Thinking of some past events, Mrs. Gu's expression was a little dazed, and her eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of gauze, and her thoughts also came to the distant place.

The shadow of the tree swayed again, several dry leaves fell, and some residual snow on the branches fell one after another.

Mrs. Gu felt a cold forehead, raised her hand to wipe the snowflakes there, and said in a deep voice: "Since he wants it, just give it to him."

The snowflakes quickly melted into a drop of snow water on her fingers, crystal clear.

Mrs. Gu casually shook off the water droplets from her fingertips, her eyes cold.

However, the bow can be given, but the title will not be given.

"I'll let me tell the marquis to notify the marquis." Mrs. Gu ordered, intending to let Gu Jian come to serve guests.

So, after a cup of tea, Dingyuan Hou Gu Jian dragged his broken right arm and appeared "later".

He and his son apologized to the distinguished guests, saying that he was sick and that he was late. Whenever the other party asked Gu Yuan why he left, he would laugh helplessly:

"It's rude. Brother Yuan has never been able to sit still. He just said he wanted to practice martial arts."

"He is a teenager, and his character is not good at talking to us."

"Everyone, please forgive me."

Gu Jian's words were not beautiful enough. They all meant Gu Yuan's youthful spirit and temperament, and were eccentric and unsociable.

The nobles present had been immersed in the court for decades, and each of them was an old fox. You could tell at a glance that the Gu family's house and the second house were in conflict.

Even if we don’t say it on the surface, everyone knows very well.

At this moment, everyone could not help but think of those old things, and exchanged meaningful eyes in groups of three or three.

Eight years ago, after Gu Ce, the Marquis of Dingyuan, had an accident, Mrs. Gu immediately abandoned the eldest wife to the late emperor. Some people praised the decisive wife, and some people thought that the wife was surviving by breaking her tail, but more people felt a little disappointed.

After the second wife succeeded to the title, from the public, the Gu family has also taken care of the eldest wife's children in the past eight years.

However, Gu Yuan was Gu Ce's eldest son. He could have enjoyed the favor of the Hou Mansion and directly served as a fifth-rank military general in the army, but Gu Yuan had to start from a small soldier step by step... After so many years of hard work in the army, he also made a lot of military achievements, and then he came to this day.

Gu Yuan obviously has the style of being a father, and is a natural talent. At a young age, he took the position of the Luanyiwei tutor. With the eyes of the emperor and the Duke of Wei, he obviously was about to make a comeback.

As for Gu Jian…

Gu Jian is a mediocre person and is far inferior to his brother. He has done nothing in his successor for so many years. He is just a title that can fool people. In the next generation, he should be demoted to "Hao" to "Bo".

Everyone present could see clearly who they should be with.

The Prince of Yan'an stood up first and bowed to Gu Jian: "Uncle Shi, I still have errands today, so I will say goodbye first."

Pingjin Hou followed and said, "Brother, you have to take good care of yourself after being injured. I won't bother you today."

Gu Jian quickly tried to keep him: "It's okay for me to be hurt. Brother, you can come here at least. At least you have a few drinks with me before leaving."

His right arm was still covered with plaster and bandages. In fact, this was not convincing. The other party called him and said, "Drink again next day", and then left.

Not only the two of Pingjin Hou, but several other guests also made excuses to say goodbye, without giving Gu Jian a face at all. In less than half a stick of incense, the hall was empty.

Gu Jian's face was sometimes blue, sometimes white, sometimes red, and he looked at Mrs. Gu in awkwardly, and was speechless for a long time.

Originally, Mrs. Gu thought it was the same for Gu Jian to come to entertain guests.

but……

Looking at the guests leaving ahead, Mrs. Gu's heart was so anxious that she felt lost.

From the moment Gu Yuan received the order from Shenji Camp yesterday, some things seemed to have begun to change. Until today, they are completely out of control.

Gu Xiao's young face seemed to be dyed with ink, and he also took his back with a hard way.

Gu Jian was just holding on to the hospitality, and his heart was filled with a sense of fire, and he was completely out of control. When he left the hall, he was not careful, and his right foot tripped to the threshold and fell a big fall.

The fall was even more injured. The right arm hit the ground, and the screams resounded throughout the Hou's Mansion.

On that day, the main hospital invited famous Chinese doctors from Beijing to the door for treatment. The doctor invited one after another, and it took a long time to calm down. The entire Marquis' Mansion was not very peaceful because of this.

"Young Master, I heard that the eldest lady wanted to invite Dr. Li, but Dr. Li was annoyed and refused to come again. Later, he had to settle for the second best doctors in the capital who were good at treating trauma."

"The doctors all said that the Marquis's old injuries have not healed and he has added new injuries. If this continues, I am afraid that this hand will not be able to hold the pen."

Gu Yuan had a good night's sleep and slept peacefully until dawn. When he heard the news from his servant Wutong, it was already early the next morning.

Finally, Wutong asked hesitantly: "Master, the eldest lady, let you go and see the Marquis..."

“No need.”

Gu Yuan threw down these two words and went out.

Today is the first day that he, the Luanyiwei Pacification envoy, officially took office. The first thing he did when he took office was to accompany the eldest prince Chu Yi out of the capital.

This is the first time in eight years that the State of Yue sent envoys to visit Dajing.

