There is only one oil lamp in the east wing, and the light is a bit dim. The old house has only been cleaned and scrubbed, but there is neither whitewash nor paintings on the walls, and no soft carpets on the floor. It's short and there's nothing on it.
Shabby everywhere.
The room is cold and has no temperature, against this dim light, it is not surprising that Gu Qingci can't stand the impatience.
It's just that after Li Chengze came in, the atmosphere changed a bit.
Gu Qingci suddenly remembered the words that the other party had told him many times, and suddenly lost so much confidence.
I have to say some things before, but Li Cheng left a deep impression on Gu Qingci's heart.
She likes his closeness and pampering, but she still respects him and fears him unconsciously in her heart.
When Li Chengze didn't speak just now, Gu Qingci was still hesitant and tense, but now seeing him suddenly laughing, she was stunned, and when Li Chengze called her over, she became obedient again.
To wipe the hair of the person sitting on the couch, the movements of the hands are light and delicate, soft and smooth.
Li Chengze has now learned how to tie a bun by self-reliance, but sometimes it is really impatient to take care of his long hair.
After twisting most of the hair to dry, Gu Qingci put down the towel.
Li Cheng led her to talk with her, but he just had a little homely conversation with her, he didn't deliberately ask her, and said: "Are you meeting with grandma today?"
Gu Qingci took a few steps, moved on the edge of the bed, and whispered, "See you."
Li Cheng smiled again, and said in a slow tone, "They are all relatives of the same clan. Our family is small, and my father's generation didn't have any brothers. I was the only male in my generation. We are far away from each other, and if there is anything we don't take care of here, we only see each other once or twice a year.
You, you, how many times do you want me to teach you, you are the one who is the one who suffers. "
He raised his eyebrows, "Who will feel sorry for when you say that?"
Gu Qingci blushed and bit her lip.
There was no fire in the room, she had already removed her hair bun and jacket, and after standing for a while, her hands were cold.
Li Cheng went to shake hands with her while talking. Seeing that she was cold, he took her to the bed and told her to sleep in it. He also lay down on the soft pillow, and pulled the quilt for her. Cover tightly.
Gu Qingci was dizzy by his provocation.
Li Cheng stuffed a Mrs. Tang into her arms and hugged her. Gu Qingci came back to her senses, raised her face, looked at Li Cheng and said softly, "I didn't make grandma angry, I just came here. No, I'm not used to it..." It's not a lie, Gu Qingci is indeed much more restrained than before.
Li Cheng was naturally angry, and the quilt was warmed up quickly, and he was very hot all of a sudden.
Gu Qingci nestled in his arms, playing with a lock of Li Chengze's hair in his fingers.
Li Cheng let out a soft sigh in his throat, his eyes were much gentler than in the daytime.
"It's only a few days or so. Tomorrow, the ancestral hall will be opened to worship the ancestors. After that, there should not be so many people coming."
No need to think about how much "enthusiasm" Gu Qingci will be surrounded by today. Even he himself is like this, although he has the elements of being admitted to the scholar, but I am afraid that the main reason is that he feels that he has "attached" to the Mingdehou Mansion.
Li Cheng is not a fool, so he has a clear mind.
Gu Qingci didn't have the unhappy and depressed look just now, she blinked her eyes soaked in water, and quietly stretched out her hand to hug Li Chengze's waist under the quilt.
Li Cheng raised his eyebrows.
This little girl is too bold, and she doesn't understand men.
It's easy for Li Cheng to coax a little girl, living with Gu Qingci, he can't fail to notice that she is becoming more and more dependent on him, and of course he is also a little afraid of him.
Kissing her twice can make her distracted, and lying in her arms is soft and obedient.
But she didn't know that men are different from women, a little girl can satisfy her with a kiss, but a man who is teased like this, a kiss is like drinking poison to quench his thirst.
Li Cheng didn't want Gu Qingci to move around and lose his sense of proportion, so he could only coax her to sleep quickly.
A night without dreams.
Waking up early the next day, Yuzhu Yuchuan was also afraid that the masters would oversleep, so she came early and knocked on the door to call for someone.
