After Gu Jinchun finished freshening up, he picked up the cricket cage and went directly to the eldest lady's Juping Courtyard.

In the Juping courtyard, Cai's mother was standing under the verandah, looking anxiously at the door, she rubbed her hands for a while, and paced for a while, looking nervous. Seeing Gu Jinchun come in, he was greatly relieved.

"My little ancestor, why did you only come back at this time?" As soon as Mother Cai saw the cricket cage in Gu Jinchun's hand, she understood what was going on, and couldn't help but count it down, "I didn't go back to the house all day yesterday, where did I go to fight crickets?" The old man asked you when he went out, if it weren't for the fact that the lady prevaricated the past with the reason that you would meet friends in poetry and stay at someone else's house, the old man would be afraid that he would directly ask you for the crime. ”

If there is anyone Gu Jinchun is afraid of in this mansion, it is his father Gu Hai. As soon as he heard Cai's mother mention his father, his head was big, and he wrung his eyebrows and said: "Mother Cai, you really can't open any pot and mention which pot, why do you keep mentioning my father? Now isn't my father going out, I'm looking for my mother!"

Leaving Cai's mother aside, Gu Jinchun walked through the rich peony screen and entered the main hall.

In the main hall, the veil of green cicada wings hangs down to the ground, covering the scorching sun of early summer, and in the east corner of the wall is placed a green bronze tripod, burning lavender spices from Persia, and the wisps of fragrance rising in the air waft in the air, filling the room. The eldest lady was sitting on the big rosewood carved arhat bed in the north, her eyes slightly closed, and her face was a little gray.

Gu Jinchun placed the cricket cage in his hand on a plum blossom table at the entrance, stepped forward, and called out kissingly: "Mother." ”

The eldest lady suddenly opened her eyes, and when she saw her son standing in front of her, she couldn't help but let out a long sigh, and her hanging heart finally let go, and she still made a straight face, and asked, "You haven't returned all night, where have you been wild?"

This time, Gu Jinchun's brain turned quickly, and he immediately said, "Didn't you say that your son went out to talk about poetry with his friends at night......?" Talking about poetry went. ”

The eldest lady glared at him fiercely: "It's really my good son, the excuse I made for you in front of your father has become the reason for you to prevaricate your mother." Well, don't let me find out that you went to find that little phoenix who looks like a fairy again, otherwise, I will let the auspicious opera troupe completely disappear in the capital!"

Gu Jinchun secretly stuck out his tongue. Is it good or bad that he has such a shrewd mother?

Seeing that her son suddenly stopped talking, the eldest lady thought that her son was afraid, sighed deeply, pulled her son to sit down beside her, and said earnestly: "Chun'er, you must know that that little phoenix fairy has a low status and is not worthy of you at all." You are a dignified prince of the Hou Mansion, if you want to start a family, there are many good girls who are in the right household, but you can't lose your father, your mother, and the face of the Gu Mansion!"

Gu Jinchun remembered Gu Zhirong's instructions, hung his head and did not speak.

The eldest lady rarely saw that when talking about Xiao Fengxian, her son didn't raise the bar with her, and she was in a slightly better mood. She straightened the clothes of the eldest son, looked at her son's handsome face, and the second lady's sneer at herself in front of the old lady yesterday surfaced in front of her eyes again, and the resentment in her heart that was finally suppressed rose again.

She looked at Gu Jinchun and said, "When you enter autumn, it's autumn." You look at the brother in the second room, now his eyes are not off the books, and he doesn't even go out of the door, and he is dedicated to studying. The old lady was so distressed when she heard this, that she ordered the big kitchen to make another supper for him. You also take care of it, don't go around the wilderness, stay in the study and read seriously, even if you can't win fame in the future, your father and the old lady have nothing to say. ”

The eldest lady is also an expedient measure, she has always known that her son is stupid and is not the material for reading. I remember that when the eldest son and the second son were studying at home, they wrote a story about going on a tour, and the son of the family wrote about the love scene, which was very well written, which made Mr. admire. As for his own son, what about the good weather, he just made an appointment with a few partners, caught hares, roasted them to eat, and ate them with relish, it was like a rice bucket. The eldest lady slapped him after knowing it, and he was still unconvinced, mother, why did you beat me, Mr. said, you have to seek truth from facts, what I wrote is true. The eldest lady was almost. Later, the gentleman of the family school said that this son's qualifications were dull and should not be forced. The eldest lady gave up.

Now the eldest lady says this, but she just wants the eldest prince to pretend, pretend to be a stupid bird to fly first, and work hard, even if he falls into Sun Mountain in the future, he can save some face, but his son has also worked hard.

Gu Jinchun was already dissatisfied with the accusations made by the eldest lady of Fang Cai against himself and Xiao Fengxian, but now he heard that the eldest lady forced him to study. He was already extremely disgusted with reading, and suddenly exploded: "Mother, what's wrong with you today, why do you want to force me to separate from Xiao Fengxian all of a sudden, and force me to read some Laoshzi book all of a sudden! I don't want to take any fame test, I want to be with Xiao Fengxian!"

The eldest lady was so angry that she smoked, and pointed at the eldest prince speechless.

At this moment, there was a pleasant cricket cry from the side of the gatehouse.

The eldest lady's face darkened suddenly.

She stood up suddenly, ran to the door in three steps and two steps, and saw the cricket cage placed on the plum blossom table at a glance, and the fire in her heart jumped up at once.

She leaned down suddenly, scooped up the bamboo cage, threw it to the ground, and said hatefully: "I only know how to play with crickets when I play all day, I'll let you play!"

The bamboo cage painted with black paint was not strong, and was thrown with all the strength of the eldest lady, and suddenly fell apart, and a black and shiny cricket fell out of it, and when he saw that the situation was not right, he pulled his four feet and was about to escape.

The eldest lady was furious, and saw that the cricket's eyes were about to burst into flames, so she could not allow it to escape. The shoes embroidered with entwined peonies stepped on it fiercely, and they turned twice desperately.

Pity the mighty cricket that was crushed into dust and died on the spot.

When the eldest prince saw it, his heart ached like cutting meat, and he couldn't care about any etiquette anymore, so he shouted at the eldest lady: "Why did you step on my crickets?

The eldest lady slapped the eldest prince in the face, and said angrily: "Rebel, who are you talking to?" ”

"If you step on my cricket, you will have to pay for it!" The eldest prince was also angry, and seeing that the eldest lady's shoes were still stepping on the cricket that was as flat as a piece of paper, he couldn't hold it anymore, pushed the eldest lady away, and leaned down to inspect the cricket like a treasure in his heart.

How could the eldest lady have thought that her own son would actually push herself, her body couldn't be contained, she suddenly rushed forward, and hit the plum blossom in front of her, "bang", her forehead was bleeding, and the Venus in front of her was chaotic, and she was dizzy.

Hearing such a loud noise coming from inside, Cai's mother hurriedly rushed in, and when she saw that the eldest lady's face was covered with blood, she couldn't help but be frightened, and hurriedly rushed forward, supported the eldest lady, and called out repeatedly: "Madam, madam, what's wrong with you?"

The eldest lady was so angry that her lips trembled, and she pointed at the eldest son, and said for a long time: "You rebel, do you still have me as a mother in your eyes! I want people to tell your father to go, see if your father doesn't kill you!"

The eldest prince was also frightened when he saw the blood on the eldest lady's head and face, and when he heard that the eldest lady had moved out of the eldest lord he was most afraid of, he panicked even more, and escaped without thinking about it.