Chapter 105: Photos of all living beings in Ningyuan Hou Mansion. Part 1
The two of them stopped arguing until late at night. Minglan collapsed with exhaustion. Even though her body was sticky and uncomfortable, she didn't want to move. Her eyelids were pressed down like Mount Tai. Gu Tingye had been living in the open air in the past few years and his life was very rough. He also
She didn’t want to get out of bed and take a shower, so she just hugged Minglan, who was half asleep, and was intimate. [Ye*] [*]
Minglan slept very soundly. She felt like she was back in her college military training days. She practiced for eight hours a day and stood in a military posture and walked forward. At night, she fell unconscious as soon as her head hit the pillow. Her whole body seemed to have been beaten violently. Her waist was
It's soft, the legs are sore, the bones have been reassembled and removed, and the brain is a ball of mush. The only difference is that one place that shouldn't hurt is particularly painful.
At dawn, Minglan was awakened by the pressure. She opened her mouth and exhaled with difficulty like a river crucian carp out of water. She closed her eyes and groped for a while. She felt a huge Jinhua ham pressed on her belly. She tried her best to resist scratching the man's face.
Impulsively, he tried to twist his body to move away, but unexpectedly woke up Wuzhishan beside him. He stretched out his arms and held Minglan firmly in his arms. He lowered his head and kissed her cheek. He felt the touch was warm and soft.
It was so smooth that I couldn't help but knead it again.
Gu Tingye gradually woke up and was a little ready to move. Minglan threw herself on the quilt like a tortoise, burying her head in the pillow. Gu Tingye didn't turn over the tortoise's cover, but just pressed it up like a stack of arhats, following the girl's delicate and slender body.
He kissed her all the way down her back, and when she rubbed her stubbled chin, a pink sleeve immediately appeared on her snow-white back.
At this moment, Minglan was immediately forced to take in less air and outflow more. She almost rolled her eyes and turned her head with difficulty: "You, you, you, move away quickly! ... I'm going to die!" Gu Tingye chuckled and turned around.
Turning around, he hugged his wife and put her on top of him. Minglan lay on his chest and panted. When she saw the man smiling happily, she felt resentful and punched him twice with her fists. Unexpectedly, his flesh was as hard as
Tie, instead clicked her fingers, and Minglan couldn't help but cry out in pain: "Let go, I'll find the ointment!"
Gu Tingye smiled and replied: "It's okay, I don't feel any pain."
Minglan was furious: "I feel pain!"
The two most obscene places in the world, the rivers and lakes and the military camp. Gu Erye has been involved in it, and even managed to show off. Sure enough, Gu Tingye immediately understood something wrong. His eyes darkened, and he gently rubbed Minglan's cheek, whispering pain.
Xi said: "It won't hurt anymore."
It took Minglan two seconds to understand. Her face and sleeves were burning, and she held her breath and said, "It doesn't hurt there!"
"You... don't feel pain?" Gu Tingye's eyes lit up again, his voice was full of hope, and his hands moved down irregularly.
Minglan panted and pressed his hand hard, her body was sore and aching, her eyes widened and she said: "I won't do it!" It was a pun, and Minglan felt that she had said something profound.
The morning light was faint, the dawn beam passed through the bed curtain, and the spring light in the hibiscus tent was hazy. Gu Tingye looked at Minglan with her bald head, and saw a tired look on her snow-white face, reflecting the dark circles under her eyelids.
It became more and more obvious, but her big eyes were still bright, half happy and half angry. Gu Tingye liked it in his heart. He took her little hand and put it to his mouth and blew it gently, his deep handsome eyes were full of color.
This fell in Minglan's eyes, and she felt that this look was very suggestive. Her pink cheeks immediately burned, and she searched her stomach and intestines. She held it in for a long time before spitting out: "Well... um..., the green hills are still there, so you don't have to worry about having no firewood..." Yue Yue
The lower your voice is, the more you are asking for mercy.
Gu Tingye laughed out loud, hugged Minglan in his arms, kneaded her into a ball, and kissed her mindlessly, his chest shaking with laughter.
At this time, the maid outside called softly through the door curtain: "Second Master, Second Madam, it's time to get up."
