Minglan's shy expression only lasted until the moment she returned to the room. As soon as she lowered her head and entered the room, a big hand stretched out to hold her. When she looked up, she saw Gu Tingye looking at her with concern, his eyes quite a bit...
Apology: "Sorry, I forgot about you. ~"
Minglan was not angry at all. The fierce battle on the first day of her wedding really made her a little tired. She sighed softly: "It's not easy to be your wife." Gu Tingye was speechless for a long time and only gently held Minglan's hand.
Lan walked inside, and Minglan suddenly smelled the aroma of food. She looked up and saw that a lot of food had been placed on the double-happiness wooden elytra table inside, including golden snowflakes, sugar corn, and milky beans and coconut cakes.
Rolls, several plates of seasonal snacks, and Minglan's favorite three-fresh cat ear soup. The soup is rich and fragrant. Minglan was immediately delighted and sat down happily. She turned around and said with a smile: "This is prepared for me."
What?"
Gu Tingye was a little upset, but when he saw Minglan's childlike expression, he couldn't help but feel relieved: "I just came here. The mother next to you is very agile." He put the chopsticks into Minglan's hand and said, "Hurry up and eat.
Let’s do some, I’m still busy at noon.”
Minglan hesitated for a moment: "We will have lunch later..." "Looking at them, are you going to eat with chopsticks?" Gu Tingye asked with raised eyebrows. Minglan immediately poked the first chopstick; see how Minglan ate.
It was so fragrant, Gu Tingye also smiled and ate more.
"Don't worry, no one will compete with you." Gu Tingye smiled, looking at Minglan's bulging cheeks, but still trying to maintain elegant etiquette. The brilliance of the morning sun still remained on her snow-white cheeks, and her pink sleeves were fresh and tender.
The corners of her lips are like fresh lotus roots in June. Looking at such a face, my heart becomes bright and warm for no reason.
"Shicai...are you afraid?" Gu Tingye asked hesitantly. Based on his understanding of his relatives, he was afraid that he would not let Minglan go. He probably bullied his young wife verbally.
Minglan puffed up her cheeks and shook her head, trying to swallow her food: "No, I even defended you for a long time!" It must be easy to say good things, it is not popular these days to do good things without leaving your name."
Gu Tingye became interested, raised his eyebrows and asked: "Did you say something back?" Minglan's eyebrows suddenly lit up when he mentioned his achievements, he put down his spoon and chopsticks, and succinctly described what he had just said, imitating Mr. Lu's tone.
, and also vividly described the expressions and actions of everyone present at the time. Gu Tingye's eyes were bright as he listened, and the corners of his mouth were curved like the tips of the moon.
After Minglan finished speaking, she seemed to still have more to say: "...Fortunately, it's me. If it were my eldest brother, tsk tsk... After telling the story of loyalty, filial piety and justice, I'm afraid that the fourth uncle and the fifth uncle will have to go to the ancestral hall to kneel to their ancestors today!"
This is not a joke. Brother Changbai rarely talks. Once he speaks, his words are like a knife, and the knife can cut blood. His mother-in-law, Ms. Wang, has a deep understanding of this.
A smile appeared on Gu Tingye's gloomy face for a long time. He stretched out his hand to shave Minglan's cute little nose. There was a strong affection between his eyebrows and his eyes, and his voice was as low as old wine: "I should throw you into the wolf's den.
Wow, I almost broke out in a cold sweat just now." Minglan bit her chopsticks, smiled as cute as a flower, slightly touched her cheeks, and whispered: "I'm not afraid of wolves, I'm just afraid that no one will support me."
Gu Tingye's heart almost melted: "I support you! Whatever you want to do, I will support you!"
Minglan would act very cute when she was happy. She showed her ability to make the old lady happy. She lay on Gu Tingye's shoulder and was as happy as a little smiling melon. She served Gu Tingye porridge and vegetables like a little squirrel. Gu Tingye saw it.
I am so knowledgeable and my bones are half dry. I just regret that it is so bright now that there is so much inconvenience here.
Gu Tingye coughed twice unnaturally, put a cherry ball and steamed pork with rice flour into Minglan's bowl, changed the subject and said: "You... don't want to ask the fourth uncle and the fifth uncle about their affairs?" Generally, the newlyweds will meet each other first.
In this scene, wouldn't everyone be busy asking their husband-in-law? Minglan only belatedly remembered: "Oh, that's right; why, didn't you say that the wife has agreed to let us move out? What did they do?
So bad to you?"
