significance
At the city gate, Gui Yao sat on the other side of the carriage, holding the reins with one hand. Bei Xi's tall back did not move at all, and he put one hand behind his back, blocking her tightly.
The pass was held in her hand.
It was not taken away until we entered the city.
Under her long eyelashes, Gui Yao's knuckles gently fell on the hometown of the Gui family's wife on the road sign. Her hair was pressed against her forehead, and she hummed a song as she leaned on the man's shoulder.
"The capital seems different from what I imagined." She pointed to the round moon in the sky.
At night, it is not as lively as the ghost market in Wuhua City.
Cats, dogs, and other small animals…even if you close your eyes and listen carefully, you can’t seem to hear much of their inner voices.
Ren Beixi lowered his eyes and watched Gui Yao fluttering her eyelashes.
She seemed to hear him ask her if she was sleepy, only to realize that she had been dozing with her head down for a long time.
"Go to sleep."
So Ren Beixi just tightened the reins, turned into a branch road as soon as he entered the city gate, and the carriage stopped steadily in front of the inn. He picked up the sleeping Gui Yao, tidied her dress, raised his eyes, and met someone's peach blossom eyes.
"Ren Erlang, long time no see."
Jiuchong raised an eyebrow slightly.
Ren Beixi was dressed in black, his voice deep and warning: "Get out of the way."
Jiuchong said "Oh?" It was rare to see this man so angry. Seeing that he really didn't want to say more, he supported the fan ribs with one hand, folded the fan, and followed him.
Wencheng Street is located on the south side of the imperial city.
Baoqing Inn.
The porcelain cups and jade bowls stared at the visitor silently. A woody fragrance wafted over her face. The carved door behind her was blown shut by the wind. Gui Yao was so startled that she buried her head in Ren Beixi's arms.
Although the inn is large, its layout is extremely simple.
They are just four side rooms of Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermillion Bird and Black Tortoise.
Ren Beixi raised his eyes and nodded slightly to the person sitting on the roof, then turned and walked into the wing room, took a half step back, and left Jiuchong outside the door.
The sound of the door being bolted was particularly loud.
The smile on Jiuchong's lips did not fade as he turned around and jumped from the handrail onto the roof.
"He's really angry."
The person on the roof just looked up at the moon, and finally replied in a faint voice: "If he wants to accompany Sister Gui, I will leave early."
"You are always so tolerant in relationships between men and women."
Jiuchong seemed to be hinting at something, but when he saw his brows slightly furrowed, he nonchalantly changed the subject and said, "I'll go with you."
The man's eyes were dark.
After a while, he shook his head.
"But in just a few years, there really is no place for me in the capital." Jiuchong said with a half-smile.
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the man stand up with his hands, his black brocade clothes gleaming in the moonlight.
Hearing this, he only scoffed: "I don't deserve to be the Imperial Master."
The lanterns in the inn swayed slightly. At three o'clock in the morning, the innkeeper came out from behind and extinguished the candle at the door.
When the octogenarian turned around, he seemed to be startled by the two people on the eaves, and saluted with trembling hands.
"No thanks." Jiuchong waved his sleeves and drank the tea handed to him with interest as he went downstairs.
"Not going into the palace, just giving me a ride."
There was still doubt in the man's eyes. He narrowed his peach blossom eyes and said, "Oh."
"I haven't been home for a long time and I can't find the way."
The courtyard was quiet, and the lotus flowers in the pond were just beginning to emerge. He casually praised the shopkeeper for his good care.
The shopkeeper scratched his white hair and said, "You are joking, my lord. The lotus will wither soon."
Jiuchong lowered his eyes to look at the light that had just been turned on in the room on the second floor. He leaned one hand on the mahogany table, tapped his knuckles lightly, and asked if Ren Beixi and Gui Yao's guards were together. After receiving a negative answer, he turned around and followed the man's waving sleeves.
"Time is running out."
"Yeah."
Jiuchong's smile has not faded.