It took Minglan a while to realize that this was calling her, and she hurriedly wanted to get up, but Gu Tingye on the side was still laughing in a low voice. Minglan clenched her fists, punched his thick and broad shoulder blades hard, and shouted: " Don’t laugh! Someone is coming... Are you still laughing? Still laughing?... If you laugh again, I will call the police to arrest you!"
Back then, Yao Yiyi once threatened her cousin's four-year-old nephew like this. The original text was: If you cry again, call the police to arrest you! Now that the situation was urgent, she blurted out this old trick.
Gu Tingye laughed harder and harder, lying on the quilt and trembling. Minglan lay on the brocade quilt, covered in the shadow by his tall body. She was so angry that she wanted to bite him, with her teeth and claws showing like a baby that had just grown its baby teeth. The little beast was not threatening, but rather lovable. After making a fuss for quite some time, Gu Tingye decided that it was enough and asked someone to come in to help him clean up.
Cui's mother was well prepared. She led Danju Xiaotao in first, wrapped Minglan in a large robe and went into the cubicle to bathe and freshen up. Then she asked the maids outside to file in with buckets of water, handkerchiefs and other things, and a group of people served Gu Tingye. , a group of people serve Minglan.
After Minglan finished her work and put on her inner clothes and middle coat, she came out. She saw that Gu Tingye was also freshly washed and was asking Xia He to help him comb his hair and tie it into a bun. When the two of them were almost done, a mother who looked like a manager came in and started talking. I found the white silk handkerchief in the back room, looked at it, and put it away with a smile into a wooden box with carved sleeves and gold paint.
The first wedding ceremony must be solemn. Minglan wears a full-sleeved peony-embroidered gold embroidered dress, a big hairpin with five phoenixes and chaoyang gold threads and beads on the sleeves, earrings with pearls on the sleeves and red gold tassel earrings hanging on the chest. Wearing the lucky gold necklace with golden sleeves given by Pisces, and the seventeen or eighty dragon and phoenix gold bracelets on her wrists, this outfit almost made Minglan fall down. However, she fought too hard last night, and her muscles ached all over, and she felt pain when she stretched out her hand. , it still hurts when I lift my feet, and Cui’s mother feels distressed. Thinking of the bruises on Ming Lan’s body, her look at Gu Tingye seems a little unkind.
Gu Tingye was also dressed in a festive robe with orangutan sleeves. From his shoulders down, there were gold bat flowers woven with brocade patterns, and a rosin-colored elastic ink inlaid jade belt tied around his waist. He was standing in front of a full-length mirror, letting Xia Zhu adjust the corners of his clothes.
Minglan looked sideways and couldn't help but praise: Such a rich and warm sleeve color, like a fire, always has a bit of femininity, but he is a tall and tall man, with a straight back and broad shoulders, and he has a strong momentum, and a A majestic and heroic spirit overflows around him.
Gu Tingye saw Minglan looking at him in the mirror, so he turned to look at her, looked her up and down, and then smiled and said: "You look good like this." Minglan nodded, with mischievous eyes, but a serious face, with a low expression. He said: "You look good like this."
Gu Tingye glared at him pretending to be ferocious, Minglan held up her sleeves and smiled pitifully in apology. For a moment, the two of them looked at each other and smiled, and there was no trace of restraint and unfamiliarity. I think there is a saying in this world that everything is the same.
All the maids and women in the room lowered their heads and said nothing, secretly surprised in their hearts. Sheng Mansion secretly thought, "The girl is very familiar with my uncle." Gu Man secretly thought, "I have never seen the second master with such a good temper." What's more, A few sly glances at Minglan, thinking that the second master must be very fond of such a bright and charming new lady.
According to normal procedures, the process on the first day of a wedding is as follows. First, kowtow to the direct relatives, then recognize the collateral relatives, and then open the ancestral hall to enter the family tree. There is time for dinner in the middle. Because of the special situation of Ningyuan Marquis Mansion, Minglan had secretly asked in advance.
However, Gu Tingye only replied: "I have to pay my respects to my parents first."
The meaning of this sentence is too profound and too vague. First of all, his father died long ago. Secondly, his mother died earlier. Thirdly, his current mother is a stepmother. It is rumored that the relationship between the stepmothers is not very harmonious.
Minglan was very confused as to how to understand the new leader's words in this situation.
