That evening, after checking on Gu Yingxue's condition, Gu Xin prepared to rest.
Lu Zheng was waiting for her outside the door.
Lu Zheng leaned against a big tree in the yard, his eyes closed, looking very relaxed. The moonlight shone on him, making him look like a painting.
Gu Xin couldn't bear to break this beautiful scene.
Hearing the noise, Lu Zheng opened his eyes, stood up straight, and waved to Gu Xin.
Gu Xin walked over slowly with her hands behind her back. She suddenly realized that she had grown a lot taller and was almost up to Yuan Yuan's shoulder. Before, she only reached his heart.
"Close your eyes," Lu Zheng said softly as the others approached.
Gu Xin obediently closed her eyes.
Then she felt something being hung around her neck, and she instinctively opened her eyes. What she saw was her brother Yuanyuan's increasingly handsome face; their noses were almost touching.
Gu Xin didn't know why, but her body was out of control of her brain, so she leaned forward slightly and kissed him.
Lu Zheng was stunned for a moment.
Just a moment, like being pricked by a needle, and Gu Xin retreated in a panic.
Lu Zheng wouldn't let her back away, and reached out to hug her: "You think you can just run away after kissing me? That's irresponsible of you."
Gu Xin blinked: "Would you believe me if I said I didn't do it on purpose?"
Lu Zheng shook his head: "I don't believe it."
Gu Xin then said, "Then can I say that you're so handsome, Yuan Yuan, that you're a feast for the eyes?"
Lu Zheng reached out and pinched her nose: "I'm going to tell Second Uncle that you're misusing words! Is that how you use 'beauty is food for the eyes'?"
Gu Xin said confidently, "You wouldn't dare, my dad wouldn't say anything to me! Besides, that word isn't wrong! Yuan Yuan, you're so handsome, I wish I could hide you in my room so other girls wouldn't see you and try to steal you away from me!"
Lu Zheng smiled wryly: "Why did you say what I wanted to say?"
Gu Xin: "?"
The two looked at each other, so quiet that they could hear each other's heartbeats.
After a while, Lu Zheng felt that this couldn't go on, and interrupted the atmosphere that was both joyful and annoying: "Silly girl, don't you even look at what I put around your neck?"
Gu Xin looked down, picked it up and saw that it was a round object. She didn't know what it was made of. It was cold to the touch, but she was sure it wasn't jade. It had patterns on it, like stars in the sky.
The chain is made of pearls strung together, with several pearls and a gemstone of the same size strung together.
Lu Zheng said, "In the round world, there is only Xin Xin. In this round pendant, there is only a sky full of stars."
Gu Xin looked up at Lu Zheng and smiled, her eyes narrowing into slits, making her look particularly silly.
Lu Zheng smiled too.
Suddenly, Gu Xin tiptoed, put her hands on Lu Zheng's arms, and kissed Yuan Yuan, whose world consisted only of Xin Xin.
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On the sixteenth day of the first month, the Great Zhou delegation to the west departed from Kuncheng. In addition to the officials of the Ministry of Rites, Gu Shouxin and his family of three, Gu En and Gu Si, there was also a Peng family army led by General Peng San and his wife.
The vehicle contained various vegetables, fruits, grain seeds, books, and daily necessities.
Everyone in Kuncheng knew what this group of people had gone to do. Many students even came to see them off and composed poems to record this famous historical scene.
He was itching to draw the money and grain, but although he had not yet reached the rank of prefect, he had taken over the position of prefect of Kunzhou from Gu Shouxin, so he could only keep it in mind and draw it later.
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