Gu Yan sat down beside Gu Jiao with a dark face.
Gu Jiao laughed: "Why are you angry?"
"Aren't you angry?" Gu Yan looked at her puzzled.
This question is equivalent to asking in vain, can he not sense if she is angry or not
Xiao Jingkong is a child and doesn't understand these twists and turns, but she should know it, Gu Yan doesn't understand why she is not angry.
Gu Jiao leaned back lazily on the back of the chair: "What's wrong with this? Clearance is having fun, isn't it?"
"What about you?" Gu Yan looked at her.
She curved her lips: "Ayan, I don't care."
Xiao Jingkong was very happy to eat, all over his body: "Jiaojiao, I'm dirty."
"It's alright, I brought you clothes." Gu Jiao took Xiao Jingkong into the wing, washed his face and hands, and took a small padded jacket from the small bag for him to put on.
Mrs. Yao has a son and a daughter, Yao Yuan is also a son and a daughter, the daughter is Yao Xin, and the son is Yao Fengyi.
Yao Feng is also studying abroad, and it is said that he will not come back this year.
When the whole family sits at the dinner table to eat, they are all their own people, so there is no distinction between men and women.
Mrs. Yao took the biggest drumstick for Xiao Qing.
Xiao Jingkong said politely, "Thank you grandmother, but I can't eat meat now."
It's enough for him to grow up, aunt said, when he's old, the meat is willing to eat him!
"Then eat this." Mrs. Yao put the egg custard in front of Xiao Qingkong.
This custard is a lot of thought, put lily, very beautifully done.
Xiao Jingkong moved her index finger and ate happily.
A decent meal.
After dinner, Mrs. Yao asked Yao Xin to take Gu Jiao and the three to take a walk in the garden.
Gu Yan grabbed a small blanket.
After walking for a while, Xiao Jingkong rubbed his eyes.
"Are you tired?" Gu Jiao asked.
Xiao Jingkong shook his head: "I'm not sleepy! I just ate too much."
Gu Jiao smiled and hugged him.
Xiao Qingkong's glasses widened: "I'm really not sleepy, I don't want to sleep at all!"
With her head tilted, she fell asleep in Gu Jiao's arms.
Yao Xin never understood why Gu Yan grabbed a blanket while walking, but she understood everything when she saw Gu Yan putting the blanket on Xiao Jingkong's body.
This cousin is quite attentive.
"Cousin, when will cousin Jinyu come over?" she asked with a smile.
Gu Yan said angrily: "You go and ask her, how do I know?"
Yao Xin was choked, a little embarrassed, and said, "I heard that cousin Jinyu has entered women's school, is it true?"
Gu Yan annoyed Gu Jinyu to death, but this cousin opened her mouth and asked her, is her sister blind here
"I'm sleepy too, I'm going to bed!" He said, pulling Gu Jiao away without looking back.
There was a reason for old Mrs. Yao to spare three children. She gave He Shi a wink, and He said to Yao Shi, "Sister, mother is tired. Let mother rest and go to my room to talk."
Yao shi didn't like this sister-in-law very much, but she couldn't refuse, so she had to go to He shi's room.
He really didn't disappoint Yao, and after a couple of words of greetings, he dug a hole for Yao: "Sister, did Jin Yu say you kissed me?"
With Yao's understanding of He's, she would never care about this for no reason.
Yao Shi was suspicious.
Could it be that the He family wanted to kiss Jinyu and Yao Fengyi
Yao shi said calmly: "Not yet, her marriage will be decided by the old lady and Hou Ye, I don't worry about that."
He Shi smiled and said, "Jin Yu is a promising person, and her marriage will not be bad in the future, but she is already married anyway, so you should be more careful as a mother."
"Yeah." Yao shi was even more puzzled, it wasn't Jin Yu's idea, what was it doing
He shi smiled and said: "Sister Xin is about to get married. She is not as capable as Jin Yu. I thought about setting her marriage early, otherwise it would be difficult to talk about marriage when she is older."
Yao Shi glanced at her: "Sister-in-law wants me to help Sister Xin with a marriage?"
It's not difficult.
After Aunt Ling was deprived of the middle feed, Mrs. Gu was too busy and left many things to her to take care of. She is preparing New Year's gifts for the various palaces, and she can take this opportunity to help Sister Xin pay attention.
He Shi did not smile.
