Follow-up (24) to the banquet
Gu Guo ignored Yuzhi who was kneeling on the ground, just glanced at the picture album in her arms, and walked towards her daughter with a gloomy face, "I thought you would think about it now, it turned out to be me, what?" Do you really want to be a sister-in-law? Is it interesting to threaten your mother like this? ”
She came over and wanted to ask her daughter if she had a crush on a man, where did she know that she would see this scene? Of course, she was so angry, if this daughter hadn't crawled out of her belly, she really wouldn't care so much.
When she thought of these rebellious words spoken by her daughter, her heart was cold.
Gu Xuefei's face turned pale, she didn't want to say such things to threaten her mother, but her heart really couldn't accept a man other than Lin Dong, so she said with tears in her eyes, "Mother, do you have to force your daughter like this?" I was born to you, and if I cut my flesh and return it to you, you will no longer be able to force me to do what I don't want to do......"
At this, she hid her face and wept bitterly.
Did she think that her heart would feel good when she said such things?
No, her heart is as uncomfortable as her mother, but why is her mother still so stubborn and refuses to give in?
"You also said that he was good before, and I thought that he would not lose the face of the ancient family if he married me, and you can rest assured that I married him, but now you say that he is not suitable for me, and you have come up with such a ridiculous reason, mother, tell me, why is this?"
She looked up and questioned her mother.
Gu Guoshi looked at his daughter's accusatory tears steadily, and his hand was tightly clutching the handkerchief, what did she say at this time? A secret that had been hidden for so many years, she didn't want to reveal it right now.
After a long time, her attitude softened, "My mother has told you that your life is not compatible with Lin Dong, and you will not be happy if you are barely together, Sister Fei'er, my mother only has one daughter for you, can it still harm you?" In the end, he said earnestly, "In the future, you will know that this is all for your good." ”
"I don't want to know anything in the future, as long as I can marry as I want now, mother, I will beg you as a daughter, and you will fulfill your daughter......"
Even if her daughter begged like this, Gu Guo's would not be able to give in half a point at this juncture, she resolutely turned around, not allowing herself to have a chance to be soft-hearted, but what came out of her mouth was a hard sentence, "You will die of this heart, and I will tell you in the end, you won't pick one in this album, right?" That's good, my mother will choose a son-in-law for you, and when the time comes, don't complain that your mother didn't give you a chance. ”
After speaking, she raised her feet and left, and when she passed in front of Yuzhi, she looked coldly at the maid who was kneeling on the ground, "You follow." ”
Yuzhi's eyes looked at her own girl, but when she saw that her girl impulsively grabbed the scissors in the basket and was about to cut her hair, she was so frightened that she threw down the album in her hand and rushed over, "Girl, if you have something to say, don't move the scissors......"
When Gu Guo heard this voice, he was so shocked that he hurriedly looked back, it was good not to look at it, and his body softened when he saw it, and he saw that his daughter was about to go to reaming her hair by grabbing the scissors, is this okay? Do you really want to be a sister-in-law?
"You, you ......" was out of breath for a while, so she couldn't say a word.
The big girl behind her hurriedly stretched out her hand to help, so she didn't fall to the ground, her eyes full of horror.
Yuzhi was the fastest among the big girls, and as soon as she reached out to hold the scissors, she didn't let her girl have a chance to really reamed her hair, "Girl, calm down, we can't act impulsively......"
"Yuzhi, let go, I don't want to hurt you, I didn't mean to be a sister-in-law when I said I was going to be a sister-in-law...... "Gu Xuefei insisted on reaming her scattered hair.
She really made up her mind, if she couldn't marry Lin Dong, she would never marry another man and live a dead life.
"Quick, don't you hurry up and stop the girl—" Gu Guo returned to his soul and immediately shouted.
At this moment, she felt that her hands and feet were cold and weak, and her whole body felt as if she was immersed in an ice cellar.
