The return of Wei Changying and his party to the imperial capital has little impact on the overall situation for the time being. The happiest people are Gu Rouzhang, Duanmu Xinmiao and other old female companions.
"There have been a lot fewer people in the past two years, there are even less interesting things, and life has become dull. If you hadn't come back, sister Wei, I would have wanted to go to Xiliang to find you!" Since Wei Changying and others arrived in the imperial capital, they have been short In just a few days, Gu Rouzhang, who was visiting for the second time, put down the glass cup with joy, "It's great now. I won't be lonely just looking for the juniors under your knees in the future - Yiren's riding skills are really good, this kid I The more I watch, the more I like it. Did Sister Wei teach me step by step?”
Wei Changying asked her helplessly: "Your Heng'er has been taken care of by his uncle, and you don't want to have any snacks?" Gu Rouzhang and Pei Yu had their eldest son the year after their filial piety, and they only have one son so far. .
Although the couple is said to be cousins, and the entire Pei family treats Gu Rouzhang very well, and has never made Gu Rouzhang upset because of the scarcity of heirs, but... is it really okay to have such a son and not raise it by himself
"Why are you so worried!" Gu Rouzhang said disapprovingly, "Sister-in-law Su, you don't know yet? She takes care of Heng'er much more carefully than I do. What's more, my second brother from my mother's side personally teaches him - Sister-in-law Su and the others don't let me take care of him all the time. When you go out to play, you just want to see him and talk to him. For such a young child, he doesn’t understand a lot of things. It’s so boring!”
"..." The corner of Wei Changying's mouth twitched: She heard the news yesterday that Pei Heng was adopted by her uncle's family when she was just one year old. The reason was that Pei Heng developed a fever before he turned one year old. Not only did Gu Rouzhang not know anything about it, She happily hugged her son and praised her, saying that the child's face was so rosy that he was so cute... If a woman from the Pei family hadn't noticed something was wrong and called the doctor in time, there would have been a question as to whether Pei Heng could have been raised until now.
This incident frightened both the Pei family and the Gu family. Pei Yu and Gu Rouzhang were both scolded, and Pei Heng did not dare to ask them to continue taking them. So the two families discussed it and decided that Su Yuli, who also happened to have young children, would raise her nephew...
Originally, their only son was taken away by his parents to be raised. The couple should be very sad.
I don’t know what happened to Pei Yu. Anyway, Gu Rouzhang went to see her son twice and saw that Pei Heng was being raised by her sister-in-law to be lively and smart. She was very relieved - so relieved that she wouldn’t even bother to visit her once every few months... If she didn’t know this, People must have thought he was a bastard!
When Wei Changying heard this rumor, he couldn't believe it. Thinking that she now had two sons, she couldn't bear to ask them to leave her eyes, let alone Gu Rouzhang's only son!
As a result, she asked tentatively... Are the Gu family siblings all weird
However, when Gu Rouzhang mentioned Gu Xinian, Wei Changying became interested: "It is said that Ziyang is not married yet? You, my sister, don't like him?"
"It's not that I don't care about this - first of all, Sister-in-law Su has said it eight hundred times that she just won't marry anyone she can't find the right one." Gu Rouzhang took another sip of rose water and pressed it with the handkerchief. At the corner of her mouth, she said, "My eldest brother refused to even persuade him to take a few concubines first..." At this point, she seemed to want to say something but held back.
Seeing this, Guard Chief Ying became curious, waved back and asked.
Gu Rouzhang then said: "After Sister-in-law Su tried to find matchmaking with the second brother several times but failed, my eldest brother suspected that the second brother actually liked masculinity, so he personally bought some handsome boys and gave them to him. But when the second brother found out, he was very angry. He went to his sister-in-law and complained fiercely. The sister-in-law was so angry that she whipped her brother all over the room with a whisk... At that time, it was a joke throughout the imperial capital, and the sister-in-law was embarrassed to go out for several days. !”
"..." Wei Changying sighed and murmured, "Cousin Su is so pitiful!" Su Yuli, the eldest daughter of Fufeng Hall, was also a well-known lady in the imperial capital and was praised by the domestic nobles as virtuous and polite. How gentle and considerate was this cousin Su back then!
Unexpectedly, in the past few years after leaving the court, she has become so aggressive that she whipped her with a whisk in hand so that her husband did not dare to fight back and only dared to run around the house!
If these words hadn't come from Gu Rouzhang, Wei Changying wouldn't have believed it - how could Cousin Su, who was so gentle that an ant would not want to trample him to death, hit someone? ! In my memory, Su Yuli always cursed in a gentle voice!
"This is all because cousin Su married Gu Zilie!" Wei Changying sighed in his heart, "Cousin Su married no one else, how could she be forced to this point? Cousin Su has such self-cultivation. Can ordinary people be so angry that they lose all manners? But what a person Gu Zilie is! Poor cousin... ugh... "
"This matter isn't over yet!" Even Gu Rouzhang, who had always been heartless, showed a hint of sympathy, "Then the eldest brother thought about it again... The second brother doesn't like women or men. Could it be because... he ran to Xin Miao's place? Ask for medicine."
Wei Changying held the teacup and tried his best to stop laughing wildly, and asked expressionlessly: "Then what medicine did Xinmiao give him?"
"Xinmiao is not very familiar with Sister-in-law Su, but because of Sister Wei's reputation, she tricked my eldest brother." Otherwise, the children of this generation of the Gu family in the imperial capital would make people think that the previous generations of the old patriarch Are you all committing evil
Duanmu Xinmiao deceived Gu Naizheng, his brother-in-law, but as Gu Naizheng's half-sister, Gu Rouzhang's face showed gloating rather than sharing the same hatred. She even said with a little joy, "I took a package of ordinary medicine powder and sent him away. Afterwards, I secretly asked Sister-in-law Su out and reminded her that my eldest brother may have a wife outside, and there may not be only one or two. Otherwise, why would my eldest brother need to take medicine? "
Wei Changying looked at her with a smile, but what he was thinking in his heart was: "You even say such things to make fun of me. I really don't know if Gu Zilie will fight with you when you return to your parents' home?"
