The cemetery of the Gu family is located in a feng shui treasure land south of the capital. It is said that the wife and grandfather made their fortune nearby and bought a piece of land for the Gu family to build a mausoleum.
The real marquis of the Gu family started from the generation of the old marquis, and after three generations of hereditary generations, he began to drop the nobility. In a nutshell, Gu Changqing will be the last marquis of the Marquis. If he does not make great achievements, then his son will become an earl, his grandson will become a viscount, his great-grandson will become a baron, and when he reaches his great-grandson, he will become an ordinary commoner. .
Of course, there are also prosperous tribes like Dingguo Gongfu and Zhuangjia who have been prosperous for hundreds of years in Zhaoguo, with their talents and stable status.
Yao shi got up early, wearing a plain white skirt with cinnamon sticks and a waistband, a small apricot-colored pipa jacket, without any gold and silver ornaments, only two white jade hairpins.
The little maid brought the rouge box.
Yao Shi waved his hand: "No need for fat powder."
She is going to visit people's graves, not to visit.
"Yes." The little girl angrily walked back with the rouge box in her hand.
"The sky is gloomy, I'm afraid it's going to snow again." Mother Fang came in from outside and rubbed her frozen old hands, "Madam's body is too thin, put on your cloak."
"Yeah." Yao shi nodded, wearing a white satin cloak.
You can't go wrong with this dress carefully.
Mother Fang was afraid that she would freeze her body, so she had a few more soups prepared, and she also used warm hands to cover her.
When Yao shi came to the gate with the rabbit fur in his hands and warmed his hands, the three Gu Changqing brothers also came from their respective yards.
Gu Changqing's expression did not change.
Gu Chengfeng and Gu Chenglin's faces were not very good-looking.
Gu Chenglin glanced at Yao Shi coldly, and hummed, "Auntie is also true, why should we let her come? Isn't it good for us to worship our mother?"
Gu Changqing looked at him seriously: "Get in the car."
Gu Chenglin said dissatisfiedly: "I'm not wrong! Mother was killed by her! She still has the face to go to her grave!"
Gu Chengfeng thought so too, but the eldest brother was here, he didn't want his brother to be punished by the eldest brother again.
He pulled his brother's sleeve: "Okay, get on the carriage first, it will be late later, in case it is difficult to walk on the snowy road."
"Humph!" Gu Chenglin glared at Yao Shi angrily, and got on the carriage angrily.
Gu Chengfeng got into the same carriage with him.
Gu Changqing was riding a horse.
Mrs. Yao and Mrs. Fang got into another carriage, and there were two other carriages pulling offerings for Mrs. Ling.
"Hey, why do you suffer from this grievance?" Mommy Fang helped Yao Shi to the stool in distress.
"It's nothing," Yao said.
She was used to hearing these words long ago. At first, she would feel sad and aggrieved, but now she is numb.
The first lady was not killed by her.
She cleans herself.
More than an hour later, the group arrived at Dongyue Village, where the cemetery was in a forest behind the village.
The three of Gu Changqing got off the carriage.
Yao Shi also got out of the car. She ordered someone to take down Xiao Ling's sacrifice, and planned to go to the grave to give Xiao Ling a stick of incense.
Gu Chenglin stopped her with one step: "I don't allow you to worship my mother! You don't deserve it!"
Yao Shi understood, Aunt Ling called her to come here to humiliate her by the hands of her stepson.
Yao shi said calmly: "I promised the old lady, I will give the first lady a stick of incense."
"go away!"
Gu Chenglin stretched out his hand to push Yao Shi, Gu Changqing strode over and grabbed his brother's wrist: "Do you want to make a scene at your mother's grave?"
Gu Chenglin withdrew his hand angrily.
Yao shi handed the incense candle and paper money in his hand to Gu Changqing: "Then I won't go there, please let the prince bring my heart to me."
Gu Changqing took the things she handed over: "Madam, go to the carriage and wait, it's windy outside."
Yao shi glanced at him strangely, but he cared about her. Did everyone become obedient when they arrived at his mother's grave
Yao shi didn't speak, and turned around and got into the carriage.
