The sky was turning pale as a few birds were flying around happily outside the pavilion, playing and singing.
Gu Yunzhen blinked, then slowly blinked again, the memories of last night flooding back.
Oops! Gu Yunzhen quickly straightened his aching upper body. He was still not fully awake. He rubbed his temples sleepily and said, "We have to go back to the ancestral hall!"
After she finished speaking, she realized that her voice was a little hoarse.
It's the hoarseness of a hangover.
"No rush." Gu Yanfei, who was sitting next to Gu Yunzhen, said with a smile.
Gu Yanfei woke up at some point in the morning. He held his chin with one hand and played with a small compass with the other. The needle was spinning very fast.
She also slept on the table last night, so her clothes were a little wrinkled, but she was in good spirits. Her big eyes sparkled in the morning sun, and there was no sign of fatigue from a hangover when she looked around.
Juanbi, who was standing beside her, took out two bowls of porridge from the food box and echoed, "Young lady, don't worry, don't worry. Eat some porridge first to fill your stomach, and it won't be too late to go to the ancestral hall later. It's still early!"
Looking at the pale sky, Gu Yunzhen finally breathed a sigh of relief and smiled gently and shyly.
She was still a little dazed, and with a bit of laziness after a hangover, she asked, "Yan Fei, what are you calculating?"
Gu Yanfei raised his hand and pointed in the direction of Murong's house. He looked at the compass in his hand and said thoughtfully, "Xun below and Qian above is the Gou hexagram. There will be wind in the world."
In the blue sky above, a sparrow spread its wings and flew past their heads, casting a distorted and strange shadow on the compass, which flashed away.
Gu Yunzhen was completely confused. Just as she was about to ask Gu Yanfei what this hexagram meant, she heard the panicked voice of a little maidservant coming from the southeast: "Third Miss, please allow me to inform my young lady."
"Why bother?" Gu Yun'er's clear and gentle voice came, "I have seen the person."
In the southeast, Gu Yunyan, wearing a purple cloak trimmed with mink, walked towards this side despite the little maid's attempt to stop her. The cloak embroidered with gold thread was shining, making her look as beautiful as the peach blossoms in full bloom in spring.
Behind her followed her maid Xia Lian, holding a red lacquered and gold-painted food box.
The little maid glanced into the warm pavilion awkwardly, her round face flushed with anxiety.
Juanbi in the warm pavilion frowned, thinking that the little maid in their Yuheng Garden was too timid to let the third young lady break into the backyard.
Gu Yanfei raised his hand and gestured to the little maid, signaling her to leave. Everyone around had already arrived.
"Big sister, I guess you are here." Gu Yunyan did not stop and walked slowly to the outside of the warm pavilion.
That bright face showed an expression of "as expected".
As they got closer, Gu Yun'er could clearly smell the alcohol on Gu Yunzhen's body. Seeing her still blurry eyes and wrinkled dress, she couldn't help but frown.
Gu Yunyan's eyes swept over the two people in the pavilion. She didn't say hello to Gu Yanfei, but spoke directly to Gu Yunzhen: "Big sister, I just went to the ancestral hall to look for you..."
"I heard that you knelt in the ancestral hall all night, and I thought you must be hungry, so I brought some food over, but I didn't expect you were not there."
When Gu Yun'an arrived at the ancestral hall, he saw the old woman who was guarding the hall sitting on a futon and sleeping soundly. After waking her up, the old woman was timid and did not utter a word for a long time.
After repeated questioning, Gu Yunmeng found out that it was Gu Yanfei who took Gu Yunzhen away last night.
Gu Yunmeng did not go to Gu Yunzhen's yard, and guessed that the person was most likely in Yuheng Garden, and it turned out to be true!
However, she didn't expect Gu Yunzhen to be so drunk.
If it had been in the past, Gu Yunzhen would not have been able to sneak away since he had accepted the punishment.
Gu Yun'er looked straight at Gu Yunzhen and felt that the girl in front of her suddenly became blurry. She didn't look like the dignified and virtuous elder sister she knew.
"I'm not wrong. There's no need to kneel." Gu Yunzhen said calmly, his voice still a little hoarse from drinking.
Three or four sparrows started quarreling on the branches, chirping non-stop, pecking at each other, and a few scattered feathers floated down in the wind.
Gu Yun'er's brows furrowed even more tightly, and his eyes became deeper.
If it were the Gu Yunzhen of the past, if he ran away and was caught red-handed, it would be impossible for him to feel no shame at all.
But now…
Gu Yunmeng: “…”
Gu Yunmeng originally had a lot more to say, but now those words were stuck in her throat, as if something was stuffed in her chest. It was hard to describe the feeling.
It was as if something had gone off track, or as if something had been taken away.
"Grandma is very angry." Gu Yun'er half closed her eyes, quickly adjusted her mood, and said in a soft tone, "Yesterday I wanted to plead for my elder sister, but... Grandma was very angry."
She measured her tone very well, revealing just the right amount of helplessness, and deliberately emphasized the lady's anger.
In the early morning of winter, everything is quiet. A ray of light appears in the eastern sky, soaking the dark sky.
Gu Yanfei and Gu Yunzhen were in the warm pavilion's shadow, seemingly drunk but not drunk; Gu Yunzhen outside the warm pavilion was shrouded in the halo of morning light, radiant and radiant.
Silence spread.
Seeing that Gu Yunzhen didn't say anything, Gu Yunzhen asked seriously, "Big sister, do you have a lover?"