This was a good question, and it convicted the person as soon as he opened his mouth. Gu Tingye's brows widened when he said it. He swept away his depression and said with a smile: "I have been naughty since I was a child. Madam is worried about the identity of my stepmother and cannot say much. She has never said anything.
It was the uncle or aunt who brought the complaint to my father; many things happened like this time and time again."
Minglan slowly chewed on the meaning of this sentence, and made a sound in her heart. She flashed her big eyes with a half-smile, bit her pink lips, and slightly elongated her tone: "The Gu family is really nice. Uncles and sisters are harmonious. Sister-in-law."
The family is very friendly and happy, and I am really lucky to be able to marry her." Gu Tingye smiled, he especially liked the tone of Minglan's words, like a naughty child deliberately pretending to be honest, but not acting like it.
After chatting and joking for a while, someone came outside to spread the word about the meal. Gu Tingye took Minglan's little hand and walked out, whispering many things as he walked.
In fact, Minglan felt that Gu Tingye didn't need to worry now. There had been a scene just now, so he probably wanted to create a harmonious scene before going to the banquet. Yao Banxian really lived up to his reputation, and everyone at the banquet was happy.
Let's talk about the unhappiness just now. In the men's seat, Gu Tingye no longer had a cold face, but showed respect to a junior at the right time. The two uncles were also smart enough to know that it was too hard, so they went down the slope and drank.
A few glasses of apology wine; at the ladies' table, Minglan was still shy and used the 'ABAB' sentence pattern to answer most questions. When she encountered something she couldn't handle, she had to answer honestly.
Seeing Minglan's extraordinary conversation, the fifth old lady couldn't help but said: "Have you ever been to a boudoir school? Which gentleman taught you." Gu Tingcan, who was sitting opposite, lowered her head to eat quietly. As soon as she said this, she suddenly raised her head,
He stared at Minglan and answered.
Minglan put down her chopsticks, stroked the golden wind pendant on her sleeves, and said with a smile: "I have never been to a boudoir school, but when I was six or seven years old, my grandmother invited a nun who had returned from the palace to teach us sisters.
How many days."
When Gu Tingcan heard that she was a nanny, she curled her lips and lowered her head. The fifth old lady shook her head: "No, most of the nuns teach you good manners. Have you invited any other gentlemen?"
Minglan couldn't stand it, so she had to say: "That year, my father was promoted to the prefect of Dengzhou. In order for several of my brothers to go to school, my father invited Mr. Zhuang from the capital as a teacher. At that time, our sisters were still young, so we had to
I read for a few days."
This time Gu Tingcan became interested, his eyes shone, his lips moved but he did not speak. The wife smiled gracefully, and the big beads on the exquisite white jade silver hairpin on her temples swayed slightly: "But originally, when Shen Shoufu came to the village, he opened the door.
Mr. Zhuang from the school?"
Minglan paused for a second to take a breath, and then her expression remained as usual: "Exactly." The wife smiled and clapped her hands: "That is a really good gentleman. You sisters are really blessed to be able to listen to his teachings! Weirdao is very happy to listen to you.
"Zhangfa, it turns out that my teacher is from a famous family. From now on, your sisters must learn from you and talk nonsense without thinking clearly. Don't blame your sister Can today. She has been called spoiled by me since she was a child." Ting Can finally endured it.
Unable to hold on any longer, the lapis lazuli pendant beside his ear rippled slightly, and he said angrily to Mrs. Tai: "Mom, it's all you! You haven't asked me for a good husband since I was a child, but now you come to talk to us sisters!"
Mrs. Tai's face changed, but she couldn't rebuke her in public. Mrs. Xuan on the side laughed: "You, you! Mr. Zhuang teaches the ladies in the boudoir, he teaches how to promote people and become scholars! If you want to blame me, I blame you.
Brother, you don’t know this! Sigh... I can’t count on them. Fortunately, brother Xian and the nephews in the fifth house are all up to par. I’m afraid I’ll have to count on them in the future!”
After these words, the faces of Mrs. Wu and Mrs. Zhu both shone, and everyone was satisfied. Minglan secretly glanced at Mrs. Xuan a few more times, and saw that although her words were a little straightforward and rude, her behavior was crisp and thoughtful.
, she takes very good care of her sister-in-law, Ting Ying, the only daughter of the fourth old lady who filled the house. In contrast, the eldest daughter-in-law of the fifth house is not very outstanding and is quite timid. On the contrary, the daughter-in-law of the fifth house, Ting Ling, is a concubine.
, extremely generous, chatting and laughing.
