Chapter 20:

Sitting in the carriage, she always remembered the way Xiao Heng was riding a horse just now, and wondered if he saw himself peeking at him?
Lu Qingyi next to her was a good temper. She seemed to be uneasy, so she talked to her specially, asked what she did in her daily life, and asked about her family affairs.
Gu Suier naturally answered them one by one.
"If you are born later, you can go out with the eldest lady and walk around more to see the world more." Lu Qingyi suggested.
"Well, I know." Gu Suier was actually a little uncomfortable in her stomach, but she still managed to endure it and said gratefully: "When I give birth, I will talk to the old lady."
"It's like riding a horse, visiting the garden, playing the piano and composing poems in time for that occasion. This is what we should know. The old lady is a golden branch and a royal background, and I like girls playing with these things."
But these are things that Gu Suier doesn't know.
"Then I'm afraid it won't work. Recently, San Ye taught me to write and memorized some poems. I will be content if I can recognize a word."
She can read and practice on rice paper every day. This is something she can't think of. As for playing the piano, composing poems, and riding horses, it is too far away from her.
"Recite poems? Did you recite poems? What did you recite?" Lu Qingyi was quite interested when she heard it.
"Let me think about it... Said it was a poem collected in the previous dynasty, named "Sword Han Yao Kyushu"."
The poems in there were really difficult to understand. Gu Suier just memorized it in order to make progress and to make Xiao Heng like it.
"Jian Hanyao Jiuzhou?" Lu Qingyi was taken aback: "Why are you carrying that back?"
"...San Ye told me to carry it."
"My daughter's house, good, how boring to memorize that!"
Lu Qingyi was also speechless.
"That is a poem that people who practice martial arts in the military like. Even if they are not martial arts practitioners, they are still officials. Every day they want to serve the country and join the military camp to defend the country!"
To put it bluntly, it is a collection of verses from Rong Shou frontier.
"is it?"
Gu Suier was also taken aback. She didn't have the idea of ​​joining the army to practice martial arts, let alone defending her family and the country. Well, why did she recite some such poems.
No wonder the swords, swords, blood bones and loyal souls cannot be moved inside, it sounds weird.
"The third brother is really..." Lu Qingyi hid his face and smiled: "That's right, the third brother likes those, he teaches you, and of course he also asks you to recite them...you don't learn from him!"
"Then what should I learn?"
Lu Qingyi thought for a while: "The first one is boudoir poems and the other is literati poems in "The Collection of Flowers" and "The Collected Collection", both of which are more suitable for women's beginners. I will bring them to you, and you will slowly carry them. "
Gu Suier suddenly said, "Okay, so I would like to thank the girl first."
Lu Qingyi smiled: "What's so polite about this? If you meet someone you don't know, just ask me, and there is nothing wrong with me. If you recognize you as a student, it is considered to have something to do."
Gu Suier was so grateful that she thanked her repeatedly.
At this time, the carriage was moving forward, and it had already reached the downtown area, and there was a scream of people on both sides of the carriage, which was so lively.
Lu Qingyi gently raised the corner of the curtain with her hand, and whispered: "It stands to reason that we shouldn't be looking outside, so that people can see us, but occasionally take a peek, you can't see it outside."
With that, she secretly looked out through the gap.
Gu Suier was a little bit afraid at first, but after listening to the movement outside, she was a little greedy, thinking about what the prosperous Yanjing city looked like, she hadn't seen it yet.
I couldn't help it now, peeking through the gap between the curtains, and seeing it was really eye-opening.
There are many buildings, the flags are flying, the shops are next to each other, there is no free space, and the merchants wear all kinds of clothes, so rare.
After the horse-drawn carriage drove out of the busy city, the excitement faded away, and finally out of the city, after another tea time, it finally stopped at one place.
When I got off the carriage, I saw the high-rise gate, the blue tile wall, and the scent of osmanthus coming with the wind. There were various styles of carriages in front of the gate. There are also nobles who came on horseback and got off their horses.
Xiao Heng and Xiao Jin's group also got off their horses and came over to accompany Gu Suier, Lu Qingyi and others in.
As soon as Xiao Jin stepped into this garden, he was obviously interested, dragged Lu Qingyi, and said to Xiao Heng: "Brother, let's go to the bookstore over there by ourselves!"