She stared at Gu Yunzhen without blinking.
It seemed as if a cold wind had penetrated into his collar. Gu Yunzhen's eyes widened in shock, and he suddenly sobered up from his hangover.
She quickly shook her head, looked directly into Gu Yunyan's eyes, and said with a slightly stiff expression, "No."
Gu Yunyan spoke sincerely, "Big sister, if you have a lover, I support you in pursuing your own happiness."
"But if not..."
"Why do you want to regret the engagement when the time comes?!"
As he spoke, Gu Yun'er looked towards the other person in the pavilion with a far-reaching gaze.
She did not directly accuse Gu Yanfei of anything. There was still a friendly smile on her lips, and a gleam of understanding in her eyes.
She looked at Gu Yanfei quietly, her eyes determined, as if to say that it was Gu Yanfei who was instigating Gu Yunzhen to break off the engagement behind her back.
Gu Yunyan calmed down and continued, "Big sister, I know that the Murong family was too hasty in planning a wedding and the wedding date was a bit hasty, but I asked someone to find out that Murong Yong is a young talent. He has made many military achievements before he reached the age of twenty. Although he is not the eldest son, he is far better than his brother and is a good match."
"Big sister shouldn't say no to marriage so easily."
Gu Yun'er's tone was always gentle and soft, without any rebuke.
"..." Gu Yunzhen remained silent, pursing her cherry lips even tighter.
Gu Yunyan sighed softly and said helplessly: "I know that elder sister has been distant from me recently, but I still have to say what I need to say."
"I don't want you to regret it for the rest of your life, big sister."
Gu Yun'er's heart was filled with all kinds of emotions, turning back and forth, twisting and turning.
A brown sparrow spread its wings and flew past Gu Yun'er's eyes, then landed lightly beside Gu Yun'zhen's hand, pecking at the remaining crumbs of pastry on the stone table.
Looking at this scene, Gu Yun'er's eyes were dazed for a moment.
Her eldest cousin Gu Yunzhen has been a gentle and virtuous person since she was a child. She is harmless to people and animals. Both the elders and the younger cousins like her, and even the small animals are willing to get close to her.
In Gu Yun'er's mind, Gu Yunzhen was just like the lady described in the books, the "most perfect" eldest sister in the world.
However, ever since Gu Yanfei came back, Gu Yunzhen had quietly changed little by little, and was no longer the person Gu Yunzhen knew before.
Gu Yun'er stepped onto the stone steps of the pavilion and took a step closer to Gu Yunzhen, as if he wanted to see the confused girl in the pavilion more clearly.
The sparrow on the stone table flapped its wings in fright and flew away, with two broken feathers falling from its wings.
Looking at the two broken feathers leaning against each other, Gu Yunzhen's heart was touched. After more than ten years of sisterhood, she couldn't just watch Gu Yunzhen go astray.
Gu Yunyan gently advised: "Big sister, don't get angry for a moment, you are not that kind of person."
Gu Yunmeng was looking at Gu Yunzhen, but Gu Yanfei was looking at Gu Yunmeng, or rather, at the luck on Gu Yunmeng.
The luck around her was still so vigorous, the golden "qi" mixed with a faint gray, spreading out tentacles like fangs and claws, slowly wrapping around Gu Yunzhen's body.
Gu Yanfei put down the teacup in his hand with a soft sound, his eyes slightly condensed.
"Not such a person?" Gu Yanfei curled his lips with a smile, as if mocking, but also as if he found it funny, and asked lightly, "Gu Yunyan, in your mind, what kind of person should a big sister be?"
To Gu Yun'er, Gu Yanfei's question sounded like a provocation and like he was looking for trouble. She didn't want to pay attention to it at first, but after thinking it over, she changed her mind.
"Big sister," Gu Yunyan still stared at Gu Yunzhen. She was not answering Gu Yanfei, but telling Gu Yunzhen, "The big sister in my mind is filial, quiet, knowledgeable, polite, and considerate."
With every word she spoke, the vigorous golden energy around her extended a thin tentacle, greedily entwining with the white light on Gu Yunzhen's body, as if absorbing nutrients.
However, only Gu Yanfei could see this scene.
This is... Gu Yanfei held his cheek with one hand and looked at the two of them leisurely, but an unusually bright light flashed in his eyes.
In an instant, it seemed like a flash of lightning passed through my heart.
Suddenly, as if something had dawned on her, she understood many things that she had not understood before, and she felt mixed emotions.
She had never realized before that Gu Yunzhen was the most suitable eldest sister arranged by heaven for Gu Yun'er.
Gu Yanfei sighed slightly in his heart, as if there was something stuck in his throat.
Heaven favored Gu Yunyan to the extreme, favoring her so much that it gave her everything: family, elders, older brothers and sisters... and her future husband.
Gu Yunzhen's life seems to exist for Gu Yunmeng.
In his previous life, Gu Yunzhen had disfigured himself for Gu Yunyan, causing her beauty to fade away prematurely and making her unhappy for the rest of her life.
Gu Yunzhen has had bad luck since he was a child. Either he was trying to ward off disaster for Gu Yunmeng, or his luck was sucked away by Gu Yunmeng.
even……
If Gu Yunzhen deviates from what Gu Yunzhen has in mind in the slightest, Heaven will correct it.
The locks that bound Gu Yunzhen not only came from his family, but also from the way of heaven! (End of this chapter)
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