Yan Kingdom came to court with a mighty and mighty team, and Daye must have been well received in order to show the style of a big country. They didn't say anything on the first day, just let people rest and rectify, and then went to see Emperor Daye the next day.
The current situation is not inferior to what it was ten years ago. Now the princes and princesses of Yan Kingdom are faintly proud and complacent.
The reception banquet is scheduled for three days later.
Gu Qingci is not an idler now, and it is not easy to stay at home quietly. One is that she is a member of the Cuju team. In the past few days, everyone has inevitably become a little nervous, so they have more stand training. Second, after getting acquainted with Princess Kangtai and the others, they are often invited by others. Third, Li Chengze may also go out. Reading is not about being at home.
The advantage is that you can quickly know all kinds of news.
Fengtai Academy is very caring, saying that the pilgrimage is a major national event, and by the way, it is also in July, so they directly give them half a month of farming and mulberry leave.
So Li Chengze went home.
Because he didn't write a letter in advance to take care of him, Li Chengze didn't see Gu Qingci when he got home, so he found out from the maid that he had gone out early in the morning, saying that he went to the palace.
Li Cheng understood and didn't say anything.
He first went to see Mrs. Sun and Mrs. Bai in the east courtyard. As for his father, Li Baode, who was busy with the water melon, he had gone to Hekou for a while and hadn't returned yet.
Because of the water melon incident, the Li family is now in a much better financial situation, and they bought back more than a hundred acres of land piecemeal, making up for the vacancy at the beginning, and there is still a lot of money left in the account.
The family has money, and Bai's misses Gu Qingci's side more and more. She is annoyed that the girl who sent her there is ineffective, and she hates that Gu Qingci is not virtuous and can't tolerate others. Do rough work.
Fortunately, Gu Qingci is not at home today, and Li Cheng is back.
Bai's heart was secretly happy, and when he was talking to Li Chengze, he hinted at it several times, both overtly and secretly.
That girl was originally called Fei'er, but Zhang Momo didn't like it when she heard it. She felt that she didn't look like a serious girl with such an enchanting name, so she changed her name after reporting to her master, saying that she would be called Cuizhu in the future. It's all pleasing to the ear.
The yard is not big, and there used to be two rough envoys.
Usually, Qiu Ju only took care of Feng Rusi, and she would stare at the children when they lacked food, drink and clothing, and she would tell the two big girls when she turned around, and occasionally pass a message to the running errands. Now there is an extra Cui, because she is a foreigner, and everyone is not very friendly to her, so she is given half of the work of cleaning and washing.
They still don't know that Cuizhu's life experience is not what Bai said.
But it turned out that this green bamboo was raised by the concubine of Mrs. Wu's family in Wujiatun, who was raised by a maid. For some reason, Mrs. Wu gave it to Mrs. Bai.
The girl still came with a mission, Mrs. Wu told her to find out the situation in the Li family's yard, stare at Li Chengze, and the most important thing is to drive apart the relationship between Li Chengze and his wife and make his house messy. .
Cuizhu didn't know what kind of enmity Mrs. Wu had with the Li family, but she had no other choice but to be obedient. Her biological mother was begging for life under Mrs. Wu. She said she was the concubine of the Wu family. For one thing, none of the seven or eight concubine daughters of the Wu family can be listed in the genealogy. This status is almost the same as that of a maid, so no one will take it seriously if Mrs. Wu sells them.
Even the name "Fei'er" was chosen casually because Mrs. Wu planned to give her away. She didn't have a proper name before, so my aunt called her Xiao Wu according to the ranking.
Now that Cuizhu has been changed, she doesn't feel any discomfort. Cuizhu is a taciturn person in Wu's family. She grew up doing rough work in the backyard. She never thought about fighting for anything, and she couldn't fight for it. She survived That's fine.
If you don't get beaten and scolded, you can eat hot food every day, and you don't get cold in winter, you have to be grateful.
Sixteen years have survived like this, and now she has reached the age when she should get married. Her aunt's hair has turned gray this year. Knowing that her daughter has a father, it is as if she has no father. I'm afraid the future will not be better.
In fact, Cuizhu's aunt doesn't have much extravagance, she just hopes that her daughter can marry an honest and reliable farmer in the countryside.
Cuizhu herself, if you want to say that she didn't expect anything, it's impossible. When she was younger, she knew that her father, Mr. Wu, was very rich in Wujiatun, and all the people around here could see Wu at a glance for dozens of miles. The family's land, their family has two or three hundred slaves, the Wu family is not short of money, and the yard is very large, Master Wu goes out with chariots and servants to follow, Mrs. Wu wears gold and silver, and the sixth younger sister who is born is even more He has been raised with gold since he was a child.
Naturally, Cui Zhu would not normally see that younger sister who was the first daughter, she was raised in a well-built courtyard, and there were six or eight maids who served her personally, and Mrs. Wu spoiled her with everything, unlike them who are nameless The concubine who has no points shy away from the pass and hides in a row of yards in the day after tomorrow, and can't easily go to the front.
So for a long time at that time, she was always resentful and couldn't figure it out. She didn't know why everyone was the daughter of Mr. Wu, and which one was brought up by holding her up, but she was a woman who could beat, scold, and go to hell. rough work.
It wasn't until these two years that Cui Zhu turned the horns of the horns and fully came to her senses.
I understand that because her mother is not a wife, her mother is a servant who does not even have the status of an aunt, and is a slave, so she is also a slave.
According to the Tian Family, the mother is more valuable than the child, and vice versa.
