Starry and night travel is really hard work. The road conditions in ancient times were not very good, and there were many worries along with the bumps. Neither Shu Huan nor Gu Xiran wanted to sleep. If they just opened their eyes until dawn, the time would be very difficult. In the end, Gu Xiran was still in his lap. A thick dress was placed on the top bed, and Shu Huan leaned on his pillow to close his eyes slightly.
Pillowing his leg, there will be an inexplicable sense of security, Shu Huan seems to be sleepy, but suddenly heard a faint crying intermittently, it sounds a little creepy in the middle of the night, she immediately wakes up He propped himself up, and turned his suspicious eyes to Gu Xiran.
Gu Xiran lifted the curtain of the carriage and asked the driver outside: "Who is crying?"
The coachman listened attentively: "Back to Second Lord, it's the crying sound from the car behind, I think it's because I'm thinking about my uncle, it's too sad."
Sitting in the car at the back were Aunt Yun and Mother Du. One couldn't possibly have had a deep friendship with Gu Xitian, and the other had never met someone like Gu Xitian at all. If he wanted to cry, he wouldn't choose this moment to cry.
The two listened carefully again, and saw that the crying did not slow down, but had a tendency to intensify, so they hurriedly called the driver to stop.
Their car was at the front, and as soon as it stopped, the car behind it also stopped naturally, and when they got out of the car, they saw Du Qiu leaning into the car that Du's mother was riding in, asking what happened.
The crying continued uninterrupted, and Mother Du obviously did not answer.
Shu Huan and Gu Xiran walked to the front of the car, looked inside through the half-raised curtain, and saw Mother Du and Aunt Yun hugging each other mourning and weeping, and suddenly felt puzzled.
"What happened, why are you crying?" Shu Huan couldn't help asking.
Mother Du just looked up at her, and wanted to answer, but before she could say anything, the unstoppable sobs rushed out, and she had to cover her mouth tightly so as not to lose her composure.
this…
Shu Huan looked at Gu Xiran helplessly, only to find that there was a thoughtful look in his eyes, he was taken aback for a moment, suddenly thought of something, and immediately frowned and began to think hard.
In the end, it was Aunt Yun who suppressed her crying first, and while wiping Mother Du's tears with a handkerchief, knelt down: "Mother..."
The word "mother" came out, and everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, even Ji Danqing who just got out of the car was stunned.
Shu Huan guessed something, but when she heard Aunt Yun's mournful and affectionate call, she still couldn't recover. It wasn't until Gu Xiran led her back into the car, and after the car jolted and started to drive again, she let out a soft cry. Tone: "I really don't know how they recognized it..."
When living in another hospital, it's not that Du's mother has never met Aunt Yun, and even joked with her a few times, but she didn't see any telepathy between the two of them at the time.
She murmured thoughtfully: "Could it be that Yanniang is carrying some keepsake, or is there a birthmark that is easy to identify?"
Gu Xiran shook his head: "It's not easy to ask, let's wait until the two of them calm down."
In one night, two unexpected things happened. Shu Huan really didn't know what to say, but his sleepiness disappeared suddenly. He just leaned against the car window and thought silently. Looking at Gu Xiran: "What should I do?"
The question was naturally what to do with Aunt Yun's affairs.
Gu Xiran originally thought of refrigerating her first, and then deal with it when the right time comes, but the situation is a little different now, she is Du's mother's lost daughter, that is, Du Qiu's younger sister, and more and more people are involved in her identity. Thinking about it would give people a headache, so he could only keep shaking his head: "Let's see."
Added a sentence later: "If Mama Du wants to reunite with her, it would be best if she could be taken away."
But Shu Huan felt that the situation was not very optimistic. In this world, a married daughter basically has nothing to do with her natal family. At most, she just walks around on weekdays. It seems that there is no reason to take her back to raise her.
As if to test her uneasiness, after more than an hour, someone knocked lightly on the wall of their car, and a calm voice said from outside: "Can I come up and talk?"