Hearing the shout of the wife in charge, a group of big girls who were originally stunned came back to their souls and immediately rushed up to stop Gu Xuefei. It's just that they are subordinates after all, and they are afraid that they will hurt the girl in the process, so they will definitely be punished by their wives afterwards, so they have to be very careful about stopping this block.
Gu Xuefei was really open, her strength was unprecedentedly great, and several big girls couldn't suppress her, so she pushed her aside.
Gu Guo's heart twitched when he saw it.
Just as she pushed Yuzhi away and was about to reaming her hair, a large hand stopped her impulsive move.
She looked up blankly, and the person who restrained her was her brother Gu Jing.
"Little sister, nonsense!" Gu Jing scolded angrily.
Fortunately, he came over to visit the little sister who was grounded by his mother, otherwise he would really let this little sister do something wrong.
"Brother." Gu Xuefei immediately called her brother aggrieved.
Gu Jing took her into his arms, but with the other hand, he quickly snatched the scissors, and motioned to all the subordinates to put away the sharp weapons, and then looked at his mother who was about to faint, and said, "Why don't you hurry up and help your wife go back?" Go and invite the house doctor to check the pulse of my wife, hurry up. ”
Gu Guo's hands and feet were weak and couldn't exert his strength, he looked deeply at his daughter who was crying, and had to be helped back by the big girl next to her, she didn't know what to say to her daughter at this time, and she felt that it was heart-wrenching just by thinking about that scene.
The big girl silently cleaned up the house.
After Gu Xuefei cried bitterly in her brother's arms to vent her emotions, she gradually stopped crying and left her brother's arms to wipe her tears, "Brother, I'm worried about you." ”
"You know I'm worried? Mother is now afraid that she will be so scared by you that she will seek medical advice. Gu Jing said with a straight face, "There is no next time for such nonsense." ”
"I didn't want to scare my mother, but she pushed me too quickly." Gu Xuefei knew the impact of her actions on her mother, and her mother was reluctant to let her do this, but she really couldn't think of a better way than to fight in this way.
Gu Jing glared at his sister, "Didn't brother let you wait for the news with peace of mind?" The so-called monk is investigating, and if we want to refute my father's resolution, we must come up with evidence to convince them, instead of relying on this act of crying and making trouble and hanging himself. After a pause, "You used to be very good at this, what's going on lately?" ”
Hearing her brother's criticism at this moment, her face was a little confused, and she replied in a low voice, "Recently, my mother has detained me a little tighter, and I ...... I'm overly emotional......"
You can't get what you want, and you have to accept everything that your relatives have forced you to do, this feeling can be imagined.
Gu Jing felt sorry for this only sister-in-law, and reached out and gently rubbed the top of her head, "Don't think too much, the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge, and I will persuade her to stop banning your feet." Seeing his sister smiling at him, he took out a piece of iron from his sleeve and handed it to his sister, "Look, what is this?" ”
Gu Xuefei looked curiously, this was a pair of clay dolls made quite realistically, or a man and a woman, their appearance was quite festive and cute, and they could faintly see people like her and Lin Dong. Immediately, she happily took the pair of clay dolls, "Brother, this ......"
She had a vague guess in her heart, but she was afraid that it was the result of her own narcissism.
Gu Jing said with a smile, "Even if my brother doesn't say it, you should be able to guess, this is what Lin Zhuangyuan asked me to bring back to you, you can rest assured, he will naturally wait for you with you in his heart, and now we are all investigating the matter of the so-called monk, I believe that there will be results soon, and then my mother will have no excuse to stop the two of you." ”
He knew that it was right to help Lin Dong, his sister was smiling quite happily now, and sure enough, it was Lin Dong who could make his sister smile like this, so he had to let his sister achieve her wish no matter what.
Gu Xuefei cherished this pair of clay dolls, and every line was carefully caressed, as if it was a treasure held in the palm of her hand, which was Lin Dong's heart for her.
