Gu Lingze rarely saw this side of him, so he raised his hand and scratched the hair on the back of his head, "I'll wait for you at home, okay?"
Zhao Chengmo let out a long breath and stood up straight, "Then I'm leaving."
Gu Lingze looked at him with a helpless look, "Let's go quickly, or it will be too late."
Zhao Chengmo climbed onto the horse, looked at him again, squeezed the horse's belly hard, and ran away.
During the half month that Gu Lingze was in seclusion, two major events were circulating in the capital.
One thing is that the emperor and the empress suddenly became more than 20 years younger overnight. Some people said that the emperor was a wise ruler, so he received auspicious signs from heaven and ate magic herbs.
Others said that Master Cheng had extraordinary powers and created a miraculous elixir that made the emperor and empress regain their youth.
The second thing was about Qi Yixuan and Gu Yangjia. No one expected that Qi Yixuan would openly take Gu Yangjia as his concubine. The ceremony was both decent and grand, which was beyond Gu Lingze's expectations.
Gu Lingze didn't care about the previous incident. It was actually better this way as it saved him the trouble.
But the second thing, the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.
"Not long after Qi Yixuan married Gu Yangjia, word spread in the capital that our General's Mansion was trying to curry favor with the rich and powerful, but when it failed, it turned against us and was ruthless." Gu Xiuyi sneered after he finished speaking.
In fact, the fact that the General's Mansion had mistakenly taken a concubine's son as the legitimate son had long been spread among the upper circles in the capital, but there were many different opinions and no accurate statement.
Now Qi Yixuan is confusing right and wrong, insisting that he and Gu Yangjia have been in love with each other for a long time, and that General Gu and Xie Qingwan were happy to see it happen.
Unexpectedly, it was discovered later that the legitimate and illegitimate children were taken away by mistake. In order to curry favor with the rich and powerful and consolidate their position in the court, the Gu family insisted on marrying Gu Lingze to the third prince. At the same time, they abused the illegitimate son and cut off any contact between the two.
Gu Lingze made a "tsk" sound. Qi Yixuan's shamelessness was always far beyond his imagination.
"The emperor gave Qi Yixuan a warning when he was in court the day before yesterday. He has been much more obedient in the past two days."
Gu Lingze curled his lips and said, "They still love each other. If Gu Yangjia can hold back on having the baby, then the baby will be born on the wrong day. I want to see how they explain it."
Gu Xiuyi chatted with him for a few words and then went out to the Ministry of Personnel.
Gu Lingze used the excuse of taking a lunch break to sneak into the secret realm to see the rewards given by the pagoda this time.
He rubbed his hands in anticipation, feeling the excitement of scratching a lottery ticket. Gu Lingze carefully opened the top layer, and a golden light flashed. He squinted his eyes, and when he opened them again, a layer of water curtain appeared in front of him.
Gu Lingze stared at the image on the water screen with wide eyes, "This is..."
He blinked hard and moved closer, looking more carefully this time. It turned out to be——
The Guiyi School’s library?
A golden word appeared above the water curtain, which read "Three". Gu Lingze couldn't help but swallow his saliva. What did this "Three" mean?
He decided to hold off for now and study the matter thoroughly before drawing any conclusions.
He flashed out of the secret realm, took a pen and paper, and started writing on the table.
He spent the whole afternoon thinking about this. Gu Lingze listed all the possibilities he thought of on paper and looked at them over and over again.
But no matter how he looked at it, he felt that the first one he wrote was the most likely, that is, Baota's reward this time was to let him take out three books from the Guiyi Sect's library.
When he thought of this possibility, every cell in Gu Lingze's body seemed to be agitated, but he forced himself to calm down because there was still an important issue before him.
If you can really take three books, which three books would you take?
As it was getting dark, Gu Lingze remembered that he had promised to make noodles for Zhao Chengmo, so he kicked away the paper ball under his feet and went to the kitchen.
He was preoccupied with something and absent-mindedly tried to knead the dough several times but all ended in failure. Gu Lingze could only hand it over to the chef in the mansion, and he would season the dough after it was ready.
Before dinner, Gu Xiuyi and his friends returned home.
The others ate dishes prepared by the mansion's chef, and only Zhao Chengmo was eating the noodles made for him by Gu Lingze.
"As your younger brother, you didn't even ask me, the second oldest brother, to give you another bowl of celery." Gu Feirui poked at the celery in the bowl and looked at Gu Lingze with a 'complaining' look.
But this time, Gu Lingze did not argue with him. Instead, he stared at the rice in the bowl thoughtfully.
Seeing him like this, Xie Qingwan put down her chopsticks and said, "Lingze, Lingze?"
Zhao Chengmo gently touched Gu Lingze with his leg, and he came back to his senses.
"Hmm? Hmm, Mom, you called me?"
Xie Qingwan looked at him with concern, "Why don't you eat? Is it because the dishes prepared by the chef don't suit your taste?"
Gu Lingze waved his hand apologetically and said, "I was just thinking about something and my mind was distracted for a moment. It's not that my appetite isn't good." After saying that, he picked up the chopsticks and took two bites.
Gu Tianhua and Xie Qingwan looked at each other and decided not to ask. Lingze has always been a child with his own ideas, and he will tell them when the time comes.
Gu Lingze went back to his room immediately after dinner. Zhao Chengmo looked at his back thoughtfully.
As soon as Gu Lingze returned to his room, he began to write furiously, but in the end, he wrote more and more, and finally decided to use the elimination process to cross out the words one by one.
He suppressed the heartache and finally decided on three, copying them on another piece of paper.
After everyone went to bed at night, Gu Lingze took the paper and slipped into the space.
He looked at the water curtain during the day and subconsciously licked his dry lips.
Now there is still a problem. He doesn't know whether the 'three' allows him to take three books, or just three single volumes. If it is the latter, he will have to worry about it all over again.
Gu Lingze rubbed his fingers together, condensed a stream of spiritual energy at his fingertips, and injected it into the water curtain. The scene in front of him suddenly fluctuated, and a sound of rotation was heard.
He cleared his throat and said, "Heavenly Creations."
With a 'dong' sound, a book box squeezed out from inside and fell to the ground.
Gu Lingze quickly squatted down to check, opened the clasp on it, and found four books neatly placed inside.
He breathed a sigh of relief and finally felt relieved. He immediately stood up and asked for the other two.
"Bubeishi."
"Zizhi Tongjian."
Two sounds of "dong" and "dong" were heard in succession, and the volume of "Zizhi Tongjian" was the largest among them.
Gu Lingze called out "Guiguzi" again tentatively, but he didn't expect that as soon as he finished speaking, the water curtain gradually shrank until it disappeared.
He shrugged his shoulders. He was already very satisfied to get these three books. Guiguzi was just trying his luck.
Gu Lingze opened all the book boxes, took out a book and started reading.
He had been in Guiyi Sect since he was a child, so he was naturally very familiar with the library. He knew that there were many rare ancient printed books in it. This was a great bargain for him. He hoped that his master would not be so angry.
"The Exploitation of the Works of Nature" is a Qing Dynasty edition, while "Wubei Zhi" and "Zizhi Tongjian" are both Ming Dynasty editions.
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