CHAPTER IX

As soon as the overwhelming rumors spread, they came with a thunderous momentum, and the tabloid reporters flocked to the front, indiscriminately seizing the opportunity and blocking the archway in Jiangningfang before dawn. The autumn of Nanjing www.biquge.info is officially coming in this chaotic morning.

"Madam, it's not good, it's not good! A bunch of tabloid reporters gathered at the door, clamoring to interview the lord and the eldest lady. Han's mother trotted into the dining room and threw out the news out of breath.

"Madam, the back door is blocked too."

"Mrs., Mrs., a reporter called home, and I ...... I don't dare to pick up ......" The little girl ran in recklessly, and her words were rambling, but she also made the reason clear.

In such a situation, seeing that breakfast could not be eaten, the mother was angry, put down her chopsticks and said to the panicked crowd: "Mother Han, hasn't the eldest lady gotten up yet?" You go and ask her, this is Gu Rulin's trick? Looking for a whole bunch of reporters to block our door? ”

Mother Han listened to her mother's words and looked embarrassed: "Mrs...... I ...... "In this case, how can she ask, usually usual, but in the end she is a subordinate."

"Mother, you are confused, Mother Han is tired all morning, and she hasn't eaten a bite of food yet. Anyway, we can't go out now, and the food at home can last for a while, so we simply close the door to live our lives. When those tabloids saw that we didn't come forward, they stayed on guard for a few days and then withdrew, could it be that they could still hold on to us and ignore other news? ”

Mother sighed: "That's what I said, but your father will come back in the next day or two, and you won't be able to go to school?"

I comforted her: "Anyway, I feel uncomfortable watching He Shujun for the past two days, so I don't want to go, I just stay at home and guard my sister."

"Oh, what kind of sin is this, good boy? Go, come with me to see your sister. ”

Since her sister's affairs started at home, her mother no longer entered her sister's room, she complained that her sister was not angry, but in her heart she blamed herself for beating her daughter, and she couldn't sleep all night. Now, my father went to Shanghai, the third uncle was suddenly gone, the second aunt came to answer us every now and then, and even the tabloid reporters began to block the door, and the little spirit that my mother had to support finally broke out the moment she saw her sister: "Liu Mingzhao, this is the person you love!" Who leaked the news? Well? Now it's full of tabloid reporters, and the phone is bursting, and we are cowering and afraid to go out, you know. We are a Hanlin family! Where do you put my old face and your father's old face? Now that the matter between your sister and Gu Shaoqing has not been leaked, what if...... So how are we going to live? Sisters fight for father and son? Stories through the ages! Mother said, tears rolling down the pearwood table like broken threads like beads of broken thread.

My sister was originally dressing up in front of the window, and these two **** calmed down a lot, I don't know if I figured it out, or if I had confidence in Gu Rulin, and no one made a fuss, just waited quietly. Now that I heard my mother say this, and I knew what was going on from Han's mother's mouth, I laughed faintly, and muttered: "It turns out that it can be like this......"

After a while, my sister pushed away the stool she was sitting on and quickly knelt down towards me: "Little sister, I can't help you left and right." Things have come to this point, my father will not stop me from marrying anymore, my sister will kowtow to you, forget about Gu Shaoqing. A man's love won't last long, not to mention that you've only known each other for five months, how much can he love you? Even Gu Rulin is just using me as a stand-in for his ex-wife! ”

Scapegoat?

What did my sister say? She knows so well, but she still wants to marry him over and over again? I feel like there is a fire around me, devouring my original cognition little by little, what is my sister talking about?

"Sister......

She looked at my mother's and my mother's stunned faces and smiled sadly: "You guys are confused, aren't you? In fact, I already knew the truth from Aunt Gu's wife, why did I insist on marrying him? I can't say this, it's just a little bit, Gu Rulin and I are married. Mother, I haven't changed, you listen to me, my little sister will never enter the door of the Gu family again, she and Gu Shaoqing ...... If it's broken, it won't end well. My father is coming back, and it's time for me to get my wedding dress. My sister stopped looking at my mother and me, and turned around and went to the bedroom.

That morning, my mother and I came out of my sister's room, pondering the meaning of her words, and said no more. Outside the door, the tabloids and the tabloids shouted at each other, for fear that if one was not careful, they would throw the news to others, and the phone was still calling, and the mother simply asked someone to pull out the line, so that she could not see or be upset.