The envoy was the third prince of Yue Kingdom, who was born by the imperial concubine of Yue Kingdom. His brother, the eldest prince of Yue Kingdom, was just made the crown prince this year.

This time, the third prince of Yue State came to visit. For sure, Da Jing should not be too casual in the candidates responsible for greeting the envoys, so as not to think that Da Jing would be despised.

Therefore, the court had already decided that King Kang Chuyou would go to welcome the third prince of Yue and others to envoy half a month ago.

However, because King Kang stabbed the British Prince Fang Mingfeng for no reason not long ago, this move aroused public anger from the nobles, and Duke Wei, the British and others solemnly opposed it.

The emperor immediately issued an order to appoint the eldest prince Chu Yi to be fully responsible for the matter.

The Kang-Kang group had just suffered a big setback, and with the help of Duke Wei and others, this matter was very smooth.

This is also the first job that the eldest prince has done after returning to China.

Gu Yuan was also very serious when he was staring at so many eyes in the capital. Since then, he has not returned to the Marquis' Mansion, but only asked someone to come back to tell Gu Yanfei that he had temporarily lived in the Ministry of War with the eldest prince.

Anyway, Gu Yuan has never been home, so Gu Yanfei has long been used to it.

In the following days, she almost never left the house and devoted all her energy to the flintlock rifle that Gu Yuan left with her.

Gu Yanfei planned to draw a formation on this flintlock rifle.

The last time, the one she drew in the garden was a one-time temporary formation that could double the power of the flintlock rifle.

Even Gu Yuan was stunned at that time. He took the flintlock rifle and looked at it again and again, which attracted half of the onlookers of the Marquis' Mansion. Gu Yanfei tried these two shots and roughly judged the power, so he did not continue.

It is not difficult to draw a formation, but it is rare that there is no spiritual energy to borrow in this small world.

After all, the spiritual energy in the phoenix-patterned jade perch was too little, and it was not even enough to allow her to lure into her body. Every time the spiritual power in her body was used up, it took a long time to "recover blood".

A permanent "strike formation", even at the lowest level, now she needs to spend a lot of time. After drawing for a while, she has to wait until her spiritual power is restored before continuing to draw...

Fortunately, the plum blossom jade hairpin given by Chu Yi can continuously nourish the sea of ​​consciousness and speed up the recovery of spiritual power.

Gu Yanfei, who stayed in the door, stayed in the small study every day and meditated, drew formations, meditated, and then continued to draw formations.

The days were repeated in such a monotonous way, and seven days had passed in a blink of an eye, and it was the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month.

After so long, the result was not satisfactory.

Looking at the formation on the flintlock rifle that was drawn crookedly and intermittently, Gu Yanfei sighed deeply.

It's so ugly that she can't bear to look at it.

If she is seen by her master, she will not only be laughed at, but will also be punished to draw 300 other same formations.

Thinking of the years when he had just learned formations with his master, Gu Yanfei bent his lips.

The cat rolled around her belly carefreely, rubbing her back against the ground, and then grinding her teeth while holding a plum blossom.

Gu Yanfei caught off guard and reached out his hand, grabbed the cat, pressed one of his front paws on the cinnabar, and pressed a bright red "Plum Blossom Seal" on the gun.

Well, it looks much better now!

Gu Yanfei whitewas thinking.

"Girl, the eldest master is here." Juan Bi walked in happily, wrapped her hair in a headscarf, and she was holding a feather duster in her hand.

The Marquis’ Mansion has begun to prepare for the New Year. On the New Year, we will worship the kitchen and sweep the dust. The maids and mothers in the courtyard are holding brooms, feather dusters, dust dirt, sweep the courtyard, dredge the ditch... They are sweeping the dust happily.

It's already the Little New Year. Only then did Gu Yanfei realize the passing of time slowly.

She pursed her lips and smiled, threw the flintlock aside, and took the rhinoceros horn bow on the desk.

It is a good sign to get rid of the old and welcome the new.

Gu Yanfei happily left the study with the newly repaired rhinoceros horn bow.

She was not afraid of the cold, so there was no charcoal pot in the room. The afternoon sun shone into the room through the open windows, bright and transparent.

Gu Yuan was already sitting on the Arhat bed and drinking tea.

He was wearing a dark blue lotus pattern, tying his waist with a silver silk ribbon, and a sword was installed on the side of his waist.

His sitting posture was tall, like bamboo and pine, with the unique style of a soldier, and his expression was filled with the arrogance of a young man.

"younger sister!"

When Gu Yuan heard the movement, he put down the teacup and looked up at Gu Yanfei, his eyes as clear as stars.

Gu Yanfei also smiled.

After only a few days of meeting, Gu Yuan changed a lot, and he became a little more energetic than before. Even if he didn't laugh, he seemed to be full of energy.

It seems that he is doing well in Luanyiwei.

"Brother," Gu Yanfei sat down beside Gu Yuan, took an orange from the fruit pot and threw it at him, "Try this orange, it was sent from the farm, it was very sweet."

He took the orange given by his sister casually, and Gu Yuan curled his lips and smiled, happy and satisfied.

Then, he curled his smile and said, "Murong Yong was transferred to the position yesterday and was transferred to the Thousand Houses of Shenji Camp."
Chapter completed!