It's Du Qiu
Shu Huan hurriedly raised the car curtain: "Please come up."
Du Qiu is very skillful, while the car was still moving, he pushed it up with one hand, sat in the car, looked at the two of them, and said after a long while: "She is my sister."
Shu Huan smiled wryly: "Is it surprising?"
Du Qiu nodded, but suddenly said: "She is not my real sister."
Gu Xiran frowned: "What do you mean?"
"My mother is my benefactor, not my own mother."
Just one sentence contains a lot of information, but usually Du Qiu and Du's mother are loving mothers and children, so others really can't see that they are not related by blood.
Shu Huan suddenly had a headache, is this the third accident that happened tonight
After a while, Du Qiu said again: "Whether there is a relationship or not, I have sworn to take good care of both of them for the rest of my life, so I want to ask you, what are you going to do?"
Gu Xiran supported his forehead and said, "We were just about to ask you what you plan to do."
Du Qiu looked at him, and pondered: "I think it's superfluous for her to be caught among you. I really want to take her away and choose a suitable person to marry, but my mother asked me to beg you to treat her well." a little."
…
Gu Xiran touched his nose, and said helplessly, "Is it so obvious?"
His neglect of Aunt Yun is so obvious that outsiders can easily see it
Shu Huan lowered her head and sighed. She remembered that once, Mother Du talked to her about Aunt Yun in private, and asked Na how many years she had been in the house, why she hadn't had any children yet.
She didn't know Gu Xiran's identity at that time, so she just replied that she didn't know. Du's mother saw that her expression was a little gloomy, so she persuaded her a lot, but she just said that it was normal for a man to take a concubine, so she wanted to think about it, and then mentioned it again. As for Concubine Yun, they said that she was beautiful and handsome, and looked like a well-behaved girl, and advised her to make friends with Concubine Yun, so that if Gu Xiran took concubines again in the future, they would be able to rely on each other.
What Du's mother said at the time was purely for her own good. She could tell this, but she grew up in a different era and environment, and she couldn't imagine the scene of wives and concubines loving sisters and husband and family happily, but now, she understands With Gu Xiran's identity and her feelings for him, she couldn't accept this kind of thing, so what should she say to Mother Du? Du's mother, who presumably regarded the dependence of wives and concubines as a normal phenomenon, could not understand her thoughts.
Du's mother really couldn't understand, Du Qiu made it clear at this moment: "I mentioned that I would let my sister choose someone else to marry, but I was scolded. My mother said that a good woman should stick to her husband forever, and besides, my sister has already married someone else. , and if you want to remarry, you will most likely be a concubine."
Shu Huan sighed slightly: "What did Niang Yan say?"
"Her?" Du Qiu shook his head: "She just cried and didn't say anything. My mother asked her how she got here all these years, and she only answered eight words. It's hard to describe a single word, and it's unbearable to recall."
It's hard to say, I can't bear to look back
Thinking about her experience of being abducted and sold into Goulan since she was a child, and then redeeming her body as a gift to Gu Da, and finally becoming Gu Xiran's concubine, and being neglected, it is really hard to describe, it is unbearable to look back on.
The three of them were silent for a long time, but Gu Xiran suddenly said, "You'd better take her away."
Shu Huan glanced at him, said nothing, just shook hands with him.
Du Qiu stared at the two of them, and frowned slightly: "Really bothering her so much? I remember she came in, it seemed before you two got married."
There is an ugly saying, he did not say it, he likes the new and dislikes the old
Gu Xiran could naturally hear the slight dissatisfaction in his words, but he didn't make any excuses, he just held Shu Huan's hand tightly and said, "This is good for everyone."
To a wise man, some things need not be said too clearly.
Du Qiu took a deep look at them: "I know, I will try my best."
After he finished speaking, he jumped out of the car.
In the silence of the night, only the sound of wheels rolling over the ground was left.