Chapter 153

"Are you here to play cards?" Asked the old lady.

The old man was stunned.

Play, play cards?

The old lady knocked the melon seeds and said, "today I don't want to play the leaf card. I'll push Pai Gow. The price starts at 50 coppers."

What is the Empress Dowager talking about? What leaf? What is Pai Gow?

The old man looked at the Empress Dowager and stood up slowly. He found that although the person in front of him looked like the empress dowager, his clothes and bearing were not like the Empress Dowager.

"What are you looking at?" Asked the old lady impatiently.

"Don't you... Know me?" The old man pointed to himself and asked.

When he said that, the old lady looked at him carefully.

He looks like a dog.

It's a little familiar.

Have you seen it anywhere?

The old lady doesn't remember the past. She occasionally recalls some of them, but they are very scattered fragments.

But the old man made her feel a little different.

Isn't that unusual?

Once upon a time, when he was an official in the imperial court, he often opposed empress dowager Zhuang.

He is a conservative and firmly opposes the harem's interference in politics, especially women's obedience to politics behind the curtain.

As early as when the former Emperor was alive, the old sacrificial wine had a lot of setbacks to persuade the former Emperor to abandon the empress. In the memorial, he said that the virtuous empress was the demon empress. He confused the empress palace, and his relatives were involved in politics. He was cruel and reckless.

The virtuous empress was once put into a cold palace by the former Emperor, which was given by the old man's sacrifice.

Although she came out of the cold palace with excellent gongdou skills in less than half a year, she earned less than half a year's silver and put in a lot of former savings.

Taking her money is like killing her parents!

After that, the virtuous empress regarded the old sacrifice as a thorn in the eye.

He was exiled to the frontier fortress for five years. After suffering a lot, he dried himself up. He was more than ten years old, which was the work of a virtuous empress.

The two fight until the death of the former Emperor. They kill the prince after they are virtuous and support the son of imperial concubine Jing to ascend to the throne of God. They become the Empress Dowager of the imperial court.

It's always a temporary division between the two.

Why it's temporary? It's because Lao Jijiu controls Guozijian, and Guozijian gathers the most talented young people in Quanzhao.

To exaggerate, the old sacrificial wine controls the future of Zhao state.

Empress Dowager Zhuang deliberately wanted to bring over the power of the Imperial College. At that time, Princess an was about to return home. Empress Zhuang proposed to her majesty to set up a new post of youth wine sacrifice in the Imperial College.

Your majesty agreed, but it was not the nephew of Empress Dowager Zhuang, but the young Marquis of zhaodu.

The young marquis is an apprentice of the old wine worshiper.

In Empress Dowager Zhuang's heart, ten thousand unspeakable horses galloped by.

The old toaster laughs awkwardly.

This round looks like the old sacrificial wine won.

But not long after, on New Year's Eve, the Imperial College suddenly ran out of water, and the young Marquis of zhaodu was killed by the fire.

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The old man has not recalled the past for a long time since he resigned. When he saw the empress dowager, his mind was drawn back to the bloody court.

The old lady said, "why don't you talk? Why do you think my eyes are so complicated? And I see you, my mood seems to have become a bit complicated! "

Still can not say that kind of complex, like two people are old enemies, she would like to find a knife to cut him!

wait.

Cut him with a knife?

The old lady gave the old man a suspicious look.

They know each other, which can be confirmed by his eyes and his words.

He was afraid of her.

I didn't dare to look her in the eyes. It seemed a little guilty.

Also saw her face to kneel down, this is much sorry for her?

"I know who you are!" In her mind, the old lady threw the melon seeds on the table. "Are you the man who abandoned me and came back to me?"

The old man

Gu Jiao and Gu Yan come back first. As soon as they walk through the hall, they find that there are more people in the backyard.

Gu Jiao looks familiar.

The main reason is that she didn't recognize the big shoe mark on her face.

"Auntie?" Gu Jiao asked in her eyes.

The old lady gave a shivering heartless man a look and sighed, "your grandfather."

