Lin Wei Xi slept fretfully. During this time, she woke up several times, only opened her eyes and took a vague look before falling asleep again.
When she finally woke up, the night had completely come.
"Wangfei, the small kitchen keeps warming the food for you, do you want to set the meal now?"
Lin Wei Xi woke up and subconsciously looked at the side of the bed, but it was empty. Lin Wei Xi was supported by the maid, slowly sat up, "Where is Wangye?"
"Wangye watched over you for a long time. After you fell asleep, he went to the front yard."
"Went to the front yard." Lin Wei Xi looked down at the coiled branch and flowers on the brocade and sighed inexplicably, "I see."
Seeing that Lin Wei Xi was not in high spirits, Wan Yue said more cautiously: "Wangfei, do you want to set the meal?"
"I have no appetite, I don't want to eat." Lin Wei Xi said, "Let them withdraw."
Wan Yue looked awkward: "But, Wangye said to make sure to look after you and let you eat."
"You just listen to what he says? Why I didn't see you this diligent when I order you." Lin Wei Xi leaned on the bedpost and said casually, "Besides, if you don't say it, how will he know."
"Why don't I know?"
Wan Yue was shocked, and quickly turned her head, indeed she saw Wan Xing following like a quail at the back, her face almost pulled into a bitter melon. Wan Yue tried to compose herself, submissively bowing down: "Greetings Wangye."
Gu Hui Yan responded casually, and pointed to the outside lightly: "Go out and set the meal."
Wan Yue immediately lowered her head and left, didn't dare to make eye contact with Lin Wei Xi at all. When the people left, Gu Hui Yan sat down by the bed and calmly pulled the corner of Lin Wei Xi's quilt: "Your courage is really big, letting the maid become your accomplice..."
Lin Wei Xi was very surprised when she saw Gu Hui Yan, but looking at Wan Xing and Wan Yue in front of Gu Hui Yan did not dare to speak out, completely treating his words as imperial decree, she felt uncomfortable for some reason. Her mood was not very good, and her tone was lazy: "Not as powerful as Wangye's control over the mansion."
Gu Hui Yan certainly heard Lin Wei Xi's subtle moodiness. He asked, "Are you angry?"
"Why would I be angry, and what am I angry about?"
It seemed that the anger was not light, Gu Hui Yan didn't say much, carefully wrapped her in a quilt, and carried her to the Luohan bed outside to eat: "Even if you want to blame me, you should eat the food first. Your health is not good, and now you are carrying another life, cannot skip the meals."
Lin Wei Xi thought of the child in her stomach, became very alert, forcing herself to move her chopsticks. Gu Hui Yan was sitting opposite her, watching Lin Wei Xi only pick two bites of each dish and didn't eat anymore. He sighed silently and gave Lin Wei Xi the milk soup with his own hands: "Try this, milk is good for you and the child."
Lin Wei Xi had no appetite looking at the bowl of soup. She shook her head and didn't want to eat any more. Gu Hui Yan sat next to her, slowly stirred the soup with a spoon, tried the temperature with his hand, and then scooped a spoon to put on Lin Wei Xi's lips: "Even if you have no appetite, eat a little more."
The spoon was on her lips, and once Lin Wei Xi opened her mouth she could eat it. Gu Hui Yan fed the soup very meticulously, and often just as soon as she swallowed, the other spoon was already at her lips. Before she knew it, Lin Wei Xi already drank half bowl down.
Gu Hui Yan estimated that Lin Wei Xi's normal appetite was almost reached, so he put down the spoon and bowl. He left the small table to the maids to clean, and returned to the room with Lin Wei Xi in his arms.
Lin Wei Xi felt that this was a bit too much, she was just pregnant, not unable to walk. She struggled for a little while thinking about going down, but as soon as her arms moved, Gu Hui Yan clasped it again: "Be good."
Lin Wei Xi could only lie back, at ease leaned on Gu Hui Yan's shoulder, it's actually very comfortable being taken care of by Gu Hui Yan. Gu Hui Yan put the person on the bed, pulled up the quilt, and carefully wrapped Lin Wei Xi. However, his meticulous action did not mean that he was willing to spare this bold little wild cat: "You wanted to hide from me just now? You threatened the maid to cover you?"
Lin Wei Xi was not afraid of this kind of battle, and even vowed to bite back: "You obviously promised me to watch me sleep, but when I woke up I didn't see your shadow anywhere. Now you are still fierce with me!"