The heart flew like never before, after all, this was the first substantial gift she received from Lin Dong.
"Lin Zhuangyuan asked me to ask you, do you like it?" Gu Jing asked with a smile.
"Brother, you tell him," Gu Xuefei looked up at her brother and smiled sweetly, "I like it very much, and besides, I won't give up easily." ”
Gu Jing felt that such a confident sister was the sister he cherished, and he didn't want her to become sad every day, so he would be depressed when he looked at it.
At the same time, after Gu Guo's family who returned to the courtyard took a Qingxin pill prescribed by the house doctor, she felt a lot more relaxed, but she didn't feel sleepy while lying on the bed, her daughter's actions today had a great impact on her, but she didn't expect her daughter's love for Lin Dong to be so deep-rooted.
But let her nod and agree to the marriage, she will not be able to pass her own level, she is afraid that she will not be able to protect her daughter's marriage in the end, rather than this, it is better to have a long pain than a short pain, and it is better to cut the mess quickly.
"Madam, Yuzhi brings it." Outside, the voice of her cronies sounded.
"Let her in and talk back."
Yuzhi heard Gu Guo's voice outside, glanced at the grandmother next to her, and then lowered her head and went in with the curtain lifted by the doorkeeper, and quickly glanced at Gu Guo's lying on the bed, and hurriedly landed on her legs, "The slave has seen the wife, I don't know what the wife commands?" ”
Recently, she has become more and more frightened of this housewife, after all, because of her own girl's marriage, she has long stopped recruiting his wife, just because she seems to be the girl for the longest time, and the girl believes in her, so the wife has endured and did not betray her.
"Do you know what I mean when I came to you?" Gu Guo was half-propped up and leaned against the bed, but his eyes were firmly fixed on the top of Yuzhi's head.
Yuzhi's body trembled, "Slave maid...... I don't know ......."
"I don't know?" Gu Guo sneered, "Yuzhi, I've only let you wait for the girl close all these years, you don't know why, right?" ”
Yuzhi's heart "chuckled", Mrs. didn't mention it, she was about to ignore it, thinking of her own girl, she hurriedly kowtowed, "The slave knows, but the girl ...... her"
"You know it's best, I'm going to hurt her as a mother? I didn't call you to punish you, I just asked for your cooperation to persuade Sister Fei to change her mind, if you persuade her to listen to me and choose another good son-in-law, I will reward you heavily. ”
"Madam, the slave is afraid, the girl has always treated the slave and the maid as kind as a mountain, if the slave and the maid say something to tear the girl's heart at this time, is it still a human being?"
"Do you want to see her hurt even more? If Sister Fei marries Lin Dong and can be happy for a lifetime, I will send her out of the cabinet without hesitation. Yuzhi, I have said all the good and bad things, you have to do it if you cooperate, and you have to do it if you don't cooperate, don't forget that your deed of sale is still in my hands. ”
The words of the housewife have been echoing in Yuzhi's ears, even if she returns to the girl's courtyard, the whole person is still a little confused.
"Yuzhi." Gu Xuefei shouted several times, and then saw the maid sitting opposite come back to her senses, she had never seen Yuzhi like this, she couldn't help but ask with concern, "What's wrong with you?" Did my mother call you and say something ugly and threatening? Don't be afraid, I'm still here in everything, if my mother wants to be unfavorable to you, I won't agree to her if I die. ”
Yuzhi has always been like a sister to her, and she has always been a very important person.
Yuzhi, who was sitting opposite, hurriedly shook her head, "Mrs. didn't say anything, just asked the slave to persuade the girl to choose another good son-in-law, girl, do you think we have to listen to Mrs......"
She has always been waiting for Gu Xuefei closely, and naturally knows Gu Xuefei's secret, which she deliberately forgot before, but now that her wife mentions it, she has to think a little more.
"Yuzhi, do you even want to oppose me?" Gu Xuefei said coldly.