Gu Jiao

Gu Xiaoshun

Xiao LIULANG, Gu Yan and Xiao Jingkong came into the house behind them. They were carrying big and small bags of things in their hands. Behind them was a carriage carrying new year's goods.

Several people together with the coachman unloaded the annual goods from the carriage.

Like Gu Jiao and Gu Xiaoshun, Xiao LIULANG walks inside with a pot of sesame oil in his arms. He is stunned when he walks through the hall.

In the yard sat the old lady, Gu Jiao, Gu Xiaoshun and the old man who was not so trembling but still pale.

No way, "be" to the emperor wearing a green hat, inner fear!

"Grandfather." Gu Jiao introduced.

Xiao LIULANG

After a while, you went home to pick up a grandfather?

Gu Jiao: I didn't pick it up this time.

Xiao LIULANG gave the old man a complicated look.

At this moment, the old man's mind is blank. He doesn't even remember that he came to recognize Xiao LIULANG. He just madly confesses to the former Emperor in his heart - the relationship between Wei Chen and the Empress Dowager is absolutely pure!

The old lady's anger had been suppressed, and she asked faintly, "OK, open the skylight to tell the truth, do we have children?"

The old man slipped from his chair and nearly fell to the ground.

"No, no," he said with a pale face as he sat up in his chair

The old lady nodded: "I don't think so, otherwise I won't go all the way to LIULANG."

Xiao LIULANG looks at the old man, who is wearing a cold sweat.

Fighting with empress dowager Zhuang all her life is the most irresistible round today. It can be said that there is no fighting back!

Empress Dowager Zhuang said thoughtlessly, "when you were young, you abandoned me. Now you are old. If you want to come and let my nephew and grandson support you, there is no way. Go away!"

The old man was relieved. For the first time, he felt that the rolling words were so beautiful!

The old man still has an unreal feeling out of the yard.

He wants to find out what's going on. If he doesn't leave, he'll wait by the door.

And Xiao LIULANG didn't let him down. After a while, he came out.

They were not surprised to see each other, as if they had figured out that one would not leave and the other would not come out.

Xiao LIULANG has lost his panic at the entrance of the Hutong last time.

The old man had mixed feelings: "is that the Empress Dowager? How can you be with the Empress Dowager? You can't admit that you are ah Heng, but you can't deny that she is the Empress Dowager. The Empress Dowager is not dead. "

Xiao LIULANG was silent.

The old man asked sadly, "how could this happen? What happened to you and the Empress Dowager? The Empress Dowager has lost her memory. You don't have it. Tell me! "

Xiao LIULANG is still silent.

The old man closed his eyes painfully: "well, you don't want to say that I don't want to force you. I'll come to see you another day. I'll keep it a secret for you

Xiao LIULANG bowed and turned to enter the yard.

"Your leg..." the old man's worried eyes fell on his right leg.

Xiao LIULANG said: "it's not in the way."

It was the only thing he said to himself.

The old man thought that maybe he just wanted to say these three words to him.

He didn't want to worry about himself.

The old man's heart was full of sorrow.

Xiao LIULANG went into the yard, and the old man returned to the carriage.

In fact, today's "harvest" is not only to see the empress dowager, he also met his little benefactor.

He didn't expect that she and ah Heng... No, it's time to be called LIULANG now.

She and LIULANG are husband and wife.

What kind of fate is this?

In the yard, the whole family looked at the old lady together.

"Aunt, are you not sad that my grandfather has really left?" Asked little clearance.

In this family, there are not many people who know that the old lady is not aunt Xiao LIULANG, but Gu Xiaoshun is one of them. When the old lady fainted at the door of Gu Jiao's and Xiao LIULANG's house, Gu Xiaoshun was also present.

Later, Gu Yan, Xiao Jingkong, Yao and others all thought that the old lady was really Xiao LIULANG's aunt and had traveled thousands of miles to join him.

As a result, when my aunt appeared, xiaojingkong believed it almost without doubt.

Gu Xiaoshun also believed that because he had been together for so long, he had forgotten that his aunt had picked it up.

The old lady said: "what am I sad about? I'm clean without him

Who's going to spend the rest of his life with a bad old man?