"Then what did Sister-in-law Su do? Did she really catch the outside wife or not?" I thought so. In the past few years in Xiliang, Wei Changying has either handled family affairs with my sister-in-law, or helped her to deal with the aftermath, or he has been the husband-in-law. It has been a long time since the godson chatted about family affairs with a female companion of similar status like Gu Rouzhang, but now he could not restrain his curiosity and asked.
Gu Rouzhang said: "The outer room didn't catch him, he just asked the matter clearly."
Wei Changying said with a smile: "And then my cousin-in-law was whipped again by Cousin Su with a whisk?"
"That's not true." Gu Rouzhang sighed, "Sister Wei, do you think he will tell the truth? Oh, no, he thinks he is telling the truth, but his truth... is not what we think is the truth, then Is it the same thing?”
That must not be the same thing!
So the version that Gu Naizheng told Su Yuli was not, "I suspected that our second brother didn't do anything, and I was afraid that it would hurt his face if I told him, so I went to ask the eighth lady of the Duanmu family for some medicine and wanted to treat him privately. "; but "Our second brother won't do it! Hush... this is a secret, please don't tell it out! He rejected the concubine you chose for him before, and the male favorite I chose for him. He has already become suspicious, what will he do in his life if someone finds out?"
Although Su Yuli said that she was very clear about her husband's character and believed it without hearing anything, but for such a big matter, the Gu family had few brothers and sisters, and the late Su Yuli's mother-in-law was a kind-hearted person, so the relationship between concubines and concubines was Not bad. Gu Naizheng—To be honest, although this person often does things that make people laugh, cry, and gnash their teeth, he really doesn’t have any bad intentions.
Although Wei Changying has always believed that just because he has no bad intentions, he does all the bad things that people with bad intentions can't do. This is the most terrifying thing...
In short, Su Yuli knew that her husband would not deliberately trick her brother-in-law, so she asked doubtfully: "Is this your guess, or... is it true?"
"Can there be any falsehood?" Gu Naizheng had always firmly believed in his intelligence, so he told his wife very firmly, "While he is still young, give him a good treatment. If he can be cured, that would be the best solution." Okay! If it can’t be cured... Well, then we can only adopt one of our descendants to him... "
Su Yuli looked at him talking and was thinking about whether to name their youngest son Gu Xinian as soon as possible or to wait for a few years when the children are older and have more children, and then she felt that it was true. That's right - after all, it was impossible for her to ask her brother-in-law in person: "Your unreliable brother said that you have dyslexia. Sister-in-law, I don't really believe him. Can you tell me whether this is true or not?"
Hearing this, Wei Changying guessed: "Then Sister-in-law Su went to Xinmiao for help?"
"Isn't it?" Gu Rouzhang said, "Xinmiao said that this kind of thing can only be confirmed by checking the pulse in person, so that we can prescribe the right medicine. But my second brother, who is not sick and has no disaster, rashly went to Xinmiao for diagnosis and treatment. , Sister-in-law Su thinks it’s hard not to let the news out! By then, it will be very bad for my second brother!”
Wei Changying said with a smile: "Invite Xinmiao to your Gu's house as a guest. I happened to leave your second brother at home and sent the servants away. Why don't you just take a look when no one is around... What did Xinmiao say after seeing it? of?"
Not wanting to hear this, Gu Rouzhang felt annoyed for a moment, and then sighed: "We wish we had thought of this method earlier!"
"... What about you?" Wei Changying suddenly felt a little bad for Gu Xinian...
Sure enough, Gu Rouzhang said with a look of self-blame: "At that time, neither sister-in-law Su nor Xinmiao could think of a way to ask the second brother to seek medical treatment. It happened that I went to visit Heng'er, and my sister-in-law told me privately, and I said I would come..."
"Then what did you do?" Wei Changying felt more and more uncomfortable...
Gu Rouzhang sighed: "None of us thought that although Xinmiao is staying at home now, she would not necessarily be unable to go to Gu's house for half a day. I was just thinking about how to get the second brother there... this..."
"..." Wei Changying asked cautiously, "Is Ziyang okay now?"
"I was able to stand up a few days ago." Gu Rouzhang touched his chin and said guiltily, "Well, actually, I came here yesterday just to ask Sister Wei for some special medicinal materials from Guanzhou. Xinmiao said you come here. I will definitely bring some high-quality ones, which are better than those bought in the drugstore here... But when I met Xie'er yesterday, he wanted to go out to play, so I forgot about it! "
Wei Changying looked at her strangely: "That's no problem... How on earth did you let Ziyang go to Xinmiao's place?"
"... I asked my husband to treat him to a drink, and when he was drunk, I asked someone to cover him with a sack and beat him!" Gu Rouzhang said awkwardly, "I thought that even with flesh wounds, I would have a reason to seek medical treatment from Xin Miao, but what happened was that The servant used to be a fierce soldier, and his hands have lost their weight. Although no bones have been broken, they have been lying down for many days... "
Is this my sister-in-law? Is this my sister-in-law? Is this the parental mentality of doctors? !
Wei Changying admired Gu Rouzhang, Su Yuli and Duanmu Xinmiao for a moment and fell into admiration!
She solemnly said: "I believe that Ziyang must have greatly offended you somewhere without even knowing it!" (To be continued)