It turned out that in addition to the large osmanthus flowers, there are also teahouses and bookstores in this Guiyuan. It is like a small street market with everything for daily entertainment, and the settings here are many times more elegant than the outside.
Xiao Heng looked at her like that, knowing that she couldn't stop her, and immediately said, "Don't be rash."
Xiao Jin's chicken pecks at the rice and nods repeatedly.
Xiao Heng again instructed Jiang Zheng: "Follow the big girl and protect."
Jiang Zheng stepped forward and said respectfully, "Yes."
However, it is not appropriate to send only one guard to follow. He looked at Qingyue next to Gu Suier: "Let Qingyue go with him."
Seeing this, Xiao Jin was rather reluctant: "So many people are following, okay!"
Xiao Jin and Lu Qingyi took Jiang Zheng Qingyue to the bookshop, and Xiao Heng led Gu Suier to rest in the cafe next to them.
"What does Xuer want to see?" Xiao Heng asked Xiao Xu after sitting down and ordered some tea.
Xiao Xu was flattered.
She is usually not familiar with this third brother, and she does not dare to get bored with this third brother. She also knows that Xiao Jin and Xiao Heng have a good relationship. For example, when you come to Guiyuan this time, Xiao Heng is willing to come. Hibiscus's face.
She didn't expect that Xiao Jin ran away, and Xiao Heng was so concerned about herself.
She hurriedly smiled and said, "I also come out to relax at will, I can go anywhere."
Xiao Heng listened and said: "When we finish drinking tea, let's go to the east and see the osmanthus."
Xiao Xu nodded: "Okay!"
Who knew that before this cup of tea was finished, Xiao Xu met someone who was her aunt's cousin.
That aunt was a concubine for an adult from the court of the court and gave birth to a daughter, the cousin in front of her.
Xiao Xu saw his cousin, and the two of them held hands and spoke warmly.
Seeing this, Xiao Heng took Gu Suier to see the sweet-scented osmanthus first.
The reason why Osmanthus Garden is famous is not only because it is a place for the wives of wealthy and aristocratic families, but also because there are hundreds of acres of osmanthus. Every autumn, dozens of kinds of osmanthus bloom and the fragrance of osmanthus is everywhere. Permeated with the seemingly absent osmanthus fragrance.
Before Gu Suier came, she thought she was just looking at some sweet-scented osmanthus, but only after she came did she realized how shocking it was when all the sweet-scented osmanthus trees out of sight were in full bloom in front of them.
When you look closely, the petals of the sweet-scented osmanthus are chic and delicate, as small as a grain of rice, elegant and graceful, quiet and soft, which makes people like it at first glance.
Gu Suier couldn't help closing her eyes, taking a deep breath, feeling the elegant fragrance.
Xiao Heng next to her took her hand and said quietly, "This sweet-scented osmanthus can still make wine."
Gu Suier: "Really? Is it delicious?"
Xiao Heng pointed to the front and said, "You see, there is a place in front of it called Guihuawu, where there is sweet-scented osmanthus wine. Let's taste it."
Gu Suier touched her stomach: "But the doctor said, I can't drink."
Every few days the doctor will come to check her pulse and tell her something.
The doctor said that she was raising the fetus, and she also said something she could not eat or drink.
She kept in mind that wine must not be drunk.
Xiao Heng had never thought of this before, and said, "That one will go and take a look."
Gu Suier smiled and said, "Yes."
At the moment, Xiao Heng took her to Guihuawu, ordered a few jars of sweet-scented osmanthus wine, and sent them directly to Ruidinghou's Mansion.
"When you give birth later, you can drink." He explained quietly.
"Yeah." Gu Suier couldn't help pursing her lips and smiling when she heard him say this.
In their countryside, people who have a baby who wants to drink full moon wine, don’t know if Xiao Heng meant it.
After ordering the wine, Xiao Heng led her to move forward, shuttled among the sweet-scented osmanthus trees. The seemingly elegant fragrance made people feel comfortable and relaxed. Looking at the men around him, the whole person became happy. The tadpoles also squirmed gently.
She stroked her belly lightly.