"Threaten the east, hit the west, look at the people on both sides and say something else, you learn well."
Lin Wei Xi snorted coldly, turned her face to the side, looked at the bed curtain, and refused to look at Gu Hui Yan again.
Gu Hui Yan was helpless. He pauses, and could only say: "Alright, don't be angry. Let me tell you a story."
"Coaxing this woman? Not listening."
"Really not listening?" Gu Hui Yan kept smiling, calmly looking at her, "This is something I have encountered before. Since you don't want to listen, then forget it."
Lin Wei Xi's ears moved, what happened to Yan Wang in the past? Lin Wei Xi turned her head slowly, coughing solemnly, "Then I will reluctantly listen."
When Lin Wei Xi played her temper, it could make people's teeth itchy, but when she gave in, it was an adorable mess that made people almost could do nothing to her. Gu Hui Yan's eyes unknowingly filled with a smile, he sighed slightly, and said, "This is the matter in Chu Yuan years."
"Chu Yuan years?" Lin Wei Xi thought for a while before blurting out the words directly, "This reigning era is a bit old."
Gu Hui Yan looked at her silently without talking or laughing. Lin Wei Xi chuckled, but hurriedly held back: "I didn't mean that. I only state the facts. Chu Yuan is an era three generations ago. It is indeed a bit old..."
The more Lin Wei Xi talked about it, the more she felt that she couldn't return. She didn't really mean that Yan Wang was old. Now the reigning era was Yuan Jia, before that it was Jian Zhao, and before Jian Zhao was Chu Yuan. This reigning era was really old.
Lin Wei Xi said this and laughed, Gu Hui Yan looked at her helplessly. After Lin Wei Xi laughed enough, Gu Hui Yan could continue: "Twenty-fourth Year of Chu Yuan..."
Gu Hui Yan watched Lin Wei Xi roll her eyes upwards, obviously counting his age, and then she was about to laugh again. Gu Hui Yan said helplessly, "Don't laugh."
Lin Wei Xi smiled with her shoulders shaking. She held the quilt with her fingers, trying her best to hold back her smile: "I'm not born yet in the Twenty-fourth Year of Chu Yuan."
Gu Hui Yan seemed to have been mercilessly ridiculed by the years. Lin Wei Xi was only seventeen now. At the time when he revealed an outstanding talent in the army, Lin Wei Xi was indeed not born yet.
Gu Hui Yan came back today with a lot of determination, and decided to confess everything to Lin Wei Xi. However, when Lin Wei Xi interrupted like this, Gu Hui Yan's rigorous plan was messed up. He looked at Lin Wei Xi who so happy that she almost fell into his arms laughing. Gu Hui Yan was helpless, unconsciously his originally serious mood also loosen up a lot: "Don't laugh, sit down."
His words sounded harsh, but there was no deterrent in his tone. Lin Wei Xi laughed enough, leaning crookedly on the soft pillow, her eyes were full of smiles: "I'm not laughing anymore, Wangye, you continue to say."
The serious atmosphere was wiped out. During the play just now, Lin Wei Xi rolled into Gu Hui Yan's arms and crumpled Gu Hui Yan's seamless clothes. Lin Wei Xi's hair was even more tangled, her hair was loosely draped among the soft and bright brocade quilt, which was indescribably alluring.
Gu Hui Yan looked at the scene in front of him and had to think about it before he remember what he was going to say: "In the twenty-fourth year of Chu Yuan, it was my first year in contact with military affairs. At that time I was full of youthful vigor, and always felt that there was nothing I could not do. When encountering war, I always took the lead and wanted to seize the top merit. Once I heard that there was another war ahead, I hurriedly led people there. On the road I encountered a small mutiny, but didn't take it seriously, let the people rode a horse back and forth in the crowd a few times, and then high-spiritedly left."
Lin Wei Xi looked solemnly, and she unconsciously straightened up from the pillow. She probably guessed what Gu Hui Yan was going to say.
"Later, when I was in the town to replenish the supplies, I met someone... Actually, I didn't think properly. The other party was a woman. Woman's reputation is very important. I should send this woman back to her family immediately instead of thinking it's too troublesome. I rushed to participate in another battle and threw the woman to my subordinates. Afterwards, the surroundings were unstable and she couldn't get on the road at all, so the girl could only continue to stay where I was staying, which caused rumors to spread and interfered with the woman's reputation."