"Girl, the slave maid doesn't mean that, the slave maid ......" Yuzhi hurriedly got up and curtled to explain to Gu Xuefei.
Gu Xuefei interrupted her, "Yuzhi, since you don't mean that, then don't say it again, I don't like to hear it." ”
Even if everyone in this world is against it, she must be true to her feelings.
Yuzhi sighed secretly, her own girl has always been such a persistent person, maybe from that glance in the restaurant, the girl lost her heart and couldn't take it back.
On the other side, Gu Jing rushed to his mother after leaving his sister's yard, his mother was angry just now and didn't know how her body was, as a son of man, he had to go to see it anyway to feel at ease.
Gently lifted the curtain and went in, smelling the smell of medicine in the house, he hurriedly asked, "Mother, are you feeling better?" ”
"How's your sister?" Gu Guo didn't answer the rhetorical question, even if he knew that his son could persuade his daughter, but in the end, it was his own flesh and blood, how could he ignore it?
"She's emotionally stable now." Gu Jing sat on the carved round stool brought by the maid, "It's my mother, I was angry just now, my son is really worried, and my sister is also worried......"
"She still knows she's worried about me?" Gu Guo's heart was hurt by his daughter's behavior, "I also said that she doesn't remember me as a mother, and I wish I had died early so that she wouldn't stop her......"
"Mother, isn't my little sister so tightly detained by you, why do you bother with her?" Gu Jing persuaded, "Mother, my son is fair, it's not a matter for you to detain her like this, the more you detain her, the more radical she becomes, if you let her go out to a party or something, maybe there will be a turnaround." ”
"You came to me to be a lobbyist for her?" Gu Guo glanced at his son angrily.
Gu Jing touched his nose and smiled, "Mother, I am your son and the elder brother of my little sister, the palms and backs of my hands are full of meat, and I am sad when I see the two of you sad." After a pause, "Isn't Mrs. Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites holding a banquet in two days?" How about you let your little sister go out to breathe? ”
This banquet is also one of the ways for the girl's family to go on a blind date, and Gu Guo's naturally knows these unspoken rules, "You are talking to me about this now, won't you be a lobbyist for Lin Dong?" So that they can take advantage of this meeting, you want to be beautiful, and you think that your wife is so coaxing......"
"Mother, look at what you said, where is this?" Gu Jing said, "I've inquired, Lin Dong happened to be not in the capital for a few days, how can I meet my little sister?" I'm really thinking about my little sister, she has never loved being detained and confined by you, so you can pity her. ”
He bent down to beat his mother's thigh to please him, hoping to get his mother to lift the ban on his little sister.
Gu Guo glanced at her dog-legged son, although she was pleased that the brother and sister had a good relationship, but her son's blatant flattering posture still made her sneer, "It's because you are so spoiled, she will be lawless." ”
"Mother, I'm the only one who spoils my little sister? Don't you pet too? Gu Jing quickly replied.
Gu Guoshi snorted lightly, "I don't play tricks with you, or not, Sister Fei'er's temperament has always been a little wild, so let her go to the banquet of the Shangshu family of the Ministry of Rites in two days to relax." ”
She wasn't afraid that her son would deceive her, after all, she had received an invitation from the Ministry of Rites early in the morning, and she hadn't planned to go, but now that she had listened to her son's lobbying, she was planning to take her daughter over in person, so she wasn't afraid of Lin Dong playing any tricks.
Gu Jing saw that his mother had succeeded, and he was also happy in his heart, thinking that he would quickly tell the good news to his little sister and Lin Dong.
That's right, as Gu Guo guessed, he wanted to take the opportunity to let the lovers meet.
Lin Dong quickly received Gu Jing's conviction, and he was in a very excited mood at the moment, with a smile on his face.
"Brother Dong, what's the happy event?" Seeing this, Lin Lushi on the side hurriedly asked.