Speaking of which, Tingcan, Tingying and Tingling, these three cousins are all very beautiful. Tingcan is like a Ganoderma lucidum grass on a lonely cliff, Qingling is aloof and tall, while Tingying is more dignified and supple.
, and Ting Ling is a flower of interpretation, graceful and pleasant. ~ After finally finishing the meal, the maids had almost packed their things. Seeing that they were about to go out, the wife came to invite Minglan to the inner hall.
Go, Minglan's heart sank, and thought to herself: It's here again, what is it this time? Gu Tingye's face became a little gloomy, he lowered his head and thought for a moment, then looked up at Minglan and said: "I'll go with you later, sir."
Speak and I'll take care of it."
In the wing room on the west side of the main courtyard, Mrs. Tai was sitting at the head, with only Mrs. Shao and Mrs. Zhu sitting on both sides. The three of them were talking, and they only listened to the maid at the door announcing the news. They were smiling to greet each other, but they saw Gu Tingye coming too.
, quite a bit surprised.
Mrs. Tai's expression remained unchanged. Mrs. Zhu hurriedly stood up and asked the maid to have tea. Then she sat next to Mrs. Shao. Gu Tingye bowed to Mrs. Tai and Mrs. Shao. Minglan also folded her arms and body. Then Gu Tingye sat on the chair on the right side.
Next, Minglan was confused again. Should she sit on her daughter-in-law's side or Gu Tingye's side?
Gu Tingye coughed twice and glanced at him. Minglan immediately ran over and sat down. Seeing the two of them behaving like this, Mrs. Shao and Mrs. Zhu looked at each other with deep meanings.
"Why are you here too?" Mrs. Tai put down the tea bowl and said kindly, "It's all right if your wife knows about this." Without waiting for Gu Tingye to answer, she sighed softly, "That's right, you might as well come together; you
My daughter-in-law has only been here for a day, and there are so many things going on that it’s inevitable that she won’t be able to handle them. I’m afraid you also know what I asked you to do, right?”
Gu Tingye straightened his back and said quietly: "It must be about Sister Rong."
Minglan's heart moved. It turned out that this was the case, and she knew about it.
The madam smiled and nodded, nodded towards her mother, turned to her mother and went out. She turned around and said: "Since you have thought of it, I won't be nagging; alas... I originally thought that Minglan would settle down in a few days.
I will tell her in detail later, but now that you are leaving immediately, I have to tell her now."
Gu Tingye stood up, Mrs. Chao Tai and Mrs. Shao bowed deeply, and said in a deep voice: "I was young and incompetent, and I did ridiculous things. In the past two years, I have been helped by my sister-in-law, who helped take care of Sister Rong. Tingye
Imprinted in my heart.”
Mrs. Shao quickly stood up and returned the greeting, saying: "We are all members of our own family, why should we be so indifferent to outsiders? Sister Rong is also a good girl, and she and Sister Xian are very close. Speaking of which, I can't help you at all, Rong."
Sisters and daughters all wear sleeves." Gu Tingye's face darkened again. After sitting down, before he could speak, the curtain opened and two women dressed as women came in toward their mother, followed by a little girl.
The two women bowed to the crowd and stood at the bottom with their heads lowered and hands down. Minglan looked carefully and saw that the woman on the left was wearing an apricot-colored Ruyi-trimmed long slant-fronted coat. She was about 16 years old and had a picture.
She has a pretty face, almond-shaped eyes and peach cheeks; the woman on the right is wearing a homemade ivory-yellow coat with rose-colored Ruyi edges on the front. She is older, about 27 or 28 years old, with a long face and quite a bit of beauty.
The little girl in the middle is about seven or eight years old. She is wearing a feather gauze jacket with shallow sleeves and deep sleeves and wide borders. She has a thin body, a timid face, and her eyebrows have a bit of the beauty of the Manny back then. The lady said gently to Minglan.
: "Sister Rong, why don't you come and see your parents?"
The little girl looked directly at Mrs. Shao. When she saw her gently nodding, she stepped forward with a trembling step, knelt down respectfully and kowtowed, and called: "...Dad."
Gu Tingye looked at her with a complicated expression and nodded.
"And where is your mother?" Madam Tai asked with a smile. Sister Rong timidly glanced at Minglan, biting her lips and refusing to make a sound. Minglan wanted to express some opinions, so she went to see Gu Tingye.
Gu Tingye waved his hand gently and said to Sister Rong, "You should call me Madam."
The expressions of everyone present changed. Mrs. Shao couldn't help but said: "Let's call you mother, Sister Rong, scream quickly!" However, Sister Rong couldn't call her out. The girl on the right opened her mouth several times and looked.
