But rather...

She knew him and could see him.

She has always been sensitive and witty, and because she is a painted skin demon, she is particularly able to see through the disguise of others.

The moment Gu Juefei said the answer, she faintly understood.

It's just that the more she understands, the more she doesn't know what to say at this moment.

On the contrary, Gu Juefei, who was already used to a certain emotion, suddenly saw this distressed and hesitant look on her face, and when her heart warmed, she hooked her hand and called her over.

Lu Jinxi came over, but just squatted down, gently folded his hands, placed them on his lap, and put his chin on the back of his hands, just raised his eyes and looked up at him slightly.

Gu Juefei from this angle is very beautiful.

The outline is clear, the edges and corners are cold, and there is a kind of vulgarity and aloofness that cannot be touched by mortals.

When a woman looks at a man from this angle, a man's heart will melt.

Lu Jinxi didn't know if Gu Juefei's heart had changed, but she laughed when she saw him, and then asked her softly, "Do you remember what I said in the Golden Palace?"

Her appointment was given by him.

Lu Jinxi remembered this sentence.

So she blinked, blinking instead of nodding.

Gu Juefei's fingers, which were soaked with the scent of ink, slowly fell down onto her neat temples, and then slowly stroked to the side of her face.

Lu Jinxi couldn't see his expression clearly, only heard his calm voice.

Shallow, even leisurely.

But inside there is a kind of heavy weight like a deep thunder.

"It won't be worse than marrying Xue Kuang."

"Jin Xi..."

"Four years is enough."

When Lu Jinxi heard it, he laughed heartily, only to think that Gu Juefei was extremely interesting, and he had to compete with Xue Kuang in everything.

Gu Juefei said, "Don't believe me?"

Lu Jinxi shook his head: "No, I believe it."

It has been difficult for civil officials to compete with generals since ancient times.

If there is anyone in the current court and opposition who has the ability to match Xue Kuang's record of official worship in the past, it would be Gu Juefei.

How could she not believe it?

He has the ability, ambition, background, and even the trust of the emperor...

If he can't do it, no one in the world can do it.

It's just that Lu Jinxi at this moment did not expect that Gu Juefei actually fulfilled his promise at a speed that shocked the world, and it didn't even take as long as four years—

He only spent three and a half years.

Chapter 160

In July of the thirteenth year of Qing'an, there was a change in the Xiongnu peace talks. Gu Juefei took charge of the errands in the Fantang, and married Lu Jinxi, and the official was only five grades;

In September of the same year, the autumn flood in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River was violent, leading to the post-flood disaster relief and raising grain funds, which won countless people in the south of the Yangtze River;

At the beginning of the fourteenth year of Qing’an, when the Beijing officials were evaluated for their performance, Gu Jue had to be of the highest grade, and he also served as a bachelor’s degree in the Hanlin Academy.

In July of the same year, envoys from Uyghur, Tubo and other countries entered the summer, and they managed the reception of the Fantang, negotiated a peace treaty, and opened a border trade mutual market.

In December of the same year, Gao Qian, the former minister of the Ministry of Personnel, took bribes, and Yao Feng, the former minister of the Ministry of Personnel, was promoted to the minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and Gu Juefei was changed to be the minister of the Ministry of Personnel;

In March of the fifteenth year of Qing'an, Kang Xinyuan, the former scholar of the University of Dongge, begged for a break, and he was granted permission to replace Gu Juefei as a scholar of the University of Dongge;

In August of the same year, because of his outstanding talent and learning, he was the chief examiner of the Jiangnan Township Examination, who was in charge of the autumn affairs and investigated the case of fraud in the imperial examination.

In February of the 16th year of Qing'an, he was appointed as the president of the conference, in charge of spring affairs;

In October of the same year, the Xianbei and Dayue tribes resigned, and the Lifan Hall was officially renamed the Lifan Academy, which was responsible for the tax payment, households, post stations, border trade, etc. of Fanbang, and made Gu Juefei the minister of the Lifan Academy, from the first grade;

In December of the same year, Gu Chengqian, the Grand Master of the Palace of Preservation, begged for leave due to old age and illness, and the Grand Master of the Palace of Peace was vacant.

When the edict was issued, Lu Jinxi was sitting under the window playing chess with Gu Chengqian, who had just retired. The ground dragon was burning warm in the room.

She is average at chess.

However, Gu Chengqian's chess skills were superb, and she patiently landed one piece at a time, trapping the black piece she was holding to death in a short while.

Gu Chengqian, who is in his sixtieth year, has already shown a bit of old age.

The gray-white face was crowded with wrinkles one by one, and the neatly combed hair was already white like snow, and even the palm of the chess piece was trembling.

He had a thick fleece blanket on his knees, and he was already terrified of the cold.

Although it has only been three and a half years, the old lady who was all-powerful at the time seems to no longer exist.

In the past few years when Gu Juefei's career was flat, he grew old at a visible speed.

People said that he was making way for his son, gradually fading out of the power center of the court, and gradually refraining from participating in court meetings on the grounds of illness, and then he went to work a few days ago.

From the surface alone, it seems that it is indeed a round of power change between the old and the new, and the Gu family needs a new and powerful family in charge.

But in Lu Jinxi's eyes, that's not the case.

As Gu Juefei's bedside person, she couldn't have seen the struggle between father and son for more than three years -

The old lady never made way for Gu Juefei.

He was forced by Gu Juefei, step by step, little by little, faded out of the power center that he didn't want to leave, and then was finally sparred by reality and realized the cruel truth that he had been replaced by his son...

The so-called "begging for rest" is nothing but the last respect for both sides.

Gu Juefei is a ruthless character.

Over the past few years, Lu Jinxi has also really experienced it, and sometimes even half-jokingly thinks about it: what did he think in the first place to provoke him?

It's just that the boat is done, she is on the Gu Juefei pirate ship.

The boat was getting farther and farther, and there was water all around, and couldn't jump off, so had to follow the boat and go all the way.

"Clap."

After thinking for a long time, the sunspot between her fingers turned several times before finally landing on the corner of the chessboard.

Gu Chengqian shook his head when he saw it, and the old voice was like the wind wrapped in sand in Saibei: "Your chess skills have not improved at all in the past few years."

understood.

It's just that she has lost.

Lu Jinxi reluctantly voted, shook his head, but laughed: "How can Jinxi compare with you? I didn't learn much when I was young, and I didn't have enough brains, so I wasn't born to play chess. To be able to fight with you to the middle game is already considered. A huge improvement."

Spring and autumn come, and three years have passed in a flash.

The scenery outside the carved window changed three times, and in the blink of an eye, it was the middle of winter covered with snow again.

Gu Chengqian listened to her words, although he knew that she was a compliment, but he rarely smiled lightly and wanted to get up.

Lu Jinxi hurriedly came over to help.

Gu Chengqian trembled, knocked on his knee, and sighed: "Thank you for the medicine and prescriptions you sent back then, otherwise, how could this leg disease survive? Much better."

Back then, Lu Jinxi was congratulating the old lady's teacher, and specially invited Huishengtang's ghost hand to open the prescription. But in fact, Lu Jinxi knew that Gu Juefei also had this recipe.

only……

When she thought about the matter between the father and son, she also had an inexplicable complexity in her heart.

In the past three and a half years, Gu Juefei has flourished in the court, and it can be said that he is the most popular figure in the Daxia Dynasty.

He abandoned his usual style of being kind to others.

Since taking care of the affairs of the Fanyuan, he has been quite unselfish, and has the trust of the emperor. He has made friends with like-minded people, and has become a new generation of giants.

Lu Jinxi is not doing nothing in the back house.