When Gu Wuyou walked to the main courtyard, in addition to her grandmother, the second sister was also there. She sat on the chair behind her grandmother. Seeing her come in, Gu Yu opened her eyes and showed her a gentle, slightly soothing expression. smile.
Seeing this smile, Gu Wuyou's heart calmed down a little.
She bowed to the two of them, and then knelt in the main hall without speaking, just kneeling like this.
Madam Gu held a string of Buddha beads in her hand. Seeing her kneeling on the ground, she didn't let anyone get up. She just held the Buddha beads like this. After a circle was finished, she lowered her eyes and asked in a light tone, "Why are you kneeling down? ?"
Gu Wuyou lowered his head and replied softly, "Granddaughter is at fault."
Mrs. Gu's expression did not change, and her tone remained flat, "What's wrong?"
Gu Wuyou continued to answer: "The granddaughter shouldn't be in front of the public and say such a thing, causing others to talk about the family."
"Oh?" Mrs. Gu looked at her and asked her, "So you think, as long as it's not in public, it's okay to say something like this?"
This question was strangely sharp, and Gu Wuyou did not dare to take the liberty to answer for a while, and secretly raised his eyes to look at her grandmother, hesitated for a while or asked in a low voice, "Grandma, can I tell the truth?"
Mrs. Gu listened to this, her hand moved for a while, and her rare tone fluctuated a little, "Why, you still wanted to lie to me, didn't you?"
"Neither..."
Gu Wuyou seemed to have been exposed, her face was red, her tone was her usual look, and she said, "I'm just afraid you're not happy." She glanced at him again, and saw that her grandmother's expression didn't change. Only then did he consider and whisper: "I like him, and I don't think there is anything wrong with liking someone."
"It's just that this incident happened suddenly, and I didn't think about the consequences. Although the third brother and the others helped me get this matter right, I did have something wrong."
After she finished speaking, Gu Wuyou didn't hear her grandmother's words. She only heard the crisp sound of the Buddha beads in the hands of the people. She felt uneasy, and after a long time, she heard people ask, "What did you plan to do?"
"I originally wanted to..." She pursed her lips, and finally spit out the words in her heart, "I'll tell the family when the time is right."
Although Gu Wuyou and Li Qinyuan had never discussed this matter in private, the meaning of the two of them was very clear. When Li Qinyuan made some achievements, she would slowly explore his father's tone.
The left and right fathers also admired Li Qinyuan in the past.
After a long time, Daddy can always let go. Then, no matter how honest they are together, no one else will talk about it.
Mrs. Gu won't even turn the Buddha beads, she just looked at her, and she didn't know how long it took to ask: "What do you mean, you have to marry him?"
Gu Wuyou deserves to be very decisive this time: "Yes."
There was silence in the room again, except that Mrs. Gu had a myna chirping outside, but no one spoke. After a long silence, Mrs. Gu finally put the string of beads on her wrist. Looking at the person, he said lightly: "You liked Zhao Chengyou at the beginning, but your father didn't agree. You fought with people for a few days and finally got people to agree. Later, you broke off the marriage with him. I never told you about these things."
Hearing people talk about these past events, Gu Wuyou's face turned pale.
She raised her head to look at Mrs. Gu, her lips parted and her voice was pale, "Grandmother..."
Before she could finish speaking, she saw someone raise her hand, Madam Gu stopped Gu Wuyou, but continued to talk to her in her own words, "I said this not to criticize you, but to think Let me tell you, in life, every result is traceable."
"No matter the big or the small, before making a decision, you must think clearly and think clearly."
"You are still young now, and you are protected by your family. Even if you pierce the sky, your father will protect you. But when you become a family and become a daughter-in-law for others, how will you be at that time?"
"You still want your father to take care of your husband's family?"
Gu Wuyou didn't say anything, and she couldn't say it either. She remembered the things she had experienced in her previous life. In fact, in the final analysis, it was her own tossing. If she had obeyed her father's words from the beginning and wasn't so self-willed, then later on, she It won't go that far.
But in this world, where can you really see everything clearly
Mrs. Gu also knew, so looking at her granddaughter's appearance, she just sighed and continued, "This time you are better than the previous time, after all, you didn't force your father. accepted."
This is a bit of a joke.
But she was used to being prudent and serious, and she was very rigid even when she joked, but Gu Wuyou was smart, and now that she was used to getting along with her grandmother, she heard that her words were a little more relaxed than before, and she became popular. Facing her face, she said softly, "I used to be ignorant, but now I have grown up a little bit."
"I see that you are no more sensible now than you were before."
