This time there were a lot of things to buy and there were a lot of people, so Gu Chengyu asked Ming Mo and others to drive a carriage respectively.
"Mom! This time we are all going to the capital to study, so we don't need to buy much for the new house in the village. When we get to the capital, we can let the second sister and the others buy it. I have already packed all the good household items in the capital.
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Gu Chengyu and Mr. Lu took a carriage and talked about the things they would buy later.
"Xiaobao! Brother Xian, can you agree to let Wan'er go to the capital with you?" Ms. Lu was a little worried about this, let alone others. She was used to living in Shangling Village and didn't want to go.
Somewhere else.
"Mom! She will agree."
The carriage drove very quickly, but very steadily. Not long after, Gu Chengyu and the others arrived at the county seat. Gu Chengyu got off the carriage and hurriedly sent a message to shopkeeper Liu of Huichun Hall before they set off again.
Ms. Lu looked at the city tower getting closer and closer, and couldn't help but panic. After more than 20 years, she returned to this place again.
When the carriage entered the city gate, Mrs. Lu lowered the curtain. She had long passed the age where she likes to see new things.
"Mom! Didn't you say that there are still a few quilts left to look at the festive quilts? This is the largest cloth shop in Fucheng. I asked Ming Yan to follow you. I also want to visit the teacher."
I didn't mention Governor Chiang, because I didn't want Lu to be overly concerned. At the end of this year, Governor Chiang's performance evaluation will definitely be excellent. At that time, he will leave Jingyuan Prefecture and return to Beijing to report on his work. He may be promoted next year, so naturally he won't
I will stay in Jingyuan Mansion again.
"Then go ahead! Don't you still have the boss and his wife?"
Gu Chengyu helped Lu get out of the carriage in front of a cloth shop and asked Ming Yan to stay and help run errands.
Magistrate Chiang sat in the sedan chair and was about to return to the government office. He had just bought pastries from Yipinzhai, which his mother liked to eat. He was in a good mood today. His connections in Beijing told him that he should be promoted to a post in Beijing next year.
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"Master! Look, isn't that Master Gu?" This steward knew Gu Chengyu. In recent years, Gu Chengyu had been running to their house frequently because of matters related to the experimental field.
"Oh?" Jiang Mingyuan lifted the curtain and prepared to take a look.
He calculated that Gu Chengyu would be arriving in the next few days and would definitely come to visit him at his residence. He also specifically told the concierge to notify him as soon as he arrived.
From here, he only saw his back, so he didn't know clearly. But Jiang Mingyuan saw Ming Mo, who must be Gu Chengyu. Anyway, he would come to the mansion later, so he didn't want to say hello anymore.
Who would have thought that Gu Chengyu would actually help a woman out of the carriage. The sedan was getting closer and closer, and when Jiang Mingyuan saw the woman's face, he was stunned as if struck by lightning.
The girl smiling at him in the peach blossom forest overlapped with the face of the woman in front.
After more than twenty years, he thought he had become blurry about that face. But now, he felt it was so clear.
"Mom, you should dress like this on weekdays. You look more energetic." Gu Chengyu looked at Lu, who was rarely dressed up, and praised her sincerely.
Today, Mrs. Lu is wearing a grape purple double-breasted narrow-sleeved gown and a Xiangfei-colored Liufu Luo skirt. She has a bun on her head and a hairpin given to her by Gu Chengyu. On her hand is a bracelet with excellent water quality.
Outfit, I never wear it at home on weekdays.
"How can you dress like this at home? How troublesome?" Lu said with a smile.
Jiang Mingyuan looked at Ms. Lu intently. After all these years, there were not many traces on her face. It was just that she looked more like a girl than before, with more years of precipitation.
It wasn't until the sedan chair got further and further away from Gu Chengyu and the others and the sedan turned a corner that Jiang Mingyuan lowered the curtain. It seemed that Mu Jin had been doing well in the past few years, so he could rest assured. Some people, if they miss it, they just missed it.
His thoughts flew back to more than 20 years ago, when she was still a girl in her twenties. When his mother said that she wanted to point out the hibiscus to him, he was very happy. Otherwise, he would not have asked Yu after she strongly opposed it.
Bring this up.
Who would have thought that fate would play a trick on people, and the two of them would end up being destined for each other. He would not change his original intention, but his wife would treat him as someone else's wife.
"Oops! Is it really Hibiscus?"
Gu Chengyu supported Mrs. Lu and was about to enter the shop. Suddenly, a woman's voice of surprise came from the side. Gu Chengyu just wanted to look back, but Ms. Lu grabbed her hand and hurriedly walked towards the shop.
"Hibiscus!"
Seeing that Mr. Lu ignored him, the woman hurriedly ran up to the two of them.
Of course Gu Chengyu knew that she was calling his mother. When his mother was a maid in the house, she was called Mu Jin.
"It's really you!"
A woman wearing a ginger-yellow satin gown was looking at Ms. Lu eagerly.
Gu Chengyu took a look and saw that the material was average among silks and satins. The hairpin on the woman's head was only a silver hairpin, and she was holding a basket in her hand. Looking at this outfit, she looked like a proud woman from a wealthy family.
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Mrs. Lu looked at the woman in front of her and smiled reluctantly, "It's Cui Ming!"
"It's me! We haven't seen each other for more than 20 years. When I saw you just now, I almost didn't dare to recognize you. You are still so good-looking, but I am getting older."
The relationship between her and Hibiscus in the mansion was quite harmonious back then. They were both the girls who were favored by the old lady, but Hibiscus's favor was different from theirs! She had known for a long time that the old lady wanted Hibiscus to be the master's wife, because
Hibiscus has good color.
"We are the same age, how can I not grow old?" Now that we have met, there is no way to hide away, so Lu simply returned generously.
In fact, Cuiming was confused in her heart. Back then, Hibiscus was said to have given her finger to a farm widower, but now, how come she seems to be living a good life? Her skin is not at all like those who were exposed to the wind and sun in the farmland. Her skin is smooth.
The clothes you wear are also valuable.
In fact, Mrs. Lu aged slower than others because Gu Chengyu often poured the spiritual spring into tea. In the past few years, how could Mrs. Lu be like this?
"Look at me! I haven't told you yet, but this is my youngest son. Xiaobao, please call Aunt Cui." Now she doesn't want to care about Cui Ming's scheme against her back then. It's just that Yu took Cui Ming.
Only after my mother-in-law came to threaten her did she plot against her.
What happened many years ago has passed, and now she is living a good life and has no regrets.
Cuiming was just talking to Lu, and didn't pay attention to Gu Chengyu next to her. After hearing the reminder, she looked to the side and asked, "Master Gu?"
Cuiming was extremely surprised. She didn't expect that Young Master Gu, who had been coming to the house all the time, was actually Mu Jin's son?
"Aunt Cui!" After hearing his mother's words, Gu Chengyu shouted and nodded. He was sure that this woman was a mother-in-law of the Jiang family. It was definitely inappropriate to salute him as a judge.
"No way! No way! Master Gu is my distinguished guest, how can you call me Aunt Cui?"
Cuiming waved her hands repeatedly. She had seen Gu Chengyu twice in the mansion. However, they were only seen from a distance when delivering messages, but she was extremely impressed by him.