Yao's heart thumped: "You don't like the young masters of the Hou Mansion, do you? There's no way to do this!"
He originally wanted to talk about the prince of the Hou family, but when he saw Yao's reaction so big, he smiled embarrassingly, took Yao's hand and said, "Sister, fat water doesn't flow to outsiders, I'm doing this for your own good too. Xin. When my sister is married, our two families are just kissing each other. If Sister Xin goes to the Hou Mansion to help you, you can live more comfortably, right? It’s better to resolve the enemy than to marry. If Sister Xin is married, you are not friends. , it's a mother and son!"
Yao Shi simply didn't know how He Shi could say such words
She and Yan'er were about to be bullied to death by those three stepsons, but the sister-in-law wanted her to marry her niece
What is the solution
She will never reconcile with the three of them in her life!
Yao Shi said, "You guys think that selling me is not enough, so you want to sell Sister Xin again?"
He said, "Sister Xin is willing!"
Yao Shi laughed angrily: "Her aunt has been bullied like this, she has to rush to marry the person who bullied her aunt, sister-in-law, this is the child you taught!"
He Shi's face didn't look good when he heard this: "My little sister has developed herself, so she doesn't care about her family's life or death. If we hadn't married you into Hou's mansion, where would you have come from today's glory and wealth? You have more than ten years I don't care about your parents' family, and we haven't said anything about you outside! How can there be such a good family in the world? Now that your niece is about to marry, you'd rather take advantage of an outsider than marry her into the palace. What? My sister can't see that her family is better off than you?"
Yao Shi sneered: "How does my sister-in-law know that she will be better off than me when she gets married?"
He raised his chin and said, "Our sister Xin is well-behaved and sensible, and will surely please both husband and old lady."
In the past, Yao shi might argue with her for a few words and count the truth, but later she gradually realized that some people are unreasonable.
She only recognizes her own reason.
She doesn't care how much Yao shi has suffered in Hou Mansion these years. To put it bluntly, she is selfish.
Yao Shi got up and left.
Seeing that Mrs. Yao was angry, He hurriedly grabbed her and apologized: "Oh, sister-in-law didn't mean that, don't misunderstand. Sister-in-law said something wrong, you are a lot of adults, don't have the same knowledge as sister-in-law."
Yao Shi said, "I can't say anything about the marriage of the Hou Mansion."
Said that people do not look at it.
He Shi: "Anyway, you bring Sister Xin to the mansion to sit down, who will take a fancy to them if you don't keep them together?"
Yao Shi: "Who does my sister-in-law expect to see? The prince?"
He Shi smiled and said, "If the prince can see it, of course it would be best..."
Yao Shi was stunned.
She actually wanted to marry Yao Xin to the prince of the Hou family
It's just a dream!
He shi looked at Yao shi's face, and said embarrassingly, "Second son is also fine... Third son, third son is always fine, right?"
Yao shi said in a cold voice, "When did the young master of Ding'an Hou's mansion turn to the Yao family's girl?"
It's not that she wants to speak for the three stepsons, but that the two families are not in the same family. She just went to be a step room for others and was disliked by Mrs. Gu in every possible way, but Yao Xin wants to be the original wife of a serious child.
Is this helping her, or does she want Madam Gu to hate her to death
He's temper came up again: "Isn't my younger sister also married into Hou's mansion? My younger sister still had a marriage contract back then! How can we be as innocent as our sister Xin! Lord Hou was able to like his younger sister back then, and the prince has Why don't you look down on our sister Xin? It's not all the same face, isn't the face of sister Xin worse than my sister's?"
She is not clear, she serves people with a face, and she voluntarily married into the Hou's mansion...
Good, good, very good!
Yao shi took a deep breath and asked, "Are these words from my sister-in-law or my mother's?"
He Shi was speechless.
Of course, it was what she and her mother-in-law had in common, but her mother-in-law wouldn't let her say it.
Yao Shi understood everything.
Change
She is naive.
Originally, he had gone back to the house after dinner, but Yao shi couldn't stay any longer.
"Jiaojiao, let's go back to the manor." Yao shi said to Gu Jiao in the wing room.
"Okay." Gu Jiao didn't ask why, nor did Gu Yan.
Mrs. Yao chased out with the help of her servants, scolded He Shi, and told Yao Shi not to care about her, and took out the gifts she had prepared for several children.
