Chapter 74: Tuogu

The effect of pressing acupuncture points was better than expected. Early the next morning, Yuan Luo felt that her feet could move on the ground. Although it was still sore, at least she would not fall.
She walked slowly to the door, opened the door, and the whiteness caught her eyes.
The snow fell for a day and night, and just stopped this morning, and the entire mountain village was covered in thick white clothes. With such a thick snow, you don't have to worry too much about the assassin. The traces of the two escaped all the way should be hidden.
Aunt Liu greeted him, "Is the girl looking for the little brother? He is eating in the kitchen. Oh, the old woman has never seen such a caring little brother in her life. She can cook and can't do anything. Poor. A hundred times stronger than my dead old man who went hunting in the mountains."
Yuan Luo slowly walked to the east of the small courtyard, and she saw Gu Yizheng busy in the kitchen.
Perceiving the shadow by the door, Gu Yi raised his head and saw Yuan Luo clearly, as he chopped vegetables in his hand, "How did you get up?"
"Lying for a day, bored, came out to breathe."
Yuan Luo entered the kitchen. The small room was a little crowded for two people.
Yuan Luo seemed unaware of it, and leaned to the table, "What are you going to make delicious?"
"Use yesterday's chicken soup to make a bowl of noodles."
"Oh, cut the noodles a bit wider, so strong."
Gu Yi responded.
Yuan Luo watched him fiddle with the ingredients neatly, "When did you learn to cook? The craftsmanship is pretty good. Did you often cook at home before?"
There are not many men with this skill in this era, especially the Gu family is still a family of generals.
"Second brother taught him, he likes to eat delicious food."
"It is rare that there is such an open-minded person among the generals." Yuan Luo laughed, she must be a very diligent and interesting person.
"No, he just likes to eat, but he doesn't like to do it himself, so he taught me how to cook."
Speaking of the past, Gu Yi missed it a little, "I counted on me all day to cook for him, and even lied to me about the eight advantages of learning cooking, so I won’t be wronged wherever I go. I also said... "Gu Yi stopped. The second brother's original words at the time were that he would cook and find his wife easily in the future.
The second son of the Gu family... the one who was captured by Bei Rong should have died now. Yuan Luo was a little sad, remembering that in the original book, he was tortured in Bei Rong, but he did not surrender his loyalty and finally died.
The original vague image has slowly become clear in Gu Yi's mouth.
She didn't say anything for a long time, and Gu Yi's busy hands slowed down, "Would you like to put green onions?"
Yuan Luo immediately shook her head in a rattle style, "Don't don't!"
A smile appeared at the corner of Gu Yi's mouth. Empress Jieyu didn't like to eat chopped green onions, and even if she did not grow up together, her appetite was still the same.
"It wouldn't be fragrant without the chopped green onion noodles. I'll put them on first and pick them out later."
Yuan Luo wrinkled her little nose: "Thanks for your hard work, then you have to clean it up."
Gu Yi replied, looking at her slender back, a little in a daze, how did he become so familiar with her, he was still an enemy who looked at each other before.
He had to admit, probably because he knew the relationship.
Cai Yunheng had mentioned before, whether to confess her Fu's daughter with the concubine. With the power of the imperial concubine, a little investigation can determine the truth. Gu Yi finally refused, she is no longer there, why make waves...
Gu Yi's movements neatly spilled the chopped green vegetables into the pot. Soon, the noodle soup in the pot was taken out, and the noodles stewed in the thick chicken soup were delicious.
Yuan Luo picked up the chopsticks to feast on, but unfortunately her black hair slipped down, always falling into the bowl.
Before falling into the ice lake, several of her hairpins were lost. She glanced away, took out a chopstick from the table, used it as a hairpin, and simply turned off the bun.
Then I picked up the bowl and ate it. After eating halfway, I heard the babble outside.
Yuan Luo looked up, and found that many villagers were leaning outside the fence and scoring their heads here. Except for naughty children, most of them were young people.