Just as I was thinking wildly, a steward mother wearing a dark brown plain brocade gown suddenly appeared outside the door. The maid who stood by the door and lifted the curtain gently blessed her: "Hello, mother."
Xiang's mother had a fair face and kind eyebrows. She blessed Gu Tingye and Minglan when she entered the door, and said with a smile: "Second Master, Second Madam, and Mrs. Bai, please go to the ancestral hall to worship the old Marquis and Mrs. Bai first. She will go first."
Waiting."
Gu Tingye smiled and replied: "Thank you, Mom, let's go right away." The smile was very warm, but it didn't reach his eyes.
Minglan hurriedly asked Dan Jue to stuff the sleeve bag with Xiang's mother. Xiang's mother took it with a smile on her face, and then left respectfully. She probably smiled at Xiang's mother more attentively, which made Gu Tingye look at her lightly.
Then the group of people walked towards the ancestral hall.
The so-called ancestral hall is a place where ancestral tablets are placed and people pay homage. In ancient times, ancestors were judged based on their origins. It is said that the more ancestral tablets a family has and the more prosperous the ancestors are, it means that the family has a long history and is a famous family for generations.
When she was worshiping her ancestors in Youyang, Minglan was very bored as she knelt down and counted the ancestral tablets of the Sheng family. The result - alas! No wonder the Sheng family still dared not act like the boss in her hometown due to its prestige and wealth.
Listening to the Shulan gossip, it is said that the old lady Sheng was born as a beggar. No one even knew his own name. One day, he listened to a fortune teller who worked part-time as a beggar and said: The prosperous age is coming soon. A group of hungry people are miserable.
Hope arose in the heart of the little beggar, and the old man gritted his teeth and survived. Later, he took "Sheng" as his surname and gave himself a name by the way. However, 90% of Shulan's gossip is fictitious. The reason is
She also couldn't bear to kneel in the ancestral hall for a long time, and she started to slander her out of resentment.
In fact, although old Mrs. Sheng was bereaved at a young age and had been wandering and begging since he was a child, it is said that he still vaguely remembers his parents, but he can never remember his ancestors further up. He does not have the courage of Wei Dutong to call out
My wife compiled the three generations of ancestors and reported them to the court for canonization, so the tablets in the Sheng family ancestral hall are really shabby, and the total of them is not enough for a string of gourd dolls.
So when Minglan stood in the Gu family ancestral hall, an inexplicable sense of inferiority arose spontaneously.
In the deep and solemn lobby with high pillars, the entire wall on the north side is cast into a table and altar. The 10-inch-high ladder-like tablets are built up layer by layer. It is seventeen or eight stories high. It looks densely packed.
Minglan couldn't help but feel short of breath.
Mrs. Qin was already at the ancestral hall. As soon as she saw Gu Tingye and Minglan, she walked a few steps and said with a gentle smile: "I must have been exhausted yesterday. Okay, come and burn incense and kowtow."
The maid had already prepared futons and incense sticks in front of the altar table. Minglan glanced over and saw a rather new piece in the middle of the bottom row, with the inscription "The seat of my late father Gu Gong Yan Kai". Minglan was heartbroken.
However, she followed closely beside Gu Tingye, knelt down respectfully on the futon, then burned incense and prayed, and finally put the incense sticks into the cauldron before finishing the ceremony. Minglan turned her face and saw Gu Tingye looking steadily at the bottom.
There is an old tablet on the right, which reads, "Test Gumen Bai's position first." His eyes dimmed slightly.
Minglan concentrated again and saw two slightly smaller tablets next to Gu's father's tablet. One was that of her serious mother-in-law, the Bai family, and the other was a more delicate and golden one with the inscription: "Test the Gu family's Qin family first."
Minglan couldn't help but glance at Mrs. Qin next to her, and thought, if she also died, what should be written on the tablet? It is not popular to engrave women's names on tablets these days, wouldn't it be easy to crash?
Gu Tingye quickly came to his senses, turned around and said to the Madam: "It's time to salute the Madam."
Mrs. Qin was sitting on the side with a sad look on her face. She put her handkerchief to the corners of her eyes and waved her hands gently: "No, no."
"The gift must not be wasted. Madam, please do not refuse." Gu Tingye's voice was low, but his attitude was very firm. Minglan was very virtuous and followed suit. She quickly asked Dan Ju to place the two futons in front of Madam and made preparations.