Gu Yan sneered and knocked over her and Gu Jiao's gifts in front of everyone.
I saw that it was also a snack, but a red envelope rolled out of Gu Yan's box.
Gu Jiao had nothing.
There is no small headroom either.
However, the box that Yao Shi brought to Gu Jinyu also contained red envelopes.
Yao's face turned pale with anger after seeing the gifts from the four children.
Xiao Jingkong fell asleep, and Gu Yan was too lazy to decorate the peace.
He directly took Xiao Qingkong's gift and threw it into the river!
He also threw away Gu Jinyu's.
To flatter yourself to flatter, don't get their hands dirty!
…
On the carriage back to the house, Gu Yan also fell asleep.
He was lying on Yao Shi's lap, Xiao Jingkong was lying in Gu Jiao's arms, and they both snored in sleep.
"Sorry, Jiaojiao, I shouldn't let you come today." She said guiltily.
Gu Jiao said, "I feel good."
"Huh?" Yao Shi was slightly taken aback.
Xiao Jingkong kicked the blanket, Gu Jiao pulled it over to cover him, and said, "I used to be very curious to know where Madam lived before."
Yao shi looked at Gu Jiao blankly and said, "Jiaojiao...why are you curious?"
Gu Jiao thought for a while: "I don't know, I'm just curious. I want to know about Madam's past and how Madam is doing every day."
Yao shi covered her mouth, unable to believe what she heard.
Has her Jiaojiao started to care about her
"Jiaojiao..."
"Does Madam regret it? Do you regret marrying Marquis Gu?"
When Yao Shi and He Shi were arguing, Gu Jiao was in the garden not far away, and with her ear, she heard a little bit.
Yao shi didn't hesitate and shook his head: "I don't regret it."
"Why?" Gu Jiao asked.
Yao shi lowered her head and stroked Gu Yan's cheek, then looked at Gu Jiao dotingly: "Because if you don't marry Lord Hou, there will be no you and Yan'er. You are the most precious gift in my mother's life."
Gu Jiao did not understand such feelings.
The experience of childhood made her shut down her emotional system early, which is a self-protection mechanism to prevent her from collapsing in the hurt caused by her parents.
But at the same time, it also made her lose the ability to treat her feelings dialectically.
In her world, like is like, hate is hate, black and white.
But Yao's experience is more like a gray area - having a very wanted child with someone who doesn't want to marry.
Seeing her daughter's confused look, Yao shi burst into laughter.
Her daughter is so sweet and sweet.
All the unhappiness in Yao's heart was gone.
Yao shi first sent Gu Jiao and the three back to Bishui Hutong before returning to the house.
Gu Jinyu stayed with Concubine Shu all day in the palace, and only returned to the Hou residence after dark.
…
It was less than ten days before New Year's Eve, Qinghe Academy was on holiday, Guozijian Mengxue had one day's class, and six classes had three days left.
Gu Jiao went to the hospital early in the morning.
The old lady and several neighbors were pushing Pai Gow in the house, and the old sacrificial wine stood aside with a dark face, paying for money and serving tea!
Gu Xiaoshun was knocking on the wood in the backyard.
Gu Yan quietly came to the front yard, first looking around at the door, and then at the Hutong entrance to look around.
The end of the hutong is connected to Chang'an Avenue.
People come and go, the stream is constantly flowing, and the shops are pasted with window grilles and couplets, a beaming atmosphere.
He was looking forward to it, and suddenly a tall shadow enveloped him.
"what are you doing?"
It was Gu Changqing.
He was dressed in a thousand gold furs, sitting on a high-headed horse, and he was valiant.
Gu Yan was startled and shuddered, she turned her head and said without changing her face, "I'm not waiting for you anyway!"
Gu Changqing: "..."
Seeing his hands behind his back, Gu Changqing asked again, "What are you holding in your hands?"
Gu Yan hesitated for a while, but still took out his hand from behind and handed it to him: "Here."
Gu Changqing took it.
It is a wood carving.
Carved things... a bit hard to describe.
Gu Changqing: "Monkey?"
Gu Yan frowned: "What monkey? Open your eyes to see clearly! Is there such a handsome monkey in the world?!"
He and Gu Xiaoshun studied for days and nights, and his hands were bruised and blood blisters!
This guy doesn't know the goods!
Say he's a monkey!
(End of this chapter)