When I was not married before, I also knew that my daughter’s family was out of the family, and it was difficult to return to her mother’s house. There is no reason why her in-law’s house is not allowed, or others will gossip, and if there are several sister-in-laws in the family, she will be fine with her sister-in-law if she has nothing to do. Going back to her mother's house may also be very disgusting.
Gu Qingci knew that Li Cheng didn't care about this, she had sensed her attitude early on, and Li Cheng didn't hold her back from going back to her natal family, so she never worried about it.
Let's just talk about the second room, there are not many children, the girls are all married, and the two young masters are not yet married.
Now the second wife is in charge of the entire house, and when Gu Qingci comes back, no one can make her angry, she is still as comfortable and pampered as when she was a girl.
The mother and son were talking together in the house. After a while, the second wife asked the servant girl to go to the warehouse to bring a box of materials.
When the box was opened, it was as bright as gold, and there were five or six pieces of materials piled up. The second wife said: "This is a gift from your aunt. It is said to be a fashionable thing in the south. There are horizontal and straight flowers, frivolous Elegant, it is the most comfortable and cool to wear when made into clothes. I think the colors are enough, so I will keep them for you."
Gu Qingci is a beauty lover, she opened it and felt it, she didn't pretend to be courteous to her mother, her face was full of smiles, she was thinking happily, what kind of dress would look good, and said: "Then thank you very much later. Aunt, and mother, mother is so kind."
The second wife said with a smile: "Mother is only your daughter, whoever is kind to you."
Gu Qingci blinked: "When my elder brother marries his sister-in-law, I won't be the only one who owns the good things from my mother. Thanks for loving my daughter now so that she won't be jealous in the future."
The second wife patted her, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, "You elf girl, let alone your elder brother, mother is very worried, and now she is helping him to see her, but he doesn't care at all. Such a good girl would be attractive, I had to ask your aunt to keep an eye out for me before your aunt came over to see if there was any suitable girl."
"Elder brother is filial and gentle, whether his character or appearance is bad, mother should not worry, just take a close look at him."
Gu Qingci's eldest aunt is very nice, with a straightforward and generous personality, and she is very warm-hearted. She has always had a good relationship with her sister-in-law, the second wife.
After talking about this, they talked about Li Chengze again. The clichéd things they talked about were nothing more than the second wife's concern about her daughter's life in Li's family.
"The Li family is poor. The house is too small. There is not even a gazebo, let alone a lake. Needless to say, the waterside promenade. The days are getting hotter now, and there is no good place to cool off, so we can only stay in the house. " Gu Qingci said.
The second wife looked distressed: "I have wronged you for these things. You grew up in a wealthy nest, but your marriage was bumpy. Fortunately, the son-in-law is good, and loves you and treats you well. Look, my mother has been wearing jade and gold bottles all her life." Delicious food, but you have been angry all your life and blamed your father all your life, my son, you are a lucky one, you only hope that your son-in-law will be successful in the future, and you will be blessed."
Gu Qingci nodded naturally.
In the evening, they rested in Gu's mansion for a night, and the next morning, the young masters of the first and second rooms of the Gu family, including Li Chengze, a total of five people, after washing and tidying up, they set off in a carriage and drove towards the gate of the palace.
When Li Chengze woke up, Gu Qingci was still in a drowsy sleep, and she didn't wake up when she opened her eyes, so Li Chengze coaxed her to sleep more, and she didn't need a servant girl to wait on her, so she put on her own clothes.
At chen shi, the sun had risen early, and the sky was bright, Gu Qingci and the second wife had breakfast together.
The second wife reckoned that it would not be long before leaving the palace on the other side, and she had heard a little bit about it. Her sister-in-law said that day that it would not exceed two hours at most.
In private, they all said that Yan Guo sent this gift with ulterior motives, they just said it was the same thing, but it is impossible for you to say that the officials and a group of ministers are not interested in the things inside the lion-like beast.
So speaking of it, the people of Yan Kingdom were not pure in mind and had bad intentions. When they came to Daye, why didn't they want to take this opportunity to keep this treasure, and beat the people of Yan Kingdom in the face along the way.
The officials had this idea in mind, but they had no choice but to recruit well-educated people who were astute and intelligent to unlock the mechanism. However, the progress was very unsatisfactory, and the officials simply stopped writing, and simply issued an edict, to the effect that all of you who are officials and young children will be sent over to me, so that he will not have to pick people everywhere. It's not good if someone who can unlock the mechanism is missed.
But as the second wife said, after two hours of hard work, when the sun was shining at noon, several people came back from the palace.
Everyone was curious about the lock, so they all wanted to ask about the situation, so they went to the main hall together.
The eldest lady is first asking if the journey is going well, if there are any stubbles and so on.
Several people shook their heads.
When they arrived at the gate of the palace, there were not only five of them, there were more than twenty people from three families, almost all of them knew each other.
The treasure is placed in the hall, the emperor may have been disappointed many times, and he is not as confident as he was at the beginning, thinking that someone will be able to unlock it soon. After the first two days, Xuanren came over and was still interested in watching it, but now there is no such thing It's time to work, this matter is handed over to a subordinate official, who will lead everyone to see the treasure, and occasionally mention a few guesses from the previous people.
The eldest lady asked, and the eldest young master said a little bit.
