The Gu family has a noble family background and strict family rules. The children in the family have been taught by Confucian scholars since they were young, and the family tradition is pure and upright.
Gu Qingyan was right. If An Huajin married into the Gu family, he would really be incompatible with the Gu family and would be in trouble.
She knows her own virtues, but she doesn't quite understand what her grandfather, His Majesty, the Queen, and the old man of the Gu family think. Together they feel that this is a natural match.
An Huajin poured a glass of wine for Gu Qingyan with his own hands and pushed it in front of him, "I don't want to take advantage of you. I drank the wine you poured and gave you one back. I used your handkerchief and you just threw it away.
Anyway, you are not short of a piece of veil. After today’s meal, how about the grievances between the two of us are wiped out?"
"How to cancel it? After this meal, you won't hate me anymore?" Gu Qingyan asked.
An Huajin looked at him seriously, "As long as you tell the eldest princess and His Majesty that you despise me, the grudge between us will be wiped out, and I will not bear the grudge that you almost killed me back then."
Gu Qingyan lowered his head and looked at the wine cup in front of him.
An Huajin looked at him and said, "Anyway, except for the people who worked hard to bring us together, no one thinks that you can like me. This is normal. It's me who has a bad reputation, and you don't suffer."
Gu Qingyan was silent for a moment, then raised her eyes, "Are you planning not to marry for the rest of your life?"
"That's not true! If you meet someone you like, you will still marry." An Huajin added in his heart, as long as he is good-looking.
"So you're just not going to marry me?" Gu Qingyan raised her eyebrows.
"Well, I can't afford to marry!" I'm afraid of killing each other.
Gu Qingyan picked up the wine in front of her and drank it all in one gulp, "Let's eat! The food will be cold in a while!"
An Huajin nodded, thinking that doing business with smart people would be a pleasure, and he would be harmonious in a few words.
Peach blossoms, fine wine, delicacies, and being in a good mood after solving a big thing, An Huajin has a big appetite and eats like crazy.
Gu Qingyan somehow managed to snatch several pieces of meat from An Huajin as if he had been hungry for three days, but he ate it very gracefully.
Although the two of them failed to meet the eldest princess's help in finding a matchmaker, they did not fail to live up to the delicious food on the table. After the meal, they finished most of the food.
After the meal, An Huajin yawned and waved, "You go, I'll sleep a little longer. Remember, we've written it off!"
After saying that, she stood up and jumped lightly to a peach tree by the lake. She found a comfortable position, lay on the trunk and smelled the fragrance of peach blossoms and fell asleep.
Gu Qingyan sat there for a while, drank a cup of tea, and shouted outside, "Here comes someone!"
"What are your orders, Seventh Young Master?" A guard immediately ran in.
"Get pen, ink, paper and inkstone." Gu Qingyan ordered.
"Yes!"
The man moved quickly, quickly got pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and then retreated.
Gu Qingyan drew a painting with a pen. After completing it, he set it aside to dry the ink, rolled it up, and put it into his sleeve. Then he spread a new piece of rice paper, wrote a line of words with the pen, and dried it.
After doing it, he went to the peach blossom tree where An Huajin was, clamped the paper with a branch, and hung it on the tree.
The breeze blew by, causing the rice paper to sway gently and rustle.
Gu Qingyan stood quietly under the tree for a moment before turning and leaving.
The third princess and others watched from a distance as Gu Qingyan entered the Zuihua Pavilion. No one was tied up and escorted. She came voluntarily, and her heart was broken.
The girls counted the time and waited for an excruciating hour before they saw Gu Qingyan coming out of Zuihua Pavilion.
Not seeing An Huajin with him, the third princess's eyes lit up and she rushed over to Gu Qingyan to stop him, "Seventh Young Master Gu, you won't marry An Huajin, right?"
Gu Qingyan stopped and bowed her hands to the third princess, politely and politely, "My parents ordered me to be a matchmaker, and I listen to my grandfather."
The third princess's face suddenly turned pale and her eyes turned red, "You...you don't want to make the decision for yourself?"
Gu Qingyan shook his head, "Children of the Gu family don't want to be their own masters."
The third princess turned pale, "You are so good, An Huajin is not worthy of you..."
Gu Qingyan smiled and said goodbye.
The third princess was stuck with a lot of words. As she watched Gu Qingyan leave, the bright sunshine hit him, and the handsome young man took away the beauty of the sun and the moon.
How could such a good person be so cheap as An Huajin? How could An Huajin be so cheap?
The third princess finally cried angrily. Xu Ziyan asked Jiang Yingyue behind her, "What he just meant was that he didn't object to marrying An Huajin?"
The girls nodded feeling uncomfortable.
"This is a peach blossom reward, I want to go back to the palace and ask my mother, An Huajin is her niece, am I not her biological daughter? How can she be so unfavorable? I also like Gu Qingyan, how can she only care about her?
An Huajin?" The third princess wiped away her tears, stamped her feet and walked out angrily.
The other girls do not have a mother who is a queen, nor do they have a good grandfather like An Huajin, so they can only be envious and jealous.
The eldest princess had someone keep an eye on Zuihua Pavilion for a full hour before she saw Gu Qingyan come out, and the eldest princess was spoiled by coke.
If people hate each other and can't stand a cup of tea, what's the point of an hour? This is enough!
Therefore, when the housekeeper reported that Young Master Gu wanted to see him, the eldest princess smiled brightly and said, "Hurry, I want to see Young Master Gu!"
Gu Qingyan stepped into the palace hall, greeted the eldest princess with a smile, and looked noble and elegant in her movements.
The eldest princess smiled and asked him to sit down, and couldn't wait to ask, "Seventh Young Master, how are you? Is Xiao An'er what you like?"
Gu Qingyan's face turned slightly red.
The eldest princess was overjoyed when she saw his face, "It's time for men to get married and women to get married. Don't be embarrassed. Tell me the truth."
Gu Qingyan coughed twice, and her ears were filled with red clouds. She took out a scroll from her sleeve and handed it to the eldest princess, "This is a crude work I just made on a whim. Please appreciate it, princess." "Oh?" The eldest princess quickly took it and unfolded it. She loves painting and is good at painting, especially Gu Qingyan's paintings, which are priceless treasures. When he was ten years old, he painted a "Mountain and River Picture", which was accepted by His Majesty.
It still hangs in the south study room. It was precisely because of that painting that after the old Nanyang King saw it, he immediately decided to choose his grandson as his son-in-law.
Eight years have passed, and people seeking paintings are flocking to him, and they have crossed the threshold of the Gu family. However, he has only painted two paintings, both of which were out of favor.
One is "Smoke and Rain" and was given to Du Pingshan, the dean of Lushan Academy, his mentor. The other is "Smoke and Rain" and was given to Master Dharma Yuan Guan of Qingyun Mountain.
Now seeing him painting again, the eldest princess's hands were shaking with excitement. After reading a painting with her eyes, she said with great joy, "Is this "Beauty Picture"?"
Gu Qingyan blushed and smiled, "Eldest Princess, do you think my painting looks like it?"
"The resemblance, it's so similar, it's so lifelike, just like the real little An'er is right in front of me." The eldest princess couldn't put it down, "The Seventh Young Master's paintings have become even more sophisticated! Little An'er must love it so much."
Gu Qingyan blushed and lowered her head, whispering, "She didn't see it. I drew it secretly. She seems to have some misunderstandings about me and doesn't like me very much..."
"Huh?" The eldest princess suspected that she heard wrongly and suddenly looked up at Gu Qingyan.
Gu Qingyan took a deep breath, stood up, bowed her hands, and said, "Princess Youlao got around it!"