After a night, the full moon is gone.
"Yaoyao, wake up, Yaoyao, get up, get up!"
Who called me?
Gui Yao opened her eyes in a daze, and saw the prayer sachet hanging on the beam. She supported herself with her hands to get up, and there was only a burnt candle left in the room. She pinched her forehead before she realized what was going on.
"Why did you suddenly call Yaoyao?"
"I thought it was Ren Beixi calling me." She thought secretly in her heart.
The system hummed in a serious tone.
"Are you ready for a new mission?"
Guiyao opened the wardrobe and saw a bamboo green and goose yellow skirt and blinked.
He only spoke after he changed his clothes.
"Is it so grand? ... The previous system took a long time to update a map. It seems that you, the little system, are indeed much stronger."
"Thank you, it's very helpful."
The system listened to her casual praise and was slightly happy for a few seconds.
Gui Yao was also slightly happy to hear this. The image of the two enemies facing each other when she looked back at him when she left Wuhua City was still lingering in her mind. After waking up from the dream, she was still quite lucid.
She casually opened the door and saw Ren Beixi feeding fish in the yard downstairs.
After a pause, he left the door ajar.
"Tell me, what exactly is the main mission?"
Gui Yao leaned on the table with both hands, rolled up the window paper, held a thin brush dipped in ink in one hand, and waited for the system to speak.
So a sentence in simplified Chinese characters was left on the rice paper:
Main task: Enter the palace.
"Is there a time limit?" Gui Yao's long eyelashes trembled slightly.
After receiving the negative answer, she didn't know whether to breathe a sigh of relief.
The wooden door swayed slightly, and it was the sound of Ren Beixi knocking on the door. Gui Yao answered softly, and then he pushed the door open and walked in.
The distant glimpse I had just now wasn't half as beautiful as the lady is now. Gui Yao saw him looking at her and blinked inexplicably, the compliments in her mind about to overflow.
She took in the subtle fluctuations in Ren Beixi's eyes.
"Looks good?" Gui Yao turned around.
"It looks good." Ren Beixi said seriously.
He brought two fried dough sticks and a bowl of soy milk at the same time, and watched Guiyao finish eating before speaking.
"Going for a stroll in the city?"
Gui Yao had been waiting for him to say this for a long time. She finished the soy milk in two gulps and stood up. When she was well again, her office worker abilities exploded. Suddenly, she felt like a tour group had arrived at a scenic spot. In short, that's it.
"Walk!"
I've never been to Beijing.
As Miss Gui, who lived in Xiaohe Village after traveling through time, she was very curious when she first came to the ancient capital.
As for the fact that I had never been to the capital before I traveled through time, the friend I had made an appointment with passed away so suddenly that it was a thing of the past that could not be retrieved.
The streets are well connected, there are thousands of houses and towns, nine markets are open, goods are separated by tunnels, the city is crowded and the outskirts are overflowing, and there are hundreds of shops around.
It’s worthy of being the capital.
It’s so delicious too!!
Gui Yao held the candied haws in her left hand and took a bite of two. She found that the sugar coating was not as delicious as those in modern scenic spots. She was about to throw it to Ren Beixiong, but when she turned sideways, she found that he was holding a bowl of sweet tofu pudding in his left hand and holding a scallion pancake that he had taken two bites of in his right hand.
“…”
She accepted her fate and continued to nibble on the candied haws.
It's shameful to waste food.
Suddenly, she heard a shout from behind, urging her horse to clear the way. She held Ren Beixi's hand and walked to both sides. The people around her stood around as if they were used to it.
People are not allowed to look back, and cars are not allowed to turn around.
The carriage forged its way through.
"Master Imperial Master, are you going back home so early today?"
“That’s not something we can discuss.”
She closed her eyes tightly to suppress the voices of those around her. Imperial Master? Gui Yao opened her eyes again and looked from afar. The red silk on the carriage was indeed the work of Jiuchong.
The carriage passed slowly in front of him, but suddenly the horses stopped.
