Traveling in the middle of winter and November is not a good time to travel, not to mention that Gu Lekang will participate in Chunwei next year.

Gu Xiuneng almost died of anger, "If you are really worried, I will ask your second uncle to send him back in person. There are still four months before Chunwei. At this time, you should go all out to prepare for the exam."

"Grandfather, don't worry, grandson won't delay Chunwei. I have finished reading all the books I should read in these years, and I don't see any new tricks in these four months. Why don't you take the opportunity of sending father back to the ancestral house to relax?" .”

It's no wonder Gu Xiu believed him, and said with a sullen face, "I don't agree with you going back, it's freezing cold, what if you get sick?"

Gu Lekang pursed his lips, looked at him stubbornly and said, "Grandfather, if I don't personally send my father back, I will feel uneasy, and I'm afraid it will be even more useless for the exam."

"The benevolence of a woman!" Gu Xiuneng looked at him disappointedly and said, "Why are you like your father who can't distinguish priorities and ignore the overall situation?"

Now the Gu family's hopes are placed on Gu Lekang, but he can't calm down and study.

Gu Xiu was even more disheartened when he thought of Gu Jingyun's performance in court on the first day of September. He closed his eyes and waved his hands: "Let's go, let's go, I don't care about you, let's see what happens to you in the future."

Gu Lekang knelt down on the ground and kowtowed to his grandfather before he backed down slowly, turned and walked towards the Buddhist hall.

This time he will not only take his father away, but also his mother.

He is no longer able to intervene in the grievances and grievances between the elders, he is only responsible for filial care and taking care of them.

Gu Lekang took Gu Huaijin and his wife and left the capital quietly. When Gu Jingyun received the news, he turned his head to look at the heavy snow falling outside, and then looked back at Baolu who was sitting cross-legged on the kang eating snacks. The expression on his face gradually softened. , with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

A carrier pigeon flew over against the wind and snow, and stayed on the bird stand under the porch. It croaked a few times, and Li Baolu threw down the snacks and jumped up, "It's Master and Mother!"

Heart carefully unwrapped the letter from the carrier pigeon's leg and brought it to Gu Jingyun's house.

Li Baolu climbed up from the kang to his side, watching eagerly.

Gu Jingyun smiled while opening the letter: "Don't expect too much, since they haven't come back at this time, they will definitely not be able to come back this year. Mother is weak, and she can't go on the road in the snow."

Sure enough, when he opened the letter, it said that they would not go home for the New Year, and they would stay in Yazhou for now. The carrier pigeons reported the letter in advance, and they also sent two more specific letters through the post station, as well as some packages of local products, which are expected to arrive before the end of the year.

Li Baolu was disappointed, "Master, what are they doing in Yazhou?"

Gu Jingyun threw the letter into the brazier and burned it, and said with a chuckle: "It's fine if they don't come back, it's cold this year, and there is a hot spring in the suburbs of Beijing, not far from our farm, we will live there a period of time."

Thinking of being able to soak in the hot spring, Li Baolu's mood improved. Regarding Qin Wenyin not going home for the New Year, Qin Xinfang only sighed, "Women are not allowed to stay in college", and then stopped asking.

Qingxi Academy is on winter vacation, but Class Gui still needs to continue to attend classes. It was not until Xiaonian that the vacation began. Gu Jingyun assigned them homework, and the next day, he took Li Baolu, who had already packed his luggage, to the other courtyard of the hot spring, followed by his hand. Brother Qu Weizhen holding hands.

There was no way, Zhao Ning devoted himself to studying, and Yuan Niang wanted to take care of Zhao Ning, Li Baolu was really embarrassed to leave the two young disciples to their care, so she had to bring them along.

Fortunately, the two of them are sensible and obedient, and they have already taken care of themselves.

Bringing the books they needed to read, the group happily went to the suburbs of Beijing.

The prince had already transferred the people from the other courtyard of the hot spring. At this time, there was only an old man at the gate and a cook left in the courtyard.

Gu Jingyun was very satisfied with this, and asked Hongtao and Qingling to clean up the room, Nanfeng and Erlin to carry the luggage, while he and Li Baolu took Qu Weizhen and Qu Jingxi to see the hot spring.

This other courtyard is halfway up the mountain. There are many hot springs on this mountain, all of which are enclosed in one courtyard after another. The springs included in this courtyard of the prince are particularly large.

He planted trees nearby and planted a lot of flowers. Although it was winter, but because of the geothermal heat, the temperature in the area was suitable, so the flowers bloomed regardless of the season, which can be called colorful.

Walking through a winding cobblestone path, you can see the hot spring by opening a wooden door.

And the hot spring is divided into three, and the middle is divided into three rooms with walls made of smooth stones.

One is a men's room, one is a women's room, and the other is used as running water to be piped to the indoors of each courtyard, so that people can soak in hot springs indoors.

The environment here is quite elegant, it's just open air, some people may mind.

It was the first time for Weizhen and Jingxi to see hot springs, and they were both surprised and frightened when they saw the steam rising from the pool.

Li Baolu patted their heads and said with a smile, "We'll go to the hot spring after lunch and rest for a while."

Weizhen's eyes sparkled, and she looked at the pool timidly and asked, "Isn't it hot?"