Da Furen sighed: "What kind of treasure is it? It is such an embarrassing mechanism. If it is like this, when the group of people from Yan Kingdom are about to leave, they will be brought back. How can the officials feel that it is so embarrassing?" comfortable."
At this moment, the eldest young master came to his senses and said, "I can't take it away."
The eldest lady didn't listen to her at first.
After a while, I was stunned, the teacup in my hand was still hanging in my mouth, so I froze there, raised my head, and asked again, "What did you just say?"
The Eldest Young Master coughed, then glanced at the people around him, and then calmly said: "The people of Yan Kingdom can't take that thing back."
"This is… "
"Untied."
The eldest lady was dumbfounded, the second wife paused and sighed, and immediately asked: "Which family is it from, it's so powerful, I didn't have a clue for so many days before, and now it's solved?"
Everyone sighed, surprised and curious.
"Oh, tell me quickly, but I'm so anxious, what's going on now, and what is the reaction of the Holy One?"
The eldest wife and the second wife rushed to ask questions.
Afterwards, the four young masters of the Gu family all set their eyes on Li Chengze for a moment.
Gu Xuan couldn't hold back anymore, he came all the way, he had already passed the dazed energy, and now he said straightly: "It was my brother-in-law who unlocked the mechanism."
Brother-in-law... Isn't it Li Chengze
Now the first lady and the second wife couldn't calm down at all, and the maids and women who were serving in the room all opened their eyes and ears.
It's completely restless!
This sentence sounded like thunder on the ground.
Cleverly, he ran out quickly, rushing to inform Lord Hou and the second master.
After a while, the old man came over quickly.
He hurriedly said: "What's going on, have you solved it? Boss, tell me!"
When Master Hou spoke, the young master of the Gu family began to tell the story of them in the palace from beginning to end.
However, twenty of them entered the palace together, and were led by an official to a large hall. The space inside was naturally very spacious, like lions and beasts placed in the center on a shelf.
The inner eunuch asked the four of them to come and take turns to watch.
No one is robbing this matter, most of them are curious, or they are trying to see if they have the ability. Naturally, the whole family will benefit if they can solve it. Not ashamed.
Therefore, everyone was calm and orderly, and under the watchful eyes of the inner prison and Yan Guo's servants, they fiddled with that thing.
In the end, they all shook their heads and sighed to retreat, and then gave up their positions to others.
It is impossible for the palace people to let the son and official of the family wait, so naturally seats are installed on both sides, so they can sit and wait with peace of mind, and listen to people's discussions from time to time.
Li Cheng was not in a hurry, and he didn't fight for the first place. He just humbly let others see first.
Naturally, the young masters of the Gu family followed and waited until the end.
Then I smoothed my clothes and went up to look.
The mechanism lock is mainly the two eyes and the ball in the mouth. These three places can move, and there are densely packed words and symbols embedded in it, which looks messy.
Ordinary people come over and just touch the three places, but they can't find anything to observe from the side.
Li Chengze is also a human being, so of course he would also be curious about what kind of institution this is. Although he didn't know anything about the institution, he still wanted to see it.
Then, he discovered a remarkable thing.
This thing is a squatting lion beast, right in front of its chest, such a whole piece, Li Cheng then took a look with the magnifying glass next to it.
I found that it seemed to be... a math problem!
Li Cheng was silent for several seconds.
But to outsiders, he just frowned and looked serious.
After a while, he turned his back and asked the inner eunuch if he could prepare some paper and pen for himself.
The inner eunuch was also surprised. He had been here for a few days, and it was the first time someone asked for it.
He didn't dare to be ambiguous, so he responded immediately, raised his hand and summoned a few young eunuchs, and asked them to prepare pens, inks, papers and inkstones.
The things were delivered quickly, and everyone was curious about what Li Cheng found, so they all surrounded him.
Then I saw Li Cheng holding a magnifying glass, and then copied the formula on the lion's chest.
The bad thing about math is that I really don't understand what the hell this is, and I don't know what the mechanism lock has to do with it.
Li Cheng just wanted to try it out. He wasn't sure about anything, so he wouldn't explain it blindly.
Holding the question, I lay down on the desk and began to solve the steps of the question.
…
All the princesses around were dizzy, obviously they were not very good at mathematics.
I don't know how long it took, but Li Cheng finally finished the calculations. He took the draft paper with a long string of answers on it, walked up to the thing again, picked up the magnifying glass, and began to move the left eye of the lion. He looked for numbers and symbols again, and sure enough, he saw a familiar one, the first part of the answer in his hand, then rolled his eyes, and pushed that part to a small downward-facing groove to fix it.
Then the right eye, and finally the mouth, in the same way.
After finishing, I pressed the dot on the lion's chest.
It turned out that it couldn't be pressed no matter what, no one hadn't tried it, but there was no response.
While watching Li Cheng make a series of actions with their own eyes, everyone around them subconsciously stared at that place.
Then, "click".
There was a sound like a mortise and tenon snapping apart.
I'm afraid it's a built-in mechanism.
It's on.
The eyes of Yan Guo's subordinates who had been observing by the side were straightened, full of disbelief!
The chief inspector came back to his senses, and hurriedly ordered, "Go and invite the emperor to come over!"
When everyone heard this sentence, they didn't dare to act rashly, but they were all in high spirits, because they suddenly remembered that this thing contained treasures!