Gu Qingning felt a little angry. She thought Aweng should not treat her like this. In her own opinion, Aweng had always been a gentle and generous person who would not force others to do anything. He would not force himself, either.
My beloved granddaughter does something she doesn’t like.
Who will he marry in the future? Will Ah Weng force him to marry someone he doesn't like? If he does this, does he really love himself? What if the person he likes is not from a wealthy family? He
Will it really be stopped?
And...and what's wrong with the Li family's young man?
If Aweng hadn't come to ask, Gu Qingning wouldn't have thought about it. If he thought about it carefully, the young man of the Li family was clever, promised a lot of money, was handsome, and had his own demeanor in his words and deeds. In fact, he was quite fond of him.
I feel good about it, but nothing happened at all. Aweng came here specifically to ask, what does this mean?
So feeling rebellious and dissatisfied, Gu Qingning said something deliberately.
"Ah Weng, there is nothing wrong with the young man of the Li family. Qing Ning thinks he is very good, so why can't he associate with him? What if Qing Ning likes him? Ah Weng probably won't object."
What Gu Qingning never expected was that this sentence aroused Aweng's thunderous rage. His eyes widened and he roared in a low voice.
"Presumptuous! Absolutely not. Qingning, you must not have such an idea. Aweng will never allow it. It seems that my hunch is right, and it is true. This Li Hui deserves to die, he actually lied to me,
He is indeed deceiving you. I must deal with him. Keeping him will be a disaster."
Gu Qingning was shocked. She didn't expect Aweng's reaction to be so big. She just said it casually, and Aweng scolded her in an unprecedented tone and wanted to deal with Li Hui.
Of course she understands what disposal means.
Gu Qingning panicked and quickly explained that she was just joking and that she had nothing to do with Li Hui. She didn't want to hurt Li Hui again because of her angry words. But no matter how she explained, Gu Qian still didn't believe it.
In the end, Gu Qingning could only cry and kneel down to beg for permission, and beg Aweng not to be angry. He swore that the curse was just a word of anger, and Gu Qian finally calmed down his anger.
"Tomorrow morning, I will send you back to Kuaiji. Qingning, I am doing this for your own good and for the good of the Gu family. You will understand my good intentions in the future." Gu Qian left these words and walked away.
Gu Qingning was in a daze for a long time before she regained her composure. She felt extremely sad. She finally understood that Aweng's love for her was false. In other words, it was conditional. She could only serve as a member of the Gu family and other families.
Marriage is just a tool to bring people closer together.
What he calls good for himself is nothing more than that he will marry into a wealthy family in the future and will have no worries about food and clothing. But who to marry? Do you like him or not? He has no choice.
Gu Qingning was very sad after discovering the cruel truth. But she had no way to resist, and she didn't dare to resist. On the one hand, this incident hit her hard, and she didn't know what to do. On the other hand, she
She was really worried that Aweng would attack Li Hui. She didn't want to harm Li Hui. Therefore, she could only accept Aweng's arrangement.
However, superficial surrender does not mean psychological surrender. Especially for a pampered fifteen-year-old girl who has never been wronged, the strong rebellious psychology in her heart prompted her to make a decision before leaving.
Go and meet Li Hui.
First, she gave him medicine and apologized to him in person. Second, she wanted to tell Li Hui personally.
So Gu Qingning ordered his maid to go to the market and buy a silk gown and a gold hairband as compensation for Li Hui's torn clothes. Naturally, the bottle of black jade ointment was also given to Li Hui.
As for the square silk handkerchief, Gu Qingning originally had no intention of putting it in the package, but his anger still prevailed. You were afraid that I would have something to do with the young man of the Li family, so you brought the silk handkerchief to talk about it, so I insisted on it.
Give it to the young man of the Li family to keep as a souvenir. I must make you unhappy.
As for Li Hui's mood and reaction after getting these things, she didn't think much about it. A fifteen-year-old girl who was shocked could not think about the problem so thoroughly. She just wanted to do what she wanted to do at the moment.
Gu Qingning also carefully wrote a simple letter and put it in the package, in case Li Hui was not at home and couldn't see Li Hui, this letter would come in handy.
But what Gu Qingning didn't expect was that Li Hui was at home, but he refused to come out to see him. The two of them were separated by a window, but they seemed to be in two worlds, separated by an insurmountable chasm.
Gu Qingning felt increasingly sad and lost. She could actually understand why Li Hui avoided seeing him. Ah Weng must have warned him about this matter. She could be willful, but Li Hui could not. Because Ah Weng was likely to be harsh.
He couldn't bear the punishment.
After Gu Qingning came back from Li's house, he didn't eat dinner and just sat in a daze under the lamp. He felt extremely depressed.
She didn't know why, but she felt that the sadness of not seeing Li Hui was more than the sadness of Aweng scolding her before. When she sat in a daze under the lamp, her heart was always unsettled and she always felt empty.
In his wild thoughts, Gu Qingning remembered the day when he and Li Hui were chatting and joking in the back garden while making a fountain. He could even clearly recall every word he said at that time and every look in Li Hui's eyes. Gu Qingning suddenly felt a heartache.