"Don't worry, the temperature of the hot spring here is not very high, it's just looking steamy."

The siblings were dubious, but they came together anyway.

Qu Jingxi followed Gu Jingyun to the men's room, while Li Baolu took Qu Weizhen to the women's room.

As the heat soaked into the limbs and bones, Li Baolu subconsciously circulated her internal energy, only to feel that her already flushed face became hotter and hotter. Her internal energy went through her body for five weeks before it stopped. I feel that the tiredness of this day has disappeared.

Li Baolu splashed happily in the hot spring, turned her head to see Wei Zhen's face was flushed, and then turned her head to look at the hourglass on the bank. They had been soaking for three quarters of an hour.

She got up and said: "It's almost time, don't soak for too long for the first time, let's go up."

Qu Weizhen was very excited, "Teacher, is it true that hot soup can cure all diseases?"

"Of course it's not true," Li Baolu said with a smile: "If it has such an effect, wouldn't it be a fairy medicine? It's just that soaking in hot springs is indeed beneficial to the body, and it can even have a regulating effect on the weak."

When they separated from the Zhongyonghou Mansion, they shared a hot spring Zhuangzi, but the Zhuangzi was not in the capital, but in Baoding. Even if it took a day to drive, it was a bit far away, so they hadn't been there yet.

Soaking in hot springs is indeed very useful, Gu Jingyun's sleepy look has dissipated a little since the beginning of winter.

The children can't soak too much. Fortunately, there is an indoor hot spring in the yard where they live, and the two of them can go soaking again at night.

Gu Jingyun pressed Baolu on the stone steps, put her earlobe in his mouth and said with a smile: "You like it so much, I will also buy a hot spring near here later, how about we can take a dip from time to time in the future?"

Li Baolu avoided him, stretched out her hand to support his chest, her face was bright red, "How can this other courtyard be bought with money?" Besides, they didn't even have money.

A courtyard here is definitely not less than one hundred thousand taels, and their family can't even get out ten thousand taels of cash now.

Gu Jingyun chuckled lightly and said, "It's because I can't buy it with money."

He bit her lips, covered her body and said vaguely: "You just wait..."

Li Baolu pushed him and said vaguely: "Gu Jingyun, you, this is not our house, don't mess around..."

"You don't call me brother Jingyun anymore. If you call me a few more times, I'll think about it."

"...Brother Jing Yun."

Gu Jingyun's eyes were slightly darkened, he wrapped her round earlobe in his mouth and exerted a little force, reached in from under her clothes to hold her round, and said in a low voice: "Good sister..."

"...Well, you don't count your words..."

All of Li Baolu's words were drowned in the night, and the mountain was silent, except for the occasional chirping of insects and some small words.

Li Baolu rubbed against the warm blanket, feeling that she was so hungry that she had no choice but to get out of the blanket.

The sun came in from the closed window, and there was only the chirping of birds outside. Li Baolu just wanted to call someone when she heard slow footsteps, and she could tell who it was. Thinking of the absurdity of last night, Li Baolu hid on the bed , covered the whole person in the quilt.

Gu Jingyun put the tray on the table, seeing the quilt shaking slightly, he couldn't help but pursed his lips and smiled, stepped forward to grab the quilt and said, "Since you're awake, hurry up and wash up, it's almost noon, eat something to cushion your stomach, Let's go down the mountain to see our Zhuangzi in a while."

Li Baolu tightly grasped the quilt and pretended not to wake up.

Seeing that it was funny, Gu Jingyun pulled the quilt lightly with his hands, but seeing that he couldn't pull it off, he could only cast his eyes at the end of the bed.

Gu Jingyun's throat moved slightly, and he couldn't help but move to the end of the bed, reached in and grabbed her feet, the person under the quilt exclaimed, retracted his feet but couldn't get rid of the hands on the feet.

Li Baolu could only stick her head out and look at him angrily.

Gu Jingyun withdrew his hand slightly regretfully, and instead stroked her messy head and said, "Get up quickly, I'll wait for you outside."

Gu Jingyun knew that she might really become angry if he stayed, so she could only turn around and leave.

Li Baolu breathed a sigh of relief, got up, got dressed and took a shower.

"This is meat porridge and some pastries. You can use some first. We will go to the farm at noon, and we will have lunch down here. Take a look at our greenhouse by the way."

Their family's farm is not far from this hot spring courtyard, just not far from the foot of this fully-covered mountain, and it takes two quarters of an hour to get there by carriage.

But unlike the hot spring house that was worth tens of thousands of dollars, the farm he was allocated was quite large, but the value was really not worth mentioning.

Because although the farm is large and close to the hot springs, the land is barren and there is no good scenery.

Their family's village even includes a small hill, not big, only about ten acres, but there are some low shrubs on it, which can only be cut down by the people in the farm for firewood.

Back then, the Zhongyonghou Mansion bought this land because the hot springs in the nearby mountains were sold at sky-high prices. They wanted to buy a piece of land nearby, and in the future, they could either build another courtyard by themselves or sell the land for a fortune. , how do you know that people simply look down on this land without hot springs.

As a result, the farm ran at a loss year after year, and Gu Jingyun distributed the farm to him as soon as Gu Xiuneng was divided.

Fu Dalang was living in this farm at this time.

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