Mrs. Gu spit out a few words lightly, choking people for a while, and then she didn't keep talking about this topic, and the conversation changed again, "Your father sent someone to deliver the letter first in the morning, and I also talked with you. I told him about his arrangement, and since your father and daughter have already made up their minds, I won't say anything about it."
"Whether you and that kid from the Li family can succeed will depend on how he will be in a year."
This matter was settled yesterday, Gu Wuyou had no objection, nodded, and agreed.
Mrs. Gu said again: "This time you said such a thing in front of the royal family, no matter what the reason is, but I can't help punish you."
Before she came, Gu Wuyou had already thought of it. Now that she heard people talking about this, she naturally did not argue. Her knees were still on the ground, her back was straight, and her bright little face was very serious. "The granddaughter is at fault, you punish me."
She did something wrong and deserved the punishment.
But Mrs. Gu did not punish her immediately, but said to Xie Ma, who was beside her, "Go and call me the two people outside."
Gu Wuyou was stunned for a moment, those two people outside
Who is it
Just when she was stunned, the curtains were picked up and down, followed by a series of footsteps. Gu Wuyou looked back and saw that Gu Jiufei and Gu Yu came in with Xie Mama, she didn't seem to be there yet. After recovering from the daze, Ne Ne asked, "Why are you here?"
Gu Jiufei glanced at her, saw that she was fine, and knelt down beside her.
The same is true for Gu Yu.
When the three juniors knelt in a row, Mrs. Gu said, "Since you are here, just listen to my plan." She continued to turn the beads in her hands, and the expression on her face was like that of a bodhisattva in a temple. Aloof and calm, "Leping contradicted Yu Qian this time, and almost hurt our family's reputation. I plan to punish her to go to the ancestral ancestral hall to kneel for three nights to set an example."
Gu Wuyou didn't react to her decision.
Gu Jiufei and Gu Yu frowned, Gu Yu was in a hurry, and even said without saying a word, "Grandmother, it's still the first month of the month, the ancestral hall is so cold, you let Gu Wuyou kneel for three nights, don't you think? To kill her?"
Gu Jiufei also said, "Grandmother, your punishment is too severe, the fifth sister is weak, she can't stand it."
Madam Gu's thin eyelids drooped slightly, and she glanced at the two of them lightly, and finally set her eyes on Gu Wuyou and asked, "Do you have something to say?"
Gu Wuyou did not expect that her grandmother would actually punish her to kneel at the ancestral hall.
She has never been punished like this in her life, and she is most afraid of these places in her life. If she wants to kneel there alone for three nights, it is better to be whipped directly. It was her fault, and she said "it's at the disposal of others".
She pursed her lips, hesitated for a while, but still gritted her teeth and said, "Granddaughter... let my grandmother handle it."
Gu Yu pressed her voice and shouted, "Gu Wuyou!"
Gu Jiufei glanced at her and pursed her thin lips lightly, but he didn't say anything, only opened his mouth when he looked back at his grandmother, "Grandmother, I didn't take good care of Fifth Sister this time, I am willing to accompany Wu Sister kneels together in the ancestral hall."
"I would too!"
Gu Yu also followed, "Grandma wants to punish, so let's punish us together."
Gu Wuyou frowned. Kneeling at the ancestral hall is no fun. In such a cold day, wouldn't it make you sick? No matter how scared she was, she didn't want them to accompany her to endure hardship. Just as she was about to speak, she heard the person in the seat speak first, "Do you really think so?"
"Yes."
The two should have no hesitation.
Mrs. Gu looked at them and said, "You all know what she has done this time, but if one is not handled well, not only will her reputation be ruined, but even the reputation of you and even our entire Gu family will be destroyed by her. implicated."
She looked at Gu Yu first, "You've also passed the age of marriage, and soon you will have to choose your husband's family. If there is a sister who is secretly hooking up with a foreigner, what do you think others will think of you?"
Seeing the person's face pale, Madam Gu looked at Gu Jiufei again, "You are about to enter the Luming Academy, whether you are going to take the imperial examinations or become an official in the future, you will inevitably have to interact with people outside. Others know that you have such a sister, what do you think others will talk about you?"
"Can you really put up with a sister with such a bad reputation?"
Gu Wuyou felt extremely ashamed, her pale face turned pale now, she used to think only about herself, but she forgot about her family, so she could not help but bow down and admit her mistake, "Grandmother, I wrong."
She has said this sentence no less than three times today, but this time, the tone is the most complicated.
Mrs. Gu did not respond to her words, but looked at Gu Yu and Gu Jiufei and asked, "Now, do you still want to accompany her to kneel in the ancestral hall?"