It was pounding and my face was burning.
If what happened today hadn't happened, maybe Gu Qingning wouldn't have realized anything at all. But now, she felt something hazy suddenly sprouting in her heart.
Girls are pregnant, but sometimes they don't understand their feelings at all. Today's fuss made Gu Qingning vaguely understand her feelings. This is something Gu Qian never expected.
"It's the second watch. Miss, please rest. We have to get up early tomorrow and go on the road."
After being reminded by the maid, Gu Qingning recovered from her dementia, washed up and went to bed with a complicated mood, and fell asleep.
Early the next morning, Gu Qingning, escorted by the servants of Nanzhai, left Wu County and went to Kuaiji County where her father Gu Xun worked.
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Time flies by so fast, a month goes by in a blink of an eye, and soon it is mid-July.
After July, although the weather is still very hot, it is getting cooler day by day. Although the trees and flowers are still dense, the green is no longer the vibrant green and verdant in spring and summer, but a kind of light ink.
Normal dark green color.
The most obvious thing is the crops in the fields. The seedlings in the rice fields have grown for nearly three months and have now reached the mature season. The ears of rice are heavy, and the fields are also golden.
Even in the land south of the Yangtze River, autumn is already getting stronger in mid-July.
In the past month, the South Residence of the Gu Family has been peaceful. Since Gu Qingning left, the South Residence of the Gu Family has become much quieter without her crisp words and figure wandering around.
Gu Qian's daily life was as usual, traveling between the manors and attending various banquets, smiling brightly and speaking softly.
Han Yong, the manager of South House, apologized privately in front of Gu Qian after the last incident. Gu Qian did not embarrass him too much and the matter was settled.
Li Hui's life has not changed much. He exercises and runs every morning, then washes up and goes to the South House to work. He attends various occasions with Gu Qian and arranges busy work. In his free time, he still learns from the nursing staff in the South House.
Fists and kicks, nothing seems to have changed.
If we had to talk about changes, it would be that Li Hui's body has become significantly stronger in the past month, his arms and legs have become thicker, and his originally delicate and fair skin has become darker.
In the past month, Li Hui has been able to run ten miles calmly with sandbags tied to his hands and feet. Now his body is flexible and strong, and he is no longer the thin boy he was before.
Of course, two months of exercise is not enough, but it is obvious that weight-bearing running has a good training effect. After untying the sandbags, my feet feel like springs are installed, and I walk very fast. This is the effect.
The day after that incident, Gu Qian announced the decision to promote Li Hui to deputy manager of Nanzhai. This decision surprised everyone in Nanzhai. They never expected that Li Hui would not be unlucky, but would be promoted.
Han Yong was very angry, but he did not dare to openly express his dissatisfaction for the time being. The previous matter had just settled down, and he needed to let time dilute the bad impression that incident had in Gu Qian's mind. Therefore, on the surface, he actually became polite to Li Hui.
However, Li Hui seemed ungrateful and ignored him, which made Han Yong very angry. Privately, Han Yong complained endlessly when talking to the eldest son Gu Chang. But recently, the eldest son Gu Chang met
When trouble comes, I am not in the mood to deal with him.
The troubles encountered by the eldest son Gu Chang have also been a matter of great irritation to everyone in the Beizhai recently.
Gu Changnian is already weak and has reached the age of marrying. Gu Chang has long been eyeing his charming cousin Tongyun. Although Zhang Tongyun usually ignores him, when he came to Wujun, he only went to Nanzhai to meet Qingning.
.Gu Chang licked his face and applied it, but all he got was a blank stare.
But this is nothing. This does not prevent Gu Chang from thinking that Zhang Tongyun is the one in the pocket. Because Zhang Tongyun cannot control the family marriage, and she has no right to make the decision. In early July, Gu Chang begged his father Gu Yan to go to Xie
I proposed to my family and wanted to marry my cousin Zhang Tongyun.
The Zhang family and the Gu family have a close relationship. The Zhang family siblings and Gu Chang are cousins. This marriage of close relatives is extremely normal and appropriate.
Gu Yan, the young head of the Gu family, also thinks that this marriage is a good match. Although there are not many people in the Zhang family now, Zhang Xuan is the prefect of Wuxing, and he has a good relationship with the Xie family of Chen County, a wealthy overseas Chinese surname, and he will be very successful in the future. So.
After discussing with her father Gu Chun, Gu Yan felt that this marriage was feasible.
According to the ideas of the father and son of the Gu family, this marriage is a sure thing. The Gu family in Wu County is highly respected here, and they are close relatives. There is no reason for a mutually beneficial marriage to be rejected. Although Zhang Xuan is now the prefect of Wuxing,
He was considered a celebrity in Jin Dynasty and had a wide circle of friends. However, the Zhang family was very small, and compared with the Gu family in Wu County, they were not even a little inferior.
The Gu family father and son even thought that this was a kind of charity. For a girl from the Zhang family to marry Gu Chang, it was a high level in the family world. Therefore, Henry Zhang would definitely agree.
But the result disappointed Gu Yan. Zhang Xuan actually refused.