Xiao Heng saw it and looked down at her swollen belly; "Is he moving again?"
Gu Suier: "Maybe he likes it here too. I usually have a short temper, and I just kick and toss me when I move. Now I move slowly."
It is rare that the little tadpole has such a good temper, and it is probably smelled of the scent of osmanthus.
Xiao Heng raised his eyebrows, as if he was a little surprised: "He... has a short temper?"
Gu Suier: "Yes, I always like to kick me, I have great strength."
She used to give birth to a baby before her next door, A Liu Niang was older than her belly. When she heard A Liu Niang talk about it, she knew that this little baby also had a temper in her belly.
Some are quick-tempered kicking and kill, while others just lie there lazily and don't like to move.
Xiao Heng listened, staring at his stomach, and then said for a long time: "My mother said, I was also anxious when I was young."
Gu Suier listened, her heart warmed, thinking that it was the father and son, even in the mother's womb, but they felt that something was wrong.
Xiao Heng didn't speak any more, and led her to the pavilion next to him, and helped her sit down.
In the cool breeze, the sweet-scented osmanthus on the branches swayed gently, and some scattered with the wind, and the ground was covered with small yellow flowers, which were fluttering, which was really beautiful.
Occasionally, there are the ladies of Yanjing city, in beautiful dresses, walking together, laughing and playing among the sweet-scented osmanthus trees, so lively.
Gu Suier watched for a while, but slowly remembered in her heart.
Just now Xiao Heng said that, talking about his mother when he was a child, but usually he is called the eldest lady, always called the mother, not the mother.
For a while, I remembered that Grandma An said that the Fourth Young Master was a concubine. If Xiao Heng also came out of the concubine, and he didn't come out of the eldest lady's belly, how could he be so favored, why would Mother An not mention it.
Looking at Xiao Heng next to him for a while, seeing him not speaking, he said: "This sweet-scented osmanthus is really beautiful."
Xiao Heng didn't look at the sweet-scented osmanthus, his eyes drooped slightly, and he didn't know whether he was looking at her belly or the bench on the pavilion. After hearing this, he whispered, "Yes."
Gu Suier saw that he was not interested, so she continued, "The girl in Yanjing City is also a pretty girl."
I don't know whether it is the daughter of a rich family who is born well, or because she can dress up. Anyway, the women in the Osmanthus Garden are more beautiful than the sweet-scented osmanthus, which is not comparable to the village girls she saw in the countryside.
She used to be in the country, and people say she looks good.
It was only when she arrived at Ruiding Hou's Mansion and this Guiyuan that she had gained insight.
With luxurious clothes and a beautiful face, she can read and read, and can also ride a horse. She couldn't help but look at them more when she watched them swim in the osmanthus forest.
Xiao Heng's eyes didn't even move, "I didn't feel it."
Gu Suier was slightly startled when she heard it, and her lips were silent.
She doesn't care if he thinks it looks good or not, she thinks it looks good anyway.
Unexpectedly, Xiao Heng beckoned her to move closer to herself.
Gu Suier usually has a soft temper, but now, she is a little unhappy, bit her lower lip, and reluctantly approached him.
He pulled her hand and she couldn't help falling down.
She opened her eyes wide, puzzled.
He put her head on his lap and whispered: "Don't move."
As soon as he spoke, Gu Suier's original temperament disappeared. She didn't dare to move, so she had to pillow on his lap.
But this is very uncomfortable.
The thought that this was Xiao Heng's legs made her head uncomfortable, as if she was resting on a large ingot worth a thousand dollars.
Xiao Heng felt her stiffness, and put his hand on Gu Suier's shoulder.
With slender and strong fingers, gently pressed her arm and the back of her neck, and then inserted her hair along the back of the neck.
At the beginning, Gu Suier's body became more rigid.
No one has ever touched her like this.
But soon, she found that the strength of the hands was moderate, gently rubbing her shoulders and neck, bringing an incredible power, and her body gradually relaxed.
In the days when the autumn was high and refreshing, closing her eyes, in the scent of sweet-scented osmanthus, she vaguely felt an unspeakable scent on the man next to her, refreshing and smelling, but it made people blush.
She even remembered what happened in the inn that night.
