Chapter 71 The Unacceptable Entrustment

Li Xiaonuan settled down, every afternoon, in Ruixuan Hall quietly copying scriptures, helping Mrs. Li to sort out and copy those old account books, if you have free time, go to the small garden behind the small Buddha Hall, watch those flowers and plants sprout, and gradually have an interest, let people find a few clay pots, move a few seedlings into it, and learn to plant and take care of the flowers and plants in the garden.

Mrs. Li was very satisfied with Li Xiaonuan's calm and indifferent.

Gu Xiao came back from learning painting from Mr. Lin, so he first went around to Ruixuan Hall, accompanied Mrs. Li to talk a few words of gossip, and then went to the outer study to read and write, back and forth, each time he brought a few newly learned calligraphy and paintings to Li Xiaonuan, and the newly found interesting books, Mrs. Li looked at Gu Xiao's calligraphy and paintings and the books with Li Xiaonuan with great interest.

Mrs. Zhou and the people in the Manchu Mansion were busy all the time, and she only felt that the days passed quickly.

Taizhou is not far from Shangli Town, but one day's waterway, at the end of February, between Taizhou and Shangli Town, the Jin family and the Gu family are busy with housekeepers and mothers-in-law almost every day.

Two days before the auspicious day, the Jin family's dowry boat was moored outside the Gufu wharf head to tail, and the Gu family was busy for most of the day, sending Gu Yunshan's one hundred and sixty dowries to the wedding boat.

The Rose Courtyard, which has been crowded for more than half a year, has been empty for a while, Gu Yunshan stood in the sparse courtyard, turned her head to look at the spacious and verdant courtyard, and the red and gorgeous lanterns under the verandah, thought about it, went straight out of the courtyard gate, and walked towards the Songfeng Courtyard, Pearl hurriedly called Yucui, carried the lantern, and hurriedly followed.

Li Xiaonuan had already bathed and washed, was crooked on the bed, leisurely looking at the book, listened to Lan Chu's report, hurriedly dragged his shoes, and just came out of the inner room, Gu Yunshan greeted him, looked at Li Xiaonuan, who was wearing half-old home-style pajamas and pants, and said with a smile:

"It's still cold outside, hurry up and sit on the bed, don't freeze, I'm just bored for a while, come and gossip with you."

Gu Yunshan said, crossed Li Xiaonuan, and went straight into the inner room, Li Xiaonuan smiled and followed Gu Yunshan into the inner room, and at the end of winter, she took a half-old long jacket and put it on Li Xiaonuan, Li Xiaonuan sat on the bed again, half-wrapped in the quilt, Gu Yunshan unceremoniously dragged a cushion over, and also crooked on Li Xiaonuan's bed.

Lan Chu brewed two cups of weak tea and brought them up, put them on the high table in front of the bed, Gu Yunshan waved,

"Let's all go down, we sisters are free to talk."

At the end of the winter, Lan Chu bent his knees and retreated, Li Xiaonuan tilted his head to look at Gu Yunshan, who looked stunned, and waited silently for her to speak.

Gu Yunshan straightened up, took a cup of tea and drank half a sip, put the cup back again, turned his head to look at Li Xiaonuan and asked:

"You're ten years old?"

Li Xiaonuan nodded in surprise slightly, and Gu Yunshan sighed,

"You are two years younger than Gu Xiao, but if you are sensible and understandable, even Yun Huan can't match you, once, I told my ancestor that people are smart or not, and the ancestor said that there are more smart people in this world, so smart that you can't even think of it, if you don't see it with your own eyes, you will never believe that there is such a person."

Li Xiaonuan smiled and looked at Gu Yunshan cautiously, Gu Yunshan looked her up and down, and laughed,

"I told you, but the ancestor said that you are a smart one, but you are not that smart."

Li Xiaonuan raised her eyebrows, and was about to speak, but Gu Yunshan raised her hand to stop her, and said with a smile:

"I know what you're going to say, I said the same thing about my father, I heard that he was a famous prodigy when he was very young, and the ancestor raised such a son, if it wasn't for a very smart person, the ancestor would naturally not be able to see it"

"What did the Ancestor say?"

Li Xiaonuan became curious, Gu Yunshan raised her eyebrows, with some pride on her face,

"Grandma Sun laughed next to her, she only said that I was right, and the ancestor only smiled and didn't speak, which is weird."

Li Xiaonuan looked at Gu Yunshan suspiciously, Gu Yunshan paused, raised her eyes to look at Li Xiaonuan, and lowered her voice,

"Gu Xiao is not stupid, and he is quite smart, but this smart, I am afraid that he can't compare with you, let alone like his father, when his father was three yuan and the first, he said that the tiger father has no dog son before he got married, this thing is really unspeakable."

Li Xiaonuan looked at Gu Yunshan in surprise and laughing, she was on the eve of her wedding, so late, Baba ran to her, just to sigh with emotion Gu Xiao failed to understand his father?

Gu Yunshan sighed to herself for a while, then turned her head, looked at Li Xiaonuan with a strange face and asked:

"Do you see that? Gu Xiao is not as smart as his father? ”

Li Xiaonuan frowned in distress, spread his hands and said:

"First, I think Gu Xiao is smarter than me, and second, I haven't seen Master Gu, how do I know who is smarter than whom?"

