Chapter 380: Full Moon Banquet
On the second day, after Xiao He's endless narration, Su Yue finally understood what happened to the man who died of poisoning yesterday.
It turned out that the woman had an affair with the officer leader from yesterday, and her husband had noticed it, so the two of them made this plan.
The woman mixed rat poison in the man's food. After the man ate it, the woman deliberately told him about her affair to anger him.
The man had a bad temper and often beat women. Now that he knew his wife was having an affair, he was even angrier and beat her even harder.
The chief of the soldiers discussed with the woman that when the men beat her, she would run away and find a scapegoat for help.
At that time, the man would definitely beat the scapegoat. When they started fighting, if the man died of the poison, he would bring people over and take the scapegoat away on the grounds of killing someone.
But before the woman could call for help, Li Yan saw her and stepped forward to stop her. The woman and the chief of the officers and soldiers then took advantage of the situation.
After sorting out the whole story, Su Yue couldn't help but sigh that Li Yan was really a sucker.
"Xiao He, please send this letter." After listening to this, Su Yue handed the letter that was going to be sent to Yun Ye to Xiao He.
"Okay, miss." Xiao He said, took the letter and ran out swiftly.
"Why are you back again?" After seeing Xiao He go out, Su Yue took out the medical book and read it carefully. At this time, footsteps were suddenly heard at the door. Su Yue thought Xiao He had come back, so he didn't look up and asked softly.
"Who's back?" A familiar female voice came from outside the door.
"Mother, why are you here? I was thinking of paying my respects to you later." After hearing the voice, Su Yue quickly put down the Chinese medicine book in her hand, stood up and went to greet her.
"Yuer, your third uncle is planning to hold a full-moon banquet for Yian today, so I came here specially to ask you to go along."
Gu Qiner gently patted Su Yue who was holding her arm and spoke with a doting tone.
Since the death of the marshal, Dongyou has won another victory. Combined with the arrangements made by Mo Jingxuan, there is actually no war on the border.
However, the important border area must not be left unguarded, so Yang Junfeng volunteered to stay. General Yang, Gu Qingzhi and Yang Yifeng returned to the Dongyou Imperial City.
The emperor was very happy after the victory. He immediately promoted General Yang to marshal and Yang Yifeng to general in the Golden Palace. As for Gu Qingzhi, since he had been promoted to general before, the emperor rewarded him with a lot of gold and silver this time.
However, after Gu Qingzhi received the gold and silver, he did not accept it. Instead, he distributed the money to the families of the soldiers who died on the battlefield in the name of the emperor's condolences.
Gu Qingzhi's behavior made the emperor respect him more, and the Gu family's status in the court was greatly improved.
"Why didn't my third uncle tell me in advance that he was going to hold a full moon banquet? I haven't prepared anything." After hearing what her mother said, Su Yue quickly let go of her hand and prepared to find something as a gift.
"Mother has prepared everything for you, you just need to go." Seeing her daughter's anxious look, Gu Qiner hurriedly smiled and pulled her.
"Mom, you too, why didn't you tell me in advance." Su Yue heard that her mother was ready for everything, so she also stopped and muttered with dissatisfaction.
"Okay, okay, it's mother's fault. Mother didn't tell Yue'er. Come with mother." Seeing that it was getting late, Gu Qin'er didn't say anything more, but went out with Su Yue.
As soon as they went out, they happened to meet Xiao He who had returned, so they rushed to Gu's Mansion as quickly as possible.
The Gu Mansion was not very lively at this time. Neither Gu Qingzhi nor Old Master Gu had any intention of making a big deal about the full moon banquet. In fact, the Gu family was just looking for a reasonable excuse to have relatives and friends get together for a meal.
"Second sister, Yue'er, you are here." As soon as they entered the Gu Mansion, Gu Qingzhi greeted them with a smile.
"Qingzhi, we are not too late, are we? Yue'er just complained to me that I didn't tell her about the full moon banquet in advance."
Gu Qiner signaled the maid beside her to hand the gift to the servant beside Gu Qingzhi, and spoke to Gu Qingzhi with a helpless smile.
"Yuer, you are really wronging your mother. Your grandfather and I decided to hold the full moon banquet last night."
Gu Qingzhi followed Gu Qin'er's gaze and looked at Su Yue, explaining with a smile.