Lin Dong didn't hide it, and took out this happy event to share it with Lin Lu's family.
After hearing this, Lin Lushi also smiled on his face, "This is a happy event, it seems that the people of the Gu family are not completely opposed, but this Gu Shizi is really invisible, he opposed your marriage like that before, and he beat you at that time, but now it's good, he actually turned the gun to help you, this world is really unpredictable." ”
Lin Dong knew that Gu Jing helped him because of that oath that he could turn his opponent into a helper, and he still did not regret it in this matter, after all, getting married is also going for a lifetime.
"That's right."
Lin Lushi comforted, "Brother Dong, don't worry too much, your sister will find out the truth soon, Mrs. Gu's rhetoric that day is also a prevarication, as long as we are firm in our hearts, it will definitely come to pass." ”
Like the Lin sisters, she doesn't have much love for Gu Xuefei, but Lin Dong recognizes Gu Xuefei, so she has to work hard to accept Gu Xuefei as the daughter-in-law of the Lin family, so naturally she also chooses good things to say.
At the banquet of the Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of Rites, Kuang Chaoyun also received an invitation.
"Mother, should I go or not?"
Kwong Tai Tsai looked at the invitation carefully, and didn't see anything wrong, so he said, "You can go if you want to, I guess she sent a post to our family because Mrs. Ye looks up to you." ”
"That's right." Kuang Chaoyun is self-aware, and she will not flutter because of a few words of praise from others, without Lin Long's guidance, who knows her? Not to mention giving her a post to invite her to a banquet.
Recently, she didn't deliberately go to Lin Long's side, since it was impossible with Lin Dong, what she could do was to live her life well.
However, she still wanted to see Gu Xuefei again, but she couldn't do so, Gu Xuefei didn't seem to have appeared at the big and small banquets in the capital for a while.
"What are you thinking?" Kuang Tai saw that his daughter was thinking about things, and asked hurriedly.
"Didn't think about anything." Kuang Chaoyun put away the invitation and smiled gently, "Mother, did you say that Miss Gu's life is really good?" ”
"How do you talk about her in a good way?" Kuang Tai's family didn't know what to do, "Of course it's a good fate for a prince and a daughter, do you still need to say this?" Marriage in the future is not a problem, and a large number of sons and brothers in the capital are waiting to marry, and the daughter of the right family is the best example. ”
Quan Yingzi remarried well, although her husband was demoted out of Beijing, but the world is unpredictable, who knows if there will be a chance to make a comeback? Anyway, this person has been in the Holy Eye at the beginning, and there will be another chance in the future.
What's more, the people abandoned the county lord and did not marry, but instead married a remarried girl, which surprised outsiders at the time.
"yes, I just suddenly sighed." Kwong Chaoyun used this reason to comfort her lost heart, what did she compare with Gu Xuefei? No matter how good she is, she can't compare to this high-ranking daughter in the capital.
"Our sister Yun is also good, he will marry a young talent every day, and he will have his own future." Kuang Tai said with a smile, in her mind, the best girl in the world is naturally her own.
Kuang Chaoyun hung his head shyly, and he began to have new expectations in his heart.
On this day, Lin Long fiddled with his figure in front of the mirror, wearing a newly made shirt, a white dark pattern stand-up collar jacket inside, an indigo tuan flower trimmed cardigan shirt on the outside, and an indigo blue auspicious cloud phoenix tail skirt embroidered on a white background.
"Where is this going?" Ye Xuyao, who was at home, lifted the curtain and came in just in time to see his wife's sideburns in the mirror, and couldn't help but lean against the door to look.
Since she has been playing for two decades, she has really become more and more beautiful, which makes him feel a sense of accomplishment.
"The Ministry of Rites Shangshu Mansion held a banquet, and I just sent a post to me, and the Gu family also received the post, so I happened to take the opportunity to meet this Gu lady." Lin Long turned her head to her husband, "Am I so good-looking?" ”
Ye Xuyao stepped forward and grabbed her willow waist, and the surrounding maids had already quietly retreated one by one.