Outside, the starling is still screaming carefree, not knowing the troubles.
After another moment of silence in the room, two voices sounded at the same time, "Accompany!"
Gu Jiufei looked at Gu Wuyou's gaze, which was mixed with shock and disbelief, just like when he saw her in the alley that day, he turned his head, and his thin pink lips lifted a very shallow touch. He looked at Madam Gu and said loudly, "Grandmother, as long as you're a human being, you can't do everything right in your life."
"But as long as you know your mistakes and can correct them, then you deserve to be forgiven."
"My sister and I have had a bad relationship since childhood. When I was a child, I also tried to toss my sister. I knew she had a bad temper, so I deliberately made her angry and made the elders dislike her." This is The dark things he has hidden in his heart have never been told to anyone.
So much so that when he talked about this, his slender fingers clenched into fists, and he didn't even dare to look at Gu Wuyou's eyes, for fear that she would hate him.
But this is the first time for him to be so happy, to bring out all the darkness and all the bad things. When he faces Gu Wuyou in the future, he will no longer be entangled in the past. He made mistakes, but now he is willing. change.
The young man knelt on the ground with his back straight, his face was this calm for the first time, "Even not long ago, when she was going to the academy, when others were talking about her, I still thought if she really lost her. It would be nice to make everyone hate her with all her fame."
"But now I-"
Gu Jiufei paused for a moment, and when she said it again, it was a sincere sentence, "I only want her to be well, I only want her to be well."
After he finished speaking, Gu Yu also said, "Grandmother, I'm similar to the ninth brother, you must be wrong, I have done a lot of wrong things before, I know that Gu Wuyou is my sister, and I know that after going out, We are one, but because I don't like her, I deliberately ignore her and let others bully her."
He glanced sideways at Gu Wuyou next to him.
Gu Yu took a deep breath before continuing, this time with a smile on his face, "We have all hated each other, and we have done many irreversible things to each other, but it is because we are family, so we can still stand together today."
"If in the future someone is really unwilling to marry me because of these reasons, then I won't even bother to marry such a person!"
The last sentence, she said very loudly, "A person must have the ability to argue right and wrong, and only blindly listen to the opinions of others. What is there for me to marry such a person?"
Gu Wuyou looked at the two people beside her, thinking of what they said, she was touched, her eyes were already red before, but now looking at them, her red lips bit her lips, and tears flowed in her eyes. Can't say half a word.
When they were talking, Mrs. Gu didn't say a word. Now that they have finished speaking, she turned the Buddha beads in her hand and said, "All finished?" When she finally answered "Yes", she continued. Said: "I'm very happy to hear you say this today."
"I want you to always remember that we are family."
"It's not scary to do something wrong, and the gossip and rumors outside are not scary. As long as our hearts are aligned, then no matter what the outside world says, it won't be a problem, but if our hearts are not aligned, we just blindly act when we do something wrong. Pass the buck, or blame the other party, then no matter what position we are in, one day this family will fall apart.”
"I said this, do you all understand?"
The three of them looked at each other and responded in unison, "Understood!"
"Um."
Madam Gu nodded, "Go down."
The three siblings were stunned for a moment, but Gu Wuyou hesitated to speak first, "Grandma, should I go to the ancestral hall now?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Mrs. Gu lifted her eyes and gave her a light look, but didn't say anything, but Gu Yu walked over with a smile and helped the three of them up, and then smiled with her: "Stupid Manman, you should be Grandma really wants to punish you?"
"My grandmother said this just to let you know the truth that one is prosperous and one is lost, so as to save you from complaining in your hearts in the future."
Mrs. Gu answered lazily, "You don't have to kneel in the ancestral hall, but you still have to copy the family rules."
This was already the lightest punishment. Gu Wuyou hurriedly bowed his eyes and thanked his grandmother, but Empress Yu had nothing else to say. Gu Yu continued to accompany Mrs. Gu to pay homage to the Buddha, leaving the three juniors who had just opened their hearts.
Gu Wuyou looked at Gu Jiufei and then at Gu Yu.
When I helped her just now, I was very righteous, resolute and determined, but now one or two are a little embarrassed. Seeing her look over, they directly avoided their eyes. Gu Wuyou was amused. Li was full of tenderness, holding one in each hand, and said, "Let's go, go to my place to eat."
Gu Yu still didn't look at her, but let her hold her hand, "...Oh."
It was the first time for Gu Jiufei to hold her hand. It was soft, like a cotton ball. He didn't react for a while, and stared at the hand blankly. When someone called him again, he responded gently. Said: "Hmm."