First Lady of the Crown Prince

Chapter 918 Shy Xiaobao (1st update)

But he said that after Gu Xiaobao sat on Yao's lap for a while, he started to look around.

He didn't seem to notice it, and he slid down from Yao's legs again.

“Xiaobao is willing to walk?” Yu Yaer was surprised.

“I passed by yesterday, and a man ran to open the door for his sister.” Yao mentioned the two children and felt much better.

Gu Xiaobao walked to the east room with staggering steps, pushed open the door that was blown ajar by the wind, and looked inside eagerly.

　　Yao family followed.

He turned around, shook his little hands at Yao, and said seriously: "No."

 “Nothing?” Yao asked with a smile.

 Gu Xiaobao stopped talking.

Gu Xiaobao went to look in the yard again, but couldn't find it. He came to the gate of the yard again just like yesterday evening, climbed over the high threshold on hands and feet, stood up and looked at both ends of the alley.

Yao looked at him with a smile.

 He turned around and shook his little hand again: "No."

Mammy Fang and Yu Yaer also made him laugh.

Yu Yaer joked: "Didn't you still want your sister yesterday? Why are you looking for her now?"

Gu Jiao was still there before Gu Xiaobao fell asleep. When he woke up, the person was gone, which made Gu Xiaobao very confused.

Mrs. Yao knew that her daughter was not here, but she still let Gu Xiaobao search the house inside and out... Well, today he has completed two months of walking.

Looking at his sweaty appearance, Yao finally couldn't bear it and asked him, "Do you want a sister?"

Gu Xiaobao nodded.

 …

 Lao Houye and Gu Changqing did not interfere in Gu Jinyu's marriage.

Gu Changqing left the capital three days earlier than Gu Jiao. At that time, Lord Gu had just canceled the marriage between Gu Jinyu and Prince An.

The old Marquis went to Chishui Pass on an order in August last year. At that time, the Marquis of Changping had not yet returned to the capital to resign. When he returned from the Yan Kingdom this month, Mrs. Gu was already arranging Gu Jinyu's marriage.

Neither grandfather nor grandson said anything.

Steward Zheng took Gu Jiao and his grandfather and grandson to the flower hall, and invited Duke An Guo over.

These days have been tiring with traveling and traveling, and Duke An Guo is not a military commander, so he can't hide his fatigue on his brows. But when he saw Gu Jiao, he instantly became energetic.

"Father." Gu Jiao stepped forward to greet him, "How do you feel? Are you still getting used to living in the house?"

 “Habit.” An Guogong said with a smile.

“Mr. An Guo.” Old Marquis and Gu Changqing also greeted him with their hands raised.

 Gong Anguo was in a wheelchair and could not stand up to greet him, so he had to hold his hands in greeting.

 With the emperor in Yan State, they lived in the residence of Duke An Guo. Today, even if the emperor doesn't say anything, they will take the initiative to visit him.

 “I don’t see General Xuanyuan.” Gu Changqing said.

Duke An Guo smiled: "He is in good spirits. Liao Chen took him around the capital. He said he wanted to see where you and Jingkong live."

Gu Jiao nodded.

 Gong An Guo invited the three of them to sit down, and Gu Jiao sat beside him.

He looked at the old marquis and Gu Changqing opposite, and asked: "Ah, by the way, His Majesty Zhaoguo is not angry, is he?"

The fact that Gu Jiao, Xiao Heng and their entourage went to Yan State could not be hidden from everyone in the world, not from the emperor. After all, the emperor was Xiao Heng's uncle. After the wedding, Xiao Heng had to bring his wife into the palace to pay respects to him.

Gu Jiao can't always wear a mask and behave like a human being.

The emperor called his grandfather and grandson into the palace today just to find out the whole story of the incident.

The two of them told the truth about Gu Jiao - performing surgery on Gu Yan, becoming the commander of the Black Wind Cavalry, treating An Guo Gong and being adopted as a foster daughter, the border battle, etc.

There was no mention of the whereabouts of Empress Dowager Zhuang and Lao Jijiu. What the emperor knew was that one of them resigned from office and the other went to the palace to rest.

 The whereabouts of Xuanpinghou, Tang Yueshan, Laohouye and Gu Changqing were also largely concealed.

 The old Marquis said: "Your Majesty is not angry." He was very shocked and was still dumbfounded until they retreated.

Duke An Guo was also very surprised: "Your Majesty... is really different."

If it were the Emperor of Yan State, I am afraid he would not be so generous and tolerate a general's daughter to go to another country to command the cavalry.

Gu Changqing said sincerely: "Your Majesty is a benevolent king."

 He is not suspicious.

 This is a double-edged sword. He can tolerate people he trusts unconditionally, just like the former Concubine Jing, and just like the great aunt and Gu Jiao now.

 “Where is Aheng’s life experience?” Gu Jiao asked.

Gu Changqing said: "My grandfather made some insinuations and found out that Princess Xinyang didn't tell His Majesty the truth, so we didn't say anything. We just said that he was accompanying you to the Yan Kingdom."

 This is, after all, an internal matter within the royal family, and it is inconvenient for them as ministers to get involved.

A few people chatted in the flower hall for a while. The grandfather and grandson saw that Duke An Guo had not rested well, so they said goodbye.