"Third uncle, really, there's no need to be in such a hurry for the full moon banquet." After hearing what Gu Qingzhi said, Su Yue didn't say anything more, but replied with a helpless smile.
"Yuer, you are wrongly accusing me. This is what your grandfather meant." After Gu Qingzhi finished speaking, he deliberately glanced towards the main hall.
"Is grandpa over there?" Su Yue followed Gu Qingzhi's gaze and saw that there were just a few more servants over there, busying themselves with something back and forth.
"Your grandpa Yang is here too. He's playing chess with your grandfather over there. You guys should go over quickly." After Gu Qingzhi finished speaking, he turned around and prepared to leave.
"Qin'er, Qingzhi, Yue girl." Just as Su Yue and Gu Qin'er were about to leave, they heard a man's voice calling them.
"Yifeng, you're here." Gu Qingzhi reacted the fastest among those present. When he heard the male voice, he smiled and went to greet him.
"Uncle Yang, why are you here?"
Su Yue saw Yang Yifeng with a smile on his face and asked with confusion.
Wasn't Uncle Yang punished by the emperor to reflect on his mistakes behind closed doors? How come he is here now? However, Su Yue did not ask this question out loud, but asked it very tactfully.
"Brother Yang." When Gu Qin'er saw Yang Yifeng coming, she just chuckled and nodded at him. She knew that Yang Yifeng had beaten Su Yan before.
She naturally knew that Yang Yifeng was venting his anger for her. Although she didn't say anything, this greeting contained too much emotion.
"Yuer wanted to ask me how I could come out if I wasn't confined to reflect on my mistakes. I have to thank your grandfather for this. It was he who interceded for me, and the emperor allowed me to stop confining myself to reflect on my mistakes.
Yang Yifeng looked at Su Yue and directly answered the doubts in Su Yue's mind, then looked at Gu Qiner with complicated eyes.
"Qin'er, I haven't seen you for more than ten years, and you are still the same as before."
Just as gentle and quiet.
After Yang Yifeng finished speaking in his mind, he took two steps towards Gu Qiner and Su Yue.
"You guys chat, I'll go look at other things."
Gu Qingzhi had been at the border for so long that he naturally knew Yang Yifeng's feelings for his second sister. It was also because of this that after Yang Yifeng beat Su Yan up, he felt that Yang Yifeng was a reliable man, at least much more pleasing to the eye than Su Yan.
"I'm old, and Yue'er is so grown up now. She's no longer the same as before." Gu Qin'er smiled at Yang Yifeng and didn't take Yang Yifeng's words to heart.
"Mother, I was at the border before and heard Uncle Yang say that you two grew up together. We haven't seen each other for more than ten years, so you must have a lot to talk about. Third uncle, the garden in your house should be beautiful, right?"
Su Yue saw that Yang Yifeng seemed to have a lot to say, but seemed to have not said it because of their presence, so she suggested speaking up directly.
"Ah? Oh, yes, I'll have someone take you there."
When Gu Qingzhi was asked by Su Yue, he almost didn't react. Then he saw Su Yue blinking at him desperately, and then he reacted and hurriedly asked the servants to lead the way.
"Yuer, isn't this inappropriate?" Gu Qiner looked at Su Yue and spoke out with concern. After all, if others saw this single man and woman together, they would gossip.
"What's wrong with this? I heard from Uncle Yang that you two were good friends who grew up together. Besides, you and your father have already divorced. What's wrong with continuing your friendship? Is your mother thinking something wrong?"
After Su Yue finished speaking, she pushed her mother a few steps towards the garden.
"Qin'er, I haven't seen you for more than ten years. I really want to catch up with you. Let's go."
Seeing that Su Yue was helping him so much, Yang Yifeng thought it would be cowardly for a man to remain silent, so after taking a deep breath, he decided to make things clear today.
"In that case, let's go over there and take a look."
After listening to Su Yue's words, Gu Qiner also felt that there was no harm in talking to her childhood playmate whom she hadn't seen for more than ten years. On the contrary, she had been hesitant all the time, as if she was really guilty.
"Uncle Yang, I hope you can seize this opportunity." Looking at the two people gradually going away, Su Yue said in a low voice with a smile.
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