Kneeling posture.
Seeing that Mrs. Qin refused to refuse, she sat upright and accepted it with a smile. After the two of them bowed, Minglan got a pair of extremely transparent jade bracelets inlaid with gold silk, plus a heavy autumn fragrance color embellished with embroidered beads.
gourd shaped purse.
This head-knocking is quite worth it.
"Go and see your eldest brother." Mrs. Qin looked at the two of them happily, with water in the corners of her eyes, "He has not been well in the past two years. He has become increasingly ill since a year ago, and now he can't even leave the bed;
He may be very happy to see you getting married and starting a business."
Gu Tingye looked gloomy and seemed quite sad. He said softly: "This is natural."
Immediately, the group of people rushed to the main courtyard, and it was quite quiet along the way. They only heard Mrs. Qin occasionally nagging a few words about Brother Gu's condition, but she was an elder after all, and it was hard to say too much to appear unsteady.
After a few words, he fell silent. Minglan was a newly married daughter-in-law, so she couldn't speak very well, so she had to close her mouth and pretend to be shy. Gu Tingye didn't want to talk at all, his face was gloomy, and his expression was gloomy. Minglan bet, if
Ask him, and he will definitely answer: My eldest brother is seriously ill, and I feel uncomfortable.
Minglan looked sideways, this guy definitely didn't mean what he said.
After walking for about a cup of tea, Minglan and his party finally arrived at the main courtyard. As soon as they walked into the second courtyard, they smelled a strong smell of soup and medicine. Minglan followed the dowager behind and came to a large room.
The bedroom is paved with blue bricks and covered with velvet carpets. There are no decorative objects at all. From the desks and tables beside the wall to the bed, they are filled with all kinds of medicine cans and stoves, including the Baibao Pavilion on the east side.
They were all filled with bottles and cans. It was already March outside, but there was still a bright fire burning in the roof.
A man was lying on a red sandalwood bed carved with patterns of vines, grass, birds and insects. Next to the bed was Mrs. Shao, who was weeping secretly. She heard the footsteps and hurriedly wiped the tears from her face and stood up to welcome him.
"Yu'er, your second brother is here to see you!" Mrs. Qin called out softly. Seeing that Gu Tingyu wanted to sit up, she quickly stepped forward to hold him down, held his hand and patted it gently, while muttering softly, with tears in her eyes.
sleeve.
Although Minglan was very dissatisfied with Mrs. Tai's omission of herself, she stepped forward with a smile on her face and followed Gu Tingye's honest bow: "I've met my eldest brother. I've met my sister-in-law."
Mrs. Shao got busy and returned the courtesy. Gu Tingyu stood up slightly. Mrs. Shao helped him lean on the pillow. He nodded to Gu Tingye, then smiled at Minglan and said: "It's useless for my brother-in-law to make my sister-in-law laugh."
Minglan hurriedly said: "How dare you, brother needs to recover." She raised her eyes and was shocked. Although Gu Tingyu was dying of illness, his complexion was sallow, and he was so thin that only a handful of bones were left, his facial features were very similar to Mrs. Qin's.
, and is more beautiful and refined. Among the people Minglan has seen since ancient times, only Qi Heng's appearance can compare with her.
The difference is that Qi Heng is handsome, while Gu Tingyu is more feminine. After he finished speaking, he coughed a few times, a few sickly veins popped up on his pale neck, and there was an abnormal dizziness on his cheeks.
"My son, please just rest." Mrs. Qin seemed to be heartbroken, stroking the back of Gu Tingyu's hand and trembling slightly. This kind of motherly friendship seemed to be completely true and caring.
Gu Tingyu smiled and held the hand of his wife. He only looked at Gu Tingye, from his tall body to his energetic face. There was a bit of envy and haze in his eyes. After taking a few breaths, he
Only then could he say: "You are finally willing to come to see me. It is God's will after all. Those who should be vacated will eventually be vacated. It was like this once and it will be like this twice."
Gu Tingye also looked at his brother intently for a while, and then said with a comforting expression: "What did the elder brother say? The elder brother is just in a bad situation now. When he recovers, everything will be fine."
Gu Tingyu smiled bitterly: "You have grown up and learned to say this after all. It seems that you have been practicing in the past few years. It's good that you are the only one who can hold on in this house now."