He lowered his head and tossed around his wife's red lips for a while before caressing her slightly fat-toned face, "Why don't you go out and stay at home with me?" ”
Lin Long nudged him away, covered his lips and smiled, "That's not good, I still have something to ask Gu Guo's family, she has deceived me, and I guess she should still be resentful of me for blocking Gu Jing's future." ”
What senior monk said that Gu Xuefei can't match a man who is three years older than her, it's all bullshit and deception, and she got the truth of the investigation early this morning, and her face didn't look good.
Gu Guo's fabricated such a lie, there is only one purpose, that is, she doesn't want to marry Gu Xuefei to Lin Dong, she understands this truth as soon as she thinks about it, if it weren't for the happiness of her younger brother, she is categorically unwilling to deal with Gu Guo's anymore, but now she wants to ask the other party to understand clearly.
As the eldest sister, no one wants her brother to be happy more than her.
Ye Xuyao frowned slightly, "Where in the world is there no fragrant grass?" In my opinion, the Gu family is not such a suitable marriage partner, and there are many daughters of good families in the capital. ”
He has always been very fond of Lin Long, so he is naturally a little dissatisfied with Gu Guo's family.
"There's nothing wrong with saying that, but there is only one brother who is in his heart, and I, as a sister, naturally have to think of something to help him ask for it, and if I think about it carefully, I did it a little better at the beginning."
Lin Long has reflected on her own mistakes, thinking about it from another perspective, she can naturally understand Gu Guo's mood, if someone wants to be unfavorable to her son, I believe her reaction will be much stronger than Gu Guo's, mothers have always been like this.
When Ye Xuyao heard this, he suddenly felt dissatisfied with Lin Dong in his heart, this brother-in-law was too worried about his wife, "There is a vacancy in the Ministry of Officials recently, and this position can be struck." ”
Lin Long was stunned for a moment, and soon understood what her husband meant, and was moved to tighten her husband's neck, "Xu Yao, thank you." ”
Ye Xuyao patted his wife's back, "We are all old husbands and wives, and we still say these polite words?" Go early and come back early, my son and I are waiting for you at home. ”
He didn't bother to go out to socialize today, so he might as well take care of those bastard boys, and then accompany his grandfather to play a few games of chess to fulfill his filial piety.
Lin Long nodded, raised his head and offered his red lips, and rubbed his ears and temples for a while, before re-cutting his haircut and setting off for the Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of Rites.
Today, the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Mansion is cleaned up with a new look, and the Ministry of Rites Shangshu is newly appointed, and his wife is naturally keen to set up banquets and build good relationships with all parties to accumulate contacts for her husband, so the scope of this post is extremely wide, and it is taken care of from top to bottom.
As soon as Lin Long arrived, Mrs. Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites immediately greeted her and had a warm conversation with her.
The topic naturally involves Ye Manzhu, the daughter of the Ye Tian family, Mrs. Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites used to be a little suspicious that Ye Manzhu's father was not an official, and then I thought that this was also an opportunity to have a good relationship with the Ye family, and this was Lin Long, the matchmaker personally protected by Mrs. Hou, and there was only good and no harm in her son's future.
Once she figured it out, she was enthusiastic about this marriage, and this time she also posted to Ye Tian's mother and daughter.
Seeing that the goal was achieved, Ye Tian naturally took his daughter to go happily.
Lin Long's eyes swept away, Ye Manzhu was dressed up extraordinarily beautiful today, after all, she was young, and the breath of youth immediately came to her face, making people unable to turn their eyes, and then turned her head to look at Mrs. Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, and saw that the latter was more and more satisfied, and pulled Ye Manzhu to ask the long and short questions very concerned.
She saw the clue, and whispered to Ye Tian with a fan, "It seems that I have won this matchmaker's red envelope." ”