After serving and washing, the two brought new clothes for Gu Qingci to put on, dressed up, and went to the main hall to have breakfast together.
There will be a series of ceremonies later, which are very complicated. Gu Qingci didn't dare to eat too much, so it's fine if you don't feel hungry after eating it.
The Li Family Ancestral Hall opened the sacrifices on time, first setting off firecrackers, and then offering sacrifices.
Female relatives are not allowed to go to the inner temple.
There are four rectangular tables lined up in the nave, on which various sacrifices are placed. There is no shortage of big meat, wine, snacks and fruits.
There is another incense burner with a large stick of incense sticking in it.
Next is the outer shrine, with the female relatives of the Li family kneeling on both sides, and Gu Qingci is among them.
In the inner temple, the patriarch invited out the genealogy, Li Baode and Li Cheng kowtowed first, and then read the eulogy, which ended after half an hour.
At the head of the Li family, Gu Qingci's name was added next to Li Chengze's name.
When the last stroke is done, Gu Qingci can be regarded as a member of the Li family, which means that after death, he can enter the grave of the Li family and be enshrined by his descendants.
The opening of the shrine did not end until noon, when everyone went to eat a big banquet of noodles together.
Very lively.
Gu Qingci didn't bother to squeeze into the crowd of people she didn't know, having dinner with those women, she whispered a few words to Mrs. Sun, and then led Yuzhu back to the house.
After kneeling for two full hours, even with futon mats under my knees, my legs couldn't stand it in the winter.
After going back to the house and closing the door and taking off her pants, Yu Chuan took the medicated oil for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis to apply on her, and rubbed it slowly with her hands, otherwise there would be even more horrible bruises tomorrow.
After rubbing my knees, I poured hot water from the outside to soak my feet to prevent the cold.
Li Cheng was much busier than Gu Qingci, and he was still out and did not come back when he was stumbled.
With Mrs. Sun at the banquet, she doesn't have to worry about her seniority, only others can talk with her.
No one noticed that Mrs. Bai quietly disappeared.
She didn't have to kneel outside the ancestral hall for half a day like Gu Qingci, waiting for the genealogy.
He kowtowed with Mrs. Sun and went back. The second cousin had a family member looking for someone to talk to.
After talking for a while, Bai took the time to leave.
She had already communicated with Mrs. Wu in Wujiatun. Wujiatun was not far from Hekou Village, and she could come here in half an hour.
Mrs. Bai just felt the time to meet Mrs. Wu.
Mrs. Wu drove an ox cart by herself, and took many women and girls to the people, and stopped under the old tree.
Politely invite Mrs. Bai to speak.
It's impossible for Mrs. Wu not to know about what happened last time, but she only regrets that good-hearted woman in her heart.
At this moment, there was no trace of resentment on his face, instead, he said with a rather embarrassing tone: "I didn't expect the daughter raised by the Hou's mansion to be so powerful. You didn't give her any favors, but instead she harmed you." Let my mother-in-law complain, I have never heard of such a strange thing, could it be because you have a good temper and can bear it."
After hearing this, Bai's face suddenly collapsed, with a stern look on his face, which was very ugly.
At the beginning, the mother-in-law Sun said that she would leave it to Gu Qingci to deal with it, so that she could calm down. At that moment, Bai Shi thought to himself, no matter how powerful Zuo is, he can't beat the board, at least he can still be used.
It's just that she didn't expect Gu Qingci to be so shrewd and cunning. She just waited for someone from the Gu family to come and gave the woman to the Gu family, saying that she didn't want to see her suffer, and let that Zhou mother handle it.
What good can people do if they go to Gu's house, and they will never come back.
Bai's days were very difficult, she had no face, so she could only shrink back, she still didn't look like a mother-in-law.
In the past few months, the resentment of luck in her heart has only grown, and Gu Qingci has completely become an enemy in her eyes. She even has the idea of letting her son divorce her in her heart, although she knows that this is impossible.