Doesn't it smell good to play cards every day?

Small clearance: "Oh."

When Gu Jiao was cooking in the kitchen, Xiao Jingkong came in, pulled Gu Jiao's clothes and said, "Jiao Jiao, I'll tell you something."

"What's the matter?" Gu Jiao asked.

Xiao Jingkong tilted her head and looked at her: "my brother-in-law has a nickname, ah Heng, a tyrant."

Although the brother-in-law does not admit, but he has so identified in his heart, is the overbearing horizontal!

Gu Jiao looked at him funny: "is that right? How do you know? "

Xiao Jingkong said, "I heard my grandfather call. I saw him that day."

Gu Jiao: "Oh?"

Xiaojingkong sighed: "my brother-in-law and I came back from school, just at the entrance of the Hutong. My grandfather called my brother-in-law a Heng. My brother-in-law ignored him and pulled me away. Afterwards, I asked my brother-in-law, who also said that my grandfather recognized the wrong person. My brother-in-law is really not filial. Even if I don't want to recognize my grandfather, I can't treat him like this. Jiang taught us to respect the old and love the young. "

Xiaojingkong felt that it was not right that day. Today, his aunt came to the door, which made him firm in his guess.

The bad brother-in-law had a ghost that day!

The bad brother-in-law is an unfilial descendant.

He can't do that in the future.

The small clearance after the report deeply felt the heavy responsibility on his shoulders.

He went to his study and picked up books in other languages that he disliked.

A bad brother-in-law is unreliable. A good heart is tired.

From today on, he will redouble his efforts to support his family in the future.

In the kitchen, Gu Jiao is savoring the words of xiaojingkong.

Yes?

And a nickname?

So the man knew Xiao LIULANG.

From Xiao LIULANG's reaction, Xiao LIULANG is also very likely to know each other.

According to Gu Jiao's observation of the man, he obviously knew the old lady, and it's hard to say whether he was the real couple.

The old lady's memory is confused, so it's possible to recognize the wrong person.

That's not the point.

The point is that the man knows Xiao LIULANG and the old lady, and Xiao LIULANG also knows him. Does Xiao LIULANG know the old lady?

It was not because of his sudden kindness that he saved the old lady and accepted her without complaint, but because they were old friends?

The king of onjun also knows the old lady

Gu Jiao wrote several names on the ash with firewood sticks.

Old lady, Prince an, Xiao LIULANG, Xuanping Marquis's house, ah Heng.

……

But he said that the old man could not be calm for a long time after he returned to the carriage.

Empress Dowager Zhuang did not deal with Xuanping Marquis's house, nor did she deal with herself. Xiao LIULANG was not only a member of Xuanping Marquis's house, but also a student of his own.

Put Xiao LIULANG beside the evil queen, the old man is not at ease.

"No, I have to keep an eye on her!"

The reason why the old man went back to the capital was that a close friend of many years was dying. He came to see him for the last time.

I plan to go back to the mountain forest.

But now, he changed his mind.

He quietly used his long silent contacts to rent a small house in Bishui Hutong, which happened to be next to Xiao LIULANG and Gu Jiao.

The old man moved in casually.

He didn't have many servants, only Liu Quan and a temporary hired coachman.

The first day he moved in, he set up a ladder and stood on the top of the wall to observe the movement behind the evil demon.

The old lady found him long ago.

This haunted old man didn't want her when he was young, but wanted to get her back when he was old?

Dream!

The old lady resisted the impulse of cutting people to death and went back to the house to feel sleepy.

But she lay in bed, tossing and turning, the more she thought about it, the more she felt unable to swallow it!

She went to the kitchen, picked up a kitchen knife and stormed to the next room.

The old man stared for a while and got sleepy. He went back to his room to sleep.

The difference is that he fell asleep.

But when he was half asleep, he felt chilly on his neck. He woke up and saw the old lady pointing a kitchen knife at him.

He was startled: "what do you do?"

The old lady put a kitchen knife around his neck and said, "give me the money!"

Inexplicably, the old sacrificial wine was robbed "...!"