Gu Yunshan tilted her head to look at Li Xiaonuan, sighed, nodded at Li Xiaonuan's forehead, and said hatefully:

"You girl, it's just a ghost, and you won't tell me the truth."

Li Xiaonuan was nodded back by her,

"Big sister is really, I don't know what's going on today, why don't you go back and sleep well, save up enough energy to deal with tomorrow's wedding, and think about these nonsensical things, I heard grandma Sun say, at this wedding, the clothes and jewelry worn by the bride are enough to ten pounds, and the big sister who can't eat for a day doesn't worry about this matter in front of her?"

Gu Yunshan raised her hand and knocked Li Xiaonuan's forehead heavily,

"Big sister is talking to you about business."

Li Xiaonuan hugged the quilt and moved it back, leaned on the bed rail, yawned and said:

"Big sister, say it."

Gu Yunshan looked a little worried, sighed a few times, and then said sullenly:

"I'm just a little worried, alas, I'm also a worried life, if I'm like Yun Huan, I know that the wind and the moon are sad, and I don't care about anything, so forget it"

Li Xiaonuan sat up slightly and said with a smile:

"What's so worrying about the big sister? There are wives and ancestors in the family, Gu Xiao will grow up in two years, what can the eldest sister worry about? ”

"The ancestor is old, mother, alas, if the father is still there, the mother is like this, it is naturally good, but now, if you want the mother to be like the ancestor, alas"

Gu Yunshan sighed again,

"It's just that Gu Xiao is not like his father, he is extremely smart, and his mother's mind is ...... Alas"

Gu Yunshan wrung her brows and kept sighing, Li Xiaonuan looked at Gu Yunshan thoughtfully, cautiously silent, did not answer, Gu Yunshan pulled the handkerchief in her hand, leaned on the pillow, looked up at the top of the tent, and after a while, she turned her head, looked at Li Xiaonuan, and said solemnly:

"Xiao Nuan, you sigh, it would be nice if you were two years older, there are a few things, in the future, you pay attention to your big sister, one is Yun Huan, Yun Huan's mind, you also know that she is in love with the capital, in love with her aunt's house, and in love with ......"

Gu Yunshan paused back to the next words, frowned, and continued:

"How many times have I said this, but Yun Huan's temperament, if he didn't wake up and understand, no matter how much anyone said, it would be useless, and his mother and Gu Xiao were the same, the most annoying and obviously wrong, but he was still stubborn and couldn't understand"

Li Xiaonuan silently looked at Gu Yunshan, who was full of annoyance, this young man's feelings have nothing to do with temperament, which is like this

"I also probed my mother's words, although my mother and ancestors also have this meaning, but my aunt's end, I can't say that even if this is done, Yun Huan can't let himself be like this, if he lets people know, wouldn't he be willing to splash? Xiao Nuan, it's usually just that, when Cheng Ke comes to our house, you must pay attention to Yun Huan, don't let her do stupid things"

Li Xiaonuan's eyes widened, looking at Gu Yunshan blankly, Gu Yunshan looked at Li Xiaonuan helplessly, and said in a low voice:

"It's hard for you to do this, but in this house, besides you, who else can I entrust? You can't entrust it to Gu Xiao, right? ”

Li Xiaonuan blinked his eyes twice, not knowing what to say, Gu Yunshan sighed again, and then said:

"This is the first, the second thing, I'm leaving, Yun Huan is afraid that he doesn't have the patience to take care of these troublesome things at home, mother...... The energy is not good, the ancestor is old again, on weekdays, you should pay more attention, those little things, you have to say what you should say, you should take care of it, if there is a big mistake, you can tell the ancestor or Yun Huan, alas, Yun Huan is the stubborn person who is not good, and he understands how to do things. ”

Li Xiaonuan listened to Gu Yunshan's words in a daze, it shouldn't be, it shouldn't be, Gu Yunshan said it well, and continued to take care of herself:

"There is another thing, Gu Xiao, what I am most worried about is him, I am afraid that he will be like Yun Huan, and his mother will always talk about his bad temper, looking forward to him and his father, three yuan and first, which is so easy? I can't produce one for hundreds of years, and the Gu family can have a father with a three-yuan and first, which is a great blessing, besides, Gu Xiao is not like his father, he is a very smart person, alas, it would be good to be able to ask for a first-class background, alas"

Gu Yunshan sighed one after another, and continued in distress:

"Your words, Gu Xiao listens to them the most, you persuade him more, don't take your mother's words too seriously, mother's hopes...... After that, it will fade. ”

Li Xiaonuan blocked her throat in one breath, and asked her to persuade Gu Xiao not to take Mrs. 's words to heart, Gu Yunshan could say this, and she Li Xiaonuan said it, which was a capital crime

Alas, this big sister, everything is good, it's the eldest lady who is used to doing it, I don't know that there is a situation in the world where she thinks before and after, weighs left and right, and carefully thinks about it, but she can't say half a word.

Gu Yunshan looked at Li Xiaonuan, reached out and took Li Xiaonuan's hand, and said solemnly:

"I've entrusted it to you, if there's anything you can't do, let someone write to me, do you hear?"

Li Xiaonuan blinked quickly and smiled awkwardly, not knowing whether to nod or shake her head.