So her mother is cheap, and she is also cheap.
After that, Cuizhu became completely honest, she worked in silence, never looking for trouble, and only asked Mrs. Wu not to sell her to others for the sake of her being obedient and obedient.
She remembered that the three older sisters in front of her were all given to others by Mrs. Wu as concubines. Not long after that, she heard that two of her older sisters died of illness.
This incident dealt a great blow to Cui Zhu, and at that time she had nightmares for several days in succession.
Originally thought that his end would be the same as the previous sisters, being sent to any old man at will.
Unexpectedly, one day, Mrs. Wu ordered someone to take her and her fourth sister to the main courtyard, saying that there was one thing she was told to do, and if they did it well, their future life would be better, and their aunt would also enjoy happiness. up.
Those words were half temptation and half threat, but they had no right to refuse at all.
Cuizhu is not the best-born among the sisters, but she is the most honest and obedient.
So, in the end, Mrs. Wu chose Cuizhu between her and the fourth sister.
She only found out later that the mission was to monitor the Li family colluding with Li Chengze, so that the Li family and his wife could not be reconciled.
She remembered that it was that time when her sister-in-law who had never appeared in front of them summoned her.
At that time, people looked at her with a bit of coldness and impatience, said a few strange words without thinking, and then rewarded her with a small piece of silver, telling her to be honest and not to be distracted.
At that time, Cuizhu agreed submissively, but the more she thought about it later, the more she felt that something was wrong with the other party. She wanted to find out something, but no one had money, and she couldn't even enter the courtyard of her sister-in-law.
Afterwards, it was easy to think of a twist, looking for an opportunity to deliberately help those poor women in the yard of my sister-in-law with work, and I got to know each other after coming and going, and she didn't take the initiative to ask anything, so people lowered their vigilance, and then there was Once the mother-in-law slipped her tongue, saying that the girl in the room had nightmares every day for half a month, and then she invited the wife to comfort her.
That dream was certainly not a nightmare, it was just that Miss Wu made a noise, she said so deliberately in fear that people would see something, and the other one was an excuse to ask Mrs. Wu to come over and give her advice.
Cuizhu listened to it, and felt that Mrs. Wu's sending herself home might have something to do with it.
But she couldn't think of any more.
Then, she was assigned an identity and sent to the Li family.
After coming to Li's house, she was also very honest. Gradually, she realized that the grandmother of this family was a little anxious because she had been married for almost a year and hadn't conceived yet. The Bai family just didn't like grandma at all.
It's nothing for them to send themselves to serve Uncle Cuizhu, she was ordered to do it.
For the sake of her aunt, Cuizhu gritted her teeth early in the morning to win over Li Chengze.
But when she came to the west courtyard and saw Gu Qingci and Li Chengze, her heart trembled violently.
This grandma actually gave birth to a fairy-like appearance, with an aura all over her body, I am afraid that all the empresses in the palace are like this! Not to mention the master, the two servant girls beside the master both have good looks and slim figures, and the clothes on their heads are even more stylish than that of the Wu family's sister-in-law.
What kind of family is this? Cui Zhu's heart was pounding.
After seeing the uncle again, she was even more afraid to have any thoughts.
Such a handsome and extraordinary person, Cui Zhu has lived in the countryside for more than ten years, and has never seen him again.
Five or six points of the previous great determination and momentum were lost in this one meeting.
What happened next made her heart completely cold, and she didn't dare to have any expectations.
That celestial-looking grandma is not afraid of her mother-in-law. She was sent by her mother-in-law. At that time, she lost her face and started a fight with the uncle. I am afraid that the uncle loves his wife very much, so he is not too angry about it. The first one Instead, he called the boy to come in and send him out.
She didn't know what happened after that, only after she was assigned the job of cleaning, cleaning and washing, the grandpa and grandma reconciled long ago, and she later learned that the grandpa went to the academy to study.
Li Cheng came back every half a month, but even if he came back, Cui Zhu didn't have a chance to say a word, let alone invite pets to separate the two.
In one month, Li Chengze came back twice, and Cuiyu figured it out again this time.
She can't do this.
After thinking about it, Cuizhu felt even more uncomfortable. If she couldn't do anything, her aunt's life in Wu's house might be even more difficult.
She has never studied, and she doesn't have much experience. Here in Li's house, although she can't see her master up close, she doesn't go hungry, and the work is not heavy. It's even much easier than when she was in Wu's house. Mrs. Wu on the head will always scare you.
In fact, Cuizhu is a person who is very knowledgeable about current affairs and will seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. Ever since she met her master, she thought Li Cheng was a very powerful person from the bottom of her heart. After realizing that she couldn't do anything wrong here, she thought about it A month later, she decided to surrender to the other party.
The life experience she fabricated on her body was all false, and it was a deal between Mrs. Bai and Mrs. Wu. She was willing to tell the uncle and grandmother all this, and only hoped that they would agree to her one request.
Cuizhu originally wanted to show her friendship to Gu Qingci first, but Gu Qingci is so busy these days that she has no time to talk to her, and those maids and women are all wary of her. .
Cuizhu has never found a chance, but she didn't expect that Li Cheng would come back suddenly today, and Gu Qingci also went out, she thought this was an opportunity.
So, just as Li Chengze was passing by, he came down from the corridor, knelt down in front of Li Chengze, kowtowed twice, and said in a trembling voice: "Master, master, I have something to report!"
Li Chengze paused, looked at the man kneeling on the ground, and frowned.