Gu Jiao originally planned to take Mr. An Guo out for a walk, but now she gave up her thoughts. She knelt down beside the wheelchair, looked up at An Guo Gong's handsome face and said, "Have a good rest, foster father. I'll come see you tomorrow. Wait." Now that you're energetic, let's go shopping in the capital."

 Gong An Guo smiled fondly: "Okay."

 The three of them left.

Duke An Guo then asked his servants to bring him a cane and said, "Go to the garden."

Manager Zheng quickly stopped him: "Oh, my master, my ancestor! You can't be so tired!"

They all thought that the Duke was so tired because of the long journey. In fact, it was true. The journey was indeed very hard, but the Duke was not afraid of hardship. He got up before dawn and practiced walking in the garden.

An Guogong said with firm eyes: "I don't want to sit in a wheelchair to send her off to the wedding. I want to stand up and personally send her to the sedan chair."

 …

 The three of them left the Duke's Mansion.

It would be false to say that the old Marquis and Gu Changqing didn't care at all about Gu Jiao getting married as a daughter of the Duke's family, but it wasn't necessarily true that they cared too much.

Having experienced life and death together, they knew exactly what kind of person Gu Jiao was.

 She has no desire to be like a dragon or a phoenix.

Moreover, Gu Jiao grew up in the countryside and has never eaten a grain of rice from the Hou family. She is free to accept who she wants.

It is impossible to restrain her with secular rules, otherwise she would not be bold enough to go and beg the old Marquis.

 She is full of power, far more powerful than anyone else appears.

“Jiaojiao, where are you going? I’ll take you there.” Gu Changqing asked.

 He knew that his sister would not go to the Marquis's mansion, so he did not ask her to sit in the mansion.

"I want to go to the palace." Gu Jiao said matter-of-factly.

Gu Changqing said: "That's fine, my aunt misses you very much. Take my carriage."

 “Go early and come back early, there are still things to do.” The old Marquis lightly warned.

"What's the matter?" Gu Changqing looked at his grandfather in confusion. After winning the battle, His Majesty granted him and his grandfather a whole month's leave. He will be free for the rest of the time, okay?

The old Marquis said seriously: "Follow me to Yuan Shoufu's house."

 When he heard about Yuan Shoufu's family, Gu Changqing's expression froze.

He almost forgot that he had "disappeared" from the capital in order to find an excuse to co-act in a play with Yuan Shoufu's granddaughter.

 Gu Jiao glanced at someone with schadenfreude, and her lips curved slightly: "In this case, don't send me off, so as not to keep Miss Yuan waiting for a long time. I have a carriage, let's go first!"

 After saying that, she got into the carriage of the Duke's Mansion.

Gu Changqing closed his eyes with a headache and turned to look at the old marquis: "Grandpa, I..."

 The old Marquis put his hands behind his back and strode forward: "Things are prepared for you, get in the car!"

Gu Changqing gritted his teeth: "Don't you already know that I went to the south of the Yangtze River to find a phoenix bird to propose marriage just to deceive others?"

As promised at the beginning, he couldn't find Fengniao, so he was too embarrassed to propose marriage to the little Taoist nun of the Yuan family. The little Taoist nun was so sad that she fled back to Buddhism and never got married again.

“Forget it, just go, there’s no phoenix bird anyway.”

 Gu Changqing got on the carriage confidently.

As soon as I sat down, I saw two bird cages on the floor, each containing a lively phoenix.

Gu Changqing: "?!"

 Lao Houye: Hey, you are still a little too young to fight with your grandfather!

 …

Gu Jiao came to the palace only to find that she forgot to bring the token of Renshou Palace.

 The guard at the palace gate is new and has never seen Gu Jiao before.

Gu Jiao was thinking about asking someone to go and send a message. At this time, the family's carriage drove towards this direction.

"Miss!"

 It was Yu Yaer's excited voice.

Gu Jiao opened the curtain and turned around to look: "Yu Ya'er? Uh... Xiaobao?"

Yuyaer walked out of the carriage with Gu Xiaobao in her arms.

Gu Jiao also got out of the carriage and asked, "Why are you here?"

Yuyaer smiled and said: "Xiaobao woke up and looked for you everywhere. Madam said that the young lady will definitely go to the palace, so she asked me to take Xiaobao into the palace first."

 The little guy will still look for her.

Gu Jiao pinched Xiaobao's cheek unexpectedly.

Gu Xiaobao has a cold face.

“What’s going on?” Gu Jiao asked, curling her lips.

Gu Xiaobao turned around and hid in Yu Ya'er's arms.

Yuyaer said silently to Gu Jiao: "I'm angry."

Gu Jiao pulled the little guy over in a funny way.

Xiaobao struggled twice in a particularly arrogant manner, but when he couldn't move, he took out a pair of small hands to cover his face.

 Just don’t let Gu Jiao look at him.

Gu Jiao was amused by him and laughed out loud.

 She remembered the first time she left Xiaoqingkong to go up the mountain, and Xiaoqingkong had the same reaction when she returned home.

 What did she do at that time?

“Well, it was my fault today and I apologize to you. Can you forgive me?”

 “It takes a kiss to forgive you!”

Gu Jiao nodded meaningfully and kissed Gu Xiaobao on the cheek very experiencedly!

Gu Xiaobao still didn’t remove the little hand that was blocking his face.

Gu Jiao: "Eh? It's useless?"

 Gu Xiaobao is extremely shy.

 (End of this chapter)