The carriage curtains swayed in the wind, and a low voice was heard from the carriage: "Young General, why don't you come with me to the court?"
Ren Beixi nodded slightly, but didn't say much.
Gui Yao continued to eat her candied haws while standing aside when she heard someone say slowly from the carriage, "This is..."
"Your wife, Imperial Physician Gui and the wife of the Gui family."
The man leaned slightly to the side to block Gui Yao, and said with a bow, "Please allow the Imperial Master to go ahead. I will bring my wife to the banquet tomorrow, and then I will report to Your Majesty on my return to the capital."
Guiyao also bowed.
When the carriage left, Fang Cai and Ren Beixi looked at each other. One of them was biting a candied haws, while the other was holding a cake in his hand. Who was more down-to-earth?
She couldn't help but smile, her almond-shaped eyes curved, and leaned close to his ear: "He is very similar to Jiuzhong, um... a little more deliberate."
Before she could say anything, the man grasped her slender wrist. She turned around in confusion and realized that the people around her had practically knelt on the ground upon hearing his words, all shouting, "The Ren family army served the country and the people, drove back the northern barbarians, and they deserved to be honored! Their achievements will last forever."
Gui Yao followed the man and stopped.
Only his voice was silent.
"You're too kind. It's my duty to ensure that the people are safe and the country is at peace." Ren Beixi knelt on one knee and helped up the elderly man closest to him, his voice steady and firm.
Gui Yao bowed obediently to everyone, and then Ren Beixi held her hand and walked into the alley.
"What a perfect match..."
"See? The dress you're wearing is a new model from Chaochunlou. I asked the shopkeeper before, and he said it was already ordered by a customer.
Ren Beixi lowered his eyes to look at Gui Yao's red ears, and said in a deep voice: "If you don't adapt, take a carriage to East Street for a stroll."
Gui Yao shook her head.
"So Chaochunlou is a ready-made clothing store? I thought it was just a name Jiuchong came up with casually." She noticed.
"It's just a name."
"My brother used to love buying clothes at Chaochunlou, but there's only one Chaochunlou in Beijing."
Gui Yao held Ren Beixi's hand, her mind flashing back to the past of Ren Zhong and Jiu Zhong. After a moment, she sighed. If Ren Zhong were still alive, what would the capital be like now? No one would know.
"system."
"Um?"
"You know."
The system smiled, but in the end said nothing. When Gui Yao squatted down and petted a kitten on the roadside, it lazily said, "Host, are you curious about Ren Zhong?"
Guiyao has round eyes.
"I'm curious. Many people I know in this world have their own lives. It's great."
"Sometimes I suddenly wonder if I came too late. Maybe my past life had meaning, and my present life also has meaning. I also have my own life, and only one person doesn't have one."
She glanced secretly at Ren Beixi.
After a while, he called softly, "Gui Yao."
"What kind of person was Gui Yao before I traveled through time, and what kind of life did she have?" She suddenly raised her hand, which was clasped with Ren Beixi's, and placed it in front of her eyes. The man's fingers had calluses that always rubbed her and hurt, while her hands were slender and white, and there was only calluses on her palms.
She remembered the scar clearly.
During a university experiment class, my palm was accidentally cut by a friend. The split stretched from the base of the thumb to the center of the wrist, and I needed more than a dozen stitches.
At that time, Shen Yuan cried so hard that she almost fainted.
"Yaoyao... This scar will stay for a long time. I'm sorry. I, I will definitely find a chance to return it to you in the future!"
"Don't say that."
The doctor said that the scar was very deep and might stay with her for the rest of her life, and that she would need cosmetic surgery to completely remove it.
It just happens to be in the palm of your hand.
After it grows back it looks like palm lines.
After Shen Yuan passed away in the car accident, Gui Yao often held her palm and looked at the long lifeline that was separated.
But why, this scar also started from the first sight she had after traveling through time?
It has also been with her for the past three and a half years.
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