Gu Tingye lowered his head and said nothing. After a while, he smiled and comforted a few words, which was quite a bit of brotherly love. After saying a few words, Brother Gu started to cough and have a fever again, and fell asleep faintly. Everyone moved lightly.
Withdrew.
Mrs. Tai looked melancholy. When she left, she turned back to Mrs. Shao and said, "I'm afraid you haven't eaten yet, right? Just ask the girl to look at Brother Yu, and you can eat with us first."
Mrs. Shao declined a few times, then followed her out. Everyone followed them towards the east wing, stepped in, and saw a table full of food inside, with a young woman busy.
Written by Zhang Luo.
This woman has a face of hibiscus. She wears a rose-purple brocade gown with hibiscus flowers all over the place. She wears a hairpin with gold bottom sleeves and precious stones and peony patterns inserted into her ponytail. She looks pretty and approachable.
When she saw that everyone was coming, she smiled with her big eyes and said: "Mother, sister-in-law, second brother, second sister-in-law, you are here, if you don't come, if I get really hungry, I will go first."
have eaten!"
As soon as she said this, Mrs. Shao looked happy and laughed. However, Mrs. Tai still looked calm, not as affectionate as she was with Mrs. Shao, and only said: "Let's start the banquet, everyone is hungry."
Mrs. Shao pulled the woman over and introduced to Minglan: "This is your third sister-in-law, Brother Wei's daughter-in-law. Her natal family is Taiping Bozhu's family. She is usually the most enthusiastic. From now on, when you feel bored, go
If you talk to her, she will definitely want it."
When she heard the word 'Brother Wei', Minglan almost choked to death on her saliva. Then she thought that the thing in ancient times didn't seem to have that name. It was probably Gu Tingwei, the third brother of the Gu family, the biological son of Mrs. Qin.
Minglan smiled and nodded, suddenly feeling embarrassed. In terms of age, she was several years younger than Mrs. Zhu, but in terms of seniority, she was the second sister-in-law. When she was thinking about what to call her, Mrs. Zhu didn't care at all.
He came over, smiled happily, and said, "Hello, second sister-in-law. Please say hello to second sister-in-law."
Minglan had a stern face and could only say: "My brothers and sisters are fine too." Then she took the purse that she had prepared in advance from Dan Ju and handed it over. Zhu's expression was natural and easy-going, and she happily accepted the purse: "Be my little daughter-in-law."
It’s good, it would be even better if there were more brothers and sisters-in-law!”
Everyone laughed together, even the madam couldn't help but smile a little.
After the meal was set and everyone sat down one by one, Minglan saw that Mrs. Shao and Mrs. Zhu were still standing, so she consciously stood aside and planned to serve the dishes. The wife hurriedly waved her hand and said: "You should also sit down and eat.
, Not to mention that there is no big or small wedding for three days, and my family does not have such rigid rules, come on, sit down." Then he pointed at Gu Tingye and said, "You go to the outer room, your third brother is waiting, your brother
We haven't seen each other in a few days, so let's have a good chat and have breakfast later, and then we can recognize each other again."
Gu Tingye bowed in agreement, walked to Minglan, and whispered: "I'll go over first, you... have a good meal." Although his face was expressionless, his concern was evident in his words.
Mrs. Shao turned around to tell the maid something, but she didn't seem to see it. She only smiled at the corner of her mouth. Mrs. Shao looked at her with a smile, feeling a slight sour envy in her heart. However, Mrs. Zhu smiled without concealing it and said with a smile: "Second brother, we don't
I will eat my second sister-in-law!"
Gu Tingye cupped his fists towards the female family members, and walked out with a smile.
Minglan stood with her face in sleeves and lowered her head, a little at a loss - very good, very good, she can basically control her face sleeves now. When she can control her face sleeves freely, she will be a master.
Minglan raised her eyelids slightly and glanced around the female relatives. From the current point of view, everything is normal. Her mother-in-law is amiable, her sister-in-law is dignified and virtuous, her younger siblings are lively and friendly, and the atmosphere among relatives is very harmonious and warm. If all this is
If it's true, then your luck is really good.
However, after being submerged by a mudslide, Minglan understood one thing. Life is always full of surprises, but she didn't know what surprises Ningyuan Houfu would give her.