricks to deal with men.
The literati and dignitaries of the Da Qi Dynasty all liked to be arty.
They are not like ordinary people who visit the brothels. When they meet, they get passionate and get straight to the point.
When they come to the brothel, they all like to listen to some piano music, watch some singing and dancing, recite a few lines of poetry, and then drink some fine wine, so that when they are slightly tipsy, they can enter the great harmony of life in half a moment.
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Zhao Yan grew up on a horse since she was a child. She didn't like the majestic sounds and enchanting dances, so she chose the sharp and sharp sword dance.
She was not good at reciting poems and writing poems, so she dragged Gu Xu to the window to look at the moon.
In fact, her drinking capacity is not bad at all, and her drunken state just now was completely fake.
However, Gu Xu didn't seem to be moved at all.
Apart from doing anything else, he actually refused to even reach out and hug her.
"Is it possible that he only likes short, thin, immature little girls?"
Zhao Yan lowered her head and looked at her plump breasts, feeling that it was too difficult for her to pretend to be young.
…………
at the same time.
When Gu Xu accompanied Zhao Yan to drink wine and admire the moon by the window, Zhao Changying's younger brother Zhao Changqi and his son Zhao Yu were having a secret conversation under the dim candlelight.
"Zhao Yan has returned to Jicheng."
"In addition to herself, she was accompanied by a masked, unidentified guest."
"This person caused alarming commotion in the Fire Temple. Chong Li seems to have obeyed his orders."
"Zhao Yan seems to have a very close relationship with him. She actually allowed this person to hold her arm."
"Zhao Changying also summoned this person and discussed with him in the room for a long time."
"Father, who do you think this person is?" Zhao Yu narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at his father sitting across the table.
"If nothing else, it should be the fugitive wanted by the Qi court - Gu Xu," Zhao Changqi thought for a moment and responded, "Princess Zhaoning once secretly wrote me a letter, claiming that Gu Xu will definitely go to Dayan. Escape for your life to seek shelter from Zhao Changying.
"In addition, I also learned from intelligence that on the day of the 'Luoshui Conference', Gu Xu stayed with Zhao Yan for a long time.
"The two of them should have a good relationship. Gu Xu was able to escape from Daqi smoothly, most likely with the help of Zhao Yan."
Hearing this, Zhao Yu took a deep breath, clenched his fists and said, "Father, do you think there is an affair between the two of them?"
"I'm worried about this too," Zhao Changqi sighed, "Now, our father and son are right behind Zhao Yan in the succession order of Dayan.
"If you and Zhao Yan get married, then your children will become the new heirs.
"If Zhao Yan still insists on never marrying or having children as before, then after her death, Dayan's crown will fall on you and me.
"Of course, as the Zhao family, we have all followed the ancestral precepts and made an oath in front of the altar of the God of Fire that blood relatives of the same clan will not kill each other, so we cannot let Zhao Yan go to see the Lord of Hell in advance.
"However, if she is still ignorant, we can use Daqi's knife to get rid of her.
"Crown and beauty, you have to get one or the other."
Zhao Yu chuckled and nodded, deeply agreeing with his father's words.
"But," at this point, Zhao Changqi paused and changed the subject, "Once Zhao Yan chooses the boy named 'Gu Xu' and makes him the husband of Dayan, then we will be in an extremely dangerous situation. Passive situation.
"The children born between them will replace us and become Dayan's first heirs in the future. Our lineage will be farther and farther away from Dayan's center of power.
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"In addition, Chongli is submissive and obedient to Gu Xu. The alliance we previously established with Chongli will also be interrupted.
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"From now on, Gu Xu will hold the royal and religious power of Dayan. The people will worship him and Zhao Yan will give him full support. By then, we will not know whether the country's surname will be Gu or Zhao. "
Zhao Yu's expression was calm at first.