The hands gently pressed the back of her head, and she felt that all her fatigue and fatigue had disappeared, and she became more comfortable.
The body also relaxed accordingly, lying lazily on his lap.
At this time, Xiao Heng's hand stopped, and he stretched out his arm and placed it gently on her belly.
Perhaps because of the change of posture, the little tadpoles in their stomachs were shaking like a hiccup, so the middle of the belly bulged with a rhythm, like a drum in the spring of the country.
Gu Suier raised her hand and couldn't help but touch the place.
Two hands, one large and one small, overlapped on the belly.
His hands, her hands, and their children under their belly.
Xiao Heng remained silent, and Gu Suier did not speak.
She felt that everything was so happy.
Opening her eyes, she looked at the clouds in the sky.
The translucent white cloud is like a piece of cotton wool that has been torn off, floating in the high sky.
Suddenly remembered that when she was a child, she went to pick cotton in the field. She was tired and lay on the ground. The sky was the same as now.
She couldn't help smiling, and closed her eyes again.
A handful of soft green silk ran on Xiao Heng's leg. Xiao Heng looked at the green silk for a while before twisting it in his hand.
"Have you rode a horse in the country before?"
"No."
The two people's voices are low and low, the voices that only each other can hear.
He didn't deliberately lower it, but in the light breeze osmanthus, the voice faded unconsciously.
"Want to ride?"
"I do not know."
"After you give birth, I will teach you to ride a horse." The little tadpole no longer hiccups, and he feels lost, walking with his big hands on her round belly, as if looking for the fleshy little thing.
"Can I……"
She muttered in a low voice, she didn't know if she was talking to Xiao Heng, or asking herself.
In the countryside, horses are rare and expensive. In fact, not to mention horses, even donkeys are not cheap.
When Gu Suier was a child, he raised a donkey at home. Later, when his father got sick, he sold the donkey. Then when the farming was busy, he borrowed other donkeys and gave them food. Can work their own.
She never expected to touch a horse, let alone ride on a horse like Xiao Jin.
What does it feel like to ride on horseback?
"Why can't it?" The man couldn't find the tadpole, so he let go, took the strand of her hair and twisted it gently in his hand.
"Am I stupid?"
"Not stupid."
Xiao Heng said categorically.
He asked her to learn to read and recite poems. He didn't expect anything, thinking about how much she could remember, but she had a good memory, and she was willing to work hard. She had already memorized two collections of poems in just a few days. .
Gu Suier blinked, "They all said I was stupid."
Xiao Heng gently rubbed her head: "If you want to go to the top pick, you are really stupid."
Top pick? She is from her daughter's house, how could she go to the top pick?
Gu Suier didn't understand at first, and then finally realized that he was making fun of himself.
Secretly raised his eyes and glanced at him, only to see that his face was cold and cold, and he didn't expect him to speak like this.
He pursed his lips and chuckled lightly, and his head couldn't help but rubbed against his leg.
She now feels that leaning on his lap is really comfortable, more comfortable than a pillow.
Xiao Heng touched the woman's long hair under his hand and said in a low voice, "If you are tired, you can go to the greenhouse to rest."
"Can you rest in the greenhouse?"
"Well, you can lie down and sleep for a while."
There are various places to play in this Guiyuan, which is the same as the street market outside, but it is more refined.
In this greenhouse, there is just a warm pavilion lying down and resting, the price is amazing. Because the people who came to Guiyuan were all rich and nobles in Yanjing City, and the family members of the official fourth-grade officials were the last ones, and there were not many greenhouses. As a result, it would naturally only be possible to open a sky-high price.
But Gu Suier obviously doesn't need to know this.
Xiao Heng didn't need to care about money matters either.
Although he was raised in Ruiding Hou's Mansion, the emperor's support for him was far beyond ordinary.
"Okay." Gu Suier knows how precious the conservatory is. In this season when the sweet-scented osmanthus is in full bloom, some officials may not be able to book a conservatory for their families no matter how much money they have.
Seeing her promise, Xiao Heng helped her up.
Who knows that at this moment, the sound of the sliding whip pierced the tranquility and fragrance, followed by a woman's voice: "Little bitch, I will kill you!"
Accompanied by the sound of women running over.