In fact, it was not like what Gu Hui Yan said. The road was really not peaceful at the time, but with the personal escort of Yan Wang Mansion's guards, which bandits dared to hit Shen shi's carriage? Shen shi just sink into her own fanatical love story, that's why she didn't want to go home. What's more, even if Gu Hui Yan really sent Shen shi back to the Shen family at that time, wouldn't Shen shi continue to imagine that Gu Hui Yan fell in love with her at first sight, that's why he would send her home in person?
After Shen shi returned home, she could still tell her neighbors about her adventures. For example, Yan Wang Mansion's Shizi met her in the military chaos, from then on he couldn't forget her, and personally escorted her home. It's just the surrounding was just Shen family's neighbors, and similar rumors would not spread as quickly as in the big town. These two were just the issue of big and small impact. And then the love story between Gu Hui Yan and Shen shi's unnecessarily spread like that, the roots actually lied in Shen shi, not what Gu Hui Yan did.
Lin Wei Xi listened quietly. This was completely different from the mansion's love fairy tale that she had heard before. Life was not a storybook, where to find so many lingering life and death' feelings. Gu Hui Yan paused for a while. He seemed to feel that it was very inappropriate to say that the deceased was right or wrong, so he skipped all the strange things of Shen shi, and only stated the result: "Later, after I married her, because the war many things adds up. The longest time I stayed at home was the first few days of marriage, which was seven days in total. Ten months later, Gu Cheng Yao was born. I was a very incompetent father to Gu Cheng Yao. I was rebuilding Dingxiang City when he was born. When he was growing up, I also fought north and south, rarely stayed in the mansion. In the 6th year of Jian Zhao, when Gu Cheng Yao was 7 years old, my mother died at the beginning of the year. Not long after, Shen shi also passed away."
At that time, the storm was precarious, in the capital Bu Guifei and Empress Qian were fighting fiercely for the crown prince's position. Gu Hui Yan really didn't have much energy to take care of the mansion.
"I was very negligent about my family in those years. My mother and Shen shi died one after another. Gu Cheng Yao grew up alone in the mansion. I feel guilty, so I haven't remarried these years."
Guilt was only one aspect. In fact, anyone who had a wife like Shen shi and completely gave up on husband and wife's relationship, would never want to remarry.
Lin Wei Xi unconsciously held her breath, and asked in a low voice, "Then you, why did you respond to my willful act?"
Why? Gu Hui Yan seemed to sink into memories too. He slowly recalled the scene when he first saw Lin Wei Xi: "When I first saw you, I felt that you, this little girl was really lively, not only have a sharp mouth, but your courage also big. In so many years, only you who dare to look at me straight in the eyes, and stared at me for so long without any shy. Later, you deliberately pretended to cry and asked me to take you away. I have made such a mistake before, and I really don't want to hurt your reputation. But your aunt and cousin are too much, if I don't take you away, it will only harm you."
When Gu Hui Yan said that he remembered what the Li family's son had done to Lin Wei Xi, his eyes could not help but became cold. Lin Wei Xi now understood why Gu Hui Yan paused for so long under the old locust tree at the entrance of the village before agreeing to take her away. She leaned on the soft brocade pillow, the corner of her eyes carried a teasing light, deliberately glanced at Gu Hui Yan: "No wonder Wangye always wanted to get a good husband for me, even until reaching the capital this idea did not fade. Sure enough, Wangye thought I was a trouble."
Gu Hui Yan had nothing to say. Now thinking about it, fortunately he didn't seriously married off Lin Wei Xi. If he did, it's unknown with whose child Lin Wei Xi would be pregnant now. As soon as he thought about this scenario, he couldn't bear it.
He knew that he was in the wrong. Facing his petite wife's ridicules he couldn't retaliate, Gu Hui Yan sighed and said, "It's me who was wrong. Thank you, Wangfei for refusing to marry at that time."
Lin Wei Xi gave a soft "hum", and after a while, she still felt like a cat's paw scratching her heart, and couldn't help asking: "In the beginning you despised me. Then afterwards I forced you to marry me. Did you feel vexed to death by me?" Lin Wei Xi suddenly felt disheartened: "It's me who didn't keep my boudoir reputation, and was so shameless. In fact, you didn't want to marry me."
"How can that be?" Gu Hui Yan looked at the tender and beautiful, delicate like fine porcelain woman in front of him, and stretched out his hand to slowly stroke her face, "I have long been different from the past, if I don't want to do it, who could force me?"
TN: It's Valentine Day, the most irrelevant holiday for me, so happy valentine to those of you who celebrate it.