After a short stay of two days, it has spread in the small mountain village. Aunt Liu's house has come to a young couple like a fairy. A lot of idle peasant daughter-in-laws and eldest daughters were invited to come to see something new.
"What a handsome little brother. He looks even better than the big brother in the east of the village."
"Not only Big Brother, I think it's more fair and pretty than... than the widow of the Chen family in Dahe Village next door." The other young girl grinned.
Yuan Luo chuckled as she ate the noodles.
He looked up and saw Gu Yi's face darkened.
His complexion is pale, with exquisite features, no wonder these little girls like to watch.
Without a word, the topic turned to Yuan Luo.
"That lady is the same, just like the person in the painting. What's the matter... Yes, the couple of gods and goddesses, last time I heard this in the storytelling in Puzhen."
A well-informed young wife licked melon seeds and smiled: "You girls with broken mouths, stop talking nonsense, these two are not husbands and wives. I heard Aunt Liu say that this girl is the wife of a big family, and the little girl Brother is her guard."
Several 13- or 14-year-old girls were so surprised that they couldn't help but talk quietly about something good.
"How could it not be a husband and wife, so well matched."
"It's not that lovers are hard to get married, so run away."
"Maybe the family married this lady to some bad old man, so...hehe..."
Their voices were so low that Yuan Luo could not hear them. But Gu Yi's face became more ugly after hearing this.
Yuan Luo saw it, put down his chopsticks, and said with a smile: "My legs can go, let's leave."

Aunt Liu heard that they were leaving, so she specially wrapped some noodles as dry food.
By the way, I reminded Yuan Luo: "A lady should also take care of her body. A woman who has a miscarriage is the most harmful."
Yuan Luo nodded first, then suddenly stopped, wait, what did she just say? Did you hear a hallucination?
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I just had a monthly incident, why did it involve miscarriage?
After a few words of self-care, Aunt Liu went out. Yuan Luo was left alone in the wind.
After a while, it suddenly dawned on him, no wonder that Gu Yi boy had a cold eye on himself a while ago, but these days he looked like a filial son and grandson, and there was an unclear conversation last night.
Thinking about the whole story, she didn't know whether to cry or laugh.
Seeing Gu Yi entering the door, he could only show a dumbfounded expression.
Before she could explain, Gu Yi handed her something first.
Yuan Luo looked at the slender and soft hairpin quite unexpectedly. Although it was still rough, it was obviously troublesome.
"You shaved it yourself? It looks pretty."
She took it, sweet in her heart. Before, the boy had given her hand-knitted garlands or something, but it was the first one that Li Jieyu gave to the imperial concubine. It really made her flattered, thinking of the reason for this gift, she felt funny again.
"It's just that the lady's hair is scattered and she is out of style." Gu Yi said with a stern face. The chopsticks that hadn't been bun were washed and returned. Yuan Luo's long black hair was scattered.
The hairpin has a special meaning, but the root he sent out is completely official and has no other meaning.
It was just compensation for guilt, and because of his own negligence, the woman in front of him lost her child. He understood that these were sins that were hard to redeem, and he would do something at least as much as he could.
"I understand." Yuan Luo smiled and curled up her long hair with a hairpin.
Well, if it's not the truth or something, let's not talk about it. Yuan Luo thought badly.

Leaving the mountain village, the two walked along the mountain road for a short time.
Silhouettes of people were spotted earlier.
Gu Yi immediately took Yuan Luo to hide behind the tree, and when he saw the equipment and clothes of the soldiers and horses, Yuan Luo's eyes lit up.
It is the costume of the guards of the Imperial Guard.
The two walked out from behind the woods and saw Gu Yi. Several soldiers hurriedly saluted, "See the general."
Gu Yi commanded, "The imperial concubine is here, and you are here to find the carriage."
Several soldiers were overjoyed and quickly reported back. Not long after, Cheng Wei and Cai Yunheng arrived with their carriages.
Yuan Luo got into the carriage, and then everyone escorted the concubine and left here.