He looked at the woman on the left, but finally said nothing. Gu Tingye ignored everyone, just looked at Sister Rong and said: "If you don't want to call me mother, just call me madam."
Sister Rong looked stubborn and blurted out: "Madam!"
Mrs. Shao looked regretful and stopped talking. Mrs. Zhu lowered her head to drink tea. Mrs. Tai looked deeply at Minglan. Minglan felt that she was wronged. She didn't say anything from the beginning to the end.
A woman came to the side and took Sister Rong to sit on a small table beside her. She gave her some tea and fruit to eat. Then, the Mrs. Tai pointed at the two women and said to Minglan: "These two are Ye."
The people in Brother Ye's house, this is Aunt Gong, Sister Rong has been grateful to her for the past two years; this is Qiuniang, Brother Ye's girl since she was a child, and later became his wife." The two women hurriedly stepped forward to give Minglan a favor.
After saluting, Minglan became depressed. This time she didn't bring a purse, so she had to fumble in her sleeves for a while, took off the two gold bracelets, and rewarded them one by one.
When they raised their heads to express their gratitude, they both couldn't help but glance at Gu Tingye. Aunt Gong's eyes were full of resentment and she was crying, but her face was full of excitement and joy, almost bursting into tears. Unexpectedly, Gu Tingye was watching with a frown.
Sister Rong over there.
After the introduction, the wife said to Minglan: "Since you want to live elsewhere, they have to follow you."
Minglan nodded, but before she could speak, Gu Tingye was ahead of her: "Of course I have to follow, but I'm afraid it's still a little messy over there these days. I'll just give it a few days and wait until everything is sorted out.
Send someone to pick her up." Madam Tai's eyes flickered, and she was silent for a moment, but Aunt Gong knelt down towards Minglan and said, "I would like to go over now. Although I am stupid, when Madam is taking care of the house, running errands and sending messages can also be of help.
two!"
Gu Tingye said calmly: "Aren't you going to take care of Sister Rong?"
Aunt Gong's face turned pale, and Qiuniang next to her wanted to speak immediately. Gu Tingye glanced at her, and his tone softened a lot, and said: "You stay here, I will pick you up later." Qiuniang immediately stopped talking, but her eyes were extremely serious.
Excited.
Minglan touched a string of bracelets on her wrists in her sleeves, and thought to herself: Why are there only two? Why must she finish all the bracelets on both wrists to be in line with Mr. Gu's reputation outside?
After thinking about it, Minglan understood that when Mr. Gu ran away from home, it was like being kicked out of the house. The aunts who were in charge of his wife had no intention of running away, so they might have found another way out. Of course, they might have been sent away by the master.
.Why keep so many mouths open for a wanderer who has been expelled from his home and is unlikely to come back. So, what about these two who stayed? Well, the water is so deep.
Madam Tai wanted to hold Minglan and say a few words, but seeing Gu Tingye present, all the female relatives were a little frightened and quickly dispersed. Qiuniang and Xiuxiao seemed to want to follow, but Gu Tingye walked very fast, Minglan
You have to jog all the way to keep up.
After walking out of the east side courtyard and entering a side path, Gu Tingye slowed down and supported Minglan to breathe slowly. After she breathed fully, the two of them walked slowly along the tree-lined path.
After walking for a while, Gu Tingye said, "You... have something to say?"
Minglan held it in for a long time and immediately asked her doubts: "Then Qiu Niang seems to be much older than Aunt Gong, why hasn't she raised Aunt Gong? Because she is not of sufficient status, so she cannot raise Sister Rong?"
Gu Tingye didn't expect Minglan to ask this first. He seemed to relax and whispered: "Xiu Xiao is the roommate of the Yu family, the aunt Yan Xiu personally carried; Qiu Niang..., she can stay as long as she can."
It's not easy." Two sentences, two people, two attitudes, Minglan secretly memorized it. The two walked for a while, and Gu Tingye waited for a long time and couldn't help but said: "You don't have anything else to say?"
Minglan was thinking with her head down, but she raised her head and asked curiously: "Say...what?" Gu Tingye stopped, looked at Minglan steadily, and said in a statement: "You are unhappy." "Why should I not?"
Happy?" Minglan looked strange.
Gu Tingye looked at Minglan carefully, his eyes were deep and dark, and he said slowly: "Because of Qiuniang and Xiuxiao, you are unhappy." Minglan smiled and said: "How can there be such a thing? You saw it wrong..."
He was interrupted before he finished speaking.