Mrs. Bai really needed someone to talk to, and it happened that Mrs. Wu was the candidate.
Mrs. Wu had become "friends" with the Bai family at that time, and she had been to the Li family many times, and she already knew the basic situation of the Li family from the Bai family.
The two of them got along very well.
The first way to deal with Gu Qingci failed, Sun's reprimand and lessons only made Bai's appearance as an invisible person for a few months, but all kinds of thoughts and malice towards Gu Qingci in his heart grew even bigger.
At this time, Mrs. Wu suddenly said a word: "That Miss Gu, you have been married to the Li family for four or five months, but is there any movement? Add a happy event to your family?"
Bai's heart skipped a beat, and he clenched his hands tightly.
How could she not have thought about this question, she had even been thinking about it a long time ago.
Perhaps others may be thinking of wanting their daughter-in-law to conceive a child, after all, the Li family has only one seedling in this generation.
But now, Bai Shi didn't know why she was going out, she didn't want Gu Qingci to get pregnant, and even more viciously, she hoped that Gu Qingci wouldn't have a baby!
As long as Gu Qingci can't have a child, she won't be able to gain a firm foothold in the Li family, she won't be able to occupy her own son, and as long as she can handle childlessness, no one else can say anything if she divorces her!
When Mrs. Wu brought this up, Bai's heart skipped a beat. Fortunately, there was nothing unusual about her face.
After a long while, he lowered his eyelids and said slowly: "Is there any movement? Poor my son. At his age, others have already become fathers, but he doesn't even have a girl under his knees. It's useless for me to be anxious now." .”
After saying this, after a while, she added with a smile that was not a smile: "Or a girl who was spoiled and brought up like Gu, who is weak and difficult to conceive, but I don't know when there will be a happy event. .”
Mrs. Wu's eyes flashed, and she immediately understood Bai's heart.
The corner of his mouth pursed, and he said: "Speaking of which, my family has also raised a few girls, but they are used to being rough. They have been beaten and grown up, but their bones are strong. After more than ten years of raising them, they have never seen a baby girl. Disasters, can it be that rough girls are easier to feed?" He smiled while covering his handkerchief.
The girls Mrs. Wu was talking about were not her own daughters, but those born to the women in Mr. Wu's backyard. There were four or five of them. Those girls are not young girls. In Mrs. Wu's hands, they grew up as maids and servants, and their lives are not as good as those decent maids around Mrs. Wu.
With such an attitude from the mistress, the servants are naturally winking, and they don't take the concubine girl seriously.
Mrs. Wu's words were very meaningful.
Bai Shi was taken aback for a moment, but didn't answer immediately.
Mrs. Wu is a shrewd person, and she can judge people with sharp eyes.
Immediately smiled again, "I brought two maids here today, and I haven't asked them to return you a gift yet."
After finishing speaking, he called out to a person outside the window, and the person responded, opened the curtain and set up a footstool to help them get out of the carriage.
In a small car behind, a woman has already "invited" the occupants out of the car.
Unworthy Mrs. Wu said a word, and the two walked up a few steps, and knelt down with a plop.
Salute to Mrs. Bai, "Please greet my wife, and give my wife a blessing."
Bai Shi was confused by the big kowtow ceremony of the two of them.
A pair of eyes looked straight at the two of them.
She has grown up in stature and is exquisite. She must be seventeen or eighteen years old.
It looks bigger than Gu Qingci.
After sizing up, Mrs. Bai went to see Mrs. Wu, with a hesitant tone, "This is..."
Mrs. Wu didn't take it seriously, and said with a smile: "Although they are a bit stupid, the only thing they have is good, that is, they are obedient. They are very obedient, and they don't dare to make any fools."
Mrs. Bai guessed something, a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and said: "They are all good children, it's a pity, my son married a wife early, and the daughter-in-law is now protected by her mother-in-law."
Mrs. Wu understood it, and said slowly: "What did my sister say? These two are just serving people. I don't see you taking them back today. It won't take long, at most a few months, then Miss Gu If the stomach still doesn't move, your mother-in-law may be in a hurry."