Nestled in the warm and comfortable carriage, Yuan Luo hugged the small heater, feeling the whole person relaxed.
Returned to the palace. Cheng Wei reported the past two days and two nights.
After discovering that Yuan Luo's frame was missing, Jin Linsi, together with the Forbidden Army, immediately surrounded the surrounding area and encircled the assassins scattered in the forest.
Among them, more than 60 people were killed on the spot, and more than 10 people were captured. After urgent torture, it was not surprising that it was the remaining party of the East China Sea King Sikohiko. It was the dead man who sneaked into the capital. Among them was a servant of the Ministry of Rites. . Knowing that the evidence of his collusion with Sikoyan had been sent up, he simply did not stop, thinking about assassinating the noble concubine, disturbing the government, and taking the opportunity to get away.
And Jin Lin Sizhong also caught the palace man who leaked the secret.
Yuan Luo sighed, Sikongyan's foundation in the palace was really deep, and people could jump like dead.

Moon star sparse, under the quiet night.
Gu Yi sat on the roof of the house in the Gu family, staring at the round moon in a daze.
There was footsteps from below, and Cai Yunheng's figure appeared below.
Pointing at Gu Yi on the roof, he raised the thing in his hand, it was two jars of fine wine.
Then he raised his hand and one of the jars of wine flew up.
Gu Yi stretched out his hand and dropped it impartially.
Cai Yunheng jumped up and jumped onto the roof. "I didn't find you in the study just now, so I knew you were here most of the time. What's wrong? Is there something so depressing that the cold weather came to the top of the house and blows cold wind?"
"It's nothing, just thinking about the experience of the past two days." Gu Yi opened the wine jar and took a sip from his lips.
"I was just about to ask you, what's the situation?" Cai Yunheng sat next to him and took a sip. He had stayed behind in Huangjue Temple before, and hurriedly arrived with soldiers and horses after receiving news of an assassin. Finding the scene where the corpses were all over the floor, my heartbeat almost stopped in fright.
After checking the personnel, all the corpses of the guarding court ladies were present, and he was even more worried because the concubine and Gu Yi were missing. I'm afraid they were captured by the assassin.
Fortunately, the two returned safely.
Gu Yi lowered his gaze: "This time I have caused a catastrophe. If my life is not preserved, the two bear children of Gu Qing at home will be entrusted to you. You should teach it when you should, and don't be merciless."
Cai Yunheng drank half of the wine and choked all of a sudden, his cough stopped for a long time, and turned his head to stare at Gu Yi: "How come this is happening, what did you do?" Didn't the concubine return safely? Before he observed it with naked eyes, he didn't seem to be seriously injured.
According to the truth, Gu Yi should be regarded as meritorious. How could he lose his life in the blink of an eye?
Gu Yi smiled miserably and shook the wine jar, "I made a big mistake, no matter if I don't mention it, I am sorry for her after all."
Cai Yunheng looked dazed, and reluctantly said: "Don't say that. If you want to make sense, she is sorry for taking care of the family a lot. Even if you are not well guarded, you will hurt her, at most it will be paid for. ."
How can this kind of thing be compared? Gu Yi shook his head, "That is the existence of a woman who is more than life..."
The more Cai Yunheng listened, the more he felt something was wrong. He looked at Gu Yi with a gray face and thought about the delicate and delicate imperial concubine, and so on. Before I found two people in the forest, the imperial concubine seemed to have all changed clothes. The clothes were changed from head to toe, and the two disappeared together for two days and nights...
This guess is too scary. He almost couldn't grasp the wine jar, and looked at his friend in shock: "Could it be that you couldn't hold it for a while, and when you were surprised, you gave the person to that..."
Gu Yi slipped and almost fell off the roof. Cai Yunheng's original pain was all angered, and he raised his hand and punched him hard.
"Shut up, you!"
Cai Yunheng was holding his head and his face was aggrieved. You obviously said it just now, and it doesn't make sense.