But when his father began to seriously analyze the disadvantages of "Gu Xu and Zhao Yan getting married", his complexion gradually turned livid and his teeth creaked.
Zhao Yu is not as keen on power as his father.
In fact, he felt that ruling the country was a very troublesome matter. He needed to review documents and understand the national conditions all day long, and he needed to spend a lot of brains to distinguish between loyal and traitorous people, and to judge the true from the false.
Where is the joy of drinking and having fun?
He was just unhappy to see that his cousin, who was originally planning to marry him, actually fell in love with someone else.
When he was still young, he had already regarded this cousin who was beginning to show her beauty as his own private property.
One of his favorite things to do is to try every means to bully her, scare her, and watch her cry but have no power to resist.
Later, as Zhao Yan gradually turned into an outstanding beauty, Zhao Yu's desire to get her became even stronger, and the thoughts in his mind were dirtier than the toilet.
Especially since he recently learned to use some new "torture instruments" in the brothel, he would often act like a lunatic, imagining and laughing out loud with excitement.
The women in the brothel, all with shackles on their ankles, their skin covered with red marks, and tears in their eyes, knelt before him in ecstasy and begged for mercy.
What a wonderful picture it would be if their faces were replaced by Zhao Yan's face of moonlight and shame!
Although he can't beat Zhao Yan now.
But Zhao Yu firmly believes that after marrying Zhao Yan, she will obey her husband like other women who obey their husbands.
"Then what should we do?" Undecided, Zhao Yu asked his father decisively, "We must not let Zhao Yan marry Gu Xu."
"It's very simple," Zhao Changqi thought for a while and replied, "We still have to rely on the power of Da Qi - we inform Princess Zhaoning of Gu Xu's whereabouts. Princess Zhaoning will send someone to deal with him."
"But my uncle is a truly powerful 'True King'," Zhao Yu shook his legs uneasily on his seat, "If my uncle is determined to protect Gu Xu, then the people sent by Princess Zhaoning should It’s hard to deal with him.”
"If the person that the Da Qi court wants to kill is Zhao Yan, then Zhao Changying will try every means to save her even if he risks his own life." Zhao Changqi showed a meaningful smile on his face, "But Gu Xu is just a person who follows him An outsider who is neither a relative nor an acquaintance.
"In this precarious country of Yan, maybe as long as Princess Zhaoning promises him some favorable conditions, such as recognizing the independence of Yan and guaranteeing ten years of peace between Yan and Qi, he may hand over Gu Xu to Da Qi court.
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"After all, this involves the stability of his daughter's future!"
"Just do as you say, father!" Zhao Yu slapped his thigh hard. After hearing his father's solution, he felt much relieved.
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After the discussion, Zhao Yu left the secret room and came to the courtyard of the mansion.
The cold moonlight poured on the ground, making the atmosphere in the courtyard cold and desolate.
"Meow-"
Suddenly, a few soft meows broke the silence of the night.
Zhao Yu frowned, showing an irritated expression.
"Jade mandarin duck?"
"Master, I'm here."
A maid aged fourteen or fifteen hurriedly walked from the house and knelt down in front of Zhao Yu with a "pop" sound. She lowered her head and did not dare to look into his eyes.
This maid is wearing a translucent thin silk dress.
Through the clothes, one could see her still green body and the obvious bruises on her skin.
"The meowing of these cats is really disturbing." Zhao Yu said calmly.
"Master, please calm down. I will drive them away right now -"
"——Idiot," Zhao Yu kicked her in the stomach, "You drove them away today, what if they come again tomorrow?"
"Then... Master, what do you think I should do?" There were tears in the eyes of the maid Yu Yuan, and her voice was trembling slightly. It was obvious that Zhao Yu's kick hurt her very much. But she didn't dare to reach out to cover her stomach, let alone hum.
"Go and get some food, mix some poison in it, and spread it in the yard. Those wild cats that no one wants are all hungry."
"Yes, Master."
