Although Liuyun Courtyard is secluded, it is full of light, and although the bright hall of the main house is not very spacious, it is bright, which is much better than other secluded and dim courtyards.

The second lady took Gu Zhirong's hand straight, sat on the pear wood square couch by the window, and like the master of Liu Yun Courtyard, she ordered Mingyue Caiqing and others to serve tea and control the wind.

Gu Zhirong pursed her lips and laughed secretly: This second lady is mainly anti-guest, but she regards herself as the master of Liu Yunyuan.

Of course, she also knew that the second lady had nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace.

This second lady was born in the Wupin Zhizhou Mansion, and her father Huang Baishi is afraid of the inside, so there is no room for an aunt in the house, and her mother controls everything in the inner house, so that interpersonal communication is much simpler. In addition, the second lady is a concubine, pampered since childhood, what do you want, the eyelids are shallow, for the curves in the house, it is naturally not as deep as the city of the eldest lady from everyone.

Gu Zhirong likes the second lady's temperament a little. This kind of person can't hide things, and everything is written on his face. It's like today when she sympathizes with herself, it's close, it's obvious that she is trying to win herself over.

In the Gu Mansion, the eldest lady and the second room have been fighting openly and secretly for a long time, and the eldest lady regards herself as a thorn in her side, according to the theory of "the enemy of the enemy is a friend", the second lady will definitely regard herself as a person on the same front. Although he doesn't have any background backing, it is also useful to disgust the eldest lady and make the eldest lady block her heart.

But what the second lady said next was quite unexpected by Gu Zhirong.

After drinking a cup of tea, the second lady looked at Gu Zhirong slowly and said, "The fifth girl should be thirteen or fourteen, right?" She asked Gu Zhirong's age.

Gu Zhirong nodded: "Thirteen, in three months it will be fourteen." ”

The second lady nodded, looked around, suddenly got up sideways, moved closer to Gu Zhirong from the edge of the kang table, and said in a low voice: "Fifth girl, have you heard what your mother said before?"

Gu Zhirong was inexplicably asked by her, and asked suspiciously: "My mother?"

"Silly girl, about your marriage. The second lady smiled mysteriously.

Gu Zhirong's heart sank suddenly, this was what she was most worried about.

lowered her head slightly, revealing the shyness that women of this era should have when talking about their marriages, her face was full of anger, and she wanted to speak: "Second uncle, why did you talk to me about this?"

The second lady laughed: "What a thin-skinned girl! What is this, the second aunt is at your age, and she has already chosen someone for herself......" The second lady suddenly stopped herself, and it seemed that she had lost her value in this way, as if she couldn't get married......

The second lady snorted and continued, "The fifth girl really doesn't know?"

Gu Zhirong suppressed the faint uneasiness rising in his heart, shook his head, and his face was blank.

"I don't think you really know. The second lady looked at her with a sense of pity, and stretched out her hand to pat her on the shoulder, "Alas, what a poor child, then my third brother and sister also went too early, and I didn't talk to you about such an important matter." ”

Gu Zhirong had no choice but to nod in agreement. She didn't have any memories of the original owner's past, and as for Su Shi who didn't say anything to her, where did she know?

"I ...... Did you really get engaged when you were a child?" Gu Zhirong's eyes were shy, and he stopped talking, and the shyness of his youngest daughter's family was fully revealed.

"Of course I did. The second lady's tone was very affirmative, "Our five girls are smart, square, and good-looking, how can we not book someone?"

Gu Zhirong lowered his head, and it seemed that even the white and delicate neck exposed by the collar of the handsome shirt was slightly pink, and his voice was as low as a mosquito's cry: "Yes... Which family is it?"

The second lady looked at Gu Zhirong with great satisfaction, and suddenly felt that her daughter was also a girl's family, and it seemed that she was ...... Shrewd.

The second lady looked around the house again, and saw that all the girls had been sent out, so she looked at Gu Zhirong again, and lowered her voice a little more, making the mystery even stronger: "The second aunt also listened to what the girl in the house said Ming Cui, and I don't know if it's true or not...... Mostly true. ”

Gu Zhirong let out a soft "um".

The second lady continued: "At the beginning of this month, when Mingcui in my house went to the old lady's house to ask Bauhinia for advice on the work of shoe soles, I overheard the old lady talking to Mother Du in private. I heard that the other party's surname is Lu, and he is also a big family. I think the only one with the surname Lu who is an official in the court is Ning'an Hou Luzhen. Lu Zhen was only named Hou last year, I heard that his ancestors had military exploits, the emperor remembered the old, and Lu Zhen and other soldiers who were on the bloody battlefield were successively sealed Hou, and hereditary from generation to generation. ”

Gu Zhirong nodded lightly again, remembering the scene before Su's death many years ago, his expression was peaceful, his lips were smiling, and there was no trace of concern. She has always known that the original owner has a very smart mother, but what she didn't expect was that Su Qianqian, the first beauty in Jiangnan, actually arranged everything, including her marriage.

It's just that......

Gu Zhirong raised his head and looked at the second lady, slightly confused: "The second aunt is talking about the Lu family? The Lu family only sealed the Hou last year, but last year, my mother was already ......."

The second lady smiled and said, "Silly boy, I didn't say that it was a family affair last year. This family affair was set when you and Lu Gongzi were young, and it was a doll kiss. ”

Gu Zhirong let out an "oh" and thought, sure enough, I don't know at all.

The second lady thought for a while, and said: "I heard that this marriage was set by the third brother and sister personally, and the third brother and sister went to Tongzhou with the third uncle, and became a handkerchief with the local Mrs. Lu, and they were very good friends, and they made mutual appointments for their children. At that time, the master of the Lu family was just a local seven-grade county magistrate, how could the third uncle's official rank be high? The Lu family was very happy about this. As for the future, it's also strange and pitiful, Mrs. Lu died, and Master Lu married his stepfamily and gave birth to a son, but he left his sister-in-law out in the cold, and the marriage was put on hold. ”

The heroine suddenly understood why Neiying, who had been lurking, suddenly rebelled, and it turned out that she had a marriage contract.

Now that I'm almost fourteen, it's time to settle on someone. According to her mother's cleverness, she would never leave her marriage to outsiders, so before she died, she must have entrusted the old lady with something, I am afraid that it was entrusted with the ten thousand family property. And the old lady is quite fair and still remembers this incident, so she had a private conversation with Du's mother later, and was overheard by Mingcui, the girl in the second lady's house.

As long as his marriage is put on the agenda, the rich land belonging to the third room that is placed on the old lady will have the possibility of being used. I'm afraid this is what the eldest lady is most worried about. Therefore, she does not hesitate to use all her connections to ruin herself, whether it is a person or a reputation. Because only in this way can I not take away those too rich possessions.

However, why didn't others choose King Su as the hero of this scandal?