"You shouldn't let her follow!" Gu Chenglin muttered.
"Don't say a few words!" Gu Chengfeng said.
The Hou Mansion hired nearby villagers to guard the Gu family's ancestral tombs, and every grave was swept clean.
The three brothers worshipped Xiaoling, and also their great-grandfather and great-grandmother, and then went to see the village as usual.
The ancestor of the Gu family is not from Dongyue Village, but he has received the favor of the local villagers. Thanks to the guards of the villagers, the ancestral tomb of the Gu family has been well protected over the years.
Yao Shi brought the gifts from the carriage to the villagers one by one.
In previous years, it was Aunt Ling who did this. The villagers thought that Aunt Ling was the real wife of the Gu family. When they first saw Yao Shi, they asked her if she was the aunt of the house, but she was angry.
This is Aunt Ling's second move.
Use the unintentional words of the villagers to block her.
Yao Shi wanted to laugh.
Concubine Ling had never been a mother. She didn't understand that for a mother, if she could break the curse of her son's failure to survive fifteen years, and recognize her own flesh and blood, she would have nothing else in her life.
After visiting the villagers, it was a little late, and it was time for them to go home.
Not long after they set foot on the carriage for the return journey, the sky really snowed.
There was no meal at noon, and several people were hungry and cold. Yao shi asked the maid to deliver a box of snacks to the three brothers.
Gu Chenglin scoffed, "I don't eat what she made!"
Gu Changqing frowned complicatedly.
"Big brother, it's snowing outside, come and sit in the carriage." Gu Chengfeng said to Gu Changqing.
Gu Changqing said lightly, "No need."
How can people who are marching and fighting care about such a little snow
"Ma'am, they don't eat it." The little girl brought back the dessert.
"That's fine." Yao shi took the snack box back.
In fact, she didn't make it herself, she was not so kind to rush to make snacks for a few stepsons, and it was brought from the house.
She ate two pieces by herself. Recently, her appetite was not very good, so she didn't eat more, and gave it to the aunt and a few little girls.
The snowy day slowed down the carriage's journey, but there were no decent restaurants in the wild countryside, and Gu Chenglin didn't like the food in the ordinary tea shed, so the three brothers went hungry all the way to the city.
On the only way back to Hou’s Mansion, there is a shop that sells crispy duck. Gu Chenglin usually likes to eat their ducks the most, but he has been hungry for so long today. I'm dizzy! Let's go in and have something to eat!"
Gu Changqing looked at the two younger brothers who were indeed dying of hunger, nodded, and drove the horse to Yao's carriage: "Have something to eat before heading back home?"
Yao shi was not hungry, but she was indeed exhausted from the carriage ride all day.
The group got off the carriage and asked for two second-floor wing rooms, one for the three brothers and one for the Yao family.
Yao shi didn't eat anything by himself, and ordered a table of meals for Fang Fang and the accompanying servants.
The room was stuffy, and she happened to want to go to the toilet a little bit, so she went to Gong's room on the first floor.
When she came out to the lobby, a man's voice suddenly stopped her: "Yao'er?"
Yao shi hadn't heard this voice for many years, but he still recognized it at once.
Yao's complexion changed, and he turned around in a daze.
"Yao'er, it's really you!"
A man in a navy blue shirt strode over. He was in his thirties. He was handsome and handsome. He was not as burly as Lord Gu, but he was tall.
Yao shi came back to her senses a little, but the moment the man approached her, she still took a few steps back in self-restraint.
The man's expression darkened, and then he said embarrassingly: "I'm abrupt. I haven't seen you for so many years. I was excited and almost forgot the etiquette. Please forgive me!"
He said, and bowed his hands.
Yao Shi turned sideways to avoid him, and did not accept his courtesy: "You don't want to do this."
The man looked at Yao Shi with complex eyes: "Yao'er, how have you been all these years? I heard that you married into the Ding'an Hou Mansion. How will you treat you, Lord Hou?"
Yao shi lowered her eyes and said, "I'm fine."
The man smiled in relief: "I'm relieved if you say that."
After that, the two didn't speak, and the scene was very embarrassing for a while.
Yao Shi squeezed the veil and said, "I'm leaving."