I came out of the upper room and walked alone to the west hall. When I was a child, every time I was bored, I would always run to my grandmother's west hall and hide on the hundred-year-old begonia tree, always feeling that the world was just like this, and no matter how big the troubles were, I forgot them in a blink of an eye. But growing up is not like this, troubles are always like nesting dolls, one after another, and they will never slowly dissipate.

As I walked, I leaned on the carved windows of the corridor, slowly touched the uneven lattice edges, and thought bit by bit, how long had no one come to clean the corridor leading to my grandmother's west hall when most of the people in the family had gone? I paused, walked back again, and touched the lattices with another hand, and the result was still the same, with two white and gray flowers spread out in my palm, like cheese printed when I was a child.

I was having fun when there was a sudden noise in the corridor behind me, and at first I thought it was a cat that ran to the house and didn't look back. But later, when I saw that the sound was becoming more and more obvious, it was clearly the footsteps of a man, and I began to be afraid. After my grandmother's death, the West Hall was empty, and few people usually came, except for me and Han's mother, how could there be a man's footsteps? Could it be that a tabloid reporter broke into the house? Thinking of this, I walked out of the corridor quickly,

tried to hide in the ear room on the side and waited for the opportunity to move, but was grabbed by the arm of the man who caught up. "Come on...... Not... I thought that since I couldn't run, I would call someone quickly, and I would never let the random guy who broke into the private house go unpunished, but who would have thought that someone would be trapped before he could say anything. So when Gu Shaoqing's clear and calm voice sounded in my ears, I never thought that he, who had just gone to Shanghai half a month ago, would appear on the corridor of the West Hall of Liu's Mansion.

"I thought I would be more mature after what happened to your sister, why are you still so frizzy? If it hadn't been me, wouldn't I have been knocked unconscious and taken away? ”

Gu Shaoqing was wearing a gray suit, with a little dust in the corner of the wall at the cuffs, obviously the traces left by climbing the wall just now, looking at my good-looking eyebrows and eyes with a smile when I spoke, and showing a little helplessness.

"What? Scared stupefied? ”

When he saw that I only looked at him and didn't speak, his voice couldn't help but raise his voice.

"Han Zhao? Liu Hanzhao? ”

Only then did I react, grabbed the man's arm and bit it: "Didn't you go to Shanghai?" Why did you come back? I've given up on you, you go! ”

He was probably frightened by my inexplicable behavior, and he bit me at it, and only after a while sighed and hugged me into his arms: "I heard about your family, and I also met my uncle in Shanghai." My father he ......"

The taste of being appeased is so warm, I wanted to rely on him like this, even if it is a little longer, it is also the capital of future memories, but my sister's muttered words are like a sleeping spell, as long as I have the slightest unwillingness to waver, it will knock on the sinking me to stay awake, and rationally push away the possible happiness of leaning over.

Gu Shaoqing was pushed back by me, and it took a while to barely stabilize his body that was constantly retreating. He looked at me in a panic with a complicated expression, and his face was incredulous. Also, half a month ago, we sat in the corner café like all the new men and women of this era, imagining the possible future, but now we stood in the courtyard of the most backward elders of the old-fashioned family, staring at each other strangely. Who can say for sure such a change?

"Rare ......"

Sitting like that, even I didn't know what I was thinking, and it wasn't until Gu Shaoqing sighed that the whole person came back to his senses and asked the words that should have been asked from the beginning: "Why are you here?"

"I heard the news of Nanjing in Shanghai and wanted to see you, so I rushed back. Later, I saw that there were reporters at your doorstep, and I thought that it would definitely not be possible to go to the main gate, so I simply became a gentleman on the back beam. I didn't expect to almost make you a thief! He said very easily, as if climbing the wall was just a trivial matter, starting from the most sparsely populated wall in Liu's mansion, to walk through at least eight walls more than 3 meters high to reach the west hall of his grandmother's inner house. But looking carefully, Gu Shaoqing did not have the slightest difficulty because of this, but had a faint heroic spirit, not like an ordinary wealthy son.

Just as I was about to ask again, Mother Han shouted for me to come from the other side of the corridor, Gu Shaoqing saw this, pulled me up and flashed into an empty ear room.