"You don't like them, do you?" Gu Tingye asked straight down. Minglan waved her hands and said with a smile: "I am not the one who tolerates others, I think..." was interrupted again.
"Are you jealous?" Gu Tingye frowned deeply.
"No! Listen to me, "The Women's Commandments" says..." Minglan tried to explain, but was interrupted again. "Shut up!" Gu Tingye suddenly growled, startling Minglan.
Gu Tingye took a deep breath, his expression was gloomy, and his eyes were dark and unfathomable. Power naturally burst out from his body. His tall figure was like a mountain pressing down on him. Minglan was too scared to speak. He said slowly: "I said
Yes, I have heard enough lies in my generation, I want you to speak your mind, the truth!"
Minglan secretly thought, but she can't tell the whole truth, otherwise she will be burned as a monster! Minglan lowered her head and said nothing, and Gu Tingye waited quietly, only using the pressure of silence to force her to speak, Minglan finally couldn't take it anymore,
Sighing softly, he found another way and said implicitly: "Emperor Gao, the great ancestor of this dynasty, likes to give beauties to his ministers the most, but every time he rewards beauties, he always avoids those handsome ministers and ministers who favor princesses. Why? The same way to conquer the world, the same thing.
Even though he has made outstanding achievements in becoming a marquis and becoming a prime minister, why should he be granted this title instead of this one?!"
Gu Tingye's pupils shrank slightly and his eyes flashed. Minglan looked at him with a smile and said quietly: "Even a heroic and unruly hero like Emperor Gao knows this very well. In fact, you men know it very well."
, why bother asking."
My own daughter feels sorry for her. If the wife is really happy to see her husband taking a concubine, why doesn’t the emperor keep a close eye on the princess? The emperor has a long history of bestowing beauties. Fang Xuanling’s wife ended up drinking rice vinegar that was suspected of being poisonous.
Forget it, it set a precedent for shrewd women to resist imperial beauties. Taizu was a romantic and ugly man who saved others by himself, so he liked bestowing beautiful women. It is said that at that time, the British princess stood in front of the door with two kitchen knives and threatened the beautiful woman.
If they dared to enter, their blood would be spilled on the spot, and she would pay with her life. The British Duke was so frightened that he lay on the steps of the Golden Palace and begged for three days before Emperor Gao withdrew his life.
Emperor Taizongwu also occasionally rewarded beautiful women. At that time, the Korean princess was even more aggressive. She took the young girl with her, spread firewood and kerosene, and said that if the beautiful woman came into the house, their wives would die. The Korean princess was frightened.
His soul flew into the sky, he hugged Emperor Wu's thigh with tears and runny noses, and cried for a long time before the flames were turned off. Of course, there are more men who happily accept beauties and are proud of them. In fact, the problem is
On a man. These remarks were very novel. Gu Tingye nodded quietly and looked straight at Minglan: "But I already have a concubine."
"Yes." Ming Lan arched her eyebrows and said with a smile, "So I will take care of Sister Rong and live in harmony with Qiuniang and Xiuxiao. I will be very virtuous! Really!"
Men and women in ancient and modern times have not evolved much. The wives of the men on the Forbes rich list can tolerate it, but the wife who runs a street vendor, even if she does not get divorced, at least has to pick up a kitchen knife to make a fuss. There is no other reason than the increase and decrease of power and wealth; now she
She is the concubine of the Fourth Secretary, who is a prominent official of the Second Secretary. His fist is bigger than hers, so she can only be 'virtuous'.
It's that simple. Minglan's words were sincere, and Gu Tingye could believe that her words were reliable, but his face turned even uglier, his brows were furrowed, his eyes became fierce for no reason, and he stared at Minglan hatefully, as if he wanted to take a bite
Eat her.
Minglan was very alert, and when she saw something was wrong, she quickly made another promise, and could only slap her chest and swear: "I will never be evil! You have to believe me, I will treat them well! If you don't believe me, just watch!"
"It's such a hard life. If she had been so sincere when she applied to join the party, she would have succeeded!"
Gu Tingye's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot, his eyes were clouded, and his expression was gloomy. He breathed heavily on Minglan's face. The two stood facing each other in a dull manner for a while. Minglan was uneasy, thinking about whether he should make a heavy oath to express his feelings.
I feel very sincere.
After a long while, Gu Tingye breathed out a heavy breath, took her hand, lowered his head and continued walking forward in a muffled voice; Minglan was dumbfounded and carefully looked at his side face. She felt that she had said enough.
It was subtle, and it also expressed firm determination. Why was he angry?