"Ah..." A trace of disappointment flashed across the man's eyes, "My mother often asks about you."
Yao Shi's steps stopped.
The man smiled bitterly and said, "Actually, I have been married over the years. I have my own wife and children. I'm sorry."
Yao shi closed her eyes and said, "It was the Yao family who left the family first. It's me who should say sorry. You don't have to blame yourself."
The man said sadly: "My mother had a stroke a few years ago, and she has not been well since then. Recently, she has been in a daze, with your name in her mouth."
The two families have always been in contact, and the marriage between Yao and the man was decided very early. The man's mother was very satisfied with Yao. Every day, he hoped that this daughter-in-law would come home earlier, and said that she would be treated as her own daughter.
It's a pity that this marriage was ruined after all.
It is not so much the bullying of Lord Gu, but the deliberate curtsy of the Yao family.
I have been angry, hated, and annoyed, but now I have calmed down.
"You..." The man scratched his head in embarrassment, "It might be too abrupt to say that, and I really didn't expect to meet you here, but since I did, I still want to ask you... Can you go and see me? Mother's last time?"
His mother is dying, the doctor said that it is only a few days.
But his mother has been reluctant to close her eyes.
His mother was in pain, and so was he.
He looked at Yao Shi, hesitated for a moment, but still said, "My son didn't give her a day of glory and wealth. I don't want to come, but I can't even satisfy one of her wishes..."
After all, Yao shi had a marriage contract with him, so he should avoid suspicion.
However, his mother did treat Yao as her own. She was a very kind woman, and Yao can still feel the warmth in her heart when she thinks about it.
If she had married him back then, her life might be very different from now.
"Where do you live?" Yao Shi asked.
The man's eyes lit up: "Did you agree?"
Yao Shi paused: "I'll think about it, but I won't necessarily go."
"Ah, it's okay, it's okay, it doesn't matter if you can't go! I live in Qingfeng Street, Qingyue District..." The man reported his address.
Yao didn't expect him to live in such a poor place.
"I'll go first." Yao shi said to him.
"Hey! You, walk slowly!" The man watched Yao Shi excitedly.
Yao shi entered the lobby and went upstairs.
Over there, the three brothers of the Gu family finished eating, and the group got into the carriage and returned to the house.
Mrs. Yao went to Mrs. Gu's place to recover her life first. Mrs. Gu was very relieved to hear that nothing went wrong along the way.
Gu Houye asked Huang Zhong to go back to the house to send a message to Yao. There was a conflict between the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War. Gu Houye was dealing with urgent matters in the Ministry of Engineering at the moment, and he might not be able to come back tonight. Let his wife rest first. wait for him.
Yao Shi was restless in the room.
As soon as she closed her eyes, she could think of Zhen Shi, her future mother-in-law.
"House mama."
"Ma'am, what's the matter?" The aunty slammed the curtain and came in.
Yao Shi put on a coat: "Prepare the carriage, I'll go out."
"It's so late, where is Madam going? The eldest miss and the young master should rest now." Mother Fang thought that Yao shi was going to Bishui Hutong.
Yao Shi said, "Don't ask so many questions, find a tight-lipped driver."
Fang mama opened her mouth: "... eh."
Yao's carriage came to Zhen's house.
She knocked on the painted courtyard door.
"Who-"
It was a woman's voice.
Yao Shi did not speak.
The courtyard door creaked open, and walked out a plainly dressed woman who described premature aging. The woman was about the same age as Yao, but she looked more than ten years older than Yao.
Yao shi guessed her identity, opened her mouth, and was about to say who she was, when she heard the woman turn her head and say to the room: "Head of the house, a guest is here!"
Zhen Ping walked out quickly.
When he saw Yao Shi, he was startled at first, and then stepped forward happily: "It's cold outside, come in and make a fire!" Then he said to his wife, "It's Mrs. Hou."
The woman bowed to Yao Shi.
Yao Shi nodded slightly.
Obviously, the woman had already heard of Yao shi, and she wisely carried half-washed clothes from the front yard to the back yard, and she never appeared in front of Yao shi again.
(End of this chapter)